Re: Mostly successful experiment: LyX -> LaTeX -> Word using pandoc

2012-08-08 Thread Manolo Martínez
On 08/08/12 at 12:35pm, Ernesto Posse wrote: > I tried it on Ubuntu and got similar results, generating .docx (viewed > on LibreOffice) and html. Pandoc seems to ignore the TOC and > bibliography though. On HTML it also ignored the title, author and > abstract fields. On LibreOffice the math was re

Re: Inserting Citations

2012-06-12 Thread Manolo Martínez
On 06/12/12 at 03:58pm, William Hanson wrote: > My problem is not primarily with creating new documents. It is mainly with > getting existing LyX documents (that have been transferred to my new > computer) to appear with the references in them when LyX creates pdf files > from them. At present th

Re: Inserting Citations

2012-06-12 Thread Manolo Martínez
On 06/12/12 at 02:44pm, William Hanson wrote: > Manolo, > > Thanks, but I don't see any "BibTex Generated Bibliography" grey > rectangle. > When you Insert > List/TOC > BibTex Bibliography, a dialog box appears, doesn't it? Do you Add a database then? (that is: click Add; click Browse; choose you

Re: Inserting Citations

2012-06-12 Thread Manolo Martínez
Bill, Once you insert a BibTex bibliography, you can click the "BibTex Generated Bibliography" grey rectangle and add more databases with the "Add" button at the top right corner of the dialog box that appears. Probably, you need more than one of your databases. Try adding all four. Cheers, Manol

Re: Using LyX for writing Internet RFCs

2012-05-07 Thread Manolo Martínez
On 05/07/12 at 10:54am, Nico Williams wrote: > I love LyX. I want two things it doesn't have/do today: > > - a vi editing mode (I looked at the list archives, I know this has > come up before) > Let me add my usual +1 to this suggestion :) --

Re: play sound when (lengthy) compilation finishes?

2012-05-03 Thread Manolo Martínez
you can always use LyX from the command line, something like lyx yourfile.lyx && echo $'\a' No? On 05/03/12 at 04:31pm, Liviu Andronic wrote: > On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 4:24 PM, Richard Heck wrote: > > Popping up some kind of notice, besides what you get in the status > > bar, seems reasonable. >

Re: hanging indentation in bibiography (using lyx & bibtex)

2012-04-24 Thread Manolo Martínez
On 04/24/12 at 04:19pm, Peter Coles wrote: > Hi all -- > > A journal has requested that the hanging indent in my bibliography be exactly > .5 > inches. Is there an easy way to do this using lyx? > > I am using lyx 2.0, bibtex, article class, natbib, and aea.bst. > > Many thanks! > Peter > >

Re: Spaces in the title of descriptions

2012-04-20 Thread Manolo Martínez
Thanks for replying, Rob, On 04/20/12 at 10:07am, Rob Oakes wrote: > I much prefer it to needing to make use of markup or markdown in an > environment that is otherwise WYSIWYG. By much prefer, I mean to say, I > think it would be a horrible thing if we suddenly start requiring users > to make use

Spaces in the title of descriptions

2012-04-20 Thread Manolo Martínez
This has probably been discussed before, although I don't quite recall the suggestion I'm about to make. As most LyXers, I use a short space (C-Space) as a substitute for spaces in the title of descriptions in LyX. As many, I take this to be not the most beautiful of hacks. I was wondering if th

Re: Using LyX to edit & organise bibliographies

2012-04-20 Thread Manolo Martínez
On 04/20/12 at 09:57am, Alex Vergara Gil wrote: > > El 20/04/2012 07:46 a.m., PhilipPirrip escribió: > >On 04/20/2012 04:30 PM, Alex Vergara Gil wrote: > >>why should I move out of LyX to edit my Bib files? > > > >Because, as I said, you *don't* need to edit your bib files. You > >can have a progr

Re: Cross reference between files

2012-01-17 Thread Manolo Martínez
On 01/16/12 at 09:00am, Richard Heck wrote: > On 01/16/2012 06:20 AM, Manolo Martínez wrote: > >Hello, > > > >I'm writing a paper, and a set of responses to referees. It'd be nice if I > >could cross-reference pieces of the paper in those responses. The eas

Cross reference between files

2012-01-16 Thread Manolo Martínez
Hello, I'm writing a paper, and a set of responses to referees. It'd be nice if I could cross-reference pieces of the paper in those responses. The easy way (having a document with both paper and responses as children) does not work straighforwardly, as then the section numbers in the responses st

Re: Circumflex

2011-12-12 Thread Manolo Martínez
On 12/12/11 at 09:32am, Bruce Pourciau wrote: > Yes, thank you, that works. But I still wonder about my question. > The ERT version works for me, too... --

Re: Circumflex

2011-12-12 Thread Manolo Martínez
On 12/12/11 at 09:07am, Bruce Pourciau wrote: > OK, I'm sure this must be a silly question, but why, when I enter in > ERT \ˆ{e}, to get a circumflex over the e, does my document stop > being viewable? > > Bruce Why don't you enter ê in plain text? LyX (mine at least) takes care of that. --

Primary selection buffer

2011-12-05 Thread Manolo Martínez
Hello everyone, Something that is puzzling me lately: sometimes the mouse middle button pastes the 1ary selection buffer while Shift+Ins does not. What could be going on here? Best, Manolo --

Re: Impressed

2011-11-18 Thread Manolo Martínez
On 11/18/11 at 12:39pm, Steve Litt wrote: > Here are things I think would make LyX even faster for authoring: > > 1) Better/easier keystrokes for working with character styles. In a > full day of authoring I can use character styles over 100 times. > > 2) Restore the recently removed easy menu c

Re: bracktes of references in classicthesis style

2011-11-18 Thread Manolo Martínez
On 11/18/11 at 01:50pm, Gian Maria Niccolò Benucci wrote: > I just fitted some different styles for references adding my bib file into > the first chapter of classicthesis. In most of the cases I got this > situation: > > ...People interested (author?) [(year?)]only in the nice style > Pro

Re: bracktes of references in classicthesis style

2011-11-18 Thread Manolo Martínez
On 11/18/11 at 01:12pm, Gian Maria Niccolò Benucci wrote: > I would try the kluwer style as you wrote, > any others style that "sound" scientific to suggest me? How to add new > ones? (I am using jabref for the bib) If you are writing a doctoral dissertation, you may want to look how other well-re

Re: Inserting inset via menu keyboard shortcuts problem

2011-11-18 Thread Manolo Martínez
On 11/18/11 at 01:08pm, Rainer M Krug wrote: > Hi > > when I insert an inset (e.g. an ERT) via the keyboard using the menu > navigation shortcuts, > > ALT-I x > > LyX stays in the "menu" navigation mode, i.e. pressing "i" does not insert > an "i" in the ERT inset, but opens the menu again. > I h

Re: bracktes of references in classicthesis style

2011-11-18 Thread Manolo Martínez
On 11/18/11 at 12:56pm, Gian Maria Niccolò Benucci wrote: > > How to change the brackets type (round brackets) of the references included > by bib.file in the classicthesis package? > This is how they are in the pdf: > > More recently, Boero [2010] argued that... > > How can I change this refren

Re: Order of package loading problem

2011-11-15 Thread Manolo Martínez
On 11/15/11 at 02:16pm, Rainer M Krug wrote: > Hi > > I just was confronted by a problem caused by the fact that the preamble as > specified in the document settings is added before the automatically > created preamble entries: the package endfloat overwrites the definitions > of the sideways envi

Re: Command ... already defined

2011-10-26 Thread Manolo Martínez
On 10/26/11 at 05:37pm, Guenter Milde wrote: > Otherwise, the change will be overwritten by the next update. > (No problem, if the next updated fixes the issue, but as a general rule, I > recomend copying files to the user folder before editing. > Thank you, I stand corrected. M --

Re: Short Cuts to Document Preamble

2011-10-25 Thread Manolo Martínez
On 10/25/11 at 04:14pm, Richard Heck wrote: > You can do this simply by having different user directories that you use > at different times. So, e.g., on Linux you could set up another user > directory as ~/.lyx-special/, and then invoke LyX via: > lyx -userdir ~/.lyx-special/ > when you want t

Re: Short Cuts to Document Preamble

2011-10-25 Thread Manolo Martínez
On 10/25/11 at 01:04pm, Rob Oakes wrote: > > > No, sorry. Shortcuts are global. I can see where it would be cool to be > > able to do this, but it seems complicated to me. LyX would have to > > reload the shortcuts every time you switched buffers. > > Good to know. And, now that you mention it, i

Re: Command ... already defined

2011-10-25 Thread Manolo Martínez
On 10/25/11 at 09:07am, Paul Clist wrote: > > Thanks for that. I can see this works if I export to tex and then change it > manualy before compiling- is there a way to do this once and fix it? I can't > see the line \usepackage{harvard} in the aea.cls and I don't know enough > about lyx/latex to w

Re: Command ... already defined

2011-10-24 Thread Manolo Martínez
On 10/24/11 at 06:29pm, Paul Clist wrote: > > Thanks for the response. I problem with this is that the only choice is > (Anon. 1967): you can't choose Anon (1967) or even bibliography only (which > would cut down on the amount of work for a work around). It would > essentially mean having to not u

Re: Command ... already defined

2011-10-24 Thread Manolo Martínez
On 10/24/11 at 12:51pm, Paul Clist wrote: > > simple, but I have searched high and low to no avail. Using the aea.cls (for > the American Economic Review) I have problems if I try to use either Natbib > or Jurabib, i.e. only the default bibliography works. > >- With Natbib I get the error mes

Re: Toggle menu and tool bars

2011-10-21 Thread Manolo Martínez
On 10/21/11 at 12:09pm, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Fell free to enter a feature request, but of course there is no > guarantee that it will be handled. Development is a bit calm these > days :( > I will. I might try to help with this myself. This is probably not overly difficult to code, is it?

Re: Toggle menu and tool bars

2011-10-21 Thread Manolo Martínez
On 10/21/11 at 11:27am, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > Did you try full screen mode (F11)? > Yes, the thing is, I use a tiling wm, and frequently I find it useful to have lyx side by side with, say, a paper i'm discussing. It would be nice to have as much of the screen real state I can dedicat

Re: Toggle menu and tool bars

2011-10-21 Thread Manolo Martínez
On 10/20/11 at 09:03pm, Paul A. Rubin wrote: > > > Is there a way to toggle the visibility of the menu bar and the tool bars? > > Everything above the text, that is. > > I'm not sure about the menu bar, but I believe you would have to create your > own > UI file to eliminate the menu bar. You

Toggle menu and tool bars

2011-10-20 Thread Manolo Martínez
Dear all, Lately I use more and more LyX with my keyboard only, ocassionally using the menu bar if I don't remember, or there isn't, a particular shortcut. Is there a way to toggle the visibility of the menu bar and the tool bars? Everything above the text, that is. Thanks, Manolo --

Re: Help With (Section*) LyX and Index of the Document *Critical*

2011-10-18 Thread Manolo Martínez
Why don't you use a more fitting document class? Many around here have used ClassicThesis. Also, there are a lot of "book" classes, KOMA-Script book being a fairly popular one. Manolo On 10/18/11 at 04:23pm, Kenedy Torcatt wrote: > Hello, I have been using LyX for while, I've prepared my thesis a

Re: Creating References

2011-10-18 Thread Manolo Martínez
How are you trying to go about creating your list? It is pretty simple, actually. Manolo On 10/18/11 at 02:35pm, William Hanson wrote: > Dear All, > > I've used LyX for a while, and I'm familiar with the basic features, but I'm > now trying for the first time to create a bibliography (list of > re

Re: Classic Thesis Bibliography in child document

2011-10-11 Thread Manolo Martínez
> Thanks again, > > G. > > > > > > 2011/10/10 Manolo Martínez > > > For what it's worth, I wrote my dissertation in the ClassicThesis style, > > and I > > would just compile child documents, without references as you say. Whenever > >

Re: Classic Thesis Bibliography in child document

2011-10-09 Thread Manolo Martínez
For what it's worth, I wrote my dissertation in the ClassicThesis style, and I would just compile child documents, without references as you say. Whenever I wanted to see how references looked I'd compile the whole shebang -- this happened, say, once every few days. Manolo On 10/09/11 at 11:44pm,

Re: A Lyx-beamer question

2011-09-28 Thread Manolo Martínez
On 09/28/11 at 11:48am, Liviu Andronic wrote: > On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 8:41 AM, Murat Yildizoglu wrote: > > Hi, > > > > When I do beamers in a standard latex editor, I put > > > > \beamerdefaultoverlayspecification{<+->} > > > I'm not familiar with this, btu this is the exact same instruction in

Re: Thank You!

2011-09-27 Thread Manolo Martínez
Viva LyX! From another lowly scholar in the humanities. Manolo On 09/27/11 at 03:52pm, Påvel Nicklasson wrote: > I have just published my first book written in LyX and I want to thank the > developers and the members on the list for a fantastic program and help > using it. > > I think I have und

Lyx GTK and archlinux

2011-09-22 Thread Manolo Martínez
Dear all, Just a quick question: has any of you successfully compiled lyx in archlinux --with-frontend=gtk? I'm having problems with that. Cheers --

Re: submitting paper in latex (tex) format

2011-08-24 Thread Manolo Martínez
Some of us use scripts to automate the process that is bothering you. The ticket http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/4624 includes a couple of these scripts. The one I use, IncludeBib.py, takes a LyX file as input and outputs a .tex file with the biblography included, which is what some publishers a

Noun (smallcaps) in Section title

2011-06-28 Thread Manolo Martínez
Hello everyone, A quick question. If I use the Noun character style in a Section title, article(paper) ignores me and renders it in lowercase. Is there a way to override the style in this particular respect? Thanks a lot, Manolo

Re: Bibliography without bibtex file

2011-06-16 Thread Manolo Martínez
I reuse the same bib file over and over, and I wouldn't want my lyx files to be burdened with that (oversized) bib file. Is that what you suggest? M El Thu, 16-06-2011 a las 12:23 +0200, Torquil Macdonald Sørensen escribió: > Hi! > > What is the simplest way of working with a LyX document involv

Re: moderncv template error to compile

2011-05-18 Thread Manolo Martínez
> > It is, indeed, an empty moderncv document. The information in the > > preamble is enough to make LyX choke. > > It is because your file uses the preamble of the LyX example file that came > with LyX 1.6.0. Since > LyX 1.6.8 the preamble is adapted to run also with the latest modernCV > ver

Re: moderncv template error to compile

2011-05-17 Thread Manolo Martínez
Hello, Uwe > > Assure that you are using LyX 1.6.8 or newer. If the problem persists with > this LyX version, please > send me your file. I'm using LyX 2.0.0. I have problems with the file Hélène sent and similar ones, and I have been sidestepping them in the manner I describe in my previous p

Re: moderncv template error to compile

2011-05-16 Thread Manolo Martínez
I have a similar problem. There are two crude ways for the document to compile: 1. I've noticed that changing the style from "classic" to "casual" -- in Document/Configuration/Preamble -- allows it to compile. 2. commenting out the reference to the email (also in the preamble) does the trick too.

moderncv (in Fedora, again)

2011-05-03 Thread Manolo Martínez
Dear list, Some more issues I'm encountering in my new Fedora box. Now I cannot get LyX to compile my moderncv CVs. It's something to do with hyperref, which is installed, and does not depend on the box "use hyperref support" being ticked or not. In fact, an empty moderncv document (with the right

Re: paths in Fedora

2011-05-02 Thread Manolo Martínez
Natty crashed spectacularly twice -- the kind of crash that calls for a reinstall. Even if it had been rock-solid, which for me it has not been, I don't care much for Unity, as it is now. Manolo El lun, 02-05-2011 a las 14:20 -0400, Steve Litt escribió: > On Monday 02 May 2011 09:14:3

Re: paths in Fedora

2011-05-02 Thread Manolo Martínez
I admit I had assumed that was the standard behaviour... M El lun, 02-05-2011 a las 10:10 -0400, Richard Heck escribió: > On 05/02/2011 10:05 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > > Richard Heck wrote: > >> LyX uses kpsewhich to figure out where to look for these files. Try > >> Tools>TeX Information, a

Re: paths in Fedora

2011-05-02 Thread Manolo Martínez
Yes, thanks a lot. M El lun, 02-05-2011 a las 10:03 -0400, Richard Heck escribió: > On 05/02/2011 09:14 AM, Manolo Martínez wrote: > > Dear all, > > > > I've recently moved from Ubuntu to Fedora, and I've noticed that in this > > latter distro .bst files are

paths in Fedora

2011-05-02 Thread Manolo Martínez
Dear all, I've recently moved from Ubuntu to Fedora, and I've noticed that in this latter distro .bst files are not where LyX looks for them. That is, they are not in usr/share/texmf-texlive/bibtex but, rather, in usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/bibtex. Texhash does not seem to make LyX more aware of

Re: iTeX as replacement for TeX? (was: 'Re: How?')

2011-04-21 Thread Manolo Martínez
I was surprised to see that iTex does not seem to be prepared for extension to quantum computers. This is a missed opportunity. The iLyx community should really consider forking iTex into QiTex. Manolo El jue, 21-04-2011 a las 21:10 +0200, Liviu Andronic escribió: > On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 9:16

Re: Poll for the default icon theme in LyX 2.0

2011-03-30 Thread Manolo Martínez
I think I prefer the old one M El mié, 30-03-2011 a las 15:26 +0200, Pavel Sanda escribió: > Dear LyX users and developers, > > after long struggle the new relase contains two new icon themes and > and some people want to give to LyX 2.0 new and shiny face. > > Please have a look at > http://wi

Re: Suggestions on which revision control system to use with LyX?

2011-03-28 Thread Manolo Martínez
> This is one more argument for Git (or a similar modern cms like mercurial). I've been strongly advised to go Mercurial + bitbucket. I'll keep you posted on how it results. M > > Günter > >

Re: Default label???

2011-03-25 Thread Manolo Martínez
Well, "without" is also true, isn't it -typing excluded :) El vie, 25-03-2011 a las 16:10 +0100, Abdelrazak Younes escribió: > On 03/25/2011 03:48 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 2:19 PM, Hellmut Weber wrote: > >>> What about Alt+I+L ? I guess you know that all menu items a

Re: LyX Promotion

2011-03-22 Thread Manolo Martínez
There is something that might help: wouldn't it be possible to add a "made with LyX" tag alongside TeX and pdfTeX in the properties of the resulting pdf? It'd be an easy way to communicate that a nice document -that gets you looking into its properties- was made with LyX. M

Re: xxxxx.layout

2010-11-25 Thread Manolo Martínez
Some of those classes are in the Ubuntu package texlive-publishers. You can try installing that -if you need those classes, that is. Algunas de esas clases están en el paquete de Ubuntu texlive-publishers. Puedes intentar instalarlo, si es que te hacen falta. Manolo

Fwd: Re: bibliography

2010-09-12 Thread Manolo Martínez
Have a look at this section of the wiki: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LyXServer Follow the instructions for your platform, and it should work. Manolo El 12/09/10 14:58, cristina escribió: > hi guys! > can you tell me how i can add the bibliography (with jabref) to a file in lyx? > i'll try to explain

Re: Problem with Nick Mariette's thesis style

2010-09-10 Thread Manolo Martínez
ed. Removing this rescaling > factor (.85) or setting it to one generates another type of error. > > Thanks for your help. > - > Julio Rojas > jcredbe...@gmail.com > > > > On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 10:12 AM, Manolo Martínez >

Re: Problem with Nick Mariette's thesis style

2010-09-10 Thread Manolo Martínez
If you are using *buntu, texlive-fonts-extra has the Bera family. Manolo El 09/09/10 21:14, Julio Rojas escribió: > Dear all, while compiling the sample document for Nick Mariette's > thesis style, I receive the following error at the end of the > compilation process: > > !pdfTeX error: pdflatex

Re: Thanks for LyX

2010-09-09 Thread Manolo Martínez
I wanted to take the chance provided by one of the periodic "thanks for lyx" messages that Steve sends :) to tell my own success story. Next Friday I finally have the public defence of my doctoral dissertation. It has been written in LyX from scratch, and it's been a pleasure to do so. And, while t

Re: Losing Lydia: A Simpler LyX Icon?

2010-07-18 Thread Manolo Martínez
In this connection, I don't know if any of you guys uses Gnome Do in linux. When you call LyX through Do, the logo that appears is not very nice: low resolution, and ugly white borders. See image attached. Manolo <>

Re: Fwd: off the list

2010-05-30 Thread Manolo Martínez
You could start by reading the news message on ww.lyx.org. Sorry, my bad. Anyway, it would have been nice to have an item on the news /during/ the downtime. I checked the news a couple of times during the firsts weeks, then gave up. Manolo

Fwd: off the list

2010-05-30 Thread Manolo Martínez
> I've been off the LyX-Users list for a month and didn't even know it, but I'm > back now. > wow, the same had happened to me until a couple of days ago. I thought I had done something wrong, but now I'm not so sure. Is there any way to find out whether the majordomo has kicked more list subscr

Re: REVTeX 4.1 layout: alpha

2010-03-04 Thread Manolo Martínez
Hi, Manoj. I'll be happy to help you troubleshoot the layout. If you have LyX files that you want me to compile, or anything, let me know. Cheers, Manolo On Wed, 3 Mar 2010 21:28:03 -0500 Manoj Rajagopalan wrote: > Hi lyx-users, > >    REVTeX 4.1 was recently released and all APS and AIP jou

Re: Export latex - any way to inline bibtex formatted refs?

2010-02-22 Thread Manolo Martínez
> Did you check, whether there is already a feature request at Track? There is: http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/4624 > > What I do in such cases (every > > time I send out a manuscript to a journal, for example), is to: > > >1. Export from Lyx to plain Latex > >2. Run Latex on the file,

Highlighting inside a text in Beamer

2008-03-04 Thread Manolo Martínez
Hello, I'm writing my first presentation with Beamer, and I've stumbled upon the following problem I'd like to have a quote such that the slide first presents the quote as it is and, then, when I push a key, one passage is highlighted first and, when I push again, another passage is highlight

Re: Repeating numbered Examples

2008-02-09 Thread Manolo Martínez
em if I do that is that the example does not have the same format as normal numbered examples. So, for instance, The line-spacing is not respected. Anyway, have I understood the solution you proposed? Thanks again, Manolo Jürgen Spitzmüller escribió: Manolo Martínez wrote: I'm writin

Repeating numbered Examples

2008-02-07 Thread Manolo Martínez
Hello, I'm writing a paper using numbered examples, with Covington.sty. I would like to repeat one example later in the text, like this *** Some text (1) The first example (2) The second example Some more text (3) The third example (1) The first example *** I have found no easy way to do thi

Repeating numbered Examples

2008-02-06 Thread Manolo Martínez
Hello, I'm writing a paper using numbered examples, with Covington.sty. I would like to repeat one example later in the text, like this *** Some text (1) The first example (2) The second example Some more text (3) The third example (1) The first example *** I have found no easy way to do t