Re: How to Spot a Word Processed Book

2007-05-10 Thread Julio Rojas
What I'm really amazed of, is the quantity of technical and engineering congresses that ask the authors to submit their papers is Word format and don't have (and don't support) LaTeX styles. I'm doing some evangelism with my friends that are working on their PhD's to switch to LyX/LaTeX. They

Re: Fehler bei Ansicht (DVI,...) der Vorlage g-brief-de.lyx

2007-05-10 Thread Dominik Waßenhoven
Hallo Clemens, this is an English speaking group, so please post in English. Clemens Scheper schrieb am 10.05.2007: beim Erstellen der Ansicht DVI und anderern mit der Vorlage g-brief-de.lyx bekomme ich die Fehlermeldung: LaTeX Error: Command \Telefon already defined. It could be a problem

key combination to open toc ?

2007-05-10 Thread Hellmut Weber
Hi, is there a possibility to open the toc with a key stroke? I would like to have that because otherwise I have to use the mouse which I normally do not use when working with lyx. TIA Hellmut -- Dr. Hellmut Weber [EMAIL PROTECTED] Degenfeldstraße 2 tel +49-89-3081172

Re: Fw: What's with pushing babel into an all english document

2007-05-10 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Micha == Micha Feigin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What kind of definitions? Is that a real english document? Micha It is a real English document which is collaborated on at the Micha latex level so I'd rather keep the original definitions. In Micha this case for mathematics, \R for \mathds{R}

Re: key combination to open toc ?

2007-05-10 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Hellmut Weber wrote: Hi, is there a possibility to open the toc with a key stroke? Alt-d t Abdel.

Citations

2007-05-10 Thread ucapjcb
Hi, I'm new to lyx and I am having trouble inserting citations. I have been using JabRef to manage my references. It creates a bibtex file and I insert the bibliography going List TOC/Bibtex Bibliography. It seemed to work fine using document class Article (REVTEX 4) but I've just noticed when I

Re: How to Spot a Word Processed Book

2007-05-10 Thread Helge Hafting
Steve Litt wrote: On Wednesday 09 May 2007 14:23, Rich Shepard wrote: On Wed, 9 May 2007, Steve Litt wrote: Interesting article: How to Spot a Word Processed Book What jumps out at me when I look at a processed word book is the uneven spacing between words on each line. The

Re: How to Spot a Word Processed Book

2007-05-10 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Rich Shepard wrote: [...] When I wrote Tim O'Reilly to ask why they have that policy he never responded. I guess they do it for pragmatic reasons. It is just the editor that is most common among writers - and documents are most probably converted into an in-house format for the

Re: How to Spot a Word Processed Book

2007-05-10 Thread William Adams
On May 10, 2007, at 7:31 AM, Daniel Lohmann wrote: Rich Shepard wrote: [...] When I wrote Tim O'Reilly to ask why they have that policy he never responded. I guess they do it for pragmatic reasons. It is just the editor that is most common among writers - and documents are most probably

Re: How to Spot a Word Processed Book

2007-05-10 Thread Russell Davie
On Thu, 10 May 2007 08:24:34 +0200 Julio Rojas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I'm really amazed of, is the quantity of technical and engineering congresses that ask the authors to submit their papers is Word format and don't have (and don't support) LaTeX styles. I'm doing some evangelism

Re: Citations

2007-05-10 Thread Miki Dovrat
Hi, If you are using Revtex 4, you will need to enable natbib use from the lyx menu and choose a revtex style - like apsrev. You can further customize the appearance of references by extra revtex4 options (put in the lyx document class options) according to the specific journal you are

Re: How to Spot a Word Processed Book

2007-05-10 Thread Julio Rojas
Bad thing most of us work in Windows. Hope someday PDF's can be commented by default, or at least that you don't need Acrobat Professional to make them able for comments. On 5/10/07, Russell Davie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 10 May 2007 08:24:34 +0200 Julio Rojas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: How to Spot a Word Processed Book

2007-05-10 Thread Steve Litt
On Thursday 10 May 2007 07:20, Helge Hafting wrote: Or alternatively, they could supply a latex class seeing that tex probably is one of the larger minority formats. Might be useful if they have enough people wanting to use tex. This generally works for lyx users too. I think this would

Re: How to Spot a Word Processed Book

2007-05-10 Thread Steve Litt
On Thursday 10 May 2007 07:40, William Adams wrote: As regards why publishers choose the tools they do, well it's complicated. I wrote up my take on it on comp.text.tex a while back: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.text.tex/msg/36401bceced0ee9a Very interesting analogy. I'd say for TeX

Re: How to Spot a Word Processed Book

2007-05-10 Thread Russell Davie
On Thu, 10 May 2007 15:10:12 +0200 Julio Rojas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bad thing most of us work in Windows. Hope someday PDF's can be commented by default, or at least that you don't need Acrobat Professional to make them able for comments. Virtualize! no need to get Adobe, just run a

Re: [patch] parbox with only width setting, automatic height gets height 0pt (lyx 1.5)

2007-05-10 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, 8 May 2007 19:39:35 +0200 Andre Poenitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 10:14:04PM +0300, Micha Feigin wrote: Ok, I made a patch, hope that it is the correct solution, if so then it's a one liner Didn't know where to send it to Index: src/insets/InsetBox.cpp

Re: multiple authors (\and) is ert necessary

2007-05-10 Thread Micha Feigin
On Mon, 07 May 2007 18:44:56 -0400 Paul A. Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Micha Feigin wrote: Is it necessary to use ert for \and when multiple authors are used, Yes (AFAIK). or is there a lyx way? Haven't found one. Hypothetically it might be possible to cobble together a layout

Re: How to Spot a Word Processed Book

2007-05-10 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Julio Rojas wrote: Bad thing most of us work in Windows. Hope someday PDF's can be commented by default, or at least that you don't need Acrobat Professional to make them able for comments. Last version of foxit supports annotation for free. Some other programs can do that too. Acrobat is not

Re: Lyx in ubuntu

2007-05-10 Thread Russell Davie
On Wed, 9 May 2007 09:17:01 +0100 Nick Hopton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a recent message [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote. [...] Easy: apt-get install lyx See man page (man apt-get). The problem is that if you do this you'll only get Lyx 1.4.4, at present, not

Re: Lyx in ubuntu

2007-05-10 Thread Sven Schreiber
Russell Davie schrieb: AFAIK, TeteX is the how the LaTeX backend is managed in Linux. Without it, its impossible to do any LaTeX. After using LaTeX in Linux for several years and several *nix flavours, it seems to be mandatory to install TeTeX to run LaTeX and thus LyX. Please correct me

Re: What's with pushing babel into an all english document

2007-05-10 Thread Micha Feigin
On Thu, 10 May 2007 11:31:01 +0200 Jean-Marc Lasgouttes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Micha == Micha Feigin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What kind of definitions? Is that a real english document? Micha It is a real English document which is collaborated on at the Micha latex level so I'd

Re: What's with pushing babel into an all english document

2007-05-10 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Micha == Micha Feigin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Micha Babel defines \R and \L for RTL or LTR text and it also defines Micha \H but I don't recall exactly what for, something internal for Micha hebrew. But not for an all english document, right? Micha Also, I haven't checked the XeTeX

Re: How to Spot a Word Processed Book

2007-05-10 Thread Julio Rojas
Thanks for the tip. I think I'll install in on my tutor's computer ASAP!!! :D On 5/10/07, Abdelrazak Younes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Julio Rojas wrote: Bad thing most of us work in Windows. Hope someday PDF's can be commented by default, or at least that you don't need Acrobat Professional

Re: How to Spot a Word Processed Book

2007-05-10 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Russell Davie wrote: Annotating pdf? no excuses now! Well, the tools to annotate PDFs -- including Acrobat -- are quite clumsy. And of course there is a significant difference between editing (in the sense of performing visible changes to the document, each of which can later be approved or

Help: PNG and GIF converters not found

2007-05-10 Thread Sebastian Sergio Malara
Hi, i've a problem with Lyx converters. Yesterday everything works, but today something goes wrong. I use Lyx 1.4.4 on an iBook G4, with Mac OS X 10.4.9, and when I try to view a lyx file as PDF(PS 2 PDF) i obtain: No information for converting gif format file to png. Define a convertor in

Re: What's with pushing babel into an all english document

2007-05-10 Thread Micha Feigin
On Thu, 10 May 2007 18:14:28 +0200 Jean-Marc Lasgouttes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Micha == Micha Feigin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Micha Babel defines \R and \L for RTL or LTR text and it also defines Micha \H but I don't recall exactly what for, something internal for Micha hebrew. But

pdf image preview size is wrong with 1.5.0beta2

2007-05-10 Thread Olivier Ripoll
Hi, I could not find anything on the topic in the archives nor could I obtain any result with bugzilla (whatever words I put in the advanced search, I get zero bugs found), so I'll ask here if anyone has an idea. I compiled 1.5.0beta 2 on my Mandriva 2007 a few days ago, and things look

help with LOF

2007-05-10 Thread Carlo Geretto
Hello i need to remove figures and tables that appear in the appendix from the main LOF and LOT, is it possible

Re: Lyx in ubuntu

2007-05-10 Thread Nick Hopton
In a recent message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Sven Schreiber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote. [...] but you can run Texlive instead of Tetex on Ubuntu easily. IIRC Texlive packages are in the universe repositories. [...] They are, but they are also old. I set up my TeXlive 2007 from a DVD downloaded from

Re: How to Spot a Word Processed Book

2007-05-10 Thread Tim Michelsen
Another unique selling point of Word is the language checker (spell and grammar), which is an order of magnitude better than aspell, ispell and everything else I have seen so far. For a publisher this might be a strong argument, as submitted documents already contain significantly fewer

Re: pdf image preview size is wrong with 1.5.0beta2

2007-05-10 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Olivier Ripoll schrieb: I noticed that when I select to display the images in LyX (pdf images generated from eps), the size of the image previews are wrong. Every single image preview looks like an A4 with the real image being in the bottom left corner. This is a bug of special ImageMagick

inline URL won't wrap

2007-05-10 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, I have a URL in the middle of a sentence, and it runs right off the page, even though there's a space immediately to its right. Do I need to use a sloppy or relax command or something like that? Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware

Re: inline URL won't wrap

2007-05-10 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Steve Litt schrieb: I have a URL in the middle of a sentence, and it runs right off the page, even though there's a space immediately to its right. Do I need to use a sloppy or relax command or something like that? Use the hyperref-package and then instead of the URL-box the command \href in

Re: Fehler bei Ansicht (DVI,...) der Vorlage g-brief-de.lyx

2007-05-10 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Clemens Scheper schrieb: beim Erstellen der Ansicht DVI und anderern mit der Vorlage g-brief-de.lyx bekomme ich die Fehlermeldung: LaTeX Error: Command \Telefon already defined. First, this list is in English. The problem is that the g-brief class interferes with the marvosym-package: ---

Re: How to Spot a Word Processed Book

2007-05-10 Thread Julio Rojas
What I'm really amazed of, is the quantity of technical and engineering congresses that ask the authors to submit their papers is Word format and don't have (and don't support) LaTeX styles. I'm doing some evangelism with my friends that are working on their PhD's to switch to LyX/LaTeX. They

Re: Fehler bei Ansicht (DVI,...) der Vorlage g-brief-de.lyx

2007-05-10 Thread Dominik Waßenhoven
Hallo Clemens, this is an English speaking group, so please post in English. Clemens Scheper schrieb am 10.05.2007: beim Erstellen der Ansicht DVI und anderern mit der Vorlage g-brief-de.lyx bekomme ich die Fehlermeldung: LaTeX Error: Command \Telefon already defined. It could be a problem

key combination to open toc ?

2007-05-10 Thread Hellmut Weber
Hi, is there a possibility to open the toc with a key stroke? I would like to have that because otherwise I have to use the mouse which I normally do not use when working with lyx. TIA Hellmut -- Dr. Hellmut Weber [EMAIL PROTECTED] Degenfeldstraße 2 tel +49-89-3081172

Re: Fw: What's with pushing babel into an all english document

2007-05-10 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Micha == Micha Feigin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What kind of definitions? Is that a real english document? Micha It is a real English document which is collaborated on at the Micha latex level so I'd rather keep the original definitions. In Micha this case for mathematics, \R for \mathds{R}

Re: key combination to open toc ?

2007-05-10 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Hellmut Weber wrote: Hi, is there a possibility to open the toc with a key stroke? Alt-d t Abdel.

Citations

2007-05-10 Thread ucapjcb
Hi, I'm new to lyx and I am having trouble inserting citations. I have been using JabRef to manage my references. It creates a bibtex file and I insert the bibliography going List TOC/Bibtex Bibliography. It seemed to work fine using document class Article (REVTEX 4) but I've just noticed when I

Re: How to Spot a Word Processed Book

2007-05-10 Thread Helge Hafting
Steve Litt wrote: On Wednesday 09 May 2007 14:23, Rich Shepard wrote: On Wed, 9 May 2007, Steve Litt wrote: Interesting article: How to Spot a Word Processed Book What jumps out at me when I look at a processed word book is the uneven spacing between words on each line. The

Re: How to Spot a Word Processed Book

2007-05-10 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Rich Shepard wrote: [...] When I wrote Tim O'Reilly to ask why they have that policy he never responded. I guess they do it for pragmatic reasons. It is just the editor that is most common among writers - and documents are most probably converted into an in-house format for the

Re: How to Spot a Word Processed Book

2007-05-10 Thread William Adams
On May 10, 2007, at 7:31 AM, Daniel Lohmann wrote: Rich Shepard wrote: [...] When I wrote Tim O'Reilly to ask why they have that policy he never responded. I guess they do it for pragmatic reasons. It is just the editor that is most common among writers - and documents are most probably

Re: How to Spot a Word Processed Book

2007-05-10 Thread Russell Davie
On Thu, 10 May 2007 08:24:34 +0200 Julio Rojas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I'm really amazed of, is the quantity of technical and engineering congresses that ask the authors to submit their papers is Word format and don't have (and don't support) LaTeX styles. I'm doing some evangelism

Re: Citations

2007-05-10 Thread Miki Dovrat
Hi, If you are using Revtex 4, you will need to enable natbib use from the lyx menu and choose a revtex style - like apsrev. You can further customize the appearance of references by extra revtex4 options (put in the lyx document class options) according to the specific journal you are

Re: How to Spot a Word Processed Book

2007-05-10 Thread Julio Rojas
Bad thing most of us work in Windows. Hope someday PDF's can be commented by default, or at least that you don't need Acrobat Professional to make them able for comments. On 5/10/07, Russell Davie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 10 May 2007 08:24:34 +0200 Julio Rojas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: How to Spot a Word Processed Book

2007-05-10 Thread Steve Litt
On Thursday 10 May 2007 07:20, Helge Hafting wrote: Or alternatively, they could supply a latex class seeing that tex probably is one of the larger minority formats. Might be useful if they have enough people wanting to use tex. This generally works for lyx users too. I think this would

Re: How to Spot a Word Processed Book

2007-05-10 Thread Steve Litt
On Thursday 10 May 2007 07:40, William Adams wrote: As regards why publishers choose the tools they do, well it's complicated. I wrote up my take on it on comp.text.tex a while back: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.text.tex/msg/36401bceced0ee9a Very interesting analogy. I'd say for TeX

Re: How to Spot a Word Processed Book

2007-05-10 Thread Russell Davie
On Thu, 10 May 2007 15:10:12 +0200 Julio Rojas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bad thing most of us work in Windows. Hope someday PDF's can be commented by default, or at least that you don't need Acrobat Professional to make them able for comments. Virtualize! no need to get Adobe, just run a

Re: [patch] parbox with only width setting, automatic height gets height 0pt (lyx 1.5)

2007-05-10 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, 8 May 2007 19:39:35 +0200 Andre Poenitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 10:14:04PM +0300, Micha Feigin wrote: Ok, I made a patch, hope that it is the correct solution, if so then it's a one liner Didn't know where to send it to Index: src/insets/InsetBox.cpp

Re: multiple authors (\and) is ert necessary

2007-05-10 Thread Micha Feigin
On Mon, 07 May 2007 18:44:56 -0400 Paul A. Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Micha Feigin wrote: Is it necessary to use ert for \and when multiple authors are used, Yes (AFAIK). or is there a lyx way? Haven't found one. Hypothetically it might be possible to cobble together a layout

Re: How to Spot a Word Processed Book

2007-05-10 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Julio Rojas wrote: Bad thing most of us work in Windows. Hope someday PDF's can be commented by default, or at least that you don't need Acrobat Professional to make them able for comments. Last version of foxit supports annotation for free. Some other programs can do that too. Acrobat is not

Re: Lyx in ubuntu

2007-05-10 Thread Russell Davie
On Wed, 9 May 2007 09:17:01 +0100 Nick Hopton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a recent message [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote. [...] Easy: apt-get install lyx See man page (man apt-get). The problem is that if you do this you'll only get Lyx 1.4.4, at present, not

Re: Lyx in ubuntu

2007-05-10 Thread Sven Schreiber
Russell Davie schrieb: AFAIK, TeteX is the how the LaTeX backend is managed in Linux. Without it, its impossible to do any LaTeX. After using LaTeX in Linux for several years and several *nix flavours, it seems to be mandatory to install TeTeX to run LaTeX and thus LyX. Please correct me

Re: What's with pushing babel into an all english document

2007-05-10 Thread Micha Feigin
On Thu, 10 May 2007 11:31:01 +0200 Jean-Marc Lasgouttes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Micha == Micha Feigin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What kind of definitions? Is that a real english document? Micha It is a real English document which is collaborated on at the Micha latex level so I'd

Re: What's with pushing babel into an all english document

2007-05-10 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Micha == Micha Feigin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Micha Babel defines \R and \L for RTL or LTR text and it also defines Micha \H but I don't recall exactly what for, something internal for Micha hebrew. But not for an all english document, right? Micha Also, I haven't checked the XeTeX

Re: How to Spot a Word Processed Book

2007-05-10 Thread Julio Rojas
Thanks for the tip. I think I'll install in on my tutor's computer ASAP!!! :D On 5/10/07, Abdelrazak Younes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Julio Rojas wrote: Bad thing most of us work in Windows. Hope someday PDF's can be commented by default, or at least that you don't need Acrobat Professional

Re: How to Spot a Word Processed Book

2007-05-10 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Russell Davie wrote: Annotating pdf? no excuses now! Well, the tools to annotate PDFs -- including Acrobat -- are quite clumsy. And of course there is a significant difference between editing (in the sense of performing visible changes to the document, each of which can later be approved or

Help: PNG and GIF converters not found

2007-05-10 Thread Sebastian Sergio Malara
Hi, i've a problem with Lyx converters. Yesterday everything works, but today something goes wrong. I use Lyx 1.4.4 on an iBook G4, with Mac OS X 10.4.9, and when I try to view a lyx file as PDF(PS 2 PDF) i obtain: No information for converting gif format file to png. Define a convertor in

Re: What's with pushing babel into an all english document

2007-05-10 Thread Micha Feigin
On Thu, 10 May 2007 18:14:28 +0200 Jean-Marc Lasgouttes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Micha == Micha Feigin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Micha Babel defines \R and \L for RTL or LTR text and it also defines Micha \H but I don't recall exactly what for, something internal for Micha hebrew. But

pdf image preview size is wrong with 1.5.0beta2

2007-05-10 Thread Olivier Ripoll
Hi, I could not find anything on the topic in the archives nor could I obtain any result with bugzilla (whatever words I put in the advanced search, I get zero bugs found), so I'll ask here if anyone has an idea. I compiled 1.5.0beta 2 on my Mandriva 2007 a few days ago, and things look

help with LOF

2007-05-10 Thread Carlo Geretto
Hello i need to remove figures and tables that appear in the appendix from the main LOF and LOT, is it possible

Re: Lyx in ubuntu

2007-05-10 Thread Nick Hopton
In a recent message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Sven Schreiber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote. [...] but you can run Texlive instead of Tetex on Ubuntu easily. IIRC Texlive packages are in the universe repositories. [...] They are, but they are also old. I set up my TeXlive 2007 from a DVD downloaded from

Re: How to Spot a Word Processed Book

2007-05-10 Thread Tim Michelsen
Another unique selling point of Word is the language checker (spell and grammar), which is an order of magnitude better than aspell, ispell and everything else I have seen so far. For a publisher this might be a strong argument, as submitted documents already contain significantly fewer

Re: pdf image preview size is wrong with 1.5.0beta2

2007-05-10 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Olivier Ripoll schrieb: I noticed that when I select to display the images in LyX (pdf images generated from eps), the size of the image previews are wrong. Every single image preview looks like an A4 with the real image being in the bottom left corner. This is a bug of special ImageMagick

inline URL won't wrap

2007-05-10 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, I have a URL in the middle of a sentence, and it runs right off the page, even though there's a space immediately to its right. Do I need to use a sloppy or relax command or something like that? Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware

Re: inline URL won't wrap

2007-05-10 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Steve Litt schrieb: I have a URL in the middle of a sentence, and it runs right off the page, even though there's a space immediately to its right. Do I need to use a sloppy or relax command or something like that? Use the hyperref-package and then instead of the URL-box the command \href in

Re: Fehler bei Ansicht (DVI,...) der Vorlage g-brief-de.lyx

2007-05-10 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Clemens Scheper schrieb: beim Erstellen der Ansicht DVI und anderern mit der Vorlage g-brief-de.lyx bekomme ich die Fehlermeldung: LaTeX Error: Command \Telefon already defined. First, this list is in English. The problem is that the g-brief class interferes with the marvosym-package: ---

Re: How to Spot a Word Processed Book

2007-05-10 Thread Julio Rojas
What I'm really amazed of, is the quantity of technical and engineering congresses that "ask" the authors to submit their papers is Word format and don't have (and don't support) LaTeX styles. I'm doing some evangelism with my friends that are working on their PhD's to switch to LyX/LaTeX. They

Re: Fehler bei Ansicht (DVI,...) der Vorlage g-brief-de.lyx

2007-05-10 Thread Dominik Waßenhoven
Hallo Clemens, this is an English speaking group, so please post in English. Clemens Scheper schrieb am 10.05.2007: beim Erstellen der Ansicht DVI und anderern mit der Vorlage g-brief-de.lyx bekomme ich die Fehlermeldung: LaTeX Error: Command \Telefon already defined. It could be a problem

key combination to open toc ?

2007-05-10 Thread Hellmut Weber
Hi, is there a possibility to open the toc with a key stroke? I would like to have that because otherwise I have to use the mouse which I normally do not use when working with lyx. TIA Hellmut -- Dr. Hellmut Weber [EMAIL PROTECTED] Degenfeldstraße 2 tel +49-89-3081172

Re: Fw: What's with pushing babel into an all english document

2007-05-10 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Micha" == Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> What kind of definitions? Is that a real english document? Micha> It is a real English document which is collaborated on at the Micha> latex level so I'd rather keep the original definitions. In Micha> this case for mathematics, \R

Re: key combination to open toc ?

2007-05-10 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Hellmut Weber wrote: Hi, is there a possibility to open the toc with a key stroke? Alt-d t Abdel.

Citations

2007-05-10 Thread ucapjcb
Hi, I'm new to lyx and I am having trouble inserting citations. I have been using JabRef to manage my references. It creates a bibtex file and I insert the bibliography going List TOC/Bibtex Bibliography. It seemed to work fine using document class Article (REVTEX 4) but I've just noticed when I

Re: How to Spot a Word Processed Book

2007-05-10 Thread Helge Hafting
Steve Litt wrote: On Wednesday 09 May 2007 14:23, Rich Shepard wrote: On Wed, 9 May 2007, Steve Litt wrote: Interesting article: How to Spot a Word Processed Book What jumps out at me when I look at a processed word book is the uneven spacing between words on each line. The

Re: How to Spot a Word Processed Book

2007-05-10 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Rich Shepard wrote: > [...] > When I wrote Tim O'Reilly to ask why they have that policy he > never responded. > I guess they do it for pragmatic reasons. It is just the "editor" that is most common among writers - and documents are most probably converted into an in-house format for the

Re: How to Spot a Word Processed Book

2007-05-10 Thread William Adams
On May 10, 2007, at 7:31 AM, Daniel Lohmann wrote: Rich Shepard wrote: [...] When I wrote Tim O'Reilly to ask why they have that policy he never responded. I guess they do it for pragmatic reasons. It is just the "editor" that is most common among writers - and documents are most

Re: How to Spot a Word Processed Book

2007-05-10 Thread Russell Davie
On Thu, 10 May 2007 08:24:34 +0200 "Julio Rojas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What I'm really amazed of, is the quantity of technical and > engineering congresses that "ask" the authors to submit their papers > is Word format and don't have (and don't support) LaTeX styles. > > I'm doing some

Re: Citations

2007-05-10 Thread Miki Dovrat
Hi, If you are using Revtex 4, you will need to enable natbib use from the lyx menu and choose a revtex style - like apsrev. You can further customize the appearance of references by extra revtex4 options (put in the lyx document class options) according to the specific journal you are

Re: How to Spot a Word Processed Book

2007-05-10 Thread Julio Rojas
Bad thing most of us work in Windows. Hope someday PDF's can be commented by default, or at least that you don't need Acrobat Professional to make them able for comments. On 5/10/07, Russell Davie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, 10 May 2007 08:24:34 +0200 "Julio Rojas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: How to Spot a Word Processed Book

2007-05-10 Thread Steve Litt
On Thursday 10 May 2007 07:20, Helge Hafting wrote: > > Or alternatively, they could supply a latex class seeing that tex > probably is one of the larger "minority" formats. Might be useful > if they have enough people wanting to use tex. This generally works for > lyx users too. I think this

Re: How to Spot a Word Processed Book

2007-05-10 Thread Steve Litt
On Thursday 10 May 2007 07:40, William Adams wrote: > > As regards why publishers choose the tools they do, well it's > complicated. I wrote up my take on it on comp.text.tex a while back: > > http://groups.google.com/group/comp.text.tex/msg/36401bceced0ee9a Very interesting analogy. I'd say

Re: How to Spot a Word Processed Book

2007-05-10 Thread Russell Davie
On Thu, 10 May 2007 15:10:12 +0200 "Julio Rojas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bad thing most of us work in Windows. Hope someday PDF's can be > commented by default, or at least that you don't need Acrobat > Professional to make them able for comments. Virtualize! no need to get Adobe, just run

Re: [patch] parbox with only width setting, automatic height gets height 0pt (lyx 1.5)

2007-05-10 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, 8 May 2007 19:39:35 +0200 Andre Poenitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 10:14:04PM +0300, Micha Feigin wrote: > > Ok, I made a patch, hope that it is the correct solution, if so then it's a > > one liner > > Didn't know where to send it to > > > > Index:

Re: multiple authors (\and) is ert necessary

2007-05-10 Thread Micha Feigin
On Mon, 07 May 2007 18:44:56 -0400 "Paul A. Rubin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Micha Feigin wrote: > > Is it necessary to use ert for \and when multiple authors are used, > > Yes (AFAIK). > > > or is there a lyx way? > > Haven't found one. Hypothetically it might be possible to cobble >

Re: How to Spot a Word Processed Book

2007-05-10 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Julio Rojas wrote: Bad thing most of us work in Windows. Hope someday PDF's can be commented by default, or at least that you don't need Acrobat Professional to make them able for comments. Last version of foxit supports annotation for free. Some other programs can do that too. Acrobat is not

Re: Lyx in ubuntu

2007-05-10 Thread Russell Davie
On Wed, 9 May 2007 09:17:01 +0100 Nick Hopton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In a recent message > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote. > > [...] > >>> Easy: apt-get install lyx > >>> See man page (man apt-get). > > >> The problem is that if you do this you'll only get Lyx 1.4.4,

Re: Lyx in ubuntu

2007-05-10 Thread Sven Schreiber
Russell Davie schrieb: > AFAIK, TeteX is the how the LaTeX backend is managed in Linux. Without it, > its impossible to do any LaTeX. > After using LaTeX in Linux for several years and several *nix flavours, it > seems to be mandatory to install TeTeX to run LaTeX and thus LyX. Please >

Re: What's with pushing babel into an all english document

2007-05-10 Thread Micha Feigin
On Thu, 10 May 2007 11:31:01 +0200 Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "Micha" == Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> What kind of definitions? Is that a real english document? > > Micha> It is a real English document which is collaborated on at the > Micha>

Re: What's with pushing babel into an all english document

2007-05-10 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Micha" == Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Micha> Babel defines \R and \L for RTL or LTR text and it also defines Micha> \H but I don't recall exactly what for, something internal for Micha> hebrew. But not for an all english document, right? Micha> Also, I haven't checked the

Re: How to Spot a Word Processed Book

2007-05-10 Thread Julio Rojas
Thanks for the tip. I think I'll install in on my tutor's computer ASAP!!! :D On 5/10/07, Abdelrazak Younes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Julio Rojas wrote: > Bad thing most of us work in Windows. Hope someday PDF's can be > commented by default, or at least that you don't need Acrobat >

Re: How to Spot a Word Processed Book

2007-05-10 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Russell Davie wrote: > Annotating pdf? no excuses now! > Well, the tools to annotate PDFs -- including Acrobat -- are quite clumsy. And of course there is a significant difference between editing (in the sense of performing visible changes to the document, each of which can later be approved

Help: PNG and GIF converters not found

2007-05-10 Thread Sebastian Sergio Malara
Hi, i've a problem with Lyx converters. Yesterday everything works, but today something goes wrong. I use Lyx 1.4.4 on an iBook G4, with Mac OS X 10.4.9, and when I try to view a lyx file as PDF(PS 2 PDF) i obtain: No information for converting gif format file to png. Define a convertor in

Re: What's with pushing babel into an all english document

2007-05-10 Thread Micha Feigin
On Thu, 10 May 2007 18:14:28 +0200 Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "Micha" == Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Micha> Babel defines \R and \L for RTL or LTR text and it also defines > Micha> \H but I don't recall exactly what for, something internal for >

pdf image preview size is wrong with 1.5.0beta2

2007-05-10 Thread Olivier Ripoll
Hi, I could not find anything on the topic in the archives nor could I obtain any result with bugzilla (whatever words I put in the advanced search, I get zero bugs found), so I'll ask here if anyone has an idea. I compiled 1.5.0beta 2 on my Mandriva 2007 a few days ago, and things look

help with LOF

2007-05-10 Thread Carlo Geretto
Hello i need to remove figures and tables that appear in the appendix from the main LOF and LOT, is it possible

Re: Lyx in ubuntu

2007-05-10 Thread Nick Hopton
In a recent message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Sven Schreiber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote. [...] but you can run Texlive instead of Tetex on Ubuntu easily. IIRC Texlive packages are in the universe repositories. [...] They are, but they are also old. I set up my TeXlive 2007 from a DVD downloaded

Re: How to Spot a Word Processed Book

2007-05-10 Thread Tim Michelsen
Another unique selling point of Word is the language checker (spell and grammar), which is an order of magnitude better than aspell, ispell and everything else I have seen so far. For a publisher this might be a strong argument, as submitted documents already contain significantly fewer

Re: pdf image preview size is wrong with 1.5.0beta2

2007-05-10 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Olivier Ripoll schrieb: I noticed that when I select to display the images in LyX (pdf images generated from eps), the size of the image previews are wrong. Every single image preview looks like an A4 with the real image being in the bottom left corner. This is a bug of special ImageMagick

inline URL won't wrap

2007-05-10 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, I have a URL in the middle of a sentence, and it runs right off the page, even though there's a space immediately to its right. Do I need to use a sloppy or relax command or something like that? Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware

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