Re: Re: Q: long table and chemical formula

2001-07-12 Thread Guenter Milde
On Wed, 11 Jul 2001 15:47:39 +0200 wrote Thomas de Grenier de Latour [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Guenter Milde wrote: PS: Question to the gurus: Could I have a function or macro that does this but also changes the font to roman? \bind C-S-underscoremath-insert _\mathrm{}

Re: Q: long table and chemical formula

2001-07-12 Thread Juergen Vigna
Sorry for being late on this but it is possible to create a tabular with M-x tabular-insert 80 2 were 80 is the rows and 2 the columns! This should help to create tabulars in ANY size. Jürgen P.S.: This is with lyx-1.1.6xxx. --

Re: Re: Q: long table and chemical formula

2001-07-12 Thread Andre Poenitz
(Dear documenters: could I have found it somewhere in the documentation?? -otherwise this is a documentation request) command-sequence is an awful hack and it not being documeented is a feature that should prevent users from using it excessivly in case the hack will change/be removed.

Re: Q: long table and chemical formula

2001-07-12 Thread Thomas de Grenier de Latour
Guenter Milde wrote: Thanks for the tip with command-sequence. Thanks for the tip with font-something, I was thinking it was only a text mode feature (I don't know why, this kind of fix idea you never verify). No more mathrm{blabla} in my formulas! -- Thomas.

Help with Lyx for windows

2001-07-12 Thread Fabrizio Giammatteo
Hi, My Lyx for windows doesn't work and I'm terrible sad about using Ms word instead, I installed lyx 1.1.6 fix2 c,cygwin, miktex and I have two x-servers: Exceed Xwin32 When I start Lyx I receive the message: Unable to open X display - Exiting, with all the x-servers above. Anyone can help

Re: Insert hspace in subfigure

2001-07-12 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 09:58:02AM +0200, Rainer Dorsch wrote: But that does not work, if I want to use it only in one float environment in the document... ...I think I will write the latex code. Then put the following at the beginning of the float you want to change

Re: Cannot see the invisible text

2001-07-12 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 06:24:11PM +, Paolo Pumilia wrote: How to change the colour for the 'invisible text' layout, in 'slide' document class? The default colour is too similar to the background; i prefer to change the former, but I cannot find a relevant option under

Re: Q: long table and chemical formula

2001-07-12 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 03:47:39PM +0200, Thomas de Grenier de Latour wrote: Could I have a function or macro that does this but also changes the font to roman? define strange shortcuts. Try something like this: \bind C-S-underscorecommand-sequence math-insert _; math-insert

Re: Footnote on the next page

2001-07-12 Thread Herbert Voss
Detlev Humann wrote: Detlev Humann wrote: (I know that Lyx/Latex sometimes splits a footnote over two pages, which isn´t very nice but acceptable. However, this is not my problem as I have interfootnotelinepenalty=1 in Latex preamble. The strange thing in my case is that

Re: Help with Lyx for windows

2001-07-12 Thread Tuukka Toivonen
On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Fabrizio Giammatteo wrote: When I start Lyx I receive the message: Unable to open X display - Exiting, with all the x-servers above. You could try setting environment variables like set DISPLAY=localhost:0 and replace localhost with your computer's name if the

Re: Help with Lyx for windows

2001-07-12 Thread Claus Hentschel
Hi, My Lyx for windows doesn't work and I'm terrible sad about using Ms word instead, I installed lyx 1.1.6 fix2 c,cygwin, miktex and I have two x-servers: Exceed Xwin32 When I start Lyx I receive the message: Unable to open X display - Exiting, with all the x-servers above. Anyone can

Re: menu not in German

2001-07-12 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Matthias == Matthias Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Matthias A little curious is that the help uses the LANG variable, Matthias not LANGUAGE like for the menu. Indeed, gettext uses LANGUAGE and then LANG, and help only uses LANG. We may want to change that... JMarc

Re: Footnote on the next page

2001-07-12 Thread Detlev Humann
Detlev Humann wrote: (I know that Lyx/Latex sometimes splits a footnote over two pages, which isn´t very nice but acceptable. However, this is not my problem as I have interfootnotelinepenalty=1 in Latex preamble. The strange thing in my case is that it doesn´t make a

Re: Footnote on the next page

2001-07-12 Thread Herbert Voss
Detlev Humann wrote: delte the whole latex preamble and all should work. Well, that seems to be a radical solution. (I already tried that to find out the reason for the behaviour.) If I delete the whole preamble then my redefined footnote indentation gets lost and I get a split

Something interesting to pass along

2001-07-12 Thread Michelle Dukich
Group: You may have seen my posts about trying to get what I called FloatNotes to be in a certain place in a document. In my research, I found in _The Latex Companion_ by Goossens, et.al., p. 149, you can go one step more than just h,t,p,b. There is also H. h only means try to put it here

UPDATE: LyX to (html,ps,pdf) script

2001-07-12 Thread Fernando Pérez
Update: A. Poenitz found a dumb quoting error I made in yesterday's posting of this script (note to self: don't post code at 3am when too tired to think). The attached version is fixed and should work (I *did* check it :-) Fernando. -- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 12 Jul

Acknowledgements and Abstract in report class??

2001-07-12 Thread number9
I am writing a thesis in Lyx... I am finished with the thesis (I hope) but I must add an acknowledgement page at the beginning right after the title page and an abstract page at the very end. I am using the report (textcomp) class to write it, and can not figure out how to do this. Both the ack

Re: Something interesting to pass along

2001-07-12 Thread Herbert Voss
Michelle Dukich wrote: You may have seen my posts about trying to get what I called FloatNotes to be in a certain place in a document. In my research, I found in _The Latex Companion_ by Goossens, et.al., p. 149, you can go one step more than just h,t,p,b. There is also H. h only means

Re: Footnote on the next page

2001-07-12 Thread Detlev Humann
\interfootnotelinepenalty=1 is possible it was your redefinition makefntext HErbert Sorry for one more email: Did I get you right that there is only one alternative (((ok, latinists know that there is always one alternative))): Either my indentation and footnotes appear sometimes

bibtex and the natdin package using command like citet and citep

2001-07-12 Thread Arnd Geldermann
Hallo, i am using the natdin package in combination with lyx 1.1.6 fix 1 in order to get a bibliography close to the german din 1505. I use the following customizing: preamble usepackage{natbib} and the stayle natdin.bst Normal cites are working finem, but the command \citet and \citep for

corloured rows in tables; colortbl package

2001-07-12 Thread Arnd Geldermann
Hello, i am using lyx 1.1.6 fix 1 and i want to colour rows in tables. For columns i use the command {\columncolor[gray]{.9}} and it works very well, but when i try to the rowcolor command i got some trouble. I add the package colortbl in the preamble. It doesn't work in lyx tables i tried

Ispell Problem

2001-07-12 Thread Amer Abufadel
Hello all, I have just finished installing Lyx on a win2k machine running Cygwin. When I want to spell check the document, the GUI freezes and it tells me that the spell checker has died and that I should install a dictionary. I am using American/English. I thought the dictionaries for

Re: corloured rows in tables; colortbl package

2001-07-12 Thread Herbert Voss
Arnd Geldermann wrote: i am using lyx 1.1.6 fix 1 and i want to colour rows in tables. For columns i use the command {\columncolor[gray]{.9}} and it works very well, but when i try to the rowcolor command i got some trouble. I add the package colortbl in the preamble. It doesn't work in

Re: Ispell Problem

2001-07-12 Thread Herbert Voss
Amer Abufadel wrote: I have just finished installing Lyx on a win2k machine running Cygwin. When I want to spell check the document, the GUI freezes and it tells me that the spell checker has died and that I should install a dictionary. I am using American/English. I thought the

Re: Ispell Problem

2001-07-12 Thread Amer Abufadel
I tried that, still it did not work.. - Original Message - From: Herbert Voss [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Amer Abufadel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2001 3:46 PM Subject: Re: Ispell Problem Amer Abufadel wrote: I have just finished installing Lyx

latex2html and InputIfFileExists

2001-07-12 Thread Thomas Templin
Im trying to export html via latex2html but it don't work. Remarks: I'm using a system-wide big include file with my own /newcommand definitions like \newcommand{\firma}[1]{\textbf{#1}}for word formating purposes. So I need a way to include this for a html output. This has to be done

Re: latex2html and InputIfFileExists

2001-07-12 Thread Fernando Pérez
On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Thomas Templin wrote: Im trying to export html via latex2html but it don't work. See my earlier message from a few hours ago (with subject line UPDATE: LyX to (html,ps,pdf) script). It's Perl script designed to do exactly that (plus giving you pdf and ps along the way),

Re: latex2html and InputIfFileExists

2001-07-12 Thread Thomas Templin
On Friday, 13. July 2001 00:25, Fernando Pérez wrote: On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Thomas Templin wrote: Im trying to export html via latex2html but it don't work. See my earlier message from a few hours ago (with subject line UPDATE: LyX to (html,ps,pdf) script). It's Perl script designed to do

ps2pdf

2001-07-12 Thread Myriam Abramson
Hi! I'm trying to convert some foiltex to pdf for a presentation. I put \usepackage[ps2pdf]{hyperref} in the latex preamble. ps2pdf works fine but the colors and the fonts come out terrible on acroread on the pc. Any ideas? Thanks, -- myriam IM: tokujawa

Re: ps2pdf

2001-07-12 Thread Rodrigo Esteves de Lima-Lopes
if you write n your preamble: \usepackage{times} it will deliver a much more readble pdf, but you might get a 'windows-like' font-effect. cheers []s lima-lopes R.E. de Lima-Lopes [EMAIL PROTECTED] GNU/Linux Registered User # 182240 On 12 Jul 2001, Myriam Abramson wrote:

Re: ps2pdf

2001-07-12 Thread Fernando Pérez
On 12 Jul 2001, Myriam Abramson wrote: Hi! I'm trying to convert some foiltex to pdf for a presentation. I put \usepackage[ps2pdf]{hyperref} in the latex preamble. ps2pdf works fine but the colors and the fonts come out terrible on acroread on the pc. Any ideas? Thanks, Here are

landscape slides truncated

2001-07-12 Thread Myriam Abramson
Hi! Thanks for everybody who fixed my font problem. Now what do I do with those landscape slides to come out correctly? Redo them? -- myriam As seen in a coffee shop in Monterey, CA, George W. Bush's counter: 1288 days left till he's gone

LyX + WinME + MikTeX

2001-07-12 Thread Mostafa Modirrousta
Hi! Getting LyX installed on my WinME was not really that easy :) compared to installing MikTeX + WinEdt; however, since I might recommend it for use on other PCs at work, Linux and Win2K, I tried to get a feeling of what it is and does. 1. Cygwin installed fine 2. X-Win32 installed fine

LyX + WinME + MikTeX

2001-07-12 Thread Mostafa Modirrousta
- Original Message - From: Mostafa Modirrousta To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Mostafa Modirrousta Sent: Friday, July 13, 2001 12:09 AM Subject: LyX + WinME + MikTeX Hi! Getting LyX installed on my WinME was not really that easy :) compared to installing

Re: landscape slides truncated

2001-07-12 Thread Allan Rae
On 12 Jul 2001, Myriam Abramson wrote: Hi! Thanks for everybody who fixed my font problem. Now what do I do with those landscape slides to come out correctly? Redo them? I am guessing that you are mixing landscape and portrait slides? I've always found that using RotateFoilhead or

Re: Re: Q: long table and chemical formula

2001-07-12 Thread Guenter Milde
On Wed, 11 Jul 2001 15:47:39 +0200 wrote Thomas de Grenier de Latour [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Guenter Milde wrote: PS: Question to the gurus: Could I have a function or macro that does this but also changes the font to roman? \bind C-S-underscoremath-insert _\mathrm{}

Re: Q: long table and chemical formula

2001-07-12 Thread Juergen Vigna
Sorry for being late on this but it is possible to create a tabular with M-x tabular-insert 80 2 were 80 is the rows and 2 the columns! This should help to create tabulars in ANY size. Jürgen P.S.: This is with lyx-1.1.6xxx. --

Re: Re: Q: long table and chemical formula

2001-07-12 Thread Andre Poenitz
(Dear documenters: could I have found it somewhere in the documentation?? -otherwise this is a documentation request) command-sequence is an awful hack and it not being documeented is a feature that should prevent users from using it excessivly in case the hack will change/be removed.

Re: Q: long table and chemical formula

2001-07-12 Thread Thomas de Grenier de Latour
Guenter Milde wrote: Thanks for the tip with command-sequence. Thanks for the tip with font-something, I was thinking it was only a text mode feature (I don't know why, this kind of fix idea you never verify). No more mathrm{blabla} in my formulas! -- Thomas.

Help with Lyx for windows

2001-07-12 Thread Fabrizio Giammatteo
Hi, My Lyx for windows doesn't work and I'm terrible sad about using Ms word instead, I installed lyx 1.1.6 fix2 c,cygwin, miktex and I have two x-servers: Exceed Xwin32 When I start Lyx I receive the message: Unable to open X display - Exiting, with all the x-servers above. Anyone can help

Re: Insert hspace in subfigure

2001-07-12 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 09:58:02AM +0200, Rainer Dorsch wrote: But that does not work, if I want to use it only in one float environment in the document... ...I think I will write the latex code. Then put the following at the beginning of the float you want to change

Re: Cannot see the invisible text

2001-07-12 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 06:24:11PM +, Paolo Pumilia wrote: How to change the colour for the 'invisible text' layout, in 'slide' document class? The default colour is too similar to the background; i prefer to change the former, but I cannot find a relevant option under

Re: Q: long table and chemical formula

2001-07-12 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 03:47:39PM +0200, Thomas de Grenier de Latour wrote: Could I have a function or macro that does this but also changes the font to roman? define strange shortcuts. Try something like this: \bind C-S-underscorecommand-sequence math-insert _; math-insert

Re: Footnote on the next page

2001-07-12 Thread Herbert Voss
Detlev Humann wrote: Detlev Humann wrote: (I know that Lyx/Latex sometimes splits a footnote over two pages, which isn´t very nice but acceptable. However, this is not my problem as I have interfootnotelinepenalty=1 in Latex preamble. The strange thing in my case is that

Re: Help with Lyx for windows

2001-07-12 Thread Tuukka Toivonen
On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Fabrizio Giammatteo wrote: When I start Lyx I receive the message: Unable to open X display - Exiting, with all the x-servers above. You could try setting environment variables like set DISPLAY=localhost:0 and replace localhost with your computer's name if the

Re: Help with Lyx for windows

2001-07-12 Thread Claus Hentschel
Hi, My Lyx for windows doesn't work and I'm terrible sad about using Ms word instead, I installed lyx 1.1.6 fix2 c,cygwin, miktex and I have two x-servers: Exceed Xwin32 When I start Lyx I receive the message: Unable to open X display - Exiting, with all the x-servers above. Anyone can

Re: menu not in German

2001-07-12 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Matthias == Matthias Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Matthias A little curious is that the help uses the LANG variable, Matthias not LANGUAGE like for the menu. Indeed, gettext uses LANGUAGE and then LANG, and help only uses LANG. We may want to change that... JMarc

Re: Footnote on the next page

2001-07-12 Thread Detlev Humann
Detlev Humann wrote: (I know that Lyx/Latex sometimes splits a footnote over two pages, which isn´t very nice but acceptable. However, this is not my problem as I have interfootnotelinepenalty=1 in Latex preamble. The strange thing in my case is that it doesn´t make a

Re: Footnote on the next page

2001-07-12 Thread Herbert Voss
Detlev Humann wrote: delte the whole latex preamble and all should work. Well, that seems to be a radical solution. (I already tried that to find out the reason for the behaviour.) If I delete the whole preamble then my redefined footnote indentation gets lost and I get a split

Something interesting to pass along

2001-07-12 Thread Michelle Dukich
Group: You may have seen my posts about trying to get what I called FloatNotes to be in a certain place in a document. In my research, I found in _The Latex Companion_ by Goossens, et.al., p. 149, you can go one step more than just h,t,p,b. There is also H. h only means try to put it here

UPDATE: LyX to (html,ps,pdf) script

2001-07-12 Thread Fernando Pérez
Update: A. Poenitz found a dumb quoting error I made in yesterday's posting of this script (note to self: don't post code at 3am when too tired to think). The attached version is fixed and should work (I *did* check it :-) Fernando. -- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 12 Jul

Acknowledgements and Abstract in report class??

2001-07-12 Thread number9
I am writing a thesis in Lyx... I am finished with the thesis (I hope) but I must add an acknowledgement page at the beginning right after the title page and an abstract page at the very end. I am using the report (textcomp) class to write it, and can not figure out how to do this. Both the ack

Re: Something interesting to pass along

2001-07-12 Thread Herbert Voss
Michelle Dukich wrote: You may have seen my posts about trying to get what I called FloatNotes to be in a certain place in a document. In my research, I found in _The Latex Companion_ by Goossens, et.al., p. 149, you can go one step more than just h,t,p,b. There is also H. h only means

Re: Footnote on the next page

2001-07-12 Thread Detlev Humann
\interfootnotelinepenalty=1 is possible it was your redefinition makefntext HErbert Sorry for one more email: Did I get you right that there is only one alternative (((ok, latinists know that there is always one alternative))): Either my indentation and footnotes appear sometimes

bibtex and the natdin package using command like citet and citep

2001-07-12 Thread Arnd Geldermann
Hallo, i am using the natdin package in combination with lyx 1.1.6 fix 1 in order to get a bibliography close to the german din 1505. I use the following customizing: preamble usepackage{natbib} and the stayle natdin.bst Normal cites are working finem, but the command \citet and \citep for

corloured rows in tables; colortbl package

2001-07-12 Thread Arnd Geldermann
Hello, i am using lyx 1.1.6 fix 1 and i want to colour rows in tables. For columns i use the command {\columncolor[gray]{.9}} and it works very well, but when i try to the rowcolor command i got some trouble. I add the package colortbl in the preamble. It doesn't work in lyx tables i tried

Ispell Problem

2001-07-12 Thread Amer Abufadel
Hello all, I have just finished installing Lyx on a win2k machine running Cygwin. When I want to spell check the document, the GUI freezes and it tells me that the spell checker has died and that I should install a dictionary. I am using American/English. I thought the dictionaries for

Re: corloured rows in tables; colortbl package

2001-07-12 Thread Herbert Voss
Arnd Geldermann wrote: i am using lyx 1.1.6 fix 1 and i want to colour rows in tables. For columns i use the command {\columncolor[gray]{.9}} and it works very well, but when i try to the rowcolor command i got some trouble. I add the package colortbl in the preamble. It doesn't work in

Re: Ispell Problem

2001-07-12 Thread Herbert Voss
Amer Abufadel wrote: I have just finished installing Lyx on a win2k machine running Cygwin. When I want to spell check the document, the GUI freezes and it tells me that the spell checker has died and that I should install a dictionary. I am using American/English. I thought the

Re: Ispell Problem

2001-07-12 Thread Amer Abufadel
I tried that, still it did not work.. - Original Message - From: Herbert Voss [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Amer Abufadel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2001 3:46 PM Subject: Re: Ispell Problem Amer Abufadel wrote: I have just finished installing Lyx

latex2html and InputIfFileExists

2001-07-12 Thread Thomas Templin
Im trying to export html via latex2html but it don't work. Remarks: I'm using a system-wide big include file with my own /newcommand definitions like \newcommand{\firma}[1]{\textbf{#1}}for word formating purposes. So I need a way to include this for a html output. This has to be done

Re: latex2html and InputIfFileExists

2001-07-12 Thread Fernando Pérez
On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Thomas Templin wrote: Im trying to export html via latex2html but it don't work. See my earlier message from a few hours ago (with subject line UPDATE: LyX to (html,ps,pdf) script). It's Perl script designed to do exactly that (plus giving you pdf and ps along the way),

Re: latex2html and InputIfFileExists

2001-07-12 Thread Thomas Templin
On Friday, 13. July 2001 00:25, Fernando Pérez wrote: On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Thomas Templin wrote: Im trying to export html via latex2html but it don't work. See my earlier message from a few hours ago (with subject line UPDATE: LyX to (html,ps,pdf) script). It's Perl script designed to do

ps2pdf

2001-07-12 Thread Myriam Abramson
Hi! I'm trying to convert some foiltex to pdf for a presentation. I put \usepackage[ps2pdf]{hyperref} in the latex preamble. ps2pdf works fine but the colors and the fonts come out terrible on acroread on the pc. Any ideas? Thanks, -- myriam IM: tokujawa

Re: ps2pdf

2001-07-12 Thread Rodrigo Esteves de Lima-Lopes
if you write n your preamble: \usepackage{times} it will deliver a much more readble pdf, but you might get a 'windows-like' font-effect. cheers []s lima-lopes R.E. de Lima-Lopes [EMAIL PROTECTED] GNU/Linux Registered User # 182240 On 12 Jul 2001, Myriam Abramson wrote:

Re: ps2pdf

2001-07-12 Thread Fernando Pérez
On 12 Jul 2001, Myriam Abramson wrote: Hi! I'm trying to convert some foiltex to pdf for a presentation. I put \usepackage[ps2pdf]{hyperref} in the latex preamble. ps2pdf works fine but the colors and the fonts come out terrible on acroread on the pc. Any ideas? Thanks, Here are

landscape slides truncated

2001-07-12 Thread Myriam Abramson
Hi! Thanks for everybody who fixed my font problem. Now what do I do with those landscape slides to come out correctly? Redo them? -- myriam As seen in a coffee shop in Monterey, CA, George W. Bush's counter: 1288 days left till he's gone

LyX + WinME + MikTeX

2001-07-12 Thread Mostafa Modirrousta
Hi! Getting LyX installed on my WinME was not really that easy :) compared to installing MikTeX + WinEdt; however, since I might recommend it for use on other PCs at work, Linux and Win2K, I tried to get a feeling of what it is and does. 1. Cygwin installed fine 2. X-Win32 installed fine

LyX + WinME + MikTeX

2001-07-12 Thread Mostafa Modirrousta
- Original Message - From: Mostafa Modirrousta To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Mostafa Modirrousta Sent: Friday, July 13, 2001 12:09 AM Subject: LyX + WinME + MikTeX Hi! Getting LyX installed on my WinME was not really that easy :) compared to installing

Re: landscape slides truncated

2001-07-12 Thread Allan Rae
On 12 Jul 2001, Myriam Abramson wrote: Hi! Thanks for everybody who fixed my font problem. Now what do I do with those landscape slides to come out correctly? Redo them? I am guessing that you are mixing landscape and portrait slides? I've always found that using RotateFoilhead or

Re: Re: Q: long table and chemical formula

2001-07-12 Thread Guenter Milde
On Wed, 11 Jul 2001 15:47:39 +0200 wrote Thomas de Grenier de Latour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Guenter Milde wrote: > > > > PS: Question to the gurus: > > > > Could I have a function or macro that does this but > > also changes the font to roman? > > > > \bind "C-S-underscore"

Re: Q: long table and chemical formula

2001-07-12 Thread Juergen Vigna
Sorry for being late on this but it is possible to create a tabular with M-x tabular-insert 80 2 were 80 is the rows and 2 the columns! This should help to create tabulars in ANY size. Jürgen P.S.: This is with lyx-1.1.6xxx. --

Re: Re: Q: long table and chemical formula

2001-07-12 Thread Andre Poenitz
> (Dear documenters: could I have found it somewhere in the documentation?? > ->otherwise this is a documentation request) command-sequence is an awful hack and it not being documeented is a "feature" that should prevent users from using it excessivly in case the hack will change/be removed.

Re: Q: long table and chemical formula

2001-07-12 Thread Thomas de Grenier de Latour
Guenter Milde wrote: > > Thanks for the tip with "command-sequence". > Thanks for the tip with "font-something", I was thinking it was only a text mode feature (I don't know why, this kind of fix idea you never verify). No more mathrm{blabla} in my formulas! -- Thomas.

Help with Lyx for windows

2001-07-12 Thread Fabrizio Giammatteo
Hi, My Lyx for windows doesn't work and I'm terrible sad about using Ms word instead, I installed lyx 1.1.6 fix2 c,cygwin, miktex and I have two x-servers: Exceed Xwin32 When I start Lyx I receive the message: Unable to open X display - Exiting, with all the x-servers above. Anyone can help

Re: Insert hspace in subfigure

2001-07-12 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 09:58:02AM +0200, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > > But that does not work, if I want to use it only in one float environment in > the document... > > ...I think I will write the latex code. Then put the following at the beginning of the float you want to change

Re: Cannot see the invisible text

2001-07-12 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 06:24:11PM +, Paolo Pumilia wrote: > How to change the colour for the 'invisible text' layout, in 'slide' > document class? > The default colour is too similar to the background; i prefer to change the > former, > but I cannot find a relevant option under

Re: Q: long table and chemical formula

2001-07-12 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 03:47:39PM +0200, Thomas de Grenier de Latour wrote: > > Could I have a function or macro that does this but > > also changes the font to roman? > > define strange shortcuts. Try something like this: > \bind "C-S-underscore""command-sequence math-insert _; >

Re: Footnote on the next page

2001-07-12 Thread Herbert Voss
Detlev Humann wrote: > > > > Detlev Humann wrote: > > > > > > (I know that Lyx/Latex sometimes splits a footnote over two pages, > > > which isn´t very nice but acceptable. However, this is not my problem > > > as I have interfootnotelinepenalty=1 in Latex preamble. The > > > strange thing

Re: Help with Lyx for windows

2001-07-12 Thread Tuukka Toivonen
On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Fabrizio Giammatteo wrote: > When I start Lyx I receive the message: Unable to open X display - Exiting, > with all the x-servers above. You could try setting environment variables like set DISPLAY=localhost:0 and replace localhost with your computer's name if the

Re: Help with Lyx for windows

2001-07-12 Thread Claus Hentschel
> Hi, > My Lyx for windows doesn't work and I'm terrible sad about using Ms word > instead, I installed lyx 1.1.6 fix2 c,cygwin, miktex and I have two x-servers: > > Exceed > Xwin32 > > When I start Lyx I receive the message: Unable to open X display - Exiting, > with all the x-servers above. > >

Re: menu not in German

2001-07-12 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Matthias" == Matthias Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Matthias> A little curious is that the help uses the LANG variable, Matthias> not LANGUAGE like for the menu. Indeed, gettext uses LANGUAGE and then LANG, and help only uses LANG. We may want to change that... JMarc

Re: Footnote on the next page

2001-07-12 Thread Detlev Humann
> > > > Detlev Humann wrote: > > > > > > > > (I know that Lyx/Latex sometimes splits a footnote over two pages, > > > > which isn´t very nice but acceptable. However, this is not my problem > > > > as I have interfootnotelinepenalty=1 in Latex preamble. The > > > > strange thing in my case is

Re: Footnote on the next page

2001-07-12 Thread Herbert Voss
Detlev Humann wrote: > > > > > delte the whole latex preamble and all should work. > > > Well, that seems to be a radical solution. (I already tried that to find out > the reason for the behaviour.) > If I delete the whole preamble then my redefined footnote indentation gets > lost and I get a

Something interesting to pass along

2001-07-12 Thread Michelle Dukich
Group: You may have seen my posts about trying to get what I called "FloatNotes" to be in a certain place in a document. In my research, I found in _The Latex Companion_ by Goossens, et.al., p. 149, you can go one step more than just h,t,p,b. There is also H. h only means "try to put it here"

UPDATE: LyX to (html,ps,pdf) script

2001-07-12 Thread Fernando Pérez
Update: A. Poenitz found a dumb quoting error I made in yesterday's posting of this script (note to self: don't post code at 3am when too tired to think). The attached version is fixed and should work (I *did* check it :-) Fernando. -- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 12 Jul

Acknowledgements and Abstract in report class??

2001-07-12 Thread number9
I am writing a thesis in Lyx... I am finished with the thesis (I hope) but I must add an acknowledgement page at the beginning right after the title page and an abstract page at the very end. I am using the report (textcomp) class to write it, and can not figure out how to do this. Both the ack

Re: Something interesting to pass along

2001-07-12 Thread Herbert Voss
Michelle Dukich wrote: > > You may have seen my posts about trying to get what I called "FloatNotes" to be > in a certain place in a document. In my research, I found in _The Latex > Companion_ by Goossens, et.al., p. 149, you can go one step more than just > h,t,p,b. There is also H. h only

Re: Footnote on the next page

2001-07-12 Thread Detlev Humann
> \interfootnotelinepenalty=1 > > is possible > > it was your redefinition makefntext > > HErbert > Sorry for one more email: Did I get you right that there is only one alternative (((ok, latinists know that there is always one alternative))): Either my indentation and footnotes appear

bibtex and the natdin package using command like citet and citep

2001-07-12 Thread Arnd Geldermann
Hallo, i am using the natdin package in combination with lyx 1.1.6 fix 1 in order to get a bibliography close to the german din 1505. I use the following customizing: preamble usepackage{natbib} and the stayle natdin.bst Normal cites are working finem, but the command \citet and \citep for

corloured rows in tables; colortbl package

2001-07-12 Thread Arnd Geldermann
Hello, i am using lyx 1.1.6 fix 1 and i want to colour rows in tables. For columns i use the command >{\columncolor[gray]{.9}} and it works very well, but when i try to the rowcolor command i got some trouble. I add the package colortbl in the preamble. It doesn't work in lyx tables i tried

Ispell Problem

2001-07-12 Thread Amer Abufadel
Hello all, I have just finished installing Lyx on a win2k machine running Cygwin. When I want to spell check the document, the GUI freezes and it tells me that the spell checker has died and that I should install a dictionary. I am using American/English. I thought the dictionaries for

Re: corloured rows in tables; colortbl package

2001-07-12 Thread Herbert Voss
Arnd Geldermann wrote: > > i am using lyx 1.1.6 fix 1 and i want to colour rows in tables. > For columns i use the command >{\columncolor[gray]{.9}} and it works > very well, > but when i try to the rowcolor command i got some trouble. > I add the package colortbl in the preamble. > It doesn't

Re: Ispell Problem

2001-07-12 Thread Herbert Voss
Amer Abufadel wrote: > > I have just finished installing Lyx on a win2k machine running Cygwin. > When I want to spell check the document, the GUI freezes and it tells me > that the spell checker has died and that I should install a dictionary. I > am using American/English. I thought the

Re: Ispell Problem

2001-07-12 Thread Amer Abufadel
I tried that, still it did not work.. - Original Message - From: "Herbert Voss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Amer Abufadel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2001 3:46 PM Subject: Re: Ispell Problem > Amer Abufadel wrote: > > > > I have just finished

latex2html and InputIfFileExists

2001-07-12 Thread Thomas Templin
Im trying to export html via latex2html but it don't work. Remarks: I'm using a system-wide big include file with my own /newcommand definitions like \newcommand{\firma}[1]{\textbf{#1}}for word formating purposes. So I need a way to include this for a html output. This has to be done

Re: latex2html and InputIfFileExists

2001-07-12 Thread Fernando Pérez
On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Thomas Templin wrote: > Im trying to export html via latex2html but it don't work. > See my earlier message from a few hours ago (with subject line UPDATE: LyX to (html,ps,pdf) script). It's Perl script designed to do exactly that (plus giving you pdf and ps along the

Re: latex2html and InputIfFileExists

2001-07-12 Thread Thomas Templin
On Friday, 13. July 2001 00:25, Fernando Pérez wrote: > On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Thomas Templin wrote: > > Im trying to export html via latex2html but it don't work. > > See my earlier message from a few hours ago (with subject line > UPDATE: LyX to (html,ps,pdf) script). It's Perl script designed >

ps2pdf

2001-07-12 Thread Myriam Abramson
Hi! I'm trying to convert some foiltex to pdf for a presentation. I put \usepackage[ps2pdf]{hyperref} in the latex preamble. ps2pdf works fine but the colors and the fonts come out terrible on acroread on the pc. Any ideas? Thanks, -- myriam IM: tokujawa

Re: ps2pdf

2001-07-12 Thread Rodrigo Esteves de Lima-Lopes
if you write n your preamble: \usepackage{times} it will deliver a much more readble pdf, but you might get a 'windows-like' font-effect. cheers []s lima-lopes R.E. de Lima-Lopes [EMAIL PROTECTED] GNU/Linux Registered User # 182240 On 12 Jul 2001, Myriam Abramson wrote:

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