Testing LaTeX version?

With regard to the recent discussion of problems processing LyX documents with old LaTeX2e installations: As the official policy of the LaTeX maintainers is that you should upgrade regularly (for example, trying to build a format from a latex.ltx file more than a year old gives a warning

Re: Some questions

Alexander Stasinski wrote: I created a symbolic link between libc.so.5 and libc.so.6, but my problem remained. How did you solve that initlever 5-problem? I strongly suspect that all this libc5/6 stuff is a symptom of some other configuration problem. I am using RedHat Linux 5.2 with both

Re: select text scrolling too fast

If I select text with the mouse I have an annoying problem: if the text to be selected stretches beyond the normal one page view of the document, the document scrolls, BUT it scrolls so fast I have no control over what gets selected! Basically I select too little or too much (e.g. the whole

Escape cancels the selection

I find this annoying (unless I have just made the selection) because if I start to type a command to apply to a selection and then realise it is wrong and press escape, the selection is cancelled and I must make it again. Surely just the command should be cancelled? Indeed, viewing Escape as a

Re: Escape cancels the selection

Reuben I find this annoying (unless I have just made the selection) Reuben because if I start to type a command to apply to a selection Reuben and then realise it is wrong and press escape, the selection Reuben is cancelled and I must make it again. Surely just the command Reuben should be

xfstt

In a recent message someone said they were using TrueType fonts with LyX. I've just installed xfstt and gave it a symbolic link to my Windows partition to look for *.ttf fonts. The results in LyX are excellent: no more jaggies at large sizes. I use Times New Roman and Arial; for some reason at

xfstt: additional note

The only thing I found I had to change apart from the font settings was the font zoom setting. My display is described by the xserver as 72 or 75dpi, and though this is correct, the TrueType fonts are a little small at this setting. Supplying --res 96 to xfstt didn't quite help enough, but

Re: 1.0.0pre8 - newbie's first reactions

Well, since you can do it direclty at lyxrc level, I am not sure it is necessary... But doesn't LyX stop scaling *all* fonts if you turn scaling off? This trick *only* stops scaling bitmap fonts. -- www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rrt1001/ | maxim, n. wisdom for fools -- +++ the

Re: chemtex?

Wolfgang Is something like Chemwindow or mdl-isis for drawing Wolfgang chemical structures available under tex/latex? A quick look in the LaTeX Graphics Companion reveals two packages which seem to be modern and capable: XYMTeX and ppchtex. Both on CTAN, I'll warrant. ChemTeX is said to be

LyX executable size

...more out of interest than anything else: why is my LyX 1.0.0pre6 binary 800Kb bigger than pre2? I've checked obvious things like it not being stripped (they both are), and they're both linked to the same set of shared libraries. The only difference I can think of is having upgraded from GCC to

Cross-references to included documents

I have a LyX document which includes appendices with LaTeX commands (so that I don't get problems with the fact that these are fully-fledged LyX documents). I want to make cross-references to these appendices; do I really have to do this with LaTeX text? One thing that looks hopeful is the Name:

thispagestyle

Is there a way of setting this in LyX without inserting a LaTeX command? Perhaps here is the beginning of a Layout-Page... box? The problem I'm trying to overcome is the different pagestyle used on the first page. Might it be worth having a "First page style" box in the Layout-Document... popup,

Re: spaces around math insets

This seems to be a problem with the right brace character. Some other characters also have it. Putting extra marks in seems to be overkill; perhaps someone could fix the font? maybe it's not that simple... for example, it often happens with I think it is that simple in the case of the

Re: spaces around math insets

I would like to know if I'm the only one having this difficulty. This seems to be a problem with the right brace character. Some other characters also have it. Putting extra marks in seems to be overkill; perhaps someone could fix the font? -- http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rrt1001/ | maxim,

Updating DVI

It may seem helpful that LyX only runs LaTeX to produce the DVI file if the LyX file has changed, or any dependent file, but this is no use if you've changed a style file. Either the dependency information should be total (hard to do) or the Update/View DVI commands should be dumb (much better).

Re: Updating DVI

On Fri, 23 Oct 1998, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: "Reuben" == Reuben Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Reuben It may seem helpful that LyX only runs LaTeX to produce the Reuben DVI file if the LyX file has changed, or any dependent file, Reuben but this is no use if you've chang

Fonts in mathed

It seems to be possible to get most text fonts in mathed, but two seem to be missing: \mathit, and \text (the amsmath command). The former is needed for multi-letter variables and any other italic text that should be normally spaced, and the latter for inserting text into math mode that is

Further experiments in entering text in mathed

When going into math text mode (which results in \mathrm{} in the LaTeX output) it seems impossible to enter punctuation, as this is always put back into math mode. -- http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rrt1001/ | maxim, n. wisdom for fools -- +++ the lyx project user mailing list

Find and replace limitation

After some weeks' use of LyX, I find that my biggest annoyance is with Find and Replace. There are three problems: 1. No incremental search 2. No regular expressions 3. You can't seem to express characters you can't type on the keyboard, so you can't search for ellipsis (\dots) or bits of math

French dictionary needed

I want the French ispell dictionary, but ispell doesn't like the binary I downloaded (wrong magic) and I can't build it from the sources (the buildict script seems to be too old for my version of Perl, but I don't really know enough Perl). So what I need is the compiled and sorted plain text

Focus in Find/Replace

I think that dialogues should always get the focus when they are summoned; at least, this should be the case for find/replace. I find that if it is already open when I summon it, I have to click in it before I can enter a search term, whereas if it was closed, it does get the focus. --

Double spaces while editing

(I'd have thought this would have come up before, but could find no mention of it in the archive.) LyX's behaviour on multiple presses of the space key is fine most of the time, but it feels a bit unnatural when you want to insert a word between two others, as you often find yourself pressing

RE: Preventing hyphenation

\newcommand{\f77}{\mbox{FORTRAN-77}} in the preamble will save you some typing, requiring only \f77 in TeX mode. I only mention it once! 2) Cheat: type - as a minus sign (in math mode). I tried six or seven lines filled of FORTRAN$-$77 (the TeX code for the math minus is $-$), and I got