Re: How does LyX compile to PDF?

Am 24.06.2011 21:04, schrieb Steve Litt: The following shellscript compiles my PDF: = #!/bin/bash rm -f junk.* cp -p larry.lyx junk.lyx lyx --export latex junk.lyx latex junk.tex makeindex -c -q junk.idx latex junk.tex dvips junk.dvi ps2pdf13 junk.ps acroread

Re: Importing LaTeX file fails

Am 24.06.2011 19:02, schrieb Trevor Jenkins: I grabbed a copy of a tutorial on the use of Constraint Grammars from here http://kevindonnelly.org.uk/2010/05/constraint-grammar-tutorial/ The author provides a LaTeX file that latex processes correctly (other than that my system doesn't have a

Re: Can't convert

On 06/24/2011 08:22 PM, William Hanson wrote: I have a folder named MIKTEX2.7 in Program Files, so I suppose I'm using MiKTeX. You are. Pretty much everyone on Windows is. But I know very little about how LyX works. Also, I don't know what you mean when you say, open a command prompt and

Re: Importing LaTeX file fails

On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 1:49 PM, Uwe Stöhr uwesto...@web.de wrote: Am 24.06.2011 19:02, schrieb Trevor Jenkins: I grabbed a copy of a tutorial on the use of Constraint Grammars from here

need suggestion on book

Hi all, I am going to write a small (100 pages) book on specific Perl topics. This will be given as notes in my session. Can anyone please help me with these queries? 1. I plan to make it 5x7 or 5x8 with class as memoir or koma. I want to avoid tufte book cos I do not have many footnotes and I

Indent picture (only)

Dear list, I would like to move a picture horizontally to place it more leftwards (towards the page edge). While moving this picture I would like to leave the text of the document unchanged and also not move the picture vertically. So this would basically be to negatively indent one picture; i.e.

Re: Can't convert

Did it. What I got was C:\Program Files/MikTeX 2.7/tex/latex/base/article.cls Bill On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 9:05 AM, Paul A. Rubin ru...@msu.edu wrote: On 06/24/2011 08:22 PM, William Hanson wrote: I have a folder named MIKTEX2.7 in Program Files, so I suppose I'm using MiKTeX. You

Re: How does LyX compile to PDF?

On Saturday 25 June 2011 08:46:33 you wrote: Am 24.06.2011 21:04, schrieb Steve Litt: The following shellscript compiles my PDF: = #!/bin/bash rm -f junk.* cp -p larry.lyx junk.lyx lyx --export latex junk.lyx latex junk.tex makeindex -c -q

Re: How does LyX compile to PDF?

On Saturday 25 June 2011 15:47:37 Steve Litt wrote: But more than anything else, I just want to understand this discrepancy? What is the difference between LyX view-PDF (ps2pdf) and an equivalent script. What is the difference between File-export- LaTeX and lyx --export pdf? Once I

Re: Can't convert

Okay, this confirms that MiKTeX is correctly installed (still) and that it knows where the article class is located. The error messages you were getting about the article class not being available suggested a problem with MiKTeX -- either a borked installation or something knocking it off the

Re: Indent picture (only)

Dirk Heine dirk at common-future.org writes: Dear list,I would like to move a picture horizontally to place it more leftwards (towards the page edge). While moving this picture I would like to leave the text of the document unchanged and also not move the picture vertically. So this would

Re: need suggestion on book

2. Yes, I remember this is a lyx list, but ... are there any advantages or writing this book in plain latex instead of lyx? If you work in plain latex, while you write it, you get a text pestered with commands. That makes difficult the work to write up and to correct the text. Marcelo

Re: How does LyX compile to PDF? MOSTLY SOLVED

Most of the solution was that I ran the latex command too few times -- two instead of three (or maybe more). If someone writes the list with evidence that a LyX-internal compile acts differently than a sequence of equivalent commands, ask him to run latex a couple more times at the end. It

Re: need suggestion on book

On Saturday 25 June 2011 19:17:18 Marcelo Acuña wrote: 2. Yes, I remember this is a lyx list, but ... are there any advantages or writing this book in plain latex instead of lyx? If you work in plain latex, while you write it, you get a text pestered with commands. That makes difficult

Re: need suggestion on book

On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 1:52 AM, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: On Saturday 25 June 2011 19:17:18 Marcelo Acuña wrote: 2. Yes, I remember this is a lyx list, but ... are there any advantages or writing this book in plain latex instead of lyx?  If you work in plain latex,

Re: need suggestion on book

On Sun, 26 Jun 2011 04:09:36 +0200 Liviu Andronic landronim...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 1:52 AM, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: On Saturday 25 June 2011 19:17:18 Marcelo Acuña wrote: 2. Yes, I remember this is a lyx list, but ... are there any advantages or

lyx and texlive on windows?

Dear all Is there a reason for not offering a choice between MikTeX and TeX Live on the Windows installer? I've got very used to TeX Live on Linux and I'd like to use it for Windows, too. I'm specifically missing the 'getnonfreefonts' utility. Is following the wiki instructions [1] a good idea?

Re: How does LyX compile to PDF?

Am 24.06.2011 21:04, schrieb Steve Litt: The following shellscript compiles my PDF: = #!/bin/bash rm -f junk.* cp -p larry.lyx junk.lyx lyx --export latex junk.lyx latex junk.tex makeindex -c -q junk.idx latex junk.tex dvips junk.dvi ps2pdf13 junk.ps acroread

Re: Importing LaTeX file fails

Am 24.06.2011 19:02, schrieb Trevor Jenkins: I grabbed a copy of a tutorial on the use of Constraint Grammars from here http://kevindonnelly.org.uk/2010/05/constraint-grammar-tutorial/ The author provides a LaTeX file that latex processes correctly (other than that my system doesn't have a

Re: Can't convert

On 06/24/2011 08:22 PM, William Hanson wrote: I have a folder named MIKTEX2.7 in Program Files, so I suppose I'm using MiKTeX. You are. Pretty much everyone on Windows is. But I know very little about how LyX works. Also, I don't know what you mean when you say, open a command prompt and

Re: Importing LaTeX file fails

On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 1:49 PM, Uwe Stöhr uwesto...@web.de wrote: Am 24.06.2011 19:02, schrieb Trevor Jenkins: I grabbed a copy of a tutorial on the use of Constraint Grammars from here

need suggestion on book

Hi all, I am going to write a small (100 pages) book on specific Perl topics. This will be given as notes in my session. Can anyone please help me with these queries? 1. I plan to make it 5x7 or 5x8 with class as memoir or koma. I want to avoid tufte book cos I do not have many footnotes and I

Indent picture (only)

Dear list, I would like to move a picture horizontally to place it more leftwards (towards the page edge). While moving this picture I would like to leave the text of the document unchanged and also not move the picture vertically. So this would basically be to negatively indent one picture; i.e.

Re: Can't convert

Did it. What I got was C:\Program Files/MikTeX 2.7/tex/latex/base/article.cls Bill On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 9:05 AM, Paul A. Rubin ru...@msu.edu wrote: On 06/24/2011 08:22 PM, William Hanson wrote: I have a folder named MIKTEX2.7 in Program Files, so I suppose I'm using MiKTeX. You

Re: How does LyX compile to PDF?

On Saturday 25 June 2011 08:46:33 you wrote: Am 24.06.2011 21:04, schrieb Steve Litt: The following shellscript compiles my PDF: = #!/bin/bash rm -f junk.* cp -p larry.lyx junk.lyx lyx --export latex junk.lyx latex junk.tex makeindex -c -q

Re: How does LyX compile to PDF?

On Saturday 25 June 2011 15:47:37 Steve Litt wrote: But more than anything else, I just want to understand this discrepancy? What is the difference between LyX view-PDF (ps2pdf) and an equivalent script. What is the difference between File-export- LaTeX and lyx --export pdf? Once I

Re: Can't convert

Okay, this confirms that MiKTeX is correctly installed (still) and that it knows where the article class is located. The error messages you were getting about the article class not being available suggested a problem with MiKTeX -- either a borked installation or something knocking it off the

Re: Indent picture (only)

Dirk Heine dirk at common-future.org writes: Dear list,I would like to move a picture horizontally to place it more leftwards (towards the page edge). While moving this picture I would like to leave the text of the document unchanged and also not move the picture vertically. So this would

Re: need suggestion on book

2. Yes, I remember this is a lyx list, but ... are there any advantages or writing this book in plain latex instead of lyx? If you work in plain latex, while you write it, you get a text pestered with commands. That makes difficult the work to write up and to correct the text. Marcelo

Re: How does LyX compile to PDF? MOSTLY SOLVED

Most of the solution was that I ran the latex command too few times -- two instead of three (or maybe more). If someone writes the list with evidence that a LyX-internal compile acts differently than a sequence of equivalent commands, ask him to run latex a couple more times at the end. It

Re: need suggestion on book

On Saturday 25 June 2011 19:17:18 Marcelo Acuña wrote: 2. Yes, I remember this is a lyx list, but ... are there any advantages or writing this book in plain latex instead of lyx? If you work in plain latex, while you write it, you get a text pestered with commands. That makes difficult

Re: need suggestion on book

On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 1:52 AM, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: On Saturday 25 June 2011 19:17:18 Marcelo Acuña wrote: 2. Yes, I remember this is a lyx list, but ... are there any advantages or writing this book in plain latex instead of lyx?  If you work in plain latex,

Re: need suggestion on book

On Sun, 26 Jun 2011 04:09:36 +0200 Liviu Andronic landronim...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 1:52 AM, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: On Saturday 25 June 2011 19:17:18 Marcelo Acuña wrote: 2. Yes, I remember this is a lyx list, but ... are there any advantages or

lyx and texlive on windows?

Dear all Is there a reason for not offering a choice between MikTeX and TeX Live on the Windows installer? I've got very used to TeX Live on Linux and I'd like to use it for Windows, too. I'm specifically missing the 'getnonfreefonts' utility. Is following the wiki instructions [1] a good idea?

Re: How does LyX compile to PDF?

Am 24.06.2011 21:04, schrieb Steve Litt: The following shellscript compiles my PDF: = #!/bin/bash rm -f junk.* cp -p larry.lyx junk.lyx lyx --export latex junk.lyx latex junk.tex makeindex -c -q junk.idx latex junk.tex dvips junk.dvi ps2pdf13 junk.ps acroread

Re: Importing LaTeX file fails

Am 24.06.2011 19:02, schrieb Trevor Jenkins: I grabbed a copy of a tutorial on the use of Constraint Grammars from here http://kevindonnelly.org.uk/2010/05/constraint-grammar-tutorial/ The author provides a LaTeX file that latex processes correctly (other than that my system doesn't have a

Re: Can't convert

On 06/24/2011 08:22 PM, William Hanson wrote: I have a folder named "MIKTEX2.7 in Program Files, so I suppose I'm using MiKTeX. You are. Pretty much everyone on Windows is. But I know very little about how LyX works. Also, I don't know what you mean when you say, "open a command prompt

Re: Importing LaTeX file fails

On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 1:49 PM, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > Am 24.06.2011 19:02, schrieb Trevor Jenkins: > > > I grabbed a copy of a tutorial on the use of Constraint Grammars from here >>

need suggestion on book

Hi all, I am going to write a small (100 pages) book on specific Perl topics. This will be given as notes in my session. Can anyone please help me with these queries? 1. I plan to make it 5x7 or 5x8 with class as memoir or koma. I want to avoid tufte book cos I do not have many footnotes and I

Indent picture (only)

Dear list, I would like to move a picture horizontally to place it more leftwards (towards the page edge). While moving this picture I would like to leave the text of the document unchanged and also not move the picture vertically. So this would basically be to negatively indent one picture; i.e.

Re: Can't convert

Did it. What I got was C:\Program Files/MikTeX 2.7/tex/latex/base/article.cls Bill On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 9:05 AM, Paul A. Rubin wrote: > > On 06/24/2011 08:22 PM, William Hanson wrote: > >> I have a folder named "MIKTEX2.7 in Program Files, so I suppose I'm using >>

Re: How does LyX compile to PDF?

On Saturday 25 June 2011 08:46:33 you wrote: > Am 24.06.2011 21:04, schrieb Steve Litt: > > The following shellscript compiles my PDF: > > > > = > > #!/bin/bash > > > > rm -f junk.* > > cp -p larry.lyx junk.lyx > > lyx --export latex junk.lyx > > latex junk.tex > >

Re: How does LyX compile to PDF?

On Saturday 25 June 2011 15:47:37 Steve Litt wrote: > But more than anything else, I just want to understand this > discrepancy? What is the difference between LyX view->PDF (ps2pdf) > and an equivalent script. What is the difference between > File->export- > > >LaTeX and lyx --export pdf? Once

Re: Can't convert

Okay, this confirms that MiKTeX is correctly installed (still) and that it knows where the article class is located. The error messages you were getting about the article class not being available suggested a problem with MiKTeX -- either a borked installation or something knocking it off the

Re: Indent picture (only)

Dirk Heine common-future.org> writes: > > Dear list,I would like to move a picture horizontally to place it more leftwards (towards the page edge). While moving this picture I would like to leave the text of the document unchanged and also not move the picture vertically. So this would

Re: need suggestion on book

> 2. Yes, I remember this is a lyx list, but ... are there > any advantages or > writing this book in plain latex instead of lyx? If you work in plain latex, while you write it, you get a text pestered with commands. That makes difficult the work to write up and to correct the text. Marcelo

Re: How does LyX compile to PDF?

Most of the solution was that I ran the latex command too few times -- two instead of three (or maybe more). If someone writes the list with evidence that a LyX-internal compile acts differently than a sequence of equivalent commands, ask him to run latex a couple more times at the end. It

Re: need suggestion on book

On Saturday 25 June 2011 19:17:18 Marcelo Acuña wrote: > > 2. Yes, I remember this is a lyx list, but ... are there > > any advantages or > > writing this book in plain latex instead of lyx? > > If you work in plain latex, while you write it, you get a text > pestered with commands. That makes

Re: need suggestion on book

On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 1:52 AM, Steve Litt wrote: > On Saturday 25 June 2011 19:17:18 Marcelo Acuña wrote: >> > 2. Yes, I remember this is a lyx list, but ... are there >> > any advantages or >> > writing this book in plain latex instead of lyx? >> >>  If you work in

Re: need suggestion on book

On Sun, 26 Jun 2011 04:09:36 +0200 Liviu Andronic wrote: > On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 1:52 AM, Steve Litt > wrote: > > On Saturday 25 June 2011 19:17:18 Marcelo Acuña wrote: > >> > 2. Yes, I remember this is a lyx list, but ... are there > >> >

lyx and texlive on windows?

Dear all Is there a reason for not offering a choice between MikTeX and TeX Live on the Windows installer? I've got very used to TeX Live on Linux and I'd like to use it for Windows, too. I'm specifically missing the 'getnonfreefonts' utility. Is following the wiki instructions [1] a good idea?