Re: What is this? latex error iso-8859-7.def

2007-09-03 Thread Anthony Campbell
seem to have any adverse effects. This is on Debian Sid. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Microsoft-free zone - Using Linux Gnu-Debian http://www.acampbell.org.uk (blog, book reviews, on-line books and sceptical articles)

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: 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: Bad PDF-Quality

2007-10-25 Thread Anthony Campbell
), which gets round this. Lulu does accept postscript although it doesn't advertise the fact. -- Anthony Campbell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Microsoft-free zone - Using Linux Gnu-Debian http://www.acampbell.org.uk (blog, book reviews, on-line books and sceptical articles)

Re: Lyx 1.5.2 binaries for Ubuntu

2007-10-26 Thread Anthony Campbell
that they put the binary in /usr/local/bin, after deleting the one in /usr/bin. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Microsoft-free zone - Using Linux Gnu-Debian http://www.acampbell.org.uk (blog, book reviews, on-line books and sceptical articles)

Re: Lyx 1.5.2 binaries for Ubuntu

2007-10-26 Thread Anthony Campbell
didn't install here. I used the etch version. I also installed the qt4 stuff as speficied in the readme file. -- Anthony Campbell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Microsoft-free zone - Using Linux Gnu-Debian http://www.acampbell.org.uk (blog, book reviews, on-line books and sceptical articles)

Re: Bad PDF-Quality

2007-10-26 Thread Anthony Campbell
worth knowing that you can upload postscript (ps) files although this doesn't seem to be documented. It saves problems with getting the pdf file into the right format as regards embedded fonts. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Microsoft-free zone - Using Linux Gnu-Debian http

Re: Unsubscribe does not work

2007-10-27 Thread Anthony Campbell
I've sent haven't. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Microsoft-free zone - Using Linux Gnu-Debian http://www.acampbell.org.uk (blog, book reviews, on-line books and sceptical articles)

Re: how select several files to import in a single time

2007-10-28 Thread Anthony Campbell
. Is there a better way? Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Microsoft-free zone - Using Linux Gnu-Debian http://www.acampbell.org.uk (blog, book reviews, on-line books and sceptical articles)

Re: how select several files to import in a single time

2007-10-28 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 28 Oct 2007, Liviu Andronic wrote: On 10/28/07, Anthony Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I want to do is to be able to merge files - that is, to add a plain text file to the end of a lyx file. The only way I can see to do this is to open another window, import the text file

Re: how select several files to import in a single time

2007-10-28 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 28 Oct 2007, Liviu Andronic wrote: On 10/28/07, Anthony Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Insert File Plain text? Yes - it always overwrites the existing Lyx file with the text file instead of appending it. Not here. I'm using 1.5.2. It may also be a bug. Are you positive

Re: how select several files to import in a single time

2007-10-30 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 29 Oct 2007, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: On Sun, 28 Oct 2007, Anthony Campbell wrote: On 28 Oct 2007, Liviu Andronic wrote: On 10/28/07, Anthony Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Insert File Plain text? Yes - it always overwrites the existing Lyx file with the text file

Quotation style problem

2007-10-30 Thread Anthony Campbell
to be any way to get that effect in Lyx, which is odd. Any comments? Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Microsoft-free zone - Using Linux Gnu-Debian http://www.acampbell.org.uk (blog, book reviews, on-line books and sceptical articles)

Re: Quotation style problem

2007-10-30 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 30 Oct 2007, Anthony Campbell wrote: I seem to have dome something to the quotations style but I can't see what. I've tried different settings in Document - Settings - Language but it keeps coming out the same when I view pdf or dvi. At first I was getting (i.e. two small vertical marks

Re: Quotation style problem

2007-10-30 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 30 Oct 2007, Bruce Pourciau wrote: On Oct 30, 2007, at 6:35 AM, Anthony Campbell wrote: On 30 Oct 2007, Anthony Campbell wrote: I seem to have dome something to the quotations style but I can't see what. I've tried different settings in Document - Settings - Language but it keeps coming

Find/replace not working well - doesn't find words.

2007-11-01 Thread Anthony Campbell
The Find command often fails to find words that I know are there -- in fact, it doesn't find any of the instances of the word. Quite a nuisance when I'm trying to make an index. Perhaps it's a bug? Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Microsoft-free zone - Using Linux Gnu-Debian

Fing-Replace not working well - words not found

2007-11-01 Thread Anthony Campbell
Find/replace often doesn't find words, even when I know they are there. This is a big nuisance for making an index. Is it a bug, perhaps? Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Microsoft-free zone - Using Linux Gnu-Debian http://www.acampbell.org.uk (blog, book reviews, on-line books

Index not being printed

2009-11-16 Thread Anthony Campbell
. I think I must have missed out something obvious but what? I'm using the same preamble as usual; nothing has changed. It is Book class. Any suggestions please? Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk - sample

Re: Index not being printed

2009-11-16 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 16 Nov 2009, Steve Litt wrote: On Monday 16 November 2009 12:25:17 Anthony Campbell wrote: I've made 4 books previously and the index has always appeared correctly. I did the same with an earlier version of the present book and again the index appeared. But now although I have numerous

Re: Index not being printed

2009-11-17 Thread Anthony Campbell
? Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk - sample my ebooks at http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/acampbell

Re: White pages after some chapters using KOMA script book

2010-01-15 Thread Anthony Campbell
class you can fix this in Document/Settings. Under Class Options choose Custom and insert openany. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk - sample my ebooks at http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/acampbell

Re: Difference between New Page and Page Break

2010-01-23 Thread Anthony Campbell
are put on one or more separate pages with no text. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk - sample my ebooks at http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/acampbell

Changing the theme in beamer

2010-03-12 Thread Anthony Campbell
or is there a better way? Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk - sample my ebooks at http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/acampbell

Re: Changing the theme in beamer

2010-03-12 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 12 Mar 2010, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Anthony Campbell wrote: I've been using Prosper for a long time to make slides but am experimenting with Lyx for the purpose. I've found beameruserguide1.pdf which gives some advice but is there anything else I should look at? In particular, I want

Re: Making a presentation in LyX

2010-04-08 Thread Anthony Campbell
how to use the columns environment and putting things into blocks without invoking a title (solved this by starting with Ctrl-Space). Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk - sample my ebooks at http

Re: Error for xetex generated pdf on lulu.com: Your document could not be created: The Times-Bold font is not embedded.

2010-04-08 Thread Anthony Campbell
the pdf. This always works. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk - sample my ebooks at http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/acampbell

Re: Error for xetex generated pdf on lulu.com: Your document could not be created: The Times-Bold font is not embedded.

2010-04-10 Thread Anthony Campbell
in this thread. It does work; I do it all the time. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk - sample my ebooks at http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/acampbell

Re: como evitar espacios en blanco entre párrafos

2010-04-13 Thread Anthony Campbell
that this problem is fixed by including \raggedbottom in the preamble. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk - sample my ebooks at http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/acampbell

Re: Beamer multitude problems with lyx

2010-06-02 Thread Anthony Campbell
-- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk - sample my ebooks at http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/acampbell

No printing of any files

2010-11-21 Thread Anthony Campbell
exporting the file as ps and then printing that. Can someone kindly point to where this printing issue is documented? -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk - sample my ebooks at http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view

Re: No printing of any files

2010-11-22 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 21 Nov 2010, Uwe Stöhr wrote: Am 21.11.2010 15:37, schrieb Anthony Campbell: When I try to print any file I get the message: Check that your printer is set up correctly. I have my printer set as Kyocera. LyX's printing is not a real printing. LyX will create a postscript file

Re: No printing of any files

2010-11-22 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 22 Nov 2010, Enrico Forestieri wrote: Anthony Campbell writes: Can someone kindly point to where this printing issue is documented? http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinTips#printing -- Enrico Already found that, but I'm not using Windows. -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk

Where to change dvi previewer?

2011-01-13 Thread Anthony Campbell
/converters where the viewer is being set. Is it possible to change this? -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk - sample my ebooks at http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/acampbell

Re: Where to change dvi previewer?

2011-01-13 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 13 Jan 2011, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Anthony Campbell wrote: I can't see anywhere in Prefences/converters where the viewer is being set. Is it possible to change this? Preferences File Formats. Jürgen That has an entry for Viewer, which is currently blank. But putting xpdf

Re: Where to change dvi previewer?

2011-01-13 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 13 Jan 2011, Anthony Campbell wrote: On 13 Jan 2011, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Anthony Campbell wrote: I can't see anywhere in Prefences/converters where the viewer is being set. Is it possible to change this? Preferences File Formats. Jürgen That has an entry for Viewer

Re: Where to change dvi previewer?

2011-01-13 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 13 Jan 2011, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Anthony Campbell wrote: That has an entry for Viewer, which is currently blank. But putting xpdf or /usr/bin/xpdf doesn't make any difference, even after doing reconfigure and restart. Did you select the correct

Re: install lyx 2.0.3-3 linux debian

2013-03-05 Thread Anthony Campbell
-3 running without problems. But I don't use kde (or any other desktop environment). Probably worth a bug report - there was a rather similar one but it's a few years old. See #327988. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk http://www.acampbell.org.uk http://www.reviewbooks.org.uk

Re: Converting lyx to odt

2013-05-02 Thread Anthony Campbell
Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk http://www.acupuncturecourse.org.uk http://www.smashwords.com/profile.view/acampbell https://itunes.apple.com/ca/artist/anthony-campbell/id73235412

Re: Problem with text being inserted randomly

2013-05-23 Thread Anthony Campbell
, being too heavy handed with the mouse? I had this very recently in libreoffice. It happened when I was using Find - the same word kept being inserted wherever Find landed. I didn't have the time to investigate further since I was in a hurry. AC -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk

\reversemarginpar places notes too far out

2013-09-02 Thread Anthony Campbell
tried adding width arguments, e.g. [width=12pt] and [width=0.5in] without effect. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk http://www.acupuncturecourse.org.uk http://www.smashwords.com/profile.view/acampbell https://itunes.apple.com/ca/artist/anthony-campbell/id73235412

Problem with framed box

2013-09-08 Thread Anthony Campbell
Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk http://www.acupuncturecourse.org.uk http://www.smashwords.com/profile.view/acampbell https://itunes.apple.com/ca/artist/anthony-campbell/id73235412

Re: Problem with framed box

2013-09-09 Thread Anthony Campbell
for. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk http://www.acupuncturecourse.org.uk http://www.smashwords.com/profile.view/acampbell https://itunes.apple.com/ca/artist/anthony-campbell/id73235412

Re: \reversemarginpar places notes too far out - update

2013-09-09 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 02 Sep 2013, Anthony Campbell wrote: I'm writing a book (book class) in which I want to have marginal notes containing symbols, rather like the Dummies series. As it's a book I'm using the two-sided layout. This works OK using the marginal note command, but after I put a blank page

Re: \reversemarginpar places notes too far out - SOLVED

2013-09-10 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 09 Sep 2013, Les Denham wrote: On Mon, 9 Sep 2013 10:46:05 +0100 Anthony Campbell a...@acampbell.org.uk wrote: As far as I can see this makes marginal notes unusable for the book class. Unless I'm wrong, perhaps it should be documented in the help files? Anthony, If you're using

Increasing font size upsets justification

2013-10-11 Thread Anthony Campbell
it off makes no difference. Is this the expected behaviour? Can anything be done about it? Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk http://www.acupuncturecourse.org.uk http://www.smashwords.com/profile.view/acampbell https://itunes.apple.com/ca/artist/anthony-campbell/id73235412

Re: Increasing font size upsets justification

2013-10-13 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 12 Oct 2013, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Am Freitag 11 Oktober 2013, 17:35:24 schrieb Anthony Campbell: I have completed a book in Book class using Palatino at 10pts. If I increase the font to 11pts this causes occasional lines to project too far toe the right by a few characters. AI

Re: Problem with text being inserted randomly

2013-10-19 Thread Anthony Campbell
too heavy on the scroll? Maybe not your problem? Gordon New Zealand. You could be right. I've had this too occasionally and alway assumed it was my own silly fault rather than a bug. I'll try not using the mouse wheel and see if that stops it. AC -- Anthony Campbell

Searching for damaged index entries

2013-12-15 Thread Anthony Campbell
and putting them back to isolate the area which contains the error. Can anyone suggest a quicker way? Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk http://www.acupuncturecourse.org.uk http://www.smashwords.com/profile.view/acampbell https://itunes.apple.com/ca/artist/anthony-campbell

Re: Book Frontmatter

2014-01-31 Thread Anthony Campbell
would help, but as I'd already made Word.doc files I just used those. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk http://www.acupuncturecourse.org.uk http://www.smashwords.com/profile.view/acampbell https://itunes.apple.com/ca/artist/anthony-campbell/id73235412

Re: lyx does not open old beamer class files

2014-04-28 Thread Anthony Campbell
). Perhaps the Windows version is different? -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk http://www.acupuncturecourse.org.uk http://www.smashwords.com/profile.view/acampbell https://itunes.apple.com/ca/artist/anthony-campbell/id73235412

Re: Lyx to Booksurge Success

2008-12-24 Thread Anthony Campbell
, it is much the same as being able to look through a book in a bookshop. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk (blog, book reviews, and sceptical articles)

Re: Using LyX for a book

2009-02-17 Thread Anthony Campbell
to somewhere that discusses this)? Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk (blog, book reviews, and sceptical articles)

Re: Hyphenation at end of the page

2009-02-17 Thread Anthony Campbell
a few which had done the same. But I don't think it looks good so I shall definitely try Marcelo's solution next time. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk (blog, book reviews, and sceptical articles)

Re: Using LyX for a book

2009-02-17 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 17 Feb 2009, Konrad Hofbauer wrote: Anthony Campbell wrote: I'm about to start setting up my fourth book in Lyx (1.6.1). My previous three were done using the Book class in 1.5.x. Can someone kindly tell me what would be the advantages of using Memoir (or point me to somewhere

How to import separate chapters into document?

2009-02-20 Thread Anthony Campbell
for viewing and ultimately saving as a pdf file. How do I see the book as a whole? Is there no way to add it to the foot of the first chapter? Do I have to do it with the mouse? Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http

Re: How to import separate chapters into document?

2009-02-20 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 20 Feb 2009, Anthony Campbell wrote: I'm just starting to prepare my fourth book with Lyx, this time using 1.6.1 instead of 1.5.x. I have a problem with importing the text. I import the first chapter (previously a plain text tile) but when I want to add the second chapter it comes

Re: Books in LyX: Was How to import separate chapters into document?

2009-02-21 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 20 Feb 2009, Steve Litt wrote: On Friday 20 February 2009 09:35:27 am Anthony Campbell wrote: I'm just starting to prepare my fourth book with Lyx, this time using 1.6.1 instead of 1.5.x. Anthony, What were your other three books? Are you self-publishing them, were they published

Re: LyX Branch, self-compiled [was: lyx 1.6.2 for debian using rpm and alien]

2009-03-25 Thread Anthony Campbell
-- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk (blog, book reviews, and sceptical articles)

Re: LyX Branch, self-compiled [was: lyx 1.6.2 for debian using rpm and alien]

2009-03-25 Thread Anthony Campbell
: /usr/local/bin\n LyX files dir:/usr/local/share/lyx\n #define LYX_DIR_VER LYX_DIR_16x #define LYX_USERDIR_VER LYX_USERDIR_16x #define LYX_MAJOR_VERSION 1 #define LYX_MINOR_VERSION 6 #define LYX_RELEASE_LEVEL 2 #define LYX_RELEASE_PATCH 0 configure: exit 1 -- Anthony Campbell

Re: LyX Branch, self-compiled [was: lyx 1.6.2 for debian using rpm and alien] -SOLVED

2009-03-26 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 25 Mar 2009, Anthony Campbell wrote: On 25 Mar 2009, rgheck wrote: Hard to know. The first thing I'd do is check to make sure libqt4-dev is installed, and find out where it is installed. Anyway, if you want to post the config.log, I can have a look. rh libqt4-dev is installed

Re: LyX Branch, self-compiled [was: lyx 1.6.2 for debian using rpm and alien] -SOLVED

2009-03-27 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 26 Mar 2009, Guenter Milde wrote: On 2009-03-26, Anthony Campbell wrote: For some reason, though, I had to copy the resultant lyx executable to ~/bin myself; neither make install nor the deb file put an executable in place. By default, the prefix is /usr/local, so probably

How to mark text for operations in 1.6.2?

2009-03-31 Thread Anthony Campbell
In earlier versions of lyx I could mark lines or longer sections of text using Shift+Right-arrow. This no longer works in 1.6.2 and I have to use the mouse, which is less satisfactory. Is there any way to recapture the earlier behaviour? Or is it a bug? Anthony -- Anthony Campbell

Re: How to mark text for operations in 1.6.2?

2009-03-31 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 31 Mar 2009, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Anthony Campbell a...@acampbell.org.uk writes: In earlier versions of lyx I could mark lines or longer sections of text using Shift+Right-arrow. This no longer works in 1.6.2 and I have to use the mouse, which is less satisfactory. Is there any

Re: Thanks for LyX

2009-04-07 Thread Anthony Campbell
the minor issues were sorted out in a few hours with the information on the web. Thank you very much. EJ ps: off course I included LyX in the acknowledgements section On my printed books I include an acknowledgement in the form: Typeset using Lyx on Debian Gnu/Linux. Anthony -- Anthony

Re: How to allow chapters to start on even numbered pages?

2009-04-08 Thread Anthony Campbell
for this. Maybe it's openany. rh It is. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk (blog, book reviews, and sceptical articles)

How to make a macro

2009-06-06 Thread Anthony Campbell
I would like to make a macro for an ERT command: \clearpage \thispagetyle \mbox{} \clearpage I'm sure it is is possible but I don't seem able to find any documentation for it. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http

Re: How to make a macro

2009-06-08 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 06 Jun 2009, Uwe Stöhr wrote: Anthony Campbell schrieb: I would like to make a macro for an ERT command: \clearpage \thispagetyle \mbox{} \clearpage I'm sure it is is possible but I don't seem able to find any documentation for it. Add this to your preamble: \newcommand{\mystyle

openright, openany?

2009-08-19 Thread Anthony Campbell
I'm using the book class. I'm sure that 'openright' used to be the default and I used to put '\openany' in the preamble. Now 'openany' seems to be the default and putting '\openright' in the preamble causes an error. Any information on this? Anthony -- Anthony Campbell

Re: openright, openany?

2009-08-19 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 19 Aug 2009, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Anthony Campbell wrote: I'm using the book class. I'm sure that 'openright' used to be the default and I used to put '\openany' in the preamble. Now 'openany' seems to be the default and putting '\openright' in the preamble causes an error

Re: Text on right, images on left

2009-08-31 Thread Anthony Campbell
this with the text. Actually, this probably works better for my purpose, but I thought I was probably being wimpish by not being able to implement the L/R split. But now I feel a bit better about my failure. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http

Re: How Many use linux

2009-09-12 Thread Anthony Campbell
using Latex so didn't bother with it. But when I started my present round of publishing books via Lulu (5 so far) I started with LyX and found it cut the work down by at least 70 per cent. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http

Converting to doc format

2009-10-21 Thread Anthony Campbell
it as a .doc file from there. Does anyone know a better way? Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk (blog, book reviews, and sceptical articles)

Re: Converting to doc format

2009-10-21 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 21 Oct 2009, Andrew Sullivan wrote: On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 10:55:10AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: I'm thinking of publishing in ebook form via Smashwords, who unfortunately demand Word format. I'm on Linux and as far as I can see after a fair amount of googling the only practical way

Re: Converting to doc format

2009-10-21 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 21 Oct 2009, Andrew Sullivan wrote: On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 06:50:56PM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: Thanks to all for replies. I went to the Wiki as suggested and found how to export files as rtf, which should be loadable into Openoffice - excellent! I'll make a start on the conversion

Re: Converting to doc format

2009-10-22 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 22 Oct 2009, Anthony Campbell wrote: On 21 Oct 2009, Andrew Sullivan wrote: On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 06:50:56PM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: Thanks to all for replies. I went to the Wiki as suggested and found how to export files as rtf, which should be loadable into Openoffice

Re: Converting to doc format

2009-10-23 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 23 Oct 2009, Pete Crite wrote: On 23/10/2009, at 3:34 AM, Florian Rubach wrote: Anthony Campbell schrieb: I'm thinking of publishing in ebook form via Smashwords, who unfortunately demand Word format. I'm on Linux and as far as I can see after a fair amount of googling the only

lyx cannot find beamer.cls and other files

2015-05-22 Thread Anthony Campbell
, but the problem persists. Is there any way to make lyx find the files? Anthony -- Anthony Campbellhttp://www.acampbell.uk

Re: lyx cannot find beamer.cls and other files

2015-05-23 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 22 May 2015, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Anthony Campbell ac at acampbell.uk writes: I am using lyx 2.1.3 on Freebsd. I want to edit some beamer files but lyx complains that it cannot find beamer.cls, amssymb.sty, hyperref.sty, pqf.sty, xcolor.sty, xxcolor.sty. In fact, all

Re: lyx cannot find beamer.cls and other files

2015-05-24 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 23 May 2015, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Anthony Campbell ac at acampbell.uk writes: ~/.lyx/configure.log doesn't show that it has looked for ANY document classes, so I suppose that is the problem. Perhaps this is due to something wrong with the Freebsd implementation of lyx. It's

Re: Beamer Class: Cannot Create New Frame

2016-06-16 Thread Anthony Campbell
fferences in appearance between > original frames (e.g,, a double line indicating end-of-frame vs a single > line now) and wonder if the version differences are what's caused these > glitches. > I can confirm that I had a similar problem when trying to edit a file made some time ag

Re: Beamer Class: Cannot Create New Frame

2016-06-17 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 16 Jun 2016, Paul A. Rubin wrote: > Anthony Campbell acampbell.uk> writes: > > > > I can confirm that I had a similar problem when trying to edit a file > > made some time ago. In the end I gave up and remade it from scratch. > > > > Anthony > > &g

Unexplained file corruption makes it uneditable

2016-02-01 Thread Anthony Campbell
and replaced the file with a slightly older one from offline backup. So far this is OK. Any ideas about what could cause this? I tried reinstalling lyx but the problem didn't go away. -- Anthony Campbellhttp://www.acampbell.uk

Re: Unexplained file corruption makes it uneditable

2016-02-02 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 01 Feb 2016, Liviu Andronic wrote: > On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 5:33 PM, Anthony Campbell <a...@acampbell.uk> wrote: > > I'm using 2.1.4 on OpenBSD. > > > > While editing a large file (book) I've twice had it suddenly corrupted > > which made it impossible to edit.

My posts don't arrive

2016-02-01 Thread Anthony Campbell
I receive the posts to this list but when I post myself it doesn't appear, nor do I get a bounce. Is there still a problem with the list? -- Anthony Campbellhttp://www.acampbell.uk

Re: microtype usage

2016-02-23 Thread Anthony Campbell
pe} > 2. usually add few more parameters via \usepackage[param1]{microtype} > 3. use heavy loaded settings to get what you need > ? > > (I'm trying to figure out how much space for param tuning should > be left for user in the interface.) > > Pavel 1. Anthony

Re: How to get a more visible mouse cursor?

2016-07-31 Thread Anthony Campbell
tp://www.acampbell.uk/serendipity/index.php?/ archives/672-A-large-mouse-pointer-for-ArchLinux.html -- Anthony Campbellhttp://www.acampbell.uk

Re: How to get a more visible mouse cursor?

2016-07-31 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 31 Jul 2016, Charlie wrote: > > On Sun, 31 Jul 2016 08:17:15 +0100 "Anthony Campbell a...@acampbell.uk" > informed me of this: > > > I have a post on my blog about how to get a large mouse > cursor in > > Linux. It was originally wri

Re: lyx to latex

2017-03-22 Thread Anthony Campbell
clearly is wrong. (line 368 should be: '} else if (g_rtf_name == > g_tex_name) {') > > Patching this file and now this converter works. > > Kornel Thanks for this - it made conversion work for me. Anthony -- Anthony Campbellhttp://www.acampbell.uk

Re: How do I copy text from LyX to xterm/rxvt?

2017-04-20 Thread Anthony Campbell
other way, by using the > > > right-click context menus. Both LyX and Gnome terminal let me do this. > > middle-button paste work fine for me on Ubuntu with LyX 2.2.2. I'm not > > sure what's going wrong. > > > > Scott > FWIW, middle-button works for me

Re: Help improve LyX's defaults by sharing your preferences

2017-06-02 Thread Anthony Campbell
es set at present. I certainly wouldn't want continuous spellcheck. This is on OpenBSD -current. -- Anthony Campbellhttp://www.acampbell.uk

Re: Tiling Window Manager Interaction with LyX

2018-08-09 Thread Anthony Campbell
> TWM application I'm using? > > Thank you, > Joel > > P.S. The TWM I'm using is chunkwm (https://koekeishiya.github.io/chunkwm/). I've used a TWM (Spectrwm) with LyX on OpenBSD for more than 3 years without any difficulties. Before that I was on Linux using various TWMs, also

Can't turn off numbering in TOC

2007-11-20 Thread Anthony Campbell
es because there are two pages; when there was only one it was OK. Is there any way to achieve this? If not, I'll just have to make the thing manually. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Microsoft-free zone - Using Linux Gnu-Debian http://www.acampbell.org.uk (blog, book reviews, on-

Re: Can't turn off numbering in TOC

2007-11-20 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 20 Nov 2007, Steve Litt wrote: > On Tuesday 20 November 2007 08:33, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > I'm using the Book class. I want to turn off the page numbering for TOC. > > The Contents list extends over two pages. > > > > I've put \thispagestyle{empty} after Tab

Re: Can't turn off numbering in TOC

2007-11-21 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 21 Nov 2007, Typhoon wrote: > On Tue, 20 Nov 2007 17:35:26 + > Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 20 Nov 2007, Steve Litt wrote: > > > On Tuesday 20 November 2007 08:33, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > > I'm using the Book cl

Re: Can't turn off numbering in TOC

2007-11-21 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 21 Nov 2007, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: > Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > I'd already tried that. It ought to work but even when I set the page > > style to be "empty" it still prints the page number on the first page of > > the contents list. > > \a

Re: fun poll: your linux distro

2007-12-29 Thread Anthony Campbell
gt; Cheers and Happy New Year! > Bob Lounsbury Debian Sid, with Lyx 1.5.3. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Microsoft-free zone - Using Linux Gnu-Debian http://www.acampbell.org.uk (blog, book reviews, on-line books and sceptical articles)

Lulu page margins confusion

2008-01-04 Thread Anthony Campbell
as the outer margin, whereas in most books I look at it is smaller. So should inner = 0.75 in as well? Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Microsoft-free zone - Using Linux Gnu-Debian http://www.acampbell.org.uk (blog, book reviews, on-line books and sceptical articles)

Re: Lulu page margins confusion

2008-01-05 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 04 Jan 2008, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > I know margins were discussed here a while back but I am now more > confused than before. > > I have bought a distribution package from Lulu for my book. > > The requirements for margins are strict. Top and bottom margins must

Re: Lulu page margins confusion

2008-01-05 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 05 Jan 2008, killermike wrote: > On Saturday 05 January 2008 10:36:09 Anthony Campbell wrote: > > On 04 Jan 2008, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > > this way? > > > > > > I'm not sure the above is right, because then, in the bound book, the > > >

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