Who manages the Ubuntu repository for LyX? (Was: LyX is an almost WYSIWYG-frontend for LaTeX (?))
On Wed, 28 Jan 2009, Nikos Alexandris wrote: With this phrase starts the description of LyX in Ubuntu's repositories. I think it should read: LyX is a WYSIWYM document processor. Anybody know's who should be contacted about that (if, of course, you _also_ disagree with the current description)? Kind regards, Nikos Just reposting with a different subject:-) /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?
On Thu, 29 Jan 2009, A B wrote: I seem to remember that a LyX / wiki connection was discussed some time ago and it just struck me that that is also an nice way of collaborating. Hi, Yes, I'm the guy usually bringing this up :-) The ability to save LyX documents as a wiki page and load a wiki page into Lyx. In non-lyx environment there might be a wiki page for information sharing/documentation, and if you can edit the wiki page through LyX, well, that would be very nice, when one consideres the (lack of?) edit-friendlyness in wiki. I agree that wiki pages aren't that easy to edit. Some tools exist to edit the pages in a separate text editor, and I'm pretty sure WYSIWYGI tools are on their way as well. However, note that AFAICT, it's only the following functionality that you gain: 1. The document is stored in a common area (the wiki) and can be edited using LyX.. 2. The document (i.e. wiki page) is stored so that's it's easily visible and searchable through a regular browser 3. The document is editable also through the web browser. The first functionality could just as well be implemented by several other means, e.g. by using a VCS to upload files to a public repository. This would also give you additional functionality. The second functionality could also be implemented by uploading (comitting/pushing) not only the .LyX-file, but also a .html-version of the file. And a PDF while you're at it. Alternatively, the system could automatically generate a PDF/HTML-file on the server once a .lyx-file has been uploaded (comitted/pushed). The third functionality is more difficult though. Why am I saying this? Well, I think it's important to ask ourselves what the collaboration functions are... to me the number one functionality would be to let several people edit the same document at once. Technically, saving is nothing more than posting a long text to a web page? Yes. loading = reading a frame on a wiki page? Yes. Add a html/wiki -- LyX converter and we are all done! Heck, with the current LyX format it feels like replacing \section with == Well, in principle, yes. :-) /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
How do I get todays date output as e.g. 2009-01-30?
Hi, I'd like to output todays date in the header with the date formatted as 2009-01-30 How should I do this? I'm using \today to get the current date. Best regards, Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Re: How do I get todays date output as e.g. 2009-01-30?
On Fri, 30 Jan 2009, Guenter Milde wrote:
On 2009-01-30, Christian Ridderström wrote:
I'd like to output todays date in the header with the date formatted as
2009-01-30
How should I do this?
with the package isodate:
http://dante.ctan.org/CTAN/help/Catalogue/entries/isodate.html
Thanks, this did the trick in my preamble:
\usepackage{isodate}
\lhead{\isodate\today}
/Christian
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Re: SV: Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?
On Fri, 30 Jan 2009, Ingar Pareliussen wrote: However, images might be a problem, I guess... I think it would be a great addition. My use case is my latest book. It was co-authored in a wiki (50+ persons), converted to html, imported to oo, exported as Latex imported to lyx. Added a lot of text and about 400 images in Lyx - pdf. Printed. Loved the Lyx part of the work :). There is a thing called Wiki Publisher that works with Pmwiki, it goes from wiki page to XML to LaTeX to PDF. http://www.wikipublisher.org/ /Christian However, now the co-authors want to start edit again in the wiki, and create a living book on the web. And I have stated that it is out of the questin as I can not find the time to convert it to a wiki. -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
How to automatically add the filename in a footer?
Hi,
I guess the following will require some LaTeX. Any tips on how to get the
filename appear in the footer?
I'm using \cfoot{...} to create the center text of the footer.
Is it also possible to only extract for instane the filename and not get
the full path? Or remove the extension?
regards,
/Christian
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LyX's web: In Hungarian - A LyX weboldalanak magyar forditasanak ellenorzese
On Sun, 1 Feb 2009, Alex wrote: In case you know Hungarian and English well enough and you are going to help me, please write me a message. Hi, I'd just like to comment that it might be enough if you know Hungarian... if you read a translated web page and don't understand, that's enough reason to say something in my humble opinion! Many thanks to Alex for his work! He is the initial reason why we today have both a Japanese and a Hungarian translation of the web site. Best regards, /Christian http://www.lyx.org PS. Please let me know if you find it difficult to see how to switch language, or if you worry that someone not expecting a translated version will miss that functionality. -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Using example to promote (Was: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?)
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Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?
On Thu, 5 Feb 2009, Guenter Milde wrote: idiot-proof as well) LyX version, (I have the name: LyteX or LyghtX!) Why not Ly-X (for lyx without TeX)? but this is a minor point. Maybe it's _too_ close to LyX? Thus easily mistaken. Also, it may be that some settings are blocked if the supporting LaTeX package is missing. Isn't this going to be a big problem? LyX objects rather strongly when it thinks you don't have the corresponding LaTeX class installed. Of course, this behaviour could be changed. It could help, if you (or any other interested person) could try LyX without LaTeX (deinstall LaTeX and reconfigure LyX or install LyX on a box without LaTeX) and report the experience and problems. That's a good idea. And as Guenter says, remember to reconfigure LyX to experience the problems with missing LaTeX classes. regards, /Christian -- Christian Ridderström Mobile: +46-70 687 39 44
Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?
On Thu, 5 Feb 2009, Helge Hafting wrote: Isn't this going to be a big problem? LyX objects rather strongly when it thinks you don't have the corresponding LaTeX class installed. Of course, this behaviour could be changed. Isn't this decision made based on what the configure script autodetected at install time? Just supply a fake config file where each and every latex feature is believed to exist. I think it is. Faking the config file is an interesting idea, but I worry it might not cause other problems. What should happen if the user tries to create a PDF? I guess this light version culd have those options removed from the menu system and the toolbars. /Christian -- Christian Ridderström Mobile: +46-70 687 39 44
Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?
On Thu, 5 Feb 2009, Helge Hafting wrote: It'd be a simple piece of software, self-contained and easy to install on someone's pc for cooperative writing. Is there a reason it has to be installed? Maybe it'd be interesting with a version that can be run without having first been installed? /Christian -- Christian Ridderström Mobile: +46-70 687 39 44
Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?
On Sat, 7 Feb 2009, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: On Friday 06 February 2009 09:32:12 A B wrote: perhaps a live CD with a whatever-Lyx would be helpful to demonstrate its merrit to those who care Actually, a complete installation of LyX, LaTeX and various software on a CD could be a good idea, assuming it can be run without installing it. I'm not sure it's feasible though. /Christian -- Christian Ridderström Mobile: +46-70 687 39 44
Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?
On Sat, 7 Feb 2009, Pavel Sanda wrote: Christian Ridderström wrote: perhaps a live CD with a whatever-Lyx would be helpful to demonstrate its merrit to those who care Actually, a complete installation of LyX, LaTeX and various software on a CD could be a good idea, assuming it can be run without installing it. I'm not sure it's feasible though. iirc this is already done on some knoppix live CD/DVD. I wasn't clear enough... I was actually thinking of Windows users, and that they'd be able to run LyX from the CD, but still inside Windows and not by booting into eg Knoppix. Using a virtual machine might be an idea, but then you have the problem of how the user will access the .lyx-file from inside the VM. /Christian -- Christian Ridderström Mobile: +46-70 687 39 44
Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?
On Sun, 8 Feb 2009, typh...@aanet.com.au wrote: I wasn't clear enough... I was actually thinking of Windows users, and that they'd be able to run LyX from the CD, but still inside Windows and not by booting into eg Knoppix. Using a virtual machine might be an idea, but then you have the problem of how the user will access the .lyx-file from inside the VM. And the whole thing has to be dead simple. We are mainly talking about Word users, and nothing can be assumed about their computer skills. It would be even nicer to have the whole thing on a USB stick. A USB stick is even better than a CD. Then the directory .lyx/ can stay on the USB stick. I just bought a 4GB stick for about 10 EUR, so it's not exactly pricey either... /Christian -- Christian Ridderström Mobile: +46-70 687 39 44
Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?
On Sun, 8 Feb 2009, Wolfgang Keller wrote: perhaps a live CD with a whatever-Lyx would be helpful to demonstrate its merrit to those who care Actually, a complete installation of LyX, LaTeX and various software on a CD could be a good idea, assuming it can be run without installing it. I'm not sure it's feasible though. I'm using LyX with TeXlive 2008 from a USB stick. I didn't even install TeXlive on the stick, just copied it over from the DVD. When you use it, do you have to install anything on the Windows machine? /C Sincerely, Wolfgang -- Christian Ridderström Mobile: +46-70 687 39 44
Re: Best way to re-order book
On Sun, 15 Feb 2009, L Duperval wrote: I am looking for a good way to re-order the elements of my book. There is a lot of work to do and I am looking to avoid doing cutpaste or simply moving elements up and down in the outline. I was hoping I could drag'n'drop in the outline (which would be sufficient for now), but that is not implemented yet. It isn't enough to use the Up/Down buttons etc in the outline dialog? (As for drag'n drop, maybe you should file an enhancement request for that in bugzilla) regards /Christian -- Christian Ridderström Mobile: +46-70 687 39 44
Re: Best way to re-order book
On Sun, 15 Feb 2009, L Duperval wrote: On Sun, 15 Feb 2009 21:52:34 +0100, Christian Ridderström wrote: It isn't enough to use the Up/Down buttons etc in the outline dialog? (As for drag'n drop, maybe you should file an enhancement request for that in bugzilla) No. I have 100+ points that I want to reorder and single clicking one by one is too long. I prefer the DnD approach because it is much faster. Is the reason single clicking is to slow because you have to move the point a long distance, and thus would have to click many times to move it? Or is it because there are several points that you have to move separately? Maybe the answer will affect how the UI should be, e.g. if it'd make sense to be able to select several points and then move them simultaneously. I'm just guessing wildly here though. /Christian -- Christian Ridderström Mobile: +46-70 687 39 44
Re: lyx webpage doesn't load
On Mon, 16 Feb 2009, Erez Yerushalmi wrote: ok, its back up Great. Thanks for reporting the problem, even if it fixed itself. The server (aussie.lyx.org) is a bit old and has some issues. Best regards, Christian On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 4:23 PM, Paul A. Rubin ru...@msu.edu wrote: Erez Yerushalmi wrote: Hi all, have others noticed that the LyX webpage doesn't load?? Erez Working here (tropical East Lansing, MI, USA). -- Christian Ridderström Mobile: +46-70 687 39 44
Re: wiki upload password
On Mon, 23 Feb 2009, Guenter Milde wrote: could someone please mail me (in privat) the password for uploading content to the lyx wiki? (Does this work for approving URLs too?) I've sent him the passwords off-list. /Christian -- Christian Ridderström Mobile: +46-70 687 39 44
Re: Introducing eLyXer: LyX to HTML converter
On Thu, 12 Mar 2009, Alex Fernandez wrote: I have not published the repository for lack of a hosting facility (and lack of knowledge to set it up), but once I find a suitable place I will make it public. Hi Alex, I believe there are free hosting facilities for git repositories, or you can surely get an account within the LyX repository (Subversion at the moment). Just google for free git repository, or something like that. Or ask on the developers list... Btw, you may want more than just the repository, if people start giving you bug reports etc. regards, Christian -- Christian Ridderström Mobile: +46-70 687 39 44
Re: upload a custom layout
On Sun, 15 Mar 2009, nckg wrote: If this layout could be of any use for other people, I would like to upload it to LyX website. (However I haven't found a register option there, so I am writing here.) Hi Nick, If you´d like, I can send you the password for uploading files off-list. Othewise Uwe´s suggestion is good :-) Best regards /Christian With best regards, Nick. -- Christian Ridderström Mobile: +46-70 687 39 44
Portugese/Brasilian translation of web site?
Hi, LyX has a portugese translation thanks to Susana Barbosa, but no corresponding translation of the web site. I´m currently on vacation in Brasil(*) and I´ve learned that it´s a huge country where only a small fraction of the Brasilians speak english. Portuguese is of course the native tongue here. So I just want to say that if there are any portugese speaking users that would like to help by creating a translated version of the web site, I´d be happy to help them get started. Best regards, Christian PS. I´m in the Natal region in case any LyX users or developers would like to say hi over a cold beer. -- Christian Ridderström Mobile: +46-70 687 39 44
RE: Portugese/Brasilian translation of web site?
On Fri, 20 Mar 2009, Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW wrote: PS. I´m in the Natal region in case any LyX users or developers would like to say hi over a cold beer. Yes, would all brazilian LyX developers please stand up now.. *sssh* I´m trying to make them appear out of thin air here, don't destory the magic! :-) Besides, if you'd never heard of LyX, you wouldn't be a developer now would you... cheers /Christian -- Christian Ridderström Mobile: +46-70 687 39 44
Edits of wiki pagse temporarily disabled
Hi, I've tried to disable editing of wiki pages as I'm currently trying to migrate th wiki to a new server. /Christian -- Christian Ridderström Mobile: +46-70 687 39 44
FYI: Wiki site relocated (edits not possible at the moment)
Hi, Today the LyX wiki and LyX web site were relocated to a new site. Both are visible at the usual addresses, but unfortunately it is at the moment not possible to edit the wiki pages due to a security conflict. This will hopefully be resolved during or before the weekend. cheers, Christian -- Christian Ridderström Mobile: +46-70 687 39 44
Wiki open for editing again
Hi, The wiki is now open for editing again[*]. This installation of the wiki is running on a new server, so please report things that aren't working properly, or if things seem slow or anything strange. There will probably be things that aren't working, but I'll gather a list of it and fix it eventually. At the moment I doubt the uploading of files work, but I haven't had time to test. best regards, /Christian [*] The reason I had to disable editing in the wiki before was due to a separate security software (ModSecurity) that was a bit to ambitious. -- Christian Ridderström Mobile: +46-70 687 39 44
Re: LyX Forum?
On Sun, 29 Mar 2009, Piero Faustini wrote: I wonder why could not these discussions been moved to a forum. I mean, the discussion list is great but is very hard to use for common users (I use GMANE for writing/browsing but I still receive daily updates in my mailbox). You can disable the daily updates to your mailbox and exclusively use GMANE. Oh, I should probably mention that I'm accessing this list pureley as a news group, which I guess you might consider a forum although I do it with a separate news client. cheers, Christian -- Christian Ridderström Mobile: +46-70 687 39 44
Re: LyX Forum?
On Sun, 29 Mar 2009, Piero Faustini wrote: else. What I lack most of LyX (and LaTeX)? Web-based environments, web-based bibliographies, web-based computing.. ok, we can't have EVERYTHING, but the various Google-Whatever are the best creatures of the net and this is the future, we all know it. Could you be more specific? We have: * web site * wiki site * mailing lists (i.e a forum) As for LaTeX-wise, there's something that can take wiki pages via LaTeX to PDF, so that's basically web based LaTeX computing for you? I really am curious, Christian -- Christian Ridderström Mobile: +46-70 687 39 44
Re: LyX Forum?
On Sun, 29 Mar 2009, Uwe Stöhr wrote: (I started supporting LyX with its mailing list btw. and I cannot think right now that anything else might be easier. And I'm 29, so not too old not to know the possibilities of forums ;-) ) I'm 35, so I don't see the advantages with forums... or lists for that matter over news groups ;-) ;-) Seriously though, why is a forum different from a list? /Christian -- Christian Ridderström Mobile: +46-70 687 39 44
Re: Where is the standard installerfür Lyx 1.6.2-1?
On Mon, 30 Mar 2009, Vincent van Ravesteijn wrote: I changed the download section of www.lyx.org so that we now only refer to the ftp site and not to special filenames. This prevents further problems when an installer is not available or a bug was fixed in the installer so that there is a new filename for it. OK with you Jürgen? I wouldn't do that.. some people might be scared off by presenting a list of files with rather cryptic names and not knowing which one to choose. They must just have a button or link saying: Lyx for windows. Could we use some clever way to automatically let the web/wiki figure out which package is the latest? /Christian regards Uwe -- Christian Ridderström Mobile: +46-70 687 39 44
Re: LyX Forum?
On Tue, 31 Mar 2009, Guenter Milde wrote: I agree that a side-bar link saying Mailing Lists / Forum can raise expectations that are not met by linked page http://www.lyx.org/MailingLists. IMO, this page should contain a section I sent the password for editing the web page to Guenter off-list, so maybe we'll see improvement on this page:-) /Christian -- Christian Ridderström Mobile: +46-70 687 39 44
Re: Re: Where is the standard installerfür Lyx 1.6.2-1?
On Tue, 31 Mar 2009, Manveru wrote: Maybe we can add two links (one to Joost's installer, one to yours), and then indicate if one of both is still the old version? I do not know how the engine below LyX main web page is advanced, but maybe it could check FTP once again and link automatically to latest binaries of WinInstaller and AltInstaller. If someone gives me a piece of PHP-code with the algorithm to detect them, I can incorporate it into the web page. I don't think the coding is the problem, but deciding what we want the algorithm to do... /Christian -- Christian Ridderström Mobile: +46-70 687 39 44
Re: LyX Forum?
On Tue, 31 Mar 2009, Guenter Milde wrote: I did the proposed edits to http://www.lyx.org/MailingLists. Please view and comment. Looks good, thanks. Christian Günter -- Christian Ridderström Mobile: +46-70 687 39 44
Re: Wiki: module exchange
On Tue, 31 Mar 2009, Paul A. Rubin wrote: I noticed a hint in one of the messages here that led me to discover a user-supplied module on the wiki: http://wiki.lyx.org/Tips/Enumitem. I had to do a search to find it, though. We have a page on the wiki for sharing layouts and tips about layouts. It might be a good idea to start a similar page for exchanging modules and tips about them. Sadly, I have negative idle time (but positive stress) at the moment, so I can't follow up on my own suggestion. What's a module? /Christian -- Christian Ridderström Mobile: +46-70 687 39 44
Web site, wiki site and file uploads now working
Hi, I think that we now have more or less successfully migrated the web site, the wiki site and the ability to upload files to the new server. The only thing not fully operational at the moment is bugzilla.lyx.org. For issues, please see http://www.lyx.org/trac/report As for the web and the wiki, they should be fully operational so please report anything that isn't working. cheers, Christian -- Christian Ridderström Mobile: +46-70 687 39 44
Re: Wiki: module exchange
On Wed, 1 Apr 2009, Vincent van Ravesteijn wrote: Christian Ridderström schreef: On Tue, 31 Mar 2009, Paul A. Rubin wrote: I noticed a hint in one of the messages here that led me to discover a user-supplied module on the wiki: http://wiki.lyx.org/Tips/Enumitem. I had to do a search to find it, though. We have a page on the wiki for sharing layouts and tips about layouts. It might be a good idea to start a similar page for exchanging modules and tips about them. Sadly, I have negative idle time (but positive stress) at the moment, so I can't follow up on my own suggestion. What's a module? /Christian Uhhh It's an honest question, really! We're on the users' list, so I persist that there are no (well, only very few) stupid questions! To put the question in context, I'm trying to figure out a good place for such a wiki page. Pleaes contribute now Vincent! ;-) /Christian And maybe it's time I read the documentation again... Vincent -- Christian Ridderström Mobile: +46-70 687 39 44
Org-mode for Emacs (perhaps like VimOutliner?)
On Mon, 6 Apr 2009, Steve Litt wrote: VimOutliner (http://www.vimoutliner.org). Because it was authored as an For the Emacs users, I think 'org-mode' might work as a substitute (on steroids that is). On a more serious note, I'm using org-mode for general purpose outlining and note taking, and it works great for me. regards, Christian -- Christian Ridderström Mobile: +46-70 687 39 44
Re: LyX vs Word processors
On Tue, 7 Apr 2009, Paul Sutton wrote: pastebin supports LaTex, so i what would be needed is some sort of website that people working on a paper can log in to, and paste bits of code, and then perhaps upload pdf, ps, or dvi files to link to the code, Or even better something like this http://codepad.org/ which supports programming languages but set up to deal with latex, online so select output, hit compile and it produces a pdf or whatever on the remote server for the team to download and review. I am sure the above is possible, not sure how though. the txt2tags website can take simple mark up and produce latex output, ok this goes back to what i said earlier, about learning more mark up, Have a look at http://www.wikipublisher.org/ Basically it's a wiki that uses a familiar markup (the same as on the LyX wiki), and it can produce LaTeX and PDF based on that. It goes via XML IIRC. cheers, /Christian but it shows that this can be done, so an online latex collaboration tool should be possible, if it concentrated on latex and related such as bibtex, then it would be a very powerful tool. http://codepad.org/ Paul -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAknbIXgACgkQaggq1k2FJq2X4wCfVbeU29Ma9uZnxyn/dxSvO65i FjEAn37CbTdBDSjrUs+D70+ueTcIUsHV =kexE -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- Christian Ridderström Mobile: +46-70 687 39 44
Re: Terminology Change Request for Next Release
On Fri, 10 Apr 2009, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: It's a joke. Irony. Developers also want to have (a bit of) fun, sometimes. I actually like ERT because of how it's a connection to the history of LyX and its origins. :-) /Christian -- Christian Ridderström Mobile: +46-70 687 39 44
Re: [Figure embedding] An easy way to share lyx documents
On Mon, 13 Apr 2009, Richard Heck wrote: Yes, that's a major drawback ! But the .zlyx could be used as an export file format to share with others, then one could just merge back the .lyx embedded into the .zlyx : I see this as a way one can use this feature, but some may want to use it otherwise (as everyone does when using OOo for example, reinsert the figure) This is where things get messy. If you just want an export format, then that actually exists already, kind of. There's a script, lyxpak.py, in the development tree that will pack a LyX file and all its dependencies, wherever they may be, into a tar, I think. Then it can be shipped off, unpacked, etc. The difficulty is then in updating. Obviously, you can unpack the tar yourself and do with it as you will. But, for security reasons, you do not really want LyX to be able automatically to unpack and write to arbitrary locations in your filesystem. Aren't there options to 'tar' that can help with this, e.g. only allowing things to be written to somewhere inside a subdirectory. As for the updating, I don't think 'tar' will be enough... you could expand the .tar-file into a separate directory and then compare the directories and manually move the files that have changed _and_ that you want to use to replace your version of those files. Then I thought a bit more for a solution, but what I came up with really just ended up amounting to a version control system where you were emailing changes. So why not go for a distributed version control system that supports sending changes (or all of it) as e-mail. This way you can get by without a server. /Christian -- Christian Ridderström Mobile: +46-70 687 39 44
Re: [Figure embedding] An easy way to share lyx documents
On Mon, 13 Apr 2009, rgheck wrote: I'll second what a few others have said: A version control system is really the way to go for collaboration. You get easy exchanges, easy updating, conflict management, plus you get versioned archving of everything you do. There are plenty of free hosting services for this kind of thing, if you don't already have access to some server or other. I started my new job today and learned about a document management system called 'DOX' (possible link: http://www.softwarecompliance.com/html/products/dox.html ) Now, while that system does have mane benefits, it does still seem quite crude compared to a proper version control system. Basically it expects you to lock a file while editing it. So for sharing files to work with, I really think version control is the way to go. Perhaps what you need is such a system that easily let's you e-mail only the differences. /Christian -- Christian Ridderström Mobile: +46-70 687 39 44
Re: [Figure embedding] An easy way to share lyx documents
On Fri, 17 Apr 2009, Niko Schwarz wrote: need to tar/untar anything. What was REALLY difficult was the .module I had written for the document. It cannot be accessed by a relative path; it needs to be inserted directly into the lyx tree. On OSX, I have to redo the module installation procedure on every update. Have you reported this? At the very least it sounds like a feature request that you don't want to have to use absolute paths to .module. regards, Christian -- Christian Ridderström Mobile: +46-70 687 39 44
Re: Open .lyx document on different computer and have graphics be okay
On Mon, 27 Apr 2009, Helge Hafting wrote: 1. Make sure the image paths are relative, not absolute. Absolute paths tend to be different on different computers. 2. Make sure both computers have all the necessary software. LyX relies on lots of support software in order to handle images. Some software to show images on screen, possibly other software to print/export. Hmm, is there some way to get a list of all the stuff used to create a document, e.g.: * Included files and images * LaTeX packages and document class * Other support software I guess you could parse the LaTeX log file to get some of this, but is there a way to know which software LyX uses when e.g. generating images to be shown inside LyX? /Christian -- Christian Ridderström Mobile: +46-70 687 39 44
Re: Error Explanation Help Needed -- SOLVED
On Sun, 17 May 2009, Rich Shepard wrote: I wanted to make some corrections and changes to my beamer presentation while I was away from the office. However, I get an error regarding the logo graphic which is different from what came up before, and I am having a lot of difficulty identifying the source. Sigh. As is too often the case, after sending the message it occurred to me to see if I have the latest beamer version installed on the notebook. I did not. Installing latex-beamer-3.07 fixed the problem. My apologies for the static, On the positive side, as you also present the solution you may well be helping others in the future. cheers, Christian Rich -- Christian Ridderström Mobile: +46-70 687 39 44
How to get citation like [1,2] rather than [2,1]?
Hi, I've google but couldn't find which package to use that automatically changes citations such that e.g, [1,2] - [1,2] [2,1] - [1,2] [1,2,3] - [1-3] [2,3,1] - [1-3] Well, I think you get the idea... What do I need to do in order to get LyX (with BibTeX) to do this? /Christian -- Christian Ridderström Mobile: +46-8 768 39 44
Re: How to get citation like [1,2] rather than [2,1]?
On Sun, 28 Jun 2009, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
Le 27/06/2009 03:36, rgheck a écrit :
What do I need to do in order to get LyX (with BibTeX) to do this?
Use natbib numerical, with the option sortcompress.
Or add \usepackage{cite} in the preamble. It would be nice to support
this natively, actually.
Thanks, this is the one I was looking for.
/Christian
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Re: Keyboard Shortcuts: 1.6.3
On Tue, 7 Jul 2009, Rich Shepard wrote: This question is about my installation of 1.6.3 on linux. Under Tools-Preferences-Shortcuts-Documents and window, there is a key 'buffer-export' with the assigned value of 'Ctrl-X H'. That key combination does nothing; the status line tells me it's been disabled. What I don't know is what flavor of buffer export it is supposed to invoke. If I try to change the valued from 'Ctrl-X H' to 'Ctrl-H' a message pops up telling me that chord is already assigned to buffer-export. Under File-Export I can manually select pdflatex and that works as intended. In ~/.lyx/bind/my.bind the 'buffer-export' value is assigned to the key 'Ctrl-H', but that does not work either. It moves the cursor a line above the title, but that's it. I'd appreciate learning what to do to get ctrl-h to export the buffer using pdflatex. Of course, learning why the icon bar handles don't let me move them would also be appreciated. Here's a (very) partial answer. I think that 'buffer-export' requires an argument, e.g. 'pdf2' to say what kind of export you want. Maybe that's incompatible with just using 'Ctrl-x h' for export? You could try doing M-x (should give you a prompt, and then type) buffer-export pdf2 After getting that to work, you could probably bind a command that does the above to a keyboard shortcut. Or ask on the developers list... :-) /Christian -- Christian Ridderström Mobile: +46-8 768 39 44
Tip: How to type degreen symbol in Windows using the numeric key pad
Hi, I searched the lists for how to type a degree symbol in LyX under Windows and didn't find something that I thought was really easy. So here's an alternative (which may well have drawbacks), e.g that it requires your keyboard to have some kind of numeric key pad. Here goes: In order to type the degree symbol, press and hold down the Alt key while on the numeric key pad typing 0176. (The '0' is needed.) This method worked in my LyX under Windows XP. The page http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/international/accents/codealt.html contains similar codes for lots of other symbols. Caveat: There might be drawbacks with this method that I haven't tested, and it would be much nicer if I had the equivalent of a Compose-key in Windows. cheers, Christian -- Christian Ridderström Mobile: +46-8 768 39 44
Tip: How to type degree symbol in Windows using the numeric key pad
(reposting with correctly spelled subject, to help search engines) On Thu, 30 Jul 2009, Christian Ridderström wrote: Hi, I searched the lists for how to type a degree symbol in LyX under Windows and didn't find something that I thought was really easy. So here's an alternative (which may well have drawbacks), e.g that it requires your keyboard to have some kind of numeric key pad. Here goes: In order to type the degree symbol, press and hold down the Alt key while on the numeric key pad typing 0176. (The '0' is needed.) This method worked in my LyX under Windows XP. The page http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/international/accents/codealt.html contains similar codes for lots of other symbols. Caveat: There might be drawbacks with this method that I haven't tested, and it would be much nicer if I had the equivalent of a Compose-key in Windows. cheers, Christian -- Christian Ridderström Mobile: +46-8 768 39 44
Re: Suggestion
On Fri, 14 Aug 2009, Andrew Sullivan wrote: On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 08:39:24AM -0400, Manoj Rajagopalan wrote: , thunderbird, kmail etc. allow you to move incoming mails into custom folders based on criteria like To:,Cc: fields etc. Or the List-*: mail headers, which were designed partly for just that purpose. In case the above wasn't clear enough, the emails already contain 'headers' such as these: Mailing-List: contact lyx-users-h...@lists.lyx.org; run by ezmlm List-Post: mailto:lyx-users@lists.lyx.org List-Help: mailto:lyx-users-h...@lists.lyx.org Delivered-To: mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org You just need to make your client recognize any of them.. /Christian A -- Christian Ridderström Mobile: +46-8 768 39 44
Re: Lyx tip-sheets
On Sat, 15 Aug 2009, =?UTF-8?B?RnJlZGVyaWNrIE5vcm9uaGEgW+ClnuCksOClh+CkpuCksOCkv+CklSDgpKjgpYvgpLDgpYs=?= ] wrote: Any good source from which to download Lyx tip sheets? Many thanks, FN What do you mean by a 'tip sheet'? /Christian -- Christian Ridderström Mobile: +46-8 768 39 44
How can I avoid a warning about a child document of a different class?
Hi, I have a child document containing acronyms and abbreviations. My idea was to include this child document in several different documents and to use branches to select the list of abbreviates I actually want. However, with the master document being of a different class, I get a warning about this differnce each time I compile the document... Is there a way I can disable this warning? Or alternatively, some other way to maintain a rather lengthy list of abbreviations that I'm likely to include in other documents? Best regards Christian -- Christian Ridderström Mobile: +46-8 768 39 44
Re: Permission to link
On Tue, 1 Sep 2009, Save Orangutans wrote: Dear LyX Developers / Users I am Mutia, a LyX user in Malaysia. Currently I am conducting a campaign to save Orang Utans in Malaysia and Indonesia Areas from extinction. Since I really like LyX, I am linking LyX in my web to save Orang Utans. http://lifesoforangutans.blogspot.com Thank you very much for allowing me to put LyX in my web. His web page does have a link to LyX under the ambiguous and likely incorrect heading of 'Supported organisation'. Maybe he's using LyX to write documents.? /Christian Regards Mutia Save Orang Utans -- Christian Ridderström Mobile: +46-8 768 39 44
Re: 1.6.4 for Ubuntu 64?
On Thu, 27 Aug 2009, rgheck wrote: On 08/27/2009 10:41 AM, Stefano Franchi wrote: Richard, just out of curiosity (since I won't be able to contribute to the coding effort), are these instructions supposed to work with the development code in trunk as well? In case Richard's instructions didn't work, you can try the one I keep on the wiki: http://wiki.lyx.org/PersonalChr/CompileFromSVN#toc6 This is primarily for building the development code though. Just replace the location from which you retrieve the code. cheers /Christian -- Christian Ridderström Mobile: +46-8 768 39 44
Re: Lyx tip-sheets
On Tue, 18 Aug 2009, Liviu Andronic wrote: Hello, On 8/15/09, Frederick Noronha [ÿÿ ÿÿ] f...@bytesforall.org wrote: Any good source from which to download Lyx tip sheets? Many thanks, FN I would suspect that you're looking for something like this [1]. The entire wiki is some sort of a big cheat-sheet. Best Liviu [1] http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/Unsorted Or possible the group of wiki pages called 'Tips'? http://wiki.lyx.org/Tips/Tips /Christian -- Christian Ridderström Mobile: +46-8 768 39 44
Documentation specifically for using KOMA Script with LyX?
Hi, I'm just wondering if there's any documentation that's specific to using KOMA Script document classes with LyX, which would be a good starting point instead of the regular KOMA Script documenation. cheers, Christian -- Christian Ridderström Mobile: +46-8 768 39 44
Re: How can I avoid a warning about a child document of a different class?
On Tue, 1 Sep 2009, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Christian Ridderström wrote: However, with the master document being of a different class, I get a warning about this differnce each time I compile the document... Is there a way I can disable this warning? Since LyX 1.6.4, yes. Click on Do not show this warning again. Perfect, (I was using 1.6.2). Thanks, /Christian -- Christian Ridderström Mobile: +46-8 768 39 44
Re: Documentation specifically for using KOMA Script with LyX?
On Tue, 1 Sep 2009, Uwe Stöhr wrote: Christian Ridderström schrieb: I'm just wondering if there's any documentation that's specific to using KOMA Script document classes with LyX, which would be a good starting point instead of the regular KOMA Script documenation. The LyX UserGuide.lyx uses for example koma-skript. That helped a bit. Unfortunately I need to implement a corporate template, which means I need to use more than the standard stuff. So far I've found the KOMA-script documentation pretty poor. I'll look on the wiki, but if I don't find any examples there I'll add mine as I make some progress. regards /Christian -- Christian Ridderström Mobile: +46-8 768 39 44
Re: Documentation specifically for using KOMA Script with LyX?
On Tue, 1 Sep 2009, Jeremy wrote: Have you read the pdf documentation from the KOMA website? There is a German and English version available: scrguide.pdf scrguien.pdf Some documentation is only available from the latest KOMA guide book (available only in German) I'm reading a version of scrguien.pdf, but I still haven't figured out how to have multiple lines in my header and footer for instance. Any ideas? cheers /Christian -- Christian Ridderström Mobile: +46-8 768 39 44
Re: [Lyx] explicit mail subject
On Wed, 2 Sep 2009, Delta moins wrote: Hello everybody, I'm registred to this mailing list for few weeks and I'm very surprised about one thing : there is no keyword in the mail subject that tell people this comes from the Lyx users list. It's very messing because you cannot filter the mails efficiently. In addition sometimes, mail subject is not so easy to link with Lyx so organising the mail box is not so easy. I don't know if it should be done automaticaly by the list system or if people that send mail should add something like I've done for example manually. It's a pity because informations in the mails are often very interesting :-) It was just a remark to improve this list. Hi, If you look at the details in the email you will find list information which you should be able to your mail client to use. Or you can read this list through a news interface, or through the gmane site. /Christian PS. As an aside, this is one of the more frequent questions. Has anyone added it to the FAQ on the wiki? -- Christian Ridderström Mobile: +46-8 768 39 44
Re: [Lyx] explicit mail subject
On Wed, 2 Sep 2009, Manveru wrote: 2009/9/2 Murray Eisenberg mur...@math.umass.edu: I agree with the O.P. on this. This is something that, surely, is easily fixed at the server end, so that each message going out from the server has, say, [LyX] prepended to the subject. There is many voices in favour of such feature. But not a lot of people vote against. If may I suggest, maybe someone can create a poll/survey for LyX users list subscribers. I think the many voices that don't like it are tired of having this recurring discussion ;-) Personally I'm _agains_ adding something like [LyX] to the subject line. But then, I read the list through a news interface. /Christian -- Christian Ridderström Mobile: +46-8 768 39 44
Re: [Lyx] explicit mail subject
On Wed, 2 Sep 2009, Sam Liddicott wrote: * Paul A. Rubin wrote, On 02/09/09 15:57: I understand there are some concerns about tampering with the subject line (and what happens when replies and forwards occur). What about creating a LyX-specific header (X-LyX: userlist or X-LyX: developerlist or whatever)? Will the list mailer (and GMANE, which is where I get my feed) support custom headers? It's easy enough to filter on them in any mail client I've used. Alas, not on my mail server. I can filter on many standard headers (like List-ID) but not any custom header. Hi Sam, I've been going through this thread quickly, but I got the impression you had some problems in creating a filter with the software that you use. How about using gmane? Either the web interface or it's news interface. Maybe your client works well with news? Best regards and hope this helps /Christian -- Christian Ridderström Mobile: +46-8 768 39 44
Re: Simulate update dvi behaviour in update pdflatex
On Tue, 8 Sep 2009, Uwe Stöhr wrote: I cannot reproduce this. What program is your default PDF viewer? (I I've also found that Acrobat starts over on the first page, very annoying:-( /Christian mean is Acrobat opened when you double-click on a PDF in the file explorer?) If Acrobat is indeed the default viewer, how was LyX installed (what installer (alternative or the standard one), was logged in with admin priviledges when installing LyX)? regards Uwe -- Christian Ridderström Mobile: +46-8 768 39 44
Re: Simulate update dvi behaviour in update pdflatex
On Tue, 8 Sep 2009, Uwe Stöhr wrote: Sharma, Vivek schrieb: I am using lyx 1.6.4 with Miktex and adobe acrobat. When we View - update - dvi after the latex runs the dvi window goes to the page I was viewing last with the updated view, whereas with update pdflatex the updated file just opens at the first page of the pdf document. I cannot reproduce this. What program is your default PDF viewer? (I mean is Acrobat opened when you double-click on a PDF in the file explorer?) If Acrobat is indeed the default viewer, how was LyX installed (what installer (alternative or the standard one), was logged in with admin priviledges when installing LyX)? I forgot to say: I started Acrobat (or possibly reader, I can't say to be honest) from within LyX. I don't know how it was installed either, it's a company laptop. /Christian regards Uwe -- Christian Ridderström Mobile: +46-8 768 39 44
Re: Can't edit Wiki page
On Tue, 8 Jun 2004, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Aarrgh! I know exactly what you mean... http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/Playground/Robin I can edit this with no problem. That was expected. Then maybe you could try and see if you can edit a page with a lot of content at a different site, i.e. http://www.pmichaud.com/wiki/Test/LotsOfText I can edit this, as well. In fact, it's a copy of the page I'm trying to edit on the LyX Wiki. Ok (also expected, and yes, I simply copied the InstantPreviwe-page to a different wiki server -- www.pmichaud.com) So it does not appear to be a question of the amount of text. Actually, I think it *is* a matter of the amount of text. The page above was on a different server. Here's a link to another page on the lyx wiki with lots of text (you shouldn't be able to edit this either): http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/SiteTest/LotsOfText Just for fun, try and remove more and more text from this page and suddenly you should be able to save it -- not that this is any practical solution Do you have some router/gateway at home that might be involved in this? As I've said before, I've had this problem intermittently and I have a DI-714 (I think). Or maybe it's some router/gateway in your network path? Using a browser on a remote system did work. I have no idea why, of course. This seems to be a problem that only happens when you: * Do the save from some network (unknown what the characteristics are) * The page contains more text than some unknown limit Maybe there is something in the network path that doesn't like posting data over a certain size? /Christian -- Christian Ridderström http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Re: Can't edit Wiki page
On Wed, 9 Jun 2004, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Actually, I think it *is* a matter of the amount of text. The page above was on a different server. So you think the text quantity issue is tied to a specific server (as opposed to a specific client, or client configuration, or failure to make an appropriate propitiation to the gods before clicking save)? I don't know what I think - the last time I actually tried to get a handle on this problem nothing made sense really... You're right. Deleting paragraph 5 did not do the job, but deleting 4 and 5 let me save it. So we know this problem only occurs if the size is above a certain limit. I do this from my office (Ethernet to OC3 (?) link to regional net). I have a personal firewall on my office PC, and there are allegedly firewalls in place between my building and our campus and between our campus and Out There. The firewall could be a common denominator... my router at home has a built in gateway. Actually, I wonder if the problem disappeared when I got a new router at home? If I have enough energy I'll see if I can plug the old router back in and see if I get problem again. However, the building firewall (allegedly) only filters inbound traffic, and I believe the same holds for the campus firewall. So the edited page should be reaching the server. This seems to be a problem that only happens when you: * Do the save from some network (unknown what the characteristics are) * The page contains more text than some unknown limit Maybe there is something in the network path that doesn't like posting data over a certain size? Highly unlikely in my case. The server I used for a successful remote post is on the same network segment as my office PC, so the successful and unsucessful traffic should have followed pretty much identical routes. Ok, that's actually good since it means that the problem is closer. The server has a static IP and my PC gets its IP address by DHCP, but that seems unlikely to explain the difference. I agree. Hmm. Just edited the page successfully from two PCs across the hall from my office (same segment). One was Win 98, the other Win XP (same as my office), so the OS is not the differentiator. (Incidentally, FYI, the Wiki pages do not display correctly on Netscape 4.76, perhaps indicating a problem with CSS support in an older browser.) Probably... was it really bad? (Maybe it's enough if I write a note in the Site.FAQ that Netscape 4.76 is too old.) Aha! (Or perhaps I should say Aha??) I turned off my firewall momentarily (scary thing to do here), and an edit went through just fine. Stranger still, I then turned the firewall back on, and I can still edit the test page. Ok... I can buy that turning of the firewall (what kind of firewall btw?) allows you to edit, but why would it keep working??? I can't find anything in the firewall log with respect to traffic to/from wiki.lyx.org. However, there is an entry with a similar IP address (maps to tott.linpro.no). I think the wiki server is in Norway and here's a funny thing: wiki.lyx.org is an alias for aussie.lyx.org. aussie.lyx.org has address 80.232.38.164 tott.linpro.no has address 80.232.38.218 so these two machines are very close... this seems significant since I don't remember encountering this problem on other wiki servers. It's about the right time frame for one of my unsuccessful edit attempts (prior to turning the firewall off), and it indicates that the firewall blocked 19 ICMP Type 3 (Destination Unreachable) packets from tott.linpro.no, apparently in response to traffic I sent. Ok, this is getting a bit stochastic. I closed the browser and restarted it, then (with the firewall on) edited the LotsOfText page and tried to save. The browser hung, and the firewall reported a bunch of ICMP 3 packets from tott.linpro.no. Fine. I then ran netstat to check network connections, tried another edit (without shutting down the firewall, without restarting the browser) and the edit went through (!?). Then I tried another edit, and it failed, but I got no new ICMP packets from tott.linpro.no. And then another attempt succeeded. This reminds me of something else that I've noticed... the first time I want to upload a file, I have to click on the upload button twice (nothing happens after the first click, just as if a request has been sent but there's no response). I'll bring this up on the devel list to see if tott.linpro.no is known. /Christian -- Christian Ridderström http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Re: wiki site looks as if is just been hacked!
On Wed, 16 Jun 2004, Rob S wrote: Hi List; Wiki site has taken a hit from a hacker, how can one restore a page? You obviously figured it out. A big thank you to you and Michael for restoring the pages. Let me know if there were any you couldn't fix. For the future, should I make a password required in order to edit a page? The password for uploading files is simply 'lyx', and I could just set the edit password to 'lyx' as well. regards /Christian -- Christian Ridderström http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Should the wiki be password protected? (was: wiki site looks as if is just been hacked!)
On Wed, 16 Jun 2004, Christian Ridderström wrote: On Wed, 16 Jun 2004, Rob S wrote: Hi List; Wiki site has taken a hit from a hacker, how can one restore a page? You obviously figured it out. A big thank you to you and Michael for restoring the pages. Let me know if there were any you couldn't fix. For the future, should I make a password required in order to edit a page on the wiki? The password for uploading files is simply 'lyx', and I could just set the edit password to 'lyx' as well. Opinions and comments on this please. /Christian -- Christian Ridderström http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Re: Should the wiki be password protected? (was: wiki site looks as if is just been hacked!)
On Wed, 16 Jun 2004, John Levon wrote: On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 09:10:14PM +0200, Christian Ridderstr?m wrote: The password for uploading files is simply 'lyx', and I could just set the edit password to 'lyx' as well. I think we are forced to do something like this. For a first round, we can add text directly above that gives users the password directly. I like that idea. Exactly where would you like to write down the password? Do you mean next to the link 'Edit page' at the top right corner of each page? (We could have a text saying: The password of the day is 'lyx' :) /Christian -- Christian Ridderström http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Password for editing pages on the lyx wiki
Hi Because the wiki was spammed yesterday, I'm now adding a password requirement for editing a page. The password is 'lyx' (just like when uploading files) and you can give whatever username you like. /Christian -- Christian Ridderström http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Re: problem with \input and updating
On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, Gunnar G wrote:
Hello.
I use lyx 1.3.4 on my Linux machine and I'm having a problem with viewing a
document (as postscript). In this document I include another TeX file by
using \input{myfile.tex}. The problem is that if I change myfile.tex, the
ps document does not reflect this.
It is properly shown if I delete all files in /tmp/lyxadsfaasfds/ (some
directory that seems to be used by LyX).
Something similar happened to me because LyX determines the names of
depending files from the latex log-file, and that the name of the included
file was split over two lines. If this is the case, it's a minor bug and
IIRC it's even fixed in 1.4.
Take a look at the log file and see what the line that includes your file
looks like. A temporary work around might be to make latex print the file
name on a single line, e.g. by inserting some print to log statement.
(In my case I had some warning at the beginnnig of that line, which made
the whole line so long that the file name was split over two lines)
/Christian
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Re: Handling of figures by LyX
On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, Angus Leeming wrote: I've added a new page to the wiki-wiki which attempts to describe how LyX handles figures. Find it at http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/LyX/FiguresInLyX In order to help people find the page, I've added a link to it to the http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/LyX/PageList This is defines the so called wiki trail at the top of each page. Then I also added a link to it from the documentation page: http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/LyX/Documentation (which is what you see if you click on the link LyX Documentation in the sidebar on the left). /Christian -- Christian Ridderström http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Re: Handling of figures by LyX
On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, Angus Leeming wrote:
This is defines the so called wiki trail at the top of each page. Then
I also added a link to it from the documentation page:
http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/LyX/Documentation
(which is what you see if you click on the link LyX Documentation in
the sidebar on the left).
Maybe you should remove it from the Manuals page then...
I didn't see you had added it there until afterwards. I cant decide where
the link the should be, so I guess I'll leave it in both places for now
(just like the link to {{Instant preview}}).
/Christian
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Re: Clarification on Wiki Math Macros information
On Mon, 28 Jun 2004, Fred Nastos wrote: The user guide says there is a comment paragraph environment, which I interpreted to mean that in the pull-down down where Standard, Caption, Itemize, etc. are I would see a Comment section but I can't seem to find it. I am using the revtex4 style. You're right in that the comment environment should have been in the pull-down menu... try creating a test document using some other document class, e.g. the default article style. It might be a simple matter of adding the comment style to 'revtex.layout'. /Christian PS. Here's the contents of a simple .lyx-file that has a comment: Begin paste #LyX 1.3 created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/ \lyxformat 221 \textclass report \language english \inputencoding auto \fontscheme default \graphics default \paperfontsize default \spacing single \papersize Default \paperpackage a4 \use_geometry 0 \use_amsmath 0 \use_natbib 0 \use_numerical_citations 0 \paperorientation portrait \secnumdepth 3 \tocdepth 3 \paragraph_separation indent \defskip medskip \quotes_language english \quotes_times 2 \papercolumns 1 \papersides 1 \paperpagestyle default \layout Standard The paragraph below should be a comment. \layout Comment Here is the comment \the_end end paste -- Christian Ridderström http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Re: \thispagestyle{empty} not working for me
On Tue, 29 Jun 2004, Rich Shepard wrote: Might there be a clue in the .lyx file that I'm not seeing? Maybe you could create a small dummy file (using the same classes etc) and then send it to the list so that we can look at it directly? Have you checked the wiki, e.g. this page: http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/Examples/RomanPageNumbering /Christian -- Christian Ridderström http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Re: Problems with toads
On Fri, 2 Jul 2004, Rich Shepard wrote: On Sat, 3 Jul 2004, Elver Loho wrote: While LyX has a very fine LaTeX class for doing just that, it seems to lack hotkeys. Changing styles with the keyboard seems to be impossible, e, Er, ... no. Not at all. Wander over to ~/.lyx/bind/ and look at the files there: cua.bind and emacs.bind. You are welcome to modify them to your heart's content. Just as a suggestion, copy one of them (say, 'cua.bind') to another file (oh, 'my.bind' would do), then fiddle with the latter. When the music suits you, you're all set. Go to Edit-Preferences-Look n' Feel-Bind file and change that to the one you want to use. Then run Edit-Reconfigure, exit LyX and restart it. Here's a link to some additional information about keyboard shortcuts: http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/LyX/KeyboardShortcuts /Christian -- Christian Ridderström http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Re: shortcut for export - pdflatex
On Sat, 3 Jul 2004, John Coppens wrote: On Sun, 04 Jul 2004 00:09:23 +0200 Uwe Stöhr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello LyXers, does anybody know a way to define a shortcut for export - pdflatex? thanks Uwe This was just asked a few messages ago. Check default lyx-dir/bind for a lot of examples how to bind keys to things. You can then define your own in ~/.lyx/bind It's not quite that easy I think. You need to define a command sequence that invokes 'buffer-export'. Doing 'buffer-export latex' exports LaTeX, but when I try 'buffer-export pdfLatex' it says command deactivated or something. So I think it's a matter of figuring out what the argument should be. /Christian -- Christian Ridderström http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Re: archive for lyx document
On Wed, 14 Jul 2004, Georg Baum wrote: I wonder whether there could be something like an archive for a lyx file and the additional stuff for it (such as figures, bibliography). It would help to keep things neatly together without bothering about pathes. Personally I think that it is the wrong direction to add file archiving capabilities to lyx, I prefer to use specialized tools for that task. You should file this as an enhancement request on bugzilla if you don't want it to be forgotten. Putting the archive capability in LyX might be wrong, If you file an enhancement request, I think you should you suggest (as an alternative) that LyX should be able to create a list of all files that your document depends on. Then you could use this list to create the archive yourself, manually adding any other files you think should be included. So if I have finished work with a lyx file and all its figures I would evoke in Lyx: export to archive. Next time I want to work with it after perhaps having moved it to another place or even another machine I would ask LyX to open the archive Don't forget that you may still lack some .sty-files etc on the other system, so it won't be fool-proof. /Christian -- Christian Ridderström http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Re: Error in prosper ( Weiss, dekel).lyx
On Fri, 16 Jul 2004, belahcene abdelkader wrote: Hi, I 've just download and install proper with different layouts for lyx ( prosper2, dekel and weiss ) While layout-Dekel-fancy.lyx and layout_Weiss-fancy.lyx run correctly whithout error; other files (layout-sample for both dekel and weiss ) give error like ( certainly the problem with language, I change language without success) ! Class prosper Error: unknown Prosper style file: PPRenglish.sty. This is a common problem and mentioned on the wiki page: http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/Examples/Prosper /Christian -- Christian Ridderström http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Unwanted pagenumbering in Contents (report class).
Hi LyX-users
I'm writing a technical report, using the class: report.
How can I remove the pagenumber from the 'Contents'-pages? (I've tried
using \thispagestyle{empty}, but it doesn't work).
Alternatively, how can I let the Contents-pages use roman numerals (I,
II, III, ...) and the rest of the report arabic, starting with 1.
y.s.
Christian Ridderström
Extra blank page to achieve odd pagenumber
Hi LyX-users 1. How can I make LyX/TeX insert an extra blank page, so that chapters always begin on an odd pagenumber? 2. Using the 'Paragraph properties', should perhaps allow one to do this feature in future versions of lyX. I'm using the 'report'-class. y.s. Christian Ridderström
Special font for title and author-lines, or Alt. How to change font in one paragrahp
Hi I'm writing a conference paper that requires me to use Times New Roman (or Times) for the main text, but 18pt Arial bold for the title, 10pt Arial bold for the authors and 10pt Arial for author affilation. All of this should furthermore be left-justified and at the top of the page. I.e., it should look something like this: ---Top of page | Title line in 18pt Arial bold | | Authors in 10pt Arial bold | Author affiliation in 10pt Arial | | | I think that I should probably just use a standard paragraph-type and change font/size for these lines, but how do I do that? And where could I possibly find Arial, further more: how to make it work with LyX? y.s. Christian Ridderström
BiBTeX and nocite
Hi I had the same problem as described by Marc below. "Marc" == Marc Van Droogenbroek writes: Marc Hello! I have to write a document that only contains \nocite Marc references. The \nocite references were included as LaTeX Marc commands. Apparently therefore LyX doesn't launch BibTeX. Marc The solution I found was to include a \cite reference (from the Marc menu) and to remove it afterwards. Marc Is there a better solution to this? There is no direct support for nocite currently. The only solution I can think about is to add all the \nocite'd entries as notmal citation insets, but with a % marked as TeX just before (therefore, they will be in comments for LaTeX, but visible for LyX). Hope this helps. JMarc - Assuming that this problem has not been fixed in versions of LyX later than 1.1.2, I'd like to suggest the following: Add an option to the dialog box for inserting BiBTeX-citations that allows the user to mark it as of the type: "nocite" I also tried the suggested solution of putting a '%' in TeX-mode just in front of a normal citation, but that didn't produce anything either. If anyone knows of a different workaround to this problem, I'd be grateful. /Christian Ridderström
lyxdiff
Hi I've been looking for a tool that compares two .lyx-files and marks the places where they differ. Searching the net, I found a small script called "texdiff". There was no manual or anything, but I got it working. It is used as follows:texdiff new_version old_version and produces a new file: new_version.diff.tex that you can compile and look at. The differences have been marked according to different styles (bold text, with margin arrows, or withing thick brackets). This works, but first you have to convert both versions of you .lyx-files to .tex-files. This might be possible to do directly with a .lyx-file. Unfortunately, 'texdiff' uses a program called 'sed', and I don't know enough about it or the .lyx-format to make it work with a .lyx-file. If there is anybody out there that has the time and sed-skill to convert "texdiff" into "lyxdiff", I've attached the "texdiff"-files (that I found at: http://www.dis.uniroma1.it/PUB/italiano/texdiff/ ) Christian Ridderström PS. I saw something in the announcement about the Lyx file-format being changed, so maybe this should wait. Maybe it is just bad practice to let other programs/scripts mess with the .lyx-file? DS blockdiff.ed delim.ed linediff.sed margin.ed paint.ed texdiff
Possible bug related to BibTex insert dialog, showing the same entry multiple times
Hi
I just wanted to report the following behaviour:
In the dialog to insert Bibtex-references, each bibtex entry appeared
several times. So if I had a bibtex entry
@article{Ridderstrom:2000, };
The list would show
Ridderstrom:2000:
Ridderstrom:2000
When I changed the content in the Bibtex reference box from
chr.default,chr
to
chr.default.bib,chr.bib
this behaviour disappeared!
So I guess this fixes the problem, but then the 'latex-output' looks
'ugly':
The style file: plain.bst
Database file #1: chr.default.bib.bib
Database file #2: chr.bib
but I can live with it of course.
/Christian Ridderström
Re: Inconsistencies in User Interface.
On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, Sherwood Botsford wrote: 3. Within math mode transformations are opaque. Several times already I have found myself starting an expression a/(b+c) then decided afterward to rewrite it as a --- b + c I've yet to find an easy and obvious way to do this. (My dream is to be able to type math as fast as I write it.) I don't know of a way to automatically rewrite it, but here are some tips that ought to make your math-typing quicker: C-m Start math mode M-m f Create a fraction (i.e. __ ) M-m ( Create a pair of () and also see here for an example of how it can be rewritten: http://ev-en.org/wiki/moin.cgi/LyxFrequentlyUsedShortcuts /Christian -- Christian Ridderström http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Re: LyX-1.3.0 and Red Hat 7.3 notes
On Wed, 12 Feb 2003, Owen Lucas wrote: Hi I like the look and feel of xforms so are trying to install the new xforms 1.0. Try as I might I have been unable to get this to install the way lyx wants it. I first tryed building it from xforms-1.0-release.tgz This seemed to work fine but lyx didnt like it for some reason?? I followed your exelent instructions on getting this to install word for word and all went ok up to the command Hi I only wanted to let you know that it _is_ possible to compile both qt and xforms under RH7.3. Unfortunately, my notes on it: http://ev-en.org/wiki/moin.cgi/LyXCompile seem to mostly be for the cvs-version, but I know that I compiled it from the tar-ball (and not the RPM's since I'm not root). The only real tip I can give you is to really check that it's using the right version of forms.h (i.e. no old 0.89-version or so). Other than that, I'd consider extracting the tar-ball and trying it again from scratch. /Christian -- Christian Ridderström http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Re: Still the ugly pdf output
On Wed, 12 Feb 2003, Herbert Voss wrote:
Christian Ridderström schrieb:
On Wed, 12 Feb 2003, Herbert Voss wrote:
\usepackage{mathptmx}% instead of package times
\usepackage[scaled=0.9]{helvet} % or [scaled=0.92], if you like
Hmm... I just tried this and get the error:
LaTeX Error: Unknown option `scaled=0.9' for package `helvet'.
I'm using tetex 1.07. What's missing here?
what does \listfiles in the logfile say? f.ex.:
I can't find any such entry in my logfile, see here:
http://www.md.kth.se/~chr/lyx/bugs/helvet_scale/latex_log
/Christian
--
Christian Ridderström, +46-8-790 91 37 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Mechatronics lab, Dept. of Machine Designhttp://www.md.kth.se
Re: Still the ugly pdf output
On Wed, 12 Feb 2003, Herbert Voss wrote:
Christian Ridderström schrieb:
On Wed, 12 Feb 2003, Herbert Voss wrote:
\usepackage{mathptmx}% instead of package times
\usepackage[scaled=0.9]{helvet} % or [scaled=0.92], if you like
Hmm... I just tried this and get the error:
LaTeX Error: Unknown option `scaled=0.9' for package `helvet'.
I'm using tetex 1.07. What's missing here?
This is what my helvet.sty contains (and below that a file 'helvetic.sty')
%%
%% This is file `helvet.sty',
%% generated with the docstrip utility.
[snip]
%%
\ProvidesPackage{helvet}
[1999/03/29 PSNFSS v.7.2
Helvetica font as default sans
: S Rahtz]
\renewcommand{\sfdefault}{phv}
\endinput
%%
%% End of file `helvet.sty'.
But there is also a file called: 'helevetic.sty':
cat /pkg/teTeX/1.07/share/texmf/tex/latex//psnfss/helvetic.sty
\def\fileversion{1}
\def\filedate{1995/08/12}
\ProvidesPackage{helvetic}[\filedate\space\fileversion
\space PSNFSS LaTeX2e package loading Helvetica-Oblique]
\renewcommand{\sfdefault}{phv}
\endinput
/Christian
--
Christian Ridderström, +46-8-790 91 37 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Mechatronics lab, Dept. of Machine Designhttp://www.md.kth.se
Re: Still the ugly pdf output
On Wed, 12 Feb 2003, Herbert Voss wrote:
Christian Ridderström schrieb:
\ProvidesPackage{helvet}
[1999/03/29 PSNFSS v.7.2
update this package
Herbert
Thanks, I've told my systems administrator and hopefully he'll update the
package.
/Christian
--
Christian Ridderström, +46-8-790 91 37 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Mechatronics lab, Dept. of Machine Designhttp://www.md.kth.se
off-topic: can't access Herbert's pages from home
Hi I'm sorry for being totally off topic here, but does anybody have an idea why I can access Herbert's pages (http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de) from work, but not from home? Traceroute from work gives: /usr/sbin/traceroute www.educat.hu-berlin.de traceroute to teak.educat.hu-berlin.de (141.20.130.13), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets 1 bulten.damek.kth.se (130.237.57.2) 0.720 ms 0.654 ms 0.601 ms 2 kth1-cn4-b.gw.kth.se (130.237.211.233) 0.495 ms 0.454 ms 0.576 ms 3 stockholm3-SRP2.sunet.se (130.242.85.65) 0.814 ms 0.911 ms 0.743 ms 4 stockholm1-POS6.sunet.se (130.242.82.25) 1.195 ms 1.023 ms 1.280 ms 5 s-gw.nordu.net (193.10.252.181) 1.069 ms 0.814 ms 1.053 ms 6 sw-gw.nordu.net (193.10.252.129) 0.973 ms 0.859 ms 0.888 ms 7 nordunet.se1.se.geant.net (62.40.103.117) 1.019 ms 1.158 ms 1.165 ms 8 se.de2.de.geant.net (62.40.96.65) 22.891 ms 22.879 ms 22.930 ms 9 de2-1.de1.de.geant.net (62.40.96.129) 23.690 ms 22.986 ms 22.921 ms 10 ir-frankfurt2.g-win.dfn.de (62.40.103.34) 23.180 ms 23.237 ms 23.213 ms 11 cr-frankfurt1.g-win.dfn.de (188.1.80.37) 23.433 ms 23.367 ms 23.332 ms 12 cr-berlin1.g-win.dfn.de (188.1.18.186) 32.357 ms 32.307 ms 32.566 ms 13 ar-huberlin1.g-win.dfn.de (188.1.20.2) 32.651 ms 32.470 ms 32.409 ms 14 194.94.12.101 (194.94.12.101) 32.459 ms 32.684 ms 32.613 ms 15 141.20.16.14 (141.20.16.14) 32.916 ms 32.795 ms 32.753 ms 16 teak.educat.hu-berlin.de (141.20.130.13) 33.162 ms * 33.107 ms and everything is fine, whereas from home: /usr/sbin/traceroute www.educat.hu-berlin.de traceroute to teak.educat.hu-berlin.de (141.20.130.13), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets 1 192.168.123.254 (192.168.123.254) 2.037 ms 1.122 ms 1.059 ms 2 217.215.26.1 (217.215.26.1) 27.768 ms 14.439 ms 14.230 ms 3 ar1sbk1-geth0-0-0.fre.skanova.net (195.67.220.77) 14.480 ms 14.189 ms 14.269 ms 4 fre-d1-geth7-1.se.telia.net (195.67.220.73) 14.417 ms 14.667 ms 14.258 ms 5 hy-b1-pos11-0.se.telia.net (195.67.220.157) 16.533 ms 14.509 ms 14.939 ms 6 s-b4-pos13-0.telia.net (213.248.66.17) 14.434 ms 14.448 ms 14.773 ms 7 s-bb1-pos5-0-0.telia.net (213.248.66.5) 14.451 ms 14.490 ms 14.451 ms 8 hbg-bb1-pos0-2-0.telia.net (213.248.64.78) 35.117 ms 35.026 ms 34.844 ms 9 213.248.65.46 (213.248.65.46) 30.878 ms 30.810 ms 30.765 ms 10 dante-01616-hbg-b1.c.telia.net (213.248.103.98) 33.769 ms 30.976 ms 31.029 ms 11 cr-berlin1.g-win.dfn.de (188.1.18.197) 40.184 ms 39.357 ms 40.265 ms 12 ar-huberlin1.g-win.dfn.de (188.1.20.2) 39.663 ms 39.678 ms 39.612 ms 13 * * * and then nothing. Can this be because of something in my computer, or is it related to my ISP? I.e., is there any point in me trying to check my firewall etc. /Christian -- Christian Ridderström http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Re: default date format (LyX/LaTeX)
On Thu, 13 Feb 2003, Dekel Tsur wrote: On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 10:09:49AM -0500, Ronald Florence wrote: How do I change the default date format in LyX/LaTeX from 13th February 2003 to February 13, 2003? Change the language of the document to American. So what is this setting for then? Edit-Preferences-Outputs-Date format (The help says: Date format for strftime output) /Christian -- Christian Ridderström http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Re: Bug in 1.3? Server pipes not destroyed
On 13 Feb 2003, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: display. The mozilla solution requires mozilla on both machines, I think. If I remember correctly, Netscape (i.e. Mozilla) creates a lock-file in the user's ~/.netscape/ directory like this: lrwxr-xr-x 17 Feb 13 18:45 lock - 130.237.57.34:592 which is neat when you're using a networked file system. Then you can click on URL's shown on one machine and have netscape running on another machine show the new page. I guess you don't really need to have Netscape on this machine, but you do need something that can connect to the socket, i.e. 130.237.57.34:592 in this case. /Christian -- Christian Ridderström http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Re: Bug in 1.3? Server pipes not destroyed
On 13 Feb 2003, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Andre == Andre Poenitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Andre not necessarily mean they get it... Here it is not uncommon to Andre collect applications from different servers just because Andre there is not a single one containing the proper version of Andre everything, let alone all licenses. I have to do this all the time (I hate MATLAB's license server btw). Andre And not everybody is lucky enough to be root on his desktop Andre machine and free to install whatever version he likes... Amen. If one is able to run LyX remotely on another machine, then one can also open an xterm on the said other machine and type commands there. You might not believe this... but our Solaris machines don't have SSH running and xhost has been disabled... however, I've still used: lyx --export ps somefile.lyx ; lpr somefile.ps on occassion, especially when the color printer only works from a specific Solaris machine. I think my point is that you can't really assume that you'll need a graphical connection... maybe you need to save bandwidth (modem)? Or maybe you want to send commands to the running LyX of the guy next door. That would be very nasty of you. I think it'd be great if two persons could work on the same document... but's that's a different topic. /Christian -- Christian Ridderström http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Re: off-topic: can't access Herbert's pages from home
On Thu, 13 Feb 2003, Christian Ridderström wrote: Hi I'm sorry for being totally off topic here, but does anybody have an idea why I can access Herbert's pages (http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de) from work, but not from home? My ISP actually answered when I called, but without a result... they advised me to call Germany!!! /C -- Christian Ridderström http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Re: off-topic: can't access Herbert's pages from home
On Thu, 13 Feb 2003, Andre Poenitz wrote: On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 06:58:37PM +0100, Christian Ridderström wrote: I'm sorry for being totally off topic here, but does anybody have an idea why I can access Herbert's pages (http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de) from work, but not from home? My ISP actually answered when I called, but without a result... they advised me to call Germany!!! Is calling Germany!!! exceptionally difficult in Sweden? ;-) Oh, not at all! And it's so easy to get hold of systems administrators in general, right ;-) I mean, they're not busy anyway... Of course, if I use the phone I also get to practice my German as well. But wait, how do I find the phone number to... let me see: ar-huberlin1.g-win.dfn.de oh, I know... just look it up in the yellow pages... Instead it seems easier (and more fun) to try and install some kind of tunneling software at work and go through that... (I can use that for other stuff as well... like MATLAB license servers) /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-790 91 37 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr Mechatronics lab, Dept. of Machine Designhttp://www.md.kth.se
Re: default date format (LyX/LaTeX)
On Thu, 13 Feb 2003, Dekel Tsur wrote: So what is this setting for then? Edit-Preferences-Outputs-Date format (The help says: Date format for strftime output) It is the format of the date that is inserted with M-x date-insert Thanks. I did a search for 'date-insert' and noticed that it's actually mentioned in $LYXDIR/lyxrc.example. Is there somewhere (in the source) where I could find a listing of these commands, or is this perhaps an example of a typical LFUN? And I should therefore look in src/lyxfunc.C and src/commandtags.h ? This isn't the first time I've been thinking that there are probably lots of (more or less) useful commands (LFUNS?) that I don't know about. /Christian -- Christian Ridderström http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Re: off-topic: can't access Herbert's pages from home
On Thu, 13 Feb 2003, robin wrote: Christian Ridderström wrote: Hi I'm sorry for being totally off topic here, but does anybody have an idea why I can access Herbert's pages (http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de) from work, but not from home? Does your ISP employ censorware? It's amazing the kind of stuff these programs filter out (e.g. some people can't get at my philosophy and linguistics site, and one of my students couldn't download Rousseau's Discourse on Inequality from home). Maybe all those references to latex trigger some anti-fetish subroutine ;-) No, he actually said they don't have any filters at all... but I like your latex-theory :-) /Christian -- Christian Ridderström http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Re: Bug in 1.3? Server pipes not destroyed
On 17 Feb 2003, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Christian == Christian Ridderström [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Christian I think it'd be great if two persons could work on the same Christian document... but's that's a different topic. We have change tracking in 1.4.0cvs. Yes, I know. I was dreaming of working on the same document at the same time interactively... sort of like multiplayer games where you have several people playing together. /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-790 91 37 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr Mechatronics lab, Dept. of Machine Designhttp://www.md.kth.se
Re: Bug in 1.3? Server pipes not destroyed
On 17 Feb 2003, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Christian == Christian Ridderström [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Christian Yes, I know. I was dreaming of working on the same document Christian at the same time interactively... sort of like multiplayer Christian games where you have several people playing together. I fail to see how it could really work... I mean, in a useful way :) My colleagues have used something like this in Framemaker, and they said it was better than two persons in front one screen where only person can type. (and also a strange experience :-) I guess I should think a bit about it and come up with some scenario where it seems useful (and better than normal change tracking). Hey... maybe it'll be more fun! Just like multiplayer games are usually more fun :-) The key is probably in the possibility of doing something together - if you're just going to split the work and write different sections, then change tracking should be fine. Hmm.. what about the actual merge process, maybe it'd be useful then... oh, I'll have to think about it. (there are some really interesting things you could do here.. imagine getting to pick up a DELETE Mark II key where you instantly erase everything your opponent... sorry, co-author has written ;-) /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-790 91 37 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr Mechatronics lab, Dept. of Machine Designhttp://www.md.kth.se
