Re: LInebreaks in a table
Dekel Tsur wrote: On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 06:55:20PM +0300, Kari Ruohonen wrote: Hi! I used to manage to fix the width of a table column by giving the width and choosing the linebreaks option from the table layout display. This is explained in User's guide. However, with 1.1.6fix3 I don't seem to be able to do this anymore because I can't find linebreaks. Can somebody point me to documentation explaining how this can be done or give a quick explanation? Just set the width of the column, and then use ctrl+enter to enter line breaks. Yes, this works, but it would be so nice if in the next version we could just hit C-Enter and get a line break in a normal column! Robin
Re: LInebreaks in a table
Dekel Tsur wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 06:55:20PM +0300, Kari Ruohonen wrote: > > Hi! > > I used to manage to fix the width of a table column by giving the width > > and choosing the "linebreaks" option from the table layout display. This > > is explained in User's guide. However, with 1.1.6fix3 I don't seem to be > > able to do this anymore because I can't find "linebreaks". Can somebody > > point me to documentation explaining how this can be done or give a quick > > explanation? > > Just set the width of the column, and then use ctrl+enter to enter line > breaks. Yes, this works, but it would be so nice if in the next version we could just hit C-Enter and get a line break in a normal column! Robin
Re: boxing a description
On Tuesday 02 October 2001 13:42, Myriam Abramson wrote:
Hi!
I'm trying to put a box around a description (describing an
algorithm with keywords) but I get errors even in the tex file!
\fbox is fragile, if I remember rightly. You can get out of this by using a
minipage. Put something like this in your preamble:
\newenvironment{myBox}{%
\vspace{4mm}
\noindent%
\begin{lrbox}{\@tempboxa}%
\begin{minipage}[c]{0.5\columnwidth}%
}{%
\end{minipage}%
\end{lrbox}%
\centering
\fbox{\parbox{0.5\columnwidth}{\usebox{\@tempboxa}}}\\%
\vspace{4mm}
}%
This is adapted a little from one of Herbert's bits of LaTeX wizardry -
you'll probably want to play with it to get your box the right size and in
the right position.
Robin
Re: boxing a description
On Tuesday 02 October 2001 14:28, Robin Turner wrote:
On Tuesday 02 October 2001 13:42, Myriam Abramson wrote:
Hi!
I'm trying to put a box around a description (describing an
algorithm with keywords) but I get errors even in the tex file!
\fbox is fragile, if I remember rightly. You can get out of this by using
a minipage. Put something like this in your preamble:
[cut]
On closer inspection ... the problem is that LaTeX is reading the closing
brace of your fbox command as an item in the description environment.
I got round this eventually with the solution I mentioned before (i.e. create
your own boxed minipage environment) but still can't get it to work with
plain fbox. See attached LaTeX file for the workable version.
Robin
%% LyX 1.2 created this file. For more info, see http://www.lyx.org/.
%% Do not edit unless you really know what you are doing.
\documentclass[english]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{babel}
\makeatletter
%% LyX specific LaTeX commands.
\providecommand{\LyX}{L\kern-.1667em\lower.25em\hbox{Y}\kern-.125emX\@}
%% Textclass specific LaTeX commands.
\newenvironment{myBox}{%
\vspace{4mm}
\noindent%
\begin{lrbox}{\@tempboxa}%
\begin{minipage}[c]{0.5\columnwidth}%
}{%
\end{minipage}%
\end{lrbox}%
\centering
\fbox{\parbox{0.5\columnwidth}{\usebox{\@tempboxa}}}\\%
\vspace{4mm}
}%
\makeatother
\begin{document}
\begin{myBox} boxing test algorithm
\begin{description}
\item [push]x on stock
\item [while](stack)\\
y $\leftarrow $ pop stack
\begin{description}
\item [Foreach]neighboring i\\
i$_{s} $ $\leftarrow $ $\frac{1}{8}\sum _{j} weight_{j} $ where $j$ is a neighbor of
$s$\\
if $\Delta weight$ $\epsilon $\\
push $s$ in stack
\end{description}
\end{description}
\end{myBox}
\end{document}
Re: boxing a description
On Tuesday 02 October 2001 13:42, Myriam Abramson wrote:
Hi!
I'm trying to put a box around a description (describing an
algorithm with keywords) but I get errors even in the tex file!
\fbox is fragile, if I remember rightly. You can get out of this by using a
minipage. Put something like this in your preamble:
\newenvironment{myBox}{%
\vspace{4mm}
\noindent%
\begin{lrbox}{\@tempboxa}%
\begin{minipage}[c]{0.5\columnwidth}%
}{%
\end{minipage}%
\end{lrbox}%
\centering
\fbox{\parbox{0.5\columnwidth}{\usebox{\@tempboxa}}}\\%
\vspace{4mm}
}%
This is adapted a little from one of Herbert's bits of LaTeX wizardry -
you'll probably want to play with it to get your box the right size and in
the right position.
Robin
Re: boxing a description
On Tuesday 02 October 2001 14:28, Robin Turner wrote:
On Tuesday 02 October 2001 13:42, Myriam Abramson wrote:
Hi!
I'm trying to put a box around a description (describing an
algorithm with keywords) but I get errors even in the tex file!
\fbox is fragile, if I remember rightly. You can get out of this by using
a minipage. Put something like this in your preamble:
[cut]
On closer inspection ... the problem is that LaTeX is reading the closing
brace of your fbox command as an item in the description environment.
I got round this eventually with the solution I mentioned before (i.e. create
your own boxed minipage environment) but still can't get it to work with
plain fbox. See attached LaTeX file for the workable version.
Robin
%% LyX 1.2 created this file. For more info, see http://www.lyx.org/.
%% Do not edit unless you really know what you are doing.
\documentclass[english]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{babel}
\makeatletter
%% LyX specific LaTeX commands.
\providecommand{\LyX}{L\kern-.1667em\lower.25em\hbox{Y}\kern-.125emX\@}
%% Textclass specific LaTeX commands.
\newenvironment{myBox}{%
\vspace{4mm}
\noindent%
\begin{lrbox}{\@tempboxa}%
\begin{minipage}[c]{0.5\columnwidth}%
}{%
\end{minipage}%
\end{lrbox}%
\centering
\fbox{\parbox{0.5\columnwidth}{\usebox{\@tempboxa}}}\\%
\vspace{4mm}
}%
\makeatother
\begin{document}
\begin{myBox} boxing test algorithm
\begin{description}
\item [push]x on stock
\item [while](stack)\\
y $\leftarrow $ pop stack
\begin{description}
\item [Foreach]neighboring i\\
i$_{s} $ $\leftarrow $ $\frac{1}{8}\sum _{j} weight_{j} $ where $j$ is a neighbor of
$s$\\
if $\Delta weight$ $\epsilon $\\
push $s$ in stack
\end{description}
\end{description}
\end{myBox}
\end{document}
Re: boxing a description
On Tuesday 02 October 2001 13:42, Myriam Abramson wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I'm trying to put a box around a description (describing an
> algorithm with keywords) but I get errors even in the tex file!
\fbox is fragile, if I remember rightly. You can get out of this by using a
minipage. Put something like this in your preamble:
\newenvironment{myBox}{%
\vspace{4mm}
\noindent%
\begin{lrbox}{\@tempboxa}%
\begin{minipage}[c]{0.5\columnwidth}%
}{%
\end{minipage}%
\end{lrbox}%
\centering
\fbox{\parbox{0.5\columnwidth}{\usebox{\@tempboxa}}}\\%
\vspace{4mm}
}%
This is adapted a little from one of Herbert's bits of LaTeX wizardry -
you'll probably want to play with it to get your box the right size and in
the right position.
Robin
Re: boxing a description
On Tuesday 02 October 2001 14:28, Robin Turner wrote:
> On Tuesday 02 October 2001 13:42, Myriam Abramson wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > I'm trying to put a box around a description (describing an
> > algorithm with keywords) but I get errors even in the tex file!
>
> \fbox is fragile, if I remember rightly. You can get out of this by using
> a minipage. Put something like this in your preamble:
>
[cut]
On closer inspection ... the problem is that LaTeX is reading the closing
brace of your fbox command as an item in the description environment.
I got round this eventually with the solution I mentioned before (i.e. create
your own boxed minipage environment) but still can't get it to work with
plain fbox. See attached LaTeX file for the workable version.
Robin
%% LyX 1.2 created this file. For more info, see http://www.lyx.org/.
%% Do not edit unless you really know what you are doing.
\documentclass[english]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{babel}
\makeatletter
%% LyX specific LaTeX commands.
\providecommand{\LyX}{L\kern-.1667em\lower.25em\hbox{Y}\kern-.125emX\@}
%% Textclass specific LaTeX commands.
\newenvironment{myBox}{%
\vspace{4mm}
\noindent%
\begin{lrbox}{\@tempboxa}%
\begin{minipage}[c]{0.5\columnwidth}%
}{%
\end{minipage}%
\end{lrbox}%
\centering
\fbox{\parbox{0.5\columnwidth}{\usebox{\@tempboxa}}}\\%
\vspace{4mm}
}%
\makeatother
\begin{document}
\begin{myBox} boxing test algorithm
\begin{description}
\item [push]x on stock
\item [while](stack)\\
y $\leftarrow $ pop stack
\begin{description}
\item [Foreach]neighboring i\\
i$_{s} $ $\leftarrow $ $\frac{1}{8}\sum _{j} weight_{j} $ where $j$ is a neighbor of
$s$\\
if $\Delta weight$ > $\epsilon $\\
push $s$ in stack
\end{description}
\end{description}
\end{myBox}
\end{document}
Re: Confusing error message
On Sunday 23 September 2001 18:02, Steve Litt wrote: Divide the problem in half. Export to postscript on each machine, then print the postscript files on the alternate machines. Does the error follow the export to postscript, or the printing of the postscript? Seems to be coming on the first latex run. Other messages I get are from BibTeX complaining about not finding citations, which I assume is because it didn't get as far as creating an .aux file. By the way, your symptom description seems to indicate that this error comes out on a sheet of paper from the printer. Could it be that one of your printers is set not to print postscript errors? No, I phrased it badly. I get an error box in LyX, and in the terminal when I run latex on the LaTeX output. Also be aware that if you're using Mandrake 8 with the distro-included CUPS software, your first graphic will be overwritten by all subsequent pages in Postscript, Abiword, or anything else. The solution to this problem is to upgrade your CUPS. The upgrade is available on the Mandrake site. Hah! That wasn't a problem with this particular document, but I had encountered it before (kludged it by printing all pages up to the danger point, then all pages after). Robin
Re: Confusing error message
On Sunday 23 September 2001 18:02, Steve Litt wrote: Divide the problem in half. Export to postscript on each machine, then print the postscript files on the alternate machines. Does the error follow the export to postscript, or the printing of the postscript? Seems to be coming on the first latex run. Other messages I get are from BibTeX complaining about not finding citations, which I assume is because it didn't get as far as creating an .aux file. By the way, your symptom description seems to indicate that this error comes out on a sheet of paper from the printer. Could it be that one of your printers is set not to print postscript errors? No, I phrased it badly. I get an error box in LyX, and in the terminal when I run latex on the LaTeX output. Also be aware that if you're using Mandrake 8 with the distro-included CUPS software, your first graphic will be overwritten by all subsequent pages in Postscript, Abiword, or anything else. The solution to this problem is to upgrade your CUPS. The upgrade is available on the Mandrake site. Hah! That wasn't a problem with this particular document, but I had encountered it before (kludged it by printing all pages up to the danger point, then all pages after). Robin
Re: Confusing error message
On Sunday 23 September 2001 18:02, Steve Litt wrote: > Divide the problem in half. Export to postscript on each machine, then > print the postscript files on the alternate machines. Does the error follow > the export to postscript, or the printing of the postscript? Seems to be coming on the first latex run. Other messages I get are from BibTeX complaining about not finding citations, which I assume is because it didn't get as far as creating an .aux file. > > By the way, your symptom description seems to indicate that this error > comes out on a sheet of paper from the printer. Could it be that one of > your printers is set not to print postscript errors? No, I phrased it badly. I get an error box in LyX, and in the terminal when I run latex on the LaTeX output. > > Also be aware that if you're using Mandrake 8 with the distro-included CUPS > software, your first graphic will be overwritten by all subsequent pages in > Postscript, Abiword, or anything else. The solution to this problem is to > upgrade your CUPS. The upgrade is available on the Mandrake site. Hah! That wasn't a problem with this particular document, but I had encountered it before (kludged it by printing all pages up to the danger point, then all pages after). Robin
Re: lyx-word
On Sunday 16 September 2001 17:57, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: What is the latest recommendation to convert a lyx/tex file into a word file? I could take care of the figures manually, but would be nice to keep the italics and, more important, the references and bibliography (my mistake was to tell in advance the editor that I would produce the book chapter in tex only...) I export as HTML, import into Word, tidy it up if necessary, and save as Word, adding macro viruses as required ;-) Robin
Re: word to lyx
On Sunday 16 September 2001 16:54, Herbert Voss wrote: Javier López wrote: Please, I am looking for a file converter program from MS Word to Lyx (or another Linux' DB software). Does it exists? save in word to rtf, than use rtf2latex, than try from within lyx relyx. the easiest way is to save it as ascii and import it in LyX. if your word text has not complicated stuff try word2x and mvware, too. see also: http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/converter.html wv does a good job sometimes, though can occasionally produce garbage (something to do with encoding - there was a thread on this some time back). If you install it and reconfigure LyX, you can then just do File-Import-Word. Robin
Re: user guide problem
On Monday 17 September 2001 16:57, davide wrote:
Hello
I've installed lyx and it's a wonderful program, *thans to developers* ,
I've a problem with user guide, latex gives me many errors of the same
type: extra /fi, i don't know latex so I don't know to solve this
please help me
It's a TeX error message, though the normal ones that come up are Extra $
and Extra { (the latter is not actually an extra anything, but an indication
that you've used a fragile command in a float, or something like that). fi
is TeX for the ligature character fi (can't reproduce it here for obvious
reasons).
Can you send me a copy of the offending file?
Robin
Re: lyx-word
On Sunday 16 September 2001 17:57, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: What is the latest recommendation to convert a lyx/tex file into a word file? I could take care of the figures manually, but would be nice to keep the italics and, more important, the references and bibliography (my mistake was to tell in advance the editor that I would produce the book chapter in tex only...) I export as HTML, import into Word, tidy it up if necessary, and save as Word, adding macro viruses as required ;-) Robin
Re: word to lyx
On Sunday 16 September 2001 16:54, Herbert Voss wrote: Javier López wrote: Please, I am looking for a file converter program from MS Word to Lyx (or another Linux' DB software). Does it exists? save in word to rtf, than use rtf2latex, than try from within lyx relyx. the easiest way is to save it as ascii and import it in LyX. if your word text has not complicated stuff try word2x and mvware, too. see also: http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/converter.html wv does a good job sometimes, though can occasionally produce garbage (something to do with encoding - there was a thread on this some time back). If you install it and reconfigure LyX, you can then just do File-Import-Word. Robin
Re: user guide problem
On Monday 17 September 2001 16:57, davide wrote:
Hello
I've installed lyx and it's a wonderful program, *thans to developers* ,
I've a problem with user guide, latex gives me many errors of the same
type: extra /fi, i don't know latex so I don't know to solve this
please help me
It's a TeX error message, though the normal ones that come up are Extra $
and Extra { (the latter is not actually an extra anything, but an indication
that you've used a fragile command in a float, or something like that). fi
is TeX for the ligature character fi (can't reproduce it here for obvious
reasons).
Can you send me a copy of the offending file?
Robin
Re: lyx->word
On Sunday 16 September 2001 17:57, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > What is the latest recommendation to convert a lyx/tex file into a word > file? I could take care of the figures manually, but would be nice to keep > the italics and, more important, the references and bibliography > > (my mistake was to tell in advance the editor that I would produce the > book chapter in tex only...) I export as HTML, import into Word, tidy it up if necessary, and save as Word, adding macro viruses as required ;-) Robin
Re: word to lyx
On Sunday 16 September 2001 16:54, Herbert Voss wrote: > Javier López wrote: > > Please, I am looking for a file converter program > > from MS Word to Lyx (or another Linux' DB software). Does it exists? > > save in word to rtf, than use rtf2latex, > than try from within lyx relyx. > > the easiest way is to save it as ascii and import it > in LyX. if your word text has not complicated stuff > try word2x and mvware, too. > > see also: > > http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/converter.html wv does a good job sometimes, though can occasionally produce garbage (something to do with encoding - there was a thread on this some time back). If you install it and reconfigure LyX, you can then just do File->Import->Word. Robin
Re: user guide problem
On Monday 17 September 2001 16:57, davide wrote:
> Hello
> I've installed lyx and it's a wonderful program, *thans to developers* ,
> I've a problem with user guide, latex gives me many errors of the same
> type: "extra /fi", i don't know latex so I don't know to solve this
> please help me
It's a TeX error message, though the normal ones that come up are "Extra $"
and Extra {" (the latter is not actually an extra anything, but an indication
that you've used a fragile command in a float, or something like that). "fi"
is TeX for the ligature character fi (can't reproduce it here for obvious
reasons).
Can you send me a copy of the offending file?
Robin
Re: Can I name a font?
On Tuesday 11 September 2001 11:08, Dekel Tsur wrote:
On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 04:52:47PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote:
By the way, if \textsf is sans, and \textbf is bold, anyone know how to
make underline?
\underline{text}.
However, underlined text won't break at line end.
For a breakable underline text, use the \ul command from soul.sty.
On the subject of font packages, a couple of questions:
1. Is there any documentation for the lucida packages? I've been trying
sticking things in my preamble, but the results are pretty hit or miss.
2. Does anyone know how to get shadow and outline effects? I assume these
are raw TeX commands, as I can't find any LaTeX command to do this.
Robin
Re: Can I name a font?
On Tuesday 11 September 2001 11:08, Dekel Tsur wrote:
On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 04:52:47PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote:
By the way, if \textsf is sans, and \textbf is bold, anyone know how to
make underline?
\underline{text}.
However, underlined text won't break at line end.
For a breakable underline text, use the \ul command from soul.sty.
On the subject of font packages, a couple of questions:
1. Is there any documentation for the lucida packages? I've been trying
sticking things in my preamble, but the results are pretty hit or miss.
2. Does anyone know how to get shadow and outline effects? I assume these
are raw TeX commands, as I can't find any LaTeX command to do this.
Robin
Re: Can I name a font?
On Tuesday 11 September 2001 11:08, Dekel Tsur wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 04:52:47PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote:
> > By the way, if \textsf is sans, and \textbf is bold, anyone know how to
> > make underline?
>
> \underline{text}.
> However, underlined text won't break at line end.
> For a breakable underline text, use the \ul command from soul.sty.
On the subject of font packages, a couple of questions:
1. Is there any documentation for the lucida packages? I've been trying
sticking things in my preamble, but the results are pretty hit or miss.
2. Does anyone know how to get shadow and outline effects? I assume these
are raw TeX commands, as I can't find any LaTeX command to do this.
Robin
Installing fonts [was: Re: Why Lyx?]
On Friday 07 September 2001 01:51, Kathryn Andersen wrote: On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 05:46:55PM +0300, Robin Turner wrote: On Wednesday 05 September 2001 17:24, John Levon wrote: On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 10:08:24PM +1000, Kathryn Andersen wrote: One thing that LyX definitely does worse is fonts -- but that's because of the limitations of TeX. Does anyone know if that's ever likely to improve? what do you mean here ? I wouldn't want to make assumptions about what Kathryn meant, but what _I_ would mean by being bad at fonts is: Thanks for not assuming, but you hit the nail on the head. 1. You only get a few fonts pre-installed with your standard TeX/LaTeX distribution (not necessarily a bad thing, though). Agreed. After leaving the world of hundreds of TrueType fonts, it's a rather a letdown. 2. Although there are some very nice TeXable fonts out there, installing them is about as intuitive as quantum physics. Say it again, man! Even with some nice tools like vfontinst, you still have to mess around in the bowels... Woohoo, I actually did it! OK, it took me a couple of hours just to do one test font, but now I can print from LyX in ugly Comic Sans MS! Interested and determined parties can check out http://www.pegasus.rutgers.edu/~elflord/unix/latex/no-bs.html Less masochistic types who prefer to get their fonts from CTAN rather than piss around with TrueType fonts might find the following useful: http://www.ctan.org/ctan/install.html OK, most of you probably knew that already, but it's amazing what you can miss when browsing through archives. 3. Even if you actually manage to get a new font installed, LyX won't recognise it. Evil Red Text is required -- that or making your own Style (which is what I ended up doing). As I've said before, a very nice feature/plugin for LyX would be a font-installer. My dream would be something that would connect to my nearest CTAN mirror, download the fonts I want, integrate them in my TeX system and add them to the LyX default font popup. Or simply something that would allow me to use all of my existing TrueType fonts as easily as I can now use them in X-Windows. Should be easy for some script wizard to write! The nice thing about Unix/Linux is that just about anything you can do once, you can script to do umpteen times. But I'm worn out after my heroic achievement ...
Installing fonts [was: Re: Why Lyx?]
On Friday 07 September 2001 01:51, Kathryn Andersen wrote: On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 05:46:55PM +0300, Robin Turner wrote: On Wednesday 05 September 2001 17:24, John Levon wrote: On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 10:08:24PM +1000, Kathryn Andersen wrote: One thing that LyX definitely does worse is fonts -- but that's because of the limitations of TeX. Does anyone know if that's ever likely to improve? what do you mean here ? I wouldn't want to make assumptions about what Kathryn meant, but what _I_ would mean by being bad at fonts is: Thanks for not assuming, but you hit the nail on the head. 1. You only get a few fonts pre-installed with your standard TeX/LaTeX distribution (not necessarily a bad thing, though). Agreed. After leaving the world of hundreds of TrueType fonts, it's a rather a letdown. 2. Although there are some very nice TeXable fonts out there, installing them is about as intuitive as quantum physics. Say it again, man! Even with some nice tools like vfontinst, you still have to mess around in the bowels... Woohoo, I actually did it! OK, it took me a couple of hours just to do one test font, but now I can print from LyX in ugly Comic Sans MS! Interested and determined parties can check out http://www.pegasus.rutgers.edu/~elflord/unix/latex/no-bs.html Less masochistic types who prefer to get their fonts from CTAN rather than piss around with TrueType fonts might find the following useful: http://www.ctan.org/ctan/install.html OK, most of you probably knew that already, but it's amazing what you can miss when browsing through archives. 3. Even if you actually manage to get a new font installed, LyX won't recognise it. Evil Red Text is required -- that or making your own Style (which is what I ended up doing). As I've said before, a very nice feature/plugin for LyX would be a font-installer. My dream would be something that would connect to my nearest CTAN mirror, download the fonts I want, integrate them in my TeX system and add them to the LyX default font popup. Or simply something that would allow me to use all of my existing TrueType fonts as easily as I can now use them in X-Windows. Should be easy for some script wizard to write! The nice thing about Unix/Linux is that just about anything you can do once, you can script to do umpteen times. But I'm worn out after my heroic achievement ...
Installing fonts [was: Re: Why Lyx?]
On Friday 07 September 2001 01:51, Kathryn Andersen wrote: > On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 05:46:55PM +0300, Robin Turner wrote: > > On Wednesday 05 September 2001 17:24, John Levon wrote: > > > On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 10:08:24PM +1000, Kathryn Andersen wrote: > > > > One thing that LyX definitely does worse is fonts -- but that's > > > > because of the limitations of TeX. Does anyone know if that's ever > > > > likely to improve? > > > > > > what do you mean here ? > > > > I wouldn't want to make assumptions about what Kathryn meant, but what > > _I_ would mean by being bad at fonts is: > > Thanks for not assuming, but you hit the nail on the head. > > > 1. You only get a few fonts pre-installed with your standard TeX/LaTeX > > distribution (not necessarily a bad thing, though). > > Agreed. After leaving the world of hundreds of TrueType fonts, it's a > rather a letdown. > > > 2. Although there are some very nice TeXable fonts out there, installing > > them is about as intuitive as quantum physics. > > Say it again, man! Even with some nice tools like vfontinst, you still > have to mess around in the bowels... Woohoo, I actually did it! OK, it took me a couple of hours just to do one test font, but now I can print from LyX in ugly Comic Sans MS! Interested and determined parties can check out http://www.pegasus.rutgers.edu/~elflord/unix/latex/no-bs.html Less masochistic types who prefer to get their fonts from CTAN rather than piss around with TrueType fonts might find the following useful: http://www.ctan.org/ctan/install.html OK, most of you probably knew that already, but it's amazing what you can miss when browsing through archives. > > > 3. Even if you actually manage to get a new font installed, LyX won't > > recognise it. > > Evil Red Text is required -- that or making your own Style (which is > what I ended up doing). > > > As I've said before, a very nice feature/plugin for LyX would be a > > font-installer. My dream would be something that would connect to my > > nearest CTAN mirror, download the fonts I want, integrate them in my TeX > > system and add them to the LyX "default font" popup. > > Or simply something that would allow me to use all of my existing > TrueType fonts as easily as I can now use them in X-Windows. Should be easy for some script wizard to write! The nice thing about Unix/Linux is that just about anything you can do once, you can script to do umpteen times. But I'm worn out after my heroic achievement ...
Re: Why Lyx ?
On Wednesday 05 September 2001 14:48, Steve Litt wrote: On Wednesday 05 September 2001 04:52, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Finally, I like the idea that my work will be accessible in its source format in 20 or 30 years time, as long as I have a readable ascii file, I can get to it, I would be surprised if I could do the same with a Word format document and all the other proprietary file formats associated with Word/Windoze. Pete What Pete said ^ is what I was trying to say. The operant question is who owns your data. With ascii LyX native markup, I own it. Forever. Well, that goes for most formats other than the notorious .doc . I think it's more important that LyX outputs LaTeX. Which reminds me - sorry for the off-topic question - does anyone remember a WP called Wordwriter (used to be popular on the Atari) and have any idea how to convert its files to something more current? Robin
Re: Why Lyx ?
On Wednesday 05 September 2001 15:02, Andre Poenitz wrote: On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 02:53:57PM +0300, Robin Turner wrote: Well, that goes for most formats other than the notorious .doc. That does not even hold for most .ps files. Having a format using ASCII char does not necessarily mean you can read it painlessly... Having tried to read .ps, I know what you mean. However, .ps and .pdf are output formats, like .dvi. I was thinking more of LaTeX, HTML, SGML and the increasingly popular variants on XML. Robin
Re: Why Lyx?
On Wednesday 05 September 2001 17:45, Jean-Pierre.Chretien wrote: Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 22:08:24 +1000 From: Kathryn Andersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Why Lyx? I wish I could use Lyx at work. Unfortunately the manual for the software I work on is required (by the client) to be in Word-readable format. My colleagues come across this kind of request often, frankly I find it hard to understand. Does the client want to edit the manuals ? If the answer is yes, OK, but if it is no, PDF or HTML are much better from the point of view of navigation or indexation on the electronic support, anf PDF is equivalent for the paper support. Do I miss someting there ? HTML is Word-readable, and the best way of getting most documents from LyX to Word. If the recipient wants to edit it, they can turn it into a Word document or whatever they want. Robin
Re: Why Lyx ?
On Wednesday 05 September 2001 14:48, Steve Litt wrote: On Wednesday 05 September 2001 04:52, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Finally, I like the idea that my work will be accessible in its source format in 20 or 30 years time, as long as I have a readable ascii file, I can get to it, I would be surprised if I could do the same with a Word format document and all the other proprietary file formats associated with Word/Windoze. Pete What Pete said ^ is what I was trying to say. The operant question is who owns your data. With ascii LyX native markup, I own it. Forever. Well, that goes for most formats other than the notorious .doc . I think it's more important that LyX outputs LaTeX. Which reminds me - sorry for the off-topic question - does anyone remember a WP called Wordwriter (used to be popular on the Atari) and have any idea how to convert its files to something more current? Robin
Re: Why Lyx ?
On Wednesday 05 September 2001 15:02, Andre Poenitz wrote: On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 02:53:57PM +0300, Robin Turner wrote: Well, that goes for most formats other than the notorious .doc. That does not even hold for most .ps files. Having a format using ASCII char does not necessarily mean you can read it painlessly... Having tried to read .ps, I know what you mean. However, .ps and .pdf are output formats, like .dvi. I was thinking more of LaTeX, HTML, SGML and the increasingly popular variants on XML. Robin
Re: Why Lyx?
On Wednesday 05 September 2001 17:45, Jean-Pierre.Chretien wrote: Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 22:08:24 +1000 From: Kathryn Andersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Why Lyx? I wish I could use Lyx at work. Unfortunately the manual for the software I work on is required (by the client) to be in Word-readable format. My colleagues come across this kind of request often, frankly I find it hard to understand. Does the client want to edit the manuals ? If the answer is yes, OK, but if it is no, PDF or HTML are much better from the point of view of navigation or indexation on the electronic support, anf PDF is equivalent for the paper support. Do I miss someting there ? HTML is Word-readable, and the best way of getting most documents from LyX to Word. If the recipient wants to edit it, they can turn it into a Word document or whatever they want. Robin
Re: Why Lyx ?
On Wednesday 05 September 2001 14:48, Steve Litt wrote: > On Wednesday 05 September 2001 04:52, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Finally, I like the idea that my work will be accessible in its source > > format in 20 or 30 years time, as long as I have a readable ascii file, I > > can get to it, I would be surprised if I could do the same with a Word > > format document and all the other proprietary file formats associated > > with Word/Windoze. > > > > Pete > > What Pete said ^ > > is what I was trying to say. The operant question is "who owns your data". > With ascii LyX native markup, I own it. Forever. Well, that goes for most formats other than the notorious .doc . I think it's more important that LyX outputs LaTeX. Which reminds me - sorry for the off-topic question - does anyone remember a WP called Wordwriter (used to be popular on the Atari) and have any idea how to convert its files to something more current? Robin
Re: Why Lyx ?
On Wednesday 05 September 2001 15:02, Andre Poenitz wrote: > On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 02:53:57PM +0300, Robin Turner wrote: > > Well, that goes for most formats other than the notorious .doc. > > That does not even hold for most .ps files. Having a format using ASCII > char does not necessarily mean you can read it painlessly... Having tried to read .ps, I know what you mean. However, .ps and .pdf are output formats, like .dvi. I was thinking more of LaTeX, HTML, SGML and the increasingly popular variants on XML. Robin
Re: Why Lyx?
On Wednesday 05 September 2001 17:45, Jean-Pierre.Chretien wrote: > >>Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 22:08:24 +1000 > >>From: Kathryn Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>Subject: Why Lyx? > >>I wish I could use Lyx at work. Unfortunately the manual for the > >>software I work on is required (by the client) to be in Word-readable > >>format. > > My colleagues come across this kind of request often, frankly I find > it hard to understand. > > Does the client want to edit the manuals ? > If the answer is yes, OK, but if it is no, PDF or HTML are > much better from the point of view of navigation or indexation > on the electronic support, anf PDF is equivalent for the paper support. > > Do I miss someting there ? HTML is Word-readable, and the best way of getting most documents from LyX to Word. If the recipient wants to edit it, they can turn it into a Word document or whatever they want. Robin
Re: Another BibTeX/Pybliographic question
On Thursday 09 August 2001 09:54, Herbert Voss wrote:
robin wrote:
but URLs don't
show up. I can get a URL to come up by using a different field, but the
effect is ugly. Is there any way to force this (MLA style is not the
only culprit, BTW)?
do a search in comp.text.tex, there were several proposals
for citations with urls.
Thanks, I checked this out.
Best way seems to be to include it in some other field (e.g. Note or How
Published) and use \url{www.the_url.com}. Means you can't do it directly
through Pybliographic, though, but that goes for a few other things too (like
translators' names, for example).
Robin
Re: Another BibTeX/Pybliographic question
On Thursday 09 August 2001 09:54, Herbert Voss wrote:
robin wrote:
but URLs don't
show up. I can get a URL to come up by using a different field, but the
effect is ugly. Is there any way to force this (MLA style is not the
only culprit, BTW)?
do a search in comp.text.tex, there were several proposals
for citations with urls.
Thanks, I checked this out.
Best way seems to be to include it in some other field (e.g. Note or How
Published) and use \url{www.the_url.com}. Means you can't do it directly
through Pybliographic, though, but that goes for a few other things too (like
translators' names, for example).
Robin
Re: Another BibTeX/Pybliographic question
On Thursday 09 August 2001 09:54, Herbert Voss wrote:
> robin wrote:
> > but URLs don't
> > show up. I can get a URL to come up by using a different field, but the
> > effect is ugly. Is there any way to force this (MLA style is not the
> > only culprit, BTW)?
>
> do a search in comp.text.tex, there were several proposals
> for citations with urls.
Thanks, I checked this out.
Best way seems to be to include it in some other field (e.g. Note or How
Published) and use "\url{www.the_url.com}". Means you can't do it directly
through Pybliographic, though, but that goes for a few other things too (like
translators' names, for example).
Robin
Re: LyX
On Monday 27 August 2001 07:56, John O'Gorman wrote: Aw cmon. You just don't want to give up your LyX chicks on Unix catchphrase. LOL Me, I believe that once you have the Greek letter y present, that makes the X a CHI (else why is presented as uppercase?). So (in the spirit of TeX = teck put me down for LyX = lick. I have enough problems explaining to my Windows-using co-workers that the books I have on LaTeX are not about fetishism. I'll never be able to sell this program if they have to cope with another weird pronunciation! Oh well, at least it isn't yet another word-processor that has word somewhere in the name. Robin
Re: LyX
On Monday 27 August 2001 07:56, John O'Gorman wrote: Aw cmon. You just don't want to give up your LyX chicks on Unix catchphrase. LOL Me, I believe that once you have the Greek letter y present, that makes the X a CHI (else why is presented as uppercase?). So (in the spirit of TeX = teck put me down for LyX = lick. I have enough problems explaining to my Windows-using co-workers that the books I have on LaTeX are not about fetishism. I'll never be able to sell this program if they have to cope with another weird pronunciation! Oh well, at least it isn't yet another word-processor that has word somewhere in the name. Robin
Re: LyX
On Monday 27 August 2001 07:56, John O'Gorman wrote: > Aw cmon. > > You just don't want to give up your > LyX chicks on Unix > catchphrase. LOL > > Me, I believe that once you have the Greek letter y present, that makes > the > X a CHI (else why is presented as uppercase?). > > So (in the spirit of TeX = "teck" put me down for LyX = "lick". I have enough problems explaining to my Windows-using co-workers that the books I have on LaTeX are not about fetishism. I'll never be able to sell this program if they have to cope with another weird pronunciation! Oh well, at least it isn't yet another word-processor that has "word" somewhere in the name. Robin
Re: insert __.txt into klyx
Oh yeah, I've just remembered another alternative. Open your text document in an editor like Gedit or KWrite. Copy everything to the clipboard. Open KLyX and choose (assuming it's the same as LyX) Edit - Paste primary selection - as paragraphs Robin
Re: insert __.txt into klyx
Oh yeah, I've just remembered another alternative. Open your text document in an editor like Gedit or KWrite. Copy everything to the clipboard. Open KLyX and choose (assuming it's the same as LyX) Edit - Paste primary selection - as paragraphs Robin
Re: insert __.txt into klyx
Oh yeah, I've just remembered another alternative. Open your text document in an editor like Gedit or KWrite. Copy everything to the clipboard. Open KLyX and choose (assuming it's the same as LyX) Edit -> Paste primary selection -> as paragraphs Robin
Re: LaTeX import
On Thursday 19 July 2001 00:57, ben wrote: Robin Turner a écrit : Does anyone know of a utility that will clean up (La)TeX files so that ReLyX can handle them? I've a .tex file that was automatically generated (by Jade?) from a DocBook file and is too messy for LyX to import. I suppose what I'm looking for is the equivalent of the Tidy program for HTML. You still want to import a DocBook file into LyX isn't it? I still recommend to use the http://perso.libertysurf.fr/bgu/#DB2LyX tool. But if you prefer starting from the LaTeX format I suggest to translate your DocBook file to a pure readable latex file with the http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/db2latex stylesheets. The jade latex file is specific to jadetex (specific macros, etc.) and its doesn't seem easy to use relyx on it. Yes, though it would be useful for other things as well. I tried installing DB2Lyx some time back, but got lost among the dependencies (my usual problem - I still haven't managed to get html2latex working either, as my system won't do make on some of the required Perl modules). I'll have another go. Robin
Re: LaTeX import
On Thursday 19 July 2001 00:57, ben wrote: Robin Turner a écrit : Does anyone know of a utility that will clean up (La)TeX files so that ReLyX can handle them? I've a .tex file that was automatically generated (by Jade?) from a DocBook file and is too messy for LyX to import. I suppose what I'm looking for is the equivalent of the Tidy program for HTML. You still want to import a DocBook file into LyX isn't it? I still recommend to use the http://perso.libertysurf.fr/bgu/#DB2LyX tool. But if you prefer starting from the LaTeX format I suggest to translate your DocBook file to a pure readable latex file with the http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/db2latex stylesheets. The jade latex file is specific to jadetex (specific macros, etc.) and its doesn't seem easy to use relyx on it. Yes, though it would be useful for other things as well. I tried installing DB2Lyx some time back, but got lost among the dependencies (my usual problem - I still haven't managed to get html2latex working either, as my system won't do make on some of the required Perl modules). I'll have another go. Robin
Re: LaTeX import
On Thursday 19 July 2001 00:57, ben wrote: > Robin Turner a écrit : > > Does anyone know of a utility that will clean up (La)TeX files so that > > ReLyX can handle them? I've a .tex file that was automatically generated > > (by Jade?) from a DocBook file and is too messy for LyX to import. I > > suppose what I'm looking for is the equivalent of the Tidy program for > > HTML. > > You still want to import a DocBook file into LyX isn't it? I still > recommend to use the > http://perso.libertysurf.fr/bgu/#DB2LyX tool. But if you prefer starting > from the LaTeX format I suggest to translate your DocBook file to a pure > readable latex file with the http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/db2latex > stylesheets. The jade latex file is specific to jadetex (specific macros, > etc.) and its doesn't seem easy to use relyx on it. Yes, though it would be useful for other things as well. I tried installing DB2Lyx some time back, but got lost among the dependencies (my usual problem - I still haven't managed to get html2latex working either, as my system won't do "make" on some of the required Perl modules). I'll have another go. Robin
LaTeX import
Does anyone know of a utility that will clean up (La)TeX files so that ReLyX can handle them? I've a .tex file that was automatically generated (by Jade?) from a DocBook file and is too messy for LyX to import. I suppose what I'm looking for is the equivalent of the Tidy program for HTML. Thanks Robin
LaTeX import
Does anyone know of a utility that will clean up (La)TeX files so that ReLyX can handle them? I've a .tex file that was automatically generated (by Jade?) from a DocBook file and is too messy for LyX to import. I suppose what I'm looking for is the equivalent of the Tidy program for HTML. Thanks Robin
LaTeX import
Does anyone know of a utility that will clean up (La)TeX files so that ReLyX can handle them? I've a .tex file that was automatically generated (by Jade?) from a DocBook file and is too messy for LyX to import. I suppose what I'm looking for is the equivalent of the Tidy program for HTML. Thanks Robin
Re: Font resolution
On Monday 02 July 2001 23:26, A. Gunes Koru wrote: Lyx fonts that I view on the screen seem like they have a low resolution. I was wondering if it is the same for everybody. Is there any way of improving it? Have you checked Edit-Preferences-Interface? You may have the resolution set too low for your system, or it could be that you have Allow scalable fonts checked. Depending on your system, scalable fonts can come out badly. Robin
Re: Font resolution
On Monday 02 July 2001 23:26, A. Gunes Koru wrote: Lyx fonts that I view on the screen seem like they have a low resolution. I was wondering if it is the same for everybody. Is there any way of improving it? Have you checked Edit-Preferences-Interface? You may have the resolution set too low for your system, or it could be that you have Allow scalable fonts checked. Depending on your system, scalable fonts can come out badly. Robin
Re: Font resolution
On Monday 02 July 2001 23:26, A. Gunes Koru wrote: > Lyx fonts that I view on the screen seem like they have a low resolution. > I was wondering if it is the same for everybody. Is there any way of > improving it? Have you checked Edit->Preferences->Interface? You may have the resolution set too low for your system, or it could be that you have "Allow scalable fonts" checked. Depending on your system, scalable fonts can come out badly. Robin
Re: converting klyx file
On Friday 29 June 2001 11:27, kathryn Wotton wrote: Hey , i was just wondering whether I can convert a document so that it can be accessed in microsoft word, because i have done a cross country report for school and one of my teachers asked me to put it on a disk and give it to our school office to make a few changes... thanks in advance! Best is to save it as HTML. I haven't used KLyX for ages, so don't know if it has the Export HTML function. If not, download tth and use it from the command line. Alternatively, if you have Abiword, you can try exporting it as LaTeX, opening it in Abiword and saving it as a Word document. This works in theory, but the only time I tried it on my box, it choked. Robin
Re: converting klyx file
On Friday 29 June 2001 11:27, kathryn Wotton wrote: > Hey , i was just wondering whether I can convert a document so that it can > be accessed in microsoft word, because i have done a cross country report > for school and one of my teachers asked me to put it on a disk and give it > to our school office to make a few changes... > thanks in advance! Best is to save it as HTML. I haven't used KLyX for ages, so don't know if it has the "Export HTML" function. If not, download tth and use it from the command line. Alternatively, if you have Abiword, you can try exporting it as LaTeX, opening it in Abiword and saving it as a Word document. This works in theory, but the only time I tried it on my box, it choked. Robin
Re: New LyX website released
On Tuesday 26 June 2001 09:05, Baruch Even wrote: An extension of this is something i've seen in Wikis, that is the ability of the user to say what is the url of the CSS file he wants, he can then point it to a local file and edit the look of the site to whatever he wants, though I believe few peoples will really bother doing it :-) It's normally not worth it for pages with clean HTML and standard fonts, but it's a great way to tidy up crappy web pages (of course www.lyx.org doesn't come into this category!). Robin
Re: New LyX website released
On Tuesday 26 June 2001 09:05, Baruch Even wrote: An extension of this is something i've seen in Wikis, that is the ability of the user to say what is the url of the CSS file he wants, he can then point it to a local file and edit the look of the site to whatever he wants, though I believe few peoples will really bother doing it :-) It's normally not worth it for pages with clean HTML and standard fonts, but it's a great way to tidy up crappy web pages (of course www.lyx.org doesn't come into this category!). Robin
Re: New LyX website released
On Tuesday 26 June 2001 09:05, Baruch Even wrote: > An extension of this is something i've seen in Wikis, that is the > ability of the user to say what is the url of the CSS file he wants, he > can then point it to a local file and edit the look of the site to > whatever he wants, though I believe few peoples will really bother doing > it :-) It's normally not worth it for pages with clean HTML and standard fonts, but it's a great way to tidy up crappy web pages (of course www.lyx.org doesn't come into this category!). Robin
Re: Tex2lyx
On Monday 25 June 2001 11:34, ABe wrote: Hi all Lyx-users, I have q question. If I have a file Tex, How can I read with Lyx ? Go to File-Import-LaTeX and cross your fingers. This command invokes a script called reLyX, which will convert _most_ LaTeX to LyX format pretty well, but some things can make it choke. See Help-Extended_Features (section 3.4) for a detailed description. You can also run reLyX from the command line. Robin
Re: Bibtex and apalike [off-topic]
On Friday 22 June 2001 21:31, Rodrigo Esteves de Lima-Lopes wrote: Hi I et. al means and others (in latin), and it is used in some bibliographich styles to supress authors names, when they are more than 3. One reason for any academic with a family name starting late in the alphabet to change it to something like Aardvark! Robin
Re: Tex2lyx
On Monday 25 June 2001 11:34, ABe wrote: Hi all Lyx-users, I have q question. If I have a file Tex, How can I read with Lyx ? Go to File-Import-LaTeX and cross your fingers. This command invokes a script called reLyX, which will convert _most_ LaTeX to LyX format pretty well, but some things can make it choke. See Help-Extended_Features (section 3.4) for a detailed description. You can also run reLyX from the command line. Robin
Re: Bibtex and apalike [off-topic]
On Friday 22 June 2001 21:31, Rodrigo Esteves de Lima-Lopes wrote: Hi I et. al means and others (in latin), and it is used in some bibliographich styles to supress authors names, when they are more than 3. One reason for any academic with a family name starting late in the alphabet to change it to something like Aardvark! Robin
Re: Tex2lyx
On Monday 25 June 2001 11:34, ABe wrote: > Hi all Lyx-users, > > I have q question. If I have a file Tex, How can I read with Lyx ? > Go to File->Import->LaTeX and cross your fingers. This command invokes a script called reLyX, which will convert _most_ LaTeX to LyX format pretty well, but some things can make it choke. See Help->Extended_Features (section 3.4) for a detailed description. You can also run reLyX from the command line. Robin
Re: Bibtex and apalike [off-topic]
On Friday 22 June 2001 21:31, Rodrigo Esteves de Lima-Lopes wrote: > Hi > > I et. al means and others (in latin), and it is used in some > bibliographich styles to supress authors names, when they are more than 3. One reason for any academic with a family name starting late in the alphabet to change it to something like "Aardvark"! Robin
Re: Conversion Lyx to doc
On Thursday 21 June 2001 13:29, you wrote: chebira [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I would like to know if ther are some converters from Lyx documents to RTF or DOC format. I never found a better solution than this bad solution. ;-) 1. Convert Lyx to HTML via tth 2. Start StarOffice :-( , load the HTML-File 3. Save the HTML-File as StarOffice-File 4. Reload the StarOffice-File 5. Save it as Word-File All my dumb Word-Users never had problems with these files. ;-) Perhaps it is possible to write a StarOffice-Macro to perform all steps automagically. You can ask for it in a StarOffice-Newsgroup. If you find a solution. please post it here! and in the other way rtf2doc or doc2lyx. Isn't there a good Word-Import-Tool for LyX? No Word import tool is perfect, but wv works well enough. If you have it on your system, LyX will use it as the default. Robin
Re: Conversion Lyx to doc
On Thursday 21 June 2001 13:29, you wrote: chebira [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I would like to know if ther are some converters from Lyx documents to RTF or DOC format. I never found a better solution than this bad solution. ;-) 1. Convert Lyx to HTML via tth 2. Start StarOffice :-( , load the HTML-File 3. Save the HTML-File as StarOffice-File 4. Reload the StarOffice-File 5. Save it as Word-File All my dumb Word-Users never had problems with these files. ;-) Perhaps it is possible to write a StarOffice-Macro to perform all steps automagically. You can ask for it in a StarOffice-Newsgroup. If you find a solution. please post it here! and in the other way rtf2doc or doc2lyx. Isn't there a good Word-Import-Tool for LyX? No Word import tool is perfect, but wv works well enough. If you have it on your system, LyX will use it as the default. Robin
Re: Conversion Lyx to doc
On Thursday 21 June 2001 13:29, you wrote: > chebira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I would like to know if ther are some converters from Lyx documents to > > RTF or DOC format. > > I never found a better solution than this bad solution. ;-) > > 1. Convert Lyx to HTML via tth > 2. Start StarOffice :-( , load the HTML-File > 3. Save the HTML-File as StarOffice-File > 4. Reload the StarOffice-File > 5. Save it as Word-File > > All my dumb Word-Users never had problems with these files. ;-) > > Perhaps it is possible to write a StarOffice-Macro to perform all > steps automagically. You can ask for it in a StarOffice-Newsgroup. If > you find a solution. please post it here! > > > and in the other way rtf2doc or doc2lyx. > > Isn't there a good Word-Import-Tool for LyX? No Word import tool is perfect, but wv works well enough. If you have it on your system, LyX will use it as the default. Robin
Re: Dumb math question
Alberto Vecchiato wrote: On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Robin Turner wrote: Well, I've looked through the Tutorial, the User Guide and a LaTeX command summary, and I still can't find how to do the following ... 1. Type a fraction as an ordinary slash fraction rather than a math fraction; 2. Type a degree sign (as in a 90 degree arc). Am I stupid or what? Don't know if it's what you want, but I usually do this: 1. simply a/b in math mode; This just gives more-or-less the same result as text mode. What I was hoping for was something where the first number is slightly higher then the second, as in a normal half sign/ 2. 90^\circ in math mode. Ha ha, I just failed the lateral thinking test! It didn't occur to me to see a degree sign as a superscripted circle. Thanks Robin
Re: Dumb math question
Herbert Voss wrote:
Robin Turner wrote:
Well, I've looked through the Tutorial, the User Guide and a LaTeX command
summary, and I still can't find how to do the following ...
1. Type a fraction as an ordinary slash fraction rather than a math fraction;
http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/mathmode.html#nicefrac
2. Type a degree sign (as in a 90 degree arc).
\usepackagae{textcomp}
and in text \textdegree
Very elegant! Thanks once again to Herbert.
Robin
Re: Dumb math question
Alberto Vecchiato wrote: On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Robin Turner wrote: Well, I've looked through the Tutorial, the User Guide and a LaTeX command summary, and I still can't find how to do the following ... 1. Type a fraction as an ordinary slash fraction rather than a math fraction; 2. Type a degree sign (as in a 90 degree arc). Am I stupid or what? Don't know if it's what you want, but I usually do this: 1. simply a/b in math mode; This just gives more-or-less the same result as text mode. What I was hoping for was something where the first number is slightly higher then the second, as in a normal half sign/ 2. 90^\circ in math mode. Ha ha, I just failed the lateral thinking test! It didn't occur to me to see a degree sign as a superscripted circle. Thanks Robin
Re: Dumb math question
Herbert Voss wrote:
Robin Turner wrote:
Well, I've looked through the Tutorial, the User Guide and a LaTeX command
summary, and I still can't find how to do the following ...
1. Type a fraction as an ordinary slash fraction rather than a math fraction;
http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/mathmode.html#nicefrac
2. Type a degree sign (as in a 90 degree arc).
\usepackagae{textcomp}
and in text \textdegree
Very elegant! Thanks once again to Herbert.
Robin
Re: Dumb math question
Alberto Vecchiato wrote: > > On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Robin Turner wrote: > > > Well, I've looked through the Tutorial, the User Guide and a LaTeX command > > summary, and I still can't find how to do the following ... > > > > 1. Type a fraction as an ordinary slash fraction rather than a math fraction; > > > > 2. Type a degree sign (as in "a 90 degree arc"). > > > > Am I stupid or what? > > > Don't know if it's what you want, but I usually do this: > 1. simply a/b in math mode; This just gives more-or-less the same result as text mode. What I was hoping for was something where the first number is slightly higher then the second, as in a normal "half" sign/ > 2. 90^\circ in math mode. Ha ha, I just failed the lateral thinking test! It didn't occur to me to see a degree sign as a superscripted circle. Thanks Robin
Re: Dumb math question
Herbert Voss wrote:
>
> Robin Turner wrote:
> >
> > Well, I've looked through the Tutorial, the User Guide and a LaTeX command
> > summary, and I still can't find how to do the following ...
> >
> > 1. Type a fraction as an ordinary slash fraction rather than a math fraction;
>
> http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/mathmode.html#nicefrac
>
> > 2. Type a degree sign (as in "a 90 degree arc").
>
> \usepackagae{textcomp}
> and in text \textdegree
Very elegant! Thanks once again to Herbert.
Robin
Dumb math question
Well, I've looked through the Tutorial, the User Guide and a LaTeX command summary, and I still can't find how to do the following ... 1. Type a fraction as an ordinary slash fraction rather than a math fraction; 2. Type a degree sign (as in a 90 degree arc). Am I stupid or what? Robin
Dumb math question
Well, I've looked through the Tutorial, the User Guide and a LaTeX command summary, and I still can't find how to do the following ... 1. Type a fraction as an ordinary slash fraction rather than a math fraction; 2. Type a degree sign (as in a 90 degree arc). Am I stupid or what? Robin
Dumb math question
Well, I've looked through the Tutorial, the User Guide and a LaTeX command summary, and I still can't find how to do the following ... 1. Type a fraction as an ordinary slash fraction rather than a math fraction; 2. Type a degree sign (as in "a 90 degree arc"). Am I stupid or what? Robin
Re: LyX on a CD
On Monday 11 June 2001 02:05, Baruch Even wrote: A project idea I came up with after one too many requests for LyX is to have a Linux (or any other unix for that matter) distribution complete with LaTeX/DocBook support an X-Server and LyX to be booted into from the CD itself. Basically the idea is to make LyX useable for those who use mostly windows but want LyX to work with, it needs to be simple enough, that is I dont want to tell peoples to install an X-Server on windows or something of the kind. It's easier to give them a CD and let them boot into it. The files can be worked on from their windows hard disk. Ofcourse, if someone knows or already has an X-Server with LyX all ready for installation on Windows in a usual installer format it would be even better. But I seem to rememeber that the free X-Servers are limited in time usage. Both ideas are nice, though I expect your average Windows user would prefer something that could be installed and run under Windows, rather than having to reboot - though you have to reboot so often with Windows, people might not notice ;-) I'm also not sure whether most Win-users could be bothered with configuring X. People who are prepared to wrestle with that kind of stuff are generally already using some flavour of 'nix. A self-extracting, self-installing LyX4Win would be a great idea, and would really get LyX into popular use, I think. As for X-servers, Cygwin's is free, though I don't know if that's as in beer or speech - they seem to have been incorporated into RedHat. See http://cygwin.com/xfree/ Robin
Re: LyX on a CD
On Monday 11 June 2001 02:05, Baruch Even wrote: A project idea I came up with after one too many requests for LyX is to have a Linux (or any other unix for that matter) distribution complete with LaTeX/DocBook support an X-Server and LyX to be booted into from the CD itself. Basically the idea is to make LyX useable for those who use mostly windows but want LyX to work with, it needs to be simple enough, that is I dont want to tell peoples to install an X-Server on windows or something of the kind. It's easier to give them a CD and let them boot into it. The files can be worked on from their windows hard disk. Ofcourse, if someone knows or already has an X-Server with LyX all ready for installation on Windows in a usual installer format it would be even better. But I seem to rememeber that the free X-Servers are limited in time usage. Both ideas are nice, though I expect your average Windows user would prefer something that could be installed and run under Windows, rather than having to reboot - though you have to reboot so often with Windows, people might not notice ;-) I'm also not sure whether most Win-users could be bothered with configuring X. People who are prepared to wrestle with that kind of stuff are generally already using some flavour of 'nix. A self-extracting, self-installing LyX4Win would be a great idea, and would really get LyX into popular use, I think. As for X-servers, Cygwin's is free, though I don't know if that's as in beer or speech - they seem to have been incorporated into RedHat. See http://cygwin.com/xfree/ Robin
Re: LyX on a CD
On Monday 11 June 2001 02:05, Baruch Even wrote: > A project idea I came up with after one too many requests for LyX is to > have a Linux (or any other unix for that matter) distribution complete > with LaTeX/DocBook support an X-Server and LyX to be booted into from > the CD itself. > > Basically the idea is to make LyX useable for those who use mostly > windows but want LyX to work with, it needs to be simple enough, that is > I dont want to tell peoples to install an X-Server on windows or > something of the kind. It's easier to give them a CD and let them boot > into it. The files can be worked on from their windows hard disk. > > Ofcourse, if someone knows or already has an X-Server with LyX all ready > for installation on Windows in a usual installer format it would be even > better. But I seem to rememeber that the free X-Servers are limited in > time usage. Both ideas are nice, though I expect your average Windows user would prefer something that could be installed and run under Windows, rather than having to reboot - though you have to reboot so often with Windows, people might not notice ;-) I'm also not sure whether most Win-users could be bothered with configuring X. People who are prepared to wrestle with that kind of stuff are generally already using some flavour of 'nix. A self-extracting, self-installing LyX4Win would be a great idea, and would really get LyX into popular use, I think. As for X-servers, Cygwin's is free, though I don't know if that's as in beer or speech - they seem to have been incorporated into RedHat. See http://cygwin.com/xfree/ Robin
Re: pdf error...
On Friday 08 June 2001 11:52, Michael wrote: When I insert an eps graphic in my document pdflatex gives an error: unknown graphics extension .ps The extension doesn't matter, I allways get that error. Without graphic, pdflatex works fine. PS2PDF also works, but doesn't look as good Running ps2pdf on the graphic first did the trick for me. Robin
Re: graphics question
On Thursday 07 June 2001 08:03, Herbert Voss wrote: Myriam Abramson wrote: I have a jpep picture that I converted to postscript to insert it in maybe a problem of the converter? Could be - works fine for me using the Gimp. What happens if you use Insert - External Material - Rasterimage? Robin
Re: [mbmarduk@lycos.nl] Feedback from www.lyx.org
On Thursday 07 June 2001 19:00, Henk Coetzee wrote: On Thu 07 Jun 01 15:20, Emmanuel GUREGHIAN wrote: A.Gulino a écrit : Helge Hafting wrote: [snip] There are many reasons: There are indeed! Most of the reasons why I like LyX have been mentioned already, but one that I find particularly important is the quality of the printed output (thanks to TeX!). Working in an academic setting, it's important for my materials to look academic. I recently gave a symposium presentation on academic writing where I showed the audience the same article (from an academic journal) produced in two different ways. For one I converted the original PDF document to ASCII, imported it to LyX and just put in a few appropriate paragraph environments. For the other, I opened the text file in MS Word, changed the fonts to things like MS Comic Sans and put in some unnecessary borders. They got the point! Robin
Re: pdf error...
On Friday 08 June 2001 11:52, Michael wrote: When I insert an eps graphic in my document pdflatex gives an error: unknown graphics extension .ps The extension doesn't matter, I allways get that error. Without graphic, pdflatex works fine. PS2PDF also works, but doesn't look as good Running ps2pdf on the graphic first did the trick for me. Robin
Re: graphics question
On Thursday 07 June 2001 08:03, Herbert Voss wrote: Myriam Abramson wrote: I have a jpep picture that I converted to postscript to insert it in maybe a problem of the converter? Could be - works fine for me using the Gimp. What happens if you use Insert - External Material - Rasterimage? Robin
Re: [mbmarduk@lycos.nl] Feedback from www.lyx.org
On Thursday 07 June 2001 19:00, Henk Coetzee wrote: On Thu 07 Jun 01 15:20, Emmanuel GUREGHIAN wrote: A.Gulino a écrit : Helge Hafting wrote: [snip] There are many reasons: There are indeed! Most of the reasons why I like LyX have been mentioned already, but one that I find particularly important is the quality of the printed output (thanks to TeX!). Working in an academic setting, it's important for my materials to look academic. I recently gave a symposium presentation on academic writing where I showed the audience the same article (from an academic journal) produced in two different ways. For one I converted the original PDF document to ASCII, imported it to LyX and just put in a few appropriate paragraph environments. For the other, I opened the text file in MS Word, changed the fonts to things like MS Comic Sans and put in some unnecessary borders. They got the point! Robin
Re: pdf error...
On Friday 08 June 2001 11:52, Michael wrote: > When I insert an eps graphic in my document pdflatex gives an error: > >unknown graphics extension .ps > > The extension doesn't matter, I allways get that error. Without graphic, > pdflatex works fine. PS2PDF also works, but doesn't look as good Running ps2pdf on the graphic first did the trick for me. Robin
Re: graphics question
On Thursday 07 June 2001 08:03, Herbert Voss wrote: > Myriam Abramson wrote: > > I have a jpep picture that I converted to postscript to insert it in > > maybe a problem of the converter? Could be - works fine for me using the Gimp. What happens if you use Insert -> External Material -> Rasterimage? Robin
Re: [mbmarduk@lycos.nl] Feedback from www.lyx.org
On Thursday 07 June 2001 19:00, Henk Coetzee wrote: > On Thu 07 Jun 01 15:20, Emmanuel GUREGHIAN wrote: > > "A.Gulino" a écrit : > > > Helge Hafting wrote: > > > > [snip] > > > > > > There are many reasons: There are indeed! Most of the reasons why I like LyX have been mentioned already, but one that I find particularly important is the quality of the printed output (thanks to TeX!). Working in an academic setting, it's important for my materials to "look academic". I recently gave a symposium presentation on academic writing where I showed the audience the same article (from an academic journal) produced in two different ways. For one I converted the original PDF document to ASCII, imported it to LyX and just put in a few appropriate paragraph environments. For the other, I opened the text file in MS Word, changed the fonts to things like MS Comic Sans and put in some unnecessary borders. They got the point! Robin
Re: Mandrake's RPM
On Tuesday 05 June 2001 18:48, becherini yvonne Gruppo II wrote: Hi, I tried to install Mandrake's RPM from http://cronos.dci.ubiobio.cl/~gpoo/lyx but I got some errors: libstdc++-libc6.1-2.so.3 is needed by lyx-1.1.6fix2-1mdk Which version of Mandrake are you using? On 8.0 I had to get the RPM (just type the name in rpmfind.net) and force an install (fortunately nothing seems broken!). libxalflaunch.so.0 is needed by lyx-1.1.6fix2-1mdk Beats me. Did you also install xforms? I have the mdk rpms working fine now, which is some compensation for an extreme piece of stupidity, when not only did I forget that I was in my home directory rather than /mnt/floppy, but also that ? means any single character, so typed rm -Rf ?* Just needed to confess that to someone! Robin Robin
Re: Mandrake's RPM
On Tuesday 05 June 2001 18:48, becherini yvonne Gruppo II wrote: Hi, I tried to install Mandrake's RPM from http://cronos.dci.ubiobio.cl/~gpoo/lyx but I got some errors: libstdc++-libc6.1-2.so.3 is needed by lyx-1.1.6fix2-1mdk Which version of Mandrake are you using? On 8.0 I had to get the RPM (just type the name in rpmfind.net) and force an install (fortunately nothing seems broken!). libxalflaunch.so.0 is needed by lyx-1.1.6fix2-1mdk Beats me. Did you also install xforms? I have the mdk rpms working fine now, which is some compensation for an extreme piece of stupidity, when not only did I forget that I was in my home directory rather than /mnt/floppy, but also that ? means any single character, so typed rm -Rf ?* Just needed to confess that to someone! Robin Robin
Re: Mandrake's RPM
On Tuesday 05 June 2001 18:48, becherini yvonne Gruppo II wrote: > Hi, > I tried to install Mandrake's RPM from > > http://cronos.dci.ubiobio.cl/~gpoo/lyx > > but I got some errors: > > libstdc++-libc6.1-2.so.3 is needed by lyx-1.1.6fix2-1mdk Which version of Mandrake are you using? On 8.0 I had to get the RPM (just type the name in rpmfind.net) and force an install (fortunately nothing seems broken!). > libxalflaunch.so.0 is needed by lyx-1.1.6fix2-1mdk Beats me. Did you also install xforms? I have the mdk rpms working fine now, which is some compensation for an extreme piece of stupidity, when not only did I forget that I was in my home directory rather than /mnt/floppy, but also that "?" means any single character, so typed rm -Rf ?* Just needed to confess that to someone! Robin Robin
Re: Mandrake's RPM
On Friday 01 June 2001 17:38, German Poo Caaman~o wrote: I don't know if mandrake's rpm are available. But I built some of them I uploaded to http://cronos.dci.ubiboio.cl/~gpoo/lyx as before version. I tried to download, but got an unrecognised server message. How does the Mandrake version differ from the RedHat RPM? Robin
Re: Mandrake's RPM
On Friday 01 June 2001 17:38, German Poo Caaman~o wrote: I don't know if mandrake's rpm are available. But I built some of them I uploaded to http://cronos.dci.ubiboio.cl/~gpoo/lyx as before version. I tried to download, but got an unrecognised server message. How does the Mandrake version differ from the RedHat RPM? Robin
Re: Mandrake's RPM
On Friday 01 June 2001 17:38, German Poo Caaman~o wrote: > I don't know if mandrake's rpm are available. > > But I built some of them I uploaded to > http://cronos.dci.ubiboio.cl/~gpoo/lyx as before version. I tried to download, but got an "unrecognised server" message. How does the Mandrake version differ from the RedHat RPM? Robin
Re: csv2lyx (was Re: sorting tables?)
Just tried running it, but perl -d came out with unrecognized character \xA0 at line 60 (which seems to be in the middle of a comment, so shouldn't apply, unless perl only numbers lines with instructions - it's been so long I can't remember). Looks pretty nifty if I can make it work though, thanks! Robin
Re: csv2lyx (was Re: sorting tables?)
Just tried running it, but perl -d came out with unrecognized character \xA0 at line 60 (which seems to be in the middle of a comment, so shouldn't apply, unless perl only numbers lines with instructions - it's been so long I can't remember). Looks pretty nifty if I can make it work though, thanks! Robin
Re: csv2lyx (was Re: sorting tables?)
Just tried running it, but perl -d came out with "unrecognized character \xA0 at line 60" (which seems to be in the middle of a comment, so shouldn't apply, unless perl only numbers lines with instructions - it's been so long I can't remember). Looks pretty nifty if I can make it work though, thanks! Robin
Re: [Fwd: Re: sorting tables?]
On Wednesday 23 May 2001 18:17, Allan Rae wrote: On 23 May 2001, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: What is .cvs? csv comma separated values Yup, that's what I meant. My tendency to reverse keys is one reason I never got very far with Prel scripting ;-) Allan. (ARRae) Why is it taking so bloody long for my emails to get back from the mailing list? I announced LDN almost half an hour ago and the emails still haven't arrived! There's something weird going on at the server. I keep getting error-mails telling me that I couldn't send mail to various people at localhost.localdomain (and no, it's not my sendmail program, because I use SMTP).
Re: [Fwd: Re: sorting tables?]
On Wednesday 23 May 2001 16:18, Juergen Vigna wrote: On 23-May-2001 Niklas Werner wrote: this would allow for importing database-records as well, since dumping them cvs-split is fairly easy. I'd like to add that to the 2.0-wishlist! I already told here that this IS already possible. Just select the tsv (tab-separated-value) in f.ex. emacs and paste it in a created empty tabular! Life is too short for emacs ;-)
Re: [Fwd: Re: sorting tables?]
On Wednesday 23 May 2001 18:17, Allan Rae wrote: On 23 May 2001, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: What is .cvs? csv comma separated values Yup, that's what I meant. My tendency to reverse keys is one reason I never got very far with Prel scripting ;-) Allan. (ARRae) Why is it taking so bloody long for my emails to get back from the mailing list? I announced LDN almost half an hour ago and the emails still haven't arrived! There's something weird going on at the server. I keep getting error-mails telling me that I couldn't send mail to various people at localhost.localdomain (and no, it's not my sendmail program, because I use SMTP).
