LyX ⇒ Language issues during preview in DVI and PDF

[magali]

Hello,

I am quite new to LyX and I apologize in advance if this is a very basic question.

I have been using LyX 1.6.8 to write in Brazilian Portuguese. I changed the language to Portuguese on "settings".

I have divided my text into Parts, Sections, etc. And I also have added tables and figures.

When I'm looking at the LyX document, everything looks fine and all these names ("Part I", "Table 3", "Figure 2", etc) appear in Portuguese. But when I view in DVI or PDF, some of the "Parts" appear in Portuguese, some in English. And all tables' and figures' headings appear in English.

I think it must be a bug, since it happens to some names, but not all, and the document is set to be in Portuguese.

Any clues?

Thank you.

[meho_r]

Please, create an example .lyx file, put it into a ZIP archive and attach it to your next post.

[magali]

Ok, I made an example where the thing I described happens.
"Table" and "Figure" appear in the DVI preview in English, when it should be in Portuguese.
Thanx.

[meho_r]

Select all text (or at least those parts which are written in portugese), then use "ab" button (or Edit > Text Style > Customized > Language) to set the language of selected text to portugese, since it is currently set to english in the attached example. Pay attention to the text underlined by a blue line: this is a warning to the user that underlined text is set in a foreign language, not the default one.

[magali]

Thank you very much. That worked perfectly.

As long as we're here, I have another question regarding tables.

In the same example I attached previously, when I view the text the table captions and the actual tables are not aligned. The caption in centralized, but the table is not. Do you know how to fix this?

[meho_r]

Place the cursor just in front or behind a table, then open "Paragraph settings" dialog (the button on the right of "ab" button, or Edit > Paragraph Settings). Set "Alignment" to "Center", and uncheck "Indent Paragraph" checkbox.

Note: You'll probably want to move the note which is located below the table in your example too. Consider creating another row and putting the note into it. You may select all cells of the newly created row and use "Set multi-column" option on "Table toolbar" (take a look at the bottom of the screen, the last icon on the right, the one with a green-colored cell).

[magali]

Thanks again. That worked perfectly. And thanx also for the "note" hint. The table looks much better now.

I tried to find info on changing the color of the caption of a table/figure (such as "Table 1", "Figure 2", etc), but had no success. Also I would like to change the colors of top and bottom lines on a table. Is there a straightforward way to do this?

[meho_r]

If the color you want to use is one of "standard" set which LyX supports out of box, you may simply select the text in a table and change the color using "ab" button. However, for figure/table captions it's definitely a better idea to use facilities provided by caption package. E.g., on page 26 of caption documentation you'll find the following example:

Code: Select all

\usepackage{caption}
\usepackage{color}
\DeclareCaptionFont{red}{\color{red}}
\DeclareCaptionFont{green}{\color{green}}
\DeclareCaptionFont{blue}{\color{blue}}
\captionsetup{labelfont={blue,bf},textfont=green}

Just adapt this example to your needs and put the code into the preamble.

[magali]

I successfully changed the color and format of the table/figure labels.

Also, in case someone reads this discussion looking for the same answers, I found, in the documentation of the package you recommended above, info on another package (floatrow) which allows you to align pictures to the notes that come underneath them.

Thanx again.

[localghost]

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Thorsten