Re: Windows Command Line

[Jacob Bishop]

 On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 9:09 PM, Richard Heck rgh...@comcast.net wrote:


 Can someone on Windows explain the right thing to do here?


Shucks, I guess I'll give it a go.

Go to the command line (windowsbubbleruncmd).
Type in our command.
C:\Users\MyNamelyx.exe -help
'lyx.exe' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
What does that mean? It means your computer does not know where to find that
file (lyx.exe). It's actually in a folder that will be something like
C:\Program Files\LyX 1.6.7\bin At least, that's where I found mine. Once
you find it, you will find that the command they tell you does in fact work.

First, we have to go to where the file lives.
C:\Users\MyNamecd C:\Program Files\LyX 1.6.7\bin
We can verify that the file is here with
C:\Users\MyNamedir
Now, we type the command
C:\Users\MyNamelyx.exe -help
and it works.

Now, if we want to shortcut things, and run lyx.exe without having to do
C:\Users\MyNamecd C:\Program Files\LyX 1.6.7\bin
then we can add C:\Program Files\LyX 1.6.7\bin to the path. Path is a
predefined variable, and basically, whenever you want to execute a program,
the operating system will look for the file. It won't look everywhere, but
only in the directories stored in the path variable. To see what's in your
path, go there on the command line and type path:
C:\Users\MyNamepath
PATH=C:\Program Files\MiKTeX
2.8\miktex\bin;C:\Windows\system32;C:\Windows;C:\Wi
ndows\System32\Wbem;C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;C:\Program
Files
\MATLAB\R2009a\bin;C:\Program Files\MATLAB\R2009a\bin\win32;C:\Program
Files\Tor
toiseSVN\bin;C:\Program Files\Dia\bin;C:\MinGW\bin
Now you get to see what's stored in my path variable.

Suppose we want to add our directory to the path. To do this we right-click
my computerpropertiesadvanced system settingsadvanced, then click
environment variables This is how I get there on Windows 7, XP is similar,
but it seems like it's not buried quite as deep. Anyway, now we get to edit
the variables. You can either change the user variables or the system
variables. If you change the user variables only, it will not affect other
users on the computer. If you change the system variables, it will be
system-wide. I usually do things system-wide. We now go to the system
variable path and click edit. We go to the end of this very long list,
and place a semicolon after the last entry, then paste C:\Program Files\LyX
1.6.7\bin without the quotes, and okay ourselves out of there. You have to
exit the terminal window, and start a new one before the variable will be in
the path.
Open a new terminal window (windowsbubbleruncmd).
Now check the path variable.
C:\Users\MyNamepath
PATH=C:\Program Files\MiKTeX
2.8\miktex\bin;C:\Windows\system32;C:\Windows;C:\Wi
ndows\System32\Wbem;C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;C:\Program
Files
\MATLAB\R2009a\bin;C:\Program Files\MATLAB\R2009a\bin\win32;C:\Program
Files\Tor
toiseSVN\bin;C:\Program Files\Dia\bin;C:\MinGW\bin;C:\Program Files\LyX
1.6.7\bi
n

Horay! It's there.

Now, we test our command from anywhere in the command prompt, and we get:
C:\Users\MyNamelyx.exe -help
Usage: lyx [ command line switches ] [ name.lyx ... ]
Command line switches (case sensitive):
-help  summarize LyX usage
-userdir dir   set user directory to dir
-sysdir dirset system directory to dir
-geometry WxH+X+Y  set geometry of the main window
-dbg feature[,feature]...
  select the features to debug.
  Type `lyx -dbg' to see the list of features
-x [--execute] command
  where command is a lyx command.
-e [--export] fmt
  where fmt is the export format of choice.
  Look on Tools-Preferences-File formats-Format
  to get an idea which parameters should be passed.
-i [--import] fmt file.xxx
  where fmt is the import format of choice
  and file.xxx is the file to be imported.
-f [--force-overwrite] what
  where what is either `all' or `main'.
  Using `all', all files are overwritten during
  a batch export, otherwise only the main file will be.
  Anything else is equivalent to `all', but is not consumed.
-versionsummarize version and build info
Check the LyX man page for more details.

Everything is in order. I hope this gets you going. You can also add
variables to the path from the command line, but I think one way to get the
job done is sufficient for an answer.

Jacob

Re: Spellchecker and ú

[Stephan Witt]

Am 03.11.2010 um 18:57 schrieb Christopher Menzel:

 On Nov 2, 2010, at 3:26 AM, Stephan Witt wrote:
 Am 02.11.2010 um 03:28 schrieb Christopher Menzel:
 
 On 10/30/2010 02:53 AM, Stephan Witt wrote:
 Am 29.10.2010 um 22:01 schrieb Christopher Menzel:
 
 Greetings LyX users,
 
 The aspell-based spellchecker in LyX does not appear to be happy checking 
 a document containing a Spanish name that includes the character ú.  
 Specifically, the name seems throw the checker pretty seriously off 
 balance; it begins to stop on perfectly ordinary words that occur in the 
 document a word or two *after* a word that it apparently isn't 
 recognizing internally -- for example, it asked if I wanted to replace 
 the word that with bisection, where that occurred two words after 
 bijection, which was clearly the word it had stopped on internally.  Is 
 there a solution to this beyond avoiding non-English unicode characters?
 
 Sorry, I've no solution but a question.
 You're using LyX 1.6.7? Which platform?
 
 1.6.7 on a Mac, latest version of Snow Leopard.
 
 Interestingly... there are 2 options to use aspell then.
 What's your setup exactly? What did you do to make aspell work?
 
 IIRC, I installed a package that added a System Preferences thingy.  Beyond 
 that I don't recall doing anything.  Spellchecking just worked.

I'd guess it is cocoaSpell... After upgrade to Snow Leopard I don't have it 
anymore.
I'll check it on another system...

To be sure: are you able to send me a test case? 
I tried it with some copied spanish text from Wikipedia.
And I couldn't reproduce it with LyX 2.0 and a self-made aspell library.
But it may depend on other parts of your LyX document.

 Other question (again): 
 did you mark the spanish name as Spanish language? 
 
 I hadn't, but I tried doing so and it doesn't seem to help.

Unfortunately.

Stephan

Re: Sharing documents among different versions of Lyx

[Guenter Milde]

On 2010-11-02, Frederick Noronha wrote:
 Is there some tool that makes the sharing of documents among different
 versions of Lyx a little easier? FN

lyx2lyx comes with every LyX version. It's a Python module (i.e. a set of
interdependent Python scripts living in LYXDIR/lyx2lyx/).

To down-convert from a non-installed newer LyX version, it suffices to
get and install the new version of this module.

You could try to place it somewhere Python finds it and use it from
Python.

Or you could try to copy or link LYXDIR/lyx2lyx/lyx2lyx to the binary
PATH and use it from the command line.

Günter

figure*

[george legge]

A simple question, I believe: How do I get captions printed without Figure
numbers?
Both with the figures and in the list of figures, I wish to have only the
captions printed.

I am using Book (Memoir).
The help file on Additional LyX Features (or Extended) mentions the float
environment figure*.
But nothing further is said, except to refer the reader to the User's Guide.

I have the User's Guide and the Embedded Objects manuals for LyX 1.6.x
and neither makes any mention of figure* or the answer to my problem.

Also I see no sign of figure* in the toolbar under Insert.

I shall be very grateful for assistance.

Regards, George Legge

Re: LyX and LuaTeX

[Guenter Milde]

On 2010-11-02, Rob Oakes wrote:

 But, initial experiments show that it was easy to get up and running,
 and that it works with LyX 2.0 very well.  Take care with UTF
 characters, though.  I probably could have gotten it sorted out, but
 didn't really want to fuss with it.

There is an ongoing effort to unify the usage of XeLaTeX and LuaLaTeX,
i.e. recent versions of fontspec and unicode-math support work in a way
you can use the same document with both engines.

My description would be along the lines: 

  Since TeXLive 2010 you can also use LuaTeX with LaTeX documents
  exported for the XeTeX engine (make sure *not* to load the xunicode
  package).

Also, documents intended for XeTeX/LuaTeX should use the polyglossia
package instead of babel for language support. AFAIK, is not yet
implemented in LyX 2.0.

Günter 
  

Re: Windows Command Line

[Richard Heck]

On 11/04/2010 02:02 AM, Jacob Bishop wrote:

First, we have to go to where the file lives.
C:\Users\MyNamecd C:\Program Files\LyX 1.6.7\bin

Some versions of the Windows shell, I know, require that this kind of 
thing be put in quotes. So:


C:\Users\MyNamecd C:\Program Files\LyX 1.6.7\bin

This is because of the spaces in the pathname.

Richard

Re: figure*

[Paul A. Rubin]

On 11/4/2010 3:30 AM, george legge wrote:

A simple question, I believe: How do I get captions printed without
Figure numbers?
Both with the figures and in the list of figures, I wish to have only
the captions printed.

I am using Book (Memoir).
The help file on Additional LyX Features (or Extended) mentions the
float environment figure*.
But nothing further is said, except to refer the reader to the User's
Guide.
I have the User's Guide and the Embedded Objects manuals for LyX 1.6.x
and neither makes any mention of figure* or the answer to my problem.

Also I see no sign of figure* in the toolbar under Insert.

I shall be very grateful for assistance.

Regards, George Legge


How do you want figures labeled?  Possibilities include (but are not 
limited to):


Figure. My Smiling Face
Figure: My Smiling Face
Figure  My Smiling Face
My Smiling Face

/Paul

Done something wrong

[Paul Sutton]

Hi

I am creating a newsletter for my local rugby club and have inserted a
table

I have a typo somewhere,  not inserted a $ however I can't see where I
have done this,

can someone with fresh eyes have a look and perhaps point me in the
right direction please

\begin{center}\begin{tabular}{|l|l|l|l|l|l|} \hline \textbf{DATE} 
\textbf{COMP}  \textbf{VENUE}  \textbf{OPPONENT}  \textbf{RESULT} 
\textbf{SCORE} \\
\hline 21-Aug  F  A  New Cross  L  6-0 $|$ \\
\hline 04-Sep  M  H  Sidmouth  Won  30-6 $|$ \\
\hline 11-Sep  M  A  Newton Abbot  ?  ? $|$ \\
\hline 18-Sep  M  A  Devonport Services  ?  ? $|$ \\
\hline 25-Sep  M  A  Barnstaple  Won  21-18 $|$ \\
\hline 02-Oct  M  H  Bideford  Won  59-0 $|$ \\
\hline 16-Oct  M  H  Totnes  $|$ \\
\hline 23-Oct  M  A  Brixham  $|$ \\
\hline 30-Oct  M  H  Devonport Services  Won $ 10-9 $$ \\
\hline 06-Nov  M  A  Torquay  $|$ \\
\hline 13-Nov  M  A  Kingsbridge  $|$ \\
\hline 20-Nov  M  H  Cullompton  $|$ \\
\hline 27-Nov  M  A  Ivybridge  $|$ \\
\hline 04-Dec  M  H  Okehampton  $|$ \\
\hline 11-Dec  M  H  Newton Abbot  $|$ \\
\hline 18-Dec  M  H  Exmouth  $|$ \\
\hline 08-Jan  M  A  Okehampton  $|$ \\
\hline 15-Jan  M  H  Barnstaple  $|$ \\
\hline 22-Jan  M  A  Exmouth  $|$ \\
\hline 29-Jan  M  A  Wadebridge  $|$ \\
\hline 05-Feb  M  H  Brixham  $|$ \\
\hline 12-Feb  F  H  New Cross  $|$ \\
\hline 19-Feb  M  A  Crediton  $|$ \\
\hline 26-Feb  M  A  Dartmouth  $|$ \\
\hline 05-Mar  M  H  Kingsbridge  $|$ \\
\hline 12-Mar  M  A  Cullompton  $|$ \\
\hline 19-Mar  M  H  Torquay  $|$ \\
\hline 26-Mar  M  H  Ivybridge  $|$ \\
\hline 2-Apr  M  H  Dartmouth  $|$ \\
\hline 09-Apr  M  A  Bideford  $|$ \\
\hline 16-Apr  M  A  Sidmouth  $|$ \\
\hline \end{tabular}\end{center}

This used to work fine, all I have done is updated with a new fixutre /
result line, as in just edited a small part of 1 line and its failing.


thanks for any help

Paul
-- 



Paul Sutton Cert SLPS (Open)
http://www.zleap.net


17th September 2011 - Software freedom day

SV: Done something wrong

[Ingar Pareliussen]

You have a $ extra at the end of this line:

\hline 30-Oct  M  H  Devonport Services  Won $ 10-9 $$ \\

Ingar

Re: pdfpages: remove blank page between two included pdfs?

[Marcelo Acuña]

  I am using pdfpages to include pdf pages into my LyX
 document.
  However, when I have two pdf files included this way,
 one immediately
  after the other, the resulting pdf will include a
 blank page between
  the two included pdfs. Is there a way to remove the
 blank page?
  

 I have 3 pdf files includes, one after another one, and I do not have any 
problem.
I believe that you would have to review if you did not insert some command 
between one include and the following one. 

Marcelo

Re: Done something wrong

[Vincent van Ravesteijn]

\hline 30-Oct  M  H  Devonport Services  Won $ 10-9 $$ \\

Between Won and 10-9, there should be a '' instead of '$'.

Vincent

Re: pdfpages: remove blank page between two included pdfs?

[Stephen Buonopane]

On Nov 1, 2010, at 5:08 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote:


Dear all
I am using pdfpages to include pdf pages into my LyX document.
However, when I have two pdf files included this way, one immediately
after the other, the resulting pdf will include a blank page between
the two included pdfs. Is there a way to remove the blank page?



Have you tried reducing the page size with the scale command
for example
\includepdf[pages={-},scale=0.85]{myfile.pdf}

Re: Windows Command Line

[Jacob Bishop]

and windows is meant to be easier than Linux,  even the command line on
Linux is easier to use, I remember the old path command had a limit of
something like 128 characters is this still the case.

I got curious, and found this:
Windows 2000 has a 254 character limit.
Windows XP has a 255 character limit.
Windows Vista has a 260 character limit.

Running getconf ARG_MAX on my Linux box returns 2097152.
That explains why I've run up against the limit on my XP machine, but never
had trouble in Linux.

Some versions of the Windows shell, I know, require that this kind of thing
be put in quotes.

C:\Users\MyNamecd C:\Program Files\LyX 1.6.7\bin

 This is because of the spaces in the pathname.


I think this correct, but I did verify that on both Windows XP, and Windows
7, it does not complain about spaces in the path.

Unfortunately, I'm not on Windows.

Although every OS comes with its own set of pros and cons, I don't think
this is really that unfortunate. (I realize I'm taking this out of context,
but I couldn't help myself).

Jacob

about the improvement plan of the lyx graphical interface

[Wei-Dong Lian]

hi everyone,
there is no doubt that at present lyx is really more stable and easy-to-use.
Thanks again for the developer of lyx. And I am wondering if there exists
the plan or the idea to improve the editor of lyx. I think, just a short
advice, if the editor of lyx could be somewhat like emacs, we
could customize the highlight of the keyword, with several kinds of colors,
it will be convenient and very clear for editing and organizing the article.
I am ill-informed, there may exist the proper manner to improve the editor
configuration. Any suggestion will be appreciated.
Thanks for your attention,
weidong

Re: Windows Command Line

[Venable]

Thanks everyone, this is really useful.

Someone posted a while back about working on a book on LyX - this
would be a great topic to include.

Can't open/save documents

[Fernando Lemos]

Hi Everyone,

I installed Lyx 1.6.7 in a windows 7 pro 64 bits. The problem is that I 
can't open/save any document from the File menu. It seams Lyx can't call 
the windows explorer interface from which I can choose the document I 
want to open/save. I tried to run Lyx in many different configurations 
of compatibility modes, but nothing happened. Does anyone know how to 
fix it?


Thanks in advance,
Fernando Lemos

Auto-Replace

[Martin Probst]

Is there any possibility to define some custom auto-replacements? I mean in the
same way like when you enter 'LyX' in the editor, then this appears as '\LyX{}'
in the LaTeX-source.
Thanks, Martin

Re: Auto-Replace

[Uwe Stöhr]

Am 04.11.2010 21:01, schrieb Martin Probst:


Is there any possibility to define some custom auto-replacements? I mean in the
same way like when you enter 'LyX' in the editor, then this appears as '\LyX{}'
in the LaTeX-source.


Not yet possible.

regards Uwe

Re: about the improvement plan of the lyx graphical interface

[Uwe Stöhr]

Am 04.11.2010 17:32, schrieb Wei-Dong Lian:


I am wondering
if there exists the plan or the idea to improve the editor of lyx. I
think, just a short advice, if the editor of lyx could be somewhat like
emacs, we could customize the highlight of the keyword,
with several kinds of colors, it will be convenient and very clear for
editing and organizing the article.


You misunderstood the concept of LyX. Our aim is to provide a word 
processor using the WYSIWYM concept 
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WYSIWYM). LyX is not a text editor and is 
not designed to edit LaTeX-code directly. LyX therefore has no syntax 
highlighting as there is no TeX-code to be edited (except of the 
document preamble).


regards Uwe

Re: figure*

[george legge]

Thank you for replying Paul.
Figures to be labeled in both the List of Figures and in the caption beneath
the figures:
My smiling face

George

On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 12:08 AM, Paul A. Rubin ru...@msu.edu wrote:

 On 11/4/2010 3:30 AM, george legge wrote:

 A simple question, I believe: How do I get captions printed without
 Figure numbers?
 Both with the figures and in the list of figures, I wish to have only
 the captions printed.

 I am using Book (Memoir).
 The help file on Additional LyX Features (or Extended) mentions the
 float environment figure*.
 But nothing further is said, except to refer the reader to the User's
 Guide.
 I have the User's Guide and the Embedded Objects manuals for LyX 1.6.x
 and neither makes any mention of figure* or the answer to my problem.

 Also I see no sign of figure* in the toolbar under Insert.

 I shall be very grateful for assistance.

 Regards, George Legge


 How do you want figures labeled?  Possibilities include (but are not
 limited to):

 Figure. My Smiling Face
 Figure: My Smiling Face
 Figure  My Smiling Face
 My Smiling Face

 /Paul

Re: figure*

[Paul A. Rubin]

On 11/04/2010 05:26 PM, george legge wrote:

Thank you for replying Paul.
Figures to be labeled in both the List of Figures and in the caption 
beneath the figures:

My smiling face

Does the attached example do what you want?  (If so, just note the line 
in the document preamble.)


/Paul





figures.lyx
Description: application/lyx

Re: how to change GUI Language

[Uwe Stöhr]

Am 04.11.2010 09:59, schrieb Christian del Castillo:


1) using the version I installed last time from here:
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.6.7/LyX-1.6.7-4-Installer.exe
I still do not get to choose a GUI/ install language, and in the end my
LyX was (automatically) in Japanese, again.


This is important to know! I wasn't aware of that because I use this 
installer only seldom. Can you please report this issue at our bug 
tracker so that this can be fixed?:

http://www.lyx.org/trac/wiki/BugTrackerHome


2) using the version you suggested to me (your version) which I
downloaded from here:
http://prdownload.berlios.de/lyxwininstall/LyX-167-4-25-AltInstaller-Complete.exe
I do get a choice to my preferred language, and in the end, the LyX
started up in the language of my choice.


Perfect!


I think your installer is definitely better than the other one I used.


In this case yes, but in general it is a matter of taste.
The main reason I provide an alternative installer is that the author of 
the official can often not be informed about bugs via email.
In general my installer contains some extra-features compared to the 
official LyX installer:

http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinInstaller#detailed-comparison

(I know that having two installers for one program is confusing but I 
still don't see a way to improve the situation.)


regards Uwe

Re: how to change GUI Language

[Uwe Stöhr]

Am 04.11.2010 09:59, schrieb Christian del Castillo:


1) using the version I installed last time from here:
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.6.7/LyX-1.6.7-4-Installer.exe
I still do not get to choose a GUI/ install language, and in the end my
LyX was (automatically) in Japanese, again.


This is important to know! I wasn't aware of that because I use this 
installer only seldom. Can you please report this issue at our bug 
tracker so that this can be fixed?:

http://www.lyx.org/trac/wiki/BugTrackerHome


2) using the version you suggested to me (your version) which I
downloaded from here:
http://prdownload.berlios.de/lyxwininstall/LyX-167-4-25-AltInstaller-Complete.exe
I do get a choice to my preferred language, and in the end, the LyX
started up in the language of my choice.


Perfect!


I think your installer is definitely better than the other one I used.


In this case yes, but in general it is a matter of taste.
The main reason I provide an alternative installer is that the author of 
the official can often not be informed about bugs via email.
In general my installer contains some extra-features compared to the 
official LyX installer:

http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinInstaller#detailed-comparison

(I know that having two installers for one program is confusing but I 
still don't see a way to improve the situation.)


regards Uwe

Page headers problem... LaTeX rather

[Manveru]

Hello,

I know this is rather LaTeX related problem, but maybe someone from
this list is able to help me.

I have following code in my preamble:
\newcommand{\kopia}{\tiny Kopia dla Gal Anonim}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}

\fancypagestyle{empty}{%
  \fancyfoot[L]{\kopia}
  %\fancyfoot[LE]{\kopia}
}
\fancypagestyle{plain}{%
  \fancyhf{}
  \renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}
  \fancyfoot[L]{\kopia}
  \fancyfoot[C]{- \thepage  -}
  %\fancyfoot[LE]{\kopia}
}
\fancypagestyle{headings}{%
  \fancyfoot[L]{\kopia}
  %\fancyfoot[LE]{\kopia}
}
\lfoot{\kopia}

However, this works only for first page! I am using article class. All
other pages are reset to default layout with page number in the bottom
middle. What may be wrong with my doc or what is wrong with fancyhdr
or article class? I did not find anything suspicious in tex code of
the generated document.

Thanks in advance for any hint.
-- 
Manveru
jabber: manv...@manveru.pl
     gg: 1624001
   http://www.manveru.pl

powerdot font too small

[Payal]

Hi,
I am very very new to tex and lyx and am using v.1.6.5 on Ubuntu 10.04. 
I am trying to make a presentation in
lyx with powerdot class. I did File-New, then Documents -
Settings-Document class- presentation(powerdot) did a simple file.
The file is at,
http://pastebin.com/QATBYsJ1

But when I do View-Pdf the font looks too small. My other doc including
one powerdot-example from internet and my own beamer sample show
properly.

What is missing?

With warm regards,
-Payal
-- 

How to use babel -shortcuts in LYX directly?

[Vasily Letov]

Hello, people!
In Babel there are many language-specific shortcuts. For example, we have ---,
--~, --* and another. The package extdash (ncc-tools collection) provides 
extra useful shortcuts, too. Unfortunatelly, LYX converts  into \char`\{}, 
so, we forced to use ERT for such shortcuts. It is very, very uncomfortably!
I have found similar topic here http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/75 but it is 
still not resolved (over 9 years!).
My question is how to configure LYX to use such sortcuts directly without ERT?

New LaTeX TeX Lyx user

[Bryan Baldwin]

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Re: powerdot font too small

[Uwe Stöhr]

Am 05.11.2010 01:39, schrieb Payal:


But when I do View-Pdf the font looks too small.


What PDF method did you use? Powerdot does not work with the pdflatex method because it is based on 
the PostScript language and not on PDF.


regards Uwe

Re: powerdot font too small

[Payal]

On Fri, Nov 05, 2010 at 04:07:28AM +0100, Uwe Stöhr wrote:
 Am 05.11.2010 01:39, schrieb Payal:

 But when I do View-Pdf the font looks too small.

 What PDF method did you use? Powerdot does not work with the pdflatex 
 method because it is based on the PostScript language and not on PDF.

Thanks for the mail. I use view-pdf(dvipdfm)

Please also see,
http://pdfcast.org/pdf/lyx

With warm regards,
-Payal
-- 

Re: Spellchecker and ú

[Christopher Menzel]

On Nov 4, 2010, at 1:48 AM, Stephan Witt wrote:
 Am 03.11.2010 um 18:57 schrieb Christopher Menzel:
 On Nov 2, 2010, at 3:26 AM, Stephan Witt wrote:
 Am 02.11.2010 um 03:28 schrieb Christopher Menzel:
 
 On 10/30/2010 02:53 AM, Stephan Witt wrote:
 Am 29.10.2010 um 22:01 schrieb Christopher Menzel:
 
 Greetings LyX users,
 
 The aspell-based spellchecker in LyX does not appear to be happy 
 checking a document containing a Spanish name that includes the 
 character ú.  Specifically, the name seems throw the checker pretty 
 seriously off balance; it begins to stop on perfectly ordinary words 
 that occur in the document a word or two *after* a word that it 
 apparently isn't recognizing internally -- for example, it asked if I 
 wanted to replace the word that with bisection, where that 
 occurred two words after bijection, which was clearly the word it had 
 stopped on internally.  Is there a solution to this beyond avoiding 
 non-English unicode characters?
 
 Sorry, I've no solution but a question.
 You're using LyX 1.6.7? Which platform?
 
 1.6.7 on a Mac, latest version of Snow Leopard.
 
 Interestingly... there are 2 options to use aspell then.
 What's your setup exactly? What did you do to make aspell work?
 
 IIRC, I installed a package that added a System Preferences thingy.  Beyond 
 that I don't recall doing anything.  Spellchecking just worked.
 
 I'd guess it is cocoaSpell...

Yes, that is correct.

 After upgrade to Snow Leopard I don't have it anymore.
 I'll check it on another system...
 
 To be sure: are you able to send me a test case?

Sent to you directly.

 I tried it with some copied spanish text from Wikipedia.
 And I couldn't reproduce it with LyX 2.0 and a self-made aspell library.

I can't get LyX 2.0alpha6 running on my iMac; crashes almost immediately.  
However, I did install it on Windows 7 (which is installed on a Bootcamp 
partition of my iMac) and indeed the spellchecker ran without any problem.  
(alpha6 seems to run very well in its Windows incarnation.)  Unfortunately, 
alpha6 also upgraded my document so I can't edit it anymore under LyX 1.6.7.  
(Not really a big problem; the paper is actually finished and about to be sent 
off for publication.)

-chris

Re: Page headers problem... LaTeX rather

[Steve Litt]

On Thursday 04 November 2010 18:26:22 Manveru wrote:
 Hello,
 
 I know this is rather LaTeX related problem, but maybe someone from
 this list is able to help me.
 
 I have following code in my preamble:
 \newcommand{\kopia}{\tiny Kopia dla Gal Anonim}
 \usepackage{fancyhdr}
 
 \fancypagestyle{empty}{%
   \fancyfoot[L]{\kopia}
   %\fancyfoot[LE]{\kopia}
 }
 \fancypagestyle{plain}{%
   \fancyhf{}
   \renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}
   \fancyfoot[L]{\kopia}
   \fancyfoot[C]{- \thepage  -}
   %\fancyfoot[LE]{\kopia}
 }
 \fancypagestyle{headings}{%
   \fancyfoot[L]{\kopia}
   %\fancyfoot[LE]{\kopia}
 }
 \lfoot{\kopia}
 
 However, this works only for first page! I am using article class. All
 other pages are reset to default layout with page number in the bottom
 middle. What may be wrong with my doc or what is wrong with fancyhdr
 or article class? I did not find anything suspicious in tex code of
 the generated document.
 
 Thanks in advance for any hint.

Pure guess: You need the following in your document preamble:

\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\pagestyle{fancy}

Sounds to me like you're not using \pagestyle{fancy}, but that's just a guess.

To solve this problem, if I were you I'd make a hello world LaTeX file maybe 
3 pages long, and slowly modify it until you can either get what you want or 
reproduce the problem, and then work to toggle the problem on and off and 
isolate the root cause.

I'd also take steps to verify that only the first page works. I wouldn't be 
surprised if every Part or Section page works.

HTH

SteveT

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

Re: Windows Command Line

[Jacob Bishop]

 On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 9:09 PM, Richard Heck rgh...@comcast.net wrote:


 Can someone on Windows explain the right thing to do here?


Shucks, I guess I'll give it a go.

Go to the command line (windowsbubbleruncmd).
Type in our command.
C:\Users\MyNamelyx.exe -help
'lyx.exe' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
What does that mean? It means your computer does not know where to find that
file (lyx.exe). It's actually in a folder that will be something like
C:\Program Files\LyX 1.6.7\bin At least, that's where I found mine. Once
you find it, you will find that the command they tell you does in fact work.

First, we have to go to where the file lives.
C:\Users\MyNamecd C:\Program Files\LyX 1.6.7\bin
We can verify that the file is here with
C:\Users\MyNamedir
Now, we type the command
C:\Users\MyNamelyx.exe -help
and it works.

Now, if we want to shortcut things, and run lyx.exe without having to do
C:\Users\MyNamecd C:\Program Files\LyX 1.6.7\bin
then we can add C:\Program Files\LyX 1.6.7\bin to the path. Path is a
predefined variable, and basically, whenever you want to execute a program,
the operating system will look for the file. It won't look everywhere, but
only in the directories stored in the path variable. To see what's in your
path, go there on the command line and type path:
C:\Users\MyNamepath
PATH=C:\Program Files\MiKTeX
2.8\miktex\bin;C:\Windows\system32;C:\Windows;C:\Wi
ndows\System32\Wbem;C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;C:\Program
Files
\MATLAB\R2009a\bin;C:\Program Files\MATLAB\R2009a\bin\win32;C:\Program
Files\Tor
toiseSVN\bin;C:\Program Files\Dia\bin;C:\MinGW\bin
Now you get to see what's stored in my path variable.

Suppose we want to add our directory to the path. To do this we right-click
my computerpropertiesadvanced system settingsadvanced, then click
environment variables This is how I get there on Windows 7, XP is similar,
but it seems like it's not buried quite as deep. Anyway, now we get to edit
the variables. You can either change the user variables or the system
variables. If you change the user variables only, it will not affect other
users on the computer. If you change the system variables, it will be
system-wide. I usually do things system-wide. We now go to the system
variable path and click edit. We go to the end of this very long list,
and place a semicolon after the last entry, then paste C:\Program Files\LyX
1.6.7\bin without the quotes, and okay ourselves out of there. You have to
exit the terminal window, and start a new one before the variable will be in
the path.
Open a new terminal window (windowsbubbleruncmd).
Now check the path variable.
C:\Users\MyNamepath
PATH=C:\Program Files\MiKTeX
2.8\miktex\bin;C:\Windows\system32;C:\Windows;C:\Wi
ndows\System32\Wbem;C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;C:\Program
Files
\MATLAB\R2009a\bin;C:\Program Files\MATLAB\R2009a\bin\win32;C:\Program
Files\Tor
toiseSVN\bin;C:\Program Files\Dia\bin;C:\MinGW\bin;C:\Program Files\LyX
1.6.7\bi
n

Horay! It's there.

Now, we test our command from anywhere in the command prompt, and we get:
C:\Users\MyNamelyx.exe -help
Usage: lyx [ command line switches ] [ name.lyx ... ]
Command line switches (case sensitive):
-help  summarize LyX usage
-userdir dir   set user directory to dir
-sysdir dirset system directory to dir
-geometry WxH+X+Y  set geometry of the main window
-dbg feature[,feature]...
  select the features to debug.
  Type `lyx -dbg' to see the list of features
-x [--execute] command
  where command is a lyx command.
-e [--export] fmt
  where fmt is the export format of choice.
  Look on Tools-Preferences-File formats-Format
  to get an idea which parameters should be passed.
-i [--import] fmt file.xxx
  where fmt is the import format of choice
  and file.xxx is the file to be imported.
-f [--force-overwrite] what
  where what is either `all' or `main'.
  Using `all', all files are overwritten during
  a batch export, otherwise only the main file will be.
  Anything else is equivalent to `all', but is not consumed.
-versionsummarize version and build info
Check the LyX man page for more details.

Everything is in order. I hope this gets you going. You can also add
variables to the path from the command line, but I think one way to get the
job done is sufficient for an answer.

Jacob

Re: Spellchecker and ú

[Stephan Witt]

Am 03.11.2010 um 18:57 schrieb Christopher Menzel:

 On Nov 2, 2010, at 3:26 AM, Stephan Witt wrote:
 Am 02.11.2010 um 03:28 schrieb Christopher Menzel:
 
 On 10/30/2010 02:53 AM, Stephan Witt wrote:
 Am 29.10.2010 um 22:01 schrieb Christopher Menzel:
 
 Greetings LyX users,
 
 The aspell-based spellchecker in LyX does not appear to be happy checking 
 a document containing a Spanish name that includes the character ú.  
 Specifically, the name seems throw the checker pretty seriously off 
 balance; it begins to stop on perfectly ordinary words that occur in the 
 document a word or two *after* a word that it apparently isn't 
 recognizing internally -- for example, it asked if I wanted to replace 
 the word that with bisection, where that occurred two words after 
 bijection, which was clearly the word it had stopped on internally.  Is 
 there a solution to this beyond avoiding non-English unicode characters?
 
 Sorry, I've no solution but a question.
 You're using LyX 1.6.7? Which platform?
 
 1.6.7 on a Mac, latest version of Snow Leopard.
 
 Interestingly... there are 2 options to use aspell then.
 What's your setup exactly? What did you do to make aspell work?
 
 IIRC, I installed a package that added a System Preferences thingy.  Beyond 
 that I don't recall doing anything.  Spellchecking just worked.

I'd guess it is cocoaSpell... After upgrade to Snow Leopard I don't have it 
anymore.
I'll check it on another system...

To be sure: are you able to send me a test case? 
I tried it with some copied spanish text from Wikipedia.
And I couldn't reproduce it with LyX 2.0 and a self-made aspell library.
But it may depend on other parts of your LyX document.

 Other question (again): 
 did you mark the spanish name as Spanish language? 
 
 I hadn't, but I tried doing so and it doesn't seem to help.

Unfortunately.

Stephan

Re: Sharing documents among different versions of Lyx

[Guenter Milde]

On 2010-11-02, Frederick Noronha wrote:
 Is there some tool that makes the sharing of documents among different
 versions of Lyx a little easier? FN

lyx2lyx comes with every LyX version. It's a Python module (i.e. a set of
interdependent Python scripts living in LYXDIR/lyx2lyx/).

To down-convert from a non-installed newer LyX version, it suffices to
get and install the new version of this module.

You could try to place it somewhere Python finds it and use it from
Python.

Or you could try to copy or link LYXDIR/lyx2lyx/lyx2lyx to the binary
PATH and use it from the command line.

Günter

figure*

[george legge]

A simple question, I believe: How do I get captions printed without Figure
numbers?
Both with the figures and in the list of figures, I wish to have only the
captions printed.

I am using Book (Memoir).
The help file on Additional LyX Features (or Extended) mentions the float
environment figure*.
But nothing further is said, except to refer the reader to the User's Guide.

I have the User's Guide and the Embedded Objects manuals for LyX 1.6.x
and neither makes any mention of figure* or the answer to my problem.

Also I see no sign of figure* in the toolbar under Insert.

I shall be very grateful for assistance.

Regards, George Legge

Re: LyX and LuaTeX

[Guenter Milde]

On 2010-11-02, Rob Oakes wrote:

 But, initial experiments show that it was easy to get up and running,
 and that it works with LyX 2.0 very well.  Take care with UTF
 characters, though.  I probably could have gotten it sorted out, but
 didn't really want to fuss with it.

There is an ongoing effort to unify the usage of XeLaTeX and LuaLaTeX,
i.e. recent versions of fontspec and unicode-math support work in a way
you can use the same document with both engines.

My description would be along the lines: 

  Since TeXLive 2010 you can also use LuaTeX with LaTeX documents
  exported for the XeTeX engine (make sure *not* to load the xunicode
  package).

Also, documents intended for XeTeX/LuaTeX should use the polyglossia
package instead of babel for language support. AFAIK, is not yet
implemented in LyX 2.0.

Günter 
  

Re: Windows Command Line

[Richard Heck]

On 11/04/2010 02:02 AM, Jacob Bishop wrote:

First, we have to go to where the file lives.
C:\Users\MyNamecd C:\Program Files\LyX 1.6.7\bin

Some versions of the Windows shell, I know, require that this kind of 
thing be put in quotes. So:


C:\Users\MyNamecd C:\Program Files\LyX 1.6.7\bin

This is because of the spaces in the pathname.

Richard

Re: figure*

[Paul A. Rubin]

On 11/4/2010 3:30 AM, george legge wrote:

A simple question, I believe: How do I get captions printed without
Figure numbers?
Both with the figures and in the list of figures, I wish to have only
the captions printed.

I am using Book (Memoir).
The help file on Additional LyX Features (or Extended) mentions the
float environment figure*.
But nothing further is said, except to refer the reader to the User's
Guide.
I have the User's Guide and the Embedded Objects manuals for LyX 1.6.x
and neither makes any mention of figure* or the answer to my problem.

Also I see no sign of figure* in the toolbar under Insert.

I shall be very grateful for assistance.

Regards, George Legge


How do you want figures labeled?  Possibilities include (but are not 
limited to):


Figure. My Smiling Face
Figure: My Smiling Face
Figure  My Smiling Face
My Smiling Face

/Paul

Done something wrong

[Paul Sutton]

Hi

I am creating a newsletter for my local rugby club and have inserted a
table

I have a typo somewhere,  not inserted a $ however I can't see where I
have done this,

can someone with fresh eyes have a look and perhaps point me in the
right direction please

\begin{center}\begin{tabular}{|l|l|l|l|l|l|} \hline \textbf{DATE} 
\textbf{COMP}  \textbf{VENUE}  \textbf{OPPONENT}  \textbf{RESULT} 
\textbf{SCORE} \\
\hline 21-Aug  F  A  New Cross  L  6-0 $|$ \\
\hline 04-Sep  M  H  Sidmouth  Won  30-6 $|$ \\
\hline 11-Sep  M  A  Newton Abbot  ?  ? $|$ \\
\hline 18-Sep  M  A  Devonport Services  ?  ? $|$ \\
\hline 25-Sep  M  A  Barnstaple  Won  21-18 $|$ \\
\hline 02-Oct  M  H  Bideford  Won  59-0 $|$ \\
\hline 16-Oct  M  H  Totnes  $|$ \\
\hline 23-Oct  M  A  Brixham  $|$ \\
\hline 30-Oct  M  H  Devonport Services  Won $ 10-9 $$ \\
\hline 06-Nov  M  A  Torquay  $|$ \\
\hline 13-Nov  M  A  Kingsbridge  $|$ \\
\hline 20-Nov  M  H  Cullompton  $|$ \\
\hline 27-Nov  M  A  Ivybridge  $|$ \\
\hline 04-Dec  M  H  Okehampton  $|$ \\
\hline 11-Dec  M  H  Newton Abbot  $|$ \\
\hline 18-Dec  M  H  Exmouth  $|$ \\
\hline 08-Jan  M  A  Okehampton  $|$ \\
\hline 15-Jan  M  H  Barnstaple  $|$ \\
\hline 22-Jan  M  A  Exmouth  $|$ \\
\hline 29-Jan  M  A  Wadebridge  $|$ \\
\hline 05-Feb  M  H  Brixham  $|$ \\
\hline 12-Feb  F  H  New Cross  $|$ \\
\hline 19-Feb  M  A  Crediton  $|$ \\
\hline 26-Feb  M  A  Dartmouth  $|$ \\
\hline 05-Mar  M  H  Kingsbridge  $|$ \\
\hline 12-Mar  M  A  Cullompton  $|$ \\
\hline 19-Mar  M  H  Torquay  $|$ \\
\hline 26-Mar  M  H  Ivybridge  $|$ \\
\hline 2-Apr  M  H  Dartmouth  $|$ \\
\hline 09-Apr  M  A  Bideford  $|$ \\
\hline 16-Apr  M  A  Sidmouth  $|$ \\
\hline \end{tabular}\end{center}

This used to work fine, all I have done is updated with a new fixutre /
result line, as in just edited a small part of 1 line and its failing.


thanks for any help

Paul
-- 



Paul Sutton Cert SLPS (Open)
http://www.zleap.net


17th September 2011 - Software freedom day

SV: Done something wrong

[Ingar Pareliussen]

You have a $ extra at the end of this line:

\hline 30-Oct  M  H  Devonport Services  Won $ 10-9 $$ \\

Ingar

Re: pdfpages: remove blank page between two included pdfs?

[Marcelo Acuña]

  I am using pdfpages to include pdf pages into my LyX
 document.
  However, when I have two pdf files included this way,
 one immediately
  after the other, the resulting pdf will include a
 blank page between
  the two included pdfs. Is there a way to remove the
 blank page?
  

 I have 3 pdf files includes, one after another one, and I do not have any 
problem.
I believe that you would have to review if you did not insert some command 
between one include and the following one. 

Marcelo

Re: Done something wrong

[Vincent van Ravesteijn]

\hline 30-Oct  M  H  Devonport Services  Won $ 10-9 $$ \\

Between Won and 10-9, there should be a '' instead of '$'.

Vincent

Re: pdfpages: remove blank page between two included pdfs?

[Stephen Buonopane]

On Nov 1, 2010, at 5:08 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote:


Dear all
I am using pdfpages to include pdf pages into my LyX document.
However, when I have two pdf files included this way, one immediately
after the other, the resulting pdf will include a blank page between
the two included pdfs. Is there a way to remove the blank page?



Have you tried reducing the page size with the scale command
for example
\includepdf[pages={-},scale=0.85]{myfile.pdf}

Re: Windows Command Line

[Jacob Bishop]

and windows is meant to be easier than Linux,  even the command line on
Linux is easier to use, I remember the old path command had a limit of
something like 128 characters is this still the case.

I got curious, and found this:
Windows 2000 has a 254 character limit.
Windows XP has a 255 character limit.
Windows Vista has a 260 character limit.

Running getconf ARG_MAX on my Linux box returns 2097152.
That explains why I've run up against the limit on my XP machine, but never
had trouble in Linux.

Some versions of the Windows shell, I know, require that this kind of thing
be put in quotes.

C:\Users\MyNamecd C:\Program Files\LyX 1.6.7\bin

 This is because of the spaces in the pathname.


I think this correct, but I did verify that on both Windows XP, and Windows
7, it does not complain about spaces in the path.

Unfortunately, I'm not on Windows.

Although every OS comes with its own set of pros and cons, I don't think
this is really that unfortunate. (I realize I'm taking this out of context,
but I couldn't help myself).

Jacob

about the improvement plan of the lyx graphical interface

[Wei-Dong Lian]

hi everyone,
there is no doubt that at present lyx is really more stable and easy-to-use.
Thanks again for the developer of lyx. And I am wondering if there exists
the plan or the idea to improve the editor of lyx. I think, just a short
advice, if the editor of lyx could be somewhat like emacs, we
could customize the highlight of the keyword, with several kinds of colors,
it will be convenient and very clear for editing and organizing the article.
I am ill-informed, there may exist the proper manner to improve the editor
configuration. Any suggestion will be appreciated.
Thanks for your attention,
weidong

Re: Windows Command Line

[Venable]

Thanks everyone, this is really useful.

Someone posted a while back about working on a book on LyX - this
would be a great topic to include.

Can't open/save documents

[Fernando Lemos]

Hi Everyone,

I installed Lyx 1.6.7 in a windows 7 pro 64 bits. The problem is that I 
can't open/save any document from the File menu. It seams Lyx can't call 
the windows explorer interface from which I can choose the document I 
want to open/save. I tried to run Lyx in many different configurations 
of compatibility modes, but nothing happened. Does anyone know how to 
fix it?


Thanks in advance,
Fernando Lemos

Auto-Replace

[Martin Probst]

Is there any possibility to define some custom auto-replacements? I mean in the
same way like when you enter 'LyX' in the editor, then this appears as '\LyX{}'
in the LaTeX-source.
Thanks, Martin

Re: Auto-Replace

[Uwe Stöhr]

Am 04.11.2010 21:01, schrieb Martin Probst:


Is there any possibility to define some custom auto-replacements? I mean in the
same way like when you enter 'LyX' in the editor, then this appears as '\LyX{}'
in the LaTeX-source.


Not yet possible.

regards Uwe

Re: about the improvement plan of the lyx graphical interface

[Uwe Stöhr]

Am 04.11.2010 17:32, schrieb Wei-Dong Lian:


I am wondering
if there exists the plan or the idea to improve the editor of lyx. I
think, just a short advice, if the editor of lyx could be somewhat like
emacs, we could customize the highlight of the keyword,
with several kinds of colors, it will be convenient and very clear for
editing and organizing the article.


You misunderstood the concept of LyX. Our aim is to provide a word 
processor using the WYSIWYM concept 
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WYSIWYM). LyX is not a text editor and is 
not designed to edit LaTeX-code directly. LyX therefore has no syntax 
highlighting as there is no TeX-code to be edited (except of the 
document preamble).


regards Uwe

Re: figure*

[george legge]

Thank you for replying Paul.
Figures to be labeled in both the List of Figures and in the caption beneath
the figures:
My smiling face

George

On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 12:08 AM, Paul A. Rubin ru...@msu.edu wrote:

 On 11/4/2010 3:30 AM, george legge wrote:

 A simple question, I believe: How do I get captions printed without
 Figure numbers?
 Both with the figures and in the list of figures, I wish to have only
 the captions printed.

 I am using Book (Memoir).
 The help file on Additional LyX Features (or Extended) mentions the
 float environment figure*.
 But nothing further is said, except to refer the reader to the User's
 Guide.
 I have the User's Guide and the Embedded Objects manuals for LyX 1.6.x
 and neither makes any mention of figure* or the answer to my problem.

 Also I see no sign of figure* in the toolbar under Insert.

 I shall be very grateful for assistance.

 Regards, George Legge


 How do you want figures labeled?  Possibilities include (but are not
 limited to):

 Figure. My Smiling Face
 Figure: My Smiling Face
 Figure  My Smiling Face
 My Smiling Face

 /Paul

Re: figure*

[Paul A. Rubin]

On 11/04/2010 05:26 PM, george legge wrote:

Thank you for replying Paul.
Figures to be labeled in both the List of Figures and in the caption 
beneath the figures:

My smiling face

Does the attached example do what you want?  (If so, just note the line 
in the document preamble.)


/Paul





figures.lyx
Description: application/lyx

Re: how to change GUI Language

[Uwe Stöhr]

Am 04.11.2010 09:59, schrieb Christian del Castillo:


1) using the version I installed last time from here:
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.6.7/LyX-1.6.7-4-Installer.exe
I still do not get to choose a GUI/ install language, and in the end my
LyX was (automatically) in Japanese, again.


This is important to know! I wasn't aware of that because I use this 
installer only seldom. Can you please report this issue at our bug 
tracker so that this can be fixed?:

http://www.lyx.org/trac/wiki/BugTrackerHome


2) using the version you suggested to me (your version) which I
downloaded from here:
http://prdownload.berlios.de/lyxwininstall/LyX-167-4-25-AltInstaller-Complete.exe
I do get a choice to my preferred language, and in the end, the LyX
started up in the language of my choice.


Perfect!


I think your installer is definitely better than the other one I used.


In this case yes, but in general it is a matter of taste.
The main reason I provide an alternative installer is that the author of 
the official can often not be informed about bugs via email.
In general my installer contains some extra-features compared to the 
official LyX installer:

http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinInstaller#detailed-comparison

(I know that having two installers for one program is confusing but I 
still don't see a way to improve the situation.)


regards Uwe

Re: how to change GUI Language

[Uwe Stöhr]

Am 04.11.2010 09:59, schrieb Christian del Castillo:


1) using the version I installed last time from here:
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.6.7/LyX-1.6.7-4-Installer.exe
I still do not get to choose a GUI/ install language, and in the end my
LyX was (automatically) in Japanese, again.


This is important to know! I wasn't aware of that because I use this 
installer only seldom. Can you please report this issue at our bug 
tracker so that this can be fixed?:

http://www.lyx.org/trac/wiki/BugTrackerHome


2) using the version you suggested to me (your version) which I
downloaded from here:
http://prdownload.berlios.de/lyxwininstall/LyX-167-4-25-AltInstaller-Complete.exe
I do get a choice to my preferred language, and in the end, the LyX
started up in the language of my choice.


Perfect!


I think your installer is definitely better than the other one I used.


In this case yes, but in general it is a matter of taste.
The main reason I provide an alternative installer is that the author of 
the official can often not be informed about bugs via email.
In general my installer contains some extra-features compared to the 
official LyX installer:

http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinInstaller#detailed-comparison

(I know that having two installers for one program is confusing but I 
still don't see a way to improve the situation.)


regards Uwe

Page headers problem... LaTeX rather

[Manveru]

Hello,

I know this is rather LaTeX related problem, but maybe someone from
this list is able to help me.

I have following code in my preamble:
\newcommand{\kopia}{\tiny Kopia dla Gal Anonim}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}

\fancypagestyle{empty}{%
  \fancyfoot[L]{\kopia}
  %\fancyfoot[LE]{\kopia}
}
\fancypagestyle{plain}{%
  \fancyhf{}
  \renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}
  \fancyfoot[L]{\kopia}
  \fancyfoot[C]{- \thepage  -}
  %\fancyfoot[LE]{\kopia}
}
\fancypagestyle{headings}{%
  \fancyfoot[L]{\kopia}
  %\fancyfoot[LE]{\kopia}
}
\lfoot{\kopia}

However, this works only for first page! I am using article class. All
other pages are reset to default layout with page number in the bottom
middle. What may be wrong with my doc or what is wrong with fancyhdr
or article class? I did not find anything suspicious in tex code of
the generated document.

Thanks in advance for any hint.
-- 
Manveru
jabber: manv...@manveru.pl
     gg: 1624001
   http://www.manveru.pl

powerdot font too small

[Payal]

Hi,
I am very very new to tex and lyx and am using v.1.6.5 on Ubuntu 10.04. 
I am trying to make a presentation in
lyx with powerdot class. I did File-New, then Documents -
Settings-Document class- presentation(powerdot) did a simple file.
The file is at,
http://pastebin.com/QATBYsJ1

But when I do View-Pdf the font looks too small. My other doc including
one powerdot-example from internet and my own beamer sample show
properly.

What is missing?

With warm regards,
-Payal
-- 

How to use babel -shortcuts in LYX directly?

[Vasily Letov]

Hello, people!
In Babel there are many language-specific shortcuts. For example, we have ---,
--~, --* and another. The package extdash (ncc-tools collection) provides 
extra useful shortcuts, too. Unfortunatelly, LYX converts  into \char`\{}, 
so, we forced to use ERT for such shortcuts. It is very, very uncomfortably!
I have found similar topic here http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/75 but it is 
still not resolved (over 9 years!).
My question is how to configure LYX to use such sortcuts directly without ERT?

New LaTeX TeX Lyx user

[Bryan Baldwin]

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I've had a long time interest in LaTeX TeX and Lyx, and finally made
some time to dig into the software and learn how to write all my
documents using this incredible program.

Thank you for your efforts.

Bryan
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Re: powerdot font too small

[Uwe Stöhr]

Am 05.11.2010 01:39, schrieb Payal:


But when I do View-Pdf the font looks too small.


What PDF method did you use? Powerdot does not work with the pdflatex method because it is based on 
the PostScript language and not on PDF.


regards Uwe

Re: powerdot font too small

[Payal]

On Fri, Nov 05, 2010 at 04:07:28AM +0100, Uwe Stöhr wrote:
 Am 05.11.2010 01:39, schrieb Payal:

 But when I do View-Pdf the font looks too small.

 What PDF method did you use? Powerdot does not work with the pdflatex 
 method because it is based on the PostScript language and not on PDF.

Thanks for the mail. I use view-pdf(dvipdfm)

Please also see,
http://pdfcast.org/pdf/lyx

With warm regards,
-Payal
-- 

Re: Spellchecker and ú

[Christopher Menzel]

On Nov 4, 2010, at 1:48 AM, Stephan Witt wrote:
 Am 03.11.2010 um 18:57 schrieb Christopher Menzel:
 On Nov 2, 2010, at 3:26 AM, Stephan Witt wrote:
 Am 02.11.2010 um 03:28 schrieb Christopher Menzel:
 
 On 10/30/2010 02:53 AM, Stephan Witt wrote:
 Am 29.10.2010 um 22:01 schrieb Christopher Menzel:
 
 Greetings LyX users,
 
 The aspell-based spellchecker in LyX does not appear to be happy 
 checking a document containing a Spanish name that includes the 
 character ú.  Specifically, the name seems throw the checker pretty 
 seriously off balance; it begins to stop on perfectly ordinary words 
 that occur in the document a word or two *after* a word that it 
 apparently isn't recognizing internally -- for example, it asked if I 
 wanted to replace the word that with bisection, where that 
 occurred two words after bijection, which was clearly the word it had 
 stopped on internally.  Is there a solution to this beyond avoiding 
 non-English unicode characters?
 
 Sorry, I've no solution but a question.
 You're using LyX 1.6.7? Which platform?
 
 1.6.7 on a Mac, latest version of Snow Leopard.
 
 Interestingly... there are 2 options to use aspell then.
 What's your setup exactly? What did you do to make aspell work?
 
 IIRC, I installed a package that added a System Preferences thingy.  Beyond 
 that I don't recall doing anything.  Spellchecking just worked.
 
 I'd guess it is cocoaSpell...

Yes, that is correct.

 After upgrade to Snow Leopard I don't have it anymore.
 I'll check it on another system...
 
 To be sure: are you able to send me a test case?

Sent to you directly.

 I tried it with some copied spanish text from Wikipedia.
 And I couldn't reproduce it with LyX 2.0 and a self-made aspell library.

I can't get LyX 2.0alpha6 running on my iMac; crashes almost immediately.  
However, I did install it on Windows 7 (which is installed on a Bootcamp 
partition of my iMac) and indeed the spellchecker ran without any problem.  
(alpha6 seems to run very well in its Windows incarnation.)  Unfortunately, 
alpha6 also upgraded my document so I can't edit it anymore under LyX 1.6.7.  
(Not really a big problem; the paper is actually finished and about to be sent 
off for publication.)

-chris

Re: Page headers problem... LaTeX rather

[Steve Litt]

On Thursday 04 November 2010 18:26:22 Manveru wrote:
 Hello,
 
 I know this is rather LaTeX related problem, but maybe someone from
 this list is able to help me.
 
 I have following code in my preamble:
 \newcommand{\kopia}{\tiny Kopia dla Gal Anonim}
 \usepackage{fancyhdr}
 
 \fancypagestyle{empty}{%
   \fancyfoot[L]{\kopia}
   %\fancyfoot[LE]{\kopia}
 }
 \fancypagestyle{plain}{%
   \fancyhf{}
   \renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}
   \fancyfoot[L]{\kopia}
   \fancyfoot[C]{- \thepage  -}
   %\fancyfoot[LE]{\kopia}
 }
 \fancypagestyle{headings}{%
   \fancyfoot[L]{\kopia}
   %\fancyfoot[LE]{\kopia}
 }
 \lfoot{\kopia}
 
 However, this works only for first page! I am using article class. All
 other pages are reset to default layout with page number in the bottom
 middle. What may be wrong with my doc or what is wrong with fancyhdr
 or article class? I did not find anything suspicious in tex code of
 the generated document.
 
 Thanks in advance for any hint.

Pure guess: You need the following in your document preamble:

\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\pagestyle{fancy}

Sounds to me like you're not using \pagestyle{fancy}, but that's just a guess.

To solve this problem, if I were you I'd make a hello world LaTeX file maybe 
3 pages long, and slowly modify it until you can either get what you want or 
reproduce the problem, and then work to toggle the problem on and off and 
isolate the root cause.

I'd also take steps to verify that only the first page works. I wouldn't be 
surprised if every Part or Section page works.

HTH

SteveT

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

Re: Windows Command Line

[Jacob Bishop]

>
> On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 9:09 PM, Richard Heck  wrote:
>
>>
>> Can someone on Windows explain the right thing to do here?
>>
>
Shucks, I guess I'll give it a go.

Go to the command line (windowsbubble>run>cmd).
Type in our command.
C:\Users\MyName>lyx.exe -help
'lyx.exe' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
What does that mean? It means your computer does not know where to find that
file (lyx.exe). It's actually in a folder that will be something like
"C:\Program Files\LyX 1.6.7\bin" At least, that's where I found mine. Once
you find it, you will find that the command they tell you does in fact work.

First, we have to go to where the file lives.
C:\Users\MyName>cd C:\Program Files\LyX 1.6.7\bin
We can verify that the file is here with
C:\Users\MyName>dir
Now, we type the command
C:\Users\MyName>lyx.exe -help
and it works.

Now, if we want to shortcut things, and run "lyx.exe" without having to do
C:\Users\MyName>cd C:\Program Files\LyX 1.6.7\bin
then we can add "C:\Program Files\LyX 1.6.7\bin" to the path. Path is a
predefined variable, and basically, whenever you want to execute a program,
the operating system will look for the file. It won't look everywhere, but
only in the directories stored in the "path" variable. To see what's in your
path, go there on the command line and type "path":
C:\Users\MyName>path
PATH=C:\Program Files\MiKTeX
2.8\miktex\bin;C:\Windows\system32;C:\Windows;C:\Wi
ndows\System32\Wbem;C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;C:\Program
Files
\MATLAB\R2009a\bin;C:\Program Files\MATLAB\R2009a\bin\win32;C:\Program
Files\Tor
toiseSVN\bin;C:\Program Files\Dia\bin;C:\MinGW\bin
Now you get to see what's stored in my path variable.

Suppose we want to add our directory to the path. To do this we right-click
my computer>properties>advanced system settings>advanced, then click
"environment variables" This is how I get there on Windows 7, XP is similar,
but it seems like it's not buried quite as deep. Anyway, now we get to edit
the variables. You can either change the user variables or the system
variables. If you change the user variables only, it will not affect other
users on the computer. If you change the system variables, it will be
system-wide. I usually do things system-wide. We now go to the system
variable "path" and click "edit". We go to the end of this very long list,
and place a semicolon after the last entry, then paste "C:\Program Files\LyX
1.6.7\bin" without the quotes, and okay ourselves out of there. You have to
exit the terminal window, and start a new one before the variable will be in
the path.
Open a new terminal window (windowsbubble>run>cmd).
Now check the path variable.
C:\Users\MyName>path
PATH=C:\Program Files\MiKTeX
2.8\miktex\bin;C:\Windows\system32;C:\Windows;C:\Wi
ndows\System32\Wbem;C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;C:\Program
Files
\MATLAB\R2009a\bin;C:\Program Files\MATLAB\R2009a\bin\win32;C:\Program
Files\Tor
toiseSVN\bin;C:\Program Files\Dia\bin;C:\MinGW\bin;C:\Program Files\LyX
1.6.7\bi
n

Horay! It's there.

Now, we test our command from anywhere in the command prompt, and we get:
C:\Users\MyName>lyx.exe -help
Usage: lyx [ command line switches ] [ name.lyx ... ]
Command line switches (case sensitive):
-help  summarize LyX usage
-userdir dir   set user directory to dir
-sysdir dirset system directory to dir
-geometry WxH+X+Y  set geometry of the main window
-dbg feature[,feature]...
  select the features to debug.
  Type `lyx -dbg' to see the list of features
-x [--execute] command
  where command is a lyx command.
-e [--export] fmt
  where fmt is the export format of choice.
  Look on Tools->Preferences->File formats->Format
  to get an idea which parameters should be passed.
-i [--import] fmt file.xxx
  where fmt is the import format of choice
  and file.xxx is the file to be imported.
-f [--force-overwrite] what
  where what is either `all' or `main'.
  Using `all', all files are overwritten during
  a batch export, otherwise only the main file will be.
  Anything else is equivalent to `all', but is not consumed.
-versionsummarize version and build info
Check the LyX man page for more details.

Everything is in order. I hope this gets you going. You can also add
variables to the path from the command line, but I think one way to get the
job done is sufficient for an answer.

Jacob

Re: Spellchecker and ú

[Stephan Witt]

Am 03.11.2010 um 18:57 schrieb Christopher Menzel:

> On Nov 2, 2010, at 3:26 AM, Stephan Witt wrote:
>> Am 02.11.2010 um 03:28 schrieb Christopher Menzel:
>> 
>>> On 10/30/2010 02:53 AM, Stephan Witt wrote:
 Am 29.10.2010 um 22:01 schrieb Christopher Menzel:
 
> Greetings LyX users,
> 
> The aspell-based spellchecker in LyX does not appear to be happy checking 
> a document containing a Spanish name that includes the character ú.  
> Specifically, the name seems throw the checker pretty seriously off 
> balance; it begins to stop on perfectly ordinary words that occur in the 
> document a word or two *after* a word that it apparently isn't 
> recognizing internally -- for example, it asked if I wanted to replace 
> the word "that" with "bisection", where "that" occurred two words after 
> "bijection", which was clearly the word it had stopped on internally.  Is 
> there a solution to this beyond avoiding non-English unicode characters?
> 
 Sorry, I've no solution but a question.
 You're using LyX 1.6.7? Which platform?
 
>>> 1.6.7 on a Mac, latest version of Snow Leopard.
>> 
>> Interestingly... there are 2 options to use aspell then.
>> What's your setup exactly? What did you do to make aspell work?
> 
> IIRC, I installed a package that added a System Preferences thingy.  Beyond 
> that I don't recall doing anything.  Spellchecking just worked.

I'd guess it is cocoaSpell... After upgrade to Snow Leopard I don't have it 
anymore.
I'll check it on another system...

To be sure: are you able to send me a test case? 
I tried it with some copied spanish text from Wikipedia.
And I couldn't reproduce it with LyX 2.0 and a self-made aspell library.
But it may depend on other parts of your LyX document.

>> Other question (again): 
>> did you mark the spanish name as "Spanish" language? 
> 
> I hadn't, but I tried doing so and it doesn't seem to help.

Unfortunately.

Stephan

Re: Sharing documents among different versions of Lyx

[Guenter Milde]

On 2010-11-02, Frederick Noronha wrote:
> Is there some tool that makes the sharing of documents among different
> versions of Lyx a little easier? FN

lyx2lyx comes with every LyX version. It's a Python module (i.e. a set of
interdependent Python scripts living in LYXDIR/lyx2lyx/).

To down-convert from a non-installed newer LyX version, it suffices to
get and install the new version of this module.

You could try to place it somewhere Python finds it and use it from
Python.

Or you could try to copy or link LYXDIR/lyx2lyx/lyx2lyx to the binary
PATH and use it from the command line.

Günter

figure*

[george legge]

A simple question, I believe: How do I get captions printed without Figure
numbers?
Both with the figures and in the list of figures, I wish to have only the
captions printed.

I am using Book (Memoir).
The help file on Additional LyX Features (or Extended) mentions the float
environment figure*.
But nothing further is said, except to refer the reader to the User's Guide.

I have the User's Guide and the Embedded Objects manuals for LyX 1.6.x
and neither makes any mention of figure* or the answer to my problem.

Also I see no sign of figure* in the toolbar under Insert.

I shall be very grateful for assistance.

Regards, George Legge

Re: LyX and LuaTeX

[Guenter Milde]

On 2010-11-02, Rob Oakes wrote:

> But, initial experiments show that it was easy to get up and running,
> and that it works with LyX 2.0 very well.  Take care with UTF
> characters, though.  I probably could have gotten it sorted out, but
> didn't really want to fuss with it.

There is an ongoing effort to "unify" the usage of XeLaTeX and LuaLaTeX,
i.e. recent versions of fontspec and unicode-math support work in a way
you can use the same document with both engines.

My description would be along the lines: 

  Since TeXLive 2010 you can also use LuaTeX with LaTeX documents
  exported for the XeTeX engine (make sure *not* to load the "xunicode"
  package).

Also, documents intended for XeTeX/LuaTeX should use the "polyglossia"
package instead of "babel" for language support. AFAIK, is not yet
implemented in LyX 2.0.

Günter 
  

Re: Windows Command Line

[Richard Heck]

On 11/04/2010 02:02 AM, Jacob Bishop wrote:

First, we have to go to where the file lives.
C:\Users\MyName>cd C:\Program Files\LyX 1.6.7\bin

Some versions of the Windows shell, I know, require that this kind of 
thing be put in quotes. So:


C:\Users\MyName>cd "C:\Program Files\LyX 1.6.7\bin"

This is because of the spaces in the pathname.

Richard

Re: figure*

[Paul A. Rubin]

On 11/4/2010 3:30 AM, george legge wrote:

A simple question, I believe: How do I get captions printed without
Figure numbers?
Both with the figures and in the list of figures, I wish to have only
the captions printed.

I am using Book (Memoir).
The help file on Additional LyX Features (or Extended) mentions the
float environment figure*.
But nothing further is said, except to refer the reader to the User's
Guide.
I have the User's Guide and the Embedded Objects manuals for LyX 1.6.x
and neither makes any mention of figure* or the answer to my problem.

Also I see no sign of figure* in the toolbar under Insert.

I shall be very grateful for assistance.

Regards, George Legge


How do you want figures labeled?  Possibilities include (but are not 
limited to):


Figure. My Smiling Face
Figure: My Smiling Face
Figure  My Smiling Face
My Smiling Face

/Paul

Done something wrong

[Paul Sutton]

Hi

I am creating a newsletter for my local rugby club and have inserted a
table

I have a typo somewhere,  not inserted a $ however I can't see where I
have done this,

can someone with fresh eyes have a look and perhaps point me in the
right direction please

\begin{center}\begin{tabular}{|l|l|l|l|l|l|} \hline \textbf{DATE} &
\textbf{COMP} & \textbf{VENUE} & \textbf{OPPONENT} & \textbf{RESULT} &
\textbf{SCORE} \\
\hline 21-Aug & F & A & New Cross & L & 6-0 $|$ \\
\hline 04-Sep & M & H & Sidmouth & Won & 30-6 $|$ \\
\hline 11-Sep & M & A & Newton Abbot & ? & ? $|$ \\
\hline 18-Sep & M & A & Devonport Services & ? & ? $|$ \\
\hline 25-Sep & M & A & Barnstaple & Won & 21-18 $|$ \\
\hline 02-Oct & M & H & Bideford & Won & 59-0 $|$ \\
\hline 16-Oct & M & H & Totnes & $|$ \\
\hline 23-Oct & M & A & Brixham & $|$ \\
\hline 30-Oct & M & H & Devonport Services & Won $ 10-9 $$ \\
\hline 06-Nov & M & A & Torquay & $|$ \\
\hline 13-Nov & M & A & Kingsbridge & $|$ \\
\hline 20-Nov & M & H & Cullompton & $|$ \\
\hline 27-Nov & M & A & Ivybridge & $|$ \\
\hline 04-Dec & M & H & Okehampton & $|$ \\
\hline 11-Dec & M & H & Newton Abbot & $|$ \\
\hline 18-Dec & M & H & Exmouth & $|$ \\
\hline 08-Jan & M & A & Okehampton & $|$ \\
\hline 15-Jan & M & H & Barnstaple & $|$ \\
\hline 22-Jan & M & A & Exmouth & $|$ \\
\hline 29-Jan & M & A & Wadebridge & $|$ \\
\hline 05-Feb & M & H & Brixham & $|$ \\
\hline 12-Feb & F & H & New Cross & $|$ \\
\hline 19-Feb & M & A & Crediton & $|$ \\
\hline 26-Feb & M & A & Dartmouth & $|$ \\
\hline 05-Mar & M & H & Kingsbridge & $|$ \\
\hline 12-Mar & M & A & Cullompton & $|$ \\
\hline 19-Mar & M & H & Torquay & $|$ \\
\hline 26-Mar & M & H & Ivybridge & $|$ \\
\hline 2-Apr & M & H & Dartmouth & $|$ \\
\hline 09-Apr & M & A & Bideford & $|$ \\
\hline 16-Apr & M & A & Sidmouth & $|$ \\
\hline \end{tabular}\end{center}

This used to work fine, all I have done is updated with a new fixutre /
result line, as in just edited a small part of 1 line and its failing.


thanks for any help

Paul
-- 



Paul Sutton Cert SLPS (Open)
http://www.zleap.net


17th September 2011 - Software freedom day

SV: Done something wrong

[Ingar Pareliussen]

You have a $ extra at the end of this line:

\hline 30-Oct & M & H & Devonport Services & Won $ 10-9 $$ \\

Ingar

Re: pdfpages: remove blank page between two included pdfs?

[Marcelo Acuña]

> > I am using pdfpages to include pdf pages into my LyX
> document.
> > However, when I have two pdf files included this way,
> one immediately
> > after the other, the resulting pdf will include a
> blank page between
> > the two included pdfs. Is there a way to remove the
> blank page?
> > 

 I have 3 pdf files includes, one after another one, and I do not have any 
problem.
I believe that you would have to review if you did not insert some command 
between one include and the following one. 

Marcelo

Re: Done something wrong

[Vincent van Ravesteijn]

>\hline 30-Oct & M & H & Devonport Services & Won $ 10-9 $$ \\

Between "Won" and "10-9", there should be a '&' instead of '$'.

Vincent

Re: pdfpages: remove blank page between two included pdfs?

[Stephen Buonopane]

On Nov 1, 2010, at 5:08 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote:


Dear all
I am using pdfpages to include pdf pages into my LyX document.
However, when I have two pdf files included this way, one immediately
after the other, the resulting pdf will include a blank page between
the two included pdfs. Is there a way to remove the blank page?



Have you tried reducing the page size with the scale command
for example
\includepdf[pages={-},scale=0.85]{myfile.pdf}

Re: Windows Command Line

[Jacob Bishop]

"and windows is meant to be easier than Linux,  even the command line on
Linux is easier to use, I remember the old path command had a limit of
something like 128 characters is this still the case."

I got curious, and found this:
Windows 2000 has a 254 character limit.
Windows XP has a 255 character limit.
Windows Vista has a 260 character limit.

Running getconf ARG_MAX on my Linux box returns 2097152.
That explains why I've run up against the limit on my XP machine, but never
had trouble in Linux.

"Some versions of the Windows shell, I know, require that this kind of thing
be put in quotes."

C:\Users\MyName>cd "C:\Program Files\LyX 1.6.7\bin"
>
> This is because of the spaces in the pathname.
>

I think this correct, but I did verify that on both Windows XP, and Windows
7, it does not complain about spaces in the path.

"Unfortunately, I'm not on Windows."

Although every OS comes with its own set of pros and cons, I don't think
this is really that unfortunate. (I realize I'm taking this out of context,
but I couldn't help myself).

Jacob

about the improvement plan of the lyx graphical interface

[Wei-Dong Lian]

hi everyone,
there is no doubt that at present lyx is really more stable and easy-to-use.
Thanks again for the developer of lyx. And I am wondering if there exists
the plan or the idea to improve the editor of lyx. I think, just a short
advice, if the editor of lyx could be somewhat like emacs, we
could customize the highlight of the keyword, with several kinds of colors,
it will be convenient and very clear for editing and organizing the article.
I am ill-informed, there may exist the proper manner to improve the editor
configuration. Any suggestion will be appreciated.
Thanks for your attention,
weidong

Re: Windows Command Line

[Venable]

Thanks everyone, this is really useful.

Someone posted a while back about working on a book on LyX - this
would be a great topic to include.

Can't open/save documents

[Fernando Lemos]

Hi Everyone,

I installed Lyx 1.6.7 in a windows 7 pro 64 bits. The problem is that I 
can't open/save any document from the File menu. It seams Lyx can't call 
the "windows explorer interface" from which I can choose the document I 
want to open/save. I tried to run Lyx in many different configurations 
of compatibility modes, but nothing happened. Does anyone know how to 
fix it?


Thanks in advance,
Fernando Lemos

Auto-Replace

[Martin Probst]

Is there any possibility to define some custom auto-replacements? I mean in the
same way like when you enter 'LyX' in the editor, then this appears as '\LyX{}'
in the LaTeX-source.
Thanks, Martin

Re: Auto-Replace

[Uwe Stöhr]

Am 04.11.2010 21:01, schrieb Martin Probst:


Is there any possibility to define some custom auto-replacements? I mean in the
same way like when you enter 'LyX' in the editor, then this appears as '\LyX{}'
in the LaTeX-source.


Not yet possible.

regards Uwe

Re: about the improvement plan of the lyx graphical interface

[Uwe Stöhr]

Am 04.11.2010 17:32, schrieb Wei-Dong Lian:


I am wondering
if there exists the plan or the idea to improve the editor of lyx. I
think, just a short advice, if the editor of lyx could be somewhat like
emacs, we could customize the highlight of the keyword,
with several kinds of colors, it will be convenient and very clear for
editing and organizing the article.


You misunderstood the concept of LyX. Our aim is to provide a word 
processor using the WYSIWYM concept 
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WYSIWYM). LyX is not a text editor and is 
not designed to edit LaTeX-code directly. LyX therefore has no syntax 
highlighting as there is no TeX-code to be edited (except of the 
document preamble).


regards Uwe

Re: figure*

[george legge]

Thank you for replying Paul.
Figures to be labeled in both the List of Figures and in the caption beneath
the figures:
My smiling face

George

On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 12:08 AM, Paul A. Rubin  wrote:

> On 11/4/2010 3:30 AM, george legge wrote:
>
>> A simple question, I believe: How do I get captions printed without
>> Figure numbers?
>> Both with the figures and in the list of figures, I wish to have only
>> the captions printed.
>>
>> I am using Book (Memoir).
>> The help file on Additional LyX Features (or Extended) mentions the
>> float environment figure*.
>> But nothing further is said, except to refer the reader to the User's
>> Guide.
>> I have the User's Guide and the Embedded Objects manuals for LyX 1.6.x
>> and neither makes any mention of figure* or the answer to my problem.
>>
>> Also I see no sign of figure* in the toolbar under Insert.
>>
>> I shall be very grateful for assistance.
>>
>> Regards, George Legge
>>
>
> How do you want figures labeled?  Possibilities include (but are not
> limited to):
>
> Figure. My Smiling Face
> Figure: My Smiling Face
> Figure  My Smiling Face
> My Smiling Face
>
> /Paul
>
>
>

Re: figure*

[Paul A. Rubin]

On 11/04/2010 05:26 PM, george legge wrote:

Thank you for replying Paul.
Figures to be labeled in both the List of Figures and in the caption 
beneath the figures:

My smiling face

Does the attached example do what you want?  (If so, just note the line 
in the document preamble.)


/Paul





figures.lyx
Description: application/lyx

Re: how to change GUI Language

[Uwe Stöhr]

Am 04.11.2010 09:59, schrieb Christian del Castillo:


1) using the version I installed last time from here:
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.6.7/LyX-1.6.7-4-Installer.exe
I still do not get to choose a GUI/ install language, and in the end my
LyX was (automatically) in Japanese, again.


This is important to know! I wasn't aware of that because I use this 
installer only seldom. Can you please report this issue at our bug 
tracker so that this can be fixed?:

http://www.lyx.org/trac/wiki/BugTrackerHome


2) using the version you suggested to me (your version) which I
downloaded from here:
http://prdownload.berlios.de/lyxwininstall/LyX-167-4-25-AltInstaller-Complete.exe
I do get a choice to my preferred language, and in the end, the LyX
started up in the language of my choice.


Perfect!


I think your installer is definitely better than the other one I used.


In this case yes, but in general it is a matter of taste.
The main reason I provide an alternative installer is that the author of 
the official can often not be informed about bugs via email.
In general my installer contains some extra-features compared to the 
official LyX installer:

http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinInstaller#detailed-comparison

(I know that having two installers for one program is confusing but I 
still don't see a way to improve the situation.)


regards Uwe

Re: how to change GUI Language

[Uwe Stöhr]

Am 04.11.2010 09:59, schrieb Christian del Castillo:


1) using the version I installed last time from here:
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.6.7/LyX-1.6.7-4-Installer.exe
I still do not get to choose a GUI/ install language, and in the end my
LyX was (automatically) in Japanese, again.


This is important to know! I wasn't aware of that because I use this 
installer only seldom. Can you please report this issue at our bug 
tracker so that this can be fixed?:

http://www.lyx.org/trac/wiki/BugTrackerHome


2) using the version you suggested to me (your version) which I
downloaded from here:
http://prdownload.berlios.de/lyxwininstall/LyX-167-4-25-AltInstaller-Complete.exe
I do get a choice to my preferred language, and in the end, the LyX
started up in the language of my choice.


Perfect!


I think your installer is definitely better than the other one I used.


In this case yes, but in general it is a matter of taste.
The main reason I provide an alternative installer is that the author of 
the official can often not be informed about bugs via email.
In general my installer contains some extra-features compared to the 
official LyX installer:

http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinInstaller#detailed-comparison

(I know that having two installers for one program is confusing but I 
still don't see a way to improve the situation.)


regards Uwe

Page headers problem... LaTeX rather

[Manveru]

Hello,

I know this is rather LaTeX related problem, but maybe someone from
this list is able to help me.

I have following code in my preamble:
\newcommand{\kopia}{\tiny Kopia dla Gal Anonim}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}

\fancypagestyle{empty}{%
  \fancyfoot[L]{\kopia}
  %\fancyfoot[LE]{\kopia}
}
\fancypagestyle{plain}{%
  \fancyhf{}
  \renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}
  \fancyfoot[L]{\kopia}
  \fancyfoot[C]{- \thepage  -}
  %\fancyfoot[LE]{\kopia}
}
\fancypagestyle{headings}{%
  \fancyfoot[L]{\kopia}
  %\fancyfoot[LE]{\kopia}
}
\lfoot{\kopia}

However, this works only for first page! I am using article class. All
other pages are reset to default layout with page number in the bottom
middle. What may be wrong with my doc or what is wrong with fancyhdr
or article class? I did not find anything suspicious in tex code of
the generated document.

Thanks in advance for any hint.
-- 
Manveru
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powerdot font too small

[Payal]

Hi,
I am very very new to tex and lyx and am using v.1.6.5 on Ubuntu 10.04. 
I am trying to make a presentation in
lyx with powerdot class. I did File->New, then Documents ->
Settings->Document class-> presentation(powerdot) did a simple file.
The file is at,
http://pastebin.com/QATBYsJ1

But when I do View->Pdf the font looks too small. My other doc including
one powerdot-example from internet and my own beamer sample show
properly.

What is missing?

With warm regards,
-Payal
-- 

How to use babel "-shortcuts in LYX directly?

[Vasily Letov]

Hello, people!
In Babel there are many language-specific shortcuts. For example, we have "---,
"--~, "--* and another. The package extdash (ncc-tools collection) provides 
extra useful shortcuts, too. Unfortunatelly, LYX converts " into \char`\"{}, 
so, we forced to use ERT for such shortcuts. It is very, very uncomfortably!
I have found similar topic here http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/75 but it is 
still not resolved (over 9 years!).
My question is how to configure LYX to use such sortcuts directly without ERT?

New LaTeX TeX Lyx user

[Bryan Baldwin]

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Hi Lyx lovers,

I've had a long time interest in LaTeX TeX and Lyx, and finally made
some time to dig into the software and learn how to write all my
documents using this incredible program.

Thank you for your efforts.

Bryan
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Re: powerdot font too small

[Uwe Stöhr]

Am 05.11.2010 01:39, schrieb Payal:


But when I do View->Pdf the font looks too small.


What PDF method did you use? Powerdot does not work with the pdflatex method because it is based on 
the PostScript language and not on PDF.


regards Uwe

Re: powerdot font too small

[Payal]

On Fri, Nov 05, 2010 at 04:07:28AM +0100, Uwe Stöhr wrote:
> Am 05.11.2010 01:39, schrieb Payal:
>
>> But when I do View->Pdf the font looks too small.
>
> What PDF method did you use? Powerdot does not work with the pdflatex 
> method because it is based on the PostScript language and not on PDF.

Thanks for the mail. I use view->pdf(dvipdfm)

Please also see,
http://pdfcast.org/pdf/lyx

With warm regards,
-Payal
-- 

Re: Spellchecker and ú

[Christopher Menzel]

On Nov 4, 2010, at 1:48 AM, Stephan Witt wrote:
> Am 03.11.2010 um 18:57 schrieb Christopher Menzel:
> On Nov 2, 2010, at 3:26 AM, Stephan Witt wrote:
>>> Am 02.11.2010 um 03:28 schrieb Christopher Menzel:
>>> 
 On 10/30/2010 02:53 AM, Stephan Witt wrote:
> Am 29.10.2010 um 22:01 schrieb Christopher Menzel:
> 
>> Greetings LyX users,
>> 
>> The aspell-based spellchecker in LyX does not appear to be happy 
>> checking a document containing a Spanish name that includes the 
>> character ú.  Specifically, the name seems throw the checker pretty 
>> seriously off balance; it begins to stop on perfectly ordinary words 
>> that occur in the document a word or two *after* a word that it 
>> apparently isn't recognizing internally -- for example, it asked if I 
>> wanted to replace the word "that" with "bisection", where "that" 
>> occurred two words after "bijection", which was clearly the word it had 
>> stopped on internally.  Is there a solution to this beyond avoiding 
>> non-English unicode characters?
>> 
> Sorry, I've no solution but a question.
> You're using LyX 1.6.7? Which platform?
> 
 1.6.7 on a Mac, latest version of Snow Leopard.
>>> 
>>> Interestingly... there are 2 options to use aspell then.
>>> What's your setup exactly? What did you do to make aspell work?
>> 
>> IIRC, I installed a package that added a System Preferences thingy.  Beyond 
>> that I don't recall doing anything.  Spellchecking just worked.
> 
> I'd guess it is cocoaSpell...

Yes, that is correct.

> After upgrade to Snow Leopard I don't have it anymore.
> I'll check it on another system...
> 
> To be sure: are you able to send me a test case?

Sent to you directly.

> I tried it with some copied spanish text from Wikipedia.
> And I couldn't reproduce it with LyX 2.0 and a self-made aspell library.

I can't get LyX 2.0alpha6 running on my iMac; crashes almost immediately.  
However, I did install it on Windows 7 (which is installed on a Bootcamp 
partition of my iMac) and indeed the spellchecker ran without any problem.  
(alpha6 seems to run very well in its Windows incarnation.)  Unfortunately, 
alpha6 also "upgraded" my document so I can't edit it anymore under LyX 1.6.7.  
(Not really a big problem; the paper is actually finished and about to be sent 
off for publication.)

-chris

Re: Page headers problem... LaTeX rather

[Steve Litt]

On Thursday 04 November 2010 18:26:22 Manveru wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I know this is rather LaTeX related problem, but maybe someone from
> this list is able to help me.
> 
> I have following code in my preamble:
> \newcommand{\kopia}{\tiny Kopia dla Gal Anonim}
> \usepackage{fancyhdr}
> 
> \fancypagestyle{empty}{%
>   \fancyfoot[L]{\kopia}
>   %\fancyfoot[LE]{\kopia}
> }
> \fancypagestyle{plain}{%
>   \fancyhf{}
>   \renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}
>   \fancyfoot[L]{\kopia}
>   \fancyfoot[C]{- \thepage  -}
>   %\fancyfoot[LE]{\kopia}
> }
> \fancypagestyle{headings}{%
>   \fancyfoot[L]{\kopia}
>   %\fancyfoot[LE]{\kopia}
> }
> \lfoot{\kopia}
> 
> However, this works only for first page! I am using article class. All
> other pages are reset to default layout with page number in the bottom
> middle. What may be wrong with my doc or what is wrong with fancyhdr
> or article class? I did not find anything suspicious in tex code of
> the generated document.
> 
> Thanks in advance for any hint.

Pure guess: You need the following in your document preamble:

\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\pagestyle{fancy}

Sounds to me like you're not using \pagestyle{fancy}, but that's just a guess.

To solve this problem, if I were you I'd make a "hello world" LaTeX file maybe 
3 pages long, and slowly modify it until you can either get what you want or 
reproduce the problem, and then work to toggle the problem on and off and 
isolate the root cause.

I'd also take steps to verify that only the first page works. I wouldn't be 
surprised if every Part or Section page works.

HTH

SteveT

Steve Litt
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