Re: Plz help with this Error message: Document class not available

[Waluyo Adi Siswanto]

On 26 October 2010 14:05, sherif helmy sherif_...@yahoo.com wrote:

 Thank you very much for your attention

 I have MikTex ver 2.9 and Lyx ver 1.6.7
  i attached with this message a snapshot of MikTex package manager showing
 info. you requested.
 Thanks again


Yes.. it is installed already.
Actually I have never tried the 2.9 version. I did 2.7 and 2.8 but no
problems.
The alternative LyX installer found here(AltInstaller-Complete):
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.6.7
has MikTeX 2.8 that already tested and works.

However, perhaps you could try by typing a command
texhash
in your command prompt.

PS: When you reply could please Reply All so other LyX Users could help
you and LyX developers will be aware if there is a problem when users use
MikTeX 2.9.

Regards
Waluyo

Lyx with Inkscape 0.48

[EJ]

Has anyone gotten Lyx to work with figures exported from Inkscape using the
PDF+LaTeX option? 

Thanks in advance

Colored Cell/row with multicolumn

[Vassiliki Kanellopoulos]

I aHi,
I am a new user with lyx and couldn't find the solution for my  
(simple?) problem.
I want to color the whole row of a table which I merged with  
multicolumn to one cell. The cell has 6 columns (a long table), and  
lots of rows.

I tried the following:
- If I add the TEXcode \cellcolor{blue} as ERT in the begining of  
the cell (the merged one) , then only the first of 6 columns (although  
merged) gets colored and the text, which I originally had centered is  
aligned on the left.
- I also tried to color the merged cell with \rowcolor{blue} but  
only get an error: misplaced \noalign
Hi, The only thing which works is not to merge the cells with  
multicolumn and set the TEXcode \rowcolor{blue} in the first cell of  
the table. But of course I would like to have also the feature of  
having no lines between the columns and the text aligned in the middle.


can somebody tell me what I am doing wrong?
Thanks!
 

Re: Colored Cell/row with multicolumn

[Uwe Stöhr]

Am 26.10.2010 14:26, schrieb Vassiliki Kanellopoulos:


I want to color the whole row of a table which I merged with multicolumn
to one cell.


If sec. 2.11 Colored Tables of the EmbeddedObjects manual (that you 
find in LyX's Help menu) doesn't help you, can you please provide a LyX 
example file.


regards Uwe

Re: Automatically convert external files during PDF creation

[Pavel Sanda]

Jurriën Stutterheim wrote:
 LyX devs: please consider adding this template for inclusion in new LyX 
 releases :)

have you considered to put your solution into the lyx wiki?

pavel

Re: Automatically convert external files during PDF creation

[Jurriën Stutterheim]

I have not :) I'll do so tomorrow. Thanks for the suggestion.

On 26 Oct, 2010, at 19:25 , Pavel Sanda wrote:

 Jurriën Stutterheim wrote:
 LyX devs: please consider adding this template for inclusion in new LyX 
 releases :)
 
 have you considered to put your solution into the lyx wiki?
 
 pavel

Re: announce: template to write Ph.D. theses with LyX

[João Maia e Silva]

Dear all,

I hope you are doing well!
I've used and modified the template that Uwe sent some months ago. I  
did my best to learn through the manual, this list and other  
examples, so to customise it to my needs.
however, there are some formatting details that I've failed to  
achieve and I'm sure that they are quite simple for an experienced user


I was wondering if somebody out there could help me out in finishing  
the document formatting?


I'll trade any help for a pack of tennis lessons! :)

thank you

regards

João Maia


On Mar 12, 2010, at 3:28 AM, Uwe Stöhr wrote:


Dear LyX users,

there was often the question on this LyX how to write a thesis  
with LyX. There are many templates available on the Internet but  
LyX itself does not yet have one. The next major LyX version 2.0  
will have one.


The template can be found here as ZIP-file:
http://fkurth.de/uwest/LyX/ThesisTemplate/Diss-Template.zip

Re: Lyx with Inkscape 0.48

[Jacob Bishop]

I have. This was one of the major reasons I went to 1.6.7 from older
versions. It's great not to have to export figures manually in multiple
formats each time you make a change, and all that headache.

Without more information, it's difficult to provide much help to you.
Basically, you have to install Inkscape, make sure it's in the path
somewhere (either in the system path or the path prefix under
tools-preferences-paths) so LyX can run the image conversion commands, and
reconfigure LyX.

There is also some help for this on the wiki at:
http://wiki.lyx.org/Tips/UseInkscapeSVGImages

Jacob

On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 9:05 AM, EJ wehrle.er...@gmail.com wrote:



 Has anyone gotten Lyx to work with figures exported from Inkscape using the
 PDF+LaTeX option?

 Thanks in advance

rotate large table

[Francisco J . Ruiz-Ruano Campaña]

Hi!

I need to rotate a large table, but I haven't success.

With floats and small tables I don't have any problem, but with a
large table I can't

Some ideas?

Thanks.

Re: Lyx with Inkscape 0.48

[Jacob Bishop]

On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 9:05 AM, EJ wehrle.er...@gmail.com wrote:


Has anyone gotten Lyx to work with figures exported from Inkscape using the
PDF+LaTeX option?

Thanks in advance


On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 1:17 PM, Jacob Bishop bishop.ja...@gmail.comwrote:
I have. This was one of the major reasons I went to 1.6.7 from older
versions. It's great not to have to export figures manually in multiple
formats each time you make a change, and all that headache.

Without more information, it's difficult to provide much help to you.
Basically, you have to install Inkscape, make sure it's in the path
somewhere (either in the system path or the path prefix under
tools-preferences-paths) so LyX can run the image conversion commands, and
reconfigure LyX.

There is also some help for this on the wiki at:
http://wiki.lyx.org/Tips/UseInkscapeSVGImages

Jacob


So, after I sent the last message, I felt a little silly as I was realizing
that you probably had Inkscape 0.47 working, but had trouble with inkscape
0.48. I gave only general Inkscape information in my last response. I have
since gotten things to work with Inkscape 0.48 on my windows 7 machine. I
have not tried as of yet on my linux box.

I did have one hitch, and it had to do with the textext extension. To work
around this issue, there are two things. You need to patch your inkscape
python installation with something like this
http://sourceforge.net/projects/timink/files/pygtk-2.16_for_inkscape-0.48.zip/downloadand
you need to modify your textext.py file as per the instructions here:
http://pascalschulthess.de/inkscape-and-textext-deprecation-warning/

As an additional reference, I got most of this information from here:
http://bitbucket.org/pv/textext/issue/55/textext-using-inkscape048

After making those modifications, I had no trouble exporting Inkscape SVG
graphics.

I hope this helps.

Jacob

Re: rotate large table

[stephen's mailinglist account]

2010/10/26 Francisco J. Ruiz-Ruano Campaña fjruizru...@gmail.com:
 Hi!

 I need to rotate a large table, but I haven't success.

 With floats and small tables I don't have any problem, but with a
 large table I can't

see if longtable module gives any help.
it can be found from the following page in the wiki

http://wiki.lyx.org/Layouts/modules



-- 
Stephen

.sty file not found

[Ercan Cem]

Hello all.

I'm trying to typeset bridge deals/diagrams using lyx. There's package for
this called bridge. I load the package in the preamble but I use it I get
bridge.sty not found message. I checked MikTex and found that there is
indeed no bridge.sty file but bridge.tpm file instead. What am I supposed to
do? Anybody out there who can help me with typesetting bridge related issues
in general? I use Windows 7 Pro with Lyx 1.6.7 and MikTex 2.8.

Thanks in advance.

Re: rotate large table

[Francisco J . Ruiz-Ruano Campaña]

I could not run the modules, but the LaTeX code of the module has worked.

Thank you!

2010/10/26 stephen's mailinglist account 
stephen4mailingli...@googlemail.com

 2010/10/26 Francisco J. Ruiz-Ruano Campaña fjruizru...@gmail.com:
  Hi!
 
  I need to rotate a large table, but I haven't success.
 
  With floats and small tables I don't have any problem, but with a
  large table I can't
 
 see if longtable module gives any help.
 it can be found from the following page in the wiki

 http://wiki.lyx.org/Layouts/modules



 --
 Stephen




-- 
Más allá de la confusión, persiste la duda.

pdflatex always runs package manager

[Jack Tanner]

I'm on Windows 7 with MiKTeX 2.8 and LyX 1.6.7. I ran a MiKTeX update 
(using the admin version of MiKTeX Package Manager), and then 
reconfigured LyX. Now, every time I run pdflatex from LyX, Windows 
prompts me if I want to let MPM to make changes to my system. Very 
annoying. Worse, since there are two passes of pdflatex, I'm prompted 
twice. This wasn't happening before the MiKTeX update.


Should I try reconfiguring again? Should I reinstall MiKTeX? Should I 
ask this on the MiKTeX lists rather than here?


Thanks in advance.

Re: Lyx with Inkscape 0.48

[Waluyo Adi Siswanto]

 around this issue, there are two things. You need to patch your inkscape
 python installation with something like this
 http://sourceforge.net/projects/timink/files/pygtk-2.16_for_inkscape-0.48.zip/download
 and you need to modify your textext.py file as per the instructions here:
 http://pascalschulthess.de/inkscape-and-textext-deprecation-warning/

 As an additional reference, I got most of this information from here:
 http://bitbucket.org/pv/textext/issue/55/textext-using-inkscape048

 After making those modifications, I had no trouble exporting Inkscape SVG
 graphics.


However, I still have a problem to use textext extension in Inkscape
0.48 because of python version issue.
So I switched back to use 0.47 until today in Windows. In Ubuntu I
have no problems (of course need to modify textext.py)

Regards
Waluyo

relative path for images

[M DR]

Hello to all,

this is surely a very simple question, but I'm a total no-geek and is
driving me crazy.

I want to change the absolute path of the figures that I insert (the 90% of
them as a float) to a relative path, since I'm working from differents
computers and syncing the files with dropbox. I have found precisely this
info in these help files, but I'm doing something wrong, since it is not
working as expected.

btw, I am using LyX version 1.6.7,so the path idicated in the first
link: Layout
- Document - Praeamble, is the same as Document - Settings - LaTeX
Preamble, which is the only one I've found ?

http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinTips

http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/RelativeFiguresLocation

Thanks in advanced,

MaDro

Re: .sty file not found

[Richard Heck]

 On 10/26/10 5:05 PM, Ercan Cem wrote:

Hello all.

I'm trying to typeset bridge deals/diagrams using lyx. There's package 
for this called bridge. I load the package in the preamble but I use 
it I get bridge.sty not found message. I checked MikTex and found 
that there is indeed no bridge.sty file but bridge.tpm file instead. 
What am I supposed to do? Anybody out there who can help me with 
typesetting bridge related issues in general? I use Windows 7 Pro with 
Lyx 1.6.7 and MikTex 2.8.



CTAN.org contains two packages related to bridge:
http://tug.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=bridge
http://tug.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=bridge-pln
Neither is actually a LaTeX package, but the macros defined in the 
former could certainly be used to create a style file that could then be 
used, though they might have to be adapted a bit for LaTeX 2e, since 
they seem to have been written for 2.09. The latter might also be 
usable, but I haven't looked at it. In any event, this will take some work.


Richard

Re: pdflatex always runs package manager

[Julien Rioux]

On 26/10/2010 8:37 PM, Jack Tanner wrote:

Never mind. It turns out I got hit by this bug:

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detailaid=3067362group_id=10783atid=110783




There are several bugs that have poped up on the MikTeX mailing list 
since their 2.8 release; to be safe I would delay upgrading for a little 
while. Glad you solved your problem.


Cheers,
Julien

Re: Plz help with this Error message: Document class not available

[Waluyo Adi Siswanto]

On 26 October 2010 14:05, sherif helmy sherif_...@yahoo.com wrote:

 Thank you very much for your attention

 I have MikTex ver 2.9 and Lyx ver 1.6.7
  i attached with this message a snapshot of MikTex package manager showing
 info. you requested.
 Thanks again


Yes.. it is installed already.
Actually I have never tried the 2.9 version. I did 2.7 and 2.8 but no
problems.
The alternative LyX installer found here(AltInstaller-Complete):
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.6.7
has MikTeX 2.8 that already tested and works.

However, perhaps you could try by typing a command
texhash
in your command prompt.

PS: When you reply could please Reply All so other LyX Users could help
you and LyX developers will be aware if there is a problem when users use
MikTeX 2.9.

Regards
Waluyo

Lyx with Inkscape 0.48

[EJ]

Has anyone gotten Lyx to work with figures exported from Inkscape using the
PDF+LaTeX option? 

Thanks in advance

Colored Cell/row with multicolumn

[Vassiliki Kanellopoulos]

I aHi,
I am a new user with lyx and couldn't find the solution for my  
(simple?) problem.
I want to color the whole row of a table which I merged with  
multicolumn to one cell. The cell has 6 columns (a long table), and  
lots of rows.

I tried the following:
- If I add the TEXcode \cellcolor{blue} as ERT in the begining of  
the cell (the merged one) , then only the first of 6 columns (although  
merged) gets colored and the text, which I originally had centered is  
aligned on the left.
- I also tried to color the merged cell with \rowcolor{blue} but  
only get an error: misplaced \noalign
Hi, The only thing which works is not to merge the cells with  
multicolumn and set the TEXcode \rowcolor{blue} in the first cell of  
the table. But of course I would like to have also the feature of  
having no lines between the columns and the text aligned in the middle.


can somebody tell me what I am doing wrong?
Thanks!
 

Re: Colored Cell/row with multicolumn

[Uwe Stöhr]

Am 26.10.2010 14:26, schrieb Vassiliki Kanellopoulos:


I want to color the whole row of a table which I merged with multicolumn
to one cell.


If sec. 2.11 Colored Tables of the EmbeddedObjects manual (that you 
find in LyX's Help menu) doesn't help you, can you please provide a LyX 
example file.


regards Uwe

Re: Automatically convert external files during PDF creation

[Pavel Sanda]

Jurriën Stutterheim wrote:
 LyX devs: please consider adding this template for inclusion in new LyX 
 releases :)

have you considered to put your solution into the lyx wiki?

pavel

Re: Automatically convert external files during PDF creation

[Jurriën Stutterheim]

I have not :) I'll do so tomorrow. Thanks for the suggestion.

On 26 Oct, 2010, at 19:25 , Pavel Sanda wrote:

 Jurriën Stutterheim wrote:
 LyX devs: please consider adding this template for inclusion in new LyX 
 releases :)
 
 have you considered to put your solution into the lyx wiki?
 
 pavel

Re: announce: template to write Ph.D. theses with LyX

[João Maia e Silva]

Dear all,

I hope you are doing well!
I've used and modified the template that Uwe sent some months ago. I  
did my best to learn through the manual, this list and other  
examples, so to customise it to my needs.
however, there are some formatting details that I've failed to  
achieve and I'm sure that they are quite simple for an experienced user


I was wondering if somebody out there could help me out in finishing  
the document formatting?


I'll trade any help for a pack of tennis lessons! :)

thank you

regards

João Maia


On Mar 12, 2010, at 3:28 AM, Uwe Stöhr wrote:


Dear LyX users,

there was often the question on this LyX how to write a thesis  
with LyX. There are many templates available on the Internet but  
LyX itself does not yet have one. The next major LyX version 2.0  
will have one.


The template can be found here as ZIP-file:
http://fkurth.de/uwest/LyX/ThesisTemplate/Diss-Template.zip

Re: Lyx with Inkscape 0.48

[Jacob Bishop]

I have. This was one of the major reasons I went to 1.6.7 from older
versions. It's great not to have to export figures manually in multiple
formats each time you make a change, and all that headache.

Without more information, it's difficult to provide much help to you.
Basically, you have to install Inkscape, make sure it's in the path
somewhere (either in the system path or the path prefix under
tools-preferences-paths) so LyX can run the image conversion commands, and
reconfigure LyX.

There is also some help for this on the wiki at:
http://wiki.lyx.org/Tips/UseInkscapeSVGImages

Jacob

On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 9:05 AM, EJ wehrle.er...@gmail.com wrote:



 Has anyone gotten Lyx to work with figures exported from Inkscape using the
 PDF+LaTeX option?

 Thanks in advance

rotate large table

[Francisco J . Ruiz-Ruano Campaña]

Hi!

I need to rotate a large table, but I haven't success.

With floats and small tables I don't have any problem, but with a
large table I can't

Some ideas?

Thanks.

Re: Lyx with Inkscape 0.48

[Jacob Bishop]

On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 9:05 AM, EJ wehrle.er...@gmail.com wrote:


Has anyone gotten Lyx to work with figures exported from Inkscape using the
PDF+LaTeX option?

Thanks in advance


On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 1:17 PM, Jacob Bishop bishop.ja...@gmail.comwrote:
I have. This was one of the major reasons I went to 1.6.7 from older
versions. It's great not to have to export figures manually in multiple
formats each time you make a change, and all that headache.

Without more information, it's difficult to provide much help to you.
Basically, you have to install Inkscape, make sure it's in the path
somewhere (either in the system path or the path prefix under
tools-preferences-paths) so LyX can run the image conversion commands, and
reconfigure LyX.

There is also some help for this on the wiki at:
http://wiki.lyx.org/Tips/UseInkscapeSVGImages

Jacob


So, after I sent the last message, I felt a little silly as I was realizing
that you probably had Inkscape 0.47 working, but had trouble with inkscape
0.48. I gave only general Inkscape information in my last response. I have
since gotten things to work with Inkscape 0.48 on my windows 7 machine. I
have not tried as of yet on my linux box.

I did have one hitch, and it had to do with the textext extension. To work
around this issue, there are two things. You need to patch your inkscape
python installation with something like this
http://sourceforge.net/projects/timink/files/pygtk-2.16_for_inkscape-0.48.zip/downloadand
you need to modify your textext.py file as per the instructions here:
http://pascalschulthess.de/inkscape-and-textext-deprecation-warning/

As an additional reference, I got most of this information from here:
http://bitbucket.org/pv/textext/issue/55/textext-using-inkscape048

After making those modifications, I had no trouble exporting Inkscape SVG
graphics.

I hope this helps.

Jacob

Re: rotate large table

[stephen's mailinglist account]

2010/10/26 Francisco J. Ruiz-Ruano Campaña fjruizru...@gmail.com:
 Hi!

 I need to rotate a large table, but I haven't success.

 With floats and small tables I don't have any problem, but with a
 large table I can't

see if longtable module gives any help.
it can be found from the following page in the wiki

http://wiki.lyx.org/Layouts/modules



-- 
Stephen

.sty file not found

[Ercan Cem]

Hello all.

I'm trying to typeset bridge deals/diagrams using lyx. There's package for
this called bridge. I load the package in the preamble but I use it I get
bridge.sty not found message. I checked MikTex and found that there is
indeed no bridge.sty file but bridge.tpm file instead. What am I supposed to
do? Anybody out there who can help me with typesetting bridge related issues
in general? I use Windows 7 Pro with Lyx 1.6.7 and MikTex 2.8.

Thanks in advance.

Re: rotate large table

[Francisco J . Ruiz-Ruano Campaña]

I could not run the modules, but the LaTeX code of the module has worked.

Thank you!

2010/10/26 stephen's mailinglist account 
stephen4mailingli...@googlemail.com

 2010/10/26 Francisco J. Ruiz-Ruano Campaña fjruizru...@gmail.com:
  Hi!
 
  I need to rotate a large table, but I haven't success.
 
  With floats and small tables I don't have any problem, but with a
  large table I can't
 
 see if longtable module gives any help.
 it can be found from the following page in the wiki

 http://wiki.lyx.org/Layouts/modules



 --
 Stephen




-- 
Más allá de la confusión, persiste la duda.

pdflatex always runs package manager

[Jack Tanner]

I'm on Windows 7 with MiKTeX 2.8 and LyX 1.6.7. I ran a MiKTeX update 
(using the admin version of MiKTeX Package Manager), and then 
reconfigured LyX. Now, every time I run pdflatex from LyX, Windows 
prompts me if I want to let MPM to make changes to my system. Very 
annoying. Worse, since there are two passes of pdflatex, I'm prompted 
twice. This wasn't happening before the MiKTeX update.


Should I try reconfiguring again? Should I reinstall MiKTeX? Should I 
ask this on the MiKTeX lists rather than here?


Thanks in advance.

Re: Lyx with Inkscape 0.48

[Waluyo Adi Siswanto]

 around this issue, there are two things. You need to patch your inkscape
 python installation with something like this
 http://sourceforge.net/projects/timink/files/pygtk-2.16_for_inkscape-0.48.zip/download
 and you need to modify your textext.py file as per the instructions here:
 http://pascalschulthess.de/inkscape-and-textext-deprecation-warning/

 As an additional reference, I got most of this information from here:
 http://bitbucket.org/pv/textext/issue/55/textext-using-inkscape048

 After making those modifications, I had no trouble exporting Inkscape SVG
 graphics.


However, I still have a problem to use textext extension in Inkscape
0.48 because of python version issue.
So I switched back to use 0.47 until today in Windows. In Ubuntu I
have no problems (of course need to modify textext.py)

Regards
Waluyo

relative path for images

[M DR]

Hello to all,

this is surely a very simple question, but I'm a total no-geek and is
driving me crazy.

I want to change the absolute path of the figures that I insert (the 90% of
them as a float) to a relative path, since I'm working from differents
computers and syncing the files with dropbox. I have found precisely this
info in these help files, but I'm doing something wrong, since it is not
working as expected.

btw, I am using LyX version 1.6.7,so the path idicated in the first
link: Layout
- Document - Praeamble, is the same as Document - Settings - LaTeX
Preamble, which is the only one I've found ?

http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinTips

http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/RelativeFiguresLocation

Thanks in advanced,

MaDro

Re: .sty file not found

[Richard Heck]

 On 10/26/10 5:05 PM, Ercan Cem wrote:

Hello all.

I'm trying to typeset bridge deals/diagrams using lyx. There's package 
for this called bridge. I load the package in the preamble but I use 
it I get bridge.sty not found message. I checked MikTex and found 
that there is indeed no bridge.sty file but bridge.tpm file instead. 
What am I supposed to do? Anybody out there who can help me with 
typesetting bridge related issues in general? I use Windows 7 Pro with 
Lyx 1.6.7 and MikTex 2.8.



CTAN.org contains two packages related to bridge:
http://tug.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=bridge
http://tug.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=bridge-pln
Neither is actually a LaTeX package, but the macros defined in the 
former could certainly be used to create a style file that could then be 
used, though they might have to be adapted a bit for LaTeX 2e, since 
they seem to have been written for 2.09. The latter might also be 
usable, but I haven't looked at it. In any event, this will take some work.


Richard

Re: pdflatex always runs package manager

[Julien Rioux]

On 26/10/2010 8:37 PM, Jack Tanner wrote:

Never mind. It turns out I got hit by this bug:

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detailaid=3067362group_id=10783atid=110783




There are several bugs that have poped up on the MikTeX mailing list 
since their 2.8 release; to be safe I would delay upgrading for a little 
while. Glad you solved your problem.


Cheers,
Julien

Re: Plz help with this Error message: Document class not available

[Waluyo Adi Siswanto]

On 26 October 2010 14:05, sherif helmy  wrote:

> Thank you very much for your attention
>
> I have MikTex ver 2.9 and Lyx ver 1.6.7
>  i attached with this message a snapshot of MikTex package manager showing
> info. you requested.
> Thanks again
>

Yes.. it is installed already.
Actually I have never tried the 2.9 version. I did 2.7 and 2.8 but no
problems.
The alternative LyX installer found here(AltInstaller-Complete):
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.6.7
has MikTeX 2.8 that already tested and works.

However, perhaps you could try by typing a command
texhash
in your command prompt.

PS: When you reply could please "Reply All" so other LyX Users could help
you and LyX developers will be aware if there is a problem when users use
MikTeX 2.9.

Regards
Waluyo

Lyx with Inkscape 0.48

[EJ]

Has anyone gotten Lyx to work with figures exported from Inkscape using the
PDF+LaTeX option? 

Thanks in advance

Colored Cell/row with multicolumn

[Vassiliki Kanellopoulos]

I aHi,
I am a new user with lyx and couldn't find the solution for my  
(simple?) problem.
I want to color the whole row of a table which I merged with  
multicolumn to one cell. The cell has 6 columns (a long table), and  
lots of rows.

I tried the following:
- If I add the TEXcode "\cellcolor{blue}" as ERT in the begining of  
the cell (the merged one) , then only the first of 6 columns (although  
merged) gets colored and the text, which I originally had centered is  
aligned on the left.
- I also tried to color the merged cell with "\rowcolor{blue}" but  
only get an error: "misplaced \noalign"
Hi, The only thing which works is not to merge the cells with  
multicolumn and set the TEXcode "\rowcolor{blue}" in the first cell of  
the table. But of course I would like to have also the feature of  
having no lines between the columns and the text aligned in the middle.


can somebody tell me what I am doing wrong?
Thanks!
 

Re: Colored Cell/row with multicolumn

[Uwe Stöhr]

Am 26.10.2010 14:26, schrieb Vassiliki Kanellopoulos:


I want to color the whole row of a table which I merged with multicolumn
to one cell.


If sec. 2.11 "Colored Tables" of the EmbeddedObjects manual (that you 
find in LyX's Help menu) doesn't help you, can you please provide a LyX 
example file.


regards Uwe

Re: Automatically convert external files during PDF creation

[Pavel Sanda]

Jurriën Stutterheim wrote:
> LyX devs: please consider adding this template for inclusion in new LyX 
> releases :)

have you considered to put your solution into the lyx wiki?

pavel

Re: Automatically convert external files during PDF creation

[Jurriën Stutterheim]

I have not :) I'll do so tomorrow. Thanks for the suggestion.

On 26 Oct, 2010, at 19:25 , Pavel Sanda wrote:

> Jurriën Stutterheim wrote:
>> LyX devs: please consider adding this template for inclusion in new LyX 
>> releases :)
> 
> have you considered to put your solution into the lyx wiki?
> 
> pavel

Re: announce: template to write Ph.D. theses with LyX

[João Maia e Silva]

Dear all,

I hope you are doing well!
I've used and modified the template that Uwe sent some months ago. I  
did my best to learn through the manual, this list and other  
examples, so to customise it to my needs.
however, there are some formatting details that I've failed to  
achieve and I'm sure that they are quite simple for an experienced user


I was wondering if somebody out there could help me out in finishing  
the document formatting?


I'll trade any help for a pack of tennis lessons! :)

thank you

regards

João Maia


On Mar 12, 2010, at 3:28 AM, Uwe Stöhr wrote:


Dear LyX users,

there was often the question on this LyX how to write a thesis  
with LyX. There are many templates available on the Internet but  
LyX itself does not yet have one. The next major LyX version 2.0  
will have one.


The template can be found here as ZIP-file:
http://fkurth.de/uwest/LyX/ThesisTemplate/Diss-Template.zip

Re: Lyx with Inkscape 0.48

[Jacob Bishop]

I have. This was one of the major reasons I went to 1.6.7 from older
versions. It's great not to have to export figures manually in multiple
formats each time you make a change, and all that headache.

Without more information, it's difficult to provide much help to you.
Basically, you have to install Inkscape, make sure it's in the path
somewhere (either in the system path or the path prefix under
tools->preferences->paths) so LyX can run the image conversion commands, and
reconfigure LyX.

There is also some help for this on the wiki at:
http://wiki.lyx.org/Tips/UseInkscapeSVGImages

Jacob

On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 9:05 AM, EJ  wrote:

>
>
> Has anyone gotten Lyx to work with figures exported from Inkscape using the
> PDF+LaTeX option?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
>

rotate large table

[Francisco J . Ruiz-Ruano Campaña]

Hi!

I need to rotate a large table, but I haven't success.

With floats and small tables I don't have any problem, but with a
large table I can't

Some ideas?

Thanks.

Re: Lyx with Inkscape 0.48

[Jacob Bishop]

On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 9:05 AM, EJ  wrote:


Has anyone gotten Lyx to work with figures exported from Inkscape using the
PDF+LaTeX option?

Thanks in advance


On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 1:17 PM, Jacob Bishop wrote:
I have. This was one of the major reasons I went to 1.6.7 from older
versions. It's great not to have to export figures manually in multiple
formats each time you make a change, and all that headache.

Without more information, it's difficult to provide much help to you.
Basically, you have to install Inkscape, make sure it's in the path
somewhere (either in the system path or the path prefix under
tools->preferences->paths) so LyX can run the image conversion commands, and
reconfigure LyX.

There is also some help for this on the wiki at:
http://wiki.lyx.org/Tips/UseInkscapeSVGImages

Jacob


So, after I sent the last message, I felt a little silly as I was realizing
that you probably had Inkscape 0.47 working, but had trouble with inkscape
0.48. I gave only general Inkscape information in my last response. I have
since gotten things to work with Inkscape 0.48 on my windows 7 machine. I
have not tried as of yet on my linux box.

I did have one hitch, and it had to do with the textext extension. To work
around this issue, there are two things. You need to patch your inkscape
python installation with something like this
http://sourceforge.net/projects/timink/files/pygtk-2.16_for_inkscape-0.48.zip/downloadand
you need to modify your textext.py file as per the instructions here:
http://pascalschulthess.de/inkscape-and-textext-deprecation-warning/

As an additional reference, I got most of this information from here:
http://bitbucket.org/pv/textext/issue/55/textext-using-inkscape048

After making those modifications, I had no trouble exporting Inkscape SVG
graphics.

I hope this helps.

Jacob

Re: rotate large table

[stephen's mailinglist account]

2010/10/26 Francisco J. Ruiz-Ruano Campaña :
> Hi!
>
> I need to rotate a large table, but I haven't success.
>
> With floats and small tables I don't have any problem, but with a
> large table I can't
>
see if longtable module gives any help.
it can be found from the following page in the wiki

http://wiki.lyx.org/Layouts/modules



-- 
Stephen

.sty file not found

[Ercan Cem]

Hello all.

I'm trying to typeset bridge deals/diagrams using lyx. There's package for
this called "bridge". I load the package in the preamble but I use it I get
"bridge.sty" not found message. I checked MikTex and found that there is
indeed no bridge.sty file but bridge.tpm file instead. What am I supposed to
do? Anybody out there who can help me with typesetting bridge related issues
in general? I use Windows 7 Pro with Lyx 1.6.7 and MikTex 2.8.

Thanks in advance.

Re: rotate large table

[Francisco J . Ruiz-Ruano Campaña]

I could not run the modules, but the LaTeX code of the module has worked.

Thank you!

2010/10/26 stephen's mailinglist account <
stephen4mailingli...@googlemail.com>

> 2010/10/26 Francisco J. Ruiz-Ruano Campaña :
> > Hi!
> >
> > I need to rotate a large table, but I haven't success.
> >
> > With floats and small tables I don't have any problem, but with a
> > large table I can't
> >
> see if longtable module gives any help.
> it can be found from the following page in the wiki
>
> http://wiki.lyx.org/Layouts/modules
>
>
>
> --
> Stephen
>



-- 
Más allá de la confusión, persiste la duda.

pdflatex always runs package manager

[Jack Tanner]

I'm on Windows 7 with MiKTeX 2.8 and LyX 1.6.7. I ran a MiKTeX update 
(using the admin version of MiKTeX Package Manager), and then 
reconfigured LyX. Now, every time I run pdflatex from LyX, Windows 
prompts me if I want to let MPM to make changes to my system. Very 
annoying. Worse, since there are two passes of pdflatex, I'm prompted 
twice. This wasn't happening before the MiKTeX update.


Should I try reconfiguring again? Should I reinstall MiKTeX? Should I 
ask this on the MiKTeX lists rather than here?


Thanks in advance.

Re: Lyx with Inkscape 0.48

[Waluyo Adi Siswanto]

> around this issue, there are two things. You need to patch your inkscape
> python installation with something like this
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/timink/files/pygtk-2.16_for_inkscape-0.48.zip/download
> and you need to modify your textext.py file as per the instructions here:
> http://pascalschulthess.de/inkscape-and-textext-deprecation-warning/
>
> As an additional reference, I got most of this information from here:
> http://bitbucket.org/pv/textext/issue/55/textext-using-inkscape048
>
> After making those modifications, I had no trouble exporting Inkscape SVG
> graphics.
>

However, I still have a problem to use textext extension in Inkscape
0.48 because of python version issue.
So I switched back to use 0.47 until today in Windows. In Ubuntu I
have no problems (of course need to modify textext.py)

Regards
Waluyo

relative path for images

[M DR]

Hello to all,

this is surely a very simple question, but I'm a total no-geek and is
driving me crazy.

I want to change the absolute path of the figures that I insert (the 90% of
them as a float) to a relative path, since I'm working from differents
computers and syncing the files with dropbox. I have found precisely this
info in these help files, but I'm doing something wrong, since it is not
working as expected.

btw, I am using LyX version 1.6.7,so the path idicated in the first
link: Layout
-> Document -> Praeamble, is the same as Document -> Settings -> LaTeX
Preamble, which is the only one I've found ?

http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinTips

http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/RelativeFiguresLocation

Thanks in advanced,

MaDro

Re: .sty file not found

[Richard Heck]

 On 10/26/10 5:05 PM, Ercan Cem wrote:

Hello all.

I'm trying to typeset bridge deals/diagrams using lyx. There's package 
for this called "bridge". I load the package in the preamble but I use 
it I get "bridge.sty" not found message. I checked MikTex and found 
that there is indeed no bridge.sty file but bridge.tpm file instead. 
What am I supposed to do? Anybody out there who can help me with 
typesetting bridge related issues in general? I use Windows 7 Pro with 
Lyx 1.6.7 and MikTex 2.8.



CTAN.org contains two packages related to bridge:
http://tug.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=bridge
http://tug.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=bridge-pln
Neither is actually a LaTeX package, but the macros defined in the 
former could certainly be used to create a style file that could then be 
used, though they might have to be adapted a bit for LaTeX 2e, since 
they seem to have been written for 2.09. The latter might also be 
usable, but I haven't looked at it. In any event, this will take some work.


Richard

Re: pdflatex always runs package manager

[Julien Rioux]

On 26/10/2010 8:37 PM, Jack Tanner wrote:

Never mind. It turns out I got hit by this bug:

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail=3067362_id=10783=110783




There are several bugs that have poped up on the MikTeX mailing list 
since their 2.8 release; to be safe I would delay upgrading for a little 
while. Glad you solved your problem.


Cheers,
Julien