A Newbie's Experience with LyX

I wrote an article for my blog outlining the various things I had to do in order to get LyX to the point where it could generate decent HTML. I can't help but think that most of the issues I ran into could be fairly easily solved in LyX itself but such is the nat

Re: Latex error on graphics insert (LyX 1.3.7)

On Jan 28, 2006, at 2:04 PM, Georg Baum wrote: Am Samstag, 28. Januar 2006 19:47 schrieb Marc D.: There is now no preferences file in the Library->Application Support- LyX directory. However, LyX.app/Contents/Resources/lyx in the dmg file I just downloaded has the following: \format "pdf" "p

Lyx with R in wiki; why don't my lines wrap?

Some list members suggested I write this up, so I just inserted this in your Wiki: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LyxWithRThroughSweave When I browse that, the lines of text don't wrap, they just go on and on. Do you see that too? I've only worked in the TWiki Wiki very much, so I may accidentally hav

\ref & tex4ht

I am trying to use \label and \ref with tex4ht and the results are not pretty. Tex4ht seems to go into an endless loop and eats up all my processor time. The only way I can find to reference \label is to use \pageref which for some bizarre reason tex4ht will take and uses to generate some s

Pagination and Section Headings

I had an Open Office document that consisted of nothing but section headings that ran for several pages. So I translated it to TeX and imported it to LyX. All of which worked beautifully. But when I print the document the result is a single page where I can see that the section headings ran

Re: Latex error on graphics insert (LyX 1.3.7)

Am Samstag, 28. Januar 2006 19:43 schrieb Herbert Voss: > ok ok, my question was why it is _wrong_! It is wrong > in a logical way, but it should work without LyX internal > errors, right? Yes. But it might have lead Marc to think that he is converting via pdflatex when he actually used ps2pdf. I

Re: Latex error on graphics insert (LyX 1.3.7)

Am Samstag, 28. Januar 2006 19:47 schrieb Marc D.: > There is now no preferences file in the Library->Application Support- > >LyX > directory. However, LyX.app/Contents/Resources/lyx > in the dmg file I just downloaded has the following: > > \format "pdf" "pdf" "PDF (pdflatex)" "" > \format "pdf

Re: Latex error on graphics insert (LyX 1.3.7)

On 28 Jan 06, at 08:33, Georg Baum wrote: Am Samstag, 28. Januar 2006 17:14 schrieb Marc D.: The defaults do not seem to work under MacOSX, in that they specify xpdf rather than "open" to view files. This is probably fine if the user is using XWindows subsystem to run LyX, but not if the use

Re: Latex error on graphics insert (LyX 1.3.7)

Georg Baum wrote: Am Samstag, 28. Januar 2006 18:07 schrieb Herbert Voss: Georg Baum wrote: \format "pdf" "pdf" "PDF (pdflatex)" "" \format "pdf2" "pdf" "PDF (ps to pdf)" "" These are wrong! Read Pauls explanation if it is not clear why. ??? Why are these lines _wrong_? Read it in Pauls

Re: Tables

Jaime Díaz-Deus Fernández wrote: Hi to all. ¿How I can make something like the attached file with LyX/Latex?. Thanks in advance. Altough there is nothing attached, have a look at http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Tables for some examples. regards Uwe

Re: Tables

On 1/29/06, Jaime Díaz-Deus Fernández <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi to all. ¿How I can make something like the attached file with > LyX/Latex?. Thanks in advance. There is nothing attached! Paul

Re: Latex error on graphics insert (LyX 1.3.7)

Am Samstag, 28. Januar 2006 18:07 schrieb Herbert Voss: > Georg Baum wrote: > > \format "pdf" "pdf" "PDF (pdflatex)" "" > > \format "pdf2" "pdf" "PDF (ps to pdf)" "" > > > > These are wrong! Read Pauls explanation if it is not clear why. > > ??? Why are these lines _wrong_? Read it in Pauls mail

Re: Latex error on graphics insert (LyX 1.3.7)

Georg Baum wrote: Am Samstag, 28. Januar 2006 17:14 schrieb Marc D.: The defaults do not seem to work under MacOSX, in that they specify xpdf rather than "open" to view files. This is probably fine if the user is using XWindows subsystem to run LyX, but not if the user wants to run LyX under th

Tables

Hi to all. ¿How I can make something like the attached file with LyX/Latex?. Thanks in advance.

Re: legend in koma script

Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: but where would I find it? I went through all the help docus of lyx. LyX?? It is a KOMAScript question ... p 106 in the german doc from 202. \setcapindent{0pt} and where should I place that? In front of the legend in the figure float gives errors. in the pream

Re: legend in koma script

Wolfgang Engelmann schrieb: in a document (koma script style) I would like to change the appearance of the legend of a figure from Abbildung 1 text text text text text text text text text text text text to Abbildung 1 text text text text text text text text text text text

Re: Latex error on graphics insert (LyX 1.3.7)

Am Samstag, 28. Januar 2006 17:14 schrieb Marc D.: > The defaults do not seem to work under MacOSX, in that they specify xpdf > rather than "open" to view files. This is probably fine if the user > is using XWindows subsystem to run LyX, but not if the user wants > to run LyX under the MacOS GUI. T

Re: Latex error on graphics insert (LyX 1.3.7)

On 28 Jan 06, at 04:10, Stephen Harris wrote: [...] Hello Marc, I came to the same conclusion about using the defaults. I use the defaults with Windows and Lyx 1.3.7 and on Linux Fedora4 which has LyX1.3.6. On both systems I can use the DVI, all 3 pdf and the postscript viewers, in order to vi

Re: Latex error on graphics insert (LyX 1.3.7)

On 28 Jan 06, at 03:10, Georg Baum wrote: Am Freitag, 27. Januar 2006 22:07 schrieb Paul A. Rubin: In your preferences file, I found the following: \format "pdf" "pdf" "PDF (pdflatex)" "" \format "pdf2" "pdf" "PDF (ps to pdf)" "" Note that the labels for the pdf and pdf2 extensions are actua

Re: legend in koma script

Am Samstag, 28. Januar 2006 14:48 schrieb Herbert Voss: > Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > > in a document (koma script style) I would like to change the appearance > > of the legend of a figure from > > > > Abbildung 1 text text text text text text > > text text text text text text

Re: legend in koma script

Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: in a document (koma script style) I would like to change the appearance of the legend of a figure from Abbildung 1 text text text text text text text text text text text text to Abbildung 1 text text text text text text text text text text text t

Re: figure caption on next page

the figure caption is written in lyx. however, since i uses figure floats, i have to be sure that the figure and caption goes on the correct pages somehow. martin On 28/01/06, Paul Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 1/28/06, Martin A. Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > i have a figure th

Re: figure caption on next page

On 1/28/06, Martin A. Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i have a figure that is rather large, and the details are hard to see. if i > could get the figure split so that the caption goes on the following page, i > could enlarge the figure and all would be good.i have seen that done in many > scien

Re: lyx 1.4.0 pre 3 not open my file

Am Freitag, 27. Januar 2006 13:42 schrieb Marcelo Acuÿf1a: > I think that if you put, in Lyx 1.3.6 or 1.3.7, a List > of Figures at the end of any file you get an error > when you try to convert with lyx2lyx. I have found the problem, see http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2245 Ge

Re: legend in koma script

try this in preamble % left align captions \makeatletter [EMAIL PROTECTED] \vskip\abovecaptionskip [EMAIL PROTECTED]: #2}% \ifdim [EMAIL PROTECTED] >\hsize #1. #2\par \else \global [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED] \fi \vskip\belowcaptionskip} \makeatoth

legend in koma script

in a document (koma script style) I would like to change the appearance of the legend of a figure from Abbildung 1 text text text text text text text text text text text text to Abbildung 1 text text text text text text text text text text text text How could I do that?

Re: Method to deliver converter preferences with document? (Using Lyx as literate programming tool with R statistical software)

Paul Johnson wrote: I've been using Lyx in conjunction with noweb and R to make statistical writeups. I've boiled this down to a pretty simple thing, described here: http://www.ku.edu/~pauljohn/latex/lyxAndSweave.txt Could you please add these informations to LyX's wiki: wiki.lyx.org That

Re: Latex error on graphics insert (LyX 1.3.7)

- Original Message - From: "Georg Baum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Saturday, January 28, 2006 3:10 AM Subject: Re: Latex error on graphics insert (LyX 1.3.7) Am Freitag, 27. Januar 2006 22:07 schrieb Paul A. Rubin: In your preferences file, I found the following: \format "pdf"

Re: Latex error on graphics insert (LyX 1.3.7)

Georg Baum wrote: Am Freitag, 27. Januar 2006 22:07 schrieb Paul A. Rubin: In your preferences file, I found the following: \format "pdf" "pdf" "PDF (pdflatex)" "" \format "pdf2" "pdf" "PDF (ps to pdf)" "" Note that the labels for the pdf and pdf2 extensions are actually the reverse of what

Re: lyxserver on windows

Am Freitag, 27. Januar 2006 20:09 schrieb Eric Zollars: > I was afraid of that. Any great ideas for reference management with Lyx > on windows? Manage your references with any tool you like, save the .bib file and then insert a citation in LyX via Insert->Citation. Georg

Re: Latex error on graphics insert (LyX 1.3.7)

Am Freitag, 27. Januar 2006 22:07 schrieb Paul A. Rubin: > In your preferences file, I found the following: > > \format "pdf" "pdf" "PDF (pdflatex)" "" > \format "pdf2" "pdf" "PDF (ps to pdf)" "" > > Note that the labels for the pdf and pdf2 extensions are actually the > reverse of what the conv

figure caption on next page

hello i have a figure that is rather large, and the details are hard to see. if i could get the figure split so that the caption goes on the following page, i could enlarge the figure and all would be good.i have seen that done in many scientific journals. how is that done? martin

Re: Latex error on graphics insert (LyX 1.3.7)

Marc D. wrote: I still don't understand where that line came from, since when I go to Layout->Document->Packages it says that my Postscript driver is "Default". Can I change that to something else in my preferences or lyxrc? replying to myself... In testing, I've found that if I create a NEW