`Un`branch command?

2005-10-21 Thread Sanders, Maarten (M.J.L.)
Hi, Does anyone know the keyboard shortcuts to `Un`branch a block of text in 1.4pre2? Select content, Cut, Paste, Delete empty branch is a bit much. met vriendelijke groet / kind regards, Maarten Sanders

Chapter with numbering but without word chapter

2005-10-21 Thread liliann
Hi! Does anyone know, if it is possible to get rid of the word chapter in the chapter title without losing the numbering as well (using chapter*)? Thank you!!! Liliann

Re: Chapter with numbering but without word chapter

2005-10-21 Thread Uwe Stöhr
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: Does anyone know, if it is possible to get rid of the word chapter in the chapter title without losing the numbering as well (using chapter*)? See the attached example file. I demonstrate the effect for the document language ngerman, see the preamble. regards Uwe

Re: Chapter with numbering but without word chapter

2005-10-21 Thread Paul
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know, if it is possible to get rid of the word chapter in the chapter title without losing the numbering as well (using chapter*)? Assuming you're using the book document class, find the file book.cls. do a search for Chapter and you can see a line like

Choice of fonts in LaTeX

2005-10-21 Thread Paul
I'm trying to understand exactly how LaTeX handles fonts/typefaces. Is there a way to see which fonts are available to LaTeX? I can see several fonts in a /usr/share/texmf/fonts directory (I'm using Debian Linux) and trying \usepackage{fontname} works for most of them, but not all. There's also a

Chapter with numbering but without word chapter - more questions...

2005-10-21 Thread liliann
Hi! Thanks for your advice! Eventhough I'm using the Report style, I still got rid of the word chapter by adding the command (eventhough I had to type it as Tex at the beginning of the document, it wouldn't work in the preamble). Do you by any chance also know, if it is now also possible to

Re: Choice of fonts in LaTeX

2005-10-21 Thread Angus Leeming
Paul wrote: What I need to be sure is that users on different machines running Windows or Mac, with different fonts installed, will still be able to read the PDF document. For example, if they don't have Times or New Century Schoolbook installed, will they still be able to view them? Does it

Re: Choice of fonts in LaTeX

2005-10-21 Thread Paul
Angus Leeming wrote: http://www.etsimo.uniovi.es/pdf/six.htm explains that the PDF standard defines 14 fonts as standard. A standard-conforming reader will be able to display glyphs in these fonts even if they are not embedded in the document. OK so does that mean those fonts (Times,

Re: Choice of fonts in LaTeX

2005-10-21 Thread Angus Leeming
Paul wrote: Angus Leeming wrote: http://www.etsimo.uniovi.es/pdf/six.htm explains that the PDF standard defines 14 fonts as standard. A standard-conforming reader will be able to display glyphs in these fonts even if they are not embedded in the document. OK so does that mean those fonts

Re: Choice of fonts in LaTeX

2005-10-21 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 21 Oct 2005, Paul wrote: Most of my potential readership is going to be using Adobe Acrobat on Windows I imagine. So if I use Times, will that be treated as different from Times New Roman and cause problems for Windows users, or will it silently substitute the font (possibly causing

Re: Environment Button Changes Shape

2005-10-21 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Rich Shepard wrote: This is a minor point, but annoying nonetheless. When I invoke LyX, the environment choice button at the left of the icon bar is small. As soon as I load a beamer document, that button expands to consume about 1/3 the horizontal space in the window. This drives the macro

Re: Chapter with numbering but without word chapter - more questions...

2005-10-21 Thread Uwe Stöhr
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: Do you by any chance also know, if it is now also possible to get the number of the chapter in front of my own chapter title instead of on top of it? And is there a possibility to get around the pagebreaks when a new chapter starts? Please have a look at the book

Re: Choice of fonts in LaTeX

2005-10-21 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Paul wrote: Angus Leeming wrote: http://www.etsimo.uniovi.es/pdf/six.htm explains that the PDF standard defines 14 fonts as standard. A standard-conforming reader will be able to display glyphs in these fonts even if they are not embedded in the document. OK so does that mean those fonts

Re: Environment Button Changes Shape

2005-10-21 Thread Rich Shepard
The environment control is expanding to accommodate the widest entry in the list, which with beamer appears to be ColumnsCenterAligned. If you never use columns, I suppose you could edit ColumnsCenterAligned and ColumnsTopAligned out of the layout file, and then the environment control would not

Re: How to recover dvi - ps - pdf output?

2005-10-21 Thread Stefano Franchi
On Oct 20, 2005, at 9:48 AM, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Stefano Franchi wrote: Thanks Paul, the procedure you mentioned is more or less what I remembered, thanks for the details. But I cannot get it to work. Nothing shows up in either the View or Export menus. I suppose LyX knows what it is

Re: Choice of fonts in LaTeX

2005-10-21 Thread Stefano Franchi
On Oct 21, 2005, at 8:35 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: On Fri, 21 Oct 2005, Paul wrote: Most of my potential readership is going to be using Adobe Acrobat on Windows I imagine. So if I use Times, will that be treated as different from Times New Roman and cause problems for Windows users, or will

Re: [need help with wiki] Re: Excel data sheets

2005-10-21 Thread chr
On Tue, 18 Oct 2005, Sven Schreiber wrote: I just discovered your tips on transferring spreadsheet contents, and I think it's really useful; so I have turned this into a page for the tips section of the Wiki. It should be saved on the Wiki (CopyTablesFromSpreadsheets), but I'm not sure how to

Re: How to recover dvi - ps - pdf output?

2005-10-21 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Stefano Franchi wrote: What I mean is that in View menu I only have one item PDF (pdflatex) . Similarly, in the FileExport menu I LaTeX and PDF(pdflatex). And nothing else. No DVI, dvipdfm, etc. If you can view DVIs but not PDFs with the DVI-PS-PDF route, then the next question is

Re: Choice of fonts in LaTeX

2005-10-21 Thread Paul
Stefano Franchi wrote: If you are willing to spend a few hours (well, more than a few) with Ph. Lehmannn's FontInstallation Guide, you'll be able to install any Postscript Type 1 font you may desire. It consists of a series of tutorials for Fontinst. On the other hand, if portability is a

Re: Choice of fonts in LaTeX

2005-10-21 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Paul wrote: You said about sticking to basic PDF fonts, but I would have thought that it would be the other way round - unusual fonts would be *more* portable because they are actually embedded within the document. I'm not sure that's necessarily true. I think it is up to the software

Re: Choice of fonts in LaTeX

2005-10-21 Thread Johan Ingvast
Paul A. Rubin wrote: Paul wrote: You said about sticking to basic PDF fonts, but I would have thought that it would be the other way round - unusual fonts would be *more* portable because they are actually embedded within the document. I'm not sure that's necessarily true. I think it is

Re: Lyx Bibliography section without numbered entries

2005-10-21 Thread K. Elo
Hi, Lachlan wrote (20.10.2005 14:25): Instead I am using the Lyx Bibliography paragraph style for the first time. It is working fine, but by default produces a bibliography with entries numbered in square brackets. The style required for my history essay is to have the entries unnumbered,

No one answered a simple topic :(

2005-10-21 Thread mywebs2005-lyx
I just wanna know: What's worth to use, PDF (dvipdfm) or PDF (pdflatex)? And why? -- Abraços! Douglas - Promoção Yahoo! Acesso Grátis: a cada hora navegada você acumula cupons e concorre a mais

Marginal notes

2005-10-21 Thread mywebs2005-lyx
Hi there! :) What can I put inside the preamble to do marginal notes automatically became with a smaller font than the text body? (I want the same size that the auto footnotes). Thanks a lot in advance! -- Abraços! Douglas

Re: No one answered a simple topic :(

2005-10-21 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 21 Oct 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just wanna know: What's worth to use, PDF (dvipdfm) or PDF (pdflatex)? And why? Douglas, I've used only pdflatex and it produces everything very well. I have not looked at other output processors because this one works for everything I do.

Re: No one answered a simple topic :(

2005-10-21 Thread Bruce Pourciau
Correct me someone if I'm wrong, but doesn't PDF (pdflatex) fail when the document has graphics in eps format? But PDF will work fine. Don't know about PDF (dvipdfm). Bruce On Friday, October 21, 2005, at 03:23 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just wanna know: What's worth to use, PDF

Re: No one answered a simple topic :(

2005-10-21 Thread Stephen Harris
- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Lyx Contribute lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Friday, October 21, 2005 1:23 PM Subject: No one answered a simple topic :( I just wanna know: What's worth to use, PDF (dvipdfm) or PDF (pdflatex)? And why? -- It depends on what type

Re: No one answered a simple topic :(

2005-10-21 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Stephen Harris wrote: - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Lyx Contribute lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Friday, October 21, 2005 1:23 PM Subject: No one answered a simple topic :( I just wanna know: What's worth to use, PDF (dvipdfm) or PDF (pdflatex)? And why? -- It

Re: No one answered a simple topic :(

2005-10-21 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 21 Oct 2005, Bruce Pourciau wrote: Correct me someone if I'm wrong, but doesn't PDF (pdflatex) fail when the document has graphics in eps format? But PDF will work fine. Don't know about PDF (dvipdfm). Bruce, No. At least, not for me. I use .eps graphics in book, article, report,

Changing the starting number of Exercise

2005-10-21 Thread Hannan Sadar
Hi, I am using Document class: article (AMS,sequential numbering). I would like that my Exercise numbers would start with the number 8. I know the command \setcounter, but i am not foamier with the type of counter so i could not change it by my-self. Thanks

Every one answered a simple topic :-))

2005-10-21 Thread mywebs2005-lyx
I want just thank everybody! I learned too much! -- Abraços! Douglas - Promoção Yahoo! Acesso Grátis: a cada hora navegada você acumula cupons e concorre a mais de 500 prêmios!

Re: Changing the starting number of Exercise

2005-10-21 Thread David L. Johnson
On Sat, 22 Oct 2005 01:13:55 +0200 Hannan Sadar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am using Document class: article (AMS,sequential numbering). I would like that my Exercise numbers would start with the number 8. I know the command \setcounter, but i am not foamier with the type of counter

Re: Changing the starting number of Exercise

2005-10-21 Thread David L. Johnson
On Fri, 21 Oct 2005 21:23:44 -0400 David L. Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 22 Oct 2005 01:13:55 +0200 Hannan Sadar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am using Document class: article (AMS,sequential numbering). I would like that my Exercise numbers would start with the

Re: No one answered a simple topic :(

2005-10-21 Thread Stephen Harris
- Original Message - From: Paul A. Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Friday, October 21, 2005 2:56 PM Subject: Re: No one answered a simple topic :( Stephen Harris wrote: - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Lyx Contribute

`Un`branch command?

2005-10-21 Thread Sanders, Maarten (M.J.L.)
Hi, Does anyone know the keyboard shortcuts to `Un`branch a block of text in 1.4pre2? Select content, Cut, Paste, Delete empty branch is a bit much. met vriendelijke groet / kind regards, Maarten Sanders

Chapter with numbering but without word chapter

2005-10-21 Thread liliann
Hi! Does anyone know, if it is possible to get rid of the word chapter in the chapter title without losing the numbering as well (using chapter*)? Thank you!!! Liliann

Re: Chapter with numbering but without word chapter

2005-10-21 Thread Uwe Stöhr
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: Does anyone know, if it is possible to get rid of the word chapter in the chapter title without losing the numbering as well (using chapter*)? See the attached example file. I demonstrate the effect for the document language ngerman, see the preamble. regards Uwe

Re: Chapter with numbering but without word chapter

2005-10-21 Thread Paul
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know, if it is possible to get rid of the word chapter in the chapter title without losing the numbering as well (using chapter*)? Assuming you're using the book document class, find the file book.cls. do a search for Chapter and you can see a line like

Choice of fonts in LaTeX

2005-10-21 Thread Paul
I'm trying to understand exactly how LaTeX handles fonts/typefaces. Is there a way to see which fonts are available to LaTeX? I can see several fonts in a /usr/share/texmf/fonts directory (I'm using Debian Linux) and trying \usepackage{fontname} works for most of them, but not all. There's also a

Chapter with numbering but without word chapter - more questions...

2005-10-21 Thread liliann
Hi! Thanks for your advice! Eventhough I'm using the Report style, I still got rid of the word chapter by adding the command (eventhough I had to type it as Tex at the beginning of the document, it wouldn't work in the preamble). Do you by any chance also know, if it is now also possible to

Re: Choice of fonts in LaTeX

2005-10-21 Thread Angus Leeming
Paul wrote: What I need to be sure is that users on different machines running Windows or Mac, with different fonts installed, will still be able to read the PDF document. For example, if they don't have Times or New Century Schoolbook installed, will they still be able to view them? Does it

Re: Choice of fonts in LaTeX

2005-10-21 Thread Paul
Angus Leeming wrote: http://www.etsimo.uniovi.es/pdf/six.htm explains that the PDF standard defines 14 fonts as standard. A standard-conforming reader will be able to display glyphs in these fonts even if they are not embedded in the document. OK so does that mean those fonts (Times,

Re: Choice of fonts in LaTeX

2005-10-21 Thread Angus Leeming
Paul wrote: Angus Leeming wrote: http://www.etsimo.uniovi.es/pdf/six.htm explains that the PDF standard defines 14 fonts as standard. A standard-conforming reader will be able to display glyphs in these fonts even if they are not embedded in the document. OK so does that mean those fonts

Re: Choice of fonts in LaTeX

2005-10-21 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 21 Oct 2005, Paul wrote: Most of my potential readership is going to be using Adobe Acrobat on Windows I imagine. So if I use Times, will that be treated as different from Times New Roman and cause problems for Windows users, or will it silently substitute the font (possibly causing

Re: Environment Button Changes Shape

2005-10-21 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Rich Shepard wrote: This is a minor point, but annoying nonetheless. When I invoke LyX, the environment choice button at the left of the icon bar is small. As soon as I load a beamer document, that button expands to consume about 1/3 the horizontal space in the window. This drives the macro

Re: Chapter with numbering but without word chapter - more questions...

2005-10-21 Thread Uwe Stöhr
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: Do you by any chance also know, if it is now also possible to get the number of the chapter in front of my own chapter title instead of on top of it? And is there a possibility to get around the pagebreaks when a new chapter starts? Please have a look at the book

Re: Choice of fonts in LaTeX

2005-10-21 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Paul wrote: Angus Leeming wrote: http://www.etsimo.uniovi.es/pdf/six.htm explains that the PDF standard defines 14 fonts as standard. A standard-conforming reader will be able to display glyphs in these fonts even if they are not embedded in the document. OK so does that mean those fonts

Re: Environment Button Changes Shape

2005-10-21 Thread Rich Shepard
The environment control is expanding to accommodate the widest entry in the list, which with beamer appears to be ColumnsCenterAligned. If you never use columns, I suppose you could edit ColumnsCenterAligned and ColumnsTopAligned out of the layout file, and then the environment control would not

Re: How to recover dvi - ps - pdf output?

2005-10-21 Thread Stefano Franchi
On Oct 20, 2005, at 9:48 AM, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Stefano Franchi wrote: Thanks Paul, the procedure you mentioned is more or less what I remembered, thanks for the details. But I cannot get it to work. Nothing shows up in either the View or Export menus. I suppose LyX knows what it is

Re: Choice of fonts in LaTeX

2005-10-21 Thread Stefano Franchi
On Oct 21, 2005, at 8:35 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: On Fri, 21 Oct 2005, Paul wrote: Most of my potential readership is going to be using Adobe Acrobat on Windows I imagine. So if I use Times, will that be treated as different from Times New Roman and cause problems for Windows users, or will

Re: [need help with wiki] Re: Excel data sheets

2005-10-21 Thread chr
On Tue, 18 Oct 2005, Sven Schreiber wrote: I just discovered your tips on transferring spreadsheet contents, and I think it's really useful; so I have turned this into a page for the tips section of the Wiki. It should be saved on the Wiki (CopyTablesFromSpreadsheets), but I'm not sure how to

Re: How to recover dvi - ps - pdf output?

2005-10-21 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Stefano Franchi wrote: What I mean is that in View menu I only have one item PDF (pdflatex) . Similarly, in the FileExport menu I LaTeX and PDF(pdflatex). And nothing else. No DVI, dvipdfm, etc. If you can view DVIs but not PDFs with the DVI-PS-PDF route, then the next question is

Re: Choice of fonts in LaTeX

2005-10-21 Thread Paul
Stefano Franchi wrote: If you are willing to spend a few hours (well, more than a few) with Ph. Lehmannn's FontInstallation Guide, you'll be able to install any Postscript Type 1 font you may desire. It consists of a series of tutorials for Fontinst. On the other hand, if portability is a

Re: Choice of fonts in LaTeX

2005-10-21 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Paul wrote: You said about sticking to basic PDF fonts, but I would have thought that it would be the other way round - unusual fonts would be *more* portable because they are actually embedded within the document. I'm not sure that's necessarily true. I think it is up to the software

Re: Choice of fonts in LaTeX

2005-10-21 Thread Johan Ingvast
Paul A. Rubin wrote: Paul wrote: You said about sticking to basic PDF fonts, but I would have thought that it would be the other way round - unusual fonts would be *more* portable because they are actually embedded within the document. I'm not sure that's necessarily true. I think it is

Re: Lyx Bibliography section without numbered entries

2005-10-21 Thread K. Elo
Hi, Lachlan wrote (20.10.2005 14:25): Instead I am using the Lyx Bibliography paragraph style for the first time. It is working fine, but by default produces a bibliography with entries numbered in square brackets. The style required for my history essay is to have the entries unnumbered,

No one answered a simple topic :(

2005-10-21 Thread mywebs2005-lyx
I just wanna know: What's worth to use, PDF (dvipdfm) or PDF (pdflatex)? And why? -- Abraços! Douglas - Promoção Yahoo! Acesso Grátis: a cada hora navegada você acumula cupons e concorre a mais

Marginal notes

2005-10-21 Thread mywebs2005-lyx
Hi there! :) What can I put inside the preamble to do marginal notes automatically became with a smaller font than the text body? (I want the same size that the auto footnotes). Thanks a lot in advance! -- Abraços! Douglas

Re: No one answered a simple topic :(

2005-10-21 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 21 Oct 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just wanna know: What's worth to use, PDF (dvipdfm) or PDF (pdflatex)? And why? Douglas, I've used only pdflatex and it produces everything very well. I have not looked at other output processors because this one works for everything I do.

Re: No one answered a simple topic :(

2005-10-21 Thread Bruce Pourciau
Correct me someone if I'm wrong, but doesn't PDF (pdflatex) fail when the document has graphics in eps format? But PDF will work fine. Don't know about PDF (dvipdfm). Bruce On Friday, October 21, 2005, at 03:23 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just wanna know: What's worth to use, PDF

Re: No one answered a simple topic :(

2005-10-21 Thread Stephen Harris
- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Lyx Contribute lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Friday, October 21, 2005 1:23 PM Subject: No one answered a simple topic :( I just wanna know: What's worth to use, PDF (dvipdfm) or PDF (pdflatex)? And why? -- It depends on what type

Re: No one answered a simple topic :(

2005-10-21 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Stephen Harris wrote: - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Lyx Contribute lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Friday, October 21, 2005 1:23 PM Subject: No one answered a simple topic :( I just wanna know: What's worth to use, PDF (dvipdfm) or PDF (pdflatex)? And why? -- It

Re: No one answered a simple topic :(

2005-10-21 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 21 Oct 2005, Bruce Pourciau wrote: Correct me someone if I'm wrong, but doesn't PDF (pdflatex) fail when the document has graphics in eps format? But PDF will work fine. Don't know about PDF (dvipdfm). Bruce, No. At least, not for me. I use .eps graphics in book, article, report,

Changing the starting number of Exercise

2005-10-21 Thread Hannan Sadar
Hi, I am using Document class: article (AMS,sequential numbering). I would like that my Exercise numbers would start with the number 8. I know the command \setcounter, but i am not foamier with the type of counter so i could not change it by my-self. Thanks

Every one answered a simple topic :-))

2005-10-21 Thread mywebs2005-lyx
I want just thank everybody! I learned too much! -- Abraços! Douglas - Promoção Yahoo! Acesso Grátis: a cada hora navegada você acumula cupons e concorre a mais de 500 prêmios!

Re: Changing the starting number of Exercise

2005-10-21 Thread David L. Johnson
On Sat, 22 Oct 2005 01:13:55 +0200 Hannan Sadar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am using Document class: article (AMS,sequential numbering). I would like that my Exercise numbers would start with the number 8. I know the command \setcounter, but i am not foamier with the type of counter

Re: Changing the starting number of Exercise

2005-10-21 Thread David L. Johnson
On Fri, 21 Oct 2005 21:23:44 -0400 David L. Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 22 Oct 2005 01:13:55 +0200 Hannan Sadar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am using Document class: article (AMS,sequential numbering). I would like that my Exercise numbers would start with the

Re: No one answered a simple topic :(

2005-10-21 Thread Stephen Harris
- Original Message - From: Paul A. Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Friday, October 21, 2005 2:56 PM Subject: Re: No one answered a simple topic :( Stephen Harris wrote: - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Lyx Contribute

`Un`branch command?

2005-10-21 Thread Sanders, Maarten (M.J.L.)
Hi, Does anyone know the keyboard shortcuts to `Un`branch a block of text in 1.4pre2? Select content, Cut, Paste, Delete empty branch is a bit much. met vriendelijke groet / kind regards, Maarten Sanders

Chapter with numbering but without word "chapter"

2005-10-21 Thread liliann
Hi! Does anyone know, if it is possible to get rid of the word "chapter" in the chapter title without losing the numbering as well (using chapter*)? Thank you!!! Liliann

Re: Chapter with numbering but without word "chapter"

2005-10-21 Thread Uwe Stöhr
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: Does anyone know, if it is possible to get rid of the word "chapter" in the chapter title without losing the numbering as well (using chapter*)? See the attached example file. I demonstrate the effect for the document language "ngerman", see the preamble. regards

Re: Chapter with numbering but without word "chapter"

2005-10-21 Thread Paul
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Does anyone know, if it is possible to get rid of the word "chapter" in the > chapter title without losing the numbering as well (using chapter*)? Assuming you're using the "book" document class, find the file "book.cls". do a search for "Chapter" and you can see a

Choice of fonts in LaTeX

2005-10-21 Thread Paul
I'm trying to understand exactly how LaTeX handles fonts/typefaces. Is there a way to see which fonts are available to LaTeX? I can see several fonts in a /usr/share/texmf/fonts directory (I'm using Debian Linux) and trying \usepackage{fontname} works for most of them, but not all. There's also a

Chapter with numbering but without word "chapter" - more questions...

2005-10-21 Thread liliann
Hi! Thanks for your advice! Eventhough I'm using the Report style, I still got rid of the word chapter by adding the command (eventhough I had to type it as Tex at the beginning of the document, it wouldn't work in the preamble). Do you by any chance also know, if it is now also possible to

Re: Choice of fonts in LaTeX

2005-10-21 Thread Angus Leeming
Paul wrote: > What I need to be sure is that users on different machines running > Windows or Mac, with different fonts installed, will still be able > to read the PDF document. For example, if they don't have Times or > New Century Schoolbook installed, will they still be able to view > them?

Re: Choice of fonts in LaTeX

2005-10-21 Thread Paul
Angus Leeming wrote: > http://www.etsimo.uniovi.es/pdf/six.htm > explains that the PDF standard defines 14 fonts as "standard". A > standard-conforming reader will be able to display glyphs in these > fonts even if they are not embedded in the document. OK so does that mean those fonts (Times,

Re: Choice of fonts in LaTeX

2005-10-21 Thread Angus Leeming
Paul wrote: > Angus Leeming wrote: >> http://www.etsimo.uniovi.es/pdf/six.htm >> explains that the PDF standard defines 14 fonts as "standard". A >> standard-conforming reader will be able to display glyphs in these >> fonts even if they are not embedded in the document. > > OK so does that mean

Re: Choice of fonts in LaTeX

2005-10-21 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 21 Oct 2005, Paul wrote: Most of my potential readership is going to be using Adobe Acrobat on Windows I imagine. So if I use Times, will that be treated as different from Times New Roman and cause problems for Windows users, or will it silently substitute the font (possibly causing

Re: Environment Button Changes Shape

2005-10-21 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Rich Shepard wrote: This is a minor point, but annoying nonetheless. When I invoke LyX, the environment choice button at the left of the icon bar is small. As soon as I load a beamer document, that button expands to consume about 1/3 the horizontal space in the window. This drives the macro

Re: Chapter with numbering but without word "chapter" - more questions...

2005-10-21 Thread Uwe Stöhr
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: Do you by any chance also know, if it is now also possible to get the number of the chapter in front of my own chapter title instead of on top of it? And is there a possibility to get around the pagebreaks when a new chapter starts? Please have a look at the book

Re: Choice of fonts in LaTeX

2005-10-21 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Paul wrote: Angus Leeming wrote: http://www.etsimo.uniovi.es/pdf/six.htm explains that the PDF standard defines 14 fonts as "standard". A standard-conforming reader will be able to display glyphs in these fonts even if they are not embedded in the document. OK so does that mean those fonts

Re: Environment Button Changes Shape

2005-10-21 Thread Rich Shepard
The environment control is expanding to accommodate the widest entry in the list, which with beamer appears to be ColumnsCenterAligned. If you never use columns, I suppose you could edit ColumnsCenterAligned and ColumnsTopAligned out of the layout file, and then the environment control would not

Re: How to recover dvi -> ps -> pdf output?

2005-10-21 Thread Stefano Franchi
On Oct 20, 2005, at 9:48 AM, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Stefano Franchi wrote: Thanks Paul, the procedure you mentioned is more or less what I remembered, thanks for the details. But I cannot get it to work. Nothing shows up in either the View or Export menus. I suppose LyX knows what it is

Re: Choice of fonts in LaTeX

2005-10-21 Thread Stefano Franchi
On Oct 21, 2005, at 8:35 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: On Fri, 21 Oct 2005, Paul wrote: Most of my potential readership is going to be using Adobe Acrobat on Windows I imagine. So if I use Times, will that be treated as different from Times New Roman and cause problems for Windows users, or will

Re: [need help with wiki] Re: Excel data sheets

2005-10-21 Thread chr
On Tue, 18 Oct 2005, Sven Schreiber wrote: > I just discovered your tips on transferring spreadsheet contents, and I > think it's really useful; so I have turned this into a page for the tips > section of the Wiki. It should be saved on the Wiki > ("CopyTablesFromSpreadsheets"), but I'm not sure

Re: How to recover dvi -> ps -> pdf output?

2005-10-21 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Stefano Franchi wrote: What I mean is that in View menu I only have one item "PDF (pdflatex)" . Similarly, in the File>Export menu I LaTeX and PDF(pdflatex). And nothing else. No DVI, dvipdfm, etc. If you can view DVIs but not PDFs with the DVI->PS->PDF route, then the next question is

Re: Choice of fonts in LaTeX

2005-10-21 Thread Paul
Stefano Franchi wrote: > If you are willing to spend a few hours (well, more than a few) with > Ph. Lehmannn's FontInstallation Guide, you'll be able to install any > Postscript Type 1 font you may desire. It consists of a series of > tutorials for Fontinst. On the other hand, if portability

Re: Choice of fonts in LaTeX

2005-10-21 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Paul wrote: You said about sticking to basic PDF fonts, but I would have thought that it would be the other way round - unusual fonts would be *more* portable because they are actually embedded within the document. I'm not sure that's necessarily true. I think it is up to the software

Re: Choice of fonts in LaTeX

2005-10-21 Thread Johan Ingvast
Paul A. Rubin wrote: Paul wrote: You said about sticking to basic PDF fonts, but I would have thought that it would be the other way round - unusual fonts would be *more* portable because they are actually embedded within the document. I'm not sure that's necessarily true. I think it is

Re: Lyx Bibliography section without numbered entries

2005-10-21 Thread K. Elo
Hi, Lachlan wrote (20.10.2005 14:25): > Instead I am using the Lyx Bibliography paragraph style for the first > time. It is working fine, but by default produces a bibliography > with entries numbered in square brackets. The style required for my > history essay is to have the entries

No one answered a simple topic :(

2005-10-21 Thread mywebs2005-lyx
I just wanna know: What's worth to use, PDF (dvipdfm) or PDF (pdflatex)? And why? -- Abraços! Douglas - Promoção Yahoo! Acesso Grátis: a cada hora navegada você acumula cupons e concorre a mais

Marginal notes

2005-10-21 Thread mywebs2005-lyx
Hi there! :) What can I put inside the preamble to do marginal notes automatically became with a smaller font than the text body? (I want the same size that the auto footnotes). Thanks a lot in advance! -- Abraços! Douglas

Re: No one answered a simple topic :(

2005-10-21 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 21 Oct 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just wanna know: What's worth to use, PDF (dvipdfm) or PDF (pdflatex)? And why? Douglas, I've used only pdflatex and it produces everything very well. I have not looked at other output processors because this one works for everything I do.

Re: No one answered a simple topic :(

2005-10-21 Thread Bruce Pourciau
Correct me someone if I'm wrong, but doesn't PDF (pdflatex) fail when the document has graphics in eps format? But PDF will work fine. Don't know about PDF (dvipdfm). Bruce On Friday, October 21, 2005, at 03:23 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I just wanna know: What's worth to use, PDF

Re: No one answered a simple topic :(

2005-10-21 Thread Stephen Harris
- Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Lyx Contribute" Sent: Friday, October 21, 2005 1:23 PM Subject: No one answered a simple topic :( I just wanna know: What's worth to use, PDF (dvipdfm) or PDF (pdflatex)? And why? -- It depends on what

Re: No one answered a simple topic :(

2005-10-21 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Stephen Harris wrote: - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Lyx Contribute" Sent: Friday, October 21, 2005 1:23 PM Subject: No one answered a simple topic :( I just wanna know: What's worth to use, PDF (dvipdfm) or PDF (pdflatex)? And why? --

Re: No one answered a simple topic :(

2005-10-21 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 21 Oct 2005, Bruce Pourciau wrote: Correct me someone if I'm wrong, but doesn't PDF (pdflatex) fail when the document has graphics in eps format? But PDF will work fine. Don't know about PDF (dvipdfm). Bruce, No. At least, not for me. I use .eps graphics in book, article, report,

Changing the starting number of Exercise

2005-10-21 Thread Hannan Sadar
Hi, I am using Document class: article (AMS,sequential numbering). I would like that my Exercise numbers would start with the number 8. I know the command \setcounter, but i am not foamier with the type of counter so i could not change it by my-self. Thanks

Every one answered a simple topic :-))

2005-10-21 Thread mywebs2005-lyx
I want just thank everybody! I learned too much! -- Abraços! Douglas - Promoção Yahoo! Acesso Grátis: a cada hora navegada você acumula cupons e concorre a mais de 500 prêmios!

Re: Changing the starting number of Exercise

2005-10-21 Thread David L. Johnson
On Sat, 22 Oct 2005 01:13:55 +0200 Hannan Sadar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am using Document class: article (AMS,sequential numbering). > > I would like that my Exercise numbers would start with the number 8. > > I know the command \setcounter, but i am not foamier with the type of

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