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Rich Shepard | 1 Feb 2005 05:48
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A Public "Thank You"


   This evening I made a tarball from all the TeX output and as soon as
Springer sends me my username and password, up it goes to their ftp server.

   I want to express my appreciation to the developers and all the rest of
you who so patiently pulled me out of the mud when I became mired and taught
me the intricacies of using LaTeX with LyX. It's been a powerful experience
and I have over 500 e-mail messages saved as reference material so I don't
need to ask again on the same subjects. I promise to try to come up with new
ones in the future. Such as, does the booklet package work with LyX and
letter size paper? :-) I'm sure it does.

   Anyway, now I need to really focus on rebuilding my business since I've
pretty much neglected it during the 15 months between contract and typeset
submission ready for the printer.

   Your intimate knowledge of LaTeX, and your willingness to share it so
freely, is evidence of the value you contribute to society.

Again, thank you all very much,

Rich

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Subir Singh Lamba | 1 Feb 2005 08:06
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Re: figure and table side by side


I am using lyx 1.3.4 on Mandrake9.2.I downloaded the tex file from the 
mentioned  site but it did not compile after it was imported in lyx. I 
tried working out myself with following step can somebody point out the 
error:

1) Use Figure Float.
2) After changing from caption to standard I inserted minipage.
3) Then Hfill and then again a minpage.
4) In the first minipage I inserted my figure and in the second the table.

On compiling the output  is figure and table one top of the other. 

With regards,

Subir

On Tue, 1 Feb 2005, [ISO-8859-1] Uwe Stöhr wrote:

> Subir Singh Lamba wrote:
> 
> > While seaching the mailing list I came across the following link but at 
> > present it does not seem to be working.
> > 
> > http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/Informatik/lyx/table.html
> 
> it is now under:
> 
> http://www.texnik.de/table/table.phtml
>
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G. Milde | 1 Feb 2005 08:55
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Re: Equation Too Long for Text Width

On 31.01.05, Rich Shepard wrote:

>   When I enter part of the equation and press ctrl-enter the cursor moves to
> the right of the = that begins the RHS of the equation.
> 
>   I suspect that I need to envoke multiline before entering any of the
> equation, is this correct?

How about LHS, Ctrl-Enter, =, RHS?

Or LHS, = , Ctrl-Enter, RHS?

Just play with it to find out. (Or cut and past the stuff in the correct
boxes.)

GM

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G. Milde | 1 Feb 2005 09:12
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Re: Files Submitted to Publisher -- RESOLVED

On 31.01.05, Rich Shepard wrote:

>   When I asked, the production editor replied that they wanted all files
> associated with the production of the book. Therefore, I'll send them
> everything in the /tmp/lyx_tmpdirNNN/lyx_tmpbufN/ directory, plus the
> original .eps files for the figures.

IMHO, sending a tmp-dir is not a very transparent solution.

If the publishers have a working LaTeX installation, they will want the
*.tex source(s) + all included files (*.eps, *.bib, *.bst, ...).

No need for *.aux, *.bbl, *.log, and all these auxiliary files -- these
will be created at their site when they run latex.

I would just use File>Export>Latex on the latest version and pack the
tex-file together with the included files in an archive. 

Before this, I'd run latex on the file from a command-line (or my
text-editor) to see whether everything compiles nicely.

Adding a *.ps or *.pdf preview would provide additional redundancy: The
publisher can check whether all turns out as you intended (if they care
about) or see the camera-ready print even in case of compilation problems.

Günter

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G. Milde | 1 Feb 2005 09:21
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Re: figure and table side by side

On  1.02.05, Subir Singh Lamba wrote:
> 
> I am using lyx 1.3.4 on Mandrake9.2.I downloaded the tex file from the 
> mentioned  site but it did not compile after it was imported in lyx. I 
> tried working out myself with following step can somebody point out the 
> error:
> 
> 1) Use Figure Float.
> 2) After changing from caption to standard I inserted minipage.
> 3) Then Hfill and then again a minpage.
> 4) In the first minipage I inserted my figure and in the second the table.
> 
> 
> On compiling the output  is figure and table one top of the other. 

It seems you have too wide minipages. They must have a width of <= 50%
text-width. (Or, to be precise: the added width of both of them must not
exceed 100% text-width.) Right-click on the "minipage" tab to set the width
(and the alignment).

Basically, minipages are treated like a single word. If they do not fit side
by side, TeX inserts a linebreak.

(BTW: Alignment in the LyX window and in the final output are independent.
Having the minipages on top or besides each other in one does not imply
it should be the same way in the other...)

Guenter

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Helge Hafting | 1 Feb 2005 10:13
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Re: line break and indentation for Lyx-Code

Wolfgang Hennerbichler wrote:

>Hi! 
>
>I am currently writing my Master Thesis in Lyx. I do have some pieces of
>code that i incuded as verbatim files. I use Lyx-Code as the formatting
>style for my program-code. 
>
>I experience 2 Problems with that: 
>* Indentation (done with TAB's) is ignored
>* Lyx (or LateX?) does not line break the code. If a line is longer than
>a sheet of paper, it's just cut off. 
>  
>
You may want to take a look at the "listings" package, at least it
is written for listing programming languages.  And it handles tabs,
if I remember correctly.  I believe it can break lines too, but line
breaking is often better done by the programmer.  The "listings"
package also offer various forms of automatic syntax higlighting if
you want  something prettier than a fixed font. And you can have
line numbers (set with different color/font so it doesn't get mixed
up with the code), this is great if you have many references of the
form "see line 15 of foo(x) which does . . ."

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Georg Baum | 1 Feb 2005 10:17
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Re: Files Submitted to Publisher -- RESOLVED

G. Milde wrote:

> IMHO, sending a tmp-dir is not a very transparent solution.

True, but IHMO the best one currently available.

> If the publishers have a working LaTeX installation, they will want the
> *.tex source(s) + all included files (*.eps, *.bib, *.bst, ...).
> 
> No need for *.aux, *.bbl, *.log, and all these auxiliary files -- these
> will be created at their site when they run latex.

True, but they won't hurt either.

> I would just use File>Export>Latex on the latest version and pack the
> tex-file together with the included files in an archive.

The problem is that you don't get the converted .eps figures with this
method. And I would never take the risk that something goes wrong when I
manually put the converted figures together at this stage where (hopefully)
every single letter of the whole book is at the right place. Of course if
all figures are in .eps format already and not converted by LyX this method
is fine.

The good news is that in LyX 1.4 Export->LaTeX will just work and also
export the converted images.

Georg
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Helge Hafting | 1 Feb 2005 10:31
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Re: How to cross reference a float

Matej Cepl wrote:

>Rich Shepard wrote:
>  
>
>>    1) Are all floats referenced other than in the immediate vicinity?
>>    They
>>can be referenced as "... as seen in the following figure." Actually, I
>>find adding a label while creating the float no more onerous than typing
>>the title, moving the cursor to the front of that, pressing [Enter], then
>>going Layout->Paragraph->Center before Insert->Graphic for each one. With
>>all this, what's one more step? :-)
>>    
>>
>
>This is not a wise solution, because floats are floats because they can
>float, i.e., "following" figure may actually get before its reference
>(AFAIK).
>  
>
Not a problem with cross references.  Insert a reference and make
the type "<reference> on page <page>".  This is a very powerful construct,
because it does much more than figure~"5 on page 6". 

You refer something which latex happen to place on the same page:  
figure~"5"
or optionally figure "5 on this page" but most consider that one excessive.
You refer something which latex place on the
opposite page in a book: figure~"5 on the facing page"
You refer something that latex place on the
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Subir Singh Lamba | 1 Feb 2005 10:33
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Re: figure and table side by side


Hi,

I was successful in getting a figure and a table side by side. I had to 
adjust the size of minipage and it did the trick.

Subir

On Tue, 1 Feb 2005, [ISO-8859-1] Uwe Stöhr wrote:

> Subir Singh Lamba wrote:
> 
> > While seaching the mailing list I came across the following link but at 
> > present it does not seem to be working.
> > 
> > http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/Informatik/lyx/table.html
> 
> it is now under:
> 
> http://www.texnik.de/table/table.phtml
> 
> regards Uwe
> 

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Helge Hafting | 1 Feb 2005 10:53
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Re: (Chapter*) in Table of Contents?

Marcelo Acuÿfffff1a wrote:

>Hello
>
>I am writing a long book. This book have: (in spanish)
>
>Preface (Chapter*)
>
>Acknowledgments (Chapter*)
>
>Introduccion (Chapter*)
>
>Chapter 1 (Chapter)
>
>Chapter 2 (Chapter)
>
>and so on,
>
>I want that Preface, and so on, appears in Table of Contents.
>
>I want that Preface ... Introducción no appears in TOC with numbers like Chapters.
>
>How I can get it?
>
Consider using a koma-script document class, like scrbook.
Layout->document, selet book(koma-script) as document class.

Then you can use "addchap" to get a chapter with no numbering,
just like "Chapter*", but it does get in the table of contents.
"Chapter*" is still available too, if you have something you don't
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