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Subject:    problem recognizing floats
From:       Ralph Boland <rpboland () gmail ! com>
Date:       2009-07-29 4:37:25
Message-ID: fd59e9e70907282137t2b2a5551w17f66e6846ac4a47 () mail ! gmail ! com
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I am using Linux (Ubuntu 9.02) and the version of Lyx that comes with it, namely
Lyx 1.6.2.
Except for resumes and letters I haven't used Lyx much since about 2003.
I am now trying to revive a couple of papers I wrote in Lyx  in 2002.
I have not modified the Lyx files from 2002.
But I am having problems with floats.  I assume the  problem is something
trivial that I have missed relating to a change to Lyx (or Linux or Latex)
since 2002.

Any suggestions would be much appreciated.

Ralph Boland


Appended  is the first few lines of the Tex file generated by Lyx.

The problem is with the lines:

\floatstyle{}
\newfloat{}{}{}
\floatname{}{}
\floatstyle{}
\newfloat{}{}{}
\floatname{}{}

Each of these lines generates an error when I do a  ctrl-T in Lyx
to view the document in pdf or run  latex on the .tex file
the command line.  (I generated the .tex file by  doing a export
to pdflatex.)

For example  the first line generates the error in Lyx:

 \floatstyle
               {}
The control sequence at the end of the top line
of your error message was never \def'ed. If you have
misspelled it (e.g., `\hobx'), type `I' and the correct
spelling (e.g., `I\hbox'). Otherwise just continue,
and I'll forget about whatever was undefined.

Similarly the second line generates the error in Lyx:

 \newfloat
             {}{}{}
The control sequence at the end of the top line
of your error message was never \def'ed. If you have
misspelled it (e.g., `\hobx'), type `I' and the correct
spelling (e.g., `I\hbox'). Otherwise just continue,
and I'll forget about whatever was undefined.


I tried adding the line:
 \usepackage{floatflt}
in the Lyx preamble but it didn't help.

I tried directly inserting it into the .tex file above the offending lines
but that didn't help either.

The output from the " latex file.tex"  command is as follows:

latex srch55.tex
This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.40.3 (Web2C 7.5.6)
 %&-line parsing enabled.
entering extended mode
(./srch55.tex
LaTeX2e <2005/12/01>
Babel <v3.8h> and hyphenation patterns for english, usenglishmax, dumylang, noh
yphenation, arabic, farsi, croatian, ukrainian, russian, bulgarian, czech, slov
ak, danish, dutch, finnish, basque, french, german, ngerman, ibycus, greek, mon
ogreek, ancientgreek, hungarian, italian, latin, mongolian, norsk, icelandic, i
nterlingua, turkish, coptic, romanian, welsh, serbian, slovenian, estonian, esp
eranto, uppersorbian, indonesian, polish, portuguese, spanish, catalan, galicia
n, swedish, ukenglish, loaded.
(/home/rocky/texmf/tex/generic/thesisChapter.cls
Document Class: thesisChapter 2000/05/15 Ralph Boland thesis class
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/amscls/amsbook.cls
Document Class: amsbook 2004/08/06 v2.20
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/amsmath/amsmath.sty
For additional information on amsmath, use the `?' option.
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/amsmath/amstext.sty
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/amsmath/amsgen.sty))
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/amsmath/amsbsy.sty)
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/amsmath/amsopn.sty))
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/amsfonts/umsa.fd)
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/amsfonts/amsfonts.sty)))
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/base/fontenc.sty
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/base/t1enc.def))
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/base/inputenc.sty
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/base/latin1.def))
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/geometry/geometry.sty
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/graphics/keyval.sty)
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/xelatex/xetexconfig/geometry.cfg))
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/tools/verbatim.sty)
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/graphics/graphicx.sty
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/graphics/graphics.sty
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/graphics/trig.sty)
(/etc/texmf/tex/latex/config/graphics.cfg)
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/graphics/dvips.def)))
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/setspace/setspace.sty
Package: `setspace' 6.7 <2000/12/01>
)
! Undefined control sequence.
l.19 \floatstyle
               {}
?






Here is the start of the file.tex file generated by Lyx:
=============================================

%% LyX 1.6.2 created this file.  For more info, see http://www.lyx.org/.
%% Do not edit unless you really know what you are doing.
\documentclass[12pt,twoside,english]{thesisChapter}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage[letterpaper]{geometry}
\geometry{verbose,tmargin=1in,bmargin=1in,lmargin=1.5in,rmargin=1in}
\pagestyle{headings}
\usepackage{verbatim}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{setspace}
\doublespacing


%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% LyX specific LaTeX commands.
%% A simple dot to overcome graphicx limitations
\newcommand{\lyxdot}{.}

\floatstyle{}
\newfloat{}{}{}
\floatname{}{}
\floatstyle{}
\newfloat{}{}{}
\floatname{}{}

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Textclass specific LaTeX commands.
 \numberwithin{section}{chapter}
 \theoremstyle{plain}
 \newtheorem{thm}{Theorem}[section]
 \numberwithin{equation}{section} %% Comment out for sequentially-numbered
 \numberwithin{figure}{section} %% Comment out for sequentially-numbered
 \theoremstyle{plain}
 \newtheorem{problem}[thm]{Problem}
 \theoremstyle{plain}
 \newtheorem{observation}[thm]{Observation}
 \newenvironment{algkey}[1]
  {\begin{list}{}
    {\settowidth{\labelwidth}{#1}
     \setlength{\leftmargin}{\labelwidth}
     \addtolength{\leftmargin}{\labelsep}
     \setlength{\topsep}{\parsep}
     \renewcommand{\makelabel}[1]{##1\hfil}}}
  {\end{list}}
 \usepackage{algolyx}
 \theoremstyle{plain}
 \newtheorem{lem}[thm]{Lemma} %%Delete [thm] to re-start numbering
 \theoremstyle{plain}
 \newtheorem{prop}[thm]{Proposition} %%Delete [thm] to re-start numbering
 \theoremstyle{definition}
 \newtheorem{constraint}[thm]{Constraint}
 \theoremstyle{plain}
 \newtheorem{cor}[thm]{Corollary} %%Delete [thm] to re-start numbering

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% User specified LaTeX commands.
\makeatletter
%\usepackage{showkeys}
\usepackage{color}
\usepackage{epsfig}
%\usepackage{floatflt}
%\usepackage{mssymb}
\usepackage{amssymb}
%\usepackage{stmaryrd}
\usepackage{algorithm}
\usepackage{algorithmic}
...
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