Re: Small problem with Lyx142 windows installer

2006-07-17 Thread Steve Harris
Paul A. Rubin wrote: Since Bo also says it does not work (and I'm pretty sure I'm not the only Windows user for whom it does work), perhaps we should be looking for environmental similarities/differences. /Paul I noticed that the python24.dlls were not the same size or date: Directory

Re: The well known *inputenc* problem - what is left from D. Knuths Idea?

2006-07-17 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Heiko Schröder wrote: Writing a single German diphtong goes well with LyX. But if you load the same TeX-File in vim 7.0, substitute that letter with an ASCII-sign, save the file and open again with vim to get the old German letter back, then the latex-dance failes with that annyoing problem,

Re: ANNOUNCE: LyX 1.4.2 is released

2006-07-17 Thread Jean-Pierre Chretien
To: Jean-Pierre Chretien [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: LyX 1.4.2 is released From: Jean-Marc Lasgouttes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 12:07:21 +0200 Jean-Pierre == Jean-Pierre Chretien [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jean-Pierre However, I noticed a

Re: beamer.layout on Windows

2006-07-17 Thread Jose' Matos
On Sunday 16 July 2006 23:01, Paul A. Rubin wrote: I do not think the Windows installer has a Beamer layout at all.  (Is there not some issue with licensing?)  I use the one that Till Tantau ships with Beamer. There is no problem with beamer's license it is the same as LyX (GPL).

Lyx 1.4.2 for Mac OS X?

2006-07-17 Thread Andrea Censi
Hello, is there a Mac binary version available somewhere? Regards, -- Andrea Censi Web: http://www.dis.uniroma1.it/~censi PGP key #569106B2 available on keyservers.

Re: printing multiple 3x5 cards on a single piece of A4

2006-07-17 Thread Jean-Pierre Chretien
Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2006 13:32:36 +0100 From: Pete Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Lyx Users' Lists lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: printing multiple 3x5 cards on a single piece of A4 Hi I have a lyx template which I use for printing onto 3x5 index cards (for GTD stuff). I have been asked if it

Re: beamer.layout on Windows

2006-07-17 Thread Daniel Watkins
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul A. Rubin wrote: I do not think the Windows installer has a Beamer layout at all. (Is there not some issue with licensing?) I use the one that Till Tantau ships with Beamer. As Jose' says, Beamer is GPL-licensed. 'foils'/'foiltex', however,

Re: LyX with JabRef

2006-07-17 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Denis Chung wrote: I would be grateful for any help on how to push citations from JabRef into LyX, if that's possible. I'm using LyX 1.4.1 for Windows, and just installed JabRef 2.0.1. I get an error msg about lyxpipe not working when trying to push the citations. The lyxpipe does not work on

Latex Logfile in Lyx win 32

2006-07-17 Thread Jean-Claude Garreau
Hi, I recently intalled the win32 version of Lyx 1.4.2, and I can't view the Latex logfile. It says No LaTeX log file found. Is there a way to circunvent the problem? Thanks of any information, - Jean-Claude Garreau

please consolidate the documentation

2006-07-17 Thread Sven Schreiber
Dear lyxers, don't know if this is the right list, but anyway: I have tried many times to understand the logic behind the various help documents (tutorial, user guide, extended features, ... and this list goes on), but now I've had enough -- did you know that branches are explained not in

LyX142 DVI

2006-07-17 Thread Mukhtar Ullah
Hi everyone, I have installed LyX142 and have a strange problem. When I include a graphics into my document, the DVI output shows the whole page of the graphics (pdf file) while it should clip to the bounding box. This was working correctly in Lyx141. Now with LyX142, I have to run pdflatex in

Re: please consolidate the documentation

2006-07-17 Thread Martin A. Hansen
agreed! one file would be so nice, because then you could search for a particular keyword you are looking for without having to open all the different help files. and since lyx/latex is so good at sectioning, it would be straight forward to combine them all. martin On 7/17/06, Sven Schreiber

Re: please consolidate the documentation

2006-07-17 Thread Daniel Watkins
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sven Schreiber wrote: So please consolidate the documentation into one file (or let me do it). I promise you, no-one here is going to hold you back, if you're volunteering[*]. :p Dan [Footnote *: Unless, of course, you submit multi-change

Re: please consolidate the documentation

2006-07-17 Thread Paul Smith
On 7/17/06, Martin A. Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: agreed! one file would be so nice, because then you could search for a particular keyword you are looking for without having to open all the different help files. and since lyx/latex is so good at sectioning, it would be straight forward to

AMS article show the language in the page titles

2006-07-17 Thread eris-lyx
Hello, I am brand new to LyX and LaTeX and have a question. When I load the amsart-test.lyx example file and view it as PDF, DVI, or Postscript output, the second and subsequent pages all are titled englishDAVID L. JOHNSON. In my own test document I created using the article (AMS) class, the

Re: please consolidate the documentation

2006-07-17 Thread Sven Schreiber
Daniel Watkins schrieb: Sven Schreiber wrote: So please consolidate the documentation into one file (or let me do it). I promise you, no-one here is going to hold you back, if you're volunteering[*]. :p Well isn't there a documentation team? Maybe they don't think it's a good idea? What

Re: LyX 1.4.2 and pdflatex

2006-07-17 Thread Ed Gatzke
Paul A. Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ed Gatzke wrote: Yes, thanks for a great new version! Things run terrrific for me overall. my silly Alt-F4 to close works in the new version on XP, thanks! Another thing to add to the mystery of alt-F4. I did not see alt-F4 listed as a bug fix in the

Re: Lyx 1.4.2 for Mac OS X?

2006-07-17 Thread Bennett Helm
On Jul 17, 2006, at 3:06 AM, Andrea Censi wrote: Hello, is there a Mac binary version available somewhere? Not yet. I was away when 1.4.2 came out, and when I got back I had a hard disk failure requiring complete re-installation of a whole bunch of development software, which I am

Re: LyX with JabRef

2006-07-17 Thread Nicolás
Hi! I use Jabref with Lyx, but I do not push citations into Lyx from Jabref (so I cannot help you with that). I do not really see the usefulness of doing that (but maybe it is useful for other people). Instead, I insert in my document a Bibtex Bibliograpgy element (Insert-List/TOC-Bibtex

Re: please consolidate the documentation

2006-07-17 Thread Daniel Watkins
Sven Schreiber wrote: Well isn't there a documentation team? AFAIK, you just became it. What would be the recommended way of making a concrete proposal, attach the resulting single lyx file to a message on this list? As this would be around 1.5MB (assuming that you just stuck all of the

Tgif with lyx as equation editor

2006-07-17 Thread Ed Gatzke
I have been using tgif to do vector graphics for a few years and I have been happy with it for simple things. I hacked their equation object code to call lyx for equation editing. You double click an equation image in tgif and it should open a lyx editor with the equation in it. You can

branches cosmetics

2006-07-17 Thread Sven Schreiber
Hi, I've just been working with branches for the first time, and noticed some minor quirks: 1) Apparently one cannot have spaces in branches names? And more importantly, later on the names are not editable? 2) It would be nice to have a function to toggle show/collapse all insets belonging to a

Re: branches cosmetics

2006-07-17 Thread Sven Schreiber
Sven Schreiber schrieb: 2) It would be nice to have a function to toggle show/collapse all insets belonging to a branch. (Or it could be done on (de)activating the branch, but that solution would be inferior imho.) whoops, just noticed that the second thing is already implemented... !

font problem

2006-07-17 Thread William O. Bray
I have been using Lyx for quite awhile now and have run into something I do not have a clue on. I have the latex-xft-fonts installed. In math mode, some greek letters appear as boxes, e.g., \mu, \pi, \rho, \sigma. All other symbols seem to work fine and appear on screen fine. Anybody have a

Re: Tgif with lyx as equation editor

2006-07-17 Thread Georg Baum
Ed Gatzke wrote: I have been using tgif to do vector graphics for a few years and I have been happy with it for simple things. I hacked their equation object code to call lyx for equation editing. Interesting. Also, I saw recently that lyx added native tgif support for the image

Re: please consolidate the documentation

2006-07-17 Thread Andreas K .
Sven Schreiber [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well isn't there a documentation team? I think there is one. At least they have a mailing list. Try sending a mail to their mailing list at lyx-docs@lists.lyx.org Andreas

Strike Out

2006-07-17 Thread Bruce Pourciau
A LaTeX question: I need to produce a horizontal line through a given word, to show how that word in a certain handwritten manuscript was struck out by the author. I tried \usepackage{ulem} in the preamble \sout{wordtobestruckout} in the LyX document as suggested on the web, but \sout was

Re: Strike Out

2006-07-17 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Bruce Pourciau wrote: \usepackage{ulem} in the preamble \sout{wordtobestruckout} in the LyX document as suggested on the web, but \sout was not recognized. Any suggestions? use the package soul instead: \usepackage{soul} in the preamble \st{wordtobestruckout} in the LyX document HTH,

1.4.x (bin) on Dapper?

2006-07-17 Thread Sam Lewis
In the world of ubuntu, are there any binaries for Dapper main? Somewhere? Anyone, any idea? Cheers, Sam

Re: Strike Out

2006-07-17 Thread Bruce Pourciau
Perfect. Thanks, Jürgen. Bruce On Jul 17, 2006, at 10:27 AM, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: Bruce Pourciau wrote: \usepackage{ulem} in the preamble \sout{wordtobestruckout} in the LyX document as suggested on the web, but \sout was not recognized. Any suggestions? use the package soul

Re: 1.4.x (bin) on Dapper?

2006-07-17 Thread Richard Kleeman
Sam Lewis wrote: In the world of ubuntu, are there any binaries for Dapper main? Somewhere? Anyone, any idea? Cheers, Sam Get 1.4.1 debs here for Dapper: http://www.math.nyu.edu/faculty/kleeman/lyxdapper.tar untar them with: tar xvf lyxdapper.tar and they are in a debs subdirectory.

Re: Latex Logfile in Lyx win 32

2006-07-17 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Jean-Claude Garreau wrote: Hi, I recently intalled the win32 version of Lyx 1.4.2, and I can't view the Latex logfile. It says No LaTeX log file found. Is there a way to circunvent the problem? Thanks of any information, The same thing happens to me (in both 1.4.2 and

Re: LyX142 DVI

2006-07-17 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Mukhtar Ullah wrote: Hi everyone, I have installed LyX142 and have a strange problem. When I include a graphics into my document, the DVI output shows the whole page of the graphics (pdf file) while it should clip to the bounding box. This was working correctly in Lyx141. Now with LyX142, I

Re: Latex Logfile in Lyx win 32

2006-07-17 Thread Georg Baum
Paul A. Rubin wrote: Jean-Claude Garreau wrote: Hi, I recently intalled the win32 version of Lyx 1.4.2, and I can't view the Latex logfile. It says No LaTeX log file found. Is there a way to circunvent the problem? Thanks of any information, The same thing happens to me (in both

Re: Small problem with Lyx142 windows installer

2006-07-17 Thread Georg Baum
Steve Harris wrote: I'm not sure that asking if you have a full Python installed is relevant. That was only a shot in the dark, because we have had problems with stripped down python versions in the past. In any event, whatever python is being used, it correctly runs python texfiles.py but

interactive viewing of math symbols

2006-07-17 Thread Shourya Prakash Otta
Hi, I am using Lyx 1.4.2 in windows. I had used earlier Lyx 1.3.6 in Linux. In this older linux version, you can start an equation/equation array and say \alpha and the math symbol for alpha will appear. (assumed that you have the latex-xft fonts installed). I have used this feature

Re: interactive viewing of math symbols

2006-07-17 Thread Bo Peng
I am using Lyx 1.4.2 in windows. I had used earlier Lyx 1.3.6 in Linux. In this older linux version, you can start an equation/equation array and say \alpha and the math symbol for alpha will appear. (assumed that you have the latex-xft fonts installed). I have used this feature extensively.

Re: Tgif with lyx as equation editor

2006-07-17 Thread Ed Gatzke
Also, I saw recently that lyx added native tgif support for the image converter. I have been using tgif forever, exporting to eps for use in lyx. My ImageMagick / convert does not appear to work on my new XP install for converting tgif .obj files to .ppm, but that is ok, I am fine

Re: Latex Logfile in Lyx win 32

2006-07-17 Thread Bo Peng
Please start LyX with the -dbg files switch from a command window. You will see something like Log name calculated as: xxx.log in the command window, where xxx.log is the name of the logfile that LyX tries to read. Does that file exist? This is the output when I start lyx, open faq and close.

Re: interactive viewing of math symbols

2006-07-17 Thread Ed Gatzke
feature extensively. In the windows version, this doesn't work. So, in LyX 1.4.2, is it a feature or a bug? Any ideas or work arounds ? Strange. It works fine here. Repeat after me slowly 1. insert-math-whatever 2. type \alpha followed by blank Do you see the real alpha? Bo Works

Re: Tgif with lyx as equation editor

2006-07-17 Thread Georg Baum
Am Montag, 17. Juli 2006 19:40 schrieb Ed Gatzke: On my XP box, I get garbage. Output at console from lyx: Maybe it is due to me not reinstalling all the peripheral software with the new version update? No. The reason is probably that tgif is not in your path. It should work if you enter

Re: Latex Logfile in Lyx win 32

2006-07-17 Thread Georg Baum
Am Montag, 17. Juli 2006 19:46 schrieb Bo Peng: Please start LyX with the -dbg files switch from a command window. You will see something like Log name calculated as: xxx.log in the command window, where xxx.log is the name of the logfile that LyX tries to read. Does that file

Re: Latex Logfile in Lyx win 32

2006-07-17 Thread Bo Peng
This is the output when I start lyx, open faq and close. The instersiting part would be from somebody with a not working Rescan button, and of course you need to press this button in order to get the output mentioned above. Come on. This is the no log file thread. I start lyx, compile faq,

Re: interactive viewing of math symbols

2006-07-17 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Shourya Prakash Otta wrote: Hi, I am using Lyx 1.4.2 in windows. I had used earlier Lyx 1.3.6 in Linux. In this older linux version, you can start an equation/equation array and say \alpha and the math symbol for alpha will appear. (assumed that you have the latex-xft fonts installed). I

Re: Latex Logfile in Lyx win 32

2006-07-17 Thread Georg Baum
Am Montag, 17. Juli 2006 20:20 schrieb Bo Peng: Come on. This is the no log file thread. I start lyx, compile faq, view the dvi output, but document-latex log has nothing. Sorry, I somehow mixed that up. Of course I meant that you also should view the latex log. Do you really not get a line

Re: Latex Logfile in Lyx win 32

2006-07-17 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Georg Baum wrote: Paul A. Rubin wrote: Jean-Claude Garreau wrote: Hi, I recently intalled the win32 version of Lyx 1.4.2, and I can't view the Latex logfile. It says No LaTeX log file found. Is there a way to circunvent the problem? Thanks of any information, The same thing happens to me

Re: Latex Logfile in Lyx win 32

2006-07-17 Thread Bo Peng
Log name calculated as in that case? That would be strange. I did not seem to see it, but another email says a different story. This encoding problem is interesting: # -*- coding: iso-8859-15 -*- because when I change it to # -*- coding: iso-8859-1 -*- Things work fine. Now, we at

Re: Small problem with Lyx142 windows installer

2006-07-17 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Georg Baum [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: That is strange. On linux Rescan regenerates the files. Please somebody file a bug. After selecting TeX information you can see the following error on the console: File C:/Programmi/LyX14/Resources/scripts/TeXFiles.py, line 2 SyntaxError: encoding

Re: Small problem with Lyx142 windows installer

2006-07-17 Thread Bo Peng
So, after changing the second line of TeXFiles.py from # -*- coding: iso-8859-15 -*- to # -*- coding: iso-8859-1 -*- the error goes away and TeX Information works. I also find this problem, but I do not really know what is going on. I guess 8859-1 is universally available, and we need to

Re: Latex Logfile in Lyx win 32

2006-07-17 Thread Georg Baum
Am Montag, 17. Juli 2006 20:33 schrieb Paul A. Rubin: Yes, and it contains the correct content. Picking up from after where I load the document but just before where I execute View-DraftDVI: Temporary file `C:/Documents and Settings/me/Local Settings/Temp/lyx _tmpdir2000a03080/2000b03080'

Re: Small problem with Lyx142 windows installer

2006-07-17 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Bo Peng [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I also find this problem, but I do not really know what is going on. I guess 8859-1 is universally available, and we need to install some language package to use 8859-15? Or 8859-15 is not supported by windows at all? Maybe some module is missing in the

Re: Small problem with Lyx142 windows installer

2006-07-17 Thread Bo Peng
Maybe some module is missing in the bundled python? You are right, since it is reported that standalone python works. Anyway, it is easier just to change the encoding since I am told that 8859-15 is only useful when the Euro sign is going to be used. Bo

Re: Tgif with lyx as equation editor

2006-07-17 Thread Georg Baum
Am Montag, 17. Juli 2006 21:09 schrieb Enrico Forestieri: Are you using a native windows version of LyX? Are you using cygwin tools? Specifically, is your imagemagick a cygwin version? AFAIK that does not matter, since imagemagick does not know how to handle tgif files. Georg

Re: please consolidate the documentation

2006-07-17 Thread Daniel Watkins
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andreas K. wrote: I think there is one. At least they have a mailing list. Try sending a mail to their mailing list at lyx-docs@lists.lyx.org That has nothing but automatically sent 'Wiki changes' updates. I unsubscribed a while ago, so it may

Re: Prouncing LyX - help with sound file

2006-07-17 Thread Daniel Watkins
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ed Gatzke wrote: Why can't computer people come up with pronounceable names like Windows, Word, and Excel? Because we don't get to be as smug and superior. :p Dan -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.4 (GNU/Linux)

Re: interactive viewing of math symbols

2006-07-17 Thread Shourya Prakash Otta
Thanks Bo. Should have checked it out before sending an email. Looks like any key stroke works, other than a return key. Shourya Bo Peng wrote: I am using Lyx 1.4.2 in windows. I had used earlier Lyx 1.3.6 in Linux. In this older linux version, you can start an equation/equation array and

Re: Small problem with Lyx142 windows installer

2006-07-17 Thread Bo Peng
I have the exact same problem. Could you elaborate exactly what you did? How do your run the texfiles.py file and where should the generated files go? Hi, David and Nicolas, The problem has been identified to be caused by the encoding of the python script lib/scripts/TeXFiles.py. Changing the

Re: Tgif with lyx as equation editor

2006-07-17 Thread Ed Gatzke
Are you using a native windows version of LyX? Are you using cygwin tools? Specifically, is your imagemagick a cygwin version? I am using the new 1.4.2 version on Windows. I am not sure how they compiled it, but I assume they used cygwin. I am running lyx.exe from a cygwin shell (which

Re: Small problem with Lyx142 windows installer

2006-07-17 Thread David Halpern
On 7/17/06, Bo Peng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have the exact same problem. Could you elaborate exactly what you did? How do your run the texfiles.py file and where should the generated files go? Hi, David and Nicolas, The problem has been identified to be caused by the encoding of the

Re: please consolidate the documentation

2006-07-17 Thread Ed Gatzke
agreed! one file would be so nice, because then you could search for a particular keyword you are looking for without having to open all the different help files. and since lyx/latex is so good at sectioning, it would be straight forward to combine them all. It does not take much to

bib to bbl

2006-07-17 Thread Bruce Pourciau
I've got a .bib file and a .bst style file. A journal tells me to make from these a .bbl file, so I can include (as a TeX inset?) the .bbl file in my LyX document and/or cut and paste the .bbl file into the TeX file. Any suggestions on how to make such a .bbl file? I know I need to run

Re: please consolidate the documentation

2006-07-17 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 17 Jul 2006, Ed Gatzke wrote: Change the titles to Parts and copy paste the rest in. Use Insert-Insert File-LyX file. Rich -- Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D. |The Environmental Permitting Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc.(TM)|Accelerator

Re: please consolidate the documentation

2006-07-17 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Mon, 17 Jul 2006, Daniel Watkins wrote: I think there is one. At least they have a mailing list. Try sending a mail to their mailing list at lyx-docs@lists.lyx.org That has nothing but automatically sent 'Wiki changes' updates. I unsubscribed a while ago, so it may ahve changed since.

Re: bib to bbl

2006-07-17 Thread Bruce Pourciau
Actually, I'm told I should run BibTeX on my source tex file, but when I do what I think this means, with a small test file BblTest.tex, I get an error message from BibDesk: cannot open file name BibTest.aux Suggestions? Bruce On Jul 17, 2006, at 3:57 PM, Bruce Pourciau wrote: I've got

Re: bib to bbl

2006-07-17 Thread Richard Heck
Basically, what you need to do is run LaTeX manually instead of letting LyX do it for you. Detailed instructions follow. Let's say your LyX file is /home/you/doc.lyx. Open it in LyX and export your LyX document as LaTeX (FileExportLaTeX). It will turn up as /home/you/doc.tex. Open a terminal and

Re: bib to bbl

2006-07-17 Thread Richard Heck
You have to run latex once on the tex file to create the aux file. BibTeX reads the aux file to find out what references exist in the document. Richard Bruce Pourciau wrote: Actually, I'm told I should run BibTeX on my source tex file, but when I do what I think this means, with a small test

Re: Latex Logfile in Lyx win 32

2006-07-17 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Georg Baum wrote: Am Montag, 17. Juli 2006 20:33 schrieb Paul A. Rubin: Yes, and it contains the correct content. Picking up from after where I load the document but just before where I execute View-DraftDVI: Temporary file `C:/Documents and Settings/me/Local Settings/Temp/lyx

Re: bib to bbl

2006-07-17 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Bruce Pourciau wrote: Actually, I'm told I should run BibTeX on my source tex file, but when I do what I think this means, with a small test file BblTest.tex, I get an error message from BibDesk: cannot open file name BibTest.aux Suggestions? Bruce On Jul 17, 2006, at 3:57 PM, Bruce

Re: Minimum HW requirement

2006-07-17 Thread Helge Hafting
On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 10:10:59AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: On Wednesday 05 July 2006 01:43 am, Alex wrote: Dear all, One student who makes her diplom about Comparing LyX to another Word processors, asked me about the minimum HW required fo LyX. I think her initial question is unfair.

Build RPM-Packages from Lyx 1.4.2. for Suse Linux 10.1

2006-07-17 Thread Holger Schmidt
Hi I try to build a RPM-Package from Lyx 1.4.2 for Suse Linux 10.1. but I have some problems with this. I following the instructions from lyx.rpm READMEA 1. I installed the  xforms 1.0-266 as RPM-Packet (for Suse  Linux 9.1 only as a RPM-Package) 2. The LaTeX - Package are also complete 3.  

Re: Minimum HW requirement

2006-07-17 Thread Helge Hafting
On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 07:43:37AM +0200, Alex wrote: Dear all, One student who makes her diplom about Comparing LyX to another Word processors, asked me about the minimum HW required fo LyX. You'd be hard pressed to come up with a machine capable of running LyX in a bad way. First, the

Re: Minimum HW requirement

2006-07-17 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 18 Jul 2006, Helge Hafting wrote: When something can't be done in LyX, I resort to gimp instead. ;-) Well, gee whiz, Helge, shouldn't this be the other way around? After all, it has been written that a picture is worth a thousand words. That would make your meeting minutes a couple

Re: Split a cell

2006-07-17 Thread Helge Hafting
On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 04:33:38PM +0200, Julio Rojas wrote: The real problem is that I need a cell to use two rows. I know how to join to cells horizontally, but it doesn't seem there's a way to join two cell vertically. This isn't supported, but there are some workarounds: * Table cells can

Re: Small problem with Lyx142 windows installer

2006-07-17 Thread Steve Harris
Georg Baum wrote: Steve Harris wrote: I'm not sure that asking if you have a full Python installed is relevant. That was only a shot in the dark, because we have had problems with stripped down python versions in the past. SH: In that sense it does appear to be relevant. Rescan will work

Re: please consolidate the documentation

2006-07-17 Thread Helge Hafting
On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 01:06:05PM +0200, Sven Schreiber wrote: Dear lyxers, don't know if this is the right list, but anyway: I have tried many times to understand the logic behind the various help documents (tutorial, user guide, extended features, ... and this list goes The logic is

Re: Small problem with Lyx142 windows installer

2006-07-17 Thread Steve Harris
Paul A. Rubin wrote: Steve Harris wrote: SH: I guess that doesn't explain why you having the Python subdir under LyX works ok, but I have to delete that subdir before Tex Information works right. Paul: I have the full Python 2.3 on my system path (relatively early). It's also on my

Re: please consolidate the documentation

2006-07-17 Thread Ed Gatzke
Change the titles to Parts and copy paste the rest in. Use Insert-Insert File-LyX file. Rich I think you miss out on some formatting, and you may have trouble with multiple titles/authors and different preambles. To make one super document, the title of the individual files should

Re: Tgif with lyx as equation editor

2006-07-17 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Ed Gatzke [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Are you using a native windows version of LyX? Are you using cygwin tools? Specifically, is your imagemagick a cygwin version? I am using the new 1.4.2 version on Windows. I am not sure how they compiled it, but I assume they used cygwin. No, that

Re: Minimum HW requirement

2006-07-17 Thread Steve Harris
Helge Hafting wrote: On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 07:43:37AM +0200, Alex wrote: Dear all, One student who makes her diplom about Comparing LyX to another Word processors, asked me about the minimum HW required fo LyX. You'd be hard pressed to come up with a machine capable of running LyX in a bad

Re: LyX 1.4.2 and pdflatex

2006-07-17 Thread Sreekumar Bhaskaran {msbad084}
Do you have GS view. The instant preview didn't work perfectly (didn't show equation signs) when the gs view was not in the path. Once I put it in the path, this seemed to work well.

Re: please consolidate the documentation

2006-07-17 Thread Steve Harris
Ed Gatzke wrote: Change the titles to Parts and copy paste the rest in. Use Insert-Insert File-LyX file. Rich I think you miss out on some formatting, and you may have trouble with multiple titles/authors and different preambles. To make one super document, the title of the

Re: please consolidate the documentation

2006-07-17 Thread Steve Harris
Ed Gatzke wrote: Change the titles to Parts and copy paste the rest in. Use Insert-Insert File-LyX file. Rich I think you miss out on some formatting, and you may have trouble with multiple titles/authors and different preambles. To make one super document, the title of the

Re: Small problem with Lyx142 windows installer

2006-07-17 Thread Steve Harris
Paul A. Rubin wrote: Since Bo also says it does not work (and I'm pretty sure I'm not the only Windows user for whom it does work), perhaps we should be looking for environmental similarities/differences. /Paul I noticed that the python24.dlls were not the same size or date: Directory

Re: The well known *inputenc* problem - what is left from D. Knuths Idea?

2006-07-17 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Heiko Schröder wrote: Writing a single German diphtong goes well with LyX. But if you load the same TeX-File in vim 7.0, substitute that letter with an ASCII-sign, save the file and open again with vim to get the old German letter back, then the latex-dance failes with that annyoing problem,

Re: ANNOUNCE: LyX 1.4.2 is released

2006-07-17 Thread Jean-Pierre Chretien
To: Jean-Pierre Chretien [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: LyX 1.4.2 is released From: Jean-Marc Lasgouttes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 12:07:21 +0200 Jean-Pierre == Jean-Pierre Chretien [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jean-Pierre However, I noticed a

Re: beamer.layout on Windows

2006-07-17 Thread Jose' Matos
On Sunday 16 July 2006 23:01, Paul A. Rubin wrote: I do not think the Windows installer has a Beamer layout at all.  (Is there not some issue with licensing?)  I use the one that Till Tantau ships with Beamer. There is no problem with beamer's license it is the same as LyX (GPL).

Lyx 1.4.2 for Mac OS X?

2006-07-17 Thread Andrea Censi
Hello, is there a Mac binary version available somewhere? Regards, -- Andrea Censi Web: http://www.dis.uniroma1.it/~censi PGP key #569106B2 available on keyservers.

Re: printing multiple 3x5 cards on a single piece of A4

2006-07-17 Thread Jean-Pierre Chretien
Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2006 13:32:36 +0100 From: Pete Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Lyx Users' Lists lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: printing multiple 3x5 cards on a single piece of A4 Hi I have a lyx template which I use for printing onto 3x5 index cards (for GTD stuff). I have been asked if it

Re: beamer.layout on Windows

2006-07-17 Thread Daniel Watkins
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul A. Rubin wrote: I do not think the Windows installer has a Beamer layout at all. (Is there not some issue with licensing?) I use the one that Till Tantau ships with Beamer. As Jose' says, Beamer is GPL-licensed. 'foils'/'foiltex', however,

Re: LyX with JabRef

2006-07-17 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Denis Chung wrote: I would be grateful for any help on how to push citations from JabRef into LyX, if that's possible. I'm using LyX 1.4.1 for Windows, and just installed JabRef 2.0.1. I get an error msg about lyxpipe not working when trying to push the citations. The lyxpipe does not work on

Latex Logfile in Lyx win 32

2006-07-17 Thread Jean-Claude Garreau
Hi, I recently intalled the win32 version of Lyx 1.4.2, and I can't view the Latex logfile. It says No LaTeX log file found. Is there a way to circunvent the problem? Thanks of any information, - Jean-Claude Garreau

please consolidate the documentation

2006-07-17 Thread Sven Schreiber
Dear lyxers, don't know if this is the right list, but anyway: I have tried many times to understand the logic behind the various help documents (tutorial, user guide, extended features, ... and this list goes on), but now I've had enough -- did you know that branches are explained not in

LyX142 DVI

2006-07-17 Thread Mukhtar Ullah
Hi everyone, I have installed LyX142 and have a strange problem. When I include a graphics into my document, the DVI output shows the whole page of the graphics (pdf file) while it should clip to the bounding box. This was working correctly in Lyx141. Now with LyX142, I have to run pdflatex in

Re: please consolidate the documentation

2006-07-17 Thread Martin A. Hansen
agreed! one file would be so nice, because then you could search for a particular keyword you are looking for without having to open all the different help files. and since lyx/latex is so good at sectioning, it would be straight forward to combine them all. martin On 7/17/06, Sven Schreiber

Re: please consolidate the documentation

2006-07-17 Thread Daniel Watkins
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sven Schreiber wrote: So please consolidate the documentation into one file (or let me do it). I promise you, no-one here is going to hold you back, if you're volunteering[*]. :p Dan [Footnote *: Unless, of course, you submit multi-change

Re: please consolidate the documentation

2006-07-17 Thread Paul Smith
On 7/17/06, Martin A. Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: agreed! one file would be so nice, because then you could search for a particular keyword you are looking for without having to open all the different help files. and since lyx/latex is so good at sectioning, it would be straight forward to

AMS article show the language in the page titles

2006-07-17 Thread eris-lyx
Hello, I am brand new to LyX and LaTeX and have a question. When I load the amsart-test.lyx example file and view it as PDF, DVI, or Postscript output, the second and subsequent pages all are titled englishDAVID L. JOHNSON. In my own test document I created using the article (AMS) class, the

Re: please consolidate the documentation

2006-07-17 Thread Sven Schreiber
Daniel Watkins schrieb: Sven Schreiber wrote: So please consolidate the documentation into one file (or let me do it). I promise you, no-one here is going to hold you back, if you're volunteering[*]. :p Well isn't there a documentation team? Maybe they don't think it's a good idea? What

Re: LyX 1.4.2 and pdflatex

2006-07-17 Thread Ed Gatzke
Paul A. Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ed Gatzke wrote: Yes, thanks for a great new version! Things run terrrific for me overall. my silly Alt-F4 to close works in the new version on XP, thanks! Another thing to add to the mystery of alt-F4. I did not see alt-F4 listed as a bug fix in the

Re: Lyx 1.4.2 for Mac OS X?

2006-07-17 Thread Bennett Helm
On Jul 17, 2006, at 3:06 AM, Andrea Censi wrote: Hello, is there a Mac binary version available somewhere? Not yet. I was away when 1.4.2 came out, and when I got back I had a hard disk failure requiring complete re-installation of a whole bunch of development software, which I am

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