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2008-01-14 Thread Jürgen Womser-Schütz
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Re: Initial Newbie Questions

2008-01-14 Thread Enrico Forestieri
rgheck writes: Michael Thompson wrote: I see that you were trying to change the color of a Chapter Heading, in particular. This does seem like a mess, easily reproducible by me; titles and sections seem to work, though. Evidently a problem for the masters. The reason, as Jurgen

Re: Add some ligatures to the unicodesymbols file

2008-01-14 Thread Hellmut Weber
Hi Anders, many thanks for your initiative. I encoutered this problem lots of time. Knowing where to look becuase of some very basic knowledge of topygraphy didn't help me. So, Thanks a lot. @Jürgen, @Uwe: Does that mean it will work with 1.6? Cheers Hellmut -- Dr. Hellmut Weber

Re: error while installing lyx on mac

2008-01-14 Thread Anders Ekberg
Hi, Bennett, I checked Console.app, and found nothing related to LyX installation. Here is what I found. Hi Biao, Bennett is the expert here, but just some questions from me: - Does LyX work (i.e. start, function and produce pdf:s)? - Did you install TeX before installing LyX? (I take it you

Re: Add some ligatures to the unicodesymbols file

2008-01-14 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Hellmut Weber wrote: @Jürgen, @Uwe: Does that mean it will work with 1.6? Anders' patch has been committed to both 1.6svn and 1.5.4svn. (However, I still cannot paste ligatures from Adobe Reader under Linux; maybe the KDE klipper is to blame). Jürgen

Re: error while installing lyx on mac

2008-01-14 Thread Biao Wu
Hi, Anders, I can tell Bennett is an expert just by how he asked the question. The installation failed, so I did not run LyX. Yes, I installed TeX with MacTeX before LyX. This is my first time installing LyX. My Mac Version is MacOSX-10.4.11. On Jan 14, 2008 7:51 PM, Anders Ekberg [EMAIL

Re: error while installing lyx on mac

2008-01-14 Thread Anders Ekberg
Try to start LyX anyway and see what happens (the installation script is normally not needed for LyX to function). If it starts, try to open the Tutorial from the help menu and create a pdf ( View - PDF (pdflatex) ) If it doesn't work try LyX-Reconfigure and restart LyX. If that fails, try

Re: error while installing lyx on mac

2008-01-14 Thread Bennett Helm
On Jan 14, 2008, at 8:03 AM, Biao Wu wrote: Hi, Anders, I can tell Bennett is an expert just by how he asked the question. The installation failed, so I did not run LyX. Yes, I installed TeX with MacTeX before LyX. This is my first time installing LyX. My Mac Version is MacOSX-10.4.11. The

Re: Landscape document: what am I missing?

2008-01-14 Thread Laurent Duperval
Well, of course now that I'm trying to reproduce it, I can't. :-( ... no, actually it's :-). I'm wondering if at some point I didn't change the PDF generator, as Steve Litt points out in another message. Well, it works so if I see it again I'll send the document. Thanks! L On Fri, 11 Jan

Re: error while installing lyx on mac

2008-01-14 Thread Biao Wu
On Jan 14, 2008 10:31 PM, Bennett Helm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 14, 2008, at 8:03 AM, Biao Wu wrote: Hi, Anders, I can tell Bennett is an expert just by how he asked the question. The installation failed, so I did not run LyX. Yes, I installed TeX with MacTeX before LyX. This

Re: error while installing lyx on mac

2008-01-14 Thread Anders Ekberg
Looks like something has gone wrong with your TeX-installation. I think the easiest is to re-install MacTeX then re-run the LyX-installer. Anders On 14 jan 2008, at 16.20, Biao Wu wrote: On Jan 14, 2008 10:31 PM, Bennett Helm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 14, 2008, at 8:03 AM, Biao Wu

Re: Lyx keyboard shortcuts on mac

2008-01-14 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 10.01.2008, at 02:33, Bennett Helm wrote: Better yet, look at the mac-bind.pdf file that is included with the LyX/Mac distribution. Insert footnote is not defined there, but you can define it yourself by creating a file with the following: \bind_file mac.bind \bind S-C-F

Re: Lyx keyboard shortcuts on mac

2008-01-14 Thread Bennett Helm
On Jan 14, 2008, at 11:16 AM, Daniel Lohmann wrote: On 10.01.2008, at 02:33, Bennett Helm wrote: Better yet, look at the mac-bind.pdf file that is included with the LyX/Mac distribution. Insert footnote is not defined there, but you can define it yourself by creating a file with the

Re: error while installing lyx on mac

2008-01-14 Thread Bennett Helm
On Jan 14, 2008, at 11:16 AM, Anders Ekberg wrote: I re-ran the installer. There is no dialog pop up after it asks about the template file and before the AppleScript error message. The only change is that Install default LyX templates gets checked. I don't even have this

lyx2lyx conversion

2008-01-14 Thread Myriam Abramson
Hello, I have 1.4.3. I get a message that lyx2lyx cannot convert from an earlier version of lyx. What should i do? TIA -- myriam

Re: lyx2lyx conversion

2008-01-14 Thread rgheck
Myriam Abramson wrote: Hello, I have 1.4.3. I get a message that lyx2lyx cannot convert from an earlier version of lyx. What should i do? There are two possibilities: The file is actually from an older version of LyX (1.5), or the file is corrupt. To find out, open the file in a text

Re: preventing line splitting in .lyx files (not the output)

2008-01-14 Thread rgheck
Alexis Huxley wrote: Hi, I'm using Subversion to embed various info about released versions of a document I've written inside the document itself. The .lyx format being text, this works *almost* fine. For example I have a note in the document containing: $LastChangedRevision: 2791 $

Re: error while installing lyx on mac

2008-01-14 Thread Anders Ekberg
On 14 jan 2008, at 17.51, Bennett Helm wrote: On Jan 14, 2008, at 11:16 AM, Anders Ekberg wrote: I re-ran the installer. There is no dialog pop up after it asks about the template file and before the AppleScript error message. The only change is that Install default LyX templates gets

[OT] Best KDE-centric Distribution?

2008-01-14 Thread rgheck
I've been using Fedora ever since I started using Linux, but the second-rate status of KDE under Fedora is starting to get to me, so I'm thinking about switching. But then: to what? I don't think Kubuntu is for me. Gentoo would be an option, but then I'm not sure I want to be quite that

Re: Initial Newbie Questions

2008-01-14 Thread rgheck
G. Milde wrote: On 12.01.08, rgheck wrote: The issue has to do with the use of color in chapter and section heading---headings, in particular, that appear as page headers. You always have to be careful with so-called moving arguments. But the point remains: You don't really want to make a

Re: Alternatives to YAP on Windows

2008-01-14 Thread rgheck
David Hewitt wrote: This query spins off of a recent question from Richard Heck in response to another post. I put it in its own thread to potentially gather more opinions. What previewers do Windows people use with LyX other than YAP? Are there better alternatives? If so, how do we switch LyX

Re: [OT] Best KDE-centric Distribution?

2008-01-14 Thread Liviu Andronic
On 1/14/08, rgheck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been using Fedora ever since I started using Linux, but the second-rate status of KDE under Fedora is starting to get to me, so I'm thinking about switching. But then: to what? I don't think Kubuntu is for me. Gentoo would be an option, but

Re: [OT] Best KDE-centric Distribution?

2008-01-14 Thread Donn
thinking about switching. But then: to what? I don't think Kubuntu is for me. Why ever not? \d -- Truth in matters of religion is simply the opinion that has survived. -- Oscar Wilde Fonty Python and other dev news at: http://otherwiseingle.blogspot.com/

Re: lyx2lyx conversion

2008-01-14 Thread José Matos
On Monday 14 January 2008 17:02:43 rgheck wrote: If the file is from 1.5, upgrade to 1.4.5.1: It can read files from 1.5. If the problem is file corruption, we can try to solve the problem if you post the file here. Sometimes that is not possible due to privacy reasons, in some cases you can

Re: [OT] Best KDE-centric Distribution?

2008-01-14 Thread José Matos
On Monday 14 January 2008 17:18:05 rgheck wrote: I've been using Fedora ever since I started using Linux, but the second-rate status of KDE under Fedora is starting to get to me, so I'm thinking about switching. But then: to what? I don't think Kubuntu is for me. Gentoo would be an option, but

Re: [OT] Best KDE-centric Distribution?

2008-01-14 Thread rgheck
Liviu Andronic wrote: On 1/14/08, rgheck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been using Fedora ever since I started using Linux, but the second-rate status of KDE under Fedora is starting to get to me, so I'm thinking about switching. But then: to what? I don't think Kubuntu is for me. Gentoo

Re: [OT] Best KDE-centric Distribution?

2008-01-14 Thread rgheck
Donn wrote: thinking about switching. But then: to what? I don't think Kubuntu is for me. Why ever not? Well, I tried it on a laptop a while ago, and it kept crashing. That'd be the main thing. Richard

Re: [OT] Best KDE-centric Distribution?

2008-01-14 Thread Steve Litt
On Monday 14 January 2008 12:18, rgheck wrote: I've been using Fedora ever since I started using Linux, but the second-rate status of KDE under Fedora is starting to get to me, so I'm thinking about switching. But then: to what? I don't think Kubuntu is for me. Gentoo would be an option, but

Re: [OT] Best KDE-centric Distribution?

2008-01-14 Thread rgheck
Donn wrote: Well, I tried it on a laptop a while ago, and it kept crashing. That'd be the main thing. Ah, I think you'll suffer on laptops in general -- unless you get one of the newer ones that come with some kind of Gnu/Linux these days. I have been using Kubuntu for almost 4 years,

Re: [OT] Best KDE-centric Distribution?

2008-01-14 Thread Donn
Well, I tried it on a laptop a while ago, and it kept crashing. That'd be the main thing. Ah, I think you'll suffer on laptops in general -- unless you get one of the newer ones that come with some kind of Gnu/Linux these days. I have been using Kubuntu for almost 4 years, but still can't get

Re: [OT] Best KDE-centric Distribution?

2008-01-14 Thread rgheck
José Matos wrote: On Monday 14 January 2008 17:18:05 rgheck wrote: I've been using Fedora ever since I started using Linux, but the second-rate status of KDE under Fedora is starting to get to me, so I'm thinking about switching. But then: to what? I don't think Kubuntu is for me. Gentoo

Re: [OT] Best KDE-centric Distribution?

2008-01-14 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 12:18:05PM -0500, rgheck wrote: I've been using Fedora ever since I started using Linux, but the second-rate status of KDE under Fedora is starting to get to me, so I'm thinking about switching. But then: to what? I don't think Kubuntu is for me. Gentoo would be an

Re: [OT] Best KDE-centric Distribution?

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

Problems with LyX 1.5.1 on Ubuntu 7.10

2008-01-14 Thread George De Bruin
I'm seeing a couple of issues with LyX 1.5.1 on XUbuntu 7.10 (Gutsy) that I don't have a solution for... The package is from the Ubuntu repositories. The two issues are: (1) It appears to be really slow when trying to scroll text on the screen. It's not horrible, but its not as fast as the 1.4.x

Re: [OT] Best KDE-centric Distribution?

2008-01-14 Thread M-L
On Tue, 15 Jan 2008, rgheck shared this with us all: --} --} I've been using Fedora ever since I started using Linux, but the --} second-rate status of KDE under Fedora is starting to get to me, so I'm --} thinking about switching. But then: to what? I don't think Kubuntu is --} for me. Gentoo

Export graphic/html?

2008-01-14 Thread Afief Halumi
Hello, I have been working on latex to typeset some documents that I would like to publish as websites, some of those have pstrees which do not fit on A4 pages, therefore some of the image gets truncated, what I would like to do is export the tree only to a graphic, or perhaps export the whole

Re: Problems with LyX 1.5.1 on Ubuntu 7.10

2008-01-14 Thread rgheck
George De Bruin wrote: I'm seeing a couple of issues with LyX 1.5.1 on XUbuntu 7.10 (Gutsy) that I don't have a solution for... The package is from the Ubuntu repositories. The two issues are: (1) It appears to be really slow when trying to scroll text on the screen. It's not horrible, but

Re: Space between numbering and name of the part in toc

2008-01-14 Thread Detlev Humann
Description of the problem: How can I increase the space between numbering and name of the part in table of contents? It should be (part Roman 8): VIII Illustration But it looks like: Vllustration I'm using Lyx 1.5.3 and scrbook. I don't want to use the package tocloft because of

Separate pagebreaks in 2 tables of contents (problem and solution)

2008-01-14 Thread Detlev Humann
Hi, I had this problem: I'm writing a text with scrbook that includes 2 tables of contents (tocs), the first one is a short toc (toc depth 0), the second one is a detailed toc (toc depth 5). The short toc is generated with package shorttoc. My problem: How can I get pagebreaks for each toc

Re: error while installing lyx on mac

2008-01-14 Thread Biao Wu
On Jan 15, 2008 12:51 AM, Bennett Helm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 14, 2008, at 11:16 AM, Anders Ekberg wrote: I re-ran the installer. There is no dialog pop up after it asks about the template file and before the AppleScript error message. The only change is that Install default

Re: error while installing lyx on mac

2008-01-14 Thread Bennett Helm
On Jan 14, 2008, at 7:30 PM, Biao Wu wrote: Bennett, I created ~/Library/texmf/tex/latex. It did not change anything. I got the same error message. Biao I'm stumped. Try opening Terminal.app, and typing this: mkdir -p ~/Library/texmf/tex/latex/lyx cp

Re: [OT] Best KDE-centric Distribution?

2008-01-14 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Jan 14, 2008 10:18 AM, rgheck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been using Fedora ever since I started using Linux, but the second-rate status of KDE under Fedora is starting to get to me, so I'm thinking about switching. But then: to what? I don't think Kubuntu is for me. Gentoo would be an

Re: Problems with LyX 1.5.1 on Ubuntu 7.10

2008-01-14 Thread George De Bruin
rgheck wrote: George De Bruin wrote: I'm seeing a couple of issues with LyX 1.5.1 on XUbuntu 7.10 (Gutsy) that I don't have a solution for... The package is from the Ubuntu repositories. The two issues are: (1) It appears to be really slow when trying to scroll text on the screen. It's

Re: [OT] Best KDE-centric Distribution?

2008-01-14 Thread William Seager
On January 14, 2008 12:18:05 rgheck wrote: I've been using Fedora ever since I started using Linux, but the second-rate status of KDE under Fedora is starting to get to me, so I'm thinking about switching. But then: to what? I don't think Kubuntu is for me. Gentoo would be an option, but then

Re: [OT] Best KDE-centric Distribution?

2008-01-14 Thread rgheck
M-L wrote: On Tue, 15 Jan 2008, rgheck shared this with us all: --} --} I've been using Fedora ever since I started using Linux, but the --} second-rate status of KDE under Fedora is starting to get to me, so I'm --} thinking about switching. But then: to what? I don't think Kubuntu is --}

Re: [OT] Best KDE-centric Distribution?

2008-01-14 Thread rgheck
William Seager wrote: On January 14, 2008 12:18:05 rgheck wrote: I've been using Fedora ever since I started using Linux, but the second-rate status of KDE under Fedora is starting to get to me, so I'm thinking about switching. But then: to what? I don't think Kubuntu is for me. Gentoo would

Re: [OT] Best KDE-centric Distribution?

2008-01-14 Thread rgheck
Bob Lounsbury wrote: On Jan 14, 2008 10:18 AM, rgheck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been using Fedora ever since I started using Linux, but the second-rate status of KDE under Fedora is starting to get to me, so I'm thinking about switching. But then: to what? I don't think Kubuntu is for

Re: [OT] Best KDE-centric Distribution?

2008-01-14 Thread Liviu Andronic
On 1/15/08, rgheck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My vote is Slackware. [snip] Thanks. I'd not even have thought of Slackware, but it may well be the right distro for me. The learning about Linux part is what attracts me to Gentoo---I don't think I'm quite ready for Linux from Scratch---but having

Re: Problems with LyX 1.5.1 on Ubuntu 7.10

2008-01-14 Thread rgheck
George De Bruin wrote: rgheck wrote: Hmm. That's very strange. The Ubuntu people should really get with it. It's one thing being slow to update major versions---Debian etch is still at 1.4.3---but it's criminal not to keep up with minor version updates. And I really don't want to compile

Re: Problems with LyX 1.5.1 on Ubuntu 7.10

2008-01-14 Thread George De Bruin
rgheck wrote: Hmm. That's very strange. The Ubuntu people should really get with it. It's one thing being slow to update major versions---Debian etch is still at 1.4.3---but it's criminal not to keep up with minor version updates. And I really don't want to compile from the source... I

Re: [OT] Best KDE-centric Distribution?

2008-01-14 Thread Typhoon
On Mon, 14 Jan 2008 22:55:29 -0500 rgheck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: M-L wrote: On Tue, 15 Jan 2008, rgheck shared this with us all: --} --} I've been using Fedora ever since I started using Linux, but the --} second-rate status of KDE under Fedora is starting to get to me, so I'm

Re: Problems with LyX 1.5.1 on Ubuntu 7.10

2008-01-14 Thread rgheck
George De Bruin wrote: rgheck wrote: (1) It appears to be really slow when trying to scroll text on the screen. It's not horrible, but its not as fast as the 1.4.x series. Try 1.5.3. Some work has been done on scrolling, and a LOT more is to come in 1.6. I would, but I don't see a .deb out

Re: [OT] Best KDE-centric Distribution?

2008-01-14 Thread curtis osterhoudt
I'm using sidux (based on Debian unstable) and have been since it branched off of Kanotix. It's easily stable enough for my everyday use, and yet things like the latest LyX are available quite quickly from repositories (and there's nothing stopping one from downloading and installing from the

Re: [OT] Best KDE-centric Distribution?

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

Re: Problems with LyX 1.5.1 on Ubuntu 7.10

2008-01-14 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 11:04:05PM -0500, rgheck wrote: George De Bruin wrote: rgheck wrote: (1) It appears to be really slow when trying to scroll text on the screen. It's not horrible, but its not as fast as the 1.4.x series. Try 1.5.3. Some work has been done on scrolling, and a LOT

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2008-01-14 Thread Jürgen Womser-Schütz
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Re: Initial Newbie Questions

2008-01-14 Thread Enrico Forestieri
rgheck writes: Michael Thompson wrote: I see that you were trying to change the color of a Chapter Heading, in particular. This does seem like a mess, easily reproducible by me; titles and sections seem to work, though. Evidently a problem for the masters. The reason, as Jurgen

Re: Add some ligatures to the unicodesymbols file

2008-01-14 Thread Hellmut Weber
Hi Anders, many thanks for your initiative. I encoutered this problem lots of time. Knowing where to look becuase of some very basic knowledge of topygraphy didn't help me. So, Thanks a lot. @Jürgen, @Uwe: Does that mean it will work with 1.6? Cheers Hellmut -- Dr. Hellmut Weber

Re: error while installing lyx on mac

2008-01-14 Thread Anders Ekberg
Hi, Bennett, I checked Console.app, and found nothing related to LyX installation. Here is what I found. Hi Biao, Bennett is the expert here, but just some questions from me: - Does LyX work (i.e. start, function and produce pdf:s)? - Did you install TeX before installing LyX? (I take it you

Re: Add some ligatures to the unicodesymbols file

2008-01-14 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Hellmut Weber wrote: @Jürgen, @Uwe: Does that mean it will work with 1.6? Anders' patch has been committed to both 1.6svn and 1.5.4svn. (However, I still cannot paste ligatures from Adobe Reader under Linux; maybe the KDE klipper is to blame). Jürgen

Re: error while installing lyx on mac

2008-01-14 Thread Biao Wu
Hi, Anders, I can tell Bennett is an expert just by how he asked the question. The installation failed, so I did not run LyX. Yes, I installed TeX with MacTeX before LyX. This is my first time installing LyX. My Mac Version is MacOSX-10.4.11. On Jan 14, 2008 7:51 PM, Anders Ekberg [EMAIL

Re: error while installing lyx on mac

2008-01-14 Thread Anders Ekberg
Try to start LyX anyway and see what happens (the installation script is normally not needed for LyX to function). If it starts, try to open the Tutorial from the help menu and create a pdf ( View - PDF (pdflatex) ) If it doesn't work try LyX-Reconfigure and restart LyX. If that fails, try

Re: error while installing lyx on mac

2008-01-14 Thread Bennett Helm
On Jan 14, 2008, at 8:03 AM, Biao Wu wrote: Hi, Anders, I can tell Bennett is an expert just by how he asked the question. The installation failed, so I did not run LyX. Yes, I installed TeX with MacTeX before LyX. This is my first time installing LyX. My Mac Version is MacOSX-10.4.11. The

Re: Landscape document: what am I missing?

2008-01-14 Thread Laurent Duperval
Well, of course now that I'm trying to reproduce it, I can't. :-( ... no, actually it's :-). I'm wondering if at some point I didn't change the PDF generator, as Steve Litt points out in another message. Well, it works so if I see it again I'll send the document. Thanks! L On Fri, 11 Jan

Re: error while installing lyx on mac

2008-01-14 Thread Biao Wu
On Jan 14, 2008 10:31 PM, Bennett Helm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 14, 2008, at 8:03 AM, Biao Wu wrote: Hi, Anders, I can tell Bennett is an expert just by how he asked the question. The installation failed, so I did not run LyX. Yes, I installed TeX with MacTeX before LyX. This

Re: error while installing lyx on mac

2008-01-14 Thread Anders Ekberg
Looks like something has gone wrong with your TeX-installation. I think the easiest is to re-install MacTeX then re-run the LyX-installer. Anders On 14 jan 2008, at 16.20, Biao Wu wrote: On Jan 14, 2008 10:31 PM, Bennett Helm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 14, 2008, at 8:03 AM, Biao Wu

Re: Lyx keyboard shortcuts on mac

2008-01-14 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 10.01.2008, at 02:33, Bennett Helm wrote: Better yet, look at the mac-bind.pdf file that is included with the LyX/Mac distribution. Insert footnote is not defined there, but you can define it yourself by creating a file with the following: \bind_file mac.bind \bind S-C-F

Re: Lyx keyboard shortcuts on mac

2008-01-14 Thread Bennett Helm
On Jan 14, 2008, at 11:16 AM, Daniel Lohmann wrote: On 10.01.2008, at 02:33, Bennett Helm wrote: Better yet, look at the mac-bind.pdf file that is included with the LyX/Mac distribution. Insert footnote is not defined there, but you can define it yourself by creating a file with the

Re: error while installing lyx on mac

2008-01-14 Thread Bennett Helm
On Jan 14, 2008, at 11:16 AM, Anders Ekberg wrote: I re-ran the installer. There is no dialog pop up after it asks about the template file and before the AppleScript error message. The only change is that Install default LyX templates gets checked. I don't even have this

lyx2lyx conversion

2008-01-14 Thread Myriam Abramson
Hello, I have 1.4.3. I get a message that lyx2lyx cannot convert from an earlier version of lyx. What should i do? TIA -- myriam

Re: lyx2lyx conversion

2008-01-14 Thread rgheck
Myriam Abramson wrote: Hello, I have 1.4.3. I get a message that lyx2lyx cannot convert from an earlier version of lyx. What should i do? There are two possibilities: The file is actually from an older version of LyX (1.5), or the file is corrupt. To find out, open the file in a text

Re: preventing line splitting in .lyx files (not the output)

2008-01-14 Thread rgheck
Alexis Huxley wrote: Hi, I'm using Subversion to embed various info about released versions of a document I've written inside the document itself. The .lyx format being text, this works *almost* fine. For example I have a note in the document containing: $LastChangedRevision: 2791 $

Re: error while installing lyx on mac

2008-01-14 Thread Anders Ekberg
On 14 jan 2008, at 17.51, Bennett Helm wrote: On Jan 14, 2008, at 11:16 AM, Anders Ekberg wrote: I re-ran the installer. There is no dialog pop up after it asks about the template file and before the AppleScript error message. The only change is that Install default LyX templates gets

[OT] Best KDE-centric Distribution?

2008-01-14 Thread rgheck
I've been using Fedora ever since I started using Linux, but the second-rate status of KDE under Fedora is starting to get to me, so I'm thinking about switching. But then: to what? I don't think Kubuntu is for me. Gentoo would be an option, but then I'm not sure I want to be quite that

Re: Initial Newbie Questions

2008-01-14 Thread rgheck
G. Milde wrote: On 12.01.08, rgheck wrote: The issue has to do with the use of color in chapter and section heading---headings, in particular, that appear as page headers. You always have to be careful with so-called moving arguments. But the point remains: You don't really want to make a

Re: Alternatives to YAP on Windows

2008-01-14 Thread rgheck
David Hewitt wrote: This query spins off of a recent question from Richard Heck in response to another post. I put it in its own thread to potentially gather more opinions. What previewers do Windows people use with LyX other than YAP? Are there better alternatives? If so, how do we switch LyX

Re: [OT] Best KDE-centric Distribution?

2008-01-14 Thread Liviu Andronic
On 1/14/08, rgheck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been using Fedora ever since I started using Linux, but the second-rate status of KDE under Fedora is starting to get to me, so I'm thinking about switching. But then: to what? I don't think Kubuntu is for me. Gentoo would be an option, but

Re: [OT] Best KDE-centric Distribution?

2008-01-14 Thread Donn
thinking about switching. But then: to what? I don't think Kubuntu is for me. Why ever not? \d -- Truth in matters of religion is simply the opinion that has survived. -- Oscar Wilde Fonty Python and other dev news at: http://otherwiseingle.blogspot.com/

Re: lyx2lyx conversion

2008-01-14 Thread José Matos
On Monday 14 January 2008 17:02:43 rgheck wrote: If the file is from 1.5, upgrade to 1.4.5.1: It can read files from 1.5. If the problem is file corruption, we can try to solve the problem if you post the file here. Sometimes that is not possible due to privacy reasons, in some cases you can

Re: [OT] Best KDE-centric Distribution?

2008-01-14 Thread José Matos
On Monday 14 January 2008 17:18:05 rgheck wrote: I've been using Fedora ever since I started using Linux, but the second-rate status of KDE under Fedora is starting to get to me, so I'm thinking about switching. But then: to what? I don't think Kubuntu is for me. Gentoo would be an option, but

Re: [OT] Best KDE-centric Distribution?

2008-01-14 Thread rgheck
Liviu Andronic wrote: On 1/14/08, rgheck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been using Fedora ever since I started using Linux, but the second-rate status of KDE under Fedora is starting to get to me, so I'm thinking about switching. But then: to what? I don't think Kubuntu is for me. Gentoo

Re: [OT] Best KDE-centric Distribution?

2008-01-14 Thread rgheck
Donn wrote: thinking about switching. But then: to what? I don't think Kubuntu is for me. Why ever not? Well, I tried it on a laptop a while ago, and it kept crashing. That'd be the main thing. Richard

Re: [OT] Best KDE-centric Distribution?

2008-01-14 Thread Steve Litt
On Monday 14 January 2008 12:18, rgheck wrote: I've been using Fedora ever since I started using Linux, but the second-rate status of KDE under Fedora is starting to get to me, so I'm thinking about switching. But then: to what? I don't think Kubuntu is for me. Gentoo would be an option, but

Re: [OT] Best KDE-centric Distribution?

2008-01-14 Thread rgheck
Donn wrote: Well, I tried it on a laptop a while ago, and it kept crashing. That'd be the main thing. Ah, I think you'll suffer on laptops in general -- unless you get one of the newer ones that come with some kind of Gnu/Linux these days. I have been using Kubuntu for almost 4 years,

Re: [OT] Best KDE-centric Distribution?

2008-01-14 Thread Donn
Well, I tried it on a laptop a while ago, and it kept crashing. That'd be the main thing. Ah, I think you'll suffer on laptops in general -- unless you get one of the newer ones that come with some kind of Gnu/Linux these days. I have been using Kubuntu for almost 4 years, but still can't get

Re: [OT] Best KDE-centric Distribution?

2008-01-14 Thread rgheck
José Matos wrote: On Monday 14 January 2008 17:18:05 rgheck wrote: I've been using Fedora ever since I started using Linux, but the second-rate status of KDE under Fedora is starting to get to me, so I'm thinking about switching. But then: to what? I don't think Kubuntu is for me. Gentoo

Re: [OT] Best KDE-centric Distribution?

2008-01-14 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 12:18:05PM -0500, rgheck wrote: I've been using Fedora ever since I started using Linux, but the second-rate status of KDE under Fedora is starting to get to me, so I'm thinking about switching. But then: to what? I don't think Kubuntu is for me. Gentoo would be an

Re: [OT] Best KDE-centric Distribution?

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

Problems with LyX 1.5.1 on Ubuntu 7.10

2008-01-14 Thread George De Bruin
I'm seeing a couple of issues with LyX 1.5.1 on XUbuntu 7.10 (Gutsy) that I don't have a solution for... The package is from the Ubuntu repositories. The two issues are: (1) It appears to be really slow when trying to scroll text on the screen. It's not horrible, but its not as fast as the 1.4.x

Re: [OT] Best KDE-centric Distribution?

2008-01-14 Thread M-L
On Tue, 15 Jan 2008, rgheck shared this with us all: --} --} I've been using Fedora ever since I started using Linux, but the --} second-rate status of KDE under Fedora is starting to get to me, so I'm --} thinking about switching. But then: to what? I don't think Kubuntu is --} for me. Gentoo

Export graphic/html?

2008-01-14 Thread Afief Halumi
Hello, I have been working on latex to typeset some documents that I would like to publish as websites, some of those have pstrees which do not fit on A4 pages, therefore some of the image gets truncated, what I would like to do is export the tree only to a graphic, or perhaps export the whole

Re: Problems with LyX 1.5.1 on Ubuntu 7.10

2008-01-14 Thread rgheck
George De Bruin wrote: I'm seeing a couple of issues with LyX 1.5.1 on XUbuntu 7.10 (Gutsy) that I don't have a solution for... The package is from the Ubuntu repositories. The two issues are: (1) It appears to be really slow when trying to scroll text on the screen. It's not horrible, but

Re: Space between numbering and name of the part in toc

2008-01-14 Thread Detlev Humann
Description of the problem: How can I increase the space between numbering and name of the part in table of contents? It should be (part Roman 8): VIII Illustration But it looks like: Vllustration I'm using Lyx 1.5.3 and scrbook. I don't want to use the package tocloft because of

Separate pagebreaks in 2 tables of contents (problem and solution)

2008-01-14 Thread Detlev Humann
Hi, I had this problem: I'm writing a text with scrbook that includes 2 tables of contents (tocs), the first one is a short toc (toc depth 0), the second one is a detailed toc (toc depth 5). The short toc is generated with package shorttoc. My problem: How can I get pagebreaks for each toc

Re: error while installing lyx on mac

2008-01-14 Thread Biao Wu
On Jan 15, 2008 12:51 AM, Bennett Helm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 14, 2008, at 11:16 AM, Anders Ekberg wrote: I re-ran the installer. There is no dialog pop up after it asks about the template file and before the AppleScript error message. The only change is that Install default

Re: error while installing lyx on mac

2008-01-14 Thread Bennett Helm
On Jan 14, 2008, at 7:30 PM, Biao Wu wrote: Bennett, I created ~/Library/texmf/tex/latex. It did not change anything. I got the same error message. Biao I'm stumped. Try opening Terminal.app, and typing this: mkdir -p ~/Library/texmf/tex/latex/lyx cp

Re: [OT] Best KDE-centric Distribution?

2008-01-14 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Jan 14, 2008 10:18 AM, rgheck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been using Fedora ever since I started using Linux, but the second-rate status of KDE under Fedora is starting to get to me, so I'm thinking about switching. But then: to what? I don't think Kubuntu is for me. Gentoo would be an

Re: Problems with LyX 1.5.1 on Ubuntu 7.10

2008-01-14 Thread George De Bruin
rgheck wrote: George De Bruin wrote: I'm seeing a couple of issues with LyX 1.5.1 on XUbuntu 7.10 (Gutsy) that I don't have a solution for... The package is from the Ubuntu repositories. The two issues are: (1) It appears to be really slow when trying to scroll text on the screen. It's

Re: [OT] Best KDE-centric Distribution?

2008-01-14 Thread William Seager
On January 14, 2008 12:18:05 rgheck wrote: I've been using Fedora ever since I started using Linux, but the second-rate status of KDE under Fedora is starting to get to me, so I'm thinking about switching. But then: to what? I don't think Kubuntu is for me. Gentoo would be an option, but then

Re: [OT] Best KDE-centric Distribution?

2008-01-14 Thread rgheck
M-L wrote: On Tue, 15 Jan 2008, rgheck shared this with us all: --} --} I've been using Fedora ever since I started using Linux, but the --} second-rate status of KDE under Fedora is starting to get to me, so I'm --} thinking about switching. But then: to what? I don't think Kubuntu is --}

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