Re: latex import problem

2005-11-21 Thread Georg Baum
Sanda Pavel wrote: Did you try tex2lyx? It may give you better results. See http://wiki.lyx.org/LaTeX/LatexToLyx for available that produces lyx, which cant be corectly displayed by the older version then lyx 1.4 (which is not yet :) compiling devel release is not easy for my configuration

Re: tex2lyx problems

2005-11-21 Thread Horacio Emilio Pérez Sánchez
It works perfectly now. Thanks ! Am Freitag, 18. November 2005 17:27 schrieben Sie: Here it goes the original tex file. Don't you worry is not confidential at all, just for educational purposes. And if you solve the problem, please tell me or tell the forum so all of us can learn from

latex2rft / tex2rtf problems

2005-11-21 Thread K. Elo
Hi, I have to convert a long article with a bibtex bibliography into the rtf-format. I have installed both latex2rtf and tex2rtf, but I just cannot get it working. The problems are: Latex2rtf: the conversion goes through, but I cannot open the resulting file with any editor (OOo, Abiword

full list of supported tex/latex/AMS latex commands?

2005-11-21 Thread Nusret BALCI
Hi, Is there a full chart of *all* officially supported (in the sense that LyX can handle and render them without resorting to ERTs) commands available somewhere? (or all not available, especially for all official latex packages by Latex2 team and for AMS packages). If not, could someone involved

Math in OS X

2005-11-21 Thread Alexander Gahr
Dear all, i have another problem with Lyx again. When im entering in Math Mode \approx there in Lyx there is written in blue 1/4 and if i type \pm there is a paragraph sign. In Mathpreview it look alright again and in the pdf. What's wrong?

Minor request - add a feature which provides more instant feedback.

2005-11-21 Thread Benjamin Ari Schleimer
Hi After looking at lyx and going through the tutorial, I thought it was a pretty good idea. However, I do have some problems with it. The preview buttons don't give as feedback as a pure WYSIWYG editor. Maybe having an view (kpdf or kdvi) instantous updated after every edit would be a good idea.

Re: Minor request - add a feature which provides more instant feedback.

2005-11-21 Thread Andres Becerra Sandoval
Hello, LyX is no WYSIWYG , is WYSIWYM, the M standing for Mean. In order to do a quickly update you can use the keyboard. For instance S+Ctrl+D updates the dvi output in my machine check you menu for the accelerator On 11/21/05, Benjamin Ari Schleimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi After looking

Re: align left and hyphenation

2005-11-21 Thread Marcelo Acuÿfffff1a
I think that Lyx is very good for mathematics but for history, sociology, etc. advantage is reduced for difficult to learn and poor tool for index entry. Lyx has multi-level index entries. The question becomes - what is the problem? We who don't do history/sociology can't

RE: Minor request - add a feature which provides more instant feedback.

2005-11-21 Thread Benjamin Ari Schleimer
LyX is no WYSIWYG , is WYSIWYM, the M standing for Mean. In order to do a quickly update you can use the keyboard. For instance S+Ctrl+D updates the dvi output in my machine check you menu for the accelerator Yeah, I know there's a shortcut for it. That's besides the point. I'm talking about

LyX and listings: code is double-spaced when I use copy/paste?

2005-11-21 Thread Joerg Hau
Dear All, I have a weird problem formatting source code ... using listings and LyX 1.3.6 on a (no ... several ;-) Linux systemS. If I use the \lstinputlisting directive (i.e. importing a file directly), everything works as intended. Fine. If I take the same code and copy/paste it in a piece

Re: LyX and listings: code is double-spaced when I use copy/paste?

2005-11-21 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 21 Nov 2005, Joerg Hau wrote: If I take the same code and copy/paste it in a piece of ERT containing the \begin{lstlisting}...\end{lstlisting} brackets, the whole code is displayed double-spaced. Example below. Oops?! Anyone knows how to work around this problem? Joerg, Yup. It

Re: Minor request - add a feature which provides more instant feedback.

2005-11-21 Thread Bo Peng
Yeah, I know there's a shortcut for it. That's besides the point. I'm talking about the internal satification and confidence that comes from making a change and have it Immediantly reflected back to you without having to use an intermediate like another shortcut. Considering the number of

Re: full list of supported tex/latex/AMS latex commands?

2005-11-21 Thread Georg Baum
Nusret BALCI wrote: Hi, Is there a full chart of *all* officially supported (in the sense that LyX can handle and render them without resorting to ERTs) commands available somewhere? (or all not available, especially for all official latex packages by Latex2 team and for AMS packages). I

Re: full list of supported tex/latex/AMS latex commands?

2005-11-21 Thread Nusret BALCI
Thank you, enough to keep me busy quite a while :). Regards, Nusret --- Georg Baum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nusret BALCI wrote: Hi, Is there a full chart of *all* officially supported (in the sense that LyX can handle and render them without resorting to ERTs) commands available

Re: align left and hyphenation

2005-11-21 Thread Helge Hafting
On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 11:55:37AM -0300, Marcelo Acuÿf1a wrote: I think that Lyx is very good for mathematics but for history, sociology, etc. advantage is reduced for difficult to learn and poor tool for index entry. Lyx has multi-level index entries. The question

[announce] fourth release of the LyXWinInstaller

2005-11-21 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Hello LyXers, with the help from many people I'm now able to present the new version 0.4 of the LyX installer for Windows. You can download it from http://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5117release_id=8085 The sources are at

Re: Minor request - add a feature which provides more instant feedback.

2005-11-21 Thread Jean-Pierre Chrétien
Bo Peng [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: . If you know how lyx operates, you will know how costly it is to have full auto update. This process involves exporting lyx to latex, running latex or pdflaex or ps2pdf etc, and a viewer. Moreover, the typography is provided by global optimization program

Convert png to eps automatically

2005-11-21 Thread Gunnar
Hi. I'm trying to setup a perfect LyX environment in MS windows for users that is not very used to LyX/LaTeX. The problem I have right now is that they make drawings in MS paint. The question: is there any way to make LyX convert png/gif pictures to eps automatically? They display the pictures

wanted: examples of layout details for my thesis

2005-11-21 Thread Martin A. Hansen
hi all it is time for me to type up my phd thesis. lyx is the choice, and now i am spending a couple of days to figure out how to make the layout. 1) i have been looking around for examples of other phd thesis with very little success. any pointers would be most welcome! 2) the title page is

Re: Convert png to eps automatically

2005-11-21 Thread Georg Baum
Gunnar wrote: Hi. I'm trying to setup a perfect LyX environment in MS windows for users that is not very used to LyX/LaTeX. The problem I have right now is that they make drawings in MS paint. The question: is there any way to make LyX convert png/gif pictures to eps automatically? They

Re: Convert png to eps automatically

2005-11-21 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Gunnar wrote: I'm trying to setup a perfect LyX environment in MS windows for users that is not very used to LyX/LaTeX. Have you tried the brand new installer?: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinInstaller The problem I have right now is that they make drawings in MS paint. The question: is

table bold

2005-11-21 Thread liliann
Hi! Does anyone know, if it is possible to get the word Table/Figure in table and figure headings bold? I'm using the report layout and the option InsertFloatstable/figure to place tables and figures into the text. The word Table/Figure is created automaticly in the regular style, can I

Re: wanted: examples of layout details for my thesis

2005-11-21 Thread William F. Adams
On Nov 21, 2005, at 12:58 PM, Martin A. Hansen wrote: i have been looking around for examples of other phd thesis with very little success. any pointers would be most welcome! Have you checked w/ your math/physics/comp-sci department to see if they've a LaTeX template? There're a couple

Re: wanted: examples of layout details for my thesis

2005-11-21 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Martin A. Hansen wrote: it is time for me to type up my phd thesis. lyx is the choice, and now i am spending a couple of days to figure out how to make the layout. 1) i have been looking around for examples of other phd thesis with very little success. any pointers would be most welcome! I

Re: latex2rft / tex2rtf problems

2005-11-21 Thread Charles de Miramon
K. Elo wrote: Hi, I have to convert a long article with a bibtex bibliography into the rtf-format. I have installed both latex2rtf and tex2rtf, but I just cannot get it working. The problems are: Did you use latex2rtf like that : latex2rtf -a myauxiliaryfile.aux -b

Re: table bold

2005-11-21 Thread Uwe Stöhr
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know, if it is possible to get the word Table/Figure in table and figure headings bold? I'm using the report layout and the option InsertFloatstable/figure to place tables and figures into the text. The word Table/Figure is created automaticly in the

[Fwd: Towards a UK-TuG revival]

2005-11-21 Thread Herbert Voss
Original Message Subject: Towards a UK-TuG revival Date: 21 Nov 2005 10:59:44 -0800 From: Karl Berry [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: http://groups.google.com Newsgroups: comp.text.tex For any TeX users in the UK -- One of the r\^oles of TUG is to encourage and support the

Re: Convert png to eps automatically

2005-11-21 Thread Gunnar
http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinInstaller I have just tried it at a different computer, and the it worked without any problem with the 0.4 installer. Thanks! Btw. PDF can directly include jpg, png, and pdf-files. If you use eps-files they must be converted to pdf first. Normally this does

RE: Minor request - add a feature which provides more instant feedback.

2005-11-21 Thread Benjamin Ari Schleimer
If you know how lyx operates, you will know how costly it is to have full auto update. This process involves exporting lyx to latex, running latex or pdflaex or ps2pdf etc, and a viewer. Doing this after each keystroke is unreasonable. Ummm, well, I thought it was worth asking. Maybe if you

Re: LyX function for German hard S?

2005-11-21 Thread Angus Leeming
Stefano Franchi wrote: However, in the main LyX window, we need to interpret each and every key press and so must generate the std::string from these key presses. We can't leave things to Qt. Our own, home grown key handling code is less sophisticated than Qt's, but crucially for us, we have

Re: Minor request - add a feature which provides more instant feedback.

2005-11-21 Thread Bo Peng
Ummm, well, I thought it was worth asking. Maybe if you ran the conversion in a separate thread and if there's a currently converting process going on, kill that and start again. It might suck up a couple of cycles but the user may not notice it anyway. You can do this by yourself easily by

Re: align left and hyphenation

2005-11-21 Thread Jose' Matos
On Monday 21 November 2005 17:26, Helge Hafting wrote: Sure, people insist on ascii/unicode email with no formatting. I can write justified email in html, but html is usually very unpopular on open-source lists due to all the people using non-html capable mailreaders. That is not the point

Re: align left and hyphenation

2005-11-21 Thread Angus Leeming
Jose' Matos wrote: On Monday 21 November 2005 17:26, Helge Hafting wrote: Sure, people insist on ascii/unicode email with no formatting. I can write justified email in html, but html is usually very unpopular on open-source lists due to all the people using non-html capable mailreaders.

Am I shut out because of my windows flavour??

2005-11-21 Thread Brian Lunergan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Evening all: I have been reading the material on LyX136 and I've got a concern over one of the listed bugs. It suggests Win98 and Lyx don't get along. I use Win98se on an 800mhz AMD machine, and do my downloading through a 56k dialup connection. Am I

Re: align left and hyphenation

2005-11-21 Thread Jose' Matos
On Tuesday 22 November 2005 00:10, Angus Leeming wrote: I think that the *real* point is that this is a religious issue. If you write to an email list asking for help yet use html then you are likely to be ignored by those who have taken the religious position that html email is evil. Since

Re: align left and hyphenation

2005-11-21 Thread Stephen Harris
- Original Message - From: Angus Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Monday, November 21, 2005 4:10 PM Subject: Re: align left and hyphenation The most coherent reason I've found to justify this religion is that html email totally screws up many mail

A Tool for Building Indexs of Sociology/History/etc/ Texts.

2005-11-21 Thread John C. McCabe-Dansted
On Tuesday 22 November 2005 03:55, Marcelo Acuÿf1a wrote: I think that Lyx is very good for mathematics but for history, sociology, etc. advantage is reduced for difficult to learn and poor tool for index entry. ... A book of history, sociology, journalist research,

Re: Am I shut out because of my windows flavour??

2005-11-21 Thread Roy Schestowitz
_/ On Tue 22 Nov 2005 00:30:59 GMT, [Brian Lunergan] wrote : \_ Evening all: I have been reading the material on LyX136 and I've got a concern over one of the listed bugs. It suggests Win98 and Lyx don't get along. I use Win98se on an 800mhz AMD machine, and do my downloading through a

Re: latex import problem

2005-11-21 Thread Georg Baum
Sanda Pavel wrote: Did you try tex2lyx? It may give you better results. See http://wiki.lyx.org/LaTeX/LatexToLyx for available that produces lyx, which cant be corectly displayed by the older version then lyx 1.4 (which is not yet :) compiling devel release is not easy for my configuration

Re: tex2lyx problems

2005-11-21 Thread Horacio Emilio Pérez Sánchez
It works perfectly now. Thanks ! Am Freitag, 18. November 2005 17:27 schrieben Sie: Here it goes the original tex file. Don't you worry is not confidential at all, just for educational purposes. And if you solve the problem, please tell me or tell the forum so all of us can learn from

latex2rft / tex2rtf problems

2005-11-21 Thread K. Elo
Hi, I have to convert a long article with a bibtex bibliography into the rtf-format. I have installed both latex2rtf and tex2rtf, but I just cannot get it working. The problems are: Latex2rtf: the conversion goes through, but I cannot open the resulting file with any editor (OOo, Abiword

full list of supported tex/latex/AMS latex commands?

2005-11-21 Thread Nusret BALCI
Hi, Is there a full chart of *all* officially supported (in the sense that LyX can handle and render them without resorting to ERTs) commands available somewhere? (or all not available, especially for all official latex packages by Latex2 team and for AMS packages). If not, could someone involved

Math in OS X

2005-11-21 Thread Alexander Gahr
Dear all, i have another problem with Lyx again. When im entering in Math Mode \approx there in Lyx there is written in blue 1/4 and if i type \pm there is a paragraph sign. In Mathpreview it look alright again and in the pdf. What's wrong?

Minor request - add a feature which provides more instant feedback.

2005-11-21 Thread Benjamin Ari Schleimer
Hi After looking at lyx and going through the tutorial, I thought it was a pretty good idea. However, I do have some problems with it. The preview buttons don't give as feedback as a pure WYSIWYG editor. Maybe having an view (kpdf or kdvi) instantous updated after every edit would be a good idea.

Re: Minor request - add a feature which provides more instant feedback.

2005-11-21 Thread Andres Becerra Sandoval
Hello, LyX is no WYSIWYG , is WYSIWYM, the M standing for Mean. In order to do a quickly update you can use the keyboard. For instance S+Ctrl+D updates the dvi output in my machine check you menu for the accelerator On 11/21/05, Benjamin Ari Schleimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi After looking

Re: align left and hyphenation

2005-11-21 Thread Marcelo Acuÿfffff1a
I think that Lyx is very good for mathematics but for history, sociology, etc. advantage is reduced for difficult to learn and poor tool for index entry. Lyx has multi-level index entries. The question becomes - what is the problem? We who don't do history/sociology can't

RE: Minor request - add a feature which provides more instant feedback.

2005-11-21 Thread Benjamin Ari Schleimer
LyX is no WYSIWYG , is WYSIWYM, the M standing for Mean. In order to do a quickly update you can use the keyboard. For instance S+Ctrl+D updates the dvi output in my machine check you menu for the accelerator Yeah, I know there's a shortcut for it. That's besides the point. I'm talking about

LyX and listings: code is double-spaced when I use copy/paste?

2005-11-21 Thread Joerg Hau
Dear All, I have a weird problem formatting source code ... using listings and LyX 1.3.6 on a (no ... several ;-) Linux systemS. If I use the \lstinputlisting directive (i.e. importing a file directly), everything works as intended. Fine. If I take the same code and copy/paste it in a piece

Re: LyX and listings: code is double-spaced when I use copy/paste?

2005-11-21 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 21 Nov 2005, Joerg Hau wrote: If I take the same code and copy/paste it in a piece of ERT containing the \begin{lstlisting}...\end{lstlisting} brackets, the whole code is displayed double-spaced. Example below. Oops?! Anyone knows how to work around this problem? Joerg, Yup. It

Re: Minor request - add a feature which provides more instant feedback.

2005-11-21 Thread Bo Peng
Yeah, I know there's a shortcut for it. That's besides the point. I'm talking about the internal satification and confidence that comes from making a change and have it Immediantly reflected back to you without having to use an intermediate like another shortcut. Considering the number of

Re: full list of supported tex/latex/AMS latex commands?

2005-11-21 Thread Georg Baum
Nusret BALCI wrote: Hi, Is there a full chart of *all* officially supported (in the sense that LyX can handle and render them without resorting to ERTs) commands available somewhere? (or all not available, especially for all official latex packages by Latex2 team and for AMS packages). I

Re: full list of supported tex/latex/AMS latex commands?

2005-11-21 Thread Nusret BALCI
Thank you, enough to keep me busy quite a while :). Regards, Nusret --- Georg Baum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nusret BALCI wrote: Hi, Is there a full chart of *all* officially supported (in the sense that LyX can handle and render them without resorting to ERTs) commands available

Re: align left and hyphenation

2005-11-21 Thread Helge Hafting
On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 11:55:37AM -0300, Marcelo Acuÿf1a wrote: I think that Lyx is very good for mathematics but for history, sociology, etc. advantage is reduced for difficult to learn and poor tool for index entry. Lyx has multi-level index entries. The question

[announce] fourth release of the LyXWinInstaller

2005-11-21 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Hello LyXers, with the help from many people I'm now able to present the new version 0.4 of the LyX installer for Windows. You can download it from http://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5117release_id=8085 The sources are at

Re: Minor request - add a feature which provides more instant feedback.

2005-11-21 Thread Jean-Pierre Chrétien
Bo Peng [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: . If you know how lyx operates, you will know how costly it is to have full auto update. This process involves exporting lyx to latex, running latex or pdflaex or ps2pdf etc, and a viewer. Moreover, the typography is provided by global optimization program

Convert png to eps automatically

2005-11-21 Thread Gunnar
Hi. I'm trying to setup a perfect LyX environment in MS windows for users that is not very used to LyX/LaTeX. The problem I have right now is that they make drawings in MS paint. The question: is there any way to make LyX convert png/gif pictures to eps automatically? They display the pictures

wanted: examples of layout details for my thesis

2005-11-21 Thread Martin A. Hansen
hi all it is time for me to type up my phd thesis. lyx is the choice, and now i am spending a couple of days to figure out how to make the layout. 1) i have been looking around for examples of other phd thesis with very little success. any pointers would be most welcome! 2) the title page is

Re: Convert png to eps automatically

2005-11-21 Thread Georg Baum
Gunnar wrote: Hi. I'm trying to setup a perfect LyX environment in MS windows for users that is not very used to LyX/LaTeX. The problem I have right now is that they make drawings in MS paint. The question: is there any way to make LyX convert png/gif pictures to eps automatically? They

Re: Convert png to eps automatically

2005-11-21 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Gunnar wrote: I'm trying to setup a perfect LyX environment in MS windows for users that is not very used to LyX/LaTeX. Have you tried the brand new installer?: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinInstaller The problem I have right now is that they make drawings in MS paint. The question: is

table bold

2005-11-21 Thread liliann
Hi! Does anyone know, if it is possible to get the word Table/Figure in table and figure headings bold? I'm using the report layout and the option InsertFloatstable/figure to place tables and figures into the text. The word Table/Figure is created automaticly in the regular style, can I

Re: wanted: examples of layout details for my thesis

2005-11-21 Thread William F. Adams
On Nov 21, 2005, at 12:58 PM, Martin A. Hansen wrote: i have been looking around for examples of other phd thesis with very little success. any pointers would be most welcome! Have you checked w/ your math/physics/comp-sci department to see if they've a LaTeX template? There're a couple

Re: wanted: examples of layout details for my thesis

2005-11-21 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Martin A. Hansen wrote: it is time for me to type up my phd thesis. lyx is the choice, and now i am spending a couple of days to figure out how to make the layout. 1) i have been looking around for examples of other phd thesis with very little success. any pointers would be most welcome! I

Re: latex2rft / tex2rtf problems

2005-11-21 Thread Charles de Miramon
K. Elo wrote: Hi, I have to convert a long article with a bibtex bibliography into the rtf-format. I have installed both latex2rtf and tex2rtf, but I just cannot get it working. The problems are: Did you use latex2rtf like that : latex2rtf -a myauxiliaryfile.aux -b

Re: table bold

2005-11-21 Thread Uwe Stöhr
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know, if it is possible to get the word Table/Figure in table and figure headings bold? I'm using the report layout and the option InsertFloatstable/figure to place tables and figures into the text. The word Table/Figure is created automaticly in the

[Fwd: Towards a UK-TuG revival]

2005-11-21 Thread Herbert Voss
Original Message Subject: Towards a UK-TuG revival Date: 21 Nov 2005 10:59:44 -0800 From: Karl Berry [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: http://groups.google.com Newsgroups: comp.text.tex For any TeX users in the UK -- One of the r\^oles of TUG is to encourage and support the

Re: Convert png to eps automatically

2005-11-21 Thread Gunnar
http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinInstaller I have just tried it at a different computer, and the it worked without any problem with the 0.4 installer. Thanks! Btw. PDF can directly include jpg, png, and pdf-files. If you use eps-files they must be converted to pdf first. Normally this does

RE: Minor request - add a feature which provides more instant feedback.

2005-11-21 Thread Benjamin Ari Schleimer
If you know how lyx operates, you will know how costly it is to have full auto update. This process involves exporting lyx to latex, running latex or pdflaex or ps2pdf etc, and a viewer. Doing this after each keystroke is unreasonable. Ummm, well, I thought it was worth asking. Maybe if you

Re: LyX function for German hard S?

2005-11-21 Thread Angus Leeming
Stefano Franchi wrote: However, in the main LyX window, we need to interpret each and every key press and so must generate the std::string from these key presses. We can't leave things to Qt. Our own, home grown key handling code is less sophisticated than Qt's, but crucially for us, we have

Re: Minor request - add a feature which provides more instant feedback.

2005-11-21 Thread Bo Peng
Ummm, well, I thought it was worth asking. Maybe if you ran the conversion in a separate thread and if there's a currently converting process going on, kill that and start again. It might suck up a couple of cycles but the user may not notice it anyway. You can do this by yourself easily by

Re: align left and hyphenation

2005-11-21 Thread Jose' Matos
On Monday 21 November 2005 17:26, Helge Hafting wrote: Sure, people insist on ascii/unicode email with no formatting. I can write justified email in html, but html is usually very unpopular on open-source lists due to all the people using non-html capable mailreaders. That is not the point

Re: align left and hyphenation

2005-11-21 Thread Angus Leeming
Jose' Matos wrote: On Monday 21 November 2005 17:26, Helge Hafting wrote: Sure, people insist on ascii/unicode email with no formatting. I can write justified email in html, but html is usually very unpopular on open-source lists due to all the people using non-html capable mailreaders.

Am I shut out because of my windows flavour??

2005-11-21 Thread Brian Lunergan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Evening all: I have been reading the material on LyX136 and I've got a concern over one of the listed bugs. It suggests Win98 and Lyx don't get along. I use Win98se on an 800mhz AMD machine, and do my downloading through a 56k dialup connection. Am I

Re: align left and hyphenation

2005-11-21 Thread Jose' Matos
On Tuesday 22 November 2005 00:10, Angus Leeming wrote: I think that the *real* point is that this is a religious issue. If you write to an email list asking for help yet use html then you are likely to be ignored by those who have taken the religious position that html email is evil. Since

Re: align left and hyphenation

2005-11-21 Thread Stephen Harris
- Original Message - From: Angus Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Monday, November 21, 2005 4:10 PM Subject: Re: align left and hyphenation The most coherent reason I've found to justify this religion is that html email totally screws up many mail

A Tool for Building Indexs of Sociology/History/etc/ Texts.

2005-11-21 Thread John C. McCabe-Dansted
On Tuesday 22 November 2005 03:55, Marcelo Acuÿf1a wrote: I think that Lyx is very good for mathematics but for history, sociology, etc. advantage is reduced for difficult to learn and poor tool for index entry. ... A book of history, sociology, journalist research,

Re: Am I shut out because of my windows flavour??

2005-11-21 Thread Roy Schestowitz
_/ On Tue 22 Nov 2005 00:30:59 GMT, [Brian Lunergan] wrote : \_ Evening all: I have been reading the material on LyX136 and I've got a concern over one of the listed bugs. It suggests Win98 and Lyx don't get along. I use Win98se on an 800mhz AMD machine, and do my downloading through a

Re: latex import problem

2005-11-21 Thread Georg Baum
Sanda Pavel wrote: >> Did you try tex2lyx? It may give you better results. >> See http://wiki.lyx.org/LaTeX/LatexToLyx for available > > that produces lyx, which cant be corectly displayed by the older > version then lyx 1.4 (which is not yet :) > compiling devel release is not easy for my

Re: tex2lyx problems

2005-11-21 Thread Horacio Emilio Pérez Sánchez
It works perfectly now. Thanks ! Am Freitag, 18. November 2005 17:27 schrieben Sie: > Here it goes the original tex file. Don't you worry is not confidential at > all, just for educational purposes. > > And if you solve the problem, please tell me or tell the forum so all of us > can learn

latex2rft / tex2rtf problems

2005-11-21 Thread K. Elo
Hi, I have to convert a long article with a bibtex bibliography into the rtf-format. I have installed both latex2rtf and tex2rtf, but I just cannot get it working. The problems are: Latex2rtf: the conversion goes through, but I cannot open the resulting file with any editor (OOo, Abiword

full list of supported tex/latex/AMS latex commands?

2005-11-21 Thread Nusret BALCI
Hi, Is there a full chart of *all* officially supported (in the sense that LyX can handle and render them without resorting to ERTs) commands available somewhere? (or all not available, especially for all official latex packages by Latex2 team and for AMS packages). If not, could someone involved

Math in OS X

2005-11-21 Thread Alexander Gahr
Dear all, i have another problem with Lyx again. When im entering in Math Mode \approx there in Lyx there is written in blue 1/4 and if i type \pm there is a paragraph sign. In Mathpreview it look alright again and in the pdf. What's wrong?

Minor request - add a feature which provides more instant feedback.

2005-11-21 Thread Benjamin Ari Schleimer
Hi After looking at lyx and going through the tutorial, I thought it was a pretty good idea. However, I do have some problems with it. The preview buttons don't give as feedback as a pure WYSIWYG editor. Maybe having an view (kpdf or kdvi) instantous updated after every edit would be a good idea.

Re: Minor request - add a feature which provides more instant feedback.

2005-11-21 Thread Andres Becerra Sandoval
Hello, LyX is no WYSIWYG , is WYSIWYM, the M standing for Mean. In order to do a quickly update you can use the keyboard. For instance S+Ctrl+D updates the dvi output in my machine check you menu for the accelerator On 11/21/05, Benjamin Ari Schleimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi After

Re: align left and hyphenation

2005-11-21 Thread Marcelo Acuÿfffff1a
>> I think that Lyx is very good for mathematics >> but for history, sociology, etc. advantage is >> reduced for difficult to learn and poor tool >> for index entry. > Lyx has multi-level index entries. The question > becomes - what is the problem? We who don't do > history/sociology

RE: Minor request - add a feature which provides more instant feedback.

2005-11-21 Thread Benjamin Ari Schleimer
> LyX is no WYSIWYG , is WYSIWYM, the M standing for Mean. > In order to do a quickly update you can use the keyboard. For instance > S+Ctrl+D updates the dvi output in my machine check you menu for the > accelerator Yeah, I know there's a shortcut for it. That's besides the point. I'm talking

LyX and "listings": code is double-spaced when I use copy/paste?

2005-11-21 Thread Joerg Hau
Dear All, I have a weird problem formatting source code ... using "listings" and LyX 1.3.6 on a (no ... several ;-) Linux systemS. If I use the \lstinputlisting directive (i.e. importing a file directly), everything works as intended. Fine. If I take the same code and copy/paste it in a

Re: LyX and "listings": code is double-spaced when I use copy/paste?

2005-11-21 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 21 Nov 2005, Joerg Hau wrote: If I take the same code and copy/paste it in a piece of ERT containing the \begin{lstlisting}...\end{lstlisting} "brackets", the whole code is displayed double-spaced. Example below. Oops?! Anyone knows how to work around this problem? Joerg, Yup. It

Re: Minor request - add a feature which provides more instant feedback.

2005-11-21 Thread Bo Peng
> Yeah, I know there's a shortcut for it. That's besides the point. > I'm talking about the internal satification and confidence that comes > from making a change and have it > Immediantly reflected back to you without having to use an intermediate > like another shortcut. > Considering the number

Re: full list of supported tex/latex/AMS latex commands?

2005-11-21 Thread Georg Baum
Nusret BALCI wrote: > Hi, > Is there a full chart of *all* officially supported > (in the sense that LyX can handle and render them > without resorting to ERTs) commands available > somewhere? (or all not available, especially for all > official latex packages by Latex2 team and for AMS >

Re: full list of supported tex/latex/AMS latex commands?

2005-11-21 Thread Nusret BALCI
Thank you, enough to keep me busy quite a while :). Regards, Nusret --- Georg Baum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nusret BALCI wrote: > > > Hi, > > Is there a full chart of *all* officially > supported > > (in the sense that LyX can handle and render them > > without resorting to ERTs) commands

Re: align left and hyphenation

2005-11-21 Thread Helge Hafting
On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 11:55:37AM -0300, Marcelo Acuÿf1a wrote: > >> I think that Lyx is very good for mathematics > >> but for history, sociology, etc. advantage is > >> reduced for difficult to learn and poor tool > >> for index entry. > > > Lyx has multi-level index entries.

[announce] fourth release of the LyXWinInstaller

2005-11-21 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Hello LyXers, with the help from many people I'm now able to present the new version 0.4 of the LyX installer for Windows. You can download it from http://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5117_id=8085 The sources are at

Re: Minor request - add a feature which provides more instant feedback.

2005-11-21 Thread Jean-Pierre Chrétien
Bo Peng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: . > > If you know how lyx operates, you will know how costly it is to have > full auto update. This process involves exporting lyx to latex, > running latex or pdflaex or ps2pdf etc, and a viewer. Moreover, the typography is provided by global optimization

Convert png to eps automatically

2005-11-21 Thread Gunnar
Hi. I'm trying to setup a perfect LyX environment in MS windows for users that is not very used to LyX/LaTeX. The problem I have right now is that they make drawings in MS paint. The question: is there any way to make LyX convert png/gif pictures to eps automatically? They display the pictures

wanted: examples of layout details for my thesis

2005-11-21 Thread Martin A. Hansen
hi all it is time for me to type up my phd thesis. lyx is the choice, and now i am spending a couple of days to figure out how to make the layout. 1) i have been looking around for examples of other phd thesis with very little success. any pointers would be most welcome! 2) the title page is

Re: Convert png to eps automatically

2005-11-21 Thread Georg Baum
Gunnar wrote: > Hi. > I'm trying to setup a perfect LyX environment in MS windows for users that > is not very used to LyX/LaTeX. > The problem I have right now is that they make drawings in MS paint. > The question: is there any way to make LyX convert png/gif pictures to eps > automatically?

Re: Convert png to eps automatically

2005-11-21 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Gunnar wrote: I'm trying to setup a perfect LyX environment in MS windows for users that is not very used to LyX/LaTeX. Have you tried the brand new installer?: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinInstaller The problem I have right now is that they make drawings in MS paint. The question: is

"table" bold

2005-11-21 Thread liliann
Hi! Does anyone know, if it is possible to get the word Table/Figure in table and figure headings bold? I'm using the report layout and the option Insert>Floats>table/figure to place tables and figures into the text. The word Table/Figure is created automaticly in the regular style, can I

Re: wanted: examples of layout details for my thesis

2005-11-21 Thread William F. Adams
On Nov 21, 2005, at 12:58 PM, Martin A. Hansen wrote: i have been looking around for examples of other phd thesis with very little success. any pointers would be most welcome! Have you checked w/ your math/physics/comp-sci department to see if they've a LaTeX template? There're a couple

Re: wanted: examples of layout details for my thesis

2005-11-21 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Martin A. Hansen wrote: it is time for me to type up my phd thesis. lyx is the choice, and now i am spending a couple of days to figure out how to make the layout. 1) i have been looking around for examples of other phd thesis with very little success. any pointers would be most welcome! I

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