Re: Xfig question

2003-09-18 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 01:42:10PM -0700, Rich Shepard wrote: While this is not explicitly LyX, I'm using Xfig to prepare illustrations for my book which is being written with LyX. If anyone knows of a more appropriate mail list, _please_ let me know. I'm brand new to Xfig and I'm trying

Re: Once more: Bibtex

2003-09-18 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 12:29:36AM +0200, Kai Johannes Keller wrote: But I don't like the numbers ([1] in .dvi-output) for citing an entry of the bibtex-catalogue, I'd rather like to have something like [OLO] in the Text to take reference to a book written by Rainer Oloff. I know that it's

Some footnotes only in draft?

2003-09-18 Thread Michael Logies
Hello, here is described how to use some footnotes only in draft: http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/LaTeX/misc/misc.phtml#draft If you want to use this option for own commands like notes, than you can use this option and output some notes only when the draft option is set. The following

Re: Some footnotes only in draft?

2003-09-18 Thread Michael Logies
At 09:59 18.09.2003 +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote: Even better: '\mynote{' in ERT, then 'normal text', then the '}' in ERT again. Andre', I like this, because it would be easy to use on more complex footnotes. But it does not work. I don`t see the footnote, whether draft or not: %% LyX 1.3

Re: Some footnotes only in draft?

2003-09-18 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 10:56:26AM +0200, Michael Logies wrote: At 09:59 18.09.2003 +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote: Even better: '\mynote{' in ERT, then 'normal text', then the '}' in ERT again. Andre', I like this, because it would be easy to use on more complex footnotes. But it does

Re: Xfig question

2003-09-18 Thread Angus Leeming
Jean-Pierre.Chretien wrote: man xfig man transfig But what I like in xfig (in addition to its powerful import and export capabilities and the batch processing features) is the object oriented interface (update settings/update objects) and the adaptive help and particularly the dynamic

Re: Some footnotes only in draft?

2003-09-18 Thread Michael Logies
At 11:08 18.09.2003 +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote: What about \newcommand{\myNote}[1]{% [EMAIL PROTECTED] \footnote{#1}}% } Andre', no, that`s even worse. Regards M. -- http://www.logies.de/ (u. a. _die_ Mailingliste für die Dentalbranche) PGP-key (RSA/IDEA) kommt mit angeforderter

mwbk bullets

2003-09-18 Thread gordon
Hi I'm using the book (mwbk) document type, but all bullets (itemize) appear as dashes. What would be the easiest way to prevent this? Regards Gordon -- gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Once more: Bibtex

2003-09-18 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Kai Johannes Keller wrote: But I don't like the numbers ([1] in .dvi-output) for citing an entry of the bibtex-catalogue, I'd rather like to have something like [OLO] in the Text to take reference to a book written by Rainer Oloff. I know that it's possible with the normal

Re: mwbk bullets

2003-09-18 Thread Jeannette Meyer
Hi Gordon, On Thursday 18 September 2003 16:45, gordon wrote: I'm using the book (mwbk) document type, but all bullets (itemize) appear as dashes. What would be the easiest way to prevent this? Did you try to change this behavior in Layout-Document-Bullets, Set Bullets? Jeannette

Qt-UI widget question

2003-09-18 Thread Rich Shepard
Running 1.3.2 with the Qt UI I see a data entry widget at the bottom of the main window. To the left of this area are two buttons, one with an up arrow the other with a down arrow. Left of the buttons is a narrow vertical bar that closes the entire window line. I don't see anything in the

Re: Qt-UI widget question

2003-09-18 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Am Donnerstag, 18. September 2003 17:05 schrieb Rich Shepard: Running 1.3.2 with the Qt UI I see a data entry widget at the bottom of the main window. To the left of this area are two buttons, one with an up arrow the other with a down arrow. Left of the buttons is a narrow vertical bar that

LyX/Mac: AppleScript error when double clicking on a LyX file

2003-09-18 Thread Jean Gosset
Hello, I just installed the LyX/Mac binary package on my PowerBook, from the http://www.18james.com/lyx_on_aqua.html; web page. Almost everything works properly, except the following. When I try to open a LyX file by double clicking on its icon in the Finder or through a Drag and drop of its

Path to the lyx file cannot contain spaces

2003-09-18 Thread Bruce
(I sent this message last week, and though received no error message it didn't seem to make it to the list (or at least not to the archive). Apologies if it is a duplicate.) ___ I get this message when try to preview a file that (suprise) is in a directory that has spaces in its

Using LyX for court documents

2003-09-18 Thread Bruce
(I sent this message last week, and though received no error message it didn't seem to make it to the list (or at least not to the archive). Apologies if it is a duplicate.) ___ I've had a look at LyX a couple of times over the past few years, and occasionally write an article or

Tesis finished

2003-09-18 Thread Andres Becerra
Greetings, I want to thank all LyX developers and users for this tool and the useful activity of this list. A few days ago I finished my tesis written with LyX (100+ pages), and it was a deligth, because I've never had real problems with the software. - I was using Carsten Heinz latex package

Re: Using LyX for court documents

2003-09-18 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 11:55:19AM -0400, Bruce wrote: It seems that court documents are really a specialized enough type of document that they would need their own document class. Moreover, different jurisdictions may have wildly varying layout requirements (though the basic elements will

Re: Qt-UI widget question

2003-09-18 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Rich Shepard wrote: Oh. Thanks. I read the Web page and understand it as far as it goes, but I do not -- yet? -- see the advantages. For example, I do not see the advantage of typing LFUN_FILE_OPEN in the minibuffer when a ctrl-o does the same thing. you do not type LFUN_FILE_OPEN but

Re: Qt-UI widget question

2003-09-18 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 09:06:13AM -0700, Rich Shepard wrote: On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: This is the minibuffer, more or less a power user tool. You can type in so called lfuns like date-insert. Have a look here for a list: http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/Devel/LFUNs

Re: Qt-UI widget question

2003-09-18 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 09:06:13AM -0700, Rich Shepard wrote: Oh. Thanks. I read the Web page and understand it as far as it goes, but I do not -- yet? -- see the advantages. For example, I do not see the advantage of typing LFUN_FILE_OPEN in the minibuffer when a ctrl-o does the same

Re: Path to the lyx file cannot contain spaces

2003-09-18 Thread Bruce
On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 11:54:46AM -0400, Bruce wrote: (I sent this message last week, and though received no error message it didn't seem to make it to the list (or at least not to the archive). Apologies if it is a duplicate.) As I seem to remember having answered it probably made it

Re: Qt-UI widget question

2003-09-18 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Andre Poenitz wrote: Not everything LyX provides is accessible via keybindings and menus. Apart from that, some things are faster typed in in the minibuffer than typed in some dialog. Andre', OK. I've not yet run into this situation. Thanks, Rich Dr. Richard B.

Re: mwbk bullets

2003-09-18 Thread gordon
Hi I'm afraid that doesn't work. All bullets on all levels are dashes. On Thu, 2003-09-18 at 15:48, Rich Shepard wrote: On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, gordon wrote: I'm using the book (mwbk) document type, but all bullets (itemize) appear as dashes. What would be the easiest way to prevent this?

Re: LyX/Mac: AppleScript error when double clicking on a LyX file

2003-09-18 Thread Angus Leeming
Jean Gosset wrote: Hello, I just installed the LyX/Mac binary package on my PowerBook, from the http://www.18james.com/lyx_on_aqua.html; web page. Almost everything works properly, except the following. When I try to open a LyX file by double clicking on its icon in the Finder or

Re: Using LyX for court documents

2003-09-18 Thread Herbert Voß
John Levon schrieb: The priority is to find a class for LaTeX. Then it's relatively easy (probably) to write a lyx layout file that can use that LaTeX class. seems to be a joke, that this is easy if you want a _real_ LyX layout file ... Herbert

Re: Qt-UI widget question

2003-09-18 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 05:15:14PM +0100, John Levon wrote: o a very small number of functions don't have key bindings or menu items by default o it's useful for us hackers in 1.4.0cvs, it's hidden by default under the Qt frontend, precisely because it's fairly useless. Who made that

Re: mwbk bullets

2003-09-18 Thread Jean-Pierre.Chretien
Subject: Re: mwbk bullets From: gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 18:27:57 +0200 Hi I'm afraid that doesn't work. All bullets on all levels are dashes. On Thu, 2003-09-18 at 15:48, Rich Shepard wrote: On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, gordon wrote: I'm using the

Re: Using LyX for court documents

2003-09-18 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 06:31:46PM +0200, Herbert Vo? wrote: The priority is to find a class for LaTeX. Then it's relatively easy (probably) to write a lyx layout file that can use that LaTeX class. seems to be a joke, that this is easy if you want a _real_ LyX layout file ... It's a

Re: mwbk bullets

2003-09-18 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
gordon wrote: I'm afraid that doesn't work. All bullets on all levels are dashes. it works as long as you do not want the default buttons. If you want them, however, write in preamble: \AtBeginDocument{ \renewcommand{\labelitemi}{\textbullet} \renewcommand\labelitemii{\normalfont\bfseries

Re: Using LyX for court documents

2003-09-18 Thread Herbert Voss
John Levon schrieb: The priority is to find a class for LaTeX. Then it's relatively easy (probably) to write a lyx layout file that can use that LaTeX class. seems to be a joke, that this is easy if you want a _real_ LyX layout file ... It's a thousand times easier writing a lyx layout file than

Re: Using LyX for court documents

2003-09-18 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 06:58:55PM +0200, Herbert Voss wrote: then tell me which LyX layout file is (nearly) a 1:1 translation of an existing class file ... ;-) Well, in what sense ? It's not very important IMHO for the in-lyx display to look exactly like what latex does. Can you explain

Re: mwbk bullets

2003-09-18 Thread gordon
That did it :) Thanks alot! gordon On Thu, 2003-09-18 at 18:54, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: gordon wrote: I'm afraid that doesn't work. All bullets on all levels are dashes. it works as long as you do not want the default buttons. If you want them, however, write in preamble:

Re: LyX/Mac: AppleScript error when double clicking on a LyX file

2003-09-18 Thread Ronald Florence
Jean Gosset [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When I try to open a LyX file by double clicking on its icon in the Finder or through a Drag and drop of its icon onto the Start-LyX application, I get the AppleScript error: You need to setup the LyXServer pipe in LyX Preferences Paths.. In this menu I

Re: Using LyX for court documents

2003-09-18 Thread Ronald Florence
You will need a LaTeX class and a LyX layout file, as others have suggested, but the built-iin support for BibTeX and the availability of Jurabib should make citations in court documents a pleasure. -- Ronald Florence www.18james.com

Figure printing sideways

2003-09-18 Thread Rich Shepard
I have a line drawing I did (in xfig) that is imported into a figure float. When I look at the figure within LyX it appears properly -- horizontal orientation. However, when I view the compiled document (generally pdflatex in acroread) the figure is rotated 90 degrees counter clockwise. This

Re: Figure printing sideways

2003-09-18 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Rich Shepard wrote: However, when I view the compiled document (generally pdflatex in acroread) the figure is rotated 90 degrees counter clockwise. This puts the x axis vertically on the right, the y axis horizontally along the bottom and everything else equally

Re: Figure printing sideways

2003-09-18 Thread Angus Leeming
Rich Shepard wrote: On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Rich Shepard wrote: However, when I view the compiled document (generally pdflatex in acroread) the figure is rotated 90 degrees counter clockwise. This puts the x axis vertically on the right, the y axis horizontally along the bottom and

Re: Figure printing sideways

2003-09-18 Thread Kayvan A. Sylvan
I think this is a problem with epstopdf. Try removing the %%Orientation: line from your eps file and try again. This is a hack, but I don't know the rigt fix yet. On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 11:54:39AM -0700, Rich Shepard wrote: I have a line drawing I did (in xfig) that is imported into a

Re: Figure printing sideways

2003-09-18 Thread Angus Leeming
Kayvan A. Sylvan wrote: I think this is a problem with epstopdf. Try removing the %%Orientation: line from your eps file and try again. This is a hack, but I don't know the rigt fix yet. These are pure line drawings, right? No latex text. How are you generating the pdf file? If you are

Re: Figure printing sideways

2003-09-18 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Angus Leeming wrote: Why not post a minimal sample document that displays the problem... Thanks, Angus. Attached -- in pdf because that's a fraction of the size of the ps file -- is the page with my problem figure on it. It displays in both acroread and xpdf -- with the

Re: Figure printing sideways

2003-09-18 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Kayvan A. Sylvan wrote: I think this is a problem with epstopdf. Try removing the %%Orientation: line from your eps file and try again. This is a hack, but I don't know the rigt fix yet. Kayvan, There is no such line. Here's the prefix to the .eps file:

Re: Figure printing sideways

2003-09-18 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Angus Leeming wrote: These are pure line drawings, right? No latex text. Angus, Correct. How are you generating the pdf file? From within LyX: View Pdflatex. If you are going the pdflatex-pdf route, then your converter route should be xfig-pdf. No intermediate

Re: Path to the lyx file cannot contain spaces

2003-09-18 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Bruce [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: (I sent this message last week, and though received no error message it didn't seem to make it to the list (or at least not to the archive). Apologies if it is a duplicate.) ___ I get this message when try to preview a

Re: Figure printing sideways

2003-09-18 Thread Michael Logies
At 13:41 18.09.2003 -0700, Rich Shepard wrote: How are you generating the pdf file? From within LyX: View Pdflatex. Rich, use LyX: View dvipdfm instead. I think, it has less bugs. This should solve the problem of the too big distance between figure and caption. Acrobat will respect the

Re: Path to the lyx file cannot contain spaces

2003-09-18 Thread Michael Logies
At 20:49 18.09.2003 +, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Not sure how to handle this if you're using the native Win32 port of LyX, I solved it by installing the other software in simple pathes for a second time. Should be the fastest solution. Regards M. -- http://www.logies.de/ (u. a. _die_

Re: Figure printing sideways

2003-09-18 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Michael Logies wrote: use LyX: View dvipdfm instead. I think, it has less bugs. This should solve the problem of the too big distance between figure and caption. Acrobat will respect the bounding box of your EPS-File, but there are other PDF-Viewer which will not.

Re: Figure printing sideways

2003-09-18 Thread Angus Leeming
Rich Shepard wrote: On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Angus Leeming wrote: These are pure line drawings, right? No latex text. Angus, Correct. How are you generating the pdf file? From within LyX: View Pdflatex. If you are going the pdflatex-pdf route, then your converter route should

Re: Figure printing sideways

2003-09-18 Thread Herbert Voß
Michael Logies schrieb: At 13:41 18.09.2003 -0700, Rich Shepard wrote: How are you generating the pdf file? From within LyX: View Pdflatex. Rich, use LyX: View dvipdfm instead. I think, it has less bugs. This should solve the problem of the too big distance between figure and

Re: Figure printing sideways

2003-09-18 Thread Angus Leeming
Angus Leeming wrote: Now I'm lost. Within the document I created a float figure. Within that, I used Insert Graphic and entered the name of the .eps file. Should I have used the .fig file? Why not? One less thing to worry about keeping synched. I see that 13x comes with converters

Re: Using LyX for court documents

2003-09-18 Thread Matej Cepl
On 2003-09-18, 15:55 GMT, Bruce wrote: One thing I have often thought LyX would be ideal for would be for preparing court documents, or other legal documents for that matter, that have a set structure and elements. I particularly think of this when I am Having been a lawyer in my past life

Re: Figure printing sideways

2003-09-18 Thread Matej Cepl
On 2003-09-18, 22:00 GMT, Herbert Vo wrote: pdflatex has _no_ bugs! And it is still the better way than dvipdfm. For example: you get no hyphenated links with dvipdfm This is really courageous statement -- unfortunately, I am afraid not very much correct. Contrary to the original TeX it is

How to rotateleft caption in a pdftex document?

2003-09-18 Thread rsamurti
Hello: How do I rotateleft the figure caption in a pdftex document. Please help. Thanks for your help. Anand

Re: Figure printing sideways

2003-09-18 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Angus Leeming wrote: How are you generating the pdf file? Angus et al.: I solved the problem by avoiding it. I used ipe to recreate the problem figure originally drawn in xfig and saved in .eps format. Ipe uses .eps as its native format (or .pdf if you're producing a

Re: Figure printing sideways

2003-09-18 Thread Herbert Vo
Matej Cepl schrieb: On 2003-09-18, 22:00 GMT, Herbert Vo wrote: pdflatex has _no_ bugs! And it is still the better way than dvipdfm. For example: you get no hyphenated links with dvipdfm This is really courageous statement -- unfortunately, I am afraid not very much correct. Contrary to the

Re: Figure printing sideways

2003-09-18 Thread Michael Logies
At 00:00 19.09.2003 +0200, Herbert Voß wrote: pdflatex has _no_ bugs! Herbert, this big distance between caption and graphic in floats is a bug for me. How would you call it? An option? How to change this? And it is still the better way than dvipdfm. For example: you get no hyphenated links

Re: Xfig question

2003-09-18 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 01:42:10PM -0700, Rich Shepard wrote: While this is not explicitly LyX, I'm using Xfig to prepare illustrations for my book which is being written with LyX. If anyone knows of a more appropriate mail list, _please_ let me know. I'm brand new to Xfig and I'm trying

Re: Once more: Bibtex

2003-09-18 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 12:29:36AM +0200, Kai Johannes Keller wrote: But I don't like the numbers ([1] in .dvi-output) for citing an entry of the bibtex-catalogue, I'd rather like to have something like [OLO] in the Text to take reference to a book written by Rainer Oloff. I know that it's

Some footnotes only in draft?

2003-09-18 Thread Michael Logies
Hello, here is described how to use some footnotes only in draft: http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/LaTeX/misc/misc.phtml#draft If you want to use this option for own commands like notes, than you can use this option and output some notes only when the draft option is set. The following

Re: Some footnotes only in draft?

2003-09-18 Thread Michael Logies
At 09:59 18.09.2003 +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote: Even better: '\mynote{' in ERT, then 'normal text', then the '}' in ERT again. Andre', I like this, because it would be easy to use on more complex footnotes. But it does not work. I don`t see the footnote, whether draft or not: %% LyX 1.3

Re: Some footnotes only in draft?

2003-09-18 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 10:56:26AM +0200, Michael Logies wrote: At 09:59 18.09.2003 +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote: Even better: '\mynote{' in ERT, then 'normal text', then the '}' in ERT again. Andre', I like this, because it would be easy to use on more complex footnotes. But it does

Re: Xfig question

2003-09-18 Thread Angus Leeming
Jean-Pierre.Chretien wrote: man xfig man transfig But what I like in xfig (in addition to its powerful import and export capabilities and the batch processing features) is the object oriented interface (update settings/update objects) and the adaptive help and particularly the dynamic

Re: Some footnotes only in draft?

2003-09-18 Thread Michael Logies
At 11:08 18.09.2003 +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote: What about \newcommand{\myNote}[1]{% [EMAIL PROTECTED] \footnote{#1}}% } Andre', no, that`s even worse. Regards M. -- http://www.logies.de/ (u. a. _die_ Mailingliste für die Dentalbranche) PGP-key (RSA/IDEA) kommt mit angeforderter

mwbk bullets

2003-09-18 Thread gordon
Hi I'm using the book (mwbk) document type, but all bullets (itemize) appear as dashes. What would be the easiest way to prevent this? Regards Gordon -- gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Once more: Bibtex

2003-09-18 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Kai Johannes Keller wrote: But I don't like the numbers ([1] in .dvi-output) for citing an entry of the bibtex-catalogue, I'd rather like to have something like [OLO] in the Text to take reference to a book written by Rainer Oloff. I know that it's possible with the normal

Re: mwbk bullets

2003-09-18 Thread Jeannette Meyer
Hi Gordon, On Thursday 18 September 2003 16:45, gordon wrote: I'm using the book (mwbk) document type, but all bullets (itemize) appear as dashes. What would be the easiest way to prevent this? Did you try to change this behavior in Layout-Document-Bullets, Set Bullets? Jeannette

Qt-UI widget question

2003-09-18 Thread Rich Shepard
Running 1.3.2 with the Qt UI I see a data entry widget at the bottom of the main window. To the left of this area are two buttons, one with an up arrow the other with a down arrow. Left of the buttons is a narrow vertical bar that closes the entire window line. I don't see anything in the

Re: Qt-UI widget question

2003-09-18 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Am Donnerstag, 18. September 2003 17:05 schrieb Rich Shepard: Running 1.3.2 with the Qt UI I see a data entry widget at the bottom of the main window. To the left of this area are two buttons, one with an up arrow the other with a down arrow. Left of the buttons is a narrow vertical bar that

LyX/Mac: AppleScript error when double clicking on a LyX file

2003-09-18 Thread Jean Gosset
Hello, I just installed the LyX/Mac binary package on my PowerBook, from the http://www.18james.com/lyx_on_aqua.html; web page. Almost everything works properly, except the following. When I try to open a LyX file by double clicking on its icon in the Finder or through a Drag and drop of its

Path to the lyx file cannot contain spaces

2003-09-18 Thread Bruce
(I sent this message last week, and though received no error message it didn't seem to make it to the list (or at least not to the archive). Apologies if it is a duplicate.) ___ I get this message when try to preview a file that (suprise) is in a directory that has spaces in its

Using LyX for court documents

2003-09-18 Thread Bruce
(I sent this message last week, and though received no error message it didn't seem to make it to the list (or at least not to the archive). Apologies if it is a duplicate.) ___ I've had a look at LyX a couple of times over the past few years, and occasionally write an article or

Tesis finished

2003-09-18 Thread Andres Becerra
Greetings, I want to thank all LyX developers and users for this tool and the useful activity of this list. A few days ago I finished my tesis written with LyX (100+ pages), and it was a deligth, because I've never had real problems with the software. - I was using Carsten Heinz latex package

Re: Using LyX for court documents

2003-09-18 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 11:55:19AM -0400, Bruce wrote: It seems that court documents are really a specialized enough type of document that they would need their own document class. Moreover, different jurisdictions may have wildly varying layout requirements (though the basic elements will

Re: Qt-UI widget question

2003-09-18 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Rich Shepard wrote: Oh. Thanks. I read the Web page and understand it as far as it goes, but I do not -- yet? -- see the advantages. For example, I do not see the advantage of typing LFUN_FILE_OPEN in the minibuffer when a ctrl-o does the same thing. you do not type LFUN_FILE_OPEN but

Re: Qt-UI widget question

2003-09-18 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 09:06:13AM -0700, Rich Shepard wrote: On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: This is the minibuffer, more or less a power user tool. You can type in so called lfuns like date-insert. Have a look here for a list: http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/Devel/LFUNs

Re: Qt-UI widget question

2003-09-18 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 09:06:13AM -0700, Rich Shepard wrote: Oh. Thanks. I read the Web page and understand it as far as it goes, but I do not -- yet? -- see the advantages. For example, I do not see the advantage of typing LFUN_FILE_OPEN in the minibuffer when a ctrl-o does the same

Re: Path to the lyx file cannot contain spaces

2003-09-18 Thread Bruce
On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 11:54:46AM -0400, Bruce wrote: (I sent this message last week, and though received no error message it didn't seem to make it to the list (or at least not to the archive). Apologies if it is a duplicate.) As I seem to remember having answered it probably made it

Re: Qt-UI widget question

2003-09-18 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Andre Poenitz wrote: Not everything LyX provides is accessible via keybindings and menus. Apart from that, some things are faster typed in in the minibuffer than typed in some dialog. Andre', OK. I've not yet run into this situation. Thanks, Rich Dr. Richard B.

Re: mwbk bullets

2003-09-18 Thread gordon
Hi I'm afraid that doesn't work. All bullets on all levels are dashes. On Thu, 2003-09-18 at 15:48, Rich Shepard wrote: On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, gordon wrote: I'm using the book (mwbk) document type, but all bullets (itemize) appear as dashes. What would be the easiest way to prevent this?

Re: LyX/Mac: AppleScript error when double clicking on a LyX file

2003-09-18 Thread Angus Leeming
Jean Gosset wrote: Hello, I just installed the LyX/Mac binary package on my PowerBook, from the http://www.18james.com/lyx_on_aqua.html; web page. Almost everything works properly, except the following. When I try to open a LyX file by double clicking on its icon in the Finder or

Re: Using LyX for court documents

2003-09-18 Thread Herbert Voß
John Levon schrieb: The priority is to find a class for LaTeX. Then it's relatively easy (probably) to write a lyx layout file that can use that LaTeX class. seems to be a joke, that this is easy if you want a _real_ LyX layout file ... Herbert

Re: Qt-UI widget question

2003-09-18 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 05:15:14PM +0100, John Levon wrote: o a very small number of functions don't have key bindings or menu items by default o it's useful for us hackers in 1.4.0cvs, it's hidden by default under the Qt frontend, precisely because it's fairly useless. Who made that

Re: mwbk bullets

2003-09-18 Thread Jean-Pierre.Chretien
Subject: Re: mwbk bullets From: gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 18:27:57 +0200 Hi I'm afraid that doesn't work. All bullets on all levels are dashes. On Thu, 2003-09-18 at 15:48, Rich Shepard wrote: On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, gordon wrote: I'm using the

Re: Using LyX for court documents

2003-09-18 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 06:31:46PM +0200, Herbert Vo? wrote: The priority is to find a class for LaTeX. Then it's relatively easy (probably) to write a lyx layout file that can use that LaTeX class. seems to be a joke, that this is easy if you want a _real_ LyX layout file ... It's a

Re: mwbk bullets

2003-09-18 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
gordon wrote: I'm afraid that doesn't work. All bullets on all levels are dashes. it works as long as you do not want the default buttons. If you want them, however, write in preamble: \AtBeginDocument{ \renewcommand{\labelitemi}{\textbullet} \renewcommand\labelitemii{\normalfont\bfseries

Re: Using LyX for court documents

2003-09-18 Thread Herbert Voss
John Levon schrieb: The priority is to find a class for LaTeX. Then it's relatively easy (probably) to write a lyx layout file that can use that LaTeX class. seems to be a joke, that this is easy if you want a _real_ LyX layout file ... It's a thousand times easier writing a lyx layout file than

Re: Using LyX for court documents

2003-09-18 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 06:58:55PM +0200, Herbert Voss wrote: then tell me which LyX layout file is (nearly) a 1:1 translation of an existing class file ... ;-) Well, in what sense ? It's not very important IMHO for the in-lyx display to look exactly like what latex does. Can you explain

Re: mwbk bullets

2003-09-18 Thread gordon
That did it :) Thanks alot! gordon On Thu, 2003-09-18 at 18:54, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: gordon wrote: I'm afraid that doesn't work. All bullets on all levels are dashes. it works as long as you do not want the default buttons. If you want them, however, write in preamble:

Re: LyX/Mac: AppleScript error when double clicking on a LyX file

2003-09-18 Thread Ronald Florence
Jean Gosset [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When I try to open a LyX file by double clicking on its icon in the Finder or through a Drag and drop of its icon onto the Start-LyX application, I get the AppleScript error: You need to setup the LyXServer pipe in LyX Preferences Paths.. In this menu I

Re: Using LyX for court documents

2003-09-18 Thread Ronald Florence
You will need a LaTeX class and a LyX layout file, as others have suggested, but the built-iin support for BibTeX and the availability of Jurabib should make citations in court documents a pleasure. -- Ronald Florence www.18james.com

Figure printing sideways

2003-09-18 Thread Rich Shepard
I have a line drawing I did (in xfig) that is imported into a figure float. When I look at the figure within LyX it appears properly -- horizontal orientation. However, when I view the compiled document (generally pdflatex in acroread) the figure is rotated 90 degrees counter clockwise. This

Re: Figure printing sideways

2003-09-18 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Rich Shepard wrote: However, when I view the compiled document (generally pdflatex in acroread) the figure is rotated 90 degrees counter clockwise. This puts the x axis vertically on the right, the y axis horizontally along the bottom and everything else equally

Re: Figure printing sideways

2003-09-18 Thread Angus Leeming
Rich Shepard wrote: On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Rich Shepard wrote: However, when I view the compiled document (generally pdflatex in acroread) the figure is rotated 90 degrees counter clockwise. This puts the x axis vertically on the right, the y axis horizontally along the bottom and

Re: Figure printing sideways

2003-09-18 Thread Kayvan A. Sylvan
I think this is a problem with epstopdf. Try removing the %%Orientation: line from your eps file and try again. This is a hack, but I don't know the rigt fix yet. On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 11:54:39AM -0700, Rich Shepard wrote: I have a line drawing I did (in xfig) that is imported into a

Re: Figure printing sideways

2003-09-18 Thread Angus Leeming
Kayvan A. Sylvan wrote: I think this is a problem with epstopdf. Try removing the %%Orientation: line from your eps file and try again. This is a hack, but I don't know the rigt fix yet. These are pure line drawings, right? No latex text. How are you generating the pdf file? If you are

Re: Figure printing sideways

2003-09-18 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Angus Leeming wrote: Why not post a minimal sample document that displays the problem... Thanks, Angus. Attached -- in pdf because that's a fraction of the size of the ps file -- is the page with my problem figure on it. It displays in both acroread and xpdf -- with the

Re: Figure printing sideways

2003-09-18 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Kayvan A. Sylvan wrote: I think this is a problem with epstopdf. Try removing the %%Orientation: line from your eps file and try again. This is a hack, but I don't know the rigt fix yet. Kayvan, There is no such line. Here's the prefix to the .eps file:

Re: Figure printing sideways

2003-09-18 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Angus Leeming wrote: These are pure line drawings, right? No latex text. Angus, Correct. How are you generating the pdf file? From within LyX: View Pdflatex. If you are going the pdflatex-pdf route, then your converter route should be xfig-pdf. No intermediate

Re: Path to the lyx file cannot contain spaces

2003-09-18 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Bruce [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: (I sent this message last week, and though received no error message it didn't seem to make it to the list (or at least not to the archive). Apologies if it is a duplicate.) ___ I get this message when try to preview a

Re: Figure printing sideways

2003-09-18 Thread Michael Logies
At 13:41 18.09.2003 -0700, Rich Shepard wrote: How are you generating the pdf file? From within LyX: View Pdflatex. Rich, use LyX: View dvipdfm instead. I think, it has less bugs. This should solve the problem of the too big distance between figure and caption. Acrobat will respect the

Re: Path to the lyx file cannot contain spaces

2003-09-18 Thread Michael Logies
At 20:49 18.09.2003 +, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Not sure how to handle this if you're using the native Win32 port of LyX, I solved it by installing the other software in simple pathes for a second time. Should be the fastest solution. Regards M. -- http://www.logies.de/ (u. a. _die_

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