spacing before and after enumerate and other list environments
Hello, could anybody, please, point me to a resource with information how to set the spacing *before* and *after* list environments? The only references I found on the mailing list and on the Internet discuss the spacing between the items of a list. I was trying to change the distance by looking at parameters of the paragraphs surrounding the list environment but both have zero spacing below and above... Thank you! David
Re: creating tables with custom alignment of individual cells
Funny, I just solved the problem by accident and confirmed it by looking on the Internet: 1) the multicolumn option has another meaning, in addition to the meaning implied by its name: the allows *custom* alignment of a cell 2) multicolumn + dcolumn can be combined to solve problem 3) in my original email. I still welcome any commnents & hints & tips about using tables in LyX! Thank you, David 1) is it possible to have a table with individual cells within a column aligned differently? 2) while 1) may sound strange, I'd like to have, for example, a column with numbers centered while the header of the column is aligned, say, flushed left. 3) another practical, related, problem is the decimal-aligned columns created using the dcolumn package. When I use the d{} alignment for a column (bless Extended Features manual :), the numbers withing the column are indeed aligned on the "." but the header text of the column is in italics font (easily fixable, yet awkward, with \textrm{}) and it is aligned so that the last letter is right aligned with the decimal point of the rest of the column. I would like to have the numbers aligned on the decimal point, while the header text being, say, centered.
creating tables with custom alignment of individual cells
Hello, I am still consistently working on my thesis, spreading the awarness of LyX's greatness along the way... :) yet I've run into another little problem that I was unable to solve easily with at-hands documentation. I am trying to report some data in tables and I have come across the following obstacles that I don't know how to solve: 1) is it possible to have a table with individual cells within a column aligned differently? 2) while 1) may sound strange, I'd like to have, for example, a column with numbers centered while the header of the column is aligned, say, flushed left. 3) another practical, related, problem is the decimal-aligned columns created using the dcolumn package. When I use the d{} alignment for a column (bless Extended Features manual :), the numbers withing the column are indeed aligned on the "." but the header text of the column is in italics font (easily fixable, yet awkward, with \textrm{}) and it is aligned so that the last letter is right aligned with the decimal point of the rest of the column. I would like to have the numbers aligned on the decimal point, while the header text being, say, centered. Is this possible at all? I realize I could perhaps solve 1) & 2) with another nested table (an HTML hell :) but I'm not so sure with 3). Thanks for any hints & pointer! Happy Thanksgiving! David
Re: Question about subscripts to limits (inline mode)
Dimitris B. Kalamaras wrote: Hello all, I wonder if there is a way to have subscripts to limits (in inline mode) written beneath the lim word rather than next to it. I cannot use display mode all the time. I know that LaTeX can do it i.e. $\lim\limits_{x\rightarrow 0}\frac{\sin{x}}{x}=1$ Any idea? You can also change them from the gui. Go to Edit/Math/Change Limits type... D.
Re: Beamer Class under WinLyx
Christian Fischer wrote: Hi, i'm using lyx for windows and miktex. My problem is, that i installed the beamer document class with the miktex package manager (so this is done correctly, i checked the directories), updated the database and reconfigured lyx, but it still won't find the class. Any ideas for me? Thx Christian Hello Christian, you still need to add the layout document for LyX, i.e. the document telling LyX how to represent the Beamer document in the editor. In order for do this in Linux, you simply copy (or link) the file "beamer.layout" supplied by the Beamer's author to your profile directory in ~/.lyx/layout. I believe you should achieve the same result under Windows without any hassle. Here is a quick link for the file, if you do not find it in our MikTeX installation. http://www.tug.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/beamer/lyx/layouts/beamer.layout Good luck, David
Re: centre a graphic
Philipp Fleig wrote: Hello, I am a rather new LyX-User and I have got a quick and easy question. How can I "centre" a graphic (in jpeg format) on the page of a document of class Article? Thank you for your help! Regards, Philipp If the image is in a floating environment, you can also use the LaTeX command \centering (entered in an ERT box)... This has the advantage of saving a litlle bit of vertical space. David
Re: do we have something like #ifdef from C in LyX? (multipart documentswith common macros)
Todd Denniston wrote: Todd Denniston wrote: David Soukal wrote: Hello guys, I'm sorry to bother you with something that's must have been answered many times, but I can't find a quick answer in the documentation. The chapters compile fine, however, the master won't compile because of multiple definition of the same macros. So, I'm looking for conditional compilation... something from C header files.. perhaps the ifthen package would do what you need: http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg40105.html http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg41939.html perhaps in your macro "include" file you could have something like: \usepackage{ifthen} \newboolean{macrosAlreadyIncluded} % assuming newboolean initially sets the % variable to false, but only if % variable not already defined. Just happend across: http://www.ifi.uio.no/it/latex-links/ifthen.pdf which suggests the \newboolean above should be instead \provideboolean. Based on your email, I created and tested the following set-up for multipart documents with shared macros: 1) all macros go into file "macros.lyx". the macros are "wrapped" in the following two ERT boxes that test whether the macros were already defined first ERT box (the if statement): \provideboolean{MacrosDefined} \ifthenelse{\not \boolean{MacrosDefined}}{ \setboolean{MacrosDefined}{true} then follow, in plain LyX, the definitions of macros second ERT box (closing): }{} 2) every file needing those macros will include the file "macros.lyx" and define the package ifthen in the preamble. Very sexy, simple and clean! THANK YOU Todd! David
Re: do we have something like #ifdef from C in LyX? (multipart documents with common macros)
Depends - are these plain latex macros, or "lyx macros" ? For latex macros this is trivial. Define them in the preamble! That works well, because in the multi-document include case, only the preamble from the master document is used. So the chapter document's preamble is only used when the chapter document is compiled alone. Nothing gets doubly defined - this always works. If you meant -"lyx macros" - then I don't know. Few people use them. Helge Hafting I was talking about LyX macros. I realize that they are basically a synonym for LaTeX' \newcommand, but having them in text seemed more user-friendly. The other thing is that having to have all the commands in all preambles is problematic because every change to the definition of a macro somewhere has to be propagated everywhere else. But for the time being it's a great solution! (I have only a handful of definitions.) THANKS! David
do we have something like #ifdef from C in LyX? (multipart documents with common macros)
Hello guys, I'm sorry to bother you with something that's must have been answered many times, but I can't find a quick answer in the documentation. I've just discovered the beauty of multipart documents. But I almost instantly ran into problems. What happens is the following. I have a big document (thesis :)) with a lot of math-macro commands defined at the very beginning. After my recent casual browsing through the documentation I rediscovered that I can have my long document split into parts. Happily, I divideded my thesis into files: each chapter now has its own file. The problem is how to share the macros defined originally once at the top of the long document. I created one more file containing only the macros and then I "inputted" it into each of the files with the individual chapters. The chapters compile fine, however, the master won't compile because of multiple definition of the same macros. So, I'm looking for conditional compilation... something from C header files.. Or is there something more elegant that I'm not seeing? THANK YOU! David
Re: tables with split cells: formatting tables for joint distribution
I would try it with pstricks (\usepackage{pstricks}), a tool which can does everything ! You will have to create the contnet of the cell "by hand" Zum Beispiel : \pspicture(0,0)(2,2) \psline(0,2)(2,0) \rput(1.,1.5){$Y$} \rput(0.5,0.5){$X$} \endpspicture Of course, this is not "as simple as ExcelTM" but the real power of TeX is here ! Phil Thank you! The example you gave didn't work but I'll have a look at PSTricks closely. I've read here, on this list, that PSTricks doesn't work with pdfLaTeX, right? Thanks! David
Re: Poor men's scientific workplace.
I think the original problem (apart from installation) was that there are things people expect to work and they simply don't. Tweaking appearance is not one of these. For majority of journals/conferences there are already layouts... As for department-specific thesis requirements, that's different, but at the time one is finished writing the thesis, she/he won't have a problem to adjust the few things. But the original problem was something different: LyX allowed the user to insert something that he shouldn't have been allowed to. Well this is clearly a bug, but I understand how it happend. People who know LaTeX simply know that \times is a Math operator/symbol... What can we do? Should be assume and say somewhere that there are problems like these (and there'll alway be!!) or should we ask the developers to disallow such things? I don't have a solution. If the user is allowed to make these mistakes then she/he might be scared away. This particular thing with \times is obvious... But it happened to me when I was starting that I'd insert something delete it, changed environment (align/gather) and for some reason LyX would compile and I wouldn't *SEE* what might be wrong. But deleting the formula and rewriting it would help and eventually I'd realize what went wrong... (For example I type the "flexible" brackets/parentheses by typying \left and \right in LyX, but LyX won't parse display them correctly.. but if I deleted either of the parentheses, I'd be in trouble.) On the other hand, asking the developers to take care of these thing's not feasible. There are simply too many of these. Especially when users start using AMS capabilities which LyX sometimes understands, but sometimes it doesn't...) or Beamer or others... I guess we should ephasize the relationship of LaTeX to LyX (or vice versa) and ask developers to take care of the VERY *basic* and *most* frequently happening "inconsistencies." LyX simply isn't unrelated to LaTeX and that's a good thing! Good luck! David ps. The reaction of your advisor (saying LyX is a poor man's Scientific Worksplace) is really making me furious... I had similar episode with my advisor... People should APPRECIATE the hard work of the developers and be happy. LyX does what it promises to do and it does it, at least for me, absolutely the BEST! LyX's files are compact, they always work and are editable. Also LyX is lightning-fast and extremelly robust. I never lost anything and I could always open my files and be happy about their contents. So, thank you guys who spend time helping LyX grow!
tables with split cells: formatting tables for joint distribution
Hello, I wanted to seek out your advice about the best way to display tables of joint probability distributions in LyX (LaTeX). Say I want to describe the standard experiment of flipping two coins, so I need a table 2 x 2 for the joint distribution. My problem is the following: on a blackboard I would create a 3 x 3 table as follows X\Y | H | T H | a | b T | c | d my goal is to format the *very first cell* in LyX as I would on the blackboard: that is as a "split cell" with a diagonal line (in fact the "other" diagonal) dividing the cell into two halves, with the usual meaning the the contents of the left-lower half denotes the rows and the right-upper half denotes the columns. I'm certain this must have been solved but I don't immediatelly see how. Thanks for any pointers/hints. David
Re: Poor men's scientific workplace.
I get his first complain against lyx today: "The lyx file is corrupted after I edit your formula, I hope that you can open this file...". The real problem, as I later found out, is that he accidentally inserted a math symbol \times in a \textrm box, a problem I had asked for a thorough solution many times in this list. This is http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1527 [snip complaints] This is all true. The big problem is that the proper solution (i. e. make text in mathed behave like normal text) requires non-trivial code and file format changes. Therefore this bug will not be fixed for 1.4.0. Georg There is definitelly a learning curve with LyX. I have seen it with my advisor. People who haven't been exposed to LaTeX very often complain and find many things in LyX "illogical." But then again, I'm glad that LyX won't shield me from LaTeX altogether... I don't believe it is possible to translate LaTeX's functionality completely into LyX without making somebody suffer. People will eventually want to use some package unsupported by LyX or do some kind of customization and then they will simply have to learn LaTeX. A good example is Beamer, which is a beautiful thing and it works great in LyX but sometimes you need to insert ERT or be careful about nesting in order to get what you need. But the mistake you describe -- inserting \times into \textrm field -- is most unfortunate. This really could discourage people unless they have somebody with LaTeX experience at hand. And that would be shame since LyX *is* extremelly robust (nothing I've ever seen before). I was thinking it would be nice to write a short document explaining these intricate details brought over from LaTeX to people who do not have the background... I realize that there's the Tutorial and User's Guide, but these are too long for most people. (But on the other hand it's their arrogance to assume you can use something as complex as LyX/LaTeX without ever learning about the underlying philosophy.) Good luck! David
Re: Export setup
I cannot address the configurability issue, but I've always used pdflatex and it's worked flawlessly. If I have PSTricks images in the document, then I use PDF4 instead of pdflatex. Try these and see if you like the results. Rich What do you mean by PDF4? Do you mean ps2pdf14? Thanks, David
Export setup
Hello, a most peculiar thing happened to me: I have always been creating PDF versions of my documents by clicking the first Export/PDF option in the File menu. But now, this does not work as it used to. Well, I do get the PDF but its content is different, namely, PSFrag replacements do not work. I never actually paid attention as to which PDF exporter I'm using; I simply clicked the first one (the "it works" approach). :) The first in the menu now is: dvipdfm. The third is ps2pdf, which works as expected. My question is: is the Export menu fully user-configurable? If so, where are the items specified? Can I add my own export chain? I played with LyX 1.4 CVS recently, is it possible that this new version affected the Export menu of version 1.3? Thanks for any hints, David
Re: non-LyX question: Beamer enumerate
I've attached a modified version of the test file. Is this what you want? There may be a better way to do this via Beamer customizations. I just located the code Beamer uses to typeset the enumeration numbers and made an ugly kludge that does two numbers. Note the new command added to the preamble, and the call to \kludge in the optional argument to the enumeration. Paul Thank you very much! That's exactly what I wanted to achieve!! ps. I'm very sorry for abusing this list! Thank you for putting up with me! No worries, we all do it. Or at least I do. :-) Thanks!
Re: non-LyX question: Beamer enumerate
Without knowing what Beamer theme you're using, it's hard to know what the enumerations should look like. Can you post a LyX file containing a minimal example? > There it is! The reason why I want this "configuration" is that the three properties are proved on previous slides one by one (each proof being slightly different). However, it is useful to interpret Prop. 2 and Prop 3. together :) Thank you very much for any hint! David ps. I'm very sorry for abusing this list! Thank you for putting up with me! #LyX 1.3 created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/ \lyxformat 221 \textclass beamer \begin_preamble \usetheme{Madrid} \useinnertheme{rectangles} \end_preamble \language english \inputencoding auto \fontscheme default \graphics default \paperfontsize default \spacing single \papersize Custom \paperpackage a4 \use_geometry 1 \use_amsmath 1 \use_natbib 0 \use_numerical_citations 0 \paperorientation portrait \paperwidth 128mm \paperheight 96mm \secnumdepth 3 \tocdepth 3 \paragraph_separation skip \defskip medskip \quotes_language english \quotes_times 2 \papercolumns 1 \papersides 1 \paperpagestyle default \layout Title Test \layout Author David \layout Institute @ Home \layout Date September 26, 2005 \layout BeginFrame Typical Sequences \layout FrameSubtitle Interpretation of Properties \layout Block \begin_inset ERT status Inlined \layout Standard {Properties of Typical Set} \end_inset \begin_deeper \layout Enumerate \begin_inset Formula $\Pr(A_{\epsilon}^{(n)})>1-\epsilon$ \end_inset for \begin_inset Formula $n$ \end_inset sufficiently large. \layout Enumerate \begin_inset Formula $|A_{\epsilon}^{(n)}|\leq2^{n(H(X)+\epsilon)}$ \end_inset . \layout Enumerate \begin_inset Formula $|A_{\epsilon}^{(n)}|\ge(1-\epsilon)2^{n(H(X)-\epsilon)}$ \end_inset , for \begin_inset Formula $n$ \end_inset sufficiently large. \end_deeper \layout Separator \layout Block \begin_inset ERT status Inlined \layout Standard {Interpretation} \end_inset \begin_deeper \layout Enumerate Almost \emph on any \emph default sequence is typical. \layout Enumerate \SpecialChar ~ \layout Enumerate The typical set is \emph on small. \emph default The number of all sequences is \begin_inset Formula $|\mathcal{X}|^{n}$ \end_inset while there are only \begin_inset Formula $\approx2^{nH(X)}$ \end_inset typical sequences. \end_deeper \layout Standard [My goal: to have 2 and 3 on the same line, aligned flush-right with respect to 1.] \layout EndFrame \the_end
Re: non-LyX question: Beamer enumerate
The package enumitem, David, may be of some help. Have a look at the examples in its documentation. Paul Thank you Paul. I had a look at the package and it looks useful. However, I wasn't able to figure out what I should put as "label="... I have no idea how Beamer creates the graphics around the items... I'm again sorry to bring this thing up here. David
non-LyX question: Beamer enumerate
Hello dear LyXers, I'm sorry to bring up this question here, but I didn't get any response on the Beamer support site... I figured somebody here might have had this problem before me. In a theorem a I have an enumeration of three properties: \item Prop. 1 \item Prop. 2 \item Prop. 3 Later on the slide, I'd like to provide an intuitive meaning for the properties. So I created another enumeration. However, I'd like to describe Prop 2 and Prop 3 in one step. So, I'd like to customize the second listing as \item Explanation of Prop 1. \item[2., 3.] Explanation of Prop 2. and Prop .3 This works, however it disturbs the graphical represetation of the enumeration: the second item does not have a background... Of course, I'd like to render the number 2. and 3. in squares so that they are consistent with the rest of the presentation. I wasn't able to figure this out... Thank you for your help, David
Re: how to insert optional arguments?
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: "David" == David Soukal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: David> Hello, I started to write a presentation in LyX using the David> Beamer document class. Everythings seems to be working perfect. David> Only, I wasn't able to figure out how to insert an optional David> argument for some of the environments (like Date). When I open David> the LyX demo files that came with Beamer, most of them have the David> optional arguments but I am unable to create them in my David> presentation. The optional arguments look like ERT boxes except David> their tab says "opt"... David> So far I managed by copying the opt-boxes from the demo file David> but I was wondering how they were inserted in the demos. Use Insert>Short Title. I know the name is not very helpful, but we have not been able to come up with something better. JMarc Thank you for help guys! I got everything looking as needed. I have one more question regarind the OPT boxes. I don't know whether it's a bug or whether I missed something, but I cannot insert the OPT box for environments where it should be possible. For example, the author of Beamer recommends to enter an optional argument "fragile" for the frame environment in situations when the frame contains verbatim text. I didn't manage to get OPT for the BeginFrame environment in LyX. I tried a trick with an ERT box with [fragile], set right at the beginning of the frame. But it won't work because it creates LaTeX code \lyxframe{[fragile]...} This is not really a big deal because everythings works OK without any parameters.. but I'd like to be ready :) Thank you again, Daivd
how to insert optional arguments?
Hello, I started to write a presentation in LyX using the Beamer document class. Everythings seems to be working perfect. Only, I wasn't able to figure out how to insert an optional argument for some of the environments (like Date). When I open the LyX demo files that came with Beamer, most of them have the optional arguments but I am unable to create them in my presentation. The optional arguments look like ERT boxes except their tab says "opt"... So far I managed by copying the opt-boxes from the demo file but I was wondering how they were inserted in the demos. Thank you for your help, David
escaping from MathEd in LyX 1.4
Hello, I've been playing with LyX 1.4 for a while and it works great! The amount of work obviously put into it is incredible. Thank you guys!! Despite the undeniable improvements, I noticed something a little bit annoying (hindering my quick typing :). I used to exit the MathEd by hitting ESC, upon which the cursor would be placed directly after the math box. I learned to use this over hitting the space key. (One space would be needed to quit a fraction, another to quit MathEd and yet another to type a space after the math. Other times, two spaces would do...) For some unknown reason, ESC now places the cursor *before* the math box. I find it a bit illogical since I don't see a reason why the cursor should be placed before something I just typed. Also, the cursor in MathEd seems to be working oddly. For example, after typying \frac, I get the fraction; however the cursor is placed *after* the fraction as opposed to the numerator. Is this behavior customizable? Is it an error or a feature? :) Thanks, David
Re: CVS access down?
However, later I ran into the following two problems: 1) tex2lyx won't compile, if fails with the following error counters.o(.text+0x1090): In function `Counters::enumLabel(std::basic_string , std::allocator > const&, Buffer const&)': /home/david/temp/lyx/lyx-devel/src/tex2lyx/counters.C:336: undefined reference to `Buffer::B_(std:: basic_string, std::allocator > const&) const' 2) I configured lyx with --prefix=/home/david/temp/lyx-install to have LyX installed in my local working directory, but when I tried to run LyX, I got this error: Unable to determine the system directory having searched /home/david/temp/lyx-install/share/lyx/ Try the '-sysdir' command line parameter or set the environment variable LYX_DIR_14x to the LyX system directory containing the file `chkconfig.ltx'. I suppose 1) and 2) are not related. So 2) is really a problem (since I'm writing my thesis from scratch). I did install LyX this way some months ago (version 1.4.0) and it did work. I was mistaken, the problem 1) is not a failure in tex2lyx, I disables tex2lyx from configure.ac and rerun everything but the problem is still there. The very same error (undefined reference to Buffer::B_) causes the rest of the compilation to fail. First I thought the problem was localized to tex2lyx and thought that LyX compiled just fine... Now it seems that 1) and 2) are related. David
Re: CVS access down?
CVSROOT=pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/cvs/lyx export CVSROOT cvs login (the password is lyx) cvs checkout -d your_dir_name lyx-devel Thank you Angus, this works perfect! I have the sources now! However, later I ran into the following two problems: 1) tex2lyx won't compile, if fails with the following error counters.o(.text+0x1090): In function `Counters::enumLabel(std::basic_string , std::allocator > const&, Buffer const&)': /home/david/temp/lyx/lyx-devel/src/tex2lyx/counters.C:336: undefined reference to `Buffer::B_(std:: basic_string, std::allocator > const&) const' 2) I configured lyx with --prefix=/home/david/temp/lyx-install to have LyX installed in my local working directory, but when I tried to run LyX, I got this error: Unable to determine the system directory having searched /home/david/temp/lyx-install/share/lyx/ Try the '-sysdir' command line parameter or set the environment variable LYX_DIR_14x to the LyX system directory containing the file `chkconfig.ltx'. I suppose 1) and 2) are not related. So 2) is really a problem (since I'm writing my thesis from scratch). I did install LyX this way some months ago (version 1.4.0) and it did work. Thank you for any suggestions, David
Re: CVS access down?
Are you using the anoncvs.us.lyx.org mirror of the cvs repository? If so, then the directory has indeed changed, as described here: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.devel/47733 Please change all references of /cvs to /var/cvs when referring to cvs.sylvan.com (AKA anoncvs.us.lyx.org). It's been some time since I last used CVS version of LyX so I don't remember which mirror I used, but I followed the instructions described on the "main" LyX.org site. I don't remember the cvs command, so I tried to click on "Details can be found here" on the Download page at LyX.org. However I always get a timeout. I've read the thread but I still cannot figure out the whole cvs command. Could you, please, write it down for me? I'm sorry, I don't have that much experience with CVS so it's hard for me to derive the command + paths... We're using LyX 1.3.6 for our publications needs :) But I thought I'd give 1.4 a try for my thesis... Thank you for your help, David
CVS access down?
Hello everybody, I've been trying to download LyX from the CVS without any success for several day now. Can somebody, please, confirm that the server is unaccessible? Or is the problem on our side? I don't remember the cvs command, so I tried to click on "Details can be found here" on the Download page at LyX.org. However I always get a timeout. Our internet connection has been acting strangely lately, so I assume the problem is here... Thanks, David
confusion: interword spacing vs. unbreakble space
Hello all, I'm very confused about how to properly create an interword space. In LaTeX the standard way is to use "\ " for an interword space and \@ for the end-of-sentence spacing after punctuation. I was used to typing bla, e.g.\ bla to get the proper spacing (i.e. interword spacing). However in the LyX manual, the recommended way to do this is to use the protected space, i.e. ~. But this is not really the same thing, is it? If understand correctly "e.g.~bla" won't get broken at the end of a line as it should, right? Could somebody, please, explain how to do this correctly? Thank you, David
Re: how to share BibTeX references across platforms
Paul A. Rubin wrote: If your advisor has installed (or is willing to install) the MinSYS system (subsystem? package? whatever), you can use symbolic links. I believe MinSYS is mandatory for LyX 1.3.6 and later on Windows. From MinSYS's interactive shell, you create the link pretty much as you would on Linux, other than to remember that the C: drive is /c in MinSYS. So, for instance, you would use ln -s /c/papers/bibliography ./ref on her machine. Alternatively, you can do the same thing from a DOS command prompt, by providing the path to ln if necessary, for instance "C:\Program Files\msys\1.0\bin\ln.exe" -s /c/papers/bibliography ./ref (assuming the default installation location). I've tried it here (Win XP) and it seems to work as expected. Paul Paul, thanks a lot you for the tip. I happened to have Cygwin installed one my machine, so I gave it a try. My setup is the following: I have windows version of LyX 1.3.5 downloaded from LyX.org. I tried to create the sym-link in Cygwin and run LyX from there. However, it did not work. The command "ln -s a b" run from Cygwin simply creates Windows shortcut. But LyX run from Cygwin won't recognize the shortcut as a link... obviously it ignores Cygwin altogether. You mentioned MinSYS being required for LyX 1.3.6. What does it mean? Does it mean that LyX will understand shortcuts in Windows? I'm going to try to install MinSYS now. Thanks again, David
Re: copying LaTeX text into a LyX document from clipboard
> You can do this for mathed but not for the rest of LyX. Eg, typing as > normal text "$a=b+c$" (without quotes), highlighting the block and > selecting Insert->Math->Display Formula will convert the code into a > mathed inset. Still it would be great, if it were possible to do that with any text. Since the functionality is there already for the import... I try to put a feature request... If LyX interprets \textcolor{red}{} as you'd like, why not add a pre-processor step to your conversion. Something like (untested): $ sed 's/\\fp{}/\\textcolor{red}{}/g' input.tex > output.tex $ diff -u input.tex output.tex Unfortunatelly, LyX does not do that. I was very surprised since color text gets exported to LaTeX as \textcolor{} but the import does not work. It gets imported as two ERT boxes: one with \textcolor{red}{ and the other with the closing brace }. Thank you, David
copying LaTeX text into a LyX document from clipboard
Hello, I was wondering whether it is possible to paste a well-formated fragment of LaTeX code from clipboard into an open document in such a way that LyX interprets the LaTeX code being inserted? The standard "paste" command will, of course, treat the content as a regular piece of text, but I'd like to paste the text interpreted. I realize it's possible to import the whole document and then copy the fragments from the LyX, but it would come in handy to have the option to paste only pieces of LaTeX code without having to do anything else. Thanks for any hints. David ps. The reason why I'm asking this is that I'm importing a LaTeX document from a co-author of our paper. He defined simple command \fp{} which is a synonym for \textcolor{red}{}. The author did that for two purposes: 1) to save some keystrokes :), and 2) to mark the portions of text that were updated by him. While LyX imports the document fine, it doesn't interpret the \fp{} command but inserts the \fp{} blocks as ERT boxes which makes half of the document uninterpreted and very hardly editable.
how to share BibTeX references across platforms
Dear LyXers, I would like to ask you for help with the following problem. I'm writing papers with my advisor and we decided to use LyX. She uses Windows version while I work from Linux. Our problem is sharing documents with BibTeX references. While sharing LyX documents works flawlessy, we have problems with BibTeX generated references. The problem is where to store the BibTeX files. Each of us would like to have the references in a place where they can be accesses from several papers. The problem is how to achieve this in situation where the database is in different locations on different machines. For example, my advisor prefers c:\papers\bibliography\1994.bib while I prefer ~/work/references/1994.bib. When I'm entering the database file in LyX, I have two options, either hit the Browse button in which case LyX enters the full path, or I can manually add relative path. I thought I'd add a symbolic link into each directory with a paper and then I'd add the databases using relative path, like so ./ref/1994.bib, where "ref" is the link to whatever directory the database is stored in on particular machine (e.g. ~/work/references for on my machine). Now, while this works for me on Linux. Windows shortcuts don't seem to do the trick. My question is, does anybody have experience with sharing LyX documents with BibTeX references that are not stored in one fixed place? Thank you for any comments, David
Re: Exporting to PDF
Hi, in the Preferences dialog box, tab Outputs/LaTeX, try removing "T1" from the field "TeX encoding." It did take care of my problems. This may not be an optimal solution but it did work for me. The reasons for this are explained in the document Extended Features accessible from Help menu. Look for chapter "Exporting Other Formats" subsection PDF. Good luck, D. Eugeny N Dzhurinsky wrote: >> Hi! I have a problem with the PDF files exported by LyX on FreeBSD host in >> Windows - the fonts seems to be raster or something like this. Is there any >> way to force using the TrueType fonts when exporting to the PDF? >> Eugeny N Dzhurinsky wrote: > Hi! I have a problem with the PDF files exported by LyX on FreeBSD host in > Windows - the fonts seems to be raster or something like this. Is there any > way to force using the TrueType fonts when exporting to the PDF? >