Re: Exporting to ODF or MS Office ignores any bibliography styles
From: Scott Kostyshak To: Nikola Ivan Leder Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Tuesday, 14 June 2016, 7:01 Subject: Re: Exporting to ODF or MS Office ignores any bibliography styles On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 08:52:33PM +, Nikola Ivan Leder wrote: > I am using Lyx to write my thesis and have run into several problems with > exporting regarding references. > > I need are numerical references in numbered by order of appearance in the > text (not sorted alphabetically) with vancouver style. > > I set this up with natbib and bibtex8 with vancouver style. > The export to PDF or DVI via luatex gets me a perfect document, everything > else gives me alphabetically ordered references, completely ignoring any > changes I make to document/settings/bibliography. > > My bibliography is in .bib made with Jabref. > > > I need export to word or ODF so I can copy/paste certain parts of the text > to various web forms and such... as well as for correspondence with my > mentor etc.. > > Is there any way to "fix" the export function? > If I just select all text in the PDF and paste it in a text processor, > there is a lot of manual work to get it to look proper. > > thank you in advance! > > P.S. tried this in Linux and Windows, behavior is exactly the same > You need to read the pandoc user guide, which should be installed with pandoc, or is easily findable with a search. LyX is not set up to produce bibliographies and references with pandoc. Rather, there are specific ways that the references and bibliography have to be set up, which means that you need to find and use the appropriate pandoc options. I've only just commenced looking at this, so I cannot help with detail, except to say 1. tex4ht may not be under the most active development, but it continues to produce good output for me with citations and bibliography. 2. It seems the easiest way to use pandoc for citations and references (until you work out how to modify the LyX command---under preferences>output--- to get what you want) is to save as a LaTeX file and run pandoc on the command line. Bruce
styles for medicine, patient records..
does anyone know if there are existing classes which suit the medical profession for things such as patient records and laboratory reports? Or, is there something which could easily be modified? Or, where would I begin designing something like that myself? thanks in advance Bruce
memoir ToC
Hi folks I am using Lyx 1.4.2 on Ubuntu Dapper. When I try and insert a table of contents into the file, and view a DVI or export, I get the following error: \tableofcontents* A number should have been here; I inserted `0'. (If you can't figure out why I needed to see a number, look up `weird error' in the index to The TeXbook.) and \tableofcontents* Dimensions can be in units of em, ex, in, pt, pc, cm, mm, dd, cc, bp, or sp; but yours is a new one! I'll assume that you meant to say pt, for printer's points. To recover gracefully from this error, it's best to delete the erroneous units; e.g., type `2' to delete two letters. (See Chapter 27 of The TeXbook.) In terms of understanding the TeXbook, I am rather slow :-0 and simply have not been able to work out what is needed to fix the problem. Is this a lyx bug? And what can I do, if anything, to get a ToC in my document. Cheers Bruce
Re: Fwd: lyx1.4.2 in kubuntu
On Tue, 2006-08-01 at 11:58 +0200, Christopher Winkler wrote: > Is anything wrong with my compile command: > ./configure --with-frontend=qt --with-qt-dir=/usr/lib > --with-version-suffix=-1.4.2 > --with-qt-dir=/usr/lib/qt3 that did it for me, anyway! Cheers Bruce > ?? > Russel: Can you send me your compile command? > > Thank you for further help - it cost me hours and now I want to see the damn > thing RUNNING!! :-) > > christopher
user defined headers
hi I need to define my own headers for a few documents (very small documents!), but have been unable to work out how to do this. I know I need to use fancyhdr, which is as simple as choosing myheadings in document settings, but I have to admit that I have no idea of show to actually tell lyx what I want in the header! Unfortunately, I am relatively tex/latex ignorant, so a lot of the apparently relevant documentation is uninformative for me. In these instances I need to have my name and address in the top left hand corner. (I can kludge this, I know, for one page documents, but works of more than one page would be very difficult to do.) In other instances I need to have my name in the top left hand corner, the page number centred, and the title of the document in the right hand corner. Is there some easy way to achieve these two results? thanks in advance Bruce
Re: Background images
Roy, thank you, that does exactly what I want except that nothing is simple. For some reason putting the background image in empties the TOC in the exported PDF. I tried ps2pdf , pdflatex and dvipdfm. The only one which failed t work at all was pdflatex (it claimed not to recognise the graphics file). Both ps2pdf and dvipdfm dropped the TOC. I am using 1.4 on ubuntu. Is this likely to be a glitch in 1.4? Or something else? (I will try it in 1.3.7 tomorrow!) thanks again, and any further advice would be appreciated. Cheers Bruce On Fri, 2006-03-24 at 11:06 +, Roy Schestowitz wrote: > ___/ On Fri 24 Mar 2006 04:52:58 GMT, [ Bruce Muirhead ] wrote : \___ > > > I am interested to know if it is possible to create a document (PDF) in > > which there is a background image. That is, the text appears over a > > background image which may -or may not- cover the entrire page. > > > > I am thinking about the type of ebook created by such windows programmes > > such as exebook and ybookmaker. > > > > If this is possible, how would I go about doing it? > > > > Bruce > > Hi, > > Add the following to the Preamble: > > \usepackage{eso-pic,graphicx} > \newcommand\BackgroundPicture[2]{% >\setlength{\unitlength}{1pt}% default >\put(0,[EMAIL PROTECTED]){% > \parbox[t][\paperheight]{\paperwidth}{% >\vfill >\centering\includegraphics[angle=#2]{#1} >\vfill > }}} > \makeatother > \AddToShipoutPicture{\BackgroundPicture{}{0}} > > Put your image in ("replace it with" rather). Encapsulated > PostScript should do. If you want a practical example (LyX file), please > just let me know. I use this for presentation slides in LyX. > > Hope it helps, > > Roy >
Background images
I am interested to know if it is possible to create a document (PDF) in which there is a background image. That is, the text appears over a background image which may -or may not- cover the entrire page. I am thinking about the type of ebook created by such windows programmes such as exebook and ybookmaker. If this is possible, how would I go about doing it? Bruce
Re: Book cover in LyX file
You also can use pdftk. It is a command line utility, but very powerfula and easy to use. What is needed is to create the cover and extra pages in a separate programme as a pdf, and then joing th e two pdf files using pdftk. see http://www.accesspdf.com/index.php?topic=pdftk It is my preferred tool for that type of thing because it is easy and lets me design the cover and frontispiece however I want. Cheers Bruce - Original Message - From: "Jose' Matos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, March 24, 2006 7:39 AM Subject: Re: Book cover in LyX file On Thursday 23 March 2006 21:03, Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, I'm making my first Ebook, and want to have the front cover be part of the final PDF file. That means it, and a following blank page, has to come before the title page. I'd like the cover page to be a graphic. How do I do this? pdfpages? http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/pdfpages.html I remember this advice from Herbert's previous answers to similar questions. Notice that I could remember wrong. :-) http://tug.org/PSTricks/main.cgi?file=pdf/pdf#a5 Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Author: * Universal Troubleshooting Process courseware * Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist * Rapid Learning: Secret Weapon of the Successful Technologist Webmaster * Troubleshooters.Com * http://www.troubleshooters.com -- José Abílio -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.3.0/290 - Release Date: 23/03/2006
Re: spell check
Yes, that seems to be the bug. thanks On Sat, 2006-03-11 at 01:15 -0800, Stephen Harris wrote: > "Bruce Muirhead" wrote in > message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > hi folks. I have installed 1.4 on ubuntu. When I attempt to run spell > > checking the spell check box pops up for a second (less) and then > > disappears. It tells me the number of words checked, but does not in > > fact check them or offer me alternatives. > > > > Does anyone have any idea what is going on? is there anything i can do > > to fix this problem? > > thanks in advance > > > > bruce > > > > I think this bug may be #2218, you can read comments at > http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2218 > > I think spellchecking from the shell might work. > Save the file and type aspell -c foo.lyx at the command line. > > It would find all the various preamble misspellings but if > you add them, eventually you will just have your words > in the document spellchecked. > > Regards, > Stephen > > >
spell check
hi folks. I have installed 1.4 on ubuntu. When I attempt to run spell checking the spell check box pops up for a second (less) and then disappears. It tells me the number of words checked, but does not in fact check them or offer me alternatives. Does anyone have any idea what is going on? is there anything i can do to fix this problem? thanks in advance bruce
Re: lyx-1-4.0 install problem
Hi, i am using ubuntu 5.10 and i have the same problem installing with qt: on ./configure with appropriate options I am told that qt cannot be found. When I installed 1.4Pre3 I had no problems. What can I do about this? bruce On Thu, 2006-03-09 at 22:27 +0530, Subir Singh Lamba wrote: > > Hi, > > I am using tar file and compiling with the following command > > ./configure --with-frontend=xforms > > Before this I have installed > > libforms-1.0-release > > I get the following message at the end of ./configure. I am using > mandrake10.1. > -- > Configuration > Host type: i686-pc-linux-gnu > Special build flags:compression pch jpeg-image-loader > use-ispell > C Compiler: gcc > C Compiler LyX flags: > C Compiler flags: -I/usr/X11R6/include -O2 > C++ Compiler: g++ (3.4.1) > C++ Compiler LyX flags: -fno-exceptions > C++ Compiler flags: -I/usr/X11R6/include -O2 > Linker flags: > Linker user flags: > XForms Frontend: > libXpm version: 4.11 > libforms version: > Packaging: posix > LyX binary dir: /usr/local/bin > LyX files dir: /usr/local/share/lyx > > The following problems have been detected by configure. > Please check the messages below before running 'make'. > (see the section 'Problems' in the INSTALL file) > > ** Cannot find libforms or libxforms. Please check that the xforms library >is correctly installed on your system. > > ** Cannot find forms.h. Please check that the forms library >is correctly installed on your system. > - > > What cud be the problem? > > Thanks > > Subir >
Re: Editors for LaTeX-files with syntax highlighting
Hi folks, I come from a purely humanities background, and the interesting thing about what has been said here is that, the more I use lyx, the more I realise that I need to know tex/latex. For that reason I am now patiently going through beginners latex books, using gedit- I am not yet ready to face emacs+auctex. (I use emacs only for the most basic of editing when X won't behave and I need to use a console to fix it). This list and the issues discussed on it have brought me to the realisation that I actually need to learn latex in order to make the best use of lyx. Per haps I may eventually cease using lyx, but I doubt it: lyx has replaced all "normal" word processors in my life: the quality of it's output on the printed page, and in other formats, is infinitely superior to any other writing tool I have used. Knowing latex more deeply can only improve my use of it. :-) Generally, a big thank you to everyone on this list, because just reading through your comments is an invaluable learning experience for me. And, of course, to the lyx developers, latex authors, Donald Knuth,and is there anyone I have forgotten? (Of course there is!) Cheers Bruce On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 09:27 +, Eric S Fraga wrote: > On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 09:51:26AM -0500, Dimitrios Diamantaras wrote: > > [...] In fact I am liking the > > Emacs-AUCTeX-preview-latex combination so much that I have been working > > on it exclusively lately, even though about a year ago I thought I would > > never need anything but Lyx (I am a LaTeX user for many years, though, > > and know quite a few of the commands I need---Lyx is perfect for those > > who don't). > > Thanks for saying this. I had been feeling, in a funny kind of way, guilty > because I've also been using Emacs et al. almost exclusively for a while now > despite being a long time LyX user (but a longer time LaTeX user, I must > admit). What's done it for me, at the moment, is reftex which provides an > easier interface to references for somebody like me that does not like using > the mouse. > > But I still think LyX is absolutely fantastic and it's my first port-of-call > when I can't remember how to do something in LaTeX!! > > cheers, > eric