Re: Bug ?

2005-10-17 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: - Original Message - From: Nicolas Ferré [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Monday, October 17, 2005 2:38 PM Subject: Bug ? Dear all, could you please confirm the following bug, found in the following build of lyx: LyX 1.3.6 of Sat, Jul 16,

Re: Quick question: where are the outputs?

2005-10-17 Thread Paul A. Rubin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: They're not there... In fact, I ran dir/s/b \blah.pdf but found nothing. What might be going wrong? I've never changed anything under Preferences since installing LyX, and I have all the support software the installer demanded. On 10/17/05, Geoffrey Lloyd - [EMAIL

Re: How to recover dvi - ps - pdf output?

2005-10-20 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Stefano Franchi wrote: I need to recover the ability to generate (and see) a Pdf file via the dvips route. I lost the relevant items in the View menu a long time ago and never bother fixing the problem, because I was happy with pdftex. But now I have problems with the latter (after

Re: How to recover dvi - ps - pdf output?

2005-10-20 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Stefano Franchi wrote: Thanks Paul, the procedure you mentioned is more or less what I remembered, thanks for the details. But I cannot get it to work. Nothing shows up in either the View or Export menus. I suppose LyX knows what it is supposed to do to carry out the various

Re: Windows 1.3.6: unrecognizable math symbols

2005-10-20 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Lars Henriksen wrote: Hello, I have been using the unofficial Windows port installed in a Cygwin environment for a while. Now I have downloaded and installed LyX 1.3.6 for Windows. The installation of all needed components went smoothly and OK (as far as I can tell). But the result was

Re: Environment Button Changes Shape

2005-10-21 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Rich Shepard wrote: This is a minor point, but annoying nonetheless. When I invoke LyX, the environment choice button at the left of the icon bar is small. As soon as I load a beamer document, that button expands to consume about 1/3 the horizontal space in the window. This drives the macro

Re: Choice of fonts in LaTeX

2005-10-21 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Paul wrote: Angus Leeming wrote: http://www.etsimo.uniovi.es/pdf/six.htm explains that the PDF standard defines 14 fonts as standard. A standard-conforming reader will be able to display glyphs in these fonts even if they are not embedded in the document. OK so does that mean those fonts

Re: How to recover dvi - ps - pdf output?

2005-10-21 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Stefano Franchi wrote: What I mean is that in View menu I only have one item PDF (pdflatex) . Similarly, in the FileExport menu I LaTeX and PDF(pdflatex). And nothing else. No DVI, dvipdfm, etc. If you can view DVIs but not PDFs with the DVI-PS-PDF route, then the next question is

Re: Choice of fonts in LaTeX

2005-10-21 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Paul wrote: You said about sticking to basic PDF fonts, but I would have thought that it would be the other way round - unusual fonts would be *more* portable because they are actually embedded within the document. I'm not sure that's necessarily true. I think it is up to the software

Re: No one answered a simple topic :(

2005-10-21 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Stephen Harris wrote: - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Lyx Contribute lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Friday, October 21, 2005 1:23 PM Subject: No one answered a simple topic :( I just wanna know: What's worth to use, PDF (dvipdfm) or PDF (pdflatex)? And why? -- It

Re: Installing layouts on Windows

2005-10-22 Thread Paul A. Rubin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Angus Lemming wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry, I can in fact see the user dir in the About menu; however, placing my files there didn't fix the problem. Please help! Hi all, I'm trying to install the algorithms layout (from http://bgu.chez.tiscali.fr/). I

Re: Horizontal Rule

2005-10-24 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Daniel Watkins wrote: I'm looking to place a horizontal rule in a document I'm currently working on. However, the standard horizontal rule is ugly (it just goes from one side of the page to the other). How can I tell LyX to put in a line that isn't as long (and what's a typographically good

Re: Is this possible in lyx?

2005-10-24 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Jose Capco wrote: Dear List, I just figured out how to disallow LaTeX to linebreak a math inline formula that resides in the end of a line. Sometimes they turn so awkward when they are breaked in the end of the line. With LaTeX I just type a formula in an \mbox and it solves my problem.. but

Re: updating postscript file, but not eepic picture

2005-10-26 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Gunnar wrote: Hi. I have a LyX (1.3.6) file that contains a reference to an eepic file that is be included with \input command. That works, but when I change in the eepic file, the LyX files preview is not updataed, even though I use update postscript/ view postscript and reloads the

Re: Finding the Reason xdvi Output Disappeared

2005-10-26 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Rich Shepard wrote: I just upgraded all the systems here to Slackware-10.2. I've been busy developing beamer presentations (another one to be done in the next couple of weeks), so I've been viewing compiled output with pdflatex. Yesterday, however, I wrote a short article and tried to view

Re: Forcing LyX to retypeset included files?

2005-10-26 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Stefano Franchi wrote: BTW, I could not find a panel in LyX preference related to the /temp directory. Do you know where it is? Edit-Preferences-Paths has a check box for whether to use a temp directory; next to that is a box to enter the path (and a browse button for non-typists). Paul

Re: multiinclude with beamer

2005-10-27 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Myriam Abramson wrote: Hi! I desperately need to include some animation. I tried the multiinclude as in the Beamer's users guide but I got a file corrupted message with acroread (7.0). Any ideas? I also tried various other things but I can't get any graphics animation going. I would really

Re: data sources

2005-10-27 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Paolo Cavallini wrote: Hi all. We're moving our first steps in LyX. One function we miss is the link with data base sources. Currently the solution we devised is to export our PostgreSQL tables in html and import them into LyX, but this is far from smooth. Is there an easier way? The same

Re: lyx keyboard shortcuts

2005-10-27 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Miki Dovrat wrote: I reinstalled it, all is there, but nonetheless it shouldn't have been this way. Miki Dovrat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, I just upgraded from lyx 1.3.5 to 1.3.6 on a Windows XP, and all the keyboard shortcuts (CTRL-D for view DVI,

Re: Symbols for a figure key - adding a new font

2005-10-28 Thread Paul A. Rubin
David Wolfson wrote: Hi, Through the wonders of wine, I've managed to get some figures from an old excel sheet added into a lyx file as floats, but need to add symbol definitions in the caption. I've found most of the symbols listed as part of the ifsym font in the 'comprehensive list of

Re: Missing def'n for \implies causes latex problem...

2005-10-28 Thread Paul A. Rubin
gardyloo wrote: Hi, all, I've recently reinstalled LyX 1.3.6 (on Mepis linux, 2.6.12 kernel; the problem also implies to 1.3.6 on a Kubuntu installation) after a hdd crash. When run through latex, documents containing \implies produce the dreaded Undefined control sequence error. However,

Re: Where can I see what lyx is doing in the background when generating a preview?

2005-10-29 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Sanders, Maarten (M.J.L.) wrote: Hi, I am struggling again with a possible bug. I have a chapter (created from c-code with a custom perl script) which is included in a master document. When I open the chapter I can generate a ps2pdf preview without any trouble. I edited the document and

Re: Symbols for a figure key - adding a new font

2005-10-31 Thread Paul A. Rubin
David Wolfson wrote: This would suggest that ifsym is not properly installed. Did you (a) install it and (b) update your TeX file database? If so, try 'kpsewhich ifsym.sty' from a shell to see if the system knows where to find it. a) not that I'm aware of! I think this is what I really need

Re: Symbols for a figure key - adding a new font

2005-10-31 Thread Paul A. Rubin
David Wolfson wrote: Unfortunately, the output was not as I'd hope. Instead of getting a triangle, I have an 'a' in the DVI, I get the same thing. and nothing in pdf. This is the same processing through LyX or LaTeX on the command line. This appears to be a problem with mktexpk, as if I

Re: Symbols for a figure key - adding a new font solved

2005-11-02 Thread Paul A. Rubin
David Wolfson wrote: As soon as I read this I realised that it was probably a path problem. Not knowing any better, I had installed the font to '/usr/local/share/texmf/' rather than '/usr/share/texmf/'. I removed that installation, rehashed, and carried out the instructions I mentioned

Re: Unwanted new paragraph after change to embedded math

2005-11-02 Thread Paul A. Rubin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I mark some text and change it into embedded math (Insert-Math-Embedded Formula or hitting C-m) LyX starts a new paragraph right after that selection. Is this a bug, or how can I stop LyX from doing that ? With instant-preview activated, the new paragraph break

Re: converter for pdf

2005-11-03 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Robert Orr wrote: Hi - I seem to have accidently deleted a few of the converters from my preferences. I'm using 1.3.5 on Windows. Can someone help me out and check their install to let me know what the default converter syntax is for PDF and for pdflatex? Postscript-PDF: ps2pdf13 $$i

Re: Symbols for a figure key - adding a new font solved

2005-11-04 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Paul A. Rubin wrote: David Wolfson wrote: As soon as I read this I realised that it was probably a path problem. Not knowing any better, I had installed the font to '/usr/local/share/texmf/' rather than '/usr/share/texmf/'. I removed that installation, rehashed, and carried out

Re: itemize/enumerate in theorem environment possible in LyX ?

2005-11-06 Thread Paul A. Rubin
H. Peter Gumm wrote: Hi, I frequently want to use itemize and/or enumerate within a theorem environment. I know how to do it with ERT, can I do it solely with LyX, too ? I am using the article(AMS) layout. Greetings, H.Peter Gumm At the point in the theorem where you want the enumeration,

Re: \columnsep with multicol

2005-11-06 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Gunnar wrote: Hi. I'm using a multicol environement with two columns but I'd like some more space between the columns. I have used these commands \setlength{\columnsep}{20mm} \setlength{\columnseprule}{0.4pt} but the columnsep doesn't seem to be changing. It doesn't matter if it is 20mm or

Re: Pagination problem

2005-11-06 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Matthew Gates wrote: Hi. I started using LyX some time ago for stuff like letters and my CV. Recently I started a rather bigger project - the Stellarium User Guide. Everything's going pretty well, and I've learnt a lot about stuff like using bibtex and how to make indexes with sub-items

Re: Pagination problem

2005-11-07 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Matthew Gates wrote: On Sunday 06 November 2005 22:19, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Matthew Gates wrote: Hi. I started using LyX some time ago for stuff like letters and my CV. Recently I started a rather bigger project - the Stellarium User Guide. Everything's going pretty well, and I've learnt

Re: Need some trouble shootingideas

2005-11-07 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Gunnar wrote: Hi. A colleague of mine is using LyX 1.3.6 on Win XP (very recent installation) but he has tried to change menus to swedish and it ended up in a mess. LyX wouldn't start. I'm now writing from what I remember that he told me. First he couldn't start LyX. It complained about

Re: \usepackage[dvips]{geometry}: How?

2005-11-07 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Jim Osborn wrote: I'd like to take advantage of xdvik's ability to sense the paper size from the dvi file, as recommended in the xdvi man page, by putting the subject line in the latex source. It works fine in a custom class file, but when I put that line in the Preamble of an ordinary Article

Re: Suggestion

2005-11-08 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Alex Streit wrote: Hi all, I am using LyX 1.3.6 (Mac), although I've noticed the same behaviour on Linux and Windows builds. One thing that keeps getting me is that I find the selection behaviour un-intuitive. Because it is very much a character - to - character selection, which makes it hard

Re: importing material into figures

2005-11-08 Thread Paul A. Rubin
hagit lev wrote: Hi I have lots of material - such as Surfer maps, Origin graphs etc. and I wondered if I can import them directly to Lyx or need to export them first to jpeg and only then import ? Cause I tried to export surfer to EMF, but the result in the DVI file was a huge picture, and

Re: Write debug info to file

2005-11-09 Thread Paul A. Rubin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not sure, but I don't think it's possible to redirect stderr separately on windows. Depends on the version. Redirection works in XP but not in 9x. (IIRC there's a free third-party program to implement it in 9x.) Paul

Re: Tables

2005-11-09 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Myriam Abramson wrote: Is there a way to control the borders of a cell as opposed to a row or column? I have Lyx 1.3.5. Basically, I would like the headers of some of my columns to take several columns. TIA, Highlight the header cells, right click and in the Table Settings tab of the

Re: Installation Problem. All entries in Textclass.lst are false so no output. Any suggestions?

2005-11-11 Thread Paul A. Rubin
John Kane wrote: This is what I have for the right Minsys .exe Directory of C:\msys 11/10/2005 11:06 AMDIR . 11/10/2005 11:06 AMDIR .. 08/14/2005 11:49 AMDIR 1.0 07/31/2005 01:05 PM 2,808,061 MSYS-1.0.10.exe Whereas mine looks like

Re: Installation Problem. All entries in Textclass.lst are false so no output. Any suggestions?

2005-11-11 Thread Paul A. Rubin
John Kane wrote: . To verify your MinSYS installation, you can open a DOS window and type 'sh' at the command prompt. This should start a shell and give you a prompt that looks like 'sh-2.04$' (though possibly yours will have a higher version number). If it does, type 'exit' to get out

Re: Installation Problem. All entries in Textclass.lst are false so no output. Any suggestions?

2005-11-11 Thread Paul A. Rubin
John Kane wrote: Path=C:\Perl\bin\;c:program files\imanemagick-6.2.5_q16;C:\texmf\miktex\bin;c:\WINDOWS\system32;C:WINDOWS;C;\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;C:Program Files\Common Files\MDL Shared\ISIS I'm getting a bit out of sync with what you put in your replies to Stephen, but I think you said

Re: Installation Problem. All entries in Textclass.lst are false so no output. Any suggestions?

2005-11-11 Thread Paul A. Rubin
John Kane wrote: Simply, that is because in this case the command needs to be typed from the command prompt at C:\LyX\Resources\LyX C:\msys\1.0\bin\sh.exe configure OH, the long (and thankfully) forgotten joys of DOS. Absolute paths! But it still does not work. See

Re: Installation Problem. All entries in Textclass.lst are false so no output. Any suggestions?

2005-11-11 Thread Paul A. Rubin
John Kane wrote: I think you said that the MinSYS bin directory (c:\msys\1.0\bin?) was on the LyX internal path No it was not. I've added it. Still getting the error after restarting LyX That's not surprising. Have you tried Edit-Reconfigure after adding it to the LyX path? But

Re: Installation Problem. All entries in Textclass.lst are false so no output. Any suggestions?

2005-11-12 Thread Paul A. Rubin
John Kane wrote: Obviously, as a student you, did not have the card reader shred your computer deck ½ hours before the assignment was due and all you needed was a clean printout. No, but I have the dubious distinction of having rested a box of punch cards on the roof of my car whilst

Re: installing style files in lyx for conference

2005-11-12 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Adrian Peter wrote: Hi, I am running LyX on my windows box. A conference I am preparing a paper for provided a .sty file to use for tex preparation. How can I make lyx see the style file? I tried to create a simple layout file that told lyx to look for the style file. However, when I do a

Re: Installation Problem. All entries in Textclass.lst are false so no output. Any suggestions?

2005-11-13 Thread Paul A. Rubin
John Kane wrote: From a DOS prompt, try the following: 1. Type 'path' to get the system path. Make sure that (a) the MiKTeX bin directory is properly listed and (b) no directory ahead of it contains a file named latex.exe. Appears not to: Path is c:\program

Re: Installation Problem. All entries in Textclass.lst are false so no output. Any suggestions?

2005-11-14 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Stephen Harris wrote: I'm wondering if John might have done a net install in which he didn't download the files first with setup.exe and then run setup.exe again to build the installation. That is how I ran the Miktex install, how did you do it? I did it three different ways on three

Re: about custom key bindings

2005-11-14 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Nusret BALCI wrote: Hi, Is there a way to instruct LyX to treat C-i as a request for italic font in text mode and for integral sign in math mode? It does one or the other always regardless of the mode here :) (I'm new, a 2-days long LyX user, on Windows XP). Regards, Nusret No, key bindings

Re: Installation Problem. All entries in Textclass.lst are false so no output. Any suggestions?

2005-11-15 Thread Paul A. Rubin
John, Did you try updating your format files using the MiKTeX Options program (General tab, Format files section, Update Now button) and, if so, did anything on your computer melt? Paul John Kane wrote: Updates on the continuing (non) installation saga This replies to a number of

Re: Installation Problem. All entries in Textclass.lst are false so no output. Any suggestions?

2005-11-15 Thread Paul A. Rubin
a guru. It's pretty clear that your MiKTeX installation is broken, but I don't know why. I'll be largely out of the loop until around 26 November, by the way. Paul (who's brain is cramping) John Kane wrote: Paul A. Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John, Did you try updating your format

Re: Installation Problem. All entries in Textclass.lst are false so no output. Any suggestions?

2005-11-16 Thread Paul A. Rubin
John Kane wrote: As far as I can tell my tex list matches the screen shot that you included. I am unsure from your last posts if you want me to try the -e compatibiltiy mode however I gave it a try and To force MiKTeX to use e-TeX in compatibility mode, follow these steps: 1. Run the MiKTeX

Re: Installation Problem. All entries in Textclass.lst are false so no output. Any suggestions?

2005-11-16 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Stephen Harris wrote: As I think Stephen said earlier, that would be indicative of a bad (or incomplete) LyX installation. The LyX tree under Applications Data is created during installation (I'm pretty sure). Saving a LyX document won't create it if it's not already there, and its

Re: No cmr10 with foiltex

2005-11-27 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Gunnar wrote: Hi. I'm using LyX 1.3.6 and Windows and I'm having a problem with fonts and foiltex. I write a simple presentation and try to preview the dvi but the dvi file doesn't show the things that I've written. It says (when checking document properties). Making PK font:

Re: lyx on windows (and printing notes)

2005-11-28 Thread Paul A. Rubin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: another annoying thing is the dialog boxes used by winlyx to open/save files. it's old school drive:\dir and my work laptop has that weird setup for network syncing where my home directory is a network dir (\\server\...) synced locally as My Documents. since the widget

Re: Spellcheck on Windows

2005-11-29 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Vic Kelson wrote: Hi All, I'm running LyX 1.3.6 on Win32, and I can't figure out how to make the spellcheck work. I had it working on one of the previous versions, but I can't recall how I did it. Is it now possible to make it work? THANKS! --vic You need aspell (and a dictionary)

Re: WinLyx 1.3.7pre4 install - missing textclass.lst

2005-11-29 Thread Paul A. Rubin
YOUNES Abdelrazak / M3SYSTEM wrote: One additional information: I have just installed Python 2.4.2. Maybe this is the problem? Anyway, I have re-installed 1.3.6 and overwrite the bin directory with the one from 1.3.7pre4 installation. Seems to work fine... Thanks, Abdel. YOUNES Abdelrazak

Re: lyxwininstall 0.4 doesn't detect my M iktex settings

2005-11-29 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Stephen Harris wrote: YOUNES Abdelrazak / M3SYSTEM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello, My Miktex install is very complete so I don't want to download the full package. The path to latex.exe is in the system wide path (D:\program\texmf\miktex\bin), is there

Re: lyxwin136-small-04 and instant preview

2005-11-29 Thread Paul A. Rubin
H. Peter Gumm wrote: Is the new installer meant to install everything Lyx needs for instant preview to work ? After - installing the preview package in LaTeX, - checking Edit-Preferences-Graphics-Instant Preview - doing a Reconfigure - restarting LyX instant preview still does not work. What

[OT] PDF permissions

2005-11-30 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Oh LaTeX Gurus: I'm stumped about how to generate PDF files from LyX that readers can annotate. As far as I can tell, the problem is that several permissions (including annotation) are off by default when pdflatex emits its output. I've tried using pdftk and Multivalent to change those

Re: [OT] PDF permissions

2005-12-02 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Andrei Popov wrote: Hello Paul, Thursday, December 1, 2005, 1:47:50 AM, you wrote: I'm stumped about how to generate PDF files from LyX that readers can annotate. As far as I can tell, the problem is that several permissions (including annotation) are off by default when pdflatex

Re: Configuring toolbars to deal with layouts

2005-12-02 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Stefano Franchi wrote: On Dec 1, 2005, at 6:54 PM, Roy Schestowitz wrote: _/ On Thu 01 Dec 2005 17:23:07 GMT, [Ernesto Posse] wrote : \_ 2) Are there keyboard shortcuts for layouts (environments)? Where would I find those? Ditto, but see comments below. Actually there are.

Re: [OT] PDF permissions

2005-12-02 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Hi, Andrei, Andrei Popov wrote: I'd say you try encrypting the output pdf with the appropriate option (can't check right now), instead of setting the user/master password, and then list ALL permissions that pdftrans can handle after --permissions. The permissions can be interdependent, so

Re: Math mode ERT problems

2005-12-03 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Drop Box wrote: I just realized that my previous question may be unclear due to some errors in my previous post... ERT in mathed seems to have a few issues. One of them is that LyX determines when to end an ERT sequence. For example, if I hit C-L (to start ERT) and then hit the underscore

Re: Having a number list not restart after titles?

2005-12-07 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Stacia Hartleben wrote: I have a numbered list and would like to put in titles over parts of the list. However, whenever I insert a title, the numbered list restarts at 1. How can I put in titles over parts of the list and have the numbers not reset? The mdwtools package contains mdwlist.sty,

Re: width of table

2005-12-08 Thread Paul A. Rubin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: how can i make a table who's width is the same as the surrounding text? i've tried setting column widths using text%, col%, page%, line% and its always larger than it should... mamato If the table is wider than what you want, possible fixes include using

Re: Prerelease of LyX 1.3.7_5 for Windows

2005-12-10 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Stephen Harris wrote: I notice that Paul Rubin has already made developers aware of this issue. My issue is the same as his, and his report of sh.exe being invoked several times is perhaps confirmed by my Path prefix which has several instances of C:\msy1.0\bin (and a few others) whereas

Re: scalable braces in math mode

2005-12-11 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Nusret BALCI wrote: The following doesn't harm in any serious way, but it's a curious behavior. I think Lyx doesn't handle well commands like \left\{, \right\{ Try \left\lbrace and \right\rbrace. \left(, \right), These work fine for me. etc. from the user interface. Especially try

Re: Prerelease of LyX 1.3.7_5 for Windows

2005-12-11 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Stephen Harris wrote: By the same issue as his I meant this part of your post, Paul: The not as good news is that the same installation problem I experienced in pre4 is present in pre5. (Recap: the configuration script fails to execute during installation; the program launches ok at the end

Re: Prerelease of LyX 1.3.7_5 for Windows

2005-12-11 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Stephen Harris wrote: - Original Message - From: Stephen Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org; Paul A. Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 10, 2005 6:14 PM Subject: Re: Prerelease of LyX 1.3.7_5 for Windows So I think the configure file has changed

Re: Fw: installing Tex classes

2005-12-12 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Andres Becerra Sandoval wrote: On 12/12/05, Marcel Vercouter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message - From: Marcel Vercouter To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Monday, December 12, 2005 12:29 AM Subject: installing Tex classes I'd like to use 'hollywood' and 'broadway' layouts,

Re: There's Something About Textclass.lst [WinXP, installing into]

2005-12-12 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Angus Leeming wrote: Enrico Forestieri wrote: Angus, what about a configure.bat script? Y'know, sometimes the simplest ideas are the best ;-) However, don't we need admin privileges to generate files in C:\Program Files\LyX\Resources\lyx ? Not positive, but I don't think so. Whomsoever

Re: How to verify links on wiki.lyx? (Was: ...)

2005-12-15 Thread Paul A. Rubin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 14 Dec 2005, Angus Leeming wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 14 Dec 2005, Todd Denniston wrote: Oh, and it would be a good idea for someone to make sure all the links work correctly now... Does anyone know of a tool which would be useful to

Re: Beamer

2005-12-15 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Carlos Knauer wrote: Hi. Is there a Beamer Manual for LyX ? I would like to use Beamer in LyX, but... Thanks, -- Carlos Fernando Knauer The Beamer user guide (which is part of the Beamer package) includes tips on how to do things in LyX. Paul

Re: arbitrary Section numbers

2005-12-16 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Nick Kuzmik wrote: Among other things I like to use Lyx to create study guides for my math courses. I use Section/subsection/subsubsection to organize that info in a reasonable fashion. I also like to use a TOC as some of these study guides can get a tad large, and the TOC speads up

Re: How to verify links on wiki.lyx? (Was: ...)

2005-12-16 Thread Paul A. Rubin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 15 Dec 2005, Paul A. Rubin wrote: I've had good luck with Xenu Link Sleuth (http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html), but it's a Windows-only program (although the web site says it appears to run under Wine). Tried it on the Wiki, using 30 threads (could do

Re: changing preferences-paths in lyx 1.3.6 (windows) doesn't work

2005-12-21 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Robert Neumann wrote: hello, I tried to change the preferences for the temp directory and the backup directory in preferences-paths. When I restart it, all changes are gone. What might be the reason?? thanks Robert Probably a silly question, but after making the changes did you click

Re: Misplaced Windows pages in wiki land

2005-12-21 Thread Paul A. Rubin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 20 Dec 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... Hi Just to let people know. Uwe fixed LyX.Windows (thanks!) and to avoid conflicts with references to the group Windows/, there is now a page called: [[LyX on Windows]] similary I renamed some pages for Mac

Beamer/pdflatex mystery

2005-12-21 Thread Paul A. Rubin
This one is for the LaTeX gurus in the group: I have 18 Beamer presentations generated the usual way (created in LyX, output using pdflatex). To service a student request sigh, I loaded each one into Acrobat Pro 7 and used the menu option to enable commenting by Acrobat Reader. This leads

Re: SVMult document class

2005-12-22 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Axel Dessecker wrote: Dear list, I was able to install svmult.cls to my system, and LyX does show svmult.cls in its LaTeX information window. Reconfiguring LyX, however, will not make it available as a document class. Any clue? Thanks, Axel Do you have a layout for it? Paul

Re: Beamer/pdflatex mystery

2005-12-22 Thread Paul A. Rubin
-8.15-16mdk.i586.rpm instead of 8.15-22 the problem was gone. Hope this gives you some pointers, Maarten -Original Message- From: Paul A. Rubin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2005 12:30 AM To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: Beamer/pdflatex mystery This one

Re: Windows Installation Problem

2005-12-23 Thread Paul A. Rubin
John W. Sheppard, PhD wrote: I apologize beforehand if this is one of those emails that appears a lot on the list. I have looked through the www.lyx.org website and don't seem to be able to find what I am looking for. The empty textclass.lst phenomenon occurs repeatedly in the list, but your

Re: Windows Installation Problem

2005-12-23 Thread Paul A. Rubin
John W. Sheppard, PhD wrote: To answer your questions, yes they were latex packages, and yes I am using MiKTeX. I had only looked at the textclass.lst file in the C:\Program Files\LyX\Resources\lyx directory. You are correct that the one that I did not check (in C:\Documents and

Re: Keeping one-liner next to the folowing image

2005-12-27 Thread Paul A. Rubin
José Pablo Ezequiel Fernández wrote: Hello. I have a document heavy on images where I have: One-liner Image One-liner Image One-liner Image One-liner Image One-liner Image etc. How can I 'help' LyX to put the

Re: Keeping one-liner next to the folowing image

2005-12-27 Thread Paul A. Rubin
José Pablo Ezequiel Fernández wrote: On Tue 27 Dec 2005 15:55, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Try putting \nopagebreak in ERT at the end of One-liner where a page break might otherwise occur Thanks! That really help! Now, for the Two-liners, can I tell LyX/LaTeX not to break paragraphs in two pages

Re: Class files on Mac: Cannot really use the .cls file...

2005-12-29 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Johan Tegin wrote: Hi, Got problems using a new class file... I put the file in all possible places. Did run texhash as root. Reconfigured LyX twice. Still, I cannot use the desired class (ifacmtg.cls). It is visible and viewable under View-TeX Information-LaTeX Classes. The file resides

Re: beamer and giving options for \begin{frame}[shrink]

2005-12-29 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Micha Feigin wrote: I need to call \begin{frame}[shrink] for one slide in my beamer presentation (a table which I need to fit into a frame and can't break up). Is there a way to do it? I tried to use a tex insert but lyx does some wierd macro stuff that makes it very difficult (didn't find a

Re: idiosyncrasies with lyx and beamer (bookmarks)

2005-12-29 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Micha Feigin wrote: For some reason when I use beamer with lyx and set tocdepth to 1 I get no bookmarks for sections/subsections but setting it to 2 I get bookmarks for both sections and subsections. This doesn't match the latex behavior which is one behind (sections only in bookmarks for

Re: Class files on Mac: Cannot really use the .cls file...

2005-12-30 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Johan Tegin wrote: After tweaking the reLyXed file somewhat, it seems LyX generates the exact result as LaTeX directly. Except for that the figurenames are preceeded by Figure instead of Fig. The style file contains the line \def\figurename{Fig.}. The layout file: #% Do not delete the line

Re: [announce] sixth release of LyXWinInstaller

2005-12-31 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Bo Peng wrote: Dear list, Under linux, I can put a customized .bst file with the lyx file and use it in the 'bibtex bibliography dialog. This does not work under windows. Is it because bibtex can not find the .bst file? Bo I use a customized .bst file (Win XP, MiKTeX). It's in the local

Re: [announce] sixth release of LyXWinInstaller

2006-01-01 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Bo Peng wrote: If you View-LaTeX info-BibTeX styles, can you see the .bst file? No. The .bst file is under the same directory as the .lyx file. I use 'browse' in the bib tex dialog to use it. Under linux, this is enough. I can reproduce the problem (Win XP, LyX 1.3.7pre5) if the .bst file

Re: [announce] sixth release of LyXWinInstaller

2006-01-02 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Angus Leeming wrote: We jump through a lot of hoops to ensure that your BibTeX data base will continue to work if it lives in a path with spaces. I don't see any reason at all to add a heap of fragile code to cover the .bst file too. In my view this one get's filed under WONTFIX. To quote

Re: Class files on Mac: Cannot really use the .cls file...

2006-01-02 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Johan Tegin wrote: On Fri, 30 Dec 2005, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Johan Tegin wrote: After tweaking the reLyXed file somewhat, it seems LyX generates the exact result as LaTeX directly. Except for that the figurenames are preceeded by Figure instead of Fig. The style file contains the line

Re: different line spacing for text and quotes

2006-01-03 Thread Paul A. Rubin
mail.k wrote: Hello! Is it possible to one-half space my text and single space the quotes? Eran Choose the one-half option in Layout-Document-Layout-Line spacing. Then put the cursor into each quotation and use Layout-Paragraph-General-Line spacing to select single spacing for the

Re: Mathfrak fonts broken in Windows version

2006-01-05 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Drop Box wrote: I have LyX 1.3.6-1 installed on a few different windows machines. The mathbb and mathcal fonts display properly, but mathfrak characters come out in the standard font. I tried both bakoma and xft. Any ideas? On my systems, in the LyX window mathfrak characters display in

Re: copying and pasting a LyX environment? (like Word's Format Painter)

2006-01-08 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Rich Shepard wrote: On Sun, 8 Jan 2006, Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: I just had to change several subsections to subsubsections. There were not enough of these to bother switching to search-and-replace in my text editor, but enough to make the process in LyX tedious. While doing this it occurred

Re: Excel-like tables

2006-01-09 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Paul Smith wrote: On 1/9/06, Uwe Stöhr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible with LyX the creation of tables like the first one shown at http://www.usd.edu/trio/tut/excel/13.html It is, have a look at http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/LyX/Tables You find ther an example lyx-file in the

Re: Excel-like tables

2006-01-10 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Paul Smith wrote: On 1/10/06, Paul A. Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible with LyX the creation of tables like the first one shown at http://www.usd.edu/trio/tut/excel/13.html It is, have a look at http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/LyX/Tables You find ther an example lyx-file

Re: Excel-like tables

2006-01-10 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Paul Smith wrote: Suppose, Paul, that one wants to add a left-side vertical border only to one cell (and not more than one) of the first column, then your solution does not work, and no way is left to do that with LyX (up to a ERT solution). Thus, I would classify it as a bug. The way to add

Re: Excel-like tables

2006-01-10 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Paul Smith wrote: On 1/10/06, Paul A. Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Suppose, Paul, that one wants to add a left-side vertical border only to one cell (and not more than one) of the first column, then your solution does not work, and no way is left to do that with LyX (up to a ERT solution

Re: Table: cells too short

2006-01-11 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Thomas Mayerhofer wrote: Hi there! Finally, I got the LyX tables function working as I like them to be. My tables (in floats) look fine in the WYSIWYM view, but don't get them rendered right in LaTeX's PDF output: The cell height (especially in the last one) seems too small. An example:

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