Re: sources?

2006-07-07 Thread Georg Baum
Srinivas Nedunuri wrote: I'm sorry but I dont see a configure. Nor do I see a INSTALL.scons you referred to in your previous email. Also there is no src directory Your unpacker for tar files is too old. You need to get one that understands the ustar format. tar (GNU tar) 1.15.1 works for me, I

Re: LateX file ... not found

2006-07-07 Thread Sven Schreiber
(you forgot to send to the list as well) Alexander Braun schrieb: Am Montag, 3. Juli 2006 10:33 schrieben Sie: Alexander Braun schrieb: which platform? which lyx version? what exactly did you insert into the graphics dialog? sorry - I forgot everything: plattform Debian Linux (installed

Re: sources?

2006-07-07 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Georg == Georg Baum [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Georg Srinivas Nedunuri wrote: I'm sorry but I dont see a configure. Nor do I see a INSTALL.scons you referred to in your previous email. Also there is no src directory Georg Your unpacker for tar files is too old. You need to get one Georg that

Re: File with png graphics hangs lyx

2006-07-07 Thread Sven Schreiber
Thanks for your reply, Paul. I loaded your document into LyX 1.4.1 here (Win XP, MiKTeX but *not* Texniccenter), substituted a PNG file I have (you didn't attach yours), and viewed it via pdflatex with no problem. I routinely use PNG images in PDF files and have not had LyX hang. Turns

Re: File with png graphics hangs lyx

2006-07-07 Thread Jean-Pierre Chretien
Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2006 11:36:08 +0200 From: Sven Schreiber [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Paul A. Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: Re: File with png graphics hangs lyx X-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-SpamCheck: Thanks for your reply, Paul. I loaded your

table with long column text is cut off instead of linebreak

2006-07-07 Thread Hans Prueller
I'm having a table with 2 columns and multiple rows, first column contains some short keywords, second column a description. the descritpion can be some sentences long which won't fit into a single line. within the lyx editor the line is broken but when I export the document to DVI, pdf for

Re: table with long column text is cut off instead of linebreak

2006-07-07 Thread Jean-Pierre Chretien
X-Authenticated: #299902 From: Hans Prueller [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: table with long column text is cut off instead of linebreak Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2006 12:19:01 +0200 X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 I'm having a table with 2 columns and multiple rows, first column contains some

Re: Easing the editing/correction of LyX documents

2006-07-07 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Peter Bowyer wrote: Hi, I am one of the people who cannot finds editing documents hard on screen - I end up printing a copy and then working through it with a pen, making changes and restructuring, and then typing the changes up. I didn't find this a problem when using Word because what

Re: How to execute spell check indside tables?

2006-07-07 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: The main problem is that I can no more execute spell checking inside tables. All the misspelled words are simply ignored by the spell checker. Note that the previous versions used to do that job easily. Has anybody encountered such a problem? How can I solve it?

Re: Navigation wierd in 1.4.1

2006-07-07 Thread Steve Litt
Has anyone else had this problem? If so, is there a way to fix it? Is there a config bit I have to flip? Thanks SteveT On Thursday 29 June 2006 11:40 am, Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, I just compiled 1.4.1 and tested it against a junk copy of my partially completed book, and when I use

Re: Navigation wierd in 1.4.1

2006-07-07 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 7 Jul 2006, Steve Litt wrote: Has anyone else had this problem? If so, is there a way to fix it? Is there a config bit I have to flip? Steve, No, navigation here works as expected. What I discovered while figuring out how to make UI changes stick (different here than in Germany

Split a cell

2006-07-07 Thread Julio Rojas
How can I split a cell of a table??? I have some weird table to make, but doing tables inside tables is not a really good solution. How can I split evenly a cell??? -- - Julio Rojas [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Split a cell

2006-07-07 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 7 Jul 2006, Julio Rojas wrote: How can I split a cell of a table??? I have some weird table to make, but doing tables inside tables is not a really good solution. How can I split evenly a cell??? I would make the table one column wider, then join the cells in the two columns that do

Re: Navigation wierd in 1.4.1

2006-07-07 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Steve == Steve Litt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Steve Has anyone else had this problem? If so, is there a way to fix Steve it? Is there a config bit I have to flip? Such a change seems very strange, since I do not think the algorithm changed. Are you sure you see different results for the dame

Re: Split a cell

2006-07-07 Thread Julio Rojas
The real problem is that I need a cell to use two rows. I know how to join to cells horizontally, but it doesn't seem there's a way to join two cell vertically. On 7/7/06, Rich Shepard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 7 Jul 2006, Julio Rojas wrote: How can I split a cell of a table??? I have

Re: Split a cell

2006-07-07 Thread Jean-Pierre Chretien
Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2006 16:33:38 +0200 From: Julio Rojas [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: LyXFolks lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: Re: Split a cell The real problem is that I need a cell to use two rows. I know how to join to cells horizontally, but it doesn't seem there's a way to join two cell vertically.

Re: Split a cell

2006-07-07 Thread Julio Rojas
I'm so sorry, but I don't understand what you mean. On 7/7/06, Jean-Pierre Chretien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2006 16:33:38 +0200 From: Julio Rojas [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: LyXFolks lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: Re: Split a cell The real problem is that I need a cell to use

Re: Split a cell

2006-07-07 Thread Jean-Pierre Chretien
Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2006 16:56:20 +0200 From: Julio Rojas [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: Re: Split a cell I'm so sorry, but I don't understand what you mean. On 7/7/06, Jean-Pierre Chretien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] The Companion points to the multirow package, which

Re: no Comment environment in release 1.4.1 windows version

2006-07-07 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Michael Chen wrote: Dear all, I can not find Comment environment in the release 1.4.1 of windows version. I reinstalled it again, and got nothing. What can I do? Thanks in advance. Michael Insert-Note-Comment. It's not an environment in 1.4.1. /Paul

Re: Split a cell

2006-07-07 Thread Julio Rojas
Thanx... I'll try it, but that can be a nice add-on for LyX 1.4.2 On 7/7/06, Jean-Pierre Chretien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2006 16:56:20 +0200 From: Julio Rojas [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: Re: Split a cell I'm so sorry, but I don't understand what

Re: aspell on XP

2006-07-07 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Ed Gatzke wrote: Are you sure Alt-F4 kills cmd.exe? I have tried on a couple of machines and checked other groups, Alt-F4 does not kill cmd.exe for most. Well, I just opened a command window on my laptop (XP Pro), ran a command in it, hit Alt-F4 and (a) the window vanished and (b) it's not

Re: Split a cell

2006-07-07 Thread Georg Baum
Julio Rojas wrote: Thanx... I'll try it, but that can be a nice add-on for LyX 1.4.2 This is not possible because it would need a file format change. If you are lucky and somebody implements it you will find it in 1.5.0. See also http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1157 Georg

Re: Split a cell

2006-07-07 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 7 Jul 2006, Julio Rojas wrote: Thanx... I'll try it, but that can be a nice add-on for LyX 1.4.2 Julio, Why? It's available as a package when needed, just like all the other packages that some writers occasionally need. For example, in the preamble you might include \usepackage{}

Re: Split a cell

2006-07-07 Thread Jean-Pierre Chretien
Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2006 17:49:31 +0200 From: Julio Rojas [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Jean-Pierre Chretien [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Split a cell Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Thanx... I'll try it, but that can be a nice add-on for LyX 1.4.2

Re: Split a cell

2006-07-07 Thread Georg Baum
Rich Shepard wrote: Why? It's available as a package when needed, just like all the other packages that some writers occasionally need. For example, in the preamble you might include \usepackage{} for various features needed in one document, but not all, so it's better that they be handled

Re: Info messages in the calling shell

2006-07-07 Thread Jean-Pierre Chretien
To: Jean-Pierre Chretien [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Info messages in the calling shell From: Jean-Marc Lasgouttes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 16:20:58 +0200 Jean-Pierre == Jean-Pierre Chretien [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jean-Pierre

Re: Split a cell

2006-07-07 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 7 Jul 2006, Georg Baum wrote: So it would really be useful to have native multirow support, but the day has only so many hours and the number of LyX developers is small. Georg, I've never used it so I have no experience of the difficulty. But, I also assume that it's used

Footnote to normal text

2006-07-07 Thread Alex
Hi! I am translating the tutorial and I found this in Section 3.5: In additon, you can change regular text to a footnote, by selecting it and hitting the Insert footnote button; change a footnote to regular text by clicking the Insert footnote button when the cursor is in the footnote. Well, I

Table with fixed width columns

2006-07-07 Thread Stefano Franchi
I am trying to set up a multi-page, fixed width column table, but my attempts seem to be blissfully ignored by LyX. That is, I select the table, go into the pop-up dialog and enter a value in the 'width' field. I did this for all the columns in my table. But nothing happens---as soon as I go

Re: Table with fixed width columns

2006-07-07 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 7 Jul 2006, Stefano Franchi wrote: I am trying to set up a multi-page, fixed width column table, but my attempts seem to be blissfully ignored by LyX. That is, I select the table, go into the pop-up dialog and enter a value in the 'width' field. I did this for all the columns in my

Re: Table with fixed width columns

2006-07-07 Thread Stefano Franchi
On 7 Jul, 2006, at 4:33 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: On Fri, 7 Jul 2006, Stefano Franchi wrote: I am trying to set up a multi-page, fixed width column table, but my attempts seem to be blissfully ignored by LyX. That is, I select the table, go into the pop-up dialog and enter a value in the

Re: Table with fixed width columns

2006-07-07 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 7 Jul 2006, Stefano Franchi wrote: Thanks Rich, that would take car of part of the problem. But how do you break a line in a cell? neither a common return nor a linebreak seem to work. Leaving aside the problem of line-wrapping, how did you manage to fix the width of the columns in

Fwd: aspell on XP

2006-07-07 Thread John Ward
-- Forwarded message -- From: Paul A. Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Jul 7, 2006 9:56 AM Subject: Re: aspell on XP To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Ed Gatzke wrote: Are you sure Alt-F4 kills cmd.exe? I have tried on a couple of machines and checked other groups, Alt-F4 does not

Re: Fwd: aspell on XP

2006-07-07 Thread Steve Harris
John Ward wrote: -- Forwarded message -- From: Paul A. Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Jul 7, 2006 9:56 AM Subject: Re: aspell on XP To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Ed Gatzke wrote: Are you sure Alt-F4 kills cmd.exe? I have tried on a couple of machines and checked other groups,

Re: sources?

2006-07-07 Thread Georg Baum
Srinivas Nedunuri wrote: I'm sorry but I dont see a configure. Nor do I see a INSTALL.scons you referred to in your previous email. Also there is no src directory Your unpacker for tar files is too old. You need to get one that understands the ustar format. tar (GNU tar) 1.15.1 works for me, I

Re: LateX file ... not found

2006-07-07 Thread Sven Schreiber
(you forgot to send to the list as well) Alexander Braun schrieb: Am Montag, 3. Juli 2006 10:33 schrieben Sie: Alexander Braun schrieb: which platform? which lyx version? what exactly did you insert into the graphics dialog? sorry - I forgot everything: plattform Debian Linux (installed

Re: sources?

2006-07-07 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Georg == Georg Baum [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Georg Srinivas Nedunuri wrote: I'm sorry but I dont see a configure. Nor do I see a INSTALL.scons you referred to in your previous email. Also there is no src directory Georg Your unpacker for tar files is too old. You need to get one Georg that

Re: File with png graphics hangs lyx

2006-07-07 Thread Sven Schreiber
Thanks for your reply, Paul. I loaded your document into LyX 1.4.1 here (Win XP, MiKTeX but *not* Texniccenter), substituted a PNG file I have (you didn't attach yours), and viewed it via pdflatex with no problem. I routinely use PNG images in PDF files and have not had LyX hang. Turns

Re: File with png graphics hangs lyx

2006-07-07 Thread Jean-Pierre Chretien
Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2006 11:36:08 +0200 From: Sven Schreiber [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Paul A. Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: Re: File with png graphics hangs lyx X-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-SpamCheck: Thanks for your reply, Paul. I loaded your

table with long column text is cut off instead of linebreak

2006-07-07 Thread Hans Prueller
I'm having a table with 2 columns and multiple rows, first column contains some short keywords, second column a description. the descritpion can be some sentences long which won't fit into a single line. within the lyx editor the line is broken but when I export the document to DVI, pdf for

Re: table with long column text is cut off instead of linebreak

2006-07-07 Thread Jean-Pierre Chretien
X-Authenticated: #299902 From: Hans Prueller [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: table with long column text is cut off instead of linebreak Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2006 12:19:01 +0200 X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 I'm having a table with 2 columns and multiple rows, first column contains some

Re: Easing the editing/correction of LyX documents

2006-07-07 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Peter Bowyer wrote: Hi, I am one of the people who cannot finds editing documents hard on screen - I end up printing a copy and then working through it with a pen, making changes and restructuring, and then typing the changes up. I didn't find this a problem when using Word because what

Re: How to execute spell check indside tables?

2006-07-07 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: The main problem is that I can no more execute spell checking inside tables. All the misspelled words are simply ignored by the spell checker. Note that the previous versions used to do that job easily. Has anybody encountered such a problem? How can I solve it?

Re: Navigation wierd in 1.4.1

2006-07-07 Thread Steve Litt
Has anyone else had this problem? If so, is there a way to fix it? Is there a config bit I have to flip? Thanks SteveT On Thursday 29 June 2006 11:40 am, Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, I just compiled 1.4.1 and tested it against a junk copy of my partially completed book, and when I use

Re: Navigation wierd in 1.4.1

2006-07-07 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 7 Jul 2006, Steve Litt wrote: Has anyone else had this problem? If so, is there a way to fix it? Is there a config bit I have to flip? Steve, No, navigation here works as expected. What I discovered while figuring out how to make UI changes stick (different here than in Germany

Split a cell

2006-07-07 Thread Julio Rojas
How can I split a cell of a table??? I have some weird table to make, but doing tables inside tables is not a really good solution. How can I split evenly a cell??? -- - Julio Rojas [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Split a cell

2006-07-07 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 7 Jul 2006, Julio Rojas wrote: How can I split a cell of a table??? I have some weird table to make, but doing tables inside tables is not a really good solution. How can I split evenly a cell??? I would make the table one column wider, then join the cells in the two columns that do

Re: Navigation wierd in 1.4.1

2006-07-07 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Steve == Steve Litt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Steve Has anyone else had this problem? If so, is there a way to fix Steve it? Is there a config bit I have to flip? Such a change seems very strange, since I do not think the algorithm changed. Are you sure you see different results for the dame

Re: Split a cell

2006-07-07 Thread Julio Rojas
The real problem is that I need a cell to use two rows. I know how to join to cells horizontally, but it doesn't seem there's a way to join two cell vertically. On 7/7/06, Rich Shepard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 7 Jul 2006, Julio Rojas wrote: How can I split a cell of a table??? I have

Re: Split a cell

2006-07-07 Thread Jean-Pierre Chretien
Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2006 16:33:38 +0200 From: Julio Rojas [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: LyXFolks lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: Re: Split a cell The real problem is that I need a cell to use two rows. I know how to join to cells horizontally, but it doesn't seem there's a way to join two cell vertically.

Re: Split a cell

2006-07-07 Thread Julio Rojas
I'm so sorry, but I don't understand what you mean. On 7/7/06, Jean-Pierre Chretien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2006 16:33:38 +0200 From: Julio Rojas [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: LyXFolks lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: Re: Split a cell The real problem is that I need a cell to use

Re: Split a cell

2006-07-07 Thread Jean-Pierre Chretien
Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2006 16:56:20 +0200 From: Julio Rojas [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: Re: Split a cell I'm so sorry, but I don't understand what you mean. On 7/7/06, Jean-Pierre Chretien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] The Companion points to the multirow package, which

Re: no Comment environment in release 1.4.1 windows version

2006-07-07 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Michael Chen wrote: Dear all, I can not find Comment environment in the release 1.4.1 of windows version. I reinstalled it again, and got nothing. What can I do? Thanks in advance. Michael Insert-Note-Comment. It's not an environment in 1.4.1. /Paul

Re: Split a cell

2006-07-07 Thread Julio Rojas
Thanx... I'll try it, but that can be a nice add-on for LyX 1.4.2 On 7/7/06, Jean-Pierre Chretien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2006 16:56:20 +0200 From: Julio Rojas [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: Re: Split a cell I'm so sorry, but I don't understand what

Re: aspell on XP

2006-07-07 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Ed Gatzke wrote: Are you sure Alt-F4 kills cmd.exe? I have tried on a couple of machines and checked other groups, Alt-F4 does not kill cmd.exe for most. Well, I just opened a command window on my laptop (XP Pro), ran a command in it, hit Alt-F4 and (a) the window vanished and (b) it's not

Re: Split a cell

2006-07-07 Thread Georg Baum
Julio Rojas wrote: Thanx... I'll try it, but that can be a nice add-on for LyX 1.4.2 This is not possible because it would need a file format change. If you are lucky and somebody implements it you will find it in 1.5.0. See also http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1157 Georg

Re: Split a cell

2006-07-07 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 7 Jul 2006, Julio Rojas wrote: Thanx... I'll try it, but that can be a nice add-on for LyX 1.4.2 Julio, Why? It's available as a package when needed, just like all the other packages that some writers occasionally need. For example, in the preamble you might include \usepackage{}

Re: Split a cell

2006-07-07 Thread Jean-Pierre Chretien
Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2006 17:49:31 +0200 From: Julio Rojas [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Jean-Pierre Chretien [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Split a cell Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Thanx... I'll try it, but that can be a nice add-on for LyX 1.4.2

Re: Split a cell

2006-07-07 Thread Georg Baum
Rich Shepard wrote: Why? It's available as a package when needed, just like all the other packages that some writers occasionally need. For example, in the preamble you might include \usepackage{} for various features needed in one document, but not all, so it's better that they be handled

Re: Info messages in the calling shell

2006-07-07 Thread Jean-Pierre Chretien
To: Jean-Pierre Chretien [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Info messages in the calling shell From: Jean-Marc Lasgouttes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 16:20:58 +0200 Jean-Pierre == Jean-Pierre Chretien [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jean-Pierre

Re: Split a cell

2006-07-07 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 7 Jul 2006, Georg Baum wrote: So it would really be useful to have native multirow support, but the day has only so many hours and the number of LyX developers is small. Georg, I've never used it so I have no experience of the difficulty. But, I also assume that it's used

Footnote to normal text

2006-07-07 Thread Alex
Hi! I am translating the tutorial and I found this in Section 3.5: In additon, you can change regular text to a footnote, by selecting it and hitting the Insert footnote button; change a footnote to regular text by clicking the Insert footnote button when the cursor is in the footnote. Well, I

Table with fixed width columns

2006-07-07 Thread Stefano Franchi
I am trying to set up a multi-page, fixed width column table, but my attempts seem to be blissfully ignored by LyX. That is, I select the table, go into the pop-up dialog and enter a value in the 'width' field. I did this for all the columns in my table. But nothing happens---as soon as I go

Re: Table with fixed width columns

2006-07-07 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 7 Jul 2006, Stefano Franchi wrote: I am trying to set up a multi-page, fixed width column table, but my attempts seem to be blissfully ignored by LyX. That is, I select the table, go into the pop-up dialog and enter a value in the 'width' field. I did this for all the columns in my

Re: Table with fixed width columns

2006-07-07 Thread Stefano Franchi
On 7 Jul, 2006, at 4:33 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: On Fri, 7 Jul 2006, Stefano Franchi wrote: I am trying to set up a multi-page, fixed width column table, but my attempts seem to be blissfully ignored by LyX. That is, I select the table, go into the pop-up dialog and enter a value in the

Re: Table with fixed width columns

2006-07-07 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 7 Jul 2006, Stefano Franchi wrote: Thanks Rich, that would take car of part of the problem. But how do you break a line in a cell? neither a common return nor a linebreak seem to work. Leaving aside the problem of line-wrapping, how did you manage to fix the width of the columns in

Fwd: aspell on XP

2006-07-07 Thread John Ward
-- Forwarded message -- From: Paul A. Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Jul 7, 2006 9:56 AM Subject: Re: aspell on XP To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Ed Gatzke wrote: Are you sure Alt-F4 kills cmd.exe? I have tried on a couple of machines and checked other groups, Alt-F4 does not

Re: Fwd: aspell on XP

2006-07-07 Thread Steve Harris
John Ward wrote: -- Forwarded message -- From: Paul A. Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Jul 7, 2006 9:56 AM Subject: Re: aspell on XP To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Ed Gatzke wrote: Are you sure Alt-F4 kills cmd.exe? I have tried on a couple of machines and checked other groups,

Re: sources?

2006-07-07 Thread Georg Baum
Srinivas Nedunuri wrote: > I'm sorry but I dont see a "configure". Nor do I see a INSTALL.scons you > referred to in your previous email. Also there is no src directory Your unpacker for tar files is too old. You need to get one that understands the ustar format. tar (GNU tar) 1.15.1 works for

Re: LateX file ... not found

2006-07-07 Thread Sven Schreiber
(you forgot to send to the list as well) Alexander Braun schrieb: > Am Montag, 3. Juli 2006 10:33 schrieben Sie: >> Alexander Braun schrieb: >> which platform? which lyx version? what exactly did you insert into the >> graphics dialog? > > sorry - I forgot everything: > plattform Debian Linux

Re: sources?

2006-07-07 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Georg" == Georg Baum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Georg> Srinivas Nedunuri wrote: >> I'm sorry but I dont see a "configure". Nor do I see a >> INSTALL.scons you referred to in your previous email. Also there is >> no src directory Georg> Your unpacker for tar files is too old. You need to

Re: File with png graphics hangs lyx

2006-07-07 Thread Sven Schreiber
Thanks for your reply, Paul. > > I loaded your document into LyX 1.4.1 here (Win XP, MiKTeX but *not* > Texniccenter), substituted a PNG file I have (you didn't attach yours), > and viewed it via pdflatex with no problem. I routinely use PNG images > in PDF files and have not had LyX hang. > >

Re: File with png graphics hangs lyx

2006-07-07 Thread Jean-Pierre Chretien
>>Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2006 11:36:08 +0200 >>From: Sven Schreiber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>To: "Paul A. Rubin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>CC: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org >>Subject: Re: File with png graphics hangs lyx >>X-MailScanner: Found to be clean >>X-MailScanner-SpamCheck: >> >>Thanks for your reply,

table with long column text is cut off instead of linebreak

2006-07-07 Thread Hans Prueller
I'm having a table with 2 columns and multiple rows, first column contains some short keywords, second column a description. the descritpion can be some sentences long which won't fit into a single line. within the lyx editor the line is broken but when I export the document to DVI, pdf for

Re: table with long column text is cut off instead of linebreak

2006-07-07 Thread Jean-Pierre Chretien
>>X-Authenticated: #299902 >>From: "Hans Prueller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>To: >>Subject: table with long column text is cut off instead of linebreak >>Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2006 12:19:01 +0200 >>X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 >> >>I'm having a table with 2 columns and multiple rows, first

Re: Easing the editing/correction of LyX documents

2006-07-07 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Peter Bowyer wrote: Hi, I am one of the people who cannot finds editing documents hard on screen - I end up printing a copy and then working through it with a pen, making changes and restructuring, and then typing the changes up. I didn't find this a problem when using Word because what

Re: How to execute spell check indside tables?

2006-07-07 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: > > The main problem is that I can no more execute spell checking inside > > tables. All the misspelled words are simply ignored by the spell > > checker. Note that the previous versions used to do that job easily. > > Has anybody encountered such a problem? How can I

Re: Navigation wierd in 1.4.1

2006-07-07 Thread Steve Litt
Has anyone else had this problem? If so, is there a way to fix it? Is there a config bit I have to flip? Thanks SteveT On Thursday 29 June 2006 11:40 am, Steve Litt wrote: > Hi all, > > I just compiled 1.4.1 and tested it against a junk copy of my partially > completed book, and when I use

Re: Navigation wierd in 1.4.1

2006-07-07 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 7 Jul 2006, Steve Litt wrote: Has anyone else had this problem? If so, is there a way to fix it? Is there a config bit I have to flip? Steve, No, navigation here works as expected. What I discovered while figuring out how to make UI changes stick (different here than in Germany

Split a cell

2006-07-07 Thread Julio Rojas
How can I split a cell of a table??? I have some weird table to make, but doing tables inside tables is not a really good solution. How can I split evenly a cell??? -- - Julio Rojas [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Split a cell

2006-07-07 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 7 Jul 2006, Julio Rojas wrote: How can I split a cell of a table??? I have some weird table to make, but doing tables inside tables is not a really good solution. How can I split evenly a cell??? I would make the table one column wider, then join the cells in the two columns that do

Re: Navigation wierd in 1.4.1

2006-07-07 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Steve" == Steve Litt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Steve> Has anyone else had this problem? If so, is there a way to fix Steve> it? Is there a config bit I have to flip? Such a change seems very strange, since I do not think the algorithm changed. Are you sure you see different results for

Re: Split a cell

2006-07-07 Thread Julio Rojas
The real problem is that I need a cell to use two rows. I know how to join to cells horizontally, but it doesn't seem there's a way to join two cell vertically. On 7/7/06, Rich Shepard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, 7 Jul 2006, Julio Rojas wrote: > How can I split a cell of a table??? I

Re: Split a cell

2006-07-07 Thread Jean-Pierre Chretien
>>Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2006 16:33:38 +0200 >>From: "Julio Rojas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>To: LyXFolks >>Subject: Re: Split a cell >> >>The real problem is that I need a cell to use two rows. I know how to join >>to cells horizontally, but it doesn't seem there's a way to join

Re: Split a cell

2006-07-07 Thread Julio Rojas
I'm so sorry, but I don't understand what you mean. On 7/7/06, Jean-Pierre Chretien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2006 16:33:38 +0200 >>From: "Julio Rojas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>To: LyXFolks >>Subject: Re: Split a cell >> >>The real problem is that I

Re: Split a cell

2006-07-07 Thread Jean-Pierre Chretien
>>Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2006 16:56:20 +0200 >>From: "Julio Rojas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org >>Subject: Re: Split a cell >> >>I'm so sorry, but I don't understand what you mean. >> >>On 7/7/06, Jean-Pierre Chretien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] >>> >>> The Companion points to

Re: no "Comment" environment in release 1.4.1 windows version

2006-07-07 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Michael Chen wrote: Dear all, I can not find "Comment" environment in the release 1.4.1 of windows version. I reinstalled it again, and got nothing. What can I do? Thanks in advance. Michael Insert->Note->Comment. It's not an environment in 1.4.1. /Paul

Re: Split a cell

2006-07-07 Thread Julio Rojas
Thanx... I'll try it, but that can be a nice add-on for LyX 1.4.2 On 7/7/06, Jean-Pierre Chretien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2006 16:56:20 +0200 >>From: "Julio Rojas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org >>Subject: Re: Split a cell >> >>I'm so sorry, but I

Re: aspell on XP

2006-07-07 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Ed Gatzke wrote: Are you sure Alt-F4 kills cmd.exe? I have tried on a couple of machines and checked other groups, Alt-F4 does not kill cmd.exe for most. Well, I just opened a command window on my laptop (XP Pro), ran a command in it, hit Alt-F4 and (a) the window vanished and (b) it's not

Re: Split a cell

2006-07-07 Thread Georg Baum
Julio Rojas wrote: > Thanx... I'll try it, but that can be a nice add-on for LyX 1.4.2 This is not possible because it would need a file format change. If you are lucky and somebody implements it you will find it in 1.5.0. See also http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1157 Georg

Re: Split a cell

2006-07-07 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 7 Jul 2006, Julio Rojas wrote: Thanx... I'll try it, but that can be a nice add-on for LyX 1.4.2 Julio, Why? It's available as a package when needed, just like all the other packages that some writers occasionally need. For example, in the preamble you might include \usepackage{}

Re: Split a cell

2006-07-07 Thread Jean-Pierre Chretien
>>Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2006 17:49:31 +0200 >>From: "Julio Rojas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>To: "Jean-Pierre Chretien" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Subject: Re: Split a cell >>Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org >> >>Thanx... I'll try it, but that can be a nice add-on for LyX 1.4.2

Re: Split a cell

2006-07-07 Thread Georg Baum
Rich Shepard wrote: >Why? It's available as a package when needed, just like all the other > packages that some writers occasionally need. For example, in the preamble > you might include \usepackage{} for various features needed in one > document, but not all, so it's better that they be

Re: Info messages in the calling shell

2006-07-07 Thread Jean-Pierre Chretien
>>To: Jean-Pierre Chretien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Subject: Re: Info messages in the calling shell >>From: Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 16:20:58 +0200 >> >>> "Jean-Pierre" == Jean-Pierre Chretien <[EMAIL

Re: Split a cell

2006-07-07 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 7 Jul 2006, Georg Baum wrote: So it would really be useful to have native multirow support, but the day has only so many hours and the number of LyX developers is small. Georg, I've never used it so I have no experience of the difficulty. But, I also assume that it's used

Footnote to normal text

2006-07-07 Thread Alex
Hi! I am translating the tutorial and I found this in Section 3.5: "In additon, you can change regular text to a footnote, by selecting it and hitting the Insert footnote button; change a footnote to regular text by clicking the Insert footnote button when the cursor is in the footnote." Well,

Table with fixed width columns

2006-07-07 Thread Stefano Franchi
I am trying to set up a multi-page, fixed width column table, but my attempts seem to be blissfully ignored by LyX. That is, I select the table, go into the pop-up dialog and enter a value in the 'width' field. I did this for all the columns in my table. But nothing happens---as soon as I go

Re: Table with fixed width columns

2006-07-07 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 7 Jul 2006, Stefano Franchi wrote: I am trying to set up a multi-page, fixed width column table, but my attempts seem to be blissfully ignored by LyX. That is, I select the table, go into the pop-up dialog and enter a value in the 'width' field. I did this for all the columns in my

Re: Table with fixed width columns

2006-07-07 Thread Stefano Franchi
On 7 Jul, 2006, at 4:33 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: On Fri, 7 Jul 2006, Stefano Franchi wrote: I am trying to set up a multi-page, fixed width column table, but my attempts seem to be blissfully ignored by LyX. That is, I select the table, go into the pop-up dialog and enter a value in the

Re: Table with fixed width columns

2006-07-07 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 7 Jul 2006, Stefano Franchi wrote: Thanks Rich, that would take car of part of the problem. But how do you break a line in a cell? neither a common return nor a linebreak seem to work. Leaving aside the problem of line-wrapping, how did you manage to fix the width of the columns in

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