Re: Physical units

2007-06-01 Thread Miki Dovrat
Hi, Do you know how to make a protected half space, so the units don't come out on a different line than the number? Miki Uwe Stöhr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Steed, Robert J schrieb: I'm starting to write my thesis in Lyx and it so happens that I need to

Re: A few problems with Lyx 1.5 beta3

2007-06-01 Thread Jean Kaplan
I am on PPC Mac Jean Le 31 mai 07 à 14:41, Bennett Helm a écrit : On May 31, 2007, at 4:48 AM, Jean Kaplan wrote: Right, I forgot to say that I work on Mac OS 10.4.9, Jean Le 30 mai 07 à 13:56, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes a écrit : Jean == Jean Kaplan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jean I have

Re: beta 3 and lyx2lyx

2007-06-01 Thread Anders Ekberg
Marcelo Acuña Wed, 30 May 2007 14:03:06 -0700 Then, can you manually convert your file? I mean, under a command prompt, run python -tt /usr/local/share/lyx-1.5.0b3/lyx2lyx/lyx2lyx -t 221 yourfile.lyx newfile.lyx Bo With this command I can run lyx2lyx but I get several errors and I

Re: Lyx-1.5 beta3 and letter class

2007-06-01 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Deane Harder wrote: I use lyx 1.5 beta3 on Mac. When I opened a New file from template and chose letter (g-brief-de) and tried to PDF it, I got the following error message: LaTeX Error: Command \Telefon already defined. The same happens when I open existing lyx letter documents that I wrote

Re: Force document regeneration

2007-06-01 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Phil wrote: Lyx cannot know about all possible changes that require a rerun of Latex. Theoretically, it should. Jürgen

Re: Physical units

2007-06-01 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Miki Dovrat schrieb: Do you know how to make a protected half space, so the units don't come out on a different line than the number? You already know the answer, see the bottom of the email you sent: Concerning units, don't forget that there is only a hlaf space between number and units. A

Re: Physical units

2007-06-01 Thread Dov Feldstern
Miki Dovrat wrote: Hi, Do you know how to make a protected half space, so the units don't come out on a different line than the number? Miki Well, if you put it inside an equation, then the thin space itself *is* protected. BTW, inside an equation you can also type in the thin space as

Re: Physical units

2007-06-01 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Dov Feldstern schrieb: BTW, inside an equation you can also type in the thin space as \, You can also use Ctrl-Space and then press Space several times to select the space you need. Ctrl-Space is equal to \, regards Uwe

LyX version 1.5.0 (release candidate 1) is released

2007-06-01 Thread José Matos
Public release of LyX version 1.5.0 (release candidate 1) === We are glad to announce the release of LyX 1.5.0 (release candidate 1). We encourage users to try this release candidate and report any feedback or problems to lyx-devel at lists.lyx.org. The

accented characters

2007-06-01 Thread pol
Hi, The command \jobname in the preamble does not print accented characters of the file name. how to fix? thank you -- Pol

LyX/Mac 1.5.0 release candidate 1 posted

2007-06-01 Thread Bennett Helm
A binary has now been posted for LyX/Mac 1.5.0 release candidate 1, available here: ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/LyX-1.5.0rc1-Mac.dmg The usual cautions apply: this is beta software, and is apt to have some bugs leading to crashes. While I don't expect there to be any major problems,

Re: LyX/Mac 1.5.0 release candidate 1 posted

2007-06-01 Thread Jean Kaplan
Thanks for the new release, but On my Mac PPC, with mac os X 10.4.9, the disk image does not get mounted (see the diagnostic window attached, in french , it says that LyX-1.5.0rc1-Mac.dmg has not been recognized)inline: lyx-failure.tiff . Jean Le 1 juin 07 à 17:27, Bennett Helm a écrit : A

Re: LyX/Mac 1.5.0 release candidate 1 posted

2007-06-01 Thread Bennett Helm
On Jun 1, 2007, at 11:46 AM, Jean Kaplan wrote: Thanks for the new release, but On my Mac PPC, with mac os X 10.4.9, the disk image does not get mounted (see the diagnostic window attached, in french , it says that LyX-1.5.0rc1-Mac.dmg has not been recognized) lyx-failure.tiff Hmmm

Re: LyX/Mac 1.5.0 release candidate 1 posted

2007-06-01 Thread Jean Kaplan
I have apparently this problem with 1.50beta3 : In the view menu, after reconfiguring, only the items pdf (dvipdfm) and plain text (ps2ascii) appear, however the new side buttons on the window work (and are extremely handy). Configuration: PPC mac with mac os 10.4.9, Latex installed with i-

Re: LyX/Mac 1.5.0 release candidate 1 posted

2007-06-01 Thread Jean Kaplan
I did try uploading twice, with the same result. Jean Le 1 juin 07 à 18:08, Bennett Helm a écrit : On Jun 1, 2007, at 11:46 AM, Jean Kaplan wrote: Thanks for the new release, but On my Mac PPC, with mac os X 10.4.9, the disk image does not get mounted (see the diagnostic window attached,

Re: LyX/Mac 1.5.0 release candidate 1 posted

2007-06-01 Thread Bennett Helm
On Jun 1, 2007, at 12:08 PM, Bennett Helm wrote: On Jun 1, 2007, at 11:46 AM, Jean Kaplan wrote: Thanks for the new release, but On my Mac PPC, with mac os X 10.4.9, the disk image does not get mounted (see the diagnostic window attached, in french , it says that LyX-1.5.0rc1-Mac.dmg has

how to use custom character styles

2007-06-01 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
I have a 180+ page book with many (probably over 500) character formattings. I want to have styles defined for: filenames command names command line options configuration options command output (I just use lyxcode for that) command input etc.. Currently I am just using stuff like typewriter,

Re: LyX/Mac 1.5.0 release candidate 1 posted

2007-06-01 Thread Jean Kaplan
I tried again this time using safari instead of firefox. I get the following diagnostic: Safari ne parvient pas à ouvrir la page “ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/ lyx/LyX-1.5.0rc1-Mac.dmg” car aucune donnée n’a pu être chargée depuis cette adresse. in english : Safari cannot open the page ...

Re: LyX/Mac 1.5.0 release candidate 1 posted

2007-06-01 Thread Bennett Helm
On Jun 1, 2007, at 11:27 AM, Bennett Helm wrote: A binary has now been posted for LyX/Mac 1.5.0 release candidate 1, available here: ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/LyX-1.5.0rc1-Mac.dmg Oops! -- Make that: ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/LyX-1.5.0rc1-Mac.dmg Sorry. Bennett The

Re: LyX/Mac 1.5.0 release candidate 1 posted

2007-06-01 Thread Jean Kaplan
Yes I used this last address from the last message by Jean-Marc Lasgouttes and it worked. Concerning the issues you mention 1) Times font does not work properly, but times-roman does. 2) I have the second problem you mention, even after recombination (I only see latexpdfm and ps2ascii in the

Re: how to use custom character styles

2007-06-01 Thread Richard Heck
Jeremy C. Reed wrote: I have a 180+ page book with many (probably over 500) character formattings. I want to have styles defined for: filenames command names command line options configuration options command output (I just use lyxcode for that) command input etc.. Currently I am just using

Re: RC1 is great!

2007-06-01 Thread Bo Peng
1000 Thanks (Italians would say 'MILLE Grazie') for your great work on this wonderful peace of software. Thanks taken, but be warned to save your file often because it still crashes from time to time. Bo

RC1 is great!

2007-06-01 Thread Hellmut Weber
Hi this afternoon i downloaded lyx-1.5.0rc1 on my machine (gentoo linux, kde-3.5.7, tetex-3.0). I'm very enthusiastic about the progress with this reease candidate. All the little problems I had so far seem to be gone and the new features I have tried are absolutely great. Especially the

Re: how to use custom character styles

2007-06-01 Thread Steve Litt
On Friday 01 June 2007 13:34, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: I have a 180+ page book with many (probably over 500) character formattings. I want to have styles defined for: filenames command names command line options configuration options command output (I just use lyxcode for that) command

Re: how to use custom character styles

2007-06-01 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Fri, 1 Jun 2007, Richard Heck wrote: Look at the stdcharstyles.inc file, which you'll find in e.g. /usr/share/lyx/. You'll need to define yours in a similar way (or use this one), and then include the file in a custom layout file. This can be as simple as: #% Do not delete the line below;

Re: LyX/Mac 1.5.0 release candidate 1 posted

2007-06-01 Thread Anders Ekberg
4) The previews are still far too big. What do you mean? Is the file size much bigger than the sum of your included image files? Try PDF- Compress PDF from the print dialogue. Or do you mean the size of the preview figures? Try Ctrl-click and set a scale factor in the LaTex and LyX-options

Re: RC1 is great!

2007-06-01 Thread Mukhtar Ullah
Bo Peng [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 1000 Thanks (Italians would say 'MILLE Grazie') for your great work on this wonderful peace of software. Thanks taken, but be warned to save your file often because it still crashes from time to time. Bo I have been working in LyX 15 beta 2,3

Re: LyX/Mac 1.5.0 release candidate 1 posted

2007-06-01 Thread Bennett Helm
On Jun 1, 2007, at 5:34 PM, Anders Ekberg wrote: 4) The previews are still far too big. What do you mean? Is the file size much bigger than the sum of your included image files? Try PDF- Compress PDF from the print dialogue. Or do you mean the size of the preview figures? Try Ctrl-click and

RC1 - more remarks

2007-06-01 Thread Hellmut Weber
Hi, two remarks: 1) When i start lyx-rc1 from the command line i get 11 messages: 'Menu warning: menu entries Stichwort|w and Zweig|w share the same shortcut.' I couldn't find the place where these menu entries are defined, to correct the ambiguity. 2) It sems that lyx-rc1 is sometimes

Re: how to use custom character styles

2007-06-01 Thread Hellmut Weber
Hi Steve, I can. LyX is smart enough that it doesn't offer that option in the Insert menu until you've created at least one character style. The minute you successfully create a character style, Character Style will appear asan option on your Insert submenu. I'm surprised because in my

Re: how to use custom character styles

2007-06-01 Thread Hellmut Weber
Hi Jeremy, I want to have styles defined for: filenames ... etc.. ... Can someone share examples for this? Here comes a modest example (charstyle.layout), it defines a char style to put some piece of a running text into a framed box. Note the second line which defines the 'Label' of the

Re: how to use custom character styles

2007-06-01 Thread Steve Litt
On Friday 01 June 2007 19:11, Hellmut Weber wrote: Hi Steve, I can. LyX is smart enough that it doesn't offer that option in the Insert menu until you've created at least one character style. The minute you successfully create a character style, Character Style will appear asan option on

Re: how to use custom character styles

2007-06-01 Thread Hellmut Weber
Hi Steve, i don't have much experience so far with Char Styles, but i'm pretty sure you can do everything you want, i.e. possible with a latex command. Jeremy and I are using 1.4.x. Sounds like 1.5.x is better and more sophisticated. Something to look forward to. I suppose we will get very

Re: RC1 - more remarks

2007-06-01 Thread Marcelo Acuña
--- Hellmut Weber [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: Hi, two remarks: 1) When i start lyx-rc1 from the command line i get 11 messages: 'Menu warning: menu entries Stichwort|w and Zweig|w share the same shortcut.' I have same problem. Marcelo

LyX/Mac 1.5.0 release candidate 1 posted

2007-06-01 Thread Michael Anderson
An odd little thing happened when I started up the RC1. In addition to only having dvipdfm available for preview, I don't have a single menu or tool bar. The submenus for the toolbars are blank as are a number of other submenus. I'm running an intel mac using i- installer, all aspects of

Re: LyX/Mac 1.5.0 release candidate 1 posted

2007-06-01 Thread Bo Peng
On 6/1/07, Michael Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: An odd little thing happened when I started up the RC1. In addition to only having dvipdfm available for preview, I don't have a single menu or tool bar. The submenus for the toolbars are blank as are a number of other submenus. I'm running

Re: LyX/Mac 1.5.0 release candidate 1 posted

2007-06-01 Thread Michael Anderson
how do you mean? Mike Anderson On Jun 1, 2007, at 7:14 PM, Bo Peng wrote: On 6/1/07, Michael Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: An odd little thing happened when I started up the RC1. In addition to only having dvipdfm available for preview, I don't have a single menu or tool bar. The

Re: LyX/Mac 1.5.0 release candidate 1 posted

2007-06-01 Thread Bo Peng
On 6/1/07, Michael Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: how do you mean? Lyx uses a $HOME/.lyx to save all sorts of settings. Although I have never experienced your problem, it is possible that these old settings conflict with the new ones. You can mv .lyx .lyx1 and restart lyx and see what

Beamer Class Unknown

2007-06-01 Thread Lucas Amorim
Hello, I am using Debian GNU/Linux testing (lenny). I have installed latex-beamer and then lyx. When trying to open a beamer template file included in lyx i get this error message: Unknown document class: Using the default document class, because the class beamer is unknown. And then it opens

Re: Beamer Class Unknown

2007-06-01 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Lucas Amorim wrote: I am using Debian GNU/Linux testing (lenny). I have installed latex-beamer and then lyx. When trying to open a beamer template file included in lyx i get this error message: Unknown document class: Using the default document class, because the class beamer is unknown. Did

Re: RC1 - more remarks

2007-06-01 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Hellmut Weber wrote: 1) When i start lyx-rc1 from the command line i get 11 messages: 'Menu warning: menu entries Stichwort|w and Zweig|w share the same shortcut.' I couldn't find the place where these menu entries are defined, to correct the ambiguity. This is defined in the German

Re: Physical units

2007-06-01 Thread Miki Dovrat
Hi, Do you know how to make a protected half space, so the units don't come out on a different line than the number? Miki Uwe Stöhr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Steed, Robert J schrieb: I'm starting to write my thesis in Lyx and it so happens that I need to

Re: A few problems with Lyx 1.5 beta3

2007-06-01 Thread Jean Kaplan
I am on PPC Mac Jean Le 31 mai 07 à 14:41, Bennett Helm a écrit : On May 31, 2007, at 4:48 AM, Jean Kaplan wrote: Right, I forgot to say that I work on Mac OS 10.4.9, Jean Le 30 mai 07 à 13:56, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes a écrit : Jean == Jean Kaplan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jean I have

Re: beta 3 and lyx2lyx

2007-06-01 Thread Anders Ekberg
Marcelo Acuña Wed, 30 May 2007 14:03:06 -0700 Then, can you manually convert your file? I mean, under a command prompt, run python -tt /usr/local/share/lyx-1.5.0b3/lyx2lyx/lyx2lyx -t 221 yourfile.lyx newfile.lyx Bo With this command I can run lyx2lyx but I get several errors and I

Re: Lyx-1.5 beta3 and letter class

2007-06-01 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Deane Harder wrote: I use lyx 1.5 beta3 on Mac. When I opened a New file from template and chose letter (g-brief-de) and tried to PDF it, I got the following error message: LaTeX Error: Command \Telefon already defined. The same happens when I open existing lyx letter documents that I wrote

Re: Force document regeneration

2007-06-01 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Phil wrote: Lyx cannot know about all possible changes that require a rerun of Latex. Theoretically, it should. Jürgen

Re: Physical units

2007-06-01 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Miki Dovrat schrieb: Do you know how to make a protected half space, so the units don't come out on a different line than the number? You already know the answer, see the bottom of the email you sent: Concerning units, don't forget that there is only a hlaf space between number and units. A

Re: Physical units

2007-06-01 Thread Dov Feldstern
Miki Dovrat wrote: Hi, Do you know how to make a protected half space, so the units don't come out on a different line than the number? Miki Well, if you put it inside an equation, then the thin space itself *is* protected. BTW, inside an equation you can also type in the thin space as

Re: Physical units

2007-06-01 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Dov Feldstern schrieb: BTW, inside an equation you can also type in the thin space as \, You can also use Ctrl-Space and then press Space several times to select the space you need. Ctrl-Space is equal to \, regards Uwe

LyX version 1.5.0 (release candidate 1) is released

2007-06-01 Thread José Matos
Public release of LyX version 1.5.0 (release candidate 1) === We are glad to announce the release of LyX 1.5.0 (release candidate 1). We encourage users to try this release candidate and report any feedback or problems to lyx-devel at lists.lyx.org. The

accented characters

2007-06-01 Thread pol
Hi, The command \jobname in the preamble does not print accented characters of the file name. how to fix? thank you -- Pol

LyX/Mac 1.5.0 release candidate 1 posted

2007-06-01 Thread Bennett Helm
A binary has now been posted for LyX/Mac 1.5.0 release candidate 1, available here: ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/LyX-1.5.0rc1-Mac.dmg The usual cautions apply: this is beta software, and is apt to have some bugs leading to crashes. While I don't expect there to be any major problems,

Re: LyX/Mac 1.5.0 release candidate 1 posted

2007-06-01 Thread Jean Kaplan
Thanks for the new release, but On my Mac PPC, with mac os X 10.4.9, the disk image does not get mounted (see the diagnostic window attached, in french , it says that LyX-1.5.0rc1-Mac.dmg has not been recognized)inline: lyx-failure.tiff . Jean Le 1 juin 07 à 17:27, Bennett Helm a écrit : A

Re: LyX/Mac 1.5.0 release candidate 1 posted

2007-06-01 Thread Bennett Helm
On Jun 1, 2007, at 11:46 AM, Jean Kaplan wrote: Thanks for the new release, but On my Mac PPC, with mac os X 10.4.9, the disk image does not get mounted (see the diagnostic window attached, in french , it says that LyX-1.5.0rc1-Mac.dmg has not been recognized) lyx-failure.tiff Hmmm

Re: LyX/Mac 1.5.0 release candidate 1 posted

2007-06-01 Thread Jean Kaplan
I have apparently this problem with 1.50beta3 : In the view menu, after reconfiguring, only the items pdf (dvipdfm) and plain text (ps2ascii) appear, however the new side buttons on the window work (and are extremely handy). Configuration: PPC mac with mac os 10.4.9, Latex installed with i-

Re: LyX/Mac 1.5.0 release candidate 1 posted

2007-06-01 Thread Jean Kaplan
I did try uploading twice, with the same result. Jean Le 1 juin 07 à 18:08, Bennett Helm a écrit : On Jun 1, 2007, at 11:46 AM, Jean Kaplan wrote: Thanks for the new release, but On my Mac PPC, with mac os X 10.4.9, the disk image does not get mounted (see the diagnostic window attached,

Re: LyX/Mac 1.5.0 release candidate 1 posted

2007-06-01 Thread Bennett Helm
On Jun 1, 2007, at 12:08 PM, Bennett Helm wrote: On Jun 1, 2007, at 11:46 AM, Jean Kaplan wrote: Thanks for the new release, but On my Mac PPC, with mac os X 10.4.9, the disk image does not get mounted (see the diagnostic window attached, in french , it says that LyX-1.5.0rc1-Mac.dmg has

how to use custom character styles

2007-06-01 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
I have a 180+ page book with many (probably over 500) character formattings. I want to have styles defined for: filenames command names command line options configuration options command output (I just use lyxcode for that) command input etc.. Currently I am just using stuff like typewriter,

Re: LyX/Mac 1.5.0 release candidate 1 posted

2007-06-01 Thread Jean Kaplan
I tried again this time using safari instead of firefox. I get the following diagnostic: Safari ne parvient pas à ouvrir la page “ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/ lyx/LyX-1.5.0rc1-Mac.dmg” car aucune donnée n’a pu être chargée depuis cette adresse. in english : Safari cannot open the page ...

Re: LyX/Mac 1.5.0 release candidate 1 posted

2007-06-01 Thread Bennett Helm
On Jun 1, 2007, at 11:27 AM, Bennett Helm wrote: A binary has now been posted for LyX/Mac 1.5.0 release candidate 1, available here: ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/LyX-1.5.0rc1-Mac.dmg Oops! -- Make that: ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/LyX-1.5.0rc1-Mac.dmg Sorry. Bennett The

Re: LyX/Mac 1.5.0 release candidate 1 posted

2007-06-01 Thread Jean Kaplan
Yes I used this last address from the last message by Jean-Marc Lasgouttes and it worked. Concerning the issues you mention 1) Times font does not work properly, but times-roman does. 2) I have the second problem you mention, even after recombination (I only see latexpdfm and ps2ascii in the

Re: how to use custom character styles

2007-06-01 Thread Richard Heck
Jeremy C. Reed wrote: I have a 180+ page book with many (probably over 500) character formattings. I want to have styles defined for: filenames command names command line options configuration options command output (I just use lyxcode for that) command input etc.. Currently I am just using

Re: RC1 is great!

2007-06-01 Thread Bo Peng
1000 Thanks (Italians would say 'MILLE Grazie') for your great work on this wonderful peace of software. Thanks taken, but be warned to save your file often because it still crashes from time to time. Bo

RC1 is great!

2007-06-01 Thread Hellmut Weber
Hi this afternoon i downloaded lyx-1.5.0rc1 on my machine (gentoo linux, kde-3.5.7, tetex-3.0). I'm very enthusiastic about the progress with this reease candidate. All the little problems I had so far seem to be gone and the new features I have tried are absolutely great. Especially the

Re: how to use custom character styles

2007-06-01 Thread Steve Litt
On Friday 01 June 2007 13:34, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: I have a 180+ page book with many (probably over 500) character formattings. I want to have styles defined for: filenames command names command line options configuration options command output (I just use lyxcode for that) command

Re: how to use custom character styles

2007-06-01 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Fri, 1 Jun 2007, Richard Heck wrote: Look at the stdcharstyles.inc file, which you'll find in e.g. /usr/share/lyx/. You'll need to define yours in a similar way (or use this one), and then include the file in a custom layout file. This can be as simple as: #% Do not delete the line below;

Re: LyX/Mac 1.5.0 release candidate 1 posted

2007-06-01 Thread Anders Ekberg
4) The previews are still far too big. What do you mean? Is the file size much bigger than the sum of your included image files? Try PDF- Compress PDF from the print dialogue. Or do you mean the size of the preview figures? Try Ctrl-click and set a scale factor in the LaTex and LyX-options

Re: RC1 is great!

2007-06-01 Thread Mukhtar Ullah
Bo Peng [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 1000 Thanks (Italians would say 'MILLE Grazie') for your great work on this wonderful peace of software. Thanks taken, but be warned to save your file often because it still crashes from time to time. Bo I have been working in LyX 15 beta 2,3

Re: LyX/Mac 1.5.0 release candidate 1 posted

2007-06-01 Thread Bennett Helm
On Jun 1, 2007, at 5:34 PM, Anders Ekberg wrote: 4) The previews are still far too big. What do you mean? Is the file size much bigger than the sum of your included image files? Try PDF- Compress PDF from the print dialogue. Or do you mean the size of the preview figures? Try Ctrl-click and

RC1 - more remarks

2007-06-01 Thread Hellmut Weber
Hi, two remarks: 1) When i start lyx-rc1 from the command line i get 11 messages: 'Menu warning: menu entries Stichwort|w and Zweig|w share the same shortcut.' I couldn't find the place where these menu entries are defined, to correct the ambiguity. 2) It sems that lyx-rc1 is sometimes

Re: how to use custom character styles

2007-06-01 Thread Hellmut Weber
Hi Steve, I can. LyX is smart enough that it doesn't offer that option in the Insert menu until you've created at least one character style. The minute you successfully create a character style, Character Style will appear asan option on your Insert submenu. I'm surprised because in my

Re: how to use custom character styles

2007-06-01 Thread Hellmut Weber
Hi Jeremy, I want to have styles defined for: filenames ... etc.. ... Can someone share examples for this? Here comes a modest example (charstyle.layout), it defines a char style to put some piece of a running text into a framed box. Note the second line which defines the 'Label' of the

Re: how to use custom character styles

2007-06-01 Thread Steve Litt
On Friday 01 June 2007 19:11, Hellmut Weber wrote: Hi Steve, I can. LyX is smart enough that it doesn't offer that option in the Insert menu until you've created at least one character style. The minute you successfully create a character style, Character Style will appear asan option on

Re: how to use custom character styles

2007-06-01 Thread Hellmut Weber
Hi Steve, i don't have much experience so far with Char Styles, but i'm pretty sure you can do everything you want, i.e. possible with a latex command. Jeremy and I are using 1.4.x. Sounds like 1.5.x is better and more sophisticated. Something to look forward to. I suppose we will get very

Re: RC1 - more remarks

2007-06-01 Thread Marcelo Acuña
--- Hellmut Weber [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: Hi, two remarks: 1) When i start lyx-rc1 from the command line i get 11 messages: 'Menu warning: menu entries Stichwort|w and Zweig|w share the same shortcut.' I have same problem. Marcelo

LyX/Mac 1.5.0 release candidate 1 posted

2007-06-01 Thread Michael Anderson
An odd little thing happened when I started up the RC1. In addition to only having dvipdfm available for preview, I don't have a single menu or tool bar. The submenus for the toolbars are blank as are a number of other submenus. I'm running an intel mac using i- installer, all aspects of

Re: LyX/Mac 1.5.0 release candidate 1 posted

2007-06-01 Thread Bo Peng
On 6/1/07, Michael Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: An odd little thing happened when I started up the RC1. In addition to only having dvipdfm available for preview, I don't have a single menu or tool bar. The submenus for the toolbars are blank as are a number of other submenus. I'm running

Re: LyX/Mac 1.5.0 release candidate 1 posted

2007-06-01 Thread Michael Anderson
how do you mean? Mike Anderson On Jun 1, 2007, at 7:14 PM, Bo Peng wrote: On 6/1/07, Michael Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: An odd little thing happened when I started up the RC1. In addition to only having dvipdfm available for preview, I don't have a single menu or tool bar. The

Re: LyX/Mac 1.5.0 release candidate 1 posted

2007-06-01 Thread Bo Peng
On 6/1/07, Michael Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: how do you mean? Lyx uses a $HOME/.lyx to save all sorts of settings. Although I have never experienced your problem, it is possible that these old settings conflict with the new ones. You can mv .lyx .lyx1 and restart lyx and see what

Beamer Class Unknown

2007-06-01 Thread Lucas Amorim
Hello, I am using Debian GNU/Linux testing (lenny). I have installed latex-beamer and then lyx. When trying to open a beamer template file included in lyx i get this error message: Unknown document class: Using the default document class, because the class beamer is unknown. And then it opens

Re: Beamer Class Unknown

2007-06-01 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Lucas Amorim wrote: I am using Debian GNU/Linux testing (lenny). I have installed latex-beamer and then lyx. When trying to open a beamer template file included in lyx i get this error message: Unknown document class: Using the default document class, because the class beamer is unknown. Did

Re: RC1 - more remarks

2007-06-01 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Hellmut Weber wrote: 1) When i start lyx-rc1 from the command line i get 11 messages: 'Menu warning: menu entries Stichwort|w and Zweig|w share the same shortcut.' I couldn't find the place where these menu entries are defined, to correct the ambiguity. This is defined in the German

Re: Physical units

2007-06-01 Thread Miki Dovrat
Hi, Do you know how to make a protected half space, so the units don't come out on a different line than the number? Miki "Uwe Stöhr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Steed, Robert J schrieb: > >> I'm starting to write my thesis in Lyx and it so happens that I

Re: A few problems with Lyx 1.5 beta3

2007-06-01 Thread Jean Kaplan
I am on PPC Mac Jean Le 31 mai 07 à 14:41, Bennett Helm a écrit : On May 31, 2007, at 4:48 AM, Jean Kaplan wrote: Right, I forgot to say that I work on Mac OS 10.4.9, Jean Le 30 mai 07 à 13:56, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes a écrit : "Jean" == Jean Kaplan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jean> I have

Re: beta 3 and lyx2lyx

2007-06-01 Thread Anders Ekberg
Marcelo Acuña Wed, 30 May 2007 14:03:06 -0700 > Then, can you manually convert your file? I mean, > under a command prompt, run > > python -tt > /usr/local/share/lyx-1.5.0b3/lyx2lyx/lyx2lyx -t 221 > yourfile.lyx > newfile.lyx > > Bo With this command I can run lyx2lyx but I get several errors

Re: Lyx-1.5 beta3 and letter class

2007-06-01 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Deane Harder wrote: > I use lyx 1.5 beta3 on Mac. When I opened a "New file from template" and > chose letter (g-brief-de) and tried to PDF it, I got the following error > message: LaTeX Error: Command \Telefon already defined. The same happens > when I open existing lyx letter documents that I

Re: Force document regeneration

2007-06-01 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Phil wrote: > Lyx cannot know about all possible changes that require a rerun of > Latex. Theoretically, it should. Jürgen

Re: Physical units

2007-06-01 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Miki Dovrat schrieb: Do you know how to make a protected half space, so the units don't come out on a different line than the number? You already know the answer, see the bottom of the email you sent: Concerning units, don't forget that there is only a hlaf space between number and units. A

Re: Physical units

2007-06-01 Thread Dov Feldstern
Miki Dovrat wrote: Hi, Do you know how to make a protected half space, so the units don't come out on a different line than the number? Miki Well, if you put it inside an equation, then the thin space itself *is* protected. BTW, inside an equation you can also type in the thin space as

Re: Physical units

2007-06-01 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Dov Feldstern schrieb: BTW, inside an equation you can also type in the thin space as \, You can also use Ctrl-Space and then press Space several times to select the space you need. Ctrl-Space is equal to \, regards Uwe

LyX version 1.5.0 (release candidate 1) is released

2007-06-01 Thread José Matos
Public release of LyX version 1.5.0 (release candidate 1) === We are glad to announce the release of LyX 1.5.0 (release candidate 1). We encourage users to try this release candidate and report any feedback or problems to lyx-devel at lists.lyx.org. The

accented characters

2007-06-01 Thread pol
Hi, The command \jobname in the preamble does not print accented characters of the file name. how to fix? thank you -- Pol

LyX/Mac 1.5.0 release candidate 1 posted

2007-06-01 Thread Bennett Helm
A binary has now been posted for LyX/Mac 1.5.0 release candidate 1, available here: The usual cautions apply: this is beta software, and is apt to have some bugs leading to crashes. While I don't expect there to be any major problems,

Re: LyX/Mac 1.5.0 release candidate 1 posted

2007-06-01 Thread Jean Kaplan
Thanks for the new release, but On my Mac PPC, with mac os X 10.4.9, the disk image does not get mounted (see the diagnostic window attached, in french , it says that LyX-1.5.0rc1-Mac.dmg has not been recognized)<> . Jean Le 1 juin 07 à 17:27, Bennett Helm a écrit : A binary has now been

Re: LyX/Mac 1.5.0 release candidate 1 posted

2007-06-01 Thread Bennett Helm
On Jun 1, 2007, at 11:46 AM, Jean Kaplan wrote: Thanks for the new release, but On my Mac PPC, with mac os X 10.4.9, the disk image does not get mounted (see the diagnostic window attached, in french , it says that LyX-1.5.0rc1-Mac.dmg has not been recognized) Hmmm Everything works

Re: LyX/Mac 1.5.0 release candidate 1 posted

2007-06-01 Thread Jean Kaplan
I have apparently this problem with 1.50beta3 : In the view menu, after reconfiguring, only the items pdf (dvipdfm) and plain text (ps2ascii) appear, however the new side buttons on the window work (and are extremely handy). Configuration: PPC mac with mac os 10.4.9, Latex installed with i-

Re: LyX/Mac 1.5.0 release candidate 1 posted

2007-06-01 Thread Jean Kaplan
I did try uploading twice, with the same result. Jean Le 1 juin 07 à 18:08, Bennett Helm a écrit : On Jun 1, 2007, at 11:46 AM, Jean Kaplan wrote: Thanks for the new release, but On my Mac PPC, with mac os X 10.4.9, the disk image does not get mounted (see the diagnostic window attached,

Re: LyX/Mac 1.5.0 release candidate 1 posted

2007-06-01 Thread Bennett Helm
On Jun 1, 2007, at 12:08 PM, Bennett Helm wrote: On Jun 1, 2007, at 11:46 AM, Jean Kaplan wrote: Thanks for the new release, but On my Mac PPC, with mac os X 10.4.9, the disk image does not get mounted (see the diagnostic window attached, in french , it says that LyX-1.5.0rc1-Mac.dmg has

how to use custom character styles

2007-06-01 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
I have a 180+ page book with many (probably over 500) character formattings. I want to have styles defined for: filenames command names command line options configuration options command output (I just use lyxcode for that) command input etc.. Currently I am just using stuff like typewriter,

Re: LyX/Mac 1.5.0 release candidate 1 posted

2007-06-01 Thread Jean Kaplan
I tried again this time using safari instead of firefox. I get the following diagnostic: "Safari ne parvient pas à ouvrir la page “ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/ lyx/LyX-1.5.0rc1-Mac.dmg” car aucune donnée n’a pu être chargée depuis cette adresse." in english : Safari cannot open the page

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