Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?

2009-02-06 Thread A B
I might have missed something here (I'm sorry in that case) but are you suggesting a LyX-light version for people that does not want to use anything but word Paradoxically yes. I'd say: create converters that are shipped with LyX instead! If I may generalize a little The word users are

Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?

2009-02-06 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-02-05, rgheck wrote: I looked a bit closer and you are correct. Python was installed I'd guess that a LyXLite probably wouldn't need python. We're never exporting; we're never compiling. We don't care what programs and packages are available or not. We're assuming that none are.

Re: Installing biblatex-dw-style (Wassenhoven) on OSX

2009-02-06 Thread jezZiFeR
I have also done that. Everything worked fine, before I´ve chosen biblatex-dw as citation style, the standard-styles work fine. I also added this line: \usepackage[style=authortitle-dw]{biblatex} and I have disabled this one, with which I worked before trying to use biblatex-dw:

Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?

2009-02-06 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-02-06, A B wrote: I might have missed something here (I'm sorry in that case) Yes, reading the thread from the beginning will help to understand the complex issue and the various solutions proposed so far... but are you suggesting a LyX-light version for people that does not want to

Re: Installing biblatex-dw-style (Wassenhoven) on OSX

2009-02-06 Thread Dominik Waßenhoven
jezZiFeR wrote: When I export from Lyx without using XeTex (removed the line in the preamble), then Texshop shows some errors like no author given and some more (I couldn´t copy them). Interestingly I here also get the undefined control sequence. Before you try anything else, could you

Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?

2009-02-06 Thread Graham Smith
AB I might have missed something here (I'm sorry in that case) but are you suggesting a LyX-light version for people that does not want to use anything but word Paradoxically yes. I'd say: create converters that are shipped with LyX instead! If I may generalize a little The

Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?

2009-02-06 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-02-05, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Guenter Milde wrote: This was about citation support. But I see it works without LaTeX too (but with limited funtionality: giving the bibtex-key instead):: ... for details see [milde.ea.ieee-sensors:08] [LaTeX-Befehl: bibtex] FYI, I think

Re: Installing biblatex-dw-style (Wassenhoven) on OSX

2009-02-06 Thread Dominik Waßenhoven
jezZiFeR schrieb: thanks again. Here is the version of the used biblatex: Package: biblatex 2008/12/13 v0.8b programmable bibliographies Okay, there should be no conflicts, then. and this is what I find in the mentioned logfile under biblatex-dw Package biblatex Info: Trying to load

Re: Installing biblatex-dw-style (Wassenhoven) on OSX

2009-02-06 Thread jezZiFeR
Dear Dominik, dear listmembers, In BibTex I save in utf-8 (unicode). In Lyx 1.6.1 I use Unicode (XeTeX) (utf8), and I didn´t change that when I compiled without the Xetex-line in the preamble. So now I tried without the line and entered Unicode (utf8). I have got this code then: Package

Re: Typesetting verse

2009-02-06 Thread Bruce Pourciau
On Feb 5, 2009, at 5:21 PM, killermike wrote: Frederick Noronha [फ़रेदरिक नोरोनया] wrote: What's the best way to typeset a poem or two? And how does one attain the spacing needed between lines? Thanks so much, FN Most of the classes have quote and quotation styles. Quotation is the style

graphic in fancy header causes crash with ps2pdf

2009-02-06 Thread christiaan pauw
Hallo Everybody I use LyX 1.6.1 on Mac OS X I have a report with fancy header and a logo in the header. It compiles very well with pdflatex but cannot compile with ps2pdf here is part of my preamble \usepackage{graphics} \usepackage{fancyhdr} \pagestyle{fancy} \lhead{Report page heading}

Re: page numbers

2009-02-06 Thread Uwe Stöhr
I'm using Lyx window ver 1.5.4. I have problem of how to modify page numbers. For example, I 'm writing thesis, I need to put page numbers with roman style (i,ii,ii etc) for abstract, acknowledgments etc before the chapters which starts with numbers (1, 2 3, etc). Have a look here:

Re: Installing biblatex-dw-style (Wassenhoven) on OSX

2009-02-06 Thread jezZiFeR
Hello Jürgen, hello listmembers, thank you. I use BibDesk and I meant, that I do save in utf-8 there. The wiki says, that this should work: Some editors automatically do this conversion for you, e.g. Pybliographic and BibDesk I have also checked the option Convert accented characters to

Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?

2009-02-06 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn
David Mertens schreef: It would be great if ... the .lxy document would be bundled with all images in a .zip file. Great idea, but not trivial. Has this been discussed on the lists before? If it has, I couldn't find it. Yes, see: http://wiki.lyx.org/Devel/BundleSuggestions

program listings and bold typewriter font

2009-02-06 Thread G. Jay Kerns
Dear LyX-users, I am using LyX 1.6.1 on Ubuntu Intrepid 64. I have inserted a program listing into an AMSbook document class and have typed some code in the R language. Everything works fine if I want the code to be typeset with sans serif font; reserved words are bolded. However, if I try to

Re: Installing biblatex-dw-style (Wassenhoven) on OSX

2009-02-06 Thread Dominik Waßenhoven
jezZiFeR wrote: Could this be a problem? As it worked before, as you said, this should not be a problem. Could you provide a minimal lyx file showing the problem and send it to the list (or to me with private mail)? Regards, Dominik.-

Re: graphic in fancy header causes crash with ps2pdf

2009-02-06 Thread Uwe Stöhr
christiaan pauw schrieb: \rhead{\resizebox{2cm}{!}{\includegraphics{/Users/christiaanpauw/Pictures/logo.png}}} The error message reads: LaTeX Error: Cannot determine size of graphic in /Users/christiaanpauw/Pictures/logo.png (no BoundingBox) This is no crash. You used ps2pdf, that means

Re: program listings and bold typewriter font

2009-02-06 Thread Uwe Stöhr
G. Jay Kerns schrieb: I changed my fonts in Documents/Settings: 1) I tried both Courier and Beramono, but there was no difference in the output. What is happening? Is this OS dependent? Can you please send me a _small_ LyX file to be able to reproduce the problem? regards Uwe

Re: Strange LaTex /bibtex error prevents successful compilation

2009-02-06 Thread Stefano Franchi
Following Richard's and Erez's suggestions I set out to chop both the lyx file and the .bib file in smaller and smaller pieces to isolate the error. Well, I solved the problem, but I am none the wiser. Here is what I did: 1. remove the batch of citations added to the bibtex file since the last

External commands?

2009-02-06 Thread Matts Lindström
Hello! Simple question: is it possible to pipe the lyx-buffer through a external command (for instance wc or sed on linux?). Running lyx 1.6.1. Matts Lindström

Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?

2009-02-06 Thread stefan
Hi, It would be great if LightLyx(or whatever name) would be a portable, one file solultion and the .lxy document would be bundled with all images in a .zip file. So you can just give the document (zip-file) and the exe (for windows) file of PortanbleLightlyx to someone and he/she could review and

Re: Installing biblatex-dw-style (Wassenhoven) on OSX

2009-02-06 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
jezZiFeR wrote: In BibTex I save in utf-8 (unicode). BibTeX does not support unicode: http://wiki.lyx.org/BibTeX/Tips#toc1 Jürgen

[Fwd: page numbers]

2009-02-06 Thread Richard Heck
Hi, I'm using Lyx window ver 1.5.4. I have problem of how to modify page numbers. For example, I 'm writing thesis, I need to put page numbers with roman style (i,ii,ii etc) for abstract, acknowledgments etc before the chapters which starts with numbers (1, 2 3, etc). Thanks Lisa

Re: Installing biblatex-dw-style (Wassenhoven) on OSX

2009-02-06 Thread jezZiFeR
Dear Dominik, thanks again. Here is the version of the used biblatex: Package: biblatex 2008/12/13 v0.8b programmable bibliographies (/Users/stefan/Library/texmf/tex/latex/etoolbox/etoolbox.sty and this is what I find in the mentioned logfile under biblatex-dw Package biblatex Info: Trying to

Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?

2009-02-06 Thread Richard Heck
Guenter Milde wrote: On 2009-02-05, rgheck wrote: I looked a bit closer and you are correct. Python was installed I'd guess that a LyXLite probably wouldn't need python. We're never exporting; we're never compiling. We don't care what programs and packages are available or

Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?

2009-02-06 Thread David Mertens
It would be great if ... the .lxy document would be bundled with all images in a .zip file. Great idea, but not trivial. Has this been discussed on the lists before? If it has, I couldn't find it. We would probably want a portable LyX format (.plyx) that would be a tarrball or zip of the

Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?

2009-02-06 Thread Richard Heck
Guenter Milde wrote: FYI, I think Richard has further improved the bibtex parsing lately. I know, this is why I can browse my bibtex database easily from within lyx. Would it be feasable to use this new ability in LyX's text export? I don't see why not. Basically, we have a data

Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?

2009-02-06 Thread Richard Heck
David Mertens wrote: It would be great if ... the .lxy document would be bundled with all images in a .zip file. Great idea, but not trivial. Has this been discussed on the lists before? If it has, I couldn't find it. A lot, but mostly on devel. There is, in fact, a script that

Re: Creating macros in Lyx

2009-02-06 Thread Richard Heck
Pascal Francq wrote: Thanks. In fact, when I using the dialog box to modify the character type, it does not show any function in the status bar. Moreover, when I use textstyle- update color 3, the color is set to red, but other attributes are reset (such as an italic text becomes regular). I

Re: External commands?

2009-02-06 Thread Richard Heck
Matts Lindström wrote: Hello! Simple question: is it possible to pipe the lyx-buffer through a external command (for instance wc or sed on linux?). Running lyx 1.6.1. I'm not sure exactly what you want to do, but (a) you can of course do this outside LyX and (b) you can create some kind of

Re: External commands?

2009-02-06 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-02-06, Matts Lindström wrote: Hello! Simple question: is it possible to pipe the lyx-buffer through a external command (for instance wc or sed on linux?). Running lyx 1.6.1. AFAIK, no. You will have to modify the source file by external means and then FileRevert (ignoring the

Re: program listings and bold typewriter font

2009-02-06 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-02-06, G. Jay Kerns wrote: Dear LyX-users, I am using LyX 1.6.1 on Ubuntu Intrepid 64. However, if I try to use Typewriter in the settings dialog, it is correctly shown as typewriter, but the bold is no longer there. Here's what it says in the documentation, Embedded Objects:

Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?

2009-02-06 Thread Steve Litt
On Friday 06 February 2009 11:37:50 am Richard Heck wrote: Yes, of course, that's correct. There's layout2layout, as well. So python is definitely required. What does layout2layout do? SteveT Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US

Vanishing ToC

2009-02-06 Thread Frederick FN Noronha
Recently, after upgrading to Lyx 1.6.1 (on GNU/Linux), I have this problem of vanishing Table of Contents. It usually happen when I switch the 'document class' of my book. It also happens when I share files with other editors. Any idea why? It happens regardless of whether I use Chapter or

Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?

2009-02-06 Thread Steve Litt
On Friday 06 February 2009 11:46:21 am Richard Heck wrote: David Mertens wrote: It would be great if ... the .lxy document would be bundled with all images in a .zip file. Great idea, but not trivial. Has this been discussed on the lists before? If it has, I couldn't find it. A lot,

Re: External commands?

2009-02-06 Thread Richard Heck
Guenter Milde wrote: On 2009-02-06, Matts Lindström wrote: Hello! Simple question: is it possible to pipe the lyx-buffer through a external command (for instance wc or sed on linux?). Running lyx 1.6.1. AFAIK, no. You will have to modify the source file by external means and then

Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?

2009-02-06 Thread Richard Heck
Steve Litt wrote: On Friday 06 February 2009 11:46:21 am Richard Heck wrote: David Mertens wrote: It would be great if ... the .lxy document would be bundled with all images in a .zip file. Great idea, but not trivial. Has this been discussed on the lists before? If it has,

gswin32c.exe command line arguments

2009-02-06 Thread Tariq Abdullah
Hi, I need to embed fonts and subsets of fonts in my PDF. I need to provide some command line arguments to the ps2pdf command (view--update--PDF(ps2pdf)). How can I do this? Is there any other way to do this? Regards, Tariq Abdullah

Re: [Fwd: page numbers]

2009-02-06 Thread Marcelo Acuña
Hi, I'm using Lyx window ver 1.5.4. I have problem of how to modify page numbers. For example, I 'm writing thesis, I need to put page numbers with roman style (i,ii,ii etc) for abstract, acknowledgments etc before the chapters which starts with numbers (1, 2 3, etc). Thanks Lisa

Re: program listings and bold typewriter font

2009-02-06 Thread G. Jay Kerns
Dear Uwe and lyx-users, On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 10:46 AM, Uwe Stöhr uwesto...@web.de wrote: G. Jay Kerns schrieb: I changed my fonts in Documents/Settings: 1) I tried both Courier and Beramono, but there was no difference in the output. What is happening? Is this OS dependent? Can you

Re: program listings and bold typewriter font

2009-02-06 Thread G. Jay Kerns
Dear All, On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 2:12 PM, G. Jay Kerns gke...@ysu.edu wrote: It would seem that there is something happening with the LyX-Sweave machinery which is causing the fonts in the Program Listing environment to not appear bold, even for a reserved word in the R language. I do not

Re: gswin32c.exe command line arguments

2009-02-06 Thread rgheck
Tariq Abdullah wrote: Hi, I need to embed fonts and subsets of fonts in my PDF. I need to provide some command line arguments to the ps2pdf command (view--update--PDF(ps2pdf)). How can I do this? Is there any other way to do this? Modify the command definition under ToolsPreferencesFile

Re: serious problems with LyX (semi-fatal crashes)

2009-02-06 Thread Stefano Franchi
On Sunday 01 February 2009 21:25:26 Stefano Franchi wrote: On Sunday 01 February 2009 17:01:14 Andre Poenitz wrote: On Sun, Feb 01, 2009 at 11:56:17AM -0600, Stefano Franchi wrote: Hi All, I have been experiencing some serious problems with LyX lately, after my upgrade to 1.6.x.

Uppertitleback and lowertitleback cannot be shown in pdf

2009-02-06 Thread Waluyo Adi Siswanto
I am going to use the uppertitleback and lowertitleback in Book(KOMA-script) in LyX 1.6.1 (OS Ubuntu 8.04) but when I see the pdf, they are not shown. When I use LyX 1.5.5 it works well. Please find enclosed the minimal example file (LyX 1.6.1) that fails to show the uppertitleback and

Re: Strange LaTex /bibtex error prevents successful compilation

2009-02-06 Thread Anders Host-Madsen
First, a question to someone knowledgeable. How does LyX do it's compilation of LaTeX? Does it leave .aux files between compilations? I have had this kind of errors with LaTeX. An error in compilation leaves an invalid .aux file. That prevents compilation next time. I have had to manually delete

Re: SIAM layout

2009-02-06 Thread m7han
Hi David, I met the same problem. Have you find any solution? Thanks, Meng dmbortz wrote: Hello, I recently upgraded my ubuntu laptop to intrepid and with it came the upgrade of lyx to 1.5.6. I have an article written in the SIAM-article class (stripped down example is attached).

Re: Page numbers in beamer presentation

2009-02-06 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Neal Becker wrote: How do I get page numbers in my beamer presentation? (lyx-1.6.1) You mean frame numbers (what would be slide numbers in another package)? Some outer themes automatically put them in a margin. Otherwise, \theframenumber (in ERT) gives you the slide number. HTH, Paul

Re: SIAM layout

2009-02-06 Thread dmbortz
uMeng, Nope. I'm seriously considering assigning one of my grad students to look into it, as everything I've ever published has been written using lyx (all the way back to my dissertation...ah lyx 0.12.0...those were the days). David Hi David, I met the same problem. Have you found any

Re: graphic in fancy header causes crash with ps2pdf

2009-02-06 Thread christiaan pauw
2009/2/6 Uwe Stöhr uwesto...@web.de christiaan pauw schrieb: \rhead{\resizebox{2cm}{!}{\includegraphics{/Users/christiaanpauw/Pictures/logo.png}}} The error message reads: LaTeX Error: Cannot determine size of graphic in /Users/christiaanpauw/Pictures/logo.png (no BoundingBox) This is

Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?

2009-02-06 Thread A B
I might have missed something here (I'm sorry in that case) but are you suggesting a LyX-light version for people that does not want to use anything but word Paradoxically yes. I'd say: create converters that are shipped with LyX instead! If I may generalize a little The word users are

Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?

2009-02-06 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-02-05, rgheck wrote: I looked a bit closer and you are correct. Python was installed I'd guess that a LyXLite probably wouldn't need python. We're never exporting; we're never compiling. We don't care what programs and packages are available or not. We're assuming that none are.

Re: Installing biblatex-dw-style (Wassenhoven) on OSX

2009-02-06 Thread jezZiFeR
I have also done that. Everything worked fine, before I´ve chosen biblatex-dw as citation style, the standard-styles work fine. I also added this line: \usepackage[style=authortitle-dw]{biblatex} and I have disabled this one, with which I worked before trying to use biblatex-dw:

Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?

2009-02-06 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-02-06, A B wrote: I might have missed something here (I'm sorry in that case) Yes, reading the thread from the beginning will help to understand the complex issue and the various solutions proposed so far... but are you suggesting a LyX-light version for people that does not want to

Re: Installing biblatex-dw-style (Wassenhoven) on OSX

2009-02-06 Thread Dominik Waßenhoven
jezZiFeR wrote: When I export from Lyx without using XeTex (removed the line in the preamble), then Texshop shows some errors like no author given and some more (I couldn´t copy them). Interestingly I here also get the undefined control sequence. Before you try anything else, could you

Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?

2009-02-06 Thread Graham Smith
AB I might have missed something here (I'm sorry in that case) but are you suggesting a LyX-light version for people that does not want to use anything but word Paradoxically yes. I'd say: create converters that are shipped with LyX instead! If I may generalize a little The

Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?

2009-02-06 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-02-05, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Guenter Milde wrote: This was about citation support. But I see it works without LaTeX too (but with limited funtionality: giving the bibtex-key instead):: ... for details see [milde.ea.ieee-sensors:08] [LaTeX-Befehl: bibtex] FYI, I think

Re: Installing biblatex-dw-style (Wassenhoven) on OSX

2009-02-06 Thread Dominik Waßenhoven
jezZiFeR schrieb: thanks again. Here is the version of the used biblatex: Package: biblatex 2008/12/13 v0.8b programmable bibliographies Okay, there should be no conflicts, then. and this is what I find in the mentioned logfile under biblatex-dw Package biblatex Info: Trying to load

Re: Installing biblatex-dw-style (Wassenhoven) on OSX

2009-02-06 Thread jezZiFeR
Dear Dominik, dear listmembers, In BibTex I save in utf-8 (unicode). In Lyx 1.6.1 I use Unicode (XeTeX) (utf8), and I didn´t change that when I compiled without the Xetex-line in the preamble. So now I tried without the line and entered Unicode (utf8). I have got this code then: Package

Re: Typesetting verse

2009-02-06 Thread Bruce Pourciau
On Feb 5, 2009, at 5:21 PM, killermike wrote: Frederick Noronha [फ़रेदरिक नोरोनया] wrote: What's the best way to typeset a poem or two? And how does one attain the spacing needed between lines? Thanks so much, FN Most of the classes have quote and quotation styles. Quotation is the style

graphic in fancy header causes crash with ps2pdf

2009-02-06 Thread christiaan pauw
Hallo Everybody I use LyX 1.6.1 on Mac OS X I have a report with fancy header and a logo in the header. It compiles very well with pdflatex but cannot compile with ps2pdf here is part of my preamble \usepackage{graphics} \usepackage{fancyhdr} \pagestyle{fancy} \lhead{Report page heading}

Re: page numbers

2009-02-06 Thread Uwe Stöhr
I'm using Lyx window ver 1.5.4. I have problem of how to modify page numbers. For example, I 'm writing thesis, I need to put page numbers with roman style (i,ii,ii etc) for abstract, acknowledgments etc before the chapters which starts with numbers (1, 2 3, etc). Have a look here:

Re: Installing biblatex-dw-style (Wassenhoven) on OSX

2009-02-06 Thread jezZiFeR
Hello Jürgen, hello listmembers, thank you. I use BibDesk and I meant, that I do save in utf-8 there. The wiki says, that this should work: Some editors automatically do this conversion for you, e.g. Pybliographic and BibDesk I have also checked the option Convert accented characters to

Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?

2009-02-06 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn
David Mertens schreef: It would be great if ... the .lxy document would be bundled with all images in a .zip file. Great idea, but not trivial. Has this been discussed on the lists before? If it has, I couldn't find it. Yes, see: http://wiki.lyx.org/Devel/BundleSuggestions

program listings and bold typewriter font

2009-02-06 Thread G. Jay Kerns
Dear LyX-users, I am using LyX 1.6.1 on Ubuntu Intrepid 64. I have inserted a program listing into an AMSbook document class and have typed some code in the R language. Everything works fine if I want the code to be typeset with sans serif font; reserved words are bolded. However, if I try to

Re: Installing biblatex-dw-style (Wassenhoven) on OSX

2009-02-06 Thread Dominik Waßenhoven
jezZiFeR wrote: Could this be a problem? As it worked before, as you said, this should not be a problem. Could you provide a minimal lyx file showing the problem and send it to the list (or to me with private mail)? Regards, Dominik.-

Re: graphic in fancy header causes crash with ps2pdf

2009-02-06 Thread Uwe Stöhr
christiaan pauw schrieb: \rhead{\resizebox{2cm}{!}{\includegraphics{/Users/christiaanpauw/Pictures/logo.png}}} The error message reads: LaTeX Error: Cannot determine size of graphic in /Users/christiaanpauw/Pictures/logo.png (no BoundingBox) This is no crash. You used ps2pdf, that means

Re: program listings and bold typewriter font

2009-02-06 Thread Uwe Stöhr
G. Jay Kerns schrieb: I changed my fonts in Documents/Settings: 1) I tried both Courier and Beramono, but there was no difference in the output. What is happening? Is this OS dependent? Can you please send me a _small_ LyX file to be able to reproduce the problem? regards Uwe

Re: Strange LaTex /bibtex error prevents successful compilation

2009-02-06 Thread Stefano Franchi
Following Richard's and Erez's suggestions I set out to chop both the lyx file and the .bib file in smaller and smaller pieces to isolate the error. Well, I solved the problem, but I am none the wiser. Here is what I did: 1. remove the batch of citations added to the bibtex file since the last

External commands?

2009-02-06 Thread Matts Lindström
Hello! Simple question: is it possible to pipe the lyx-buffer through a external command (for instance wc or sed on linux?). Running lyx 1.6.1. Matts Lindström

Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?

2009-02-06 Thread stefan
Hi, It would be great if LightLyx(or whatever name) would be a portable, one file solultion and the .lxy document would be bundled with all images in a .zip file. So you can just give the document (zip-file) and the exe (for windows) file of PortanbleLightlyx to someone and he/she could review and

Re: Installing biblatex-dw-style (Wassenhoven) on OSX

2009-02-06 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
jezZiFeR wrote: In BibTex I save in utf-8 (unicode). BibTeX does not support unicode: http://wiki.lyx.org/BibTeX/Tips#toc1 Jürgen

[Fwd: page numbers]

2009-02-06 Thread Richard Heck
Hi, I'm using Lyx window ver 1.5.4. I have problem of how to modify page numbers. For example, I 'm writing thesis, I need to put page numbers with roman style (i,ii,ii etc) for abstract, acknowledgments etc before the chapters which starts with numbers (1, 2 3, etc). Thanks Lisa

Re: Installing biblatex-dw-style (Wassenhoven) on OSX

2009-02-06 Thread jezZiFeR
Dear Dominik, thanks again. Here is the version of the used biblatex: Package: biblatex 2008/12/13 v0.8b programmable bibliographies (/Users/stefan/Library/texmf/tex/latex/etoolbox/etoolbox.sty and this is what I find in the mentioned logfile under biblatex-dw Package biblatex Info: Trying to

Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?

2009-02-06 Thread Richard Heck
Guenter Milde wrote: On 2009-02-05, rgheck wrote: I looked a bit closer and you are correct. Python was installed I'd guess that a LyXLite probably wouldn't need python. We're never exporting; we're never compiling. We don't care what programs and packages are available or

Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?

2009-02-06 Thread David Mertens
It would be great if ... the .lxy document would be bundled with all images in a .zip file. Great idea, but not trivial. Has this been discussed on the lists before? If it has, I couldn't find it. We would probably want a portable LyX format (.plyx) that would be a tarrball or zip of the

Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?

2009-02-06 Thread Richard Heck
Guenter Milde wrote: FYI, I think Richard has further improved the bibtex parsing lately. I know, this is why I can browse my bibtex database easily from within lyx. Would it be feasable to use this new ability in LyX's text export? I don't see why not. Basically, we have a data

Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?

2009-02-06 Thread Richard Heck
David Mertens wrote: It would be great if ... the .lxy document would be bundled with all images in a .zip file. Great idea, but not trivial. Has this been discussed on the lists before? If it has, I couldn't find it. A lot, but mostly on devel. There is, in fact, a script that

Re: Creating macros in Lyx

2009-02-06 Thread Richard Heck
Pascal Francq wrote: Thanks. In fact, when I using the dialog box to modify the character type, it does not show any function in the status bar. Moreover, when I use textstyle- update color 3, the color is set to red, but other attributes are reset (such as an italic text becomes regular). I

Re: External commands?

2009-02-06 Thread Richard Heck
Matts Lindström wrote: Hello! Simple question: is it possible to pipe the lyx-buffer through a external command (for instance wc or sed on linux?). Running lyx 1.6.1. I'm not sure exactly what you want to do, but (a) you can of course do this outside LyX and (b) you can create some kind of

Re: External commands?

2009-02-06 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-02-06, Matts Lindström wrote: Hello! Simple question: is it possible to pipe the lyx-buffer through a external command (for instance wc or sed on linux?). Running lyx 1.6.1. AFAIK, no. You will have to modify the source file by external means and then FileRevert (ignoring the

Re: program listings and bold typewriter font

2009-02-06 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-02-06, G. Jay Kerns wrote: Dear LyX-users, I am using LyX 1.6.1 on Ubuntu Intrepid 64. However, if I try to use Typewriter in the settings dialog, it is correctly shown as typewriter, but the bold is no longer there. Here's what it says in the documentation, Embedded Objects:

Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?

2009-02-06 Thread Steve Litt
On Friday 06 February 2009 11:37:50 am Richard Heck wrote: Yes, of course, that's correct. There's layout2layout, as well. So python is definitely required. What does layout2layout do? SteveT Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US

Vanishing ToC

2009-02-06 Thread Frederick FN Noronha
Recently, after upgrading to Lyx 1.6.1 (on GNU/Linux), I have this problem of vanishing Table of Contents. It usually happen when I switch the 'document class' of my book. It also happens when I share files with other editors. Any idea why? It happens regardless of whether I use Chapter or

Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?

2009-02-06 Thread Steve Litt
On Friday 06 February 2009 11:46:21 am Richard Heck wrote: David Mertens wrote: It would be great if ... the .lxy document would be bundled with all images in a .zip file. Great idea, but not trivial. Has this been discussed on the lists before? If it has, I couldn't find it. A lot,

Re: External commands?

2009-02-06 Thread Richard Heck
Guenter Milde wrote: On 2009-02-06, Matts Lindström wrote: Hello! Simple question: is it possible to pipe the lyx-buffer through a external command (for instance wc or sed on linux?). Running lyx 1.6.1. AFAIK, no. You will have to modify the source file by external means and then

Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?

2009-02-06 Thread Richard Heck
Steve Litt wrote: On Friday 06 February 2009 11:46:21 am Richard Heck wrote: David Mertens wrote: It would be great if ... the .lxy document would be bundled with all images in a .zip file. Great idea, but not trivial. Has this been discussed on the lists before? If it has,

gswin32c.exe command line arguments

2009-02-06 Thread Tariq Abdullah
Hi, I need to embed fonts and subsets of fonts in my PDF. I need to provide some command line arguments to the ps2pdf command (view--update--PDF(ps2pdf)). How can I do this? Is there any other way to do this? Regards, Tariq Abdullah

Re: [Fwd: page numbers]

2009-02-06 Thread Marcelo Acuña
Hi, I'm using Lyx window ver 1.5.4. I have problem of how to modify page numbers. For example, I 'm writing thesis, I need to put page numbers with roman style (i,ii,ii etc) for abstract, acknowledgments etc before the chapters which starts with numbers (1, 2 3, etc). Thanks Lisa

Re: program listings and bold typewriter font

2009-02-06 Thread G. Jay Kerns
Dear Uwe and lyx-users, On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 10:46 AM, Uwe Stöhr uwesto...@web.de wrote: G. Jay Kerns schrieb: I changed my fonts in Documents/Settings: 1) I tried both Courier and Beramono, but there was no difference in the output. What is happening? Is this OS dependent? Can you

Re: program listings and bold typewriter font

2009-02-06 Thread G. Jay Kerns
Dear All, On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 2:12 PM, G. Jay Kerns gke...@ysu.edu wrote: It would seem that there is something happening with the LyX-Sweave machinery which is causing the fonts in the Program Listing environment to not appear bold, even for a reserved word in the R language. I do not

Re: gswin32c.exe command line arguments

2009-02-06 Thread rgheck
Tariq Abdullah wrote: Hi, I need to embed fonts and subsets of fonts in my PDF. I need to provide some command line arguments to the ps2pdf command (view--update--PDF(ps2pdf)). How can I do this? Is there any other way to do this? Modify the command definition under ToolsPreferencesFile

Re: serious problems with LyX (semi-fatal crashes)

2009-02-06 Thread Stefano Franchi
On Sunday 01 February 2009 21:25:26 Stefano Franchi wrote: On Sunday 01 February 2009 17:01:14 Andre Poenitz wrote: On Sun, Feb 01, 2009 at 11:56:17AM -0600, Stefano Franchi wrote: Hi All, I have been experiencing some serious problems with LyX lately, after my upgrade to 1.6.x.

Uppertitleback and lowertitleback cannot be shown in pdf

2009-02-06 Thread Waluyo Adi Siswanto
I am going to use the uppertitleback and lowertitleback in Book(KOMA-script) in LyX 1.6.1 (OS Ubuntu 8.04) but when I see the pdf, they are not shown. When I use LyX 1.5.5 it works well. Please find enclosed the minimal example file (LyX 1.6.1) that fails to show the uppertitleback and

Re: Strange LaTex /bibtex error prevents successful compilation

2009-02-06 Thread Anders Host-Madsen
First, a question to someone knowledgeable. How does LyX do it's compilation of LaTeX? Does it leave .aux files between compilations? I have had this kind of errors with LaTeX. An error in compilation leaves an invalid .aux file. That prevents compilation next time. I have had to manually delete

Re: SIAM layout

2009-02-06 Thread m7han
Hi David, I met the same problem. Have you find any solution? Thanks, Meng dmbortz wrote: Hello, I recently upgraded my ubuntu laptop to intrepid and with it came the upgrade of lyx to 1.5.6. I have an article written in the SIAM-article class (stripped down example is attached).

Re: Page numbers in beamer presentation

2009-02-06 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Neal Becker wrote: How do I get page numbers in my beamer presentation? (lyx-1.6.1) You mean frame numbers (what would be slide numbers in another package)? Some outer themes automatically put them in a margin. Otherwise, \theframenumber (in ERT) gives you the slide number. HTH, Paul

Re: SIAM layout

2009-02-06 Thread dmbortz
uMeng, Nope. I'm seriously considering assigning one of my grad students to look into it, as everything I've ever published has been written using lyx (all the way back to my dissertation...ah lyx 0.12.0...those were the days). David Hi David, I met the same problem. Have you found any

Re: graphic in fancy header causes crash with ps2pdf

2009-02-06 Thread christiaan pauw
2009/2/6 Uwe Stöhr uwesto...@web.de christiaan pauw schrieb: \rhead{\resizebox{2cm}{!}{\includegraphics{/Users/christiaanpauw/Pictures/logo.png}}} The error message reads: LaTeX Error: Cannot determine size of graphic in /Users/christiaanpauw/Pictures/logo.png (no BoundingBox) This is

Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?

2009-02-06 Thread A B
>> I might have missed something here (I'm sorry in that case) but are >> you suggesting a LyX-light version for people that does not want to >> use anything but word > > Paradoxically yes. I'd say: create converters that are shipped with LyX instead! If I may generalize a little The word

Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?

2009-02-06 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-02-05, rgheck wrote: >> I looked a bit closer and you are correct. Python was installed > I'd guess that a LyXLite probably wouldn't need python. We're never > exporting; we're never compiling. We don't care what programs and > packages are available or not. We're assuming that none

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