Re: small fontsize in single spaced quotes
Herbert Voss Spoke Thusly:
> On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, James Lindenschmidt wrote:
> > I use double-spaced documents, with the preamble
> > modification Herbert has posted on his website
> > ( http://www.lyx.org/help/space/space.php#quote )
> > to produce single-spaced quote, quotation, and verse
> > environments.
> >
> > This gives me *almost* exactly what I want; the only
> > thing I want to do is make these single-spaced quotes,
> > verses, and quotations in fontsize small.
> >
> > \renewenvironment{verse}
> >{\let\\\@centercr
> > \begin{spacing}{1}\list{}{\itemsep
> > \z@
>
> does this not work?
> \begin{spacing}{1}\small ...
That's what I needed! Thanks . . .
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James Lindenschmidt
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small fontsize in single spaced quotes
I use double-spaced documents, with the preamble
modification Herbert has posted on his website
( http://www.lyx.org/help/space/space.php#quote )
to produce single-spaced quote, quotation, and verse
environments.
This gives me *almost* exactly what I want; the only thing
I want to do is make these single-spaced quotes, verses,
and quotations in fontsize small.
What do I add to the preamble? I've tried a few things and
none of them worked; they all added many LaTeX errors.
Here's the preamble I'm referring to:
\renewenvironment{verse}
{\let\\\@centercr
\begin{spacing}{1}\list{}{\itemsep \z@
\itemindent -1.5em%
\listparindent\itemindent
\rightmargin \leftmargin
\advance\leftmargin 1.5em}%
\item\relax}
{\endlist\end{spacing}\noindent\hspace{-0.333em}}
\renewenvironment{quotation}
{\begin{spacing}{1}\list{}{\listparindent
1.5em%
\itemindent\listparindent
\rightmargin \leftmargin
\parsep\z@ \@plus\p@}%
\item\relax}
{\endlist\end{spacing}\noindent\hspace{-0.333em}}
\renewenvironment{quote}
{\begin{spacing}{1}\list{}{\rightmargin\leftmargin}%
\item\relax}
{\endlist\end{spacing}\noindent\hspace{-0.333em}}
Thanks
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James Lindenschmidt
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Re: Lyx and SUSE Linux
Kathryn Andersen Spoke Thusly: > On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 02:26:11PM -0600, Dr. Louis A. Turk wrote: > > I am considering purchasing SUSE Linux 8.0 > > Professional when it come out this month. It is > > supposed to come with Lyx, and is supposed to be easy > > to install. Since I know very little about Linux, I am > > hoping that Lyx will work right off without a lot of > > configuring which I might not know how to do. Does > > anyone out there have experience with Lyx on SUSE > > Linux? Am I on the right track? Would some other > > version of Linux be better for running Lyx? > > I can't speak about SUSE, having never used it. Right > now I am using Debian(testing) which has the advantage > that it is very up-to-date and updates are easy to get > (just a matter of using the apt-get system). This means > that right now I'm running the latest version of lyx > (1.1.6fix4) with Ghostscript version 6.53 (the version > which has that darn display bug fixed). And Debian is > very stable (even testing is more stable than many other > distros) -- that's why I moved to it from RedHat. And > I'm not looking back! > > Unfortunately, I wouldn't at this stage reccommend Debian > for new users, because the installation isn't as easy as > some of the other distributions, and the number of > packages available (huge number) can be rather > bewildering for someone who has never used Linux before. Actually, if you can get a Debian veteran to help you install and get your initial config done, I highly recommend Debian (I use unstable/sid). Once it's running and configured, I find Debian by far the easiest to maintain. Just my $0.02; don't want to get a distro-war going. :-) -- James Lindenschmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: word counts ?
The only way I know of is to use the spellchecker. When it completes, the summary window will give you the word count. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spoke Thusly: > Hi All, > just a simple query ... how can I do a word > count using lyx? > Thanks > freddo > > > This message was sent through MyMail > http://www.mymail.com.au -- James Lindenschmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
customize environment drop-down menu?
Is it possible to customize the order of the options in the environment drop-down menu? I find that many of the environments that I commonly use are at the bottom, and I have to scroll down frequently to get them. I'd like to put the most common options at the top. Also, the mouse wheel scrolling in this menu is buggy; if I scroll too quickly, it jumps out of the menu and always selects 'standard.' Thanks . . . -- James Lindenschmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: LaTeX IDE for KDE?
Renaud MICHEL Spoke Thusly: > Le Samedi 12 Janvier 2002 19:17, vous avez ?crit : > > But now I want to get into LaTeX a bit so I can understand what's going > > on under the surface. A friend of mine showed me a nice LaTeX IDE for > > Windows (I forget the name of it). Does anyone know of a similar app for > > Linux, preferably one for KDE/Qt? > > Have a look at http://apps.kde.com Umm, thanks. sorry I didn't think of it first. Ktexmaker was exactly what I was looking for. -- James Lindenschmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
LaTeX IDE for KDE?
I came to LaTeX through LyX, after growing tired of Word/StarWriter. I liked LyX's simplicity and its WYSIWYM concept, so I could focus on writing and not formatting. But now I want to get into LaTeX a bit so I can understand what's going on under the surface. A friend of mine showed me a nice LaTeX IDE for Windows (I forget the name of it). Does anyone know of a similar app for Linux, preferably one for KDE/Qt? Ideally, I'd want a product with an integrated editor with LaTeX syntax highlighting, and a built-in preview screen. Worst case scenario is that I'll just use Kate, which does offer syntax highlighting for LaTeX. Something like Kdevelop for LaTeX would be perfect for this non-programmer newbie. -- James Lindenschmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: type 3 fonts
Rich Shepard Spoke Thusly: > On Fri, 11 Jan 2002, James Lindenschmidt wrote: > > When I export a document to pdf from LyX, the fonts look ragged when > > viewed, esp. by Adobe Acrobat Viewer. I looked in Acrobat, and sure > > enough, my documents are using type 3 fonts. I would have expected them > > to use the type 1 fonts that come with LaTeX. Is there a way to fix this? > > I discovered a couple of years ago that some Type1 fonts I use in > documents just do not display well on screen. Doesn't matter if I use > acroread (or a Windoze user uses that version of Acrobat Reader) or if I > use xpdf. As you note, the letters appear ragged, even when magnified to be > readable. > > However, they invariably print well. It may have someting to do with the > fonts used in LyX (or other document generating software) and the fonts > available in the screen viewer. If they're not exactly the same the view > substitutes what it "thinks" is the best match. Frankly, I've not found a > solution, but I prefer that my documents print well rather than view well, > so I just ignore the situation. Yes, I had reached this same conclusion. My documents always printed fine, but they appeared ragged on screen. A friend of mine, who is a LaTeX power-user, told me that somehow the latex export uses type3 fonts rather than type1 for some reason. There is supposedly a config file that can be modified to correct this problem, but I've had no luck finding it. Incidentally, this problem is with both pdf files and ps files. This same friend has Adobe Acrobat 5.0 (not the reader) for Windoze, and he looked at the document properties for my pdfs. They all said they were using type 3 fonts, which are bitmap based. The bitmaps look ragged because they are trying to zoom to the appropriate size. I'm not sure what the difference is between the ps2pdf method and the pdflatex method of exporting pdfs. On my system (debian sid with KDE 2.2.2) and the anti-aliased fonts turned on, everything works. But when a Windoze user looks at my documents, they are funky. Incidentally, I almost exclusively use New Century Schoolbook, 10-point (sometimes 11-point). I have not messed with the default font config that comes with my stock debian sid latex installation. Thanks everyone, I hope this can be fixed. -- James Lindenschmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
type 3 fonts
Perhaps this is inappropriate for this list, as it is actually a LaTeX question. But here goes . . . When I export a document to pdf from LyX, the fonts look ragged when viewed, esp. by Adobe Acrobat Viewer. I looked in Acrobat, and sure enough, my documents are using type 3 fonts. I would have expected them to use the type 1 fonts that come with LaTeX. Is there a way to fix this? I am running Debian sid with its stock LaTeX install. Thanks -- James Lindenschmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: lyx and redhat 7.2
See the GUI Independence status page for LyX, although it hasn't been updated in a while . . . http://www.devel.lyx.org/guii.php3 Steve Litt Spoke Thusly: > Somebody once mentioned that some day LyX would switch from XFORMS (which > iirc is zero cost proprietary software) to QT, which iirc is Open Source. > Is such a transition being considered? -- James Lindenschmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to suppress "Chapter X" in chapter heading (book class)?
That's very close, but now the chapter titles are indented and not
left-justified. If the chapter title goes to 2 lines, it looks very strange.
Also, having the title not left-justified looks a bit strange.
But that's getting very close, thanks!
Jim
Herbert Voss Spoke Thusly:
> try this in preamble:
>
> \def\@makechapterhead#1{%
> % \vspace*{50\p@}%
>{\parindent \z@ \raggedright \normalfont
> \ifnum \c@secnumdepth >\m@ne
>\if@mainmatter
> %\huge\bfseries \@chapapp\space \thechapter
> \par\nobreak
> \vskip 20\p@
>\fi
> \fi
> \interlinepenalty\@M
> \Huge \bfseries #1\par\nobreak
> \vskip 40\p@
>}}
>
> if you need some more space on the top of the chapter
> delete the first "%"
>
> Herbert
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James Lindenschmidt
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Fwd: Re: how to suppress "Chapter X" in chapter heading (book class)?
Herbert Voss Spoke Thusly: > why can't you use "chapter*", the star-version of chapter layout? Because then it doesn't show up in the Table of Contents. At least not automagically. Also, I tried setting "section number depth" in Layout-->Document-->Extra to 0, but that didn't work, either. Thanks, -- James Lindenschmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
how to suppress "Chapter X" in chapter heading (book class)?
Now that I've buttered everyone up after my last email :-) I have a last-minute formatting question. What is the easiest way to suppress the "Chapter X" Heading at the beginning of each chapter in the book document class? In other words, instead of: Chapter 1 (big bold letters) Introduction(even bigger bold letters) blahblahblah... (normal text) I would rather it just say: Introduction(even bigger bold letters) blahblahblah... (normal text) at the beginning of each chapter. I couldn't find anything on the LyX tips page or in the LyX documentation. What am I overlooking? Thanks, -- James Lindenschmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
thanks to H. Voss and the LyX developers
Greetings everyone, I am just finishing a thesis that I wrote using LyX, and I just wanted to publicly thank the LyX developers, and H. Voss for his fantastic help/tips page. Using LyX made everything so much easier, especially for this non-techie philosophy student desktop-end-user type. LyX and Linux rule, blah blah blah. :-) -- James Lindenschmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
single-spaced quotes within double-spaced document
I have a book-class document that is double spaced, set to give single-spaced
quotes. To accomplish this, I have the following in my preamble:
\renewenvironment{quote}
{\begin{spacing}{1}\small \list{}{\rightmargin\leftmargin}%
\item\relax}
{\endlist\end{spacing}\noindent\hspace{-0.333em}}
However, I would like to increase the amount of space between the
single-spaced quotation and the double-spaced, standard text. I tried using
the following:
{\setlength{\parskip}{2ex plus 0.5ex minus 0.2ex}}
But I couldn't get it to work. (note: I don't know if I want 2ex, I just used
that number to see if I could get the spacing to change. It didn't).
I know virtually nothing about LaTeX commands, can anyone help here? I'm in
over my head here.
Thanks,
James Lindenschmidt
Re: Changes in LyX
Tuukka Toivonen Spoke Thusly: > On Thu, 30 Aug 2001, Sinisa Milivojevic wrote: > > But it can not become that if you expect users to build anything from > > source. We at MySQL have learned that lesson 3 - 4 years ago. > > I disagree. Compiling from source _doesn't_ mean that the user > should be a programmer. It just has to be easy: it could be as > easy as installing a binary, even easier since you generally > need not to care so much about correct library versions or > even what computer architecture are you using. Speaking as a user of Linux (I am very much not a developer), I must agree with Sinisa here. On my Debian system, I will almost always opt to use an older version of software that I can install via apt or dpkg, rather than compiling from source. I am not afraid to compile from source, providing it goes well, but I'd much rather use my packaging system. Debian's packaging system, with which I'm most familiar as a user, is very solid and I'd prefer to let it do all the sysadmin work whenever possible. Interesting discussion...LyX rules. I'm so glad it's available to me for my writing. Thank you everyone! -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: line spacing
OK, this works, but a minor tweak is needed:
Now, whenever I come out of the quoted environment, the next line in standard
is automatically indented, whether or not I intend a new paragraph to begin
here. This never happened before. It is only indented in the final ps
viewable version; the indentations look correct in the LyX editor.
Thanks again for your help.
Jim
Herbert Voss Spoke Thusly:
> James Lindenschmidt wrote:
> > Greetings, I am a non-techie student using LyX to write academic papers
> > and my thesis using the "article" class. Normally I have my line spacing
> > set to 2 (as opposed to double, which is a bit too narrow. I've actually
> > had profs bitch about it).
> >
> > However, when I'm writing an inset quote (using the "quote" or "verse"
> > environment), I'd prefer to have these sections single-spaced.
> >
> > Is there a way to do this? I don't know Latex, but I imagine there is
> > something I could put in the preamble to tell it to make "quote" and
> > "verse" single-spaced when everything else is double spaced?
>
> in preamble:
>
> \renewenvironment{quote}
>{\begin{spacing}{1}\list{}{\rightmargin\leftmargin}%
>\item\relax}
>{\endlist\end{spacing}}
>
> Herbert
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line spacing
Greetings, I am a non-techie student using LyX to write academic papers and my thesis using the "article" class. Normally I have my line spacing set to 2 (as opposed to double, which is a bit too narrow. I've actually had profs bitch about it). However, when I'm writing an inset quote (using the "quote" or "verse" environment), I'd prefer to have these sections single-spaced. Is there a way to do this? I don't know Latex, but I imagine there is something I could put in the preamble to tell it to make "quote" and "verse" single-spaced when everything else is double spaced? If possible, please cc: your reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] as I am not subscribed to this list. Thanks. Jim -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
