Re: Lyx 2.1.3 on Mavericks not converting pdfs

information for converting pdf6 format to eps, Define convertor in the preferences" And then Lyx crashes. Cheers, Graham On 17 March 2015 at 21:29, Scott Kostyshak wrote: > On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 5:15 PM, Graham Smith wrote: > > Hello Scott, > > > > If I open

Lyx 2.1.3 on Mavericks not converting pdfs

I have just upgraded to Lyx 2.1.3 on Mac (Mavericks) and I am now getting an error about PDFs "Error converting to loadable format" and the file won't compile which may or may not be associated with this issue, as I am getting dozens of errors, which I am slowly working through. Regardless it w

Re: "Not a readable lyx document"

Thanks to everyone for the further comments, good to hear that it seems I am unusual in having corrupt files. Time Machine is, as Liviu says, a Mac solution and I share with Ubuntu and occasionally Windows. Dropbox will retain files indefinitely, for an extra fee, but I didn't know that SiderOak d

Re: "Not a readable lyx document"

Liviu, I have 100+Gb on Dropbox that I use, and it gives me version control for 30 days, which is good for falling back on a previous version, but the Dropbox version will have long been replaced by the corrupt version. This then syncs to a few computers in different locations But, I do need a be

Re: "Not a readable lyx document"

David, > My students would testify that many of my notes are far, far more than > 8-12 months old when I open and "revise" them for the current term, and > this has never happened to me [except on very, very old files whose format > is no longer supported directly by lyx]. > > > Thinking about

Re: "Not a readable lyx document"

Richard, so I will just be more cautious in future. >> >> This file is definitley corrupt. Here's the result of "hexdump -c | head > -n 25": > > > If you've had this problem more than once, you may want to think about > whether you have a hardware problem that is corrupting your files. It has

Re: "Not a readable lyx document"

Thanks Liviu If you ever manually edit your .lyx files in a text editor, try to > make sure that the result is accessible on both your platforms. So far, I have never had occasion to edit lyx files directly, I was just using a text editor here, because I wanted to have a look at the file when i

Re: "Not a readable lyx document"

Liviu > That's odd. The first question that pops to mind: Do you use the > Document > Compressed option? Maybe this corrupts things. > What is also odd is that I can open the file with no problem using a text editor on the Mac, indeed the file preview in the Mac file Manager (Pathfinder) reads

ModernCV style - address block and name header missing

I am trying to create a CV using the ModernCV style on Mac OS Lion, Lyx 2.04 and MacTex 2012. Although I can add and entry and it will compile OK, there is no address block or name header. There are some instructions on the Wiki ( http://wiki.lyx.org/Examples/ModernCVClassIssues) about centering

Re: 403 forbidden access to lyx.org

Richard, Thanks, its now working :-) Graham On 31 July 2012 20:35, Richard Heck wrote: > On 07/31/2012 03:19 PM, Graham Smith wrote: > > Thanks, but.. > > Unfortunately, it is also timing out for me now as well, but I assume > that is a step better than a 403 forbidden

Re: 403 forbidden access to lyx.org

Thanks, but.. Unfortunately, it is also timing out for me now as well, but I assume that is a step better than a 403 forbidden access. Graham On 31 July 2012 15:26, Richard Heck wrote: > On 07/31/2012 06:32 AM, Graham Smith wrote: > > Hello all, > > Anyone any suggestions wh

403 forbidden access to lyx.org

Hello all, Anyone any suggestions what this problem might be. Trying to access lyx.org I get this message Forbidden You don't have permission to access / on this server. -- Apache/2.2.15 (CentOS) Server at www.lyx.org Port 80 Is this a temporary problem,. There does

Re: Sweave Snow Leopard and lyx 2.0

Yihui On Monday, 5 March 2012, Yihui Xie wrote: > I think LyX 2.0.3 looks good now. The Sweave manual is accessible via > Help=>Specific Manuals. The LyX wiki has been updated as well. I have only briefly looked at this, but I also see that Kintr is now a module. Graham

Re: Gtk-warning

Vincent, >> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/**ubuntu/+source/light-themes/+**bug/762167 > > You can fix this by installing "gtk2-engines-pixbuf". > > Thanks, that fixed it. Graham

Re: Gtk-warning

Richard On 03/02/2012 12:04 PM, Graham Smith wrote: > >> I have just updated Lyx by adding the new the Ubuntu ppa to Ubuntu 11.10 >> and I am getting the following warning: >> >> (lyx:2997): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: >> "

Gtk-warning

I have just updated Lyx by adding the new the Ubuntu ppa to Ubuntu 11.10 and I am getting the following warning: (lyx:2997): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "pixmap", Is this something to be worried about, and if so can anyone help me fix it. Many thanks, Graham

Re: Compile error File does not exist: /var/folders

> Yes, this sounds like a problem specific to a particular file (then it > will be even harder for me to diagnose). Does that one produce figures > from R? > Yes, it produces figures as well. Graham

Re: Compile error File does not exist: /var/folders

I have just a different file from a different project, but still one using Sweave, and that compliled fine so it seems something unique to this file, so maybe that is where I should be looking. Graham

Re: Compile error File does not exist: /var/folders

Can you also attach a copy of the script > /Applications/LyX.app/Contents/Resources/scripts/lyxsweave.R ? > File atached Thanks, Graham lyxsweave.R Description: Binary data

Re: Compile error File does not exist: /var/folders

Just realised I didn't answer >Have you set up any Sweave options like prefix and prefix.string in your document? Or have you ever changed the >Sweave module in LyX? No I haven't doen either of these things, except when I added the TEX box you suggsted, which Inave since removed. Graham

Re: Compile error File does not exist: /var/folders

Yihui This is confusing to me. Ideally Sweave should write that file in the > temp folder, and R will clean up the temp dir string in the tex > output. However, in your case, both tasks failed. Have you set up any > Sweave options like prefix and prefix.string in your document? Or have > you ever

Re: Compile error File does not exist: /var/folders

; > > > On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 2:44 PM, Graham Smith wrote: > > Yihui > > > >> This sounds hard to diagnose... Does that file really exist or not? > >> Can you go and check in that folder? > > > > > > The folder exists, but there is no R-GettingStarted.pdf in the folder. > The > > folder is empty. > > > > Graham > > > > > > >

Re: Compile error File does not exist: /var/folders

Yihui This sounds hard to diagnose... Does that file really exist or not? > Can you go and check in that folder? > The folder exists, but there is no R-GettingStarted.pdf in the folder. The folder is empty. Graham

Re: Compile error File does not exist: /var/folders

Yihui Thanks for the response > Which version of R are you using? Does it work when you add this to > your document as TeX code (Insert-->TeX Code)? > > \SweaveOpts{prefix=TRUE,prefix.string=sweave-figure} It's R 2.14.1, and adding the code doesn't make any difference. Graham

Compile error File does not exist: /var/folders

I have just tried compile a file that I last compiled in October 2011, on Mac with Lion and Lyx 2.02, but may have originally been compiled on a Mac with Snow leopard and Lyx 2.01. I am getting the error File does not exist: /var/folders/g3/h89z1g_n7yv3fth6y2yd2nlhgn/T/lyx_tmpdir.xJL756/lyx

Re: Package varioref Sweave error

Jürgen > Read the varioref documentation: > The problem with this for me, and I did read some of it before posting, is I have no idea how this relates to what I can do in Lyx. If I was running Latex then fine, but how does this translate into action in Lyx. Thanks, Graham

Re: Package varioref Sweave error

Liviu > The Economist's Babbage blog has a nice discussion on this topic [1]. > Regards > Liviu > > [1] http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2011/05/internet_security > > Thanks again, an interesting read. Graham

Re: Package varioref Sweave error

Thanks Liviu, I have used Spider Oak in the past, and it was fine and more flexible that Dropbox (but Dropbox has improved) and every so often I think about using it for cloud backups,and keeping Dropbox for syncing. And as an aside, Dropbox does use encryption for their servers: from http://www.

Re: Package varioref Sweave error

Hello Xu, I don't mean to be parental, but this should be a good reminder to you that > it's always good to save frequently and to save many different versions. > Ideally you should look into a version control system (which LyX actually > supports!), but at the least, make multiple backups, and no

Re: Package varioref Sweave error

Hello Xu Could you send a minimum working example (WME) of your .lyx file? My guess > is that you might be able to generate the same error by deleting most or > all of your document. > > My only suggestion for now is to start a new LyX document, and then copy > from your old to your new. This will

Package varioref Sweave error

I have unsuccessfully been trying to get some latex code to (make a table) run in an ERT box in Lyx. In the end I gave up and deleted my attempts. However, now the document won't compile with the error message below. Nothing has changed other than the stuff I added and then deleted, but I assume t

Re: British Pound symbol problem in Sweave PDF output

issues. Graham On 19 October 2011 10:45, Graham Smith wrote: > I'm not exactly sure where the problem lies with this, but if I include a > "£" symbol in an graph legend, I get "£" in the PDF. > > I am on Snow Leopard and Lyx 2.0.0. > > It doesn't

British Pound symbol problem in Sweave PDF output

I'm not exactly sure where the problem lies with this, but if I include a "£" symbol in an graph legend, I get "£" in the PDF. I am on Snow Leopard and Lyx 2.0.0. It doesn't happen when I generate graphs from R and save as PDF, so it seems to be a Lyx/Latex/Sweave thing. As so often is the case

Re: Sweave Snow Leopard and lyx 2.0

Yihui, > You are absolutely right -- too many instructions around. I wished I > could make a comprehensive documentation of Sweave in LyX, but did not > manage to do it before LyX 2.0.1. Perhaps we can do it in 2.0.2... > Yes, some up to date, and detailed instructions would be very useful. Gr

Re: Sweave Snow Leopard and lyx 2.0

Yihui As far as I know, there is no such a package named literate, and the > Sweave module does not rely on noweb.sty (this seems to be a common > misunderstanding about Sweave in LyX). > > I'm sort of lost in the discussion and do not know what is the problem > right now. > Sorry for the delay i

Re: Sweave Snow Leopard and lyx 2.0

With a follow up to a follow up, > Thanks for the comment about noweb and sweave, I wasn't sure if I needed > both. I knew I needed Sweave, just not sure about noweb. > The errror message, as suggested by Julien, was indeed linked to trying to load the noweb module. Removing the noweb module f

Re: Sweave Snow Leopard and lyx 2.0

Julien > If this file was created with LyX 1.6 and then converted to LyX 2.0, you > might have found a bug in the conversion routine. Do you have a sample LyX > 1.6 file which reproduces the problem when opened in 2.0? > > Thanks for the comment about noweb and sweave, I wasn't sure if I needed

Re: Sweave Snow Leopard and lyx 2.0

Julien >> > The error message that you get should have pointed you to Section 3.1.2.3 > of the User's Guide. The message says that a literate->latex converter is > missing (although not stated, usually this would be noweave), it also says > that the LaTeX package noweb.sty is missing. > > Is the

Re: Sweave Snow Leopard and lyx 2.0

hanks again, Graham On 21 August 2011 08:24, Liviu Andronic wrote: > On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 8:06 AM, Graham Smith wrote: > > I have attached the file that is giving me the problems and just in case > it > > as been missed, this file was produced in Lyx 2.0 in Ubuntu 11.04. I

Re: Sweave Snow Leopard and lyx 2.0

11.04. It was the Mac that had 1.6 on it, which I upgraded to 2.0 before trying to open this file. Thanks, Graham On 21 August 2011 06:48, Graham Smith wrote: > Liviu, > > Thanks for the reply. > > I'm afraid I don't understand what you are asking me to try. > >

Re: Sweave Snow Leopard and lyx 2.0

I have now searced all the latex packages installed and uninstalled and cannot find one called literate, so I am even more confused :-( On 20 August 2011 22:23, Liviu Andronic wrote: > On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 10:29 PM, Graham Smith > wrote: > > Just to add to this, I have upda

Re: Sweave Snow Leopard and lyx 2.0

Just to add to this, I have updated to Mactex 2011, and found the the Tex live utlity, but cannot find a package called "literate". I have updated "all" run texhash and reconfigured lyx, but still the same error. Thanks, Graham On 20 August 2011 17:40, Graham Smith wrot

Sweave Snow Leopard and lyx 2.0

I am trying to get Sweave to work with lyx 2.0 on Snow leopard with Mactex 2010 I had Lyx 1.6 working fine, but uninstalled before installing lyx 2.0 Opening a file in Lyx 2.0 (originally from Ubuntu 11.04 and lyx 2.0) gives me an error that I am missing literate-latex noweb.sty I know lyx 2.0

Re: MiKTeX won't download with LyX

Michael > "Downloading MiKTeX failed. Would you like to try again? (HTTP/1.1 404 Not > Found)" I installed Lyx 2 on Windows 7 yesterday and got this exact same error. I continued with the install, assuming I would need to install MikTeX after Lyx had completed. However, during the install I

Re: Adding a logo to beamer presentation

Paul > > Each Beamer theme is a collection of LaTeX commands, meaning that > > instead of using a given theme you could compile several commands > > (from different themes) that would give you the look you desire. I'd > > start with Beamer's documentation. > > I've customized a few themes (Warsaw

Re: Adding a logo to beamer presentation

Liviu > I'm wondering if it's not theme-related. Have you tried with some other > themes? > > You are correct, it is linked to the them, changing to Warsaw gives me the logo in the bottom left corner. Which is fine except I really want the Goettingen theme. Having tried a few themes it seems it

Adding a logo to beamer presentation

Hello I am trying to add a logo to a beamer presentation Lyx 1.6.7 Ubuntu 10.10 Goettingen theme I tried just \logo{\includegraphics[height=0.5cm]{Biocensustraininglogonew.JPG}} an option in the Beamer instructions both as a preamble and ERT but nothing happened , no errors no logo. The logo fi

Re: R Gaphics for Lyx

Yihui , I think Graham's question has pointed out a very useful > direction -- we may consider leaving some sort of API's or hooks in > the R script in LyX which is used to process the Rnw document. > A few months ago I also recommended the qpdf program to R developers > to compress PDF plots a

Re: R Gaphics for Lyx

Hello Murat > If I understand well your message, your plots have a lot of data points and > since each point is represented as a vector object, the vector based formats > like eps or pdf become huge. I often use PNGs if the files are going to end up in a Windows program, but have got used to us

R Gaphics for Lyx

I'm looking for some advice on format and quality specification for exporting graphs from R to go into a Lyx Document, that will end up as a printed document. At the moment each graph using the R defaults is a 3 - 4mb PDF, and I am using them as 9cm x 9cm in the document. Has anyone got a stand

Re: LyX Promotion

Stephen > There was a version for LaTeX > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/info/latex4wp/latex4wp.pdf > > This looks useful, thanks. Graham

Re: LyX Promotion

Rainer, I completely agree and this would be a very usefull document - but the > issue is not to provide an easy transition from Word to LyX, but to > enable an easy co-operation with Word or OO / LibreOffice users, in > the sense that: > Ah OK, I obviously misunderstood the basis of the thread,

Re: LyX Promotion

One possible approach is to write an introduction to Lyx specifically aimed at Word users. This has been done for R at http://chartsgraphs.wordpress.com/learnr-toolkit/ where the tutorials assume familiarity with Excel and demonstrate how things differ (or are the same) in R. There have also been

Re: LyX and editors?

Steve, > Perhaps some of you author in LyX but have editors go over your material. > My > experience is most editors don't have LyX and don't have the technical > chops > to use LyX. So how do you interface with your editors when writing a book > in > LyX? > > Why not just PDFs, I can't imagine a

Re: Spellchecker stopped working

M With lyx 1.6.7 on Ubuntu 10.10 the spell checker cannot be started, running > from terminal gives me this output. > To answer this myself, switching the preferences to aspell, got this working again, but why should it suddenly decide to use iSpell. Or have I always been using ispell and i

Spellchecker stopped working

With lyx 1.6.7 on Ubuntu 10.10 the spell checker cannot be started, running from terminal gives me this output. gra...@antec-linux:~$ lyx ForkedProcess::kill(5) Error: Spellchecker error The spellchecker could not be started LyX: Failed to start ispell! *

Off-topic (sort of) Online PDF annotation tools

Has anyone any experience of tools such http://a.nnotate.com/index.html or https://docq.com/ These allow you to upload a PDF to the web, send someone a link, and they can then annotate the PDF online from their browser. It seems a way of getting some level of collaboration/feedback from clie

Re: Printing a beamer outline

Paul, > First off, unless you have a specific reason to put the article-only text in > child documents, I'd probably advocate including it in the original text file > in > branches (just to keep things together).  If you have a particular reason to > use > child documents, then maybe put the chi

Re: Printing a beamer outline

Richard >> I guess this is impossible. >> >> Unless someone has had a brainwave since my original post. >> >> > > I just haven't had time to think about it. LyX time is spent chasing other > bugs right now. I still appreciate you thinking about it, if you do have a sudden eureka moment, then I w

Re: more on collaboration

Steve, > All Unleashed books are written by a main author and lots of contributing > authors. However, it's carved up by chapter, so no chapter is collaborative. While this may well be true in general, the two books I have collaborated on (my only book experience) I contributed to every chapter,

Re: Printing a beamer outline

I guess this is impossible. Unless someone has had a brainwave since my original post. I've had no reply to this on the Beamer forum or on the comp.text.tex group. I was hoping that someone might have known of a simple Latex switch to switch off the graphics and the article only text, but obvio

Re: Printing a beamer outline

I wonder if a child document that only contained a TOC might work, if that's possible. Graham

Re: Printing a beamer outline

Richard, Thanks for persisting with this. The text is added in an ERT box. \mode {text inserted between brackets will only print in the article and not the presentation} Graphics are added just with the insert graphics menu. It is beginning to look that this may well end up rather complicated

Re: Printing a beamer outline

Richard, > I'm not sure I fully understand what you want. What do you mean by "the > bullet points beneath them"? I think of bullet points as things on the > slides, so that's presumably not what you mean. If you have a presentation file with no additional "article" notes or graphics and print

Printing a beamer outline

I have Beamer set up to create a main presentation plus a child document that produces an article (where I include additional "article" only text) that I use as a handout. A change of policy means that we are now handing out just an "outline" of the main slide headings and the bullet points be

Re: Keeping text in sync at two locations in a document

Mateo > Yes there is native support for macros in lyx, but the name is misleading; > they are called Math macros. [Menu | Insert | Math | Macros] will allow you > to define the macro, in both LaTeX and how it should appear in LyX if you so > desire. Then, to use it in your text, insert some Inl

Re: Keeping text in sync at two locations in a document

Richard > It can easily be done in LaTeX, by defining macros that contain the dates > and titles and then using those more than once. You can do this in LyX, too, That is very clever, and exactly what I wanted. Indeed I can see scope for this being useful for several other things as well. many t

Keeping text in sync at two locations in a document

I have two timetables within the same document. One is the main timetable which has the lecture title and a summary of its content. The other is a summary timetable that goes on the back page of the document, and just has the date and lecture title. With Word I can use" Bookmarks" to auto-update

Re: Sweave - No information for exporting the format PDF (pdflatex).

Liviu, I have managed to fix this. The preferences file had downloaded as preferences.txt. But looking at my other installs, I noticed it has no extension, so I deleted the ",txt", and everything now works. Can't say I remember deleting this before, but its now working. Thanks for your help..

Re: Sweave - No information for exporting the format PDF (pdflatex).

Liviu, Thanks, all it says is +Read the file doc/LaTeXConfig.lyx for more information. gra...@eeepc-linux:~$ lyx Error: Couldn't export file No information for exporting the format PDF (pdflatex). If I just use article class it compiles OK, its just when

Sweave - No information for exporting the format PDF (pdflatex).

I have just installed, Lyx/Sweave on ubuntu 10.04 on an Asus eeepc 901. I have upgraded to Lyx 1.6.7 using the repository at http://ppa.launchpad.net/lyx-outline-devel/lyx-stable/ubuntu Followed the instructions at http://ggorjan.blogspot.com/2010/01/lyx-sweave-on-ubuntu-karmic.html to install SW

Re: SWeave and Lyx - managing the R code component

Rainer Well - you could open the LyX document in a text editor, and do a search-replace, so that all chunks have the same option? Also something I did in the past. Yes, this is an option, but its an added complication I would rather avoid Howver, I haven't tried it as an option in the pre-

Re: SWeave and Lyx - managing the R code component

Liviu, This shows some promise. The echo=T within the chunks overrides the SWeaveOpts command, and the although the code is suppressed you still get the output, which is fine for the figures but not for some of the numerical output However, this all looks promising as you could create object

Re: SWeave and Lyx - managing the R code component

Liviu Have you tried to use \SweaveOpts{echo=T} for the with_code document, and 'echo=F' for the document with no code? You can also use this option on specific chunks as follows <>= @ I have used this in specific chunks but it isn't practical for a full report. Howver, I haven't tried it as

SWeave and Lyx - managing the R code component

Hello, I posted a similar question earlier, but without a response - maybe it wasn't worded properly, as I was in a bit of a panic, when it was posted. SWeave and Lyx are a great combination for combining R code and R output into the same document and most of the time this is fine, but occas

Re: Adding bibliography environment adds key-2[] at end of document rather than Bibliography

Oh Dear, how stupid am I, in a bit of a tizz here and just being stupid. Sorry folks. Graham On 7 September 2010 16:02, Graham Smith wrote: > To add to this on an earlier draft of this document I see the source code is > > \bibliographystyle{apalike2} > \bibliography{jbatsbib} &

Re: Adding bibliography environment adds key-2[] at end of document rather than Bibliography

To add to this on an earlier draft of this document I see the source code is \bibliographystyle{apalike2} \bibliography{jbatsbib} On this document and indeed I have now tried this with a couple of new documents, adding the bibliography environment is adding \begin{thebibliography}{99} \bibi

Adding bibliography environment adds key-2[] at end of document rather than Bibliography

I changed class from book to article and the bibliography broke. No references appeared in the Bibliography section when compliled and the in text citations compiled with a "?" I deleted the environment and tried to re-add the bibliography but intead of getting the bibliography "button" that a

Sweave and Branches (optionally including and excluding code in a report)

I have written a report using Lyx and SWeave. After testing to see it worked with a couple of bits of code, I put all the code in a branch called code. The plan being to be able to produce two reports, one with code and one without. However, even though it seemed to work when I tested it,now

Re: suppressing "Chapter" labels in book class

Jürgen > Quick and dirty: > \d...@chapapp{\hspace*{-1ex}} Excellent, quick and dirty is what I need right now. > > More elegant: set heading style to "fancy" and redefine the header to your > needs (see fancyheadings manual). I will look at this once I start to think in detail on how I want the

Re: suppressing "Chapter" labels in book class

Jürgen > Either use the KOMA book class (that has this as default), or with the > standard book class, use > > \usepackage{anonchap} > \simplechapter > > If you use the tocbibind package, you cannot use anonchap in parallel (but > tocbibind provides the same \simplechapter command). Thanks, I am

Re: suppressing "Chapter" labels in book class

7;m not sure my earlier post was all that clear. Thanks, Graham On 05/09/2010 11:08, Graham Smith wrote: I'm afraid I have asked this before, but can't find it either by googlng or in my mail base. With book class each chapter is headed Chapter x and then the title of the chapter.

Re: text placement with box(minipage) on same page

Jürgen > Try (in preamble): > > \raggedbottom Excellent, that fixed it :-) many thank, Graham

text placement with box(minipage) on same page

Using book class I have some information inside a box, which is sitting inside a branch (as the material is optional). The box fills about a quarter of the page. The box is being placed at the bottom of the page and the three short paragraphs of text above the box on the same page are being sprea

suppressing "Chapter" labels in book class

I'm afraid I have asked this before, but can't find it either by googlng or in my mail base. With book class each chapter is headed Chapter x and then the title of the chapter. I only want to show the title of the chapter and suppress the "Chapter x" printing in either the main text or the header

Re: A bit OT - Jabref and citing web pages in lyx

Paul, If you're disinclined to move to Biblatex (per Julio's suggestion), you might try one of the workarounds at http://win.ua.ac.be/~nschloe/content/bibtex-how-cite-website. Thanks, a lot of helpful info here. Graham

Re: A bit OT - Jabref and citing web pages in lyx

Julio The best solution is Biblatex. For example: Thanks for this, I was looking for something like this, but couldn't find it. Graham

Re: A bit OT - Jabref and citing web pages in lyx

Kevin, I haven't tried JabRef, but Zotero does export my web pages as "misc" in a format that LyX understands anyway. However, Zotero doesn't export the "lastchecked" field, I believe since it's not "standard" bibtex. Ah, I never tried using the Zotero to bibtex direct route, as I couldn't ge

A bit OT - Jabref and citing web pages in lyx

I've got Lyx working with citations largely as I expect it to work, but I am struggling with web page citations. I am collecting references in Zotero, then importing into Jabref which has a *.bib file in the same directory I am usng for my Lyx document. I am then inserting the citations using

Re: Figure x: defaults set up

Paul, In the preamble: \usepackage{caption} \captionsetup[figure]{labelsep=period} Many thanks, exactly what I needed. Graham

Figure x: defaults set up

This has got to be simple, but how do I change the figure/table defaults, so I get "Figure x." rather than "Figure x:" i.e. a full stop rather than a colon. This is with article class if that makes a difference. Thanks, Graham

Re: print slides with notes

Necati * Is there a way to disable the thumbnail? * When i add notes, notes are seen as numbered list. Is there a way to change to itemized list? Sorry, I don't know the answer to either of these questions, I'm still very new to this. Hopefully someone else can help. Graham

Re: print slides with notes

Necati Not exactly what you need maybe, but this is what I do. This is copied from my preamble %next five lines needed to print two to a page handout comment out for presentation \usepackage{pgfpages} \pgfpagesuselayout{2 on 1}[a4paper,border shrink=2mm] \setbeamercolor{background canvas}{bg

Re: positioning tables inside float

Jurgen, Are you sure the cursor is _outside_ the table? Nope, I'm sure the cursor is _inside_ the table :-( That would explain why it worked before, but didn't work this time. Working fine now, many thanks. Graham

positioning tables inside float

I am trying to align a table inside a float, so it sits in the centre of the page. I can't see any obvious way of doing this. I thought using the center paragraphs might have worked but its greyed out. But that is how I thought I had done it in the past I am using lyx 1.6.5 on Ubuntu 10.04 and

Re: Frames added to existing presentation not appearing in Beamer handout

Paul I don't know if that would affect the handouts, but it's worth investigating. This option is intended to suppress the printing of frames and print only the attached notes. I take it that's not happening, which confuses me. (Then again, I'm only halfway through my first cup of coffee, s

Re: Frames added to existing presentation not appearing in Beamer handout

To reply to myself, the answer is in the preamble, but didn't realise it Only the slides that contain a noteitem environment are printed out. All my other slides had this,but I hadn't added it to the two new slides. Graham The preamble for the handout is %next five lines needed to print t

Frames added to existing presentation not appearing in Beamer handout

I have a beamer presentation in Lyx 1.6.4 on Ubuntu 9.10. I print it out as a presentation, an article (to hand out) and as a handout (which I use as my personal lecture notes). I have updated the presentation with two new frames, and although they are appearing in the presentation and the a

Re: things that I miss in lyx

Jose I couldn't find anything. Can you post your findings here? Mmmm, not really as I'm not especially interested and didn't keep any records, but the add ons for Chrome searched from within Chrome came up with something called multiclip, plus a couple of others And "Clipboard manager" an

Re: things that I miss in lyx

Jose Yes, as described above, I wanted something that would add the url to the clipboard contents. That ff plugin does it. I wish it existed for chromium, though, and that urls pasted became clickable... Have you googled for a chromium extension? A quick google here suggested a several possi

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