gmane.editors.lyx.general

Re: Math Macro

rgheck — 2008-07-24T17:10:49

Well, you can shorten \overrightarrow by defining a quick math-macro, e.g.: \newcommand{\ora}[1]{\overrightarrow{#1}} Remember that you can actually type that into LyX, then highlight it, and hit Ctrl-M to declare the macro. And then, if you like, you can define a shortcut for this: "math-insert \ora" is the function you would want. rh

Math Macro

Bruce Pourciau — 2008-07-24T16:21:36

A paper I'm writing has a googolplex of symbols with an \overrightarrow overhead. What would be the best way to make these insertions in math mode as quick as possible? Bruce

Re: Whats wrong with tabluar?

Zan — 2008-07-24T15:32:19

bigblop, "first row is seperated from the 2 last rows" with a double line? This is the default setting for LyX tables. To remove, select a cell in the second row and deselect the top boarder in the table toolbar or in the table setting dialog box. z

Re: Problem with Lyx 1.5.5 (Windows, Miktex) when converting to PS

Paul A. Rubin — 2008-07-24T15:21:48

I suspect the speed difference has less to do with the LyX version and more to do with misadventures in processing the exported LaTeX. You might try the following: export the document to LaTeX (using File->Export) in both LyX versions and compare the .tex files for differences. If you don't have a file comparison utility better than fc (which is a DOS command), you can download WinMerge (recommended) or zip them and post them here for one of us to look at. If the problem is a change in what LyX is exporting, that will help identify it. If it's not in the export, the only other thing I can think of is to look for a change in either the converter path (perhaps different options being used) or something relating to image processing (but the error messages make that unlikely). /Paul

Re: Hollywood template author's address

Thomas King — 2008-07-24T14:32:06

Sorry to be a pest, but does anyone know if there is a tweak for this issue besides changing the attribute away from author's address? Thanks!

Re: Whats wrong with tabluar?

Siegfried MEUNIER-GUTTIN-CLUZEL — 2008-07-24T14:05:42

It isn't a bug, it's the way it works, I suppose it is a way to emphasize the header line. You can modify easily your table : select the first line and remove the bottom border ( there is a button in the table tool bar ). Hope it helps. Siegfried

Re: replace text

Manveru — 2008-07-24T13:42:40

Maybe LyX need chemistry mode similar to the math mode (with certainly less options). 2008/7/23 Christopher Reeve public.gmane.org>:

Re: Progress on the MS Word to LyX conversion

Manveru — 2008-07-24T13:37:30

I understand DTD simplicity... but it is no longer fresh these days. Schema allows better understanding and can be processed by XSLT. 2008/7/23 John public.gmane.org>:

Whats wrong with tabluar?

bigblop — 2008-07-24T13:23:42

I have made a 3x3 tabular. But for some reason the first row is seperated from the 2 last rows. Is this a bug in LyX?

Re: We could really use search-for-environment andsearch-for-charstyle

Pavel Sanda — 2008-07-24T12:42:25

this debate is somehow connected with this thread http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-devel-UqbJ+GOpo4+hPH1hqNUYSQ< at >public.gmane.org/msg141358.html then some general lfun for search would be easy. pavel

Re: We could really use search-for-environment and search-for-charstyle

Charles de Miramon — 2008-07-24T12:35:43

I was wondering yesterday if this could be used : http://doc.trolltech.com/4.4/qtxmlpatterns.html It works on non-xml data and you can mash-up in one structure the LyX format and the external sources for example the bib fields or files inserted. Cheers, Charles

Re: Progress on the MS Word to LyX conversion (xml)

Pavel Sanda — 2008-07-24T12:07:19

frankly - these are nice dreams, but there is not manpower to do it. my feeling is that the xml-branch commit activity pefectly shows what will happen after the worst bugs will be repaired in xml merged trunk. or you have some particular developer in mind? :)) pavel

Re: Documentation of LyX functions (aka LFUNs)

Pavel Sanda — 2008-07-24T11:54:56

while html version could be used for that too, i somehow like the idea, that we have one single huge pdf, we can call the Book :) pavel

Re: Documentation of LyX functions (aka LFUNs)

Christian Ridderström — 2008-07-24T11:16:53

Great. Sounds good. No opinion. Would you only use it to search for information? In that case, maybe having a version exported to HTML would be useful? You don't mean as a single web page do you...? It'd be _huge_. Still, I like the idea of having these special versions of the documentation available through the web site. /Christian

Re: Progress on the MS Word to LyX conversion (xml)

Christian Ridderström — 2008-07-24T11:12:16

Did you see José's post about how the lyx2lyx stuff is really inside a Python lib (module)? You'd probably only need a different kind of wrapper that calls this module, instead of reinventing everything in Ruby. /Christian

Re: We could really use search-for-environment and search-for-charstyle

Christian Ridderström — 2008-07-24T11:10:22

Hi Steve, You should send this to the developers' list, as I suspect you know:-) (Or add it to bugzilla of course) Hope the word->LyX conversion is going well, Christian

Re: We could really use search-for-environment and search-for-charstyle

Abdelrazak Younes — 2008-07-24T11:00:14

He he, in 1.6 you can use the navigator, there is a list of citation there in case you didn't notice :-) As for character style naigation, we could have something similar in 1.6.x. Abdel.

Re: We could really use search-for-environment and search-for-charstyle

José Matos — 2008-07-24T09:25:54

I am not sure we have this in bigzilla but I agree it would be nice to have both in LyX and in bugzilla (if it is not there yet). Something that I had the need to recently was to find where a given bibliographic citation was used. Again another search issue.

Re: Progress on the MS Word to LyX conversion (xml)

José Matos — 2008-07-24T08:32:54

FWIW this chunk is from one of my shell scripts: echo $1 for i in {8..40} do echo -n '.' w=`printf "%.2d0" $i` f="dfa-$1-$w.dat" ./dfa -s -w $w < $1.dat | ./join-lag.py -l $w -r $1.dates > $f cut -f1,2 $f | join -a1 dfa.dat - > tmp.dat mv tmp.dat dfa.dat done So as you can see I know more than python. :-) And yes I know this only works with bash, and that is OK with me. :-) My point is that it is alright to use the small tools of the trade but we can do better because lyx documents are richer than just pure text. I am not saying that your usage is wrong what I claim is that we need better script tools to handle lyx documents. Those tools should be stable across lyx versions and should not depend of any particular file format.

Re: The "\DeclareMathOperator"command in my lyx doesn'twork,please help!

G. Milde — 2008-07-24T07:55:09

... To fix this in LyX, you would need to define a math-macro in a disabled branch or a comment. (This works in LyX <= 1.5.5, I do not know about 1.6). See the attachment for an example. GM

Re: Documentation of LyX functions (aka LFUNs)

G. Milde — 2008-07-24T07:43:00

Seconded. Günter