Re: conversion to open doc format and tables

2008-06-11 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Maria Gouskova wrote: Does anyone know why conversion from LyX to Open Document format adds blank rows to tables? I'd say about three extra blank rows in the Open Doc file for each row in the original LyX document. Even when the simplest table is converted, an extra cell is added at the

Re: greek fonts

2008-06-11 Thread G. Milde
On 10.06.08, Pavel Sanda wrote: On 10.06.08, Pavel Sanda wrote: now the next step :) i see latex error that utf8x.def file is missing. Where you able to select utf8x font encoding from the LyX gui? i dont think this is possible. My mistake. You cannot choose font encoding from

Re: pgf and external table plot

2008-06-11 Thread Willem van Engen
[referencing external file inside ERT] It occurs to me that a simpler solution might be to put an absolute reference to the file in the ERT. LyX still will not copy it to the temp directory, but it won't need to. Hmm that makes sense, good idea :) Is there a way to have the

Re: pgf and external table plot

2008-06-11 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Willem van Engen wrote: [referencing external file inside ERT] It occurs to me that a simpler solution might be to put an absolute reference to the file in the ERT. LyX still will not copy it to the temp directory, but it won't need to. Hmm that makes sense, good idea :) Is there a

Re: greek fonts

2008-06-11 Thread Pavel Sanda
Normally LyX checks the package availability for any extensions, so this might count as a (minor) LyX bug, no i dont have this package locally, so its not lyx problem. It is a lyx problem if you can actively set DocumentSettingsLanguageEncoding to utf8x while the package ucs (and

Re: greek fonts

2008-06-11 Thread Pavel Sanda
On 10 Jun 2008, G. Milde wrote: On 10.06.08, Anthony Campbell wrote: I tried to use Lyx for ancient Greek but the circumflex (tilde) keeps appearing before the letter instead of above it. In most fonts, even in the Standard glyph list of the Unicode

Re: greek fonts

2008-06-11 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 10 Jun 2008, G. Milde wrote: On 10.06.08, Anthony Campbell wrote: I tried to use Lyx for ancient Greek but the circumflex (tilde) keeps appearing before the letter instead of above it. In most fonts, even in the Standard glyph list of the Unicode consortium

Line spacing in author

2008-06-11 Thread Rune Schjellerup Philosof
Hi I'm trying to change the line spacing in the author environment (in a report). Lyx shows the change perfectly, but when I view it in pdf or dvi the line spacing setting is ignored. Even when I try to insert vertical spaces they are partly ignored. Actually the size of first vertical space

Re: greek fonts

2008-06-11 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 11 Jun 2008, Pavel Sanda wrote: On 10 Jun 2008, G. Milde wrote: On 10.06.08, Anthony Campbell wrote: I tried to use Lyx for ancient Greek but the circumflex (tilde) keeps appearing before the letter instead of above it. In most fonts, even in the

Re: greek fonts

2008-06-11 Thread Rune Schjellerup Philosof
Anthony Campbell skrev: On 11 Jun 2008, Pavel Sanda wrote: On 10 Jun 2008, G. Milde wrote: On 10.06.08, Anthony Campbell wrote: I tried to use Lyx for ancient Greek but the circumflex (tilde) keeps appearing before the letter instead of above it. In most

Re: greek fonts

2008-06-11 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 11 Jun 2008, Rune Schjellerup Philosof wrote: Anthony Campbell skrev: On 11 Jun 2008, Pavel Sanda wrote: On 10 Jun 2008, G. Milde wrote: On 10.06.08, Anthony Campbell wrote: I tried to use Lyx for ancient Greek but the circumflex (tilde) keeps appearing before the

Nomenclature

2008-06-11 Thread Rune Schjellerup Philosof
Hi I'm trying to make a nomenclature list, however, does some strange things. If I put a nomenclature (MS) in a section environment then the list becomes: LC Liquid Chromatography, page 13 MS MASS SPECTROMETRY, page 8–10 MS MASS SPECTROMETRY, page 11 MS MASS SPECTROMETRY, page 12, 13 MS Mass

Re: greek fonts

2008-06-11 Thread G. Milde
On 11.06.08, Anthony Campbell wrote: On 10 Jun 2008, G. Milde wrote: On 10.06.08, Anthony Campbell wrote: I tried to use Lyx for ancient Greek but the circumflex (tilde) keeps appearing before the letter instead of above it. Unfortunately, lyx currently only

Re: greek fonts

2008-06-11 Thread G. Milde
On 11.06.08, Pavel Sanda wrote: Normally LyX checks the package availability for any extensions, so this might count as a (minor) LyX bug, no i dont have this package locally, so its not lyx problem. It is a lyx problem if you can actively set DocumentSettingsLanguageEncoding

Re: greek fonts

2008-06-11 Thread Pavel Sanda
With this fix, your lyx example can be set to use the language Greek (polytonic). However, as the tilde acts as a non-breakable space in LaTeX, it is escaped by LyX (converted to \asciitilde) and hence the example will only work right, if you put the tilde (or the whole text) in an ERT box

Re: greek fonts

2008-06-11 Thread Pavel Sanda
it. When you put tilde-accent into the command buffer and then strike the desired key, sorry i meant accent-tilde pavel

Re: greek fonts

2008-06-11 Thread Pavel Sanda
is tetex supposed to work with the chosen encoding or do i need texlive? what tex distribution do you use? utf8x.def is part of the ucs package for comprehensive unicode support. I use the texlive packages from Debian/testing which contain ucs in texlive-latex-recommended. I do not

Re: greek fonts

2008-06-11 Thread Pavel Sanda
But this is inconsistent with handling of other extensions. Editing in LyX works even without any tex distribution, still reconfigure checks availability of fonts, classes and packages -- but not inputenc nor ucs. which is a different story then prohibit this encoding ;) pavel

Re: greek fonts

2008-06-11 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 11 Jun 2008, G. Milde wrote: Unfortunately, lyx currently only supports modern Greek, but has no support for polytonic Greek (babel option polutonikogreek). However, this can be easily fixed by adding polutonikogreek to the languages file and re-configuring: ---

Re: Line spacing in author

2008-06-11 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 3:37 AM, Rune Schjellerup Philosof [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I'm trying to change the line spacing in the author environment (in a report). Lyx shows the change perfectly, but when I view it in pdf or dvi the line spacing setting is ignored. Even when I try to

Re: Line spacing in author

2008-06-11 Thread Rune Schjellerup Philosof
Bob Lounsbury skrev: On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 3:37 AM, Rune Schjellerup Philosof [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I'm trying to change the line spacing in the author environment (in a report). Lyx shows the change perfectly, but when I view it in pdf or dvi the line spacing setting is ignored.

Re: greek fonts

2008-06-11 Thread Pavel Sanda
On 11 Jun 2008, G. Milde wrote: It still doesn't work here. That is, the tilde comes out before the letter, not on top of it. But I think this is something to do with the current version of Latex, not Lyx, because the same thing is now happening in native Latex as well. Looks like I

Re: greek fonts

2008-06-11 Thread G. Milde
On 11.06.08, Pavel Sanda wrote: Question to the developers: Would it be possible to pass the tilde '~' to LaTeX as-is if the language is set to polutonikogreek? please correct me if i'm wrong, but i think this is wrong direction. how will you determine nonbreak. space vs tilde accent then?

Re: Line spacing in author

2008-06-11 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 8:44 AM, Rune Schjellerup Philosof [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bob Lounsbury skrev: On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 3:37 AM, Rune Schjellerup Philosof [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I'm trying to change the line spacing in the author environment (in a report). Lyx shows the

Re: greek fonts

2008-06-11 Thread G. Milde
On 11.06.08, Anthony Campbell wrote: It still doesn't work here. That is, the tilde comes out before the letter, not on top of it. But I think this is something to do with the current version of Latex, not Lyx, because the same thing is now happening in native Latex as well. Strange.

Re: greek fonts

2008-06-11 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 11 Jun 2008, G. Milde wrote: On 11.06.08, Anthony Campbell wrote: It still doesn't work here. That is, the tilde comes out before the letter, not on top of it. But I think this is something to do with the current version of Latex, not Lyx, because the same thing is now happening in

Re: Line spacing in author

2008-06-11 Thread Rune Schjellerup Philosof
Bob Lounsbury skrev: On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 8:44 AM, Rune Schjellerup Philosof [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bob Lounsbury skrev: On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 3:37 AM, Rune Schjellerup Philosof [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to change the line spacing in the author environment (in a

Re: Line spacing in author

2008-06-11 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 10:04 AM, Rune Schjellerup Philosof [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bob Lounsbury skrev: On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 8:44 AM, Rune Schjellerup Philosof [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bob Lounsbury skrev: On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 3:37 AM, Rune Schjellerup Philosof [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Line spacing in author

2008-06-11 Thread Rune Schjellerup Philosof
Bob Lounsbury skrev: On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 10:04 AM, Rune Schjellerup Philosof [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bob Lounsbury skrev: On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 8:44 AM, Rune Schjellerup Philosof [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bob Lounsbury skrev: On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 3:37 AM,

Spell checking problems

2008-06-11 Thread RyanC
Hello, LyX 1.5.3 on Mepis Linux does not seem to be able to make use of any of my spell checking libraries. I'm pretty sure I have them all installed - ispell, aspell, etc; American and British English. With ispell I get: The spellchecker could not be started Can't open

Short indexes reference

2008-06-11 Thread MonAmiPierrot
Hello all, this is my first time in this very useful forum! As a historian (of opera) I use the analytical index to refer to people's name and sometimes to their works. But I find really annoying to write every single time in the index line Verdi, Giuseppe) in Lyx (or a LaTeX editor).

Re: Line spacing in author

2008-06-11 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 12:25 PM, Rune Schjellerup Philosof [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nice, the workaround seems to work. Anoying when LaTeX is so much worse at producing the desired result than Lyx. And no errormessages, even though they probably wouldn't have made much sense, they rarely do.

Re: Line spacing in author

2008-06-11 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 1:34 PM, Bob Lounsbury [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 12:25 PM, Rune Schjellerup Philosof [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nice, the workaround seems to work. Anoying when LaTeX is so much worse at producing the desired result than Lyx. And no errormessages,

Re: Line spacing in author

2008-06-11 Thread Rune Schjellerup Philosof
Bob Lounsbury skrev: I agree there are usability issues, but once you play with the program more you get used to those and they transform from usability issues to LaTeX formatting guidelines :-}. Then you learn how to work with those guidelines. Hope you keep plugging away with LyX, it really

Re: greek fonts (summary?)

2008-06-11 Thread Pavel Sanda
Question to the developers: Would it be possible to pass the tilde '~' to LaTeX as-is if the language is set to polutonikogreek? please correct me if i'm wrong, but i think this is wrong direction. how will you determine nonbreak. space vs tilde accent then? The same way as

Re: greek fonts (summary?)

2008-06-11 Thread Rune Schjellerup Philosof
Pavel Sanda skrev: (or even hard code ~ as a dead key). On some keyboard layouts ~ is a dead key by default (danish for instance). My guess is that people, who wish to write greek, use such a keyboard layout (or changes to one). I wonder why tilde is a dead key on danish keyboards, we

Re: conversion to open doc format and tables

2008-06-11 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Maria Gouskova wrote: Does anyone know why conversion from LyX to Open Document format adds blank rows to tables? I'd say about three extra blank rows in the Open Doc file for each row in the original LyX document. Even when the simplest table is converted, an extra cell is added at the

Re: greek fonts

2008-06-11 Thread G. Milde
On 10.06.08, Pavel Sanda wrote: On 10.06.08, Pavel Sanda wrote: now the next step :) i see latex error that utf8x.def file is missing. Where you able to select utf8x font encoding from the LyX gui? i dont think this is possible. My mistake. You cannot choose font encoding from

Re: pgf and external table plot

2008-06-11 Thread Willem van Engen
[referencing external file inside ERT] It occurs to me that a simpler solution might be to put an absolute reference to the file in the ERT. LyX still will not copy it to the temp directory, but it won't need to. Hmm that makes sense, good idea :) Is there a way to have the

Re: pgf and external table plot

2008-06-11 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Willem van Engen wrote: [referencing external file inside ERT] It occurs to me that a simpler solution might be to put an absolute reference to the file in the ERT. LyX still will not copy it to the temp directory, but it won't need to. Hmm that makes sense, good idea :) Is there a

Re: greek fonts

2008-06-11 Thread Pavel Sanda
Normally LyX checks the package availability for any extensions, so this might count as a (minor) LyX bug, no i dont have this package locally, so its not lyx problem. It is a lyx problem if you can actively set DocumentSettingsLanguageEncoding to utf8x while the package ucs (and

Re: greek fonts

2008-06-11 Thread Pavel Sanda
On 10 Jun 2008, G. Milde wrote: On 10.06.08, Anthony Campbell wrote: I tried to use Lyx for ancient Greek but the circumflex (tilde) keeps appearing before the letter instead of above it. In most fonts, even in the Standard glyph list of the Unicode

Re: greek fonts

2008-06-11 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 10 Jun 2008, G. Milde wrote: On 10.06.08, Anthony Campbell wrote: I tried to use Lyx for ancient Greek but the circumflex (tilde) keeps appearing before the letter instead of above it. In most fonts, even in the Standard glyph list of the Unicode consortium

Line spacing in author

2008-06-11 Thread Rune Schjellerup Philosof
Hi I'm trying to change the line spacing in the author environment (in a report). Lyx shows the change perfectly, but when I view it in pdf or dvi the line spacing setting is ignored. Even when I try to insert vertical spaces they are partly ignored. Actually the size of first vertical space

Re: greek fonts

2008-06-11 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 11 Jun 2008, Pavel Sanda wrote: On 10 Jun 2008, G. Milde wrote: On 10.06.08, Anthony Campbell wrote: I tried to use Lyx for ancient Greek but the circumflex (tilde) keeps appearing before the letter instead of above it. In most fonts, even in the

Re: greek fonts

2008-06-11 Thread Rune Schjellerup Philosof
Anthony Campbell skrev: On 11 Jun 2008, Pavel Sanda wrote: On 10 Jun 2008, G. Milde wrote: On 10.06.08, Anthony Campbell wrote: I tried to use Lyx for ancient Greek but the circumflex (tilde) keeps appearing before the letter instead of above it. In most

Re: greek fonts

2008-06-11 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 11 Jun 2008, Rune Schjellerup Philosof wrote: Anthony Campbell skrev: On 11 Jun 2008, Pavel Sanda wrote: On 10 Jun 2008, G. Milde wrote: On 10.06.08, Anthony Campbell wrote: I tried to use Lyx for ancient Greek but the circumflex (tilde) keeps appearing before the

Nomenclature

2008-06-11 Thread Rune Schjellerup Philosof
Hi I'm trying to make a nomenclature list, however, does some strange things. If I put a nomenclature (MS) in a section environment then the list becomes: LC Liquid Chromatography, page 13 MS MASS SPECTROMETRY, page 8–10 MS MASS SPECTROMETRY, page 11 MS MASS SPECTROMETRY, page 12, 13 MS Mass

Re: greek fonts

2008-06-11 Thread G. Milde
On 11.06.08, Anthony Campbell wrote: On 10 Jun 2008, G. Milde wrote: On 10.06.08, Anthony Campbell wrote: I tried to use Lyx for ancient Greek but the circumflex (tilde) keeps appearing before the letter instead of above it. Unfortunately, lyx currently only

Re: greek fonts

2008-06-11 Thread G. Milde
On 11.06.08, Pavel Sanda wrote: Normally LyX checks the package availability for any extensions, so this might count as a (minor) LyX bug, no i dont have this package locally, so its not lyx problem. It is a lyx problem if you can actively set DocumentSettingsLanguageEncoding

Re: greek fonts

2008-06-11 Thread Pavel Sanda
With this fix, your lyx example can be set to use the language Greek (polytonic). However, as the tilde acts as a non-breakable space in LaTeX, it is escaped by LyX (converted to \asciitilde) and hence the example will only work right, if you put the tilde (or the whole text) in an ERT box

Re: greek fonts

2008-06-11 Thread Pavel Sanda
it. When you put tilde-accent into the command buffer and then strike the desired key, sorry i meant accent-tilde pavel

Re: greek fonts

2008-06-11 Thread Pavel Sanda
is tetex supposed to work with the chosen encoding or do i need texlive? what tex distribution do you use? utf8x.def is part of the ucs package for comprehensive unicode support. I use the texlive packages from Debian/testing which contain ucs in texlive-latex-recommended. I do not

Re: greek fonts

2008-06-11 Thread Pavel Sanda
But this is inconsistent with handling of other extensions. Editing in LyX works even without any tex distribution, still reconfigure checks availability of fonts, classes and packages -- but not inputenc nor ucs. which is a different story then prohibit this encoding ;) pavel

Re: greek fonts

2008-06-11 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 11 Jun 2008, G. Milde wrote: Unfortunately, lyx currently only supports modern Greek, but has no support for polytonic Greek (babel option polutonikogreek). However, this can be easily fixed by adding polutonikogreek to the languages file and re-configuring: ---

Re: Line spacing in author

2008-06-11 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 3:37 AM, Rune Schjellerup Philosof [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I'm trying to change the line spacing in the author environment (in a report). Lyx shows the change perfectly, but when I view it in pdf or dvi the line spacing setting is ignored. Even when I try to

Re: Line spacing in author

2008-06-11 Thread Rune Schjellerup Philosof
Bob Lounsbury skrev: On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 3:37 AM, Rune Schjellerup Philosof [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I'm trying to change the line spacing in the author environment (in a report). Lyx shows the change perfectly, but when I view it in pdf or dvi the line spacing setting is ignored.

Re: greek fonts

2008-06-11 Thread Pavel Sanda
On 11 Jun 2008, G. Milde wrote: It still doesn't work here. That is, the tilde comes out before the letter, not on top of it. But I think this is something to do with the current version of Latex, not Lyx, because the same thing is now happening in native Latex as well. Looks like I

Re: greek fonts

2008-06-11 Thread G. Milde
On 11.06.08, Pavel Sanda wrote: Question to the developers: Would it be possible to pass the tilde '~' to LaTeX as-is if the language is set to polutonikogreek? please correct me if i'm wrong, but i think this is wrong direction. how will you determine nonbreak. space vs tilde accent then?

Re: Line spacing in author

2008-06-11 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 8:44 AM, Rune Schjellerup Philosof [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bob Lounsbury skrev: On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 3:37 AM, Rune Schjellerup Philosof [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I'm trying to change the line spacing in the author environment (in a report). Lyx shows the

Re: greek fonts

2008-06-11 Thread G. Milde
On 11.06.08, Anthony Campbell wrote: It still doesn't work here. That is, the tilde comes out before the letter, not on top of it. But I think this is something to do with the current version of Latex, not Lyx, because the same thing is now happening in native Latex as well. Strange.

Re: greek fonts

2008-06-11 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 11 Jun 2008, G. Milde wrote: On 11.06.08, Anthony Campbell wrote: It still doesn't work here. That is, the tilde comes out before the letter, not on top of it. But I think this is something to do with the current version of Latex, not Lyx, because the same thing is now happening in

Re: Line spacing in author

2008-06-11 Thread Rune Schjellerup Philosof
Bob Lounsbury skrev: On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 8:44 AM, Rune Schjellerup Philosof [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bob Lounsbury skrev: On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 3:37 AM, Rune Schjellerup Philosof [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to change the line spacing in the author environment (in a

Re: Line spacing in author

2008-06-11 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 10:04 AM, Rune Schjellerup Philosof [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bob Lounsbury skrev: On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 8:44 AM, Rune Schjellerup Philosof [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bob Lounsbury skrev: On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 3:37 AM, Rune Schjellerup Philosof [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Line spacing in author

2008-06-11 Thread Rune Schjellerup Philosof
Bob Lounsbury skrev: On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 10:04 AM, Rune Schjellerup Philosof [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bob Lounsbury skrev: On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 8:44 AM, Rune Schjellerup Philosof [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bob Lounsbury skrev: On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 3:37 AM,

Spell checking problems

2008-06-11 Thread RyanC
Hello, LyX 1.5.3 on Mepis Linux does not seem to be able to make use of any of my spell checking libraries. I'm pretty sure I have them all installed - ispell, aspell, etc; American and British English. With ispell I get: The spellchecker could not be started Can't open

Short indexes reference

2008-06-11 Thread MonAmiPierrot
Hello all, this is my first time in this very useful forum! As a historian (of opera) I use the analytical index to refer to people's name and sometimes to their works. But I find really annoying to write every single time in the index line Verdi, Giuseppe) in Lyx (or a LaTeX editor).

Re: Line spacing in author

2008-06-11 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 12:25 PM, Rune Schjellerup Philosof [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nice, the workaround seems to work. Anoying when LaTeX is so much worse at producing the desired result than Lyx. And no errormessages, even though they probably wouldn't have made much sense, they rarely do.

Re: Line spacing in author

2008-06-11 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 1:34 PM, Bob Lounsbury [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 12:25 PM, Rune Schjellerup Philosof [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nice, the workaround seems to work. Anoying when LaTeX is so much worse at producing the desired result than Lyx. And no errormessages,

Re: Line spacing in author

2008-06-11 Thread Rune Schjellerup Philosof
Bob Lounsbury skrev: I agree there are usability issues, but once you play with the program more you get used to those and they transform from usability issues to LaTeX formatting guidelines :-}. Then you learn how to work with those guidelines. Hope you keep plugging away with LyX, it really

Re: greek fonts (summary?)

2008-06-11 Thread Pavel Sanda
Question to the developers: Would it be possible to pass the tilde '~' to LaTeX as-is if the language is set to polutonikogreek? please correct me if i'm wrong, but i think this is wrong direction. how will you determine nonbreak. space vs tilde accent then? The same way as

Re: greek fonts (summary?)

2008-06-11 Thread Rune Schjellerup Philosof
Pavel Sanda skrev: (or even hard code ~ as a dead key). On some keyboard layouts ~ is a dead key by default (danish for instance). My guess is that people, who wish to write greek, use such a keyboard layout (or changes to one). I wonder why tilde is a dead key on danish keyboards, we

Re: conversion to open doc format and tables

2008-06-11 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Maria Gouskova wrote: > Does anyone know why conversion from LyX to Open Document format adds > blank rows to tables? I'd say about three extra blank rows in the Open > Doc file for each row in the original LyX document. Even when the > simplest table is converted, an extra cell is added at the

Re: greek fonts

2008-06-11 Thread G. Milde
On 10.06.08, Pavel Sanda wrote: > > On 10.06.08, Pavel Sanda wrote: > > > > > now the next step :) i see latex error that utf8x.def file is missing. > > > > Where you able to select utf8x font encoding from the LyX gui? > i dont think this is possible. My mistake. You cannot choose font

Re: pgf and external table plot

2008-06-11 Thread Willem van Engen
> > > > [referencing external file inside ERT] > > > > It occurs to me that a simpler solution might be to put an absolute > reference to the file in the ERT. LyX still will not copy it to the > temp directory, but it won't need to. Hmm that makes sense, good idea :) Is there a way to

Re: pgf and external table plot

2008-06-11 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Willem van Engen wrote: [referencing external file inside ERT] It occurs to me that a simpler solution might be to put an absolute reference to the file in the ERT. LyX still will not copy it to the temp directory, but it won't need to. Hmm that makes sense, good idea :) Is there a

Re: greek fonts

2008-06-11 Thread Pavel Sanda
> > > Normally LyX checks the package availability for any extensions, so this > > > might count as a (minor) LyX bug, > > > no i dont have this package locally, so its not lyx problem. > > It is a lyx problem if you can actively set > Document>Settings>Language>Encoding to utf8x while the

Re: greek fonts

2008-06-11 Thread Pavel Sanda
> On 10 Jun 2008, G. Milde wrote: > > On 10.06.08, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > I tried to use Lyx for ancient Greek but the circumflex (tilde) > > > > > > > keeps > > > > > > > appearing before the letter instead of above it. > > > > > > > > In most fonts, even in the

Re: greek fonts

2008-06-11 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 10 Jun 2008, G. Milde wrote: > On 10.06.08, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > I tried to use Lyx for ancient Greek but the circumflex (tilde) > > > > > > keeps > > > > > > appearing before the letter instead of above it. > > > > > > In most fonts, even in the "Standard glyph

Line spacing in author

2008-06-11 Thread Rune Schjellerup Philosof
Hi I'm trying to change the line spacing in the author environment (in a report). Lyx shows the change perfectly, but when I view it in pdf or dvi the line spacing setting is ignored. Even when I try to insert vertical spaces they are partly ignored. Actually the size of first vertical space

Re: greek fonts

2008-06-11 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 11 Jun 2008, Pavel Sanda wrote: > > On 10 Jun 2008, G. Milde wrote: > > > On 10.06.08, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I tried to use Lyx for ancient Greek but the circumflex (tilde) > > > > > > > > keeps > > > > > > > > appearing before the letter instead of above it. >

Re: greek fonts

2008-06-11 Thread Rune Schjellerup Philosof
Anthony Campbell skrev: On 11 Jun 2008, Pavel Sanda wrote: On 10 Jun 2008, G. Milde wrote: On 10.06.08, Anthony Campbell wrote: I tried to use Lyx for ancient Greek but the circumflex (tilde) keeps appearing before the letter instead of above it. In most

Re: greek fonts

2008-06-11 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 11 Jun 2008, Rune Schjellerup Philosof wrote: > Anthony Campbell skrev: >> On 11 Jun 2008, Pavel Sanda wrote: >> On 10 Jun 2008, G. Milde wrote: > On 10.06.08, Anthony Campbell wrote: > >> I tried to use Lyx for ancient Greek but the circumflex

Nomenclature

2008-06-11 Thread Rune Schjellerup Philosof
Hi I'm trying to make a nomenclature list, however, does some strange things. If I put a nomenclature (MS) in a section environment then the list becomes: LC Liquid Chromatography, page 13 MS MASS SPECTROMETRY, page 8–10 MS MASS SPECTROMETRY, page 11 MS MASS SPECTROMETRY, page 12, 13 MS Mass

Re: greek fonts

2008-06-11 Thread G. Milde
On 11.06.08, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 10 Jun 2008, G. Milde wrote: > > On 10.06.08, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > I tried to use Lyx for ancient Greek but the circumflex > > > > > > > (tilde) keeps appearing before the letter instead of above > > > > > > > it.

Re: greek fonts

2008-06-11 Thread G. Milde
On 11.06.08, Pavel Sanda wrote: > > > > Normally LyX checks the package availability for any extensions, > > > > so this might count as a (minor) LyX bug, > > > > > no i dont have this package locally, so its not lyx problem. > > > > It is a lyx problem if you can actively set > >

Re: greek fonts

2008-06-11 Thread Pavel Sanda
> With this fix, your lyx example can be set to use the language "Greek > (polytonic)". > > However, as the tilde acts as a non-breakable space in LaTeX, it is > escaped by LyX (converted to \asciitilde) and hence the example will only > work right, if you put the tilde (or the whole text) in an

Re: greek fonts

2008-06-11 Thread Pavel Sanda
> it. When you put "tilde-accent" into the command buffer and then strike the > desired key, sorry i meant "accent-tilde" > > pavel

Re: greek fonts

2008-06-11 Thread Pavel Sanda
> > is tetex supposed to work with the chosen encoding or do i need texlive? > > what tex distribution do you use? > > utf8x.def is part of the "ucs" package for comprehensive unicode support. > > I use the texlive packages from Debian/testing which contain ucs in > texlive-latex-recommended. >

Re: greek fonts

2008-06-11 Thread Pavel Sanda
> But this is inconsistent with handling of other extensions. > Editing in LyX works even without any tex distribution, still > reconfigure checks availability of fonts, classes and packages -- > but not inputenc nor ucs. which is a different story then prohibit this encoding ;) pavel

Re: greek fonts

2008-06-11 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 11 Jun 2008, G. Milde wrote: > > Unfortunately, lyx currently only supports modern Greek, but has no > support for polytonic Greek (babel option polutonikogreek). > > However, this can be easily fixed by adding polutonikogreek to the > languages file and re-configuring: > > ---

Re: Line spacing in author

2008-06-11 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 3:37 AM, Rune Schjellerup Philosof <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > I'm trying to change the line spacing in the author environment (in a > report). > Lyx shows the change perfectly, but when I view it in pdf or dvi the line > spacing setting is ignored. > Even when I

Re: Line spacing in author

2008-06-11 Thread Rune Schjellerup Philosof
Bob Lounsbury skrev: On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 3:37 AM, Rune Schjellerup Philosof <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi I'm trying to change the line spacing in the author environment (in a report). Lyx shows the change perfectly, but when I view it in pdf or dvi the line spacing setting is ignored.

Re: greek fonts

2008-06-11 Thread Pavel Sanda
> On 11 Jun 2008, G. Milde wrote: > It still doesn't work here. That is, the tilde comes out before the > letter, not on top of it. > > But I think this is something to do with the current version of Latex, > not Lyx, because the same thing is now happening in native Latex as > well. > > Looks

Re: greek fonts

2008-06-11 Thread G. Milde
On 11.06.08, Pavel Sanda wrote: > > Question to the developers: Would it be possible to pass the tilde '~' > > to LaTeX as-is if the language is set to polutonikogreek? > please correct me if i'm wrong, but i think this is wrong direction. > how will you determine nonbreak. space vs tilde accent

Re: Line spacing in author

2008-06-11 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 8:44 AM, Rune Schjellerup Philosof <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bob Lounsbury skrev: >> >> On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 3:37 AM, Rune Schjellerup Philosof >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> >>> Hi >>> >>> I'm trying to change the line spacing in the author environment (in a

Re: greek fonts

2008-06-11 Thread G. Milde
On 11.06.08, Anthony Campbell wrote: > It still doesn't work here. That is, the tilde comes out before the > letter, not on top of it. > But I think this is something to do with the current version of Latex, > not Lyx, because the same thing is now happening in native Latex as > well. Strange.

Re: greek fonts

2008-06-11 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 11 Jun 2008, G. Milde wrote: > On 11.06.08, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > It still doesn't work here. That is, the tilde comes out before the > > letter, not on top of it. > > > But I think this is something to do with the current version of Latex, > > not Lyx, because the same thing is now

Re: Line spacing in author

2008-06-11 Thread Rune Schjellerup Philosof
Bob Lounsbury skrev: On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 8:44 AM, Rune Schjellerup Philosof <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Bob Lounsbury skrev: On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 3:37 AM, Rune Schjellerup Philosof <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm trying to change the line spacing in the author environment (in a

Re: Line spacing in author

2008-06-11 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 10:04 AM, Rune Schjellerup Philosof <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bob Lounsbury skrev: >> >> On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 8:44 AM, Rune Schjellerup Philosof >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> >>> Bob Lounsbury skrev: >>> On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 3:37 AM, Rune

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