Re: Configuring native Win32 port

2003-12-11 Thread Milos Komarcevic
I had to open a DOS window, cd to the directory where configure lives, and run it from there. There is still a slight problem with sed outputting of the LaTeX configuration file. http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg28200.html http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg30488.html

Re: Configuring native Win32 port

2003-12-11 Thread Angus Leeming
Milos Komarcevic wrote: I had to open a DOS window, cd to the directory where configure lives, and run it from there. There is still a slight problem with sed outputting of the LaTeX configuration file. http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg28200.html

seminar bug, geometry and a4paper

2003-12-11 Thread Günter Milde
Dear lyx-users, seminar.cls has a bug that prevents proper working with the a4paper option. (Option a4 works). The bug prevents use of seminar as doctype from LyX together with the geometry package and a4 option, as LyX inserts: \usepackage{geometry}

Hungarian charakters with long emphasis

2003-12-11 Thread Anca Tibor- Attila
Hi dear list, today I encountered a, for me, pretty important problem. I have to insert in my PhD. a lot of hungarian texts, which have a lot of long emphasis (e.g. ,). These listed do not function in lyx (1.3.2, under SuSE Linux). The other ones (e.g. , , , , , , ) do. All kind of hints are

Re: Configuring native Win32 port

2003-12-11 Thread Paul A. Rubin
[posted and mailed] Milos Komarcevic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: I had to open a DOS window, cd to the directory where configure lives, and run it from there. Thanks for the response. On my XP system, that produces a new LaTeXConfig.lyx file (in

Re: Configuring native Win32 port

2003-12-11 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Angus Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, Milos. Can you run the DOS equivalent of this Unix command from the command line: $ echo On this date @chk_date@ I created the string | \ sed 's/@chk_date@/November 20, 2003/g' On this date November 20, 2003

Re: Configuring native Win32 port

2003-12-11 Thread Milos Komarcevic
Hi Angus, Can you run the DOS equivalent of this Unix command from the command line: $ echo On this date @chk_date@ I created the string | \ sed 's/@chk_date@/November 20, 2003/g' On this date November 20, 2003 I created the string Turns out to be the same command :) lyx\binecho On this

lyx on Debian woody alpha

2003-12-11 Thread Roberto Bernetti
Dear list users is there anyone of you using lyx under Debian for alpha? I got the Woody distribution CDs and unfortunatly I was not able to find the lyx package on the CDs nor on the debian site. Is somewhere the package or have I to recompile it? Roberto --

Re: Hungarian charakters with long emphasis

2003-12-11 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 04:24:29PM +0100, Anca Tibor- Attila wrote: Hi dear list, today I encountered a, for me, pretty important problem. I have to insert in my PhD. a lot of hungarian texts, which have a lot of long emphasis (e.g. ??,??). [It's not emphasis but vowel length in this

Re: lyx on Debian woody alpha

2003-12-11 Thread Angus Leeming
Roberto Bernetti wrote: Dear list users is there anyone of you using lyx under Debian for alpha? I got the Woody distribution CDs and unfortunatly I was not able to find the lyx package on the CDs nor on the debian site. Is somewhere the package or have I to recompile it? I am running

again, the C-M C-M \alpha - compile error problem.

2003-12-11 Thread Bo Peng
Hi, I upgraded lyx 1.2 to lyx 1.3.1 for our department yesterday and I already got angry emails claiming lyx 1.3 is worse than 1.2, because users get compile errors when they input symbols inside text mode (as they did in lyx1.2). I have discussed this problem before and totally agree with

Re: again, the C-M C-M \alpha - compile error problem.

2003-12-11 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 11:20:15AM -0600, Bo Peng wrote: Hi, I upgraded lyx 1.2 to lyx 1.3.1 for our department yesterday and I already got angry emails claiming lyx 1.3 is worse than 1.2, because users get compile errors when they input symbols inside text mode (as they did in lyx1.2).

Re: again, the C-M C-M \alpha - compile error problem.

2003-12-11 Thread Bo Peng
In mathed's text mode you mean? Yes. The \alpha in textmode is black, isn't it? The simplest way would to tell people 'real alphas are blue'. Yes. I told them the trick. How should the warning message look like? I don't think a full blown message box is in order, It is not a very bad

Re: again, the C-M C-M \alpha - compile error problem.

2003-12-11 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 11:55:55AM -0600, Bo Peng wrote: How should the warning message look like? I don't think a full blown message box is in order, It is not a very bad idea. A big message box will be intrusive (and scary) but users will learn very quickly how to avoid it. No they

Re: again, the C-M C-M \alpha - compile error problem.

2003-12-11 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 11:55:55AM -0600, Bo Peng wrote: but also because I won't go through all 700 supported symbols and figure out which ones are safe to use in text and which ones are not. As I said, the warning message does not have to be fired for ALL symbols. Just all Greek

Re: again, the C-M C-M \alpha - compile error problem.

2003-12-11 Thread Bo Peng
It is not a very bad idea. A big message box will be intrusive (and scary) but users will learn very quickly how to avoid it. No they won't, they'll just come and complain at you, and at us. Users do not read error boxes, and they certainly don't read intrusive and rude ones like the one

Re: again, the C-M C-M \alpha - compile error problem.

2003-12-11 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 12:11:08PM -0600, Bo Peng wrote: It is not a very bad idea. A big message box will be intrusive (and scary) but users will learn very quickly how to avoid it. No they won't, they'll just come and complain at you, and at us. Users do not read error boxes, and

Re: again, the C-M C-M \alpha - compile error problem.

2003-12-11 Thread Angus Leeming
Andre Poenitz wrote: How about a red \alpha instead of black one? Or, a red error box like the ones after we compile the file? The effort for a black alpha is zero, the effort for a red one is substantial, or in other words, _I_ won't do it. If there was a clean patch by someone else, I

Re: Configuration problem

2003-12-11 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Paul A. Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: I posted a message earlier about problems getting the native Win XP port to configure. Now something (no idea what) has broken my copy of the Cygwin port. If I run the Cygwin port and do Edit | Reconfigure (or run

Re: lyx on Debian woody alpha

2003-12-11 Thread Karsten Heymann
On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 17:12:46 + Angus Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am running lyx-1.3.xcvs on an Alpha under Debian unstable. I could certainly make it available to you but have no idea how to go about creating a Debian package... One way would be cd /usr/src # or wherever you

math_formula_help

2003-12-11 Thread Karshi F.Hasanov
I have a long math formula and I can't fit it on one page. How do In put such fomula in two lines? Example: F=sqrt(. ..) ?

Re: Configuring native Win32 port

2003-12-11 Thread Paul A. Rubin
[posted and mailed] Angus Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Milos Komarcevic wrote: I had to open a DOS window, cd to the directory where configure lives, and run it from there. There is still a slight problem with sed outputting of the LaTeX configuration file.

Re: Configuring native Win32 port

2003-12-11 Thread Angus Leeming
Paul A. Rubin wrote: Ok, I think I have a lead on this. I ran the configure script with the keep-temps switch. It wrote what appeared to be a syntactically valid chkconfig.sed file, which sed then choked on with the message sed: file chkconfig.sed line 1: Unknown option to 's' as per

Specifying LyX startup geometry

2003-12-11 Thread Jim Osborn
The Customization help for LyX 1.3.2 says, 3.9: There are many other configuration options... Please ask on the mailing lists if you need some more information... So, is there a line I can put in my lyxrc file to tell LyX to start in the upper left corner of the screen, with size 800x860, that

Re: Configuring native Win32 port

2003-12-11 Thread Kayvan A. Sylvan
Can you make sure that the cygwin sed is used? I don't think it has any such problems. ---Kayvan On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 09:42:19PM +, Angus Leeming wrote: Paul A. Rubin wrote: Next question is, how do we get rid of the offending ctrl-Ms? No, the next

Re: Configuring native Win32 port

2003-12-11 Thread Angus Leeming
Kayvan A. Sylvan wrote: Can you make sure that the cygwin sed is used? I don't think it has any such problems. Indeed, Paul says that cygwin packages gnu sed 4.07 and that all is Ok with this. So the answer to your Win32 problems is clear: use a 'decent' sed. Perhaps one of you might

Re: Configuring native Win32 port

2003-12-11 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Angus Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Kayvan A. Sylvan wrote: Can you make sure that the cygwin sed is used? I don't think it has any such problems. Indeed, Paul says that cygwin packages gnu sed 4.07 and that all is Ok with this. So the answer to your

Re: math_formula_help

2003-12-11 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Thu, 11 Dec 2003, Karshi F.Hasanov wrote: I have a long math formula and I can't fit it on one page. How do In put such fomula in two lines? Example: F=sqrt(. ..) ? I put an example for something similar on this page:

Re: Specifying LyX startup geometry

2003-12-11 Thread Paul A. Rubin
[posted and mailed] Jim Osborn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:20031211214006.GB11246 @eskimo.com: The Customization help for LyX 1.3.2 says, 3.9: There are many other configuration options... Please ask on the mailing lists if you need some more information... So, is there a line I can

Text in toc flowing off page

2003-12-11 Thread Anca Tibor- Attila
Hi, as I remeber, there was a thread a few days ago about text off the page borders. Now, I have another problem: there are a few longer superscripts in my document. Inside the document it appeares correctly, but in my Toc is exceeding the page borders. How is this possible to fix? Thanks in

figure float problem

2003-12-11 Thread Myriam Abramson
Hi! I'm using the RH9 rpm with qt for lyx 1.3.3. I have 2 figure floats (eps) and it seems that the last figure overlaps with the first when printing or viewing the document. The figures are fine in Lyx and they are fine when viewing them outside of Lyx with ghostview. What could be the

Re: Configuring native Win32 port

2003-12-11 Thread Milos Komarcevic
I had to open a DOS window, cd to the directory where configure lives, and run it from there. There is still a slight problem with sed outputting of the LaTeX configuration file. http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg28200.html http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg30488.html

Re: Configuring native Win32 port

2003-12-11 Thread Angus Leeming
Milos Komarcevic wrote: I had to open a DOS window, cd to the directory where configure lives, and run it from there. There is still a slight problem with sed outputting of the LaTeX configuration file. http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg28200.html

seminar bug, geometry and a4paper

2003-12-11 Thread Günter Milde
Dear lyx-users, seminar.cls has a bug that prevents proper working with the a4paper option. (Option a4 works). The bug prevents use of seminar as doctype from LyX together with the geometry package and a4 option, as LyX inserts: \usepackage{geometry}

Hungarian charakters with long emphasis

2003-12-11 Thread Anca Tibor- Attila
Hi dear list, today I encountered a, for me, pretty important problem. I have to insert in my PhD. a lot of hungarian texts, which have a lot of long emphasis (e.g. ,). These listed do not function in lyx (1.3.2, under SuSE Linux). The other ones (e.g. , , , , , , ) do. All kind of hints are

Re: Configuring native Win32 port

2003-12-11 Thread Paul A. Rubin
[posted and mailed] Milos Komarcevic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: I had to open a DOS window, cd to the directory where configure lives, and run it from there. Thanks for the response. On my XP system, that produces a new LaTeXConfig.lyx file (in

Re: Configuring native Win32 port

2003-12-11 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Angus Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, Milos. Can you run the DOS equivalent of this Unix command from the command line: $ echo On this date @chk_date@ I created the string | \ sed 's/@chk_date@/November 20, 2003/g' On this date November 20, 2003

Re: Configuring native Win32 port

2003-12-11 Thread Milos Komarcevic
Hi Angus, Can you run the DOS equivalent of this Unix command from the command line: $ echo On this date @chk_date@ I created the string | \ sed 's/@chk_date@/November 20, 2003/g' On this date November 20, 2003 I created the string Turns out to be the same command :) lyx\binecho On this

lyx on Debian woody alpha

2003-12-11 Thread Roberto Bernetti
Dear list users is there anyone of you using lyx under Debian for alpha? I got the Woody distribution CDs and unfortunatly I was not able to find the lyx package on the CDs nor on the debian site. Is somewhere the package or have I to recompile it? Roberto --

Re: Hungarian charakters with long emphasis

2003-12-11 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 04:24:29PM +0100, Anca Tibor- Attila wrote: Hi dear list, today I encountered a, for me, pretty important problem. I have to insert in my PhD. a lot of hungarian texts, which have a lot of long emphasis (e.g. ??,??). [It's not emphasis but vowel length in this

Re: lyx on Debian woody alpha

2003-12-11 Thread Angus Leeming
Roberto Bernetti wrote: Dear list users is there anyone of you using lyx under Debian for alpha? I got the Woody distribution CDs and unfortunatly I was not able to find the lyx package on the CDs nor on the debian site. Is somewhere the package or have I to recompile it? I am running

again, the C-M C-M \alpha - compile error problem.

2003-12-11 Thread Bo Peng
Hi, I upgraded lyx 1.2 to lyx 1.3.1 for our department yesterday and I already got angry emails claiming lyx 1.3 is worse than 1.2, because users get compile errors when they input symbols inside text mode (as they did in lyx1.2). I have discussed this problem before and totally agree with

Re: again, the C-M C-M \alpha - compile error problem.

2003-12-11 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 11:20:15AM -0600, Bo Peng wrote: Hi, I upgraded lyx 1.2 to lyx 1.3.1 for our department yesterday and I already got angry emails claiming lyx 1.3 is worse than 1.2, because users get compile errors when they input symbols inside text mode (as they did in lyx1.2).

Re: again, the C-M C-M \alpha - compile error problem.

2003-12-11 Thread Bo Peng
In mathed's text mode you mean? Yes. The \alpha in textmode is black, isn't it? The simplest way would to tell people 'real alphas are blue'. Yes. I told them the trick. How should the warning message look like? I don't think a full blown message box is in order, It is not a very bad

Re: again, the C-M C-M \alpha - compile error problem.

2003-12-11 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 11:55:55AM -0600, Bo Peng wrote: How should the warning message look like? I don't think a full blown message box is in order, It is not a very bad idea. A big message box will be intrusive (and scary) but users will learn very quickly how to avoid it. No they

Re: again, the C-M C-M \alpha - compile error problem.

2003-12-11 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 11:55:55AM -0600, Bo Peng wrote: but also because I won't go through all 700 supported symbols and figure out which ones are safe to use in text and which ones are not. As I said, the warning message does not have to be fired for ALL symbols. Just all Greek

Re: again, the C-M C-M \alpha - compile error problem.

2003-12-11 Thread Bo Peng
It is not a very bad idea. A big message box will be intrusive (and scary) but users will learn very quickly how to avoid it. No they won't, they'll just come and complain at you, and at us. Users do not read error boxes, and they certainly don't read intrusive and rude ones like the one

Re: again, the C-M C-M \alpha - compile error problem.

2003-12-11 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 12:11:08PM -0600, Bo Peng wrote: It is not a very bad idea. A big message box will be intrusive (and scary) but users will learn very quickly how to avoid it. No they won't, they'll just come and complain at you, and at us. Users do not read error boxes, and

Re: again, the C-M C-M \alpha - compile error problem.

2003-12-11 Thread Angus Leeming
Andre Poenitz wrote: How about a red \alpha instead of black one? Or, a red error box like the ones after we compile the file? The effort for a black alpha is zero, the effort for a red one is substantial, or in other words, _I_ won't do it. If there was a clean patch by someone else, I

Re: Configuration problem

2003-12-11 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Paul A. Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: I posted a message earlier about problems getting the native Win XP port to configure. Now something (no idea what) has broken my copy of the Cygwin port. If I run the Cygwin port and do Edit | Reconfigure (or run

Re: lyx on Debian woody alpha

2003-12-11 Thread Karsten Heymann
On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 17:12:46 + Angus Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am running lyx-1.3.xcvs on an Alpha under Debian unstable. I could certainly make it available to you but have no idea how to go about creating a Debian package... One way would be cd /usr/src # or wherever you

math_formula_help

2003-12-11 Thread Karshi F.Hasanov
I have a long math formula and I can't fit it on one page. How do In put such fomula in two lines? Example: F=sqrt(. ..) ?

Re: Configuring native Win32 port

2003-12-11 Thread Paul A. Rubin
[posted and mailed] Angus Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Milos Komarcevic wrote: I had to open a DOS window, cd to the directory where configure lives, and run it from there. There is still a slight problem with sed outputting of the LaTeX configuration file.

Re: Configuring native Win32 port

2003-12-11 Thread Angus Leeming
Paul A. Rubin wrote: Ok, I think I have a lead on this. I ran the configure script with the keep-temps switch. It wrote what appeared to be a syntactically valid chkconfig.sed file, which sed then choked on with the message sed: file chkconfig.sed line 1: Unknown option to 's' as per

Specifying LyX startup geometry

2003-12-11 Thread Jim Osborn
The Customization help for LyX 1.3.2 says, 3.9: There are many other configuration options... Please ask on the mailing lists if you need some more information... So, is there a line I can put in my lyxrc file to tell LyX to start in the upper left corner of the screen, with size 800x860, that

Re: Configuring native Win32 port

2003-12-11 Thread Kayvan A. Sylvan
Can you make sure that the cygwin sed is used? I don't think it has any such problems. ---Kayvan On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 09:42:19PM +, Angus Leeming wrote: Paul A. Rubin wrote: Next question is, how do we get rid of the offending ctrl-Ms? No, the next

Re: Configuring native Win32 port

2003-12-11 Thread Angus Leeming
Kayvan A. Sylvan wrote: Can you make sure that the cygwin sed is used? I don't think it has any such problems. Indeed, Paul says that cygwin packages gnu sed 4.07 and that all is Ok with this. So the answer to your Win32 problems is clear: use a 'decent' sed. Perhaps one of you might

Re: Configuring native Win32 port

2003-12-11 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Angus Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Kayvan A. Sylvan wrote: Can you make sure that the cygwin sed is used? I don't think it has any such problems. Indeed, Paul says that cygwin packages gnu sed 4.07 and that all is Ok with this. So the answer to your

Re: math_formula_help

2003-12-11 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Thu, 11 Dec 2003, Karshi F.Hasanov wrote: I have a long math formula and I can't fit it on one page. How do In put such fomula in two lines? Example: F=sqrt(. ..) ? I put an example for something similar on this page:

Re: Specifying LyX startup geometry

2003-12-11 Thread Paul A. Rubin
[posted and mailed] Jim Osborn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:20031211214006.GB11246 @eskimo.com: The Customization help for LyX 1.3.2 says, 3.9: There are many other configuration options... Please ask on the mailing lists if you need some more information... So, is there a line I can

Text in toc flowing off page

2003-12-11 Thread Anca Tibor- Attila
Hi, as I remeber, there was a thread a few days ago about text off the page borders. Now, I have another problem: there are a few longer superscripts in my document. Inside the document it appeares correctly, but in my Toc is exceeding the page borders. How is this possible to fix? Thanks in

figure float problem

2003-12-11 Thread Myriam Abramson
Hi! I'm using the RH9 rpm with qt for lyx 1.3.3. I have 2 figure floats (eps) and it seems that the last figure overlaps with the first when printing or viewing the document. The figures are fine in Lyx and they are fine when viewing them outside of Lyx with ghostview. What could be the

Re: Configuring native Win32 port

2003-12-11 Thread Milos Komarcevic
I had to open a DOS window, cd to the directory where configure lives, and run it from there. There is still a slight problem with sed outputting of the LaTeX configuration file. http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg28200.html http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg30488.html

Re: Configuring native Win32 port

2003-12-11 Thread Angus Leeming
Milos Komarcevic wrote: > I had to open a DOS window, cd to the directory > where configure lives, and run it from there. > > There is still a slight problem with sed outputting > of the LaTeX configuration file. > > http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg28200.html >

seminar bug, geometry and a4paper

2003-12-11 Thread Günter Milde
Dear lyx-users, seminar.cls has a bug that prevents proper working with the "a4paper" option. (Option "a4" works). The bug prevents use of seminar as doctype from LyX together with the geometry package and a4 option, as LyX inserts: \usepackage{geometry}

Hungarian charakters with long emphasis

2003-12-11 Thread Anca Tibor- Attila
Hi dear list, today I encountered a, for me, pretty important problem. I have to insert in my PhD. a lot of hungarian texts, which have a lot of long emphasis (e.g. Å,Å). These listed do not function in lyx (1.3.2, under SuSE Linux). The other ones (e.g. Ã, Ã, Ã, Ã, Ã, Ã, Ã) do. All kind of

Re: Configuring native Win32 port

2003-12-11 Thread Paul A. Rubin
[posted and mailed] Milos Komarcevic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > I had to open a DOS window, cd to the directory > where configure lives, and run it from there. > Thanks for the response. On my XP system, that produces a new LaTeXConfig.lyx file (in

Re: Configuring native Win32 port

2003-12-11 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > Hi, Milos. > > Can you run the DOS equivalent of this Unix command from the command > line: > > $ echo "On this date @chk_date@ I created the string" | \ > sed 's/@chk_date@/November 20, 2003/g' > On this date

Re: Configuring native Win32 port

2003-12-11 Thread Milos Komarcevic
Hi Angus, Can you run the DOS equivalent of this Unix command from the command line: $ echo "On this date @chk_date@ I created the string" | \ sed 's/@chk_date@/November 20, 2003/g' On this date November 20, 2003 I created the string Turns out to be the same command :) lyx\bin>echo "On

lyx on Debian woody alpha

2003-12-11 Thread Roberto Bernetti
Dear list users is there anyone of you using lyx under Debian for alpha? I got the Woody distribution CDs and unfortunatly I was not able to find the lyx package on the CDs nor on the debian site. Is somewhere the package or have I to recompile it? Roberto --

Re: Hungarian charakters with long emphasis

2003-12-11 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 04:24:29PM +0100, Anca Tibor- Attila wrote: > Hi dear list, > > today I encountered a, for me, pretty important problem. I have to > insert in my PhD. a lot of hungarian texts, which have a lot of long > emphasis (e.g. ??,??). [It's not emphasis but vowel length in this

Re: lyx on Debian woody alpha

2003-12-11 Thread Angus Leeming
Roberto Bernetti wrote: > Dear list users > is there anyone of you using lyx under Debian for alpha? > I got the Woody distribution CDs and unfortunatly I was not able to > find the > lyx package on the CDs nor on the debian site. Is somewhere the > package or have I to recompile it? I am

again, the C-M C-M \alpha -> compile error problem.

2003-12-11 Thread Bo Peng
Hi, I upgraded lyx 1.2 to lyx 1.3.1 for our department yesterday and I already got angry emails claiming lyx 1.3 is worse than 1.2, because users get compile errors when they input symbols inside text mode (as they did in lyx1.2). I have discussed this problem before and totally agree with

Re: again, the C-M C-M \alpha -> compile error problem.

2003-12-11 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 11:20:15AM -0600, Bo Peng wrote: > Hi, > > I upgraded lyx 1.2 to lyx 1.3.1 for our department yesterday and I already > got angry emails claiming lyx 1.3 is worse than 1.2, because users get > compile errors when they input symbols inside text mode (as they did in >

Re: again, the C-M C-M \alpha -> compile error problem.

2003-12-11 Thread Bo Peng
> In mathed's text mode you mean? Yes. > The \alpha in textmode is black, isn't it? The simplest way would to tell > people 'real alphas are blue'. Yes. I told them the trick. > How should the warning message look like? I don't think a full blown > message box is in order, It is not a very

Re: again, the C-M C-M \alpha -> compile error problem.

2003-12-11 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 11:55:55AM -0600, Bo Peng wrote: > > How should the warning message look like? I don't think a full blown > > message box is in order, > > It is not a very bad idea. A big message box will be intrusive (and > scary) but users will learn very quickly how to avoid it. No

Re: again, the C-M C-M \alpha -> compile error problem.

2003-12-11 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 11:55:55AM -0600, Bo Peng wrote: > > but also because I won't go through all 700 supported symbols and > > figure out which ones are safe to use in text and which ones are not. > > As I said, the warning message does not have to be fired for ALL > symbols. Just all Greek

Re: again, the C-M C-M \alpha -> compile error problem.

2003-12-11 Thread Bo Peng
> > It is not a very bad idea. A big message box will be intrusive (and > > scary) but users will learn very quickly how to avoid it. > No they won't, they'll just come and complain at you, and at us. Users > do not read error boxes, and they certainly don't read intrusive and > rude ones like

Re: again, the C-M C-M \alpha -> compile error problem.

2003-12-11 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 12:11:08PM -0600, Bo Peng wrote: > > > It is not a very bad idea. A big message box will be intrusive (and > > > scary) but users will learn very quickly how to avoid it. > > > No they won't, they'll just come and complain at you, and at us. Users > > do not read error

Re: again, the C-M C-M \alpha -> compile error problem.

2003-12-11 Thread Angus Leeming
Andre Poenitz wrote: >> How about a red \alpha instead of black one? Or, a red error box >> like the ones after we compile the file? > > The effort for a black alpha is zero, the effort for a red one is > substantial, or in other words, _I_ won't do it. If there was a > clean patch by someone

Re: Configuration problem

2003-12-11 Thread Paul A. Rubin
"Paul A. Rubin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > I posted a message earlier about problems getting the native Win XP > port to configure. Now something (no idea what) has broken my copy of > the Cygwin port. If I run the Cygwin port and do Edit | Reconfigure > (or run

Re: lyx on Debian woody alpha

2003-12-11 Thread Karsten Heymann
On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 17:12:46 + "Angus Leeming" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am running lyx-1.3.xcvs on an Alpha under Debian unstable. I could > certainly make it available to you but have no idea how to go about > creating a Debian package... One way would be cd /usr/src # or

math_formula_help

2003-12-11 Thread Karshi F.Hasanov
I have a long math formula and I can't fit it on one page. How do In put such fomula in two lines? Example: F=sqrt(. ..) ?

Re: Configuring native Win32 port

2003-12-11 Thread Paul A. Rubin
[posted and mailed] Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Milos Komarcevic wrote: > >> I had to open a DOS window, cd to the directory >> where configure lives, and run it from there. >> >> There is still a slight problem with sed outputting >> of the LaTeX

Re: Configuring native Win32 port

2003-12-11 Thread Angus Leeming
Paul A. Rubin wrote: > Ok, I think I have a lead on this. I ran the configure script with > the > keep-temps switch. It wrote what appeared to be a syntactically > valid chkconfig.sed file, which sed then choked on with the message > > sed: file chkconfig.sed line 1: Unknown option to 's' > >

Specifying LyX startup geometry

2003-12-11 Thread Jim Osborn
The Customization help for LyX 1.3.2 says, "3.9: There are many other configuration options... Please ask on the mailing lists if you need some more information..." So, is there a line I can put in my lyxrc file to tell LyX to start in the upper left corner of the screen, with size 800x860, that

Re: Configuring native Win32 port

2003-12-11 Thread Kayvan A. Sylvan
Can you make sure that the cygwin sed is used? I don't think it has any such problems. ---Kayvan On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 09:42:19PM +, Angus Leeming wrote: > Paul A. Rubin wrote: > > > > Next question is, how do we get rid of the offending ctrl-Ms? > > No, the next

Re: Configuring native Win32 port

2003-12-11 Thread Angus Leeming
Kayvan A. Sylvan wrote: > Can you make sure that the cygwin sed is used? I don't think it has > any such problems. Indeed, Paul says that cygwin packages gnu sed 4.07 and that all is Ok with this. So the answer to your Win32 problems is clear: use a 'decent' sed. Perhaps one of you might

Re: Configuring native Win32 port

2003-12-11 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Kayvan A. Sylvan wrote: > >> Can you make sure that the cygwin sed is used? I don't think it has >> any such problems. > > Indeed, Paul says that cygwin packages gnu sed 4.07 and that all is Ok > with this. > > So the answer

Re: math_formula_help

2003-12-11 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Thu, 11 Dec 2003, Karshi F.Hasanov wrote: > > I have a long math formula and I can't fit it on one page. > How do In put such fomula in two lines? > Example: > > F=sqrt(. > ..) ? > I put an example for something similar on this

Re: Specifying LyX startup geometry

2003-12-11 Thread Paul A. Rubin
[posted and mailed] Jim Osborn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:20031211214006.GB11246 @eskimo.com: > The Customization help for LyX 1.3.2 says, "3.9: There are many other > configuration options... Please ask on the mailing lists if you need > some more information..." > > So, is there a

Text in toc flowing off page

2003-12-11 Thread Anca Tibor- Attila
Hi, as I remeber, there was a thread a few days ago about text off the page borders. Now, I have another problem: there are a few longer superscripts in my document. Inside the document it appeares correctly, but in my Toc is exceeding the page borders. How is this possible to fix? Thanks in

figure float problem

2003-12-11 Thread Myriam Abramson
Hi! I'm using the RH9 rpm with qt for lyx 1.3.3. I have 2 figure floats (eps) and it seems that the last figure overlaps with the first when printing or viewing the document. The figures are fine in Lyx and they are fine when viewing them outside of Lyx with ghostview. What could be the