Re: Margins in LyX

ins" This may depend on the document class. What class are you using? -- David L. Johnson "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines." --Ralph Waldo Emerson

Re: Margins in LyX

On 08/05/2012 10:37 PM, Eisa Alanazi wrote: I have asked exactly the same question almost 2 years ago :) what I got: Inner= left and outer=right That would be correct for a one-sided document, but not for a two-sided document, of course. -- David L. Johnson "A foolish consis

Re: Question for euqations

s the 4th line in that menu. Then you can attach a label (a number) to one line of that multi-line formula (you can also attach separate labels to each line if needed). -- David L. Johnson What is objectionable, and what is dangerous about extremists is not that they are extreme,

Re: LyX andTeX Live: How to find and link a new latex version?

. But what do I know? That seems to say that you don't have access to much of anything in the system. How can that be? Maybe a regular user shouldn't be able to write to some of those directories, but read?? -- David L. Johnson Deserves death! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death

Re: LyX andTeX Live: How to find and link a new latex version?

of Ubuntu you are looking at is a stable version, which is always pretty old. -- David L. Johnson It is a scientifically proven fact that a mid life crisis can only be cured by something racy and Italian. Bianchis and Colnagos are a lot cheaper than Maserattis and Ferraris

Re: LyX andTeX Live: How to find and link a new latex version?

it to have installed automatically with ver. 2012? Maybe not. I have neither tlmgr nor leadpar in my TeXlive 2012. -- David L. Johnson "Business!" cried the Ghost. "Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolenc

Re: Viewing Bold Calligraphy characters in pdf

, but not in the pdf. -- David L. Johnson Department of Mathematics Lehigh University

Re: math bold revisited

to be to install the symbol package (or maybe, if that fails or if it's already installed, the ly1 package). Paul That link didn't work, but this is not just a MiKTeX issue. I use linux (debian wheezy), which has texlive, and it has the same issue. -- David L. Johnson Department of Mathematics

Re: Change text color in output!

a pdf viewer issue. Try it with a postscript or dvi viewer, or send a sample file. -- David L. Johnson If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion. -- George Bernard Shaw

Re: Please help!

to check the address to which the lists are sent to know which address to use when changing anything, since I use david.john...@lehigh.edu as an alias to my real account name. -- David L. Johnson I believe that the motion picture is destined to revolutionize our educational system

Re: TeX capacity exceeded

part that you cut out. -- David L. Johnson What is objectionable, and what is dangerous about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. --Robert F. Kennedy

Re: Getting rid of "You cannot type two spaces this way" message?

not really an error. -- David L. Johnson Department of Mathematics Lehigh University

Re: "Not a readable lyx document"

m areas on the disk. Although disk drives do seem more reliable than they used to be, it does still happen. -- David L. Johnson As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. -- Albert Einstein

Re: APA6 class with LyX?

on Latex. I also have no idea whether this has any relevance outside of the US. -- David L. Johnson Department of Mathematics Lehigh University

Re: APA6 class with LyX?

the content). The AMS journals from the 1970s and before were works of art, but even most Springer-Verlag monographs were truly ugly. -- David L. Johnson The motor car reflects our standard of living and gauges the speed of our present life. It long ago ran down Simple Living, and never

Re: APA6 class with LyX?

On 12/10/2012 05:51 PM, stefano franchi wrote: Cheers, Hullabaloo, caneck, caneck. -- David L. Johnson Become MicroSoft-free forever. Ask me how.

Re: Strange Lyx Beamer error

command, at least when you write it with LyX. I don't know how setting up multiple chapters might change that, since I only use Beamer for lectures. -- David L. Johnson Department of Mathematics Lehigh University

Re: kitr problem after R update.

call them "Imperial", that would be almost as un-American as using the Godless metric system (yes, that really is what many people here called it when there was an abortive effort to convert, many years ago). -- David L. Johnson Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made Presid

Re: kitr problem after R update.

On 02/18/2013 03:14 PM, John Kane wrote: *From:* David L. Johnson <david.john...@lehigh.edu> *To:* lyx-users@lists.lyx.org *Sent:* Monday, February 18, 2013 11:06:00 AM *Subject:* Re: kitr problem after R update.

Re: install lyx 2.0.5-1 linux debian --- was: install lyx 2.0.3-3 linux debian

d your TeX distribution, and if that doesn't, then certainly the setup that lyx does the first time you start it should find all related files and programs. -- David L. Johnson Accept risk. Accept responsibility. Put a lawyer out of business.

Re: install lyx 2.0.5-1 linux debian --- was: install lyx 2.0.3-3 linux debian

g. Unless you specify an output by the option "-o outputfilename" it will spit the output to stdout. So, to process a file "oldfile.lyx" and get an updated version "newfile.lyx", enter on the command line: /full/path/to/lyx2lyx -o newfile.lyx oldfile.lyx

Re: editing a matrix

replace for the appropriate string on the *.lyx file, using an editor. This is not the "advised" way, but it is quick when it works. Before doing something like this, though, do make a backup copy of the file... -- David L. Johnson Let's not escape into mathematics. Let's

Re: Two hopefully simple lyx questions

e the function is, a displayed line rather than inline. Is the function so long that it takes more than a whole line of a page? TeX sometimes has trouble with inline equations. It will not hyphenate such a line (hyphens would be interpreted as minus signs), leaving it for you to do manually.

Re: Two hopefully simple lyx questions

the line and shorter words surround it. I do this, too, on occasion. Rich I think the issue is that this is happening in math mode. There, lines are up to the writer entirely. -- David L. Johnson Let's be straight here. If we find something we can't understand we like to call it something you

Re: [off-topic] LyX as a LaTeX table editor (and other selling advice)

can endure, along with getting a widescreen monitor, and still at times I wish for more. Of course, this does not mean I want the text spread out over a very long line like that, only the math block (or a table, perhaps). -- David L. Johnson Department of Mathematics Lehigh University

Re: editing math in lyx

at that, but not until after mid-April. If no one else volunteers, send it to me and I will take a look at it to see how much work it will be. -- David L. Johnson Accept risk. Accept responsibility. Put a lawyer out of business.

Re: Converting lyx to odt

actually re-typeset the whole thing in LaTeX in order to print it. I would not expect to be able to effortlessly convert a 140-page thesis from Word *.docx to html. Can Word itself really do that in a way that does not mangle equations? -- David L. Johnson Department of Mathematics Lehigh

Re: String is too long ...?

ng similar which is accidentally in a "section"-style environment. Every time I have seen a similar message that was the culprit. Look at those areas where you made changes just to be sure everything is in the correct environment. -- David L. Johnson I believe that the motion

Re: Question: Using LyX as your daily word processor

, with properly typeset equations, so I can think while I am writing. -- David L. Johnson Department of Mathematics Lehigh University

Re: Question: Using LyX as your daily word processor

On 08/18/2013 09:26 PM, Ken Springer wrote: On 8/18/13 5:02 PM, Chris Menzel wrote: On Aug 18, 2013 5:10 PM, "David L. Johnson" <d...@lehigh.edu <mailto:d...@lehigh.edu>> wrote: >... > For my papers it is of course ideal. Math journals all accept (prefer) LaTeX

Fwd: Re: Question: Using LyX as your daily word processor

Original Message Subject:Re: Question: Using LyX as your daily word processor Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2013 12:22:19 -0400 From: David L. Johnson <david.john...@lehigh.edu> To: Wolfgang Keller <felip...@gmx.net> On 08/21/2013 11:45 AM, Wolfgang

Re: Question: Using LyX as your daily word processor

know if I find anything. -- David L. Johnson And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. [1 Corinth. 13:2]

Re: Question: Using LyX as your daily word processor

On 08/22/2013 04:43 AM, Liviu Andronic wrote: On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 4:49 AM, David L. Johnson<d...@lehigh.edu> wrote: at one time, and used Motif widgets). It was originally called "LyriX", but Matthais got a letter from a lawyer about that, so he changed the name. Accor

Re: Question: Using LyX as your daily word processor

beyond the linux/unix base, and so these widget-set/desktop-environment distinctions are no longer important. -- David L. Johnson If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion. -- George Bernard Shaw

Re: Question: Using LyX as your daily word processor

don't know which version) on plain MS DOS? Oh, yeah. Plus various technical-writing programs, some more wysiwyg than others, but the printout usually was horrible. -- David L. Johnson Department of Mathematics Lehigh University

Re: spellchecker

settings, but other than that we should have the same behavior. Also the same, my configure.log file makes no mention of "spell" or "enchant", so that may not be part of what is configured, although it seems it should be. -- David L. Johnson When you are up to your ass in a

Re: Math-mode previews not showing properly

Hmm. The file seemed to have no problem for me. Lyx-2.0.6, linux debian testing. -- David L. Johnson Department of Mathematics Lehigh University

Re: Beamer in the next Lyx version: a worry?

appreciated. Me, too. I have all of my class presentations on beamer, created through lyx in the (admittedly clunky) way we have now. I would hate to have to re-do all of that. -- David L. Johnson Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job

Re: Lyx not saving words to personal dictionary

occasionally. -- David L. Johnson Some people used to claim that, if enough monkeys sat in front of enough typewriters and typed long enough, eventually one of them would reproduce the collected works of Shakespeare. The internet has proven this not to be the case.

Re: why people give up on open source software

m, you have a chance, with open-source software, to actually ask for help from the person who wrote it. For example, this list is well-populated by the actual developers of LyX, who are very helpful. Commercial support will connect you with a call center full of people reading from scripts

Re: why people give up on open source software

, and bibliographic citations, and LyX has been the perfect partner and document processor. It does everything I need, produces beautiful pdf's, and it's solid as a rock. A heartfelt thank you to JMarc and the other LyX developers. Bruce Absolutely! -- David L. Johnson And what if you track down

Re: Exporting to arXiv.org

will accept! The easiest is if you don't have a separate bibtex file, and if you have no diagrams. Then the export to plain LaTeX should be all they need. If it doesn't work, contact me off-list and I will try to help. -- David L. Johnson Department of Mathematics Lehigh University

Re: Package babel Error: Unknow option `ngerman'

you install LyX, maybe. Actually, though, why you can't install all languages is somehow a fault of either the package maintainer, or the archive you are using. What came after where you cut this off? Did it say why it was not going to install the Latvian package? Maybe the file wasn't found? -- David L. Johnson What is objectionable, and what is dangerous about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. --Robert F. Kennedy

Re: printing

in ligatures and other fancy font details, re-sets the page width and justification, and prints what you wrote. Some fonts are different, but usually better than the on-screen appearance. Why would you want it more like the screen? -- David L. Johnson And what if you track down these men and kill

Re: Maple and Lyx on Ubuntu

also don't recall any special set-up to get it to work. -- David L. Johnson Department of Mathematics Lehigh University

Re: Quick question regarding copy/paste and cut/paste

ut Ctrl+1? Can these settings be altered? This seems to be Windows-specific, so I can't help further. Screenshot clipped to save bandwidth. -- David L. Johnson "Business!" cried the Ghost. "Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbe

Re: Math in LibreOffice/Word exported files: input needed

ely use mathematical expressions in your documents? 3. Why do you/would you need to export to LibreOffice/Word format? (to send the documents to publishers, mentors, advisors, colleagues, and so on) -- David L. Johnson Department of Mathematics Lehigh University

Re: repeated bibtex entry on 2.1-rc1

I don't know any combinatorics, but I've gathered this over the years. "tables" and "list of tables" more correctly refers to the more general situation. -- David L. Johnson Department of Mathematics Lehigh University

Re: Beamer in Lyx 2.1.0

for now. I guess the question is whether to treat the beginning of a Frame similarly to the treatment of a Section, or to treat it more like a Theorem or quotation environment. Following LaTeX treatment is probably best in the long run. Getting out of such an environment could be easie

Re: Bug

a document open in LyX 2.1.0 and then open a new one from recent documents, it works correctly. I wonder whether it is a bug in LyX, or elsewhere. Are these particularly large or complicated documents? Do you have the same problem no matter which documents you have open and opening? -- David L

Re: Bug in the Math UI

tead. The parentheses are tighter around the numbers, and it looks more like a binomial coefficient. Easier as well. -- David L. Johnson Department of Mathematics Lehigh University

Re: Probleme mit Sonderzeichen

In math-mode, enter the F. Highlight that F. Then, look on the menu at the bottom of the screen, for a dotted square with a hat on top. It will open up a menu with a choice of decorations you can add, including the hat you need. There are two types, smaller and larger. HTH. -- David L

Re: frage

some problematic languages, but with german I don't know any. Try \ss, making it "TeX mode", or what we call ERT. -- David L. Johnson Department of Mathematics Lehigh University

Re: frage

It's easy to assign any command or keystrokes to, say, function keys or Alt-Key combinations. You only need the \ss, \"{a}, etc., which is not so many to deal with. I would probably set it up within ERT, but you can also find the appropriate text-based codes. -- David L. Jo

Re: Opening beamer with Lyx 2.1

getting used to, and the nesting issues could be handled better. Given the variability of how blocks may have been built up on your old files, getting a converter to handle them all may be difficult. -- David L. Johnson Department of Mathematics Lehigh University

Re: compiled lyx 2.1.1 has not spellchecker

to have the aspell development libraries available, or the configure script will leave spellchecking out. I had that problem, as well. But it does say something about that in the INSTALL file that comes with the sources. -- David L. Johnson Department of Mathematics Lehigh University

Re: Lyx 2.1.2 same prob of other version. What is the problem?

. What was your first error message. Can someone help me? I'm soo really discouraged :-( You can send me questions off list. I don't use the debian version of lyx since it is too outdated, but I have used debian and lyx for a long time. -- David L. Johnson Department of Mathematics

Re: help installing 2.1.x on Debian

The unstable branch now has either 2.1.1 or 2.1.2. You can just manually install that. -- David L. Johnson Department of Mathematics Lehigh University Sent with AquaMail for Android http://www.aqua-mail.com On October 17, 2014 8:22:17 AM renato <renato.pontef...@gmail.com> wrote

Re: Problem in starting Lyx

. -- David L. Johnson Department of Mathematics Lehigh University

Re: Lyx window exceeds screen size

. Ah, these never allow resizing. Again, ALT+Left click-hold and drag should work. Please suggest me some way so that I can insert citation in the documents or can resize that window. Thanks in advance -Atanu -- David L. Johnson Department of Mathematics Lehigh University

Re: Greek characters in Lyx Beamer

esired output. Well, this would work for a few isolated Greek letters, but the spacing is different, particularly between words, and line lengths can be messy. I real Greek solution would be best. Unfortunately, I can't help with making that work. -- David L. Johnson Department of Mathematics

Re: Compatibility Mac - Linux

ith Ubuntu --- or your version of it. Certainly they have an updated version of LyX. If not, get it from the LyX archive. If you want to go back to Openoffice, that is one thing, but this is not an obstacle. Just upgrade your LyX version, and there are many ways to do that. -- David

Re: Poesse era se me form the list

e e-mail address, or perhaps an alias, and you are responding from the other address? This happens to me quite often, since my account has an alias, and I forget which version (dlj0@ or david.johnson@) I used to sign up. -- David L. Johnson Department of Mathematics Lehigh University

Re: utopia mathdesign

ian, and texlive. -- David L. Johnson Department of Mathematics Lehigh University

Re: Insert Tex Code

oot of the difference, write $\sqrt{A-B}$. Alternately, go to Math mode in LyX, rather than TeX mode, and enter \sqrt . If you then hit the space bar, you see a little blue square root sign, with a blue box inside, and the cursor in the box. Then enter A-B. Easier, and you see what you will get. -- Davi

Re: ClassicThesis

On 06/01/2016 11:31 AM, David L. Johnson wrote: I apologize. I must have butt-dialed that one. C. " , cb. " Poptropica the driveway -- David L. Johnson Department of Mathematics Lehigh University

Re: ClassicThesis

C. " , cb. " Poptropica the driveway Sent with AquaMail for Android http://www.aqua-mail.com On June 1, 2016 10:31:14 AM Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: On 01.06.2016 13:55, PhilipPirrip wrote: On 05/31/2016 05:17 AM, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: This

Re: Automatic save of LaTeX

process. That may cause the hang you mentioned, but does not explain the problem with the second sequence. -- David L. Johnson Department of Mathematics Lehigh University

Re: Automatic save of LaTeX

ess the buffer has been changed. So that's probably why your pdf doesn't always run --- you have to change the document, then it will all run. -- David L. Johnson Department of Mathematics Lehigh University

Re: Updating TexLive from Ubuntu/Mint

ot;real" debian) that allows easy updates. On the other hand, TeXlive (how do they spell/capitalize that, anyway?) is quite mature by now, and not much changes between updates. What is it that you can't do with the version you have (and which version is it?)? -- David L. Johnson Depar

Re: I can't open old Lyx files

BTW, I have no trouble opening 10+ -year old files, so there is something amiss. -- David L. Johnson Department of Mathematics Lehigh University

Re: Strange xxx-lyxformat-474.lyx files

at the start of a new format, and will not occur when you edit files using LyX-2.2 that are already in the new format. -- David L. Johnson Department of Mathematics Lehigh University

Re: Strange xxx-lyxformat-474.lyx files

On 08/02/2016 10:40 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: On Tue, 2 Aug 2016, David L. Johnson wrote: These are being created since the files were edited by the new version of LyX you installed, which uses a newer format. LyX then auto-saves them in the old format so that you can edit it, if you need

Re: What happened to "print"?

On 07/17/2016 04:26 PM, David L. Johnson wrote: When I upgraded to lyx 2.2.0 (which was when debian testing went to it) I lost the print menu. I thought at first it was because my home computer uses an old printer, but the same thing is true on my office machine. I could not find out

Re: LyX 2.2 for Debian Jessie

On 07/15/2016 11:05 AM, David L. Johnson wrote: On 07/15/2016 10:31 AM, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: On 15.07.2016 16:10, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: On 15.07.2016 14:57, Guy Rutenberg wrote: I've backported the LyX 2.2 package from Unstable to Jessie and thought it might be useful for others

Re: LyX 2.2 for Debian Jessie

ping into this in the middle, but if you installed things the debian way it should work properly. You don't have to use the debugging version. Let me know if I can help, as a long-time debian user. -- David L. Johnson Department of Mathematics Lehigh University

What happened to "print"?

happened with the configuration, but I did not see anything about printing in the menus, or any mention of it. -- David L. Johnson Department of Mathematics Lehigh University

Just upgraded to 2.2.0 on debian testing

it for. I will find that out tomorrow -- David L. Johnson Department of Mathematics Lehigh University

Re: Inserting blackboard bold 1 in LyX

r as I know, only apply to capital Roman letters (I use R, C, H, and Z all the time). -- David L. Johnson Department of Mathematics Lehigh University

Re: new operators in LyX?

On 02/24/2017 10:07 AM, Bernt Lie wrote: I use LyX 2.2 on Win10. I need to typeset the signum function as an operator. I have tried to insert "\mathop{sgn}", but this gives "sgn" in italic, and not in roman as it should. Is there a syntax for this? -Bernt \rm{sgn} ??

Re: Menu fonts

it now works. Excellent, thanks. I can't imagine why that wasn't a part of the qt package in debian. I can now read the menus. -- David L. Johnson Department of Mathematics Lehigh University

Menu fonts

roblem? I want to make all of the menu and related fonts considerably larger. I am using LyX 2.2.0, with Qt 4.8.7, which is standard on debian testing. -- David L. Johnson Department of Mathematics Lehigh University

Re: Menu fonts

I recommend compiling LyX 2.2.0 with Qt 5.6. The latter knows about high-dpi monitors, and it uses the system settings to select the appropriate magnification. And what "system settings" allow me to change the fontsize globally? I use xfce4, and have also been looking for that. Have you

Re: QUESTION & A REQUEST

\mathbb{R^n}, and TeX gets very confused about what that n is. With the tap on the spacebar, the red corners disappear and all works as it should. The same holds for scripted characters like \mathcal{A} and similar things. -- David L. Johnson Department of Mathematics Lehigh University

Re: glossary sort as

On 03/31/2017 01:11 PM, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: Am 31.03.2017 um 18:37 schrieb David L. Johnson: On 03/31/2017 10:53 AM, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: I try to get an item starting with an Umlaut 'Ü' sorted under the appropriate place U and not at the end of the glossary. I added

Re: all-inclusive file format

On 07/28/2017 12:02 PM, Joe wrote: Please please please don't make LyX more like Word. Please! Amen. -- David L. Johnson Department of Mathematics Lehigh University

Re: Issues using lyx

linux, except for Maple and Mathematica, and things like that. You do kind of have to like fiddling with your computer to want linux on it. -- David L. Johnson Department of Mathematics Lehigh University

Re: Business card template

for myself using it. -- David L. Johnson Department of Mathematics Lehigh University

Re: Issues using lyx

, but this would be a first test to see where the problem is. -- David L. Johnson Department of Mathematics Lehigh University

Re: Little Problem

"standard" and it will be fine. -- David L. Johnson Department of Mathematics Lehigh University

Re: Improvements to splitting math equation for multi-line?

Well, you could prevent that by replacing "P(X<3)=2" with "P\left(X<3\right)=2", which is easy to do in LyX. It also looks better. I would like to have the > algorithm prioritize a relation character that is outside of > delimiters. But LyX doesn't understand them as delimiters unless they are written as such. -- David L. Johnson Department of Mathematics Lehigh University

Re: Improvements to splitting math equation for multi-line?

ollowing lines will have the > > = sign aligned, which IMO is how it should be. > > If you set amsmath to "Do not Load" in Document > Settings > Math > Options, the default will be an eqnarray. Well, I can't do that. -- David L. Johnson Department of Mathematics Lehigh University

Re: Improvements to splitting math equation for multi-line?

On Sat, 19 May 2018 18:35:25 +0200 Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <lasgout...@lyx.org> wrote: > Le 19/05/2018 à 16:08, David L. Johnson a écrit : > > I would prefer to have it go into the eqnarry environment rather > > than AMS align, or at least default to three

Re: \approx with /

On Tue, 15 May 2018 17:09:58 +0200 Wolfgang Engelmann <engelm...@uni-tuebingen.de> wrote: > does anybody know how to produce the \approx (2 waves) with a / sign > going through it in LaTeX or LyX > > Wolfgang? > In LyX \not then hit enter then \approx -- David

Re: \hat{x}_i

in the gooey fashion. The only problem with using LaTeX directly is that LyX puts you in that box, and you have to know to get out of it. -- David L. Johnson Department of Mathematics Lehigh University

Re: \hat{x}_i

the keystrokes. -- David L. Johnson Department of Mathematics Lehigh University

Re: bbold

th doubled line segments.  Try \mathbb{R} for example. -- David L. Johnson Department of Mathematics Lehigh University

Re: Change Latex Math Code

” in front of “f”? Baris Erkus Did you try entering \dfrac while in math mode?  It works for me. -- David L. Johnson Department of Mathematics Lehigh University

Re: LyX on iPad

traightforward. This would also enable (I think) LyX to run on netbooks, since AFAIK they are Android machines --- and since they have real keyboards they would make a usable platform. I do believe TeX is available in some form. I also have no idea why porting to the iPad would be significantly

Re: LyX on iPad

t (since printers like that). But what you are asking for is not a new component for LyX, but a way to export to e-book formats, which would be, basically, a dvi-to-(enter your e-book format) utility. TeX may be too wedded to page sizes and predetermined font sizes, but that also is a TeX issue, i

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