I am using LyX 2.0.1 (the Alternate Installer, from the developer's site), and have noticed that this version and some earlier ones seem to have issues with Windows' clipboard: copy and paste seems to stop working for all programs until I close LyX.
This is naturally a major irritation when work...
I'm not complaining about the closing. Being new to this particular SE site, I'm still learning what's okay to ask, what's not okay to ask.
The comment/answer that was given was helpful, and sets me on the right path. What I'm curious about is to what extent LyX and UI issues are appropriate here, or am I missing the point of why it was closed?
In other words, should I focus LyX related questions to the LyX mailing list? I'm keen on finding the right venue for questions, rather than wasting the time of the TeX.SE site and my own. :)
@AlanMunn I resemble that remark. :) Actually, I think I know what I'm doing in all of the environments (OS & editor)... still, LyX certainly hides a lot of the issues. Interesting that your next comment mentioned Windows & R - classically awkward pairing.
@Iterator Hi. Joseph is in the UK, so he's around during normal hours then. But he is around pretty much every day. (I'm assuming you're in North America somewhere?) I'm not quite sure why the question got closed; I think that it seemed to be more of a bug report than a UI question per se. See meta.tex.stackexchange.com/q/1773/2693 for some discussion on that.
Although there aren't a lot of LyX users here, we're certainly not closing LyX questions as a matter of course. Unfortunately because most of us don't use it, we're sometimes at a loss in answering such questions, especially when they relate to specifics of the UI.
Thanks Alan. That's a good tip. I had not given much thought to it being a bug, and had instead thought it was something I had not turned on or off, but I guess undesired and repeatable behavior is close to a bug report.
I think that that clarifies all that I needed to know - being a bug, an SE site isn't the right place. I should've remembered noticing the same perspective with bugs in R and R packages. :) Thanks again.
@Iterator In general, Lyx questions are 'on topic', provided the question is (broadly) about the typesetting end of things. Lyx and other binaries can have a lot of issues at the operating system end, where TeX expertise will not help with an answer. That the reason I voted to close: the problem is not really about 'Lyx as a TeX-based typesetting system' but rather 'Lyx as a Windows application'. As @AlanMunn also notes, it looks very much like a bug report.
This is a follow up to How do I bind latexmk to one key in Emacs and have it show errors if there are any.
I'm using a function in Emacs to compile LaTeX documents with latexmk but it does not behave exactly as I want. The function I use is one Jouni K. Seppänen came up with:
(defun run-latexmk...
I'm trying to draw this but except for the straight lines in this diagram I'm not able to place other things such as square and circle properly. How can I do this? Help much appreciated.
EDIT:
Since MWE is asked I'll post here my code and update it as and when I get close to the picture above....
I am new to this forum and a very new user of LaTeX. So the question may be very naive. Sorry for this. I truly appreciate your help. I have no idea where to begin.
How can I make the following figures with LaTeX?
Figure 1 on the web-page http://www.engsc.ac.uk/learning-and-teaching-theory-gui...
There are no comments from the closers. I think that this is a bit harsh. The questioner is new to this site, and new to LaTeX. I've left a comment that I'd like her to respond to to try to indicate how much help to give.
Incidentally, I don't think it is "too localised"! I have a vague recollection of one of those "constructive alignment" diagrams being asked about before, but I can't find it right now.
@wh1t3 I don't like "Can someone make/draw it for me?" as a general rule. However, I don't think that it's always an indication that the person is being lazy (*cough* Matthew Leingang *cough*) just that they truly don't know where to start. Often, just a little help will get them going and then it's a matter of helping them when they need it next.
That's what I was trying to draw out from this person.
Mostly you can tell whether or not someone has put in a reasonable amount of effort themselves to produce what they want. If that is the case then it's fine with me.
Yes. The difficulty is when it isn't clear. Then, I'd rather we gave them a chance to make it clear instead of voting to close straight away. Particularly without commenting.
Should I edit this guys question and add the images in the post instead of the links? Seeing how he can't add images yet. Not requiring people to open pdf's to be able to understand your question might help in him not coming across as 'lazy'
I have 3 short equations which consume much vertical space, if each one is typeset in a separate line.
How can I typeset them in one line in a "mathematically correct" way?
I do not necessarily need separate labels for each one of them: one label (and equation number would be enough)
\docum...
@TorbjørnT Incidentally, I get seriously weird behaviour with scrbook. There's a huge difference with adding or taking out a comma. In the next picture, notice that the second line is shifted down and with very different horizontal spacing to the others. The only difference is a single comma.
@JosephWright Thanks - that's helpful and is also what @AlanMunn had suggested might be the case. If you have the time, could you add that to the FAQ? Still, I should've realized that it was more likely to be a bug than a usage mistake. :)
@AndrewStacey I've given them a leg up with a diagram I had lying around. (It's no work of art either, but rather a response to someone a while ago on a mailing list.)
@PauloCereda I'm trying to make graphs that will be placed on a poster so I need big fonts; font access is awful in R, generally. When I increase the font size, the labels get bigger, but the bars on my charts don't widen at all to accommodate. I'm almost ready to give up and try everything in pgfplots.
I was reading Why can't "fi" be separated when being copied from a compiled pdf? and had a thought:
I know that v1.4 and up PDF documents have an OCR layer. Would it be possible to have PDFTeX or luaTeX place the un-ligatured text into the OCR layer, so that you don't have inconsta...
I'm giving it a 70% chance that the answer is 'No, LaTeX can't currently do that, 25% chance that the answer is 'Do this with luaTeX' and the remainder being 'use this obscure package with this crazy complex code that you will not understand even if you go through it line by line'
This is a follow up to How do I bind latexmk to one key in Emacs and have it show errors if there are any.
I'm using a function in Emacs to compile LaTeX documents with latexmk but it does not behave exactly as I want. The function I use is one Jouni K. Seppänen came up with:
(defun run-latexmk...
I'm trying to draw this but except for the straight lines in this diagram I'm not able to place other things such as square and circle properly. How can I do this? Help much appreciated.
EDIT:
Since MWE is asked I'll post here my code and update it as and when I get close to the picture above....
I am new to this forum and a very new user of LaTeX. So the question may be very naive. Sorry for this. I truly appreciate your help. I have no idea where to begin.
How can I make the following figures with LaTeX?
Figure 1 on the web-page http://www.engsc.ac.uk/learning-and-teaching-theory-gui...
I have 3 short equations which consume much vertical space, if each one is typeset in a separate line.
How can I typeset them in one line in a "mathematically correct" way?
I do not necessarily need separate labels for each one of them: one label (and equation number would be enough)
\docum...
I was reading Why can't "fi" be separated when being copied from a compiled pdf? and had a thought:
I know that v1.4 and up PDF documents have an OCR layer. Would it be possible to have PDFTeX or luaTeX place the un-ligatured text into the OCR layer, so that you don't have inconsta...
