Re: Publshers & Lyx (or "Carpal Tunnel Syndrome & aspirin...")

On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 04:51:40PM -0500, Ronald Florence wrote:
> I just submitted the final manuscript of my 8th book (3rd written with
> LyX). 

Congratulations!  I'm still working on my first. 

>     2) various characters with overscores and underdots that are used to
>        transliterate Arabic and Hebrew;

I have been struggling to set up my transliteration scheme in
LyX/LaTeX.  What do you use for transliterating aleph and ayin?  By
this I mean, what packages and/or symbols do you use?  I currently am
using an apostrophe for aleph and the \ain command from the wsuipa
package, which is a mirrored apostrophe.  It looks ok, but I'd rather
use the customary symbols (smallish sans-serif c).

> I doubt publishers will change their attitudes or recognize the
> simplicity and excellence of LaTeX and/or LyX.  But I'll keep using
> LyX.  Why?  Because I like the WYSIWYM concept, the beautiful output
> for letters and manuscript drafts, and the LyX developers.

Congratulations again and here's to holding fast to one's principles!
I'm editing a volume of essays right now as well, and they don't know
it yet, but they'll be getting pdf's and text files. 

Bryan

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Re: Lyx and Latex2html

"Markus Schwaab" <das.karlchen <at> gmx.de> writes:

> I want to write my handbook for my first Open-Source program with LyX
> because of its superior export features. Now I have one problem with html-exports:
>
> tables I inserted in my LyX-document, are not correctly converted by
> Latex2HTML.
> Is this a know proglem or do I have to tweak parameters ?

Lyx adds a command:

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% LyX specific LaTeX commands.
%% Because html converters don't know tabularnewline
\providecommand{\tabularnewline}{\\}

and then uses

\tabularnewline

throughout tables.  The latex2HTML program understands this only for
the first table but then gets confused (for some reason).

I have just been just

  1. exporting lyx to (la)tex
  2. use a text editor to globally change \tabularnewline to \\
  3. run latex2html outside of lyx

I posted the problem to this list a while ago but did not post my work
around.

Re: Problems with graphics

Herbert Voß a écrit le Friday 31 October 2003 14:54 ::
> Alain DIDIERJEAN schrieb:
> > Please, help a beginner : I'm working with Lyx 1.3.1 on a Debian Woody.
> > I've used tables with no problem. Now I try to insert a graphics (.pbm)
> > in an article document (it's the same in a book) as such, or as a float.
> > It won't compile and return a bunch (actually 4, or 5 as a float) of
> > errors : #1 :
> > Extra }, or forgotten $.
> >  ..._algo_von_neuman} Le modèle de Von Neuman}
>
> this seems to be a label with underscore which may
> causes the problem. choose always -algo-von-neuman
> The uderscore introduces the math mode.
>

Thanks, Herbert, but renaming the image to von-neuman.bmp didn't make any 
difference. Here is the part of the file that makes a problem...
Lyx gurus, please help !

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Re: Problems with graphics

Alain DIDIERJEAN schrieb:

> Thanks, Herbert, but renaming the image to von-neuman.bmp didn't make any 
> difference. Here is the part of the file that makes a problem...

ok, I see. You put the graphic into the caption, named with the
label FIGURE#. Always hit enter and put the image before this
caption line. see attached file (click on the image to insert
this one new to get the right path)

Herbert

#LyX 1.3 created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/
\lyxformat 221
\textclass article
\begin_preamble
\usepackage{multicol}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\end_preamble
\language frenchb
\inputencoding latin9
\fontscheme default
\graphics none
\paperfontsize default
\spacing single 
\papersize a4paper
\paperpackage a4
\use_geometry 0
\use_amsmath 0

Re: Why is the default 'Computer Modern' font in LyX bitmapped?

Peter Ringwood wrote:
> I am beginning to become fond of the font 'Computer Modern', but if I wish
> to use it in LyX, I need to add to the preamble \usepackage{ae} in order
> that it prints and displays as a much more attractive PS font.

You should consider using "latin modern" or "cm-super" instead of ae (better 
quality). cm-super is a bit more tricky to install and a huge package, latin 
modern is small and easy to install, but still in beta state (but already 
much better than ae imho).
http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=uselmfonts
http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=type1T1

Jürgen.

eps not showing in colour when in dvi/pdf formats

Hi,

I've just started using lyx after having learnt a bit of latex earlier this 
year...

I've installed the windows version (not the henstel - the other one) on my 
laptop, with the lastest ghostscript, and a version of miktex I was using 
earlier this year.

I inserted a colour eps graphic into my lyx document using the float-figure 
command... but it doesn't seem to show up as colour when i view the dvi on 
yap or the pdf on acroread.

the converter used is epstopdf... I don't have imagemagick installed - 
although I've just downloaded it now to try.

Would this be the reason?  Or is something else making the graphic go grainy 
black and white?

-mags

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Re: Publshers & Lyx (or "Carpal Tunnel Syndrome & aspirin...")

Bryan Bibb <bryan <at> hevel.org> writes:

> I have been struggling to set up my transliteration scheme in
> LyX/LaTeX.  What do you use for transliterating aleph and ayin?  By
> this I mean, what packages and/or symbols do you use?  I currently am
> using an apostrophe for aleph and the \ain command from the wsuipa
> package, which is a mirrored apostrophe.  It looks ok, but I'd rather
> use the customary symbols (smallish sans-serif c).

A reduced superscripted sans-serif c would look best, but this is a
case where I don't bother to get fancy in a manuscript.  Unless you're
publishing yourself, or have a contract that lets you provide
camera-ready copy, the publisher's design department will make the
final choice of fonts, which may or may not include the best version
of some symbols.  Pedantic typography can be a turn-off for a general
trade book, and the publisher may or may not conclude that a proper
ayin would be best for the planned market.  I leave those details to
be worked out with the copy-editor.

> I'm editing a volume of essays right now as well, and they don't know
> it yet, but they'll be getting pdf's and text files. 

I have yet to meet a publisher (my experience is only trade and
university presses) that was enthusiastic about .pdf submissions.
Their copy-editing and production software is geared to PC
word-processor files, especially ms-word.  If you have fonts and
symbols that do not reproduce in ascii text files, be ready for
headaches when you prepare final manuscript submissions.
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Re: Problems with graphics

Herbert Voß a écrit le Saturday 01 November 2003 10:25 ::
> Alain DIDIERJEAN schrieb:
> > Thanks, Herbert, but renaming the image to von-neuman.bmp didn't make any
> > difference. Here is the part of the file that makes a problem...
>
> ok, I see. You put the graphic into the caption, named with the
> label FIGURE#. Always hit enter and put the image before this
> caption line. see attached file (click on the image to insert
> this one new to get the right path)

Thanks for the fast answer. Did what you said, got one more eror !
In short :
Insert Graphics --> 4 errors
Float Figure, then Insert Graphics (my (wrong) way) --> 5 errors
Float Figure, then Insert Graphics (your (right) way) --> 6 errors
I'm getting crazy and frustrated as I want my students to have some pretty 
figures in the support text they get...

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				  J C

Re: Problems with graphics

On Samstag, 1. November 2003 12:15, Alain DIDIERJEAN wrote:
> Herbert Voß a écrit le Saturday 01 November 2003 10:25 ::
> > Alain DIDIERJEAN schrieb:
> > > Thanks, Herbert, but renaming the image to von-neuman.bmp didn't make any
> > > difference. Here is the part of the file that makes a problem...
> >
> > ok, I see. You put the graphic into the caption, named with the
> > label FIGURE#. Always hit enter and put the image before this
> > caption line. see attached file (click on the image to insert
> > this one new to get the right path)
> 
> Thanks for the fast answer. Did what you said, got one more eror !
> In short :
> Insert Graphics --> 4 errors
> Float Figure, then Insert Graphics (my (wrong) way) --> 5 errors
> Float Figure, then Insert Graphics (your (right) way) --> 6 errors
> I'm getting crazy and frustrated as I want my students to have some pretty 
> figures in the support text they get...

Try this one ... It works perfectly here

	Kornel
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Re: Installing LyX on Slackware 9.1

Uz.ytkownik Rich Shepard napisa?:
> On Fri, 31 Oct 2003, Marcin Bukat wrote:
> 
> 
>>If You are interested You can look at:
>>ftp://ftp.slack.com.pl/pub/packages/wodz (binary packages for slackware
>>current)
>>ftp://ftp.slack.com.pl/pub/sources/wodz (SlackBuild for lyx and xforms)
>>
>>It works for me.
> 
> 
>   Is this with the Qt UI or the xforms UI? I've become partial to the Qt
> version and I will be (trying?) to install LyX-1.3.3 on both a new
> workstation and new notebook this weekend.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Rich
> 
> Dr. Richard B. Shepard, President
> 
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> 
xforms (qt still have problems with some locale. I'm from Poland so this 
is critical for me)