Re: Let's get the Lyx Debian pkg back in sync with upstream

2006-05-13 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 12:58:18PM +0200, Georg Baum wrote: Sven Hoexter wrote: Hi, I'll take a look at your changes aswell but aehm why do you need to compile with gcc/g++ 4.1? I believe that this is the default compiler in unstable. Not yet. At the moment it's still 4.0.3.

Re: Let's get the Lyx Debian pkg back in sync with upstream

2006-05-13 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 03:12:43PM +0200, Charles de Miramon wrote: Sven Hoexter wrote: On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 11:29:15AM +0200, Charles de Miramon wrote: Hi, NOTE: I think it's getting quite off-topic here. IMHO wie should move the package related discussion to this mailinglist:

page margins

2006-05-13 Thread Pol
Any hints to change margins or text length of a special page, overrinding the document global setting? thank you --pol

Re: page margins

2006-05-13 Thread Richard Heck
Define a \newpagestyle that sets the margins and such as you want them for that page. Then, at the beginning of that page: \thispagestyle{whatever}. See http://www.iam.ubc.ca/~newbury/tex/page-set-up.html for information on margin setup. It's possible you can also use the geometry package to do

Lyx 1.4.1 lost classes and views

2006-05-13 Thread Russell Davie
Hi after an upgrade, Lyx has lost the classes and views menu (convert to PS, DIV, ...etc). The commands seem to be installed via synaptic and available on the command line. tetex-bin. tetex-base, tetex-extra, tetex-htm, tex4ht are installed, so is gs, etc. There were no issues installing

Unwanted accent

2006-05-13 Thread brice . thurin
Dear All, I just installed the last version of lyx on windows xp. When i am typing accents ^ appear randomly. This is very frustrating. Could you let me know if there is anyway to get rid of this. Many Thanks Brice

bibtex styles

2006-05-13 Thread Stefan.Zauner
Hi! I need to add new BibTeX sryles to that already integrated in Lyx. How can I do that? I want to use plaindin.bst. It is possible to choose it as source for a bibliography but Lyx throws errors when trying to compile the document. Thanks Stefan

Re: bibtex styles

2006-05-13 Thread Richard Heck
These errors are being thrown by LaTeX. In such cases, it is always helpful to export to LaTeX, compile manually, and look at the LaTeX source to see what the problem is. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! I need to add new BibTeX sryles to that already integrated in Lyx. How can I do that? I

Re: bibtex styles

2006-05-13 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi!   I need to add new BibTeX sryles to that already integrated in Lyx. How can I do that? I want to use plaindin.bst. Put it at a place where LaTeX can find it (e.g. /usr/share/texmf/bibtex/ or ~/texmf/bibtex or others, depending on your LaTeX installation), run

Re: cannot confiogure lyx on WinXP

2006-05-13 Thread Gerhard Schaffer
Stephen Harris wrote: Very well done! It has been a most excellent adventure. I learned something about what dv2dt.exe and dt2dt.exe do to earn their keep. PS: Nevertheless I'll try the new_msys-1.0.dll too and give you a feedback on that matter. I have made an msys installation and copied the

Re: page margins

2006-05-13 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Pol wrote: Any hints to change margins or text length of a special page, overrinding the document global setting? Perhaps this page will help you: http://wiki.lyx.org/uploads/Tips/paperLayout/paperDistances.png (http://wiki.lyx.org/Tips/PaperLayout) regards Uwe

Re: Lyx 1.4.1 lost classes and views

2006-05-13 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Russell Davie wrote: Hi after an upgrade, Lyx has lost the classes and views menu (convert to PS, DIV, ...etc). The commands seem to be installed via synaptic and available on the command line. tetex-bin. tetex-base, tetex-extra, tetex-htm, tex4ht are installed, so is gs, etc. There were

Re: cannot confiogure lyx on WinXP

2006-05-13 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Gerhard Schaffer wrote: \path_prefix C:\msys\1.0\bin;C:\Python24;C:\texmf\miktex\bin; C:\gs\gs8.51\bin;C:\ImageMagick There is an interesting thing, all these Paths point to C: and not to the correct directories, nevertheless Acrobat and Yap are starteed witout problems. Why this ? The path

Re: pdfpages LyX on Windows

2006-05-13 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Eric Zollars wrote: Hello, trying to include a pdf file in my LyX document. This is Lyx 1.3.7-3 on Windows. I have in my preamble: \usepackage{pdfpages} Then in the document ERT: \includepdf{testfile.pdf} When I export to pdflatex, a pdf is created but it does not have the included file.

Re: cannot confiogure lyx on WinXP

2006-05-13 Thread Stephen Harris
Gerhard Schaffer wrote: PS: Nevertheless I'll try the new_msys-1.0.dll too and give you a feedback on that matter. I have made an msys installation and copied the new-msys-1.0.dll to that installation and renamed it to mysy-1.0.dll. Then I added the msys directory to the PATH and

Re: pdfpages LyX on Windows

2006-05-13 Thread Eric Zollars
Eric Zollars wrote: Hello, trying to include a pdf file in my LyX document. This is Lyx 1.3.7-3 on Windows. I have in my preamble: \usepackage{pdfpages} Then in the document ERT: \includepdf{testfile.pdf} When I export to pdflatex, a pdf is created but it does not have the included file.

absolute paths in Windows LyX

2006-05-13 Thread Eric Zollars
pdfpages requires absolute paths to include a pdf file in ERT. Is it possible to enter an absolute path in an ERT box in Windows? Thanks. Eric

Re: Lyx 1.4.1 lost classes and views

2006-05-13 Thread Russell Davie
On Sat, 13 May 2006 17:07:12 -0400 Paul A. Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Russell Davie wrote: Hi after an upgrade, Lyx has lost the classes and views menu (convert to PS, DIV, ...etc). The commands seem to be installed via synaptic and available on the command line.

Re: absolute paths in Windows LyX

2006-05-13 Thread Stephen Harris
Eric Zollars wrote: pdfpages requires absolute paths to include a pdf file in ERT. Is it possible to enter an absolute path in an ERT box in Windows? Thanks. Eric Yes, iirc it is done with forward slashes, {C:/lyxtemp/foo.pdf} I think this applies from the user list thread Paths in

Installation problem on WinXP

2006-05-13 Thread Mario
When trying to install LyX 1.4.1 under Windows XP and selecting spanish as language, an error says Lyx.cmd could not be created and then LyX can not be run because of the Lyx.bat file is missing.

Re: Installation problem on WinXP

2006-05-13 Thread Stephen Harris
Mario wrote: When trying to install LyX 1.4.1 under Windows XP and selecting spanish as language, an error says Lyx.cmd could not be created and then LyX can not be run because of the Lyx.bat file is missing. -- Enrico Forestieri suggested for

Re: Lyx 1.4.1 lost classes and views

2006-05-13 Thread Russell Davie
On Sun, 14 May 2006 10:08:09 +1000 Russell Davie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: after an upgrading tetex from 2.0 to 3.0 (Ubuntu-Dapper), Lyx found latex and the document classes! thanks for your help - R On Sat, 13 May 2006 17:07:12 -0400 Paul A. Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Russell Davie

Re: Let's get the Lyx Debian pkg back in sync with upstream

2006-05-13 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 12:58:18PM +0200, Georg Baum wrote: Sven Hoexter wrote: Hi, I'll take a look at your changes aswell but aehm why do you need to compile with gcc/g++ 4.1? I believe that this is the default compiler in unstable. Not yet. At the moment it's still 4.0.3.

Re: Let's get the Lyx Debian pkg back in sync with upstream

2006-05-13 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 03:12:43PM +0200, Charles de Miramon wrote: Sven Hoexter wrote: On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 11:29:15AM +0200, Charles de Miramon wrote: Hi, NOTE: I think it's getting quite off-topic here. IMHO wie should move the package related discussion to this mailinglist:

page margins

2006-05-13 Thread Pol
Any hints to change margins or text length of a special page, overrinding the document global setting? thank you --pol

Re: page margins

2006-05-13 Thread Richard Heck
Define a \newpagestyle that sets the margins and such as you want them for that page. Then, at the beginning of that page: \thispagestyle{whatever}. See http://www.iam.ubc.ca/~newbury/tex/page-set-up.html for information on margin setup. It's possible you can also use the geometry package to do

Lyx 1.4.1 lost classes and views

2006-05-13 Thread Russell Davie
Hi after an upgrade, Lyx has lost the classes and views menu (convert to PS, DIV, ...etc). The commands seem to be installed via synaptic and available on the command line. tetex-bin. tetex-base, tetex-extra, tetex-htm, tex4ht are installed, so is gs, etc. There were no issues installing

Unwanted accent

2006-05-13 Thread brice . thurin
Dear All, I just installed the last version of lyx on windows xp. When i am typing accents ^ appear randomly. This is very frustrating. Could you let me know if there is anyway to get rid of this. Many Thanks Brice

bibtex styles

2006-05-13 Thread Stefan.Zauner
Hi! I need to add new BibTeX sryles to that already integrated in Lyx. How can I do that? I want to use plaindin.bst. It is possible to choose it as source for a bibliography but Lyx throws errors when trying to compile the document. Thanks Stefan

Re: bibtex styles

2006-05-13 Thread Richard Heck
These errors are being thrown by LaTeX. In such cases, it is always helpful to export to LaTeX, compile manually, and look at the LaTeX source to see what the problem is. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! I need to add new BibTeX sryles to that already integrated in Lyx. How can I do that? I

Re: bibtex styles

2006-05-13 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi!   I need to add new BibTeX sryles to that already integrated in Lyx. How can I do that? I want to use plaindin.bst. Put it at a place where LaTeX can find it (e.g. /usr/share/texmf/bibtex/ or ~/texmf/bibtex or others, depending on your LaTeX installation), run

Re: cannot confiogure lyx on WinXP

2006-05-13 Thread Gerhard Schaffer
Stephen Harris wrote: Very well done! It has been a most excellent adventure. I learned something about what dv2dt.exe and dt2dt.exe do to earn their keep. PS: Nevertheless I'll try the new_msys-1.0.dll too and give you a feedback on that matter. I have made an msys installation and copied the

Re: page margins

2006-05-13 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Pol wrote: Any hints to change margins or text length of a special page, overrinding the document global setting? Perhaps this page will help you: http://wiki.lyx.org/uploads/Tips/paperLayout/paperDistances.png (http://wiki.lyx.org/Tips/PaperLayout) regards Uwe

Re: Lyx 1.4.1 lost classes and views

2006-05-13 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Russell Davie wrote: Hi after an upgrade, Lyx has lost the classes and views menu (convert to PS, DIV, ...etc). The commands seem to be installed via synaptic and available on the command line. tetex-bin. tetex-base, tetex-extra, tetex-htm, tex4ht are installed, so is gs, etc. There were

Re: cannot confiogure lyx on WinXP

2006-05-13 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Gerhard Schaffer wrote: \path_prefix C:\msys\1.0\bin;C:\Python24;C:\texmf\miktex\bin; C:\gs\gs8.51\bin;C:\ImageMagick There is an interesting thing, all these Paths point to C: and not to the correct directories, nevertheless Acrobat and Yap are starteed witout problems. Why this ? The path

Re: pdfpages LyX on Windows

2006-05-13 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Eric Zollars wrote: Hello, trying to include a pdf file in my LyX document. This is Lyx 1.3.7-3 on Windows. I have in my preamble: \usepackage{pdfpages} Then in the document ERT: \includepdf{testfile.pdf} When I export to pdflatex, a pdf is created but it does not have the included file.

Re: cannot confiogure lyx on WinXP

2006-05-13 Thread Stephen Harris
Gerhard Schaffer wrote: PS: Nevertheless I'll try the new_msys-1.0.dll too and give you a feedback on that matter. I have made an msys installation and copied the new-msys-1.0.dll to that installation and renamed it to mysy-1.0.dll. Then I added the msys directory to the PATH and

Re: pdfpages LyX on Windows

2006-05-13 Thread Eric Zollars
Eric Zollars wrote: Hello, trying to include a pdf file in my LyX document. This is Lyx 1.3.7-3 on Windows. I have in my preamble: \usepackage{pdfpages} Then in the document ERT: \includepdf{testfile.pdf} When I export to pdflatex, a pdf is created but it does not have the included file.

absolute paths in Windows LyX

2006-05-13 Thread Eric Zollars
pdfpages requires absolute paths to include a pdf file in ERT. Is it possible to enter an absolute path in an ERT box in Windows? Thanks. Eric

Re: Lyx 1.4.1 lost classes and views

2006-05-13 Thread Russell Davie
On Sat, 13 May 2006 17:07:12 -0400 Paul A. Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Russell Davie wrote: Hi after an upgrade, Lyx has lost the classes and views menu (convert to PS, DIV, ...etc). The commands seem to be installed via synaptic and available on the command line.

Re: absolute paths in Windows LyX

2006-05-13 Thread Stephen Harris
Eric Zollars wrote: pdfpages requires absolute paths to include a pdf file in ERT. Is it possible to enter an absolute path in an ERT box in Windows? Thanks. Eric Yes, iirc it is done with forward slashes, {C:/lyxtemp/foo.pdf} I think this applies from the user list thread Paths in

Installation problem on WinXP

2006-05-13 Thread Mario
When trying to install LyX 1.4.1 under Windows XP and selecting spanish as language, an error says Lyx.cmd could not be created and then LyX can not be run because of the Lyx.bat file is missing.

Re: Installation problem on WinXP

2006-05-13 Thread Stephen Harris
Mario wrote: When trying to install LyX 1.4.1 under Windows XP and selecting spanish as language, an error says Lyx.cmd could not be created and then LyX can not be run because of the Lyx.bat file is missing. -- Enrico Forestieri suggested for

Re: Lyx 1.4.1 lost classes and views

2006-05-13 Thread Russell Davie
On Sun, 14 May 2006 10:08:09 +1000 Russell Davie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: after an upgrading tetex from 2.0 to 3.0 (Ubuntu-Dapper), Lyx found latex and the document classes! thanks for your help - R On Sat, 13 May 2006 17:07:12 -0400 Paul A. Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Russell Davie

Re: Let's get the Lyx Debian pkg back in sync with upstream

2006-05-13 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 12:58:18PM +0200, Georg Baum wrote: > Sven Hoexter wrote: Hi, > > I'll take a look at your changes aswell but aehm why do you need to > > compile with gcc/g++ 4.1? > > I believe that this is the default compiler in unstable. Not yet. At the moment it's still 4.0.3. > >

Re: Let's get the Lyx Debian pkg back in sync with upstream

2006-05-13 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 03:12:43PM +0200, Charles de Miramon wrote: > Sven Hoexter wrote: > > On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 11:29:15AM +0200, Charles de Miramon wrote: Hi, NOTE: I think it's getting quite off-topic here. IMHO wie should move the package related discussion to this mailinglist:

page margins

2006-05-13 Thread Pol
Any hints to change margins or text length of a special page, overrinding the document global setting? thank you --pol

Re: page margins

2006-05-13 Thread Richard Heck
Define a \newpagestyle that sets the margins and such as you want them for that page. Then, at the beginning of that page: \thispagestyle{whatever}. See http://www.iam.ubc.ca/~newbury/tex/page-set-up.html for information on margin setup. It's possible you can also use the geometry package to do

Lyx 1.4.1 lost classes and views

2006-05-13 Thread Russell Davie
Hi after an upgrade, Lyx has lost the classes and views menu (convert to PS, DIV, ...etc). The commands seem to be installed via synaptic and available on the command line. tetex-bin. tetex-base, tetex-extra, tetex-htm, tex4ht are installed, so is gs, etc. There were no issues installing

Unwanted accent

2006-05-13 Thread brice . thurin
Dear All, I just installed the last version of lyx on windows xp. When i am typing accents "^" appear randomly. This is very frustrating. Could you let me know if there is anyway to get rid of this. Many Thanks Brice

bibtex styles

2006-05-13 Thread Stefan.Zauner
Hi! I need to add new BibTeX sryles to that already integrated in Lyx. How can I do that? I want to use plaindin.bst. It is possible to choose it as source for a bibliography but Lyx throws errors when trying to compile the document. Thanks Stefan

Re: bibtex styles

2006-05-13 Thread Richard Heck
These errors are being thrown by LaTeX. In such cases, it is always helpful to export to LaTeX, compile manually, and look at the LaTeX source to see what the problem is. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi! > > I need to add new BibTeX sryles to that already integrated in Lyx. > How can I do that?

Re: bibtex styles

2006-05-13 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi! >   > I need to add new BibTeX sryles to that already integrated in Lyx. > How can I do that? I want to use plaindin.bst. Put it at a place where LaTeX can find it (e.g. /usr/share/texmf/bibtex/ or ~/texmf/bibtex or others, depending on your LaTeX installation),

Re: cannot confiogure lyx on WinXP

2006-05-13 Thread Gerhard Schaffer
Stephen Harris wrote: Very well done! It has been a most excellent adventure. I learned something about what dv2dt.exe and dt2dt.exe do to earn their keep. PS: Nevertheless I'll try the new_msys-1.0.dll too and give you a feedback on that matter. I have made an msys installation and copied the

Re: page margins

2006-05-13 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Pol wrote: Any hints to change margins or text length of a special page, overrinding the document global setting? Perhaps this page will help you: http://wiki.lyx.org/uploads/Tips/paperLayout/paperDistances.png (http://wiki.lyx.org/Tips/PaperLayout) regards Uwe

Re: Lyx 1.4.1 lost classes and views

2006-05-13 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Russell Davie wrote: Hi after an upgrade, Lyx has lost the classes and views menu (convert to PS, DIV, ...etc). The commands seem to be installed via synaptic and available on the command line. tetex-bin. tetex-base, tetex-extra, tetex-htm, tex4ht are installed, so is gs, etc. There were

Re: cannot confiogure lyx on WinXP

2006-05-13 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Gerhard Schaffer wrote: \path_prefix "C:\msys\1.0\bin;C:\Python24;C:\texmf\miktex\bin; C:\gs\gs8.51\bin;C:\ImageMagick" There is an interesting thing, all these Paths point to C: and not to the correct directories, nevertheless Acrobat and Yap are starteed witout problems. Why this ? The

Re: pdfpages LyX on Windows

2006-05-13 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Eric Zollars wrote: Hello, trying to include a pdf file in my LyX document. This is Lyx 1.3.7-3 on Windows. I have in my preamble: \usepackage{pdfpages} Then in the document ERT: \includepdf{testfile.pdf} When I export to pdflatex, a pdf is created but it does not have the included file.

Re: cannot confiogure lyx on WinXP

2006-05-13 Thread Stephen Harris
Gerhard Schaffer wrote: PS: Nevertheless I'll try the new_msys-1.0.dll too and give you a feedback on that matter. I have made an msys installation and copied the new-msys-1.0.dll to that installation and renamed it to mysy-1.0.dll. Then I added the msys directory to the PATH and

Re: pdfpages LyX on Windows

2006-05-13 Thread Eric Zollars
Eric Zollars wrote: Hello, trying to include a pdf file in my LyX document. This is Lyx 1.3.7-3 on Windows. I have in my preamble: \usepackage{pdfpages} Then in the document ERT: \includepdf{testfile.pdf} When I export to pdflatex, a pdf is created but it does not have the included file.

absolute paths in Windows LyX

2006-05-13 Thread Eric Zollars
pdfpages requires absolute paths to include a pdf file in ERT. Is it possible to enter an absolute path in an ERT box in Windows? Thanks. Eric

Re: Lyx 1.4.1 lost classes and views

2006-05-13 Thread Russell Davie
On Sat, 13 May 2006 17:07:12 -0400 "Paul A. Rubin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Russell Davie wrote: > > > > Hi > > > > after an upgrade, Lyx has lost the classes and views menu (convert to PS, > > DIV, ...etc). The commands seem to be installed via synaptic and available > > on the command

Re: absolute paths in Windows LyX

2006-05-13 Thread Stephen Harris
Eric Zollars wrote: pdfpages requires absolute paths to include a pdf file in ERT. Is it possible to enter an absolute path in an ERT box in Windows? Thanks. Eric Yes, iirc it is done with forward slashes, {C:/lyxtemp/foo.pdf} I think this applies from the user list thread "Paths in

Installation problem on WinXP

2006-05-13 Thread Mario
When trying to install LyX 1.4.1 under Windows XP and selecting spanish as language, an error says "Lyx.cmd could not be created" and then LyX can not be run because of the Lyx.bat file is missing.

Re: Installation problem on WinXP

2006-05-13 Thread Stephen Harris
Mario wrote: When trying to install LyX 1.4.1 under Windows XP and selecting spanish as language, an error says "Lyx.cmd could not be created" and then LyX can not be run because of the Lyx.bat file is missing. -- Enrico Forestieri suggested

Re: Lyx 1.4.1 lost classes and views

2006-05-13 Thread Russell Davie
On Sun, 14 May 2006 10:08:09 +1000 Russell Davie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: after an upgrading tetex from 2.0 to 3.0 (Ubuntu-Dapper), Lyx found latex and the document classes! thanks for your help - R > On Sat, 13 May 2006 17:07:12 -0400 > "Paul A. Rubin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >