Re: Choice of fonts in LaTeX

2005-10-24 Thread Karsten Heymann
Hi, Paul schrieb: Also, the italic chapter names in the header at the top of every page (memoir document class) were coming out as an embedded NimbusRomNo9L-Regu-Slant_167 font for some reason. All other italic text was just using a standard Times-Italic non-embedded font. Nimbus Roman is

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

2005-10-24 Thread Herbert Voss
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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,

Re: No one answered a simple topic :(

2005-10-24 Thread Helge Hafting
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just wanna know: What's worth to use, PDF (dvipdfm) or PDF (pdflatex)? And why? pdflatex is much faster, because PDF is produced directly from the .tex file lyx makes. One step only. dvipdfm is slower, as a dvi is produced first, followed by conversion to pdf.

Re: Figure and table side by side

2005-10-24 Thread Helge Hafting
Johan Ingvast wrote: Yes, that's an alternative from using the 1 x 2 table. But my problem is with the captions. I want a table caption for the table and a figure caption for the figure. If I put everything in a figure float both captions will become Figure and vice versa. /johan This

Re: Figure and table side by side

2005-10-24 Thread samar j. singh
On Monday 24 October 2005 15:37, Helge Hafting wrote: Johan Ingvast wrote: Yes, that's an alternative from using the 1 x 2 table. But my problem is with the captions. I want a table caption for the table and a figure caption for the figure. If I put everything in a figure float both

Re: Choice of fonts in LaTeX

2005-10-24 Thread Paul
Karsten Heymann wrote: Also, the italic chapter names in the header at the top of every page (memoir document class) were coming out as an embedded NimbusRomNo9L-Regu-Slant_167 font for some reason. All other italic text was just using a standard Times-Italic non-embedded font. Nimbus Roman

Preamble code from the layout file gets double linespacing

2005-10-24 Thread Helge Hafting
I just tried recompiling todays cvs. Running this lyx gave strange results. Any latex code from the preamble gets double linespacing, like this: \newcommand{\mycommand}{ \something \something } which go wrong, as paragraph breaks are not allowed in commands. I am rebuilding after a make

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

2005-10-24 Thread liliann
Thank you very much! I did manage to get the numbering in front of my own chapter title and also got rid of the space above the chapter title. Great! However, I still have the space at the end of a chapter before a new chapter starts. Can I somehow let a new chapter start on the same page the

Re: Preamble code from the layout file gets double linespacing

2005-10-24 Thread Georg Baum
Helge Hafting wrote: I just tried recompiling todays cvs. Running this lyx gave strange results. Any latex code from the preamble gets double linespacing, like this: \newcommand{\mycommand}{ \something \something } which go wrong, as paragraph breaks are not allowed in

Horizontal Rule

2005-10-24 Thread Daniel Watkins
I'm looking to place a horizontal rule in a document I'm currently working on. However, the standard horizontal rule is ugly (it just goes from one side of the page to the other). How can I tell LyX to put in a line that isn't as long (and what's a typographically good length to have it?)? Thanks

Re: Horizontal Rule

2005-10-24 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Daniel Watkins wrote: I'm looking to place a horizontal rule in a document I'm currently working on. However, the standard horizontal rule is ugly (it just goes from one side of the page to the other). How can I tell LyX to put in a line that isn't as long (and what's a typographically good

Re: Horizontal Rule

2005-10-24 Thread Bruce Pourciau
The Elements of Typographic Style, by Robert Bringhurst, uses horizontal rules only sparingly, but they extend across the type block. Of The Elements, the great Hermann Zapf wrote, I wish to see this book become the Typographers' Bible. Bruce On Monday, October 24, 2005, at 03:01 PM,

Is this possible in lyx?

2005-10-24 Thread Jose Capco
Dear List, I just figured out how to disallow LaTeX to linebreak a math inline formula that resides in the end of a line. Sometimes they turn so awkward when they are breaked in the end of the line. With LaTeX I just type a formula in an \mbox and it solves my problem.. but what about lyx? how

Re: Is this possible in lyx?

2005-10-24 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Jose Capco wrote: Dear List, I just figured out how to disallow LaTeX to linebreak a math inline formula that resides in the end of a line. Sometimes they turn so awkward when they are breaked in the end of the line. With LaTeX I just type a formula in an \mbox and it solves my problem.. but

Re: Horizontal Rule

2005-10-24 Thread Daniel Watkins
The Elements of Typographic Style, by Robert Bringhurst, uses horizontal rules only sparingly, but they extend across the type block. Of The Elements, the great Hermann Zapf wrote, I wish to see this book become the Typographers' Bible. That's as may be, but I'm currently using LyX to

Fwd: Choice of fonts in LaTeX

2005-10-24 Thread Sam Russell
(I assumed the Reply-to: would be the list) On 24/10/05, Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any typographical reason why you might want slanted instead of italic or vice-versa? In the original edition describing TeX Knuth is very very strident about the need for slanted fonts, the wave of

Re: Fwd: Choice of fonts in LaTeX

2005-10-24 Thread Mike Meyer
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Sam Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: (I assumed the Reply-to: would be the list) Bad assumption. The list isn't broken. Knuth also argues in METAFONT that slanted will make it easier for typeface designers to produce multiple faces from a single style. So can they get a

Re: Fwd: Choice of fonts in LaTeX

2005-10-24 Thread Sam Russell
On 25/10/05, Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Knuth also argues in METAFONT that slanted will make it easier for typeface designers to produce multiple faces from a single style. So can they get a slanted face out of an MM font? This is my recollection of Knuth's assertion[1]. Then

Re: Is this possible in lyx?

2005-10-24 Thread Jose Capco
Try writing your formula in LyX the normal way, then putting \mbox{ in ERT to the left of it and } in ERT to the right of it. Paul I just feared that.. so the answer to my question is actually no but yes , oh well.. I guess there is no other way. Thanks Sincerely, Jose Capco

Re: Choice of fonts in LaTeX

2005-10-24 Thread Karsten Heymann
Hi, Paul schrieb: Also, the italic chapter names in the header at the top of every page (memoir document class) were coming out as an embedded NimbusRomNo9L-Regu-Slant_167 font for some reason. All other italic text was just using a standard Times-Italic non-embedded font. Nimbus Roman is

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

2005-10-24 Thread Herbert Voss
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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,

Re: No one answered a simple topic :(

2005-10-24 Thread Helge Hafting
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just wanna know: What's worth to use, PDF (dvipdfm) or PDF (pdflatex)? And why? pdflatex is much faster, because PDF is produced directly from the .tex file lyx makes. One step only. dvipdfm is slower, as a dvi is produced first, followed by conversion to pdf.

Re: Figure and table side by side

2005-10-24 Thread Helge Hafting
Johan Ingvast wrote: Yes, that's an alternative from using the 1 x 2 table. But my problem is with the captions. I want a table caption for the table and a figure caption for the figure. If I put everything in a figure float both captions will become Figure and vice versa. /johan This

Re: Figure and table side by side

2005-10-24 Thread samar j. singh
On Monday 24 October 2005 15:37, Helge Hafting wrote: Johan Ingvast wrote: Yes, that's an alternative from using the 1 x 2 table. But my problem is with the captions. I want a table caption for the table and a figure caption for the figure. If I put everything in a figure float both

Re: Choice of fonts in LaTeX

2005-10-24 Thread Paul
Karsten Heymann wrote: Also, the italic chapter names in the header at the top of every page (memoir document class) were coming out as an embedded NimbusRomNo9L-Regu-Slant_167 font for some reason. All other italic text was just using a standard Times-Italic non-embedded font. Nimbus Roman

Preamble code from the layout file gets double linespacing

2005-10-24 Thread Helge Hafting
I just tried recompiling todays cvs. Running this lyx gave strange results. Any latex code from the preamble gets double linespacing, like this: \newcommand{\mycommand}{ \something \something } which go wrong, as paragraph breaks are not allowed in commands. I am rebuilding after a make

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

2005-10-24 Thread liliann
Thank you very much! I did manage to get the numbering in front of my own chapter title and also got rid of the space above the chapter title. Great! However, I still have the space at the end of a chapter before a new chapter starts. Can I somehow let a new chapter start on the same page the

Re: Preamble code from the layout file gets double linespacing

2005-10-24 Thread Georg Baum
Helge Hafting wrote: I just tried recompiling todays cvs. Running this lyx gave strange results. Any latex code from the preamble gets double linespacing, like this: \newcommand{\mycommand}{ \something \something } which go wrong, as paragraph breaks are not allowed in

Horizontal Rule

2005-10-24 Thread Daniel Watkins
I'm looking to place a horizontal rule in a document I'm currently working on. However, the standard horizontal rule is ugly (it just goes from one side of the page to the other). How can I tell LyX to put in a line that isn't as long (and what's a typographically good length to have it?)? Thanks

Re: Horizontal Rule

2005-10-24 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Daniel Watkins wrote: I'm looking to place a horizontal rule in a document I'm currently working on. However, the standard horizontal rule is ugly (it just goes from one side of the page to the other). How can I tell LyX to put in a line that isn't as long (and what's a typographically good

Re: Horizontal Rule

2005-10-24 Thread Bruce Pourciau
The Elements of Typographic Style, by Robert Bringhurst, uses horizontal rules only sparingly, but they extend across the type block. Of The Elements, the great Hermann Zapf wrote, I wish to see this book become the Typographers' Bible. Bruce On Monday, October 24, 2005, at 03:01 PM,

Is this possible in lyx?

2005-10-24 Thread Jose Capco
Dear List, I just figured out how to disallow LaTeX to linebreak a math inline formula that resides in the end of a line. Sometimes they turn so awkward when they are breaked in the end of the line. With LaTeX I just type a formula in an \mbox and it solves my problem.. but what about lyx? how

Re: Is this possible in lyx?

2005-10-24 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Jose Capco wrote: Dear List, I just figured out how to disallow LaTeX to linebreak a math inline formula that resides in the end of a line. Sometimes they turn so awkward when they are breaked in the end of the line. With LaTeX I just type a formula in an \mbox and it solves my problem.. but

Re: Horizontal Rule

2005-10-24 Thread Daniel Watkins
The Elements of Typographic Style, by Robert Bringhurst, uses horizontal rules only sparingly, but they extend across the type block. Of The Elements, the great Hermann Zapf wrote, I wish to see this book become the Typographers' Bible. That's as may be, but I'm currently using LyX to

Fwd: Choice of fonts in LaTeX

2005-10-24 Thread Sam Russell
(I assumed the Reply-to: would be the list) On 24/10/05, Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any typographical reason why you might want slanted instead of italic or vice-versa? In the original edition describing TeX Knuth is very very strident about the need for slanted fonts, the wave of

Re: Fwd: Choice of fonts in LaTeX

2005-10-24 Thread Mike Meyer
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Sam Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: (I assumed the Reply-to: would be the list) Bad assumption. The list isn't broken. Knuth also argues in METAFONT that slanted will make it easier for typeface designers to produce multiple faces from a single style. So can they get a

Re: Fwd: Choice of fonts in LaTeX

2005-10-24 Thread Sam Russell
On 25/10/05, Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Knuth also argues in METAFONT that slanted will make it easier for typeface designers to produce multiple faces from a single style. So can they get a slanted face out of an MM font? This is my recollection of Knuth's assertion[1]. Then

Re: Is this possible in lyx?

2005-10-24 Thread Jose Capco
Try writing your formula in LyX the normal way, then putting \mbox{ in ERT to the left of it and } in ERT to the right of it. Paul I just feared that.. so the answer to my question is actually no but yes , oh well.. I guess there is no other way. Thanks Sincerely, Jose Capco

Re: Choice of fonts in LaTeX

2005-10-24 Thread Karsten Heymann
Hi, Paul schrieb: Also, the italic chapter names in the header at the top of every page (memoir document class) were coming out as an embedded NimbusRomNo9L-Regu-Slant_167 font for some reason. All other italic text was just using a standard Times-Italic non-embedded font. Nimbus Roman is

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

2005-10-24 Thread Herbert Voss
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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

Re: No one answered a simple topic :(

2005-10-24 Thread Helge Hafting
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just wanna know: What's worth to use, PDF (dvipdfm) or PDF (pdflatex)? And why? pdflatex is much faster, because PDF is produced directly from the .tex file lyx makes. One step only. dvipdfm is slower, as a dvi is produced first, followed by conversion to pdf.

Re: Figure and table side by side

2005-10-24 Thread Helge Hafting
Johan Ingvast wrote: Yes, that's an alternative from using the 1 x 2 table. But my problem is with the captions. I want a table caption for the table and a figure caption for the figure. If I put everything in a figure float both captions will become "Figure" and vice versa. /johan This

Re: Figure and table side by side

2005-10-24 Thread samar j. singh
On Monday 24 October 2005 15:37, Helge Hafting wrote: > Johan Ingvast wrote: > > Yes, that's an alternative from using the 1 x 2 table. But my problem > > is with the captions. I want a table caption for the table and a > > figure caption for the figure. If I put everything in a figure float > >

Re: Choice of fonts in LaTeX

2005-10-24 Thread Paul
Karsten Heymann wrote: >> Also, the italic chapter names in the header at the top of every page >> (memoir document class) were coming out as an embedded >> NimbusRomNo9L-Regu-Slant_167 font for some reason. All other italic >> text was just using a standard Times-Italic non-embedded font. > >

Preamble code from the layout file gets "double linespacing"

2005-10-24 Thread Helge Hafting
I just tried recompiling todays cvs. Running this lyx gave strange results. Any latex code from the preamble gets double linespacing, like this: \newcommand{\mycommand}{ \something \something } which go wrong, as paragraph breaks are not allowed in commands. I am rebuilding after a make

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

2005-10-24 Thread liliann
Thank you very much! I did manage to get the numbering in front of my own chapter title and also got rid of the space above the chapter title. Great! However, I still have the space at the end of a chapter before a new chapter starts. Can I somehow let a new chapter start on the same page the

Re: Preamble code from the layout file gets "double linespacing"

2005-10-24 Thread Georg Baum
Helge Hafting wrote: > I just tried recompiling todays cvs. Running this lyx gave strange > results. Any latex code from the preamble gets double linespacing, > like this: > > \newcommand{\mycommand}{ > > \something > > \something > > } > > > > which go wrong, as paragraph breaks are not

Horizontal Rule

2005-10-24 Thread Daniel Watkins
I'm looking to place a horizontal rule in a document I'm currently working on. However, the standard horizontal rule is ugly (it just goes from one side of the page to the other). How can I tell LyX to put in a line that isn't as long (and what's a typographically good length to have it?)? Thanks

Re: Horizontal Rule

2005-10-24 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Daniel Watkins wrote: I'm looking to place a horizontal rule in a document I'm currently working on. However, the standard horizontal rule is ugly (it just goes from one side of the page to the other). How can I tell LyX to put in a line that isn't as long (and what's a typographically good

Re: Horizontal Rule

2005-10-24 Thread Bruce Pourciau
The Elements of Typographic Style, by Robert Bringhurst, uses horizontal rules only sparingly, but they extend across the type block. Of The Elements, the great Hermann Zapf wrote, "I wish to see this book become the Typographers' Bible." Bruce On Monday, October 24, 2005, at 03:01 PM,

Is this possible in lyx?

2005-10-24 Thread Jose Capco
Dear List, I just figured out how to disallow LaTeX to linebreak a math inline formula that resides in the end of a line. Sometimes they turn so awkward when they are breaked in the end of the line. With LaTeX I just type a formula in an \mbox and it solves my problem.. but what about lyx? how

Re: Is this possible in lyx?

2005-10-24 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Jose Capco wrote: Dear List, I just figured out how to disallow LaTeX to linebreak a math inline formula that resides in the end of a line. Sometimes they turn so awkward when they are breaked in the end of the line. With LaTeX I just type a formula in an \mbox and it solves my problem.. but

Re: Horizontal Rule

2005-10-24 Thread Daniel Watkins
> The Elements of Typographic Style, by Robert Bringhurst, uses > horizontal rules only sparingly, but they extend across the type > block. Of The Elements, the great Hermann Zapf wrote, "I wish to see > this book become the Typographers' Bible." That's as may be, but I'm currently using LyX to

Fwd: Choice of fonts in LaTeX

2005-10-24 Thread Sam Russell
(I assumed the Reply-to: would be the list) On 24/10/05, Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there any typographical reason why you might want slanted instead of > italic or vice-versa? In the original edition describing TeX Knuth is very very strident about the need for slanted fonts, the

Re: Fwd: Choice of fonts in LaTeX

2005-10-24 Thread Mike Meyer
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Sam Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > (I assumed the Reply-to: would be the list) Bad assumption. The list isn't broken. > Knuth also argues in METAFONT that slanted will make it easier for > typeface designers to produce multiple faces from a single style. So can

Re: Fwd: Choice of fonts in LaTeX

2005-10-24 Thread Sam Russell
On 25/10/05, Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Knuth also argues in METAFONT that slanted will make it easier for > > typeface designers to produce multiple faces from a single style. > > So can they get a slanted face out of an MM font? This is my recollection of Knuth's assertion[1].

Re: Is this possible in lyx?

2005-10-24 Thread Jose Capco
> Try writing your formula in LyX the normal way, then > putting \mbox{ in > ERT to the left of it and } in ERT to the right of > it. > > Paul I just feared that.. so the answer to my question is actually "no but yes" , oh well.. I guess there is no other way. Thanks Sincerely, Jose Capco