Plain Text that is not Plain

2009-01-27 Thread Les Denham
Since upgrading from LyX 1.5.4 to LyX 1.6.1 I have found that Plain Text exports from LyX are no longer Plain Text, especially when it comes to quotes. The difference is shown in the two attachments, one from my office computer, which is still running 1.5.4, and one from my laptop, which is

Re: Plain Text that is not Plain

2009-01-27 Thread Les Denham
On Tuesday 27 January 2009, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > Les Denham wrote: > > Is there a way of making the quotes strictly ASCII?  I'm getting into > > trouble with a mailing list which insists on plain ASCII text. > > Not without hacking the source, I'm afraid. > Question

Re: Plain Text that is not Plain

2009-01-27 Thread Les Denham
On Tuesday 27 January 2009 03:52:57 pm Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Jürgen Spitzmüller <juer...@spitzmueller.org> writes: > > Les Denham wrote: > >> Is there a way of making the quotes strictly ASCII?  I'm getting into > >> trouble with a mailing list

Powerdot and 1.6.1

2009-01-20 Thread Les Denham
All, I upgraded to 1.6.1 from 1.5.4 and from texlive-2007 to texlive-2008 over the weekend, and now find that my powerdot presentations will not compile. Even the sample presentations supplied with powerdot do not work. The error with powerdor-example.lyx is: File ended while scanning use

Re: Powerdot and 1.6.1

2009-01-20 Thread Les Denham
On Tuesday 20 January 2009 02:00:13 pm Les Denham wrote: I upgraded to 1.6.1 from 1.5.4 and from texlive-2007 to texlive-2008 over the weekend, and now find that my powerdot presentations will not compile. Well, I solved my own problem. For some reason, the upgrade of texlive left behind one

Powerdot and 1.6.1

2009-01-20 Thread Les Denham
All, I upgraded to 1.6.1 from 1.5.4 and from texlive-2007 to texlive-2008 over the weekend, and now find that my powerdot presentations will not compile. Even the sample presentations supplied with powerdot do not work. The error with powerdor-example.lyx is: File ended while scanning use

Re: Powerdot and 1.6.1

2009-01-20 Thread Les Denham
On Tuesday 20 January 2009 02:00:13 pm Les Denham wrote: I upgraded to 1.6.1 from 1.5.4 and from texlive-2007 to texlive-2008 over the weekend, and now find that my powerdot presentations will not compile. Well, I solved my own problem. For some reason, the upgrade of texlive left behind one

Powerdot and 1.6.1

2009-01-20 Thread Les Denham
All, I upgraded to 1.6.1 from 1.5.4 and from texlive-2007 to texlive-2008 over the weekend, and now find that my powerdot presentations will not compile. Even the sample presentations supplied with powerdot do not work. The error with powerdor-example.lyx is: File ended while scanning use

Re: Powerdot and 1.6.1

2009-01-20 Thread Les Denham
On Tuesday 20 January 2009 02:00:13 pm Les Denham wrote: > I upgraded to 1.6.1 from 1.5.4 and from texlive-2007 to texlive-2008 over > the weekend, and now find that my powerdot presentations will not compile. Well, I solved my own problem. For some reason, the upgrade of texlive left behi

Re: How to make wide margins on one page with a graphic

2008-12-28 Thread Les Denham
On Friday 26 December 2008 23:26:30 Steve Litt wrote: I'm anticipating putting the graphic right on the page, NOT in a float. Steve, If I were doing that, I'd put a blank page in my Lyx document (or perhaps a small version of the graphic, to make the last step easier), export as a PDF file,

Re: How to make wide margins on one page with a graphic

2008-12-28 Thread Les Denham
On Friday 26 December 2008 23:26:30 Steve Litt wrote: I'm anticipating putting the graphic right on the page, NOT in a float. Steve, If I were doing that, I'd put a blank page in my Lyx document (or perhaps a small version of the graphic, to make the last step easier), export as a PDF file,

Re: How to make wide margins on one page with a graphic

2008-12-28 Thread Les Denham
On Friday 26 December 2008 23:26:30 Steve Litt wrote: > I'm anticipating putting the graphic right on the page, NOT in a float. Steve, If I were doing that, I'd put a blank page in my Lyx document (or perhaps a small version of the graphic, to make the last step easier), export as a PDF file,

Re: (Slightly OT): Can't install texlive on gentoo system

2008-11-28 Thread Les Denham
On Friday 28 November 2008 15:26:11 Andrés Becerra Sandoval wrote: On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 6:42 AM, Hellmut Weber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Lukas, hi Les thanks for your answers ;-) Hellmut, I have texlive-core-2008-r4 and lyx-1.6.0 correctly installed on gentoo linux (32 bit

Re: (Slightly OT): Can't install texlive on gentoo system

2008-11-28 Thread Les Denham
On Friday 28 November 2008 15:26:11 Andrés Becerra Sandoval wrote: On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 6:42 AM, Hellmut Weber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Lukas, hi Les thanks for your answers ;-) Hellmut, I have texlive-core-2008-r4 and lyx-1.6.0 correctly installed on gentoo linux (32 bit

Re: (Slightly OT): Can't install texlive on gentoo system

2008-11-28 Thread Les Denham
On Friday 28 November 2008 15:26:11 Andrés Becerra Sandoval wrote: > On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 6:42 AM, Hellmut Weber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Lukas, hi Les > > thanks for your answers ;-) > > Hellmut, > > I have texlive-core-2008-r4 and lyx-1.6.0 correctly installed on > gentoo linux (32

Re: The index numbers overlap with the titles

2008-11-26 Thread Les Denham
On Wednesday 26 November 2008, Laser Yuan wrote: Could anybody help me? This time I attached the lyx code bellow, which demonstrate the bug. I'm hoping for a quick response, since I'm supposed to turn in the thesis in days. Thanks for your help! This works for me. Look at the Preamble. --

Re: The index numbers overlap with the titles

2008-11-26 Thread Les Denham
On Wednesday 26 November 2008, Laser Yuan wrote: Could anybody help me? This time I attached the lyx code bellow, which demonstrate the bug. I'm hoping for a quick response, since I'm supposed to turn in the thesis in days. Thanks for your help! This works for me. Look at the Preamble. --

Re: The index numbers overlap with the titles

2008-11-26 Thread Les Denham
On Wednesday 26 November 2008, Laser Yuan wrote: > Could anybody help me? This time I attached the lyx code bellow, which > demonstrate the bug. I'm hoping for a quick response, since I'm supposed to > turn in the thesis in days. Thanks for your help! > This works for me. Look at the Preamble.

Re: The index numbers overlap with the titles

2008-11-25 Thread Les Denham
On Tuesday 25 November 2008 07:59:37 am Laser Yuan wrote: Hi, As you know, book{ams} layout can automatically general Content, List of Figure etc. But sometimes List of Figures has the index numbers overlap on the titles of those figures. I exact one page pdf(below link) to show this

Re: The index numbers overlap with the titles

2008-11-25 Thread Les Denham
On Tuesday 25 November 2008 07:59:37 am Laser Yuan wrote: Hi, As you know, book{ams} layout can automatically general Content, List of Figure etc. But sometimes List of Figures has the index numbers overlap on the titles of those figures. I exact one page pdf(below link) to show this

Re: The index numbers overlap with the titles

2008-11-25 Thread Les Denham
On Tuesday 25 November 2008 07:59:37 am Laser Yuan wrote: > Hi, > > As you know, book{ams} layout can automatically general "Content", "List of > Figure" etc. But sometimes "List of Figures" has the index numbers overlap > on the titles of those figures. I exact one page pdf(below link) to show >

Re: Subfig(ure) in class Memoir

2008-11-24 Thread Les Denham
On Monday 24 November 2008, Johan Tegin wrote: How to get subfigure captions in memoir without resorting to ERT? I am merging some documents into my thesis, and some of them contain subfigures. Now, the thesis class (kthesis.cls) is based upon memoir, which seem to have an issue with

Re: Subfig(ure) in class Memoir

2008-11-24 Thread Les Denham
On Monday 24 November 2008, Johan Tegin wrote: How to get subfigure captions in memoir without resorting to ERT? I am merging some documents into my thesis, and some of them contain subfigures. Now, the thesis class (kthesis.cls) is based upon memoir, which seem to have an issue with

Re: Subfig(ure) in class Memoir

2008-11-24 Thread Les Denham
On Monday 24 November 2008, Johan Tegin wrote: > How to get subfigure captions in memoir without resorting to ERT? > > I am merging some documents into my thesis, and some of them contain > subfigures. Now, the thesis class (kthesis.cls) is based upon memoir, which > seem to have an issue with

Re: A multi-volume document?

2008-11-21 Thread Les Denham
On Thursday 20 November 2008, Mikhail Teterin wrote: Hello! I'm working with a document, thats too big for a single-volume book. Is there a way I can work with it as one document, but tell LyX to produce several PDF files for printing? Or do I have to split the document into several

Re: A multi-volume document?

2008-11-21 Thread Les Denham
On Thursday 20 November 2008, Mikhail Teterin wrote: Hello! I'm working with a document, thats too big for a single-volume book. Is there a way I can work with it as one document, but tell LyX to produce several PDF files for printing? Or do I have to split the document into several

Re: A multi-volume document?

2008-11-21 Thread Les Denham
On Thursday 20 November 2008, Mikhail Teterin wrote: > Hello! > > I'm working with a document, thats too big for a single-volume book. > > Is there a way I can work with it as one document, but tell LyX to produce > several PDF files for printing? > > Or do I have to split the document into

Re: network paths: windows vs. linux

2008-11-12 Thread Les Denham
On Monday 10 November 2008, Eran Kaplinsky wrote: All my LyX files, images, etc are stored at work on a network folder mapped on a windows box to X:\. And so my files contain code such as: \includegraphics{x:/images/bubblegum.jpg} \includepdf{x:/pdfs/bubble} My question is how do I work

Re: network paths: windows vs. linux

2008-11-12 Thread Les Denham
On Monday 10 November 2008, Eran Kaplinsky wrote: All my LyX files, images, etc are stored at work on a network folder mapped on a windows box to X:\. And so my files contain code such as: \includegraphics{x:/images/bubblegum.jpg} \includepdf{x:/pdfs/bubble} My question is how do I work

Re: network paths: windows vs. linux

2008-11-12 Thread Les Denham
On Monday 10 November 2008, Eran Kaplinsky wrote: > All my LyX files, images, etc are stored at work on a network folder > > mapped on a windows box to X:\. And so my files contain code such as: > > \includegraphics{x:/images/bubblegum.jpg} > > \includepdf{x:/pdfs/bubble} > > My question is how

Re: Word processor bashing

2008-11-05 Thread Les Denham
On Tuesday 04 November 2008, Uwe Stöhr wrote: I'm moving this discussion to the users list: Patrick Camilleri wrote:   Though I find LaTeX + LyX to be a very good typesetting system, I don’t understand all this bashing at other word processors in your ‘Introduction to LyX’ document. In my

Re: Problem with geometry package (urgent)

2008-11-05 Thread Les Denham
On Wednesday 05 November 2008, a e wrote: Thank you for answering. Here I post a minimal document Looks right to me when I generate a PDF. -- Les ~~ Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See

Re: Word processor bashing

2008-11-05 Thread Les Denham
On Tuesday 04 November 2008, Uwe Stöhr wrote: I'm moving this discussion to the users list: Patrick Camilleri wrote:   Though I find LaTeX + LyX to be a very good typesetting system, I don’t understand all this bashing at other word processors in your ‘Introduction to LyX’ document. In my

Re: Problem with geometry package (urgent)

2008-11-05 Thread Les Denham
On Wednesday 05 November 2008, a e wrote: Thank you for answering. Here I post a minimal document Looks right to me when I generate a PDF. -- Les ~~ Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See

Re: Word processor bashing

2008-11-05 Thread Les Denham
On Tuesday 04 November 2008, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > I'm moving this discussion to the users list: > > Patrick Camilleri wrote: > >   Though I find LaTeX + LyX to be a very good typesetting system, I don’t > > understand all this bashing at other word processors in your > > ‘Introduction to LyX’

Re: Problem with geometry package (urgent)

2008-11-05 Thread Les Denham
On Wednesday 05 November 2008, a e wrote: > Thank you for answering. Here I post a minimal document Looks right to me when I generate a PDF. -- Les ~~ Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See

Re: Problem with geometry package (urgent)

2008-11-04 Thread Les Denham
On Tuesday 04 November 2008, a e wrote: Sorry if this has an stupid answer but I'm burned out triying to set up the correct margins for my document. I'm using Lyx 1.5.5 working with  two sided document (Document-Page layout- two sided) (book class) and using geometry package with the following

Re: Problem with geometry package (urgent)

2008-11-04 Thread Les Denham
On Tuesday 04 November 2008, a e wrote: Sorry if this has an stupid answer but I'm burned out triying to set up the correct margins for my document. I'm using Lyx 1.5.5 working with  two sided document (Document-Page layout- two sided) (book class) and using geometry package with the following

Re: Problem with geometry package (urgent)

2008-11-04 Thread Les Denham
On Tuesday 04 November 2008, a e wrote: > Sorry if this has an stupid answer but I'm burned out triying to set up the > correct margins for my document. I'm using Lyx 1.5.5 working with  two > sided document (Document->Page layout-> two sided) (book class) and using > "geometry" package with the

Re: How to install LaTeX packages

2008-10-30 Thread Les Denham
On Thursday 30 October 2008, Keith Roberts wrote: On Thu, 30 Oct 2008, Paul A. Rubin wrote: To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org From: Paul A. Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: How to install LaTeX packages Keith Roberts wrote: How do I go about installing new/required LaTeX packages from

Re: How to install LaTeX packages

2008-10-30 Thread Les Denham
On Thursday 30 October 2008, Keith Roberts wrote: On Thu, 30 Oct 2008, Paul A. Rubin wrote: To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org From: Paul A. Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: How to install LaTeX packages Keith Roberts wrote: How do I go about installing new/required LaTeX packages from

Re: How to install LaTeX packages

2008-10-30 Thread Les Denham
On Thursday 30 October 2008, Keith Roberts wrote: > On Thu, 30 Oct 2008, Paul A. Rubin wrote: > > To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org > > From: Paul A. Rubin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: Re: How to install LaTeX packages > > > > Keith Roberts wrote: > >> How do I go about installing new/required LaTeX

Re: Number of documents prepared with LyX? (Was: Frustrated user)

2008-10-27 Thread Les Denham
On Friday 24 October 2008, Christian Ridderström wrote: Interesting question... how many such documents have been written using LyX? I've written something like 10-20 documents (not counting presentations created with LyX). If ten documents is a typical number, and LyX has hundreds of users,

Re: Number of documents prepared with LyX? (Was: Frustrated user)

2008-10-27 Thread Les Denham
On Friday 24 October 2008, Christian Ridderström wrote: Interesting question... how many such documents have been written using LyX? I've written something like 10-20 documents (not counting presentations created with LyX). If ten documents is a typical number, and LyX has hundreds of users,

Re: Number of documents prepared with LyX? (Was: Frustrated user)

2008-10-27 Thread Les Denham
On Friday 24 October 2008, Christian Ridderström wrote: > Interesting question... how many such documents have been written using > LyX? > > I've written something like 10-20 documents (not counting presentations > created with LyX). If ten documents is a typical number, and LyX has > hundreds of

Re: dot/graphviz

2008-10-07 Thread Les Denham
On Tuesday 07 October 2008, Eran Kaplinsky wrote: Can anyone guide me how to incorporate dot graphs in my LyX documents? Is there a wiki on this? Thanks, Eran I have not used graphviz, but according to its website it can output postscript and PDF, either of which can be put in a figure in

Re: dot/graphviz

2008-10-07 Thread Les Denham
On Tuesday 07 October 2008, Eran Kaplinsky wrote: Can anyone guide me how to incorporate dot graphs in my LyX documents? Is there a wiki on this? Thanks, Eran I have not used graphviz, but according to its website it can output postscript and PDF, either of which can be put in a figure in

Re: dot/graphviz

2008-10-07 Thread Les Denham
On Tuesday 07 October 2008, Eran Kaplinsky wrote: > Can anyone guide me how to incorporate dot graphs in my LyX documents? > Is there a wiki on this? > > Thanks, > Eran I have not used graphviz, but according to its website it can output postscript and PDF, either of which can be put in a figure

Re: Location of packages

2008-09-24 Thread Les Denham
On Wednesday 24 September 2008 09:18:05 am rgheck wrote: E. Kaplan wrote: Thanks, RH. I placed the xcolor folder (with xcolor.sty in it) in the homologous place to where I found it in my Windows Miktex 2.7 installation, where the same Lyx file works just fine. The other latex packages

Re: Location of packages

2008-09-24 Thread Les Denham
On Wednesday 24 September 2008 09:18:05 am rgheck wrote: E. Kaplan wrote: Thanks, RH. I placed the xcolor folder (with xcolor.sty in it) in the homologous place to where I found it in my Windows Miktex 2.7 installation, where the same Lyx file works just fine. The other latex packages

Re: Location of packages

2008-09-24 Thread Les Denham
On Wednesday 24 September 2008 09:18:05 am rgheck wrote: > E. Kaplan wrote: > > Thanks, RH. I placed the xcolor folder (with xcolor.sty in it) in the > > homologous place to where I found it in my Windows Miktex 2.7 > > installation, where the same Lyx file works just fine. The other > > latex

Re: Lyx 1.5.4 lof caption length

2008-09-22 Thread Les Denham
On Monday 22 September 2008, Daniel Lohmann wrote: On 22.09.2008, at 16:51, Fil wrote: Hi, Please could you advise if you can set the caption length in LOF in the TOC?? . I'm using lyx 1.5.4. snip The following might help you if you put it in the preamble. It redefines \caption so

Re: Lyx 1.5.4 lof caption length

2008-09-22 Thread Les Denham
On Monday 22 September 2008, Daniel Lohmann wrote: On 22.09.2008, at 16:51, Fil wrote: Hi, Please could you advise if you can set the caption length in LOF in the TOC?? . I'm using lyx 1.5.4. snip The following might help you if you put it in the preamble. It redefines \caption so

Re: Lyx 1.5.4 lof caption length

2008-09-22 Thread Les Denham
On Monday 22 September 2008, Daniel Lohmann wrote: > On 22.09.2008, at 16:51, Fil wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Please could you advise if you can set the caption length in LOF in > > the TOC?? . I'm using lyx 1.5.4. > > > > The following might help you if you put it in the preamble. > > It redefines

Ike

2008-09-14 Thread Les Denham
Just a short note to those on the LyX list with whom I have corresponded. I live in Houston, and have come through hurricane Ike practically unscathed. We lost electric power on Friday night when the center of hurricane was still 200 miles away. The eye of the storm passed about 40 miles east

Ike

2008-09-14 Thread Les Denham
Just a short note to those on the LyX list with whom I have corresponded. I live in Houston, and have come through hurricane Ike practically unscathed. We lost electric power on Friday night when the center of hurricane was still 200 miles away. The eye of the storm passed about 40 miles east

Ike

2008-09-14 Thread Les Denham
Just a short note to those on the LyX list with whom I have corresponded. I live in Houston, and have come through hurricane Ike practically unscathed. We lost electric power on Friday night when the center of hurricane was still 200 miles away. The eye of the storm passed about 40 miles east

Re: Times Roman vs Latin Modern Roman Font

2008-08-27 Thread Les Denham
On Wednesday 27 August 2008, Abe Lau wrote: Hi all, I am wondering what's the difference between Times Roman and Latin Modern Roman font. I have read from the mailing list that the Latin Modern Roman (lmodern) package is preferred over the default Computer Modern Roman. However, I can't

Re: Times Roman vs Latin Modern Roman Font

2008-08-27 Thread Les Denham
On Wednesday 27 August 2008, Abe Lau wrote: Hi all, I am wondering what's the difference between Times Roman and Latin Modern Roman font. I have read from the mailing list that the Latin Modern Roman (lmodern) package is preferred over the default Computer Modern Roman. However, I can't

Re: Times Roman vs Latin Modern Roman Font

2008-08-27 Thread Les Denham
On Wednesday 27 August 2008, Abe Lau wrote: > Hi all, > I am wondering what's the difference between Times Roman and Latin Modern > Roman font. > > I have read from the mailing list that the Latin Modern Roman (lmodern) > package is preferred over the default Computer Modern Roman. However, I >

Re: Logo in Presentation Beamer

2008-08-26 Thread Les Denham
On Wednesday 20 August 2008, Waluyo Adi Siswanto wrote: Hi All In my presentation [using presentation (beamer) class], I want to put two logos in every page: One on the top-left (university logo) and another one on the top-right (research group logo) How can I do that, or any suggestions to

Re: Logo in Presentation Beamer

2008-08-26 Thread Les Denham
On Tuesday 26 August 2008 02:04:33 pm Paul A. Rubin wrote: I don't use powerdot.  Does it not put a slide title at the top of the screen?  If so, this would seem to block the title (or vice versa). Paul, Most layouts for Powerdot do put the title at the top of the slide -- but they write it

Re: Kudos to LyX Development Team

2008-08-26 Thread Les Denham
On Tuesday 26 August 2008, Bruce Pourciau wrote: Just finished a 45 page article with lots of figures, mathematics, citations, and bibtex generated references. Not even the tiniest screw up. Perfect. Thank you, thank you, to the LyX development team! I second that. I just finished a 95 page

Re: Logo in Presentation Beamer

2008-08-26 Thread Les Denham
On Wednesday 20 August 2008, Waluyo Adi Siswanto wrote: Hi All In my presentation [using presentation (beamer) class], I want to put two logos in every page: One on the top-left (university logo) and another one on the top-right (research group logo) How can I do that, or any suggestions to

Re: Logo in Presentation Beamer

2008-08-26 Thread Les Denham
On Tuesday 26 August 2008 02:04:33 pm Paul A. Rubin wrote: I don't use powerdot.  Does it not put a slide title at the top of the screen?  If so, this would seem to block the title (or vice versa). Paul, Most layouts for Powerdot do put the title at the top of the slide -- but they write it

Re: Kudos to LyX Development Team

2008-08-26 Thread Les Denham
On Tuesday 26 August 2008, Bruce Pourciau wrote: Just finished a 45 page article with lots of figures, mathematics, citations, and bibtex generated references. Not even the tiniest screw up. Perfect. Thank you, thank you, to the LyX development team! I second that. I just finished a 95 page

Re: Logo in Presentation Beamer

2008-08-26 Thread Les Denham
On Wednesday 20 August 2008, Waluyo Adi Siswanto wrote: > Hi All > > In my presentation [using presentation (beamer) class], I want to put two > logos in every page: One on the top-left (university logo) and another one > on the top-right (research group logo) > How can I do that, or any

Re: Logo in Presentation Beamer

2008-08-26 Thread Les Denham
On Tuesday 26 August 2008 02:04:33 pm Paul A. Rubin wrote: > I don't use powerdot.  Does it not put a slide title at the top of the > screen?  If so, this would seem to block the title (or vice versa). > Paul, Most layouts for Powerdot do put the title at the top of the slide -- but they write

Re: Kudos to LyX Development Team

2008-08-26 Thread Les Denham
On Tuesday 26 August 2008, Bruce Pourciau wrote: > Just finished a 45 page article with lots of figures, mathematics, > citations, and bibtex generated references. Not even the tiniest > screw up. Perfect. Thank you, thank you, to the LyX development team! > I second that. I just finished a 95

Re: Excel graphs into Lyx

2008-08-08 Thread Les Denham
On Friday 08 August 2008, Konrad Blum wrote: PS: The people who have the free time to learn a bit gnuplot might want to export the Excel data into the CVS format, and use the gnuplot graphics, which can use also jpg or fig or whatsoever... You might also consider Grace, which (in my opinion)

Re: Excel graphs into Lyx

2008-08-08 Thread Les Denham
On Friday 08 August 2008, Konrad Blum wrote: PS: The people who have the free time to learn a bit gnuplot might want to export the Excel data into the CVS format, and use the gnuplot graphics, which can use also jpg or fig or whatsoever... You might also consider Grace, which (in my opinion)

Re: Excel graphs into Lyx

2008-08-08 Thread Les Denham
On Friday 08 August 2008, Konrad Blum wrote: > PS: The people who have the free time to learn a bit gnuplot might want to > export the Excel data into the CVS format, and use the gnuplot graphics, > which can use also jpg or fig or whatsoever... You might also consider Grace, which (in my

Re: Interesting thread on Slashdot

2008-07-30 Thread Les Denham
On Wednesday 30 July 2008, Dotan Cohen wrote: Is LyX only good for writing books, then? I use LyX for most writing of any kind. I find it most useful for writing technical reports, where I find on average it reduces the total time I spend on the writing by about 50%. My most recent report,

Re: Interesting thread on Slashdot

2008-07-30 Thread Les Denham
On Wednesday 30 July 2008, Dotan Cohen wrote: Is LyX only good for writing books, then? I use LyX for most writing of any kind. I find it most useful for writing technical reports, where I find on average it reduces the total time I spend on the writing by about 50%. My most recent report,

Re: Interesting thread on Slashdot

2008-07-30 Thread Les Denham
On Wednesday 30 July 2008, Dotan Cohen wrote: > Is LyX only good for writing books, then? I use LyX for most writing of any kind. I find it most useful for writing technical reports, where I find on average it reduces the total time I spend on the writing by about 50%. My most recent report,

Re: Excel graphs into Lyx

2008-07-28 Thread Les Denham
On Mon, 2008-07-28 at 01:55 -0700, timtheenchanter wrote: Sorry if this question has been answered before but what is the best way to import excel graphs (Charts) into Lyx. If I convert them to a .jpg for example the quality of the finished document is poor. The new capabilities in 1.6 will

Re: Excel graphs into Lyx

2008-07-28 Thread Les Denham
On Mon, 2008-07-28 at 01:55 -0700, timtheenchanter wrote: Sorry if this question has been answered before but what is the best way to import excel graphs (Charts) into Lyx. If I convert them to a .jpg for example the quality of the finished document is poor. The new capabilities in 1.6 will

Re: Excel graphs into Lyx

2008-07-28 Thread Les Denham
On Mon, 2008-07-28 at 01:55 -0700, timtheenchanter wrote: > Sorry if this question has been answered before but what is the best > way to > import excel graphs (Charts) into Lyx. If I convert them to a .jpg for > example the quality of the finished document is poor. The new capabilities in 1.6

Re: Table Alignment

2008-07-18 Thread Les Denham
On Friday 18 July 2008, Paulina Restrepo wrote: I'm using Lyx 1.5.3 on a Mac, with Mac OS X version 10.4.11. I have a table inside a float, and the word Measure on the table looks aligned in Lyx, but when I compile into pdf it moves up. I haven't been able to fix its alignment. Here is the

Re: Table Alignment

2008-07-18 Thread Les Denham
On Friday 18 July 2008, Paulina Restrepo wrote: I'm using Lyx 1.5.3 on a Mac, with Mac OS X version 10.4.11. I have a table inside a float, and the word Measure on the table looks aligned in Lyx, but when I compile into pdf it moves up. I haven't been able to fix its alignment. Here is the

Re: Table Alignment

2008-07-18 Thread Les Denham
On Friday 18 July 2008, Paulina Restrepo wrote: > I'm using Lyx 1.5.3 on a Mac, with Mac OS X version 10.4.11. > > I have a table inside a float, and the word "Measure" on the table > looks aligned in Lyx, > but when I compile into pdf it moves up. I haven't been able to fix > its alignment. Here

Re: missing float.sty on default install

2008-07-08 Thread Les Denham
On Tuesday 08 July 2008, Hussein Elgridly wrote: I've come to LyX from the Windows version, and have just installed LyX from the Ubuntu repositories. I'm running Ubuntu 8.04, which gave me LyX 1.5.3. Firing up a .lyx document which I made in Windows, I tried exporting to PDF and it complained

Re: missing float.sty on default install

2008-07-08 Thread Les Denham
On Tuesday 08 July 2008, Hussein Elgridly wrote: I've come to LyX from the Windows version, and have just installed LyX from the Ubuntu repositories. I'm running Ubuntu 8.04, which gave me LyX 1.5.3. Firing up a .lyx document which I made in Windows, I tried exporting to PDF and it complained

Re: missing float.sty on default install

2008-07-08 Thread Les Denham
On Tuesday 08 July 2008, Hussein Elgridly wrote: > I've come to LyX from the Windows version, and have just installed LyX > from the Ubuntu repositories. I'm running Ubuntu 8.04, which gave me LyX > 1.5.3. Firing up a .lyx document which I made in Windows, I tried > exporting to PDF and it

Re: Lyx for business

2008-06-22 Thread Les Denham
On Sun, 2008-06-22 at 11:32 +0100, Graham Smith wrote: A rather vague question, but would anyone like to share their experiences of using Lyx in a small business situation, or point me towards some web links, with maybe example templates. Graham, I've been trying to do this for some years

Re: Lyx for business

2008-06-22 Thread Les Denham
On Sun, 2008-06-22 at 11:32 +0100, Graham Smith wrote: A rather vague question, but would anyone like to share their experiences of using Lyx in a small business situation, or point me towards some web links, with maybe example templates. Graham, I've been trying to do this for some years

Re: Lyx for business

2008-06-22 Thread Les Denham
On Sun, 2008-06-22 at 11:32 +0100, Graham Smith wrote: > A rather vague question, but would anyone like to share their > experiences of using Lyx in a small business situation, or point me > towards some web links, with maybe example templates. Graham, I've been trying to do this for some

Re: Several questions on memoir style with fancy layout

2008-06-05 Thread Les Denham
On Thursday 05 June 2008, Mikhail Teterin wrote: Hello! I'm preparing a book using the memoir style with the fancy page-layout. snip Here are my questions: 1. Each chapter's name is of style Chapter, naturally. What's the correct style for the description, however? Ideally, I'd like the

Re: Several questions on memoir style with fancy layout

2008-06-05 Thread Les Denham
On Thursday 05 June 2008, Mikhail Teterin wrote: Hello! I'm preparing a book using the memoir style with the fancy page-layout. snip Here are my questions: 1. Each chapter's name is of style Chapter, naturally. What's the correct style for the description, however? Ideally, I'd like the

Re: Several questions on "memoir" style with "fancy" layout

2008-06-05 Thread Les Denham
On Thursday 05 June 2008, Mikhail Teterin wrote: > Hello! > > I'm preparing a book using the "memoir" style with the "fancy" page-layout. > > > Here are my questions: > > 1. Each chapter's name is of style Chapter, naturally. What's the correct > style for the description, however? Ideally, I'd

Re: Default Float placement is pathetic

2008-05-20 Thread Les Denham
On Tuesday 20 May 2008, G. Milde wrote: The counters topnumber and bottomnumber determine how many floats are allowed on one page and the commands \topfraction, \bottomfraction and \textfraction determine how much space they might take. Change with e.g. \setcounter{topnumber}{4} or

Re: Default Float placement is pathetic

2008-05-20 Thread Les Denham
On Tuesday 20 May 2008, G. Milde wrote: Thanks. Encouraged by this and following an old tradition on this list, I include a link to Herbert Voß' Tips and Tricks pages: All about floats:   http://www.texnik.de/cgi-bin/mainFAQ.cgi?file=floats/floats Float parameters:  

Re: +/- in a table too large

2008-05-20 Thread Les Denham
On Tuesday 20 May 2008 12:36:01 pm Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: Have a look at the document settings. I can´t see any strange things there, and the error stays after taking out the preamble entrances I can see exactly what you are talking about. The +/- symbol appears too large. But only if you

Re: Default Float placement is pathetic

2008-05-20 Thread Les Denham
On Tuesday 20 May 2008, G. Milde wrote: The counters topnumber and bottomnumber determine how many floats are allowed on one page and the commands \topfraction, \bottomfraction and \textfraction determine how much space they might take. Change with e.g. \setcounter{topnumber}{4} or

Re: Default Float placement is pathetic

2008-05-20 Thread Les Denham
On Tuesday 20 May 2008, G. Milde wrote: Thanks. Encouraged by this and following an old tradition on this list, I include a link to Herbert Voß' Tips and Tricks pages: All about floats:   http://www.texnik.de/cgi-bin/mainFAQ.cgi?file=floats/floats Float parameters:  

Re: +/- in a table too large

2008-05-20 Thread Les Denham
On Tuesday 20 May 2008 12:36:01 pm Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: Have a look at the document settings. I can´t see any strange things there, and the error stays after taking out the preamble entrances I can see exactly what you are talking about. The +/- symbol appears too large. But only if you

Re: Default Float placement is pathetic

2008-05-20 Thread Les Denham
On Tuesday 20 May 2008, G. Milde wrote: > The counters topnumber and bottomnumber determine how many floats are > allowed on one page and the commands \topfraction, \bottomfraction and > \textfraction determine how much space they might take. > > Change with e.g. \setcounter{topnumber}{4} > or

Re: Default Float placement is pathetic

2008-05-20 Thread Les Denham
On Tuesday 20 May 2008, G. Milde wrote: > Thanks. Encouraged by this and following an old tradition on this list, I > include a link to Herbert Voß' "Tips and Tricks" pages: > > All about floats: >   http://www.texnik.de/cgi-bin/mainFAQ.cgi?file=floats/floats > > Float parameters: >  

Re: +/- in a table too large

2008-05-20 Thread Les Denham
On Tuesday 20 May 2008 12:36:01 pm Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > Have a look at the document settings. I can´t see any strange things there, > and the error stays after taking out the preamble entrances I can see exactly what you are talking about. The +/- symbol appears too large. But only if

Re: problems with Beamer presentations

2008-05-15 Thread Les Denham
On Thursday 15 May 2008, nicolas roy wrote: BUT : if i export in ps, and the by hand use ps2pdf, then it works ! I guess thus, that the problem comes from the command dvipdfm that lyx seems to use. How can i change it ? Notice than, with beamer, using export ps and by hand ps2pdf solve

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