Re: Blatantly wishful feature request

2001-10-16 Thread Robin Turner
David Green wrote: Steve Litt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I know the developers are working on lots of necessary stuff, but here's a feature that would be real nice if possible. It would be wonderful if LyX could have an outline view similar to MS Word, where you could move headings,

Re: removing the date from title

2001-10-16 Thread Robin Turner
Kayvan A. Sylvan wrote: On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 03:14:45PM -0500, Rem wrote: in evil red text \date{} - Original Message - From: francesco cattaneo [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 15, 2001 3:05 PM Subject: removing the date from title

Beijing Tangfeng Culture Exchange Centre

2001-10-16 Thread office
This is a letter from Beijing,China, I apologize for disturbing you.If our information don't agree with your demand or make any trouble to you,please don't hesitate to write back to us,we will remove your email address from our list,we are very appreciated of it. Xiu Yuan Name: Beijing

Re: Some observations and suggestions

2001-10-16 Thread Robin Turner
Gerhard Schuck wrote: Hi all, I've been using lyx for about one and a half year now and I'm quite happy with it. Especially since I've changed to CJK-LyX and now am able to use Japanese and German in the same text with the cjk-latex package (although because of missing unicode support it

Re: Some observations and suggestions

2001-10-16 Thread Guenter Milde
On Tue, 16 Oct 2001 11:19:09 +0900 wrote Gerhard Schuck [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 1) I need ERT quite frequently. It would be cool to have a special box for latex code. I mean a box like the one for footnotes, which supports cut and paste and everything like normal text. Every text in this box

Re: Some observations and suggestions

2001-10-16 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 10:42:05AM +0200, Guenter Milde wrote: BTW.: Would it possible to let Layouts|Preamble open the preamble in an external editor instead of the dumb grey xforms widget? This would be nice indeed... at least I won't lose all my changes simply because I press Escape at the

Re: Blatantly wishful feature request

2001-10-16 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Steve == Steve Litt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Steve It would be wonderful if LyX could have an outline view Steve similar to MS Word, where you could move headings, *with their Steve contained subheadings and body text*, or add headings or delete Steve headings and their subheadings and body

Re: Some observations and suggestions

2001-10-16 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Guenter == Guenter Milde [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Guenter On Tue, 16 Oct 2001 11:19:09 +0900 wrote Gerhard Schuck Guenter [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 1) I need ERT quite frequently. It would be cool to have a special box for latex code. I mean a box like the one for footnotes, which supports cut and

Re: Some observations and suggestions

2001-10-16 Thread Nick Burgan
This is already possible with the undocumented ERT-inset, see the attached example. I can't seem to get this feature to work If have tried typing ERT-inset in the bar at the bottom but the response I get is Unknown action () What am I doing wrong ? (I'm using 1.1.6fix3) Nick

Re: Creating a new bib style

2001-10-16 Thread Herbert Voss
Kent Kostuk wrote: I just created a new bib style file use makebst.tex but I getting nothing but errors from within Lyx. I recall that you have to somehow register new bst files with tex. Is this true or am I just imagining things. I am having a terrible time getting this bibtex stuff

Re: Some observations and suggestions

2001-10-16 Thread Gerhard Schuck
1) I need ERT quite frequently. It would be cool to have a special box for latex code. I mean a box like the one for footnotes, which supports cut and paste and everything like normal text. Every text in this box should be automatically understood as red text, and if you close the box, your

Re: Some observations and suggestions

2001-10-16 Thread Gerhard Schuck
On Tue, 16 Oct 2001 10:42:05 +0200 (CEST) Guenter Milde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 16 Oct 2001 11:19:09 +0900 wrote Gerhard Schuck [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 1) I need ERT quite frequently. It would be cool to have a special box for latex code. I mean a box like the one for footnotes, which

popups stay on top

2001-10-16 Thread Davide Cavallari
I'm using version 1.1.6 fix3. All the popup windows (such as Table of Contents, Math Panel and so on) stay on top of LyX main window, even when they are unfocused. Is there a way to change this? I have used an older version and this was not the default behaviour. Cheers -- A presto, Davide

Re: cross-references between files

2001-10-16 Thread Davide Cavallari
On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 07:16:07PM +0200, Dekel Tsur wrote: On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 06:51:31PM +0200, Davide wrote: I have tried this, but if I open the cross-reference popup in A and then I switch to B, the cross-reference popup does close automatically! How can I do? And is it

Re: cross-references between files

2001-10-16 Thread Jan Peter van Bolhuis
On Tue, 16 October 2001, Davide Cavallari wrote: On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 07:16:07PM +0200, Dekel Tsur wrote: On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 06:51:31PM +0200, Davide wrote: I have tried this, but if I open the cross-reference popup in A and then I switch to B, the cross-reference popup

Big slowdown in printing and displaying in 1.1.6fix2, Just me?

2001-10-16 Thread Jan Peter van Bolhuis
I recently upgraded lyx to 1.1.6fix2 and noticed a big slow down in printing and displaying. Small files (a few pages, up to 4) will work, but very slowly, at least a minute, while it would be within 10 seconds before. Forget about printing a large document directly. Even an hour is not long

Re: Big slowdown in printing and displaying in 1.1.6fix2, Just me?

2001-10-16 Thread Michael Abshoff
On 16 Oct 2001, Jan Peter van Bolhuis wrote: I recently upgraded lyx to 1.1.6fix2 and noticed a big slow down in printing and displaying. Small files (a few pages, up to 4) will work, but very slowly, at least a minute, while it would be within 10 seconds before. Forget about printing a

Re: Big slowdown in printing and displaying in 1.1.6fix2, Just me?

2001-10-16 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 08:05:36AM -0700, Jan Peter van Bolhuis wrote: Now i can see two points where something went wrong, either with the upgrade to 1.1.6fix2 or with an install of some packages in tex/texmf. Anyone familiar with the symptoms? There have been performance problems in the

Re: Re: Some observations and suggestions

2001-10-16 Thread Guenter Milde
On Tue, 16 Oct 2001 21:54:26 +0900 wrote Gerhard Schuck [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, 16 Oct 2001 10:42:05 +0200 (CEST) Guenter Milde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 16 Oct 2001 11:19:09 +0900 wrote Gerhard Schuck [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 1) I need ERT quite frequently. It would be cool to

Re: Variable spacing

2001-10-16 Thread Herbert Voss
Rich Shepard wrote: I'm working on my first serious LyX document: a paper that I'll be presenting next year at a professional society meeting. It has five major parts which I designated as *parts. But, when I view the postscript output, I see that the spacing between sections/subsctions

Re: Print pictures with different printer

2001-10-16 Thread Herbert Voss
Christian Schanz wrote: Hello, is there a possibility to print the text-part of a text with a laser printer, then take this output and print the pictures with an ink printer on it? To do this on the one hand all pictures must be blanked out and on the other hand all text has to be set

Re: lyx index...

2001-10-16 Thread Herbert Voss
francesco cattaneo wrote: how can i introduce in the index generated by lyx all the chapter, paragraph and other that are non numbered? \addcontensline{toc}{chapter}{the text} after every unnumbered chapter ... HErbert -- http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/

Re: Some observations and suggestions

2001-10-16 Thread John Levon
On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 10:40:34AM +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote: On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 10:42:05AM +0200, Guenter Milde wrote: BTW.: Would it possible to let Layouts|Preamble open the preamble in an external editor instead of the dumb grey xforms widget? This would be nice indeed... at

Re: Some observations and suggestions

2001-10-16 Thread John Levon
On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 07:04:01PM +0930, Nick Burgan wrote: but the response I get is Unknown action () What am I doing wrong ? (I'm using 1.1.6fix3) type ert-insert regards john -- I hear you have four hundred and eighty six PCs for sale ? - Some Fool

Re: popups stay on top

2001-10-16 Thread John Levon
On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 12:01:22PM +0200, Davide Cavallari wrote: I'm using version 1.1.6 fix3. All the popup windows (such as Table of Contents, Math Panel and so on) stay on top of LyX main window, even when they are unfocused. Is there a way to change this? I have used an older version

RE: Some observations and suggestions

2001-10-16 Thread Saalfeld, Christoph
1) I need ERT quite frequently. It would be cool to have a special box for latex code. I mean a box like the one for footnotes, which supports cut and paste and everything like normal text. Every text in this box should be automatically understood as red text, and if you close the

Re: cross-references between files

2001-10-16 Thread Davide Cavallari
On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 07:55:30AM -0700, Jan Peter van Bolhuis wrote: Is this fixed in fix3? no.. It also seems that i joined too late to see method 3. this is method 3 suggested by Dekel Tsur [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 3. Type M-x reference-insert ref|++||++|label where label is the required

Re: multiple files

2001-10-16 Thread Davide Cavallari
On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 07:17:24PM +0200, Dekel Tsur wrote: Even symbolic links are unnecessary. You can put \usepackage{graphics,epsfig} \newcommand{\setpath}[1]{ \def\input@path{{PATH/#1//}} \graphicspath{{PATH/#1//}} } Where PATH is the path to the directory of the master file

Title customization...

2001-10-16 Thread ben
Hi, I must change how titles are rendered in latex, and I don't know latex enough to make it clean and efficient. What I need is: * Put the chapter/section/etc. titles in Arial (or Helvetica, isn't it the same?). * Reduce the space between the title and the first paragraph. Help would be

Re: Weird PDF results

2001-10-16 Thread Bruce Veidt
Matej Cepl wrote: On Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 03:38:38PM -0600, Kent Kostuk wrote: This isn't really a Lyx problem but I am just wondering if anyone has observed this behaviour before. If I am not very mistaken, that this the most frequent answer in this list in slightly different

Conflict between hyperref and shortcaption trick!

2001-10-16 Thread Zailong Bian
Hi. I use the trick quiet often until recently I discovered a conflict. If I put hyperref in the preamble, the short caption will not show up in LOF! The long caption show up instead. If I remove hyperref, then it all becomes normal. But I need hyperref! Please see the attached example

Re: xforms problem with RH 7.1 ( for lyx )

2001-10-16 Thread petemartin
These new RPMs also work fine with Mandrake 8.0. (1.1.6fix3-1 core dumped on mandrake as well) Thanks.

Re: Some observations and suggestions

2001-10-16 Thread Paul Tremblay
On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 10:40:34AM +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote: PS: And when we are at it, we could use a decent editor for the main text, too ;-} -- What do you mean by a decent editor? If you mean something powerful like vim or emacs, yet more natural for writing (automatic refill,

Re: Weird PDF results

2001-10-16 Thread Matej Cepl
On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 10:20:37AM -0700, Bruce Veidt wrote: Layout/Document/Fonts) pslatex or stick with default and put in your LaTeX preamble (Layout/LaTeX preamble) following: \usepreamble{ae,aecompl} I am sorry -- I have given stupid advice. It should be

Octave support -- a wish

2001-10-16 Thread Matej Cepl
Hi, I have registered for a class of the Math for Economists and I am for the first time discovering a real beauty of LyX when his dealing with math. And I have to confess, a beauty there is! However, when working on my assignements, I usually had in other gnome-terminal window started octave

Re: Some observations and suggestions

2001-10-16 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 10:42:05AM +0200, Guenter Milde wrote: BTW.: Would it possible to let Layouts|Preamble open the preamble in an external editor instead of the dumb grey xforms widget? But lyx is already an editor. So what we can do is to open a new lyx window when using

Re: cross-references between files

2001-10-16 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 12:08:31PM +0200, Davide Cavallari wrote: What about citation references? The cut and paste is the way? Or is it possible to use something like option 1? My bibliography is in master.lyx and I want to insert a reference to it e.g. in chap1.lyx. I have tried option 1,

Re: Some observations and suggestions

2001-10-16 Thread Renaud MICHEL
Le Mardi 16 Octobre 2001 23:40, vous avez écrit : On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 10:42:05AM +0200, Guenter Milde wrote: BTW.: Would it possible to let Layouts|Preamble open the preamble in an external editor instead of the dumb grey xforms widget? But lyx is already an editor. So what we can do

Re: Creating a new bib style

2001-10-16 Thread Dave Chapeskie
On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 01:19:16PM +0200, Herbert Voss wrote: this bst file has to be in your ~/.TeX dir or any other one, which is found by tex. don't forget to run texhash. No it doesn't. If you just want to use the *.bst file with one document (or a few in the same directory) then

XFree86 configuration problem

2001-10-16 Thread Dr. Louis A. Turk
Hi everyone, I'm trying to get my Win2K computer prepared to install lyx. I've just installed Cygwin and XFree86. All seemed to go well. However, when I run XFree86 I get the following message: --XSERVTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to root. Then the XFree86 window comes

Re: XFree86 configuration problem

2001-10-16 Thread Charles Curley
On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 06:34:04PM -0500, Dr. Louis A. Turk wrote: Hi everyone, I'm trying to get my Win2K computer prepared to install lyx. I've just installed Cygwin and XFree86. All seemed to go well. However, when I run XFree86 I get the following message: --XSERVTransmkdir:

Re: Octave support -- a wish

2001-10-16 Thread Matej Cepl
On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 03:01:57PM -0600, Fernando Prez wrote: Emacs). For example, let's have following in MathEd: [ 1 2 3 ] A = | 2 3 1 | [ 3 1 2 ] |A| = Now when pressing some hotkey, I would love that LyX would insert -18 (determinant

Still having troubles with my bibliography

2001-10-16 Thread Kent Kostuk
I am moving forward, but I am still a long way from making this work. I have attached sample files with the hope that someone will take a look at them. I have attached a lyx file, 2 different bib files and a bst file. The bst I created using makebst.tex. I have created one citation reference

Re: Blatantly wishful feature request

2001-10-16 Thread Robin Turner
David Green wrote: Steve Litt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I know the developers are working on lots of necessary stuff, but here's a feature that would be real nice if possible. It would be wonderful if LyX could have an outline view similar to MS Word, where you could move headings,

Re: removing the date from title

2001-10-16 Thread Robin Turner
Kayvan A. Sylvan wrote: On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 03:14:45PM -0500, Rem wrote: in evil red text \date{} - Original Message - From: francesco cattaneo [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 15, 2001 3:05 PM Subject: removing the date from title

Beijing Tangfeng Culture Exchange Centre

2001-10-16 Thread office
This is a letter from Beijing,China, I apologize for disturbing you.If our information don't agree with your demand or make any trouble to you,please don't hesitate to write back to us,we will remove your email address from our list,we are very appreciated of it. Xiu Yuan Name: Beijing

Re: Some observations and suggestions

2001-10-16 Thread Robin Turner
Gerhard Schuck wrote: Hi all, I've been using lyx for about one and a half year now and I'm quite happy with it. Especially since I've changed to CJK-LyX and now am able to use Japanese and German in the same text with the cjk-latex package (although because of missing unicode support it

Re: Some observations and suggestions

2001-10-16 Thread Guenter Milde
On Tue, 16 Oct 2001 11:19:09 +0900 wrote Gerhard Schuck [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 1) I need ERT quite frequently. It would be cool to have a special box for latex code. I mean a box like the one for footnotes, which supports cut and paste and everything like normal text. Every text in this box

Re: Some observations and suggestions

2001-10-16 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 10:42:05AM +0200, Guenter Milde wrote: BTW.: Would it possible to let Layouts|Preamble open the preamble in an external editor instead of the dumb grey xforms widget? This would be nice indeed... at least I won't lose all my changes simply because I press Escape at the

Re: Blatantly wishful feature request

2001-10-16 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Steve == Steve Litt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Steve It would be wonderful if LyX could have an outline view Steve similar to MS Word, where you could move headings, *with their Steve contained subheadings and body text*, or add headings or delete Steve headings and their subheadings and body

Re: Some observations and suggestions

2001-10-16 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Guenter == Guenter Milde [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Guenter On Tue, 16 Oct 2001 11:19:09 +0900 wrote Gerhard Schuck Guenter [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 1) I need ERT quite frequently. It would be cool to have a special box for latex code. I mean a box like the one for footnotes, which supports cut and

Re: Some observations and suggestions

2001-10-16 Thread Nick Burgan
This is already possible with the undocumented ERT-inset, see the attached example. I can't seem to get this feature to work If have tried typing ERT-inset in the bar at the bottom but the response I get is Unknown action () What am I doing wrong ? (I'm using 1.1.6fix3) Nick

Re: Creating a new bib style

2001-10-16 Thread Herbert Voss
Kent Kostuk wrote: I just created a new bib style file use makebst.tex but I getting nothing but errors from within Lyx. I recall that you have to somehow register new bst files with tex. Is this true or am I just imagining things. I am having a terrible time getting this bibtex stuff

Re: Some observations and suggestions

2001-10-16 Thread Gerhard Schuck
1) I need ERT quite frequently. It would be cool to have a special box for latex code. I mean a box like the one for footnotes, which supports cut and paste and everything like normal text. Every text in this box should be automatically understood as red text, and if you close the box, your

Re: Some observations and suggestions

2001-10-16 Thread Gerhard Schuck
On Tue, 16 Oct 2001 10:42:05 +0200 (CEST) Guenter Milde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 16 Oct 2001 11:19:09 +0900 wrote Gerhard Schuck [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 1) I need ERT quite frequently. It would be cool to have a special box for latex code. I mean a box like the one for footnotes, which

popups stay on top

2001-10-16 Thread Davide Cavallari
I'm using version 1.1.6 fix3. All the popup windows (such as Table of Contents, Math Panel and so on) stay on top of LyX main window, even when they are unfocused. Is there a way to change this? I have used an older version and this was not the default behaviour. Cheers -- A presto, Davide

Re: cross-references between files

2001-10-16 Thread Davide Cavallari
On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 07:16:07PM +0200, Dekel Tsur wrote: On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 06:51:31PM +0200, Davide wrote: I have tried this, but if I open the cross-reference popup in A and then I switch to B, the cross-reference popup does close automatically! How can I do? And is it

Re: cross-references between files

2001-10-16 Thread Jan Peter van Bolhuis
On Tue, 16 October 2001, Davide Cavallari wrote: On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 07:16:07PM +0200, Dekel Tsur wrote: On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 06:51:31PM +0200, Davide wrote: I have tried this, but if I open the cross-reference popup in A and then I switch to B, the cross-reference popup

Big slowdown in printing and displaying in 1.1.6fix2, Just me?

2001-10-16 Thread Jan Peter van Bolhuis
I recently upgraded lyx to 1.1.6fix2 and noticed a big slow down in printing and displaying. Small files (a few pages, up to 4) will work, but very slowly, at least a minute, while it would be within 10 seconds before. Forget about printing a large document directly. Even an hour is not long

Re: Big slowdown in printing and displaying in 1.1.6fix2, Just me?

2001-10-16 Thread Michael Abshoff
On 16 Oct 2001, Jan Peter van Bolhuis wrote: I recently upgraded lyx to 1.1.6fix2 and noticed a big slow down in printing and displaying. Small files (a few pages, up to 4) will work, but very slowly, at least a minute, while it would be within 10 seconds before. Forget about printing a

Re: Big slowdown in printing and displaying in 1.1.6fix2, Just me?

2001-10-16 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 08:05:36AM -0700, Jan Peter van Bolhuis wrote: Now i can see two points where something went wrong, either with the upgrade to 1.1.6fix2 or with an install of some packages in tex/texmf. Anyone familiar with the symptoms? There have been performance problems in the

Re: Re: Some observations and suggestions

2001-10-16 Thread Guenter Milde
On Tue, 16 Oct 2001 21:54:26 +0900 wrote Gerhard Schuck [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, 16 Oct 2001 10:42:05 +0200 (CEST) Guenter Milde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 16 Oct 2001 11:19:09 +0900 wrote Gerhard Schuck [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 1) I need ERT quite frequently. It would be cool to

Re: Variable spacing

2001-10-16 Thread Herbert Voss
Rich Shepard wrote: I'm working on my first serious LyX document: a paper that I'll be presenting next year at a professional society meeting. It has five major parts which I designated as *parts. But, when I view the postscript output, I see that the spacing between sections/subsctions

Re: Print pictures with different printer

2001-10-16 Thread Herbert Voss
Christian Schanz wrote: Hello, is there a possibility to print the text-part of a text with a laser printer, then take this output and print the pictures with an ink printer on it? To do this on the one hand all pictures must be blanked out and on the other hand all text has to be set

Re: lyx index...

2001-10-16 Thread Herbert Voss
francesco cattaneo wrote: how can i introduce in the index generated by lyx all the chapter, paragraph and other that are non numbered? \addcontensline{toc}{chapter}{the text} after every unnumbered chapter ... HErbert -- http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/

Re: Some observations and suggestions

2001-10-16 Thread John Levon
On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 10:40:34AM +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote: On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 10:42:05AM +0200, Guenter Milde wrote: BTW.: Would it possible to let Layouts|Preamble open the preamble in an external editor instead of the dumb grey xforms widget? This would be nice indeed... at

Re: Some observations and suggestions

2001-10-16 Thread John Levon
On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 07:04:01PM +0930, Nick Burgan wrote: but the response I get is Unknown action () What am I doing wrong ? (I'm using 1.1.6fix3) type ert-insert regards john -- I hear you have four hundred and eighty six PCs for sale ? - Some Fool

Re: popups stay on top

2001-10-16 Thread John Levon
On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 12:01:22PM +0200, Davide Cavallari wrote: I'm using version 1.1.6 fix3. All the popup windows (such as Table of Contents, Math Panel and so on) stay on top of LyX main window, even when they are unfocused. Is there a way to change this? I have used an older version

RE: Some observations and suggestions

2001-10-16 Thread Saalfeld, Christoph
1) I need ERT quite frequently. It would be cool to have a special box for latex code. I mean a box like the one for footnotes, which supports cut and paste and everything like normal text. Every text in this box should be automatically understood as red text, and if you close the

Re: cross-references between files

2001-10-16 Thread Davide Cavallari
On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 07:55:30AM -0700, Jan Peter van Bolhuis wrote: Is this fixed in fix3? no.. It also seems that i joined too late to see method 3. this is method 3 suggested by Dekel Tsur [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 3. Type M-x reference-insert ref|++||++|label where label is the required

Re: multiple files

2001-10-16 Thread Davide Cavallari
On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 07:17:24PM +0200, Dekel Tsur wrote: Even symbolic links are unnecessary. You can put \usepackage{graphics,epsfig} \newcommand{\setpath}[1]{ \def\input@path{{PATH/#1//}} \graphicspath{{PATH/#1//}} } Where PATH is the path to the directory of the master file

Title customization...

2001-10-16 Thread ben
Hi, I must change how titles are rendered in latex, and I don't know latex enough to make it clean and efficient. What I need is: * Put the chapter/section/etc. titles in Arial (or Helvetica, isn't it the same?). * Reduce the space between the title and the first paragraph. Help would be

Re: Weird PDF results

2001-10-16 Thread Bruce Veidt
Matej Cepl wrote: On Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 03:38:38PM -0600, Kent Kostuk wrote: This isn't really a Lyx problem but I am just wondering if anyone has observed this behaviour before. If I am not very mistaken, that this the most frequent answer in this list in slightly different

Conflict between hyperref and shortcaption trick!

2001-10-16 Thread Zailong Bian
Hi. I use the trick quiet often until recently I discovered a conflict. If I put hyperref in the preamble, the short caption will not show up in LOF! The long caption show up instead. If I remove hyperref, then it all becomes normal. But I need hyperref! Please see the attached example

Re: xforms problem with RH 7.1 ( for lyx )

2001-10-16 Thread petemartin
These new RPMs also work fine with Mandrake 8.0. (1.1.6fix3-1 core dumped on mandrake as well) Thanks.

Re: Some observations and suggestions

2001-10-16 Thread Paul Tremblay
On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 10:40:34AM +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote: PS: And when we are at it, we could use a decent editor for the main text, too ;-} -- What do you mean by a decent editor? If you mean something powerful like vim or emacs, yet more natural for writing (automatic refill,

Re: Weird PDF results

2001-10-16 Thread Matej Cepl
On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 10:20:37AM -0700, Bruce Veidt wrote: Layout/Document/Fonts) pslatex or stick with default and put in your LaTeX preamble (Layout/LaTeX preamble) following: \usepreamble{ae,aecompl} I am sorry -- I have given stupid advice. It should be

Octave support -- a wish

2001-10-16 Thread Matej Cepl
Hi, I have registered for a class of the Math for Economists and I am for the first time discovering a real beauty of LyX when his dealing with math. And I have to confess, a beauty there is! However, when working on my assignements, I usually had in other gnome-terminal window started octave

Re: Some observations and suggestions

2001-10-16 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 10:42:05AM +0200, Guenter Milde wrote: BTW.: Would it possible to let Layouts|Preamble open the preamble in an external editor instead of the dumb grey xforms widget? But lyx is already an editor. So what we can do is to open a new lyx window when using

Re: cross-references between files

2001-10-16 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 12:08:31PM +0200, Davide Cavallari wrote: What about citation references? The cut and paste is the way? Or is it possible to use something like option 1? My bibliography is in master.lyx and I want to insert a reference to it e.g. in chap1.lyx. I have tried option 1,

Re: Some observations and suggestions

2001-10-16 Thread Renaud MICHEL
Le Mardi 16 Octobre 2001 23:40, vous avez écrit : On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 10:42:05AM +0200, Guenter Milde wrote: BTW.: Would it possible to let Layouts|Preamble open the preamble in an external editor instead of the dumb grey xforms widget? But lyx is already an editor. So what we can do

Re: Creating a new bib style

2001-10-16 Thread Dave Chapeskie
On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 01:19:16PM +0200, Herbert Voss wrote: this bst file has to be in your ~/.TeX dir or any other one, which is found by tex. don't forget to run texhash. No it doesn't. If you just want to use the *.bst file with one document (or a few in the same directory) then

XFree86 configuration problem

2001-10-16 Thread Dr. Louis A. Turk
Hi everyone, I'm trying to get my Win2K computer prepared to install lyx. I've just installed Cygwin and XFree86. All seemed to go well. However, when I run XFree86 I get the following message: --XSERVTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to root. Then the XFree86 window comes

Re: XFree86 configuration problem

2001-10-16 Thread Charles Curley
On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 06:34:04PM -0500, Dr. Louis A. Turk wrote: Hi everyone, I'm trying to get my Win2K computer prepared to install lyx. I've just installed Cygwin and XFree86. All seemed to go well. However, when I run XFree86 I get the following message: --XSERVTransmkdir:

Re: Octave support -- a wish

2001-10-16 Thread Matej Cepl
On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 03:01:57PM -0600, Fernando Prez wrote: Emacs). For example, let's have following in MathEd: [ 1 2 3 ] A = | 2 3 1 | [ 3 1 2 ] |A| = Now when pressing some hotkey, I would love that LyX would insert -18 (determinant

Still having troubles with my bibliography

2001-10-16 Thread Kent Kostuk
I am moving forward, but I am still a long way from making this work. I have attached sample files with the hope that someone will take a look at them. I have attached a lyx file, 2 different bib files and a bst file. The bst I created using makebst.tex. I have created one citation reference

Re: Blatantly wishful feature request

2001-10-16 Thread Robin Turner
David Green wrote: > > Steve Litt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I know the developers are working on lots of necessary stuff, but here's a > > feature that would be real nice if possible. > > > > It would be wonderful if LyX could have an "outline view" similar to MS Word, > > where you

Re: removing the date from title

2001-10-16 Thread Robin Turner
"Kayvan A. Sylvan" wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 03:14:45PM -0500, Rem wrote: > > in evil red text > > \date{} > > > > - Original Message - > > From: "francesco cattaneo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Monday, October 15, 2001 3:05 PM > > Subject: removing

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Re: Some observations and suggestions

2001-10-16 Thread Robin Turner
Gerhard Schuck wrote: > > Hi all, > > I've been using lyx for about one and a half year now and I'm quite happy with it. >Especially since I've changed to CJK-LyX and now am able to use Japanese and German >in the same text with the cjk-latex package (although because of missing unicode

Re: Some observations and suggestions

2001-10-16 Thread Guenter Milde
On Tue, 16 Oct 2001 11:19:09 +0900 wrote Gerhard Schuck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 1) I need ERT quite frequently. It would be cool to have a special box for > latex code. I mean a box like the one for footnotes, which supports cut and > paste and everything like normal text. Every text in this box

Re: Some observations and suggestions

2001-10-16 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 10:42:05AM +0200, Guenter Milde wrote: > BTW.: Would it possible to let Layouts|Preamble open the preamble in an > external editor instead of the dumb grey xforms widget? This would be nice indeed... at least I won't lose all my changes simply because I press at the end

Re: Blatantly wishful feature request

2001-10-16 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Steve" == Steve Litt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Steve> It would be wonderful if LyX could have an "outline view" Steve> similar to MS Word, where you could move headings, *with their Steve> contained subheadings and body text*, or add headings or delete Steve> headings and their

Re: Some observations and suggestions

2001-10-16 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Guenter" == Guenter Milde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Guenter> On Tue, 16 Oct 2001 11:19:09 +0900 wrote Gerhard Schuck Guenter> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> 1) I need ERT quite frequently. It would be cool to have a special >> box for latex code. I mean a box like the one for footnotes, which

Re: Some observations and suggestions

2001-10-16 Thread Nick Burgan
> This is already possible with the undocumented ERT-inset, see the attached > example. I can't seem to get this feature to work If have tried typing "ERT-inset" in the bar at the bottom but the response I get is "Unknown action ()" What am I doing wrong ? (I'm using 1.1.6fix3) Nick

Re: Creating a new bib style

2001-10-16 Thread Herbert Voss
Kent Kostuk wrote: > > I just created a new bib style file use makebst.tex but I getting nothing > but errors from within Lyx. > > I recall that you have to somehow register new bst files with tex. Is > this true or am I just imagining things. > > I am having a terrible time getting this

Re: Some observations and suggestions

2001-10-16 Thread Gerhard Schuck
> > 1) I need ERT quite frequently. It would be cool to have a special box for latex >code. I mean a box like the one for footnotes, which supports cut and paste and >everything like normal text. Every text in this box should be automatically >understood as red text, and if you close the box,

Re: Some observations and suggestions

2001-10-16 Thread Gerhard Schuck
On Tue, 16 Oct 2001 10:42:05 +0200 (CEST) Guenter Milde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 16 Oct 2001 11:19:09 +0900 wrote Gerhard Schuck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > 1) I need ERT quite frequently. It would be cool to have a special box for > > latex code. I mean a box like the one for

popups stay on top

2001-10-16 Thread Davide Cavallari
I'm using version 1.1.6 fix3. All the popup windows (such as Table of Contents, Math Panel and so on) stay on top of LyX main window, even when they are unfocused. Is there a way to change this? I have used an older version and this was not the default behaviour. Cheers -- A presto, Davide

Re: cross-references between files

2001-10-16 Thread Davide Cavallari
On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 07:16:07PM +0200, Dekel Tsur wrote: > On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 06:51:31PM +0200, Davide wrote: > > > > I have tried this, but if I open the cross-reference popup in A and then > > I switch to B, the cross-reference popup does close automatically! > > How can I do? And is

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