Re: Thesaurus for similar languages like Austrian?

[Peter Baumgartner]

Jürgen Spitzmüller spitz at lyx.org writes:


 There exist even two Austrian German thesaurus variants:
 http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/de/project/dict-de-AT_igerman98
 http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/de/project/dict-de_AT_frami
 
 No, it's better to install the respective dictionaries.

Thanks Jürgen, I didn't know that. But how to install. After downloading the
file and unzipping it I get a file with the name:
dict-de_AT-frami_2010-12-04.oxt

There is a description how to install for OO but I couldn't find any for LyX. I
looked on my Mac into /Applications/LyX.app/Contents/Resources/dict but I
couldn't get any clue what to do.

Peter

Re: Thesaurus for similar languages like Austrian?

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

Peter Baumgartner wrote:
 Thanks Jürgen, I didn't know that. But how to install. After downloading
 the file and unzipping it I get a file with the name:
 dict-de_AT-frami_2010-12-04.oxt
 
 There is a description how to install for OO but I couldn't find any for
 LyX. I looked on my Mac into /Applications/LyX.app/Contents/Resources/dict
 but I couldn't get any clue what to do.

Read section 6.13.1 of the English version of LyX 2.0's UserGuide.

Jürgen

Re: Thesaurus for similar languages like Austrian?

[Stephan Witt]

Am 04.01.2011 um 13:19 schrieb Peter Baumgartner:

 Jürgen Spitzmüller spitz at lyx.org writes:
 
 There exist even two Austrian German thesaurus variants:
 http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/de/project/dict-de-AT_igerman98
 http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/de/project/dict-de_AT_frami
 
 No, it's better to install the respective dictionaries.
 
 Thanks Jürgen, I didn't know that. But how to install. After downloading the
 file and unzipping it I get a file with the name:
 dict-de_AT-frami_2010-12-04.oxt
 
 There is a description how to install for OO but I couldn't find any for LyX. 
 I
 looked on my Mac into /Applications/LyX.app/Contents/Resources/dict but I
 couldn't get any clue what to do.

Jürgen already gave you the pointer to the docs... I know.

The next 2.0 beta release will contain the austrian thesaurus too.
BTW, the location for the system thesauri is:
/Applications/LyX.app/Contents/Resources/thes

Stephan

Re: Thesaurus for similar languages like Austrian?

[Peter Baumgartner]

Sorry, I forgot that the English version of the manual is more up to date.
Thanks everybody, it works!

Peter 

Copying From PDF

[Bruce Pourciau]

I have copied some passages from a pdf and pasted them into a LyX  
document. When I view this LyX document, the pasted in passages  
display some odd formatting: some lines extend beyond the margins and  
there seem to be extra spaces between some words. And the pasted in  
passages resist fixing.


Any advice?

Re: Figure Float Label

[Bruce Pourciau]

On Jan 3, 2011, at 5:25 PM, Paul A. Rubin wrote:


On 01/03/2011 05:38 PM, Bruce Pourciau wrote:



Thanks, Paul.

You're welcome.
The Number Figures by Section was _not_ in the selected box, but  
when I put it there, saved, and then took it out, all was well.
That's odd.  Was this document written using an earlier version of  
LyX?  (I'm wondering if lyx2lyx had to process it and did something  
odd.)


/Paul


No, LyX 1.6.5. But earlier on I did  do some switching around to  
various document classes, before I came back and settled on the basic  
article class. Perhaps that had some latent effect?

Re: Figure Float Label

[Paul A. Rubin]

On 1/4/2011 10:00 AM, Bruce Pourciau wrote:


The Number Figures by Section was _not_ in the selected box, but 
when I put it there, saved, and then took it out, all was well.
That's odd.  Was this document written using an earlier version of 
LyX?  (I'm wondering if lyx2lyx had to process it and did something 
odd.)


/Paul



No, LyX 1.6.5. But earlier on I did  do some switching around to 
various document classes, before I came back and settled on the basic 
article class. Perhaps that had some latent effect?
Sounds plausible, in which case I'd call it a bug, but probably one that 
is hard to reproduce.  You don't happen to remember which classes you 
tried, do you?  I was unable to reproduce in 1.6.6 -- I tried starting 
with article (AMS), which adds the offending module, then switching to 
article, but the Number Figures by Section module was still visibly 
selected after the switch.


To be clear, I don't think that retaining the module is the bug -- that 
could easily be intended by the user.  Failing to display the module in 
the selected list would be the bug.


/Paul

Re: Sectioned bibliography with biblatex?

[Peter Baumgartner]

Jürgen Spitzmüller spitz at lyx.org writes:

 Did you change the preferences accordignly, so that bibtexall is called 
 instead of bibtex?
 
Yes, I did. 

I'm using LyX 2.0.0beta2 on a Mac:

I changed under LyX - Preferences… - Output - LaTeX  the menu for the
processor for bibliography generation to Custom and put bibtexall without
quotes into the command field.

And under Document - Settings - bibliography the processor menu to Default
and left the field Options empty. (Choosing Default I couldn't write into
this field anymore.)

I tried it with the check mark Sectioned bibliography on and off. But I assume
this has no effect at all as it works together bibtex and not biblatex. Is that
right?

The problem seems to me that for the sectioned parts marked with
\begin{refsection) and \end{refsection) LyX couldn't find the bibliography
entries anymore as these text parts have nit replaced the code of the bibtexkey.

Maybe I put bibtexall in a wrong directory? It is in a folder in my path of the
TeX installation and I have also done 'sudo texhash' from the terminal.

Peter

Re: Figure Float Label

[Bruce Pourciau]

On Jan 4, 2011, at 9:08 AM, Paul A. Rubin wrote:


On 1/4/2011 10:00 AM, Bruce Pourciau wrote:


The Number Figures by Section was _not_ in the selected box,  
but when I put it there, saved, and then took it out, all was well.
That's odd.  Was this document written using an earlier version of  
LyX?  (I'm wondering if lyx2lyx had to process it and did  
something odd.)


/Paul



No, LyX 1.6.5. But earlier on I did  do some switching around to  
various document classes, before I came back and settled on the  
basic article class. Perhaps that had some latent effect?
Sounds plausible, in which case I'd call it a bug, but probably one  
that is hard to reproduce.  You don't happen to remember which  
classes you tried, do you?  I was unable to reproduce in 1.6.6 -- I  
tried starting with article (AMS), which adds the offending module,  
then switching to article, but the Number Figures by Section module  
was still visibly selected after the switch.


To be clear, I don't think that retaining the module is the bug --  
that could easily be intended by the user.  Failing to display the  
module in the selected list would be the bug.


/Paul


I know I tried IEEETrans and RevTeX4, because they are both close to  
the format used in the journal  the article will appear in. I couldn't  
get it to compile in RevTeX4, perhaps because I had a bibtex generated  
bibliography and RevTeX4 seems to want all references in footnotes.


Bruce

Re: Sectioned bibliography with biblatex?

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

Peter Baumgartner wrote:
 Yes, I did. 
 
 I'm using LyX 2.0.0beta2 on a Mac:
 
 I changed under LyX - Preferences… - Output - LaTeX  the menu for the
 processor for bibliography generation to Custom and put bibtexall
 without quotes into the command field.
 
 And under Document - Settings - bibliography the processor menu to
 Default and left the field Options empty. (Choosing Default I
 couldn't write into this field anymore.)
 
 I tried it with the check mark Sectioned bibliography on and off. But I
 assume this has no effect at all as it works together bibtex and not
 biblatex. Is that right?

Yes. This checkbox enables bibtopic support, which is incompatible with 
biblatex.

 The problem seems to me that for the sectioned parts marked with
 \begin{refsection) and \end{refsection) LyX couldn't find the bibliography
 entries anymore as these text parts have nit replaced the code of the
 bibtexkey.
 
 Maybe I put bibtexall in a wrong directory? It is in a folder in my path of
 the TeX installation and I have also done 'sudo texhash' from the
 terminal.

The script must be in an executable path, unrelated to TeX. Don't know where 
this is on the Mac.

Jürgen

Re: Copying From PDF

[Liviu Andronic]

On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 3:48 PM, Bruce Pourciau
bruce.h.pourc...@lawrence.edu wrote:
 I have copied some passages from a pdf and pasted them into a LyX document.
 When I view this LyX document, the pasted in passages display some odd
 formatting: some lines extend beyond the margins and there seem to be extra
 spaces between some words. And the pasted in passages resist fixing.

 Any advice?

Try to first convert to an ordinary word processor. See this [1] for example.
Liviu

[1] http://www.pdftoword.com/







-- 
Do you know how to read?
http://www.alienetworks.com/srtest.cfm
http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/applications/xfce4-dict#speed-reader
Do you know how to write?
http://garbl.home.comcast.net/~garbl/stylemanual/e.htm#e-mail

Re: Sectioned bibliography with biblatex?

[Stephan Witt]

Am 04.01.2011 um 16:26 schrieb Jürgen Spitzmüller:

 Peter Baumgartner wrote:
 Maybe I put bibtexall in a wrong directory? It is in a folder in my path of
 the TeX installation and I have also done 'sudo texhash' from the
 terminal.
 
 The script must be in an executable path, unrelated to TeX. Don't know where 
 this is on the Mac.

It's the PATH environment like on any other Unix.
Here I have e.g. /usr/texbin in path for latex et al.

Stephan

Re: Figure Float Label

[Paul A . Rubin]

Bruce Pourciau bruce.h.pourciau at lawrence.edu writes:

 
 I know I tried IEEETrans and RevTeX4, because they are both close to  
 the format used in the journal  the article will appear in. I couldn't  
 get it to compile in RevTeX4, perhaps because I had a bibtex generated  
 bibliography and RevTeX4 seems to want all references in footnotes.

Neither one of those classes introduces the Number Figures by Section module
automatically, and as best I can tell (on 1.6.6, Win XP) neither of them causes
it to disappear from the loaded list once something else (e.g. article (AMS))
has caused it to be added to the list.  Might be this bug was fixed
(intentionally or otherwise).  Or maybe some peculiar planetary alignment is
required to reproduce it.

/Paul 

Re: Copying From PDF

[Paul A . Rubin]

Bruce Pourciau bruce.h.pourciau at lawrence.edu writes:

 
 I have copied some passages from a pdf and pasted them into a LyX  
 document. When I view this LyX document, the pasted in passages  
 display some odd formatting: some lines extend beyond the margins and  
 there seem to be extra spaces between some words. And the pasted in  
 passages resist fixing.
 
 Any advice?

You could try pdftotext to convert to plain text.

/Paul

Re: Sectioned bibliography with biblatex?

[Peter Baumgartner]

Stephan Witt st.witt at gmx.net writes:

 
 Am 04.01.2011 um 16:26 schrieb Jürgen Spitzmüller:
 
  Peter Baumgartner wrote:
  Maybe I put bibtexall in a wrong directory? It is in a folder in my path of
  the TeX installation and I have also done 'sudo texhash' from the
  terminal.
  
  The script must be in an executable path, unrelated to TeX. Don't know 
  where 
  this is on the Mac.
 
 It's the PATH environment like on any other Unix.
 Here I have e.g. /usr/texbin in path for latex et al.

Great! That was the solution!!! I didn't understand what it meant to be an
executable path. I confused it with a LyX or a TeX path. After the hint from
Stephan I found a link to a directory I never have been seen
(/usr/local/texlive/2010/bin/X86_64-darwin), where I have found a lot of other
executable programs like bibtex, bixtex8 etc. I assume biber is to install in
this directory as well?

I noticed that my final \printbibliography printed out all the references
without marks for refsections but not the bibliography cited in the marked
sections. Is there a way - besides of the sectioned bibliographies - to get a
complete bibliography of *all* mentioned references at the end of the book?

Peter

Re: Sectioned bibliography with biblatex?

[Peter Baumgartner]

Peter Baumgartner peter.baumgartner at donau-uni.ac.at writes:

 I noticed that my final \printbibliography printed out all the references
 without marks for refsections but not the bibliography cited in the marked
 sections. Is there a way - besides of the sectioned bibliographies - to get a
 complete bibliography of *all* mentioned references at the end of the book?

Ah - the solution is to use the command refsegment instead of refsetion. RTFM of
biblatex... 

Vertical space before and after equations

[Barak Shoshany]

Hello,

I'm preparing a formula sheet, and would like to get as many formulas as I
can inside a limited number of pages. I've already used most of the tricks
in the book: 3 columns, narrow margins, small paragraph  line spacing, etc.
However, one important thing I want to change is the spacing before and
after equations, which is disproportionately large but seems to be oblivious
to the settings for paragraph and line spacing.

How can I manually set the spacing for the equations?

Thanks in advance,
Barak

Re: Vertical space before and after equations

[Gwen Barnes]

In regular latex you might be able to use \vspace{0.5cm}, or
\vspace{-0.5cm} (for example), before or after each equation.  You
might be able to put that in ERT (Insert - TeX code) in LyX.

HTH.

-Gwen



On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 12:48 PM, Barak Shoshany bara...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hello,
 I'm preparing a formula sheet, and would like to get as many formulas as I
 can inside a limited number of pages. I've already used most of the tricks
 in the book: 3 columns, narrow margins, small paragraph  line spacing, etc.
 However, one important thing I want to change is the spacing before and
 after equations, which is disproportionately large but seems to be oblivious
 to the settings for paragraph and line spacing.
 How can I manually set the spacing for the equations?
 Thanks in advance,
 Barak

Re: Vertical space before and after equations

[Paul Rubin]

How are you entering the formulas (inline, display mode, equation arrays, ...)?
 Perhaps you could post a one page document showing a sample.

/Paul

Re: Thesaurus for similar languages like Austrian?

[Peter Baumgartner]

Jürgen Spitzmüller spitz at lyx.org writes:


 There exist even two Austrian German thesaurus variants:
 http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/de/project/dict-de-AT_igerman98
 http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/de/project/dict-de_AT_frami
 
 No, it's better to install the respective dictionaries.

Thanks Jürgen, I didn't know that. But how to install. After downloading the
file and unzipping it I get a file with the name:
dict-de_AT-frami_2010-12-04.oxt

There is a description how to install for OO but I couldn't find any for LyX. I
looked on my Mac into /Applications/LyX.app/Contents/Resources/dict but I
couldn't get any clue what to do.

Peter

Re: Thesaurus for similar languages like Austrian?

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

Peter Baumgartner wrote:
 Thanks Jürgen, I didn't know that. But how to install. After downloading
 the file and unzipping it I get a file with the name:
 dict-de_AT-frami_2010-12-04.oxt
 
 There is a description how to install for OO but I couldn't find any for
 LyX. I looked on my Mac into /Applications/LyX.app/Contents/Resources/dict
 but I couldn't get any clue what to do.

Read section 6.13.1 of the English version of LyX 2.0's UserGuide.

Jürgen

Re: Thesaurus for similar languages like Austrian?

[Stephan Witt]

Am 04.01.2011 um 13:19 schrieb Peter Baumgartner:

 Jürgen Spitzmüller spitz at lyx.org writes:
 
 There exist even two Austrian German thesaurus variants:
 http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/de/project/dict-de-AT_igerman98
 http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/de/project/dict-de_AT_frami
 
 No, it's better to install the respective dictionaries.
 
 Thanks Jürgen, I didn't know that. But how to install. After downloading the
 file and unzipping it I get a file with the name:
 dict-de_AT-frami_2010-12-04.oxt
 
 There is a description how to install for OO but I couldn't find any for LyX. 
 I
 looked on my Mac into /Applications/LyX.app/Contents/Resources/dict but I
 couldn't get any clue what to do.

Jürgen already gave you the pointer to the docs... I know.

The next 2.0 beta release will contain the austrian thesaurus too.
BTW, the location for the system thesauri is:
/Applications/LyX.app/Contents/Resources/thes

Stephan

Re: Thesaurus for similar languages like Austrian?

[Peter Baumgartner]

Sorry, I forgot that the English version of the manual is more up to date.
Thanks everybody, it works!

Peter 

Copying From PDF

[Bruce Pourciau]

I have copied some passages from a pdf and pasted them into a LyX  
document. When I view this LyX document, the pasted in passages  
display some odd formatting: some lines extend beyond the margins and  
there seem to be extra spaces between some words. And the pasted in  
passages resist fixing.


Any advice?

Re: Figure Float Label

[Bruce Pourciau]

On Jan 3, 2011, at 5:25 PM, Paul A. Rubin wrote:


On 01/03/2011 05:38 PM, Bruce Pourciau wrote:



Thanks, Paul.

You're welcome.
The Number Figures by Section was _not_ in the selected box, but  
when I put it there, saved, and then took it out, all was well.
That's odd.  Was this document written using an earlier version of  
LyX?  (I'm wondering if lyx2lyx had to process it and did something  
odd.)


/Paul


No, LyX 1.6.5. But earlier on I did  do some switching around to  
various document classes, before I came back and settled on the basic  
article class. Perhaps that had some latent effect?

Re: Figure Float Label

[Paul A. Rubin]

On 1/4/2011 10:00 AM, Bruce Pourciau wrote:


The Number Figures by Section was _not_ in the selected box, but 
when I put it there, saved, and then took it out, all was well.
That's odd.  Was this document written using an earlier version of 
LyX?  (I'm wondering if lyx2lyx had to process it and did something 
odd.)


/Paul



No, LyX 1.6.5. But earlier on I did  do some switching around to 
various document classes, before I came back and settled on the basic 
article class. Perhaps that had some latent effect?
Sounds plausible, in which case I'd call it a bug, but probably one that 
is hard to reproduce.  You don't happen to remember which classes you 
tried, do you?  I was unable to reproduce in 1.6.6 -- I tried starting 
with article (AMS), which adds the offending module, then switching to 
article, but the Number Figures by Section module was still visibly 
selected after the switch.


To be clear, I don't think that retaining the module is the bug -- that 
could easily be intended by the user.  Failing to display the module in 
the selected list would be the bug.


/Paul

Re: Sectioned bibliography with biblatex?

[Peter Baumgartner]

Jürgen Spitzmüller spitz at lyx.org writes:

 Did you change the preferences accordignly, so that bibtexall is called 
 instead of bibtex?
 
Yes, I did. 

I'm using LyX 2.0.0beta2 on a Mac:

I changed under LyX - Preferences… - Output - LaTeX  the menu for the
processor for bibliography generation to Custom and put bibtexall without
quotes into the command field.

And under Document - Settings - bibliography the processor menu to Default
and left the field Options empty. (Choosing Default I couldn't write into
this field anymore.)

I tried it with the check mark Sectioned bibliography on and off. But I assume
this has no effect at all as it works together bibtex and not biblatex. Is that
right?

The problem seems to me that for the sectioned parts marked with
\begin{refsection) and \end{refsection) LyX couldn't find the bibliography
entries anymore as these text parts have nit replaced the code of the bibtexkey.

Maybe I put bibtexall in a wrong directory? It is in a folder in my path of the
TeX installation and I have also done 'sudo texhash' from the terminal.

Peter

Re: Figure Float Label

[Bruce Pourciau]

On Jan 4, 2011, at 9:08 AM, Paul A. Rubin wrote:


On 1/4/2011 10:00 AM, Bruce Pourciau wrote:


The Number Figures by Section was _not_ in the selected box,  
but when I put it there, saved, and then took it out, all was well.
That's odd.  Was this document written using an earlier version of  
LyX?  (I'm wondering if lyx2lyx had to process it and did  
something odd.)


/Paul



No, LyX 1.6.5. But earlier on I did  do some switching around to  
various document classes, before I came back and settled on the  
basic article class. Perhaps that had some latent effect?
Sounds plausible, in which case I'd call it a bug, but probably one  
that is hard to reproduce.  You don't happen to remember which  
classes you tried, do you?  I was unable to reproduce in 1.6.6 -- I  
tried starting with article (AMS), which adds the offending module,  
then switching to article, but the Number Figures by Section module  
was still visibly selected after the switch.


To be clear, I don't think that retaining the module is the bug --  
that could easily be intended by the user.  Failing to display the  
module in the selected list would be the bug.


/Paul


I know I tried IEEETrans and RevTeX4, because they are both close to  
the format used in the journal  the article will appear in. I couldn't  
get it to compile in RevTeX4, perhaps because I had a bibtex generated  
bibliography and RevTeX4 seems to want all references in footnotes.


Bruce

Re: Sectioned bibliography with biblatex?

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

Peter Baumgartner wrote:
 Yes, I did. 
 
 I'm using LyX 2.0.0beta2 on a Mac:
 
 I changed under LyX - Preferences… - Output - LaTeX  the menu for the
 processor for bibliography generation to Custom and put bibtexall
 without quotes into the command field.
 
 And under Document - Settings - bibliography the processor menu to
 Default and left the field Options empty. (Choosing Default I
 couldn't write into this field anymore.)
 
 I tried it with the check mark Sectioned bibliography on and off. But I
 assume this has no effect at all as it works together bibtex and not
 biblatex. Is that right?

Yes. This checkbox enables bibtopic support, which is incompatible with 
biblatex.

 The problem seems to me that for the sectioned parts marked with
 \begin{refsection) and \end{refsection) LyX couldn't find the bibliography
 entries anymore as these text parts have nit replaced the code of the
 bibtexkey.
 
 Maybe I put bibtexall in a wrong directory? It is in a folder in my path of
 the TeX installation and I have also done 'sudo texhash' from the
 terminal.

The script must be in an executable path, unrelated to TeX. Don't know where 
this is on the Mac.

Jürgen

Re: Copying From PDF

[Liviu Andronic]

On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 3:48 PM, Bruce Pourciau
bruce.h.pourc...@lawrence.edu wrote:
 I have copied some passages from a pdf and pasted them into a LyX document.
 When I view this LyX document, the pasted in passages display some odd
 formatting: some lines extend beyond the margins and there seem to be extra
 spaces between some words. And the pasted in passages resist fixing.

 Any advice?

Try to first convert to an ordinary word processor. See this [1] for example.
Liviu

[1] http://www.pdftoword.com/







-- 
Do you know how to read?
http://www.alienetworks.com/srtest.cfm
http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/applications/xfce4-dict#speed-reader
Do you know how to write?
http://garbl.home.comcast.net/~garbl/stylemanual/e.htm#e-mail

Re: Sectioned bibliography with biblatex?

[Stephan Witt]

Am 04.01.2011 um 16:26 schrieb Jürgen Spitzmüller:

 Peter Baumgartner wrote:
 Maybe I put bibtexall in a wrong directory? It is in a folder in my path of
 the TeX installation and I have also done 'sudo texhash' from the
 terminal.
 
 The script must be in an executable path, unrelated to TeX. Don't know where 
 this is on the Mac.

It's the PATH environment like on any other Unix.
Here I have e.g. /usr/texbin in path for latex et al.

Stephan

Re: Figure Float Label

[Paul A . Rubin]

Bruce Pourciau bruce.h.pourciau at lawrence.edu writes:

 
 I know I tried IEEETrans and RevTeX4, because they are both close to  
 the format used in the journal  the article will appear in. I couldn't  
 get it to compile in RevTeX4, perhaps because I had a bibtex generated  
 bibliography and RevTeX4 seems to want all references in footnotes.

Neither one of those classes introduces the Number Figures by Section module
automatically, and as best I can tell (on 1.6.6, Win XP) neither of them causes
it to disappear from the loaded list once something else (e.g. article (AMS))
has caused it to be added to the list.  Might be this bug was fixed
(intentionally or otherwise).  Or maybe some peculiar planetary alignment is
required to reproduce it.

/Paul 

Re: Copying From PDF

[Paul A . Rubin]

Bruce Pourciau bruce.h.pourciau at lawrence.edu writes:

 
 I have copied some passages from a pdf and pasted them into a LyX  
 document. When I view this LyX document, the pasted in passages  
 display some odd formatting: some lines extend beyond the margins and  
 there seem to be extra spaces between some words. And the pasted in  
 passages resist fixing.
 
 Any advice?

You could try pdftotext to convert to plain text.

/Paul

Re: Sectioned bibliography with biblatex?

[Peter Baumgartner]

Stephan Witt st.witt at gmx.net writes:

 
 Am 04.01.2011 um 16:26 schrieb Jürgen Spitzmüller:
 
  Peter Baumgartner wrote:
  Maybe I put bibtexall in a wrong directory? It is in a folder in my path of
  the TeX installation and I have also done 'sudo texhash' from the
  terminal.
  
  The script must be in an executable path, unrelated to TeX. Don't know 
  where 
  this is on the Mac.
 
 It's the PATH environment like on any other Unix.
 Here I have e.g. /usr/texbin in path for latex et al.

Great! That was the solution!!! I didn't understand what it meant to be an
executable path. I confused it with a LyX or a TeX path. After the hint from
Stephan I found a link to a directory I never have been seen
(/usr/local/texlive/2010/bin/X86_64-darwin), where I have found a lot of other
executable programs like bibtex, bixtex8 etc. I assume biber is to install in
this directory as well?

I noticed that my final \printbibliography printed out all the references
without marks for refsections but not the bibliography cited in the marked
sections. Is there a way - besides of the sectioned bibliographies - to get a
complete bibliography of *all* mentioned references at the end of the book?

Peter

Re: Sectioned bibliography with biblatex?

[Peter Baumgartner]

Peter Baumgartner peter.baumgartner at donau-uni.ac.at writes:

 I noticed that my final \printbibliography printed out all the references
 without marks for refsections but not the bibliography cited in the marked
 sections. Is there a way - besides of the sectioned bibliographies - to get a
 complete bibliography of *all* mentioned references at the end of the book?

Ah - the solution is to use the command refsegment instead of refsetion. RTFM of
biblatex... 

Vertical space before and after equations

[Barak Shoshany]

Hello,

I'm preparing a formula sheet, and would like to get as many formulas as I
can inside a limited number of pages. I've already used most of the tricks
in the book: 3 columns, narrow margins, small paragraph  line spacing, etc.
However, one important thing I want to change is the spacing before and
after equations, which is disproportionately large but seems to be oblivious
to the settings for paragraph and line spacing.

How can I manually set the spacing for the equations?

Thanks in advance,
Barak

Re: Vertical space before and after equations

[Gwen Barnes]

In regular latex you might be able to use \vspace{0.5cm}, or
\vspace{-0.5cm} (for example), before or after each equation.  You
might be able to put that in ERT (Insert - TeX code) in LyX.

HTH.

-Gwen



On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 12:48 PM, Barak Shoshany bara...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hello,
 I'm preparing a formula sheet, and would like to get as many formulas as I
 can inside a limited number of pages. I've already used most of the tricks
 in the book: 3 columns, narrow margins, small paragraph  line spacing, etc.
 However, one important thing I want to change is the spacing before and
 after equations, which is disproportionately large but seems to be oblivious
 to the settings for paragraph and line spacing.
 How can I manually set the spacing for the equations?
 Thanks in advance,
 Barak

Re: Vertical space before and after equations

[Paul Rubin]

How are you entering the formulas (inline, display mode, equation arrays, ...)?
 Perhaps you could post a one page document showing a sample.

/Paul

Re: Thesaurus for similar languages like Austrian?

[Peter Baumgartner]

Jürgen Spitzmüller  lyx.org> writes:


> There exist even two Austrian German thesaurus variants:
> http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/de/project/dict-de-AT_igerman98
> http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/de/project/dict-de_AT_frami
> 
> No, it's better to install the respective dictionaries.

Thanks Jürgen, I didn't know that. But how to install. After downloading the
file and unzipping it I get a file with the name:
dict-de_AT-frami_2010-12-04.oxt

There is a description how to install for OO but I couldn't find any for LyX. I
looked on my Mac into /Applications/LyX.app/Contents/Resources/dict but I
couldn't get any clue what to do.

Peter

Re: Thesaurus for similar languages like Austrian?

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

Peter Baumgartner wrote:
> Thanks Jürgen, I didn't know that. But how to install. After downloading
> the file and unzipping it I get a file with the name:
> dict-de_AT-frami_2010-12-04.oxt
> 
> There is a description how to install for OO but I couldn't find any for
> LyX. I looked on my Mac into /Applications/LyX.app/Contents/Resources/dict
> but I couldn't get any clue what to do.

Read section 6.13.1 of the English version of LyX 2.0's UserGuide.

Jürgen

Re: Thesaurus for similar languages like Austrian?

[Stephan Witt]

Am 04.01.2011 um 13:19 schrieb Peter Baumgartner:

> Jürgen Spitzmüller  lyx.org> writes:
> 
>> There exist even two Austrian German thesaurus variants:
>> http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/de/project/dict-de-AT_igerman98
>> http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/de/project/dict-de_AT_frami
>> 
>> No, it's better to install the respective dictionaries.
> 
> Thanks Jürgen, I didn't know that. But how to install. After downloading the
> file and unzipping it I get a file with the name:
> dict-de_AT-frami_2010-12-04.oxt
> 
> There is a description how to install for OO but I couldn't find any for LyX. 
> I
> looked on my Mac into /Applications/LyX.app/Contents/Resources/dict but I
> couldn't get any clue what to do.

Jürgen already gave you the pointer to the docs... I know.

The next 2.0 beta release will contain the austrian thesaurus too.
BTW, the location for the system thesauri is:
/Applications/LyX.app/Contents/Resources/thes

Stephan

Re: Thesaurus for similar languages like Austrian?

[Peter Baumgartner]

Sorry, I forgot that the English version of the manual is more up to date.
Thanks everybody, it works!

Peter 

Copying From PDF

[Bruce Pourciau]

I have copied some passages from a pdf and pasted them into a LyX  
document. When I view this LyX document, the pasted in passages  
display some odd formatting: some lines extend beyond the margins and  
there seem to be extra spaces between some words. And the pasted in  
passages resist fixing.


Any advice?

Re: Figure Float Label

[Bruce Pourciau]

On Jan 3, 2011, at 5:25 PM, Paul A. Rubin wrote:


On 01/03/2011 05:38 PM, Bruce Pourciau wrote:



Thanks, Paul.

You're welcome.
The "Number Figures by Section" was _not_ in the selected box, but  
when I put it there, saved, and then took it out, all was well.
That's odd.  Was this document written using an earlier version of  
LyX?  (I'm wondering if lyx2lyx had to process it and did something  
odd.)


/Paul


No, LyX 1.6.5. But earlier on I did  do some switching around to  
various document classes, before I came back and settled on the basic  
article class. Perhaps that had some latent effect?

Re: Figure Float Label

[Paul A. Rubin]

On 1/4/2011 10:00 AM, Bruce Pourciau wrote:


The "Number Figures by Section" was _not_ in the selected box, but 
when I put it there, saved, and then took it out, all was well.
That's odd.  Was this document written using an earlier version of 
LyX?  (I'm wondering if lyx2lyx had to process it and did something 
odd.)


/Paul



No, LyX 1.6.5. But earlier on I did  do some switching around to 
various document classes, before I came back and settled on the basic 
article class. Perhaps that had some latent effect?
Sounds plausible, in which case I'd call it a bug, but probably one that 
is hard to reproduce.  You don't happen to remember which classes you 
tried, do you?  I was unable to reproduce in 1.6.6 -- I tried starting 
with article (AMS), which adds the offending module, then switching to 
article, but the Number Figures by Section module was still visibly 
selected after the switch.


To be clear, I don't think that retaining the module is the bug -- that 
could easily be intended by the user.  Failing to display the module in 
the selected list would be the bug.


/Paul

Re: Sectioned bibliography with biblatex?

[Peter Baumgartner]

Jürgen Spitzmüller  lyx.org> writes:

> Did you change the preferences accordignly, so that bibtexall is called 
> instead of bibtex?
> 
Yes, I did. 

I'm using LyX 2.0.0beta2 on a Mac:

I changed under LyX -> Preferences… -> Output -> LaTeX  the menu for the
processor for bibliography generation to "Custom" and put "bibtexall" without
quotes into the command field.

And under Document -> Settings -> bibliography the processor menu to "Default"
and left the field "Options" empty. (Choosing "Default" I couldn't write into
this field anymore.)

I tried it with the check mark "Sectioned bibliography" on and off. But I assume
this has no effect at all as it works together bibtex and not biblatex. Is that
right?

The problem seems to me that for the sectioned parts marked with
\begin{refsection) and \end{refsection) LyX couldn't find the bibliography
entries anymore as these text parts have nit replaced the code of the bibtexkey.

Maybe I put bibtexall in a wrong directory? It is in a folder in my path of the
TeX installation and I have also done 'sudo texhash' from the terminal.

Peter

Re: Figure Float Label

[Bruce Pourciau]

On Jan 4, 2011, at 9:08 AM, Paul A. Rubin wrote:


On 1/4/2011 10:00 AM, Bruce Pourciau wrote:


The "Number Figures by Section" was _not_ in the selected box,  
but when I put it there, saved, and then took it out, all was well.
That's odd.  Was this document written using an earlier version of  
LyX?  (I'm wondering if lyx2lyx had to process it and did  
something odd.)


/Paul



No, LyX 1.6.5. But earlier on I did  do some switching around to  
various document classes, before I came back and settled on the  
basic article class. Perhaps that had some latent effect?
Sounds plausible, in which case I'd call it a bug, but probably one  
that is hard to reproduce.  You don't happen to remember which  
classes you tried, do you?  I was unable to reproduce in 1.6.6 -- I  
tried starting with article (AMS), which adds the offending module,  
then switching to article, but the Number Figures by Section module  
was still visibly selected after the switch.


To be clear, I don't think that retaining the module is the bug --  
that could easily be intended by the user.  Failing to display the  
module in the selected list would be the bug.


/Paul


I know I tried IEEETrans and RevTeX4, because they are both close to  
the format used in the journal  the article will appear in. I couldn't  
get it to compile in RevTeX4, perhaps because I had a bibtex generated  
bibliography and RevTeX4 seems to want all references in footnotes.


Bruce

Re: Sectioned bibliography with biblatex?

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

Peter Baumgartner wrote:
> Yes, I did. 
> 
> I'm using LyX 2.0.0beta2 on a Mac:
> 
> I changed under LyX -> Preferences… -> Output -> LaTeX  the menu for the
> processor for bibliography generation to "Custom" and put "bibtexall"
> without quotes into the command field.
> 
> And under Document -> Settings -> bibliography the processor menu to
> "Default" and left the field "Options" empty. (Choosing "Default" I
> couldn't write into this field anymore.)
> 
> I tried it with the check mark "Sectioned bibliography" on and off. But I
> assume this has no effect at all as it works together bibtex and not
> biblatex. Is that right?

Yes. This checkbox enables bibtopic support, which is incompatible with 
biblatex.

> The problem seems to me that for the sectioned parts marked with
> \begin{refsection) and \end{refsection) LyX couldn't find the bibliography
> entries anymore as these text parts have nit replaced the code of the
> bibtexkey.
> 
> Maybe I put bibtexall in a wrong directory? It is in a folder in my path of
> the TeX installation and I have also done 'sudo texhash' from the
> terminal.

The script must be in an executable path, unrelated to TeX. Don't know where 
this is on the Mac.

Jürgen

Re: Copying From PDF

[Liviu Andronic]

On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 3:48 PM, Bruce Pourciau
 wrote:
> I have copied some passages from a pdf and pasted them into a LyX document.
> When I view this LyX document, the pasted in passages display some odd
> formatting: some lines extend beyond the margins and there seem to be extra
> spaces between some words. And the pasted in passages resist fixing.
>
> Any advice?
>
Try to first convert to an ordinary word processor. See this [1] for example.
Liviu

[1] http://www.pdftoword.com/


>
>



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Re: Sectioned bibliography with biblatex?

[Stephan Witt]

Am 04.01.2011 um 16:26 schrieb Jürgen Spitzmüller:

> Peter Baumgartner wrote:
>> Maybe I put bibtexall in a wrong directory? It is in a folder in my path of
>> the TeX installation and I have also done 'sudo texhash' from the
>> terminal.
> 
> The script must be in an executable path, unrelated to TeX. Don't know where 
> this is on the Mac.

It's the PATH environment like on any other Unix.
Here I have e.g. /usr/texbin in path for latex et al.

Stephan

Re: Figure Float Label

[Paul A . Rubin]

Bruce Pourciau  lawrence.edu> writes:

> 
> I know I tried IEEETrans and RevTeX4, because they are both close to  
> the format used in the journal  the article will appear in. I couldn't  
> get it to compile in RevTeX4, perhaps because I had a bibtex generated  
> bibliography and RevTeX4 seems to want all references in footnotes.

Neither one of those classes introduces the Number Figures by Section module
automatically, and as best I can tell (on 1.6.6, Win XP) neither of them causes
it to disappear from the loaded list once something else (e.g. article (AMS))
has caused it to be added to the list.  Might be this bug was fixed
(intentionally or otherwise).  Or maybe some peculiar planetary alignment is
required to reproduce it.

/Paul 

Re: Copying From PDF

[Paul A . Rubin]

Bruce Pourciau  lawrence.edu> writes:

> 
> I have copied some passages from a pdf and pasted them into a LyX  
> document. When I view this LyX document, the pasted in passages  
> display some odd formatting: some lines extend beyond the margins and  
> there seem to be extra spaces between some words. And the pasted in  
> passages resist fixing.
> 
> Any advice?

You could try pdftotext to convert to plain text.

/Paul

Re: Sectioned bibliography with biblatex?

[Peter Baumgartner]

Stephan Witt  gmx.net> writes:

> 
> Am 04.01.2011 um 16:26 schrieb Jürgen Spitzmüller:
> 
> > Peter Baumgartner wrote:
> >> Maybe I put bibtexall in a wrong directory? It is in a folder in my path of
> >> the TeX installation and I have also done 'sudo texhash' from the
> >> terminal.
> > 
> > The script must be in an executable path, unrelated to TeX. Don't know 
> > where 
> > this is on the Mac.
> 
> It's the PATH environment like on any other Unix.
> Here I have e.g. /usr/texbin in path for latex et al.

Great! That was the solution!!! I didn't understand what it meant to be an
executable path. I confused it with a LyX or a TeX path. After the hint from
Stephan I found a link to a directory I never have been seen
(/usr/local/texlive/2010/bin/X86_64-darwin), where I have found a lot of other
executable programs like bibtex, bixtex8 etc. I assume biber is to install in
this directory as well?

I noticed that my final \printbibliography printed out all the references
without marks for refsections but not the bibliography cited in the marked
sections. Is there a way - besides of the sectioned bibliographies - to get a
complete bibliography of *all* mentioned references at the end of the book?

Peter

Re: Sectioned bibliography with biblatex?

[Peter Baumgartner]

Peter Baumgartner  donau-uni.ac.at> writes:

> I noticed that my final \printbibliography printed out all the references
> without marks for refsections but not the bibliography cited in the marked
> sections. Is there a way - besides of the sectioned bibliographies - to get a
> complete bibliography of *all* mentioned references at the end of the book?

Ah - the solution is to use the command refsegment instead of refsetion. RTFM of
biblatex... 

Vertical space before and after equations

[Barak Shoshany]

Hello,

I'm preparing a formula sheet, and would like to get as many formulas as I
can inside a limited number of pages. I've already used most of the tricks
in the book: 3 columns, narrow margins, small paragraph & line spacing, etc.
However, one important thing I want to change is the spacing before and
after equations, which is disproportionately large but seems to be oblivious
to the settings for paragraph and line spacing.

How can I manually set the spacing for the equations?

Thanks in advance,
Barak

Re: Vertical space before and after equations

[Gwen Barnes]

In regular latex you might be able to use \vspace{0.5cm}, or
\vspace{-0.5cm} (for example), before or after each equation.  You
might be able to put that in ERT ("Insert -> TeX code") in LyX.

HTH.

-Gwen



On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 12:48 PM, Barak Shoshany  wrote:
> Hello,
> I'm preparing a formula sheet, and would like to get as many formulas as I
> can inside a limited number of pages. I've already used most of the tricks
> in the book: 3 columns, narrow margins, small paragraph & line spacing, etc.
> However, one important thing I want to change is the spacing before and
> after equations, which is disproportionately large but seems to be oblivious
> to the settings for paragraph and line spacing.
> How can I manually set the spacing for the equations?
> Thanks in advance,
> Barak

Re: Vertical space before and after equations

[Paul Rubin]

How are you entering the formulas (inline, display mode, equation arrays, ...)?
 Perhaps you could post a one page document showing a sample.

/Paul