Coloured Sidebar to highlight text passage?

[Peter Baumgartner]

Hello LyX-Community,

Is there a LaTeX/TeX command or package to produce a text sidebar which
could be changed in colour and width? I would need this to highlight text
passages (e.g. Definitions) for a textbook.

At the moment the only way I can think of to produce a sidebar would be a
tabular environment. I wonder if there is no other possibility, a feature
where I could define a new paragraph style or a similar easy usage.

Thanks in advance,
Peter

Re: SV: Many huge pictures - Memory problems?

[Peter Baumgartner]

Ingar,

Thanks for your answer.

You mentioned that you had no problems with very huge pictures. Perhaps it
has to do with the kind of compilation? I compile with pdflatex. Maybe I
should use another compilation but I'm afraid of (small) changes in
hyphenation or in the very critical positions of my pictures on the page
layout. 

***

In the meanwhile I have reorganised my file structure so that I've got less
but larger files. -- No change.

Than I grouped pictures (in these larger files) and set the latex option
"draft mode" of all pictures in one of these large files. -- This helped!!

I can now produce all my material in two runs where I set alternatively
pictures of two different large files to draft mode and combine the two pdf
files of these two different runs of compilations with Adobe Professional to
one book file. -- Not very comfortable but I hope it will work for the
publisher.

I think this change with pictures in draft mode is another clue that I ran
in memory problems because of my problems.

Peter

Many huge pictures - Memory problems?

[Peter Baumgartner]

Dear LyX-Community,

I'm finalising a textbook with about 120 figures, half of them screenshots.
The publisher told me to deliver the screenshots with better resolutions.
But now my book does not compile any more and LyX generates wired errors I
can't track: 

(./000-sdl-buch.out
! Undefined control sequence.
l.47 \BOOKM

The control sequence at the end of the top line
of your error message was never \def'ed. If you have
misspelled it (e.g., `\hobx'), type `I' and the correct
spelling (e.g., `I\hbox'). Otherwise just continue,
and I'll forget about whatever was undefined.

["000-sdl-buch" is the name of my master file]


My assumption is that there is a memory problem:

1. I can compile every part of the book as long as I'm not compiling the
whole book at once.
2. I can compile the whole book without problems in draft modus e.g. without
integrating the pictures
3. To compile just a part but to tell LyX it should include counter and
references results in the same error.

I have not idea how to proceed: If I compile the book in two independent
parts what about the int-text references, bibliography and other automatic
generated lists (table of contents, table of figures etc.)?

Could a new organisation of the files helpful? (At the moment I have one
master file with 53 subfiles.)

Another possibility I'm thinking of are the pictures itself. In my first
version the pictures had about 80 to 300 kB. After shooting the screenshots
again half of them have now 200 kB to 700 kB (still bad resolution but maybe
sufficient?) the other half is between 2 to 4 MB. All the pictures are in
PNGs. Perhaps it would help to size the biggest pictures a little bit down?
But here the problem is: To some of the websites I have no access anymore
and all the pictures have overlaid graphics in it (to highlight some part of
the screenshot).  

I'm at a loss and don't know how to proceed. Any hint would be *very*
appreciated...

Peter


 

Re: Strange biblatex error on a different machine

[Peter Baumgartner]

Dominik,

You were right! The installation of my coauthor is using an older version,
which was uploaded manually to a place in the tex path which has precedence
over the new installation.

I'm a little embarrassed as I should have checked the versions first of all.
Thanks for your help!

Peter 

Strange biblatex error on a different machine

[Peter Baumgartner]

Hello,

I'm working on a book with a coauthor. I copied all my files (including
preamble and .bib database) to his machine. We are calling biblatex with the
following options:

\usepackage[style=authoryear-icomp,natbib=true,block=space,hyperref=true,abb
reviate=true,sorting=nyt,backend=bibtex8,isbn=false]{biblatex}

Compiling it generates two errors:

(1)

(/usr/local/texlive/2011/texmf-dist/tex/latex/biblatex/cbx/authoryear-icomp.
cbx
File: authoryear-icomp.cbx 2011/06/08 v1.5 biblatex citation style

! Package xkeyval Error: `uniquelist' undefined in families `blx@opt@pre'.

See the xkeyval package documentation for explanation.

2)
(/usr/local/texlive/2011/../texmf-local/tex/latex/biblatex/biblatex.cfg
File: biblatex.cfg 
)

! Package xkeyval Error: `isbn' undefined in families `blx@opt@pre'.

See the xkeyval package documentation for explanation.

But if I delete "isbn=false" and change to style=authoryear than compiling
goes fine and no error occurs.
So with the following call we get no error:
\usepackage[style=authoryear,natbib=true,block=space,hyperref=true,abbreviat
e=true,sorting=nyt,backend=bibtex8]{biblatex}

As far as I can say we have exactly the same the same files. We both have
the TexLive 2011 and we are both working with LyX 2.0.2. The only difference
seems to be the machine: He is working on a MacBook4.1 with OS X 10.5.8 and
I have a MacBookPro5,1 with OS X 10.6.8 running.

What could be the reason for this weir error?

Peter

Biblatex-biber citation problem

[Peter Baumgartner]

Hello,

I'm not sure if this is the right place for my question. In that case please
either ignore my mail or give me a hint where to place the following
problem:

I'm using biblatex with backend=bibtex8 and wanted to change to
backend=biber. The change went fine but the output of the some of the
in-text citation references is now different:

I'm using Natbib author/year style. In cases of electronic references (entry
type "online") where no author and year are provided (but title, url and
urldate) backend=bibtex8 produces the in-text citation (correctly) just with
the title. But biber now adds the year of the urldate.

I think this is wrong because the date of the url - producing "visited on
.." - has nothing to do with the (unknown) time the page was written.

Any suggestion? - In the meanwhile I stick to bibtex8 ;-)

Peter

Re: Crash with language change in combination with utf8 & float tableau

[Peter Baumgartner]

Thanks for investigating and (I guess) solving the problem.
Sorry, but I don't know how to compile the source myself. I will wait for
the new LyX release. In the meanwhile I have found a (provisional?)
solution: I converted the bib file so I don't need utf8 anymore.

Peter
PS.: I'm using OS 10.6.8.

Re: Crash with language change in combination with utf8 & float tableau

[Peter Baumgartner]

Here is the minimal example file.

Peter



test-utf8-crash.lyx
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Crash with language change in combination with utf8 & float tableau

[Peter Baumgartner]

Hello,

Using LyX 2.0.2 I experienced reproducible crashes with the following
combination:

-> encoding: utf8
-> module: linguistics with tableau environment
-> language change inside text (command: \foreignlanguage)

The system crashes during pdflatex compilation with a tableau environment in
*combination* with a \foreignlanguage command *and* utf8 encoding.

(I was using language ngerman and changed a word to
\foreignlanguage{english}.)

Peter

utf8 and dingbats

[Peter Baumgartner]

Hello,

I'm using language naustrian with unicode (utf8) to include biblatex-entries
(backend=bibtex8) with German umlauts. So far so good.

But now I wanted to add special characters into my text from the dingbats
category. I got error messages of the following type:

! Package inputenc Error: Unicode char \u8:① not set up for use with LaTeX.

What is wrong?

Peter

Can't sync LyX 2.0.0.rc2 with Skim

[Peter Baumgartner]

Hello,

Does backward sync work with LyX Version 2.0?

With LyX 1.6.8 I used the command
\usepackage[novbox]{pdfsync}

With Version 2.0.0.rc2 I tried the hint in the LyX Wiki
http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/SyncTeX
But also the slightly different version of the "Aditional LyX Feature"
manual, but to no avail.

Using cmd-shift-click brings LyX to the front, but the cursor stays at the
same position where I left LyX the last time.

The problem shouldn't be Skim 1.3.13 (64) as it works with LyX 1.6.8.

I read the 
http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg82556.html but using
the terminal and applying the reverse search command does from Skim does not
bring any change in the terminal. After starting Skim the last terminal line
says
SyncTeX written on .synctex/

Does anybody know what's here wrong?
Kind regards
Peter

Re: Index cross referencing with "see"

[Peter Baumgartner]

Jürgen,

I've got an error message on missing hyperref. I have switched it off in
order to get a super minimal file. But after turning hyperref on again, it
works now!

I'm really confused. I worked on this minimal file to find the error for
several hours. Now it works, even with all my modules, splitindex etc. - But
I do not know what happened and what was the problem...

Sorry for stealing your time.
Peter

Re: Index cross referencing with "see"

[Peter Baumgartner]

> I just noticed that the cross reference mechanism does not work with LyX
> Beta4.
>> You should probably post a complete (minimal) example file.

See attachment. It is possible that the problem exists in earlier beta
versions as well. I haven't yet time to test it.

Peter



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Index cross referencing with "see"

[Peter Baumgartner]

Hello,

I just noticed that the cross reference mechanism does not work with LyX
Beta4. Or I'm doing something wrong? See the following code:

Frontalunterricht\index{Modell!Frontalunterricht}
\index{Frontalunterricht|see{Modell}}
\printindex{}

The index entry does appear but there is not cross reference with "see",
respectively the German equivalent with "siehe". (I have tried different
languages, but that didn't help.)

Any ideas what is wrong here?

Peter

Re: Class Switch Error with Character Styles in layout modules

[Peter Baumgartner]

Richard Heck  comcast.net> writes:


> Similar to: http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/7080?
> 
Yes, it is the same error, because linguistics.module and
logicalmkup.module are providing character style formats as the example in the
ticket. Sorry I didn't know of this ticket.
Peter

Framed boxes and pagebreaks

[Peter Baumgartner]

Hello,
 
It seems to me that boxes with simple rectangular frame does not allow for
page break within the box. Instead the box moves with all text inside  to
the next page.

A box with more text than can fit on a page results an error:

> ! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [input stack size=5000].
> 
> \font@name ->
> 
>  \T1/cmr/m/n/10.95
> 
> l.94 \end{minipage}\end{framed}

LyX 2.0.0beta3, OS X 10.6.6

Peter

Class Switch Error with Character Styles in layout modules

[Peter Baumgartner]

Changing for example the document from draft to the final version via the
option field of class option in the tools->document preferences window
results into an error and raises the class switch error box:

> Class Switch-Fehler:


> Fehler: Undefinierter Zeichenstil


> Beschreibung: Der Zeichenstil Code ist aufgrund einer Klassenkonvertierung von
> scrartcl nach scrartcl undefiniert

The error occurs with character styles set with linguistics.module and
logicalmkup.module in all KOMA-script classes. The error occurs with many
document wide commands like changing fonts etc.

I have tested it with a minmal file to prevent other possible error causes.

Peter

LyX 2.0.beta2: Strange Crash when moving outline or other tool window

[Peter Baumgartner]

If I moved the outline window in a position where LyX tries to adapt for a
docking position on the *right* side of the document a crash occurred all
the time. 

I know of an old ticket (http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/7029) that was
closed because the crash could not reproduced. I could reproduce this
behavior the last few days all the time ;-) not only with the outline window
but also with the extended find window for example.

But now comes the strange thing: If you dock the window *once* successfully
(e.g. the left side of the document) then LyX does not crash anymore even if
you are docking on the right side of the document window.

I'm happy now but I thought I should report this problem as other people
might experience the same problem.

(I'm using Mac OS 1.6.5 and LyX2.0.0beta2.)

Peter

Mini lists of own floats?

[Peter Baumgartner]

Hello,

In my book I use different lists of floats I've created myself. I would need
in front of each chapter mini lists of these floats. I've looked into the
package "minitoc" but it works only with tocs, lofs and lots.

The package tocstyle needs at least the generation of one complete list,
from where it draws the copy for the mini list. But I would like to
distribute the chapters separately without the overhead of a complete
version of  

Is there a easy way to produce lists of own floats for each chapter?

Peter 

Re: Sectioned bibliography with biblatex?

[Peter Baumgartner]

Peter Baumgartner  donau-uni.ac.at> writes:

> I noticed that my final \printbibliography printed out all the references
> without marks for refsections but not the bibliography cited in the marked
> sections. Is there a way - besides of the sectioned bibliographies - to get a
> complete bibliography of *all* mentioned references at the end of the book?

Ah - the solution is to use the command refsegment instead of refsetion. RTFM of
biblatex... 

Re: Sectioned bibliography with biblatex?

[Peter Baumgartner]

Stephan Witt  gmx.net> writes:

> 
> Am 04.01.2011 um 16:26 schrieb Jürgen Spitzmüller:
> 
> > Peter Baumgartner wrote:
> >> Maybe I put bibtexall in a wrong directory? It is in a folder in my path of
> >> the TeX installation and I have also done 'sudo texhash' from the
> >> terminal.
> > 
> > The script must be in an executable path, unrelated to TeX. Don't know 
> > where 
> > this is on the Mac.
> 
> It's the PATH environment like on any other Unix.
> Here I have e.g. /usr/texbin in path for latex et al.

Great! That was the solution!!! I didn't understand what it meant to be an
executable path. I confused it with a LyX or a TeX path. After the hint from
Stephan I found a link to a directory I never have been seen
(/usr/local/texlive/2010/bin/X86_64-darwin), where I have found a lot of other
executable programs like bibtex, bixtex8 etc. I assume biber is to install in
this directory as well?

I noticed that my final \printbibliography printed out all the references
without marks for refsections but not the bibliography cited in the marked
sections. Is there a way - besides of the sectioned bibliographies - to get a
complete bibliography of *all* mentioned references at the end of the book?

Peter

Re: Sectioned bibliography with biblatex?

[Peter Baumgartner]

Jürgen Spitzmüller  lyx.org> writes:

> Did you change the preferences accordignly, so that bibtexall is called 
> instead of bibtex?
> 
Yes, I did. 

I'm using LyX 2.0.0beta2 on a Mac:

I changed under LyX -> Preferences… -> Output -> LaTeX  the menu for the
processor for bibliography generation to "Custom" and put "bibtexall" without
quotes into the command field.

And under Document -> Settings -> bibliography the processor menu to "Default"
and left the field "Options" empty. (Choosing "Default" I couldn't write into
this field anymore.)

I tried it with the check mark "Sectioned bibliography" on and off. But I assume
this has no effect at all as it works together bibtex and not biblatex. Is that
right?

The problem seems to me that for the sectioned parts marked with
\begin{refsection) and \end{refsection) LyX couldn't find the bibliography
entries anymore as these text parts have nit replaced the code of the bibtexkey.

Maybe I put bibtexall in a wrong directory? It is in a folder in my path of the
TeX installation and I have also done 'sudo texhash' from the terminal.

Peter

Re: Thesaurus for similar languages like Austrian?

[Peter Baumgartner]

Sorry, I forgot that the English version of the manual is more up to date.
Thanks everybody, it works!

Peter 

Re: Thesaurus for similar languages like Austrian?

[Peter Baumgartner]

Jürgen Spitzmüller  lyx.org> writes:


> There exist even two Austrian German thesaurus variants:
> http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/de/project/dict-de-AT_igerman98
> http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/de/project/dict-de_AT_frami
> 
> No, it's better to install the respective dictionaries.

Thanks Jürgen, I didn't know that. But how to install. After downloading the
file and unzipping it I get a file with the name:
dict-de_AT-frami_2010-12-04.oxt

There is a description how to install for OO but I couldn't find any for LyX. I
looked on my Mac into /Applications/LyX.app/Contents/Resources/dict but I
couldn't get any clue what to do.

Peter

Thesaurus for similar languages like Austrian?

[Peter Baumgartner]

Hi,

With "naustrian" as basic text language I have to switch after a call to the
thesaurus (Shift F7) the drop down menu of the thesaurus window always
manually to German as there exists no thesaurus for the "German (Austria)"
language variant.

It would be fine if one could use the thesaurus for a general language like
German for similar languages like Austrian as well. I assume that the same
problem exists with English in the Canadian and UK variant as well.

Peter

Re: Sectioned bibliography with biblatex?

[Peter Baumgartner]

> Peter Baumgartner wrote:
> > What is the problem? What did I wrong?
> 
> http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/6430

Thanks, Jürgen. But as I understood bibtexall is a workaround to process all of
biblatex's auxiliary files. So in my understanding the final output from LyX
should be correct. It seems to me that LyX is not calling bibtexall. Or I'm
completely wrong and should I call the aux-file manually via the Mac OS?

Peter

Re: LyX 2.0.0beta2: Colored Text not displayed correctly on Mac

[Peter Baumgartner]

Stephan Witt  gmx.net> writes:

> Can you try to make a minimal example LyX file, please?
> I cannot reproduce this...

The problem is: reloading the file solves the problem (many times). I'm working
on a MacBook Pro under Max OSX 10.6.5 with TexLive-2010-64 distribution. 

I sent a test file - which didn't work for me - directly to you.
Peter

Sectioned bibliography with biblatex?

[Peter Baumgartner]

In a book project I would need bibliographies after each section. I'm using
biblatex and tried the tips of http://wiki.lyx.org/BibTeX/Tips#secbib but it
didn't work: 

It generates all bibliography references outside of biblatex refsections but
could not find the references inside of the \begin{refsection}. The logfile
says that biblatex can't find the blx-bbl files #1, #2 etc for the reference
sections higher than 0:

> \openout4 = `epm-000-buch-blx.bib'.
> 
> Package biblatex Info: Trying to load bibliographic data...
> Package biblatex Info: ... file 'epm-000-buch.bbl' found.
> (./epm-000-buch.bbl)
> Package biblatex Info: ... file 'epm-000-buch1-blx.bbl' not found.
> No file epm-000-buch1-blx.bbl.
> Package biblatex Info: ... file 'epm-000-buch2-blx.bbl' not found.
> No file epm-000-buch2-blx.bbl.
> Package biblatex Info: Reference section=0 on input line 42.
> Package biblatex Info: Reference segment=0 on input line 42.

Later on biblatex generates corresponding .aux files:
'epm-000-buch1-blx.aux', 'epm-000-buch2-blx.aux' as one can see in the
following snippet of the log file:

> Kapitel 2.
> Package biblatex Info: Reference section=1 on input line 106.
> \openout4 = `epm-000-buch1-blx.aux'.
> 
> Package biblatex Info: Setting label 'refsection:1' on input line 106.
> REQ:2:bibtex:
> binary=bibtex
> option=-min-crossrefs=2
> infile=epm-000-buch1-blx
> :REQ
> 
> LaTeX Warning: Citation 'Wittgenstein_1984' on page 9 undefined on input line
> 1
> 08.
> 
> REQ:1:latex:REQ
> 
> LaTeX Warning: Citation 'Zetterberg_1973a' on page 9 undefined on input line
> 11
> 0.

At the end of the log file biblatex wants a new run of
> Package biblatex Warning: Please (re)run BibTeX on the file(s):
> (biblatex)epm-000-buch1-blx.aux
> (biblatex)epm-000-buch2-blx.aux
> (biblatex)and rerun LaTeX afterwards.

What is the problem? What did I wrong?
I took the following steps:

(1st step)
After preparing the sectioned bibliographies with
\begin{refsection}
..
\printbibliography
\end{refsection}

(2nd step)
I downloaded bibtexall, put it into the path and made it via terminal
executable

(3rd step)
I went to the menu Lyx->→Preferences→Output→LaTeX and changed the processor
for bibliography generation to "custom" and filled in "bibtexall" (without
quotes) as command name.

In Document->Settings...->Bibliography I tried "Sectioned Bibliography"
checked and unchecked (as I suppose this checkmark works only for "normal"
bibtex) and I have chosen as processor "biblatex" leaving the options field
empty.

I', out of any idea what to do or where to look: Every form of help would be
very appreciated!
Peter

LyX 2.0.0beta2: Colored Text not displayed correctly on Mac

[Peter Baumgartner]

If some part of the text is colored using the text style customized...
command the text color is not displayed correctly in LyX (cf. attached
picture). Most of the time the new text color is not displayed at all. This
does not change if the file is saved and loaded again.

But by using the switch of the new "Use system color" feature the text color
of the text changes immediately and the text will be displayed with the
right color.

Peter 



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Hyperref, breaklinks & default driver?

[Peter Baumgartner]

Hello,

I get the following warning using hyperref with 'breaklings" on and as
default driver hdvips.

> * hyperref using default driver hdvips *
> (/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf-dist/tex/latex/hyperref/hdvips.def
> File: hdvips.def 2010/06/18 v6.81g Hyperref driver for dvips
> (/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf-dist/tex/latex/hyperref/pdfmark.def
> File: pdfmark.def 2010/06/18 v6.81g Hyperref definitions for pdfmark specials
> 
> Package hyperref Warning: You have enabled option `breaklinks'.
> (hyperref)But driver `hdvips.def' does not suppport this.
> (hyperref)Expect trouble with the link areas of broken links.

But if I change hyperref.cfg with
\providecommand*{...@defaultdriver}{hypertex}
I got a lot of error messages with biblatex.

Should I ignore the warning and continue using hdvips? Or did I something
wrong?

Peter 

Problems with Biblatex newer than 0.8e

[Peter Baumgartner]

Hi,

After the installation of LyX 2.0.0Beta2 my command
\usepackage[style=authoryear-comp,natbib=true]{biblatex}
did not produce author and year anymore but wrote the title into the text
instead.

After I fiddled around quite a while (I suspected problems with my LyX 2.0
installation/configuration) it turned out that the problem is linked with
the newer versions of biblatex. (I tested 09a and 1.0) My "old" biblatex
0.8e version still works under 1.6.8 and 2.0 as well.

What happened with the newer biblatex version? Maybe I did something wrong
with the configuration with the newer versions? (I used as processor bibtex
as I still have no experience with bibtex8 or biber. But maybe these are
required with newer version?)

If it is problem with the biblatex package: Is there a fix? I any case I
reported it at http://sourceforge.net/projects/biblatex/

Peter

Re: LyX 2.0.0beta2 - Two question on the Mac Version

[Peter Baumgartner]

> 1.) I couldn't find the menu entry "Compare" under the "Tools" menu as I have
> seen it on a Windows installation of a friend of mine and as it is described
> under http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX20#document-compare.

Stephan Witt asked me in a mail if I have copied the preferences from my
previous 1.6 version to the 2.0 version. And this reminded me that I had
changed some of the settings in ~/Library/Application
Support/LyX-1.6/ui/stdmenus.inc file!

Sorry for creating trouble about a problem which was no problem at all, just
caused by my own stupidity.

Peter

Re: LyX 2.0.0beta2 - Two question on the Mac Version

[Peter Baumgartner]

> 2.) I couldn't bring to work the new spell-checking on the fly feature ...
I solved this problem: In previous versions I used to use Aspell; so I had
now to change the spellchecker engine from Aspell to Native.

Re: LyX 2.0.0beta2: UI issues

[Peter Baumgartner]

3.) Long loading time:
 
> I just tried opening a largish collection of documents of my own, and it
> was pretty quick, but I do not have images, tables, etc, so maybe there
> is something slow somewhere that is specific to certain documents.

My book has actually about 50 images and more than 40 tables, some of them
are in landscape format and long tables. Maybe these files causes the long
loading time? I will take the different files and will move it for testing
purposes to see what happens and if I can detect what is responsible for the
long loading time.
> 
 4.) In the enhancend outliner appear index insets on the same line as well.
 
>>> What do you mean?
>> In the headlines of the outliner appears not only the text of the headline
>> but all the text in the index insets as well. (see screenshot)
>> 
> Oh, I see. A patch I'm working on should take care of this.

Thanks,
Peter

Re: LyX 2.0.0beta2: UI issues

[Peter Baumgartner]

Hi Marc,

> But the child documents have not been rewritten, have they?

Yes, I loaded every child document and rewrote them all with "Save asŠ"

Peter

Re: LyX 2.0.0beta2: UI issues

[Peter Baumgartner]

Thanks Richard for the fast reply. I wrote between the text snippets.

>> 1.) Working with tables very often has the effect that table inset changes
>> from "Gleitobjekt: Table" to "Gleitobjekt: tabular. The numbering of the
>> legend disappears and LyX loses the type of the floating object (cf.
>> Screenshot "table-ui-problem").
>> 
> This is a good one to report on trac. It would be especially helpful if
> you knew how reliably to cause this.

Sorry, it happened several times but I can't produce it voluntarily. I will
observe and when it happened again I will try to repeat the last command so
I could see if I can reproduce it.

I suspect it has to do with some setting of the tabular window as this
window in German should have another name ("Tabelle"). In certain changes of
settings of these complex window the inset refreshes with the (wrong)
English name "tabular" and the systems can't match anymore the floating type
"Tabelle" with the inset name.
 
>> 3.) A master file for a book with 25 chapters using the "Include" feature
>> for all chapters takes 65 seconds for loading. It loads just a few seconds
>> in version 1.6.8.
>> 
> This is probably due to the conversion from 1.6 format to current
> format. That would take a while.

Good idea: I opened every file and saved it with the "save asŠ" menu command
so that I could force the file to store in the 2.0 format. Then I quit and
after that I opened LyX with the master file - but again: I took more than a
minute to load.

> 
>> 4.) In the enhancend outliner appear index insets on the same line as well.
>> 
> What do you mean?

In the headlines of the outliner appears not only the text of the headline
but all the text in the index insets as well. (see screenshot)

Peter



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Re: LyX 2.0.0beta2 - Two question on the Mac Version

[Peter Baumgartner]

> Are you sure you're looking at a LyX-2.0 beta?

Yes, see screenshot.
Peter



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LyX 2.0.0beta2: UI issues

[Peter Baumgartner]

Hi,

I would like to report some UI issues which I came over in the German
localisation: (BTW: Is this the right place/mailing list for it?)

1.) Working with tables very often has the effect that table inset changes
from "Gleitobjekt: Table" to "Gleitobjekt: tabular. The numbering of the
legend disappears and LyX loses the type of the floating object (cf.
Screenshot "table-ui-problem").

2.) The menu-entries "reconfigure", "dissolve inset", "Split View into Upper
and Lower Half" are not translated into German.

3.) A master file for a book with 25 chapters using the "Include" feature
for all chapters takes 65 seconds for loading. It loads just a few seconds
in version 1.6.8.

4.) In the enhancend outliner appear index insets on the same line as well.

Peter



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LyX 2.0.0beta2 - Two question on the Mac Version

[Peter Baumgartner]

Hello,

1.) I couldn't find the menu entry "Compare" under the "Tools" menu as I
have seen it on a Windows installation of a friend of mine and as it is
described under http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX20#document-compare.

2.) I couldn't bring to work the new spell-checking on the fly feature as it
is described under http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX20#toc2. There is no red
underline as I have seen on a windows machine. If I'm using the menu entry
"SpellcheckerŠ F7" under the "Tools" menu then appears no window for
spellchecking, even if there wrongs words. Instead LyX opens a window saying
how many words were checked.

Is there something wrong with my installation or are these features in the
beta2 version still not available on the Mac?

I'm using Mac OSX 10.6.5 with a TexLive-2010-64 distribution.

Thank you in advance
Peter

Re: LyX 2.0 - Problems with Tables

[Peter Baumgartner]

Stephan,

Sorry, my second description it was essentially the same problem but badly
described. After a refresh the text appears. The refresh could be forced
(tabbing into a new cell) or is done after some time automatically. So at least
I understood it reading ticke +7164.

Peter 

LyX 2.0 - Problems with Tables

[Peter Baumgartner]

Hi,

I'm noticed problems with tables using LyX 2.0.0beta2:

I've created a table with fixed column widths: a wide column (14cm) and two
small column (1,1cm). The entered text in these columns does only appear
when I leave the column. I have to enter the text blindly.

My figure setup for the width in the tabular dialog does not appear if I
call the dialog or disappears if I have entered the figure. So the tabular
dialog comes mostly empty (so I have to remember the value I've entered) or
sometimes with the figure of another cell I have recently setup. But this
has no effect on the table itself.

In another experiment with 3 columns without fixed columns the text appears
sometimes after a delay of about 1 sec., sometimes I have to leave the cell.

I'm using a MacBook Pro with OS X Snow Leopard, Version 10.6.5 und
TexLive-2010-64.

Peter

Re: Nomenclature: Option clash, & localisation issue

[Peter Baumgartner]

No, no, it is not the string, that worries me. Sorry for my bad explanation: I
just used this example to demonstrate that there is no reaction of passing this
parameter to nomencl. 

If you put "german" in the document class options than all works fine: it
changes the name of "Nomenclature" to "Symbolverzeichnis" (I use also
Nomenklatur like you in your example, but the official translations seems to be
"Symbolverzeichnis") and if you are passing the pageref option it also changes
"page" to the German "Seite". 

But this works *only* passing the options via the document class option and this
destroys my language setting naustrian to german as well. If you pass the option
via  \PassOptionsToPackage{german}{nomencl} there is no reaction at all. No
German heading but more importantly no change of "page" to "Seite".

Peter

Re: Nomenclature: Option clash, & localisation issue

[Peter Baumgartner]

Peter Baumgartner  donau-uni.ac.at> writes:

> Add this to your document preamble:

> \PassOptionsToPackage{german}{nomencl}

I have tried this but there is no reaction. It results still to "Nomenclature"
instead of the German "Symbolverzeichnis".

Peter

Nomenclature: Option clash, & localisation issue

[Peter Baumgartner]

I would like to use the refpage option of the nomenclature package in the
German localisation. I'm using KOMA scrbook with the naustrian language
option.

I don't know how to pass the option "german" to the package "nomencl"
without destroying my option setting in scrbook. Calling the package again
with my options does not work either and results in an option clash.

Maybe there is no way and I should use the German localisation? But then I
would loose some special Austrian words, for instance in the date ("Jänner"
for "Januar"). I seems to me that people using the new German spelling
"ngerman" would have a similar problem.

I can change the name of the glossary manually with
\renewcommand{\nomname}{Glossar} for example, but I don't now how to do this
kind of localisation with refpage.

Peter

Re: Shorttoc tight problem

[Peter Baumgartner]

Peter Baumgartner  donau-uni.ac.at> writes:

In the meanwhile I found the solution in an German TeX forum. 
<http://mrunix.de/forums/showthread.php?t=65804>
I will share it here if someone else has the same problem:

The tight option of the package shorttoc does not work if \parskip is set. 

There are several option to solve the problem:
1.) use the package tocstyle from the KOMA-Script package
\usepackage{tocstyle}
...

\cleardoublepage
\addchap*{Table of Contents (Summary)}
\showtoc [\value {tocdepth}=0]{toc} %adapt this value to your needs

be aware that tocstyle is still experimental (alpha version).

2.) Without tocstyle: Generate once a .toc file with \tableofcontents{} and than
put the following code into your page where the short version of your table of
contents should appear:

\cleardoublepage
\addchap{Table of Contents (Summary)}
\begingroup   
\makeatletter
\...@tocdepth=0 %adapt this value to your needs
\setlength{\parskip}...@}%
\setlength{\parindent}...@}%
\setlength{\parfillskip}...@\@plus 1fil}%
\csname tocbasic@@bef...@hook\endcsname
\csname t...@toc@bef...@hook\endcsname
\input{\jobname.toc}%
\csname t...@toc@af...@hook\endcsname
\csname tocbasic@@af...@hook\endcsname
\endgroup 

3.) I used the occurrence of this problem to learn more about typographical
reasons why paragraph indentation is much better than separation. So I could
stick with shorttoc ...

Re: Shorttoc tight problem

[Peter Baumgartner]

Thanks Steve for your suggestion. But  I wanted a second - but shorter - table
of contents, i.e. a short summary of my table of contents whichs spans several
pages. 

The shorttoc packages promises to provide exactly such thing. And it really
does. The "only" problem I have with shorttoc: There is a option in this package
to tight this second table of contents, but this option does not work for me. 

The resulting table summary looks ugly as for each section (and I wanted only
chapter and section to be included in this second table of contents) there is an
empty line between.

And I'm not sure if I could use your code snippets as they refer to the standard
table of contents.

Peter

Shorttoc tight problem

[Peter Baumgartner]

I would need a short version of the table of contents. With the package
shorttoc I could generate this condensed version of the table of contents
but with too much vertical space between the entries. Therefore I added the
option "tight" 

\usepackage[tight]{shorttoc}

But there was no difference in the output. There is one line space between
every entry of the section level with the effect that even this short toc
version spans several pages. I can't see any difference between the options
"loose" or "tight".

Maybe it is important to say that I'm using the KOMA-Script class scrbook. I
looked into the manuals of both packages but I couldn't find any clue.

Any suggestions what I did wrong?

Peter

UI - enumerate lists

[Peter Baumgartner]

Is there a way in the LyX user interface to label enumerate lists besides
the standard (arabic)? Using package and module enumitem I've written some
list formats I'm using very often but can't display in LyX their different
labels.

I've tried to define counters at paragraph style and text class level but
the LabelString parameter does not work for me. There is a cryptic footnote
in the manual saying "any numbertype other than those described below will
produce arabic numerals", but than the text goes on and describes all
relevant types like alph, roman etc.

I've seen that other people in their modules have used in similar situations
blue font to warn that there is no WYSIWYG. So what: Is this a bug or I'm
doing something wrong?

Using LyX 1.6.7 on a Mac.

Peter
Ps.: I very appreciate the module "customizable list" by Guenter Milde.
Thanks! But IMHO it lacks appropriate documentation. Also the name for the
inset "Short Title" is misleading and should - as long as is not provided as
standard with LyX - go into the Custom insets menu.

UI - Mac: select and drag text

[Peter Baumgartner]

Is there a possibility in LyX to select text and drag it with the mouse to
another position? Some shortcut I'm missing?

This is maybe a very silly question and people may answer with RTFM but I
honestly couldn't find anything in the documentation.

Peter

Counter with leading zero?

[Peter Baumgartner]

Is there a way to create a counter with a leading zero until it reaches 10?
Like the following: 01, 02, 03 ... 09, 10, 11

Re: Index Problem with see

[Peter Baumgartner]

> This must be
> 
> \index{Examination|see{Test}}
> 
> In other words: but the braces in ERT.
> 
> Jürgen

Thanks! I should have figured out myself <>.
Peter

Index Problem with see

[Peter Baumgartner]

If I generate an index like

>test\index{Test} and examination\index{Examination|see\{Test\}}
>\printindex{}

Then the test enty is ok but the examination part appears as

>Eximination. Siehe{est}1

The first character is disappeared, but curly braces and number do appear.
(I'm using LyX 1.6.7 on a Mac, German localisation)

At another Mac with LyX 1.6.5 the entry wit the see-statement does not
appear at all.

Any suggestions? Is there something wrong with code or maybe with my
installation?

Peter

Managing Theoremes in Theoreme Module

[Peter Baumgartner]

I'm using LyX 1.6.7 and would like to change some of the names and styles of
theorems of the theoreme module. Is there a way to do it via the preamble or
do I have to do it the "hard way" and have to change the file
"theorems.inc"? Couldn't find any help file.

Thanks,
Peter

cocoAspell with two languages in a text?

[Peter Baumgartner]

I have an English text with many German quotes. Changing always the language
for spell chacking in the lyx settings is very tiresome. 

Is there another way to let know cocoAspell that is has to change language
for spell checking? Maybe it can be done with marking the text with the
"language" text style? The text in Lyx appears underlined e.g. lyx knows
what ist what language. But how to transmit this knowledge to cocoAspell?

Or are there other tips for spell checking of two languages in one text? It
would be already very helpful if cocoAspell/Lyx could ignore the other
language and not always trying to correct words of the other language.

Help would be very appreciated,
Peter


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Re: LyZ: Lyx plugin for Zotero

[Peter Baumgartner]

Hi Petr,

> I have (probably) finished the plugin, i.e. at least as far as new 
> functionality goes.

Sounds great! I was always looking to prevent this extra export of data into a
.bib file from zotero.

But I have some problems:
1. The plugin does not export special characters like German umlaute correctly.
2. Deleting and renaming of bib and lyx-record does not work for me. 

I'm working with a Mac. Maybe this explains the problems? 

Peter



> The plugin is now able to synchronize any changes to BibTex keys, 
> including complete change of format, LyX document is updated 
> accordingly. This is useful when the reference is incorrectly collected 
> in Zotero and inserted as such into LyX. Probably not something that 
> would happen that often, but since it was quite straightforward to 
> implement...
> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/56806
> Best
> Petr
> 
> 

Re: input preamble with biblatex?

[Peter Baumgartner]

Pierfranco: Thanks for the tip, very helpful

Jürgen: Now it works! Problem was the filename "preamble.tex" :blush:

Two more related questions:
Is there a plan to solve the \includeonly problem?
If not: How to change this misleading paragraph in the manual?



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input preamble with biblatex?

[Peter Baumgartner]

I'm writing on a long document (book with various chapters) with LyX 1.6.5 on
OS X 10.5.8. After trying to prepare a master file with a preamble valid for
all files and to work on each file separately I noticed through different
posts on this forum that the command \includeonly does not work. At least
that was the discussion on an older lyx version but I assume that this is
still the case (independently that in the actual manual the "\includeonly"
command is still mentioned as it would function properly). Is this right?


So I tried to separate the preamble commands in a special file
"preamble.tex" and \input it into every file. But this didn't work. It
generated many errors, all of them - as far as I can see - related with my
bibliography. As I'm using biblatex with the module biblatex-citation-style
I assume that this is also the problem. Can anyone suggest how to proceed?

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Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?

[Peter Baumgartner]

It seems to me that there are several co-operations scenarios which may
require different solutions:

1. Leading author/editor:
 
A) Writing a book alone:

In this case the co-operation is with the publisher. In my experience - this
was before LyX-time, using FrameMaker ­ this boils down to a very
conventional scenario: The responsible editor/corrector of the publisher
reads the manuscripts and makes his/her suggestion either via paper or (more
modern) via pdf annotation.

B) Responsible editor:

In these cases I'm responsible for the editing process and make arrangements
concerning format, citation, getting what kind of files etc. As I'm
responsible this scenario poses no big problem with LyX: Converting the
files to LyX and sending out the formatted version for the last corrections.

The real problem arises in a scenario where different people work together
on an equal footing to produce an article or a book.

2. Co-operation on equal footing:

C) Long term co-operation on an equal footing:

If it is a long term co-operation (a major book with probably several
editions in the future, or a researcher alliance producing several articles
etc.) I would try to convince my partners to use LyX. At the beginning it
may require more work on my side in helping to solve the typical beginner
problems with LyX but in the long run it would pay back the effort.

The most convincing arguments are those which point out some LyX features
which other text processing systems do not have or are very cumbersome to
use. The rational: In order to produce the required output easily one has to
use LyX. These arguments are mainly subject driven; maybe the linguistic
module is a good example for this strategy.

In my field education I do not have this subject driven arguments. I could
argue with general facilitations like easy indexing, easy citations and
bibliography compilation etc. [BTW: There is also one showstopper to
overcome: (complex) tables are in LyX still pretty unconformable and
cumbersome to generate and edit.]

D) Short term co-operation on an equal footing:

In my opinion this is the real challenge and my original question was
directed to this everyday scenario: I'm evolved in different (EU)-projects
lasting 2-3 years with always changing partners. In these cases
1.) I can't require from my partner to learn and use LyX and
2.) I do not want to load more responsibilities on my shoulders as
necessary. In these cases it is for me out of questions to suggest to be the
responsible editor during the exchange phases.

Resuming the ongoing discussion there is from my point of view just one
solution: To provide the tools for a cross-software co-operation. Generally
that means a co-operation between LyX and MS Word or OO. Even if I can't
require that my partner use a different software as they are used I sure can
require that they are using styles.

So what I imagine is a good conversion routine which translates LyX styles
to OO and Word styles and vice versa. At the moment I'm very unhappy with
the conversion: As someone mentioned already: the conversion is not really
LyX-like. In my experience a conversion comes as a LyX file which is full of
small erst. This is ugly and uncomfortable to continue to work with. But
maybe I'm doing here something wrong?

The conversion routine is not easy to handle as the many complains in the
forum shows. The standard answer: "do the conversion from the command line
then you have more configurable options and you get more suitable results"
mostly stops the discussion thread but does it also provides a solution for
the asking person? Or does is just silences further questions? - I would
suggest a primer for conversions; many people do not even know what is meant
to use the command line. What are the options? How to use it, and when with
what effect? Not to forget the many complaints in the forum that the
conversions do not work altogether - maybe because of installation errors.

[Please keep in mind that I'm still a newcomer to LyX. Maybe I'm completely
wrong, but in that case my difficulties are possibly representative for
Newbies.]

I know that the conversion routine never could be perfect but I could live
with loosing some LyX formatting specialities in the first rounds of the
co-operation. In the finish the partners will agree who will finalize the
text and this person is free to use his/her preferable tool. From here the
co-operation scenario comes close to case B).

Peter

Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?

[Peter Baumgartner]

Hello LyX Community,

After several months collecting experiences with LyX I'm really convinced of
this writing and publishing tool. I would like to use it in many writing and
publishing projects as possible.

But there is one problem I do not know how to solve: In my scientific
environment (education, humanities) nobody is using LyX and just one
co-operation partner uses LaTex. But I have many projects where several
people are contributing to a report or a book. Normally in these projects
people are using MS Word or OpenOffice. Conversion texts from LyX to OO and
back is pretty cumbersome and does not preserve the great advantages of LyX
formatting.

I would like to ask if there are some experiences or tips how to co-operate
with Non-Lyx users in writing/publication projects. I'm especially
interested in strategies where the text is elaborated from several partners
sending the text via E-Mail back and forth or using Google Docs.

How to proceed? I could try to convince them to use LyX but in these
projects we are always short in time. So everybody is using his/her well
known system, and this means as default always Word or OO.

Some ideas and/or sharing experiences would be very appreciated.

Peter

Shortcut for modifying current paragraph?

[Peter Baumgartner]

Hello,

I wanted to create a shortcut for changing certain paragraphs from left to
center align and vice versa. I looked up the corresponding LFUN
paragraph-params. It says that I have to provide the corresponding parameter
in brackets. I have to choose from
 :   \align block|left|right|center|default
But I do not know how to include it into the shortcut edit window. I tried:

  paragraph-params [\align left]
  paragraph-params [\align{left}]
  paragraph-params [\align(left)]
  paragraph-params [\alignleft]
  paragraph-params [align left]
  paragraph-params [left]

But all these trials didn't work. What is the correct syntax?

BTW: I think there is something wrong with the creation of shortcuts - at
least on the mac. One can't modify a shortcut but have to delete it and
create it from scratch. There is an empty template e.g. "Paragraph-params"
in choosing to modify it LyX is creating a new one.

Peter

Re: Lingiustic module - (sub)example environment

[Peter Baumgartner]

Jürgen Spitzmüller  writes:

> You need the enumitem package for the subexample environment. Also cf. 
> Help>Specific Manuals>Linguistic Manual.
> 
Sorry, for not RTFM in detail ;-)
After installing enumitem I got the same error, but this time it was a clash
with the paralist package. I redefined my two special list environments with
enumitem and got rid of paralist - and now it works. 

Lingiustic module - (sub)example environment

[Peter Baumgartner]

Hello,

The two example environments works in my LyX installation. But I got an
error when I try to apply the subexample. (Undefined control sequence) Is
there a special procedure how to use it? Or am I missing some additional
package? (I've installed covington.sty).

Thank for help!

Peter

Question on cross-reference dialog window

[Peter Baumgartner]

Hello,

In my LyX installation 1.6.1 on Mac OSX I have a cross-reference window with
an input field called "Name" which is always grayed out so that no input is
possible.

Maybe this should work for formatted references? But how to use it?

BTW: IMHO there should be more explication in the User'sGuide how to use the
package prettyref. In the German version even the important message "Note:
This feature is only available when you have the LaTeX-package prettyref
installed" is missing." Where can I report this desire?

Thanks,
Peter

Re: Aspell - soft hyphen problem

[Peter Baumgartner]

> ... aspell complains at every word where a soft hyphen is hidden. (hex AD).
> What can I do to prevent this?
> 
> Im not sure but maybe it can be solved with the LyX Spellchecker dialog box
> under preferences which says "characters to ignore". But I do not know how
> to input the soft hyphen. Could someone help me?

I found (finally!) another solution and will report it here just in case
someone meets the same problem:

The trick is to remove the soft hyphen with the find-replace box inside LyX
itself. The problem is that you can't see these soft hyphens. But you can do
the following:

1. Let aspell find this invisible character. It will select the first part
of the word until to the hyphen.
2. Disrupt the spellchecker (press "close" in the spellchecker box)
3. Get rid of the selected part of the word (press return)
4. Select the hidden character to the right of the cursor: (press
Shift-Cursor Right)
5. Now the sign magically appears and is selected! Copy it into the find and
replace dialog. 
6. Start with the replacements.

[You can't remove this special character in the find-replace dialog. You
have to overwrite it with another word you are looking for.]

Re: Compressed format - something to know?

[Peter Baumgartner]

Thanks everybody for clearing the issue.

The reduction in file size is really not so important. But I didn't know
about the difference of these two formats and especially of the potential
dangerous disadvantages of the compress format.

As it stands now I will consciously *not* enable the compressed format and
return to the text format ;-)

Peter

Aspell - soft hyphen problem

[Peter Baumgartner]

Hello,

I have imported text from OpenOffice into LyX. After working for several
weeks with this text I wanted the report finalize with spell checking using
aspell. 
But aspell complains at every word where a soft hyphen is hidden. (hex AD).
What can I do to prevent this?

Im not sure but maybe it can be solved with the LyX Spellchecker dialog box
under preferences which says "characters to ignore". But I do not know how
to input the soft hyphen. Could someone help me?

Thanks in advance
Peter

Compressed format - something to know?

[Peter Baumgartner]

Hi,

I noticed that the menu option "compressed" decreases the file sizes
tremendously. UserGuide for example shrinks down from 700kB to 108kB!

Is there something to observe using this option? Why does LyX not use the
compressed format as default?

Peter

Re: Multiple Bibliographies with biblatex?

[Peter Baumgartner]

>> I read in the LaTeX Companion that "multibib" via the "\newsites" command
>> should have this feature. But it is not compatible with biblatex.
>> 
>> So what can I do: (a) I need author/year style but (b) have many url
>> references which happen to have just 3 fields: title, url and urldate.
> 
> I'd suggest to use a key (short title) for the url references. Mixing author-
> year and numerical is probably a bad idea anyway.

Thank you, Jürgen. That really helped! I didn't know that biblatex will take
the shorttitle field whenever author and year are absent!

What I've done:
1. I changed the type from all my website references in my JabRef database
from "misc" to "electronic".
2. I added to these entries - as you suggested ­ a new field "shorttitle"
3. I told biblatex to generate 2 bibliographies: one for printing literature
and one for type "electronic" for my web resources.

To get a visual clue for the reader I used for electronic references a cite
style without parentheses and added square brackets manually.

Again thanks! You really saved me, because the report is due on 7th January.
Peter

How to find href and url insets?

[Peter Baumgartner]

Hello,

The find dialog works fine with ERT insets but not with hypertext and url
insets. I have many hypertext and url insets in my text and want to change
these links to normal references which appear in the bibliography. Is there
a way to find all these insets automatically?

Peter

Re: Multiple Bibliographies with biblatex?

[Peter Baumgartner]

> AFAIK, this is not possible. I am not aware of any bibliography package that
> allows for this.

I read in the LaTeX Companion that "multibib" via the "\newsites³ command
should have this feature. But it is not compatible with biblatex.

So what can I do: (a) I need author/year style but (b) have many url
references which happen to have just 3 fields: title, url and urldate.

(I know this is not necessary a LyX question, but this is my first major
report written with LyX...)
Peter

Re: Multiple Bibliographies with biblatex?

[Peter Baumgartner]

Jürgen,

As far as I understand the sec. 3.10.3 ff. describes different
bibliographies with the same citation style. What I need is a bibliography
generated by an author/year style and another bibliography generated by a
numbered style. 

Sorry, for not having specified the problem clearly: my heading should have
been "multiple citation styles" and not "multiple bibliographies".

Peter


> Von: Jürgen Spitzmüller 
> Datum: Sat, 27 Dec 2008 09:36:39 +0100
> An: 
> Betreff: Re: Multiple Bibliographies with biblatex?
> 
> Peter Baumgartner wrote:
>> Is there a way to work with multiple bibliographies using biblatex? I need
>> two bibliographies: One with author/year and another one numbered which
>> lists internet address without authors and year.
> 
> Yes. This is well documented in the biblatex manual, sec. 3.10.3 ff.
> 
> HTH,
> Jürgen
> 

Multiple Bibliographies with biblatex?

[Peter Baumgartner]

Hello,

Is there a way to work with multiple bibliographies using biblatex? I need
two bibliographies: One with author/year and another one numbered which
lists internet address without authors and year.

I can produce subdivided bibliographies: one with all my book/articles etc.
and another one with web addresses, but I do not know how to mix up the
citation styles.

All the packages which are supposed to solve this problem are not compatible
with biblatex. Is this a dead end and do I have to return to natbib?

Every help is appreciated!

Peter

Problems with import

[Peter Baumgartner]

Hi,

I can't import html and rtf files to lyx.
I produced very basic files (just two lines), but get the following error
message:

"Execution of
java -jar htmltolatex.jar -input 'Test.html' -outp
failed"

Respectively
"Execution of
rtf2latex2e 'Test.rtf'
failed".

Something wrong with my installation?

I'm using LyX 1.6.1 on a Mac OS 10.4.11 with the TexLive 2008 distribution.

Peter

Re: Including lyx files under the help menu

[Peter Baumgartner]

> Peter Baumgartner wrote:

>> Using version 1.6 I noticed that the file FAQ.lyx is not included anymore.
>> It had some nice information for me. It would be nice to have this file (and
>> other help files I wrote myself) under the LyX Help menu.

> You have to hack the UI file.  Go to
> /Applications/LyX/Contents/Resources/ui (I'm guessing on the path; I
> don't have a Mac) and edit stdmenus.inc in a text editor.  Scroll down
> to the section that starts 'Menu "help"' and add an entry for each of
> the new help files.  The syntax seems self-explanatory to me.

> /Paul

Thanks Paul, that worked!
In order not to loose my adaptation with the next version I copied
stdmenus.inc into my local directory
"~/Library/Application Support/LyX-1.6/ui/" and the help file to
"~/Library/Application Support/LyX-1.6/doc/".

Peter

Including lyx files under the help menu

[Peter Baumgartner]

Hi,

Using version 1.6 I noticed that the file FAQ.lyx is not included anymore.
It had some nice information for me. It would be nice to have this file (and
other help files I wrote myself) under the LyX Help menu. So I could consult
it easily. At first I tried it to copy under
"/Applications/LyX/Contents/Resources/doc/de/" (I'm using a Mac) then with
"~/Library/Application Support/LyX-1.6/doc/ (always with reconfigure and
restarting LyX). But it didn't work.

What did I wrong?

Thanks
Peter

Re: beaking long URLs

[Peter Baumgartner]

> Also sprach Peter Baumgartner:
>> I know that just Insert->URL should work, but it didn't. Something wrong
>> with the new version or my insallation?
> 
> In order to find out, we need a minimal example file that shows the
> misbehaviour for you. Both the LyX file and the LaTeX output.
> 
> (everything works as expected here).

Breaking URLs works with the preamble command: \usepackage{breakurl}
I think I know the reason:
"The breakurl is an extension to hyperref package that allows line-breakable
\url-like links when compiling via latex + dvips + ps2pdf
.. if the dvips driver is being used, the original \url doesn't allow line
breaks in the middle of the created link: the link comes in one atomic
piece.  This package allows such line breaks in the generated links.

Note that this package is intended only for those using the dvips driver.
Users of the pdflatex driver already have this feature."
(Quote from the ReadMe File of breakurl)

But it is still strange for me, as I thought I'm using pdflatex. But frankly
I never understood the converter dialog quite well.

Re: Breaking long URL?

[Peter Baumgartner]

> I have put in the preamble \usepackage{breakurl}  and everything is fine.
@Pierfranco: Thanks! - This works in both cases (bibtex and biblatex). Is
this a special package? How did you find this out?

Breaking long URL?

[Peter Baumgartner]

Hi,

How to break URL at non-letters without hyphen? I've turned on HyperRef
Support on and also checked the box "break link over lines" but still the
URLs do not break.

Breaking of URLs works for me in the bibliography with biblatex but not with
the normal bibtex bibliography. And in both cases it does not work within
normal paragraphs. 

I've tried "breaklinks=true" in the option line of the PDF feature dialog
but without success.

What's wrong? ( OSX 10.4.11, LyX 1.6.0., TeXLive 2008)

Peter

UI Localization of 1.5.6 on Mac

[Peter Baumgartner]

Could anyone explain how to change the environment variable LANG on the Mac
from English to German?

The new 1.5.6 version of LyX for the Mac comes by default with the English
UI. Is that done by purpose or a bug? With the version 1.5.5 I didn't have
this problem. Will the change of the environment variable affect other
programs as well? 

Any help will be appreciated!

Regards,
Peter

Re: French localization of Lyx 1.5.6

[Peter Baumgartner]

Uwe Stöhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> 
> Franck Pastor schrieb:
> 
> > Maybe the French localization of Lyx 1.5.6 is not yet available?
> 
> It is available. To get French menus, you need to set the enviroment variable
"LANG" to "fr_FR". 
> (Thats how it works on Windows and Linux, don't know about MAC.)
> 
> regards Uwe
> 
> 
Hello,

On the Mac the update from LyX 1.5.5. to 1.5.6 changes the interface to English
generally. In my case from German to English. This didn't happen with the other
updates before. So I believe there is something wrong with the installer or the
new version.

It seems to me there should an easy way to change (to keep!) the interface into
the default language of the OS. I've read in the manual that one has to set the
environment variable "LANG" but (a) this would require either knowledge of the
terminal and UNIX shell or more details as can be found in the customization.lyx
help file and (b) I believed this would effect other progamms as well. (Not
sure, but afraid)

After reinstalling the version 1.5.5 the user interface became German again, but
my spellwriting option did not work anymore. It now says:
'Das Rechtschreibprogramm konnte nicht gestartet werden
Error: Expected language "de" but got "en".' - Maybe there is something broken
after installing version 1.5.6?

I'm using Mac OS X Version 10.4.11 on an Intel Mac and I tried the binary
version of LyX 1.5.6 which is offered from the LyX ftp Website under


regards Peter

Localization Problems with Listings

[Peter Baumgartner]

Hi,

in LyX 1.5.3 on Mac OS X some of my indices localize correctly to German
spelling (e.g. TOC = Inhaltsverzeichnis, Algorithms =
Algorithmenverzeichnis)

But these localizations did not work with "Bibliography" and "List of
Figures". Here the English words appeared - but just in the Output. In Lyx
itself these list headers were generated correctly in German.

With the bibliography I tried the command in the preamble

 \renewcommand{\refname}{Literaturverzeichnis}

but it didn't work either.

Any ideas?

Peter