Re: (newbie) Scripting, MSword and Lyx

2009-09-30 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-09-29, Simon wrote: I need a programmer-friendly way to output good looking documents compatible with current MS word. As already said, LyX (as a LaTeX GUI) is not the best choice in this regard. You might consider using Docutils (http://docutils.sf.net) which (in the SVN version

Re: (newbie) Scripting, MSword and Lyx

2009-09-30 Thread rgheck
On 09/29/2009 09:26 PM, Simon wrote: I think you're right. I mainly thought LyX could output msword documents... but I've done my homework and read several pages on the website/wiki and seems like anything2msword is tricky! Since the file format is (still) barely documented and changes

installing a thesis style for report class

2009-09-30 Thread Andrea Canidio
Hi! I'm starting writing my dissertation and I really would like to use lyx! I downloaded the style file from my university website, but for some reason I cannot make it work. In theory, it should be simply a new style for the report class. Here is my layout file: #% Do not delete the line

keep all lines of paragraph together

2009-09-30 Thread Bert Douglas
I am making a membership list with two columns. There is one paragraph for each member. Each paragraph is 2 or 3 lines long, on rare occasions 4 lines. Naturally the member with 4 line entry landed at the bottom of a column and got split. This is undesirable. How can I keep all lines of a

Error Message From Lyx I Don't Understand

2009-09-30 Thread Thomas La Bone
I am using Lyx 1.6.4 on Windows XP to write my master's thesis. I have been progressing nicely but today I went to generate a pdf of the document and I got the following error and description: Errors: LaTeX Error: Command \texteuro unavailable in encoding T1. Description \newblock Birkhä

Re: (newbie) Scripting, MSword and Lyx

2009-09-30 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-09-29, Simon wrote: I need a programmer-friendly way to output good looking documents compatible with current MS word. As already said, LyX (as a LaTeX GUI) is not the best choice in this regard. You might consider using Docutils (http://docutils.sf.net) which (in the SVN version

Re: (newbie) Scripting, MSword and Lyx

2009-09-30 Thread rgheck
On 09/29/2009 09:26 PM, Simon wrote: I think you're right. I mainly thought LyX could output msword documents... but I've done my homework and read several pages on the website/wiki and seems like anything2msword is tricky! Since the file format is (still) barely documented and changes

installing a thesis style for report class

2009-09-30 Thread Andrea Canidio
Hi! I'm starting writing my dissertation and I really would like to use lyx! I downloaded the style file from my university website, but for some reason I cannot make it work. In theory, it should be simply a new style for the report class. Here is my layout file: #% Do not delete the line

keep all lines of paragraph together

2009-09-30 Thread Bert Douglas
I am making a membership list with two columns. There is one paragraph for each member. Each paragraph is 2 or 3 lines long, on rare occasions 4 lines. Naturally the member with 4 line entry landed at the bottom of a column and got split. This is undesirable. How can I keep all lines of a

Error Message From Lyx I Don't Understand

2009-09-30 Thread Thomas La Bone
I am using Lyx 1.6.4 on Windows XP to write my master's thesis. I have been progressing nicely but today I went to generate a pdf of the document and I got the following error and description: Errors: LaTeX Error: Command \texteuro unavailable in encoding T1. Description \newblock Birkhä

Re: (newbie) Scripting, MSword and Lyx

2009-09-30 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-09-29, Simon wrote: > I need a programmer-friendly way to output good looking documents > compatible with current MS word. As already said, LyX (as a LaTeX GUI) is not the best choice in this regard. You might consider using Docutils (http://docutils.sf.net) which (in the SVN version

Re: (newbie) Scripting, MSword and Lyx

2009-09-30 Thread rgheck
On 09/29/2009 09:26 PM, Simon wrote: I think you're right. I mainly thought LyX could output msword documents... but I've done my homework and read several pages on the website/wiki and seems like anything2msword is tricky! Since the file format is (still) barely documented and changes

installing a thesis style for "report" class

2009-09-30 Thread Andrea Canidio
Hi! I'm starting writing my dissertation and I really would like to use lyx! I downloaded the style file from my university website, but for some reason I cannot make it work. In theory, it should be simply a new style for the "report" class. Here is my layout file: #% Do not delete the line

keep all lines of paragraph together

2009-09-30 Thread Bert Douglas
I am making a membership list with two columns. There is one paragraph for each member. Each paragraph is 2 or 3 lines long, on rare occasions 4 lines. Naturally the member with 4 line entry landed at the bottom of a column and got split. This is undesirable. How can I keep all lines of a

Error Message From Lyx I Don't Understand

2009-09-30 Thread Thomas La Bone
I am using Lyx 1.6.4 on Windows XP to write my master's thesis. I have been progressing nicely but today I went to generate a pdf of the document and I got the following error and description: Errors: LaTeX Error: Command \texteuro unavailable in encoding T1. Description \newblock Birkhä