Re: Single column index? SOLVED

On Monday 05 March 2007 20:47, curtis osterhoudt wrote: Hi, Steve, I haven't tried it yet for single-column mode (I use it for *forcing* a 3-columned index), but the package multicol http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/multicol.html might work for you. In my preamble,

How does one change the margins on one page only?

Hi all, How does one change the margins on one page only? I need the first page (I'm not using a title page -- I'm ERT'ing it) to be an image that goes paper edge to paper edge. Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware http

Thanks for Character Styles

Hi all, I don't know if I ever thanked the developers for putting in Character Styles. They're wonderful! Thank you so much. STeveT

Re: How does one change the margins on one page only? SOLVED

On Wednesday 07 March 2007 09:39, Sara Stymne wrote: Hi! The latex package chngpage might be useful. /Sara Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, How does one change the margins on one page only? I need the first page (I'm not using a title page -- I'm ERT'ing it) to be an image that goes paper

Footer in a colored box -- here's how

Hi all, I wanted the footers in my book to look just like those in the other ebooks, complete with a colored box footer. The MAGIC NUMBER is designed so that no matter how one sets the top and bottom margins, or the header or footer separations, the footer still ends up in the same place.

Re: Beamer Class Handout/Speaker's Notes

. SteveT Steve Litt Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware http://www.troubleshooters.com/

How to embed all fonts?

prefer not to experiment with pdflatex, or especially my LyX version, at this time. Does anyone know a simple way to get all fonts embed? Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware http://www.troubleshooters.com/

Re: Force chapter to start on odd pages

On Tuesday 20 March 2007 07:37, Paolo Cencioni wrote: Hello, does anybody know how to force chapters to start only on odd pages? Thank you very much. As far as I know, that's the default if you declare your document to be a 2 sided document. SteveT Steve Litt Author: Universal

Re: technical specification class ?

for section/subsection/subsubsection? I need even more deep level, but I don't know how to get it in LyX, if it is possible at all. AFAIK, each deeper level needs its own counter. In your LaTeX layout file, have each counter depend on its parent environment's counter. SteveT Steve Litt Author

Re: problem with latex file - center alignment of \section*

kind of centering, just put an \hfil on either side... \begin{appendixA} \section*{\hfil{}Appendix Title Is Entered Here\hfil} \end{appendixA} HTH SteveT Steve Litt Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware http://www.troubleshooters.com/

Re: A quick LaTeX question

. Like I said, you may solve it before needing to resort to any of this, but IMHO that's your backup plan, and I'm sure it will work. SteveT Steve Litt Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware http://www.troubleshooters.com/ (Legal Disclaimer) Follow these suggestions

Re: Newbie question: export to tex

myfile.ps gv ps2pdf In the preceding, you can find out which step is failing. Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware http://www.troubleshooters.com/

Re: Can .layout file go with my .lyx file?

I do it, assuming your directory layout: ln -s /home/myself/mydoc/myreport.layout /home/myself/.lyx/layouts/myreport.layout HTH SteveT Steve Litt Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware http://www.troubleshooters.com/

Re: ongoing numbered list?

On Saturday 14 April 2007 21:46, Stacia Hartleben wrote: Well I may have several sections, subsections, and subsub sections as well as all sorts of other stuff inbetween... Hmmm, Perhaps you could make a new environment for this type of numbering, and have the new environment use *its own

Re: How to modify latex classes?

inserted into a shellscript. SteveT Steve Litt Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware http://www.troubleshooters.com/

otl2lyx.awk

. The otl2lyx.awk code, which is licensed GPL version 2, is attached to this email. Enjoy! SteveT Steve Litt Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware http://www.troubleshooters.com/ otl2lyx.awk Description: Binary data

Revised otl2lyx.awk

Hi all, I made some minor revisions to make otl2lyx.awk function correctly with colon preceded body text, in more situations. Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware http://www.troubleshooters.com/ otl2lyx.awk Description: Binary data

Re: How to modify latex classes?

On Monday 23 April 2007 14:21, José Matos wrote: On Sunday 22 April 2007 10:43:25 pm Steve Litt wrote: I use Vim for authoring LaTeX (or LyX layouts), and I make a compile-display shellscript to see the results. The fact that you must reconfigure LyX every time, which consumes enormous time

Re: otl2lyx.awk

On Monday 23 April 2007 15:06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 23 Apr 2007, Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, Long ago I made an otl2lyx.pl, but with the upgraded native LyX file format, it no longer worked. After viewing my Perl code, I opted to rewrite in awk (gawk, to be specific). I took

Re: How to modify latex classes?

minor way. Thanks SteveT On Monday 23 April 2007 16:06, Richard Heck wrote: Just go to bugzilla.lyx.org. You'll need to establish an account---this is trivial---and then you can log in and file the bug. If you want to call it an enhancement, you'll have that option. rh Steve Litt wrote

Re: How to modify latex classes?

On Tuesday 24 April 2007 10:44, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Steve == Steve Litt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Steve Thanks Richard, I just filed this as bugzilla bug 3501. It's Steve assigned to Jean-Marc Lasgouttes. Steve Jean-Marc -- if I can help in any way I can help, please let me Steve

Re: How to modify latex classes?

On Tuesday 24 April 2007 11:07, Steve Litt wrote: On Tuesday 24 April 2007 10:44, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Steve == Steve Litt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Steve Thanks Richard, I just filed this as bugzilla bug 3501. It's Steve assigned to Jean-Marc Lasgouttes. Steve Jean-Marc

How to make boxtitle and boxtext

it be done? Thanks STeveT -- Steve Litt Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware http://www.troubleshooters.com/ (Legal Disclaimer) Follow these suggestions at your own risk.

Re: How to make boxtitle and boxtext

On Tuesday 24 April 2007 16:23, Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, I want to put a title and text inside a box, probably a bordered or shaded minipage. The title is defined by the LyX document's author when he's writing the content. I could just ERT \dev\boxtitle{This is my latest title

How to change the number of rows and columns on a table?

hate to think that when I think of a new item belonging in the table, instead of adding a row I'd need to create a new table with the right number of rows, cut and paste all cells to the new table, and delete the old one. Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books

Re: How to change the number of rows and columns on a table?

On Wednesday 25 April 2007 13:05, José Matos wrote: On Wednesday 25 April 2007 5:59:41 pm Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, I'm using LyX 1.4.2. I cannot find any way to change the number of rows and/or columns on a table once I've created the table with Insert-Table. The table-settings dialog

Re: How to change the number of rows and columns on a table?

On Wednesday 25 April 2007 13:40, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, I'm using LyX 1.4.2. I cannot find any way to change the number of rows and/or columns on a table once I've created the table with Insert-Table. The table-settings dialog doesn't let you change the number

Here's how to wrap text in tables

Hi all, This is so inobvious that it gets me every time, and even after crawling all over the LyX help files I couldn't find how to wrap text in tables. Turns out you must set the column width and then text will wrap automatically. SteveT Steve Litt Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process

Re: Here's how to wrap text in tables

On Wednesday 25 April 2007 17:03, you wrote: Steve Litt schrieb: This is so inobvious that it gets me every time, and even after crawling all over the LyX help files I couldn't find how to wrap text in tables. Turns out you must set the column width and then text will wrap automatically

Re: downsampling in pdflatex output?

pictures. HTH SteveT Steve Litt Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware http://www.troubleshooters.com/

I need a distinctive character style for a specific word

:-) Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware http://www.troubleshooters.com/

How to detect current font size, shape, series and the like?

with a bunch of if/then/else type stuff. How do I detect and store the current font size? Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware http://www.troubleshooters.com/

Re: Edit Style

On Monday 07 May 2007 12:02, Ken wrote: Hi. I am currently using the document class article (AMS) which provides a list of styles such as Theorem, Proof, Definition, Claim, etc. How could I similarly create a section/style for Assumption #.#? I tried googling this without much success. Any

Re: A Question About Fancy Title?

in advance Mohammad Nassir I've had success hand tweaking the front matter with ERT. That way I can base my document class choice on what gives me the mainmatter I want. If it were me, I'd just ERT the LaTeX necessary to include the picture at the top of the first page. SteveT Steve Litt

Include files in .bind files?

Hi all, Is there a way to put something like a #include inside a bind file? Thanks SteveT

Key binding for insert-character style?

Hi all, I really, really, really need a key binding for Insert-character style. I might even need one for one specific character style. How would I do this? Thanks SteveT

Re: Key binding for insert-character style?

On Monday 07 May 2007 19:06, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, I really, really, really need a key binding for Insert-character style. I might even need one for one specific character style. How would I do this? Thanks SteveT Not sure this is what you mean

Re: Key binding for insert-character style?

On Tuesday 08 May 2007 02:01, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Steve Litt wrote: I really, really, really need a key binding for Insert-character style. I might even need one for one specific character style. How would I do this? You can only add bindings to specific (named) charstyles. E.g

What's the LyX function for right arrow?

arrow. I tried both character-forward and forward, and neither worked. Anyone know? Thanks STeveT Steve Litt Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware http://www.troubleshooters.com/

Keystroke bindings for character styles

. This has made the use of character styles faster and easier for me -- I hope it does the same for some of you. Thanks Dominik, Jürgen and Paul! SteveT -- Steve Litt Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware http://www.troubleshooters.com/ (Legal Disclaimer) Follow

Re: How to modify latex classes?

On Tuesday 08 May 2007 11:10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 24 Apr 2007, Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, This is documentation for JMarc's answer. I'm not good with wikis. Could somebody please put this up on the Wiki somewhere? I took pity on you and added something simple here

Re: Keystroke bindings for character styles

On Tuesday 08 May 2007 11:15, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 8 May 2007, Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, 1.5x might have made it easier, but 1.4x requires you to do the following in order to put something in a character style: I added it here: http://wiki.lyx.org/Tips

Re: How to modify latex classes?

On Wednesday 09 May 2007 11:14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 8 May 2007, Steve Litt wrote: http://wiki.lyx.org/Tips/DebuggingLayoutFiles It's accurate. I replaced your request for an explanation with an explanation :-). Wow... that must have been your wiki premiere! ;-) It's

How to Spot a Word Processed Book

Interesting article: How to Spot a Word Processed Book http://www.midwestbookreview.com/bookbiz/advice/wordproc.htm Did I ever mention how glad I am that you all created LyX? Thank you! SteveT Steve Litt Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware http

Re: How to Spot a Word Processed Book

On Wednesday 09 May 2007 14:23, Rich Shepard wrote: On Wed, 9 May 2007, Steve Litt wrote: Interesting article: How to Spot a Word Processed Book What jumps out at me when I look at a processed word book is the uneven spacing between words on each line. The interletter and interword

Re: How to Spot a Word Processed Book

on the face of the earth. SteveT Steve Litt Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware http://www.troubleshooters.com/

Re: How to Spot a Word Processed Book

on as fast as if you'd done the addition just right. But some time before you tie up at dock at your destination, you must make all those additions right. SteveT Steve Litt Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware http://www.troubleshooters.com/

inline URL won't wrap

Hi all, I have a URL in the middle of a sentence, and it runs right off the page, even though there's a space immediately to its right. Do I need to use a sloppy or relax command or something like that? Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware

How to write an algebra textbook?

as a multiplication symbol -- x, X, *, or something else? Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware http://www.troubleshooters.com/

Why Lyx-Word?

the author a layout before the book project begins. But hard as I rack my brains, I can't think of a reason to start a project in LyX, and THEN convert it to MS Word. SteveT Steve Litt Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware http://www.troubleshooters.com/

Re: Why Lyx-Word?

On Monday 14 May 2007 13:42, you wrote: Of course, OOo is an option, but then OOo to Word conversions aren't always trivial, either, and I still vastly prefer writing in LyX to writing in OOo. One man's opinion: OOo word processing (as opposed to presentation) is an abomination. If my only

Re: Why Lyx-Word?

On Monday 14 May 2007 13:33, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: On Mon, 14 May 2007, Steve Litt wrote: But hard as I rack my brains, I can't think of a reason to start a project in LyX, and THEN convert it to MS Word. Interface preference. Or availability (maybe author has limited access to Word

Re: LyX 1.4.3 won't render math characters on Ubuntu 7.04

On Monday 14 May 2007 09:49, David L. Johnson wrote: A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.  --Ralph Waldo Emerson This is an odd statement on a LyX list :-) SteveT

Re: How to detect current font size, shape, series and the like?

On Friday 11 May 2007 15:09, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Steve Litt wrote: Turns out I'll be using my Ex character style in body text and in several headings, which means I can't hardcode a size like \LARGE, but instead must find a way to *increase* the font size, which means I need to detect

Re: auto indexing? (fwd)

On Monday 14 May 2007 17:08, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: I emailed the following last November, but I don't recall receiving any feedback. Does anyone have a tool for automaticlly adding index entries for LyX? I thought there was a ruby script, but I can't find it now. I already have the list of

Re: Creating a document class

to properly put in everything, and heaven help me if I had one thing that was different. Nowadays, I fine tune my entire frontmatter, and it's a matter of a few hours. SteveT Steve Litt Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware http://www.troubleshooters.com/

Re: Creating a document class

On Monday 14 May 2007 19:30, Steve Litt wrote: On Monday 14 May 2007 17:36, NicoWinger wrote: Hello, I'm still creating a document class for the quote guidelines of our university and a belonging template. Both is nearly finished, but there is one thing that still bothers me. The cover

Re: Creating a document class

On Tuesday 15 May 2007 04:00, Jean-Pierre Chretien wrote: From: NicoWinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Creating a document class Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 23:36:37 +0200 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/Il0imjugoveyKNidQpbz/x2yCR01Aulp1KfyZ

How to change the typeface at any size?

. {\specialfont This is the special font} This is the normal font. This is the normal font {\specialfont with special font embedded} in the normal font. \end{document} % END EXAMPLE SteveT * Funky is an American idiom for informal, nonprofessional. -- Steve Litt Author

Re: How to change the typeface at any size?

On Tuesday 15 May 2007 11:56, Richard Heck wrote: Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, I have a character style that I want to have a funky typeface*. Something like cmff. I can change the typeface in pure TeX, but I must name a size. What I'd like is for the typeface change to occur

Re: Why Lyx-Word?

, and if you're self-publishing books like Steve Litt does then you wear both hats. Thanks Richard, I think the right kind of documentation can make it much easier for LyX users to make their own paragraph and character styles, even if they're not programmers or super smart. After years

Re: Why Lyx-Word?

with LaTeX without reading TeX for the Impatient or an equivalent TeX text. SteveT Steve Litt Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware http://www.troubleshooters.com/

Re: Why Lyx-Word?

On Tuesday 15 May 2007 16:51, Steve Litt wrote: If you are *mega* impatient, you can read my article, LyX, LaTeX and TeX at http://www.troubleshooters.cxm/linux/lyx/lyx_latex_tex.htm. Oops, I meant http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/lyx/lyx_latex_tex.htm. SteveT

Re: Why Lyx-Word?

://www.troubleshooters.com/tpromag/200104/200104.htm#_editors_desk SteveT Steve Litt Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware http://www.troubleshooters.com/

Re: How to change the typeface at any size?

Thanks Richard, I verified that your code and t1cmff.fd produce the desired result. Today or tomorrow I'll try your size factor mechanism. What remains now is for me to understand what you've done, so I'll soon study http://www.latex-project.org/guides/fntguide.pdf to find out why it works

How to put title and text in a box?

a way to create a LaTeX environment that, instead of printing the text it's applied to, sets a variable with the text it's applied to? If not, does anyone know another way to do what I need to do? Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware http

Re: How to put title and text in a box?

and text. LyX tries very hard not to pagebreak within the box. So I get the best of both worlds. The box title prints in LyX just like any other large, centered text, while in LaTeX-dvi it prints from within the \boxtext environment -- no ERT required. Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Author: Universal

Re: How to put title and text in a box? SOLVED

Oh never mind, I already solved this problem and forgot I'd solved it. I made the title LyX environment with a LatexType of command, and had that command set a variable, and then the box text environment used that variable. SteveT On Thursday 17 May 2007 11:47, Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, All

LyX is wonderful -- thank you!

on this list who've helped me throughout the years. Steve Litt Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware http://www.troubleshooters.com/

Re: LyX is wonderful -- thank you!

On Thursday 17 May 2007 14:16, Christopher Menzel wrote: On May 17, 2007, at 1:07 PM, Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, LyX is truly wonderful. While slamming out content it's as fast as any wordprocessor I've used (WP51, MS Word, OO, Vim ... Vim, a word processor?? Better don yer flame

Re: How to put title and text in a box?

On Friday 18 May 2007 08:07, Helge Hafting wrote: Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, All my books contain, interspersed throughout regular text, boxes breaking out special stuff. The boxes are centered and have slightly narrower margins than the rest of the text. Each box has a large box title

Re: How to put title and text in a box? SOLVED

On Friday 18 May 2007 06:53, Daniel Lohmann wrote: Steve Litt wrote: Oh never mind, I already solved this problem and forgot I'd solved it. I made the title LyX environment with a LatexType of command, and had that command set a variable, and then the box text environment used

How to create a good looking and memory conserving full page graphic?

think it would be very compressible. Over half the graphic is contiguous pure white, with another 10% contiguous pure black. Thanks STeveT Steve Litt Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware http://www.troubleshooters.com/

Re: How to create a good looking and memory conserving full page graphic? SOLVED

On Friday 18 May 2007 14:57, Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, The cover of my Ebook was created in Vim, and is incorporated on the first page of my LyX file as a .jpg. I started with an 8.5x11 drawing in Gimp, but it was too huge and I had to scale the image to quarter size and put it in LyX. If I

Problem: TOC section 2 digit numbers crash into text

the dot, crashes into the text for that contents line. This happens even if the text is incredibly short. Anyone experienced this yet? Anyone solved it yet? Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware http://www.troubleshooters.com/

Re: Problem: TOC section 2 digit numbers crash into text

On Friday 18 May 2007 22:17, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: On Fri, 18 May 2007, Steve Litt wrote: LyX 1.4.2, Mandriva 2007 Linux. I'm wondering if any of you have solved this already. I'm using a derivative ofthe Book document class. In my table of contents, every section whose number ends

Re: New LyX/LaTeX documentation

On Saturday 19 May 2007 07:14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 19 Jan 2007, Steve Litt wrote: Hi Steve, I was going through some old posts. Below you talk about a document you've written: http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/lyx/lyx_latex_tex.htm Do you think it should be linked

Re: copying spreadsheet data into Lyx

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Re: emphasis on small caps

by changing your layout file. SteveT Steve Litt Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware http://www.troubleshooters.com/

Internet clickable PDF links?

in a browser when the user clicks on them? Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware http://www.troubleshooters.com/

Re: Internet clickable PDF links?

On Thursday 24 May 2007 19:38, you wrote: Steve Litt schrieb: Where is the EmbeddedObjects manual? I saw google references to it in 1.5, but I'm using 1.4x. Can I download it as a PDF from somewhere? It is included to LyX 1.4.4. You can alternatively download it from here: http

Re: Internet clickable PDF links? SOLVED, at least to my satisfaction

On Thursday 24 May 2007 23:29, Richard Heck wrote: Steve Litt wrote: Oh-oh, when I followed the directions to export to LinuxDoc, here's what happened: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ xpdf test.pdf [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ lyx --export LinuxDoc test.lyx Error: Couldn't export file

Re: Internet clickable PDF links? SOLVED, at least to my satisfaction

On Friday 25 May 2007 00:45, you wrote: Steve Litt wrote: On Thursday 24 May 2007 23:29, Richard Heck wrote: I finally did it with this advice from Wikipedia: [snip] There was no need for docbook, LinuxDoc, or anything unusual besides hyperref. As I may already have said, we

How to put a backslash in index?

Hi all, I'm trying to put a \U in the index, under the regex category. I tried the following: \index{regex!\U} NO BACKSLASH \index{regex!\\U} NO BACKSLASH \index{regex!\U} CAN'T COMPILE Anyone know how I put a backslash in the index? Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Author: Universal

Re: How to put a backslash in index? SOLVED

On Saturday 26 May 2007 06:37, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Steve Litt wrote: \index{regex!\U}  NO BACKSLASH \index{regex!\\U}  NO BACKSLASH \index{regex!\U}  CAN'T COMPILE Anyone know how I put a backslash in the index? perhaps \index{regex!\textbackslash U} Jürgen CONFIRMED! Your

Save icon gray after updating an index

-settings-preamble. Although this is minor and a lot of software suffers from similar stuff (you can just put in a space to enable the icon), it might be something to consider fixing. I'm using LyX 1.4.2. My apologies if it's already been fixed in 1.5.x SteveT Steve Litt Author: Universal

Re: No indentation with LyX-Code

to experiment with it, but something like this should do what you need. SteveT Steve Litt Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware http://www.troubleshooters.com/

Re: Setting background color

On Sunday 27 May 2007 16:46, Micha Feigin wrote: I'm trying to prepare a poster with lyx and I was wondering if its possible to setup the background color for the poster (I think I used to do it somehow with color and texpower using the \backgroundstyle command but it doesn't work for me at

Best document class for a math book?

Hi all, My next book will be a math book. I assume there are better document classes to use for this than the book document class. What are some document classes that are good for math books? Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware http

Re: Lyx--Figure placement in center of page

and how difficult. My first thought would be to put the float inside a minibox and then use \hfill on both sides of the minipage (or is it an \hbox?). Something like that, or redefining the float, is your worst case. There's probably something a lot easier. SteveT Steve Litt Author: Universal

Re: Physical units

On Wednesday 30 May 2007 10:40, Brian Larsen wrote: I use the SIunits package for latex to do all my units. [=] It is a bit cumbersome until you get the hang of it but then works great. I think the preceding sentence sums up working with LyX, LaTeX and TeX. SteveT

Re: Speed of Lyx

--export latex myfile.lyx latex myfile.tex xdvi myfile.dvi Much shorter than if I compiled all the way to ps or pdf (unless I were using pdflatex, of course). By scripting it, YOU tell it exactly what to include and what to leave out. HTH SteveT Steve Litt Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process

Re: how to use custom character styles

in your shoes, I'd create a tiny LyX test document and a tiny layout file, and experiment. Hope this helps. SteveT Steve Litt Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware http://www.troubleshooters.com/

Re: how to use custom character styles

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

Re: how to use custom character styles

with the char style definition(s) in your local folder $HOME/.lyx/layouts (Suppose you put my example 'charstyle.layout' there) 2) start lyx and reconfigure (Steve Litt indicateed recently how to do so from the command line, but i don't remember exactly how) http://wiki.lyx.org/Tips

How to make all math bolder?

within my layout file? Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware http://www.troubleshooters.com/

eqnarray equal signs don't line up

to make them line up? Is there some reason the equal signs shouldn't be forced to line up? Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware http://www.troubleshooters.com/

Re: Wiki v.s. web site (Was: how to use custom character styles)

desired. I'd sure desire it. I'd feel free to write just about any silliness in a sandbox, knowing everyone knows it's a sandbox. But if it's indexed by search engines, others coming to it wouldn't necessarily know that, and might believe the silliness I happen to write in there. SteveT Steve

Meaning of Insert-Math choices?

Gathered Environment Split Environment Font Change Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware http://www.troubleshooters.com/

Explanations with equations?

= 18 Multiply both sides by -1 How do I do that? Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware http://www.troubleshooters.com/

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