Re: textcomp Error: symbol \textuparrow not provided by

2009-11-11 Thread Sam Liddicott
* Uwe Stöhr wrote, On 10/11/09 17:32: Sam Liddicott schrieb: Having just added a symbol up-arrow, every time I build my PDF, Lyx gives this error: textcomp Error: symbol \textuparrow not provided by (by is the last word of the error) Can you please provide a _small_ LyX example file? It

Re: textcomp Error: symbol \textuparrow not provided by

2009-11-11 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-11-11, Sam Liddicott wrote: --060501010505080308020304 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit * Uwe Stöhr wrote, On 10/11/09 17:32: Sam Liddicott schrieb: Having just added a symbol up-arrow, every time I build my

Phantom spaces

2009-11-11 Thread Sam Liddicott
In the attached lyx file, phantom at the beginning of a line results in a new-line. I have to use ctrl-space and insert a hard space to get the phantom to take any effect. I'm also thinking what about a phantom text style (as text styles can be nested) but this might need whatever magic is

Re: lyx and pdf fonts

2009-11-11 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-11-10, Stefano Franchi wrote: On 11/10/09, Uwe Stöhr uwesto...@web.de wrote: Steve Litt schrieb: If you draw something, make vector graphics rather than bitmaps, if possible. If you need screenshots, use png. Never jpeg, jpeg is only for photos. This is wrong! PNG is as well as JPG or

A really strange problem with lyx

2009-11-11 Thread Peleg Sapir
Hello, Recently I stumbled upon a really strange problem with lyx. Whenever I press ome of the following: *' - ; + :* *`* (and probably even other) it doesn't type anything, instead - when I type something after this button, say a letter, it displays weird symbols. for example: trying to write a

Re: lyx and pdf fonts

2009-11-11 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-11-10, Manveru wrote: 2009/11/10 ask2 joakim.askl...@gmail.com: I try out LYX maybe once a year. What I am looking for when I try it is if the pdf files I can get is of high quality. Unfortunaltely that never is the case. ... LyX is not guilty of PDF quality as it is only editor

problems using SVN commands in LyX 1.6.4.1

2009-11-11 Thread niccolo` battezzati
Hello everybody. I just set-up a LyX SVN environment to write a book with two other authors. In particular, the details are here: - LyX version: 1.6.4.1 - operating system: Max OS X 10.5.8 - remote SVN repository on OpenSUSE 11 workstation: remote_machine//home/my_usr/svn - project name in the

a4wide and fancyhdr - change the line width

2009-11-11 Thread muhaha
Hey folks, Have been braking my teeth on this all day... I am using a4wide package - it makes the are of the page taken by the text wider then the regular article layout. In addition I need a header with a line separating the header from the not-header :). Therefore I use the fancyhdr package.

Re: a4wide and fancyhdr - change the line width

2009-11-11 Thread muhaha
Whow!! Miraculously ~ 1 minute after the last post, as an act of dispair, I tried the following \renewcommand{\headwidth}{15cm} and it worked =) So if any of you is interested in how there you go... -- View this message in context:

Re: lyx and pdf fonts

2009-11-11 Thread Pavel Sanda
Guenter Milde wrote: Suggestion: Would it be possible, to pre-select Latin Modern in the standard template? LM is out for some time by now and could be considered the de-facto standard for T1-encoded CM-lookalikes. unfortunately this is much more complex thing than it looks on the

Re: problems using SVN commands in LyX 1.6.4.1

2009-11-11 Thread Pavel Sanda
niccolo` battezzati wrote: Hello everybody. I just set-up a LyX SVN environment to write a book with two other authors. In particular, the details are here: - LyX version: 1.6.4.1 - operating system: Max OS X 10.5.8 - remote SVN repository on OpenSUSE 11 workstation:

Re: textcomp Error: symbol \textuparrow not provided by

2009-11-11 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Sam Liddicott schrieb: Having just added a symbol up-arrow, every time I build my PDF, Lyx gives this error: textcomp Error: symbol \textuparrow not provided by It seems to be a conflict with luximono The luximono font does not yet provide a glyph for the uparrow character. It would be

Re: Phantom spaces

2009-11-11 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Sam Liddicott schrieb: In the attached lyx file, phantom at the beginning of a line results in a new-line. This is by design. To change this, you can either add a zero space (width of 0pt) before the phantom or you force a line break before the phantom, see attached. I'm also thinking what

Re: lyx and pdf fonts

2009-11-11 Thread Ian S. Worthington
Could http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/PDF#toc5 be out of date? I like the idea of replacing the bitmap fonts (even though they seem quite good to me) with T1 vector fonts, but am not sure where to specify latin modern. On my lyx, 1.6.2, there is no Layout→Document menu item. Could someone set me right

Re: textcomp Error: symbol \textuparrow not provided by

2009-11-11 Thread Sam Liddicott
* Uwe Stöhr wrote, On 11/11/09 14:08: Sam Liddicott schrieb: Having just added a symbol up-arrow, every time I build my PDF, Lyx gives this error: textcomp Error: symbol \textuparrow not provided by It seems to be a conflict with luximono The luximono font does not yet provide a glyph

Re: textcomp Error: symbol \textuparrow not provided by

2009-11-11 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Sam Liddicott schrieb: I find it interesting that the up-arrow still rendered, but that the error stopped lyx's latex run (and second run to resolve references). This is the correct behaviour: When a LaTeX-error occurs, LyX stops because LaTeX stops. That this raises a LaTeX error instead of

Re: Phantom spaces

2009-11-11 Thread Steve Litt
On Wednesday 11 November 2009 05:02:47 Sam Liddicott wrote: In the attached lyx file, phantom at the beginning of a line results in a new-line. I have to use ctrl-space and insert a hard space to get the phantom to take any effect. I think the following URL answers your question:

Re: Phantom spaces

2009-11-11 Thread Steve Litt
On Wednesday 11 November 2009 09:36:07 Uwe Stöhr wrote: Sam Liddicott schrieb: In the attached lyx file, phantom at the beginning of a line results in a new-line. This is by design. To change this, you can either add a zero space (width of 0pt) before the phantom or you force a line break

Howto: Poor mans bold

2009-11-11 Thread Sam Liddicott
I've been struggling for a long time to get poor-mans-bold working (because of the pain installing luximono) and now I've got it working, I post the answer here: In your pre-amble: \usepackage{amsbsy} and then to have bold ttfamily text, \ttfamily\pmb{bold} With lstlistings, I just do:

Re: A really strange problem with lyx

2009-11-11 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Peleg Sapir wrote: Hello, Recently I stumbled upon a really strange problem with lyx. Whenever I press ome of the following: *' - ; + :* *`* (and probably even other) it doesn't type anything, instead - when I type something after this button, say a letter, it displays weird symbols. for

problema di greco

2009-11-11 Thread Felice Sarro
Sono il professor Sarro e dovrei , nel 2010 pubblicare quattro libri, dei quali tre contenenti frasi e preghiere greche. Fra tutti i programmi il lyx é l'unico che supporta i miei libri di centinaia di pagine, senza che tra una interruzione di un giorno e l'altro successivo avvengano

Re: problema di greco

2009-11-11 Thread Luca De Marini
Ehm, ho idea che questa lista parli SOLO Inglese, come tutte d'altronde. Ehm, I think this list only allows English messages, as any other list, after all. Saluti, Greetings, Luca D.M. Il giorno 10 novembre 2009 22.01, Felice Sarro felice.sa...@alice.it ha scritto: Sono il professor Sarro e

Re: Phantom spaces

2009-11-11 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Steve Litt schrieb: What are some of the situations in which you might want to use phantoms. Phantoms are used several times in the EmbeddedObjects manual. The Math manual describes how to use phantoms for math. regards Uwe

Re: Phantom spaces

2009-11-11 Thread William Adams
On Nov 11, 2009, at 10:40 AM, Steve Litt wrote: What are some of the situations in which you might want to use phantoms. The whole concept sounds so Geeky I want to use them, but can't figure out a situation that calls for them. If memory serves, Peter Wilson's memoir manual has an

Re: lyx and pdf fonts

2009-11-11 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn
Ian S. Worthington schreef: Could http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/PDF#toc5 be out of date? I like the idea of replacing the bitmap fonts (even though they seem quite good to me) with T1 vector fonts, but am not sure where to specify latin modern. On my lyx, 1.6.2, there is no Layout→Document menu

Re: Howto: Poor mans bold

2009-11-11 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-11-11, Sam Liddicott wrote: I've been struggling for a long time to get poor-mans-bold working (because of the pain installing luximono) May I recomment the txtt fonts from the txfonts package? While the txfonts package is said to have problems with symbols and font metrics (i.e.

Problems with PDF files generated by LyX

2009-11-11 Thread Luca Carlon
Hi guys! I know this is not the right place to ask this, but maybe you could be patient and at least try to give me some hints. I'm writing my thesis with LyX, and I produce PDF's using the ps2pdf command for my supervisor. The problem is that now, she's telling me she's never been able to read

Re: lyx and pdf fonts

2009-11-11 Thread Liviu Andronic
On 11/11/09, Pavel Sanda sa...@lyx.org wrote: Guenter Milde wrote: Suggestion: Would it be possible, to pre-select Latin Modern in the standard template? unfortunately this is much more complex thing than it looks on the first sight.

Re: Problems with PDF files generated by LyX

2009-11-11 Thread Liviu Andronic
On 11/11/09, Luca Carlon carlon.l...@gmail.com wrote: I'm writing my thesis with LyX, and I produce PDF's using the ps2pdf command for Did you try one of the other two methods? my supervisor. The problem is that now, she's telling me she's never been able to read those PDFs but only my

Re: Problems with PDF files generated by LyX

2009-11-11 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-11-11, Luca Carlon wrote: Hi guys! I know this is not the right place to ask this, but maybe you could be patient and at least try to give me some hints. I'm writing my thesis with LyX, and I produce PDF's using the ps2pdf command for my supervisor. The problem is that now, she's

Re: lyx and pdf fonts

2009-11-11 Thread Bruce Pourciau
On Nov 11, 2009, at 3:33 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote: On 11/11/09, Pavel Sanda sa...@lyx.org wrote: Guenter Milde wrote: Suggestion: Would it be possible, to pre-select Latin Modern in the standard template? unfortunately this is much more complex thing than it looks on the first sight.

Re: lyx and pdf fonts

2009-11-11 Thread Steve Litt
On Wednesday 11 November 2009 17:20:47 Bruce Pourciau wrote: On Nov 11, 2009, at 3:33 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote: On 11/11/09, Pavel Sanda sa...@lyx.org wrote: Guenter Milde wrote: Suggestion: Would it be possible, to pre-select Latin Modern in the standard template? unfortunately

Re: lyx and pdf fonts

2009-11-11 Thread Pavel Sanda
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 09:33:50PM +, Liviu Andronic wrote: unfortunately this is much more complex thing than it looks on the first sight. http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-de...@lists.lyx.org/msg142386.html Would it make sense for LyX to propose default settings based on

Re: Problems with PDF files generated by LyX

2009-11-11 Thread Luca Carlon
Liviu Andronic landronim...@... writes: I usually check my PDFs with Adobe Reader (here, on Linux). Did you try it? Liviu Yes, of course. Tried with Adobe under MacOSX, Linux and Windows XP and Vista. No problems... Luca

Re: Problems with PDF files generated by LyX

2009-11-11 Thread Luca Carlon
Guenter Milde mi...@... writes: It rather looks like data corruption on the way (or opening a PDF as normal text) How do you transfer the PDFs to her? What happens, if you hand her copy on a floppy or USB-stick? Günter I would exclude data corruption as she told me she has never been able

Re: Problems with PDF files generated by LyX

2009-11-11 Thread Steve Litt
On Wednesday 11 November 2009 19:52:47 Luca Carlon wrote: Guenter Milde mi...@... writes: It rather looks like data corruption on the way (or opening a PDF as normal text) How do you transfer the PDFs to her? What happens, if you hand her copy on a floppy or USB-stick? Günter I would

Re: lyx and pdf fonts

2009-11-11 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Ian S. Worthington schreef: Could http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/PDF#toc5 be out of date? Yes, this was out of date. I've updated it now,. regards Uwe

Re: program

2009-11-11 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Burns, Phillip schrieb: Hi, the LyX .exe keeps crashing; it's working fine otherwise. Any idea on how to determine what's been happening from a log file? Can you please be more specific? What Windows are you using, what LyX version? When does LyX crash, when not? regards Uwe

Re: lyx and pdf fonts

2009-11-11 Thread Ian S. Worthington
Perfect! Thanks Vincent. i -- Original Message -- Received: 02:28 PM COT, 11/11/2009 From: Vincent van Ravesteijn v.f.vanraveste...@tudelft.nl To: Ian S. Worthington ianworthing...@usa.net, lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: Re: lyx and pdf fonts Ian S. Worthington schreef: Could

Re: Problems with PDF files generated by LyX

2009-11-11 Thread Anders Ekberg
On 12 nov 2009, at 01.52, Luca Carlon wrote: Guenter Milde mi...@... writes: It rather looks like data corruption on the way (or opening a PDF as normal text) How do you transfer the PDFs to her? What happens, if you hand her copy on a floppy or USB-stick? Günter I would exclude data

Re: textcomp Error: symbol \textuparrow not provided by

2009-11-11 Thread Sam Liddicott
* Uwe Stöhr wrote, On 10/11/09 17:32: Sam Liddicott schrieb: Having just added a symbol up-arrow, every time I build my PDF, Lyx gives this error: textcomp Error: symbol \textuparrow not provided by (by is the last word of the error) Can you please provide a _small_ LyX example file? It

Re: textcomp Error: symbol \textuparrow not provided by

2009-11-11 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-11-11, Sam Liddicott wrote: --060501010505080308020304 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit * Uwe Stöhr wrote, On 10/11/09 17:32: Sam Liddicott schrieb: Having just added a symbol up-arrow, every time I build my

Phantom spaces

2009-11-11 Thread Sam Liddicott
In the attached lyx file, phantom at the beginning of a line results in a new-line. I have to use ctrl-space and insert a hard space to get the phantom to take any effect. I'm also thinking what about a phantom text style (as text styles can be nested) but this might need whatever magic is

Re: lyx and pdf fonts

2009-11-11 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-11-10, Stefano Franchi wrote: On 11/10/09, Uwe Stöhr uwesto...@web.de wrote: Steve Litt schrieb: If you draw something, make vector graphics rather than bitmaps, if possible. If you need screenshots, use png. Never jpeg, jpeg is only for photos. This is wrong! PNG is as well as JPG or

A really strange problem with lyx

2009-11-11 Thread Peleg Sapir
Hello, Recently I stumbled upon a really strange problem with lyx. Whenever I press ome of the following: *' - ; + :* *`* (and probably even other) it doesn't type anything, instead - when I type something after this button, say a letter, it displays weird symbols. for example: trying to write a

Re: lyx and pdf fonts

2009-11-11 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-11-10, Manveru wrote: 2009/11/10 ask2 joakim.askl...@gmail.com: I try out LYX maybe once a year. What I am looking for when I try it is if the pdf files I can get is of high quality. Unfortunaltely that never is the case. ... LyX is not guilty of PDF quality as it is only editor

problems using SVN commands in LyX 1.6.4.1

2009-11-11 Thread niccolo` battezzati
Hello everybody. I just set-up a LyX SVN environment to write a book with two other authors. In particular, the details are here: - LyX version: 1.6.4.1 - operating system: Max OS X 10.5.8 - remote SVN repository on OpenSUSE 11 workstation: remote_machine//home/my_usr/svn - project name in the

a4wide and fancyhdr - change the line width

2009-11-11 Thread muhaha
Hey folks, Have been braking my teeth on this all day... I am using a4wide package - it makes the are of the page taken by the text wider then the regular article layout. In addition I need a header with a line separating the header from the not-header :). Therefore I use the fancyhdr package.

Re: a4wide and fancyhdr - change the line width

2009-11-11 Thread muhaha
Whow!! Miraculously ~ 1 minute after the last post, as an act of dispair, I tried the following \renewcommand{\headwidth}{15cm} and it worked =) So if any of you is interested in how there you go... -- View this message in context:

Re: lyx and pdf fonts

2009-11-11 Thread Pavel Sanda
Guenter Milde wrote: Suggestion: Would it be possible, to pre-select Latin Modern in the standard template? LM is out for some time by now and could be considered the de-facto standard for T1-encoded CM-lookalikes. unfortunately this is much more complex thing than it looks on the

Re: problems using SVN commands in LyX 1.6.4.1

2009-11-11 Thread Pavel Sanda
niccolo` battezzati wrote: Hello everybody. I just set-up a LyX SVN environment to write a book with two other authors. In particular, the details are here: - LyX version: 1.6.4.1 - operating system: Max OS X 10.5.8 - remote SVN repository on OpenSUSE 11 workstation:

Re: textcomp Error: symbol \textuparrow not provided by

2009-11-11 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Sam Liddicott schrieb: Having just added a symbol up-arrow, every time I build my PDF, Lyx gives this error: textcomp Error: symbol \textuparrow not provided by It seems to be a conflict with luximono The luximono font does not yet provide a glyph for the uparrow character. It would be

Re: Phantom spaces

2009-11-11 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Sam Liddicott schrieb: In the attached lyx file, phantom at the beginning of a line results in a new-line. This is by design. To change this, you can either add a zero space (width of 0pt) before the phantom or you force a line break before the phantom, see attached. I'm also thinking what

Re: lyx and pdf fonts

2009-11-11 Thread Ian S. Worthington
Could http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/PDF#toc5 be out of date? I like the idea of replacing the bitmap fonts (even though they seem quite good to me) with T1 vector fonts, but am not sure where to specify latin modern. On my lyx, 1.6.2, there is no Layout→Document menu item. Could someone set me right

Re: textcomp Error: symbol \textuparrow not provided by

2009-11-11 Thread Sam Liddicott
* Uwe Stöhr wrote, On 11/11/09 14:08: Sam Liddicott schrieb: Having just added a symbol up-arrow, every time I build my PDF, Lyx gives this error: textcomp Error: symbol \textuparrow not provided by It seems to be a conflict with luximono The luximono font does not yet provide a glyph

Re: textcomp Error: symbol \textuparrow not provided by

2009-11-11 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Sam Liddicott schrieb: I find it interesting that the up-arrow still rendered, but that the error stopped lyx's latex run (and second run to resolve references). This is the correct behaviour: When a LaTeX-error occurs, LyX stops because LaTeX stops. That this raises a LaTeX error instead of

Re: Phantom spaces

2009-11-11 Thread Steve Litt
On Wednesday 11 November 2009 05:02:47 Sam Liddicott wrote: In the attached lyx file, phantom at the beginning of a line results in a new-line. I have to use ctrl-space and insert a hard space to get the phantom to take any effect. I think the following URL answers your question:

Re: Phantom spaces

2009-11-11 Thread Steve Litt
On Wednesday 11 November 2009 09:36:07 Uwe Stöhr wrote: Sam Liddicott schrieb: In the attached lyx file, phantom at the beginning of a line results in a new-line. This is by design. To change this, you can either add a zero space (width of 0pt) before the phantom or you force a line break

Howto: Poor mans bold

2009-11-11 Thread Sam Liddicott
I've been struggling for a long time to get poor-mans-bold working (because of the pain installing luximono) and now I've got it working, I post the answer here: In your pre-amble: \usepackage{amsbsy} and then to have bold ttfamily text, \ttfamily\pmb{bold} With lstlistings, I just do:

Re: A really strange problem with lyx

2009-11-11 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Peleg Sapir wrote: Hello, Recently I stumbled upon a really strange problem with lyx. Whenever I press ome of the following: *' - ; + :* *`* (and probably even other) it doesn't type anything, instead - when I type something after this button, say a letter, it displays weird symbols. for

problema di greco

2009-11-11 Thread Felice Sarro
Sono il professor Sarro e dovrei , nel 2010 pubblicare quattro libri, dei quali tre contenenti frasi e preghiere greche. Fra tutti i programmi il lyx é l'unico che supporta i miei libri di centinaia di pagine, senza che tra una interruzione di un giorno e l'altro successivo avvengano

Re: problema di greco

2009-11-11 Thread Luca De Marini
Ehm, ho idea che questa lista parli SOLO Inglese, come tutte d'altronde. Ehm, I think this list only allows English messages, as any other list, after all. Saluti, Greetings, Luca D.M. Il giorno 10 novembre 2009 22.01, Felice Sarro felice.sa...@alice.it ha scritto: Sono il professor Sarro e

Re: Phantom spaces

2009-11-11 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Steve Litt schrieb: What are some of the situations in which you might want to use phantoms. Phantoms are used several times in the EmbeddedObjects manual. The Math manual describes how to use phantoms for math. regards Uwe

Re: Phantom spaces

2009-11-11 Thread William Adams
On Nov 11, 2009, at 10:40 AM, Steve Litt wrote: What are some of the situations in which you might want to use phantoms. The whole concept sounds so Geeky I want to use them, but can't figure out a situation that calls for them. If memory serves, Peter Wilson's memoir manual has an

Re: lyx and pdf fonts

2009-11-11 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn
Ian S. Worthington schreef: Could http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/PDF#toc5 be out of date? I like the idea of replacing the bitmap fonts (even though they seem quite good to me) with T1 vector fonts, but am not sure where to specify latin modern. On my lyx, 1.6.2, there is no Layout→Document menu

Re: Howto: Poor mans bold

2009-11-11 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-11-11, Sam Liddicott wrote: I've been struggling for a long time to get poor-mans-bold working (because of the pain installing luximono) May I recomment the txtt fonts from the txfonts package? While the txfonts package is said to have problems with symbols and font metrics (i.e.

Problems with PDF files generated by LyX

2009-11-11 Thread Luca Carlon
Hi guys! I know this is not the right place to ask this, but maybe you could be patient and at least try to give me some hints. I'm writing my thesis with LyX, and I produce PDF's using the ps2pdf command for my supervisor. The problem is that now, she's telling me she's never been able to read

Re: lyx and pdf fonts

2009-11-11 Thread Liviu Andronic
On 11/11/09, Pavel Sanda sa...@lyx.org wrote: Guenter Milde wrote: Suggestion: Would it be possible, to pre-select Latin Modern in the standard template? unfortunately this is much more complex thing than it looks on the first sight.

Re: Problems with PDF files generated by LyX

2009-11-11 Thread Liviu Andronic
On 11/11/09, Luca Carlon carlon.l...@gmail.com wrote: I'm writing my thesis with LyX, and I produce PDF's using the ps2pdf command for Did you try one of the other two methods? my supervisor. The problem is that now, she's telling me she's never been able to read those PDFs but only my

Re: Problems with PDF files generated by LyX

2009-11-11 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-11-11, Luca Carlon wrote: Hi guys! I know this is not the right place to ask this, but maybe you could be patient and at least try to give me some hints. I'm writing my thesis with LyX, and I produce PDF's using the ps2pdf command for my supervisor. The problem is that now, she's

Re: lyx and pdf fonts

2009-11-11 Thread Bruce Pourciau
On Nov 11, 2009, at 3:33 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote: On 11/11/09, Pavel Sanda sa...@lyx.org wrote: Guenter Milde wrote: Suggestion: Would it be possible, to pre-select Latin Modern in the standard template? unfortunately this is much more complex thing than it looks on the first sight.

Re: lyx and pdf fonts

2009-11-11 Thread Steve Litt
On Wednesday 11 November 2009 17:20:47 Bruce Pourciau wrote: On Nov 11, 2009, at 3:33 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote: On 11/11/09, Pavel Sanda sa...@lyx.org wrote: Guenter Milde wrote: Suggestion: Would it be possible, to pre-select Latin Modern in the standard template? unfortunately

Re: lyx and pdf fonts

2009-11-11 Thread Pavel Sanda
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 09:33:50PM +, Liviu Andronic wrote: unfortunately this is much more complex thing than it looks on the first sight. http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-de...@lists.lyx.org/msg142386.html Would it make sense for LyX to propose default settings based on

Re: Problems with PDF files generated by LyX

2009-11-11 Thread Luca Carlon
Liviu Andronic landronim...@... writes: I usually check my PDFs with Adobe Reader (here, on Linux). Did you try it? Liviu Yes, of course. Tried with Adobe under MacOSX, Linux and Windows XP and Vista. No problems... Luca

Re: Problems with PDF files generated by LyX

2009-11-11 Thread Luca Carlon
Guenter Milde mi...@... writes: It rather looks like data corruption on the way (or opening a PDF as normal text) How do you transfer the PDFs to her? What happens, if you hand her copy on a floppy or USB-stick? Günter I would exclude data corruption as she told me she has never been able

Re: Problems with PDF files generated by LyX

2009-11-11 Thread Steve Litt
On Wednesday 11 November 2009 19:52:47 Luca Carlon wrote: Guenter Milde mi...@... writes: It rather looks like data corruption on the way (or opening a PDF as normal text) How do you transfer the PDFs to her? What happens, if you hand her copy on a floppy or USB-stick? Günter I would

Re: lyx and pdf fonts

2009-11-11 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Ian S. Worthington schreef: Could http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/PDF#toc5 be out of date? Yes, this was out of date. I've updated it now,. regards Uwe

Re: program

2009-11-11 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Burns, Phillip schrieb: Hi, the LyX .exe keeps crashing; it's working fine otherwise. Any idea on how to determine what's been happening from a log file? Can you please be more specific? What Windows are you using, what LyX version? When does LyX crash, when not? regards Uwe

Re: lyx and pdf fonts

2009-11-11 Thread Ian S. Worthington
Perfect! Thanks Vincent. i -- Original Message -- Received: 02:28 PM COT, 11/11/2009 From: Vincent van Ravesteijn v.f.vanraveste...@tudelft.nl To: Ian S. Worthington ianworthing...@usa.net, lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: Re: lyx and pdf fonts Ian S. Worthington schreef: Could

Re: Problems with PDF files generated by LyX

2009-11-11 Thread Anders Ekberg
On 12 nov 2009, at 01.52, Luca Carlon wrote: Guenter Milde mi...@... writes: It rather looks like data corruption on the way (or opening a PDF as normal text) How do you transfer the PDFs to her? What happens, if you hand her copy on a floppy or USB-stick? Günter I would exclude data

Re: textcomp Error: symbol \textuparrow not provided by

2009-11-11 Thread Sam Liddicott
* Uwe Stöhr wrote, On 10/11/09 17:32: Sam Liddicott schrieb: Having just added a symbol up-arrow, every time I build my PDF, Lyx gives this error: textcomp Error: symbol \textuparrow not provided by ("by" is the last word of the error) Can you please provide a _small_ LyX example file?

Re: textcomp Error: symbol \textuparrow not provided by

2009-11-11 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-11-11, Sam Liddicott wrote: > --060501010505080308020304 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > * Uwe Stöhr wrote, On 10/11/09 17:32: >> Sam Liddicott schrieb: >>> Having just added a symbol up-arrow, every time I

Phantom spaces

2009-11-11 Thread Sam Liddicott
In the attached lyx file, phantom at the beginning of a line results in a new-line. I have to use ctrl-space and insert a hard space to get the phantom to take any effect. I'm also thinking what about a phantom text style (as text styles can be nested) but this might need whatever magic is

Re: lyx and pdf fonts

2009-11-11 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-11-10, Stefano Franchi wrote: > On 11/10/09, Uwe Stöhr wrote: >>Steve Litt schrieb: If you draw something, make vector graphics rather than bitmaps, if possible. If you need screenshots, use png. Never jpeg, jpeg is only for photos. >>This is wrong! PNG

A really strange problem with lyx

2009-11-11 Thread Peleg Sapir
Hello, Recently I stumbled upon a really strange problem with lyx. Whenever I press ome of the following: *' - ; + :* *`* (and probably even other) it doesn't type anything, instead - when I type something after this button, say a letter, it displays weird symbols. for example: trying to write a

Re: lyx and pdf fonts

2009-11-11 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-11-10, Manveru wrote: > 2009/11/10 ask2 : >> I try out LYX maybe once a year. What I am looking for when I try it >> is if the pdf files I can get is of high quality. Unfortunaltely that >> never is the case. ... > LyX is not guilty of PDF quality as it is only

problems using SVN commands in LyX 1.6.4.1

2009-11-11 Thread niccolo` battezzati
Hello everybody. I just set-up a LyX & SVN environment to write a book with two other authors. In particular, the details are here: - LyX version: 1.6.4.1 - operating system: Max OS X 10.5.8 - remote SVN repository on OpenSUSE 11 workstation: remote_machine//home/my_usr/svn - project name in the

a4wide and fancyhdr - change the line width

2009-11-11 Thread muhaha
Hey folks, Have been braking my teeth on this all day... I am using a4wide package - it makes the are of the page taken by the text wider then the regular article layout. In addition I need a header with a line separating the header from the not-header :). Therefore I use the fancyhdr package.

Re: a4wide and fancyhdr - change the line width

2009-11-11 Thread muhaha
Whow!! Miraculously ~ 1 minute after the last post, as an act of dispair, I tried the following \renewcommand{\headwidth}{15cm} and it worked =) So if any of you is interested in how there you go... -- View this message in context:

Re: lyx and pdf fonts

2009-11-11 Thread Pavel Sanda
Guenter Milde wrote: > Suggestion: > Would it be possible, to pre-select Latin Modern in the standard template? > > LM is out for some time by now and could be considered the "de-facto > standard" for T1-encoded CM-lookalikes. unfortunately this is much more complex thing than it looks on

Re: problems using SVN commands in LyX 1.6.4.1

2009-11-11 Thread Pavel Sanda
niccolo` battezzati wrote: > Hello everybody. > > I just set-up a LyX & SVN environment to write a book with two other > authors. > In particular, the details are here: > - LyX version: 1.6.4.1 > - operating system: Max OS X 10.5.8 > - remote SVN repository on OpenSUSE 11 workstation: >

Re: textcomp Error: symbol \textuparrow not provided by

2009-11-11 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Sam Liddicott schrieb: Having just added a symbol up-arrow, every time I build my PDF, Lyx gives this error: textcomp Error: symbol \textuparrow not provided by It seems to be a conflict with luximono The luximono font does not yet provide a glyph for the uparrow character. It would be

Re: Phantom spaces

2009-11-11 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Sam Liddicott schrieb: In the attached lyx file, phantom at the beginning of a line results in a new-line. This is by design. To change this, you can either add a zero space (width of 0pt) before the phantom or you force a line break before the phantom, see attached. I'm also thinking what

Re: lyx and pdf fonts

2009-11-11 Thread Ian S. Worthington
Could http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/PDF#toc5 be out of date? I like the idea of replacing the bitmap fonts (even though they seem quite good to me) with T1 vector fonts, but am not sure where to specify "latin modern". On my lyx, 1.6.2, there is no Layout→Document menu item. Could someone set me

Re: textcomp Error: symbol \textuparrow not provided by

2009-11-11 Thread Sam Liddicott
* Uwe Stöhr wrote, On 11/11/09 14:08: Sam Liddicott schrieb: Having just added a symbol up-arrow, every time I build my PDF, Lyx gives this error: textcomp Error: symbol \textuparrow not provided by It seems to be a conflict with luximono The luximono font does not yet provide a glyph

Re: textcomp Error: symbol \textuparrow not provided by

2009-11-11 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Sam Liddicott schrieb: I find it interesting that the up-arrow still rendered, but that the error stopped lyx's latex run (and second run to resolve references). This is the correct behaviour: When a LaTeX-error occurs, LyX stops because LaTeX stops. That this raises a LaTeX error instead of

Re: Phantom spaces

2009-11-11 Thread Steve Litt
On Wednesday 11 November 2009 05:02:47 Sam Liddicott wrote: > In the attached lyx file, phantom at the beginning of a line results in > a new-line. I have to use ctrl-space and insert a hard space to get the > phantom to take any effect. I think the following URL answers your question:

Re: Phantom spaces

2009-11-11 Thread Steve Litt
On Wednesday 11 November 2009 09:36:07 Uwe Stöhr wrote: > Sam Liddicott schrieb: > > In the attached lyx file, phantom at the beginning of a line results in > > a new-line. > > This is by design. To change this, you can either add a zero space (width > of 0pt) before the phantom or you force a

Howto: Poor mans bold

2009-11-11 Thread Sam Liddicott
I've been struggling for a long time to get poor-mans-bold working (because of the pain installing luximono) and now I've got it working, I post the answer here: In your pre-amble: \usepackage{amsbsy} and then to have bold ttfamily text, \ttfamily\pmb{bold} With lstlistings, I just do:

Re: A really strange problem with lyx

2009-11-11 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Peleg Sapir wrote: Hello, Recently I stumbled upon a really strange problem with lyx. Whenever I press ome of the following: *' - ; + :* *`* (and probably even other) it doesn't type anything, instead - when I type something after this button, say a letter, it displays weird symbols. for

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