On 2009-04-27, Rich Shepard wrote:
>Question for folks here: will pdf output display differently if I insert
> figures as .eps or .pdf?
>In the first case, I need to export to plain LaTeX, run latex a
> couple of times on the resulting .tex file, then dvips followed by
> ps2pdf. In the se
On 2009-04-27, Rich Shepard wrote:
>I don't recall having this problem before: when I check spelling in a
> document I add words and variants of words that appear in multiple
> documents. However, those attempts at addition appear to not work. The next
> time I check the same document, the same
On 2009-04-27, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote:
> In a document (Lyx1.6.1) I get an error message
> TeX capacity exceeded
> cite{a reference}{319}{13.5.3}{section*.37}
> If you really absolutely need more capacity ...
> I tried to remove the citation from the text for a later inspection what was
> goi
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote:
> The current LyX version is using utf8, right?
Yes, LyX internally uses utf8.
Bib files, however, must not be encoded in utf8:
http://wiki.lyx.org/BibTeX/Tips#toc1
Jürgen
On Tue, 28 Apr 2009 11:35:35 +0200
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote:
> I have a reference from a (JabRef created) bib-file which LyX (1.6.2)
> does not like. The begin of the bib file states that it is encoded in
> utf8. I can't see anything strange in the reference and in the bibtex
> output. How can I
Kosta Welke wrote:
> I'm not sure if BibTeX files are allowed to have non-ASCII characters
> in "normal" LaTeX (I'm completely LaTeX incompetent), but I know that
> with XeTeX, you can have utf8 characters in you BibTeX file.
Which, however, will make bibtex (the program) fail (at least) on sortin
On Tue, 28 Apr 2009 11:59:23 +0200
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:
> Which, however, will make bibtex (the program) fail (at least) on
> sorting. Or does XeTeX ship its own bibtex variant?
Sorry, I'm completely ignorant of the details. I just know that adding
weird swedish special characters to my bib
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 07:41:52AM +0200, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:
>
> A backtrace would be even better.
Is there some Fine Manual I ought to be reading to learn where I ought
to expect the core file?
A
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Kosta Welke wrote:
> > Which, however, will make bibtex (the program) fail (at least) on
> > sorting. Or does XeTeX ship its own bibtex variant?
>
> Sorry, I'm completely ignorant of the details. I just know that adding
> weird swedish special characters to my bibtex file "just worked" in a
> XeTeX
Andrew Sullivan wrote:
> > A backtrace would be even better.
>
> Is there some Fine Manual I ought to be reading to learn where I ought
> to expect the core file?
No, just run LyX from within the debugger of your choice. Here are some (very)
basic instructions, only relevant if you didn't use a d
Also sprach Wolfgang Engelmann:
> > Bib files, however, must not be encoded in utf8:
> > http://wiki.lyx.org/BibTeX/Tips#toc1
> >
> > Jürgen
>
> same with biblatex?
Yes. Quoting the biblatex manual (sec. 2.4.3):
"Using UTF-8 encoding in both the tex and the bib file is not possible since
neither t
Am Tuesday 28 April 2009 12:43:32 schrieb Jürgen Spitzmüller:
>
> Having said that, a replacement program for bibtex (written in Perl) with
> specific target to biblatex is just being developed:
> http://biblatex-biber.sourceforge.net/
>
> Jürgen
good to know. Is it already in a functioning stage?
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote:
> good to know. Is it already in a functioning stage?
I haven't tested it yet. Officially, it is in beta stage, but some people
apparently already use it for daily work.
Jürgen
Am Tuesday 28 April 2009 10:26:30 schrieb Guenter Milde:
>
> Still, the aux-file is generated (from the document and the
> bibtex-extracted citations).
>
> > It is annoying to have to restart the session for each removal. Is there
> > a better way?
>
> Does closing and reopening the doc help? Or j
I have a reference from a (JabRef created) bib-file which LyX (1.6.2) does not
like. The begin of the bib file states that it is encoded in utf8. I can't
see anything strange in the reference and in the bibtex output.
How can I check this (and if possible the whole file) for coding errors?
The c
On Tue, 28 Apr 2009 12:25:49 +0200
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:
> Bibtex can only handle 7-bit correctly. Bibtex8 handles 8-bit.
> Neither can deal with multibyte characters (although apparently only
> bibtex8 complains about such files, bibtex just passes it silently
> [which is bad]).
Well, I jus
I know this is a LaTeX (or Tex-live) question, but it keeps me from
running LyX:
I upgraded from ubuntu 8.10 to 9.04; now kpsewhich requires root
permissions: e.g. "kpsewhich article.cls" returns nothins, but "sudo
kpsewhich article.cls" returns the correct path. Hence, LyX seems to
work fine whe
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009, David A. Case wrote:
> I upgraded from ubuntu 8.10 to 9.04; now kpsewhich requires root
> permissions: e.g. "kpsewhich article.cls" returns nothins, but "sudo
> kpsewhich article.cls" returns the correct path.
Sorry for the false alarm--I tracked the problem down to a stray
On Tue, 28 Apr 2009, Guenter Milde wrote:
Tools>Settings>Language or Spellcheck or something>Personal Dir.
Guenter,
I don't have a Tools menu; File, Edit, Insert, Layout, View, Navigate,
Document, Help is all I have had. However, ... in
Edit->Preferences->Language->Spell checking I see that
On Tue, 28 Apr 2009, Rich Shepard wrote:
However, since aspell is used in other text editors (emacs, joe), I'm sure
it must be somewhere on the system. I'll see if I can identify the file
name.
And there it is ~/.aspell.en.pws.
Thanks for the pointer,
Rich
--
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tedc wrote:
I do have one question, though. The OO file used "text styles" to specify
the formatting of inline source code, names of GUI tools, and chapter
crossreferences. In LyX these show up as ERT, like the boldfaced bit here:
\textstyleInlinecode{for i=0,n-1}
When I click on View DVI, thes
On Tue, 28 Apr 2009 13:05:48 +0200
Kosta Welke wrote:
> Well, I just tried adding some characters that definitely are
> multi-byte (e.g. ค from the thai alphabet) to a test bibtex file. It
> "worked" with XeTeX in the sense that [...] the character was replaced
> by whitespace (just like when the
>> Bibtex can only handle 7-bit correctly. Bibtex8 handles 8-bit.
>> Neither can deal with multibyte characters (although apparently only
>> bibtex8 complains about such files, bibtex just passes it silently
>> [which is bad]).
Can't we make LyX giving a warning when it detects multi-byte chara
Kosta Welke wrote:
> I just tried adding a chinese character using {\fontspec{Sazanami
> Mincho}猫} into the BibTeX and it worked flawlessly. It seems that
> BibTeX does not really care what is between the curly braces and just
> copies the octets. And as utf8 encodes multibyte characters into the
>
When I paste text from one document to another, I get blue
underlines. I do not have change tracking turned on. Does anyone
know how to disable this underlining?
The underlining does not show up in compiled output - only in the LyX
editor...
On Apr 28, 2009, at 8:29 AM, James C. Sutherland wrote:
When I paste text from one document to another, I get blue
underlines. I do not have change tracking turned on. Does anyone
know how to disable this underlining?
The underlining does not show up in compiled output - only in the
Ly
>When I paste text from one document to another, I get blue
>underlines. I do not have change tracking turned on. Does
>anyone know how to disable this underlining?
Yes, then the language setting of this text is different as the default
language of the document.
Select the text and choose the
On Tue, 28 Apr 2009 16:24:07 +0200
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:
> Kosta Welke wrote:
> > I just tried adding a chinese character using {\fontspec{Sazanami
> > Mincho}猫} into the BibTeX and it worked flawlessly.
> However, this does not fix the sorting problem.
Well if we're happy with 'sort by unic
Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW wrote:
> Can't we make LyX giving a warning when it detects multi-byte characters in
> a bibtex file ? This often leads to questions.
I'm not sure we can detect those characters.
Jürgen
Kosta Welke wrote:
> > Kosta Welke wrote:
> > > I just tried adding a chinese character using {\fontspec{Sazanami
> > > Mincho}猫} into the BibTeX and it worked flawlessly.
> >
> > However, this does not fix the sorting problem.
>
> Well if we're happy with 'sort by unicode number', sorting utf8
> b
If I turn on hyperref support, then the cite package breaks.
Specifically, citations that would normally appear as [5-9] now appear
as [5,6,7,8,9]. If I turn off hyperref then it works again.
Is this a package conflict, or a bug in LyX?
LyX 1.6.2, Mac OSX 10.5.6
On Tue, 28 Apr 2009, Guenter Milde wrote:
This is no longer true, as you can define "lossless" PDF <-> EPS
conversion. Description should be in the Wiki. Newer LyX installs will set
up this by default, if the required programs are available.
Guenter,
I found nothing when I searched the wiki
On Mon, 27 Apr 2009, Rich Shepard wrote:
When I try to view the developing presentation using pdflatex I get
errors. I also get errors if I try to view it with dvi because the
included graphics are .pdf format.
I have this resolved, but it's not displaying as expected. So, it's back
to the
¿Cómo hago para insertar símbolos musicales en un documento lyx?
Hasta ahora sólo pude hacerlo con imágenes, pero supongo que hay fuentes
específicas disponibles.
Gracias por la ayuda!
Daniel
I copied a presentation made about three years ago to a new name for use
with the upcoming presentation. Since the original was written I upgraded
beamer to the current 3.07. I see that the definitions of various themes
have changed. Regardless, in the preamble I specify \usecolortheme{crane},
b
Daniel Blech writes:
>
> ¿Cómo hago para insertar símbolos musicales en un documento lyx?
>
> Hasta ahora sólo pude hacerlo con imágenes, pero supongo que hay fuentes
> específicas disponibles.
>
> Gracias por la ayuda!
>
> Daniel
>
>
depende de cuales simbulos necesitas.
- en LyX 1.6 pu
Hello,
I would like to put 2 or more figures of an example in a way that they are
somewhat "put together" for comparing them, and I want them to be numbered,
instead, let's say of "1.1", "1.2" and "1.3" in a more convenient and logical
way, for example "1.1a", "1.1b", "1.1c" (subsequent figures
On Tue, 28 Apr 2009, Piero Faustini wrote:
I would like to put 2 or more figures of an example in a way that they are
somewhat "put together" for comparing them,
Piero,
Use minipages. Put each figure into a separate minipage and they can be
sized to fit across the width of the text area.
R
On Apr 28, 2009, at 12:51 PM, Piero Faustini wrote:
Hello,
I would like to put 2 or more figures of an example in a way that
they are
somewhat "put together" for comparing them, and I want them to be
numbered,
instead, let's say of "1.1", "1.2" and "1.3" in a more convenient
and logical
On Monday 27 April 2009 11:51:38 pm Drew Kime wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 8:02 PM, tedc wrote:
> > So my question is: how do I tell LyX or LaTeX that
> > \textstyleInlinecode{for i=0,n-1}
> > means to render
> > for i=0,n-1
> > with a specified typeface? or at least as "typewriter"?
> > --
>
Yep, it was setting an absolute path. Your suggestion solved the problem.
Thanks,
Adam
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 2:30 PM, Kosta Welke wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 23:24:23 +0200, ad_ke wrote:
>
> However, I can't figure out how to make
>> the document portable. I keep each document in a projec
2009/4/28 Steve Litt
> > Lyx has an option to specify a typewriter face. Simply highlight the
> text,
> > click on Edit->Text Style->Customized, and under "Family" select
> > Typewriter. Then check what it does to the code, and do a global replace
> to
> > get all occurrences.
>
> You can do that
Rich Shepard wrote:
I copied a presentation made about three years ago to a new name for use
with the upcoming presentation. Since the original was written I upgraded
beamer to the current 3.07. I see that the definitions of various themes
have changed. Regardless, in the preamble I specify \us
James C. Sutherland writes:
> You can use subfigures (available in 1.6). See section 1.2 in the
> "Embedded Objects" help manual. This will give you exactly what you
> want, I think.
Yes, I already knew it existed, and only now I realize it does the same and is
even more elegant than the
On Tue, 28 Apr 2009, Paul A. Rubin wrote:
If my PDF is colored in places yours wouldn't be, that suggests the
problem is either somewhere in the presentation other than the preamble or
else something in your setup. You can detect the latter by trying to view
my LyX file at your end.
Paul,
A
Drew Kime wrote:
2009/4/28 Steve Litt
Lyx has an option to specify a typewriter face. Simply highlight the
text,
click on Edit->Text Style->Customized, and under "Family" select
Typewriter. Then check what it does to the code, and do a global replace
to
get all o
Update and next plea for help.
Thanks to Paul's sending me a text document as a .pdf file I discovered
the problem was how I was compiling/viewing the developing presentation. So,
now I converted the few .eps files to .pdf and viewing the presentation via
pdflatex. Within xpdf the colors are
On Tue, 28 Apr 2009, Rich Shepard wrote:
I think this is because when I view either format, it's in the lower left
corner of a letter-size page. I assume that what I'm seeing on the slides
is the white space above the logo. I don't know of a tool I have that will
let me crop an .eps file.
I
Rich Shepard wrote:
On Tue, 28 Apr 2009, Paul A. Rubin wrote:
If my PDF is colored in places yours wouldn't be, that suggests the
problem is either somewhere in the presentation other than the
preamble or
else something in your setup. You can detect the latter by trying to view
my LyX file at
On Tue, 28 Apr 2009, Paul A. Rubin wrote:
Any reason not to use pdflatex?
Paul,
Nope.
I'm not sure it's officially preferred for beamer presentations, but one
out of one beamer users surveyed (me) prefers it.
Actually, I think it is. Now I'm getting back to the rhythm I recall using
p
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 11:10 AM, James C. Sutherland
wrote:
> If I turn on hyperref support, then the cite package breaks. Specifically,
> citations that would normally appear as [5-9] now appear as [5,6,7,8,9]. If
> I turn off hyperref then it works again.
>
> Is this a package conflict, or a
Rich Shepard wrote:
On the initial slide with the title and presenter information, I have
these two pieces of LaTeX:
\pgfdeclareimage[height=0.5cm]{institution-logo}{/home/rshepard/data/wpdocs/workshop-presentations/aust-may-2009/aesi-logo.pdf}
\logo{\pgfuseimage{institution-logo}}
Bu
Hi all,
Is there any good way to put a cross reference to a label in a format
like "line 38 on page 123"?
Thanks,
Abe
Hey,
I'm about to start the process of writing the 2nd edition of a fairly
long (+150 A4 pages) internal manual. It's about a set of software
systems and programming practices in my business. The 1st edition was
written using OpenOffice. I remember spending a lot of time trying to
make things "loo
On 2009-04-28, Rich Shepard wrote:
>I still have a problem with graphics formats, despite having ps2pdf
> designated for eps->pdf conversions. If I try to view/export the document
> via pdflatex it borks with the error message that it doesn't grok graphics
> files with the .eps extension.
Act
On Wed, 29 Apr 2009 08:19:34 +0200
Thomas Løcke wrote:
> Hey,
>
> I'm about to start the process of writing the 2nd edition of a fairly
> long (+150 A4 pages) internal manual. It's about a set of software
> systems and programming practices in my business. The 1st edition was
> written using Ope
I am using Lyx 1.6.2 under debian lenny and synaptic tells me that I have
qt4-qmake 4.4.3-1 and qt4-qtconfig 4.4.3-1 installed.
Is the following still valid?
Wolfgang
http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/13988
Details
Description: LyX 1.6.2 doesn't work with Qt 4.4.3, but it works with Qt 4.5.
It d
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