Re: how do I embed all fonts using pdflatex on windows?

2008-05-15 Thread Les Denham
On Thursday 15 May 2008, Nathan Miller wrote: I'm checking whether the fonts are embedded using Acrobat (properties) and pdffonts. There are a scary number of fonts (~100) and most are not embedded. In my experience most non-embedded fonts with LyX documents come from figures in the document

Re: how do I embed all fonts using pdflatex on windows?

2008-05-15 Thread Les Denham
On Thursday 15 May 2008, Les Denham wrote: The solution is to fix the original figure, or, if you can't do that, convert it to a raster image at a suitable resolution for the final document. With a few minutes research, I noted the following from the ps2pdf documentation: ps2pdf

Re: how do I embed all fonts using pdflatex on windows?

2008-05-15 Thread Les Denham
On Thursday 15 May 2008 10:54:44 am Nathan Miller wrote: I know basically nothing about all this font business, but naively it seems like some program should just be able to see which fonts are not embedded, and then add them to the pdf. Is there a basic reason this wouldn't work? I think

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

Re: how do I embed all fonts using pdflatex on windows?

2008-05-15 Thread Les Denham
On Thursday 15 May 2008, Nathan Miller wrote: I'm checking whether the fonts are embedded using Acrobat (properties) and pdffonts. There are a scary number of fonts (~100) and most are not embedded. In my experience most non-embedded fonts with LyX documents come from figures in the document

Re: how do I embed all fonts using pdflatex on windows?

2008-05-15 Thread Les Denham
On Thursday 15 May 2008, Les Denham wrote: The solution is to fix the original figure, or, if you can't do that, convert it to a raster image at a suitable resolution for the final document. With a few minutes research, I noted the following from the ps2pdf documentation: ps2pdf

Re: how do I embed all fonts using pdflatex on windows?

2008-05-15 Thread Les Denham
On Thursday 15 May 2008 10:54:44 am Nathan Miller wrote: I know basically nothing about all this font business, but naively it seems like some program should just be able to see which fonts are not embedded, and then add them to the pdf. Is there a basic reason this wouldn't work? I think

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"

Re: how do I embed all fonts using pdflatex on windows?

2008-05-15 Thread Les Denham
On Thursday 15 May 2008, Nathan Miller wrote: > I'm checking whether the fonts are embedded using Acrobat (properties) and > pdffonts. There are a scary number of fonts (~100) and most are not > embedded. In my experience most non-embedded fonts with LyX documents come from figures in the

Re: how do I embed all fonts using pdflatex on windows?

2008-05-15 Thread Les Denham
On Thursday 15 May 2008, Les Denham wrote: > The solution is to fix the original figure, or, if you can't do > that, convert it to a raster image at a suitable resolution for the final > document. With a few minutes research, I noted the following from the ps2pdf documentation

Re: how do I embed all fonts using pdflatex on windows?

2008-05-15 Thread Les Denham
On Thursday 15 May 2008 10:54:44 am Nathan Miller wrote: > I know basically nothing about all this font business, but naively it seems > like some program should just be able to see which fonts are not embedded, > and then add them to the pdf. Is there a basic reason this wouldn't work? I think

Re: problems with Beamer presentations

2008-05-14 Thread Les Denham
On Wednesday 14 May 2008, nicolas roy wrote: Sorry, i did not precise : i'm under Ubuntu 7.10, with Lyx 1.5.1 nicolas nicolas roy a écrit : Hi everybody, I'm trying to use the beamer presentation style and encounter several problems. Of course, like always, i waited for the very last

Re: problems with Beamer presentations

2008-05-14 Thread Les Denham
On Wednesday 14 May 2008, nicolas roy wrote: More precisely, when i force the programm to choose the document class powerdot, i have an alert : the layout file requested by this document powerdot.layout is not usable. This is probably because a Latex class or style file required by it is

Re: problems with Beamer presentations

2008-05-14 Thread Les Denham
On Wednesday 14 May 2008, nicolas roy wrote: Sorry, i did not precise : i'm under Ubuntu 7.10, with Lyx 1.5.1 nicolas nicolas roy a écrit : Hi everybody, I'm trying to use the beamer presentation style and encounter several problems. Of course, like always, i waited for the very last

Re: problems with Beamer presentations

2008-05-14 Thread Les Denham
On Wednesday 14 May 2008, nicolas roy wrote: More precisely, when i force the programm to choose the document class powerdot, i have an alert : the layout file requested by this document powerdot.layout is not usable. This is probably because a Latex class or style file required by it is

Re: problems with Beamer presentations

2008-05-14 Thread Les Denham
On Wednesday 14 May 2008, nicolas roy wrote: > Sorry, i did not precise : > i'm under Ubuntu 7.10, with Lyx 1.5.1 > > nicolas > > nicolas roy a écrit : > > Hi everybody, > > > > I'm trying to use the beamer presentation style and encounter several > > problems. Of course, like always, i waited for

Re: problems with Beamer presentations

2008-05-14 Thread Les Denham
On Wednesday 14 May 2008, nicolas roy wrote: > More precisely, when i force the programm to choose the document class > powerdot, i have an alert : > > the layout file requested by this document > powerdot.layout > is not usable. This is probably because a Latex class or style file > required by

Re: Texlive for lyx

2008-05-06 Thread Les Denham
On Tuesday 06 May 2008, Pavel Sanda wrote: Your first step should be to look at what is in each one and decide whether you need it. I find the best place to quickly get information on packages is http://gentoo-portage.com. please note that there is texmfind utility under gentoo, which

Re: Bogus responses to my lyx-users@lists.lyx.org posts

2008-05-06 Thread Les Denham
On Tuesday 06 May 2008, Steve Litt wrote: Since May 1, 2008, every time I post to lyx-users@lists.lyx.org, I get what looks like an autoresponder email from [EMAIL PROTECTED], telling me to check their FAQ and then if that doesn't help to submit a trouble ticket. Could someone please

Re: Texlive for lyx

2008-05-06 Thread Les Denham
On Tuesday 06 May 2008, Pavel Sanda wrote: Your first step should be to look at what is in each one and decide whether you need it. I find the best place to quickly get information on packages is http://gentoo-portage.com. please note that there is texmfind utility under gentoo, which

Re: Bogus responses to my lyx-users@lists.lyx.org posts

2008-05-06 Thread Les Denham
On Tuesday 06 May 2008, Steve Litt wrote: Since May 1, 2008, every time I post to lyx-users@lists.lyx.org, I get what looks like an autoresponder email from [EMAIL PROTECTED], telling me to check their FAQ and then if that doesn't help to submit a trouble ticket. Could someone please

Re: Texlive for lyx

2008-05-06 Thread Les Denham
On Tuesday 06 May 2008, Pavel Sanda wrote: > > Your first step should be to look at what is in each one and decide > > whether you need it. I find the best place to quickly get information on > > packages is http://gentoo-portage.com. > > please note that there is texmfind utility under gentoo,

Re: Bogus responses to my lyx-users@lists.lyx.org posts

2008-05-06 Thread Les Denham
On Tuesday 06 May 2008, Steve Litt wrote: > Since May 1, 2008, every time I post to lyx-users@lists.lyx.org, I get what > looks like an autoresponder email from [EMAIL PROTECTED], > telling me to check their FAQ and then if that doesn't help to submit a > trouble ticket. Could someone please

Re: Texlive for lyx

2008-04-29 Thread Les Denham
On Tuesday 29 April 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use lyx 1.5.4 with tetex on a Gentoo computer. It works fine; I'm thinking about switching to texlive, as tetex seems on a deadend. Has anyone done it yet ? Got any problem ? How does LyX work with it ? Please let me know Alain, I have

Re: Texlive for lyx

2008-04-29 Thread Les Denham
On Tuesday 29 April 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use lyx 1.5.4 with tetex on a Gentoo computer. It works fine; I'm thinking about switching to texlive, as tetex seems on a deadend. Has anyone done it yet ? Got any problem ? How does LyX work with it ? Please let me know Alain, I have

Re: Texlive for lyx

2008-04-29 Thread Les Denham
On Tuesday 29 April 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I use lyx 1.5.4 with tetex on a Gentoo computer. It works fine; > I'm thinking about switching to texlive, as tetex seems on a deadend. Has > anyone done it yet ? Got any problem ? How does LyX work with it ? > Please let me know Alain, I have

Re: Help me Please

2008-04-23 Thread Les Denham
On Wednesday 23 April 2008, Hassan Khater wrote: Hello I am using lyx to produce my PhD thesis. Sorry if I am not expert enough to deal with every thing. I have three problems with my lyx master file: 1) I have to set the document class to book as the best choice available. 2) When I apply

Re: Help me Please

2008-04-23 Thread Les Denham
On Wednesday 23 April 2008, Hassan Khater wrote: Hello I am using lyx to produce my PhD thesis. Sorry if I am not expert enough to deal with every thing. I have three problems with my lyx master file: 1) I have to set the document class to book as the best choice available. 2) When I apply

Re: Help me Please

2008-04-23 Thread Les Denham
On Wednesday 23 April 2008, Hassan Khater wrote: > Hello > I am using lyx to produce my PhD thesis. Sorry if I am not expert enough to > deal with every thing. I have three problems with my lyx master file: > > 1) I have to set the document class to book as the best choice available. > 2) When I

Re: Extra Space in Footnotes

2008-04-14 Thread Les Denham
On Monday 14 April 2008, John A. Lorenc wrote: Hello, I am using the report class and when I preview my document with .dvi or export to .pdf several of my footnotes have an extra blank line right after the note number, then the text of the footnote, e.g.: John, I can't duplicate this

Re: Extra Space in Footnotes

2008-04-14 Thread Les Denham
On Monday 14 April 2008, John A. Lorenc wrote: Hello, I am using the report class and when I preview my document with .dvi or export to .pdf several of my footnotes have an extra blank line right after the note number, then the text of the footnote, e.g.: John, I can't duplicate this

Re: Extra Space in Footnotes

2008-04-14 Thread Les Denham
On Monday 14 April 2008, John A. Lorenc wrote: > Hello, > > I am using the report class and when I preview my document with .dvi or > export to .pdf several of my footnotes have an extra blank line right after > the note number, then the text of the footnote, e.g.: > John, I can't duplicate this

Re: Drawing graphs in lyx

2008-04-11 Thread Les Denham
On Friday 11 April 2008, Ola Vestad wrote: Hi, I'm preparing a presentation in lyx and want to draw a couple of (simple) graphs. I'm not a very advanced computer user so right now I'm making the presentation in lyx and drawing the graphs in Microsoft Word (!), and I plan to add them to the

Re: How to make a title page?

2008-04-11 Thread Les Denham
On Thursday 10 April 2008, Steve Litt wrote: On Thursday 10 April 2008 22:20, HZ wrote: Hi all, How can I make a title page for report? Normally, there should be a title, author, logo and date at the foot of the title page. Can I generate a separate lyx file for the title page and

Re: Drawing graphs in lyx

2008-04-11 Thread Les Denham
On Friday 11 April 2008, Ola Vestad wrote: Hi, I'm preparing a presentation in lyx and want to draw a couple of (simple) graphs. I'm not a very advanced computer user so right now I'm making the presentation in lyx and drawing the graphs in Microsoft Word (!), and I plan to add them to the

Re: How to make a title page?

2008-04-11 Thread Les Denham
On Thursday 10 April 2008, Steve Litt wrote: On Thursday 10 April 2008 22:20, HZ wrote: Hi all, How can I make a title page for report? Normally, there should be a title, author, logo and date at the foot of the title page. Can I generate a separate lyx file for the title page and

Re: Drawing graphs in lyx

2008-04-11 Thread Les Denham
On Friday 11 April 2008, Ola Vestad wrote: > Hi, > > I'm preparing a presentation in lyx and want to draw a couple of (simple) > graphs. I'm not a very advanced computer user so right now I'm making the > presentation in lyx and drawing the graphs in Microsoft Word (!), and I > plan to add them to

Re: How to make a title page?

2008-04-11 Thread Les Denham
On Thursday 10 April 2008, Steve Litt wrote: > On Thursday 10 April 2008 22:20, HZ wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > How can I make a title page for report? > > > > Normally, there should be a title, author, logo and date at the foot of > > the title page. > > Can I generate a separate lyx file for the

Re: Short Horizontal line in LyX?

2008-04-10 Thread Les Denham
On Thursday 10 April 2008, Ed Sykes wrote: Hi, Would someone be so kind to let me know how to make a short horizonal line in LyX please? something like: First Name: ___ Thanks, Ed Sykes One way of doing this is to insert a 1x1 table, specify the column width, and put a border on

Re: Short Horizontal line in LyX?

2008-04-10 Thread Les Denham
On Thursday 10 April 2008, Ed Sykes wrote: Hi, Would someone be so kind to let me know how to make a short horizonal line in LyX please? something like: First Name: ___ Thanks, Ed Sykes One way of doing this is to insert a 1x1 table, specify the column width, and put a border on

Re: Short Horizontal line in LyX?

2008-04-10 Thread Les Denham
On Thursday 10 April 2008, Ed Sykes wrote: > Hi, > > Would someone be so kind to let me know how to make a short horizonal line > in LyX please? > something like: > First Name: ___ > > Thanks, > Ed Sykes One way of doing this is to insert a 1x1 table, specify the column width, and put a

Re: LyX Without LaTeX

2008-04-09 Thread Les Denham
On Wed, 2008-04-09 at 09:21 -0500, Bruce Pourciau wrote: I would ask our IT folks to install LyX on her machine. Any thoughts on how I can make this go smoothly for them? Bruce, Another option is the portable LyX mentioned in another thread earlier today. http://portableapps.com/node/9880

Re: LyX Without LaTeX

2008-04-09 Thread Les Denham
On Wed, 2008-04-09 at 09:21 -0500, Bruce Pourciau wrote: I would ask our IT folks to install LyX on her machine. Any thoughts on how I can make this go smoothly for them? Bruce, Another option is the portable LyX mentioned in another thread earlier today. http://portableapps.com/node/9880

Re: LyX Without LaTeX

2008-04-09 Thread Les Denham
On Wed, 2008-04-09 at 09:21 -0500, Bruce Pourciau wrote: > I would ask our IT folks to install LyX on her machine. Any thoughts > on how I can make this go smoothly for them? Bruce, Another option is the portable LyX mentioned in another thread earlier today. http://portableapps.com/node/9880

Re: Clickable Intradocument Cross-Reference

2008-04-08 Thread Les Denham
On Tuesday 08 April 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Where would I find information on how to insert a clickable cross-reference (much like a hypertext one), which redirects to another area of the same document, in Lyx? Thanks in advance. For when you are editing the LyX document? If

Re: Clickable Intradocument Cross-Reference

2008-04-08 Thread Les Denham
On Tuesday 08 April 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Where would I find information on how to insert a clickable cross-reference (much like a hypertext one), which redirects to another area of the same document, in Lyx? Thanks in advance. For when you are editing the LyX document? If

Re: Clickable Intradocument Cross-Reference

2008-04-08 Thread Les Denham
On Tuesday 08 April 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > Where would I find information on how to insert a clickable > cross-reference (much like a hypertext one), which redirects to another > area of the same document, in Lyx? > > Thanks in advance. For when you are editing the LyX

Re: a0poster example using LyX

2008-04-03 Thread Les Denham
On Wednesday 02 April 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I ended up using the sciposter class with the options [landscape,a0,largefonts,plainsections] and the packages: \usepackage{multicol} \usepackage{sectionbox} \usepackage{wallpaper} snip The columns were automatically and evenly distributed

Re: a0poster example using LyX

2008-04-03 Thread Les Denham
On Wednesday 02 April 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I ended up using the sciposter class with the options [landscape,a0,largefonts,plainsections] and the packages: \usepackage{multicol} \usepackage{sectionbox} \usepackage{wallpaper} snip The columns were automatically and evenly distributed

Re: a0poster example using LyX

2008-04-03 Thread Les Denham
On Wednesday 02 April 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I ended up using the sciposter class with the options > [landscape,a0,largefonts,plainsections] and the packages: > \usepackage{multicol} > \usepackage{sectionbox} > \usepackage{wallpaper} > The columns were automatically and evenly

Re: New LyX website

2008-03-30 Thread Les Denham
On Sunday 30 March 2008 19:07, Rex C. Eastbourne wrote: For those who haven't seen it, the new LyX website is now at: http://www.lyx.org/test/index.php/Main/HomePage We're still doing some design work, but the basics are in place. What do you all think? Rex, I like the look, and I'm

Re: New LyX website

2008-03-30 Thread Les Denham
On Sunday 30 March 2008 19:07, Rex C. Eastbourne wrote: For those who haven't seen it, the new LyX website is now at: http://www.lyx.org/test/index.php/Main/HomePage We're still doing some design work, but the basics are in place. What do you all think? Rex, I like the look, and I'm

Re: New LyX website

2008-03-30 Thread Les Denham
On Sunday 30 March 2008 19:07, Rex C. Eastbourne wrote: > For those who haven't seen it, the new LyX website is now at: > http://www.lyx.org/test/index.php/Main/HomePage > > We're still doing some design work, but the basics are in place. What do > you all think? Rex, I like the look, and I'm

Re: disable tilde backup-on-save files

2008-03-27 Thread Les Denham
On Thursday 27 March 2008, Dennis Nezic wrote: Currently, whenever I save a document, it additionally saves a filename.lyx~ backup file (appended with a tilde). Is there a way to disable this? Try Tools-Preferences-User interface and uncheck the Backup documents. -- Les

Re: disable tilde backup-on-save files

2008-03-27 Thread Les Denham
On Thursday 27 March 2008, Dennis Nezic wrote: Currently, whenever I save a document, it additionally saves a filename.lyx~ backup file (appended with a tilde). Is there a way to disable this? Try Tools-Preferences-User interface and uncheck the Backup documents. -- Les

Re: disable tilde backup-on-save files

2008-03-27 Thread Les Denham
On Thursday 27 March 2008, Dennis Nezic wrote: > Currently, whenever I save a document, it additionally saves a > filename.lyx~ backup file (appended with a tilde). Is there a way to > disable this? Try Tools->Preferences->User interface and uncheck the "Backup documents". -- Les

Re: Website re-design ideas

2008-03-23 Thread Les Denham
On Sat, 2008-03-22 at 19:01 -0400, Rex C. Eastbourne wrote: Hello all, Over on lyx-devel, I've been discussing doing some re-design to the look and feel of www.lyx.org. I'd like to get some feedback so we know what people think looks best. Here are some links to some other websites with

Re: Website re-design ideas

2008-03-23 Thread Les Denham
On Sat, 2008-03-22 at 19:01 -0400, Rex C. Eastbourne wrote: Hello all, Over on lyx-devel, I've been discussing doing some re-design to the look and feel of www.lyx.org. I'd like to get some feedback so we know what people think looks best. Here are some links to some other websites with

Re: Website re-design ideas

2008-03-23 Thread Les Denham
On Sat, 2008-03-22 at 19:01 -0400, Rex C. Eastbourne wrote: > Hello all, > > Over on lyx-devel, I've been discussing doing some re-design to the look and > feel of www.lyx.org. I'd like to get some feedback so we know what people > think looks best. Here are some links to some other websites

Re: Using a network printer

2008-03-19 Thread Les Denham
On Wednesday 19 March 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 19 Mar 2008, Paul A. Rubin wrote: How do I set up Lyx to use a network printer? At the moment I can print by viewing as pdf in kpdf which sees my printer. I would like to be able to print direct from Lyx though, as I

Re: Using a network printer

2008-03-19 Thread Les Denham
On Wednesday 19 March 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 19 Mar 2008, Paul A. Rubin wrote: How do I set up Lyx to use a network printer? At the moment I can print by viewing as pdf in kpdf which sees my printer. I would like to be able to print direct from Lyx though, as I

Re: Using a network printer

2008-03-19 Thread Les Denham
On Wednesday 19 March 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, 19 Mar 2008, Paul A. Rubin wrote: > >> > > How do I set up Lyx to use a network printer? At the moment I can > >> > > print by viewing as pdf in kpdf which sees my printer. I would > >> > > like to be able to print direct from Lyx

Re: Figure references 1.5.3: Danger Will Robinson

2008-02-24 Thread Les Denham
On Sunday 24 February 2008 17:35, Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, Here are two small LyX files. The only difference is that in bug2.lyx the labels come last inside the floats, whereas in bug.lyx the labels come first. bug2.lyx works (after a couple view-pdf, but bug.lyx never works (at least on my

Re: Figure references 1.5.3: Danger Will Robinson

2008-02-24 Thread Les Denham
On Sunday 24 February 2008 18:06, Steve Litt wrote: Aha! I never even thought of putting it inside the caption (should it be at the beginning or end of caption?). Whatever the final answer, it should be documented. Steve, I don't know whether it is explicitly documented, but if you look at

Re: Figure references 1.5.3: Danger Will Robinson

2008-02-24 Thread Les Denham
On Sunday 24 February 2008 17:35, Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, Here are two small LyX files. The only difference is that in bug2.lyx the labels come last inside the floats, whereas in bug.lyx the labels come first. bug2.lyx works (after a couple view-pdf, but bug.lyx never works (at least on my

Re: Figure references 1.5.3: Danger Will Robinson

2008-02-24 Thread Les Denham
On Sunday 24 February 2008 18:06, Steve Litt wrote: Aha! I never even thought of putting it inside the caption (should it be at the beginning or end of caption?). Whatever the final answer, it should be documented. Steve, I don't know whether it is explicitly documented, but if you look at

Re: Figure references 1.5.3: Danger Will Robinson

2008-02-24 Thread Les Denham
On Sunday 24 February 2008 17:35, Steve Litt wrote: > Hi all, > > Here are two small LyX files. The only difference is that in bug2.lyx the > labels come last inside the floats, whereas in bug.lyx the labels come > first. bug2.lyx works (after a couple view->pdf, but bug.lyx never works > (at

Re: Figure references 1.5.3: Danger Will Robinson

2008-02-24 Thread Les Denham
On Sunday 24 February 2008 18:06, Steve Litt wrote: > Aha! I never even thought of putting it inside the caption (should it be at > the beginning or end of caption?). Whatever the final answer, it should be > documented. Steve, I don't know whether it is explicitly documented, but if you look at

Re: Creating Logotype Letterhead

2008-02-12 Thread Les Denham
On Tuesday 12 February 2008 13:16, Rich Shepard wrote: On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, Les Denham wrote: If you're trying to do what I think you're trying to do, the ps2raster tool which is part of GMT (http://gmt.soest.hawaii.edu/) does a very nice job. Les, I don't want a raster image; LyX

Re: Creating Logotype Letterhead

2008-02-12 Thread Les Denham
On Tuesday 12 February 2008, Rich Shepard wrote:    If I was able to insert and use a .pdf at the top of the letter's first page I would not need to go through the exercise of converting the .pdf to an .eps. I have the .pdf file already. Ah! Well, you need: ps2raster -A -Te file.ps which

Re: Creating Logotype Letterhead

2008-02-12 Thread Les Denham
On Tuesday 12 February 2008, Rich Shepard wrote: When I get the syntax for cropping the .eps file using 'convert' I'll be able to import it into the document, and that's ultimately what I need. Rich, If you're trying to do what I think you're trying to do, the ps2raster tool which is part

Re: Creating Logotype Letterhead

2008-02-12 Thread Les Denham
On Tuesday 12 February 2008 13:16, Rich Shepard wrote: On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, Les Denham wrote: If you're trying to do what I think you're trying to do, the ps2raster tool which is part of GMT (http://gmt.soest.hawaii.edu/) does a very nice job. Les, I don't want a raster image; LyX

Re: Creating Logotype Letterhead

2008-02-12 Thread Les Denham
On Tuesday 12 February 2008, Rich Shepard wrote:    If I was able to insert and use a .pdf at the top of the letter's first page I would not need to go through the exercise of converting the .pdf to an .eps. I have the .pdf file already. Ah! Well, you need: ps2raster -A -Te file.ps which

Re: Creating Logotype Letterhead

2008-02-12 Thread Les Denham
On Tuesday 12 February 2008, Rich Shepard wrote: When I get the syntax for cropping the .eps file using 'convert' I'll be able to import it into the document, and that's ultimately what I need. Rich, If you're trying to do what I think you're trying to do, the ps2raster tool which is part

Re: Creating Logotype Letterhead

2008-02-12 Thread Les Denham
On Tuesday 12 February 2008 13:16, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, Les Denham wrote: > > If you're trying to do what I think you're trying to do, the ps2raster > > tool which is part of GMT (http://gmt.soest.hawaii.edu/) does a very nice > > job. > > Les, &

Re: Creating Logotype Letterhead

2008-02-12 Thread Les Denham
On Tuesday 12 February 2008, Rich Shepard wrote: >    If I was able to insert and use a .pdf at the top of the letter's first > page I would not need to go through the exercise of converting the .pdf to > an .eps. I have the .pdf file already. Ah! Well, you need: ps2raster -A -Te file.ps which

Re: Creating Logotype Letterhead

2008-02-12 Thread Les Denham
On Tuesday 12 February 2008, Rich Shepard wrote: >When I get the syntax for cropping the .eps file using 'convert' I'll be > able to import it into the document, and that's ultimately what I need. Rich, If you're trying to do what I think you're trying to do, the ps2raster tool which is

Re: Latex presentation with lyx

2008-01-23 Thread Les Denham
On Wednesday 23 January 2008, muzzle wrote: Hi, I have been using lyx for my latex needs for quite a long time. Now I am trying latex presentations, but lyx does not seem very well suited for the task and I went back to pure latex code. Can you give me some advice on writing slides with lyx?

Re: Latex presentation with lyx

2008-01-23 Thread Les Denham
On Wednesday 23 January 2008, John O'Gorman wrote: Recently I flirted with powerdot. It is a nightmare on the SUSE platforms and relies on postscript for overlays, animation, etc which then do not translate fully to PDF. Powerdot also relies on TeX packages which are not included by default in

Re: Latex presentation with lyx

2008-01-23 Thread Les Denham
On Wednesday 23 January 2008, muzzle wrote: Hi, I have been using lyx for my latex needs for quite a long time. Now I am trying latex presentations, but lyx does not seem very well suited for the task and I went back to pure latex code. Can you give me some advice on writing slides with lyx?

Re: Latex presentation with lyx

2008-01-23 Thread Les Denham
On Wednesday 23 January 2008, John O'Gorman wrote: Recently I flirted with powerdot. It is a nightmare on the SUSE platforms and relies on postscript for overlays, animation, etc which then do not translate fully to PDF. Powerdot also relies on TeX packages which are not included by default in

Re: Latex presentation with lyx

2008-01-23 Thread Les Denham
On Wednesday 23 January 2008, muzzle wrote: > Hi, > I have been using lyx for my latex needs for quite a long time. Now I > am trying latex presentations, but lyx does not seem very well suited > for the task and I went back to pure latex code. > Can you give me some advice on writing slides with

Re: Latex presentation with lyx

2008-01-23 Thread Les Denham
On Wednesday 23 January 2008, John O'Gorman wrote: > Recently I flirted with powerdot. It is a nightmare on the SUSE > platforms and relies on postscript for overlays, animation, etc which > then do not translate fully to PDF. Powerdot also relies on TeX packages > which are not included by

Re: left justify floats?

2008-01-18 Thread Les Denham
On Thursday 17 January 2008 06:07, Helge Hafting wrote: I was hoping for a preference setting that allows printing via pdflatex instead of the usual way, because that is necessary for using microtype. But lyx currently doesn't support microtype directly so there is no need. . . Helge, So

Re: left justify floats?

2008-01-18 Thread Les Denham
On Thursday 17 January 2008 06:07, Helge Hafting wrote: I was hoping for a preference setting that allows printing via pdflatex instead of the usual way, because that is necessary for using microtype. But lyx currently doesn't support microtype directly so there is no need. . . Helge, So

Re: left justify floats?

2008-01-18 Thread Les Denham
On Thursday 17 January 2008 06:07, Helge Hafting wrote: > I was hoping for a preference setting that allows printing > via pdflatex instead of the usual way, because that > is necessary for using microtype. But lyx currently doesn't > support microtype directly so there is "no need". . . Helge,

Re: [OT] Best KDE-centric Distribution?

2008-01-14 Thread Les Denham
On Monday 14 January 2008 11:18, rgheck wrote: I've been using Fedora ever since I started using Linux, but the second-rate status of KDE under Fedora is starting to get to me, so I'm thinking about switching. But then: to what? I don't think Kubuntu is for me. Gentoo would be an option, but

Re: [OT] Best KDE-centric Distribution?

2008-01-14 Thread Les Denham
On Monday 14 January 2008 11:18, rgheck wrote: I've been using Fedora ever since I started using Linux, but the second-rate status of KDE under Fedora is starting to get to me, so I'm thinking about switching. But then: to what? I don't think Kubuntu is for me. Gentoo would be an option, but

Re: [OT] Best KDE-centric Distribution?

2008-01-14 Thread Les Denham
On Monday 14 January 2008 11:18, rgheck wrote: > I've been using Fedora ever since I started using Linux, but the > second-rate status of KDE under Fedora is starting to get to me, so I'm > thinking about switching. But then: to what? I don't think Kubuntu is > for me. Gentoo would be an option,

Re: (latex question) Repeated footnote?

2008-01-11 Thread Les Denham
On Friday 11 January 2008 08:25, Neal Becker wrote: I have a description env, and I have some notes for some entries. I was planning to use footnotes, but I need multiple references to the _same_ notes. Like: entry A: 1 entry B: 1 entry C: 2 1: some footnote 2: some other footnote

Re: (latex question) Repeated footnote?

2008-01-11 Thread Les Denham
On Friday 11 January 2008 08:25, Neal Becker wrote: I have a description env, and I have some notes for some entries. I was planning to use footnotes, but I need multiple references to the _same_ notes. Like: entry A: 1 entry B: 1 entry C: 2 1: some footnote 2: some other footnote

Re: (latex question) Repeated footnote?

2008-01-11 Thread Les Denham
On Friday 11 January 2008 08:25, Neal Becker wrote: > I have a description env, and I have some notes for some entries. I was > planning to use footnotes, but I need multiple references to the _same_ > notes. > > Like: > > entry A: 1 > entry B: 1 > entry C: 2 > > 1: some footnote > 2: some other

Re: Conversion to OpenOffice error

2007-12-18 Thread Les Denham
On Tuesday 18 December 2007, Jia 'Colin' Zheng wrote: How did you convert it, by copy and paste or export to plain text? I've no clue how ligature affects the conversion, unless it was converted from dvi or ps or pdf format. I did the conversion using the File-Export-OpenOffice.org Writer

Re: Conversion to OpenOffice error

2007-12-18 Thread Les Denham
On Tuesday 18 December 2007, Jia 'Colin' Zheng wrote: How did you convert it, by copy and paste or export to plain text? I've no clue how ligature affects the conversion, unless it was converted from dvi or ps or pdf format. I did the conversion using the File-Export-OpenOffice.org Writer

Re: Conversion to OpenOffice error

2007-12-18 Thread Les Denham
On Tuesday 18 December 2007, Jia 'Colin' Zheng wrote: > How did you convert it, by copy and paste or export to plain text? > I've no clue how ligature affects the conversion, unless it was converted > from dvi or ps or pdf format. I did the conversion using the File->Export->OpenOffice.org Writer

Conversion to OpenOffice error

2007-12-17 Thread Les Denham
When I convert from LyX to OpenOffice.org writer, I get the following type of error: LyX (1.4.2 on Linux): 1. The benefits of this document offer a few problems. OpenOffice.org (2.1 on Linux):  The beneøts of this document ooeer a few problems. My LyX document uses Article(koma-script) and

Conversion to OpenOffice error

2007-12-17 Thread Les Denham
When I convert from LyX to OpenOffice.org writer, I get the following type of error: LyX (1.4.2 on Linux): 1. The benefits of this document offer a few problems. OpenOffice.org (2.1 on Linux):  The beneøts of this document ooeer a few problems. My LyX document uses Article(koma-script) and

Conversion to OpenOffice error

2007-12-17 Thread Les Denham
When I convert from LyX to OpenOffice.org writer, I get the following type of error: LyX (1.4.2 on Linux): 1. The benefits of this document offer a few problems. OpenOffice.org (2.1 on Linux):  The beneøts of this document ooeer a few problems. My LyX document uses Article(koma-script) and

Re: What are your experiences (including figures)?

2007-12-11 Thread Les Denham
On Tuesday 11 December 2007, bigblop wrote: Does anyone actually use the LyX way to include figures/pictures? I always use the LyX way, and I frequently produce documents with tens or hundreds of figure floats. But to speed things up, once I have the settings right (size, justification,

Re: What are your experiences (including figures)?

2007-12-11 Thread Les Denham
On Tuesday 11 December 2007, bigblop wrote: Does anyone actually use the LyX way to include figures/pictures? I always use the LyX way, and I frequently produce documents with tens or hundreds of figure floats. But to speed things up, once I have the settings right (size, justification,

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