Re: Aligning math environments

2006-10-03 Thread Georg Baum
Am Montag, 2. Oktober 2006 21:40 schrieb Georg Baum: Am Montag, 2. Oktober 2006 20:29 schrieb Yang: Can I insert environments like {lgathered} or {gathered}[t] without resorting to raw TeX? E.g., how would I go about adding the following into my document? \begin{align} x =

Re: How to actually use the LyX 1.4 Character Style Feature

2006-10-03 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Daniel Lohmann wrote: For 1.5, I'm just working on a patch that lets you hide all labels at once and probably also saves the settings (whether the labels are shown or not). The former might even go into some future version of 1.4 (the latter not, because it entails a file format

Re: Remove table of contents''s name in the last empty page

2006-10-03 Thread Horacio Emilio Pérez Sánchez
Dear Richard, I do not know a lot of lyx, sorry. Somebody helped me to define pagestyle, but in the preamble of the document. If I am not wrong, it is defined before the TOC, so applied for the whole document. Then I do not know who to define a different page style before the TOC and after

Re: convert grace - pdf (not png)?

2006-10-03 Thread Helge Hafting
Georg Baum wrote: Helge Hafting wrote: I am not sure about how lyx handles graphichs included via the graphichs inset, if that is what you use. Perhaps someone else can help with that. It is hardcoded to png conversion for pdflatex, and yes, we need to change that. The external

Re: Greek Text in Xfig -- SOLVED

2006-10-03 Thread Helge Hafting
Rich Shepard wrote: On Sun, 1 Oct 2006, Paul Smith wrote: You have perhaps a better solution, Rich: 1. insert '$\mu$' in your figure; 2. select 'Special flag' and 'Use LaTeX fonts' for '$\mu$'; 3. insert your Xfig picture in your LyX document with Insert - File - External material (Xfig's

how to type #1 for math-macro in 1.4.x?

2006-10-03 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
I recall that in 1.3.x you could type #1 in a math macro to represent argument 1. In 1.4.x this seems to just give you the text string #1. How do we do this for 1.4.x? -- John C. McCabe-Dansted PhD Student University of Western Australia

Re: How to actually use the LyX 1.4 Character Style Feature

2006-10-03 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Helge Hafting wrote: Some ideas: *  Where the charstyle is defined, let the implementor specify wheter     it should have a label or not. That way, we can do away with labels     for styles with obvious visual appearance like large bold red. Probably (would be easy to implement, since I

Re: How to actually use the LyX 1.4 Character Style Feature

2006-10-03 Thread Helge Hafting
Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: I'd prefer to have a charstyle combo (similar to the paragraph style combo) in the long term that displays the current charstyle (only the one the cursor is in, though). That'd be nice. And with charstyles being the preferred way, it should definitely be right

Re: convert grace - pdf (not png)?

2006-10-03 Thread Georg Baum
Am Dienstag, 3. Oktober 2006 12:46 schrieb Helge Hafting: Hm. If graphichs insets are changed to convert to pdf when needed, then there is less need for the external inset. I committed the change to 1.5svn this morning. Anything that simply is converted to png/eps/pdf as needed with no

Re: How to actually use the LyX 1.4 Character Style Feature

2006-10-03 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Juergen == Juergen Spitzmueller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: That would be cool! It would be even more cool, if it was optionally possible to represent the character class *only* via the preview-latex setting and leave out the indicator line and label. That is, to define something that is

Re: Greek Text in Xfig -- SOLVED

2006-10-03 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 3 Oct 2006, Helge Hafting wrote: You need to also have the fig2dev conversion program, and a lyx recent enough to have external insets. .fig support have been in lyx for a while though! Helge, fig2dev is installed. While lyx has supported .fig for a while, I've used other vector

Re: How to actually use the LyX 1.4 Character Style Feature

2006-10-03 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: I do not really see why it would be better than just displaying the contents (without markers) when the cursor is outside of the inset. I do not think that we should use preview here. This only works for very simple character styles. I'm thinking of using character

Re: Greek Text in Xfig -- SOLVED

2006-10-03 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 3 Oct 2006, Helge Hafting wrote: You need to also have the fig2dev conversion program, and a lyx recent enough to have external insets. .fig support have been in lyx for a while though! Helge, FWIW, I just looked in Edit-Preferences-File converters, and fig2dev is there under

Re: [patch] bug 2869

2006-10-03 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Juergen, I said nothing because I am very busy, I know, I didn't intend to hassle you (and I'll keep waiting patiently for the other patches). but what is the idea of the patch? You open the dialog and then pretend you did nothing. I 80% sure this is not what

Equation to span two columns

2006-10-03 Thread LB
Hi I'm looking for a way to make a long equation span both columns in a double column article. I've searched the mailing list and found two old threads about this (see below). A solution to the newer message was to: After you have inserted the figure float, set the cursor behind the word

Re: [patch] bug 2869

2006-10-03 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Wrong list, sorry. Jürgen Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Juergen, I said nothing because I am very busy, I know, I didn't intend to hassle you (and I'll keep waiting patiently for the other patches). but what is the idea of the patch? You open the dialog and

Re: how to type #1 for math-macro in 1.4.x?

2006-10-03 Thread Richard Heck
I got tripped up by this, too: Type \#1. John McCabe-Dansted wrote: I recall that in 1.3.x you could type #1 in a math macro to represent argument 1. In 1.4.x this seems to just give you the text string #1. How do we do this for 1.4.x?

Re: Equation to span two columns

2006-10-03 Thread Paul A. Rubin
LB wrote: Hi I'm looking for a way to make a long equation span both columns in a double column article. I've searched the mailing list and found two old threads about this (see below). A solution to the newer message was to: After you have inserted the figure float, set the cursor behind the

Re: Equation to span two columns

2006-10-03 Thread LB
Hi What worked even better than cuted is \begin{figure*} because cuted follows strange rules when it places the text around two-column equations and midfloat which should do better did not work. I suspect it did not work because my equation is in the right column Leo LB wrote: Hi I'm

windows version of lyx1.4.3 not working

2006-10-03 Thread Ruijs, Arjan
Hi, I just tried to install the windows version of LyX1.4.3 but it doesn't do anything. When I run it from the command line it gives the following message: LyXTextClassList::Read: unable to find textclass file ''. exiting. When I run the -dbg 66535, it says that something with the path needs

lyx1.4 not working

2006-10-03 Thread arjan ruijs
Today I installed the windows version of Lyx1.4 but it fails to run. When I want to run it it just does nothing. When I run lyx from the command line, the error message I get is LyXTextClassList::Read: unable to find textclass file ''. Exiting. When I add -dbg 65535 to the command line I get

Re: Aligning math environments

2006-10-03 Thread Georg Baum
Am Montag, 2. Oktober 2006 21:40 schrieb Georg Baum: Am Montag, 2. Oktober 2006 20:29 schrieb Yang: Can I insert environments like {lgathered} or {gathered}[t] without resorting to raw TeX? E.g., how would I go about adding the following into my document? \begin{align} x =

Re: How to actually use the LyX 1.4 Character Style Feature

2006-10-03 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Daniel Lohmann wrote: For 1.5, I'm just working on a patch that lets you hide all labels at once and probably also saves the settings (whether the labels are shown or not). The former might even go into some future version of 1.4 (the latter not, because it entails a file format

Re: Remove table of contents''s name in the last empty page

2006-10-03 Thread Horacio Emilio Pérez Sánchez
Dear Richard, I do not know a lot of lyx, sorry. Somebody helped me to define pagestyle, but in the preamble of the document. If I am not wrong, it is defined before the TOC, so applied for the whole document. Then I do not know who to define a different page style before the TOC and after

Re: convert grace - pdf (not png)?

2006-10-03 Thread Helge Hafting
Georg Baum wrote: Helge Hafting wrote: I am not sure about how lyx handles graphichs included via the graphichs inset, if that is what you use. Perhaps someone else can help with that. It is hardcoded to png conversion for pdflatex, and yes, we need to change that. The external

Re: Greek Text in Xfig -- SOLVED

2006-10-03 Thread Helge Hafting
Rich Shepard wrote: On Sun, 1 Oct 2006, Paul Smith wrote: You have perhaps a better solution, Rich: 1. insert '$\mu$' in your figure; 2. select 'Special flag' and 'Use LaTeX fonts' for '$\mu$'; 3. insert your Xfig picture in your LyX document with Insert - File - External material (Xfig's

how to type #1 for math-macro in 1.4.x?

2006-10-03 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
I recall that in 1.3.x you could type #1 in a math macro to represent argument 1. In 1.4.x this seems to just give you the text string #1. How do we do this for 1.4.x? -- John C. McCabe-Dansted PhD Student University of Western Australia

Re: How to actually use the LyX 1.4 Character Style Feature

2006-10-03 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Helge Hafting wrote: Some ideas: *  Where the charstyle is defined, let the implementor specify wheter     it should have a label or not. That way, we can do away with labels     for styles with obvious visual appearance like large bold red. Probably (would be easy to implement, since I

Re: How to actually use the LyX 1.4 Character Style Feature

2006-10-03 Thread Helge Hafting
Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: I'd prefer to have a charstyle combo (similar to the paragraph style combo) in the long term that displays the current charstyle (only the one the cursor is in, though). That'd be nice. And with charstyles being the preferred way, it should definitely be right

Re: convert grace - pdf (not png)?

2006-10-03 Thread Georg Baum
Am Dienstag, 3. Oktober 2006 12:46 schrieb Helge Hafting: Hm. If graphichs insets are changed to convert to pdf when needed, then there is less need for the external inset. I committed the change to 1.5svn this morning. Anything that simply is converted to png/eps/pdf as needed with no

Re: How to actually use the LyX 1.4 Character Style Feature

2006-10-03 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Juergen == Juergen Spitzmueller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: That would be cool! It would be even more cool, if it was optionally possible to represent the character class *only* via the preview-latex setting and leave out the indicator line and label. That is, to define something that is

Re: Greek Text in Xfig -- SOLVED

2006-10-03 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 3 Oct 2006, Helge Hafting wrote: You need to also have the fig2dev conversion program, and a lyx recent enough to have external insets. .fig support have been in lyx for a while though! Helge, fig2dev is installed. While lyx has supported .fig for a while, I've used other vector

Re: How to actually use the LyX 1.4 Character Style Feature

2006-10-03 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: I do not really see why it would be better than just displaying the contents (without markers) when the cursor is outside of the inset. I do not think that we should use preview here. This only works for very simple character styles. I'm thinking of using character

Re: Greek Text in Xfig -- SOLVED

2006-10-03 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 3 Oct 2006, Helge Hafting wrote: You need to also have the fig2dev conversion program, and a lyx recent enough to have external insets. .fig support have been in lyx for a while though! Helge, FWIW, I just looked in Edit-Preferences-File converters, and fig2dev is there under

Re: [patch] bug 2869

2006-10-03 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Juergen, I said nothing because I am very busy, I know, I didn't intend to hassle you (and I'll keep waiting patiently for the other patches). but what is the idea of the patch? You open the dialog and then pretend you did nothing. I 80% sure this is not what

Equation to span two columns

2006-10-03 Thread LB
Hi I'm looking for a way to make a long equation span both columns in a double column article. I've searched the mailing list and found two old threads about this (see below). A solution to the newer message was to: After you have inserted the figure float, set the cursor behind the word

Re: [patch] bug 2869

2006-10-03 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Wrong list, sorry. Jürgen Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Juergen, I said nothing because I am very busy, I know, I didn't intend to hassle you (and I'll keep waiting patiently for the other patches). but what is the idea of the patch? You open the dialog and

Re: how to type #1 for math-macro in 1.4.x?

2006-10-03 Thread Richard Heck
I got tripped up by this, too: Type \#1. John McCabe-Dansted wrote: I recall that in 1.3.x you could type #1 in a math macro to represent argument 1. In 1.4.x this seems to just give you the text string #1. How do we do this for 1.4.x?

Re: Equation to span two columns

2006-10-03 Thread Paul A. Rubin
LB wrote: Hi I'm looking for a way to make a long equation span both columns in a double column article. I've searched the mailing list and found two old threads about this (see below). A solution to the newer message was to: After you have inserted the figure float, set the cursor behind the

Re: Equation to span two columns

2006-10-03 Thread LB
Hi What worked even better than cuted is \begin{figure*} because cuted follows strange rules when it places the text around two-column equations and midfloat which should do better did not work. I suspect it did not work because my equation is in the right column Leo LB wrote: Hi I'm

windows version of lyx1.4.3 not working

2006-10-03 Thread Ruijs, Arjan
Hi, I just tried to install the windows version of LyX1.4.3 but it doesn't do anything. When I run it from the command line it gives the following message: LyXTextClassList::Read: unable to find textclass file ''. exiting. When I run the -dbg 66535, it says that something with the path needs

lyx1.4 not working

2006-10-03 Thread arjan ruijs
Today I installed the windows version of Lyx1.4 but it fails to run. When I want to run it it just does nothing. When I run lyx from the command line, the error message I get is LyXTextClassList::Read: unable to find textclass file ''. Exiting. When I add -dbg 65535 to the command line I get

Re: Aligning math environments

2006-10-03 Thread Georg Baum
Am Montag, 2. Oktober 2006 21:40 schrieb Georg Baum: > Am Montag, 2. Oktober 2006 20:29 schrieb Yang: > > Can I insert environments like {lgathered} or {gathered}[t] without > > resorting to raw TeX? E.g., how would I go about adding the following > > into my document? > > > > \begin{align} > >

Re: How to actually use the LyX 1.4 Character Style Feature

2006-10-03 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Daniel Lohmann wrote: > > For 1.5, I'm just working on a patch that lets you hide all labels at > > once and > > probably also saves the settings (whether the labels are shown or not). > > The former might even go into some future version of 1.4 (the latter not, > > because > > it entails a file

Re: Remove "table of contents"''s name in the last empty page

2006-10-03 Thread Horacio Emilio Pérez Sánchez
Dear Richard, I do not know a lot of lyx, sorry. Somebody helped me to define pagestyle, but in the "preamble" of the document. If I am not wrong, it is defined before the TOC, so applied for the whole document. Then I do not know who to define a different page style before the TOC and after

Re: convert grace -> pdf (not png)?

2006-10-03 Thread Helge Hafting
Georg Baum wrote: Helge Hafting wrote: I am not sure about how lyx handles graphichs included via the graphichs inset, if that is what you use. Perhaps someone else can help with that. It is hardcoded to png conversion for pdflatex, and yes, we need to change that. The external

Re: Greek Text in Xfig -- SOLVED

2006-10-03 Thread Helge Hafting
Rich Shepard wrote: On Sun, 1 Oct 2006, Paul Smith wrote: You have perhaps a better solution, Rich: 1. insert '$\mu$' in your figure; 2. select 'Special flag' and 'Use LaTeX fonts' for '$\mu$'; 3. insert your Xfig picture in your LyX document with Insert -> File -> External material (Xfig's

how to type #1 for math-macro in 1.4.x?

2006-10-03 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
I recall that in 1.3.x you could type #1 in a math macro to represent argument 1. In 1.4.x this seems to just give you the text string "#1". How do we do this for 1.4.x? -- John C. McCabe-Dansted PhD Student University of Western Australia

Re: How to actually use the LyX 1.4 Character Style Feature

2006-10-03 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Helge Hafting wrote: > Some ideas: > *  Where the charstyle is defined, let the implementor specify wheter >     it should have a label or not. That way, we can do away with labels >     for styles with obvious visual appearance like "large bold red". Probably (would be easy to implement, since I

Re: How to actually use the LyX 1.4 Character Style Feature

2006-10-03 Thread Helge Hafting
Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: I'd prefer to have a charstyle combo (similar to the paragraph style combo) in the long term that displays the current charstyle (only the one the cursor is in, though). That'd be nice. And with charstyles being the preferred way, it should definitely be right

Re: convert grace -> pdf (not png)?

2006-10-03 Thread Georg Baum
Am Dienstag, 3. Oktober 2006 12:46 schrieb Helge Hafting: > Hm. If graphichs insets are changed to convert to pdf > when needed, then there is less need for the external inset. I committed the change to 1.5svn this morning. > Anything that simply is converted to png/eps/pdf as needed > with no

Re: How to actually use the LyX 1.4 Character Style Feature

2006-10-03 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Juergen" == Juergen Spitzmueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> That would be cool! It would be even more cool, if it was >> optionally possible to represent the character class *only* via the >> preview-latex setting and leave out the indicator line and label. >> That is, to define

Re: Greek Text in Xfig -- SOLVED

2006-10-03 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 3 Oct 2006, Helge Hafting wrote: You need to also have the "fig2dev" conversion program, and a lyx recent enough to have "external insets". .fig support have been in lyx for a while though! Helge, fig2dev is installed. While lyx has supported .fig for a while, I've used other

Re: How to actually use the LyX 1.4 Character Style Feature

2006-10-03 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > I do not really see why it would be better than just displaying the > contents (without markers) when the cursor is outside of the inset. I > do not think that we should use preview here. This only works for very simple character styles. I'm thinking of using

Re: Greek Text in Xfig -- SOLVED

2006-10-03 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 3 Oct 2006, Helge Hafting wrote: You need to also have the "fig2dev" conversion program, and a lyx recent enough to have "external insets". .fig support have been in lyx for a while though! Helge, FWIW, I just looked in Edit->Preferences->File converters, and fig2dev is there under

Re: [patch] bug 2869

2006-10-03 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Juergen, I said nothing because I am very busy, I know, I didn't intend to hassle you (and I'll keep waiting patiently for the other patches). > but what is the idea > of the patch? You open the dialog and then pretend you did nothing. I > 80% sure this is not

Equation to span two columns

2006-10-03 Thread LB
Hi I'm looking for a way to make a long equation span both columns in a double column article. I've searched the mailing list and found two old threads about this (see below). A solution to the newer message was to: "After you have inserted the figure float, set the cursor behind the word

Re: [patch] bug 2869

2006-10-03 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Wrong list, sorry. Jürgen Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: > Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > Juergen, I said nothing because I am very busy, > > I know, I didn't intend to hassle you (and I'll keep waiting patiently for > the other patches). > > > but what is the idea > > of the patch? You open the

Re: how to type #1 for math-macro in 1.4.x?

2006-10-03 Thread Richard Heck
I got tripped up by this, too: Type "\#1". John McCabe-Dansted wrote: > I recall that in 1.3.x you could type #1 in a math macro to represent > argument 1. In 1.4.x this seems to just give you the text string "#1". > How do we do this for 1.4.x? >

Re: Equation to span two columns

2006-10-03 Thread Paul A. Rubin
LB wrote: Hi I'm looking for a way to make a long equation span both columns in a double column article. I've searched the mailing list and found two old threads about this (see below). A solution to the newer message was to: "After you have inserted the figure float, set the cursor behind

Re: Equation to span two columns

2006-10-03 Thread LB
Hi What worked even better than "cuted" is \begin{figure*} because "cuted" follows strange rules when it places the text around two-column equations and "midfloat" which should do better did not work. I suspect it did not work because my equation is in the right column Leo > LB wrote: > > Hi >

windows version of lyx1.4.3 not working

2006-10-03 Thread Ruijs, Arjan
Hi, I just tried to install the windows version of LyX1.4.3 but it doesn't do anything. When I run it from the command line it gives the following message: LyXTextClassList::Read: unable to find textclass file ''. exiting. When I run the -dbg 66535, it says that something with the path needs

lyx1.4 not working

2006-10-03 Thread arjan ruijs
Today I installed the windows version of Lyx1.4 but it fails to run. When I want to run it it just does nothing. When I run lyx from the command line, the error message I get is LyXTextClassList::Read: unable to find textclass file ''. Exiting. When I add -dbg 65535 to the command line I get