Re: Title placement and font size
On Fri, 11 Mar 2011 18:55:39 -0500
Steve Litt wrote:
> I solved
> this with something like the following:
>
> \frontmatter\thispagestyle{empty}\setcounter{page}{1}
> \enlargethispage{1.50in}
> ~\\[-1.7in]\leftskip -1.83in\rightskip -1.0in
>
> You have to enlarge the page a little bit, and then you need to
> center the PDF just right. Obviously your numbers will be a little
> different than mine.
>
> I think you might need to \usepackage{setspace} to get it done right,
> or maybe another style -- I don't remember.
Further to this Steve,
I couldn't for the life of me get the thing working as you describe. I
tried the above commands in the preamble, in the LaTeX options when the
file was inserted, as ERT and none worked in article (KOMA-Script)
Tried every combination I could think of, but no joy. All manner of
error messages.
So I went back to book (KOMA-Script) Insert->Graphics and into the
directory where the .pdf document was located. Then inserted the .pdf
front page as a graphic, and without any further ado it came onto the
front page. That was it.
I was surprised that the .pdf was shown as a graphic, but that was an
advantage, not a problem.
Painless as it turned out, and simpler than trying to insert it as a
file.
Thanks again for your help.
Charlie
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Re: Title placement and font size
On Fri, 11 Mar 2011 18:55:39 -0500
Steve Litt wrote:
> I knew that would be an issue and forgot to talk about it. I solved
> this with something like the following:
>
> \frontmatter\thispagestyle{empty}\setcounter{page}{1}
> \enlargethispage{1.50in}
> ~\\[-1.7in]\leftskip -1.83in\rightskip -1.0in
>
> You have to enlarge the page a little bit, and then you need to
> center the PDF just right. Obviously your numbers will be a little
> different than mine.
>
> I think you might need to \usepackage{setspace} to get it done right,
> or maybe another style -- I don't remember.
>
> HTH
>
> SteveT
Thanks Steve,
My apologies for attributing your good work to someone else.
I actually have your pages bookmarked and they have been most helpful
in all manner of ways.
Thank you for your great work and sharing, it is much appreciated, here
certainly and I imagine in a lot more places than you know.
Be well,
Charlie
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Re: New version question
On Tuesday 08 March 2011 03:55:24 David L. Johnson wrote: > Hi folks. It has been a while since I have been on this list, but I > thought I'd ask about something I noticed in the last upgrade I made. FWIW is nice to see you around here again. :-) Regards, -- José Abílio
Re: Summation
On 03/11/2011 06:50 PM, Charles Reichert wrote: Hello Everybody, The only way I've been able to get the upper and lower limits in a "Summation" operand to be directly above and below the summation symbol is to click on the "set display mode" icon in the lower left corner of the tool bar. The problem is it moves the symbol to the middle of the screen, which of course is out of context with the sentence it was in. How can I get my limits to be directly above and below, while maintaining the symmetry of the sentence the symbol is in? Look on the "math panels" toolbar for the styles popup, and set "displaystyle". Alternately, under the Edit -> Math menu, you can set "limits type" to display. The problem, though, with using displaystyle in an inline formula is that you will force large linespacings around that formula. -- David L. Johnson Enron's slogan: Respect, Communication, Integrity, and Excellence.
Re: Title placement and font size
On Friday 11 March 2011 17:37:43 Charlie wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Mar 2011 13:05:03 -0700
>
> Rob Oakes wrote:
> > > This is just one man's opinion, but I never use the document
> > > class's features for the front matter. I just use custom
> > > environments and ERT (embedded LaTeX) to place all elements of the
> > > front matter -- the title, the author, the cover image, the
> > > copyright page, the dedication and acknowledgements, the "here's
> > > how you use this book", the "about the author", etc. The way I see
> > > it, every element of the frontmatter is a one-off thing, and
> > > one-off things are ideal for fingerpainting.
> >
> > I actually go one step further. I crate all of the frontmatter using
> > a matching stylesheet in Scribs. I then add the material using
> > PDFpages.
> >
> > To that end, I also disable the \maketitle macro so that I can still
> > use \author, \title, etc. and have all of my headers and footers look
> > correct.
> >
> > \renewcommand{\maketitle}{}
>
> Tried your good idea Rob:
> Created a front page
> and used Insert->File->External Material
> Inserted the .pdf document, but couldn't get it to be placed on the
> first page in either article (KOMA-Script) or book (KOMA-Script)
>
> It always inserted onto page 2 - obviously missing something or doing
> something wrong.
>
> Could you please give me a hint what that might be.
>
> As always - Thanks in advance,
> Charlie
Hi Charlie,
My bad. I knew that would be an issue and forgot to talk about it. I solved
this with something like the following:
\frontmatter\thispagestyle{empty}\setcounter{page}{1}
\enlargethispage{1.50in}
~\\[-1.7in]\leftskip -1.83in\rightskip -1.0in
You have to enlarge the page a little bit, and then you need to center the PDF
just right. Obviously your numbers will be a little different than mine.
I think you might need to \usepackage{setspace} to get it done right, or maybe
another style -- I don't remember.
HTH
SteveT
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Summation
Hello Everybody, The only way I've been able to get the upper and lower limits in a "Summation" operand to be directly above and below the summation symbol is to click on the "set display mode" icon in the lower left corner of the tool bar. The problem is it moves the symbol to the middle of the screen, which of course is out of context with the sentence it was in. How can I get my limits to be directly above and below, while maintaining the symmetry of the sentence the symbol is in? Thanks, Charles
Re: Title placement and font size
On Thu, 10 Mar 2011 13:05:03 -0700
Rob Oakes wrote:
> >
> > This is just one man's opinion, but I never use the document
> > class's features for the front matter. I just use custom
> > environments and ERT (embedded LaTeX) to place all elements of the
> > front matter -- the title, the author, the cover image, the
> > copyright page, the dedication and acknowledgements, the "here's
> > how you use this book", the "about the author", etc. The way I see
> > it, every element of the frontmatter is a one-off thing, and
> > one-off things are ideal for fingerpainting.
>
> I actually go one step further. I crate all of the frontmatter using
> a matching stylesheet in Scribs. I then add the material using
> PDFpages.
>
> To that end, I also disable the \maketitle macro so that I can still
> use \author, \title, etc. and have all of my headers and footers look
> correct.
>
> \renewcommand{\maketitle}{}
Tried your good idea Rob:
Created a front page
and used Insert->File->External Material
Inserted the .pdf document, but couldn't get it to be placed on the
first page in either article (KOMA-Script) or book (KOMA-Script)
It always inserted onto page 2 - obviously missing something or doing
something wrong.
Could you please give me a hint what that might be.
As always - Thanks in advance,
Charlie
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VS: Installation of Lyx Using Windows
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about the forward and backward LaTeX synctex search
hi everyone, I am using the lyx200rc1, great changes have made. it is very convenient to support Chinese language. Thanks again for the lyx-team. For the forward search, it is very easy with Evince in ubuntu and lyx200, but the backward search is very hard. It seems we can find the evince and gedit marriage to implement this functionality, but lyx I can find a solution to do this. I can succeed to do this by okular, very perfect. But okular is a kde program, i prefer to work in gnome. i do not like to install a kde package in my computer. So does anyone experienced the same problem as me? Any suggestion will be appreciated. Thanks in advance, weidog
Re: layouts
On 11/03/2011 9:50 AM, Patrick Dupre wrote: Hello, In: /usr/share/lyx/layouts I have: egs.layout elsarticle.layout etc... but after reconfiguration of lyx I get: +checking for document class egs [egs]... no +checking for document class elsarticle [elsarticle]... no Why ? Thank. The .layout file is necessary but not sufficient. You also need the latex document class to be installed: egs.cls, etc. You latex package manager's manual or the document class' manual should describe how to install these. Or just tell us what you're using and a fellow user could describe how to do it. Cheers, Julien
Re: layouts
Patrick Dupre wrote: > In: /usr/share/lyx/layouts > I have: > egs.layout > elsarticle.layout > etc... > > but after reconfiguration of lyx I get: > +checking for document class egs [egs]... no > +checking for document class elsarticle [elsarticle]... no > > Why ? You also need the respective LaTeX classes. Help > LaTeX Configuration tells you where you can download them (if your LaTeX distribution does not provide them via package manager). Jürgen
layouts
Hello, In: /usr/share/lyx/layouts I have: egs.layout elsarticle.layout etc... but after reconfiguration of lyx I get: +checking for document class egs [egs]... no +checking for document class elsarticle [elsarticle]... no Why ? Thank. -- --- == Patrick DUPRÉ | | Department of Chemistry| | Phone: (44)-(0)-1904-434384 The University of York | | Fax: (44)-(0)-1904-432516 Heslington | | York YO10 5DD United Kingdom | | email: patrick.du...@york.ac.uk ==
Re: REVTeX4 Again
On 11/03/2011 9:33 AM, Bruce Pourciau wrote: Yes, my article class document has an inserted BibTeX bibliography that pulls bib items from a .bib file. But in this particular REVTeX style, all the citations, bibliographic information, as well as comments that would ordinarily go in footnotes, appear together as endnotes. For example, the paper cites Newton's Principia many times, the first time citing just the book, but subsequently each time citing a different page or page range. In this journal's REVTeX style, these would appear as endnotes in this form: 1 I Newton, [full bibliographic info here] 2 Some other book or article perhaps 3 Reference 1, pp. 123--130 4 Reference 1, p. 17 Would I have to alter the .bib file in some way to get this citation form? Also, footnotes (which appear in the endnotes) give me trouble when the footnote contains a citation. Bruce Ahh, yes I see. So then I would do it exactly as I explained earlier in the thread: with many entries in your .bib using the "crossref" field. I was confused a bit because it sounded like you managed to do what you wanted with the regular article document class but could not do it anymore with the revtex document class. If that is the case then it might have something to do with revtex loading the natbib package automatically. You can select the natbib package in Documents > Settings > Bibliography. Besides that, we're talking about a bibtex functionality, so it will be affected by your bibliography file (.bib) and the bibtex style file (.bst). The American physical society distributes their own .bst files together with revtex, but I expect using either these or the standard .bst styles would work equally with the approach I described. Good luck, Julien
Re: Change Section Style using a Module
On 03/10/2011 04:13 PM, Raul Acuña wrote:
Hi,
Am working on my thesis using the "book" Document Class in Lyx.
Everything in the book Class works for me except the style of the
sections and subsections, i need to change the size from Large to
Normal, also i want a different space between the section and the
text following.
I've been reading about the modules and i think its the best way to
make the changes that i want, i tried the following code:
#\DeclareLyXModule{ThesisStyle}
#DescriptionBegin
#Change Section Style
#DescriptionEnd
Format 11
Style Section
Category Section
MarginDynamic
LabelType Counter
LabelCounter section
TocLevel 1
LatexType Command
LatexName section
NeedProtect 1
NextNoIndent 1
LabelSep xxx
ParSkip 0.4
TopSep1.3
BottomSep 0.7
ParSep0.7
Align Left
OptionalArgs 1
Font
Series Bold
SizeNormal
EndFont
End
The code changes the font size in Lyx but doesn't change anything in
the PDF.
That is right: Modules control the appearance in LyX, unless you also do
something in them to change the LaTeX output. In this case, you want to
use the titlesec package to style your headings. So you'll need to add
this to your module, in the Section style:
Premable
\usepackage{titlesec}
...put relevant titlesec command here
EndPreamble
Now LyX will put these commands into your preamble whenever you use a
section. Which titlesec commands you use will depend upon what you want
to do.
Richard
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Guofeng Zhang wrote: > I found that there is not any binary for Windows in Beta 4 and RC 1. Uwe who prepares the Alternative Installers (and used to provide also beta versions) is on a longer journey. I think we never provided "official" installers for development releases. > Will the support for Windows be available in the next release? Yes, definitely. There will be windows installers for LyX 2.0 and 2.0.x with x >= 1. Jürgen
