Re: A debate topic: What can LyX still learn from scientific workplace?

2006-05-24 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, 23 May 2006 20:00:22 -0700 Jan Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: LyX developers already try to make the menus easier and toolbars more available for _all_ users. I don't think Rich resents making things easier, but the completely ignorant notion that making Lyx menus more like Word

Re: A debate topic: What can LyX still learn from scientific workplace?

2006-05-24 Thread Stephen Harris
Micha Feigin wrote: On Tue, 23 May 2006 14:13:51 -0500 David Neeley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rich, I read nothing in Mr. Gonzalez' suggestion that would require that you or anyone else come down to that level. Adding the ability to create a layout from the LyX GUI does not mean that you would

eliminate T1 fonts?

2006-05-24 Thread Eugeny N Dzhurinsky
Hello! For some reason when generating PDF files from LyX, fonts used in these files looks weird under windows. To fix that, I need to export file to TeX, and then remove \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} After that pdflatex does its job fine and PDF file looks great. Is there any way to fix that within

Re: Suse 10.1

2006-05-24 Thread Georg Baum
Declan O'Byrne wrote: Hi all, I've been to the binaries page linked from the lyx.org page, but I can't quite understand if the rpms for lyx 1.4.1 there work on Suse 10.1. Do they? The rpms for SuSE 10.0 could work, just try it. The other ones will probably not work. Georg

Re: A debate topic: What can LyX still learn from scientific workplace?

2006-05-24 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Jan Peters wrote: How difficult would it be to move the Math Panel into the toolbar? You discovered that LyX 1.4 comes with a (limited) math toolbar? Covering everything from the panel in the toolbar is not possible yet, though. Jürgen

Re: A debate topic: What can LyX still learn from scientific workplace?

2006-05-24 Thread Georg Baum
Jan Peters wrote: How difficult would it be to move the Math Panel into the toolbar? You can have most of it already in the toolbar. Have a look at the files lib/ui/default.ui and lib/ui/stdtoolbars.ui. They already define a small math toolbar that is switched off by default. This can be

User math panel

2006-05-24 Thread Jean-Pierre Chretien
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org From: Georg Baum [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: A debate topic: What can LyX still learn from scientific workplace? Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 10:19:36 +0200 [discussion on improvements of the toolobar with more math buttons] Another way to tune the proposed math

Re: User math panel

2006-05-24 Thread Georg Baum
Jean-Pierre Chretien wrote: That will need some more coding, I guesse adapting the current math panel to these needs is not straightforward ? I guess it will require more thinking about the UI than coding (apart from the macros, their design is broken in general). As always, if you want this

Re: A debate topic: What can LyX still learn from scientific workplace?

2006-05-24 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Jan == Jan Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jan Just my 2 cents: The LyX toolbars should be not repeats Word's Jan mistakes but include nice equation editing feature like SWP or Jan Mathtype which are currently hidden in the math panel (which Jan either costs me half my screen or has to be

Re: A debate topic: What can LyX still learn from scientific workplace?

2006-05-24 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Micha == Micha Feigin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Micha My guess, not much, with the toolbar support from qt. You Micha mostly need the ability to have second level (maybe more, I Micha don't use the math panel much), toolbar/menu popups (do the Micha exist by chance ?) and then just implement the

Re: [Pkg-lyx-devel] Re: dvipost (hopefully) ready for Debian

2006-05-24 Thread Per Olofsson
Sven Hoexter: Found it after Georgs hint to look for experimental. An I thought sid is the bleeding-edge of software packaging ;) Oh, sorry, I forgot that I had experimental in my sources. I really thought texlive were in sid. -- Pelle

Re: A debate topic: What can LyX still learn from scientific workplace?

2006-05-24 Thread Enrique S Gonzalez Di Totto
Citando a Stephen Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED]: LyX developers already try to make the menus easier and toolbars more available for _all_ users. I don't think Rich resents making things easier, but the completely ignorant notion that making Lyx menus more like Word menus would accomplish such a

Re: eliminate T1 fonts?

2006-05-24 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Eugeny N Dzhurinsky wrote: Hello! For some reason when generating PDF files from LyX, fonts used in these files looks weird under windows. To fix that, I need to export file to TeX, and then remove \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} After that pdflatex does its job fine and PDF file looks great. Is

Re: eliminate T1 fonts?

2006-05-24 Thread Jose' Matos
On Wednesday 24 May 2006 16:31, Paul A. Rubin wrote: The lmodern fonts (if I got the name right) also apparently work well with PDFs, but require some latex code to use. \usepackage{lmodern} in preamble. ;-) /Paul -- José Abílio

funny math fonts with lyx 1.4.1 on winxp

2006-05-24 Thread John Pye
Hi all I've been using LyX 1.4.2 (from the win installer complete 2-01) on Windows XP. I've found then when I enter math fonts, I get strange effects like \delta showing up as a 'one half' character, and \tau showing up as an upside-down question mark. Presumably this is to do with LyX having a

Re: A debate topic: What can LyX still learn from scientific workplace?

2006-05-24 Thread Steve Litt
On Wednesday 24 May 2006 11:01 am, Enrique S Gonzalez Di Totto wrote: So what I meant to say is that providing the user with a graphical interface where they can create layouts and customize the few usual options for an enviroment (font family, size, spacing, etc.) would allow them to get

Are fonts of LyX code also added into the pdf file?

2006-05-24 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All When using \usepackage{lmodern} pdflatex also adds the typewriter (LyX code) fonts into the pdf file? Thanks in advance, Paul

Re: funny math fonts with lyx 1.4.1 on winxp

2006-05-24 Thread Paul Smith
On 5/24/06, John Pye [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been using LyX 1.4.2 (from the win installer complete 2-01) on Windows XP. I've found then when I enter math fonts, I get strange effects like \delta showing up as a 'one half' character, and \tau showing up as an upside-down question mark.

Re: eliminate T1 fonts?

2006-05-24 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Jose' Matos wrote: On Wednesday 24 May 2006 16:31, Paul A. Rubin wrote: The lmodern fonts (if I got the name right) also apparently work well with PDFs, but require some latex code to use. \usepackage{lmodern} in preamble. ;-) /Paul And what in the font selection drop-down list? Will

Re: eliminate T1 fonts?

2006-05-24 Thread Jose' Matos
On Wednesday 24 May 2006 17:26, Paul A. Rubin wrote: And what in the font selection drop-down list?  Will document default work? Yes. /Paul -- José Abílio

LyX and jurabib

2006-05-24 Thread Anders Dahnielson
Hi folks! I'm new to the users list but not that new to LyX and LaTeX. While trying to figure out how to use jurabib [1] for humanities and LyX this morning I found this half-elegant-workaround-hackish-style-solution-thingy. I don't know if it been reported before, tried to search the archives

Re: A debate topic: What can LyX still learn from scientific workplace?

2006-05-24 Thread Jan Peters
Jan Just my 2 cents: The LyX toolbars should be not repeats Word's Jan mistakes but include nice equation editing feature like SWP or Jan Mathtype which are currently hidden in the math panel (which Jan either costs me half my screen or has to be activated every Jan time). Practical math toolbars

Re: A debate topic: What can LyX still learn from scientific workplace?

2006-05-24 Thread Georg Baum
Jan Peters wrote: 1) it should be possible to activate these without going into the text files, why is there not View-Toolbars-Math,Extra,MiniBuffer,etc menu which allows this? Because nobody implemented it. 2) Why is it still a less pleasant experience to edit an equation in LyX than in

Re: A debate topic: What can LyX still learn from scientific workplace?

2006-05-24 Thread Jan Peters
Thanks, Georg. I knew about the possibility of adding symbols to the toolbar and the little math toolbar is nice. However, what would be needed are buttons where I can click and, e.g., get all symbols as pull-down menu (see the SWP-LyX comparison at http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/

Re: A debate topic: What can LyX still learn from scientific workplace?

2006-05-24 Thread Ernesto Posse
Do you know that we already have a math toolbar. It is disabled by default, and enabling it currently means editing the ui/default.ui file. It can be made to pop up automatically in maths, for those who like these kind of things. Yes, but here come two points: 1) it should be possible to

Math Panel not a window?

2006-05-24 Thread Maria Gouskova
I use Mac OS 10.4.6, LyX 1.4.1, but this was also the case in 1.3.7: The default shortcut for closing a window in the mac bind file is Cmd +W, which closes any open document (as expected). But the Math Panel and other editing windows (e.g., Paragraph Settings, Edit Table) cannot be closed

Re: Math Panel not a window?

2006-05-24 Thread Bennett Helm
On May 24, 2006, at 3:01 PM, Maria Gouskova wrote: I use Mac OS 10.4.6, LyX 1.4.1, but this was also the case in 1.3.7: The default shortcut for closing a window in the mac bind file is Cmd+W, which closes any open document (as expected). But the Math Panel and other editing windows (e.g.,

Re: Math Panel not a window?

2006-05-24 Thread Maria Gouskova
I use Mac OS 10.4.6, LyX 1.4.1, but this was also the case in 1.3.7: The default shortcut for closing a window in the mac bind file is Cmd+W, which closes any open document (as expected). But the Math Panel and other editing windows (e.g., Paragraph Settings, Edit Table) cannot be closed

Re: A debate topic: What can LyX still learn from scientific workplace?

2006-05-24 Thread David A. Case
On Wed, May 24, 2006, Jan Peters wrote: 2) Why is it still a less pleasant experience to edit an equation in LyX than in either MathType (oh horror) or Scientific Workplace? I think this must depend either on what you are most familiar with, or on what you expect. For me, creating and editing

LyX/Mac Update

2006-05-24 Thread Bruce Pourciau
I've been running LyX 1.3.4 on Mac OS 10.2.8, but Computer Services at my university will be updating my office machine to Mac OS 10.4.5 tomorrow. After that, I will be looking to install TeX again and then LyX 1.4.1. Some questions: 1 Any advice on the installation processes? Things to watch

Re: LyX/Mac Update

2006-05-24 Thread Bennett Helm
On May 24, 2006, at 3:40 PM, Bruce Pourciau wrote: I've been running LyX 1.3.4 on Mac OS 10.2.8, but Computer Services at my university will be updating my office machine to Mac OS 10.4.5 tomorrow. After that, I will be looking to install TeX again and then LyX 1.4.1. Some questions: 1

Re: LyX/Mac Update

2006-05-24 Thread Maria Gouskova
I've been running LyX 1.3.4 on Mac OS 10.2.8, but Computer Services at my university will be updating my office machine to Mac OS 10.4.5 tomorrow. After that, I will be looking to install TeX again and then LyX 1.4.1. Some questions: 1 Any advice on the installation processes? Things to

Figure in Header/Footer...

2006-05-24 Thread Peter Broennimann
I am using V1.3.7 on Windows XP I try to have a logo in the left footer of my document. DVI output works fine but exporting with pdflatex generates me several errors... Thanks, Peter _My document class:_ article _Preamble:_ \usepackage{geometry} \geometry{verbose, a4paper,

Re: LyX and jurabib

2006-05-24 Thread jacobkate
Hi, I was very happy to see this message - thanks for your instructions, Anders. I came across the idea of using jurabib and lyx a couple of months ago and really wanted to get it to work for my thesis. However, I wasn't able to work it out, so put it aside until I had more time to look into it.

Re: funny math fonts with lyx 1.4.1 on winxp

2006-05-24 Thread Uwe Stöhr
John Pye wrote: I've been using LyX 1.4.2 (from the win installer complete 2-01) the installer version ships LyX 1.4.1. But anyway: I've found then when I enter math fonts, I get strange effects like \delta showing up as a 'one half' character, and \tau showing up as an upside-down question

Re: funny math fonts with lyx 1.4.1 on winxp

2006-05-24 Thread John Pye
Hi Uwe, Uwe Stöhr wrote: John Pye wrote: I've been using LyX 1.4.2 (from the win installer complete 2-01) the installer version ships LyX 1.4.1. Yes, you're right. I got confused between the 1.4.1 and the 2-01. But anyway: I've found then when I enter math fonts, I get strange

Re: LyX and jurabib

2006-05-24 Thread Bennett Helm
On Thu, 2006-05-25 at 06:58 +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I was very happy to see this message - thanks for your instructions, Anders. I came across the idea of using jurabib and lyx a couple of months ago and really wanted to get it to work for my thesis. However, I wasn't able to work

Re: LyX and jurabib

2006-05-24 Thread jacobkate
Thanks for your response, Bennett - Anders had already pointed out that I was trying to load jurabib twice, so I had worked that out, but your suggestions about how to use lyx and jurabib together are very helpful - particularly not using \footcite and globally defining jurabib options, rather

Re: A debate topic: What can LyX still learn from scientific workplace?

2006-05-24 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, 23 May 2006 20:00:22 -0700 Jan Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: LyX developers already try to make the menus easier and toolbars more available for _all_ users. I don't think Rich resents making things easier, but the completely ignorant notion that making Lyx menus more like Word

Re: A debate topic: What can LyX still learn from scientific workplace?

2006-05-24 Thread Stephen Harris
Micha Feigin wrote: On Tue, 23 May 2006 14:13:51 -0500 David Neeley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rich, I read nothing in Mr. Gonzalez' suggestion that would require that you or anyone else come down to that level. Adding the ability to create a layout from the LyX GUI does not mean that you would

eliminate T1 fonts?

2006-05-24 Thread Eugeny N Dzhurinsky
Hello! For some reason when generating PDF files from LyX, fonts used in these files looks weird under windows. To fix that, I need to export file to TeX, and then remove \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} After that pdflatex does its job fine and PDF file looks great. Is there any way to fix that within

Re: Suse 10.1

2006-05-24 Thread Georg Baum
Declan O'Byrne wrote: Hi all, I've been to the binaries page linked from the lyx.org page, but I can't quite understand if the rpms for lyx 1.4.1 there work on Suse 10.1. Do they? The rpms for SuSE 10.0 could work, just try it. The other ones will probably not work. Georg

Re: A debate topic: What can LyX still learn from scientific workplace?

2006-05-24 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Jan Peters wrote: How difficult would it be to move the Math Panel into the toolbar? You discovered that LyX 1.4 comes with a (limited) math toolbar? Covering everything from the panel in the toolbar is not possible yet, though. Jürgen

Re: A debate topic: What can LyX still learn from scientific workplace?

2006-05-24 Thread Georg Baum
Jan Peters wrote: How difficult would it be to move the Math Panel into the toolbar? You can have most of it already in the toolbar. Have a look at the files lib/ui/default.ui and lib/ui/stdtoolbars.ui. They already define a small math toolbar that is switched off by default. This can be

User math panel

2006-05-24 Thread Jean-Pierre Chretien
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org From: Georg Baum [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: A debate topic: What can LyX still learn from scientific workplace? Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 10:19:36 +0200 [discussion on improvements of the toolobar with more math buttons] Another way to tune the proposed math

Re: User math panel

2006-05-24 Thread Georg Baum
Jean-Pierre Chretien wrote: That will need some more coding, I guesse adapting the current math panel to these needs is not straightforward ? I guess it will require more thinking about the UI than coding (apart from the macros, their design is broken in general). As always, if you want this

Re: A debate topic: What can LyX still learn from scientific workplace?

2006-05-24 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Jan == Jan Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jan Just my 2 cents: The LyX toolbars should be not repeats Word's Jan mistakes but include nice equation editing feature like SWP or Jan Mathtype which are currently hidden in the math panel (which Jan either costs me half my screen or has to be

Re: A debate topic: What can LyX still learn from scientific workplace?

2006-05-24 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Micha == Micha Feigin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Micha My guess, not much, with the toolbar support from qt. You Micha mostly need the ability to have second level (maybe more, I Micha don't use the math panel much), toolbar/menu popups (do the Micha exist by chance ?) and then just implement the

Re: [Pkg-lyx-devel] Re: dvipost (hopefully) ready for Debian

2006-05-24 Thread Per Olofsson
Sven Hoexter: Found it after Georgs hint to look for experimental. An I thought sid is the bleeding-edge of software packaging ;) Oh, sorry, I forgot that I had experimental in my sources. I really thought texlive were in sid. -- Pelle

Re: A debate topic: What can LyX still learn from scientific workplace?

2006-05-24 Thread Enrique S Gonzalez Di Totto
Citando a Stephen Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED]: LyX developers already try to make the menus easier and toolbars more available for _all_ users. I don't think Rich resents making things easier, but the completely ignorant notion that making Lyx menus more like Word menus would accomplish such a

Re: eliminate T1 fonts?

2006-05-24 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Eugeny N Dzhurinsky wrote: Hello! For some reason when generating PDF files from LyX, fonts used in these files looks weird under windows. To fix that, I need to export file to TeX, and then remove \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} After that pdflatex does its job fine and PDF file looks great. Is

Re: eliminate T1 fonts?

2006-05-24 Thread Jose' Matos
On Wednesday 24 May 2006 16:31, Paul A. Rubin wrote: The lmodern fonts (if I got the name right) also apparently work well with PDFs, but require some latex code to use. \usepackage{lmodern} in preamble. ;-) /Paul -- José Abílio

funny math fonts with lyx 1.4.1 on winxp

2006-05-24 Thread John Pye
Hi all I've been using LyX 1.4.2 (from the win installer complete 2-01) on Windows XP. I've found then when I enter math fonts, I get strange effects like \delta showing up as a 'one half' character, and \tau showing up as an upside-down question mark. Presumably this is to do with LyX having a

Re: A debate topic: What can LyX still learn from scientific workplace?

2006-05-24 Thread Steve Litt
On Wednesday 24 May 2006 11:01 am, Enrique S Gonzalez Di Totto wrote: So what I meant to say is that providing the user with a graphical interface where they can create layouts and customize the few usual options for an enviroment (font family, size, spacing, etc.) would allow them to get

Are fonts of LyX code also added into the pdf file?

2006-05-24 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All When using \usepackage{lmodern} pdflatex also adds the typewriter (LyX code) fonts into the pdf file? Thanks in advance, Paul

Re: funny math fonts with lyx 1.4.1 on winxp

2006-05-24 Thread Paul Smith
On 5/24/06, John Pye [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been using LyX 1.4.2 (from the win installer complete 2-01) on Windows XP. I've found then when I enter math fonts, I get strange effects like \delta showing up as a 'one half' character, and \tau showing up as an upside-down question mark.

Re: eliminate T1 fonts?

2006-05-24 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Jose' Matos wrote: On Wednesday 24 May 2006 16:31, Paul A. Rubin wrote: The lmodern fonts (if I got the name right) also apparently work well with PDFs, but require some latex code to use. \usepackage{lmodern} in preamble. ;-) /Paul And what in the font selection drop-down list? Will

Re: eliminate T1 fonts?

2006-05-24 Thread Jose' Matos
On Wednesday 24 May 2006 17:26, Paul A. Rubin wrote: And what in the font selection drop-down list?  Will document default work? Yes. /Paul -- José Abílio

LyX and jurabib

2006-05-24 Thread Anders Dahnielson
Hi folks! I'm new to the users list but not that new to LyX and LaTeX. While trying to figure out how to use jurabib [1] for humanities and LyX this morning I found this half-elegant-workaround-hackish-style-solution-thingy. I don't know if it been reported before, tried to search the archives

Re: A debate topic: What can LyX still learn from scientific workplace?

2006-05-24 Thread Jan Peters
Jan Just my 2 cents: The LyX toolbars should be not repeats Word's Jan mistakes but include nice equation editing feature like SWP or Jan Mathtype which are currently hidden in the math panel (which Jan either costs me half my screen or has to be activated every Jan time). Practical math toolbars

Re: A debate topic: What can LyX still learn from scientific workplace?

2006-05-24 Thread Georg Baum
Jan Peters wrote: 1) it should be possible to activate these without going into the text files, why is there not View-Toolbars-Math,Extra,MiniBuffer,etc menu which allows this? Because nobody implemented it. 2) Why is it still a less pleasant experience to edit an equation in LyX than in

Re: A debate topic: What can LyX still learn from scientific workplace?

2006-05-24 Thread Jan Peters
Thanks, Georg. I knew about the possibility of adding symbols to the toolbar and the little math toolbar is nice. However, what would be needed are buttons where I can click and, e.g., get all symbols as pull-down menu (see the SWP-LyX comparison at http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/

Re: A debate topic: What can LyX still learn from scientific workplace?

2006-05-24 Thread Ernesto Posse
Do you know that we already have a math toolbar. It is disabled by default, and enabling it currently means editing the ui/default.ui file. It can be made to pop up automatically in maths, for those who like these kind of things. Yes, but here come two points: 1) it should be possible to

Math Panel not a window?

2006-05-24 Thread Maria Gouskova
I use Mac OS 10.4.6, LyX 1.4.1, but this was also the case in 1.3.7: The default shortcut for closing a window in the mac bind file is Cmd +W, which closes any open document (as expected). But the Math Panel and other editing windows (e.g., Paragraph Settings, Edit Table) cannot be closed

Re: Math Panel not a window?

2006-05-24 Thread Bennett Helm
On May 24, 2006, at 3:01 PM, Maria Gouskova wrote: I use Mac OS 10.4.6, LyX 1.4.1, but this was also the case in 1.3.7: The default shortcut for closing a window in the mac bind file is Cmd+W, which closes any open document (as expected). But the Math Panel and other editing windows (e.g.,

Re: Math Panel not a window?

2006-05-24 Thread Maria Gouskova
I use Mac OS 10.4.6, LyX 1.4.1, but this was also the case in 1.3.7: The default shortcut for closing a window in the mac bind file is Cmd+W, which closes any open document (as expected). But the Math Panel and other editing windows (e.g., Paragraph Settings, Edit Table) cannot be closed

Re: A debate topic: What can LyX still learn from scientific workplace?

2006-05-24 Thread David A. Case
On Wed, May 24, 2006, Jan Peters wrote: 2) Why is it still a less pleasant experience to edit an equation in LyX than in either MathType (oh horror) or Scientific Workplace? I think this must depend either on what you are most familiar with, or on what you expect. For me, creating and editing

LyX/Mac Update

2006-05-24 Thread Bruce Pourciau
I've been running LyX 1.3.4 on Mac OS 10.2.8, but Computer Services at my university will be updating my office machine to Mac OS 10.4.5 tomorrow. After that, I will be looking to install TeX again and then LyX 1.4.1. Some questions: 1 Any advice on the installation processes? Things to watch

Re: LyX/Mac Update

2006-05-24 Thread Bennett Helm
On May 24, 2006, at 3:40 PM, Bruce Pourciau wrote: I've been running LyX 1.3.4 on Mac OS 10.2.8, but Computer Services at my university will be updating my office machine to Mac OS 10.4.5 tomorrow. After that, I will be looking to install TeX again and then LyX 1.4.1. Some questions: 1

Re: LyX/Mac Update

2006-05-24 Thread Maria Gouskova
I've been running LyX 1.3.4 on Mac OS 10.2.8, but Computer Services at my university will be updating my office machine to Mac OS 10.4.5 tomorrow. After that, I will be looking to install TeX again and then LyX 1.4.1. Some questions: 1 Any advice on the installation processes? Things to

Figure in Header/Footer...

2006-05-24 Thread Peter Broennimann
I am using V1.3.7 on Windows XP I try to have a logo in the left footer of my document. DVI output works fine but exporting with pdflatex generates me several errors... Thanks, Peter _My document class:_ article _Preamble:_ \usepackage{geometry} \geometry{verbose, a4paper,

Re: LyX and jurabib

2006-05-24 Thread jacobkate
Hi, I was very happy to see this message - thanks for your instructions, Anders. I came across the idea of using jurabib and lyx a couple of months ago and really wanted to get it to work for my thesis. However, I wasn't able to work it out, so put it aside until I had more time to look into it.

Re: funny math fonts with lyx 1.4.1 on winxp

2006-05-24 Thread Uwe Stöhr
John Pye wrote: I've been using LyX 1.4.2 (from the win installer complete 2-01) the installer version ships LyX 1.4.1. But anyway: I've found then when I enter math fonts, I get strange effects like \delta showing up as a 'one half' character, and \tau showing up as an upside-down question

Re: funny math fonts with lyx 1.4.1 on winxp

2006-05-24 Thread John Pye
Hi Uwe, Uwe Stöhr wrote: John Pye wrote: I've been using LyX 1.4.2 (from the win installer complete 2-01) the installer version ships LyX 1.4.1. Yes, you're right. I got confused between the 1.4.1 and the 2-01. But anyway: I've found then when I enter math fonts, I get strange

Re: LyX and jurabib

2006-05-24 Thread Bennett Helm
On Thu, 2006-05-25 at 06:58 +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I was very happy to see this message - thanks for your instructions, Anders. I came across the idea of using jurabib and lyx a couple of months ago and really wanted to get it to work for my thesis. However, I wasn't able to work

Re: LyX and jurabib

2006-05-24 Thread jacobkate
Thanks for your response, Bennett - Anders had already pointed out that I was trying to load jurabib twice, so I had worked that out, but your suggestions about how to use lyx and jurabib together are very helpful - particularly not using \footcite and globally defining jurabib options, rather

Re: A debate topic: What can LyX still learn from scientific workplace?

2006-05-24 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, 23 May 2006 20:00:22 -0700 Jan Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > LyX developers already try to make the menus easier and > > toolbars more available for _all_ users. I don't think Rich resents > > making things easier, but the completely ignorant notion that making > > Lyx menus more

Re: A debate topic: What can LyX still learn from scientific workplace?

2006-05-24 Thread Stephen Harris
Micha Feigin wrote: On Tue, 23 May 2006 14:13:51 -0500 "David Neeley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Rich, I read nothing in Mr. Gonzalez' suggestion that would require that you or anyone else "come down to that level." Adding the ability to create a layout from the LyX GUI does not mean that you

eliminate T1 fonts?

2006-05-24 Thread Eugeny N Dzhurinsky
Hello! For some reason when generating PDF files from LyX, fonts used in these files looks weird under windows. To fix that, I need to export file to TeX, and then remove \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} After that pdflatex does its job fine and PDF file looks great. Is there any way to fix that within

Re: Suse 10.1

2006-05-24 Thread Georg Baum
Declan O'Byrne wrote: > Hi all, > > I've been to the binaries page linked from the lyx.org page, but I can't > quite understand if the rpms for lyx 1.4.1 there work on Suse 10.1. Do > they? The rpms for SuSE 10.0 could work, just try it. The other ones will probably not work. Georg

Re: A debate topic: What can LyX still learn from scientific workplace?

2006-05-24 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Jan Peters wrote: > How difficult would it be to move the Math Panel into the toolbar? You discovered that LyX 1.4 comes with a (limited) math toolbar? Covering everything from the panel in the toolbar is not possible yet, though. Jürgen

Re: A debate topic: What can LyX still learn from scientific workplace?

2006-05-24 Thread Georg Baum
Jan Peters wrote: > How difficult would it be to move the Math Panel into the toolbar? You can have most of it already in the toolbar. Have a look at the files lib/ui/default.ui and lib/ui/stdtoolbars.ui. They already define a small math toolbar that is switched off by default. This can be

User math panel

2006-05-24 Thread Jean-Pierre Chretien
>>To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org >>From: Georg Baum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Subject: Re: A debate topic: What can LyX still learn from scientific >>workplace? >>Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 10:19:36 +0200 [discussion on improvements of the toolobar with more math buttons] Another way to tune the proposed

Re: User math panel

2006-05-24 Thread Georg Baum
Jean-Pierre Chretien wrote: > That will need some more coding, I guesse adapting the current math panel > to these needs is not straightforward ? I guess it will require more thinking about the UI than coding (apart from the macros, their design is broken in general). As always, if you want this

Re: A debate topic: What can LyX still learn from scientific workplace?

2006-05-24 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Jan" == Jan Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jan> Just my 2 cents: The LyX toolbars should be not repeats Word's Jan> mistakes but include nice equation editing feature like SWP or Jan> Mathtype which are currently "hidden" in the math panel (which Jan> either costs me half my screen or

Re: A debate topic: What can LyX still learn from scientific workplace?

2006-05-24 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Micha" == Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Micha> My guess, not much, with the toolbar support from qt. You Micha> mostly need the ability to have second level (maybe more, I Micha> don't use the math panel much), toolbar/menu popups (do the Micha> exist by chance ?) and then just

Re: [Pkg-lyx-devel] Re: dvipost (hopefully) ready for Debian

2006-05-24 Thread Per Olofsson
Sven Hoexter: > Found it after Georgs hint to look for experimental. > An I thought sid is the bleeding-edge of software packaging ;) Oh, sorry, I forgot that I had experimental in my sources. I really thought texlive were in sid. -- Pelle

Re: A debate topic: What can LyX still learn from scientific workplace?

2006-05-24 Thread Enrique S Gonzalez Di Totto
Citando a Stephen Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: LyX developers already try to make the menus easier and toolbars more available for _all_ users. I don't think Rich resents making things easier, but the completely ignorant notion that making Lyx menus more like Word menus would accomplish such a

Re: eliminate T1 fonts?

2006-05-24 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Eugeny N Dzhurinsky wrote: Hello! For some reason when generating PDF files from LyX, fonts used in these files looks weird under windows. To fix that, I need to export file to TeX, and then remove \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} After that pdflatex does its job fine and PDF file looks great. Is

Re: eliminate T1 fonts?

2006-05-24 Thread Jose' Matos
On Wednesday 24 May 2006 16:31, Paul A. Rubin wrote: > The lmodern fonts (if I got > the name right) also apparently work well with PDFs, but require some > latex code to use. \usepackage{lmodern} in preamble. ;-) > /Paul -- José Abílio

funny math fonts with lyx 1.4.1 on winxp

2006-05-24 Thread John Pye
Hi all I've been using LyX 1.4.2 (from the win installer complete 2-01) on Windows XP. I've found then when I enter math fonts, I get strange effects like \delta showing up as a 'one half' character, and \tau showing up as an upside-down question mark. Presumably this is to do with LyX having a

Re: A debate topic: What can LyX still learn from scientific workplace?

2006-05-24 Thread Steve Litt
On Wednesday 24 May 2006 11:01 am, Enrique S Gonzalez Di Totto wrote: > So what I meant to say is that providing the user with a graphical > interface where they can create layouts and customize the few usual > options for an enviroment (font family, size, spacing, etc.) would > allow them to get

Are fonts of LyX code also added into the pdf file?

2006-05-24 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All When using \usepackage{lmodern} pdflatex also adds the typewriter (LyX code) fonts into the pdf file? Thanks in advance, Paul

Re: funny math fonts with lyx 1.4.1 on winxp

2006-05-24 Thread Paul Smith
On 5/24/06, John Pye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've been using LyX 1.4.2 (from the win installer complete 2-01) on Windows XP. I've found then when I enter math fonts, I get strange effects like \delta showing up as a 'one half' character, and \tau showing up as an upside-down question mark.

Re: eliminate T1 fonts?

2006-05-24 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Jose' Matos wrote: On Wednesday 24 May 2006 16:31, Paul A. Rubin wrote: The lmodern fonts (if I got the name right) also apparently work well with PDFs, but require some latex code to use. \usepackage{lmodern} in preamble. ;-) /Paul And what in the font selection drop-down list? Will

Re: eliminate T1 fonts?

2006-05-24 Thread Jose' Matos
On Wednesday 24 May 2006 17:26, Paul A. Rubin wrote: > And what in the font selection drop-down list?  Will document default work? Yes. > /Paul -- José Abílio

LyX and jurabib

2006-05-24 Thread Anders Dahnielson
Hi folks! I'm new to the users list but not that new to LyX and LaTeX. While trying to figure out how to use jurabib [1] for humanities and LyX this morning I found this half-elegant-workaround-hackish-style-solution-thingy. I don't know if it been reported before, tried to search the archives

Re: A debate topic: What can LyX still learn from scientific workplace?

2006-05-24 Thread Jan Peters
Jan> Just my 2 cents: The LyX toolbars should be not repeats Word's Jan> mistakes but include nice equation editing feature like SWP or Jan> Mathtype which are currently "hidden" in the math panel (which Jan> either costs me half my screen or has to be activated every Jan> time). Practical math

Re: A debate topic: What can LyX still learn from scientific workplace?

2006-05-24 Thread Georg Baum
Jan Peters wrote: > 1) it should be possible to activate these without going into the text > files, why is there not View->Toolbars->Math,Extra,MiniBuffer,etc > menu which allows this? Because nobody implemented it. > 2) Why is it still a less pleasant experience to edit an equation in > LyX

Re: A debate topic: What can LyX still learn from scientific workplace?

2006-05-24 Thread Jan Peters
Thanks, Georg. I knew about the possibility of adding symbols to the toolbar and the little math toolbar is nice. However, what would be needed are buttons where I can click and, e.g., get all symbols as pull-down menu (see the SWP-LyX comparison at http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/

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