Re: SVGs with alpha channel transparency

2006-06-22 Thread Jean-Pierre Chretien
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 17:56:40 +0200 (MEST) From: Jean-Pierre Chretien [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: SVGs with alpha channel transparency To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 09:57:10 +1000 From: John Pye [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Jean-Pierre Chretien [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC:

Dash double size

2006-06-22 Thread icebna
Hi all I need that the dash ( - ) to separate words, for example : In the country - near of the coast - a village ... have a double size. It's possible in lyx - 1.3.7 ? Thanks advanced Miguel smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: Dash double size

2006-06-22 Thread Anders Dahnielson
On 6/22/06, icebna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all I need that the dash ( - ) to separate words, for example : In the country - near of the coast - a village ... have a double size. It's possible in lyx - 1.3.7 ? Thanks advanced Miguel To get an N-dash type -- (that's two dashes in a row)

Re: Confused about Lyx's goals -- isn't this supposed to increase productivity?

2006-06-22 Thread Helge Hafting
Jeremy Wells wrote: For some time I have been evaluating Lyx as an academic word processor, but find it wanting in a few critical areas. For instance, the stated goal of Lyx is to spend more time writing, but less time on formatting. Based on my experience, however, and from posts to this

Re: Confused about Lyx's goals -- isn't this supposed to increase productivity?

2006-06-22 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Rich == Rich Shepard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Rich I still don't care about the differences between \textellipsis Rich and \ldots. :-) How did you come up with these \textellipsis, then? InsertSp. CharsEllipsis uses \ldots. JMarc

Re: Easing the editing/correction of LyX documents

2006-06-22 Thread Helge Hafting
Peter Bowyer wrote: Hi, I am one of the people who cannot finds editing documents hard on screen - I end up printing a copy and then working through it with a pen, making changes and restructuring, and then typing the changes up. I didn't find this a problem when using Word because what

Re: SVGs with alpha channel transparency

2006-06-22 Thread Helge Hafting
John Pye wrote: Your approach defeats the purpose of using SVG in the first place, and will result in much large PDF files that I am currently getting. I really want to work out how use my SVG-with-alpha directly in LyX, or at least some vector format that will look OK. I wonder if there's

Re: index

2006-06-22 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Wolfgang == Wolfgang Engelmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Wolfgang if i search for a sequence of words where an index word is Wolfgang inserted, it is not found. Wolfgang Is this intended? No, it is not intended... I can see that some insets should be skipped, indeed. Wolfgang If i index a

Re: Confused about Lyx's goals -- isn't this supposed to increase productivity?

2006-06-22 Thread Steve Litt
On Thursday 22 June 2006 07:22 am, Helge Hafting wrote: Jeremy Wells wrote: For some time I have been evaluating Lyx as an academic word processor, but find it wanting in a few critical areas. For instance, the stated goal of Lyx is to spend more time writing, but less time on

bibtex my.bst

2006-06-22 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Springer publisher wants a certain style for references. I tried to make one by using latex makebst It produced springer.dbj. springer .bst and springer.log in my home. Now I am confused how to proceed. The existing bst files are spread in /usr/local/texlive/.. /usr/share/texmf/..

Typographical/graphical analysis of a document

2006-06-22 Thread Martin A. Hansen
Hello All, I found this document on the BBC news website, which I have reposted here: http://130.226.106.174/~paste/cgi-bin/20_06_06_iap_evolution.pdf And after reading it I thought it would be an interesting exercise to present it to the LyX-users list for thorough criticism with respect to

Re: index

2006-06-22 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Am Donnerstag, 22. Juni 2006 13:52 schrieb Jean-Marc Lasgouttes: Wolfgang == Wolfgang Engelmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Wolfgang if i search for a sequence of words where an index word is Wolfgang inserted, it is not found. Wolfgang Is this intended? No, it is not intended... I can see

Re: SVGs with alpha channel transparency

2006-06-22 Thread Paul Smith
Could somebody please illustrate us about what is alpha-channel transparency? I have searched for it through Google, but found nothing instructive. Paul

Re: index

2006-06-22 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Am Donnerstag, 22. Juni 2006 13:52 schrieb Jean-Marc Lasgouttes: Wolfgang == Wolfgang Engelmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Wolfgang if i search for a sequence of words where an index word is Wolfgang inserted, it is not found. Wolfgang Is this intended? No, it is not intended... I can see

Re: Typographical/graphical analysis of a document

2006-06-22 Thread Les Denham
On Thursday 22 June 2006 07:54, Martin A. Hansen wrote: Hello All, I found this document on the BBC news website, which I have reposted here: http://130.226.106.174/~paste/cgi-bin/20_06_06_iap_evolution.pdf And after reading it I thought it would be an interesting exercise to present it

Re: index

2006-06-22 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Wolfgang == Wolfgang Engelmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How do you index? The right way would be to use Xanthium|emph as index key. If this puzzles you, then you should read the makeindex manual for more info. Wolfgang I just see the misunderstanding. Jean-Marcs proposal Wolfgang converts

Re: bibtex my.bst

2006-06-22 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: Springer publisher wants a certain style for references. I tried to make one by using latex makebst It produced springer.dbj. springer .bst and springer.log in my home. Now I am confused how to proceed. The existing bst files are spread in /usr/local/texlive/..

Re: bibtex my.bst

2006-06-22 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
After reconfiguring LyX, you should be able to select the .bst file from the drop down list of choices. Unless you are using a Springer style file, there is no need for \usepackage{springer}. Jean-Marc, I followed your advice (thanks) and got this error message: LaTeX Error: File

minipage question

2006-06-22 Thread jouke hijlkema
Hello all Is there a lyx way to have a minipage spanning multiple pages ?? Thanks in advance

Re: minipage question

2006-06-22 Thread Ingo Klöcker
Am Donnerstag, 22. Juni 2006 17:18 schrieb jouke hijlkema: Is there a lyx way to have a minipage spanning multiple pages ?? A minipage is just like any other box treated by TeX/LaTeX as a single character. As such, by definition, it cannot span multiple pages. Maybe using a table is a possible

Re: SVGs with alpha channel transparency

2006-06-22 Thread Paul Smith
On 6/22/06, John Pye [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's when you have 4 channels to describe each color: red, green, blue and alpha. alpha is the opacity. If it's 1.0, then you color will show up just as you expect. If it's zero you can see right through to whatever's behind. Software that supports

Re: Windows XP: Aspell for Opera and Lyx conflict

2006-06-22 Thread David Finlayson
You are right. I was able to install both to the same folder c:\aspell and it Opera and Lyx found the versions they were needing. I didn't know about the bug in lyx windows that causes Aspell to ignore the first misspelled word in a document. I was testing it with only one misspelled word in my

Re: minipage question

2006-06-22 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Thu, Jun 22, 2006 at 05:18:13PM +0200, jouke hijlkema wrote: Hello all Is there a lyx way to have a minipage spanning multiple pages ?? There isn't even a LaTeX way. _mini_pages fit onto one page. Andre'

using image created with inkscape

2006-06-22 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
I created a 4-inch wide image in inkscape (using public domain clipart from openclipart.org). I have copies of it here in inkscape SVG format, Tex format using pstricks (as saved by inkscape) and PNG (es exported by inkscape): http://pilchuck.reedmedia.net/jeremy/tmp-x47856vukwakbjejhr/ 1)

Re: using image created with inkscape

2006-06-22 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 22 Jun 2006, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: Any suggestions or pointers on creating good graphics to be used by LyX that will print well for a book? Jeremy, I'm far from a graphics expert, but I know that .eps files easily integrate into a .lyx document and look great in a professionally

Re: using image created with inkscape

2006-06-22 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
I exported my graphic with inkscape to both EPS and Postscript. They both look good when viewed with gv. But they won't load with LyX's Insert-Graphics. They both cause a convert failed. I see that the convertDefault.sh says: # The default converter if no other has been defined by the user

Re: using image created with inkscape

2006-06-22 Thread John Coppens
On Thu, 22 Jun 2006 20:44:06 -0700 (PDT) Jeremy C. Reed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I exported my graphic with inkscape to both EPS and Postscript. They both look good when viewed with gv. But they won't load with LyX's Insert-Graphics. Maybe a bit far-fetched, but 'skencil' loads SVG images,

Re: SVGs with alpha channel transparency

2006-06-22 Thread Jean-Pierre Chretien
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 17:56:40 +0200 (MEST) From: Jean-Pierre Chretien [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: SVGs with alpha channel transparency To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 09:57:10 +1000 From: John Pye [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Jean-Pierre Chretien [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC:

Dash double size

2006-06-22 Thread icebna
Hi all I need that the dash ( - ) to separate words, for example : In the country - near of the coast - a village ... have a double size. It's possible in lyx - 1.3.7 ? Thanks advanced Miguel smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: Dash double size

2006-06-22 Thread Anders Dahnielson
On 6/22/06, icebna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all I need that the dash ( - ) to separate words, for example : In the country - near of the coast - a village ... have a double size. It's possible in lyx - 1.3.7 ? Thanks advanced Miguel To get an N-dash type -- (that's two dashes in a row)

Re: Confused about Lyx's goals -- isn't this supposed to increase productivity?

2006-06-22 Thread Helge Hafting
Jeremy Wells wrote: For some time I have been evaluating Lyx as an academic word processor, but find it wanting in a few critical areas. For instance, the stated goal of Lyx is to spend more time writing, but less time on formatting. Based on my experience, however, and from posts to this

Re: Confused about Lyx's goals -- isn't this supposed to increase productivity?

2006-06-22 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Rich == Rich Shepard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Rich I still don't care about the differences between \textellipsis Rich and \ldots. :-) How did you come up with these \textellipsis, then? InsertSp. CharsEllipsis uses \ldots. JMarc

Re: Easing the editing/correction of LyX documents

2006-06-22 Thread Helge Hafting
Peter Bowyer wrote: Hi, I am one of the people who cannot finds editing documents hard on screen - I end up printing a copy and then working through it with a pen, making changes and restructuring, and then typing the changes up. I didn't find this a problem when using Word because what

Re: SVGs with alpha channel transparency

2006-06-22 Thread Helge Hafting
John Pye wrote: Your approach defeats the purpose of using SVG in the first place, and will result in much large PDF files that I am currently getting. I really want to work out how use my SVG-with-alpha directly in LyX, or at least some vector format that will look OK. I wonder if there's

Re: index

2006-06-22 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Wolfgang == Wolfgang Engelmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Wolfgang if i search for a sequence of words where an index word is Wolfgang inserted, it is not found. Wolfgang Is this intended? No, it is not intended... I can see that some insets should be skipped, indeed. Wolfgang If i index a

Re: Confused about Lyx's goals -- isn't this supposed to increase productivity?

2006-06-22 Thread Steve Litt
On Thursday 22 June 2006 07:22 am, Helge Hafting wrote: Jeremy Wells wrote: For some time I have been evaluating Lyx as an academic word processor, but find it wanting in a few critical areas. For instance, the stated goal of Lyx is to spend more time writing, but less time on

bibtex my.bst

2006-06-22 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Springer publisher wants a certain style for references. I tried to make one by using latex makebst It produced springer.dbj. springer .bst and springer.log in my home. Now I am confused how to proceed. The existing bst files are spread in /usr/local/texlive/.. /usr/share/texmf/..

Typographical/graphical analysis of a document

2006-06-22 Thread Martin A. Hansen
Hello All, I found this document on the BBC news website, which I have reposted here: http://130.226.106.174/~paste/cgi-bin/20_06_06_iap_evolution.pdf And after reading it I thought it would be an interesting exercise to present it to the LyX-users list for thorough criticism with respect to

Re: index

2006-06-22 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Am Donnerstag, 22. Juni 2006 13:52 schrieb Jean-Marc Lasgouttes: Wolfgang == Wolfgang Engelmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Wolfgang if i search for a sequence of words where an index word is Wolfgang inserted, it is not found. Wolfgang Is this intended? No, it is not intended... I can see

Re: SVGs with alpha channel transparency

2006-06-22 Thread Paul Smith
Could somebody please illustrate us about what is alpha-channel transparency? I have searched for it through Google, but found nothing instructive. Paul

Re: index

2006-06-22 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Am Donnerstag, 22. Juni 2006 13:52 schrieb Jean-Marc Lasgouttes: Wolfgang == Wolfgang Engelmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Wolfgang if i search for a sequence of words where an index word is Wolfgang inserted, it is not found. Wolfgang Is this intended? No, it is not intended... I can see

Re: Typographical/graphical analysis of a document

2006-06-22 Thread Les Denham
On Thursday 22 June 2006 07:54, Martin A. Hansen wrote: Hello All, I found this document on the BBC news website, which I have reposted here: http://130.226.106.174/~paste/cgi-bin/20_06_06_iap_evolution.pdf And after reading it I thought it would be an interesting exercise to present it

Re: index

2006-06-22 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Wolfgang == Wolfgang Engelmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How do you index? The right way would be to use Xanthium|emph as index key. If this puzzles you, then you should read the makeindex manual for more info. Wolfgang I just see the misunderstanding. Jean-Marcs proposal Wolfgang converts

Re: bibtex my.bst

2006-06-22 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: Springer publisher wants a certain style for references. I tried to make one by using latex makebst It produced springer.dbj. springer .bst and springer.log in my home. Now I am confused how to proceed. The existing bst files are spread in /usr/local/texlive/..

Re: bibtex my.bst

2006-06-22 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
After reconfiguring LyX, you should be able to select the .bst file from the drop down list of choices. Unless you are using a Springer style file, there is no need for \usepackage{springer}. Jean-Marc, I followed your advice (thanks) and got this error message: LaTeX Error: File

minipage question

2006-06-22 Thread jouke hijlkema
Hello all Is there a lyx way to have a minipage spanning multiple pages ?? Thanks in advance

Re: minipage question

2006-06-22 Thread Ingo Klöcker
Am Donnerstag, 22. Juni 2006 17:18 schrieb jouke hijlkema: Is there a lyx way to have a minipage spanning multiple pages ?? A minipage is just like any other box treated by TeX/LaTeX as a single character. As such, by definition, it cannot span multiple pages. Maybe using a table is a possible

Re: SVGs with alpha channel transparency

2006-06-22 Thread Paul Smith
On 6/22/06, John Pye [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's when you have 4 channels to describe each color: red, green, blue and alpha. alpha is the opacity. If it's 1.0, then you color will show up just as you expect. If it's zero you can see right through to whatever's behind. Software that supports

Re: Windows XP: Aspell for Opera and Lyx conflict

2006-06-22 Thread David Finlayson
You are right. I was able to install both to the same folder c:\aspell and it Opera and Lyx found the versions they were needing. I didn't know about the bug in lyx windows that causes Aspell to ignore the first misspelled word in a document. I was testing it with only one misspelled word in my

Re: minipage question

2006-06-22 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Thu, Jun 22, 2006 at 05:18:13PM +0200, jouke hijlkema wrote: Hello all Is there a lyx way to have a minipage spanning multiple pages ?? There isn't even a LaTeX way. _mini_pages fit onto one page. Andre'

using image created with inkscape

2006-06-22 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
I created a 4-inch wide image in inkscape (using public domain clipart from openclipart.org). I have copies of it here in inkscape SVG format, Tex format using pstricks (as saved by inkscape) and PNG (es exported by inkscape): http://pilchuck.reedmedia.net/jeremy/tmp-x47856vukwakbjejhr/ 1)

Re: using image created with inkscape

2006-06-22 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 22 Jun 2006, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: Any suggestions or pointers on creating good graphics to be used by LyX that will print well for a book? Jeremy, I'm far from a graphics expert, but I know that .eps files easily integrate into a .lyx document and look great in a professionally

Re: using image created with inkscape

2006-06-22 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
I exported my graphic with inkscape to both EPS and Postscript. They both look good when viewed with gv. But they won't load with LyX's Insert-Graphics. They both cause a convert failed. I see that the convertDefault.sh says: # The default converter if no other has been defined by the user

Re: using image created with inkscape

2006-06-22 Thread John Coppens
On Thu, 22 Jun 2006 20:44:06 -0700 (PDT) Jeremy C. Reed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I exported my graphic with inkscape to both EPS and Postscript. They both look good when viewed with gv. But they won't load with LyX's Insert-Graphics. Maybe a bit far-fetched, but 'skencil' loads SVG images,

Re: SVGs with alpha channel transparency

2006-06-22 Thread Jean-Pierre Chretien
>>Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 17:56:40 +0200 (MEST) >>From: Jean-Pierre Chretien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Subject: Re: SVGs with alpha channel transparency >>To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org >> >> Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 09:57:10 +1000 From: John Pye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Jean-Pierre Chretien

Dash double size

2006-06-22 Thread icebna
Hi all I need that the dash ( - ) to separate words, for example : In the country - near of the coast - a village ... have a double size. It's possible in lyx - 1.3.7 ? Thanks advanced Miguel smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: Dash double size

2006-06-22 Thread Anders Dahnielson
On 6/22/06, icebna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all I need that the dash ( - ) to separate words, for example : In the country - near of the coast - a village ... have a double size. It's possible in lyx - 1.3.7 ? Thanks advanced Miguel To get an N-dash type -- (that's two dashes in a

Re: Confused about Lyx's goals -- isn't this supposed to increase productivity?

2006-06-22 Thread Helge Hafting
Jeremy Wells wrote: For some time I have been evaluating Lyx as an academic word processor, but find it wanting in a few critical areas. For instance, the stated goal of Lyx is to spend more time writing, but less time on formatting. Based on my experience, however, and from posts to this

Re: Confused about Lyx's goals -- isn't this supposed to increase productivity?

2006-06-22 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Rich" == Rich Shepard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Rich> I still don't care about the differences between \textellipsis Rich> and \ldots. :-) How did you come up with these \textellipsis, then? Insert>Sp. Chars>Ellipsis uses \ldots. JMarc

Re: Easing the editing/correction of LyX documents

2006-06-22 Thread Helge Hafting
Peter Bowyer wrote: Hi, I am one of the people who cannot finds editing documents hard on screen - I end up printing a copy and then working through it with a pen, making changes and restructuring, and then typing the changes up. I didn't find this a problem when using Word because what

Re: SVGs with alpha channel transparency

2006-06-22 Thread Helge Hafting
John Pye wrote: Your approach defeats the purpose of using SVG in the first place, and will result in much large PDF files that I am currently getting. I really want to work out how use my SVG-with-alpha directly in LyX, or at least some vector format that will look OK. I wonder if there's

Re: index

2006-06-22 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Wolfgang" == Wolfgang Engelmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Wolfgang> if i search for a sequence of words where an index word is Wolfgang> inserted, it is not found. Wolfgang> Is this intended? No, it is not intended... I can see that some insets should be skipped, indeed. Wolfgang> If

Re: Confused about Lyx's goals -- isn't this supposed to increase productivity?

2006-06-22 Thread Steve Litt
On Thursday 22 June 2006 07:22 am, Helge Hafting wrote: > Jeremy Wells wrote: > > For some time I have been evaluating Lyx as an academic word > > processor, but find it wanting in a few critical areas. > > > > For instance, the stated goal of Lyx is to spend more time writing, > > but less time

bibtex my.bst

2006-06-22 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Springer publisher wants a certain style for references. I tried to make one by using latex makebst It produced springer.dbj. springer .bst and springer.log in my home. Now I am confused how to proceed. The existing bst files are spread in /usr/local/texlive/.. /usr/share/texmf/..

Typographical/graphical analysis of a document

2006-06-22 Thread Martin A. Hansen
Hello All, I found this document on the BBC news website, which I have reposted here: http://130.226.106.174/~paste/cgi-bin/20_06_06_iap_evolution.pdf And after reading it I thought it would be an interesting exercise to present it to the LyX-users list for thorough criticism with respect to

Re: index

2006-06-22 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Am Donnerstag, 22. Juni 2006 13:52 schrieb Jean-Marc Lasgouttes: > > "Wolfgang" == Wolfgang Engelmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Wolfgang> if i search for a sequence of words where an index word is > Wolfgang> inserted, it is not found. > > Wolfgang> Is this intended? > > No, it is not

Re: SVGs with alpha channel transparency

2006-06-22 Thread Paul Smith
Could somebody please illustrate us about what is "alpha-channel transparency"? I have searched for it through Google, but found nothing instructive. Paul

Re: index

2006-06-22 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Am Donnerstag, 22. Juni 2006 13:52 schrieb Jean-Marc Lasgouttes: > > "Wolfgang" == Wolfgang Engelmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Wolfgang> if i search for a sequence of words where an index word is > Wolfgang> inserted, it is not found. > > Wolfgang> Is this intended? > > No, it is not

Re: Typographical/graphical analysis of a document

2006-06-22 Thread Les Denham
On Thursday 22 June 2006 07:54, Martin A. Hansen wrote: > Hello All, > > > I found this document on the BBC news website, which I have reposted here: > > http://130.226.106.174/~paste/cgi-bin/20_06_06_iap_evolution.pdf > > And after reading it I thought it would be an interesting exercise to >

Re: index

2006-06-22 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Wolfgang" == Wolfgang Engelmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> How do you index? The right way would be to use "Xanthium|emph" as >> index key. If this puzzles you, then you should read the makeindex >> manual for more info. Wolfgang> I just see the misunderstanding. Jean-Marcs proposal

Re: bibtex my.bst

2006-06-22 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: Springer publisher wants a certain style for references. I tried to make one by using latex makebst It produced springer.dbj. springer .bst and springer.log in my home. Now I am confused how to proceed. The existing bst files are spread in /usr/local/texlive/..

Re: bibtex my.bst

2006-06-22 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
> > After reconfiguring LyX, you should be able to select the .bst file from > the drop down list of choices. Unless you are using a Springer style > file, there is no need for \usepackage{springer}. Jean-Marc, I followed your advice (thanks) and got this error message: LaTeX Error: File

minipage question

2006-06-22 Thread jouke hijlkema
Hello all Is there a lyx way to have a minipage spanning multiple pages ?? Thanks in advance

Re: minipage question

2006-06-22 Thread Ingo Klöcker
Am Donnerstag, 22. Juni 2006 17:18 schrieb jouke hijlkema: > Is there a lyx way to have a minipage spanning multiple pages ?? A minipage is just like any other box treated by TeX/LaTeX as a single character. As such, by definition, it cannot span multiple pages. Maybe using a table is a

Re: SVGs with alpha channel transparency

2006-06-22 Thread Paul Smith
On 6/22/06, John Pye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It's when you have 4 channels to describe each color: red, green, blue and alpha. alpha is the opacity. If it's 1.0, then you color will show up just as you expect. If it's zero you can see right through to whatever's behind. Software that supports

Re: Windows XP: Aspell for Opera and Lyx conflict

2006-06-22 Thread David Finlayson
You are right. I was able to install both to the same folder c:\aspell and it Opera and Lyx found the versions they were needing. I didn't know about the bug in lyx windows that causes Aspell to ignore the first misspelled word in a document. I was testing it with only one misspelled word in my

Re: minipage question

2006-06-22 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Thu, Jun 22, 2006 at 05:18:13PM +0200, jouke hijlkema wrote: > Hello all > > Is there a lyx way to have a minipage spanning multiple pages ?? There isn't even a LaTeX way. _mini_pages fit onto one page. Andre'

using image created with inkscape

2006-06-22 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
I created a 4-inch wide image in inkscape (using public domain clipart from openclipart.org). I have copies of it here in inkscape SVG format, Tex format using pstricks (as saved by inkscape) and PNG (es exported by inkscape): http://pilchuck.reedmedia.net/jeremy/tmp-x47856vukwakbjejhr/ 1)

Re: using image created with inkscape

2006-06-22 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 22 Jun 2006, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: Any suggestions or pointers on creating good graphics to be used by LyX that will print well for a book? Jeremy, I'm far from a graphics expert, but I know that .eps files easily integrate into a .lyx document and look great in a professionally

Re: using image created with inkscape

2006-06-22 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
I exported my graphic with inkscape to both EPS and Postscript. They both look good when viewed with gv. But they won't load with LyX's Insert->Graphics. They both cause a convert failed. I see that the convertDefault.sh says: # The default converter if no other has been defined by the user

Re: using image created with inkscape

2006-06-22 Thread John Coppens
On Thu, 22 Jun 2006 20:44:06 -0700 (PDT) "Jeremy C. Reed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I exported my graphic with inkscape to both EPS and Postscript. They > both look good when viewed with gv. > > But they won't load with LyX's Insert->Graphics. > Maybe a bit far-fetched, but 'skencil' loads