Re: xfig figure in a slide?

2002-12-12 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 08:57:10PM -0500, Nirmal Govind wrote: Hi.. I'm trying to include an xfig figure in a presentation made using the pdfscreen package along with LyX. Pdflatex doesn't like xfig apparently and I have special text (LaTeX math) in my xfig figure so I need LaTeX to process

Re: Including external files

2002-12-12 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Peter == Peter Hutnick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Peter Jean-Marc Lasgouttes said: Peter == Peter Hutnick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Peter I'd like to be able to include (like in the C preprocessor Peter sense) some external flat text files in my LyX document. Peter I have the following

Re: xfig figure in a slide?

2002-12-12 Thread I Wayan Warmada
On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, Nirmal Govind wrote: | Hi.. I'm trying to include an xfig figure in a presentation made using | the pdfscreen package along with LyX. Pdflatex doesn't like xfig | apparently and I have special text (LaTeX math) in my xfig figure so I | need LaTeX to process it.. and the

extbook

2002-12-12 Thread Celine Anezo
Hi! I would like to use the document class extbook in lyx to be able to use the font size 14pt. I installed the extsizes-package in /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/extsizes. I got the extsizes directory using anonymous-ftp at ftp.dante.de. The extsizes directory contains the following files:

Re: Using Noun Style for SGML tags

2002-12-12 Thread Chris Lale
José Matos wrote: This trick will only work with latex, I was proposing a similar hack but for docbook, we would need to output the colour changes, something that we don't do now. This is the part that needs coding. Thanks for the information. Sorry I cannot help with the coding but I am

Re: printing LyX screen?

2002-12-12 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 08:22:23PM -0500, Nirmal Govind wrote: Is there a way in which I can print out my slides in exactly the way they look in the LyX window? I've included some ContentNotes (using a layout provided by Christian Ridderstrom) which are points for me to remember regarding that

Re: xfig figure in a slide?

2002-12-12 Thread Amir Seginer
Hello, I have just started using the tex2pdf script (see Lyx's tips tricks under pdf). This works very well for me. After installation, just choose File - Export - PDF (pdflatex) and it does all the needed conversions (including for xfig) and gives a good pdf file. The only minor problem is

Re: Question about using placeholders in lyx

2002-12-12 Thread Remi Cohen-Scali
Thanks for your decisive help ... :-)

Re: Update document with pdflatex

2002-12-12 Thread Christian Ridderström
There is an cumbersome way to manually force update in acrobat reader: after you update the pdf file in LyX, go the acrobat reader and type ctrl+w and then ctrl+left arrow. Thanks for the tip... I used to do Ctrl-w Alt-f 1 this is quicker. /Christian -- Christian Ridderström,

defaults of keymap in LyX-1.2.1

2002-12-12 Thread Thomas Schnhoff
Hello all, I just unsuccessfully tried to find out, what are the default settings of the keymap in LyX! I want to use circumflex and other accented letters like a' and alike. In former versions I remember to hit META, letter - Kombination followed by the accented sign. This obviously works

Re: defaults of keymap in LyX-1.2.1

2002-12-12 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Thu, 12 Dec 2002, [ISO-8859-15] Thomas Schönhoff wrote: Hello all, I just unsuccessfully tried to find out, what are the default settings of the keymap in LyX! I want to use circumflex and other accented letters like a' and alike. In former versions I remember to hit META, letter

Re: CVS1.3: instant preview not working.

2002-12-12 Thread Bo Peng
On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 10:19:20AM -0600, Bo Peng wrote: Any idea what is wrong? I had a look at files like /tmp/lyx_tmpdir15067a4mxR4/lyx_tmpbuf0/0lyxpreview.tex It could not be compiled since latex could fnot ind preview.sty. Is this file included in cvs1.3? Where is it supposed to be? I

Re: CVS1.3: instant preview not working.

2002-12-12 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 10:37:38AM -0600, Bo Peng wrote: It could not be compiled since latex could fnot ind preview.sty. Is this file included in cvs1.3? Where is it supposed to be? I did not use standard installation (./configure disable instant preview in preferences if you don't have

Re: CVS1.3: instant preview not working.

2002-12-12 Thread Bo Peng
On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 10:55:00AM -0600, Bo Peng wrote: On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 04:43:12PM +, John Levon wrote: On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 10:37:38AM -0600, Bo Peng wrote: It could not be compiled since latex could fnot ind preview.sty. Is this file included in cvs1.3? Where is it

embedding LaTeX commands in layouts

2002-12-12 Thread Diab Jerius
Hi, I'm trying to create a layout for a memo style which requires the following Format: %-- \begin{document} \From{From} \To{To} \Subject{Subject} \ShortSubj{Subject for page headers} \RE{In Regards to} \Cc{Carbon Copy list} \File{File name} \Version{Version} \memo{} memo text

Re: Equation numbering problems

2002-12-12 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 10:10:29AM -0600, Kent Kostuk wrote: Here is a link to a minimal example file. I get an error when I try to include the LaTeX preamble commands to change the equation numbering format. http://homepage.usask.ca/~kjk340/ch3_dekel_tsur.lyx You haev a typo in the

Re: Update document with pdflatex

2002-12-12 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 07:17:15PM +1100, John Sheahan wrote: On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 04:38:02PM +0100, Fran?ois BEAUBERT wrote: Hi, Just a small question. Is there a way to update the document via pdflatex without closing the document and reopen it (in acrobar for exemple) You

Re: xfig figure in a slide?

2002-12-12 Thread Nirmal Govind
and epstopdf afterwards Thanks a lot for the code.. I edited it a bit to include the -Ppdf option for dvips.. there is some space in the resulting figure since the documentclass is defined as article in the code.. any tips on how to take care of this? Thanks, nirmal

Re: printing handouts from slides?

2002-12-12 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Thu, 12 Dec 2002, Nirmal Govind wrote: Hi.. does anybody have any tips on how to print handouts (4 or 6 slides per page) from a presentation like it's done in Powerpoint? Is there any package or software that does this? Thanks, nirmal How about this (four A6 onto one A4)?

Re: printing handouts from slides?

2002-12-12 Thread Nirmal Govind
Use psnup from psutils. Thanks Dekel.. can this be used with a pdf file also or is it just for ps files? nirmal

controlling sizes of titles, footers

2002-12-12 Thread Nirmal Govind
Hi.. I'm sure this has been asked before but due to a very close deadline, I'm forced to ask again.. how do I change the size of the text in the slide title and in the footer while making slides using pdfscreen?

report class title page.

2002-12-12 Thread B Robinson
Hello. I'm writing a short 15 page paper using the report class. I could also use report-koma if you think it would help. The first page is just the title page, then on page 2 it starts the text. This seems like a waste of paper to me. Any way i can get the title to start at the top of the

ucthesis class.

2002-12-12 Thread B Robinson
Hello. I'm about half done with my thesis, and I cant put this off any longer. is there a howto or a faq about how to set up a new class? probably this ucthesis class will be nice, but i cant find a good step by step on how to do this. I'm no lyx or latex expert, but i know my way around a

page break

2002-12-12 Thread mw
I am reading the user guide on how to insert a pagebreak. In my case, a new section called Presentation starts at the bottom of the page. Does not look good, so I select layout-paragraph-bottom. The pagebreak is inserted in the LyX doc. Now I go to update my dvi view. After selecting

Re: xfig figure in a slide?

2002-12-12 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 08:57:10PM -0500, Nirmal Govind wrote: Hi.. I'm trying to include an xfig figure in a presentation made using the pdfscreen package along with LyX. Pdflatex doesn't like xfig apparently and I have special text (LaTeX math) in my xfig figure so I need LaTeX to process

Re: Including external files

2002-12-12 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Peter == Peter Hutnick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Peter Jean-Marc Lasgouttes said: Peter == Peter Hutnick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Peter I'd like to be able to include (like in the C preprocessor Peter sense) some external flat text files in my LyX document. Peter I have the following

Re: xfig figure in a slide?

2002-12-12 Thread I Wayan Warmada
On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, Nirmal Govind wrote: | Hi.. I'm trying to include an xfig figure in a presentation made using | the pdfscreen package along with LyX. Pdflatex doesn't like xfig | apparently and I have special text (LaTeX math) in my xfig figure so I | need LaTeX to process it.. and the

extbook

2002-12-12 Thread Celine Anezo
Hi! I would like to use the document class extbook in lyx to be able to use the font size 14pt. I installed the extsizes-package in /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/extsizes. I got the extsizes directory using anonymous-ftp at ftp.dante.de. The extsizes directory contains the following files:

Re: Using Noun Style for SGML tags

2002-12-12 Thread Chris Lale
José Matos wrote: This trick will only work with latex, I was proposing a similar hack but for docbook, we would need to output the colour changes, something that we don't do now. This is the part that needs coding. Thanks for the information. Sorry I cannot help with the coding but I am

Re: printing LyX screen?

2002-12-12 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 08:22:23PM -0500, Nirmal Govind wrote: Is there a way in which I can print out my slides in exactly the way they look in the LyX window? I've included some ContentNotes (using a layout provided by Christian Ridderstrom) which are points for me to remember regarding that

Re: xfig figure in a slide?

2002-12-12 Thread Amir Seginer
Hello, I have just started using the tex2pdf script (see Lyx's tips tricks under pdf). This works very well for me. After installation, just choose File - Export - PDF (pdflatex) and it does all the needed conversions (including for xfig) and gives a good pdf file. The only minor problem is

Re: Question about using placeholders in lyx

2002-12-12 Thread Remi Cohen-Scali
Thanks for your decisive help ... :-)

Re: Update document with pdflatex

2002-12-12 Thread Christian Ridderström
There is an cumbersome way to manually force update in acrobat reader: after you update the pdf file in LyX, go the acrobat reader and type ctrl+w and then ctrl+left arrow. Thanks for the tip... I used to do Ctrl-w Alt-f 1 this is quicker. /Christian -- Christian Ridderström,

defaults of keymap in LyX-1.2.1

2002-12-12 Thread Thomas Schnhoff
Hello all, I just unsuccessfully tried to find out, what are the default settings of the keymap in LyX! I want to use circumflex and other accented letters like a' and alike. In former versions I remember to hit META, letter - Kombination followed by the accented sign. This obviously works

Re: defaults of keymap in LyX-1.2.1

2002-12-12 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Thu, 12 Dec 2002, [ISO-8859-15] Thomas Schönhoff wrote: Hello all, I just unsuccessfully tried to find out, what are the default settings of the keymap in LyX! I want to use circumflex and other accented letters like a' and alike. In former versions I remember to hit META, letter

Re: CVS1.3: instant preview not working.

2002-12-12 Thread Bo Peng
On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 10:19:20AM -0600, Bo Peng wrote: Any idea what is wrong? I had a look at files like /tmp/lyx_tmpdir15067a4mxR4/lyx_tmpbuf0/0lyxpreview.tex It could not be compiled since latex could fnot ind preview.sty. Is this file included in cvs1.3? Where is it supposed to be? I

Re: CVS1.3: instant preview not working.

2002-12-12 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 10:37:38AM -0600, Bo Peng wrote: It could not be compiled since latex could fnot ind preview.sty. Is this file included in cvs1.3? Where is it supposed to be? I did not use standard installation (./configure disable instant preview in preferences if you don't have

Re: CVS1.3: instant preview not working.

2002-12-12 Thread Bo Peng
On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 10:55:00AM -0600, Bo Peng wrote: On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 04:43:12PM +, John Levon wrote: On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 10:37:38AM -0600, Bo Peng wrote: It could not be compiled since latex could fnot ind preview.sty. Is this file included in cvs1.3? Where is it

embedding LaTeX commands in layouts

2002-12-12 Thread Diab Jerius
Hi, I'm trying to create a layout for a memo style which requires the following Format: %-- \begin{document} \From{From} \To{To} \Subject{Subject} \ShortSubj{Subject for page headers} \RE{In Regards to} \Cc{Carbon Copy list} \File{File name} \Version{Version} \memo{} memo text

Re: Equation numbering problems

2002-12-12 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 10:10:29AM -0600, Kent Kostuk wrote: Here is a link to a minimal example file. I get an error when I try to include the LaTeX preamble commands to change the equation numbering format. http://homepage.usask.ca/~kjk340/ch3_dekel_tsur.lyx You haev a typo in the

Re: Update document with pdflatex

2002-12-12 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 07:17:15PM +1100, John Sheahan wrote: On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 04:38:02PM +0100, Fran?ois BEAUBERT wrote: Hi, Just a small question. Is there a way to update the document via pdflatex without closing the document and reopen it (in acrobar for exemple) You

Re: xfig figure in a slide?

2002-12-12 Thread Nirmal Govind
and epstopdf afterwards Thanks a lot for the code.. I edited it a bit to include the -Ppdf option for dvips.. there is some space in the resulting figure since the documentclass is defined as article in the code.. any tips on how to take care of this? Thanks, nirmal

Re: printing handouts from slides?

2002-12-12 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Thu, 12 Dec 2002, Nirmal Govind wrote: Hi.. does anybody have any tips on how to print handouts (4 or 6 slides per page) from a presentation like it's done in Powerpoint? Is there any package or software that does this? Thanks, nirmal How about this (four A6 onto one A4)?

Re: printing handouts from slides?

2002-12-12 Thread Nirmal Govind
Use psnup from psutils. Thanks Dekel.. can this be used with a pdf file also or is it just for ps files? nirmal

controlling sizes of titles, footers

2002-12-12 Thread Nirmal Govind
Hi.. I'm sure this has been asked before but due to a very close deadline, I'm forced to ask again.. how do I change the size of the text in the slide title and in the footer while making slides using pdfscreen?

report class title page.

2002-12-12 Thread B Robinson
Hello. I'm writing a short 15 page paper using the report class. I could also use report-koma if you think it would help. The first page is just the title page, then on page 2 it starts the text. This seems like a waste of paper to me. Any way i can get the title to start at the top of the

ucthesis class.

2002-12-12 Thread B Robinson
Hello. I'm about half done with my thesis, and I cant put this off any longer. is there a howto or a faq about how to set up a new class? probably this ucthesis class will be nice, but i cant find a good step by step on how to do this. I'm no lyx or latex expert, but i know my way around a

page break

2002-12-12 Thread mw
I am reading the user guide on how to insert a pagebreak. In my case, a new section called Presentation starts at the bottom of the page. Does not look good, so I select layout-paragraph-bottom. The pagebreak is inserted in the LyX doc. Now I go to update my dvi view. After selecting

Re: xfig figure in a slide?

2002-12-12 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 08:57:10PM -0500, Nirmal Govind wrote: > Hi.. I'm trying to include an xfig figure in a presentation made using > the pdfscreen package along with LyX. Pdflatex doesn't like xfig > apparently and I have special text (LaTeX math) in my xfig figure so I > need LaTeX to

Re: Including external files

2002-12-12 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Peter" == Peter Hutnick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Peter> Jean-Marc Lasgouttes said: >>> "Peter" == Peter Hutnick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Peter> I'd like to be able to "include" (like in the C preprocessor Peter> sense) some external flat text files in my LyX document. >>

Re: xfig figure in a slide?

2002-12-12 Thread I Wayan Warmada
On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, Nirmal Govind wrote: | Hi.. I'm trying to include an xfig figure in a presentation made using | the pdfscreen package along with LyX. Pdflatex doesn't like xfig | apparently and I have special text (LaTeX math) in my xfig figure so I | need LaTeX to process it.. and the

extbook

2002-12-12 Thread Celine Anezo
Hi! I would like to use the document class extbook in lyx to be able to use the font size 14pt. I installed the extsizes-package in /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/extsizes. I got the extsizes directory using anonymous-ftp at ftp.dante.de. The extsizes directory contains the following files:

Re: Using Noun Style for SGML tags

2002-12-12 Thread Chris Lale
José Matos wrote: This trick will only work with latex, I was proposing a similar hack but for docbook, we would need to output the colour changes, something that we don't do now. This is the part that needs coding. Thanks for the information. Sorry I cannot help with the coding but I am

Re: printing LyX screen?

2002-12-12 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 08:22:23PM -0500, Nirmal Govind wrote: > Is there a way in which I can print out my slides in exactly the way > they look in the LyX window? I've included some ContentNotes (using a > layout provided by Christian Ridderstrom) which are points for me to > remember regarding

Re: xfig figure in a slide?

2002-12-12 Thread Amir Seginer
Hello, I have just started using the tex2pdf script (see Lyx's tips & tricks under pdf). This works very well for me. After installation, just choose File -> Export -> PDF (pdflatex) and it does all the needed conversions (including for xfig) and gives a good pdf file. The only minor problem

Re: Question about using placeholders in lyx

2002-12-12 Thread Remi Cohen-Scali
Thanks for your decisive help ... :-)

Re: Update document with pdflatex

2002-12-12 Thread Christian Ridderström
> > There is an cumbersome way to manually force update in acrobat reader: > after you update the pdf file in LyX, go the acrobat reader and type > ctrl+w and then ctrl+. Thanks for the tip... I used to do Ctrl-w Alt-f 1 this is quicker. /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-790

defaults of keymap in LyX-1.2.1

2002-12-12 Thread Thomas Schönhoff
Hello all, I just unsuccessfully tried to find out, what are the default settings of the keymap in LyX! I want to use circumflex and other accented letters like "a'" and alike. In former versions I remember to hit META, letter - Kombination followed by the accented sign. This obviously works

Re: defaults of keymap in LyX-1.2.1

2002-12-12 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Thu, 12 Dec 2002, [ISO-8859-15] Thomas Schönhoff wrote: > Hello all, > > I just unsuccessfully tried to find out, what are the default settings > of the keymap in LyX! > > I want to use circumflex and other accented letters like "a'" and > alike. > > In former versions I remember to hit

Re: CVS1.3: instant preview not working.

2002-12-12 Thread Bo Peng
On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 10:19:20AM -0600, Bo Peng wrote: > Any idea what is wrong? I had a look at files like /tmp/lyx_tmpdir15067a4mxR4/lyx_tmpbuf0/0lyxpreview.tex It could not be compiled since latex could fnot ind preview.sty. Is this file included in cvs1.3? Where is it supposed to be? I

Re: CVS1.3: instant preview not working.

2002-12-12 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 10:37:38AM -0600, Bo Peng wrote: > It could not be compiled since latex could fnot ind preview.sty. Is this > file included in cvs1.3? Where is it supposed to be? I did not use > standard installation (./configure disable instant preview in preferences if you don't

Re: CVS1.3: instant preview not working.

2002-12-12 Thread Bo Peng
On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 10:55:00AM -0600, Bo Peng wrote: > On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 04:43:12PM +, John Levon wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 10:37:38AM -0600, Bo Peng wrote: > > > It could not be compiled since latex could fnot ind preview.sty. Is this > > > file included in cvs1.3? Where

embedding LaTeX commands in layouts

2002-12-12 Thread Diab Jerius
Hi, I'm trying to create a layout for a memo style which requires the following Format: %-- \begin{document} \From{} \To{} \Subject{} \ShortSubj{} \RE{} \Cc{} \File{} \Version{} \memo{} \end{document} %-- The problem is that \memo{} MUST appear after the field

Re: Equation numbering problems

2002-12-12 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 10:10:29AM -0600, Kent Kostuk wrote: > Here is a link to a minimal example file. I get an error when I try to > include the LaTeX preamble commands to change the equation numbering format. > > http://homepage.usask.ca/~kjk340/ch3_dekel_tsur.lyx You haev a typo in the

Re: Update document with pdflatex

2002-12-12 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 07:17:15PM +1100, John Sheahan wrote: > On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 04:38:02PM +0100, Fran?ois BEAUBERT wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Just a small question. > > Is there a way to update the document via pdflatex without closing the > > document and reopen it (in acrobar for exemple)

Re: xfig figure in a slide?

2002-12-12 Thread Nirmal Govind
> and epstopdf afterwards Thanks a lot for the code.. I edited it a bit to include the -Ppdf option for dvips.. there is some space in the resulting figure since the documentclass is defined as article in the code.. any tips on how to take care of this? Thanks, nirmal

Re: printing handouts from slides?

2002-12-12 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Thu, 12 Dec 2002, Nirmal Govind wrote: > Hi.. does anybody have any tips on how to print handouts (4 or 6 slides > per page) from a presentation like it's done in Powerpoint? Is there any > package or software that does this? > > Thanks, > nirmal How about this (four A6 onto one A4)?

Re: printing handouts from slides?

2002-12-12 Thread Nirmal Govind
> > Use psnup from psutils. > Thanks Dekel.. can this be used with a pdf file also or is it just for ps files? nirmal

controlling sizes of titles, footers

2002-12-12 Thread Nirmal Govind
Hi.. I'm sure this has been asked before but due to a very close deadline, I'm forced to ask again.. how do I change the size of the text in the slide title and in the footer while making slides using pdfscreen?

report class title page.

2002-12-12 Thread B Robinson
Hello. I'm writing a short 15 page paper using the report class. I could also use report-koma if you think it would help. The first page is just the title page, then on page 2 it starts the text. This seems like a waste of paper to me. Any way i can get the title to start at the top of the

ucthesis class.

2002-12-12 Thread B Robinson
Hello. I'm about half done with my thesis, and I cant put this off any longer. is there a howto or a faq about how to set up a new class? probably this ucthesis class will be nice, but i cant find a good step by step on how to do this. I'm no lyx or latex expert, but i know my way around a

page break

2002-12-12 Thread mw
I am reading the user guide on how to insert a pagebreak. In my case, a new section called Presentation starts at the bottom of the page. Does not look good, so I select layout->paragraph->bottom. The pagebreak is inserted in the LyX doc. Now I go to update my dvi view. After selecting