child document not working as advertised?

2009-03-23 Thread Florin Oprina
Hi all. I use Lyx 1.6.2. I created a child document, selected a default master document and put all my custom commands in the preamble of the master file. In the master file I included the child document. Now, if I compile the child document the settings in the master file seem to be ignored: the

Re: Help for paper about LaTeX/LyX and the meaning of life

2009-03-23 Thread stefano franchi
2009/3/23 Steve Litt > On Monday 23 March 2009 12:07:00 pm Piero Faustini wrote: > > Hello, > > in a couple of months I have to speak at a conference about computers & > > music/critical editions. I will introduce to a M$Word-enslaved audience > the > > great advantages of WYSIWYM (by the way, I

Re: Smart single quotes in LyX (1.6.1, Mac OS X 10.5.6)

2009-03-23 Thread Grant Jacobs
Thanks for your reply. This doesn't quite address what I was after: almost, but not quite. In case it's of use to others I'm going to explain what I wanted again, then how I have a sort-of solution, or more accurately a solution that raises another problem in it's place. I was asking for a

Re: Selecting empty headings style still creates page numbers

2009-03-23 Thread M-L
On Mon, 23 Mar 2009 22:03:47 +0200 Shahar Or wrote: > Dear list, > > Perhaps I'm confused and doing it wrong. > > I've selected empty for headings style but still there are page > numbers at the bottom of pages. > > Many blessings. Try: Document/Settings/Page Layout/Page style = empty HTH if

Re: Help for paper about LaTeX/LyX and the meaning of life

2009-03-23 Thread Steve Litt
On Monday 23 March 2009 12:07:00 pm Piero Faustini wrote: > Hello, > in a couple of months I have to speak at a conference about computers & > music/critical editions. I will introduce to a M$Word-enslaved audience the > great advantages of WYSIWYM (by the way, I'm going to talk about music > nota

Re: Installing biblatex on OSX

2009-03-23 Thread BH
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 11:45 AM, jezZiFeR wrote: >> texhash is relevant for updating your TeX installation when you add >> new .sty or .cls packages. It is distinct from reconfiguring LyX, >> which needs to be done when you add new .layout or .module files. > > Thank you for that explanation! >

Re: letter?

2009-03-23 Thread Jean-Marie Pacquet
Bruce Pourciau a écrit : On Mar 22, 2009, at 5:18 PM, Uwe Stöhr wrote: Jean-Marie Pacquet schrieb: You should erase the starting comma in the options list of the Latex preamble (the one in front of "footsepline=true"). The new version of Koma-script scrlttr2 does not like it. In LyX 1.6.x

custom layout -- possible bug?

2009-03-23 Thread Ernesto Posse
Hello. I'm having a bit of an issue with a custom layout I'm trying to create for ACM SIG proceedings (from the sig-alternate.cls available at http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates) First I'm creating a layoutfile named "sig-alternate.layout" and placed it under my layouts dir

Selecting empty headings style still creates page numbers

2009-03-23 Thread Shahar Or
Dear list, Perhaps I'm confused and doing it wrong. I've selected empty for headings style but still there are page numbers at the bottom of pages. Many blessings. -- שחר אור | 050-794 | http://www.shahar-or.co.il *** שיעורים פרטיים בלינוקס ותכנה חופשית ***

Dropping a document out of version control

2009-03-23 Thread Shahar Or
Dear list, How is it possible to stop using version control on a document, please? Many blessings. -- שחר אור | 050-794 | http://www.shahar-or.co.il *** שיעורים פרטיים בלינוקס ותכנה חופשית ***

Re: letter?

2009-03-23 Thread Bruce Pourciau
On Mar 22, 2009, at 5:18 PM, Uwe Stöhr wrote: Jean-Marie Pacquet schrieb: You should erase the starting comma in the options list of the Latex preamble (the one in front of "footsepline=true"). The new version of Koma-script scrlttr2 does not like it. In LyX 1.6.x the template doesn't ha

Re: Help for paper about LaTeX/LyX and the meaning of life

2009-03-23 Thread Les Denham
On Monday 23 March 2009, Piero Faustini wrote: > Any help would be apreciated and - if possible - referenced. Piero, Here are some on-line resources: http://www.lyx.org/PressAboutLyX http://www.linux.com/feature/56471 http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9085 -- Les ~~~

Help for paper about LaTeX/LyX and the meaning of life

2009-03-23 Thread Piero Faustini
Hello, in a couple of months I have to speak at a conference about computers & music/critical editions. I will introduce to a M$Word-enslaved audience the great advantages of WYSIWYM (by the way, I'm going to talk about music notation software LilyPond too, and the audience will be also Finale-

Re: Installing biblatex on OSX

2009-03-23 Thread jezZiFeR
Then it should be recognized -- but only after you reconfigure LyX (LyX > Reconfigure). I did that various times, but it still does not work. Running texhas I get error-messages for every file in the texmf- folder, for example: texhash: /usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-var: directory not

Re: Lilypond integration

2009-03-23 Thread Piero Faustini
> Support for lilypond-book would be interesting. And sure - if you > volunteer to do some work then you will get it faster. I would happily contribute, but I'm not a programmer. May I be of some help just giving some suggestion or testing? > This process can be divided into several steps, yo

Re: Installing biblatex on OSX

2009-03-23 Thread BH
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 10:40 AM, jezZiFeR wrote: > Hello, > >  I have a problem with installing bibtext on a second OSX-Computer. I put >> the >> > biblatex.module-file directly into the …/library/Lyx-1.6-Folder. Maybe >> this >> > is the problem, but I think this is what the wiki prompts me to d

Re: Installing biblatex on OSX

2009-03-23 Thread jezZiFeR
Hello, I have a problem with installing bibtext on a second OSX-Computer. I put > the > > biblatex.module-file directly into the …/library/Lyx-1.6-Folder. Maybe > this > > is the problem, but I think this is what the wiki prompts me to do. I > > reconfigured Lyx various times without succes – it

Re: Lilypond integration

2009-03-23 Thread Helge Hafting
Johannes Asal wrote: I know that you can include Lilypond material by External Material. That's ok when you have few notation examples in your text and I appreciate that someone took the time to implement it. But I'm trying to write a book about jazz harmonics and therefore I need many musical

Re: letter?

2009-03-23 Thread Helge Hafting
bb wrote: The Documentation "User Guide" from December 7, 2008 might be outdated? The Description of writing a letter (p. 50 in the german version of the document) does not describe the reality. I tried all types of letter-documents, but none offers the described option of adress-right? For in

Re: letter?

2009-03-23 Thread Jean-Marie Pacquet
Uwe Stöhr a écrit : Jean-Marie Pacquet schrieb: You should erase the starting comma in the options list of the Latex preamble (the one in front of "footsepline=true"). The new version of Koma-script scrlttr2 does not like it. In LyX 1.6.x the template doesn't have this comma. What LyX versio

Re: «

2009-03-23 Thread John White
No, I did not. That did the trick. Thank you very much! John Vincent van Ravesteijn wrote: John White schreef: I run lyx 1.6.2 on my slackware 12.1 (Vector Linux) system. I compiled it from source. I use the default CUA bindings which show that pushing the quote key (key with " on it" wi

Re: «

2009-03-23 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn
John White schreef: I run lyx 1.6.2 on my slackware 12.1 (Vector Linux) system. I compiled it from source. I use the default CUA bindings which show that pushing the quote key (key with " on it" will produce a ". However, it produces a «. (if this does not come through, its two little <).