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Aquous
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 Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2012 11:48 am Post subject: I need some help with LaTeX! |
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I'm very new to LaTeX, but as a linguist I am becoming more dependent on it every day. However, my only very basic knowledge of LaTeX is preventing me from solving this simple problem.
My editor, app-office/lyx, has an option for including modules. Of course, I included the Linguistics module. Now I have these new 'Example' options in the top-left drop-down box, that I use for selecting the style of a particular line. However, this 'Example' option (which I need to use at this moment) isn't working!
When I add an example, LaTeX gives me the following error when I try to preview the file:
| Code: | ! LaTeX Error: Command \example already defined.
Or name \end... illegal, see p.192 of the manual. |
followed by a bunch more.
I can export the LyX-generated LaTeX into an ordinary .tex file, which reads:
| Code: | %% LyX 2.0.3 created this file. For more info, see http://www.lyx.org/.
%% Do not edit unless you really know what you are doing.
\documentclass[dutch]{paper}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[latin9]{inputenc}
\usepackage{covington}
\usepackage{babel}
\begin{document}
\begin{example}
test\end{example}
\end{document} |
which is rejected by latex with the same error.
Can anyone help me with this problem?
FYI. The 'Example' options are a part of a package called 'covington.sty', which can be found in the dev-texlive/texlive-humanities package. |
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albright
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| Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2012 12:46 pm Post subject: |
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I can't answer your question, but have you tried getting
help at the lyx mailing list? It's very active and helpful
in my experience.
http://www.lyx.org/MailingLists
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Aquous
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| Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2012 3:32 pm Post subject: |
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I've solved the problem 
For posterity: it was a problem with the document class. Selecting a different document class remedied the problem. |
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dmpogo
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| Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2012 5:17 pm Post subject: |
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| Aquous wrote: | I've solved the problem
For posterity: it was a problem with the document class. Selecting a different document class remedied the problem. |
Well, the error was the example was defined multiple times. I guess it was also defined in the document class you used before.
One point of advice. Latex is a markup language (like html) and while LyX makes it convenient for people who came from WYSWYG background,
it is useful to try Latex manually a bit, to learn how it works. In the simplest text document there is practically no markup needed throughout the text,
just some headers.
Also when you start using Latex professionally, you find that many journals come with there own document classes, so that the standard ones are actually used
not that frequently (in physics/mathematics it is the rule, parctically every publshing house provides its own document class that generates output according to their requirements). So in this sense conflict between different classes/modules is something always to watched for. |
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