Re: More than one appendix in IEEEtran

2005-04-19 Thread G. Milde
On 18.04.05, LB wrote: Hello I'm using article(IEEEtran) in LyX1.3.3. I see APPENDIX and APPENDICES in the drop down list of possible environments. APPENDIX environment works but it does not produce a number to be referenced for the appendix. It's probably ok since there is only one.

Problem converting from LyX 1.1.x to 1.3.5

2005-04-19 Thread Joerg Hau
Dear All, I have a problem with an old LyX file (created with LyX 1.1.x; it says \lyxformat 218) that generates lots of error messages. To reproduce: (1) Download and unpack http://homepage.sunrise.ch/mysunrise/joerg.hau/sci/msgraph/dnload/msgraph21.src.zip. (2) Open doc/msgman21.lyx (it

Re: Non-WYSIWYM Editors

2005-04-19 Thread michf
Quoting Rich Shepard [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Mon, 18 Apr 2005, pano karambelas wrote: Are there any good non-WYSIWYM editors for Linux or esp. MAC to run LaTex on. I use WinEdt (with Miktex) on my wintel box and just installed LyX. Emacs is what I use for LaTeX. Others use VIM, joe or

Centering a Float in Lyx

2005-04-19 Thread Matt Williams
Dear List, Despite reading and re-reading the lyx FAQ and User Guide, I'm still having problems centering floats; My Document settings has \centre in the float placement field, and I've even tried {\begin center} {\end center} around the floats, but no luck. Any ideas? Matt -- Dr. M.

Re: Centering a Float in Lyx

2005-04-19 Thread Rob S
Matt; My Document settings has \centre in the float placement field, and I've even tried {\begin center} {\end center} around the floats, but no luck. Any ideas? Click in the float. Then from menu select LayoutParagraphalignmentcenter Hope thats what you mean. Rob S -- R D Saunders Hydraulic

Re: Centering a Float in Lyx

2005-04-19 Thread G. Milde
On 19.04.05, Matt Williams wrote: I've even tried {\begin center} {\end center} around the floats, but no luck. This should be \begin{center} \end{center} around the figure (not the entire float). Easier is placing the cursor before or behing the figure and FormatParagraph Centered. But

Re: why lyx when there's word?

2005-04-19 Thread Steve Litt
On Monday 18 April 2005 07:00 pm, pano karambelas wrote: Steve - Just to understand, do your comments apply to mathematical/technical documents that are 10 K words as well ? Mathematical, no. MS Word has no reasonable way to do equations. Other tech docs, yes. Prose and screenshots are easy

Re: why lyx when there's word?

2005-04-19 Thread Ingar Pareliussen
Tysdag 19. april 2005 14:27 skreiv Steve Litt: On Monday 18 April 2005 07:00 pm, pano karambelas wrote: Steve - Just to understand, do your comments apply to mathematical/technical documents that are 10 K words as well ? Mathematical, no. MS Word has no reasonable way to do equations.

Elsart users

2005-04-19 Thread Rob S
Hi List I'm just about to draft a paper using the elsart.lyx template. Is there anyone using this (or has used this) who can offer suggestions on how to place multiple authors separated by commas as: Author 1, Author 2 and Author 3 from within LyX without having to use ERT (I can reproduce all

Re: Elsart users

2005-04-19 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
I cant actually get elsart to work here as it tells me i am missing the .cls file required. Anyway have you tried just pressing enter and then adding another author on the next line. In many classes this produces a comma seperated output with the last author added as 'and' eg lyx input

Re: Image converter and temporary files.

2005-04-19 Thread Angus Leeming
Rudi Gaelzer wrote: LyX version: 1.3.5 OS: Fedora Linux core 2 Mandrake Linux 10.0 In both OSes, LyX was installed using the RPM package. Is there any log file I can attach, besides the usual TeX log? You could run from the command line as: $ lyx -dbg graphics 2 lyx.log Question:

Re: Problem converting from LyX 1.1.x to 1.3.5

2005-04-19 Thread Angus Leeming
Joerg Hau wrote: Dear All, I have a problem with an old LyX file (created with LyX 1.1.x; it says \lyxformat 218) that generates lots of error messages. To reproduce: (1) Download and unpack http://homepage.sunrise.ch/mysunrise/joerg.hau/sci/msgraph/dnload/msgraph21.src.zip. (2) Open

Re: Elsart users

2005-04-19 Thread Milos Komarcevic
Geoff, I cant actually get elsart to work here as it tells me i am missing the .cls file required. You have to install the elsart class manually, it doesn't usually come with a LaTeX distribution. You can get it from CTAN or the Elsevier author gateway. Bibtex style files are distributed

Re: why lyx when there's word?

2005-04-19 Thread Matej Cepl
Steve Litt wrote: I think a person should use Word (or in my case OpenOffice) for most stuff. If it's under 10,000 words, LyX is a hassle unless you're willing to accept ALL LyX's defaults. Here's why... I would respectfully disagree with my honorable colleague from Florida :-) Steve, you used

Re: Brackets around equation reference

2005-04-19 Thread Milos Komarcevic
LB [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm using LyX1.3.3 on Windows. I'm writing a paper using IEEEtran for an IEEE journal. Usually the equation cross-references are surrounded by brackets in the text portion of the paper. Is there a way of setting LyX to do this automatically? Or should I just

Re: Problem converting from LyX 1.1.x to 1.3.5

2005-04-19 Thread Angus Leeming
Joerg Hau wrote: Another, related question: The LyX file mentioned above includes numerous symbols of mouse buttons, which I formatted as small inline graphics in the original document (2.5 mm width). In the LyX 1.3.5 editing screen, these are _huge_; is this intended behaviour? Depends what

Re: Problem converting from LyX 1.1.x to 1.3.5

2005-04-19 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Angus == Angus Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Angus You can't insert a graphic in a list item. Looking at the Angus original, you had that wrong there too, so you just got lucky. Angus All that has happened is that LyX has got better at spotting Angus errors in the LaTeX log file. Note that

Re: Elsart users

2005-04-19 Thread Rob S
Milos; with elsart this will give you authors on separate lines with address for each individual, which is senseless if they are from the same institution. So yeah, ERT seems to be the only way to get the other output style with a shared address. That's at least how I had to do it recently, but

Re: More than one appendix in IEEEtran

2005-04-19 Thread LB
Hi Thank you for the help. I can get \appendices to work using ERT. If I inserted the environment APPENDICES using LyX drop down menu the word APPENDICES appears in the document, but it disappears as soon as I move the cursor to any other line. Is it a bug in LyX? Thank you Leo -

Re: Problem converting from LyX 1.1.x to 1.3.5

2005-04-19 Thread Jose' Matos
On Tuesday 19 April 2005 15:58, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Angus == Angus Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Note that this is something that I have already seen. If 1.1.x managed to do something working with it, it would be nice to have lyx2lyx fix the files (Jose' ?) I am reluctant to

Re: Elsart users

2005-04-19 Thread Jose' Matos
On Tuesday 19 April 2005 16:00, Rob S wrote: Milos; I'm pretty much there now (99%). A few ert boxes and an extra Style added to the elsart layout file to define the \corauth LaTeX commannd (same as footnote). Do you care to share that change? We can add it to the next lyx version. :-)

Re: Problem converting from LyX 1.1.x to 1.3.5

2005-04-19 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Jose' == Jose' Matos [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jose' I am reluctant to change the file format because of this Jose' case. Not because it is difficult, the change seems easy, but Jose' because it also changes the structure of the document. Jose' What is the general fix? Because for this

Elsart Template, authors inline --nearly!

2005-04-19 Thread R . D . SAUNDERS
Hi List; For those interested I've attached a copy of an ammended Elsart template which will produce(with one further tweak) authors names inline. One problem remains and I'm not sure how to overcome this: This template, if you have elsart.cls installed, produces a .tex file which requires one

Re: Elsart Template, authors inline --nearly!

2005-04-19 Thread Rob S
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi List; For those interested I've attached a copy of an ammended Elsart template which will produce(with one further tweak) authors names inline. Ah, does not appear to be there! 2nd try Rob S -- R D Saunders Hydraulic Research Group Department of Civil and Environmental

Re: why lyx when there's word?

2005-04-19 Thread Rich Drewes
On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, Matej Cepl wrote: etc., where Word's instability goes into author's way. However, there are other factors where Word's inadequacy shows up -- somebody mentioned mathematics, I would add missing support for BibTeX Serious Word users would point to EndNote and say that

reference on page page

2005-04-19 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, You probably already know this, but just in case you don't, I'll save you the headaches I had when I didn't know it. Using cross reference type reference on page page prints page information ONLY if the referenced figure is on a different page. It makes a lot of sense, but I didn't

Re: reference on page page

2005-04-19 Thread Steve Litt
On Tuesday 19 April 2005 03:59 pm, Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, You probably already know this, but just in case you don't, I'll save you the headaches I had when I didn't know it. Using cross reference type reference on page page prints page information ONLY if the referenced figure is on a

Re: Non-WYSIWYM Editors

2005-04-19 Thread Keto
On Tuesday 19 April 2005 01:20, pano karambelas wrote: Are there any good non-WYSIWYM editors for Linux or esp. MAC to run LaTex on. I use WinEdt (with Miktex) on my wintel box and just installed LyX. In Linux I use Kile: http://kile.sourceforge.net/ that it is a very nice LaTeX

Underlining URL environment

2005-04-19 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, I have a special LyX URL environment that references LaTeX URLL environment that redefines quote, but no matter how hard I try, I can't get it to underline more than the first character of the URL. I already have the ulem package loaded, not that it's helped me. Here's one of the

Case equations

2005-04-19 Thread Myriam Abramson
Hi! How do you write a case equation in LyX? I mean an equation like B = { 1 if x 0; 0 if x = 0 so that the brace covers multiple lines? I looked everywhere and read the Users' guide but it did not cover that. TIA -- myriam

RE: Non-WYSIWYM Editors (WinEdt Comparisons)

2005-04-19 Thread pano karambelas
Interestingdoes anyone use WinEdt (on a windows box)? Any comparisons of this w/some of the better LATEX editors MAC or Linux editors ? Pano -Original Message- From: Keto [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2005 4:36 PM To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: Re:

Re: Case equations

2005-04-19 Thread Kayvan A. Sylvan
On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 08:37:14PM -0400, Myriam Abramson wrote: Hi! How do you write a case equation in LyX? I mean an equation like B = { 1 if x 0; 0 if x = 0 so that the brace covers multiple lines? I think that you can use the math panel and then click on the button that

Re: More than one appendix in IEEEtran

2005-04-19 Thread G. Milde
On 18.04.05, LB wrote: Hello I'm using article(IEEEtran) in LyX1.3.3. I see APPENDIX and APPENDICES in the drop down list of possible environments. APPENDIX environment works but it does not produce a number to be referenced for the appendix. It's probably ok since there is only one.

Problem converting from LyX 1.1.x to 1.3.5

2005-04-19 Thread Joerg Hau
Dear All, I have a problem with an old LyX file (created with LyX 1.1.x; it says \lyxformat 218) that generates lots of error messages. To reproduce: (1) Download and unpack http://homepage.sunrise.ch/mysunrise/joerg.hau/sci/msgraph/dnload/msgraph21.src.zip. (2) Open doc/msgman21.lyx (it

Re: Non-WYSIWYM Editors

2005-04-19 Thread michf
Quoting Rich Shepard [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Mon, 18 Apr 2005, pano karambelas wrote: Are there any good non-WYSIWYM editors for Linux or esp. MAC to run LaTex on. I use WinEdt (with Miktex) on my wintel box and just installed LyX. Emacs is what I use for LaTeX. Others use VIM, joe or

Centering a Float in Lyx

2005-04-19 Thread Matt Williams
Dear List, Despite reading and re-reading the lyx FAQ and User Guide, I'm still having problems centering floats; My Document settings has \centre in the float placement field, and I've even tried {\begin center} {\end center} around the floats, but no luck. Any ideas? Matt -- Dr. M.

Re: Centering a Float in Lyx

2005-04-19 Thread Rob S
Matt; My Document settings has \centre in the float placement field, and I've even tried {\begin center} {\end center} around the floats, but no luck. Any ideas? Click in the float. Then from menu select LayoutParagraphalignmentcenter Hope thats what you mean. Rob S -- R D Saunders Hydraulic

Re: Centering a Float in Lyx

2005-04-19 Thread G. Milde
On 19.04.05, Matt Williams wrote: I've even tried {\begin center} {\end center} around the floats, but no luck. This should be \begin{center} \end{center} around the figure (not the entire float). Easier is placing the cursor before or behing the figure and FormatParagraph Centered. But

Re: why lyx when there's word?

2005-04-19 Thread Steve Litt
On Monday 18 April 2005 07:00 pm, pano karambelas wrote: Steve - Just to understand, do your comments apply to mathematical/technical documents that are 10 K words as well ? Mathematical, no. MS Word has no reasonable way to do equations. Other tech docs, yes. Prose and screenshots are easy

Re: why lyx when there's word?

2005-04-19 Thread Ingar Pareliussen
Tysdag 19. april 2005 14:27 skreiv Steve Litt: On Monday 18 April 2005 07:00 pm, pano karambelas wrote: Steve - Just to understand, do your comments apply to mathematical/technical documents that are 10 K words as well ? Mathematical, no. MS Word has no reasonable way to do equations.

Elsart users

2005-04-19 Thread Rob S
Hi List I'm just about to draft a paper using the elsart.lyx template. Is there anyone using this (or has used this) who can offer suggestions on how to place multiple authors separated by commas as: Author 1, Author 2 and Author 3 from within LyX without having to use ERT (I can reproduce all

Re: Elsart users

2005-04-19 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
I cant actually get elsart to work here as it tells me i am missing the .cls file required. Anyway have you tried just pressing enter and then adding another author on the next line. In many classes this produces a comma seperated output with the last author added as 'and' eg lyx input

Re: Image converter and temporary files.

2005-04-19 Thread Angus Leeming
Rudi Gaelzer wrote: LyX version: 1.3.5 OS: Fedora Linux core 2 Mandrake Linux 10.0 In both OSes, LyX was installed using the RPM package. Is there any log file I can attach, besides the usual TeX log? You could run from the command line as: $ lyx -dbg graphics 2 lyx.log Question:

Re: Problem converting from LyX 1.1.x to 1.3.5

2005-04-19 Thread Angus Leeming
Joerg Hau wrote: Dear All, I have a problem with an old LyX file (created with LyX 1.1.x; it says \lyxformat 218) that generates lots of error messages. To reproduce: (1) Download and unpack http://homepage.sunrise.ch/mysunrise/joerg.hau/sci/msgraph/dnload/msgraph21.src.zip. (2) Open

Re: Elsart users

2005-04-19 Thread Milos Komarcevic
Geoff, I cant actually get elsart to work here as it tells me i am missing the .cls file required. You have to install the elsart class manually, it doesn't usually come with a LaTeX distribution. You can get it from CTAN or the Elsevier author gateway. Bibtex style files are distributed

Re: why lyx when there's word?

2005-04-19 Thread Matej Cepl
Steve Litt wrote: I think a person should use Word (or in my case OpenOffice) for most stuff. If it's under 10,000 words, LyX is a hassle unless you're willing to accept ALL LyX's defaults. Here's why... I would respectfully disagree with my honorable colleague from Florida :-) Steve, you used

Re: Brackets around equation reference

2005-04-19 Thread Milos Komarcevic
LB [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm using LyX1.3.3 on Windows. I'm writing a paper using IEEEtran for an IEEE journal. Usually the equation cross-references are surrounded by brackets in the text portion of the paper. Is there a way of setting LyX to do this automatically? Or should I just

Re: Problem converting from LyX 1.1.x to 1.3.5

2005-04-19 Thread Angus Leeming
Joerg Hau wrote: Another, related question: The LyX file mentioned above includes numerous symbols of mouse buttons, which I formatted as small inline graphics in the original document (2.5 mm width). In the LyX 1.3.5 editing screen, these are _huge_; is this intended behaviour? Depends what

Re: Problem converting from LyX 1.1.x to 1.3.5

2005-04-19 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Angus == Angus Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Angus You can't insert a graphic in a list item. Looking at the Angus original, you had that wrong there too, so you just got lucky. Angus All that has happened is that LyX has got better at spotting Angus errors in the LaTeX log file. Note that

Re: Elsart users

2005-04-19 Thread Rob S
Milos; with elsart this will give you authors on separate lines with address for each individual, which is senseless if they are from the same institution. So yeah, ERT seems to be the only way to get the other output style with a shared address. That's at least how I had to do it recently, but

Re: More than one appendix in IEEEtran

2005-04-19 Thread LB
Hi Thank you for the help. I can get \appendices to work using ERT. If I inserted the environment APPENDICES using LyX drop down menu the word APPENDICES appears in the document, but it disappears as soon as I move the cursor to any other line. Is it a bug in LyX? Thank you Leo -

Re: Problem converting from LyX 1.1.x to 1.3.5

2005-04-19 Thread Jose' Matos
On Tuesday 19 April 2005 15:58, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Angus == Angus Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Note that this is something that I have already seen. If 1.1.x managed to do something working with it, it would be nice to have lyx2lyx fix the files (Jose' ?) I am reluctant to

Re: Elsart users

2005-04-19 Thread Jose' Matos
On Tuesday 19 April 2005 16:00, Rob S wrote: Milos; I'm pretty much there now (99%). A few ert boxes and an extra Style added to the elsart layout file to define the \corauth LaTeX commannd (same as footnote). Do you care to share that change? We can add it to the next lyx version. :-)

Re: Problem converting from LyX 1.1.x to 1.3.5

2005-04-19 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Jose' == Jose' Matos [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jose' I am reluctant to change the file format because of this Jose' case. Not because it is difficult, the change seems easy, but Jose' because it also changes the structure of the document. Jose' What is the general fix? Because for this

Elsart Template, authors inline --nearly!

2005-04-19 Thread R . D . SAUNDERS
Hi List; For those interested I've attached a copy of an ammended Elsart template which will produce(with one further tweak) authors names inline. One problem remains and I'm not sure how to overcome this: This template, if you have elsart.cls installed, produces a .tex file which requires one

Re: Elsart Template, authors inline --nearly!

2005-04-19 Thread Rob S
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi List; For those interested I've attached a copy of an ammended Elsart template which will produce(with one further tweak) authors names inline. Ah, does not appear to be there! 2nd try Rob S -- R D Saunders Hydraulic Research Group Department of Civil and Environmental

Re: why lyx when there's word?

2005-04-19 Thread Rich Drewes
On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, Matej Cepl wrote: etc., where Word's instability goes into author's way. However, there are other factors where Word's inadequacy shows up -- somebody mentioned mathematics, I would add missing support for BibTeX Serious Word users would point to EndNote and say that

reference on page page

2005-04-19 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, You probably already know this, but just in case you don't, I'll save you the headaches I had when I didn't know it. Using cross reference type reference on page page prints page information ONLY if the referenced figure is on a different page. It makes a lot of sense, but I didn't

Re: reference on page page

2005-04-19 Thread Steve Litt
On Tuesday 19 April 2005 03:59 pm, Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, You probably already know this, but just in case you don't, I'll save you the headaches I had when I didn't know it. Using cross reference type reference on page page prints page information ONLY if the referenced figure is on a

Re: Non-WYSIWYM Editors

2005-04-19 Thread Keto
On Tuesday 19 April 2005 01:20, pano karambelas wrote: Are there any good non-WYSIWYM editors for Linux or esp. MAC to run LaTex on. I use WinEdt (with Miktex) on my wintel box and just installed LyX. In Linux I use Kile: http://kile.sourceforge.net/ that it is a very nice LaTeX

Underlining URL environment

2005-04-19 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, I have a special LyX URL environment that references LaTeX URLL environment that redefines quote, but no matter how hard I try, I can't get it to underline more than the first character of the URL. I already have the ulem package loaded, not that it's helped me. Here's one of the

Case equations

2005-04-19 Thread Myriam Abramson
Hi! How do you write a case equation in LyX? I mean an equation like B = { 1 if x 0; 0 if x = 0 so that the brace covers multiple lines? I looked everywhere and read the Users' guide but it did not cover that. TIA -- myriam

RE: Non-WYSIWYM Editors (WinEdt Comparisons)

2005-04-19 Thread pano karambelas
Interestingdoes anyone use WinEdt (on a windows box)? Any comparisons of this w/some of the better LATEX editors MAC or Linux editors ? Pano -Original Message- From: Keto [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2005 4:36 PM To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: Re:

Re: Case equations

2005-04-19 Thread Kayvan A. Sylvan
On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 08:37:14PM -0400, Myriam Abramson wrote: Hi! How do you write a case equation in LyX? I mean an equation like B = { 1 if x 0; 0 if x = 0 so that the brace covers multiple lines? I think that you can use the math panel and then click on the button that

Re: More than one appendix in IEEEtran

2005-04-19 Thread G. Milde
On 18.04.05, LB wrote: > Hello > I'm using article(IEEEtran) in LyX1.3.3. I see "APPENDIX" and "APPENDICES" > in the drop down list of possible environments. APPENDIX environment works > but it does not produce a number to be referenced for the appendix. It's > probably ok since there is

Problem converting from LyX 1.1.x to 1.3.5

2005-04-19 Thread Joerg Hau
Dear All, I have a problem with an "old" LyX file (created with LyX 1.1.x; it says "\lyxformat 218") that generates lots of error messages. To reproduce: (1) Download and unpack . (2) Open doc/msgman21.lyx

Re: Non-WYSIWYM Editors

2005-04-19 Thread michf
Quoting Rich Shepard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Mon, 18 Apr 2005, pano karambelas wrote: > > > Are there any good non-WYSIWYM editors for Linux or esp. MAC to run LaTex > > on. I use WinEdt (with Miktex) on my wintel box and just installed LyX. > >Emacs is what I use for LaTeX. Others use VIM,

Centering a Float in Lyx

2005-04-19 Thread Matt Williams
Dear List, Despite reading and re-reading the lyx FAQ and User Guide, I'm still having problems centering floats; My Document settings has \centre in the "float placement" field, and I've even tried {\begin center} {\end center} around the floats, but no luck. Any ideas? Matt -- Dr. M.

Re: Centering a Float in Lyx

2005-04-19 Thread Rob S
Matt; My Document settings has \centre in the "float placement" field, and I've even tried {\begin center} {\end center} around the floats, but no luck. Any ideas? Click in the float. Then from menu select Layout>>Paragraph>>alignment>>center Hope thats what you mean. Rob S -- R D Saunders

Re: Centering a Float in Lyx

2005-04-19 Thread G. Milde
On 19.04.05, Matt Williams wrote: > I've even tried {\begin center} {\end center} around the floats, but no > luck. This should be \begin{center} \end{center} around the figure (not the entire float). Easier is placing the cursor before or behing the figure and Format>Paragraph Centered. But

Re: "why lyx when there's word?"

2005-04-19 Thread Steve Litt
On Monday 18 April 2005 07:00 pm, pano karambelas wrote: > Steve - > > Just to understand, do your comments apply to mathematical/technical > documents that are < 10 K words as well ? Mathematical, no. MS Word has no reasonable way to do equations. Other tech docs, yes. Prose and screenshots are

Re: "why lyx when there's word?"

2005-04-19 Thread Ingar Pareliussen
Tysdag 19. april 2005 14:27 skreiv Steve Litt: > On Monday 18 April 2005 07:00 pm, pano karambelas wrote: > > Steve - > > > > Just to understand, do your comments apply to mathematical/technical > > documents that are < 10 K words as well ? > > Mathematical, no. MS Word has no reasonable way to do

Elsart users

2005-04-19 Thread Rob S
Hi List I'm just about to draft a paper using the elsart.lyx template. Is there anyone using this (or has used this) who can offer suggestions on how to place multiple authors separated by commas as: Author 1, Author 2 and Author 3 from within LyX without having to use ERT (I can reproduce all

Re: Elsart users

2005-04-19 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
I cant actually get elsart to work here as it tells me i am missing the .cls file required. Anyway have you tried just pressing enter and then adding another author on the next line. In many classes this produces a comma seperated output with the last author added as 'and' eg lyx input

Re: Image converter and temporary files.

2005-04-19 Thread Angus Leeming
Rudi Gaelzer wrote: > LyX version: 1.3.5 > OS: Fedora Linux core 2 > Mandrake Linux 10.0 > > In both OSes, LyX was installed using the RPM package. > > Is there any log file I can attach, besides the usual TeX log? You could run from the command line as: $ lyx -dbg graphics 2> lyx.log

Re: Problem converting from LyX 1.1.x to 1.3.5

2005-04-19 Thread Angus Leeming
Joerg Hau wrote: > Dear All, > > I have a problem with an "old" LyX file (created with LyX 1.1.x; it says > "\lyxformat 218") that generates lots of error messages. > > To reproduce: > (1) Download and unpack >

Re: Elsart users

2005-04-19 Thread Milos Komarcevic
Geoff, > I cant actually get elsart to work here as it tells me i am missing the > .cls file required. You have to install the elsart class manually, it doesn't usually come with a LaTeX distribution. You can get it from CTAN or the Elsevier author gateway. Bibtex style files are distributed

Re: "why lyx when there's word?"

2005-04-19 Thread Matej Cepl
Steve Litt wrote: > I think a person should use Word (or in my case OpenOffice) for most > stuff. If it's under 10,000 words, LyX is a hassle unless you're willing > to accept ALL LyX's defaults. Here's why... I would respectfully disagree with my honorable colleague from Florida :-) Steve, you

Re: Brackets around equation reference

2005-04-19 Thread Milos Komarcevic
LB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm using LyX1.3.3 on Windows. I'm writing a paper using IEEEtran for an > IEEE journal. Usually the equation cross-references are surrounded by > brackets in the text portion of the paper. Is there a way of setting LyX to > do this automatically? Or should

Re: Problem converting from LyX 1.1.x to 1.3.5

2005-04-19 Thread Angus Leeming
Joerg Hau wrote: > Another, related question: The LyX file mentioned above includes numerous > symbols of mouse buttons, which I formatted as small "inline" graphics in > the original document (2.5 mm width). In the LyX 1.3.5 editing screen, > these are _huge_; is this intended behaviour?

Re: Problem converting from LyX 1.1.x to 1.3.5

2005-04-19 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Angus" == Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Angus> You can't insert a graphic in a list item. Looking at the Angus> original, you had that wrong there too, so you just got lucky. Angus> All that has happened is that LyX has got better at spotting Angus> errors in the LaTeX log

Re: Elsart users

2005-04-19 Thread Rob S
Milos; with elsart this will give you authors on separate lines with address for each individual, which is senseless if they are from the same institution. So yeah, ERT seems to be the only way to get the other output style with a shared address. That's at least how I had to do it recently, but

Re: More than one appendix in IEEEtran

2005-04-19 Thread LB
Hi Thank you for the help. I can get \appendices to work using ERT. If I inserted the environment APPENDICES using LyX drop down menu the word APPENDICES appears in the document, but it disappears as soon as I move the cursor to any other line. Is it a bug in LyX? Thank you Leo -

Re: Problem converting from LyX 1.1.x to 1.3.5

2005-04-19 Thread Jose' Matos
On Tuesday 19 April 2005 15:58, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > "Angus" == Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > Note that this is something that I have already seen. If 1.1.x managed > to do something working with it, it would be nice to have lyx2lyx fix > the files (Jose' ?) I am

Re: Elsart users

2005-04-19 Thread Jose' Matos
On Tuesday 19 April 2005 16:00, Rob S wrote: > Milos; > > I'm pretty much there now (99%). A few ert boxes and an extra Style > added to the elsart layout file to define the \corauth LaTeX commannd > (same as footnote). Do you care to share that change? We can add it to the next lyx version.

Re: Problem converting from LyX 1.1.x to 1.3.5

2005-04-19 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Jose'" == Jose' Matos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jose'> I am reluctant to change the file format because of this Jose'> case. Not because it is difficult, the change seems easy, but Jose'> because it also changes the structure of the document. Jose'> What is the general fix? Because

Elsart Template, authors inline --nearly!

2005-04-19 Thread R . D . SAUNDERS
Hi List; For those interested I've attached a copy of an ammended Elsart template which will produce(with one further tweak) authors names inline. One problem remains and I'm not sure how to overcome this: This template, if you have elsart.cls installed, produces a .tex file which requires one

Re: Elsart Template, authors inline --nearly!

2005-04-19 Thread Rob S
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi List; For those interested I've attached a copy of an ammended Elsart template which will produce(with one further tweak) authors names inline. Ah, does not appear to be there! 2nd try Rob S -- R D Saunders Hydraulic Research Group Department of Civil and Environmental

Re: "why lyx when there's word?"

2005-04-19 Thread Rich Drewes
On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, Matej Cepl wrote: > etc., where Word's instability goes into author's way. However, there are > other factors where Word's inadequacy shows up -- somebody mentioned > mathematics, I would add missing support for BibTeX Serious Word users would point to EndNote and say that

on page

2005-04-19 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, You probably already know this, but just in case you don't, I'll save you the headaches I had when I didn't know it. Using cross reference type " on page " prints page information ONLY if the referenced figure is on a different page. It makes a lot of sense, but I didn't realize that

Re: on page

2005-04-19 Thread Steve Litt
On Tuesday 19 April 2005 03:59 pm, Steve Litt wrote: > Hi all, > > You probably already know this, but just in case you don't, I'll save you > the headaches I had when I didn't know it. Using cross reference type > " on page " prints page information ONLY if the referenced > figure is on a

Re: Non-WYSIWYM Editors

2005-04-19 Thread Keto
On Tuesday 19 April 2005 01:20, pano karambelas wrote: > Are there any good non-WYSIWYM editors for Linux or esp. MAC to run > LaTex on. I use WinEdt (with Miktex) on my wintel box and just > installed LyX. In Linux I use Kile: http://kile.sourceforge.net/ that it is a very nice LaTeX

Underlining URL environment

2005-04-19 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, I have a special LyX URL environment that references LaTeX URLL environment that redefines quote, but no matter how hard I try, I can't get it to underline more than the first character of the URL. I already have the ulem package loaded, not that it's helped me. Here's one of the

Case equations

2005-04-19 Thread Myriam Abramson
Hi! How do you write a case equation in LyX? I mean an equation like B = { 1 if x > 0; 0 if x = 0 so that the brace covers multiple lines? I looked everywhere and read the Users' guide but it did not cover that. TIA -- myriam

RE: Non-WYSIWYM Editors (WinEdt Comparisons)

2005-04-19 Thread pano karambelas
Interestingdoes anyone use WinEdt (on a windows box)? Any comparisons of this w/some of the better LATEX editors MAC or Linux editors ? Pano -Original Message- From: Keto [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2005 4:36 PM To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: Re:

Re: Case equations

2005-04-19 Thread Kayvan A. Sylvan
On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 08:37:14PM -0400, Myriam Abramson wrote: > > Hi! > > How do you write a case equation in LyX? I mean an equation like > > B = { 1 if x > 0; > 0 if x = 0 > > so that the brace covers multiple lines? I think that you can use the math panel and then click on the