trouble with margins and saving (strange behaviours)

2004-06-07 Thread Matthew.Kelly
I am really not sure what is going wrong here. I have my thesis in Lyx and have suddenly noticed the following strange behaviour and am not really sure where to start sorting it out. I cannot seem to save my master document after changing the margins. If I set them to very wide or wide, I can p

RE: Re: \hyphenation

2004-06-07 Thread peter.may
Hello, > > actually I do have numerous hyphenation mistakes - caused by the automatic > > tex algorithm - in my german-lyx-document. > > THis is a strong indication that you don\'t have German hyphenation > patterns loaded. Although TeX in not perfect in this area, it almost is. > > Are you sure

Re: LyX kills X

2004-06-07 Thread Marc Jeffrey Driftmeyer
On Monday 07 June 2004 01:23 pm, Marco Beishuizen wrote: You mentioned you are using XFree86 4.4.0. What is your display driver? Have you checked the XFree86.log for Warnings/Errors? Did it work well with XFree86 4.3.0 drivers? What X Extensions do you have enabled (xfb, xrandr,) -Marc >

Re: LyX kills X

2004-06-07 Thread Marco Beishuizen
On stardate Mon, 7 Jun 2004, the wise Jean-Marc Lasgouttes entered: "Marco" == Marco Beishuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: What is the depth of your screen? That is, how many colors? Marco> 24 bit colors, and the resolution is 1280x960 on an 21" Marco> monitor. This should be OK. What version of

Re: lyx compatibility with other w-processors

2004-06-07 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Sun, Jun 06, 2004 at 10:16:20PM +0100, Angus Leeming wrote: > Desktop Media wrote: > > Moreover, i had noticed before that latex files are not always > > imported flawlessly by lyx. So, specific filters lyx2writer and > > writer2lyx could make sense... > > This last point will be much less seri

Re: LyX kills X

2004-06-07 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Marco" == Marco Beishuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> What is the depth of your screen? That is, how many colors? Marco> 24 bit colors, and the resolution is 1280x960 on an 21" Marco> monitor. This should be OK. What version of xforms is it? JMarc

Re: LyX kills X

2004-06-07 Thread Marco Beishuizen
On stardate Mon, 7 Jun 2004, the wise Jean-Marc Lasgouttes entered: "Marco" == Marco Beishuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Marco> The standard XForms. I'm running FreeBSD/alpha 4.10-RELEASE and Marco> installed LyX from the ports. The version of XFree86 is 4.4.0. What is the depth of your screen?

Re: LyX kills X

2004-06-07 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Marco" == Marco Beishuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Marco> The standard XForms. I'm running FreeBSD/alpha 4.10-RELEASE and Marco> installed LyX from the ports. The version of XFree86 is 4.4.0. What is the depth of your screen? That is, how many colors? JMarc

Re: LyX kills X

2004-06-07 Thread Marco Beishuizen
On stardate Mon, 7 Jun 2004, the wise Jose' Matos entered: On Saturday 05 June 2004 11:10, Marco Beishuizen wrote: Hi, I recently installed LyX 1.3.4 on my DEC PWS 600au running XFce4 as windowmanager. Problem is that LyX kills the X server when I try to open a document in the help section of the m

Re: resolution of figures

2004-06-07 Thread John Coppens
On Mon, 7 Jun 2004 08:01:41 +0200 Wolfgang Engelmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If I try to print a pnm or eps figure in lyx at the highest reasonable > solution with a 600*600dpi printer, it shows only a fourth of the figure > on the printpage. It is as if one pixel is printed in 4 pixels. gif

two parameter command

2004-06-07 Thread Stefan van der Walt
Hello everyone I am trying to include acronym functionality in my .layout, but do not quite know how to handle the following situation: An acronym is defined with \begin{acronym} ... \acro{WIAF}{Word In Acronym Form} ... \end{acronym} and thus \acro needs two parameters. How would one incorporat

Re: SSlightly OT: ghostscript error when trying to print

2004-06-07 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sun, 6 Jun 2004, Russell W. Behne wrote: > This is /etc/printcap, even though I don't think that's the problem: > > # This file was automatically generated by cupsd(8) from the > # /etc/cups/printers.conf file. All changes to this file > # will be lost. > HPPSC750|HPPSC

Re: Typing oe ligatures in French

2004-06-07 Thread Angus Leeming
Charles de Miramon wrote: > Reuben Thomas wrote: > >> What's the easiest way to type oe ligatures in French? I was a bit >> surprised to find this wasn't an automatic ligature in LaTeX when >> using French given it's almost always what you want. >> > You have to do it in a manual fashion with th

Re: Typing oe ligatures in French

2004-06-07 Thread Charles de Miramon
Reuben Thomas wrote: > What's the easiest way to type oe ligatures in French? I was a bit > surprised to find this wasn't an automatic ligature in LaTeX when > using French given it's almost always what you want. > You have to do it in a manual fashion with the \oe macro because in French, the li

Re: LyX kills X

2004-06-07 Thread Jose' Matos
On Saturday 05 June 2004 11:10, Marco Beishuizen wrote: > Hi, > > I recently installed LyX 1.3.4 on my DEC PWS 600au running XFce4 as > windowmanager. > > Problem is that LyX kills the X server when I try to open a document in > the help section of the menu bar, like the tutorial or the user's guid

resolution of figures

2004-06-07 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
If I try to print a pnm or eps figure in lyx at the highest reasonable solution with a 600*600dpi printer, it shows only a fourth of the figure on the printpage. It is as if one pixel is printed in 4 pixels. gif seems to work alright. Can somebody give me a hint, please? Wolfgang

Re: page sharing between figure floats and text

2004-06-07 Thread Charlls Quarra
--- "G. Milde" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Did you try not using a float at all? (as a float is > something that is > floating but you want it at a special place). What > happens if you put the > eps graphic inset directly into the title paragraph? > > layout title: insert>Graphik lo

Re: "Find and replace" with ERTs

2004-06-07 Thread Paul Smith
Andre Poenitz wrote: I would like to know whether it is possible to use "find and replace" for replacing some pieces of a LyX document with ERTs? Not within LyX. But you can do it with almost every text editor on the raw .lyx file. Backup recommended... Thanks, Andre'! Paul