Re: [announce] LyX150alpha from 05-02-2007 for Windows

2007-02-07 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Tue, 6 Feb 2007, Olivier Ripoll wrote: - I can still crash LyX by typing x^2 in a math inset and with US-international keyboard layout. Is this bug in bugzilla? cheers /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr

Re: [announce] LyX150alpha from 05-02-2007 for Windows

2007-02-07 Thread Olivier Ripoll
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 6 Feb 2007, Olivier Ripoll wrote: - I can still crash LyX by typing x^2 in a math inset and with US-international keyboard layout. Is this bug in bugzilla? cheers /Christian Yes. It's #3115. Regards, Olivier

lyx2lyx and pdflatex problems after lyx-update

2007-02-07 Thread Jan Wiener
hello, i just upgraded my lyx version from 1.3.5 to 1.4.3 (suse linux 9.3) and 2 horrible things happened. 1. my old version 1.3.5 did not support pdflatex anymore. both in export and view , the corresponding option was simply not available anymore. 2. my new version 1.4.3 did not import old

Re: Ho to write my own paragraph layout or how to change

2007-02-07 Thread Roland Schmitz
Hi Steve, On Friday 2. Februar 2007 22:02, Steve Litt wrote: I've written some content on the subject of making your own environments in a layout file. Start here: http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/lyx/index.htm There are some broken Links on your Page, e. g. 404 Not Found The requested URL

Understanding key bindings

2007-02-07 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Hi Lyx-Folks, One of the less documened, but very useful features of LyX is to assign formattings by key strokes. It is so convenient to press e.g. ALT-P S to format a paragraph as Standard So I looked up the actually defined keystrokes in menus.bind. However, I am either not able to

Re: LyX adds packages declaration I already use

2007-02-07 Thread Kevin Paunovic
I've found the worst solution ever to solve my problem. Please forgive me and light a candle for me. Rest of the mail is coded in rot13 so common people won't read it for their own sake. 1) YlK - Cersrerapr - Ynathntr naq lbh erzbir rirelguvat (\hfrcnpxntr{onory}, \fryrpgynathntr{ynat}

Re: LyX adds packages declaration I already use

2007-02-07 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Kevin == Kevin Paunovic [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Kevin The problem now is that LyX automatically adds things like: Kevin \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \usepackage[latin1]{inputenc} Kevin \usepackage{graphicx} \usepackage{babel} Kevin so, as you might expect, this leads to crashes at compilation.

Re: fancyhdr font size

2007-02-07 Thread Helge Hafting
Bob Lounsbury wrote: On 2/3/07, Jürgen Spitzmüller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bob Lounsbury wrote: Wow, that is definitely smaller than small! I assume there is nothing in-between \small and \tiny? Thanks for the tip. \footnotesize Cf. http://www.giss.nasa.gov/tools/latex/ltx-178.html

Re: lyx2lyx and pdflatex problems after lyx-update

2007-02-07 Thread Georg Baum
Jan Wiener wrote: hello, i just upgraded my lyx version from 1.3.5 to 1.4.3 (suse linux 9.3) and 2 horrible things happened. 1. my old version 1.3.5 did not support pdflatex anymore. both in export and view , the corresponding option was simply not available anymore. This is because the

Re: LyX adds packages declaration I already use

2007-02-07 Thread Kevin Paunovic
On Feb 7, 2007, at 12:00 PM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Kevin == Kevin Paunovic [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Kevin The problem now is that LyX automatically adds things like: Kevin \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \usepackage[latin1]{inputenc} Kevin \usepackage{graphicx} \usepackage{babel} Kevin so,

Re: LyX adds packages declaration I already use

2007-02-07 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Kevin == Kevin Paunovic [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Kevin I've found the worst solution ever to solve my problem. Please Kevin forgive me and light a candle for me. Kevin Rest of the mail is coded in rot13 so common people won't read Kevin it for their own sake. Kevin 1) YlK - Cersrerapr -

problems installing lyx on windows vista

2007-02-07 Thread Tino Langer
Hello, I just tried to install lyx on my windows vista. The first problem was to install miketex out of the bundle-installer of lyx 1.4.3-5 (lyx-143-5-bundle.exe ) - an Windows API error occurs. a workaround for this problem was to install miktex 2.5 stand alone and refer to the existing

Cross reference + text is confusing

2007-02-07 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, I have three diagrams closely declared within floats that have labels. Figures 3.2 and 3.3 show on page 24, with figure 3.5 showing on page 25. All 3 are Ref+Text type. Here is the text shown on page 23: Figures 3.2 on the next page, figure 3.3 on the following page, and 3.4 on page

Re: Entering foreign language characters

2007-02-07 Thread Neal Becker
John Coppens wrote: On Tue, 06 Feb 2007 23:14:45 -0500 David L. Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cool. It works, except that it is Winkey-` e rather than the other way around. That depends on if the combinations are defined - in my case both work. There's a lot of fun to be had with

Re: changing Xfig figures in LyX

2007-02-07 Thread Georg Baum
Philipp Fleig wrote: Hello Georg, I am sorry for the very late reply, but I was away for the last few days! The file Test.lyx which I had sent to you was correct and also read the file TestFig.fig, but for some reason LyX seems to change the name of the file from TestFig.fig to LyX when I

Re: Cross reference + text is confusing

2007-02-07 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Steve Litt wrote: Why is 3.2 on the *next* page, with 3.3 on the *following* page? Read the varioref manual, keyword reftextvario. They're both on the same page, so to me the use of these two different adjectives is misleading. My strong belief is that when writing technical content,

Problem generating PDF file with LyX 1.4.3

2007-02-07 Thread John Kane
Having accidentally spammed 3,000 or so R-help list readers with this message I thought I might try again,hopefully in the right list this time. I just changed machines and, at first, could not get LyX 1.4.3-4 to even load. I tried 1.5 which loaded nicely but would not give me PDF output.

life cycle and development process

2007-02-07 Thread Michelle Fante
to whom it may concern Hi, I am a student researching Lyx in terms of its development process and life cycle, and related issues. Unfortunately, I am having some problems locating a suitable website. Can anyone recommend an informative website that could offer some relevant information

Re: fancyhdr font size

2007-02-07 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On 2/7/07, Helge Hafting [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bob Lounsbury wrote: On 2/3/07, Jürgen Spitzmüller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bob Lounsbury wrote: Wow, that is definitely smaller than small! I assume there is nothing in-between \small and \tiny? Thanks for the tip. \footnotesize Cf.

Re: Entering foreign language characters

2007-02-07 Thread John Coppens
On Wed, 07 Feb 2007 07:21:32 -0500 Neal Becker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, I was looking for something easy for a novice. In particular, something that shows the characters graphically so user doesn't need to know a code. Well... You can always prepare a (LyX) document with all the

Re: Cross reference + text is confusing

2007-02-07 Thread Steve Litt
On Wednesday 07 February 2007 07:51, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Steve Litt wrote: Why is 3.2 on the *next* page, with 3.3 on the *following* page? Read the varioref manual, keyword reftextvario. They're both on the same page, so to me the use of these two different adjectives is

I need a character style example

2007-02-07 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, Today I just used my first character style (LyX 1.4.2), and it didn't go well. I simply wanted a way to define text within a paragraph (not the whole paragraph, just some text within it) as code. I wanted it typewriter font both in LyX and in the output. So I did this: Preamble

Do you like justified or ragged right?

2007-02-07 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, I'm writing a short book called Troubleshooting: Just the Facts. The intention is to make it an Ebook that can be printed and staple bound by the customer, if so desired. I use skip rather than indentation to separate paragraphs, and I think I'll probably keep it that way. Right now

Re: Cross reference + text is confusing

2007-02-07 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Steve Litt wrote: That worked perfectly. However, then I did this: \def\reftextcurrent{on the current page} and it had no effect. Thanks It should. I have no idea why this could fail. Jürgen

Re: Do you like justified or ragged right?

2007-02-07 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 7 Feb 2007, Steve Litt wrote: Right now the body text is justified, which is the default in the Book document class. Occasionally (maybe once every couple pages) something doesn't fit right and sticks out into the right margin. Steve, I have two approaches to solving the overfull

Re: Problem generating PDF file with LyX 1.4.3

2007-02-07 Thread Paul A. Rubin
John Kane wrote: Having accidentally spammed 3,000 or so R-help list readers with this message I thought I might try again,hopefully in the right list this time. Might not be spam -- maybe one of them can produce a logistic regression model to predict the likelihood of you're getting a PDF

Re: Slide number in beamer presentation

2007-02-07 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Paul Smith wrote: If am not abusing, how to add to the foot line the name of the presentation's author? See the attached. You put the author's name in as a short author name by positioning the cursor at the start of the author field and typing 'optional-insert' in the minibuffer (alt-x to

Re: problems installing lyx on windows vista

2007-02-07 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Tino Langer schrieb: I just tried to install lyx on my windows vista. The first problem was to install miketex out of the bundle-installer of lyx 1.4.3-5 (lyx-143-5-bundle.exe ) - an Windows API error occurs. a workaround for this problem was to install miktex 2.5 stand alone and refer to the

Re: Slide number in beamer presentation

2007-02-07 Thread Paul Smith
On 2/7/07, Paul A. Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If am not abusing, how to add to the foot line the name of the presentation's author? See the attached. You put the author's name in as a short author name by positioning the cursor at the start of the author field and typing

Re: How to get Contents and similar labels in other languages?

2007-02-07 Thread Stefano Franchi
On 6 Feb, 2007, at 8:35 PM, Enrico Forestieri wrote: Surely there must be a better way? I cannot reproduce your problem. Using the .lyx file pasted at the bottom, I correctly get Indice instead of Contents in the output. Hi Enrico. I wanted to try out your file, but it doesn't even

RE: problems installing lyx on windows vista

2007-02-07 Thread Tino Langer
The MiKTeX shipped with the last installer is not Vista-ready. The next LyX version comes out next week with an updated MiKTeX version. Note that there are stil some restrictions to use MiKTeX under Vista: http://dojo.miktex.org/blogs/christian_schenk/archive/2007/01/22/miktex25vis ta.aspx ok -

Re: Slide number in beamer presentation

2007-02-07 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Paul Smith wrote: Thanks again, Paul. Perhaps, I am too choosy, but I do not like all beamer themes that I know, the Madrid one included -- I find them too sophisticated; I prefer a very simple, almost empty theme, like the example that I sent. You can always roll your own. If you look at

Re: How to get Contents and similar labels in other languages?

2007-02-07 Thread Enrico Forestieri
On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 02:50:42PM -0600, Stefano Franchi wrote: On 6 Feb, 2007, at 8:35 PM, Enrico Forestieri wrote: Surely there must be a better way? I cannot reproduce your problem. Using the .lyx file pasted at the bottom, I correctly get Indice instead of Contents in the

Re: How to get Contents and similar labels in other languages?

2007-02-07 Thread Stefano Franchi
On 7 Feb, 2007, at 3:55 PM, Enrico Forestieri wrote: When you look at Tools-Preferences-Language, do you see something similar to the attached image? Haha! Not at all. All the fields are blank. If I fill them up up as per your image, the file compiles correctly. I'll have to try again with

Re: Understanding key bindings

2007-02-07 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Daniel Lohmann wrote: Hi Lyx-Folks, One of the less documened, but very useful features of LyX is to assign formattings by key strokes. It is so convenient to press e.g. ALT-P S to format a paragraph as Standard So I looked up the actually defined keystrokes in menus.bind. However, I am

Re: Do you like justified or ragged right?

2007-02-07 Thread Daniel Watkins
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rich Shepard wrote: My vote is full justification. Ditto. LaTeX defaults to that for a reason. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

Re: Do you like justified or ragged right?

2007-02-07 Thread John Kane
--- Steve Litt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I'm writing a short book called Troubleshooting: Just the Facts. The intention is to make it an Ebook that can be printed and staple bound by the customer, if so desired. I use skip rather than indentation to separate paragraphs, and I

Disbling EPS generation During LyX to LaTeX Conversion

2007-02-07 Thread Warren Toomey
Hi, I've just upgraded LyX to 1.4.2. I am using LyX to create HTML documents (Lyx - LaTeX - HTML via tth). I'm also including Gif and Jpg images into my LyX documents. With the 1.4.2 version of LyX, not only are EPS versions of the images created during the export to LaTeX, but they are created

Re: Do you like justified or ragged right?

2007-02-07 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 7 Feb 2007, Eran Kaplinsky wrote: I strongly recommend the microtype package, which goes a long way toward reducing hyphens and improving fit. If that's the package I think it is, it actually places the terminal character either a very small distance beyond or inside the actual

Re: Do you like justified or ragged right?

2007-02-07 Thread Eran Kaplinsky
I strongly recommend the microtype package, which goes a long way toward reducing hyphens and improving fit. If that's the package I think it is, it actually places the terminal character either a very small distance beyond or inside the actual right margin. While under

Re: [announce] LyX150alpha from 05-02-2007 for Windows

2007-02-07 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Tue, 6 Feb 2007, Olivier Ripoll wrote: - I can still crash LyX by typing x^2 in a math inset and with US-international keyboard layout. Is this bug in bugzilla? cheers /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr

Re: [announce] LyX150alpha from 05-02-2007 for Windows

2007-02-07 Thread Olivier Ripoll
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 6 Feb 2007, Olivier Ripoll wrote: - I can still crash LyX by typing x^2 in a math inset and with US-international keyboard layout. Is this bug in bugzilla? cheers /Christian Yes. It's #3115. Regards, Olivier

lyx2lyx and pdflatex problems after lyx-update

2007-02-07 Thread Jan Wiener
hello, i just upgraded my lyx version from 1.3.5 to 1.4.3 (suse linux 9.3) and 2 horrible things happened. 1. my old version 1.3.5 did not support pdflatex anymore. both in export and view , the corresponding option was simply not available anymore. 2. my new version 1.4.3 did not import old

Re: Ho to write my own paragraph layout or how to change

2007-02-07 Thread Roland Schmitz
Hi Steve, On Friday 2. Februar 2007 22:02, Steve Litt wrote: I've written some content on the subject of making your own environments in a layout file. Start here: http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/lyx/index.htm There are some broken Links on your Page, e. g. 404 Not Found The requested URL

Understanding key bindings

2007-02-07 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Hi Lyx-Folks, One of the less documened, but very useful features of LyX is to assign formattings by key strokes. It is so convenient to press e.g. ALT-P S to format a paragraph as Standard So I looked up the actually defined keystrokes in menus.bind. However, I am either not able to

Re: LyX adds packages declaration I already use

2007-02-07 Thread Kevin Paunovic
I've found the worst solution ever to solve my problem. Please forgive me and light a candle for me. Rest of the mail is coded in rot13 so common people won't read it for their own sake. 1) YlK - Cersrerapr - Ynathntr naq lbh erzbir rirelguvat (\hfrcnpxntr{onory}, \fryrpgynathntr{ynat}

Re: LyX adds packages declaration I already use

2007-02-07 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Kevin == Kevin Paunovic [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Kevin The problem now is that LyX automatically adds things like: Kevin \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \usepackage[latin1]{inputenc} Kevin \usepackage{graphicx} \usepackage{babel} Kevin so, as you might expect, this leads to crashes at compilation.

Re: fancyhdr font size

2007-02-07 Thread Helge Hafting
Bob Lounsbury wrote: On 2/3/07, Jürgen Spitzmüller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bob Lounsbury wrote: Wow, that is definitely smaller than small! I assume there is nothing in-between \small and \tiny? Thanks for the tip. \footnotesize Cf. http://www.giss.nasa.gov/tools/latex/ltx-178.html

Re: lyx2lyx and pdflatex problems after lyx-update

2007-02-07 Thread Georg Baum
Jan Wiener wrote: hello, i just upgraded my lyx version from 1.3.5 to 1.4.3 (suse linux 9.3) and 2 horrible things happened. 1. my old version 1.3.5 did not support pdflatex anymore. both in export and view , the corresponding option was simply not available anymore. This is because the

Re: LyX adds packages declaration I already use

2007-02-07 Thread Kevin Paunovic
On Feb 7, 2007, at 12:00 PM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Kevin == Kevin Paunovic [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Kevin The problem now is that LyX automatically adds things like: Kevin \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \usepackage[latin1]{inputenc} Kevin \usepackage{graphicx} \usepackage{babel} Kevin so,

Re: LyX adds packages declaration I already use

2007-02-07 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Kevin == Kevin Paunovic [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Kevin I've found the worst solution ever to solve my problem. Please Kevin forgive me and light a candle for me. Kevin Rest of the mail is coded in rot13 so common people won't read Kevin it for their own sake. Kevin 1) YlK - Cersrerapr -

problems installing lyx on windows vista

2007-02-07 Thread Tino Langer
Hello, I just tried to install lyx on my windows vista. The first problem was to install miketex out of the bundle-installer of lyx 1.4.3-5 (lyx-143-5-bundle.exe ) - an Windows API error occurs. a workaround for this problem was to install miktex 2.5 stand alone and refer to the existing

Cross reference + text is confusing

2007-02-07 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, I have three diagrams closely declared within floats that have labels. Figures 3.2 and 3.3 show on page 24, with figure 3.5 showing on page 25. All 3 are Ref+Text type. Here is the text shown on page 23: Figures 3.2 on the next page, figure 3.3 on the following page, and 3.4 on page

Re: Entering foreign language characters

2007-02-07 Thread Neal Becker
John Coppens wrote: On Tue, 06 Feb 2007 23:14:45 -0500 David L. Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cool. It works, except that it is Winkey-` e rather than the other way around. That depends on if the combinations are defined - in my case both work. There's a lot of fun to be had with

Re: changing Xfig figures in LyX

2007-02-07 Thread Georg Baum
Philipp Fleig wrote: Hello Georg, I am sorry for the very late reply, but I was away for the last few days! The file Test.lyx which I had sent to you was correct and also read the file TestFig.fig, but for some reason LyX seems to change the name of the file from TestFig.fig to LyX when I

Re: Cross reference + text is confusing

2007-02-07 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Steve Litt wrote: Why is 3.2 on the *next* page, with 3.3 on the *following* page? Read the varioref manual, keyword reftextvario. They're both on the same page, so to me the use of these two different adjectives is misleading. My strong belief is that when writing technical content,

Problem generating PDF file with LyX 1.4.3

2007-02-07 Thread John Kane
Having accidentally spammed 3,000 or so R-help list readers with this message I thought I might try again,hopefully in the right list this time. I just changed machines and, at first, could not get LyX 1.4.3-4 to even load. I tried 1.5 which loaded nicely but would not give me PDF output.

life cycle and development process

2007-02-07 Thread Michelle Fante
to whom it may concern Hi, I am a student researching Lyx in terms of its development process and life cycle, and related issues. Unfortunately, I am having some problems locating a suitable website. Can anyone recommend an informative website that could offer some relevant information

Re: fancyhdr font size

2007-02-07 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On 2/7/07, Helge Hafting [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bob Lounsbury wrote: On 2/3/07, Jürgen Spitzmüller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bob Lounsbury wrote: Wow, that is definitely smaller than small! I assume there is nothing in-between \small and \tiny? Thanks for the tip. \footnotesize Cf.

Re: Entering foreign language characters

2007-02-07 Thread John Coppens
On Wed, 07 Feb 2007 07:21:32 -0500 Neal Becker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, I was looking for something easy for a novice. In particular, something that shows the characters graphically so user doesn't need to know a code. Well... You can always prepare a (LyX) document with all the

Re: Cross reference + text is confusing

2007-02-07 Thread Steve Litt
On Wednesday 07 February 2007 07:51, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Steve Litt wrote: Why is 3.2 on the *next* page, with 3.3 on the *following* page? Read the varioref manual, keyword reftextvario. They're both on the same page, so to me the use of these two different adjectives is

I need a character style example

2007-02-07 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, Today I just used my first character style (LyX 1.4.2), and it didn't go well. I simply wanted a way to define text within a paragraph (not the whole paragraph, just some text within it) as code. I wanted it typewriter font both in LyX and in the output. So I did this: Preamble

Do you like justified or ragged right?

2007-02-07 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, I'm writing a short book called Troubleshooting: Just the Facts. The intention is to make it an Ebook that can be printed and staple bound by the customer, if so desired. I use skip rather than indentation to separate paragraphs, and I think I'll probably keep it that way. Right now

Re: Cross reference + text is confusing

2007-02-07 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Steve Litt wrote: That worked perfectly. However, then I did this: \def\reftextcurrent{on the current page} and it had no effect. Thanks It should. I have no idea why this could fail. Jürgen

Re: Do you like justified or ragged right?

2007-02-07 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 7 Feb 2007, Steve Litt wrote: Right now the body text is justified, which is the default in the Book document class. Occasionally (maybe once every couple pages) something doesn't fit right and sticks out into the right margin. Steve, I have two approaches to solving the overfull

Re: Problem generating PDF file with LyX 1.4.3

2007-02-07 Thread Paul A. Rubin
John Kane wrote: Having accidentally spammed 3,000 or so R-help list readers with this message I thought I might try again,hopefully in the right list this time. Might not be spam -- maybe one of them can produce a logistic regression model to predict the likelihood of you're getting a PDF

Re: Slide number in beamer presentation

2007-02-07 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Paul Smith wrote: If am not abusing, how to add to the foot line the name of the presentation's author? See the attached. You put the author's name in as a short author name by positioning the cursor at the start of the author field and typing 'optional-insert' in the minibuffer (alt-x to

Re: problems installing lyx on windows vista

2007-02-07 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Tino Langer schrieb: I just tried to install lyx on my windows vista. The first problem was to install miketex out of the bundle-installer of lyx 1.4.3-5 (lyx-143-5-bundle.exe ) - an Windows API error occurs. a workaround for this problem was to install miktex 2.5 stand alone and refer to the

Re: Slide number in beamer presentation

2007-02-07 Thread Paul Smith
On 2/7/07, Paul A. Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If am not abusing, how to add to the foot line the name of the presentation's author? See the attached. You put the author's name in as a short author name by positioning the cursor at the start of the author field and typing

Re: How to get Contents and similar labels in other languages?

2007-02-07 Thread Stefano Franchi
On 6 Feb, 2007, at 8:35 PM, Enrico Forestieri wrote: Surely there must be a better way? I cannot reproduce your problem. Using the .lyx file pasted at the bottom, I correctly get Indice instead of Contents in the output. Hi Enrico. I wanted to try out your file, but it doesn't even

RE: problems installing lyx on windows vista

2007-02-07 Thread Tino Langer
The MiKTeX shipped with the last installer is not Vista-ready. The next LyX version comes out next week with an updated MiKTeX version. Note that there are stil some restrictions to use MiKTeX under Vista: http://dojo.miktex.org/blogs/christian_schenk/archive/2007/01/22/miktex25vis ta.aspx ok -

Re: Slide number in beamer presentation

2007-02-07 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Paul Smith wrote: Thanks again, Paul. Perhaps, I am too choosy, but I do not like all beamer themes that I know, the Madrid one included -- I find them too sophisticated; I prefer a very simple, almost empty theme, like the example that I sent. You can always roll your own. If you look at

Re: How to get Contents and similar labels in other languages?

2007-02-07 Thread Enrico Forestieri
On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 02:50:42PM -0600, Stefano Franchi wrote: On 6 Feb, 2007, at 8:35 PM, Enrico Forestieri wrote: Surely there must be a better way? I cannot reproduce your problem. Using the .lyx file pasted at the bottom, I correctly get Indice instead of Contents in the

Re: How to get Contents and similar labels in other languages?

2007-02-07 Thread Stefano Franchi
On 7 Feb, 2007, at 3:55 PM, Enrico Forestieri wrote: When you look at Tools-Preferences-Language, do you see something similar to the attached image? Haha! Not at all. All the fields are blank. If I fill them up up as per your image, the file compiles correctly. I'll have to try again with

Re: Understanding key bindings

2007-02-07 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Daniel Lohmann wrote: Hi Lyx-Folks, One of the less documened, but very useful features of LyX is to assign formattings by key strokes. It is so convenient to press e.g. ALT-P S to format a paragraph as Standard So I looked up the actually defined keystrokes in menus.bind. However, I am

Re: Do you like justified or ragged right?

2007-02-07 Thread Daniel Watkins
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rich Shepard wrote: My vote is full justification. Ditto. LaTeX defaults to that for a reason. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

Re: Do you like justified or ragged right?

2007-02-07 Thread John Kane
--- Steve Litt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I'm writing a short book called Troubleshooting: Just the Facts. The intention is to make it an Ebook that can be printed and staple bound by the customer, if so desired. I use skip rather than indentation to separate paragraphs, and I

Disbling EPS generation During LyX to LaTeX Conversion

2007-02-07 Thread Warren Toomey
Hi, I've just upgraded LyX to 1.4.2. I am using LyX to create HTML documents (Lyx - LaTeX - HTML via tth). I'm also including Gif and Jpg images into my LyX documents. With the 1.4.2 version of LyX, not only are EPS versions of the images created during the export to LaTeX, but they are created

Re: Do you like justified or ragged right?

2007-02-07 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 7 Feb 2007, Eran Kaplinsky wrote: I strongly recommend the microtype package, which goes a long way toward reducing hyphens and improving fit. If that's the package I think it is, it actually places the terminal character either a very small distance beyond or inside the actual

Re: Do you like justified or ragged right?

2007-02-07 Thread Eran Kaplinsky
I strongly recommend the microtype package, which goes a long way toward reducing hyphens and improving fit. If that's the package I think it is, it actually places the terminal character either a very small distance beyond or inside the actual right margin. While under

Re: [announce] LyX150alpha from 05-02-2007 for Windows

2007-02-07 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Tue, 6 Feb 2007, Olivier Ripoll wrote: - I can still crash LyX by typing x^2 in a math inset and with US-international keyboard layout. Is this bug in bugzilla? cheers /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr

Re: [announce] LyX150alpha from 05-02-2007 for Windows

2007-02-07 Thread Olivier Ripoll
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 6 Feb 2007, Olivier Ripoll wrote: - I can still crash LyX by typing x^2 in a math inset and with US-international keyboard layout. Is this bug in bugzilla? cheers /Christian Yes. It's #3115. Regards, Olivier

lyx2lyx and pdflatex problems after lyx-update

2007-02-07 Thread Jan Wiener
hello, i just upgraded my lyx version from 1.3.5 to 1.4.3 (suse linux 9.3) and 2 horrible things happened. 1. my old version 1.3.5 did not support pdflatex anymore. both in export and view , the corresponding option was simply not available anymore. 2. my new version 1.4.3 did not import old

Re: Ho to write my own paragraph layout or how to change

2007-02-07 Thread Roland Schmitz
Hi Steve, On Friday 2. Februar 2007 22:02, Steve Litt wrote: >I've written some content on the subject of making your own >environments in a layout file. Start here: > >http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/lyx/index.htm There are some broken Links on your Page, e. g. 404 Not Found The requested

Understanding key bindings

2007-02-07 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Hi Lyx-Folks, One of the less documened, but very useful features of LyX is to assign formattings by key strokes. It is so convenient to press e.g. "ALT-P S" to format a paragraph as "Standard" So I looked up the actually defined keystrokes in menus.bind. However, I am either not able to

Re: LyX adds packages declaration I already use

2007-02-07 Thread Kevin Paunovic
I've found the worst solution ever to solve my problem. Please forgive me and light a candle for me. Rest of the mail is coded in rot13 so common people won't read it for their own sake. 1) YlK -> Cersrerapr -> Ynathntr naq lbh erzbir rirelguvat (\hfrcnpxntr{onory}, \fryrpgynathntr{&}

Re: LyX adds packages declaration I already use

2007-02-07 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Kevin" == Kevin Paunovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Kevin> The problem now is that LyX automatically adds things like: Kevin> \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \usepackage[latin1]{inputenc} Kevin> \usepackage{graphicx} \usepackage{babel} Kevin> so, as you might expect, this leads to crashes at

Re: fancyhdr font size

2007-02-07 Thread Helge Hafting
Bob Lounsbury wrote: On 2/3/07, Jürgen Spitzmüller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Bob Lounsbury wrote: > Wow, that is definitely smaller than small! I assume there is nothing > in-between \small and \tiny? Thanks for the tip. \footnotesize Cf. http://www.giss.nasa.gov/tools/latex/ltx-178.html

Re: lyx2lyx and pdflatex problems after lyx-update

2007-02-07 Thread Georg Baum
Jan Wiener wrote: > hello, > > i just upgraded my lyx version from 1.3.5 to 1.4.3 (suse linux 9.3) and > 2 horrible things happened. > 1. my old version 1.3.5 did not support pdflatex anymore. both in export > and view , the corresponding option was simply not available anymore. This is because

Re: LyX adds packages declaration I already use

2007-02-07 Thread Kevin Paunovic
On Feb 7, 2007, at 12:00 PM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: "Kevin" == Kevin Paunovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Kevin> The problem now is that LyX automatically adds things like: Kevin> \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \usepackage[latin1]{inputenc} Kevin> \usepackage{graphicx} \usepackage{babel}

Re: LyX adds packages declaration I already use

2007-02-07 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Kevin" == Kevin Paunovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Kevin> I've found the worst solution ever to solve my problem. Please Kevin> forgive me and light a candle for me. Kevin> Rest of the mail is coded in rot13 so common people won't read Kevin> it for their own sake. Kevin> 1) YlK ->

problems installing lyx on windows vista

2007-02-07 Thread Tino Langer
Hello, I just tried to install lyx on my windows vista. The first problem was to install miketex out of the bundle-installer of lyx 1.4.3-5 (lyx-143-5-bundle.exe ) - an Windows API error occurs. a workaround for this problem was to install miktex 2.5 stand alone and refer to the existing

Cross reference + text is confusing

2007-02-07 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, I have three diagrams closely declared within floats that have labels. Figures 3.2 and 3.3 show on page 24, with figure 3.5 showing on page 25. All 3 are Ref+Text type. Here is the text shown on page 23: "Figures 3.2 on the next page, figure 3.3 on the following page, and 3.4 on page

Re: Entering foreign language characters

2007-02-07 Thread Neal Becker
John Coppens wrote: > On Tue, 06 Feb 2007 23:14:45 -0500 > "David L. Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> Cool. It works, except that it is Winkey-` e rather than the other >> way around. > > That depends on if the combinations are defined - in my case both > work. There's a lot of fun

Re: changing Xfig figures in LyX

2007-02-07 Thread Georg Baum
Philipp Fleig wrote: > Hello Georg, > > I am sorry for the very late reply, but I was away for the last few > days! > The file Test.lyx which I had sent to you was correct and also read > the file TestFig.fig, but for some reason LyX seems to change the > name of the file from TestFig.fig to LyX

Re: Cross reference + text is confusing

2007-02-07 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Steve Litt wrote: > Why is 3.2 on the *next* page, with 3.3 on the *following* page? Read the varioref manual, keyword "reftextvario". > They're > both on the same page, so to me the use of these two different adjectives > is misleading. My strong belief is that when writing technical content,

Problem generating PDF file with LyX 1.4.3

2007-02-07 Thread John Kane
Having accidentally spammed 3,000 or so R-help list readers with this message I thought I might try again,hopefully in the right list this time. I just changed machines and, at first, could not get LyX 1.4.3-4 to even load. I tried 1.5 which loaded nicely but would not give me PDF output.

life cycle and development process

2007-02-07 Thread Michelle Fante
to whom it may concern Hi, I am a student researching Lyx in terms of its development process and life cycle, and related issues. Unfortunately, I am having some problems locating a suitable website. Can anyone recommend an informative website that could offer some relevant information

Re: fancyhdr font size

2007-02-07 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On 2/7/07, Helge Hafting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Bob Lounsbury wrote: > On 2/3/07, Jürgen Spitzmüller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Bob Lounsbury wrote: >> > Wow, that is definitely smaller than small! I assume there is nothing >> > in-between \small and \tiny? Thanks for the tip. >> >>

Re: Entering foreign language characters

2007-02-07 Thread John Coppens
On Wed, 07 Feb 2007 07:21:32 -0500 Neal Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Actually, I was looking for something easy for a novice. In particular, > something that shows the characters graphically so user doesn't need to > know a code. Well... You can always prepare a (LyX) document with all

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