Re: Howto remove number from first page of article class..

2007-09-03 Thread M-L
On Sunday 02 September 2007 20:21, Martin A. Hansen shared this with us all: --} something --} --} \thispagestyle{ empty } --} --} --} google a bit for it. --} --} check the faq too on the wiki. --} --} --} --} Martin Thanks Martin, googled for that and found it just so. Tried it and it worked a

Re: Self-publishing with LyX

2007-09-03 Thread Yegor Yefremov
Typhoon wrote: Self-publishing with LyX is now available as a free download or as a USD9.95 printed book from Lulu.com: http://www.lulu.com/content/1085870 Nobody on this list is going to learn much from it. It is directed at people who want to self-publish and are probably using Word or

Documentation, 2

2007-09-03 Thread Hartmut Haase
Hi, with the help of Richard Heck and Uwe Nathanael, and own investigation I could reduce the list to the following items: Tools-Preferences-Colors- inset frame LaTeX error Math macro background Shadow box bottom area previewed snippet

Re: Tables without oldstylenums

2007-09-03 Thread Helge Hafting
Niklas Huldén wrote: Hi! I have a lengthy (300 p) humanistic manuscript and have enabled \usepackage[osf]mathpazo as to get oldstyle figures across the whole document. However, I also have 50+ tables and if I've understood correctly one should not use oldstylenums except in the main text

What is this? latex error iso-8859-7.def

2007-09-03 Thread Declan O'Byrne
I have this error, which prevents my document from doing anything. The same document worked fine with lyx 1.5.1 on Ubuntu 7.04. Now I'm running Ubuntu 7.10. I wonder if the problem is related to texlive, and whether there is some package I should add? Thanks for any pointers, Declan

Re: Backspace immediately after math box

2007-09-03 Thread Helge Hafting
David Pokorny wrote: Hi, When I'm typing math formulas, I often (accidentally) type a backspace right after the end of a math box, deleting the entire box. When my brain tells my right hand to hit delete, it thinks that only one character will be deleted, so it is always a surprise (to my

Re: microtype package and hanging punctuation

2007-09-03 Thread Helge Hafting
Richard Heck wrote: \usepackage[expansion=false]{microtype} And you can try: \usepackage[expansion=false, spacing=true, kerning=true]{microtype} and try those independently. The point of turning off expansion is that, as the manual says somewhere, leaving it on increases file size

Re: margin notes and comments

2007-09-03 Thread Uwe Stöhr
pol schrieb: What is the best way to set the default format for margin notes (font size, line spacing, paragraph settings, foreground and background color) ? This is explained in the corresponding section of the Embedded Objects manual in LyX's help menu. regards Uwe

Page Numbering

2007-09-03 Thread Josef Holzmayr
Hi! I would like LyX to start the page numbers not on page 1, but on page 8 or 9, for example, and have all the pages before indexed as i, ii .. and so on. How can that be archieved? Regard, J. Holzmayr PS: please reply direct, as i've not subscripted to the list. Thanks. Amtsgericht

my lyx can not create output

2007-09-03 Thread Mao Jie
Hi I try both the version 1.5.1 and 1.4.5 on my computer with Windows XP and as soon as i open any lyx file, lyx tells me The document uses a missing Tex class article. Lyx will not be able to produce output. I want to know why. Does it result from wrong installation? Thanks and best wishes!

relative paths

2007-09-03 Thread Hauser Helmut
Hello, I use LyX on a Linux machine in my office and on a Windows machine at home. Sometimes I need to work on the same document on both machines. The problem is, that the path for the figures to be included is always a global one (/home/... or C:/). It would be great if I just could use

Re: relative paths

2007-09-03 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Helmut, In fact relative paths work very well - only the file selection dialog does not return them. Just enter the relative path to the figure by hand or change it after using the file selection dialog. Daniel Hauser Helmut schrieb: Hello, I use LyX on a Linux machine in my office and on

Re: What is this? latex error iso-8859-7.def

2007-09-03 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 03 Sep 2007, Declan O'Byrne wrote: I have this error, which prevents my document from doing anything. The same document worked fine with lyx 1.5.1 on Ubuntu 7.04. Now I'm running Ubuntu 7.10. I wonder if the problem is related to texlive, and whether there is some package I should add?

Re: my lyx can not create output

2007-09-03 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Mao Jie wrote: I try both the version 1.5.1 and 1.4.5 on my computer with Windows XP and as soon as i open any lyx file, lyx tells me The document uses a missing Tex class article. Lyx will not be able to produce output. I want to know why. Does it result from wrong installation? The most

Re: Page Numbering

2007-09-03 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Josef Holzmayr schrieb: I would like LyX to start the page numbers not on page 1, but on page 8 or 9, for example, and have all the pages before indexed as i, ii .. and so on. How can that be archieved? See the attached LyX-file. (When you need different page numbering e.g. for the table of

Re: Backspace immediately after math box

2007-09-03 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 10:56:56AM +0200, Helge Hafting wrote: This is easily remedied by typing undo, but it is a minor nuisance. The behavior my automatic brain expects is either A) what you would get by typing a left arrow followed by a backspace You mean left arrow + delete I guess?

Re: Page Numbering

2007-09-03 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 11:53:10AM +0200, Josef Holzmayr wrote: Hi! I would like LyX to start the page numbers not on page 1, but on page 8 or 9, for example, and have all the pages before indexed as i, ii .. and so on. How can that be archieved? Regard, J. Holzmayr PS: please reply

Re: relative paths

2007-09-03 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On 9/3/07, Daniel Lohmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Helmut, In fact relative paths work very well - only the file selection dialog does not return them. Just enter the relative path to the figure by hand or change it after using the file selection dialog. Daniel Hauser Helmut schrieb:

Re: Page Numbering

2007-09-03 Thread Steve Litt
On Monday 03 September 2007 05:53, Josef Holzmayr wrote: Hi! I would like LyX to start the page numbers not on page 1, but on page 8 or 9, for example, and have all the pages before indexed as i, ii .. and so on. How can that be archieved? Regard, J. Holzmayr PS: please reply direct, as

Re: Self-publishing with LyX

2007-09-03 Thread Typhoon
On Mon, 03 Sep 2007 09:43:51 +0200 Yegor Yefremov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Typhoon wrote: Self-publishing with LyX is now available as a free download or as a USD9.95 printed book from Lulu.com: http://www.lulu.com/content/1085870 Nobody on this list is going to learn much from it. It

Re: Page Numbering

2007-09-03 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 3 Sep 2007, Steve Litt wrote: Personally, I think the preceding is about as rude as it gets, and I think all mailing lists should simply ignore those who can't be bothered to subscribe. This list has many very knowledgeable people, all of whom are very busy, and anything making them

Re: my lyx can not create output

2007-09-03 Thread Paul Schwartz
Paul A. Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit dans le message de news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mao Jie wrote: I try both the version 1.5.1 and 1.4.5 on my computer with Windows XP and as soon as i open any lyx file, lyx tells me The document uses a missing Tex class article. Lyx will not be able to

Rotating text

2007-09-03 Thread Dawn Marie Perry
See from reading some archived mail that I can rotate tables. What about single lines blocks of text? I'm used to Quark PageMaker. See also that there's spell check. Great, we all tend to make typos when we're tired. Dawn Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Backspace immediately after math box

2007-09-03 Thread David Pokorny
Thanks for the lively discussion :) This is actually a somewhat common problem for me, and I understand the value of asking that new users acclimate to a new interface, but in this particular instance, I have to disagree: First, the current behavior is a small (but important) violation of the

Re: Backspace immediately after math box

2007-09-03 Thread Paul A. Rubin
David Pokorny wrote: So the argument is that the following change to the behavior of the backspace key is both easier to learn for new users and more useful for all users: * Both inside and outside math, typing a backspace when the cursor is adjacent to the right hand side of an inset moves

Re: Howto remove number from first page of article class..

2007-09-03 Thread M-L
On Sunday 02 September 2007 20:21, Martin A. Hansen shared this with us all: --} something --} --} \thispagestyle{ empty } --} --} --} google a bit for it. --} --} check the faq too on the wiki. --} --} --} --} Martin Thanks Martin, googled for that and found it just so. Tried it and it worked a

Re: Self-publishing with LyX

2007-09-03 Thread Yegor Yefremov
Typhoon wrote: Self-publishing with LyX is now available as a free download or as a USD9.95 printed book from Lulu.com: http://www.lulu.com/content/1085870 Nobody on this list is going to learn much from it. It is directed at people who want to self-publish and are probably using Word or

Documentation, 2

2007-09-03 Thread Hartmut Haase
Hi, with the help of Richard Heck and Uwe Nathanael, and own investigation I could reduce the list to the following items: Tools-Preferences-Colors- inset frame LaTeX error Math macro background Shadow box bottom area previewed snippet

Re: Tables without oldstylenums

2007-09-03 Thread Helge Hafting
Niklas Huldén wrote: Hi! I have a lengthy (300 p) humanistic manuscript and have enabled \usepackage[osf]mathpazo as to get oldstyle figures across the whole document. However, I also have 50+ tables and if I've understood correctly one should not use oldstylenums except in the main text

What is this? latex error iso-8859-7.def

2007-09-03 Thread Declan O'Byrne
I have this error, which prevents my document from doing anything. The same document worked fine with lyx 1.5.1 on Ubuntu 7.04. Now I'm running Ubuntu 7.10. I wonder if the problem is related to texlive, and whether there is some package I should add? Thanks for any pointers, Declan

Re: Backspace immediately after math box

2007-09-03 Thread Helge Hafting
David Pokorny wrote: Hi, When I'm typing math formulas, I often (accidentally) type a backspace right after the end of a math box, deleting the entire box. When my brain tells my right hand to hit delete, it thinks that only one character will be deleted, so it is always a surprise (to my

Re: microtype package and hanging punctuation

2007-09-03 Thread Helge Hafting
Richard Heck wrote: \usepackage[expansion=false]{microtype} And you can try: \usepackage[expansion=false, spacing=true, kerning=true]{microtype} and try those independently. The point of turning off expansion is that, as the manual says somewhere, leaving it on increases file size

Re: margin notes and comments

2007-09-03 Thread Uwe Stöhr
pol schrieb: What is the best way to set the default format for margin notes (font size, line spacing, paragraph settings, foreground and background color) ? This is explained in the corresponding section of the Embedded Objects manual in LyX's help menu. regards Uwe

Page Numbering

2007-09-03 Thread Josef Holzmayr
Hi! I would like LyX to start the page numbers not on page 1, but on page 8 or 9, for example, and have all the pages before indexed as i, ii .. and so on. How can that be archieved? Regard, J. Holzmayr PS: please reply direct, as i've not subscripted to the list. Thanks. Amtsgericht

my lyx can not create output

2007-09-03 Thread Mao Jie
Hi I try both the version 1.5.1 and 1.4.5 on my computer with Windows XP and as soon as i open any lyx file, lyx tells me The document uses a missing Tex class article. Lyx will not be able to produce output. I want to know why. Does it result from wrong installation? Thanks and best wishes!

relative paths

2007-09-03 Thread Hauser Helmut
Hello, I use LyX on a Linux machine in my office and on a Windows machine at home. Sometimes I need to work on the same document on both machines. The problem is, that the path for the figures to be included is always a global one (/home/... or C:/). It would be great if I just could use

Re: relative paths

2007-09-03 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Helmut, In fact relative paths work very well - only the file selection dialog does not return them. Just enter the relative path to the figure by hand or change it after using the file selection dialog. Daniel Hauser Helmut schrieb: Hello, I use LyX on a Linux machine in my office and on

Re: What is this? latex error iso-8859-7.def

2007-09-03 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 03 Sep 2007, Declan O'Byrne wrote: I have this error, which prevents my document from doing anything. The same document worked fine with lyx 1.5.1 on Ubuntu 7.04. Now I'm running Ubuntu 7.10. I wonder if the problem is related to texlive, and whether there is some package I should add?

Re: my lyx can not create output

2007-09-03 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Mao Jie wrote: I try both the version 1.5.1 and 1.4.5 on my computer with Windows XP and as soon as i open any lyx file, lyx tells me The document uses a missing Tex class article. Lyx will not be able to produce output. I want to know why. Does it result from wrong installation? The most

Re: Page Numbering

2007-09-03 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Josef Holzmayr schrieb: I would like LyX to start the page numbers not on page 1, but on page 8 or 9, for example, and have all the pages before indexed as i, ii .. and so on. How can that be archieved? See the attached LyX-file. (When you need different page numbering e.g. for the table of

Re: Backspace immediately after math box

2007-09-03 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 10:56:56AM +0200, Helge Hafting wrote: This is easily remedied by typing undo, but it is a minor nuisance. The behavior my automatic brain expects is either A) what you would get by typing a left arrow followed by a backspace You mean left arrow + delete I guess?

Re: Page Numbering

2007-09-03 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 11:53:10AM +0200, Josef Holzmayr wrote: Hi! I would like LyX to start the page numbers not on page 1, but on page 8 or 9, for example, and have all the pages before indexed as i, ii .. and so on. How can that be archieved? Regard, J. Holzmayr PS: please reply

Re: relative paths

2007-09-03 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On 9/3/07, Daniel Lohmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Helmut, In fact relative paths work very well - only the file selection dialog does not return them. Just enter the relative path to the figure by hand or change it after using the file selection dialog. Daniel Hauser Helmut schrieb:

Re: Page Numbering

2007-09-03 Thread Steve Litt
On Monday 03 September 2007 05:53, Josef Holzmayr wrote: Hi! I would like LyX to start the page numbers not on page 1, but on page 8 or 9, for example, and have all the pages before indexed as i, ii .. and so on. How can that be archieved? Regard, J. Holzmayr PS: please reply direct, as

Re: Self-publishing with LyX

2007-09-03 Thread Typhoon
On Mon, 03 Sep 2007 09:43:51 +0200 Yegor Yefremov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Typhoon wrote: Self-publishing with LyX is now available as a free download or as a USD9.95 printed book from Lulu.com: http://www.lulu.com/content/1085870 Nobody on this list is going to learn much from it. It

Re: Page Numbering

2007-09-03 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 3 Sep 2007, Steve Litt wrote: Personally, I think the preceding is about as rude as it gets, and I think all mailing lists should simply ignore those who can't be bothered to subscribe. This list has many very knowledgeable people, all of whom are very busy, and anything making them

Re: my lyx can not create output

2007-09-03 Thread Paul Schwartz
Paul A. Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit dans le message de news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mao Jie wrote: I try both the version 1.5.1 and 1.4.5 on my computer with Windows XP and as soon as i open any lyx file, lyx tells me The document uses a missing Tex class article. Lyx will not be able to

Rotating text

2007-09-03 Thread Dawn Marie Perry
See from reading some archived mail that I can rotate tables. What about single lines blocks of text? I'm used to Quark PageMaker. See also that there's spell check. Great, we all tend to make typos when we're tired. Dawn Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Backspace immediately after math box

2007-09-03 Thread David Pokorny
Thanks for the lively discussion :) This is actually a somewhat common problem for me, and I understand the value of asking that new users acclimate to a new interface, but in this particular instance, I have to disagree: First, the current behavior is a small (but important) violation of the

Re: Backspace immediately after math box

2007-09-03 Thread Paul A. Rubin
David Pokorny wrote: So the argument is that the following change to the behavior of the backspace key is both easier to learn for new users and more useful for all users: * Both inside and outside math, typing a backspace when the cursor is adjacent to the right hand side of an inset moves

Re: Howto remove number from first page of article class..

2007-09-03 Thread M-L
On Sunday 02 September 2007 20:21, Martin A. Hansen shared this with us all: >--} something >--} >--} \thispagestyle{ empty } >--} >--} >--} google a bit for it. >--} >--} check the faq too on the wiki. >--} >--} >--} >--} Martin Thanks Martin, googled for that and found it just so. Tried it and

Re: Self-publishing with LyX

2007-09-03 Thread Yegor Yefremov
Typhoon wrote: "Self-publishing with LyX" is now available as a free download or as a USD9.95 printed book from Lulu.com: http://www.lulu.com/content/1085870 Nobody on this list is going to learn much from it. It is directed at people who want to self-publish and are probably using Word or

Documentation, 2

2007-09-03 Thread Hartmut Haase
Hi, with the help of Richard Heck and Uwe Nathanael, and own investigation I could reduce the list to the following items: Tools->Preferences->Colors-> inset frame LaTeX error Math macro background Shadow box bottom area previewed snippet

Re: Tables without oldstylenums

2007-09-03 Thread Helge Hafting
Niklas Huldén wrote: Hi! I have a lengthy (300 p) humanistic manuscript and have enabled \usepackage[osf]mathpazo as to get oldstyle figures across the whole document. However, I also have 50+ tables and if I've understood correctly one should not use oldstylenums except in the main text

What is this? latex error iso-8859-7.def

2007-09-03 Thread Declan O'Byrne
I have this error, which prevents my document from doing anything. The same document worked fine with lyx 1.5.1 on Ubuntu 7.04. Now I'm running Ubuntu 7.10. I wonder if the problem is related to texlive, and whether there is some package I should add? Thanks for any pointers, Declan

Re: Backspace immediately after math box

2007-09-03 Thread Helge Hafting
David Pokorny wrote: Hi, When I'm typing math formulas, I often (accidentally) type a backspace right after the end of a math box, deleting the entire box. When my brain tells my right hand to hit delete, it thinks that only one character will be deleted, so it is always a surprise (to my

Re: microtype package and hanging punctuation

2007-09-03 Thread Helge Hafting
Richard Heck wrote: \usepackage[expansion=false]{microtype} And you can try: \usepackage[expansion=false, spacing=true, kerning=true]{microtype} and try those independently. The point of turning off expansion is that, as the manual says somewhere, leaving it on increases file size

Re: margin notes and comments

2007-09-03 Thread Uwe Stöhr
pol schrieb: What is the best way to set the default format for margin notes (font size, line spacing, paragraph settings, foreground and background color) ? This is explained in the corresponding section of the Embedded Objects manual in LyX's help menu. regards Uwe

Page Numbering

2007-09-03 Thread Josef Holzmayr
Hi! I would like LyX to start the page numbers not on page 1, but on page 8 or 9, for example, and have all the pages before indexed as "i", "ii" .. and so on. How can that be archieved? Regard, J. Holzmayr PS: please reply direct, as i've not subscripted to the list. Thanks. Amtsgericht

my lyx can not create output

2007-09-03 Thread Mao Jie
Hi I try both the version 1.5.1 and 1.4.5 on my computer with Windows XP and as soon as i open any lyx file, lyx tells me "The document uses a missing Tex class "article". Lyx will not be able to produce output". I want to know why. Does it result from wrong installation? Thanks and best

relative paths

2007-09-03 Thread Hauser Helmut
Hello, I use LyX on a Linux machine in my office and on a Windows machine at home. Sometimes I need to work on the same document on both machines. The problem is, that the path for the figures to be included is always a global one (/home/... or C:/). It would be great if I just could use

Re: relative paths

2007-09-03 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Helmut, In fact relative paths work very well - only the file selection dialog does not return them. Just enter the relative path to the figure by hand or change it after using the file selection dialog. Daniel Hauser Helmut schrieb: Hello, I use LyX on a Linux machine in my office and on

Re: What is this? latex error iso-8859-7.def

2007-09-03 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 03 Sep 2007, Declan O'Byrne wrote: > I have this error, which prevents my document from doing anything. The > same document worked fine with lyx 1.5.1 on Ubuntu 7.04. Now I'm > running Ubuntu 7.10. I wonder if the problem is related to texlive, > and whether there is some package I should add?

Re: my lyx can not create output

2007-09-03 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Mao Jie wrote: I try both the version 1.5.1 and 1.4.5 on my computer with Windows XP and as soon as i open any lyx file, lyx tells me "The document uses a missing Tex class "article". Lyx will not be able to produce output". I want to know why. Does it result from wrong installation? The

Re: Page Numbering

2007-09-03 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Josef Holzmayr schrieb: I would like LyX to start the page numbers not on page 1, but on page 8 or 9, for example, and have all the pages before indexed as "i", "ii" .. and so on. How can that be archieved? See the attached LyX-file. (When you need different page numbering e.g. for the table

Re: Backspace immediately after math box

2007-09-03 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 10:56:56AM +0200, Helge Hafting wrote: > >This is easily remedied by typing undo, > >but it is a minor nuisance. The behavior my "automatic brain" expects > >is either > > > >A) what you would get by typing a left arrow followed by a backspace > > > You mean left arrow +

Re: Page Numbering

2007-09-03 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 11:53:10AM +0200, Josef Holzmayr wrote: > Hi! > > I would like LyX to start the page numbers not on page 1, but on page > 8 or 9, for example, and have all the pages before indexed as "i", > "ii" .. and so on. How can that be archieved? > > Regard, J. Holzmayr > > PS:

Re: relative paths

2007-09-03 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On 9/3/07, Daniel Lohmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Helmut, > > In fact relative paths work very well - only the file selection dialog does > not return them. Just enter the relative path to the figure by hand or > change it after using the file selection dialog. > > Daniel > > Hauser Helmut

Re: Page Numbering

2007-09-03 Thread Steve Litt
On Monday 03 September 2007 05:53, Josef Holzmayr wrote: > Hi! > > I would like LyX to start the page numbers not on page 1, but on page 8 > or 9, for example, and have all the pages before indexed as "i", "ii" .. > and so on. How can that be archieved? > > Regard, J. Holzmayr > > PS: please reply

Re: Self-publishing with LyX

2007-09-03 Thread Typhoon
On Mon, 03 Sep 2007 09:43:51 +0200 Yegor Yefremov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Typhoon wrote: > > "Self-publishing with LyX" is now available as a free download or > > as a USD9.95 printed book from Lulu.com: > > http://www.lulu.com/content/1085870 > > > > Nobody on this list is going to learn

Re: Page Numbering

2007-09-03 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 3 Sep 2007, Steve Litt wrote: Personally, I think the preceding is about as rude as it gets, and I think all mailing lists should simply ignore those who can't be bothered to subscribe. This list has many very knowledgeable people, all of whom are very busy, and anything making them

Re: my lyx can not create output

2007-09-03 Thread Paul Schwartz
"Paul A. Rubin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit dans le message de news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Mao Jie wrote: > >> I try both the version 1.5.1 and 1.4.5 on my computer with Windows XP and >> as soon as i open any lyx file, lyx tells me "The document uses a missing >> Tex class "article". Lyx will

Rotating text

2007-09-03 Thread Dawn & Marie Perry
See from reading some archived mail that I can rotate tables. What about single lines & blocks of text? I'm used to Quark & PageMaker. See also that there's spell check. Great, we all tend to make typos when we're tired. Dawn Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Backspace immediately after math box

2007-09-03 Thread David Pokorny
Thanks for the lively discussion :) This is actually a somewhat common problem for me, and I understand the value of asking that new users acclimate to a new interface, but in this particular instance, I have to disagree: First, the current behavior is a small (but important) violation of the

Re: Backspace immediately after math box

2007-09-03 Thread Paul A. Rubin
David Pokorny wrote: So the argument is that the following change to the behavior of the backspace key is both easier to learn for new users and more useful for all users: * Both inside and outside math, typing a backspace when the cursor is adjacent to the right hand side of an inset moves