Re: long standing annoyance with tables
Given those two choices, I prefer the current settings. I nearly always make some small adjustment, but the adjustments are much fewer this way than the other. On Jun 8, 2006, at 12:10 PM, Leuven, E. wrote: Dear LyX-users, On the developers list we are presently discussing default behavior with respect to how lines are set when inserting a new tabular. There is some reluctance to change default behavior even if the rationale behind the default is not that clear. To move the discussion forward I would like to know what default lyx-users would prefer when they insert a tabular: 1. The current line settings 2. A blank tabular (ie no lines set) Thanks for letting me know. Edwin
Re: Easing the editing/correction of LyX documents
This ties in closely with the ongoing discussion of the goals of LyX. The LyX editor itself is to put in the content/hierarchical organization of a document. When I need to preview the actual document, I use that option in LyX (cmd-T on a macintosh, View- >update->pdf on the menu) which lets me see the current .pdf file output. I've come to LyX from the opposite end of many of the people writing: I started with LaTeX, ideal for writing mathematical papers/ bibliographies, and now find LyX a wonderful way to simiplify document formatting and preparation. I only use WYSIWYG editors for quick-hack items that things like MS Word can do more easily than LyX. (That's an increasingly rare event for me.) LaTeX's document formatting reminds me of what Henry Ford said long ago about the Model T car: "You can have it in any color you like, as long as it's black." LaTeX and, by consequence, LyX, do what the do very well, but their purpose and use is quite different from WYSIWYG document preparation. Yours, A S Hodel On Jun 19, 2006, at 3:00 PM, Peter Bowyer wrote: Hi, I am one of the people who cannot finds editing documents hard on screen - I end up printing a copy and then working through it with a pen, making changes and restructuring, and then typing the changes up. I didn't find this a problem when using Word because what was on- screen looked like the paper copy, so I didn't have to think hard about which parts matched up. However with LyX this has become much more difficult, because the printed copy and the editable copy don't look similar. Now I know that people have been writing documents this way for much longer than word processors have been around, (think of raw TeX) which suggests it's a problem with my approach. Do you have any tips or suggestions for making the editing process smoother? Thanks, Peter
Re: Centrage horizontal des figure dans lyx 1.4.2
If I understand the question correctly, you need to change the paragraph setting within the figure to be "centered" instead of "justified." On Aug 2, 2006, at 10:27 AM, THIBAULT Florent wrote: Bonjour à tous , Je suis en train de rédiger mon mémoire de thèse sous Lyx, tout se passe très bien à l'exception d'un détail : je n'arrive pas à centrer horizontalement les figures que j'insère dans les espaces « figure flottante » A part l'utilisation, lourde et génératrice d'erreurs, de deux ressorts horizontaux, je n'ai pas trouvé de solution comme dans le cas des tableaux où il suffit de cocher l'option « tableau long ». Quelqu'un pourrait il m'aider ? Merci d'avance, Florent
Re: changing Xfig figures in LyX
I use the fig2ps script (available on sourceforge) to convert xfig to eps, and then use the eps file in LyX. My makefile has entry: %.eps : %.fig @echo "Making $@ from $<" @fig2ps --forcespecial --add=epsfig --input=../../2120/notes/ 2120head.tex --bbox=dvips --eps $< rm *.tmp.* which I use to convert from .fig to .eps files. This usually gives pleasing results. A. Scottedward Hodel, 334 844-1854, fax 334 844-1809 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.eng.auburn.edu/~hodelas On Jan 31, 2007, at 12:41 PM, Philipp Fleig wrote: Hello everybody, I am not sure whether this forum is the right adress for my question, but I will give it a try anyway. I have created a number of images using Xfig, which all have labels/ text in them. Unfortunately the text does not come out very well and I would also like to include some math symbols, which Xfig cannot do anyway. Therefore I would now like to edit the latex files of the images, which I exported in Xfig. The only problem is that when I try to convert the edited latex file in LyX back to a pdf or postscript, I get lots of errors saying things like 'undefined sequence' ... I guess the problme is that I am missing some package, but I do not really know which one. Does anyone know how to fix this? Should say that I am a beginner. Thank you. Best Wishes, Philipp
LyX beta 2.0 on Mac
I had a few spare moments and decided to try the new 1.5 beta on an Intel Mac. I like the new layout; I quickly found a possible bug. I attempted to load an old LyX file that had many (in excess of 40) child documents. The beta opened all of them, and as a result I have a "document bar" composed of more than 40 document buttons, the total of which are now wider than both screens on my mac put together. I suppose that the preferable behavior would be to wrap the document "buttons" onto separate lines. I want to echo the praise for LyX given earlier. I I've used LyX in lecture and they are impressed with the quick entry of equations, promptly followed by a legible on-screen preview of the equations. It's a wonderful tool. A. Scottedward Hodel, 334 844-1854, fax 334 844-1809 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.eng.auburn.edu/~hodelas On May 18, 2007, at 9:27 AM, José Matos wrote: Public release of LyX version 1.5.0 (beta 3) === We are glad to announce the release of LyX 1.5.0 (beta 3). Compared with the previous beta release we have fixed several bugs and added some improvements, namely a new inset to support code listings. We have enabled the converter file cache by default. Internally we have renamed files to follow a consistent name pattern, this will allow an easier navigation of the source code thus simplifying bug fixing. Compared with the latest stable release, this is the culmination of one year of hard work, and we sincerely hope you will enjoy the results. The changes are too numerous to summarize in a few words, with initial unicode support being the flagship among the new features, see the end of this announcement for details. As usual with a major release, a lot of work that is not directly visible has taken place. The core of LyX has seen more cleanups and some of the new features are the direct results of this work. The file RELEASE-NOTES lists some known issues with this release compared to the latest stable release (LyX 1.4.4). An updated list of issues might later be found at http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/ReleaseNotes In case you are wondering what LyX is, here is what http://www.lyx.org/ has to say on the subject: LyX is a document processor that encourages an approach to writing based on the structure of your documents, not their appearance. It is released under a Free Software / Open Source license. LyX is for people that write and want their writing to look great, right out of the box. No more endless tinkering with formatting details, 'finger painting' font attributes or futzing around with page boundaries. You just write. In the background, Prof. Knuth's legendary TeX typesetting engine makes you look good. On screen, LyX looks like any word processor; its printed output -- or richly cross-referenced PDF, just as readily produced -- looks like nothing else. Gone are the days of industrially bland .docs, all looking similarly not-quite-right, yet coming out unpredictably different on different printer drivers. Gone are the crashes 'eating' your dissertation the evening before going to press. LyX is stable and fully featured. It is a multi-platform, fully internationalized application running natively on Unix/Linux and the Macintosh and modern Windows platforms. You can download LyX 1.5.0beta3 here (the .bz2 are compressed with bzip2, which yields smaller files): ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/lyx-1.5.0beta3.tar.gz ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/lyx-1.5.0beta3.tar.bz2 Note that due to the amount of changes no patch is provided to upgrade from version 1.4.4. Prebuilt binaries (rpms for linux distributions, Mac OS X and Windows installers) should soon be available at ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/ If you find what you think is a bug in LyX 1.5.0beta3, you may either e-mail the LyX developers' mailing list (lyx-devel @ lists.lyx.org), or open a bug report at http://bugzilla.lyx.org If you're having trouble using the new version of LyX, or have a question, first check out http://www.lyx.org/help/. If you can't find the answer there, e-mail the LyX users' list (lyx-users @ lists.lyx.org). Enjoy! The LyX team. What's new in version 1.5.0 (beta 3)? * Unicode LyX 1.5's big goal was to use unicode internally and so resolve a slew of existing problems with special characters and non-alphabetic languages. LyX 1.5 is able to output unicode (in addition to encodings current available), so that you can use LaTeX's new utf8 encoding or such brand new typesetting systems as XeTeX. Since the change to unicode touched much of the code base and some areas still need a cleanup it is very likely that some bugs related to the unicode transition still exist. Please have a look at the Known bugs in LyX 1.
Re: Drawing graphs in lyx
I'm entering this conversation late, but another way to generate graphs is with octave, a numerical package very similar to MATLAB. I've used octave to generate eps files directly, or to generate files in xfig format which can also be translated to fig so that they can be incorporated into LaTeX (i.;e., LyX) with similar fonts. A. Scottedward Hodel [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.mac.com/hodelas/tar On Apr 13, 2008, at 1:51 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote: On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 2:34 PM, Ola Vestad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is there a simpler way to do this? More specifically; is it possible to draw graphs directly in lyx? Dia [1] may suit your needs: "Dia is roughly inspired by the commercial Windows program 'Visio', though more geared towards informal diagrams for casual use. " Liviu [1] http://live.gnome.org/Dia
Preamble order and LyX layouts
I am trying to write a textbook layout file (current version is attached) that will let me set a "switch" in the preamble of my LyX file so that I can easily generate both a teacher's version (with solutions) and a student version (without homework solutions).What I've attempted to do is to put the command\def\notestype{teacher}in the Document -> Settings -> LaTeX preamblewindow of LyX. However, this seems to be loaded after the layout preamble is set. Is there a way for me to have at least a part of the layout preamble processed after the Documents -> Settings preamble? If I can do this, then I will be able to work within LyX rather than LaTeX, which I would like to do.Yours, A. Scottedward Hodel [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://homepage.mac.com/hodelas/tar
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Re: Preamble order and LyX layouts
On Apr 19, 2008, at 8:33 PM, rgheck wrote:
A. Scottedward Hodel wrote:
I am trying to write a textbook layout file (current version is
attached) that will let me set a "switch" in the preamble of my
LyX file so that I can easily generate both a teacher's version
(with solutions) and a student version (without homework solutions).
What I've attempted to do is to put the command
\def\notestype{teacher}
in the Document -> Settings -> LaTeX preamble
window of LyX. However, this seems to be loaded after the layout
preamble is set. Is there a way for me to have at least a part
of the layout preamble processed /after/ the Documents -> Settings
preamble? If I can do this, then I will be able to work within
LyX rather than LaTeX, which I would like to do.
At present, no, you can't do that, but I'm not sure why you really
need to do so. Can't you just do something like this:
\ifequal\notestype
in the environments (or commands) themselves? Then it doesn't
matter what gets loaded first. (If this isn't clear, post your
layout, and we can work on it together. All of us!!)
The other possibility is to use branches, which are designed for
precisely this sort of use.
rh
Thanks. I've tried a number of \ifthenelse environment definitions
in the LaTeX version, including the use of xcomment, but so far
nothing that works "cleanly." My current workaround (temporary) is
to just edit the layout and then reconfigure LyX when I want to
change version. Since I won't be changing edition that often, that's
fine for me, but not really appropriate for general use. I think I
may be able to isolate the "offending" commands to fall in the LyX
preamble by themselves, but I'll work on that later.
The layout file is in my original note as an attachment, but for
convenience I'm including it at the end of this email as well. (Unix
style end of lines.) I'm adding an example LyX file that shows the
use of Example and Question (homework) environments with solutions.
(For whatever reason, I want to use the same environment for each.)
I've not used branches in LyX yet; I'll look into that. Thanks!
A. Scottedward Hodel [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://homepage.mac.com/hodelas/tar
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Re: Preamble order and LyX layouts
On Apr 19, 2008, at 10:17 PM, rgheck wrote:
A. Scottedward Hodel wrote:
On Apr 19, 2008, at 8:33 PM, rgheck wrote:
A. Scottedward Hodel wrote:
I am trying to write a textbook layout file (current version is
attached) that will let me set a "switch" in the preamble of my
LyX file so that I can easily generate both a teacher's version
(with solutions) and a student version (without homework
solutions).
What I've attempted to do is to put the command
\def\notestype{teacher}
in the Document -> Settings -> LaTeX preamble
window of LyX. However, this seems to be loaded after the
layout preamble is set. Is there a way for me to have at least
a part of the layout preamble processed /after/ the Documents ->
Settings preamble? If I can do this, then I will be able to
work within LyX rather than LaTeX, which I would like to do.
At present, no, you can't do that, but I'm not sure why you
really need to do so. Can't you just do something like this:
\ifequal\notestype
in the environments (or commands) themselves? Then it doesn't
matter what gets loaded first. (If this isn't clear, post your
layout, and we can work on it together. All of us!!)
The other possibility is to use branches, which are designed for
precisely this sort of use.
rh
Thanks. I've tried a number of \ifthenelse environment
definitions in the LaTeX version, including the use of xcomment,
but so far nothing that works "cleanly." My current workaround
(temporary) is to just edit the layout and then reconfigure LyX
when I want to change version. Since I won't be changing edition
that often, that's fine for me, but not really appropriate for
general use. I think I may be able to isolate the "offending"
commands to fall in the LyX preamble by themselves, but I'll work
on that later.
I'd have to think about this for a while, but my idea was to define
a LaTeX command that either (a) just repeated its argument or (b)
basically ate its argument, and then to make the solution
environment wrap the command. But I'm not absolutely sure how to do
that. Basically, I want
\begin{solution}stuff here\end{solution}
to turn into something like:
\solutioncmd{\par\noindent{\bf Solution}stuff here}
and then we have:
\newcommand\solutioncmd{%
\ifthenelse{\equal{\notestype}{teacher}}%
{#1}{}}
So either we get
\par\noindent{\bf Solution}stuff here
or we get nothing. But I'm not sure how to do the environment
definition. Probably we need some "group" business.
Uwe, if you're reading this, do you have an idea? (Uwe is our
resident expert on the user list.)
Richard
I may just be being too picky. I was able to \def a LaTeX command
with \ifthenelse very similar to what you describe: I just wanted to
make in a \newenvironment, and these sort of commands don't seem to
mesh well with that macro. My command was
\newcommand{\questxsol}[2]{
\ifthenelse{\equal{\notestype}{teacher}}{#2}
{ \ifthenelse{\equal{\questxenv}{example}} {#2}{#1} } }
The variable \notestype determines whether this is the student or
teacher version, and the variable \questxenv indicates whether this
solution is in a worked example, a homework problem, or an exam
question. (I've been using a single LaTeX file that is \input
inside a question/example/examQuestion environment so that the
questions are modular and formatted according to how they're used.)
Suppose I use the \solutioncmd or \questxsol in LyX rather than a
\newenvironment. How do I incorporate that command into a LyX
paragraph environment, or is that cleanly possible?
A. Scottedward Hodel [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://homepage.mac.com/hodelas/tar
Re: Preamble order and LyX layouts
On Apr 20, 2008, at 11:20 AM, rgheck wrote:
A. Scottedward Hodel wrote:
I may just be being too picky. I was able to \def a LaTeX command
with \ifthenelse very similar to what you describe: I just wanted
to make in a \newenvironment, and these sort of commands don't
seem to mesh well with that macro. My command was
\newcommand{\questxsol}[2]{
\ifthenelse{\equal{\notestype}{teacher}}{#2}
{ \ifthenelse{\equal{\questxenv}{example}} {#2}{#1} } }
The variable \notestype determines whether this is the student or
teacher version, and the variable \questxenv indicates whether
this solution is in a worked example, a homework problem, or an
exam question. (I've been using a single LaTeX file that is \input
inside a question/example/examQuestion environment so that the
questions are modular and formatted according to how they're used.)
Suppose I use the \solutioncmd or \questxsol in LyX rather than a
\newenvironment. How do I incorporate that command into a LyX
paragraph environment, or is that cleanly possible?
You can define a paragraph to be of "command" type. Section
headers, for example, are like this. This just determines whether
LyX outputs:
\begin{whatever}...\end{whatever}
or instead:
\whatever{...}
That might not be the cleanest thing in the world, but it might
still work.
Richard
I'll look for examples in the other layouts and give this a try.
When I get success (optimism!), I'll post the layout and an example
to the list. Thanks!
A. Scottedward Hodel [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://homepage.mac.com/hodelas/tar
Re: Preamble order and LyX layouts
On Apr 20, 2008, at 11:30 AM, A. Scottedward Hodel wrote:
On Apr 20, 2008, at 11:20 AM, rgheck wrote:
You can define a paragraph to be of "command" type. Section
headers, for example, are like this. This just determines whether
LyX outputs:
\begin{whatever}...\end{whatever}
or instead:
\whatever{...}
That might not be the cleanest thing in the world, but it might
still work.
Richard
I'll look for examples in the other layouts and give this a try.
When I get success (optimism!), I'll post the layout and an example
to the list. Thanks!
Victory! Thanks very much for your suggestions and help!
Attached is a sample LyX file (a bit convoluted, but it shows the
features) and the layout file.
A. Scottedward Hodel [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://homepage.mac.com/hodelas/tar
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Re: Preamble order and LyX layouts
On Apr 20, 2008, at 4:28 PM, A. Scottedward Hodel wrote: Victory! Thanks very much for your suggestions and help! Attached is a sample LyX file (a bit convoluted, but it shows the features) and the layout file. A. Scottedward Hodel [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.mac.com/hodelas/tar Alas, I spoke too soon. If my solution has more than one paragraph, the Command paragraph type starts a new solution environment, i.e., I get the word "Solution" at the start of each paragraph. I'll keep plugging at it... A. Scottedward Hodel [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.mac.com/hodelas/tar myTextBook.layout Description: Binary data TextbookExample.lyx Description: Binary data
Re: Preamble order and LyX layouts
i agree that the command paragraphy type ought to have some more flexibility. However, in the interim, I've gotten less picky and have moved my environment definitions into the LyX Document settings preamble, where it's very easy to change from teacher to student, etc. For now I'll just have to remember that when I change from an Example to a homework problem that I also have to change the solution type from an environment (Answer) that is always displayed to another environment (Solution) that is conditionally displayed. Reasonable solution, and very easy to work with. (Does the software serve me or do I serve the software ... there's an interesting question of life!) Thanks for your help, RG! A. Scottedward Hodel [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.mac.com/hodelas/tar On Apr 21, 2008, at 10:45 PM, rgheck wrote: A. Scottedward Hodel wrote: On Apr 20, 2008, at 4:28 PM, A. Scottedward Hodel wrote: Victory! Thanks very much for your suggestions and help! Attached is a sample LyX file (a bit convoluted, but it shows the features) and the layout file. A. Scottedward Hodel [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.mac.com/hodelas/tar Alas, I spoke too soon. If my solution has more than one paragraph, the Command paragraph type starts a new solution environment, i.e., I get the word "Solution" at the start of each paragraph. I'll keep plugging at it... I'll have a look at this. There needs to be some kind of "multipar" option here. rh
Re: Xfig and LyX
On Jun 25, 2008, at 9:21 AM, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: Could somebody kindly point me to an understandable explanation of how to use xfig produced figures in LyX? Help file Userguide tells me to check for detailed explanation under ImbeddedObjects but there I can´t find any detailed explanation. I have quite a number of xfig produced files which are all exported as .eps files and inserted in the LyX document as floats. My aim is to have the text of my fig files in the same font and size as the text in the document. This is not the case now. Do I have to use for all my fig files the xfig -specialtext or is there a global command to do that for all files in one run? And how exactly do I get it into the document? Is it the pstex or the pstex_t file or both? Or is this done internally by LyX? With Enter (Einfuegen) File (Datei) external Material I get the fig file but the text of the pdf output is not scaled correctly (nor the fonts). Somehow I haven't caught the way of entering it. I am using version 1.5.4 of LyX Has 1.5.5 or 1.6 a feature to insert fig files directly and the rest is done by the program? Thanks a lot Wolfgang I have often used fig2ps (from sourceforge) to transform .fig files to .eps and then include the resulting eps file in LyX. (I don't remember what started me doing this; there was a problem of complexity in my figure a few years ago and this provided the solution.) It is possible to force specialtext from hte fig2ps command line. The entry in my Makefile (running X-windows on a Mac) is %.eps : %.fig @echo "Making $@ from $<" @fig2ps --forcespecial --add=epsfig \ --input=$(HOME)/aub/2120/notes/2120headf.tex \ --bbox=dvips --eps $< rm `find . -name "*.fig2ps.tmp.*" -print` A. Scottedward Hodel [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.mac.com/hodelas/tar
algorithm2e in LyX 1.5.6: algorithm already defined
I'm importing a student's PhD dissertation into LyX to use the "track
changes" function for markup. Unfortunately, there seems to be a
conflict between some LyX default behavior and the algorithm2e.sty
package:
! LaTeX Error: Command \algorithm already defined.
Or name \end... illegal, see p.192 of the manual.
I used the command line to translate LyX to LaTeX,
lyx --export latex WahbaSummary.lyx
and found the following code in the .tex file:
%% LyX specific LaTeX commands.
%% Because html converters don't know tabularnewline
\providecommand{\tabularnewline}{\\}
\floatstyle{ruled}
\newfloat{algorithm}{tbp}{loa}
\floatname{algorithm}{Algorithm}
%% User specified LaTeX commands.
If I comment out the \newfloat and \floatname commands, then the error
goes away. Is there a way to get rid of them without manually editing
the .tex file?
A. Scottedward Hodel [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://homepage.mac.com/hodelas/tar
Re: algorithm2e in LyX 1.5.6: algorithm already defined
Thanks for your suggestion. Since you CAN use algorithm2e, I know
that a solution exists.
Actually, I had the problem with 1.5.5 and then upgraded to 1.5.6. I
am guessing that there is something else in the original imported
LaTeX file that is triggering this code to be written. I'll see if I
can track it down.
Yours
ash
On Sep 24, 2008, at 4:42 AM, Nicolás wrote:
This seems to be a problem with version 1.5.6, since I have used
algorithm2e with Lyx 1.5.5 and had no problem. Since I do not have
installed v1.5.6 (don't know why :-)), I cannot say if you can do
anything to solve your problem. Take a look at Document Settings to
see if there is any option concerning algorithms. Unless anyone else
gives a solution, I suggest that you file a bug in bugzilla.lyx.org.
A possible workaround is to install v 1.5.5. I think it should be
able to coexist with your current version.
Cheers,
Nicolás
A. Scottedward Hodel wrote:
I'm importing a student's PhD dissertation into LyX to use the
"track changes" function for markup. Unfortunately, there seems to
be a conflict between some LyX default behavior and the
algorithm2e.sty package:
! LaTeX Error: Command \algorithm already defined.
Or name \end... illegal, see p.192 of the manual.
I used the command line to translate LyX to LaTeX,
lyx --export latex WahbaSummary.lyx
and found the following code in the .tex file:
%% LyX specific LaTeX commands.
%% Because html converters don't know tabularnewline
\providecommand{\tabularnewline}{\\}
\floatstyle{ruled}
\newfloat{algorithm}{tbp}{loa}
\floatname{algorithm}{Algorithm}
%% User specified LaTeX commands.
If I comment out the \newfloat and \floatname commands, then the
error goes away. Is there a way to get rid of them without
manually editing the .tex file?
A. Scottedward Hodel [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://homepage.mac.com/hodelas/tar
A. Scottedward Hodel [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://homepage.mac.com/hodelas/tar
Re: algorithm2e in LyX 1.5.6: algorithm already defined
On Sep 29, 2008, at 8:28 PM, A. Scottedward Hodel wrote:
I'm importing a student's PhD dissertation into LyX to use the
"track changes" function for markup. Unfortunately, there seems to
be a conflict between some LyX default behavior and the
algorithm2e.sty package:
! LaTeX Error: Command \algorithm already defined.
Or name \end... illegal, see p.192 of the manual.
I used the command line to translate LyX to LaTeX,
lyx --export latex WahbaSummary.lyx
and found the following code in the .tex file:
%% LyX specific LaTeX commands.
%% Because html converters don't know tabularnewline
\providecommand{\tabularnewline}{\\}
\floatstyle{ruled}
\newfloat{algorithm}{tbp}{loa}
\floatname{algorithm}{Algorithm}
%% User specified LaTeX commands.
If I comment out the \newfloat and \floatname commands, then the
error goes away. Is there a way to get rid of them without manually
editing the .tex file?
I found in the source code two files where the algorithm environment
is described in the comments:
~/Desktop/lyx-1.5.6 $ grep floatname{algorithm} `find src -type f`
src/insets/InsetFloat.cpp:// \floatname{algorithm}{Algorithm}
src/LaTeXFeatures.cpp: // \floatname{algorithm}{Algorithm}
the actual work appears to be done in the second file
(LaTeXFeatures.cpp) starting around line 834 (LaTeXFeatures function
getFloatDefinitions). I saw that this method is triggered by the
command "\listofalgorithms," so I tried commenting out that command,
but with no success.
---
After further testing, I duplicated the problem by using Insert ->
Float -> algorithm to create a float inset: in this circumstance the
code above is written. When the LaTeX code was imported, the
algorithm environment was recognized as a float, a corresponding inset
was created, and the algorithm environment was defined based on
float.sty.
I have a workaround on my machine with a Makefile, and I'll take your
advice to post a bug report.
A. Scottedward Hodel [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Re: Can you suggest a good way to draw pictures with latex code?
Under Mac OS X and Linux I've used xfig for many years. fig2dev allows direct translation to LaTeX code as either picture, epic, or eepic. On Oct 15, 2008, at 12:47 PM, Robert Orr wrote: LaTeXDraw is something else you could try --- On Wed, 10/15/08, Julio Rojas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: Julio Rojas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Can you suggest a good way to draw pictures with latex code? To: "LyX User" Date: Wednesday, October 15, 2008, 12:08 PM Inkscape. Not direct latex code, but very very good. - Julio Rojas [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 5:55 PM, Erez Yerushalmi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi All, I'm an intermediate lyx user (1.5.5, windows). So far, I draw various pictures on MS PowerPoint, convert to jpg, and finally import to my LyX document. For example, see jpg drawing I've attached. However, this is bad since Power Point is not good for math. It would also be much easier to just copy and paste my LyX/latex code into the PowerPoint presentation if possible. Can anyone suggest a good drawing program? Can Beamer do this?? I haven't used it yet (I admit). Thanks, Erez -- Erez Yerushalmi PhD Student Warwick University, UK http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/research/phds/2ndyear/yerushalmi A. Scottedward Hodel [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.mac.com/hodelas/tar
Re: missing $ inserted : what does that mean?
That's a LaTeX error. Something is odd with the way you're putting in
your equations. I often find it useful to export the LyX document as
LaTeX and then see where the error comes from there. You can also
click on the error message in list and see the line in the original
LyX document that causes the problem. Either way should give you some
insight into the problem.
On Oct 31, 2008, at 11:21 AM, Erez Yerushalmi wrote:
Dear All,
I have been working on a document for a long time.
I regularly pdf it.
I didn't do anything to it, and now suddenly screams
This happens on the first line of the document, with line as
"standard"
I'm using lyx 1.5.5 , xp.
See below the error...
It complies 1 run, and then 2nd run, and then gets stuck...
Any suggestions would be greatful
Erez
*missing $ inserted*
Beta.pdf}
.
I've inserted a begin-math/end-math symbol since I think
you left one out. Proceed, with fingers crossed.
*Extra }, or forgotten $.*
Beta.pdf}
.
I've deleted a group-closing symbol because it seems to be
spurious, as in `$x}$'. But perhaps the } is legitimate and
you forgot something else, as in `\hbox{$x}'. In such cases
the way to recover is to insert both the forgotten and the
deleted material, e.g., by typing `I$}'.
*Missing $ inserted.*
I've inserted a begin-math/end-math symbol since I think
you left one out. Proceed, with fingers crossed.
and so on...
--
Erez Yerushalmi
PhD Student
Warwick University, UK
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/research/phds/3rd_year/yerushalmi
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mac.bind/LyX-1.6
Before I say anything else: THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU to all who worked on LyX 1.6 and who ported it to Mac/fink, etc. This is a fantastic piece of software that I love to demonstrate to students and colleagues. Mac OS X 10.5 / .dmg install I had to make two changes in my mac.bind file. (I don't know if these are faults in the distributed mac.bind file, or if they were copied from my LyX-1.5 folder when I installed.) (1) In my mac.bind file for LyX 1.6 I had to make the following change: \bind "S-Right" "forward-select" \bind "S-Left" "backward-select" change to \bind "S-Right" "char-forward-select" \bind "S-Left" "char-backward-select" (2) I also had to make the change \bind "C-Return" "break-line" to \bind "C-Return""newline-insert" A. Scottedward Hodel, 334 844-1854, fax 334 844-1809 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.eng.auburn.edu/~hodelas
Re: underlining in a matrix
On Nov 25, 2008, at 7:34 AM, Robert Neumann wrote:
Hello,
I'm looking vor a way to unterline one line of a matrix.
I use the matrix for an equation and the last line should be
underlined.
\underline works only for the single entries but not for the whole
line
(Lyx 13.7 on SuSE Linux)
Thanks
Robert
This macro gives both a vertical line and a horizontal for an entire
matrix. It's crude, but it works. You should be able to do something
similar. It may require ERT, I haven't tried setting up array
formatting in LyX yet.
\newcommand{\system}[4]{ \mbox{$\displaystyle \left[
\begin{array}{c|c} {#1} & {#2} \\ \hline {#3} & {#4} \\
\end{array} \right]$} }
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Re: Feature request: Insert->TODO
I use margin notes for this purpose. The string (TODO in your case) is easily searchable to find the next item. Sent from my iPhone On Dec 6, 2008, at 1:56 PM, Manoj Rajagopalan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all, It would be nice to have an insert action where we insert a TODO item. Right now I am managing with Insert->Note->Lyx Note but there is no way to view just the TODO notes in the outline list-box. I am using LyX v1.6.0 One hack to get this working now would be start each TODO note with a "TODO" string and then to use the sort option on the outline listing. The suggested feature would however be a cleaner document management provision. Thanks, Manoj
