How to actually use the LyX 1.4 Character Style Feature

2006-10-01 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Lyx 1.4.3svn Win32 Hi, Even though I have been using Lyx for quite a couple of years, I am new on this list - so please forgive me, if this already has been discussed. (Yes, I did a quick check the archives :-) ) 1) I would like to use character styles in my documents. In our papers, we

Re: How to actually use the LyX 1.4 Character Style Feature

2006-10-02 Thread Daniel Lohmann
. Thanks again! Daniel Juergen Spitzmueller schrieb: Daniel Lohmann wrote: 1) I would like to use character styles in my documents. In our papers, we frequently have to refer to identifiers from C++ listings that should be set in typewriter and either small or smaller and I would like to define

Re: syntax highlighted code

2007-11-16 Thread Daniel Lohmann
as any other element. I don't know about groks, but listings already supports a huge bunch of languages and it is very easy to specify a new one. Daniel -- Dipl.-Inf. Daniel Lohmann (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter) Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg Informatik 4 Martensstr. 1

Re: Cross-referencing a table inserted into ERT.

2007-11-23 Thread Daniel Lohmann
it in there manually and get a LyX cross-reference inset to your ERT-defined label. Daniel -- Dipl.-Inf. Daniel Lohmann (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter) Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg Informatik 4 Martensstr. 1 91058 Erlangen Tel: +49-9131-8527904 Fax: +49-9131-8528732 WWW: www4

Re: Feature Request: Show the title in closed floats

2007-12-03 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Paul A. Rubin schrieb: mike c wrote: Hi all (I'm new to this list), It'd be nice if closed floats showed a little more than just Float: Figure or Float: Table. Is there an option (or the possibility of an option) to show the title of the figure or table as well? e.g. Float: Figure - The

Re: Feature Request: Show the title in closed floats

2007-12-03 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Daniel Lohmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As we are already on it :-) It also would be really nice, if 1) there is an opportunity to specify the *default* display for *new* inset, preferably even customizable per inset-type. 2) the document-specific state of each

Re: Koma-script report, Bibliography entry in Table of Contents un-bold?

2007-12-05 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Dave Hewitt wrote: Is it possible to un-bold the entry for the Bibliography in the Table of Contents and put it at the same level as a section? I'm using Koma-script (report) class with natbib (BibTeX). AFAIK this is not so easy and requires some LaTeX hacking. The following code is

Newbie: LyX on OS X

2007-12-06 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Hey LyX folks, I have been using LyX for years on Windows and Linux. Now I got my first Mac (running OS X 10.5.1) and one of the first things I installed on it was LyX - of course. 1) I installed TexShop 2.14 as TeX-distro. Is this the recommended LaTeX for OS X in conjunction with LyX?

Re: Newbie: LyX on OS X

2007-12-06 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Maximilian Wollner wrote: Am 06.12.2007 um 19:59 schrieb Daniel Lohmann: Hey LyX folks, I have been using LyX for years on Windows and Linux. Now I got my first Mac (running OS X 10.5.1) and one of the first things I installed on it was LyX - of course. [...] TexShop is an application

Re: Change size of inserted LaTeX code?

2007-12-07 Thread Daniel Lohmann
bigblop wrote: Is there some way to change the size of the latex code when typing it directly into the LyX editor? I current LyX versions ERT boxes are simply rendered in the font size of the surrounding LyX environment. So if you insert ERT into a title or level 1 heading, the font size is

Re: Koma-script report, Bibliography entry in Table of Contents un-bold?

2007-12-07 Thread Daniel Lohmann
David Hewitt wrote: I'm not great with plain LaTeX, so could you post a piece of hacking that would work just to drop the Bibliography to a section level? Okay, the following should work with KOMA-script. Just put it in the LaTeX preamble of your document: \makeatletter [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Errors in LyX 1.5.3 installer for Mac

2007-12-19 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Similar problem here. It seems to be a permissions problem. In my case the lyx folder under Library/texmf/tex/latex was owned by root and the installer could not copy the Lyx's additional classes and styles. I guess the reason is that he folder originally had been created by a LyX 1.51

Some LyX 1.5.3 issues (OS-X specific?)

2007-12-22 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Hi LyX folks, On a longer train journey I had the opportunity to actually do some work with LyX on my new Mac. While doing so, I observed a couple of issues. Some of them might be related to the fact that I am still using it in a very Windows-like way, especially with respect to trying

Re: Some LyX 1.5.3 issues (OS-X specific?)

2007-12-23 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 22.12.2007, at 17:59, Jens Noeckel wrote: On Dec 22, 2007, at 5:12 AM, Bennett Helm wrote: On Dec 21, 2007, at 8:17 AM, Daniel Lohmann wrote: And finally, on LyX OS-X related question: How can I use the Ctrl key in LyX key bindings? C is apparently bound to the Apple/Command key

Re: I'm writing a book in VimOutliner

2008-01-03 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Hi, While I have neither used VimOutliner, nor am I a professional book writer, I usually do outline my texts before starting the actual writing. I use the mind-mapping tool FreeMind (http://freemind.sourceforge.net/ ) to do the outlining, which supports links, keyboard navigation,

Re: Lyx keyboard shortcuts on mac

2008-01-14 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 10.01.2008, at 02:33, Bennett Helm wrote: Better yet, look at the mac-bind.pdf file that is included with the LyX/Mac distribution. Insert footnote is not defined there, but you can define it yourself by creating a file with the following: \bind_file mac.bind \bind S-C-F

Re: Lyx keyboard shortcuts on mac

2008-01-16 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 15.01.2008, at 19:40, Jens Noeckel wrote: Fortunately, on the Mac you can also access the menu bar by the system-wide shortcut Control-F2 (which you can in turn customize in the System Preferences). Well, yes - so lets hope that bug 4446 gets fixed in the next release :-)

Emedding PDF graphcis problem - missing converter

2008-02-12 Thread Daniel Lohmann
LyX 1.5.1, OS-X Hi, Whenever I insert some pdf graphics into my LyX document and compile it with pdflatex, Lyx complains about a missing converter: No information for converting pdf format files to png. Define a converter in the preferences. Why is LyX trying to convert the graphics into

Re: Memory use

2008-02-13 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 13.02.2008, at 11:26, Nicolás wrote: Hi! LyX seems to make a good use of RAM just after it has been started up. When a file is closed the memory the file was using is released and when LyX is minimized, the memory used is reduced to a minimum. That's great! However, this is no longer

Re: Where is Tex documentation on Mac

2008-02-22 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 22.02.2008, at 14:13, Bennett Helm wrote: On Feb 22, 2008, at 3:31 AM, Graham Smith wrote: Silly question I know, but I'm new to the Mac and I am trying to find the documentation for the Beamer class. It depends on how you installed TeX. If you used MacTeX, it can be found at:

Re: backref

2008-02-26 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 25.02.2008, at 11:48, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: I try to locate some references in my document by using the package backref. I do, however, get only pages (actually Seiten, since it is a german document) behind the reference, no page number. What do I do wrong? I inserted

ftp.lyx.org down?

2008-02-26 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Hi, It seems that the ftp server on ftp.lyx.org is down. I can ping the machine, but the ftp server does not answer requests. I am still using 1.5.1 because of the show stopper bugs in the 1.5.2 and 1.5.3 releases that, according to the change log, have been fixed. Now I am desperately

Re: ftp.lyx.org down?

2008-02-26 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 26.02.2008, at 16:14, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Daniel Lohmann wrote: It seems that the ftp server on ftp.lyx.org is down. I can ping the machine, but the ftp server does not answer requests. The server is not really down, but rather slow and sometimes unrespondable these days

Re: LyX won't compile my document any more

2008-02-29 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Hi Maximilian, Text line contains an invalid character. M^^F An1oz:8 #^^82^^Sr6'GE^^89N^^94A^^IK^^93}: 4*^^Ye:;[EMAIL PROTECTED] A funny symbol that I can't read has just been input. Continue, and I'll forget that it ever happened. I assume that you have somehow

Re: Inserting graphics of the appropriate type: how to?

2008-03-04 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 04.03.2008, at 22:40, Rich Shepard wrote: On Tue, 4 Mar 2008, Paul A. Rubin wrote: For many plots in a sub directory PlotFigures, I have 2 versions, one in eps version and one in pdf version. Have you tried specifying a clipping region in LyX? Might be there's an issue with reading

Re: new lines disappearing in program listings

2008-03-04 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 05.03.2008, at 05:55, Bo Peng wrote: Have you checked out the support for lstlisting in LyX 1.5.x? I gather from the wiki that Bo Peng is responsible for it (props to Bo). It's not on the environment roster; you get it with Insert - Program Listing. Right click the widget handle to see

Re: LyX mac customized icon

2008-03-05 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 05.03.2008, at 14:54, Julio Rojas wrote: Can you post a JPG? Apparently there is a JPG or GIF on Dianas blog: http://ailoan.free.fr/blog Daniel

Re: Use pdf figures without converting.

2008-03-11 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 11.03.2008, at 08:30, G. Milde wrote: On 11.03.08, Klaus Unger wrote: I am using PDF figures. Lyx does convert them to png before and chops them incorrectly. When? * display in the LyX window? * view as/export to Postscript? * view as/export to PDF (ps2pdf)? Well, I had exactly

Re: Literal monofont underscores?

2008-03-19 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 19.03.2008, at 03:01, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Doh! And here's why it worked for me and not you: I typed in the underscores, and LyX cleverly escaped them as \_\_ (ad nauseum). I'm guessing you pasted them in or imported them as text, and got just underscores, no escapes. Hm...

Experiences with biblatex?

2008-03-19 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Hi, After finding myself spending more and more time with tweaking and customizing bibliography handling I am considering switching to biblatex. According to the wiki (http://wiki.lyx.org/BibTeX/Biblatex) and a thread from last December

Re: Experiences with biblatex?

2008-03-19 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 19.03.2008, at 10:26, Dominik Waßenhoven wrote: Daniel Lohmann schrieb am 19.03.2008: After finding myself spending more and more time with tweaking and customizing bibliography handling I am considering switching to biblatex. [...] 1) Do you have to change your .bib-files

How to open the dialog for label / reference inset by keyboard

2008-03-20 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Hi, Is there any LFUN or pre-assigned shortcut to open the settings dialog for the label / reference / bib reference inset under the cursor? Thanks! Daniel

LFUN to open label / reference inset dialog

2008-03-23 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Anybody an idea? Otherwise I might add a feature request. Changing an already inserted (bibliographic) reference is a quite common task. It should be, IMHO, possible to do this without having to leave the keyboard. Thanks, Daniel Begin forwarded message: From: Daniel Lohmann [EMAIL

Re: LFUN to open label / reference inset dialog

2008-03-23 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 23.03.2008, at 13:50, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Daniel Lohmann wrote: Anybody an idea? Yes: next-inset-toggle (Ctrl-i with cua.bind) Otherwise I might add a feature request. Changing an already inserted (bibliographic) reference is a quite common task. It should be, IMHO, possible to do

Re: LFUN to open label / reference inset dialog

2008-03-23 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 23.03.2008, at 22:53, Pavel Sanda wrote: Anybody an idea? Yes: next-inset-toggle (Ctrl-i with cua.bind) this behaviour is intended? i find the naming confusing. wouldn't be better to have clear distinction between toggling and dialog showing? also what is the relation to dialog-show

Re: ERT to inline by command

2008-04-07 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 07.04.2008, at 12:44, Salát Máté wrote: Hi! What command makes the Display option of the active ERT to Inline? I want to create a key binding to this function. AFAIK there is, unfortunately, no LFUN for this I too would really appreciate a keyboard shortcut. Daniel

Re: multiplatform vector drawing program to use

2008-04-07 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 07.04.2008, at 18:51, Walter H. van Holst wrote: Of course, there are also other vector drawing programs (besides Xfig), so what is outlined here is not the only option you have. If only Linux and Windows are required, I'd recommend Inkscape. It is much more polished and user friendly

Re: ERT to inline by command

2008-04-07 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 07.04.2008, at 16:01, Ethan Metsger wrote: On Mon, 07 Apr 2008 09:04:16 -0400, Daniel Lohmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: AFAIK there is, unfortunately, no LFUN for this I too would really appreciate a keyboard shortcut. I was under the impression that using CTRL-I would do the job. I

Re: Inconvenience: Loss of custom styles during document class reversion

2008-04-30 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 29.04.2008, at 19:28, Steve Litt wrote: On Tuesday 29 April 2008 13:11, rgheck wrote: Steve Litt wrote: On Tuesday 29 April 2008 09:00, you wrote: But I've done a little experimenting, and here's one way this can happen. First, you have to be using a local layout file, that is, a

Re: Trying to get pdflatex to produce letter size page with outline fonts...

2008-05-02 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 02.05.2008, at 05:45, adam_taylor wrote: Folks, I am a new LyX user, and have a very basic question. I am using Lyx 1.5.1 under Ubuntu 7.10. I believe the TeX system is TeXLive. I created a new document (of class article), wrote a few lines in it, and then wanted to make a PDF.

Re: includepdf

2008-05-05 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 05.05.2008, at 10:17, Mario Braun wrote: I think this isn't the way pdfpages is supposed to be used. If you want a caption, include a single pdf page via the graphics dialog. well, I don´t really want a caption. I just want the 3 pages of my pdf-file to start on the page where the

Re: importing spreadsheet rows and columns

2008-06-01 Thread Daniel Lohmann
A (late) follow-up on this: I have got some good experience with an open-source Excel-Plugin named Excel2LaTeX. This plugin provides a toolbar button to convert the selected parts of an Excel table into LaTeX source code that can then either be saved into a file or into the clipboard.

Re: Converting msword to LyX is ugly!

2008-07-19 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Hi Steve, Have you already considered importing the Word document into OpenOffice Writer and letting one of the OO-LaTeX converters do the hard work? (http://www.hj-gym.dk/~hj/writer2latex/ is one exmple, there might be others) No, I have never tried or used one of those. However, I

Re: Converting msword to LyX is ugly!

2008-07-20 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 20.07.2008, at 05:44, Steve Litt wrote: On Saturday 19 July 2008 19:57, Typhoon wrote: SNIP This is by far the best solution, in my opinion. Unfortunately for me, my only Windows machine is a 1997 Pentium II/300 with 128MB of RAM, which would be painfully slow. Steve, What happens if

Size of preview image

2008-07-27 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Hi, Is there any way to change the size LyX uses internally when creating the bitmaps for preview images? In many cases, the default size of the preview image is to small. I know that I can specify a preview scaling factor in the graphics settings, however, that causes the *bitmap* to be

Re: Lyx functions

2008-07-28 Thread Daniel Lohmann
I really like lyx. I just find something a bit hard. Some things are easier to be done via the keyboard (otherwise it's back to MS point and click nightmare). I mean in an equation it is much easier to just do \pi for Pi or \neq for the not equal sign. What about in standard mode when I am

Re: Interesting thread on Slashdot

2008-07-31 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 31.07.2008, at 08:55, Andre Poenitz wrote: On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 04:17:29PM -0500, Denné Reed wrote: [..] I've also had problems with journal and book editors, one of which insisted I convert a book chapter written in LyX into Word format despite the fact that the publisher (Elsevier)

Re: Conflict with Hyperref + Floats?

2008-08-08 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 08.08.2008, at 08:03, Ryan Cross wrote: HI, I posted a message yesterday about a problem I was having with algorithm floats. I did a lot of debugging and finally (after very long line by line debugging) found that the problem seems to be some sort of conflict when using the hyperref

Re: I'm unable to add a language to the listing package

2008-08-11 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 10.08.2008, at 18:24, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Steve Burton wrote: I tried using ERT. If I got it wrong Lyx crashed. If that's reproducible, it should probably be entered into bugzilla. If I got it right it worked until I closed Lyx. When the document was re-opened Lyx spotted the

Re: Links to external images in PDF generated by LyX.

2008-08-15 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 15.08.2008, at 21:12, Rudi Gaelzer wrote: I'd like to generate a PDF file where the figures/images are not incorporated into it, but rather have links that points to external image files (jpeg, eps, and whatnot). Doing that, I can restrict the size of each individual size instead of

Re: Koma-script letter error on Windows but not on Mac

2008-08-18 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 18.08.2008, at 18:27, Graham Smith wrote: I have a letter set up on a Mac, which works fine, but copying it to Windows and trying to compile gives me the following error: -- } You have used \KOMAoptions to set `', but KOMA-Script does not know any option

Re: Lyx cross platform compatability - is there a problem?

2008-08-20 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 19.08.2008, at 21:21, Graham Smith wrote: On 19 Aug 2008, at 19:57, Christian Ridderström wrote: On Tue, 19 Aug 2008, Graham Smith wrote: As you will see, from my other post, the issue was a leading comma in the preamble, setting the Komascript options. It seems that both the Mac and

Re: LyX for MAC: problems in handling file images

2008-08-26 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 26.08.2008, at 04:15, Bennett Helm wrote: On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 4:18 PM, Pierfranco Minsenti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have checked my installation of ImageMagick: 6.3.3. Most elements are in the .usr/local/lib Maybe I installed it when I installed the full MacTeX package containing

Bug in listings inset (Lyx 1.5.6, OS X)

2008-08-27 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Hi, I just discovered a feature of the listings inset that actually should be considered as a bug: Additional options given on the advanced page are implicitly sorted alphabetically. However, if using listing styles, the order of options is relevant. Consider the following example: In

Re: Bug in listings inset (Lyx 1.5.6, OS X)

2008-08-27 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 27.08.2008, at 19:59, Georg Baum wrote: Daniel Lohmann wrote: Hi, I just discovered a feature of the listings inset that actually should be considered as a bug: Additional options given on the advanced page are implicitly sorted alphabetically. However, if using listing styles, the order

Re: Installing pgfplots on the Mac

2008-08-28 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 28.08.2008, at 21:02, Graham Smith wrote: OK, this seems to be linked to my newness with the Mac. I have now managed to find where the the package should go, but I don't seem to have permissions to add a folder and copy the the package into it. I shall have a search for Mac help.

Re: Bug in listings inset (Lyx 1.5.6, OS X)

2008-08-29 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 29.08.2008, at 20:12, Georg Baum wrote: Both problems would be fixed by a sane parameter handling that would not store all parameters in one string, but one parameter after the other in the .lyx file. Preservation of order would then be easy to implement as well. If you prefer I

Re: old questions: no error message

2008-09-01 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 01.09.2008, at 14:58, wangyq wrote: Dear all: I found it is really boring that the lyx system outputs no error message. I am working a book with lyx. Now I want export it to pdf and forward it to others. But I found all export functions in lyx are dead, including exporting to

Re: references between child documents

2008-09-02 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 02.09.2008, at 01:22, Joao P Leitao wrote: Hi, I'm using Lyx for a few weeks and have a few child documents. I'd like to reference a Chapter of child document A in child document B. I've a label in the chapter of child document A the one I want to reference. Just open both

Re: lyx 1.60cr2 issues

2008-09-09 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 09.09.2008, at 11:25, G. Milde wrote: On 9.09.08, Konrad Hofbauer wrote: G. Milde wrote: Besides the bug mentionend in another reply: The default settings will use the extension .lyx15 for the exported file and the file-open dialogue in LyX-1.5 will not show it, as it expects a .lyx

Re: Generating PDF/A from LyX/LaTeX

2008-09-12 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 11.09.2008, at 15:55, Ernesto Posse wrote: PS: I'm not sure how the hyperref package could help, as the document doesn't have any hyperrefs; even the minimal file I posted earlier fails... Besides dealing with hyperlinks, the hyperref package provides an interface for many other aspects

How to add a table column left of the first column?

2008-09-16 Thread Daniel Lohmann
LyX 1.5.6, MacOSX Hi, I have a (big and complicated) table which I need to extend by an additional column on the left side (the new column is to become the first column of the table). As far as I have figured out, the Add column button always inserts the new column right of the current

Re: List of cross references for a label

2008-09-18 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 18.09.2008, at 15:13, rgheck wrote: Martin Görg wrote: On Thu, 18 Sep 2008 13:27:31 +0200, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: is it correct that there is no functionality in LyX to show all cross references pointing to a specific label? [...] I'll file a feature request in case this

LyX OS-X AppleScript

2008-09-19 Thread Daniel Lohmann
LyX 1.5.5, Mac OSX 10.5.5 Hi, I found some nice AppleScripts to move windows around and attached it to a Quicksilver trigger to have window movement with the keyboard (a feature that unfortunately is totally missing in OS X...). This works with all applications I have tried, but LyX. The

Re: Lyx 1.5.4 lof caption length

2008-09-22 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 22.09.2008, at 16:51, Fil wrote: Hi, Please could you advise if you can set the caption length in LOF in the TOC?? . I'm using lyx 1.5.4. I'd prefer to use the float figure caption(box) if possible so really I need to know if there is a command to cut off the text in the figure box

Re: Lyx 1.5.4 lof caption length

2008-09-23 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 23.09.2008, at 04:43, Fil wrote: Hi Daniel, Thanks for your quick reply. Your suggestion is what I was hoping for and i added it to the preamble, but I get a lot of errors which I otherwise didn't have. My setup is I have a main file the calls up all my other chapters. I'm assuming

Re: Importing texinfo files

2008-10-20 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 20.10.2008, at 14:11, Keith Roberts wrote: On Mon, 20 Oct 2008, Keith Roberts wrote: To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org From: Keith Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Importing texinfo files Is it possible to import a Linux textinfo document and then convert it to PDF for viewing and printing

Automagically reduce the spacing between ++ in the word C++

2008-10-22 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Hi, I am currently in the process of polishing the typesetting of my thesis. One of the things I would like to achieve is to reduce the spacing between ++ in the words C++ and AspectC++, as this looks somewhat strange with the font I am using. This question is somewhat related to the

Re: Automagically reduce the spacing between ++ in the word C++

2008-10-22 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 22.10.2008, at 14:12, Charles de Miramon wrote: Daniel Lohmann wrote: [...] occurrences with some ERT box is not an option, as this would cause too much hassle and would not work in external material, such as bibliographic entries. I am looking for a more elegant solution. The easiest way

Re: Automagically reduce the spacing between ++ in the word C++

2008-10-22 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 22.10.2008, at 14:07, Konrad Hofbauer wrote: Daniel Lohmann wrote: Any TeX gurus on this list who might help me? If you don't get any answer here, try in the comp.text.tex newsgroup. Thanks Konrad! Daniel, who is hoping nevertheless to find an expert here :-)

Re: Automagically reduce the spacing between ++ in the word C++

2008-10-22 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 23.10.2008, at 00:00, Andre Poenitz wrote: Since I started to waste the evening with TeX, the final version: \def\plus{+} \def\gobble#1{} \catcode`\+=\active \def\checknextchar{% \ifx\nextchar+% \raisebox{0.6ex}{\tiny\plus\kern-.3ex\plus}%

Re: Auto-reload pdf files on Mac?

2011-05-03 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 31.01.2011, at 18:17, Murat Yildizoglu wrote: I confirm that Skim is able to autoload the pdf and keep the actual view of the file. You have just tell it, the first time you update the PDF, that you want it to auto-load it (I have not found a way to tell it to auto-load without asking

Re: How to actually use the LyX 1.4 Character Style Feature

2006-10-02 Thread Daniel Lohmann
For 1.5, I'm just working on a patch that lets you hide all labels at once and probably also saves the settings (whether the labels are shown or not). The former might even go into some future version of 1.4 (the latter not, because it entails a file format change). Yeah, however it is not just

Re: pdf metadata

2006-10-08 Thread Daniel Lohmann
\ifpdf \usepackage[pdftex, implicit = false ]{hyperref} \hypersetup { pdftitle = {Lean and Efficient System Software Product Lines: Where Aspects Beat Objects}, pdfsubject = {to appear in Transactions on Aspect-Oriented Software Development}, pdfauthor = {Daniel Lohmann, Olaf Spinczyk, Wolfgang

Re: Multi-paragraph description

2006-10-09 Thread Daniel Lohmann
As we are already on the topic... I have always been wondering how to end a nested environment *without* starting a new item in the previous level: 1) This is item 1. It contains a list of sub-items, which are in fact a) one sub-item b) and another one However, there are definitely

Re: Multi-paragraph description

2006-10-09 Thread Daniel Lohmann
As Paul described below, you need to indent the sub-items *and* the standard paragraph in between. (See the attached.) Bennett Cool - exactly what I was looking for :-) I never tried to achieve it by intending a standard paragraph - an approach that seems a bit counter-intuitive at first

Re: how to add llncs class

2006-10-11 Thread Daniel Lohmann
MikTex, as almost any LaTeX distribution, manages an index file with all installed packages. LyX can only find packages that are registered in this index file, hence you have to update it before doing the reconfigure. Open the MiKTeX options dialog, click on the Root tab, select the TEXMF

Re: LyX slow in Windows XP

2006-10-18 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Results for User Mode Process LYX-QT4.EXE (PID = 3344) User Time = 15.07% of the Elapsed Time Kernel Time = 11.18% of the Elapsed Time Total Avg. Rate Page Faults , 5692, 95/sec.

Re: pdf looks like low quality scan

2006-10-18 Thread Daniel Lohmann
2006/10/18, Helge Hafting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Any ideas what is causing this? Yes. Acrobat is a lousy pdf reader - it don't handle bitmap fonts very well. Simple solution - use other pdf readers. Oh, you can recommend good alternatives for Windows, the only platform on which this problem

Re: How ERT are displayed

2006-10-18 Thread Daniel Lohmann
ERTs are rendered in the same font size than the line they are embedded into. Hence, if you add an ERT to e.g. the title of an article the font is huge. ERTs in the main text are a lot more readable. I would, however, also prefer to have a fixed font size for all ERTs Daniel 2006/10/18,

Re: LyX slow in Windows XP

2006-10-19 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Abdelrazak Younes schrieb: Daniel Lohmann wrote: Could you provide the results for the CSRSS.EXE process as well? See below but I don't see much of a difference. I've passed the -j option to let it find the .pdb but it can't seem to find the debug symbols apparently... Hm... I do

Re: How ERT are displayed

2006-10-19 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes schrieb: Daniel == Daniel Lohmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Daniel I would, however, also prefer to have a fixed font size for Daniel all ERTs Some people who use ERT for short bits would not like to have it be of the same fixed size. However, I think it could be a bit

Re: pdf looks like low quality scan

2006-10-19 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Curtis Osterhoudt schrieb: Simple solution - use other pdf readers. Oh, you can recommend good alternatives for Windows Daniel Hi, Daniel, I'm quite happy with Foxit's free .pdf viewer (www.foxitsoftware.com), though I don't know how well it handles bitmapped fonts. They

Re: Update to: [announce] new extended LyX manual available

2006-11-08 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Uwe Stöhr schrieb: I wrote: I'm proud to announce the new extended LyX manual about Floats, Notes, Tables, Graphics, and Boxes. The manual can be downloaded from http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/DocumentationDevelopment#Extended-Insets I'm happily surprized that I got so much feedback about this.

Re: formating of hyperref links

2006-12-06 Thread Daniel Lohmann
= {A Quantitive Analysis of Aspects in the eCos Kernel}, pdfsubject = {D.4.7 [Operating Systems]: Organization and Design?Realtime systems and embedded systems; D.3.3 [Programming Languages]: Language Constructs and Features}, pdfauthor = {Daniel Lohmann, Fabian Scheler, Reinhard Tartler, Olaf Spinczyk

Re: Replicating a document layout

2006-12-28 Thread Daniel Lohmann
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: Siterer Shawn Willden [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [...] Each page also needs a footer, containing the file name, page number (e.g. Page n of m), version number and last revision date. Would it be difficult to make something like this? Is there something out there that's

Re: BibTeX and master documents

2007-02-02 Thread Daniel Lohmann
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: To make it easier to insert citatiosn (if you still need to), you can insert a bibliography within each child document, but place it inside a *comment*. That way LaTeX won't see it, but LyX will know what .bib-files to scan for when showing you the available

Re: BibTeX and master documents

2007-02-05 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Thanks Richard, Works like a charm :-) Daniel Richard Heck wrote: Use the technique mentioned here: http://wiki.lyx.org/Tips/ChildMathMacros. More or less. And see below. 1) Define a variable \master in the preamble of the master document before including the common preamble: Define it to

Understanding key bindings

2007-02-07 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Hi Lyx-Folks, One of the less documened, but very useful features of LyX is to assign formattings by key strokes. It is so convenient to press e.g. ALT-P S to format a paragraph as Standard So I looked up the actually defined keystrokes in menus.bind. However, I am either not able to

Re: Understanding key bindings

2007-02-08 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Hi Paul, # I have no problems with these: \bind M-p ~S-5layout Paragraph \bind M-p ~S-6layout Subparagraph # I don't know how to press these # What is asterisk on a German keyboard? # Or is it a magic key? \bind M-p ~S-asterisk ~S-5layout Paragraph* \bind M-p ~S-asterisk

Re: Understanding key bindings

2007-02-08 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Dominik Waßenhoven schrieb: Of course they have it. It was just my ignorance regarding the meaning of asteriks. Don't confuse it with the small guy from Gaul, then! :-) Daniel

How to prevent page break before Part and Chapter

2007-02-12 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Hi LyX-Folks, This most probably is, as 90% of the messages on this list, more realated to LaTeX than to LyX itself: For my thesis I am using the koma-script book class (scrbook). I would like to remove (suppress) the usual page breaks before Part and Chapter headings in draft printings,

Re: How to prevent page break before Part and Chapter

2007-02-12 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Jürgen Spitzmüller schrieb: Daniel Lohmann wrote: For my thesis I am using the koma-script book class (scrbook). I would like to remove (suppress) the usual page breaks before Part and Chapter headings in draft printings, but print a horizontal line instead. Then use report, not book

Re: MS Word to LyX : Losing special characters

2007-02-13 Thread Daniel Lohmann
John Kane schrieb: No I'm not using Word(well not if I can help it. I normally use OOo as a WP, with smart quotes off, but I get some very badly formatted Word documents for internal use. Occasionally it is easier to put them into LyX than it is to try to reformat them into something

TeXperts: using hyperref to refer to label containing # in external document

2007-02-20 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Hi LyX-Folks, I am writing a document that refers to specific pages or chapters of other documents. In the resulting PDF, the reader should be able to navigate directly to the referred document and page. I am using the hyperref package to generate the links. Problem is that I am not the

Re: TeXperts: using hyperref to refer to label containing # in external document

2007-02-20 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Georg Baum schrieb: Am Dienstag, 20. Februar 2007 16:44 schrieb Daniel Lohmann: OK, the second line is responsible for inserting the dot (.) between the second and the third parameter. However, while I successfully managed to replace it with almost any character, I have not been able

Re: TeXperts: using hyperref to refer to label containing # in external document

2007-02-21 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Enrico Forestieri schrieb: Please, try the following: \usepackage{hyperref} \catcode`\#=11 \def\hashmark{#} \catcode`\#=6 \def\@@hyperref#1#2#3{% [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]@one\\{#1}% } Thanks a lot Enrico, the \catcode trick did it :-) Now the href links are created as they

Document-specific layout extensions

2007-02-21 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Hi, I am looking for way to extend or customize the LyX layout (such as the available styles) for a particular document only. While I know how to tweak layouts in the global or user-specific Resources/layouts/ folder, I would like to avoid this, as the document is shared with a couple of

Re: Document-specific layout extensions

2007-02-23 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Georg Baum wrote: [...] I would suggest to create a layout file that you ship together with your document. It should have a new name, so that users can simply copy it into their resource directory and reconfigure LyX. If you change the file and ship an update then the reconfigure step is

Re: Complaints regarding keyboard shortcuts?

2007-02-26 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Abdelrazak Younes wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I read the complaing page for LyX http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Complaints where at the end someone complained about no simple keyboard bindings. I'm afraid I don't understand that bit - I personally never found the keyboard shortcuts

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