Re: LyX 1.5svn PDF testers needed

2007-02-02 Thread Olivier Ripoll
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Helly LyXers, some of you have already tested one of the development snapshot of LyX 1.5svn: http://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5117release_id=12083 Could anybody who has LyX 1.5svn still on the system and use Acrobat 8/Adobe reader 8 please test

Re: changing Xfig figures in LyX

2007-02-02 Thread Georg Baum
Philipp Fleig wrote: Hello, ok. Attached you find a sample .lyx + xfig file. When I go to preferences in LyX there are a number of converters, including some like FIG - EPS, FIG - PDFTEX and FIG - PSTEX, which I guess would be the relevant ones. Yes, they are. I read on

Re: Culmus Hebrew fonts

2007-02-02 Thread Dov Feldstern
Hi! You should also check out this package: http://nikud.berlios.de/ . It is mainly for using nikud, but as a side effect it also uses the culmus fonts. It's also really simple to use --- after the initial setup (explained on the site), all you need to do is use the culmus package instead of

Re: LyX 1.5svn PDF testers needed

2007-02-02 Thread Nick Hopton
In a recent message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Uwe Stöhr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote. [...] So there is no other solution for this crash other then the one I shipped with LyX1.5svn as PDFViewWin8.exe :-( [...] But how big a problem is this, Uwe? When I'm working on a document and I want to see what it

Ho to write my own paragraph layout or how to change LyX-Code

2007-02-02 Thread Roland Schmitz
Hi List, i'm looking for an code layout (environment) for LyX, wich automaticly inserts line numbers and a table of contents for all listings. If it's possible to configure this layout to look a bit like old endless paper (one line with white background, one with green) this would be exactly

Re: different headers

2007-02-02 Thread Andreas K .
Bob Lounsbury [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, Is there a way to have a different custom heading on the first and subsequent pages? What I need is a specific left header on the first page and then a different specific left header on all the subsequent pages. Thanks, Bob Lounsbury

[announce] LyX150svn from 01-02-2007 for Windows

2007-02-02 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Hello LyXTesters, I published a new version with LyX1.5.0svn from 01-02-2007: http://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5117release_id=12153 Now this know problem should be fixed with the new MiKTeX version that comes together with this installer: Known problem: - LyX's

Re: Beamer class and pdf meta-information

2007-02-02 Thread Jean-Pierre Chretien
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org From: Paul A. Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Beamer class and pdf meta-information Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2007 17:37:14 -0500 Jean-Pierre Chretien wrote: Hello, [...] I don't know enough LaTeX to know how to access the author and title information after \author

Re: [announce] LyX150svn from 01-02-2007 for Windows

2007-02-02 Thread Olivier Ripoll
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Hello LyXTesters, I published a new version with LyX1.5.0svn from 01-02-2007: http://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5117release_id=12153 Now this know problem should be fixed with the new MiKTeX version that comes together with this installer: Known

Re: Ho to write my own paragraph layout or how to change LyX-Code

2007-02-02 Thread Richard Heck
The documentation for this is at HelpCustomization5.2. If you look at that and then look at how similar layouts are implemented in the extant layout classes, you shouldn't have too much trouble. Seeing the line numbers and the white-green in LyX itself might be a challenge, but making it possible

Re[2]: Font problems of pdf-files generated on Mac

2007-02-02 Thread Alan G Isaac
On Fri, 2 Feb 2007, Anders Ekberg apparently wrote: The question is how do I embed fonts using LyX/TeX? I'm not sure what the LyX way is, but I suppose you can glean clues from this: http://eps.berkeley.edu/www/graduate/thesis/Efile_PDF.html hth, Alan Isaac

Re: [announce] LyX150svn from 01-02-2007 for Windows

2007-02-02 Thread Nick Hopton
In a recent message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Olivier Ripoll [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote. [...] - I cannot open the documentation, LyX complains about wrong file versions that lyx2lyx cannot convert. [...] I can't open *any* of my LyX files (all of them worked with the last Alpha release) all I get is

Re: different headers

2007-02-02 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On 2/2/07, Andreas K. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bob Lounsbury [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, Is there a way to have a different custom heading on the first and subsequent pages? What I need is a specific left header on the first page and then a different specific left header on all the

Re: [announce] LyX150svn from 01-02-2007 for Windows

2007-02-02 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Nick Hopton schrieb: - I cannot open the documentation, LyX complains about wrong file versions that lyx2lyx cannot convert. [...] I can't open *any* of my LyX files (all of them worked with the last Alpha release) all I get is this message: C:/documents and settings/nick hopton/my

Re: [announce] LyX150svn from 01-02-2007 for Windows

2007-02-02 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Nick Hopton schrieb: - I cannot open the documentation, LyX complains about wrong file versions that lyx2lyx cannot convert. The problem is that lyx2lyx doesn't convert the files from format 256 to format 258. As workaround you can manually change the first line in the LyX-file source.

Re: [announce] LyX150svn from 01-02-2007 for Windows

2007-02-02 Thread Nick Hopton
In a recent message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Uwe Stöhr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote. [...] I can't open *any* of my LyX files (all of them worked with the last Alpha release) all I get is this message: C:/documents and settings/nick hopton/my documents/hrule_test.lyx is from a different version of

Re: Culmus Hebrew fonts

2007-02-02 Thread Miki Dovrat
After some more reading in forums I found (and understood, or not) the following: The babel package contains the font encodings and metrics and definitions needed to use the Culmus fonts, but not the fonts themselves, which today are readily availabe for linux and Windows. Latex CANNOT have

Re: [announce] LyX150svn from 01-02-2007 for Windows

2007-02-02 Thread Nick Hopton
In a recent message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Uwe Stöhr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote. [...] The problem is that lyx2lyx doesn't convert the files from format 256 to format 258. As workaround you can manually change the first line in the LyX-file source. [...] Yes, this works here. It crashes when

Re: LyX 1.5svn PDF testers needed

2007-02-02 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Olivier Ripoll schrieb: By the way, I noticed that when choosing the Introduction instead of the User's Guide, the images were not found. This should be fixed in the latest installer I just released. Have you tested the French Introduction or the English version? regards Uwe

Re: BibTeX and master documents

2007-02-02 Thread Daniel Lohmann
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: To make it easier to insert citatiosn (if you still need to), you can insert a bibliography within each child document, but place it inside a *comment*. That way LaTeX won't see it, but LyX will know what .bib-files to scan for when showing you the available

Re: [announce] LyX150svn from 01-02-2007 for Windows

2007-02-02 Thread Georg Baum
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Nick Hopton schrieb: - I cannot open the documentation, LyX complains about wrong file versions that lyx2lyx cannot convert. The problem is that lyx2lyx doesn't convert the files from format 256 to format 258. Why? Current svn converts these very well. Georg

Re: BibTeX and master documents

2007-02-02 Thread Richard Heck
Use the technique mentioned here: http://wiki.lyx.org/Tips/ChildMathMacros. More or less. And see below. 1) Define a variable \master in the preamble of the master document before including the common preamble: Define it to mean something. \def\master*{whatever}* \input{preamble.tex} Don't

Re: BibTeX and master documents

2007-02-02 Thread Daniel Watkins
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Daniel Lohmann wrote: I am looking for some way to conditionally embed the bibliography into the child documents. If used (printed) stand alone, a child should have a complete bibliography section. If embedded into the master, the bibliographies

Re: [announce] LyX150svn from 01-02-2007 for Windows

2007-02-02 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Olivier Ripoll schrieb: - I can do a pdf with it fine, but the update does not work however my pdf viewer is Foxit 2.0, not Acrobat (which I do have installed, but not as default pdf reader), so it might be related to this. I'll have a look, The registry settings made ba Adobe Reader are

LyX 1.3.4-4 does not load, LyX 1.5 svn loads nicely

2007-02-02 Thread John Kane
I just moved to a new (for me) computer ( 1G ram, hurray. My old one with 512K had died and I was using a clunker with 256k. Still WindowsXP but ... I had to install a lot of my personal software including LyX. I tried to install LyX 1.3.4 and first got a message that it was timing out trying

float placement refinements

2007-02-02 Thread Ramon Flores
Hi, I write documents with a lot of figures, so it is not unusual that LyX (latex) have to put more than two figures in one page. (I use tpb in the float placement box). The only figures pages, with two or more figures, are OK for me. But when LyX(latex) puts two figures in a page with text

Re: [announce] LyX150svn from 01-02-2007 for Windows - lyx2lyx solution

2007-02-02 Thread Uwe Stöhr
- I cannot open the documentation, LyX complains about wrong file versions that lyx2lyx cannot convert. The problem is that lyx2lyx doesn't convert the files from format 256 to format 258. As workaround you can manually change the first line in the LyX-file source. (Sometimes everything

Re: float placement refinements

2007-02-02 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Ramon Flores schrieb: Is there any way to say to LyX not to put more that one figure in a page with text?. Or alternatively, is there any way to say to LyX to set apart the two figures? This is a wide field to play on. The toys for this are explained in the Embedded Insets manual:

Re: Comment on Lyx Windows Install: the textclasses not found problem

2007-02-02 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Paul A. Rubin schrieb: Does it? I've installed the thin version on my home PC a few times. The home PC has a dial-up connection (which is off during installation) and MikTeX set to ask. It asks, I say no (repeatedly), and installation goes fine. But if you press yes -

Re: Ho to write my own paragraph layout or how to change LyX-Code

2007-02-02 Thread Steve Litt
On Friday 02 February 2007 06:47, Roland Schmitz wrote: Hi List, i'm looking for an code layout (environment) for LyX, wich automaticly inserts line numbers and a table of contents for all listings. If it's possible to configure this layout to look a bit like old endless paper (one line with

fancyhdr font size

2007-02-02 Thread Bob Lounsbury
Is there any way to control this? I've put '\lhead{\small{foo}}' into the preamble, but I would like the header font to be smaller. So, is there a command lower than '\small'? I've tried '\smaller' but LyX doesn't like that. Or another way to accomplish this. Thanks, Bob Lounsbury

Re: LyX 1.5svn PDF testers needed

2007-02-02 Thread Olivier Ripoll
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Helly LyXers, some of you have already tested one of the development snapshot of LyX 1.5svn: http://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5117release_id=12083 Could anybody who has LyX 1.5svn still on the system and use Acrobat 8/Adobe reader 8 please test

Re: changing Xfig figures in LyX

2007-02-02 Thread Georg Baum
Philipp Fleig wrote: Hello, ok. Attached you find a sample .lyx + xfig file. When I go to preferences in LyX there are a number of converters, including some like FIG - EPS, FIG - PDFTEX and FIG - PSTEX, which I guess would be the relevant ones. Yes, they are. I read on

Re: Culmus Hebrew fonts

2007-02-02 Thread Dov Feldstern
Hi! You should also check out this package: http://nikud.berlios.de/ . It is mainly for using nikud, but as a side effect it also uses the culmus fonts. It's also really simple to use --- after the initial setup (explained on the site), all you need to do is use the culmus package instead of

Re: LyX 1.5svn PDF testers needed

2007-02-02 Thread Nick Hopton
In a recent message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Uwe Stöhr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote. [...] So there is no other solution for this crash other then the one I shipped with LyX1.5svn as PDFViewWin8.exe :-( [...] But how big a problem is this, Uwe? When I'm working on a document and I want to see what it

Ho to write my own paragraph layout or how to change LyX-Code

2007-02-02 Thread Roland Schmitz
Hi List, i'm looking for an code layout (environment) for LyX, wich automaticly inserts line numbers and a table of contents for all listings. If it's possible to configure this layout to look a bit like old endless paper (one line with white background, one with green) this would be exactly

Re: different headers

2007-02-02 Thread Andreas K .
Bob Lounsbury [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, Is there a way to have a different custom heading on the first and subsequent pages? What I need is a specific left header on the first page and then a different specific left header on all the subsequent pages. Thanks, Bob Lounsbury

[announce] LyX150svn from 01-02-2007 for Windows

2007-02-02 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Hello LyXTesters, I published a new version with LyX1.5.0svn from 01-02-2007: http://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5117release_id=12153 Now this know problem should be fixed with the new MiKTeX version that comes together with this installer: Known problem: - LyX's

Re: Beamer class and pdf meta-information

2007-02-02 Thread Jean-Pierre Chretien
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org From: Paul A. Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Beamer class and pdf meta-information Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2007 17:37:14 -0500 Jean-Pierre Chretien wrote: Hello, [...] I don't know enough LaTeX to know how to access the author and title information after \author

Re: [announce] LyX150svn from 01-02-2007 for Windows

2007-02-02 Thread Olivier Ripoll
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Hello LyXTesters, I published a new version with LyX1.5.0svn from 01-02-2007: http://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5117release_id=12153 Now this know problem should be fixed with the new MiKTeX version that comes together with this installer: Known

Re: Ho to write my own paragraph layout or how to change LyX-Code

2007-02-02 Thread Richard Heck
The documentation for this is at HelpCustomization5.2. If you look at that and then look at how similar layouts are implemented in the extant layout classes, you shouldn't have too much trouble. Seeing the line numbers and the white-green in LyX itself might be a challenge, but making it possible

Re[2]: Font problems of pdf-files generated on Mac

2007-02-02 Thread Alan G Isaac
On Fri, 2 Feb 2007, Anders Ekberg apparently wrote: The question is how do I embed fonts using LyX/TeX? I'm not sure what the LyX way is, but I suppose you can glean clues from this: http://eps.berkeley.edu/www/graduate/thesis/Efile_PDF.html hth, Alan Isaac

Re: [announce] LyX150svn from 01-02-2007 for Windows

2007-02-02 Thread Nick Hopton
In a recent message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Olivier Ripoll [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote. [...] - I cannot open the documentation, LyX complains about wrong file versions that lyx2lyx cannot convert. [...] I can't open *any* of my LyX files (all of them worked with the last Alpha release) all I get is

Re: different headers

2007-02-02 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On 2/2/07, Andreas K. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bob Lounsbury [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, Is there a way to have a different custom heading on the first and subsequent pages? What I need is a specific left header on the first page and then a different specific left header on all the

Re: [announce] LyX150svn from 01-02-2007 for Windows

2007-02-02 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Nick Hopton schrieb: - I cannot open the documentation, LyX complains about wrong file versions that lyx2lyx cannot convert. [...] I can't open *any* of my LyX files (all of them worked with the last Alpha release) all I get is this message: C:/documents and settings/nick hopton/my

Re: [announce] LyX150svn from 01-02-2007 for Windows

2007-02-02 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Nick Hopton schrieb: - I cannot open the documentation, LyX complains about wrong file versions that lyx2lyx cannot convert. The problem is that lyx2lyx doesn't convert the files from format 256 to format 258. As workaround you can manually change the first line in the LyX-file source.

Re: [announce] LyX150svn from 01-02-2007 for Windows

2007-02-02 Thread Nick Hopton
In a recent message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Uwe Stöhr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote. [...] I can't open *any* of my LyX files (all of them worked with the last Alpha release) all I get is this message: C:/documents and settings/nick hopton/my documents/hrule_test.lyx is from a different version of

Re: Culmus Hebrew fonts

2007-02-02 Thread Miki Dovrat
After some more reading in forums I found (and understood, or not) the following: The babel package contains the font encodings and metrics and definitions needed to use the Culmus fonts, but not the fonts themselves, which today are readily availabe for linux and Windows. Latex CANNOT have

Re: [announce] LyX150svn from 01-02-2007 for Windows

2007-02-02 Thread Nick Hopton
In a recent message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Uwe Stöhr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote. [...] The problem is that lyx2lyx doesn't convert the files from format 256 to format 258. As workaround you can manually change the first line in the LyX-file source. [...] Yes, this works here. It crashes when

Re: LyX 1.5svn PDF testers needed

2007-02-02 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Olivier Ripoll schrieb: By the way, I noticed that when choosing the Introduction instead of the User's Guide, the images were not found. This should be fixed in the latest installer I just released. Have you tested the French Introduction or the English version? regards Uwe

Re: BibTeX and master documents

2007-02-02 Thread Daniel Lohmann
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: To make it easier to insert citatiosn (if you still need to), you can insert a bibliography within each child document, but place it inside a *comment*. That way LaTeX won't see it, but LyX will know what .bib-files to scan for when showing you the available

Re: [announce] LyX150svn from 01-02-2007 for Windows

2007-02-02 Thread Georg Baum
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Nick Hopton schrieb: - I cannot open the documentation, LyX complains about wrong file versions that lyx2lyx cannot convert. The problem is that lyx2lyx doesn't convert the files from format 256 to format 258. Why? Current svn converts these very well. Georg

Re: BibTeX and master documents

2007-02-02 Thread Richard Heck
Use the technique mentioned here: http://wiki.lyx.org/Tips/ChildMathMacros. More or less. And see below. 1) Define a variable \master in the preamble of the master document before including the common preamble: Define it to mean something. \def\master*{whatever}* \input{preamble.tex} Don't

Re: BibTeX and master documents

2007-02-02 Thread Daniel Watkins
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Daniel Lohmann wrote: I am looking for some way to conditionally embed the bibliography into the child documents. If used (printed) stand alone, a child should have a complete bibliography section. If embedded into the master, the bibliographies

Re: [announce] LyX150svn from 01-02-2007 for Windows

2007-02-02 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Olivier Ripoll schrieb: - I can do a pdf with it fine, but the update does not work however my pdf viewer is Foxit 2.0, not Acrobat (which I do have installed, but not as default pdf reader), so it might be related to this. I'll have a look, The registry settings made ba Adobe Reader are

LyX 1.3.4-4 does not load, LyX 1.5 svn loads nicely

2007-02-02 Thread John Kane
I just moved to a new (for me) computer ( 1G ram, hurray. My old one with 512K had died and I was using a clunker with 256k. Still WindowsXP but ... I had to install a lot of my personal software including LyX. I tried to install LyX 1.3.4 and first got a message that it was timing out trying

float placement refinements

2007-02-02 Thread Ramon Flores
Hi, I write documents with a lot of figures, so it is not unusual that LyX (latex) have to put more than two figures in one page. (I use tpb in the float placement box). The only figures pages, with two or more figures, are OK for me. But when LyX(latex) puts two figures in a page with text

Re: [announce] LyX150svn from 01-02-2007 for Windows - lyx2lyx solution

2007-02-02 Thread Uwe Stöhr
- I cannot open the documentation, LyX complains about wrong file versions that lyx2lyx cannot convert. The problem is that lyx2lyx doesn't convert the files from format 256 to format 258. As workaround you can manually change the first line in the LyX-file source. (Sometimes everything

Re: float placement refinements

2007-02-02 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Ramon Flores schrieb: Is there any way to say to LyX not to put more that one figure in a page with text?. Or alternatively, is there any way to say to LyX to set apart the two figures? This is a wide field to play on. The toys for this are explained in the Embedded Insets manual:

Re: Comment on Lyx Windows Install: the textclasses not found problem

2007-02-02 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Paul A. Rubin schrieb: Does it? I've installed the thin version on my home PC a few times. The home PC has a dial-up connection (which is off during installation) and MikTeX set to ask. It asks, I say no (repeatedly), and installation goes fine. But if you press yes -

Re: Ho to write my own paragraph layout or how to change LyX-Code

2007-02-02 Thread Steve Litt
On Friday 02 February 2007 06:47, Roland Schmitz wrote: Hi List, i'm looking for an code layout (environment) for LyX, wich automaticly inserts line numbers and a table of contents for all listings. If it's possible to configure this layout to look a bit like old endless paper (one line with

fancyhdr font size

2007-02-02 Thread Bob Lounsbury
Is there any way to control this? I've put '\lhead{\small{foo}}' into the preamble, but I would like the header font to be smaller. So, is there a command lower than '\small'? I've tried '\smaller' but LyX doesn't like that. Or another way to accomplish this. Thanks, Bob Lounsbury

Re: LyX 1.5svn PDF testers needed

2007-02-02 Thread Olivier Ripoll
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Helly LyXers, some of you have already tested one of the development snapshot of LyX 1.5svn: http://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5117_id=12083 Could anybody who has LyX 1.5svn still on the system and use Acrobat 8/Adobe reader 8 please test out the

Re: changing Xfig figures in LyX

2007-02-02 Thread Georg Baum
Philipp Fleig wrote: > Hello, > > ok. Attached you find a sample .lyx + xfig file. > When I go to preferences in LyX there are a number of converters, > including some like FIG -> EPS, FIG -> PDFTEX and FIG -> PSTEX, which > I guess would be the relevant ones. Yes, they are. > I read on

Re: Culmus Hebrew fonts

2007-02-02 Thread Dov Feldstern
Hi! You should also check out this package: http://nikud.berlios.de/ . It is mainly for using nikud, but as a side effect it also uses the culmus fonts. It's also really simple to use --- after the initial setup (explained on the site), all you need to do is use the culmus package instead of

Re: LyX 1.5svn PDF testers needed

2007-02-02 Thread Nick Hopton
In a recent message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Uwe Stöhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote. [...] So there is no other solution for this crash other then the one I shipped with LyX1.5svn as PDFViewWin8.exe :-( [...] But how big a problem is this, Uwe? When I'm working on a document and I want to see what

Ho to write my own paragraph layout or how to change "LyX-Code"

2007-02-02 Thread Roland Schmitz
Hi List, i'm looking for an code layout (environment) for LyX, wich automaticly inserts line numbers and a "table of contents" for all listings. If it's possible to configure this layout to look a bit like old "endless paper" (one line with white background, one with green) this would be

Re: different headers

2007-02-02 Thread Andreas K .
Bob Lounsbury <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Hello, > > Is there a way to have a different custom heading on the first and > subsequent pages? What I need is a specific left header on the first page > and then a different specific left header on all the subsequent pages. > > Thanks, > Bob

[announce] LyX150svn from 01-02-2007 for Windows

2007-02-02 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Hello LyXTesters, I published a new version with LyX1.5.0svn from 01-02-2007: http://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5117_id=12153 Now this know problem should be fixed with the new MiKTeX version that comes together with this installer: Known problem: - LyX's package

Re: Beamer class and pdf meta-information

2007-02-02 Thread Jean-Pierre Chretien
>>To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org >>From: "Paul A. Rubin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Subject: Re: Beamer class and pdf meta-information >>Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2007 17:37:14 -0500 >> >>Jean-Pierre Chretien wrote: >>> Hello, [...] >> >>I don't know enough LaTeX to know how to access the author and title

Re: [announce] LyX150svn from 01-02-2007 for Windows

2007-02-02 Thread Olivier Ripoll
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Hello LyXTesters, I published a new version with LyX1.5.0svn from 01-02-2007: http://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5117_id=12153 Now this know problem should be fixed with the new MiKTeX version that comes together with this installer: Known

Re: Ho to write my own paragraph layout or how to change "LyX-Code"

2007-02-02 Thread Richard Heck
The documentation for this is at Help>Customization>5.2. If you look at that and then look at how similar layouts are implemented in the extant layout classes, you shouldn't have too much trouble. Seeing the line numbers and the white-green in LyX itself might be a challenge, but making it

Re[2]: Font problems of pdf-files generated on Mac

2007-02-02 Thread Alan G Isaac
On Fri, 2 Feb 2007, Anders Ekberg apparently wrote: > The question is how do I embed fonts using LyX/TeX? I'm not sure what the LyX way is, but I suppose you can glean clues from this: http://eps.berkeley.edu/www/graduate/thesis/Efile_PDF.html hth, Alan Isaac

Re: [announce] LyX150svn from 01-02-2007 for Windows

2007-02-02 Thread Nick Hopton
In a recent message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Olivier Ripoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote. [...] - I cannot open the documentation, LyX complains about wrong file versions that lyx2lyx cannot convert. [...] I can't open *any* of my LyX files (all of them worked with the last Alpha release) all I

Re: different headers

2007-02-02 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On 2/2/07, Andreas K. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Bob Lounsbury <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Hello, > > Is there a way to have a different custom heading on the first and > subsequent pages? What I need is a specific left header on the first page > and then a different specific left header

Re: [announce] LyX150svn from 01-02-2007 for Windows

2007-02-02 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Nick Hopton schrieb: - I cannot open the documentation, LyX complains about wrong file versions that lyx2lyx cannot convert. [...] I can't open *any* of my LyX files (all of them worked with the last Alpha release) all I get is this message: C:/documents and settings/nick hopton/my

Re: [announce] LyX150svn from 01-02-2007 for Windows

2007-02-02 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Nick Hopton schrieb: - I cannot open the documentation, LyX complains about wrong file versions that lyx2lyx cannot convert. The problem is that lyx2lyx doesn't convert the files from format 256 to format 258. As workaround you can manually change the first line in the LyX-file source.

Re: [announce] LyX150svn from 01-02-2007 for Windows

2007-02-02 Thread Nick Hopton
In a recent message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Uwe Stöhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote. [...] I can't open *any* of my LyX files (all of them worked with the last Alpha release) all I get is this message: C:/documents and settings/nick hopton/my documents/hrule_test.lyx is from a different version of

Re: Culmus Hebrew fonts

2007-02-02 Thread Miki Dovrat
After some more reading in forums I found (and understood, or not) the following: The babel package contains the font encodings and metrics and definitions needed to use the Culmus fonts, but not the fonts themselves, which today are readily availabe for linux and Windows. Latex CANNOT have

Re: [announce] LyX150svn from 01-02-2007 for Windows

2007-02-02 Thread Nick Hopton
In a recent message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Uwe Stöhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote. [...] The problem is that lyx2lyx doesn't convert the files from format 256 to format 258. As workaround you can manually change the first line in the LyX-file source. [...] Yes, this works here. It crashes when

Re: LyX 1.5svn PDF testers needed

2007-02-02 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Olivier Ripoll schrieb: By the way, I noticed that when choosing the Introduction instead of the User's Guide, the images were not found. This should be fixed in the latest installer I just released. Have you tested the French Introduction or the English version? regards Uwe

Re: BibTeX and master documents

2007-02-02 Thread Daniel Lohmann
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: > To make it easier to insert citatiosn (if you still need to), you can > insert a bibliography within each child document, but place it inside a > *comment*. That way LaTeX won't see it, but LyX will know what > .bib-files to scan for when showing you the available

Re: [announce] LyX150svn from 01-02-2007 for Windows

2007-02-02 Thread Georg Baum
Uwe Stöhr wrote: > Nick Hopton schrieb: > >>> - I cannot open the documentation, LyX complains about wrong file >>> versions that lyx2lyx cannot convert. > > The problem is that lyx2lyx doesn't convert the files from format 256 to > format 258. Why? Current svn converts these very well.

Re: BibTeX and master documents

2007-02-02 Thread Richard Heck
Use the technique mentioned here: http://wiki.lyx.org/Tips/ChildMathMacros. More or less. And see below. > 1) Define a variable \master in the preamble of the master document > before including the common preamble: Define it to mean something. > \def\master*{whatever}* > \input{preamble.tex} >

Re: BibTeX and master documents

2007-02-02 Thread Daniel Watkins
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Daniel Lohmann wrote: > I am looking for some way to conditionally embed the bibliography into > the child documents. If used (printed) "stand alone", a child should > have a complete bibliography section. If embedded into the master, the >

Re: [announce] LyX150svn from 01-02-2007 for Windows

2007-02-02 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Olivier Ripoll schrieb: - I can do a pdf with it fine, but the update does not work however my pdf viewer is Foxit 2.0, not Acrobat (which I do have installed, but not as default pdf reader), so it might be related to this. I'll have a look, The registry settings made ba Adobe Reader are

LyX 1.3.4-4 does not load, LyX 1.5 svn loads nicely

2007-02-02 Thread John Kane
I just moved to a new (for me) computer ( 1G ram, hurray. My old one with 512K had died and I was using a clunker with 256k. Still WindowsXP but ... I had to install a lot of my personal software including LyX. I tried to install LyX 1.3.4 and first got a message that it was timing out trying

float placement refinements

2007-02-02 Thread Ramon Flores
Hi, I write documents with a lot of figures, so it is not unusual that LyX (latex) have to put more than two figures in one page. (I use tpb in the float placement box). The only figures pages, with two or more figures, are OK for me. But when LyX(latex) puts two figures in a page with text

Re: [announce] LyX150svn from 01-02-2007 for Windows - lyx2lyx solution

2007-02-02 Thread Uwe Stöhr
- I cannot open the documentation, LyX complains about wrong file versions that lyx2lyx cannot convert. The problem is that lyx2lyx doesn't convert the files from format 256 to format 258. As workaround you can manually change the first line in the LyX-file source. (Sometimes everything

Re: float placement refinements

2007-02-02 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Ramon Flores schrieb: Is there any way to say to LyX not to put more that one figure in a page with text?. Or alternatively, is there any way to say to LyX to set apart the two figures? This is a wide field to play on. The toys for this are explained in the Embedded Insets manual:

Re: Comment on Lyx Windows Install: the "textclasses not found" problem

2007-02-02 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Paul A. Rubin schrieb: Does it? I've installed the "thin" version on my home PC a few times. The home PC has a dial-up connection (which is off during installation) and MikTeX set to "ask". It asks, I say no (repeatedly), and installation goes fine. But if you press

Re: Ho to write my own paragraph layout or how to change "LyX-Code"

2007-02-02 Thread Steve Litt
On Friday 02 February 2007 06:47, Roland Schmitz wrote: > Hi List, > > i'm looking for an code layout (environment) for LyX, wich automaticly > inserts line numbers and a "table of contents" for all listings. > If it's possible to configure this layout to look a bit like old "endless > paper" (one

fancyhdr font size

2007-02-02 Thread Bob Lounsbury
Is there any way to control this? I've put '\lhead{\small{foo}}' into the preamble, but I would like the header font to be smaller. So, is there a command lower than '\small'? I've tried '\smaller' but LyX doesn't like that. Or another way to accomplish this. Thanks, Bob Lounsbury