Re: multiinclude with beamer

2005-10-26 Thread Lachlan

 Myriam Abramson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 
 
 Hi!
 
 I desperately need to include some animation. I tried the multiinclude
 as in the Beamer's users guide but I got a file corrupted message
 with acroread (7.0). Any ideas?

I am not sure exactly how to achieve this from the latex end, but under linux 
one of the best ways to add animations to a presentation is simply to include a 
link in the presentation to run a program like mplayer to show an animation 
clip.

This may not be what you want, as it is more suited for showing small movie 
clips within a presentation.

Does anyone know how to include a link that runs a system command like mplayer 
FILENAME?


Re: Lyx Figure Placement

2005-10-26 Thread Lachlan

 Santanu Chakraborty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 
 I am using Lyx (1.3.5 on XP) to write my thesis and have the following
 questions.
 
 1. How do I force every figure to start on a separate page?

I assume that this means you want every figure to be at the top of the page.  
Within Lyx, if you make sure that the figures are set inside a figure float 
(perhaps ask a question if this does not make sense).  Collapse the float and 
then right click on the float symbol. You will get a set of check-box items, 
and if you de-select use default placement you can then select top of page.


 2. How I force every figure to be on the right page?

I can't help you with this one, but it may even be a similar solution.


Re: multiinclude with beamer

2005-10-26 Thread Lachlan

 Myriam Abramson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 
 
 Hi!
 
 I desperately need to include some animation. I tried the multiinclude
 as in the Beamer's users guide but I got a file corrupted message
 with acroread (7.0). Any ideas?

I am not sure exactly how to achieve this from the latex end, but under linux 
one of the best ways to add animations to a presentation is simply to include a 
link in the presentation to run a program like mplayer to show an animation 
clip.

This may not be what you want, as it is more suited for showing small movie 
clips within a presentation.

Does anyone know how to include a link that runs a system command like mplayer 
FILENAME?


Re: Lyx Figure Placement

2005-10-26 Thread Lachlan

 Santanu Chakraborty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 
 I am using Lyx (1.3.5 on XP) to write my thesis and have the following
 questions.
 
 1. How do I force every figure to start on a separate page?

I assume that this means you want every figure to be at the top of the page.  
Within Lyx, if you make sure that the figures are set inside a figure float 
(perhaps ask a question if this does not make sense).  Collapse the float and 
then right click on the float symbol. You will get a set of check-box items, 
and if you de-select use default placement you can then select top of page.


 2. How I force every figure to be on the right page?

I can't help you with this one, but it may even be a similar solution.


Re: multiinclude with beamer

2005-10-26 Thread Lachlan

 Myriam Abramson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 
> 
> Hi!
> 
> I desperately need to include some animation. I tried the multiinclude
> as in the Beamer's users guide but I got a "file corrupted" message
> with acroread (7.0). Any ideas?

I am not sure exactly how to achieve this from the latex end, but under linux 
one of the best ways to add animations to a presentation is simply to include a 
link in the presentation to run a program like mplayer to show an animation 
clip.

This may not be what you want, as it is more suited for showing small movie 
clips within a presentation.

Does anyone know how to include a link that runs a system command like "mplayer 
FILENAME"?


Re: Lyx Figure Placement

2005-10-26 Thread Lachlan

 Santanu Chakraborty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 
> I am using Lyx (1.3.5 on XP) to write my thesis and have the following
> questions.
> 
> 1. How do I force every figure to start on a separate page?

I assume that this means you want every figure to be at the top of the page.  
Within Lyx, if you make sure that the figures are set inside a figure float 
(perhaps ask a question if this does not make sense).  Collapse the float and 
then right click on the float symbol. You will get a set of check-box items, 
and if you de-select "use default placement" you can then select "top of page".


> 2. How I force every figure to be on the right page?

I can't help you with this one, but it may even be a similar solution.


Lyx Bibliography section without numbered entries

2005-10-20 Thread Lachlan
Although using Lyx for a few years now in my science subjects, I have a history 
essay due on Monday and that is making me use features of Lyx that I am not 
very familiar with.

As far as bibliographies are concerned, I read about Jurabib (and with the help 
of a few people on this forum got it to work).  However, the footnote citing in 
Jurabib is not what I need (there is no punctuation between the author and the 
title, for example) and I don't have time to work it all out.

Instead I am using the Lyx Bibliography paragraph style for the first time.  It 
is working fine, but by default produces a bibliography with entries numbered 
in square brackets.  The style required for my history essay is to have the 
entries unnumbered, in alphabetical order (which I can do manually, it is not 
that big), and WITH ALL BUT THE FIRST LINE OF EACH ENTRY INDENTED!

I have 2 questions:
- Can I get the bibliography paragraphs to format this way?
- If not, is there a manual way to achieve indenting on all but the first line 
of a paragraph?

When I have more time I will look into Jurabib more thoroughly, as it is the 
really satisfying way to do things.

- Lachlan


Lyx Bibliography section without numbered entries

2005-10-20 Thread Lachlan
Although using Lyx for a few years now in my science subjects, I have a history 
essay due on Monday and that is making me use features of Lyx that I am not 
very familiar with.

As far as bibliographies are concerned, I read about Jurabib (and with the help 
of a few people on this forum got it to work).  However, the footnote citing in 
Jurabib is not what I need (there is no punctuation between the author and the 
title, for example) and I don't have time to work it all out.

Instead I am using the Lyx Bibliography paragraph style for the first time.  It 
is working fine, but by default produces a bibliography with entries numbered 
in square brackets.  The style required for my history essay is to have the 
entries unnumbered, in alphabetical order (which I can do manually, it is not 
that big), and WITH ALL BUT THE FIRST LINE OF EACH ENTRY INDENTED!

I have 2 questions:
- Can I get the bibliography paragraphs to format this way?
- If not, is there a manual way to achieve indenting on all but the first line 
of a paragraph?

When I have more time I will look into Jurabib more thoroughly, as it is the 
really satisfying way to do things.

- Lachlan


Lyx Bibliography section without numbered entries

2005-10-20 Thread Lachlan
Although using Lyx for a few years now in my science subjects, I have a history 
essay due on Monday and that is making me use features of Lyx that I am not 
very familiar with.

As far as bibliographies are concerned, I read about Jurabib (and with the help 
of a few people on this forum got it to work).  However, the footnote citing in 
Jurabib is not what I need (there is no punctuation between the author and the 
title, for example) and I don't have time to work it all out.

Instead I am using the Lyx Bibliography paragraph style for the first time.  It 
is working fine, but by default produces a bibliography with entries numbered 
in square brackets.  The style required for my history essay is to have the 
entries unnumbered, in alphabetical order (which I can do manually, it is not 
that big), and WITH ALL BUT THE FIRST LINE OF EACH ENTRY INDENTED!

I have 2 questions:
- Can I get the bibliography paragraphs to format this way?
- If not, is there a manual way to achieve indenting on all but the first line 
of a paragraph?

When I have more time I will look into Jurabib more thoroughly, as it is the 
really satisfying way to do things.

- Lachlan


Re: jurabib from within lyx

2005-10-12 Thread Lachlan

 I think the reason is that the babel package has to be loaded before jurabib.
 Try \usepackage{babel} before \usepackage[bibformat=numbered]{jurabib}.

This worked, thanks.

I now have a few more questions:
1.  Is it possible to get a footnote reference any way other than inserting ERT 
and writing \footfullcite{REF}?  (the Insert-Citation menu entry does not 
produce a useful citation reference in the final document)
2.  When I did get it to work using the ERT method above, the footnote 
reference was poorly formatted.  There was no punctuation between the author's 
name and the title.  The reference was far better formatted in the actual 
bibliography.  Is there any way to get the proper formatting in the footnote 
reference?

Thanks, 
Lachlan


Re: jurabib from within lyx

2005-10-12 Thread Lachlan

 I think the reason is that the babel package has to be loaded before jurabib.
 Try \usepackage{babel} before \usepackage[bibformat=numbered]{jurabib}.

This worked, thanks.

I now have a few more questions:
1.  Is it possible to get a footnote reference any way other than inserting ERT 
and writing \footfullcite{REF}?  (the Insert-Citation menu entry does not 
produce a useful citation reference in the final document)
2.  When I did get it to work using the ERT method above, the footnote 
reference was poorly formatted.  There was no punctuation between the author's 
name and the title.  The reference was far better formatted in the actual 
bibliography.  Is there any way to get the proper formatting in the footnote 
reference?

Thanks, 
Lachlan


Re: jurabib from within lyx

2005-10-12 Thread Lachlan

> I think the reason is that the babel package has to be loaded before jurabib.
> Try \usepackage{babel} before \usepackage[bibformat=numbered]{jurabib}.

This worked, thanks.

I now have a few more questions:
1.  Is it possible to get a footnote reference any way other than inserting ERT 
and writing "\footfullcite{REF}"?  (the Insert->Citation menu entry does not 
produce a useful citation reference in the final document)
2.  When I did get it to work using the ERT method above, the footnote 
reference was poorly formatted.  There was no punctuation between the author's 
name and the title.  The reference was far better formatted in the actual 
bibliography.  Is there any way to get the proper formatting in the footnote 
reference?

Thanks, 
Lachlan


jurabib from within lyx

2005-10-11 Thread Lachlan
Hi,

I am a science student, and so the standard NatBib stuff within Lyx has been 
all I have ever used.  However, I am doing a history subject and want more 
humanity-friendly references (full references as footnotes).

After a while browsing and searching online, it seems that the jurabib package 
is what I need, but I can't get it to work.  Nor can I find a useful howto 
anywhere.

Following bits of advice from all over the place, this is what I have done:
- turned off NatBib in the document preferences.
- added the following line to the Preamble under document preferences: 
\usepackage[bibformat=numbered]{jurabib}
- selected jurabib as the style for the bibtex generated references

I have created a test document with only one reference from a database of about 
10 entries.  I now have it down to one Latex error when I try to produce DVI 
output (I started with many many more).  This error occurs in the line where 
the reference is cited, and says:

Paragraph ended before \org@@citex was complete
I suspect you've forgotten a }, causing me to apply this control sequence to 
too much text.  How can we recover?  My plan is to forget the whole thing and 
hope for the best.

I would greatly appreciate assistance with this problem.


jurabib from within lyx

2005-10-11 Thread Lachlan
Hi,

I am a science student, and so the standard NatBib stuff within Lyx has been 
all I have ever used.  However, I am doing a history subject and want more 
humanity-friendly references (full references as footnotes).

After a while browsing and searching online, it seems that the jurabib package 
is what I need, but I can't get it to work.  Nor can I find a useful howto 
anywhere.

Following bits of advice from all over the place, this is what I have done:
- turned off NatBib in the document preferences.
- added the following line to the Preamble under document preferences: 
\usepackage[bibformat=numbered]{jurabib}
- selected jurabib as the style for the bibtex generated references

I have created a test document with only one reference from a database of about 
10 entries.  I now have it down to one Latex error when I try to produce DVI 
output (I started with many many more).  This error occurs in the line where 
the reference is cited, and says:

Paragraph ended before \org@@citex was complete
I suspect you've forgotten a }, causing me to apply this control sequence to 
too much text.  How can we recover?  My plan is to forget the whole thing and 
hope for the best.

I would greatly appreciate assistance with this problem.


jurabib from within lyx

2005-10-11 Thread Lachlan
Hi,

I am a science student, and so the standard NatBib stuff within Lyx has been 
all I have ever used.  However, I am doing a history subject and want more 
humanity-friendly references (full references as footnotes).

After a while browsing and searching online, it seems that the jurabib package 
is what I need, but I can't get it to work.  Nor can I find a useful howto 
anywhere.

Following bits of advice from all over the place, this is what I have done:
- turned off NatBib in the document preferences.
- added the following line to the Preamble under document preferences: 
\usepackage[bibformat=numbered]{jurabib}
- selected jurabib as the style for the bibtex generated references

I have created a test document with only one reference from a database of about 
10 entries.  I now have it down to one Latex error when I try to produce DVI 
output (I started with many many more).  This error occurs in the line where 
the reference is cited, and says:

"Paragraph ended before \org@@citex was complete
I suspect you've forgotten a "}", causing me to apply this control sequence to 
too much text.  How can we recover?  My plan is to forget the whole thing and 
hope for the best."

I would greatly appreciate assistance with this problem.