Re: Two dashes vs. en-dash

2005-06-02 Thread Johan Ingvast
On Thu, 2 Jun 2005, ADT wrote: > Anyone know the magic keypress to create a double dash? What about typing two minuses in math mode? /johan -- Johan Ingvast, PhD student http://www.md.kth.se/~ingvast Department of Machine Design, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden http://www.md.kth.se, http:/

Two dashes vs. en-dash

2005-06-02 Thread ADT
I'm writing some technical documentation which covers the usage of GNU style long-opts where multi-character options are preceded with two dashes (--). However, when LyX sees two dashes together, it turns it into an elongated single dash (en-dash) which is confusing/wrong. I've looked in the User

installing a new TeX document class for LyXwin?

2005-06-02 Thread Steven Ning
How would I go about installing a new TeX class and using it from within LyX? This class is "an extension of the standard article class," as quoted from the author. A copy is attached. Apparently, it has custom fields such as \name, \class, and \assignment. Can I fill these in from LyX?   A

Re: Controlling space after full stop

2005-06-02 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 10:40:55PM +0100, Angus Leeming wrote: > > Given that "man dvi2tty" doesn't provide any clues, how about a sed script? > > sed 's/\. \([A-Z]\)/. \1/g' in.txt > out.txt Good idea. I'll try this. I think I'm going to see if I can hack on the dvi2tty stuff to do this, too

Re: Latex import...AGAIN!

2005-06-02 Thread Luis Rivera
Nicolas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Hei! > > I know this issue has already been treated in this > list > (http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users- [EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg39543.html), > but I > still do not manage to make it work. > I am using Lyx 1.3.5 in windows. I have also installed Python 2

Re: Controlling space after full stop

2005-06-02 Thread Angus Leeming
Andrew Sullivan wrote: Hi, I'm using the packages courier and stdpage in order to produce correctly-formatted pages for a certain ASCII-based format. I then use dvi2tty to create an actual ASCII document. This works, except that the usual typesetting rules produce one space, not two, after a f

Re: problem with multiline formula

2005-06-02 Thread Srinivas Nedunuri
- Original Message - From: "Paul A. Rubin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2005 3:10 PM Subject: Re: problem with multiline formula > Srinivas Nedunuri wrote: > > I am unable to get the multiline formula format to work as described in the User Guide. It says that C-Ent

Re: Reference manual and key bindings

2005-06-02 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Gunnar wrote: In the documentation "Customization.lyx" in section "3.3 Bindings" it says: All the LyX functions are listed in the Reference Guide. What reference guide I ask? The one neither you nor I have. :-) LFUNS are listed (with precious little detail) on the Wiki: http://wiki.lyx.or

Re: problem with multiline formula

2005-06-02 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Srinivas Nedunuri wrote: I am unable to get the multiline formula format to work as described in the User Guide. It says that C-Enter ought to turn a formula into a multiline one, and that C-Tab allows you to seperate the left from the middle from the right. However, neither of these seem to b

problem with multiline formula

2005-06-02 Thread Srinivas Nedunuri
I am unable to get the multiline formula format to work as described in the User Guide. It says that C-Enter ought to turn a formula into a multiline one, and that C-Tab allows you to seperate the left from the middle from the right. However, neither of these seem to be doing anything ("Unknown

Controlling space after full stop

2005-06-02 Thread Andrew Sullivan
Hi, I'm using the packages courier and stdpage in order to produce correctly-formatted pages for a certain ASCII-based format. I then use dvi2tty to create an actual ASCII document. This works, except that the usual typesetting rules produce one space, not two, after a full stop. This makes the

Re: latex question

2005-06-02 Thread Jean-Pierre Chretien
>>Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2005 16:48:31 +0200 >>To: Juergen Spitzmueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org >>Subject: Re: latex question >>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin A. Hansen) >>it is possible that publiographer is wrong here - but i have not been >>able to locate a precise descrip

Re[4]: hyperref + spaces in PDF title

2005-06-02 Thread Andrei Popov
> I useexplicit hypersetup command. > Maybe you could try ? Jean-Pierre, thanks a lot! I don't see the actual difference between \hypersetup and \usepackage[...]{hyperref}, but your suggestion worked nonetheless! Neat... =) -- WBR, Andrei Popov Using LyX 1.3.4 on Linux

Re: latex question (SOLVED)

2005-06-02 Thread Martin A. Hansen
you are beautiful people :o) a space between J.F. did the trick. if i ever was to cite you guys, your initials would now come out correct :o sincerely martin On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 05:12:08PM +0200, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: > Martin A. Hansen wrote: > > now, the medline2bibtex c

Re: latex question

2005-06-02 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Martin A. Hansen wrote: > now, the medline2bibtex convertions is done by pybliographer which gives > bibtex files with: author = {Smith, J.F.} > > it is possible that publiographer is wrong here - but i have not been > able to locate a precise description of the bibtex file format. It is. Bibtex k

Re: latex question

2005-06-02 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
I use JabRef and it imports as 2) author = {Smith, J. F.} This works and if I manually remove the spaces it doesn't. Seems Pybliographer is wrong - Original Message - From: "Martin A. Hansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Juergen Spitzmueller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Thursday, June

Re: latex question

2005-06-02 Thread Martin A. Hansen
my bibtex file is generated from the medline format - a large bibliographic collection of life science publications - and there they truncate the names to initials and surname. now, the medline2bibtex convertions is done by pybliographer which gives bibtex files with: author = {Smith, J.F.} it is

Re: latex question

2005-06-02 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Martin A. Hansen wrote: > author = {Smith, J.F.}, and ends up as Smith, J. > > now, it has not been possible for me to verify that the author format in > the bibtex file is ok. (the problem is solved if i introduce a blank > between the initials -> J. F., but i think that is wrong and a freak > flu

latex question

2005-06-02 Thread Martin A. Hansen
hi i know this is not strictly on topic, but i am at my wits end: i am trying to format a .bst file using latex makebst, and it is not going very well. i select the resulting .bst file in lyx and renders a dvi, and the references looks nice BUT only the first initial in the author names is prese

Re: Natbib sort and compress

2005-06-02 Thread Matej Cepl
Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: > First step would be a "class options manager". But there are so much > plans. Recently, I heard someone say "There's only so much I can do...". Yes, yes, yes, ... just release 1.4.0 soon and do not let yourself to be distracted by anyting else!!! Matej -- Matej Cep

slides formular super/subscript

2005-06-02 Thread ibert
Hi! I´m trying to designa slide-presentation from the default slide layout. There are a lot of formulars in the slides, and most of them use sub- and superscript letters. For example upper and lower bound of an integral. The problem is, that those letters in super and subscript are much to huge

Re: 6.3 Short titles

2005-06-02 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Bruce" == Bruce Ernest Weller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Bruce> J-Marc Happy to carry out the correspondence in the list but I Bruce> suspect that I am guilty of not providing enough Bruce> information.Not really sure of the etiquette and reluctant to Bruce> lead the list readers on a wild

Reference manual and key bindings

2005-06-02 Thread Gunnar
In the documentation "Customization.lyx" in section "3.3 Bindings" it says: All the LyX functions are listed in the Reference Guide. What reference guide I ask? I would like to press M-g u and then get two separate ERT boxes with \begin{ug} and \end{ug}.

Re: Multipart documents

2005-06-02 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: > I have a multipart document where I use the Include function to create a > Main document that just has various layout bits in ERT and then the > sections. > > If I want to only print one section, for proof reading or layout checking > etc I comment out the sections I don't w

Re: Natbib sort and compress

2005-06-02 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Angus Leeming wrote: > > Would it be possible in future version to have more natbib > > options in the layout menu? > > I believe that I heard Jürgen Spitzmüller drop a hint recently that he's > planning to work on a "proper" package manager in the next round of > development. > > Angus (causing tr

Re: 6.3 Specifying Short Titles with Optional Arguments

2005-06-02 Thread Bruce Ernest Weller
JMarc, Many thanks; I shall fire up and try your first recommended approach. Will post outcome here for future readers. Bruce W On Wed, 2005-06-01 at 13:15 +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > "Bruce" == Bruce Ernest Weller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Bruce> The captioned reference

Re: Converting from older version

2005-06-02 Thread Angus Leeming
Christian Payne wrote: > Ok, here is what happens when I run the python lyx2lyx script: > --- > C:\Program Files\lyx\share\lyx\lyx2lyx>python lyx2lyx thesis.lyx > > thesis-win.lyx > 'import site' failed; use -v for traceback > Traceback (most recent call last): >File "lyx2lyx", line 19, in ? >

RE: Converting from older version

2005-06-02 Thread Nicolas
Hei! Install the last version of Python, that is, 2.4.1. Download the tex2lyx package from the wiki (http://wiki.lyx.org/LaTeX/LatexToLyx). It comes with a lyx2lyx tool that works for sure (maintain tex2lyx files separate from Lyx files!). And then run the lyx2lyx tool using the full path to call