Re: BibTeX styles

2006-12-20 Thread John Hughes
Rudi: I'm using LyX and not LaTeX (although I had to use LaTeX when I was trying to make custom .bst files). Vaclav: I looked under MenuToolsPreferencesPaths, but I can't see anything like lyx_tmpdir? or lyx_tmpbuf???. I'm using Windows XP if that helps. John On 19/12/06, Vaclav Smidl

Re: wiki export to LaTeX or LyX format?

2006-12-20 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Tue, 19 Dec 2006, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: Anyone know of any wiki that can export to LaTeX or LyX format? Anyone use a wiki to generate LaTeX? Actually, a plugin to PmWiki (which is what wiki.lyx.org uses) can probably do this. Have a look at http://www.wikipublisher.org/wiki/

Re: BibTeX styles

2006-12-20 Thread Vaclav Smidl
Vaclav: I looked under MenuToolsPreferencesPaths, but I can't see anything like lyx_tmpdir? or lyx_tmpbuf???. In, MenuToolsPreferencesPaths is an entry Temporary directory. This directory is different in different systems, that is why I wanted you to see where is yours. On linux, my

Re: wiki export to LaTeX or LyX format?

2006-12-20 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Wed, 20 Dec 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, a plugin to PmWiki (which is what wiki.lyx.org uses) can probably do this. Have a look at http://www.wikipublisher.org/wiki/ I forgot to say that I plan to install this plugin at wiki.lyx.org, I just haven't gotten around to

Re: BibTeX styles

2006-12-20 Thread John Hughes
Thanks. The file says this: This is BibTeX, Version 0.99cThe top-level auxiliary file: newfile1.aux White space in argument---line 3 of file newfile1.aux : \bibstyle{C:/Documents : and Settings/john/My Documents/elsevier/elsart-harv} I'm skipping whatever remains of this

Re: BibTeX styles

2006-12-20 Thread Vaclav Smidl
On Wednesday 20 December 2006 10:20 am, you wrote: Thanks. The file says this: This is BibTeX, Version 0.99cThe top-level auxiliary file: newfile1.aux White space in argument---line 3 of file newfile1.aux : \bibstyle{C:/Documents : and Settings/john/My :

Re: Help with mis-converted accents

2006-12-20 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Jens == Jens Noeckel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jens Hi Stefano, I don't have a solution, just wanted to confirm that Jens I encountered exactly the same problem (first I wondered where Jens the accents had gone, then I saw them in the line above...). Jens Currently I'm just ignoring that because

Re: LyX 1.3.7 on Mac Intel?

2006-12-20 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Gerard A. Ateshian wrote: I have tried 1.4.3 on Mac PowerPC, Mac Intel, and Windows XP, and I have found it too slow for my needs. 1.3.7 is far better as far as I am concerned. I am writing a book with more than 200 pages so far, and I have found the scrolling problems in 1.4.3 to be a

Re: Help with mis-converted accents

2006-12-20 Thread Charles de Miramon
José Matos wrote: On Tuesday 19 December 2006 6:53 pm, Charles de Miramon wrote: You can also use a sed script like this one : Just to add to the fun, here it is my solution using python, it reads from the standard input and it writes to the standard output. Why don't you use the

Re: wiki export to LaTeX or LyX format?

2006-12-20 Thread Charles de Miramon
Jeremy C. Reed wrote: Anyone know of any wiki that can export to LaTeX or LyX format? Anyone use a wiki to generate LaTeX? Moinmoin can generate docbook. I never tried to see if you can import it into LyX I would be interested, if you can give some feedback on that. Another possibility is

Re: Special case of enumerate

2006-12-20 Thread Paul Smith
On 12/19/06, Paul A. Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks to everybody who replied. With the package mdwlist, I am able to do interruptions of lists, but not with A1, A2, A3,...; only with 1, 2, 3,... Any further ideas? I was meanwhile able to produce a solution with enumitem, which I am

mixing languages, problem

2006-12-20 Thread Sven Schreiber
Hi, I had some problems with multi-language documents; for example, marking a word as Spanish (in an otherwise English-language document), Lyx includes the command \deactivatetilden in the latex file, and latex throws an error. Is this known? What can one do? Help or pointers welcome. (this is

Re: Help with mis-converted accents

2006-12-20 Thread Stefano Franchi
Thanks to Charles and José have been able to reconvert all the LaTexified accents into proper form. I am now facing a big problem, though: LyX refuses to read the LaTex files back in. The problem must have something to do with encodings, and in particular with reLyX refusal to read correctly

Re: Update to: [announce] LyX150svn builds for Windows

2006-12-20 Thread gumm
Hi, LyXers I fixed some bugs and changed a lot in the installer, here's the changelog: https://developer.berlios.de/project/shownotes.php?release_id=11890 have other people been successful with this installer ? I tried the previous version, and the current one. But - lyx.bat just opens a

Re: Help with mis-converted accents

2006-12-20 Thread Stefano Franchi
On 20 Dec, 2006, at 8:28 AM, Stefano Franchi wrote: Thanks to Charles and José have been able to reconvert all the LaTexified accents into proper form. I am now facing a big problem, though: LyX refuses to read the LaTex files back in. The problem must have something to do with encodings,

LyX/Mac-1.5 alpha available for download

2006-12-20 Thread Bennett Helm
LyX/Mac 1.5svn (20-12-2006) is available for testing here: http://edisk.fandm.edu/bennett.helm/LyX/LyX-150.app.zip. LyX-1.5 is currently in active development. There are currently many bugs and crashes which may destroy your data. This should not be used for real work. You should also note

Re: LyX/Mac-1.5 alpha available for download

2006-12-20 Thread Stefano Franchi
On 20 Dec, 2006, at 9:24 AM, Bennett Helm wrote: LyX/Mac 1.5svn (20-12-2006) is available for testing here: http://edisk.fandm.edu/bennett.helm/LyX/LyX-150.app.zip. I was quite eager to try out the new features, but unfortunately the app does not open: You cannot open the application

Re: LyX/Mac-1.5 alpha available for download

2006-12-20 Thread Bennett Helm
On Dec 20, 2006, at 10:34 AM, Stefano Franchi wrote: On 20 Dec, 2006, at 9:24 AM, Bennett Helm wrote: LyX/Mac 1.5svn (20-12-2006) is available for testing here: http://edisk.fandm.edu/bennett.helm/LyX/LyX-150.app.zip. I was quite eager to try out the new features, but unfortunately the

Re: Help with mis-converted accents

2006-12-20 Thread Charles de Miramon
Stefano Franchi wrote: exported as LaTeX it cannot be reimported back into LyX (I enclose a one line file below as an example). The file compile correctly from within LyX, though. Where is the file ;-) -- http://www.kde-france.org

Re: BibTeX styles

2006-12-20 Thread John Hughes
Thanks - I've moved the files to somewhere without spaces in the name and now it works perfectly! On 20/12/06, Vaclav Smidl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 20 December 2006 10:20 am, you wrote: Thanks. The file says this: This is BibTeX, Version 0.99cThe top-level auxiliary file:

altering document class

2006-12-20 Thread jim
I need to make a minor change to the mwrep report class, so that the Bibliography is labelled `References' instead. I am using lyx 1.4.2 on ubuntu linux. I know nothing of latex but screwed my courage to the sticking place and edited /usr/local/share/lyx/layouts/mwrep.layout and

Re: altering document class

2006-12-20 Thread Charles de Miramon
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need to make a minor change to the mwrep report class, so that the Bibliography is labelled `References' instead. I am using lyx 1.4.2 on ubuntu linux. I know nothing of latex but screwed my courage to the sticking place and edited

Re: Help with mis-converted accents

2006-12-20 Thread Stefano Franchi
On 20 Dec, 2006, at 9:54 AM, Charles de Miramon wrote: Stefano Franchi wrote: exported as LaTeX it cannot be reimported back into LyX (I enclose a one line file below as an example). The file compile correctly from within LyX, though. Where is the file ;-) Oops! here it is: test.lyx

Re: Help with mis-converted accents

2006-12-20 Thread Charles de Miramon
Stefano Franchi wrote: Oops! here it is: It works here. It must eb a Mac specific bug. Cheers, Charles -- http://www.kde-france.org

Re: altering document class

2006-12-20 Thread jim
Hi Charles, On Wed, 20 Dec 2006, Charles de Miramon w [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need to make a minor change to the mwrep report class, so that [...] http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/Unsorted n° 16 Cheers, Charles I'm not sure what the FAQ means by the `preamble' that I should edit, but

Re: Help with mis-converted accents

2006-12-20 Thread Bennett Helm
On Dec 20, 2006, at 2:22 PM, Charles de Miramon wrote: Stefano Franchi wrote: Oops! here it is: It works here. It must eb a Mac specific bug. Works for me, too (Intel Mac). Bennett

LyX and QPainter error messages...

2006-12-20 Thread Nick Hopton
Hello All, Running LyX for Windows Version 1.5.0svn (Thu Dec 14 01:49:58 2006) on XP-Pro. At start-up I get the following messages in the terminal window: lyx: Disabling LyX socket. QPainter::begin: Paint device returned engine == 0, type: 2 QPainter::end: Painter not active, aborted Can

lyx gtk

2006-12-20 Thread camus . philippe
Hi everybody ! Does anyone know about a lyx-gtk version which would run (almost) bugfree ? I'm just trying to compile a maemo-lyx for nokia 770 (there's already a maemo-TeX) but I'd like to have a solid ground to begin the real work. The 1.4.3 I tried ( as normal gtk application, I mean i386) died

Re: LyX on Debian or Ubuntu

2006-12-20 Thread Russell Davie
On Tue, 19 Dec 2006 08:20:15 -0500 Richard Kleeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Russell Davie wrote: Not yet. Ubuntu does have various levels, but it means to upgrade to something like Deb-unstable and comes with all the cutting edge flakiness as a bonus! No thanks, I sort out how to

Re: Update to: [announce] LyX150svn builds for Windows

2006-12-20 Thread Uwe Stöhr
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: I fixed some bugs and changed a lot in the installer, here's the changelog: https://developer.berlios.de/project/shownotes.php?release_id=11890 have other people been successful with this installer ? I tried the previous version, and the current one. But - lyx.bat

Re: Help with mis-converted accents

2006-12-20 Thread Stefano Franchi
On 20 Dec, 2006, at 1:26 PM, Bennett Helm wrote: On Dec 20, 2006, at 2:22 PM, Charles de Miramon wrote: Stefano Franchi wrote: Oops! here it is: It works here. It must eb a Mac specific bug. Works for me, too (Intel Mac). More and more

Re: Help with mis-converted accents

2006-12-20 Thread Stephen Buonopane
On Dec 20, 2006, at 4:48 PM, Stefano Franchi wrote: On 20 Dec, 2006, at 1:26 PM, Bennett Helm wrote: On Dec 20, 2006, at 2:22 PM, Charles de Miramon wrote: Stefano Franchi wrote: Oops! here it is: It works here. It must eb a Mac specific bug. Works

Re: Help with mis-converted accents

2006-12-20 Thread Stefano Franchi
On 20 Dec, 2006, at 3:59 PM, Bob Lounsbury wrote: On Dec 20, 2006, at 2:48 PM, Stefano Franchi wrote: On 20 Dec, 2006, at 1:26 PM, Bennett Helm wrote: On Dec 20, 2006, at 2:22 PM, Charles de Miramon wrote: Stefano Franchi wrote: Oops! here it is: It works here. It must eb a Mac

Re: altering document class

2006-12-20 Thread cmiramon
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Charles, On Wed, 20 Dec 2006, Charles de Miramon w [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need to make a minor change to the mwrep report class, so that [...] http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/Unsorted n° 16 Cheers, Charles I'm not sure what the FAQ means by the

Re: altering document class

2006-12-20 Thread jim
After reading the FAQ more carefully and adding the following to the cls file, it works. Many thanks! \AtBeginDocument{% \addto\captionsenglish{% \renewcommand{\bibname}{References}% }} On Wed, 20 Dec 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 19:23:36 + (GMT) From:

Re: Help with mis-converted accents

2006-12-20 Thread Stephen Buonopane
More and more frustrating...can anyone on a PowerPC Mac please give it a try? Try exporting to LaTeX the enclosed lyx file and reimporting into into LyX. Does it work? Perhaps the problems I am encountering have to do with my TeX setup. Although, I did try to open the .tex file in

Re: Help with mis-converted accents

2006-12-20 Thread Stefano Franchi
On 20 Dec, 2006, at 7:09 PM, Stephen Buonopane wrote: More and more frustrating...can anyone on a PowerPC Mac please give it a try? Try exporting to LaTeX the enclosed lyx file and reimporting into into LyX. Does it work? Perhaps the problems I am encountering have to do with my TeX

Bibliography Style with In: for chapters in books

2006-12-20 Thread Rainer M Krug
Hi An urgent last minute question: I am looking for a bibliography style which has author-year citations in text and the bibliography is sorted by surname, initials and book chapters are referenced as: Chaptername. In:book information All the ones I have found so far use book. Ch.

volume of rotation drawing

2006-12-20 Thread Gunnar
Hi. Not really lyx related but someone might perhaps know how to produce nice eps drawings of a volume of rotation. You know the kind of picture you usually find in your calculus textbook where the graph of f(x) rotates around the x-axis. Any ideas?

Re: BibTeX styles

2006-12-20 Thread John Hughes
Rudi: I'm using LyX and not LaTeX (although I had to use LaTeX when I was trying to make custom .bst files). Vaclav: I looked under MenuToolsPreferencesPaths, but I can't see anything like lyx_tmpdir? or lyx_tmpbuf???. I'm using Windows XP if that helps. John On 19/12/06, Vaclav Smidl

Re: wiki export to LaTeX or LyX format?

2006-12-20 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Tue, 19 Dec 2006, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: Anyone know of any wiki that can export to LaTeX or LyX format? Anyone use a wiki to generate LaTeX? Actually, a plugin to PmWiki (which is what wiki.lyx.org uses) can probably do this. Have a look at http://www.wikipublisher.org/wiki/

Re: BibTeX styles

2006-12-20 Thread Vaclav Smidl
Vaclav: I looked under MenuToolsPreferencesPaths, but I can't see anything like lyx_tmpdir? or lyx_tmpbuf???. In, MenuToolsPreferencesPaths is an entry Temporary directory. This directory is different in different systems, that is why I wanted you to see where is yours. On linux, my

Re: wiki export to LaTeX or LyX format?

2006-12-20 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Wed, 20 Dec 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, a plugin to PmWiki (which is what wiki.lyx.org uses) can probably do this. Have a look at http://www.wikipublisher.org/wiki/ I forgot to say that I plan to install this plugin at wiki.lyx.org, I just haven't gotten around to

Re: BibTeX styles

2006-12-20 Thread John Hughes
Thanks. The file says this: This is BibTeX, Version 0.99cThe top-level auxiliary file: newfile1.aux White space in argument---line 3 of file newfile1.aux : \bibstyle{C:/Documents : and Settings/john/My Documents/elsevier/elsart-harv} I'm skipping whatever remains of this

Re: BibTeX styles

2006-12-20 Thread Vaclav Smidl
On Wednesday 20 December 2006 10:20 am, you wrote: Thanks. The file says this: This is BibTeX, Version 0.99cThe top-level auxiliary file: newfile1.aux White space in argument---line 3 of file newfile1.aux : \bibstyle{C:/Documents : and Settings/john/My :

Re: Help with mis-converted accents

2006-12-20 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Jens == Jens Noeckel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jens Hi Stefano, I don't have a solution, just wanted to confirm that Jens I encountered exactly the same problem (first I wondered where Jens the accents had gone, then I saw them in the line above...). Jens Currently I'm just ignoring that because

Re: LyX 1.3.7 on Mac Intel?

2006-12-20 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Gerard A. Ateshian wrote: I have tried 1.4.3 on Mac PowerPC, Mac Intel, and Windows XP, and I have found it too slow for my needs. 1.3.7 is far better as far as I am concerned. I am writing a book with more than 200 pages so far, and I have found the scrolling problems in 1.4.3 to be a

Re: Help with mis-converted accents

2006-12-20 Thread Charles de Miramon
José Matos wrote: On Tuesday 19 December 2006 6:53 pm, Charles de Miramon wrote: You can also use a sed script like this one : Just to add to the fun, here it is my solution using python, it reads from the standard input and it writes to the standard output. Why don't you use the

Re: wiki export to LaTeX or LyX format?

2006-12-20 Thread Charles de Miramon
Jeremy C. Reed wrote: Anyone know of any wiki that can export to LaTeX or LyX format? Anyone use a wiki to generate LaTeX? Moinmoin can generate docbook. I never tried to see if you can import it into LyX I would be interested, if you can give some feedback on that. Another possibility is

Re: Special case of enumerate

2006-12-20 Thread Paul Smith
On 12/19/06, Paul A. Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks to everybody who replied. With the package mdwlist, I am able to do interruptions of lists, but not with A1, A2, A3,...; only with 1, 2, 3,... Any further ideas? I was meanwhile able to produce a solution with enumitem, which I am

mixing languages, problem

2006-12-20 Thread Sven Schreiber
Hi, I had some problems with multi-language documents; for example, marking a word as Spanish (in an otherwise English-language document), Lyx includes the command \deactivatetilden in the latex file, and latex throws an error. Is this known? What can one do? Help or pointers welcome. (this is

Re: Help with mis-converted accents

2006-12-20 Thread Stefano Franchi
Thanks to Charles and José have been able to reconvert all the LaTexified accents into proper form. I am now facing a big problem, though: LyX refuses to read the LaTex files back in. The problem must have something to do with encodings, and in particular with reLyX refusal to read correctly

Re: Update to: [announce] LyX150svn builds for Windows

2006-12-20 Thread gumm
Hi, LyXers I fixed some bugs and changed a lot in the installer, here's the changelog: https://developer.berlios.de/project/shownotes.php?release_id=11890 have other people been successful with this installer ? I tried the previous version, and the current one. But - lyx.bat just opens a

Re: Help with mis-converted accents

2006-12-20 Thread Stefano Franchi
On 20 Dec, 2006, at 8:28 AM, Stefano Franchi wrote: Thanks to Charles and José have been able to reconvert all the LaTexified accents into proper form. I am now facing a big problem, though: LyX refuses to read the LaTex files back in. The problem must have something to do with encodings,

LyX/Mac-1.5 alpha available for download

2006-12-20 Thread Bennett Helm
LyX/Mac 1.5svn (20-12-2006) is available for testing here: http://edisk.fandm.edu/bennett.helm/LyX/LyX-150.app.zip. LyX-1.5 is currently in active development. There are currently many bugs and crashes which may destroy your data. This should not be used for real work. You should also note

Re: LyX/Mac-1.5 alpha available for download

2006-12-20 Thread Stefano Franchi
On 20 Dec, 2006, at 9:24 AM, Bennett Helm wrote: LyX/Mac 1.5svn (20-12-2006) is available for testing here: http://edisk.fandm.edu/bennett.helm/LyX/LyX-150.app.zip. I was quite eager to try out the new features, but unfortunately the app does not open: You cannot open the application

Re: LyX/Mac-1.5 alpha available for download

2006-12-20 Thread Bennett Helm
On Dec 20, 2006, at 10:34 AM, Stefano Franchi wrote: On 20 Dec, 2006, at 9:24 AM, Bennett Helm wrote: LyX/Mac 1.5svn (20-12-2006) is available for testing here: http://edisk.fandm.edu/bennett.helm/LyX/LyX-150.app.zip. I was quite eager to try out the new features, but unfortunately the

Re: Help with mis-converted accents

2006-12-20 Thread Charles de Miramon
Stefano Franchi wrote: exported as LaTeX it cannot be reimported back into LyX (I enclose a one line file below as an example). The file compile correctly from within LyX, though. Where is the file ;-) -- http://www.kde-france.org

Re: BibTeX styles

2006-12-20 Thread John Hughes
Thanks - I've moved the files to somewhere without spaces in the name and now it works perfectly! On 20/12/06, Vaclav Smidl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 20 December 2006 10:20 am, you wrote: Thanks. The file says this: This is BibTeX, Version 0.99cThe top-level auxiliary file:

altering document class

2006-12-20 Thread jim
I need to make a minor change to the mwrep report class, so that the Bibliography is labelled `References' instead. I am using lyx 1.4.2 on ubuntu linux. I know nothing of latex but screwed my courage to the sticking place and edited /usr/local/share/lyx/layouts/mwrep.layout and

Re: altering document class

2006-12-20 Thread Charles de Miramon
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need to make a minor change to the mwrep report class, so that the Bibliography is labelled `References' instead. I am using lyx 1.4.2 on ubuntu linux. I know nothing of latex but screwed my courage to the sticking place and edited

Re: Help with mis-converted accents

2006-12-20 Thread Stefano Franchi
On 20 Dec, 2006, at 9:54 AM, Charles de Miramon wrote: Stefano Franchi wrote: exported as LaTeX it cannot be reimported back into LyX (I enclose a one line file below as an example). The file compile correctly from within LyX, though. Where is the file ;-) Oops! here it is: test.lyx

Re: Help with mis-converted accents

2006-12-20 Thread Charles de Miramon
Stefano Franchi wrote: Oops! here it is: It works here. It must eb a Mac specific bug. Cheers, Charles -- http://www.kde-france.org

Re: altering document class

2006-12-20 Thread jim
Hi Charles, On Wed, 20 Dec 2006, Charles de Miramon w [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need to make a minor change to the mwrep report class, so that [...] http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/Unsorted n° 16 Cheers, Charles I'm not sure what the FAQ means by the `preamble' that I should edit, but

Re: Help with mis-converted accents

2006-12-20 Thread Bennett Helm
On Dec 20, 2006, at 2:22 PM, Charles de Miramon wrote: Stefano Franchi wrote: Oops! here it is: It works here. It must eb a Mac specific bug. Works for me, too (Intel Mac). Bennett

LyX and QPainter error messages...

2006-12-20 Thread Nick Hopton
Hello All, Running LyX for Windows Version 1.5.0svn (Thu Dec 14 01:49:58 2006) on XP-Pro. At start-up I get the following messages in the terminal window: lyx: Disabling LyX socket. QPainter::begin: Paint device returned engine == 0, type: 2 QPainter::end: Painter not active, aborted Can

lyx gtk

2006-12-20 Thread camus . philippe
Hi everybody ! Does anyone know about a lyx-gtk version which would run (almost) bugfree ? I'm just trying to compile a maemo-lyx for nokia 770 (there's already a maemo-TeX) but I'd like to have a solid ground to begin the real work. The 1.4.3 I tried ( as normal gtk application, I mean i386) died

Re: LyX on Debian or Ubuntu

2006-12-20 Thread Russell Davie
On Tue, 19 Dec 2006 08:20:15 -0500 Richard Kleeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Russell Davie wrote: Not yet. Ubuntu does have various levels, but it means to upgrade to something like Deb-unstable and comes with all the cutting edge flakiness as a bonus! No thanks, I sort out how to

Re: Update to: [announce] LyX150svn builds for Windows

2006-12-20 Thread Uwe Stöhr
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: I fixed some bugs and changed a lot in the installer, here's the changelog: https://developer.berlios.de/project/shownotes.php?release_id=11890 have other people been successful with this installer ? I tried the previous version, and the current one. But - lyx.bat

Re: Help with mis-converted accents

2006-12-20 Thread Stefano Franchi
On 20 Dec, 2006, at 1:26 PM, Bennett Helm wrote: On Dec 20, 2006, at 2:22 PM, Charles de Miramon wrote: Stefano Franchi wrote: Oops! here it is: It works here. It must eb a Mac specific bug. Works for me, too (Intel Mac). More and more

Re: Help with mis-converted accents

2006-12-20 Thread Stephen Buonopane
On Dec 20, 2006, at 4:48 PM, Stefano Franchi wrote: On 20 Dec, 2006, at 1:26 PM, Bennett Helm wrote: On Dec 20, 2006, at 2:22 PM, Charles de Miramon wrote: Stefano Franchi wrote: Oops! here it is: It works here. It must eb a Mac specific bug. Works

Re: Help with mis-converted accents

2006-12-20 Thread Stefano Franchi
On 20 Dec, 2006, at 3:59 PM, Bob Lounsbury wrote: On Dec 20, 2006, at 2:48 PM, Stefano Franchi wrote: On 20 Dec, 2006, at 1:26 PM, Bennett Helm wrote: On Dec 20, 2006, at 2:22 PM, Charles de Miramon wrote: Stefano Franchi wrote: Oops! here it is: It works here. It must eb a Mac

Re: altering document class

2006-12-20 Thread cmiramon
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Charles, On Wed, 20 Dec 2006, Charles de Miramon w [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need to make a minor change to the mwrep report class, so that [...] http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/Unsorted n° 16 Cheers, Charles I'm not sure what the FAQ means by the

Re: altering document class

2006-12-20 Thread jim
After reading the FAQ more carefully and adding the following to the cls file, it works. Many thanks! \AtBeginDocument{% \addto\captionsenglish{% \renewcommand{\bibname}{References}% }} On Wed, 20 Dec 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 19:23:36 + (GMT) From:

Re: Help with mis-converted accents

2006-12-20 Thread Stephen Buonopane
More and more frustrating...can anyone on a PowerPC Mac please give it a try? Try exporting to LaTeX the enclosed lyx file and reimporting into into LyX. Does it work? Perhaps the problems I am encountering have to do with my TeX setup. Although, I did try to open the .tex file in

Re: Help with mis-converted accents

2006-12-20 Thread Stefano Franchi
On 20 Dec, 2006, at 7:09 PM, Stephen Buonopane wrote: More and more frustrating...can anyone on a PowerPC Mac please give it a try? Try exporting to LaTeX the enclosed lyx file and reimporting into into LyX. Does it work? Perhaps the problems I am encountering have to do with my TeX

Bibliography Style with In: for chapters in books

2006-12-20 Thread Rainer M Krug
Hi An urgent last minute question: I am looking for a bibliography style which has author-year citations in text and the bibliography is sorted by surname, initials and book chapters are referenced as: Chaptername. In:book information All the ones I have found so far use book. Ch.

volume of rotation drawing

2006-12-20 Thread Gunnar
Hi. Not really lyx related but someone might perhaps know how to produce nice eps drawings of a volume of rotation. You know the kind of picture you usually find in your calculus textbook where the graph of f(x) rotates around the x-axis. Any ideas?

Re: BibTeX styles

2006-12-20 Thread John Hughes
Rudi: I'm using LyX and not LaTeX (although I had to use LaTeX when I was trying to make custom .bst files). Vaclav: I looked under Menu>Tools>Preferences>Paths, but I can't see anything like lyx_tmpdir? or lyx_tmpbuf???. I'm using Windows XP if that helps. John On 19/12/06, Vaclav Smidl

Re: wiki export to LaTeX or LyX format?

2006-12-20 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Tue, 19 Dec 2006, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: Anyone know of any wiki that can export to LaTeX or LyX format? Anyone use a wiki to generate LaTeX? Actually, a plugin to PmWiki (which is what wiki.lyx.org uses) can probably do this. Have a look at http://www.wikipublisher.org/wiki/

Re: BibTeX styles

2006-12-20 Thread Vaclav Smidl
> Vaclav: I looked under Menu>Tools>Preferences>Paths, but I can't see > anything like lyx_tmpdir? or lyx_tmpbuf???. In, Menu>Tools>Preferences>Paths is an entry "Temporary directory". This directory is different in different systems, that is why I wanted you to see where is yours. On linux,

Re: wiki export to LaTeX or LyX format?

2006-12-20 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Wed, 20 Dec 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, a plugin to PmWiki (which is what wiki.lyx.org uses) can probably do this. Have a look at http://www.wikipublisher.org/wiki/ I forgot to say that I plan to install this plugin at wiki.lyx.org, I just haven't gotten around to

Re: BibTeX styles

2006-12-20 Thread John Hughes
Thanks. The file says this: This is BibTeX, Version 0.99cThe top-level auxiliary file: newfile1.aux White space in argument---line 3 of file newfile1.aux : \bibstyle{"C:/Documents : and Settings/john/My Documents/elsevier/elsart-harv"} I'm skipping whatever remains of

Re: BibTeX styles

2006-12-20 Thread Vaclav Smidl
On Wednesday 20 December 2006 10:20 am, you wrote: > Thanks. The file says this: > > This is BibTeX, Version 0.99cThe top-level auxiliary file: newfile1.aux > White space in argument---line 3 of file newfile1.aux > > : \bibstyle{"C:/Documents > : and Settings/john/My > :

Re: Help with mis-converted accents

2006-12-20 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Jens" == Jens Noeckel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jens> Hi Stefano, I don't have a solution, just wanted to confirm that Jens> I encountered exactly the same problem (first I wondered where Jens> the accents had gone, then I saw them in the line above...). Jens> Currently I'm just ignoring

Re: LyX 1.3.7 on Mac Intel?

2006-12-20 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Gerard A. Ateshian wrote: I have tried 1.4.3 on Mac PowerPC, Mac Intel, and Windows XP, and I have found it too slow for my needs. 1.3.7 is far better as far as I am concerned. I am writing a book with more than 200 pages so far, and I have found the scrolling problems in 1.4.3 to be a

Re: Help with mis-converted accents

2006-12-20 Thread Charles de Miramon
José Matos wrote: > On Tuesday 19 December 2006 6:53 pm, Charles de Miramon wrote: >> You can also use a sed script like this one : > > Just to add to the fun, here it is my solution using python, it reads > from > the standard input and it writes to the standard output. > Why don't you

Re: wiki export to LaTeX or LyX format?

2006-12-20 Thread Charles de Miramon
Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > Anyone know of any wiki that can export to LaTeX or LyX format? > > Anyone use a wiki to generate LaTeX? Moinmoin can generate docbook. I never tried to see if you can import it into LyX I would be interested, if you can give some feedback on that. Another possibility

Re: Special case of enumerate

2006-12-20 Thread Paul Smith
On 12/19/06, Paul A. Rubin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Thanks to everybody who replied. With the package mdwlist, I am able >> to do interruptions of lists, but not with A1, A2, A3,...; only with >> 1, 2, 3,... Any further ideas? > > I was meanwhile able to produce a solution with enumitem,

mixing languages, problem

2006-12-20 Thread Sven Schreiber
Hi, I had some problems with multi-language documents; for example, marking a word as Spanish (in an otherwise English-language document), Lyx includes the command \deactivatetilden in the latex file, and latex throws an error. Is this known? What can one do? Help or pointers welcome. (this is

Re: Help with mis-converted accents

2006-12-20 Thread Stefano Franchi
Thanks to Charles and José have been able to reconvert all the LaTexified accents into proper form. I am now facing a big problem, though: LyX refuses to read the LaTex files back in. The problem must have something to do with encodings, and in particular with reLyX refusal to read correctly

Re: Update to: [announce] LyX150svn builds for Windows

2006-12-20 Thread gumm
Hi, LyXers I fixed some bugs and changed a lot in the installer, here's the changelog: https://developer.berlios.de/project/shownotes.php?release_id=11890 have other people been successful with this installer ? I tried the previous version, and the current one. But - lyx.bat just opens a

Re: Help with mis-converted accents

2006-12-20 Thread Stefano Franchi
On 20 Dec, 2006, at 8:28 AM, Stefano Franchi wrote: Thanks to Charles and José have been able to reconvert all the LaTexified accents into proper form. I am now facing a big problem, though: LyX refuses to read the LaTex files back in. The problem must have something to do with encodings,

LyX/Mac-1.5 alpha available for download

2006-12-20 Thread Bennett Helm
LyX/Mac 1.5svn (20-12-2006) is available for testing here: . LyX-1.5 is currently in active development. There are currently many bugs and crashes which may destroy your data. This should not be used for real work. You should also

Re: LyX/Mac-1.5 alpha available for download

2006-12-20 Thread Stefano Franchi
On 20 Dec, 2006, at 9:24 AM, Bennett Helm wrote: LyX/Mac 1.5svn (20-12-2006) is available for testing here: . I was quite eager to try out the new features, but unfortunately the app does not open: "You cannot open the application

Re: LyX/Mac-1.5 alpha available for download

2006-12-20 Thread Bennett Helm
On Dec 20, 2006, at 10:34 AM, Stefano Franchi wrote: On 20 Dec, 2006, at 9:24 AM, Bennett Helm wrote: LyX/Mac 1.5svn (20-12-2006) is available for testing here: . I was quite eager to try out the new features, but unfortunately the

Re: Help with mis-converted accents

2006-12-20 Thread Charles de Miramon
Stefano Franchi wrote: > exported as LaTeX it cannot be reimported back into LyX (I enclose a > one line file below as an example). The file compile correctly from > within LyX, though. > Where is the file ;-) -- http://www.kde-france.org

Re: BibTeX styles

2006-12-20 Thread John Hughes
Thanks - I've moved the files to somewhere without spaces in the name and now it works perfectly! On 20/12/06, Vaclav Smidl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wednesday 20 December 2006 10:20 am, you wrote: > Thanks. The file says this: > > This is BibTeX, Version 0.99cThe top-level auxiliary file:

altering document class

2006-12-20 Thread jim
I need to make a minor change to the mwrep report class, so that the Bibliography is labelled `References' instead. I am using lyx 1.4.2 on ubuntu linux. I know nothing of latex but screwed my courage to the sticking place and edited /usr/local/share/lyx/layouts/mwrep.layout and

Re: altering document class

2006-12-20 Thread Charles de Miramon
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I need to make a minor change to the mwrep report class, so that > the Bibliography is labelled `References' instead. I am using lyx 1.4.2 > on ubuntu linux. I know nothing of latex but screwed my courage to > the sticking place and edited

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