Re: What are your experiences (including figures)?

2007-12-13 Thread Helge Hafting
bigblop wrote: Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: bigblop wrote: I always convert to .pdf and don't like to see the image in the LyX editor, only in the created pdf. But are there other advantages that I don't get? LyX watches if the image is externally modified. Jürgen Ok it

Re: Spell check on the fly?

2007-12-13 Thread Helge Hafting
bigblop wrote: Is there any chance that LyX in the future will support spell check on fly, where each misspelled word is underlined with a red line in the editor if its incorrectly spelled? If someone can be bothered to do it. I hope it will be less intrusive than a _red_ line though, seeing

Re: Lyx en español

2007-12-13 Thread Nicolás
Hi! I would say that the de facto language (if not the official one) of the list is English. So if you can speak English, I would advise you to use it. But if you can not speak English, you may ask in Spanish, add an automatic translation, and kindly ask someone to help you correct the

Re: Spell check on the fly?

2007-12-13 Thread Hellmut Weber
Hi list, I fully support Manveru's reasoning. When writing in my native language german I don't want to be disturbed at all by these red underlinings. And I#m well aware that in my documents there are ALWAYS lot of typos. So Ihave to give it a critical look when I have finished writing. In

Re: Spell check on the fly?

2007-12-13 Thread Ethan Metsger
On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 05:06:23 -0500, Hellmut Weber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Be sure no high quality document can be produced just hacking in the text, correcting typos on the fly .. and that's it. This is absolutely correct. Good writers are not necessarily grammatical writers or good

Shortcuts for environments?

2007-12-13 Thread Neal Becker
Are there keyboard shortcuts to select an environment? I do a lot of beamer presentations, could use one for 'begin frame' and 'itemize'.

Re: Shortcuts for environments?

2007-12-13 Thread G. Milde
On 13.12.07, Neal Becker wrote: Are there keyboard shortcuts to select an environment? yes. and they are even shown for a short while in the status bar at the very bottom of LyX when you select a layout style from the list. I do a lot of beamer presentations, could use one for 'begin frame'

Re: Lyx en español

2007-12-13 Thread Marcelo Acuña
I would say that the de facto language (if not the official one) of the list is English. So if you can speak English, I would advise you to use it. But if you can not speak English, you may ask in Spanish, add an automatic translation, and kindly ask someone to help you correct the

GUI configuration

2007-12-13 Thread G. Milde
Dear LyX users, is there support for a modular definition of the user interface similar to Input SOME_FILE in *.layout files or \bind_file SOME_FILE in *.bind keybinding definitions? I would like to customize the menus on some places¹ but keep them up-to date with new a LyX version's

Re: [patch] implement \slash and \nobreakdash

2007-12-13 Thread Hellmut Weber
Hi Pavel, doxygen is a program for making documentation from particular comments in the source code. you don't need any specific experience, just looking into the few already documented lfuns will give you an idea how to proceed. Got the idea trunk is not a program, but the name for the

Re: Shortcuts for environments?

2007-12-13 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Neal Becker wrote: Are there keyboard shortcuts to select an environment? I do a lot of beamer presentations, could use one for 'begin frame' and 'itemize'. As Günter points out, you can add shortcuts in the bindings file. Since beamer has quite a few environments that are unique to

Re: Bug? LyX crashes when opening Embed. Objects manual

2007-12-13 Thread David Hewitt
Confirmed here : it crashes ... Windows XP pro with LyX 1.5.2 (french version) Cannot reproduce, neither with LyX 1.5.2 nor with 1.5.3svn. What are the exact steps to reproduce the crash? regards Uwe Open LyX. Go to Help - User's Guide. Click on the TOC widget to open the

lyx cannot display Greek symbol real time

2007-12-13 Thread Zhi Huang
Hi, I have just installed LyX through Cygwin on my Windows XP system. When in math mode, I can type \frac and then press SPACE I will get the fraction symbol. Also it works for the \sqrt symbol. However, all the Greek letters are not displayed. For example, when I type in \alpha, it just returns

Re: a bit more Re: Problem with segmentation fault on some versions of Solaris 10

2007-12-13 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Dave Price writes: Are there any obvious checks I can make first? Your problem might be related to the fontconfig version. On Solaris 10 you can check that by issuing the following command: egrep MAJOR|MINOR|REVISION /usr/include/fontconfig/fontconfig.h See whether the version is different on

Re: want to add new format options to cross-reference

2007-12-13 Thread nooj
Uwe Stöhr schrieb: 1) You need to document the no-so-unusual behavior of reference on page page to output only reference. What do you mean? Note that the style page won't print the page number if the label is on the previous, the same, or the next page. You will e.g.see

LyX cannot display Greek letters when typing in latex command

2007-12-13 Thread Zhi Huang
Hi, I have just installed LyX (1.4.4) through Cygwin on my Windows XP system. When in math mode, I can type \frac and then press SPACE I will get the fraction symbol. Also it works for the \sqrt symbol. However, all the Greek letters are not displayed. For example, when I type in \alpha, it just

Re: Bug? LyX crashes when opening Embed. Objects manual

2007-12-13 Thread Uwe Stöhr
David Hewitt schrieb: Go to Help - EO... death becomes it when trying to open Dummy Document 1 (according to the buffer). This will be fixed with the next Version LyX 1.5.3 that will be released next week. regards Uwe

LyX cannot display Greek letters when typing in latex command

2007-12-13 Thread Zhi Huang
//sorry if you received this email multiple times. I am just subscribed to this mailing list and I didn't know whether previous email has been sent successfully. Hi, I have just installed LyX (1.4.4) through Cygwin on my Windows XP system. When in math mode, I can type \frac and then press

Re: lyx cannot display Greek symbol real time

2007-12-13 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Zhi Huang writes: Hi, I have just installed LyX through Cygwin on my Windows XP system. When in math mode, I can type \frac and then press SPACE I will get the fraction symbol. Also it works for the \sqrt symbol. However, all the Greek letters are not displayed. For example, when I type in

Re: LyX cannot display Greek letters when typing in latex command

2007-12-13 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Zhi Huang wrote: Hi, I have just installed LyX (1.4.4) through Cygwin on my Windows XP system. When in math mode, I can type \frac and then press SPACE I will get the fraction symbol. Also it works for the \sqrt symbol. However, all the Greek letters are not displayed. For example, when I type

Re: LyX QuickLook Plugin

2007-12-13 Thread Bennett Helm
On Dec 14, 2007, at 12:01 AM, mike c wrote: Hi All, Anyone thought about a LyX quicklook component for Mac OSX Leopard? I haven't thought, mostly because I haven't paid much attention to Leopard. (With operating systems especially I find it worthwhile not to be an early adopter.)

Re: LyX QuickLook Plugin

2007-12-13 Thread mike c
I actually meant to elaborate in my original post, but it got sent half-finished thanks to gmail and a bad key combo. On Dec 14, 2007 3:53 PM, Bennett Helm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nonetheless, it looks like adding Quick Look support is relatively easy -- if you don't expect the LyX document to

Re: LyX QuickLook Plugin

2007-12-13 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
mike c wrote: I actually meant to elaborate in my original post, but it got sent half-finished thanks to gmail and a bad key combo. On Dec 14, 2007 3:53 PM, Bennett Helm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nonetheless, it looks like adding Quick Look support is relatively easy -- if you don't expect the

Re: LyX QuickLook Plugin

2007-12-13 Thread mike c
On Dec 14, 2007 5:28 PM, Abdelrazak Younes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You could try 'lyx -e text' instead as this is processed by LyX only should be very fast. That's going to be my first attempt. If I can get quicklook to see the output text file, then it's only a short step (i hope) to get

Re: What are your experiences (including figures)?

2007-12-13 Thread Helge Hafting
bigblop wrote: Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: bigblop wrote: I always convert to .pdf and don't like to see the image in the LyX editor, only in the created pdf. But are there other advantages that I don't get? LyX watches if the image is externally modified. Jürgen Ok it

Re: Spell check on the fly?

2007-12-13 Thread Helge Hafting
bigblop wrote: Is there any chance that LyX in the future will support spell check on fly, where each misspelled word is underlined with a red line in the editor if its incorrectly spelled? If someone can be bothered to do it. I hope it will be less intrusive than a _red_ line though, seeing

Re: Lyx en español

2007-12-13 Thread Nicolás
Hi! I would say that the de facto language (if not the official one) of the list is English. So if you can speak English, I would advise you to use it. But if you can not speak English, you may ask in Spanish, add an automatic translation, and kindly ask someone to help you correct the

Re: Spell check on the fly?

2007-12-13 Thread Hellmut Weber
Hi list, I fully support Manveru's reasoning. When writing in my native language german I don't want to be disturbed at all by these red underlinings. And I#m well aware that in my documents there are ALWAYS lot of typos. So Ihave to give it a critical look when I have finished writing. In

Re: Spell check on the fly?

2007-12-13 Thread Ethan Metsger
On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 05:06:23 -0500, Hellmut Weber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Be sure no high quality document can be produced just hacking in the text, correcting typos on the fly .. and that's it. This is absolutely correct. Good writers are not necessarily grammatical writers or good

Shortcuts for environments?

2007-12-13 Thread Neal Becker
Are there keyboard shortcuts to select an environment? I do a lot of beamer presentations, could use one for 'begin frame' and 'itemize'.

Re: Shortcuts for environments?

2007-12-13 Thread G. Milde
On 13.12.07, Neal Becker wrote: Are there keyboard shortcuts to select an environment? yes. and they are even shown for a short while in the status bar at the very bottom of LyX when you select a layout style from the list. I do a lot of beamer presentations, could use one for 'begin frame'

Re: Lyx en español

2007-12-13 Thread Marcelo Acuña
I would say that the de facto language (if not the official one) of the list is English. So if you can speak English, I would advise you to use it. But if you can not speak English, you may ask in Spanish, add an automatic translation, and kindly ask someone to help you correct the

GUI configuration

2007-12-13 Thread G. Milde
Dear LyX users, is there support for a modular definition of the user interface similar to Input SOME_FILE in *.layout files or \bind_file SOME_FILE in *.bind keybinding definitions? I would like to customize the menus on some places¹ but keep them up-to date with new a LyX version's

Re: [patch] implement \slash and \nobreakdash

2007-12-13 Thread Hellmut Weber
Hi Pavel, doxygen is a program for making documentation from particular comments in the source code. you don't need any specific experience, just looking into the few already documented lfuns will give you an idea how to proceed. Got the idea trunk is not a program, but the name for the

Re: Shortcuts for environments?

2007-12-13 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Neal Becker wrote: Are there keyboard shortcuts to select an environment? I do a lot of beamer presentations, could use one for 'begin frame' and 'itemize'. As Günter points out, you can add shortcuts in the bindings file. Since beamer has quite a few environments that are unique to

Re: Bug? LyX crashes when opening Embed. Objects manual

2007-12-13 Thread David Hewitt
Confirmed here : it crashes ... Windows XP pro with LyX 1.5.2 (french version) Cannot reproduce, neither with LyX 1.5.2 nor with 1.5.3svn. What are the exact steps to reproduce the crash? regards Uwe Open LyX. Go to Help - User's Guide. Click on the TOC widget to open the

lyx cannot display Greek symbol real time

2007-12-13 Thread Zhi Huang
Hi, I have just installed LyX through Cygwin on my Windows XP system. When in math mode, I can type \frac and then press SPACE I will get the fraction symbol. Also it works for the \sqrt symbol. However, all the Greek letters are not displayed. For example, when I type in \alpha, it just returns

Re: a bit more Re: Problem with segmentation fault on some versions of Solaris 10

2007-12-13 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Dave Price writes: Are there any obvious checks I can make first? Your problem might be related to the fontconfig version. On Solaris 10 you can check that by issuing the following command: egrep MAJOR|MINOR|REVISION /usr/include/fontconfig/fontconfig.h See whether the version is different on

Re: want to add new format options to cross-reference

2007-12-13 Thread nooj
Uwe Stöhr schrieb: 1) You need to document the no-so-unusual behavior of reference on page page to output only reference. What do you mean? Note that the style page won't print the page number if the label is on the previous, the same, or the next page. You will e.g.see

LyX cannot display Greek letters when typing in latex command

2007-12-13 Thread Zhi Huang
Hi, I have just installed LyX (1.4.4) through Cygwin on my Windows XP system. When in math mode, I can type \frac and then press SPACE I will get the fraction symbol. Also it works for the \sqrt symbol. However, all the Greek letters are not displayed. For example, when I type in \alpha, it just

Re: Bug? LyX crashes when opening Embed. Objects manual

2007-12-13 Thread Uwe Stöhr
David Hewitt schrieb: Go to Help - EO... death becomes it when trying to open Dummy Document 1 (according to the buffer). This will be fixed with the next Version LyX 1.5.3 that will be released next week. regards Uwe

LyX cannot display Greek letters when typing in latex command

2007-12-13 Thread Zhi Huang
//sorry if you received this email multiple times. I am just subscribed to this mailing list and I didn't know whether previous email has been sent successfully. Hi, I have just installed LyX (1.4.4) through Cygwin on my Windows XP system. When in math mode, I can type \frac and then press

Re: lyx cannot display Greek symbol real time

2007-12-13 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Zhi Huang writes: Hi, I have just installed LyX through Cygwin on my Windows XP system. When in math mode, I can type \frac and then press SPACE I will get the fraction symbol. Also it works for the \sqrt symbol. However, all the Greek letters are not displayed. For example, when I type in

Re: LyX cannot display Greek letters when typing in latex command

2007-12-13 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Zhi Huang wrote: Hi, I have just installed LyX (1.4.4) through Cygwin on my Windows XP system. When in math mode, I can type \frac and then press SPACE I will get the fraction symbol. Also it works for the \sqrt symbol. However, all the Greek letters are not displayed. For example, when I type

Re: LyX QuickLook Plugin

2007-12-13 Thread Bennett Helm
On Dec 14, 2007, at 12:01 AM, mike c wrote: Hi All, Anyone thought about a LyX quicklook component for Mac OSX Leopard? I haven't thought, mostly because I haven't paid much attention to Leopard. (With operating systems especially I find it worthwhile not to be an early adopter.)

Re: LyX QuickLook Plugin

2007-12-13 Thread mike c
I actually meant to elaborate in my original post, but it got sent half-finished thanks to gmail and a bad key combo. On Dec 14, 2007 3:53 PM, Bennett Helm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nonetheless, it looks like adding Quick Look support is relatively easy -- if you don't expect the LyX document to

Re: LyX QuickLook Plugin

2007-12-13 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
mike c wrote: I actually meant to elaborate in my original post, but it got sent half-finished thanks to gmail and a bad key combo. On Dec 14, 2007 3:53 PM, Bennett Helm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nonetheless, it looks like adding Quick Look support is relatively easy -- if you don't expect the

Re: LyX QuickLook Plugin

2007-12-13 Thread mike c
On Dec 14, 2007 5:28 PM, Abdelrazak Younes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You could try 'lyx -e text' instead as this is processed by LyX only should be very fast. That's going to be my first attempt. If I can get quicklook to see the output text file, then it's only a short step (i hope) to get

Re: What are your experiences (including figures)?

2007-12-13 Thread Helge Hafting
bigblop wrote: Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: bigblop wrote: I always convert to .pdf and don't like to see the image in the LyX editor, only in the created pdf. But are there other advantages that I don't get? LyX watches if the image is externally modified. Jürgen Ok it

Re: Spell check on the fly?

2007-12-13 Thread Helge Hafting
bigblop wrote: Is there any chance that LyX in the future will support spell check on fly, where each misspelled word is underlined with a red line in the editor if its incorrectly spelled? If someone can be bothered to do it. I hope it will be less intrusive than a _red_ line though, seeing

Re: Lyx en español

2007-12-13 Thread Nicolás
Hi! I would say that the "de facto" language (if not the official one) of the list is English. So if you can speak English, I would advise you to use it. But if you can not speak English, you may ask in Spanish, add an automatic translation, and kindly ask someone to help you correct the

Re: Spell check on the fly?

2007-12-13 Thread Hellmut Weber
Hi list, I fully support Manveru's reasoning. When writing in my native language german I don't want to be disturbed at all by these red underlinings. And I#m well aware that in my documents there are ALWAYS lot of typos. So Ihave to give it a critical look when I have finished writing. In

Re: Spell check on the fly?

2007-12-13 Thread Ethan Metsger
On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 05:06:23 -0500, Hellmut Weber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Be sure no high quality document can be produced just hacking in the text, correcting typos on the fly .. and that's it. This is absolutely correct. Good writers are not necessarily grammatical writers or good

Shortcuts for environments?

2007-12-13 Thread Neal Becker
Are there keyboard shortcuts to select an environment? I do a lot of beamer presentations, could use one for 'begin frame' and 'itemize'.

Re: Shortcuts for environments?

2007-12-13 Thread G. Milde
On 13.12.07, Neal Becker wrote: > Are there keyboard shortcuts to select an environment? yes. and they are even shown for a short while in the status bar at the very bottom of LyX when you select a layout style from the list. > I do a lot of beamer > presentations, could use one for 'begin

Re: Lyx en español

2007-12-13 Thread Marcelo Acuña
> I would say that the "de facto" language (if not the > official one) of the list is English. So if you can > speak English, I would advise > you to use it. But if you can not speak English, you > may ask in Spanish, add an automatic translation, > and kindly ask someone to help > you correct

GUI configuration

2007-12-13 Thread G. Milde
Dear LyX users, is there support for a modular definition of the user interface similar to Input SOME_FILE in *.layout files or \bind_file SOME_FILE in *.bind keybinding definitions? I would like to customize the menus on some places¹ but keep them up-to date with new a LyX version's

Re: [patch] implement \slash and \nobreakdash

2007-12-13 Thread Hellmut Weber
Hi Pavel, doxygen is a program for making documentation from particular comments in the source code. you don't need any specific experience, just looking into the few already documented lfuns will give you an idea how to proceed. Got the idea trunk is not a program, but the name for the

Re: Shortcuts for environments?

2007-12-13 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Neal Becker wrote: Are there keyboard shortcuts to select an environment? I do a lot of beamer presentations, could use one for 'begin frame' and 'itemize'. As Günter points out, you can add shortcuts in the bindings file. Since beamer has quite a few environments that are unique to

Re: Bug? LyX "crashes" when opening Embed. Objects manual

2007-12-13 Thread David Hewitt
> >> Confirmed here : it crashes ... >> >> Windows XP pro with LyX 1.5.2 (french version) > > Cannot reproduce, neither with LyX 1.5.2 nor with 1.5.3svn. > What are the exact steps to reproduce the crash? > > regards Uwe > > Open LyX. Go to Help -> User's Guide. Click on the TOC widget

lyx cannot display Greek symbol real time

2007-12-13 Thread Zhi Huang
Hi, I have just installed LyX through Cygwin on my Windows XP system. When in math mode, I can type \frac and then press SPACE I will get the fraction symbol. Also it works for the \sqrt symbol. However, all the Greek letters are not displayed. For example, when I type in \alpha, it just returns

Re: a bit more Re: Problem with segmentation fault on some versions of Solaris 10

2007-12-13 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Dave Price writes: > Are there any obvious checks I can make first? Your problem might be related to the fontconfig version. On Solaris 10 you can check that by issuing the following command: egrep "MAJOR|MINOR|REVISION" /usr/include/fontconfig/fontconfig.h See whether the version is different

Re: want to add new format options to cross-reference

2007-12-13 Thread nooj
Uwe Stöhr schrieb: > > 1) You need to document the no-so-unusual behavior of " on > page > > " > >to output only "". > > What do you mean? > "Note that the style won't print the page number if the label is on > the previous, the same, > or the next page. You will e.g.see the text

LyX cannot display Greek letters when typing in latex command

2007-12-13 Thread Zhi Huang
Hi, I have just installed LyX (1.4.4) through Cygwin on my Windows XP system. When in math mode, I can type \frac and then press SPACE I will get the fraction symbol. Also it works for the \sqrt symbol. However, all the Greek letters are not displayed. For example, when I type in \alpha, it just

Re: Bug? LyX "crashes" when opening Embed. Objects manual

2007-12-13 Thread Uwe Stöhr
David Hewitt schrieb: Go to Help -> EO... death becomes it when trying to open Dummy Document 1 (according to the buffer). This will be fixed with the next Version LyX 1.5.3 that will be released next week. regards Uwe

LyX cannot display Greek letters when typing in latex command

2007-12-13 Thread Zhi Huang
//sorry if you received this email multiple times. I am just subscribed to this mailing list and I didn't know whether previous email has been sent successfully. Hi, I have just installed LyX (1.4.4) through Cygwin on my Windows XP system. When in math mode, I can type \frac and then press

Re: lyx cannot display Greek symbol real time

2007-12-13 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Zhi Huang writes: > Hi, > > I have just installed LyX through Cygwin on my Windows XP system. When in > math mode, I can type \frac and then press SPACE I will get the fraction > symbol. Also it works for the \sqrt symbol. However, all the Greek letters > are not displayed. For example, when I

Re: LyX cannot display Greek letters when typing in latex command

2007-12-13 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Zhi Huang wrote: Hi, I have just installed LyX (1.4.4) through Cygwin on my Windows XP system. When in math mode, I can type \frac and then press SPACE I will get the fraction symbol. Also it works for the \sqrt symbol. However, all the Greek letters are not displayed. For example, when I type

Re: LyX QuickLook Plugin

2007-12-13 Thread Bennett Helm
On Dec 14, 2007, at 12:01 AM, mike c wrote: Hi All, Anyone thought about a LyX quicklook component for Mac OSX Leopard? I haven't thought, mostly because I haven't paid much attention to Leopard. (With operating systems especially I find it worthwhile not to be an early adopter.)

Re: LyX QuickLook Plugin

2007-12-13 Thread mike c
I actually meant to elaborate in my original post, but it got sent half-finished thanks to gmail and a bad key combo. On Dec 14, 2007 3:53 PM, Bennett Helm <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: >Nonetheless, it looks like adding Quick Look >support is relatively easy -- if you don't expect the LyX document

Re: LyX QuickLook Plugin

2007-12-13 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
mike c wrote: I actually meant to elaborate in my original post, but it got sent half-finished thanks to gmail and a bad key combo. On Dec 14, 2007 3:53 PM, Bennett Helm <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: Nonetheless, it looks like adding Quick Look support is relatively easy -- if you don't expect

Re: LyX QuickLook Plugin

2007-12-13 Thread mike c
On Dec 14, 2007 5:28 PM, Abdelrazak Younes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You could try 'lyx -e text' instead as this is processed by LyX only > should be very fast. > That's going to be my first attempt. If I can get quicklook to see the output text file, then it's only a short step (i hope) to