Re: OT: Export to text from PDF-reader

2007-10-18 Thread Hellmut Weber
Hi Helge, thanks for your hint. Use xpdf instead of kpdf - xpdf will happily let you paste äöüß into LyX. I just tested by exporting that text from LyX to pdf, and reimport it. Unfortunately it doesn't work for me - Deshalb wird hier eine Vorgehensweise vorgestellt, die den

Re: OT: Export to text from PDF-reader

2007-10-18 Thread Hellmut Weber
Hi Richard, thanks for your hint. What about opening the document in OpenOffice, exporting to LaTeX, and then importing into LyX? I can open the original word document with ooweriter, but when trying to export it to latex I get an error message that my JRE is defect. So I have to reinstall

Minus sign in superscript

2007-10-18 Thread Anthony Campbell
How do you get a minus sign to appear in a superscript, as in 10 to the minus 24? I'm sure this must be easy but $10^24$ doesn't produce the muinus. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Microsoft-free zone - Using Linux Gnu-Debian http://www.acampbell.org.uk (blog, book reviews,

Re: Minus sign in superscript

2007-10-18 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 18 Oct 2007, Anthony Campbell wrote: How do you get a minus sign to appear in a superscript, as in 10 to the minus 24? I'm sure this must be easy but $10^24$ doesn't produce the muinus. Sorry, I meant $10^{-24} gives the same as $10^{24$} -- Anthony Campbell - [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT: Export to text from PDF-reader

2007-10-18 Thread Pavel Sanda
Any ideas how to speed up my work? i was able to convert some docs with czech accents via pdfedit, it may work for you too. pavel

Re: Minus sign in superscript

2007-10-18 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Anthony Campbell wrote: On 18 Oct 2007, Anthony Campbell wrote: How do you get a minus sign to appear in a superscript, as in 10 to the minus 24? I'm sure this must be easy but $10^24$ doesn't produce the muinus. Sorry, I meant $10^{-24} gives the same as $10^{24$} In LaTeX:

Re: OT: Export to text from PDF-reader

2007-10-18 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 11:21:35PM +0200, Hellmut Weber wrote: Hi Helge, thanks for your hint. Use xpdf instead of kpdf - xpdf will happily let you paste äöüß into LyX. I just tested by exporting that text from LyX to pdf, and reimport it. Unfortunately it doesn't work for me

Re: Minus sign in superscript

2007-10-18 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 11:57:01AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: On 18 Oct 2007, Anthony Campbell wrote: How do you get a minus sign to appear in a superscript, as in 10 to the minus 24? I'm sure this must be easy but $10^24$ doesn't produce the muinus. Sorry, I meant $10^{-24}

tetex vs texlive for latex2rtf?

2007-10-18 Thread B. Bogart
Hey all, I've attempting to install latex2rtf (as recommended by Jürgen) on ubuntu (feisty), but the package depends on tetex and not texlive (what is currently installed on my machine) What is the different between the TeXs? Is there anything in latex2rtf that depends on one or the other? or

Re: Minus sign in superscript

2007-10-18 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 18 Oct 2007, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Anthony Campbell wrote: On 18 Oct 2007, Anthony Campbell wrote: How do you get a minus sign to appear in a superscript, as in 10 to the minus 24? I'm sure this must be easy but $10^24$ doesn't produce the muinus. Sorry, I meant $10^{-24} gives the same

Re: tetex vs texlive for latex2rtf?

2007-10-18 Thread David L. Johnson
B. Bogart wrote: Hey all, I've attempting to install latex2rtf (as recommended by Jürgen) on ubuntu (feisty), but the package depends on tetex and not texlive (what is currently installed on my machine) What is the different between the TeXs? Is there anything in latex2rtf that depends on one

Re: LyX 1.5.2.'s fuzzy screen in Mac + wrong path to Aspell

2007-10-18 Thread Margarida Truninger
Dear all, Thank you for your feedback! Hum, are you talking about bad rendering? It's perhaps the same problem as the one reported by Stefan on the devel list. Bennett, perhaps you could provide a package with the pixmap cache disabled (in qt4/GuiPainter.cpp) for those users that don't need the

Re: OT: Export to text from PDF-reader

2007-10-18 Thread Helge Hafting
Hellmut Weber wrote: Hi Helge, thanks for your hint. Use xpdf instead of kpdf - xpdf will happily let you paste äöüß into LyX. I just tested by exporting that text from LyX to pdf, and reimport it. Unfortunately it doesn't work for me Try making an Ä in LyX, view-PDF. Then try copying that

Re: OT: Export to text from PDF-reader

2007-10-18 Thread Hellmut Weber
Hi Helge, thanks for your hint. Use xpdf instead of kpdf - xpdf will happily let you paste äöüß into LyX. I just tested by exporting that text from LyX to pdf, and reimport it. Unfortunately it doesn't work for me - Deshalb wird hier eine Vorgehensweise vorgestellt, die den

Re: OT: Export to text from PDF-reader

2007-10-18 Thread Hellmut Weber
Hi Richard, thanks for your hint. What about opening the document in OpenOffice, exporting to LaTeX, and then importing into LyX? I can open the original word document with ooweriter, but when trying to export it to latex I get an error message that my JRE is defect. So I have to reinstall

Minus sign in superscript

2007-10-18 Thread Anthony Campbell
How do you get a minus sign to appear in a superscript, as in 10 to the minus 24? I'm sure this must be easy but $10^24$ doesn't produce the muinus. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Microsoft-free zone - Using Linux Gnu-Debian http://www.acampbell.org.uk (blog, book reviews,

Re: Minus sign in superscript

2007-10-18 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 18 Oct 2007, Anthony Campbell wrote: How do you get a minus sign to appear in a superscript, as in 10 to the minus 24? I'm sure this must be easy but $10^24$ doesn't produce the muinus. Sorry, I meant $10^{-24} gives the same as $10^{24$} -- Anthony Campbell - [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT: Export to text from PDF-reader

2007-10-18 Thread Pavel Sanda
Any ideas how to speed up my work? i was able to convert some docs with czech accents via pdfedit, it may work for you too. pavel

Re: Minus sign in superscript

2007-10-18 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Anthony Campbell wrote: On 18 Oct 2007, Anthony Campbell wrote: How do you get a minus sign to appear in a superscript, as in 10 to the minus 24? I'm sure this must be easy but $10^24$ doesn't produce the muinus. Sorry, I meant $10^{-24} gives the same as $10^{24$} In LaTeX:

Re: OT: Export to text from PDF-reader

2007-10-18 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 11:21:35PM +0200, Hellmut Weber wrote: Hi Helge, thanks for your hint. Use xpdf instead of kpdf - xpdf will happily let you paste äöüß into LyX. I just tested by exporting that text from LyX to pdf, and reimport it. Unfortunately it doesn't work for me

Re: Minus sign in superscript

2007-10-18 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 11:57:01AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: On 18 Oct 2007, Anthony Campbell wrote: How do you get a minus sign to appear in a superscript, as in 10 to the minus 24? I'm sure this must be easy but $10^24$ doesn't produce the muinus. Sorry, I meant $10^{-24}

tetex vs texlive for latex2rtf?

2007-10-18 Thread B. Bogart
Hey all, I've attempting to install latex2rtf (as recommended by Jürgen) on ubuntu (feisty), but the package depends on tetex and not texlive (what is currently installed on my machine) What is the different between the TeXs? Is there anything in latex2rtf that depends on one or the other? or

Re: Minus sign in superscript

2007-10-18 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 18 Oct 2007, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Anthony Campbell wrote: On 18 Oct 2007, Anthony Campbell wrote: How do you get a minus sign to appear in a superscript, as in 10 to the minus 24? I'm sure this must be easy but $10^24$ doesn't produce the muinus. Sorry, I meant $10^{-24} gives the same

Re: tetex vs texlive for latex2rtf?

2007-10-18 Thread David L. Johnson
B. Bogart wrote: Hey all, I've attempting to install latex2rtf (as recommended by Jürgen) on ubuntu (feisty), but the package depends on tetex and not texlive (what is currently installed on my machine) What is the different between the TeXs? Is there anything in latex2rtf that depends on one

Re: LyX 1.5.2.'s fuzzy screen in Mac + wrong path to Aspell

2007-10-18 Thread Margarida Truninger
Dear all, Thank you for your feedback! Hum, are you talking about bad rendering? It's perhaps the same problem as the one reported by Stefan on the devel list. Bennett, perhaps you could provide a package with the pixmap cache disabled (in qt4/GuiPainter.cpp) for those users that don't need the

Re: OT: Export to text from PDF-reader

2007-10-18 Thread Helge Hafting
Hellmut Weber wrote: Hi Helge, thanks for your hint. Use xpdf instead of kpdf - xpdf will happily let you paste äöüß into LyX. I just tested by exporting that text from LyX to pdf, and reimport it. Unfortunately it doesn't work for me Try making an Ä in LyX, view-PDF. Then try copying that

Re: OT: Export to text from PDF-reader

2007-10-18 Thread Hellmut Weber
Hi Helge, thanks for your hint. Use "xpdf" instead of kpdf - xpdf will happily let you paste "äöüß" into LyX. I just tested by exporting that text from LyX to pdf, and reimport it. Unfortunately it doesn't work for me - Deshalb wird hier eine Vorgehensweise vorgestellt, die den

Re: OT: Export to text from PDF-reader

2007-10-18 Thread Hellmut Weber
Hi Richard, thanks for your hint. What about opening the document in OpenOffice, exporting to LaTeX, and then importing into LyX? I can open the original word document with ooweriter, but when trying to export it to latex I get an error message that my JRE is defect. So I have to reinstall

Minus sign in superscript

2007-10-18 Thread Anthony Campbell
How do you get a minus sign to appear in a superscript, as in 10 to the minus 24? I'm sure this must be easy but $10^24$ doesn't produce the muinus. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Microsoft-free zone - Using Linux Gnu-Debian http://www.acampbell.org.uk (blog, book reviews,

Re: Minus sign in superscript

2007-10-18 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 18 Oct 2007, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > How do you get a minus sign to appear in a superscript, as in 10 to the > minus 24? I'm sure this must be easy but $10^24$ doesn't produce the > muinus. > Sorry, I meant $10^{-24} gives the same as $10^{24$} -- Anthony Campbell - [EMAIL

Re: OT: Export to text from PDF-reader

2007-10-18 Thread Pavel Sanda
> Any ideas how to speed up my work? i was able to convert some docs with czech accents via pdfedit, it may work for you too. pavel

Re: Minus sign in superscript

2007-10-18 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Anthony Campbell wrote: On 18 Oct 2007, Anthony Campbell wrote: How do you get a minus sign to appear in a superscript, as in 10 to the minus 24? I'm sure this must be easy but $10^24$ doesn't produce the muinus. Sorry, I meant $10^{-24} gives the same as $10^{24$} In LaTeX:

Re: OT: Export to text from PDF-reader

2007-10-18 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 11:21:35PM +0200, Hellmut Weber wrote: > Hi Helge, > thanks for your hint. > > >Use "xpdf" instead of kpdf - xpdf will happily let you paste "äöüß" > >into LyX. I just tested by exporting that text from LyX to pdf, > >and reimport it. > Unfortunately it doesn't work for

Re: Minus sign in superscript

2007-10-18 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 11:57:01AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 18 Oct 2007, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > > How do you get a minus sign to appear in a superscript, as in 10 to the > > minus 24? I'm sure this must be easy but $10^24$ doesn't produce the > > muinus. > > > > Sorry, I

tetex vs texlive for latex2rtf?

2007-10-18 Thread B. Bogart
Hey all, I've attempting to install latex2rtf (as recommended by Jürgen) on ubuntu (feisty), but the package depends on tetex and not texlive (what is currently installed on my machine) What is the different between the TeXs? Is there anything in latex2rtf that depends on one or the other? or

Re: Minus sign in superscript

2007-10-18 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 18 Oct 2007, Paul A. Rubin wrote: > Anthony Campbell wrote: >> On 18 Oct 2007, Anthony Campbell wrote: >>> How do you get a minus sign to appear in a superscript, as in 10 to the >>> minus 24? I'm sure this must be easy but $10^24$ doesn't produce the >>> muinus. >>> >> Sorry, I meant

Re: tetex vs texlive for latex2rtf?

2007-10-18 Thread David L. Johnson
B. Bogart wrote: Hey all, I've attempting to install latex2rtf (as recommended by Jürgen) on ubuntu (feisty), but the package depends on tetex and not texlive (what is currently installed on my machine) What is the different between the TeXs? Is there anything in latex2rtf that depends on one

Re: LyX 1.5.2.'s fuzzy screen in Mac + wrong path to Aspell

2007-10-18 Thread Margarida Truninger
Dear all, Thank you for your feedback! Hum, are you talking about bad rendering? It's perhaps the same problem as the one reported by Stefan on the devel list. Bennett, perhaps you could provide a package with the pixmap cache disabled (in qt4/GuiPainter.cpp) for those users that don't need the

Re: OT: Export to text from PDF-reader

2007-10-18 Thread Helge Hafting
Hellmut Weber wrote: Hi Helge, thanks for your hint. Use "xpdf" instead of kpdf - xpdf will happily let you paste "äöüß" into LyX. I just tested by exporting that text from LyX to pdf, and reimport it. Unfortunately it doesn't work for me Try making an "Ä" in LyX, view->PDF. Then try