Re: image convert problems

2005-11-19 Thread Roy Schestowitz
_/ On Sat 19 Nov 2005 04:34:15 GMT, [C Beary] wrote : \_ Hello, I recently did a complete reinstall of lyx and am having some problems opening my old documents. There were no problems compiling lyx and there were no missing packages. Yet when I open a document, I get the error No

Re: subtitle for book?

2005-11-19 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Am Freitag, 18. November 2005 18:50 schrieb Jeremy C. Reed: I see that some layouts like beamer, paper, and others have a subtitle. Is there any subtitle layout for a book? My workaround is to use author or date or use a CTRL-Enter to add to a Author layout. Will this cause problems? If

Re: subtitle for book?

2005-11-19 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Sat, 19 Nov 2005, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: What do you use for a subtitle for a book? komascript book Thanks for the info. I have scrbook (koma-script) from teTeX-texmf-3.0, but don't see it. I did try Titlehead and Extratitle. What layouts do you use? Any example? And pointers to

RE: unavailable classes

2005-11-19 Thread Andreas Kofod-Hansen
I'm using LyX in Windows with the MikTeX package. I chose to install everything when I installed MikTeX, but I'm still missing the CV class. How do I get this class (and the other unavailable classes, and how (and where) do I install them. Thanks Andreas Kofod-Hansen -Original Message-

Re: subtitle for book?

2005-11-19 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Am Samstag, 19. November 2005 10:00 schrieb Jeremy C. Reed: On Sat, 19 Nov 2005, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: What do you use for a subtitle for a book? komascript book Thanks for the info. I have scrbook (koma-script) from teTeX-texmf-3.0, but don't see it. I did try Titlehead and

Re: align left and hyphenation

2005-11-19 Thread Helge Hafting
On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 05:12:10PM -0300, Marcelo Acuÿf1a wrote: I don´t know PageMaker or Scribus. I think that Lyx is very good for mathematics but for history, sociology, etc. advantage is reduced for dificult to learn and poor tool for index entry. Lyx has multi-level

Re: LyX function for German hard S?

2005-11-19 Thread Angus Leeming
Stefano Franchi wrote: My keyboard is acting strangely again, and I need to use the minibuffer to input accented characters and similia. But I can't remember the function needed to input the German hard-S. Can anyone help? Thanks. Stefano Hi, Stefano. The latex command is \ss{}, no?

Re: LyX function for German hard S?

2005-11-19 Thread Nusret BALCI
To Angus: Sorry for probably OT question, just beacuse you mentioned it: which key do you refer to as compose key? (is there an equivalent on usual keyboards, or is it something special to some keyboards: mine seems not to have one. Only Ctrl, Alt and Shift). Regards, Nusret --- Angus

Re: LyX function for German hard S?

2005-11-19 Thread John Coppens
On Sat, 19 Nov 2005 06:58:38 -0800 (PST) Nusret BALCI [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry for probably OT question, just beacuse you mentioned it: which key do you refer to as compose key? (is there an equivalent on usual keyboards, or is it something special to some keyboards: mine seems not to

Re: LyX function for German hard S?

2005-11-19 Thread Nusret BALCI
I tried Ctrl-., but in text mode Ctrl has no effect, on math mode the message on the status bar is command disabled, whatever that means. Really, I didn't know there is a different Multi-key or a compose key :). Nusret --- John Coppens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 19 Nov 2005 06:58:38

Re: image convert problems

2005-11-19 Thread Uwe Stöhr
C Beary wrote: Yet when I open a document, I get the error No information for converting gif to eps. This happens for a number of different formats. In the text window, I get the message /usr/local/share/lyx/scripts/convertDefault.sh ERROR Execution of convert failed. What OS and what

Re: LyX function for German hard S?

2005-11-19 Thread John Coppens
On Sat, 19 Nov 2005 07:25:57 -0800 (PST) Nusret BALCI [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried Ctrl-., but in text mode Ctrl has no effect, Sure Ctl has some effect (not alone, but with the other key combined). To type 1/2 as one symbol, try Ctrl-. and then (without Ctrl) 1 and 2 if the 1 appears

Re: LyX function for German hard S?

2005-11-19 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Stefano Franchi wrote: My keyboard is acting strangely again, and I need to use the minibuffer to input accented characters and similia. But I can't remember the function needed to input the German hard-S. Can anyone help? Thanks. What about this: Copy the following line to the bind you are

Cross-reference accross unrelated files.

2005-11-19 Thread Rudi Gaelzer
I often need to make a reference to an equation (mostly) in another LyX file. Now, I know that it's easy to cross-reference between different files if one is inputed/included inside the other or both inside a master file. However, if I want to cross-reference equations between unrelated texts,

Re: subtitle for book?

2005-11-19 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Sat, 19 Nov 2005, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: On Sat, 19 Nov 2005, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: What do you use for a subtitle for a book? komascript book Thanks for the info. I have scrbook (koma-script) from teTeX-texmf-3.0, but don't see it. I did try Titlehead and Extratitle. and it

Question about subscripts to limits (inline mode)

2005-11-19 Thread Dimitris B. Kalamaras
Hello all, I wonder if there is a way to have subscripts to limits (in inline mode) written beneath the lim word rather than next to it. I cannot use display mode all the time. I know that LaTeX can do it i.e. $\lim\limits_{x\rightarrow 0}\frac{\sin{x}}{x}=1$ Any idea? Thanks in advance,

Re: LyX function for German hard S?

2005-11-19 Thread Nusret BALCI
John, Things are getting clearer now: you are right in that ctrl-. has an effect (and yes, I know Ctrl is used with other keys :). I've just typed Ctrl-. and exported the file as latex. It translates to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (backslash-at-dot) Ctrl-.12 therefore doesn't output what you expect in my

Re: subtitle for book?

2005-11-19 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 19 Nov 2005, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: It uses same font size though which I also don't want. Jeremy, Highlight the sub-title using the pointy device or the arrow keys, then select Layout-Character and make the font size small, smaller, or smallest. This is what I do on my beamer

Re: Question about subscripts to limits (inline mode)

2005-11-19 Thread Paul Smith
On 11/19/05, Dimitris B. Kalamaras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wonder if there is a way to have subscripts to limits (in inline mode) written beneath the lim word rather than next to it. I cannot use display mode all the time. I know that LaTeX can do it i.e. $\lim\limits_{x\rightarrow

Re: Question about subscripts to limits (inline mode)

2005-11-19 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Dimitris B. Kalamaras wrote: I wonder if there is a way to have subscripts to limits (in inline mode) written beneath the lim word rather than next to it. I cannot use display mode all the time. I know that LaTeX can do it i.e. $\lim\limits_{x\rightarrow 0}\frac{\sin{x}}{x}=1$ Any idea? -

Re: Question about subscripts to limits (inline mode)

2005-11-19 Thread David Soukal
Dimitris B. Kalamaras wrote: Hello all, I wonder if there is a way to have subscripts to limits (in inline mode) written beneath the lim word rather than next to it. I cannot use display mode all the time. I know that LaTeX can do it i.e. $\lim\limits_{x\rightarrow 0}\frac{\sin{x}}{x}=1$ Any

Re: LyX function for German hard S?

2005-11-19 Thread Stefano Franchi
On Nov 19, 2005, at 8:30 AM, Uwe Stöhr wrote: Stefano Franchi wrote: My keyboard is acting strangely again, and I need to use the minibuffer to input accented characters and similia. But I can't remember the function needed to input the German hard-S. Can anyone help? Thanks. What about

Re: add index with its page number to table of contents

2005-11-19 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Sat, 5 Nov 2005, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Index} at the beginning of the index. I added a \newpage{} immediately before (without it said the Index was on previous page, 57) and used that \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Index}. Replying to myself ... for the

OSX and PDF latex

2005-11-19 Thread Alexander Gahr
Dear all, I installed lyx from the scartch and I'm wondering which converter Lyx uses if i choose view pdflatex. I get a pdf document but in the information the source of the document is .dvi. Is it posible that lyx on Mac dos not use pdflatex ? How can i finde out? Thanx Alex

Re: LyX function for German hard S?

2005-11-19 Thread chr
On Sat, 19 Nov 2005, Nusret BALCI wrote: I use windows, and I suspect now there isn't a compose key functionality available on windows for standard keyboards (If I understand correctly what a compose key does). As far as I know, there is no such thing as a compose key on windows, sorry. In

Re: LyX function for German hard S?

2005-11-19 Thread Nusret BALCI
Christian, the key combination you mentioned doesn't work (for me not a big deal, though: there are several other convenient ways to enter scharfes s), but I wonder why you thought this would do: What's the magic behind Alt-2-2-3? Thank you. Nusret --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 19 Nov

Re: LyX function for German hard S?

2005-11-19 Thread Jose' Matos
On Saturday 19 November 2005 21:09, Nusret BALCI wrote: Christian, the key combination you mentioned doesn't work (for me not a big deal, though: there are several other convenient ways to enter scharfes s), but I wonder why you thought this would do: What's the magic behind Alt-2-2-3?

Re: LyX function for German hard S?

2005-11-19 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Nusret BALCI wrote: Christian, the key combination you mentioned doesn't work (for me not a big deal, though: there are several other convenient ways to enter scharfes s), but I wonder why you thought this would do: What's the magic behind Alt-2-2-3? Alt-number inserts the character with the

Re: LyX function for German hard S?

2005-11-19 Thread Nusret BALCI
I see, you're right. In fact, Christian is right: But I had to type Alt-2-2-5 like Uwe(not 3: 3 gives nothing on my PC, so I thought his suggestion is a curious but nonworking strategy. I was obviously wrong and he was right). Thank you all for clarifying this, it is a useful bit of information.

Re: LyX function for German hard S?

2005-11-19 Thread Angus Leeming
Stefano Franchi wrote: I still don't understand why I can get ß in the minibuffer (with, on my Mac, option-s) and not in the main window, but I can live in blissful ignorance for now. Because we leave it to the Qt toolkit to interpret your key presses when in the minibuffer and then deal with

Re: LyX function for EURO-sign?

2005-11-19 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Angus Leeming wrote: I still don't understand why I can get ß in the minibuffer (with, on my Mac, option-s) and not in the main window, but I can live in blissful ignorance for now. Because we leave it to the Qt toolkit to interpret your key presses when in the minibuffer and then deal with

custom layout resources for common environments

2005-11-19 Thread Nusret BALCI
Hi everybody, Is there a place or does anybody know a good site for custom layouts which can be used with LyX? For example, there is no theorem, corollary, proof, exercise, exam question, multiple choice test question, etc. layouts available by default. Of course this is a relatively side issue as

Re: OSX and PDF latex

2005-11-19 Thread Bennett Helm
On Nov 19, 2005, at 3:25 PM, Alexander Gahr wrote: Dear all, I installed lyx from the scartch and I'm wondering which converter Lyx uses if i choose view pdflatex. I get a pdf document but in the information the source of the document is .dvi. I don't follow this: where does it say .dvi?

Re: custom layout resources for common environments

2005-11-19 Thread Roy Schestowitz
_/ On Sun 20 Nov 2005 01:08:02 GMT, [Nusret BALCI] wrote : \_ Hi everybody, Is there a place or does anybody know a good site for custom layouts which can be used with LyX? For example, there is no theorem, corollary, proof, exercise, exam question, multiple choice test question, etc.

Re: latex import problem

2005-11-19 Thread Roy Schestowitz
_/ On Fri 18 Nov 2005 19:38:34 GMT, [Sanda Pavel] wrote : \_ hi all, i'm trying to import some latex files into lyx, but lyx plays funny games with me. My personal experience has shown that import of LaTeX into LyX suffers from a few incompatibilities (or gaps), especially when

Re: In-line formulae and inter-lines spacing

2005-11-19 Thread Roy Schestowitz
_/ On Fri 18 Nov 2005 17:54:59 GMT, [Paul Smith] wrote : \_ Dear All Sometimes, some in-line equations cause a larger inter-lines spacing around the line where the equation is placed. Is there some way of minimizing this undesirable side effect? Thanks in advance, Paul I know

Re: image convert problems

2005-11-19 Thread Roy Schestowitz
_/ On Sat 19 Nov 2005 04:34:15 GMT, [C Beary] wrote : \_ Hello, I recently did a complete reinstall of lyx and am having some problems opening my old documents. There were no problems compiling lyx and there were no missing packages. Yet when I open a document, I get the error No

Re: subtitle for book?

2005-11-19 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Am Freitag, 18. November 2005 18:50 schrieb Jeremy C. Reed: I see that some layouts like beamer, paper, and others have a subtitle. Is there any subtitle layout for a book? My workaround is to use author or date or use a CTRL-Enter to add to a Author layout. Will this cause problems? If

Re: subtitle for book?

2005-11-19 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Sat, 19 Nov 2005, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: What do you use for a subtitle for a book? komascript book Thanks for the info. I have scrbook (koma-script) from teTeX-texmf-3.0, but don't see it. I did try Titlehead and Extratitle. What layouts do you use? Any example? And pointers to

RE: unavailable classes

2005-11-19 Thread Andreas Kofod-Hansen
I'm using LyX in Windows with the MikTeX package. I chose to install everything when I installed MikTeX, but I'm still missing the CV class. How do I get this class (and the other unavailable classes, and how (and where) do I install them. Thanks Andreas Kofod-Hansen -Original Message-

Re: subtitle for book?

2005-11-19 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Am Samstag, 19. November 2005 10:00 schrieb Jeremy C. Reed: On Sat, 19 Nov 2005, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: What do you use for a subtitle for a book? komascript book Thanks for the info. I have scrbook (koma-script) from teTeX-texmf-3.0, but don't see it. I did try Titlehead and

Re: align left and hyphenation

2005-11-19 Thread Helge Hafting
On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 05:12:10PM -0300, Marcelo Acuÿf1a wrote: I don´t know PageMaker or Scribus. I think that Lyx is very good for mathematics but for history, sociology, etc. advantage is reduced for dificult to learn and poor tool for index entry. Lyx has multi-level

Re: LyX function for German hard S?

2005-11-19 Thread Angus Leeming
Stefano Franchi wrote: My keyboard is acting strangely again, and I need to use the minibuffer to input accented characters and similia. But I can't remember the function needed to input the German hard-S. Can anyone help? Thanks. Stefano Hi, Stefano. The latex command is \ss{}, no?

Re: LyX function for German hard S?

2005-11-19 Thread Nusret BALCI
To Angus: Sorry for probably OT question, just beacuse you mentioned it: which key do you refer to as compose key? (is there an equivalent on usual keyboards, or is it something special to some keyboards: mine seems not to have one. Only Ctrl, Alt and Shift). Regards, Nusret --- Angus

Re: LyX function for German hard S?

2005-11-19 Thread John Coppens
On Sat, 19 Nov 2005 06:58:38 -0800 (PST) Nusret BALCI [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry for probably OT question, just beacuse you mentioned it: which key do you refer to as compose key? (is there an equivalent on usual keyboards, or is it something special to some keyboards: mine seems not to

Re: LyX function for German hard S?

2005-11-19 Thread Nusret BALCI
I tried Ctrl-., but in text mode Ctrl has no effect, on math mode the message on the status bar is command disabled, whatever that means. Really, I didn't know there is a different Multi-key or a compose key :). Nusret --- John Coppens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 19 Nov 2005 06:58:38

Re: image convert problems

2005-11-19 Thread Uwe Stöhr
C Beary wrote: Yet when I open a document, I get the error No information for converting gif to eps. This happens for a number of different formats. In the text window, I get the message /usr/local/share/lyx/scripts/convertDefault.sh ERROR Execution of convert failed. What OS and what

Re: LyX function for German hard S?

2005-11-19 Thread John Coppens
On Sat, 19 Nov 2005 07:25:57 -0800 (PST) Nusret BALCI [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried Ctrl-., but in text mode Ctrl has no effect, Sure Ctl has some effect (not alone, but with the other key combined). To type 1/2 as one symbol, try Ctrl-. and then (without Ctrl) 1 and 2 if the 1 appears

Re: LyX function for German hard S?

2005-11-19 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Stefano Franchi wrote: My keyboard is acting strangely again, and I need to use the minibuffer to input accented characters and similia. But I can't remember the function needed to input the German hard-S. Can anyone help? Thanks. What about this: Copy the following line to the bind you are

Cross-reference accross unrelated files.

2005-11-19 Thread Rudi Gaelzer
I often need to make a reference to an equation (mostly) in another LyX file. Now, I know that it's easy to cross-reference between different files if one is inputed/included inside the other or both inside a master file. However, if I want to cross-reference equations between unrelated texts,

Re: subtitle for book?

2005-11-19 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Sat, 19 Nov 2005, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: On Sat, 19 Nov 2005, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: What do you use for a subtitle for a book? komascript book Thanks for the info. I have scrbook (koma-script) from teTeX-texmf-3.0, but don't see it. I did try Titlehead and Extratitle. and it

Question about subscripts to limits (inline mode)

2005-11-19 Thread Dimitris B. Kalamaras
Hello all, I wonder if there is a way to have subscripts to limits (in inline mode) written beneath the lim word rather than next to it. I cannot use display mode all the time. I know that LaTeX can do it i.e. $\lim\limits_{x\rightarrow 0}\frac{\sin{x}}{x}=1$ Any idea? Thanks in advance,

Re: LyX function for German hard S?

2005-11-19 Thread Nusret BALCI
John, Things are getting clearer now: you are right in that ctrl-. has an effect (and yes, I know Ctrl is used with other keys :). I've just typed Ctrl-. and exported the file as latex. It translates to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (backslash-at-dot) Ctrl-.12 therefore doesn't output what you expect in my

Re: subtitle for book?

2005-11-19 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 19 Nov 2005, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: It uses same font size though which I also don't want. Jeremy, Highlight the sub-title using the pointy device or the arrow keys, then select Layout-Character and make the font size small, smaller, or smallest. This is what I do on my beamer

Re: Question about subscripts to limits (inline mode)

2005-11-19 Thread Paul Smith
On 11/19/05, Dimitris B. Kalamaras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wonder if there is a way to have subscripts to limits (in inline mode) written beneath the lim word rather than next to it. I cannot use display mode all the time. I know that LaTeX can do it i.e. $\lim\limits_{x\rightarrow

Re: Question about subscripts to limits (inline mode)

2005-11-19 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Dimitris B. Kalamaras wrote: I wonder if there is a way to have subscripts to limits (in inline mode) written beneath the lim word rather than next to it. I cannot use display mode all the time. I know that LaTeX can do it i.e. $\lim\limits_{x\rightarrow 0}\frac{\sin{x}}{x}=1$ Any idea? -

Re: Question about subscripts to limits (inline mode)

2005-11-19 Thread David Soukal
Dimitris B. Kalamaras wrote: Hello all, I wonder if there is a way to have subscripts to limits (in inline mode) written beneath the lim word rather than next to it. I cannot use display mode all the time. I know that LaTeX can do it i.e. $\lim\limits_{x\rightarrow 0}\frac{\sin{x}}{x}=1$ Any

Re: LyX function for German hard S?

2005-11-19 Thread Stefano Franchi
On Nov 19, 2005, at 8:30 AM, Uwe Stöhr wrote: Stefano Franchi wrote: My keyboard is acting strangely again, and I need to use the minibuffer to input accented characters and similia. But I can't remember the function needed to input the German hard-S. Can anyone help? Thanks. What about

Re: add index with its page number to table of contents

2005-11-19 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Sat, 5 Nov 2005, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Index} at the beginning of the index. I added a \newpage{} immediately before (without it said the Index was on previous page, 57) and used that \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Index}. Replying to myself ... for the

OSX and PDF latex

2005-11-19 Thread Alexander Gahr
Dear all, I installed lyx from the scartch and I'm wondering which converter Lyx uses if i choose view pdflatex. I get a pdf document but in the information the source of the document is .dvi. Is it posible that lyx on Mac dos not use pdflatex ? How can i finde out? Thanx Alex

Re: LyX function for German hard S?

2005-11-19 Thread chr
On Sat, 19 Nov 2005, Nusret BALCI wrote: I use windows, and I suspect now there isn't a compose key functionality available on windows for standard keyboards (If I understand correctly what a compose key does). As far as I know, there is no such thing as a compose key on windows, sorry. In

Re: LyX function for German hard S?

2005-11-19 Thread Nusret BALCI
Christian, the key combination you mentioned doesn't work (for me not a big deal, though: there are several other convenient ways to enter scharfes s), but I wonder why you thought this would do: What's the magic behind Alt-2-2-3? Thank you. Nusret --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 19 Nov

Re: LyX function for German hard S?

2005-11-19 Thread Jose' Matos
On Saturday 19 November 2005 21:09, Nusret BALCI wrote: Christian, the key combination you mentioned doesn't work (for me not a big deal, though: there are several other convenient ways to enter scharfes s), but I wonder why you thought this would do: What's the magic behind Alt-2-2-3?

Re: LyX function for German hard S?

2005-11-19 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Nusret BALCI wrote: Christian, the key combination you mentioned doesn't work (for me not a big deal, though: there are several other convenient ways to enter scharfes s), but I wonder why you thought this would do: What's the magic behind Alt-2-2-3? Alt-number inserts the character with the

Re: LyX function for German hard S?

2005-11-19 Thread Nusret BALCI
I see, you're right. In fact, Christian is right: But I had to type Alt-2-2-5 like Uwe(not 3: 3 gives nothing on my PC, so I thought his suggestion is a curious but nonworking strategy. I was obviously wrong and he was right). Thank you all for clarifying this, it is a useful bit of information.

Re: LyX function for German hard S?

2005-11-19 Thread Angus Leeming
Stefano Franchi wrote: I still don't understand why I can get ß in the minibuffer (with, on my Mac, option-s) and not in the main window, but I can live in blissful ignorance for now. Because we leave it to the Qt toolkit to interpret your key presses when in the minibuffer and then deal with

Re: LyX function for EURO-sign?

2005-11-19 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Angus Leeming wrote: I still don't understand why I can get ß in the minibuffer (with, on my Mac, option-s) and not in the main window, but I can live in blissful ignorance for now. Because we leave it to the Qt toolkit to interpret your key presses when in the minibuffer and then deal with

custom layout resources for common environments

2005-11-19 Thread Nusret BALCI
Hi everybody, Is there a place or does anybody know a good site for custom layouts which can be used with LyX? For example, there is no theorem, corollary, proof, exercise, exam question, multiple choice test question, etc. layouts available by default. Of course this is a relatively side issue as

Re: OSX and PDF latex

2005-11-19 Thread Bennett Helm
On Nov 19, 2005, at 3:25 PM, Alexander Gahr wrote: Dear all, I installed lyx from the scartch and I'm wondering which converter Lyx uses if i choose view pdflatex. I get a pdf document but in the information the source of the document is .dvi. I don't follow this: where does it say .dvi?

Re: custom layout resources for common environments

2005-11-19 Thread Roy Schestowitz
_/ On Sun 20 Nov 2005 01:08:02 GMT, [Nusret BALCI] wrote : \_ Hi everybody, Is there a place or does anybody know a good site for custom layouts which can be used with LyX? For example, there is no theorem, corollary, proof, exercise, exam question, multiple choice test question, etc.

Re: latex import problem

2005-11-19 Thread Roy Schestowitz
_/ On Fri 18 Nov 2005 19:38:34 GMT, [Sanda Pavel] wrote : \_ hi all, i'm trying to import some latex files into lyx, but lyx plays funny games with me. My personal experience has shown that import of LaTeX into LyX suffers from a few incompatibilities (or gaps), especially when

Re: In-line formulae and inter-lines spacing

2005-11-19 Thread Roy Schestowitz
_/ On Fri 18 Nov 2005 17:54:59 GMT, [Paul Smith] wrote : \_ Dear All Sometimes, some in-line equations cause a larger inter-lines spacing around the line where the equation is placed. Is there some way of minimizing this undesirable side effect? Thanks in advance, Paul I know

Re: image convert problems

2005-11-19 Thread Roy Schestowitz
_/ On Sat 19 Nov 2005 04:34:15 GMT, [C Beary] wrote : \_ Hello, I recently did a complete reinstall of lyx and am having some problems opening my old documents. There were no problems compiling lyx and there were no missing packages. Yet when I open a document, I get the error "No

Re: subtitle for book?

2005-11-19 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Am Freitag, 18. November 2005 18:50 schrieb Jeremy C. Reed: > I see that some layouts like beamer, paper, and others have a "subtitle". > > Is there any subtitle layout for a book? > > My workaround is to use author or date or use a CTRL-Enter to add to a > Author layout. Will this cause problems?

Re: subtitle for book?

2005-11-19 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Sat, 19 Nov 2005, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: What do you use for a subtitle for a book? komascript book Thanks for the info. I have scrbook (koma-script) from teTeX-texmf-3.0, but don't see it. I did try Titlehead and Extratitle. What layouts do you use? Any example? And pointers to

RE: unavailable classes

2005-11-19 Thread Andreas Kofod-Hansen
I'm using LyX in Windows with the MikTeX package. I chose to install everything when I installed MikTeX, but I'm still missing the CV class. How do I get this class (and the other unavailable classes, and how (and where) do I install them. Thanks Andreas Kofod-Hansen -Original Message-

Re: subtitle for book?

2005-11-19 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Am Samstag, 19. November 2005 10:00 schrieb Jeremy C. Reed: > On Sat, 19 Nov 2005, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > >> What do you use for a subtitle for a book? > > > > komascript book > > Thanks for the info. > > I have scrbook (koma-script) from teTeX-texmf-3.0, but don't see it. > I did try

Re: align left and hyphenation

2005-11-19 Thread Helge Hafting
On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 05:12:10PM -0300, Marcelo Acuÿf1a wrote: > > I don´t know PageMaker or Scribus. > I think that Lyx is very good for mathematics > but for history, sociology, etc. advantage is > reduced for dificult to learn and poor tool for > index entry. Lyx has

Re: LyX function for German hard S?

2005-11-19 Thread Angus Leeming
Stefano Franchi wrote: > My keyboard is acting strangely again, and I need to use the minibuffer > to input accented characters and similia. But I can't remember the > function needed to input the German hard-S. Can anyone help? Thanks. > > Stefano Hi, Stefano. The latex command is \ss{}, no?

Re: LyX function for German hard S?

2005-11-19 Thread Nusret BALCI
To Angus: Sorry for probably OT question, just beacuse you mentioned it: which key do you refer to as compose key? (is there an equivalent on usual keyboards, or is it something special to some keyboards: mine seems not to have one. Only Ctrl, Alt and Shift). Regards, Nusret --- Angus

Re: LyX function for German hard S?

2005-11-19 Thread John Coppens
On Sat, 19 Nov 2005 06:58:38 -0800 (PST) Nusret BALCI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry for probably OT question, just beacuse you > mentioned it: which key do you refer to as compose > key? (is there an equivalent on usual keyboards, or is > it something special to some keyboards: mine seems

Re: LyX function for German hard S?

2005-11-19 Thread Nusret BALCI
I tried Ctrl-., but in text mode Ctrl has no effect, on math mode the message on the status bar is "command disabled", whatever that means. Really, I didn't know there is a different "Multi-key" or a "compose" key :). Nusret --- John Coppens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 19 Nov 2005

Re: image convert problems

2005-11-19 Thread Uwe Stöhr
C Beary wrote: Yet when I open a document, I get the error "No information for converting gif to eps". This happens for a number of different formats. In the text window, I get the message "/usr/local/share/lyx/scripts/convertDefault.sh ERROR Execution of "convert" failed." What OS and what

Re: LyX function for German hard S?

2005-11-19 Thread John Coppens
On Sat, 19 Nov 2005 07:25:57 -0800 (PST) Nusret BALCI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I tried Ctrl-., but in text mode Ctrl has no effect, Sure Ctl has some effect (not alone, but with the other key combined). To type 1/2 as one symbol, try Ctrl-. and then (without Ctrl) 1 and 2 if the 1

Re: LyX function for German hard S?

2005-11-19 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Stefano Franchi wrote: My keyboard is acting strangely again, and I need to use the minibuffer to input accented characters and similia. But I can't remember the function needed to input the German hard-S. Can anyone help? Thanks. What about this: Copy the following line to the bind you are

Cross-reference accross unrelated files.

2005-11-19 Thread Rudi Gaelzer
I often need to make a reference to an equation (mostly) in another LyX file. Now, I know that it's easy to cross-reference between different files if one is inputed/included inside the other or both inside a master file. However, if I want to cross-reference equations between unrelated texts,

Re: subtitle for book?

2005-11-19 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Sat, 19 Nov 2005, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: On Sat, 19 Nov 2005, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: What do you use for a subtitle for a book? komascript book Thanks for the info. I have scrbook (koma-script) from teTeX-texmf-3.0, but don't see it. I did try Titlehead and Extratitle. and it

Question about subscripts to limits (inline mode)

2005-11-19 Thread Dimitris B. Kalamaras
Hello all, I wonder if there is a way to have subscripts to limits (in inline mode) written beneath the lim word rather than next to it. I cannot use display mode all the time. I know that LaTeX can do it i.e. $\lim\limits_{x\rightarrow 0}\frac{\sin{x}}{x}=1$ Any idea? Thanks in advance,

Re: LyX function for German hard S?

2005-11-19 Thread Nusret BALCI
John, Things are getting clearer now: you are right in that ctrl-. has an effect (and yes, I know Ctrl is used with other keys :). I've just typed Ctrl-. and exported the file as latex. It translates to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (backslash-at-dot) Ctrl-.12 therefore doesn't output what you expect in my

Re: subtitle for book?

2005-11-19 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 19 Nov 2005, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: It uses same font size though which I also don't want. Jeremy, Highlight the sub-title using the pointy device or the arrow keys, then select Layout->Character and make the font size small, smaller, or smallest. This is what I do on my beamer

Re: Question about subscripts to limits (inline mode)

2005-11-19 Thread Paul Smith
On 11/19/05, Dimitris B. Kalamaras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I wonder if there is a way to have subscripts to limits (in inline mode) > written beneath the lim word rather than next to it. I cannot use display > mode all the time. > > I know that LaTeX can do it i.e. >

Re: Question about subscripts to limits (inline mode)

2005-11-19 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Dimitris B. Kalamaras wrote: I wonder if there is a way to have subscripts to limits (in inline mode) written beneath the lim word rather than next to it. I cannot use display mode all the time. I know that LaTeX can do it i.e. $\lim\limits_{x\rightarrow 0}\frac{\sin{x}}{x}=1$ Any idea? -

Re: Question about subscripts to limits (inline mode)

2005-11-19 Thread David Soukal
Dimitris B. Kalamaras wrote: Hello all, I wonder if there is a way to have subscripts to limits (in inline mode) written beneath the lim word rather than next to it. I cannot use display mode all the time. I know that LaTeX can do it i.e. $\lim\limits_{x\rightarrow 0}\frac{\sin{x}}{x}=1$ Any

Re: LyX function for German hard S?

2005-11-19 Thread Stefano Franchi
On Nov 19, 2005, at 8:30 AM, Uwe Stöhr wrote: Stefano Franchi wrote: My keyboard is acting strangely again, and I need to use the minibuffer to input accented characters and similia. But I can't remember the function needed to input the German hard-S. Can anyone help? Thanks. What about

Re: add index with its page number to table of contents

2005-11-19 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Sat, 5 Nov 2005, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Index} at the beginning of the index. I added a "\newpage{}" immediately before (without it said the Index was on previous page, 57) and used that "\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Index}". Replying to myself ... for

OSX and PDF latex

2005-11-19 Thread Alexander Gahr
Dear all, I installed lyx from the scartch and I'm wondering which converter Lyx uses if i choose view pdflatex. I get a pdf document but in the information the source of the document is .dvi. Is it posible that lyx on Mac dos not use pdflatex ? How can i finde out? Thanx Alex

Re: LyX function for German hard S?

2005-11-19 Thread chr
On Sat, 19 Nov 2005, Nusret BALCI wrote: > I use windows, and I suspect now there isn't a compose key functionality > available on windows for standard keyboards (If I understand correctly > what a compose key does). As far as I know, there is no such thing as a compose key on windows, sorry.

Re: LyX function for German hard S?

2005-11-19 Thread Nusret BALCI
Christian, the key combination you mentioned doesn't work (for me not a big deal, though: there are several other convenient ways to enter scharfes s), but I wonder why you thought this would do: What's the magic behind Alt-2-2-3? Thank you. Nusret --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sat, 19 Nov

Re: LyX function for German hard S?

2005-11-19 Thread Jose' Matos
On Saturday 19 November 2005 21:09, Nusret BALCI wrote: > Christian, > the key combination you mentioned doesn't work (for me > not a big deal, though: there are several other > convenient ways to enter scharfes s), but I wonder why > you thought this would do: What's the magic behind > Alt-2-2-3?

Re: LyX function for German hard S?

2005-11-19 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Nusret BALCI wrote: Christian, the key combination you mentioned doesn't work (for me not a big deal, though: there are several other convenient ways to enter scharfes s), but I wonder why you thought this would do: What's the magic behind Alt-2-2-3? Alt-"number" inserts the character with

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