Re: newbie q: Lyx error early in tutorial

[Andre Poenitz]

On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 03:29:07PM -0500, tarvydas wrote:
 I'm trying lyx for the first time and am walking through the tutorial.  
 Version 1.3.2 Under Mandrake 9.2.
 
 When I get to tutorial step View  DVI, I see only View  PDF 
 (pdflatex).  I select it and get an error Cannot view file, No information 
 for viewing PDF (pdflatex).
 
 Anybody know what's wrong?  What is lyx looking for at this point?

What's the output of Edit-Reconfigure?

Andre'

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Re: Lyx and Latex2html

[Andre Poenitz]

On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 02:35:42PM +0100, Markus Schwaab wrote:
 Hello LyX-List, I want to write my handbook for my first Open-Source
 program with LyX because of its superior export features. Now I have
 one problem with html-exports:
 
 tables I inserted in my LyX-document, are not correctly converted by
 Latex2HTML.

I usuall use 'hevea' for .tex-to-.html conversion.

Andre'

RE: Independent columns?

[Biggles]

Thanks for all the answers! I'll check and see what the parallel package
can do.

Regards,
Biggles

Re: How to get a black box with white text in it?

[Ingar Pareliussen]

Tysdag 28. oktober 2003 18:27, skreiv Ananda Murthy R S:
 Hello:

 I want a box filled with black and with white letters in it? How to do
 this?

Try something like this in ERT:
\colorbox{black}{\Huge{\textcolor{white}{white text}\rule[-15mm]{10mm}{30mm}}}

This depends on postscript, so it would not be displayed properly in dvi, use 
postscript preview instead.

Ingar

LyX/Mac Panther (MacOS-10.3)

[Ronald Florence]

The newest release of LyX/Mac works with Panther (MacOS-10.3).  See
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.3.3/lyx-1.3.3-4macos10.2_aqua.dmg.
This version is also simpler to install and provides inverse DVI
search (option-clicking in MacDviX or xdvi takes you to that point in
the LyX file).

For more information on LyX/Mac, see the howto at
http://www.18james.com/lyx_on_aqua.html.

-- 

Ronald Florence www.18james.com

Tables

[Toby Allen]

Im finding the Lyx tables to be extreamely annoying, I
cant get them to do what I want to do and it keeps
inserting weird formatting etc.

I tried to use gnumeric and cut and paste, but that
didnt work properly, most oftern only one line of
cells would be filled. Also tried xl2latex but the
version I can find proudly proclaims that it now works
with excel 97 so a newer version is preferable.

Do people have other suggestions? ATM Im seriously
thinking that word does a better job with the tables,
Im considering exporting them from word as images or
something just so I can get the tables that I want.


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Re: Tables

[Kent Kostuk]

When cutting and pasting from gnumeric, I would create a table in LyX 
that was the exact dimensions (i.e. same number of rows and columns) of 
what I was trying to paste and didn't seem to have any troubles.  I do 
remember that it took some patience to get a feel for how to do this, 
but I think it only took a couple of iterations.

Kent

Toby Allen wrote:

Im finding the Lyx tables to be extreamely annoying, I
cant get them to do what I want to do and it keeps
inserting weird formatting etc.
I tried to use gnumeric and cut and paste, but that
didnt work properly, most oftern only one line of
cells would be filled. Also tried xl2latex but the
version I can find proudly proclaims that it now works
with excel 97 so a newer version is preferable.
Do people have other suggestions? ATM Im seriously
thinking that word does a better job with the tables,
Im considering exporting them from word as images or
something just so I can get the tables that I want.
=
-: TOBY ALLEN :-
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not 
certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. 
-- Albert Einstein

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scrolling (three questions)

[Vladimir Smagley]

So, what you are saying - there is no way to slow down scrolling? Sounds 
strange, since
scrolling is done right even in very primitive text editors...

Kayvan A. Sylvan wrote:

On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 02:58:35PM -0700, Vladimir Smagley wrote:
 

1) When I use mouse to highlight large chunks of text (bigger than 
the size of open Lyx window),
scrolling goes too fast, by the time I stop highlighting, I usually 
go far far away from the place where
I intended to stop. Is there any way to slow down scrolling while 
highlighting using mouse?
   

It's easier to use the shift key. Click on where you want to start 
highlighting, then hold the shift-key down and press page-down. You can
use the down and up-arrows and cursor movement keys to move the selection
end-point around.

You can try looking at http://www.lyx.org/help for your other
questions. I don't know the answers off the top of my head.
			---Kayvan
 

Re: scrolling (three questions)

[Angus Leeming]

Vladimir Smagley wrote:
 So, what you are saying - there is no way to slow down scrolling?
 Sounds strange, since
 scrolling is done right even in very primitive text editors...

Let's just say that the guys implementing the Qt frontend had more 
important things to do. Like provide a Qt frontend in the first 
place. Remember, this is the very first version of LyX where you 
don't have to use xforms.

You should find that the xforms frontend does have a more manageable 
scrolling behaviour.

-- 
Angus

Qt vs. xforms (Re: scrolling (three question))

[Vladimir Smagley]

Angus Leeming wrote:

You should find that the xforms frontend does have a more manageable 
scrolling behaviour.
 

Going back to xforms frontend? - no way.. :)  I'd rather stick to 
shift-arrow keys :)
As I said before, it's a minor thing. I just didn't know why this was 
happening...
Thank you for your explanation.

Vladimir

Re: scrolling (three questions)

[Ronald Florence]

Angus Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 You should find that the xforms frontend does have a more manageable 
 scrolling behaviour.

I've used LyX from before version 1.0, with xforms and qt frontends,
and don't remember the scrolling ever being satisfactory.  I wish it
were better, but have from necessity developed -- as I suspect other
LyX users have -- workarounds.  Why can't the scrolling be fixed?  It
would be very useful to be able to mark large blocks of text with the
mouse.
-- 

Ronald Florence www.18james.com

Re: scrolling (three questions)

[John Levon]

On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 08:31:20PM -0500, Ronald Florence wrote:

 LyX users have -- workarounds.  Why can't the scrolling be fixed?  It
 would be very useful to be able to mark large blocks of text with the
 mouse.

It could be fixed. It just needs somebody to do it.

john

-- 
Khendon's Law:
If the same point is made twice by the same person, the thread is over.

Re: A Question on Win32 Lyx

[Frank Chu]

Dear Andres,

Do you know if I should install the patches too ? and how ?  I saw these on 
win32 lyx's homepage:

Patches  extra files: (updated 20030518)
extra_win32_files.tar.bz2 (Some extra header files  MSVC wrapper)
lyx_win32.diff (Patch against CVS)
quick_fix.diff (Dirty compile fixes)
Thanks,
Frank

From: Andres Becerra Sandoval [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Frank Chu [EMAIL PROTECTED]
CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: A Question on Win32 Lyx
Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2003 11:52:38 -0500
Hello,

Maybe:

perl c:\lyx\bin\reLyX file.tex

works from commandline ...

Andres.

En Sat, 18 Oct 2003 11:06:23 -0500, Frank Chu [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
escribió:

Thanks, Andres,
It's already on path. BTW, when you installed it, did you need to install 
any patch ?  I haven't yet.  The version I am using is 1.3

Is there any manual way to convert the .tex to .lyx with commandline in 
Windows?

Frank

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Re: newbie q: Lyx error early in tutorial

[Andre Poenitz]

On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 03:29:07PM -0500, tarvydas wrote:
 I'm trying lyx for the first time and am walking through the tutorial.  
 Version 1.3.2 Under Mandrake 9.2.
 
 When I get to tutorial step View  DVI, I see only View  PDF 
 (pdflatex).  I select it and get an error Cannot view file, No information 
 for viewing PDF (pdflatex).
 
 Anybody know what's wrong?  What is lyx looking for at this point?

What's the output of Edit-Reconfigure?

Andre'

-- 
Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security, will not have,
nor do they deserve, either one. (T. Jefferson or B. Franklin or both...)

Re: Lyx and Latex2html

[Andre Poenitz]

On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 02:35:42PM +0100, Markus Schwaab wrote:
 Hello LyX-List, I want to write my handbook for my first Open-Source
 program with LyX because of its superior export features. Now I have
 one problem with html-exports:
 
 tables I inserted in my LyX-document, are not correctly converted by
 Latex2HTML.

I usuall use 'hevea' for .tex-to-.html conversion.

Andre'

RE: Independent columns?

[Biggles]

Thanks for all the answers! I'll check and see what the parallel package
can do.

Regards,
Biggles

Re: How to get a black box with white text in it?

[Ingar Pareliussen]

Tysdag 28. oktober 2003 18:27, skreiv Ananda Murthy R S:
 Hello:

 I want a box filled with black and with white letters in it? How to do
 this?

Try something like this in ERT:
\colorbox{black}{\Huge{\textcolor{white}{white text}\rule[-15mm]{10mm}{30mm}}}

This depends on postscript, so it would not be displayed properly in dvi, use 
postscript preview instead.

Ingar

LyX/Mac Panther (MacOS-10.3)

[Ronald Florence]

The newest release of LyX/Mac works with Panther (MacOS-10.3).  See
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.3.3/lyx-1.3.3-4macos10.2_aqua.dmg.
This version is also simpler to install and provides inverse DVI
search (option-clicking in MacDviX or xdvi takes you to that point in
the LyX file).

For more information on LyX/Mac, see the howto at
http://www.18james.com/lyx_on_aqua.html.

-- 

Ronald Florence www.18james.com

Tables

[Toby Allen]

Im finding the Lyx tables to be extreamely annoying, I
cant get them to do what I want to do and it keeps
inserting weird formatting etc.

I tried to use gnumeric and cut and paste, but that
didnt work properly, most oftern only one line of
cells would be filled. Also tried xl2latex but the
version I can find proudly proclaims that it now works
with excel 97 so a newer version is preferable.

Do people have other suggestions? ATM Im seriously
thinking that word does a better job with the tables,
Im considering exporting them from word as images or
something just so I can get the tables that I want.


=
-: TOBY ALLEN :-

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not 
certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. 
-- Albert Einstein

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Re: Tables

[Kent Kostuk]

When cutting and pasting from gnumeric, I would create a table in LyX 
that was the exact dimensions (i.e. same number of rows and columns) of 
what I was trying to paste and didn't seem to have any troubles.  I do 
remember that it took some patience to get a feel for how to do this, 
but I think it only took a couple of iterations.

Kent

Toby Allen wrote:

Im finding the Lyx tables to be extreamely annoying, I
cant get them to do what I want to do and it keeps
inserting weird formatting etc.
I tried to use gnumeric and cut and paste, but that
didnt work properly, most oftern only one line of
cells would be filled. Also tried xl2latex but the
version I can find proudly proclaims that it now works
with excel 97 so a newer version is preferable.
Do people have other suggestions? ATM Im seriously
thinking that word does a better job with the tables,
Im considering exporting them from word as images or
something just so I can get the tables that I want.
=
-: TOBY ALLEN :-
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not 
certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. 
-- Albert Einstein

__
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Exclusive Video Premiere - Britney Spears
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scrolling (three questions)

[Vladimir Smagley]

So, what you are saying - there is no way to slow down scrolling? Sounds 
strange, since
scrolling is done right even in very primitive text editors...

Kayvan A. Sylvan wrote:

On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 02:58:35PM -0700, Vladimir Smagley wrote:
 

1) When I use mouse to highlight large chunks of text (bigger than 
the size of open Lyx window),
scrolling goes too fast, by the time I stop highlighting, I usually 
go far far away from the place where
I intended to stop. Is there any way to slow down scrolling while 
highlighting using mouse?
   

It's easier to use the shift key. Click on where you want to start 
highlighting, then hold the shift-key down and press page-down. You can
use the down and up-arrows and cursor movement keys to move the selection
end-point around.

You can try looking at http://www.lyx.org/help for your other
questions. I don't know the answers off the top of my head.
			---Kayvan
 

Re: scrolling (three questions)

[Angus Leeming]

Vladimir Smagley wrote:
 So, what you are saying - there is no way to slow down scrolling?
 Sounds strange, since
 scrolling is done right even in very primitive text editors...

Let's just say that the guys implementing the Qt frontend had more 
important things to do. Like provide a Qt frontend in the first 
place. Remember, this is the very first version of LyX where you 
don't have to use xforms.

You should find that the xforms frontend does have a more manageable 
scrolling behaviour.

-- 
Angus

Qt vs. xforms (Re: scrolling (three question))

[Vladimir Smagley]

Angus Leeming wrote:

You should find that the xforms frontend does have a more manageable 
scrolling behaviour.
 

Going back to xforms frontend? - no way.. :)  I'd rather stick to 
shift-arrow keys :)
As I said before, it's a minor thing. I just didn't know why this was 
happening...
Thank you for your explanation.

Vladimir

Re: scrolling (three questions)

[Ronald Florence]

Angus Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 You should find that the xforms frontend does have a more manageable 
 scrolling behaviour.

I've used LyX from before version 1.0, with xforms and qt frontends,
and don't remember the scrolling ever being satisfactory.  I wish it
were better, but have from necessity developed -- as I suspect other
LyX users have -- workarounds.  Why can't the scrolling be fixed?  It
would be very useful to be able to mark large blocks of text with the
mouse.
-- 

Ronald Florence www.18james.com

Re: scrolling (three questions)

[John Levon]

On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 08:31:20PM -0500, Ronald Florence wrote:

 LyX users have -- workarounds.  Why can't the scrolling be fixed?  It
 would be very useful to be able to mark large blocks of text with the
 mouse.

It could be fixed. It just needs somebody to do it.

john

-- 
Khendon's Law:
If the same point is made twice by the same person, the thread is over.

Re: A Question on Win32 Lyx

[Frank Chu]

Dear Andres,

Do you know if I should install the patches too ? and how ?  I saw these on 
win32 lyx's homepage:

Patches  extra files: (updated 20030518)
extra_win32_files.tar.bz2 (Some extra header files  MSVC wrapper)
lyx_win32.diff (Patch against CVS)
quick_fix.diff (Dirty compile fixes)
Thanks,
Frank

From: Andres Becerra Sandoval [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Frank Chu [EMAIL PROTECTED]
CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: A Question on Win32 Lyx
Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2003 11:52:38 -0500
Hello,

Maybe:

perl c:\lyx\bin\reLyX file.tex

works from commandline ...

Andres.

En Sat, 18 Oct 2003 11:06:23 -0500, Frank Chu [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
escribió:

Thanks, Andres,
It's already on path. BTW, when you installed it, did you need to install 
any patch ?  I haven't yet.  The version I am using is 1.3

Is there any manual way to convert the .tex to .lyx with commandline in 
Windows?

Frank

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Re: newbie q: Lyx error early in tutorial

[Andre Poenitz]

On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 03:29:07PM -0500, tarvydas wrote:
> I'm trying lyx for the first time and am walking through the tutorial.  
> Version 1.3.2 Under Mandrake 9.2.
> 
> When I get to tutorial step "View >> DVI", I see only "View >> PDF 
> (pdflatex)".  I select it and get an error "Cannot view file, No information 
> for viewing PDF (pdflatex)".
> 
> Anybody know what's wrong?  What is lyx looking for at this point?

What's the output of Edit->Reconfigure?

Andre'

-- 
Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security, will not have,
nor do they deserve, either one. (T. Jefferson or B. Franklin or both...)

Re: Lyx and Latex2html

[Andre Poenitz]

On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 02:35:42PM +0100, Markus Schwaab wrote:
> Hello LyX-List, I want to write my handbook for my first Open-Source
> program with LyX because of its superior export features. Now I have
> one problem with html-exports:
> 
> tables I inserted in my LyX-document, are not correctly converted by
> Latex2HTML.

I usuall use 'hevea' for .tex-to-.html conversion.

Andre'

RE: Independent columns?

[Biggles]

Thanks for all the answers! I'll check and see what the "parallel package"
can do.

Regards,
Biggles

Re: How to get a black box with white text in it?

[Ingar Pareliussen]

Tysdag 28. oktober 2003 18:27, skreiv Ananda Murthy R S:
> Hello:
>
> I want a box filled with black and with white letters in it? How to do
> this?

Try something like this in ERT:
\colorbox{black}{\Huge{\textcolor{white}{white text}\rule[-15mm]{10mm}{30mm}}}

This depends on postscript, so it would not be displayed properly in dvi, use 
postscript preview instead.

Ingar

LyX/Mac & Panther (MacOS-10.3)

[Ronald Florence]

The newest release of LyX/Mac works with Panther (MacOS-10.3).  See
.
This version is also simpler to install and provides inverse DVI
search (option-clicking in MacDviX or xdvi takes you to that point in
the LyX file).

For more information on LyX/Mac, see the howto at
.

-- 

Ronald Florence www.18james.com

Tables

[Toby Allen]

Im finding the Lyx tables to be extreamely annoying, I
cant get them to do what I want to do and it keeps
inserting weird formatting etc.

I tried to use gnumeric and cut and paste, but that
didnt work properly, most oftern only one line of
cells would be filled. Also tried xl2latex but the
version I can find proudly proclaims that it now works
with excel 97 so a newer version is preferable.

Do people have other suggestions? ATM Im seriously
thinking that word does a better job with the tables,
Im considering exporting them from word as images or
something just so I can get the tables that I want.


=
<-: TOBY ALLEN :->

"As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not 
certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. 
-- Albert Einstein"

__
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Re: Tables

[Kent Kostuk]

When cutting and pasting from gnumeric, I would create a table in LyX 
that was the exact dimensions (i.e. same number of rows and columns) of 
what I was trying to paste and didn't seem to have any troubles.  I do 
remember that it took some patience to get a feel for how to do this, 
but I think it only took a couple of iterations.

Kent

Toby Allen wrote:

Im finding the Lyx tables to be extreamely annoying, I
cant get them to do what I want to do and it keeps
inserting weird formatting etc.
I tried to use gnumeric and cut and paste, but that
didnt work properly, most oftern only one line of
cells would be filled. Also tried xl2latex but the
version I can find proudly proclaims that it now works
with excel 97 so a newer version is preferable.
Do people have other suggestions? ATM Im seriously
thinking that word does a better job with the tables,
Im considering exporting them from word as images or
something just so I can get the tables that I want.
=
<-: TOBY ALLEN :->
"As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not 
certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. 
-- Albert Einstein"

__
Do you Yahoo!?
Exclusive Video Premiere - Britney Spears
http://launch.yahoo.com/promos/britneyspears/

scrolling (three questions)

[Vladimir Smagley]

So, what you are saying - there is no way to slow down scrolling? Sounds 
strange, since
scrolling is done right even in very primitive text editors...

Kayvan A. Sylvan wrote:

On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 02:58:35PM -0700, Vladimir Smagley wrote:
 

1) When I use mouse to highlight large chunks of text (bigger than 
the size of open Lyx window),
scrolling goes too fast, by the time I stop highlighting, I usually 
go far far away from the place where
I intended to stop. Is there any way to slow down scrolling while 
highlighting using mouse?
   

It's easier to use the shift key. Click on where you want to start 
highlighting, then hold the shift-key down and press page-down. You can
use the down and up-arrows and cursor movement keys to move the selection
end-point around.

You can try looking at http://www.lyx.org/help for your other
questions. I don't know the answers off the top of my head.
			---Kayvan
 

Re: scrolling (three questions)

[Angus Leeming]

Vladimir Smagley wrote:
> So, what you are saying - there is no way to slow down scrolling?
> Sounds strange, since
> scrolling is done right even in very primitive text editors...

Let's just say that the guys implementing the Qt frontend had more 
important things to do. Like provide a Qt frontend in the first 
place. Remember, this is the very first version of LyX where you 
don't have to use xforms.

You should find that the xforms frontend does have a more manageable 
scrolling behaviour.

-- 
Angus

Qt vs. xforms (Re: scrolling (three question))

[Vladimir Smagley]

Angus Leeming wrote:

You should find that the xforms frontend does have a more manageable 
scrolling behaviour.
 

Going back to xforms frontend? - no way.. :)  I'd rather stick to 
"shift-arrow" keys :)
As I said before, it's a minor thing. I just didn't know why this was 
happening...
Thank you for your explanation.

Vladimir

Re: scrolling (three questions)

[Ronald Florence]

Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> You should find that the xforms frontend does have a more manageable 
> scrolling behaviour.

I've used LyX from before version 1.0, with xforms and qt frontends,
and don't remember the scrolling ever being satisfactory.  I wish it
were better, but have from necessity developed -- as I suspect other
LyX users have -- workarounds.  Why can't the scrolling be fixed?  It
would be very useful to be able to mark large blocks of text with the
mouse.
-- 

Ronald Florence www.18james.com

Re: scrolling (three questions)

[John Levon]

On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 08:31:20PM -0500, Ronald Florence wrote:

> LyX users have -- workarounds.  Why can't the scrolling be fixed?  It
> would be very useful to be able to mark large blocks of text with the
> mouse.

It could be fixed. It just needs somebody to do it.

john

-- 
Khendon's Law:
If the same point is made twice by the same person, the thread is over.

Re: A Question on Win32 Lyx

[Frank Chu]

Dear Andres,

Do you know if I should install the patches too ? and how ?  I saw these on 
win32 lyx's homepage:

Patches & extra files: (updated 20030518)
extra_win32_files.tar.bz2 (Some extra header files & MSVC wrapper)
lyx_win32.diff (Patch against CVS)
quick_fix.diff (Dirty compile fixes)
Thanks,
Frank

From: Andres Becerra Sandoval <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Frank Chu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: A Question on Win32 Lyx
Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2003 11:52:38 -0500
Hello,

Maybe:

perl c:\lyx\bin\reLyX file.tex

works from commandline ...

Andres.

En Sat, 18 Oct 2003 11:06:23 -0500, Frank Chu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
escribió:

Thanks, Andres,
It's already on path. BTW, when you installed it, did you need to install 
any patch ?  I haven't yet.  The version I am using is 1.3

Is there any manual way to convert the .tex to .lyx with commandline in 
Windows?

Frank

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