Re: Using LyX for DTP (long)

2001-06-20 Thread Kathryn Andersen
I just remembered something else to add: When using greyscale (or colour) pictures, make sure they're no larger then 200 dpi in resolution (unless, of course, you're planning on doing prepress stuff). This gives still reasonable results, while not making the size of the resultant PDF file too big

Re: problem with 116fix2 and pdflatex

2001-06-20 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 05:39:06PM +0200, Beyer, Marcus wrote: > I am not quite sure if I understand you. > Certainly there are many bugs fixed from fix1 to fix2. > And that is very nice. (thank you!) > > But this bug is a new one (since fix2), and it is annoying. > > So I wouldn't have installe

Re: Using LyX for DTP (long)

2001-06-20 Thread Fernando Pérez
Wow. Thanks a lot for presenting this detailed explanation of your work. Even though I don't specifically need to make that kind of document, I saved your message as it's full of useful little nuggets which may come in handy. May I suggest you keep your message around, update it and turn it into

Re: Protecting Math Environments

2001-06-20 Thread Herbert Voss
Rainer Dorsch wrote: > > > \newcommmand{\myMathEnv}{ > > \begin{anyMathEnv} > > . all the mathstuff > > \end{anyMathEnv}% > I want to use the formula editor of lyx to enter the formulas. And it inserts > in the latex file > > \( stuff \) > > but I need > > \protect\( stuff \pro

change bars

2001-06-20 Thread poete stephane
I am currently using Lyx to edit technical documents. I need to set change bars in my documents, so I used the chbar.sh script. It appears that, if a change occurs in a particular row of a table, it is not possible to set the change bar only on the row that changed, since there is a pdflatex err

Re: Using LyX for DTP (long)

2001-06-20 Thread Kayvan A. Sylvan
Impressive!!! Thank you for taking the time to document all your work. I am certain it will be useful to others and much appreciated. ---Kayvan -- Kayvan A. Sylvan | Proud husband of | Father to my kids: Sylvan Associates, Inc. | Laura Isabella Sylvan

Re: Frontend Bibtex recommendation

2001-06-20 Thread Praedor Tempus
Sixpack is also quite nice. Good, feature-loaded GUI. On Wednesday 20 June 2001 11:14, you wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I want to use a database for the bibliography. What do you recommend to > > me? > > > > Edit by hand > > tkbibtex > > pybliographer (It's practical?) > > Yes, pybliogr

Re: Protecting Math Environments

2001-06-20 Thread Rainer Dorsch
> Rainer Dorsch wrote: > > > > I am wondering, if it is possible to protect math environments. This is > > useful, if commands like \addcontentsline with non-robust commands are used. > > i don't know, if i understand your problem well. > > > \newcommmand{\myMathEnv}{ > \begin{anyMathEnv} >

Re: Frontend Bibtex recommendation

2001-06-20 Thread Baruch Even
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010620 20:07]: > > I want to use a database for the bibliography. What do you recommend to me? > > Edit by hand > tkbibtex > pybliographer (It's practical?) > > Of course, later I want an easy citation in Lyx I use pybliographic, which is a GTK+ gui for

Re: Frontend Bibtex recommendation

2001-06-20 Thread Peter Suetterlin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I want to use a database for the bibliography. What do you recommend to me? > > Edit by hand > tkbibtex > pybliographer (It's practical?) Yes, pybliographer. Current Version AFAIK is 1.08, and it's great. Easy editing (native and GUI-guided), pattern matching, sort

Re: Protecting Math Environments

2001-06-20 Thread Herbert Voss
Rainer Dorsch wrote: > > I am wondering, if it is possible to protect math environments. This is > useful, if commands like \addcontentsline with non-robust commands are used. i don't know, if i understand your problem well. \newcommmand{\myMathEnv}{ \begin{anyMathEnv} . all the mathst

Protecting Math Environments

2001-06-20 Thread Rainer Dorsch
Hello, I am wondering, if it is possible to protect math environments. This is useful, if commands like \addcontentsline with non-robust commands are used. Thank you. Rainer.

Re: Frontend Bibtex recommendation

2001-06-20 Thread Herbert Voss
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I want to use a database for the bibliography. What do you recommend to me? > > Edit by hand > tkbibtex > pybliographer (It's practical?) I use pybliographer, but I never used another one ;-) Herbert -- http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/

Frontend Bibtex recommendation

2001-06-20 Thread xdeblas
I want to use a database for the bibliography. What do you recommend to me? Edit by hand tkbibtex pybliographer (It's practical?) Of course, later I want an easy citation in Lyx Thanks for all

RE: problem with 116fix2 and pdflatex

2001-06-20 Thread Beyer, Marcus
Marcus> That it is broken now. e.g. I wouldn't have installed fix2. JMarc > Well, we did not know about it at the time :) However, I am not sure JMarc > that the sutuation is worse now than it was earlier (is it?) I am not quite sure if I understand you. Certainly there are many bugs fixed from

Re: problem with 116fix2 and pdflatex

2001-06-20 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Beyer," == Beyer, Marcus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Marcus> That it is broken now. e.g. I wouldn't have installed fix2. Well, we did not know about it at the time :) However, I am not sure that the sutuation is worse now than it was earlier (is it?) JMarc

RE: problem with 116fix2 and pdflatex

2001-06-20 Thread Beyer, Marcus
> > "Marcus" == Beyer, Marcus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > JMarc> I _think_ it will be fixed in 1.1.6fix3. > > Marcus> Should perhaps users of pdflatex be warned somewhere? > > Warned about what? That it is broken now, or that it will work soon? That it is broken now. e.g. I wouldn't h

Re: lyx1.1.6 and Ghostscript 7.00

2001-06-20 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Beaubert" == Beaubert Francois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Beaubert> Hi, I've got a problem with lyx.1.1.6 and Ghostscript 7.00. Beaubert> When loading a file with eps figure in it (figure float) lyx Beaubert> crashes with an error like this Beaubert> AFPL Ghostscript 7.00: Unrecoverable

Re: special characters

2001-06-20 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "morten" == morten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: morten> I've run into trouble I'm danish meaning that my keyboard morten> include øæå, but it so happens that I am in france and have to morten> write in french from time to time. French people use ´`^ etc morten> and that works fine. But

Re: problem with 116fix2 and pdflatex

2001-06-20 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Marcus" == Beyer, Marcus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JMarc> I _think_ it will be fixed in 1.1.6fix3. Marcus> Should perhaps users of pdflatex be warned somewhere? Warned about what? That it is broken now, or that it will work soon? JMarc

Using LyX for DTP (long)

2001-06-20 Thread Kathryn Andersen
Prompted by a query from a fellow LyX-er who volunteered to do a club newsletter, I thought I'd share my findings and experiences of the joys and pitfalls of using LyX to produce a magazine-like publication. A magazine is quite different to the default uses that LyX gets put to; it isn't an artic

Re: seminar...

2001-06-20 Thread Herbert Voss
Thomas Steffen wrote: > > Emanuele Olivetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I'm trying to use seminar document class for the first time; I can't > > find any documentation; Is it stable? I set paper to A4 but evey > > simple try doesn't compile. > > Seminar is not exactly stable, unsupported

Re: seminar...

2001-06-20 Thread Thomas Steffen
Emanuele Olivetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm trying to use seminar document class for the first time; I can't > find any documentation; Is it stable? I set paper to A4 but evey > simple try doesn't compile. Seminar is not exactly stable, unsupported is probably the better description. Sem

Re: seminar...

2001-06-20 Thread Herbert Voss
Emanuele Olivetti wrote: > > I'm trying to use seminar document class for the first time; I can't find > any documentation; Is it stable? I set paper to A4 but evey simple try > doesn't compile. http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/LyXTips.html#seminar Herbert -- http://www.educat.hu-ber

seminar...

2001-06-20 Thread Emanuele Olivetti
I'm trying to use seminar document class for the first time; I can't find any documentation; Is it stable? I set paper to A4 but evey simple try doesn't compile. Suggestions? Emanuele

Re: Why \ensuremath{º] ?

2001-06-20 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Dekel" == Dekel Tsur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Dekel> Yes, I did try it and it worked. Dekel> In my latin1.def \DeclareInputText{170}{\textordfeminine} The reason for that is that I have here LaTeX 1997/06/01. The relevant change in inputenc.dtx seems to be % \changes{v0.94}{1997/12/17

Re: Why \ensuremath{º] ?

2001-06-20 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 11:48:13AM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > "Dekel" == Dekel Tsur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Dekel> PS: Why LyX put \ensuremath{} for the º°ª chars ? It seems > Dekel> unnecessary. > > Did you try a document without this \ensuremath? Here it does not > work

Re: extrange behavior

2001-06-20 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Dekel" == Dekel Tsur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Dekel> On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 10:35:39AM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes Dekel> wrote: >> > "montyline" == montyline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: montyline> I'm inserting text files with insert->insert_file->ascii montyline> like lines. And

Re: Why \ensuremath{º] ?

2001-06-20 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Dekel" == Dekel Tsur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Dekel> PS: Why LyX put \ensuremath{} for the º°ª chars ? It seems Dekel> unnecessary. Did you try a document without this \ensuremath? Here it does not work. This is probably related to the following in latin1.def: \providecommand{\mathord

Re: Why \ensuremath{º] ?

2001-06-20 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 09:48:59AM +0200, Adolfo Pachón wrote: > I've a little problem: > > In Lyx, In Spanish, I write "1º", and the latex export translates to > "1\ensuremath{º}". Becouse of thath, the latex2html web generation converts > the "º" character into an image. > > Why? > How can I t

Re: extrange behavior

2001-06-20 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 10:35:39AM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > "montyline" == montyline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > montyline> I'm inserting text files with insert->insert_file->ascii > montyline> like lines. And i apply lyx-code enviroment to it, there > montyline> are blank spa