Re: Question on custumising index

Waluyo Adi Siswanto wrote: How can I get the index with an alphabetical separator as I mention above? Thanks you for any help or information If you use xindy (texindy) instead of makeindex, you will get the desired layout out of the box. If you use makeindex, you will have to set up an

Re: Creating the \independent binary relation within LyX (for independent random variables)

On 2009-11-03, Uwe Stöhr wrote: Adam Gustafson schrieb: Could someone please let me know how to create the following symbol within LyX, I presume within a Math macro? The LaTeX code that one puts in the preamble is: \newcommand\independent{\protect\mathpalette{\protect\independenT}{\perp}}

Re: Question on custumising index

If you use xindy (texindy) instead of makeindex, you will get the desired layout out of the box. If you use makeindex, you will have to set up an index style file (*.ist). I'd recommend xindy, because it is way ahead of makeindex in many respects. Thanks Jurgen It works, I just replace the

Re: Cannot export to pdf in Mac OSX Snow Leopard

On 3 nov 2009, at 08.15, Manveru wrote: ... First of all, thanks for answering. I've just installed MacTex again, restarted Lyx, nothing changed. When I try to convert the document in any damned format, nothing happens. Please somebody help. I never needed to install ps2pdf and even

Header print suppression

at the beginning of every lyx document there is a: #LyX 1.6.2 created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/; is there an option anywhere to skip this? The reason is when using version control systems and users with different versions of lyx, just opening and saving changes the file,

Re: Cannot export to pdf in Mac OSX Snow Leopard

2009/11/3 Anders Ekberg a...@mac.com On 3 nov 2009, at 08.15, Manveru wrote: ... First of all, thanks for answering. I've just installed MacTex again, restarted Lyx, nothing changed. When I try to convert the document in any damned format, nothing happens. Please somebody help. I never

Re: Header print suppression

On 11/03/2009 06:41 AM, Jes Andersen wrote: at the beginning of every lyx document there is a: #LyX 1.6.2 created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/; is there an option anywhere to skip this? No, unless you edit source. rh

Re: Question About Custom Layouts and Styles

On 10/30/2009 02:17 PM, Rob Oakes wrote: Dear Richard and other LyX Users, I managed to solve a few of the formatting problems. To change the section labels from numbers to letters, I added the following to the nih.cls file: \def\thesection{\Alph{section}} That solved the output problem.

Re: Header print suppression

On Tue, Nov 03, 2009 at 12:41:06PM +0100, Jes Andersen wrote: at the beginning of every lyx document there is a: #LyX 1.6.2 created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/; is there an option anywhere to skip this? The reason is when using version control systems and users with

Re: howto copy external material to lyx working directory

2009/11/1 Egon Alter egon.al...@gmx.net: Hi, I like to use the pdfx package which needs some external files (icc profile, xmpdata file) in the lyx_tmpbuf folder. The filenames are hardcoded. How can tell lyx to copy these files to the tmpbuf folder before compiling? thanks Oh yes, I was

Problems including a document

Dear list, I am working right now with a long document that has chapters as separate files, included in a master document. I'm having the following problem: chapter 5 exports to pdf perfectly on its own but, when included in the master document, this latter document does not export -although

Re: Question About Custom Layouts and Styles

Dear Richard and other LyX Users, Thank you very much for the recommendation, it worked perfectly. The final formatting worked out to be: Counter subsection LabelString \Alph{section}.\{subsection} End Since this is one of those Write it down or forget it type of things, I also put together

Re: LyX 1.6.4.1 and Snow Leopard

rgheck rgh...@bobjweil.com writes: A fix has been committed: disabling fork() on OSX. We don't know why it suddenly stopped working, but it is a limitation of OSX itself. The workaround has been committed to trunk only, but since I got nobody to build a binary for testing nothing is happening

Re: Problems including a document

On 11/03/2009 10:12 AM, Manolo Martí­nez wrote: Dear list, I am working right now with a long document that has chapters as separate files, included in a master document. I'm having the following problem: chapter 5 exports to pdf perfectly on its own but, when included in the master

Professional and Scientific Writing Book

Dear LyX Users, I'm currently working on a book which shows how professional and scientific writing can be done using purely open source tools. Any book about Scientific/Technical/Professional writing on Linux has to include one (if not more) chapters on LyX. Other chapters will look at LaTeX,

Re: Professional and Scientific Writing Book

On Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:09:49 -0700 Rob Oakes rob.oa...@oak-tree.us wrote: But are there other things that you would like to see? The standard LyX documentation is so good that I've found myself struggling to find other topics that need to be covered, other than a tremendously quick overview

Re: Problems including a document

That's not the problem, apparently. I have moved everything to the master document's preamble and the strange behaviour recurs. Chapter 5 compiles. Master document w/o Ch. 5 compiles, but Master document with Ch. 5 does not. Thanks for your help, Richard. Manolo rgheck escribió: Is

Re: LyX 1.6.4.1 and Snow Leopard

I'm no unix geek, but if the kernel version is enough, that can be found by parsing the output of uname -a or hostinfo. I'm sure there are better ways of doing this, but I just wanted to add my 5 cents to this discussion (not notally selfless, though: I am eagerly waiting for this issue to

Re: Professional and Scientific Writing Book

On Tuesday 03 November 2009 10:09:49 Rob Oakes wrote: Dear LyX Users, I'm currently working on a book which shows how professional and scientific writing can be done using purely open source tools. Any book about Scientific/Technical/Professional writing on Linux has to include one (if not

Re: Problems including a document

On Nov 3, 2009, at 9:03 AM, Manolo Martí nez wrote: That's not the problem, apparently. I have moved everything to the master document's preamble and the strange behaviour recurs. Chapter 5 compiles. Master document w/o Ch. 5 compiles, but Master document with Ch. 5 does not. Thanks for

Re: LyX 1.6.4.1 and Snow Leopard

Stefano Baroni bar...@sissa.it writes: I'm no unix geek, but if the kernel version is enough, that can be found by parsing the output of uname -a or hostinfo. I'm sure there are better ways of doing this, but I just wanted to add my 5 cents to this discussion (not notally selfless, though: I

Re: Professional and Scientific Writing Book

Rob Oakes schrieb: The standard LyX documentation is so good that I've found myself struggling to find other topics that need to be covered, other than a tremendously quick overview of the program and instructions on where to find the docs. Wow, what a compliment for the docs! I also don't

Re: Problems including a document

Thanks for the suggestion. Surprisingly, LaTeX does compile; with a bunch of errors in the .log, to be sure, but none of them fatal. How can I find out what the compiler was doing when it stumbled upon the things that LyX finds offending? The part of the .log file that seems relevant is:

Re: Professional and Scientific Writing Book

Rob But are there other things that you would like to see? The standard LyX documentation is so good that I've found myself struggling to find other topics that need to be covered, other than a tremendously quick overview of the program and instructions on where to find the docs. I wonder if

Re: Professional and Scientific Writing Book

On Tue, Nov 03, 2009 at 06:14:30PM +0100, Uwe Stöhr wrote: But have a look at wiki.lyx.org, you find there many useful information around LyX and also some HowTo. Dealing with Word is a very common question on list, and in professional and academic circumstances discussing it -- at exhaustive

Re: Professional and Scientific Writing Book

On 11/03/09, Uwe Stöhr uwesto...@web.de wrote: Rob Oakes schrieb: The standard LyX documentation is so good that I've found myself struggling to find other topics that need to be covered, other than a tremendously quick overview of the program and instructions on where to find the docs. Wow,

Re: Professional and Scientific Writing Book

Hello On 11/3/09, Graham M Smith graham.sm...@myotis.co.uk wrote: I wonder if something on Lyx/Sweave/R/Beamer might be useful. This combination is unbeatable (and I think unique, ignoring working with straight Latex) for anyone with scientific/statistics related

Re: Failing to compile on fresh Kubuntu 9.10 (Karmic) install

On 11/03/2009 05:46 PM, stefano franchi wrote: Could anyone tell me what I am still missing? Try --without-included-boost. rh

Re: Question About Custom Layouts and Styles

Since this is one of those Write it down or forget it type of things, I also put together a blog post that describes the whole process. Granted, most of it is just stolen out of the LyX documentation, but I find it handy to put together these types of cheat sheets for myself. If interested,

File converters based on file extension rather than MIME type?

Hi, I'm trying to set up some custom file converters (which take psfrag'd EPS files from matlab, do some stuff to the annotations then render them to a PDF), and am distinguishing between what stuff gets done by file extension. That is, for operation A, I might call the file

Failing to compile on fresh Kubuntu 9.10 (Karmic) install

I am trying to compile the latest stable version of Lyx on a fresh install of Kubuntu 9.10. After installaiton of qt4 devel libs and g++, the configuraiton process went through. Compilation fails, though, with this error: g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -DBOOST_USER_CONFIG=config.h -I../boost -O2

Re: Layout file for Problem Set Solutions (making layout for hmcpset.cls)

I wrote: When the layout works for you, ca you please create a new page at our Wiki where you provide this layout file and give some installation instructions?: http://wiki.lyx.org/Layouts/Layouts I've done this now: http://wiki.lyx.org/Layouts/HMCMathematicsHomeworkClass regards Uwe

Re: Problems including a document

On Nov 3, 2009, at 11:23 AM, Manolo Martí nez wrote: Thanks for the suggestion. Surprisingly, LaTeX does compile; with a bunch of errors in the .log, to be sure, but none of them fatal. How can I find out what the compiler was doing when it stumbled upon the things that LyX finds

RE: Maintaining a translation of a LyX document

Helge Hafting wrote: Roland Clobus wrote: I’m wondering if someone encountered this situation before: I’ve written a LyX document in language A, and now I want to have the same contents/images/layout/etc. in language B. When something changes In the master document in language A, I

Re: Question on custumising index

Waluyo Adi Siswanto wrote: How can I get the index with an alphabetical separator as I mention above? Thanks you for any help or information If you use xindy (texindy) instead of makeindex, you will get the desired layout out of the box. If you use makeindex, you will have to set up an

Re: Creating the \independent binary relation within LyX (for independent random variables)

On 2009-11-03, Uwe Stöhr wrote: Adam Gustafson schrieb: Could someone please let me know how to create the following symbol within LyX, I presume within a Math macro? The LaTeX code that one puts in the preamble is: \newcommand\independent{\protect\mathpalette{\protect\independenT}{\perp}}

Re: Question on custumising index

If you use xindy (texindy) instead of makeindex, you will get the desired layout out of the box. If you use makeindex, you will have to set up an index style file (*.ist). I'd recommend xindy, because it is way ahead of makeindex in many respects. Thanks Jurgen It works, I just replace the

Re: Cannot export to pdf in Mac OSX Snow Leopard

On 3 nov 2009, at 08.15, Manveru wrote: ... First of all, thanks for answering. I've just installed MacTex again, restarted Lyx, nothing changed. When I try to convert the document in any damned format, nothing happens. Please somebody help. I never needed to install ps2pdf and even

Header print suppression

at the beginning of every lyx document there is a: #LyX 1.6.2 created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/; is there an option anywhere to skip this? The reason is when using version control systems and users with different versions of lyx, just opening and saving changes the file,

Re: Cannot export to pdf in Mac OSX Snow Leopard

2009/11/3 Anders Ekberg a...@mac.com On 3 nov 2009, at 08.15, Manveru wrote: ... First of all, thanks for answering. I've just installed MacTex again, restarted Lyx, nothing changed. When I try to convert the document in any damned format, nothing happens. Please somebody help. I never

Re: Header print suppression

On 11/03/2009 06:41 AM, Jes Andersen wrote: at the beginning of every lyx document there is a: #LyX 1.6.2 created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/; is there an option anywhere to skip this? No, unless you edit source. rh

Re: Question About Custom Layouts and Styles

On 10/30/2009 02:17 PM, Rob Oakes wrote: Dear Richard and other LyX Users, I managed to solve a few of the formatting problems. To change the section labels from numbers to letters, I added the following to the nih.cls file: \def\thesection{\Alph{section}} That solved the output problem.

Re: Header print suppression

On Tue, Nov 03, 2009 at 12:41:06PM +0100, Jes Andersen wrote: at the beginning of every lyx document there is a: #LyX 1.6.2 created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/; is there an option anywhere to skip this? The reason is when using version control systems and users with

Re: howto copy external material to lyx working directory

2009/11/1 Egon Alter egon.al...@gmx.net: Hi, I like to use the pdfx package which needs some external files (icc profile, xmpdata file) in the lyx_tmpbuf folder. The filenames are hardcoded. How can tell lyx to copy these files to the tmpbuf folder before compiling? thanks Oh yes, I was

Problems including a document

Dear list, I am working right now with a long document that has chapters as separate files, included in a master document. I'm having the following problem: chapter 5 exports to pdf perfectly on its own but, when included in the master document, this latter document does not export -although

Re: Question About Custom Layouts and Styles

Dear Richard and other LyX Users, Thank you very much for the recommendation, it worked perfectly. The final formatting worked out to be: Counter subsection LabelString \Alph{section}.\{subsection} End Since this is one of those Write it down or forget it type of things, I also put together

Re: LyX 1.6.4.1 and Snow Leopard

rgheck rgh...@bobjweil.com writes: A fix has been committed: disabling fork() on OSX. We don't know why it suddenly stopped working, but it is a limitation of OSX itself. The workaround has been committed to trunk only, but since I got nobody to build a binary for testing nothing is happening

Re: Problems including a document

On 11/03/2009 10:12 AM, Manolo Martí­nez wrote: Dear list, I am working right now with a long document that has chapters as separate files, included in a master document. I'm having the following problem: chapter 5 exports to pdf perfectly on its own but, when included in the master

Professional and Scientific Writing Book

Dear LyX Users, I'm currently working on a book which shows how professional and scientific writing can be done using purely open source tools. Any book about Scientific/Technical/Professional writing on Linux has to include one (if not more) chapters on LyX. Other chapters will look at LaTeX,

Re: Professional and Scientific Writing Book

On Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:09:49 -0700 Rob Oakes rob.oa...@oak-tree.us wrote: But are there other things that you would like to see? The standard LyX documentation is so good that I've found myself struggling to find other topics that need to be covered, other than a tremendously quick overview

Re: Problems including a document

That's not the problem, apparently. I have moved everything to the master document's preamble and the strange behaviour recurs. Chapter 5 compiles. Master document w/o Ch. 5 compiles, but Master document with Ch. 5 does not. Thanks for your help, Richard. Manolo rgheck escribió: Is

Re: LyX 1.6.4.1 and Snow Leopard

I'm no unix geek, but if the kernel version is enough, that can be found by parsing the output of uname -a or hostinfo. I'm sure there are better ways of doing this, but I just wanted to add my 5 cents to this discussion (not notally selfless, though: I am eagerly waiting for this issue to

Re: Professional and Scientific Writing Book

On Tuesday 03 November 2009 10:09:49 Rob Oakes wrote: Dear LyX Users, I'm currently working on a book which shows how professional and scientific writing can be done using purely open source tools. Any book about Scientific/Technical/Professional writing on Linux has to include one (if not

Re: Problems including a document

On Nov 3, 2009, at 9:03 AM, Manolo Martí nez wrote: That's not the problem, apparently. I have moved everything to the master document's preamble and the strange behaviour recurs. Chapter 5 compiles. Master document w/o Ch. 5 compiles, but Master document with Ch. 5 does not. Thanks for

Re: LyX 1.6.4.1 and Snow Leopard

Stefano Baroni bar...@sissa.it writes: I'm no unix geek, but if the kernel version is enough, that can be found by parsing the output of uname -a or hostinfo. I'm sure there are better ways of doing this, but I just wanted to add my 5 cents to this discussion (not notally selfless, though: I

Re: Professional and Scientific Writing Book

Rob Oakes schrieb: The standard LyX documentation is so good that I've found myself struggling to find other topics that need to be covered, other than a tremendously quick overview of the program and instructions on where to find the docs. Wow, what a compliment for the docs! I also don't

Re: Problems including a document

Thanks for the suggestion. Surprisingly, LaTeX does compile; with a bunch of errors in the .log, to be sure, but none of them fatal. How can I find out what the compiler was doing when it stumbled upon the things that LyX finds offending? The part of the .log file that seems relevant is:

Re: Professional and Scientific Writing Book

Rob But are there other things that you would like to see? The standard LyX documentation is so good that I've found myself struggling to find other topics that need to be covered, other than a tremendously quick overview of the program and instructions on where to find the docs. I wonder if

Re: Professional and Scientific Writing Book

On Tue, Nov 03, 2009 at 06:14:30PM +0100, Uwe Stöhr wrote: But have a look at wiki.lyx.org, you find there many useful information around LyX and also some HowTo. Dealing with Word is a very common question on list, and in professional and academic circumstances discussing it -- at exhaustive

Re: Professional and Scientific Writing Book

On 11/03/09, Uwe Stöhr uwesto...@web.de wrote: Rob Oakes schrieb: The standard LyX documentation is so good that I've found myself struggling to find other topics that need to be covered, other than a tremendously quick overview of the program and instructions on where to find the docs. Wow,

Re: Professional and Scientific Writing Book

Hello On 11/3/09, Graham M Smith graham.sm...@myotis.co.uk wrote: I wonder if something on Lyx/Sweave/R/Beamer might be useful. This combination is unbeatable (and I think unique, ignoring working with straight Latex) for anyone with scientific/statistics related

Re: Failing to compile on fresh Kubuntu 9.10 (Karmic) install

On 11/03/2009 05:46 PM, stefano franchi wrote: Could anyone tell me what I am still missing? Try --without-included-boost. rh

Re: Question About Custom Layouts and Styles

Since this is one of those Write it down or forget it type of things, I also put together a blog post that describes the whole process. Granted, most of it is just stolen out of the LyX documentation, but I find it handy to put together these types of cheat sheets for myself. If interested,

File converters based on file extension rather than MIME type?

Hi, I'm trying to set up some custom file converters (which take psfrag'd EPS files from matlab, do some stuff to the annotations then render them to a PDF), and am distinguishing between what stuff gets done by file extension. That is, for operation A, I might call the file

Failing to compile on fresh Kubuntu 9.10 (Karmic) install

I am trying to compile the latest stable version of Lyx on a fresh install of Kubuntu 9.10. After installaiton of qt4 devel libs and g++, the configuraiton process went through. Compilation fails, though, with this error: g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -DBOOST_USER_CONFIG=config.h -I../boost -O2

Re: Layout file for Problem Set Solutions (making layout for hmcpset.cls)

I wrote: When the layout works for you, ca you please create a new page at our Wiki where you provide this layout file and give some installation instructions?: http://wiki.lyx.org/Layouts/Layouts I've done this now: http://wiki.lyx.org/Layouts/HMCMathematicsHomeworkClass regards Uwe

Re: Problems including a document

On Nov 3, 2009, at 11:23 AM, Manolo Martí nez wrote: Thanks for the suggestion. Surprisingly, LaTeX does compile; with a bunch of errors in the .log, to be sure, but none of them fatal. How can I find out what the compiler was doing when it stumbled upon the things that LyX finds

RE: Maintaining a translation of a LyX document

Helge Hafting wrote: Roland Clobus wrote: I’m wondering if someone encountered this situation before: I’ve written a LyX document in language A, and now I want to have the same contents/images/layout/etc. in language B. When something changes In the master document in language A, I

Re: Question on custumising index

Waluyo Adi Siswanto wrote: > How can I get the index with an alphabetical separator as I mention above? > > Thanks you for any help or information If you use xindy (texindy) instead of makeindex, you will get the desired layout out of the box. If you use makeindex, you will have to set up an

Re: Creating the "\independent" binary relation within LyX (for independent random variables)

On 2009-11-03, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > Adam Gustafson schrieb: >> Could someone please let me know how to create the following symbol within >> LyX, I presume within a Math macro? The LaTeX code that one puts in the >> preamble is: >>

Re: Question on custumising index

> If you use xindy (texindy) instead of makeindex, you will get the desired > layout out of the box. > > If you use makeindex, you will have to set up an index style file (*.ist). > > I'd recommend xindy, because it is way ahead of makeindex in many respects. > Thanks Jurgen It works, I just

Re: Cannot export to pdf in Mac OSX Snow Leopard

On 3 nov 2009, at 08.15, Manveru wrote: ... First of all, thanks for answering. I've just installed MacTex again, restarted Lyx, nothing changed. When I try to convert the document in any damned format, nothing happens. Please somebody help. I never needed to install ps2pdf and even

Header print suppression

at the beginning of every lyx document there is a: "#LyX 1.6.2 created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/; is there an option anywhere to skip this? The reason is when using version control systems and users with different versions of lyx, just opening and saving changes the file,

Re: Cannot export to pdf in Mac OSX Snow Leopard

2009/11/3 Anders Ekberg > On 3 nov 2009, at 08.15, Manveru wrote: > > ... First of all, thanks for answering. >>> I've just installed MacTex again, restarted Lyx, nothing changed. When I >>> try >>> to convert the document in any damned format, nothing happens. Please

Re: Header print suppression

On 11/03/2009 06:41 AM, Jes Andersen wrote: at the beginning of every lyx document there is a: "#LyX 1.6.2 created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/; is there an option anywhere to skip this? No, unless you edit source. rh

Re: Question About Custom Layouts and Styles

On 10/30/2009 02:17 PM, Rob Oakes wrote: Dear Richard and other LyX Users, I managed to solve a few of the formatting problems. To change the section labels from numbers to letters, I added the following to the nih.cls file: \def\thesection{\Alph{section}} That solved the output problem.

Re: Header print suppression

On Tue, Nov 03, 2009 at 12:41:06PM +0100, Jes Andersen wrote: > at the beginning of every lyx document there is a: > "#LyX 1.6.2 created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/; > is there an option anywhere to skip this? > > The reason is when using version control systems and users

Re: howto copy external material to lyx working directory

2009/11/1 Egon Alter : > Hi, > > I like to use the pdfx package which needs some external files (icc profile, > xmpdata file) in the lyx_tmpbuf folder. The filenames are hardcoded. How can > tell lyx to copy these files to the tmpbuf folder before compiling? > > thanks Oh yes,

Problems including a document

Dear list, I am working right now with a long document that has chapters as separate files, included in a master document. I'm having the following problem: chapter 5 exports to pdf perfectly on its own but, when included in the master document, this latter document does not export -although

Re: Question About Custom Layouts and Styles

Dear Richard and other LyX Users, Thank you very much for the recommendation, it worked perfectly. The final formatting worked out to be: Counter subsection LabelString "\Alph{section}.\{subsection}" End Since this is one of those "Write it down or forget it" type of things, I also put

Re: LyX 1.6.4.1 and Snow Leopard

rgheck writes: > A fix has been committed: disabling fork() on OSX. We don't know why > it suddenly stopped working, but it is a limitation of OSX itself. The workaround has been committed to trunk only, but since I got nobody to build a binary for testing nothing is

Re: Problems including a document

On 11/03/2009 10:12 AM, Manolo Martí­nez wrote: Dear list, I am working right now with a long document that has chapters as separate files, included in a master document. I'm having the following problem: chapter 5 exports to pdf perfectly on its own but, when included in the master

Professional and Scientific Writing Book

Dear LyX Users, I'm currently working on a book which shows how professional and scientific writing can be done using purely open source tools. Any book about Scientific/Technical/Professional writing on Linux has to include one (if not more) chapters on LyX. Other chapters will look at LaTeX,

Re: Professional and Scientific Writing Book

On Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:09:49 -0700 Rob Oakes wrote: > But are there other things that you would like to see? The standard LyX > documentation is so good that I've found myself struggling to find other > topics that need to be covered, other than a tremendously quick

Re: Problems including a document

That's not the problem, apparently. I have moved everything to the master document's preamble and the strange behaviour recurs. Chapter 5 compiles. Master document w/o Ch. 5 compiles, but Master document with Ch. 5 does not. Thanks for your help, Richard. Manolo rgheck escribió: Is

Re: LyX 1.6.4.1 and Snow Leopard

I'm no unix geek, but if the kernel version is enough, that can be found by parsing the output of "uname -a" or "hostinfo". I'm sure there are better ways of doing this, but I just wanted to add my 5 cents to this discussion (not notally selfless, though: I am eagerly waiting for this

Re: Professional and Scientific Writing Book

On Tuesday 03 November 2009 10:09:49 Rob Oakes wrote: > Dear LyX Users, > > I'm currently working on a book which shows how professional and > scientific writing can be done using purely open source tools. Any book > about Scientific/Technical/Professional writing on Linux has to include > one

Re: Problems including a document

On Nov 3, 2009, at 9:03 AM, Manolo Martí nez wrote: That's not the problem, apparently. I have moved everything to the master document's preamble and the strange behaviour recurs. Chapter 5 compiles. Master document w/o Ch. 5 compiles, but Master document with Ch. 5 does not. Thanks for

Re: LyX 1.6.4.1 and Snow Leopard

Stefano Baroni writes: > I'm no unix geek, but if the kernel version is enough, that can be > found by parsing the output of "uname -a" or "hostinfo". I'm sure > there are better ways of doing this, but I just wanted to add my 5 > cents to this discussion (not notally selfless,

Re: Professional and Scientific Writing Book

Rob Oakes schrieb: The standard LyX documentation is so good that I've found myself struggling to find other topics that need to be covered, other than a tremendously quick overview of the program and instructions on where to find the docs. Wow, what a compliment for the docs! I also don't

Re: Problems including a document

Thanks for the suggestion. Surprisingly, LaTeX does compile; with a bunch of errors in the .log, to be sure, but none of them fatal. How can I find out what the compiler was doing when it stumbled upon the things that LyX finds offending? The part of the .log file that seems relevant is:

Re: Professional and Scientific Writing Book

Rob But are there other things that you would like to see? The standard LyX documentation is so good that I've found myself struggling to find other topics that need to be covered, other than a tremendously quick overview of the program and instructions on where to find the docs. I wonder if

Re: Professional and Scientific Writing Book

On Tue, Nov 03, 2009 at 06:14:30PM +0100, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > But have a look at wiki.lyx.org, you find there many useful information around LyX and also some HowTo. Dealing with Word is a very common question on list, and in professional and academic circumstances discussing it -- at

Re: Professional and Scientific Writing Book

On 11/03/09, Uwe Stöhr wrote: Rob Oakes schrieb: > The standard LyX > documentation is so good that I've found myself struggling to find other > topics that need to be covered, other than a tremendously quick overview > of the program and instructions on where to find the docs.

Re: Professional and Scientific Writing Book

Hello On 11/3/09, Graham M Smith wrote: > I wonder if something on Lyx/Sweave/R/Beamer might be useful. This > combination is unbeatable (and I think unique, ignoring working with > straight Latex) for anyone with scientific/statistics related >

Re: Failing to compile on fresh Kubuntu 9.10 (Karmic) install

On 11/03/2009 05:46 PM, stefano franchi wrote: Could anyone tell me what I am still missing? Try --without-included-boost. rh

Re: Question About Custom Layouts and Styles

> Since this is one of those "Write it down or forget it" type of things, > I also put together a blog post that describes the whole process. > Granted, most of it is just stolen out of the LyX documentation, but I > find it handy to put together these types of cheat sheets for myself. > > If

File converters based on file extension rather than MIME type?

Hi, I'm trying to set up some custom file converters (which take psfrag'd EPS files from matlab, do some "stuff" to the annotations then render them to a PDF), and am distinguishing between what "stuff" gets done by file extension. That is, for operation A, I might call the file

Failing to compile on fresh Kubuntu 9.10 (Karmic) install

I am trying to compile the latest stable version of Lyx on a fresh install of Kubuntu 9.10. After installaiton of qt4 devel libs and g++, the configuraiton process went through. Compilation fails, though, with this error: g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. "-DBOOST_USER_CONFIG=" -I../boost -O2 -MT

Re: Layout file for Problem Set Solutions (making layout for hmcpset.cls)

I wrote: When the layout works for you, ca you please create a new page at our Wiki where you provide this layout file and give some installation instructions?: http://wiki.lyx.org/Layouts/Layouts I've done this now: http://wiki.lyx.org/Layouts/HMCMathematicsHomeworkClass regards Uwe

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