Error when compiling

2018-03-13 Thread Anthony
I am trying to use maths inline mode inside a cell in the tabular environment. It won’t compile. If I use the simple ctrl-M and type each line of maths separately then I can compile the Lyx File. I have attached my Lyx file and the error log. Any thoughts? Many thanks, Anthony Sent from

error with classicthesis.sty

2018-03-31 Thread Anthony
I have installed the classicthesis.sty using MiKTeX. I have also installed the layout file that accompanies the .sty file When I run my LyX code, using a template that also comes with the classithesis package, the following error pops up: LaTeX error: file ../classicthesis.sty not found. The .

Embedding sounds and video in beamer class

2019-04-17 Thread Anthony
I have attached an MWE. Running LyX2.3.0 under windows 10. Using Adobe Acrobat Pro DC. My problem is that I can compile the LyX document to generate a pdf, however, when I click on the link in the pdf, the following message appears. Any suggestions? Kind Regards, Anthony Sent from Mail for

Showing reduction(cancelling) of fractions in maths display mode

2019-05-23 Thread Anthony
I am trying to show my students the idea of reducing (cancelling) fractions. I know of the package named cancel, and this works in ERT mode. I really don’t want to use ERT if I can help it. Of course, I would like it to work in the maths-display mode. Kind Regards, Anthony Sent from Mail for

locale en-GB could not be set

2007-08-27 Thread Anthony Campbell
I get the above message when I start lyx. It is correct because my locale is en_GB.UTF-8. Question: where does lyx set its locale preference? I cannot find it anywhere in the docs. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Microsoft-free zone - Using Linux Gnu-Debian http

Re: What is this? latex error iso-8859-7.def

2007-09-03 Thread Anthony Campbell
l lyx to use a different locale but in my case it doesn't seem to have any adverse effects. This is on Debian Sid. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Microsoft-free zone - Using Linux Gnu-Debian http://www.acampbell.org.uk (blog, book reviews, on-line books and sceptical articles)

Minus sign in superscript

2007-10-18 Thread Anthony Campbell
How do you get a minus sign to appear in a superscript, as in 10 to the minus 24? I'm sure this must be easy but $10^24$ doesn't produce the muinus. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Microsoft-free zone - Using Linux Gnu-Debian http://www.acampbell.org.uk (blog, bo

Re: Minus sign in superscript

2007-10-18 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 18 Oct 2007, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > How do you get a minus sign to appear in a superscript, as in 10 to the > minus 24? I'm sure this must be easy but $10^24$ doesn't produce the > muinus. > Sorry, I meant $10^{-24} gives the same as $10^{24$} -- Anthony Ca

Re: Minus sign in superscript

2007-10-18 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 18 Oct 2007, Paul A. Rubin wrote: > Anthony Campbell wrote: >> On 18 Oct 2007, Anthony Campbell wrote: >>> How do you get a minus sign to appear in a superscript, as in 10 to the >>> minus 24? I'm sure this must be easy but $10^24$ doesn't produce the

Re: Bad PDF-Quality

2007-10-25 Thread Anthony Campbell
ing to make pdf files to upload to Lulu there are issues with embedded fonts. I find that the best thing is to send the file as postscript (.ps), which gets round this. Lulu does accept postscript although it doesn't advertise the fact. -- Anthony Campbell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Microso

Re: Lyx 1.5.2 binaries for Ubuntu

2007-10-26 Thread Anthony Campbell
hey are downloadable but you need to know that they put the binary in /usr/local/bin, after deleting the one in /usr/bin. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Microsoft-free zone - Using Linux Gnu-Debian http://www.acampbell.org.uk (blog, book reviews, on-line books and sceptical articles)

Re: Lyx 1.5.2 binaries for Ubuntu

2007-10-26 Thread Anthony Campbell
es are not >>> downloadable. >> >> Please try again. >> >> Jürgen > I don't know about dapper but lyx-1.5.2-1_i386 didn't install here. I used the etch version. I also installed the qt4 stuff as speficied in the readme file. -- Anthony Campbell - [EMA

Re: Bad PDF-Quality

2007-10-26 Thread Anthony Campbell
if anyone is making files to upload to Lulu, it's worth knowing that you can upload postscript (ps) files although this doesn't seem to be documented. It saves problems with getting the pdf file into the right format as regards embedded fonts. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Unsubscribe does not work

2007-10-27 Thread Anthony Campbell
ever show up. If you see this one you'll know it arrived but others I've sent haven't. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Microsoft-free zone - Using Linux Gnu-Debian http://www.acampbell.org.uk (blog, book reviews, on-line books and sceptical articles)

Re: how select several files to import in a single time

2007-10-28 Thread Anthony Campbell
> Liviu What I want to do is to be able to merge files - that is, to add a plain text file to the end of a lyx file. The only way I can see to do this is to open another window, import the text file into that, and then copy it across to the lyx file using the mouse. Is there a better way? Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Microsoft-free zone - Using Linux Gnu-Debian http://www.acampbell.org.uk (blog, book reviews, on-line books and sceptical articles)

Re: how select several files to import in a single time

2007-10-28 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 28 Oct 2007, Liviu Andronic wrote: > On 10/28/07, Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What I want to do is to be able to merge files - that is, to add a plain > > text file to the end of a lyx file. The only way I can see to do this is > > to open anot

Re: how select several files to import in a single time

2007-10-28 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 28 Oct 2007, Liviu Andronic wrote: > On 10/28/07, Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Insert > File > Plain text? > > > > Yes - it always overwrites the existing Lyx file with the text file > > instead of appending it. > > Not here.

Re: how select several files to import in a single time

2007-10-30 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 29 Oct 2007, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > On Sun, 28 Oct 2007, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > On 28 Oct 2007, Liviu Andronic wrote: > > > On 10/28/07, Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Insert > File > Plain text? > > > &

Quotation style problem

2007-10-30 Thread Anthony Campbell
#x27;. There does not seem to be any way to get that effect in Lyx, which is odd. Any comments? Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Microsoft-free zone - Using Linux Gnu-Debian http://www.acampbell.org.uk (blog, book reviews, on-line books and sceptical articles)

Re: Quotation style problem

2007-10-30 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 30 Oct 2007, Anthony Campbell wrote: > I seem to have dome something to the quotations style but I can't see > what. I've tried different settings in Document - Settings - Language > but it keeps coming out the same when I view pdf or dvi. > > At first I was getting &

Re: Quotation style problem

2007-10-30 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 30 Oct 2007, Bruce Pourciau wrote: > > On Oct 30, 2007, at 6:35 AM, Anthony Campbell wrote: > >> On 30 Oct 2007, Anthony Campbell wrote: >>> I seem to have dome something to the quotations style but I can't see >>> what. I've tried different settings i

Find/replace not working well - doesn't find words.

2007-11-01 Thread Anthony Campbell
The Find command often fails to find words that I know are there -- in fact, it doesn't find any of the instances of the word. Quite a nuisance when I'm trying to make an index. Perhaps it's a bug? Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Microsoft-free zone - Using L

Fing-Replace not working well - words not found

2007-11-01 Thread Anthony Campbell
Find/replace often doesn't find words, even when I know they are there. This is a big nuisance for making an index. Is it a bug, perhaps? Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Microsoft-free zone - Using Linux Gnu-Debian http://www.acampbell.org.uk (blog, book reviews, on-line

Index entries overlapping

2007-11-03 Thread Anthony Campbell
x27;t seem to do this. Putting latex commands to change the font after "Index" at the end of the book doesn't do it. Is there a way to alter the size of the text used by the index, or -- even better -- to stop the overlapping in the first place? Anthony -- Anthony Campbel

Re: Index entries overlapping

2007-11-04 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 03 Nov 2007, Anthony Campbell wrote: > I find that if I have more than a few index entries for a word they > overrun and are printed on top of other entries in the adjacent > column. This is in 1.5.2 but it also happened in 1.5.1. A bug? > > I could prevent this to some extent

Re: Index entries overlapping

2007-11-05 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 05 Nov 2007, Helge Hafting wrote: > Anthony Campbell wrote: >> I find that if I have more than a few index entries for a word they >> overrun and are printed on top of other entries in the adjacent >> column. This is in 1.5.2 but it also happened in 1.5.1. A bug? >

Can't turn off numbering in TOC

2007-11-20 Thread Anthony Campbell
es because there are two pages; when there was only one it was OK. Is there any way to achieve this? If not, I'll just have to make the thing manually. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Microsoft-free zone - Using Linux Gnu-Debian http://www.acampbell.org.uk (blog, book re

Re: Can't turn off numbering in TOC

2007-11-20 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 20 Nov 2007, Steve Litt wrote: > On Tuesday 20 November 2007 08:33, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > I'm using the Book class. I want to turn off the page numbering for TOC. > > The Contents list extends over two pages. > > > > I've put \thispagestyle{empty}

Re: Can't turn off numbering in TOC

2007-11-21 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 21 Nov 2007, Typhoon wrote: > On Tue, 20 Nov 2007 17:35:26 + > Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 20 Nov 2007, Steve Litt wrote: > > > On Tuesday 20 November 2007 08:33, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > > I'm using the Bo

Re: Can't turn off numbering in TOC

2007-11-21 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 21 Nov 2007, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: > Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > I'd already tried that. It ought to work but even when I set the page > > style to be "empty" it still prints the page number on the first page of > > the contents list. > &g

Re: fun poll: your linux distro

2007-12-29 Thread Anthony Campbell
> input. > > Cheers and Happy New Year! > Bob Lounsbury Debian Sid, with Lyx 1.5.3. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Microsoft-free zone - Using Linux Gnu-Debian http://www.acampbell.org.uk (blog, book reviews, on-line books and sceptical articles)

Lulu page margins confusion

2008-01-04 Thread Anthony Campbell
me as the outer margin, whereas in most books I look at it is smaller. So should inner = 0.75 in as well? Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Microsoft-free zone - Using Linux Gnu-Debian http://www.acampbell.org.uk (blog, book reviews, on-line books and sceptical articles)

Re: Lulu page margins confusion

2008-01-05 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 04 Jan 2008, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > I know margins were discussed here a while back but I am now more > confused than before. > > I have bought a distribution package from Lulu for my book. > > The requirements for margins are strict. Top and bottom margins must

Re: Lulu page margins confusion

2008-01-05 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 05 Jan 2008, killermike wrote: > On Saturday 05 January 2008 10:36:09 Anthony Campbell wrote: > > On 04 Jan 2008, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > > this way? > > > > > > I'm not sure the above is right, because then, in the bound book, the > >

Re: Problems with LyX 1.5.1 on Ubuntu 7.10

2008-01-15 Thread Anthony Campbell
e such packages on Ubuntu, but if it is, it might work for you. -- Anthony Campbell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Microsoft-free zone - Using Linux Gnu-Debian http://www.acampbell.org.uk (blog, book reviews, on-line books and sceptical articles)

Table of Contents -- adding a line?

2008-01-31 Thread Anthony Campbell
dtocontents{toc}{Preface} but I get an error. In my last book I gave up and just made the page manually, but this means I have to keep it up to date and mistakes can creep in. Is there any way to fix this? Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Microsoft-free zone - Using Linux

Re: Table of Contents -- adding a line?

2008-01-31 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 31 Jan 2008, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > Anthony Campbell wrote: > > I've tried using \tableofcontents in place of the Lyx command, with the > > same effect. I also tried \addtocontents{toc}{Preface} but I get an > > error. > > Insert > \addcontentsline{toc}{

Re: Table of Contents -- adding a line?

2008-01-31 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 31 Jan 2008, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > Anthony Campbell wrote: > > Thanks - that works for the Preface but I don't seem to be able to do > > the same thing for the index. No error messagd -- it's just ignored. > > For the index, do > > \usepackag

Key combination to toggle case?

2008-03-14 Thread Anthony Campbell
Is there any way to make a key binding that will toggle the case of a letter? Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk (blog, book reviews, on-line books and sceptical articles)

Re: Extra vertical space between some paragarphs

2008-03-20 Thread Anthony Campbell
nalty=1 \clubpenalty=1 \raggedbottom Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk (blog, book reviews, on-line books and sceptical articles)

Hyphenation and page breaks

2008-03-31 Thread Anthony Campbell
I think this may be more a latex question, but just in case ... I want to avoid hyphenation breaks at the end of pages. Is there any way to do this automatically or do I just have to go through the book fixing them manually? Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Microsoft-free zone

Re: greek fonts

2008-06-09 Thread Anthony Campbell
er instead of above it. Also, there there any way to get the characters to appear in Greek on-screen (i.e. before converting the text to dvi)? I can do all this in gvim plus latex but it would be nice to have it in Lyx. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk (blog, book reviews, and sceptical articles)

Re: greek fonts

2008-06-09 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 09 Jun 2008, G. Milde wrote: > On 9.06.08, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > I tried to use Lyx for ancient Greek but the circumflex (tilde) keeps > > appearing before the letter instead of above it. > > It works in LyX, if you use the correct unicode char (from the ext

Re: greek fonts

2008-06-10 Thread Anthony Campbell
olata. > > DejaVu is an extension of the Vera fonts with more glyphs that is also > used as default in OpenOffice - optimized for on-screen rendering. > However, any "unicode font" with a good coverage will do. > Although I have unicode fonts installed they don't show

Re: greek fonts

2008-06-10 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 10 Jun 2008, G. Milde wrote: > On 9.06.08, Andre Poenitz wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 02:18:15PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > > > On Monday 09 June 2008 08:10, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > > > > > I tried to use Lyx for ancient Greek but the cir

Re: greek fonts

2008-06-11 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 10 Jun 2008, G. Milde wrote: > On 10.06.08, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > I tried to use Lyx for ancient Greek but the circumflex (tilde) > > > > > > keeps > > > > > > appearing before the letter instead o

Re: greek fonts

2008-06-11 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 11 Jun 2008, Pavel Sanda wrote: > > On 10 Jun 2008, G. Milde wrote: > > > On 10.06.08, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I tried to use Lyx for ancient Greek but the circumflex (tilde) > > > > >

Re: greek fonts

2008-06-11 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 11 Jun 2008, Rune Schjellerup Philosof wrote: > Anthony Campbell skrev: >> On 11 Jun 2008, Pavel Sanda wrote: >> >>>> On 10 Jun 2008, G. Milde wrote: >>>> >>>>> On 10.06.08, Anthony Campbell wrote: >>>>>

Re: greek fonts

2008-06-11 Thread Anthony Campbell
; With Document>Settings>Language>Encoding set to utf8x, LyX can handle > accented (polytonic) Greek characters like the example 2 copied directly > from the Wikipedia even with language == Greek. > > Günter It still doesn't work here. That is, the tilde comes

Re: greek fonts

2008-06-11 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 11 Jun 2008, G. Milde wrote: > On 11.06.08, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > It still doesn't work here. That is, the tilde comes out before the > > letter, not on top of it. > > > But I think this is something to do with the current version of Latex, > >

Re: greek fonts (summary?)

2008-06-12 Thread Anthony Campbell
ay to get this to work there is no real point in fiddling with the rest of it. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk (blog, book reviews, and sceptical articles)

Re: greek fonts (summary?)

2008-06-12 Thread Anthony Campbell
onts installed? > whats the output of: ls -l /usr/share/fonts/dejavu/ > > pavel Yes, I do have dejavu (ttf-dejavu) but I don't know how to tell lyx to use it - it doesn't appear as a choice. But I'm not sure that what I am trying to do is possible in Lyx (see my reply to Gunter below). Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk (blog, book reviews, and sceptical articles)

Re: greek fonts (summary?)

2008-06-12 Thread Anthony Campbell
characters on-screen and to print Greek via Latex, but she can't do it without help from me because it requires a familiarity with Latex which she doesn't have. I was hoping things might be simpler with Lyx but seemingly not. Thanks for the Thessalonica suggestion; it may be a viable alt

Re: greek fonts (summary?)

2008-06-13 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 13 Jun 2008, G. Milde wrote: > On 12.06.08, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > Yes, I do have dejavu (ttf-dejavu) but I don't know how to tell lyx to > > use it - it doesn't appear as a choice. But I'm not sure that what I am > > trying to do is possib

Re: Problem inner and outer margins

2008-06-25 Thread Anthony Campbell
ncreased a little. But the visible width of the two inner margins should > still look equal to one outer margin > Lulu specifies that for their distribution packages (for Amazon etc.) the inner and outer margins must be the same, although you are allowed a gutter on the inside. In practice, I&#x

Re: Ugly output in PDF

2008-07-16 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 16 Jul 2008, Manveru wrote: > In Acrobat Reader 8 this example document seems to be quite fine. Even in > large scale. > > Michal > It looks OK with xpdf here as well. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.a

Reduce spacing between // for hyperrefs?

2008-08-25 Thread Anthony Campbell
Is there any way to reduce the spacing between the slashes in hyperrefs - http:// ? I don't mean to make cross-references; just to give cites in footnotes and bibliographies for a book. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux

Re: Reduce spacing between // for hyperrefs?

2008-08-25 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 25 Aug 2008, Andre Poenitz wrote: > On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 10:23:29AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > Is there any way to reduce the spacing between the slashes in hyperrefs > > - http:// ? > > > > I don't mean to make cross-references; just to

Position of chapter heading - left or right page?

2008-08-25 Thread Anthony Campbell
I'm using the default book category. The chapter headings come out on the left-hand (even number) page. This doesn't seem to be usual in any of the books I look at. Is there a way to make it appear on every page, or alternatively on the right-hand (odd number) page? Anthony -- Anthon

Re: Position of chapter heading - left or right page?

2008-08-25 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 25 Aug 2008, rgheck wrote: > Anthony Campbell wrote: >> I'm using the default book category. >> >> The chapter headings come out on the left-hand (even number) page. This >> doesn't seem to be usual in any of the books I look at. >> >> >

Re: Position of chapter heading - left or right page?

2008-08-25 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 25 Aug 2008, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > On Mon, 25 Aug 2008, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > I'm using the default book category. > > > > The chapter headings come out on the left-hand (even number) page. This > > doesn't seem to be usual in any of the boo

Re: Position of chapter heading - left or right page?

2008-08-27 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 26 Aug 2008, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > On Mon, 25 Aug 2008, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > On 25 Aug 2008, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > > > On Mon, 25 Aug 2008, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > > > > > I'm using the default book category. > > > &

How do I avoid luatex defaults?

2011-03-30 Thread Anthony Campbell
on of choices fir File -> Export? I couldn't find anything in Preferences. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk - sample my ebooks at http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/acampbell

Re: How do I avoid luatex defaults?

2011-04-04 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 04 Apr 2011, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > Anthony Campbell wrote: > > I haven't used LyX for some time and when I did so today I found that it > > was using luatex as the default for exporting pdf files. This produced > > errors. I evntually found how to ret

Re: How do I avoid luatex defaults?

2011-04-04 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 04 Apr 2011, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > Anthony Campbell wrote: > > Via the menu (File > Export). This initially offers me pdf(luatex). > > I now have to go to More Options to find pdf(ps2pdf). Not a major > > problem, of course, but I preferred the previous arra

Re: How do I avoid luatex defaults?

2011-04-04 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 04 Apr 2011, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > Anthony Campbell wrote: > > Thanks for your help. > > > > Yes, moving Preferences aside makes things work correctly. I can't see > > anything in the file that is relevant. > > I suppose the following note

Change default viewer?

2011-04-20 Thread Anthony Campbell
The default viewer (called with Ctrl-R) is Adobe. I want to use xpdf but I can't find anywhere to change this. Tools -> Preferences doesn't seem to offer a choice. Is it possible to do this? Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GN

Re: Change default viewer?

2011-04-20 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 20 Apr 2011, Liviu Andronic wrote: > On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 9:51 AM, Anthony Campbell > wrote: > > The default viewer (called with Ctrl-R) is Adobe. I want to use xpdf but > > I can't find anywhere to change this. Tools -> Preferences > > > ..then > Fi

Re: Change default viewer?

2011-04-20 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 20 Apr 2011, Liviu Andronic wrote: > On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 11:01 AM, Anthony Campbell > wrote: > > Sorry to be dense,but I can't see how this is supposed to work. I tried > > changing Viewer from None to Custom and then putting in xpdf but I still > > get Adobe.

Index generation failure - bug?

2011-04-20 Thread Anthony Campbell
y. It looks as if LyX doesn't automatically generate myfile.idx on my setup; I have to do it manually. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk - sample my ebooks at http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/acampbell

Re: Index generation failure - bug? -SOLVED

2011-04-21 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 20 Apr 2011, Anthony Campbell wrote: > I found that Lyx was not generating the index with at least two files I > tried it on. > > After a lot of experimentation I managed to get an index using a > semi-manual method: > > 1. Export the file as latex (luatex and possib

Re: Lyx and xindy

2011-05-05 Thread Anthony Campbell
some spedifications (via xindy modules). > > BTW both in xindy and texindy, the language option is (capital) -L. > > Jürgen You don't say which operating system you are using. I had the same problem on Debian Sid, which was due to a bug in clisp (required by xindy), I so

Re: OT: publishing - recommendations?

2011-12-13 Thread Anthony Campbell
-publishing printed books for sale, unless to a very clearly defined market, is unlikely to yield much if any profit. The future, I'm sure, is in ebooks. Don't use Lulu for that; Smashwords is better. I have 6 books on Smashwords, including most of those I published with Lulu, and all ar

Re: OT: publishing - recommendations?

2011-12-14 Thread Anthony Campbell
r stories of unacceptable books resulting in long email arguments with Lulu. I like to deal with a firm that I can ring up and grouse to if I need to. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk - sample my ebooks at http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/acampbell

Re: OT: publishing - recommendations?

2011-12-15 Thread Anthony Campbell
sons I posted earlier. As others on the list have said, I'd look for a local printer who offers a good deal. Flexibility in the print run seems to be a prime concern for you. I don't know about printers in SA; Antony Rowe in Britain is good from that point of view, but shipping to SA wou

Beamer files have faint symbols at lower border

2012-01-21 Thread Anthony Campbell
but I don't know what to search for in google. Anyone know what it is? -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - using Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk - book reviews, articles, blog, and printed books and ebooks

Re: Beamer files have faint symbols at lower border

2012-01-21 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 21 Jan 2012, Murat Yildizoglu wrote: > Hi ANthony, > > Putting > > \setbeamertemplate{navigation symbols}{} > > in the preamble should give you what you want. > > 2012/1/21 Anthony Campbell : > > Sorry if this is a bit off-topic - it's really a beame

Re: Beamer files have faint symbols at lower border

2012-01-23 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 21 Jan 2012, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Sat, 21 Jan 2012, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > >All the slides I make with lyx+beamer have faint grey symbols along the > >lower edge. These are clickable to move around in the slides but I want to > >eliminate them. I think there

Re: is lyx really appropriate for my book.

2012-02-18 Thread Anthony Campbell
ich gives me maximum freedom to concentrate on the content my text without bothering about how it will look. I then import it into LyX to prepare it for printing. I still make content changes at this stage but the basic material already exists. AC -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Mic

Re: Embedded Fonts

2012-02-27 Thread Anthony Campbell
as postscript (ps), which will work. AC -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk - sample my ebooks at http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/acampbell

Re: Thank You!

2012-07-07 Thread Anthony Campbell
pared with Lyx. I think the acceptance question may relate to whether the fonts are correctly embedded or not. For two of my books, which I distribute myself as well as having them on Amazon etc., I have them printed myself by Antony Rowe; cheaper than Lulu and no difficulty with my pdfs. And you can re

Re: Lyx pdf & Booksurge Self publishing

2008-10-18 Thread Anthony Campbell
n use it.) 5. Moral of the story: have a look at Lulu before paying money upfront to Booksurge. It might be worth searching the forums at Lulu for opinions by people who have tried both. Hope this is some use, Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk (blog, book reviews, and sceptical articles)

Re: Lyx to Booksurge Success

2008-12-24 Thread Anthony Campbell
nside'; I opted for this in the case of Google, while Amazon did it anyway. Both books are selling, though in small numbers. On balance, I think/hope that the ability of readers to see a selection of pages will be helpful to sales. As Steve says, it is much the same as being able to look through a book in a bookshop. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk (blog, book reviews, and sceptical articles)

Re: Using LyX for a book

2009-02-17 Thread Anthony Campbell
vious three were done using the Book class in 1.5.x. Can someone kindly tell me what would be the advantages of using Memoir (or point me to somewhere that discusses this)? Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk (blog, book reviews, and sceptical articles)

Re: Hyphenation at end of the page

2009-02-17 Thread Anthony Campbell
== I was very interested to see this thread because when I posted a query on the same subject some time ago I got no replies. For one book I fixed all the instances manually but it was a lot of work. For another, I just gave up and left it, because on looking at other books by

Re: Using LyX for a book

2009-02-17 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 17 Feb 2009, Konrad Hofbauer wrote: > Anthony Campbell wrote: >> I'm about to start setting up my fourth book in Lyx (1.6.1). My previous >> three were done using the Book class in 1.5.x. Can someone kindly tell >> me what would be the advantages of using Memoir (o

How to import separate chapters into document?

2009-02-20 Thread Anthony Campbell
least for viewing and ultimately saving as a pdf file. How do I see the book as a whole? Is there no way to add it to the foot of the first chapter? Do I have to do it with the mouse? Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/

Re: How to import separate chapters into document?

2009-02-20 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 20 Feb 2009, Anthony Campbell wrote: > I'm just starting to prepare my fourth book with Lyx, this time using > 1.6.1 instead of 1.5.x. > > I have a problem with importing the text. I import the first chapter > (previously a plain text tile) but when I want to add the secon

Re: Books in LyX: Was How to import separate chapters into document?

2009-02-21 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 20 Feb 2009, Steve Litt wrote: > On Friday 20 February 2009 09:35:27 am Anthony Campbell wrote: > > I'm just starting to prepare my fourth book with Lyx, this time using > > 1.6.1 instead of 1.5.x. > > Anthony, > > What were your other three books? Are you

Re: LyX Branch, self-compiled [was: lyx 1.6.2 for debian using rpm and alien]

2009-03-25 Thread Anthony Campbell
since I have the deb package for lyx-1.6.1, but I'm curious about why there is this difference. I spent a long time looking at config.log but no illumination dawned. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk (blog, book reviews, and sceptical articles)

Re: LyX Branch, self-compiled [was: lyx 1.6.2 for debian using rpm and alien]

2009-03-25 Thread Anthony Campbell
t the important bits, which seem to come at the end. Anthony == This file contains any messages produced by compilers while running configure, to aid debugging if configure makes a mistake. It was created by LyX configure 1.6.2, which was generated by GNU Auto

Re: LyX Branch, self-compiled [was: lyx 1.6.2 for debian using rpm and alien] -SOLVED

2009-03-26 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 25 Mar 2009, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 25 Mar 2009, rgheck wrote: > > > Hard to know. The first thing I'd do is check to make sure libqt4-dev is > > installed, and find out where it is installed. Anyway, if you want to > > post the config.log, I can have a lo

Re: LyX Branch, self-compiled [was: lyx 1.6.2 for debian using rpm and alien] -SOLVED

2009-03-27 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 26 Mar 2009, Guenter Milde wrote: > On 2009-03-26, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > For some reason, though, I had to copy the resultant lyx executable to > > ~/bin myself; neither make install nor the deb file put an executable in > > place. > > By default, the pre

How to mark text for operations in 1.6.2?

2009-03-31 Thread Anthony Campbell
In earlier versions of lyx I could mark lines or longer sections of text using Shift+Right-arrow. This no longer works in 1.6.2 and I have to use the mouse, which is less satisfactory. Is there any way to recapture the earlier behaviour? Or is it a bug? Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - a

Re: How to mark text for operations in 1.6.2?

2009-03-31 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 31 Mar 2009, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Anthony Campbell writes: > > > In earlier versions of lyx I could mark lines or longer sections of text > > using Shift+Right-arrow. This no longer works in 1.6.2 and I have to use the > > mouse, which is less satisfact

Re: Thanks for LyX

2009-04-07 Thread Anthony Campbell
, never lost documents, and all the minor issues were sorted out > in a few hours with the information on the web. > > Thank you very much. > > EJ > > ps: off course I included LyX in the acknowledgements section On my printed books I include an acknowledgement in the fo

Re: How to allow chapters to start on even numbered pages?

2009-04-08 Thread Anthony Campbell
pages in order to start every >>> chapter >>> on an odd page. >> > There's some option for this. Maybe it's "openany". > > rh It is. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk (blog, book reviews, and sceptical articles)

How to make a macro

2009-06-06 Thread Anthony Campbell
I would like to make a macro for an ERT command: \clearpage \thispagetyle \mbox{} \clearpage I'm sure it is is possible but I don't seem able to find any documentation for it. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/

Re: How to make a macro

2009-06-08 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 06 Jun 2009, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > Anthony Campbell schrieb: >> I would like to make a macro for an ERT command: >> >> \clearpage \thispagetyle \mbox{} \clearpage >> >> I'm sure it is is possible but I don't seem able to find any >> do

openright, openany?

2009-08-19 Thread Anthony Campbell
I'm using the book class. I'm sure that 'openright' used to be the default and I used to put '\openany' in the preamble. Now 'openany' seems to be the default and putting '\openright' in the preamble causes an error. Any informa

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