I want to split up in cells with CTRL-Return, but
I can't insert that special character. Any ideas?
This is Pkgsrc package lyx-qt-1.3.5nb1 under NetBSD.
(These were not easy to search for. If I overlook a FAQ entry or docs,
please let me know.)
Thanks!
Jeremy C.
menu? (Reading the 200+ page
beamer guide helps, but is slow.)
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I am replying to two emails below:
On Tue, 26 Apr 2005, Jose' Matos wrote:
> On Tuesday 26 April 2005 17:15, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> > I installed xcolor 2.00 and pgf-0.65 and latex-beamer-3.01 from
> > latex-beamer.sf.net.
>
> I have done this recently and I have us
t beamer installed)
I found LyX examples in the lyx/examples/, solutions/conference-talks,
solutions/generic-talks and solutions/short-talks directories in the
latex-beamer-3.01 tarball.
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t;
> still no File->Export->PDF and
> no File->Export->Postscript either ... ?
Did you do the Edit->Reconfigure (and then restart LyX)?
> > yourself by firing up lyx from a console window and hitting the
> > Edit->Reconfigure button. The output t
e not numbered?
I tried searching for these but didn't find anything.
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depth to -2 (and also to 0) and my
table of contents was correct, but then the numbering was gone within the
chapters too.
Both are found under Layout -> Document -> Numbering.
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this is already available or if you have any suggestions, please let me
know.
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e DVI file (it should probably be around ten
pages):
http://pilchuck.reedmedia.net/jeremy/tmp-iuc567v96y3/J.dvi
(15664 bytes)
Any ideas would be appreciated.
This is version 1.3.5.
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On Tue, 23 Aug 2005, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
I have an incomplete lyx document where the sections aren't being displayed.
And page numbers are displayed in middle of pages.
I chopped out everything but one chapter so you can review:
http://pilchuck.reedmedia.net/jeremy/tmp-iuc567v96y3/
since I played with this, but I recall that I lost
some formatting (especially since HTML is primitive).
Anyone want to write a real device for groff for "latex" (or even
lyx) output?
Jeremy C. Reed
Low cost press releases
e to the faq
or doc about this if it exists.)
Thanks,
Jeremy C. Reed
technical support & remote administration
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{chapter}{Index}".
Thanks for the info. Problem solved!
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ttp://wiki.lyx.org/Examples/CV which has some links to downloads and
examples and usage ideas.
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package also
installs these files to its own hierarchy. And Gentoo uses a symlink to
/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/lyx for same. (See
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=91108)
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ld not mix title layouts with normal
ones.
What do you use for a subtitle for a book?
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rs to docs?
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irections).
I am using the "Subject" layout but it puts my subtitle before my title.
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On Sat, 5 Nov 2005, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Index}
at the beginning of the index.
I added a "\newpage{}" immediately before (without it said the Index was on
previous page, 57) and used that "\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Index}".
Replyi
ATH=/usr/local/lib in your environment
before running lyx, like:
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib lyx
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hat converter is used for this. (I don't see in my
preferences.)
I am using lyx 1.3.6.
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be fine or having the book name as the header with a rule
at top with a page number at bottom would be good too.
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you please point me to the documentation? Or Share an example?
Thank you,
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s solved for now with:
\usepackage{tocloft}
\addtolength{\cftsecnumwidth}{1em}
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nt or bold used with \indexentry.
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the hole punches like selected. I ordered
(online) around 1 a.m. and was able to pick up around ten or so copies of
my book at around 7:30 a.m.
Jeremy C. Reed
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On Thu, 5 Jan 2006, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> My problem is that a header from a previous page is shown on a following page
> that is at the end of a chapter and is also blank. So my blank left even page
> has a header (showing the previous section name) and my right odd page is a
&g
page).
I want to get rid of that 0.38 indent (so lines up with Standard). Any
ideas?
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ra } and undefined control sequence.
Or maybe I can redeibe the lyxcode environment, but I don't know how to
redefine an existing environment. Or I can create my own class, but I was
hoping I don't have to do that.
I found the lyxcode defined in lyxmacros.inc.
Any ideas on how to
\setlength{\itemsep}{0pt}
\setlength{\parsep}{0pt}
\normalfont\ttfamily}%
\item[]}
{\end{list}}
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saw a posting on how to automatically fix this recently, but can't find
now.
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e I am
updating content and later may change paper size.
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ustify the line that lost the word.
Will \tolerance or \emergencystretch work with that?
And what is the difference between
\emergencystretch=2em
and
\setlength{\emergencystretch}{2em}
?
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On Tue, 24 Jan 2006, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> I want to continue using justification. I want latex to know that the line
> is too long and simply wrap the word that it didn't hyphenate and then
> attempt to right justify the line that lost the word.
I tried over ten differ
her better way to draw a line ;-)
\hrulefill in ERT.
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re-adding the following:
+ */
+#if defined(__NetBSD__) && defined(QT_THREAD_SUPPORT)
+ unlock();
+#endif
+}
#ifdef Q_OS_MAC
bool LQApplication::macEventFilter(EventRef event)
Arun: what operating system are you using?
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drop-down list of paragraph environments
anymore. I used it to comment out text that I want to hide in my books
(and why I thought it should not be exported in plain text output -- but
maybe I misunderstood this).
Jeremy C. Reed
p.s. If you are a pkgsrc or NetBSD or DragonFly user, I will b
the middle of my document.
Thank you all for your work and support for LyX. It has been a great tool
for me.
Jeremy C. Reed
echo '9,J8HD,[EMAIL PROTECTED]:[EMAIL PROTECTED];[EMAIL
PROTECTED]@5GBIELD54DL>@8L?:5GDEJ8LDG1' |\
sed ss,s50EBsg | tr 0-M 'p.wBt SgiIlxmLhan:o,erDsduv/cyP'
"date" but didn't find it.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Jeremy C. Reed
echo ':6DB6=88>?;@69876tA=AC8BB5tA6487><' | tr '4-F' 'wu rofIn.lkigemca'
I also tried grepping through my installed /usr/pkg/share/lyx/doc/ files,
but didn't find information.
Jeremy C. Reed
echo '9,J8HD,[EMAIL PROTECTED]:[EMAIL PROTECTED];[EMAIL
PROTECTED]@5GBIELD54DL>@8L?:5GDEJ8LDG1' |\
sed ss,s50EBsg | tr 0-M 'p.wBt SgiIlxmLhan:o,erDsduv/cyP'
techniques do you all use for creating a useful index?
Jeremy C. Reed
echo ':6DB6=88>?;@69876tA=AC8BB5tA6487><' | tr '4-F' 'wu rofIn.lkigemca'
om a command-line shell so you can see the output. For
example, I have error like:
/usr/bin/lpr: lp: unknown printer
Because my spool command is wrong.
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echo ':6DB6=88>?;@69876tA=AC8BB5tA6487><' | tr '4-F' 'wu rofIn.lkigemca'
ed the png image. It is blurry and seemed to scale somewhat
too big.
Any suggestions or pointers on creating good graphics to be used by LyX
that will print well for a book?
Thanks,
Jeremy C. Reed
echo '9,J8HD,[EMAIL PROTECTED]:[EMAIL PROTECTED];[EMAIL
PROTECTED]@5GBIELD54DL>@8L?:5GD
e) but LyX
complained that now converter was setup for it.
Jeremy C. Reed
echo '9,J8HD,[EMAIL PROTECTED]:[EMAIL PROTECTED];[EMAIL
PROTECTED]@5GBIELD54DL>@8L?:5GDEJ8LDG1' |\
sed ss,s50EBsg | tr 0-M 'p.wBt SgiIlxmLhan:o,erDsduv/cyP'
> With acrobat reader, use "File->Document properties->Fonts"
> Then click on "all fonts".
> There you see which fonts are embedded, and which are not.
Also the pdffonts tools included with poppler-utils (or poppler) or xpdf
lists the fonts used in a PDF with name, type, embedded, subset,
ToUnic
If I highlight a URL in my document and then click Insert -> Url
the popup window has blank input boxes. Maybe it should automatically
place the text or URL.
Also, I can't copy and paste into the Url input boxes.
I am using LyX 1.4.2. Is this expected behaviour?
I added one line to my inside title page of a 190 page book but the
resulting PDF -- according to diff has over 3000 changes.
I think the changes have to do with reconverting images and dates of
images (although originals are same).
Is there an easy way I can manually edit (maybe with vi) the P
> if you alter only one line on title page, why it should change ?
> maybe diffing postscipt versions would be better.
>From looking, the major changes were the images being rebuilt. And so had
different names.
> however i still think the most comfortableis to regenerate
> it and check the numbe
to get rid of entire columns?
Thanks,
Jeremy C. Reed
> > What is the correct way to get rid of entire columns?
> You didn't specify a LyX version, but I'm guessing 1.4.2 or 1.4.3. Right
> click in some empty space on the main menu. This should bring up the
> toolbar selection dialog. Put a check next to "Table". Then click
> anywhere in a colum
different auto-indexer to try?
Thanks,
Jeremy C. Reed
I asked about this in May but didn't get any reply.
I am looking for a step-by-step guide for using docbook-xml with LyX.
My configure.py has:
\Format docbook-xml xml "Docbook (XML)" "" "" "%%"
and
\converter docbookdocbook-xml "cp $$i $$o" "xml"
I am running lyx 1.4.3 on NetBSD.
Anyone know of any wiki that can export to LaTeX or LyX format?
Anyone use a wiki to generate LaTeX?
I am working on a system that generates latex and PDFs from data provided
from the public.
I don't want to allow public to accidently or maliciously embed some code
that breaks latex or breaks the system.
Can anyone point me to some URLs or docs or provide examples of what could
be dangerous?
On Tue, 30 Jan 2007, John Hughes wrote:
> Is there an easy way of removing the word "Chapter" from chapter titles
> in the report and book classes?
Try in your preamble or ERT:
\renewcommand{\chaptername}{}
Jeremy C. Reed
Any ideas on how to get a horizontal rule before every section unless at
top or bottom of page?
ical.
What is the Ctrl-Return supposed to do with the context of the \hrule?
And where is this documented?
Jeremy C. Reed
trl-return, \hrule, thing is documented anywhere. It's what you might call
> 'original research'; sorry.
>
> Afterword: I did try and post the PDF to the group, but I guess it was too
> big. This was a really stupid thing to do on my part, sorry about this too.
Jeremy C. Reed
highlighted.
>
> I've exmined the LyX source code of my file, but I haven't found a
> clear way of solving this problem. Any suggestions?
Use Ctrl-Space instead of real space between the words.
Jeremy C. Reed
offending
> \hrule statement. This worked here in the example I tried, but of course
> it might not *always* work. They don't call it 'Evil Red Text' for
> nothing, I think.
Okay. I was looking for an automatic solution as I have well over a 100
sections (and over 200 pages) and the content changes daily -- so I can't
manually redo this every day :)
Jeremy C. Reed
On Wed, 31 Jan 2007, Uwe St?hr wrote:
> Jeremy C. Reed schrieb:
>
> > Any ideas on how to get a horizontal rule before every section unless
> > at top or bottom of page?
>
> Add this to your preamble:
>
> \let\mySection\section\renewcommand{\section}{\hrule
On Sat, 3 Feb 2007, Steve Litt wrote:
> The frontmatter is numbered with Arabic numbers, not Roman numerals. How do I
> get the frontmatter to have Roman numerals?
\pagenumbering{roman}
% ...
\chapter{First real chapter}
\pagenumbering{arabic}
Jeremy C. Reed
t
http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg52771.html
Can someone please send me those attachments (as the mail-archive
corrupted them)?
Or better yet can someone post them somewhere?
My wife is starting a recipe book and remembered this thread.
Jeremy C. Reed
I received it off list. Thanks.
Is there a place to contribute these?
Jeremy C. Reed
ything.
By the way, I did something similar when doing some indexing.
Another thing I used is a spell checker -- words unknown to my dictionary
I made sure were in the index.
Jeremy C. Reed
> The one thing this doesn't do is, upon final sort, sort by count descending
> but name ascending. Can you think of a way to do that with standard Linux
> commands?
I am not sure I understand (or maybe I should read this again when I
wake up :)
Can you give a short example?
ome cases, I just reduce the font size. Another idea would be to make
a screenshot and use an actual image of it.
Any other suggestions for dealing with long lines would be appreciated.
With command-line examples (not the output), I use shell backslash \
line continuation character.
Jerem
On Mon, 14 May 2007, Steve Litt wrote:
> But hard as I rack my brains, I can't think of a reason to start a
> project in LyX, and THEN convert it to MS Word.
Interface preference.
Or availability (maybe author has limited access to Word).
Jeremy C. Reed
y as
this list has a few hundred terms. (The book documents a software that has
many options.) I can manually clean up after faster than I can insert
manually.
Jeremy C. Reed
-- Forwarded message --
Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2006 14:34:13 -0600 (CST)
From: Jeremy C. Reed <[EMAIL P
nt to use math mode. I am using LyX 1.4.3.
Jeremy C. Reed
escaped the \$ORIGIN and that fixed it.
I guess my problem was caused by missing an \ escaped $ dollar sign and
the LaTeX error message misleading me.
I guess something like this oculd be in the FAQ to help others.
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em I have had a few times.
See the archives for Subject: "space needed in table of contents" in
January of 2006.
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Style
- Pick which character style
But I don't see that anywhere. (Not on my Insert menu.) Can someone
explain this?
Jeremy C. Reed
p.s. Why doesn't the website have the LyX documentation? If it does, I
overlooked it -- where is it linked from?
p.p.s. Why are there both http:/
errors, so I just copied scrbook.layout to my ~/.lyx/layouts/ and
added the line:
Input mycharstyles.inc
Is there any file that corresponds to stdcharstyles.inc that defines
\newcommand{} for \filename and the others in that file? Or do I have to
define all these myself?
Jeremy C. Reed
On Sat, 2 Jun 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Fri, 1 Jun 2007, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
>
> > http://wiki.lyx.org/Tips/KeyboardShortcutForCharacterStyles says:
> >
> > p.s. Why doesn't the website have the LyX documentation? If it does, I
> > overlooked it
on the web is out-dated or wrong.
LyX should remove any references about using DocBook from its official
documentation and remove any references to DocBook. It is misleading.
Jeremy C. Reed
p.s. If LyX can do DocBook, that would be great. I have a 200-page book
and I am keeping both a LyX vers
I see several pages mentioning about line breaks within a tabular.
I have tables where I have a lot of text in a cell so then the tabnle is
wider than my printed page.
How can I get that text to wrap automatically?
Or by manually putting in line breaks?
Jeremy C. Reed
On Wed, 13 Jun 2007, Kenward Vaughan wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-06-13 at 20:20 -0500, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> > I see several pages mentioning about line breaks within a tabular.
> >
> > I have tables where I have a lot of text in a cell so then the tabnle is
> >
iew without authenticating.
But now I read that Adobe reader locks files. (I don't use Adobe.) So I
guess the solution is not to use Adobe :)
Jeremy C. Reed
ow can help:
Date: Sat, 19 May 2007 00:20:11 -0400
From: Steve Litt
To: lyx-users
Subject: Re: Problem: TOC section 2 digit numbers crash into text
On Friday 18 May 2007 22:17, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> On Fri, 18 May 2007, Steve Litt wrote:
> > LyX 1.4.2, Mandriva 2007 Linux.
> >
> &
But the generated book is in A4.
Any suggestions on how to texexec to not reformat the pages at all (and
keep my 7.44in x 9.68in pages)?
Or any other tool or technique to do what I want?
Thanks in advance,
Jeremy C. Reed
hat in my book?
(In a previous book, I used EPS files that I created and exported with
inkscape.)
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es).
Also notice above I have the pkg_info commands in slanted text. Maybe they
should be in a bold. I am just want to be consistent and to be easy for
reading. I guess my goal should be that it is helpful to the reader
without the reader being distracted. Any opinions would be appreciated.
Je
}{3}$
How can I get those displayed as characters in lyx so it is convenient for
my wife to read her book in lyx while she works on it?
Reading the ERT for me is fine.
Jeremy C. Reed
My wife wanted to do a search and replace to replace
1/2 with ? and 3/4 with ? but we couldn't paste that with Ctrl-V or
middle-click (in X).
So I used vim to edit the lyx document.
Also I wanted to replace '1/3' with the corresponding evil red text. How
can I paste in ERT in the Find dialog?
o over
100MB due to the new PNGs, but I think my printer will accept that.
I read that pdflatex accepts JPEG, TIFF, PNG, or PDF. I assume that means
that a JPEG, TIFF, and PNG are the supported raster image formats for
embedding in a PDF. Does anyone know if using a tiff would be better than
a zero compressed png?
Jeremy C. Reed
rac{1}{5}$
$\frac{1}{8}$
$\frac{2}{3}$
> All told (and multiplied by however many special characters you need), this
> may be more work than it's worth.
Jeremy C. Reed
never thought about re-creating the images, but that is too much time
for me now. Thanks for the idea.
Jeremy C. Reed
26.)
I read that \footnote[num]{Text here.} only takes a number for [num].
Jeremy C. Reed
tell you how to change the appearance. There are also
> various packages for styling footnotes.
I figured that out after doing a lot more reading. In my preamble:
\renewcommand{\thefootnote}{\alph{footnote}}
I will use that until I figure out my original plan.
> Search the net for tips - and if you want to do some latex trickery from
> time to time, get or borrow one of the recommended latex books.
Thanks for your suggestions.
Also thank you to JMarc: I started reading the ledmac documentation. It is
long!
Jeremy C. Reed
n and now on
> Mac.
Use ~ (not with lib)
Jeremy C. Reed
On Thu, 30 Aug 2007, Martin A. Hansen wrote:
> I don't want all the qt crap in my home dir. The resulting ~/lib will just
> contain another lib - but still I don't get the path correct.
>
> :o/
Okay. ~/lib/lib/libQt*
Sometimes you can't use ~ (tilde). Maybe use the /the/full/path/to/lib.
Mayb
utput. Maybe it is missing your ~/lib/bin/moc or other
QT tool(s)?
Jeremy C. Reed
ph
9.4 maybe explain "ex" unit better -- example? (Isn't it the size of "X"
character?)
11.2.3 For Lulu, I have used pdflatex to create my PDFs fine. I have even used
pdftk as the Creator. Lulu printed them fine without complaint.
Thanks for teaching me: \raggedbottom
J
On Thu, 30 Aug 2007, Steve Litt wrote:
> On Thursday 30 August 2007 10:14, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> [clip]
> > Page 28 need a period and space before "Here".
>
> Jeremy -- how do you see and remember things like that. Do you proofread
> professionally? If so, ho
tuation" mean? A punctuation extending into
margin?
Does anything special have to be done for "hanging punctuation"? Or just
\usepackage{microtype} does the "hanging punctuation"?
Jeremy C. Reed
n
reload in LyX when ready to start working on it.
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es. I want it automated. I don't want anything in my
margin (unless maybe in lyxcode block).
Any suggestions?
I googled for this for over 30 minutes but couldn't find what I am looking
for. (It seems like I asked about this before but can't find in my
saved email.)
Jeremy C. Reed
y typewriter" (I just happened to also be using "\emph on" so
thought that was it.)
Thanks for the ideas.
Jeremy C. Reed
those?
I don't recall them mentioned on this list.
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