Re: Strange behavior LyxWin qt 1.3.5 - possibly relating to Bibtex - solved: bug in babel.def and correction

2005-06-17 Thread Ekkehart Schlicht
Piet van Ostrum has solved the problem. It is due to a bug in babel.def. See the thread *babel + fancyhdr + natbib = ! Extra \else *in the comp.text.tex group. He suggests the following correction: In babel.def replace the three occurrences of \noexpand\bbl(at)restore(at)actives with

search hits hidden by window

2005-06-17 Thread Martin A. Hansen
when searching or using the spell checker, the hits sometimes are hidden behind the search/spell checker window. would it be possible to prevent this? best regards martin

Re: Abstract in 3 languages?

2005-06-17 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Jean-Claude Christnach wrote: I have to provide an abstract for my resume in 3 different languages. I can use the abstract environment several times, but there must be another environment in between, but which one does provide only a blank skip? And what about the title of the abstract which

Re: Words containing Umlaute not found by find and replace

2005-06-17 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
-- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -- Subject: Re: Words containing Umlaute not found by find and replace Date: Freitag, 17. Juni 2005 10:59 From: Wolfgang Engelmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Juergen Spitzmueller [EMAIL PROTECTED] sorry Jrgen, forgot to send it to the list Am

Re: Words containing Umlaute not found by find and replace

2005-06-17 Thread Georg Baum
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: I remember a mail mentioning to use something like LANG= ... before starting Lyx but can?t find it. That is probably your problem. It should work if you start lyx via LANG=de_DE lyx SuSE 9.2 has LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, and that is not really supported by LyX. Georg

Re: Words containing Umlaute not found by find and replace

2005-06-17 Thread Angus Leeming
Georg Baum wrote: Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: I remember a mail mentioning to use something like LANG= ... before starting Lyx but can?t find it. That is probably your problem. It should work if you start lyx via LANG=de_DE lyx SuSE 9.2 has LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, and that is not really

Re: Words containing Umlaute not found by find and replace

2005-06-17 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Am Freitag, 17. Juni 2005 11:25 schrieb Georg Baum: Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: I remember a mail mentioning to use something like LANG= ... before starting Lyx but can?t find it. That is probably your problem. It should work if you start lyx via LANG=de_DE lyx SuSE 9.2 has

Re: Words containing Umlaute not found by find and replace

2005-06-17 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Am Freitag, 17. Juni 2005 11:43 schrieb Angus Leeming: Georg Baum wrote: Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: I remember a mail mentioning to use something like LANG= ... before starting Lyx but can?t find it. That is probably your problem. It should work if you start lyx via LANG=de_DE

Re: Words containing Umlaute not found by find and replace

2005-06-17 Thread Georg Baum
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: bad news: if I export document as .txt (ASCII), it?s still a problem e.g.: Sie bedankt sich fr alle Anteilnahme an der ?tissinnen-Weihe. ^^^^ The document is in latin1 encoding. Open it in a decent text

Re: Words containing Umlaute not found by find and replace

2005-06-17 Thread Angus Leeming
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: Am Freitag, 17. Juni 2005 11:25 schrieb Georg Baum: Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: I remember a mail mentioning to use something like LANG= ... before starting Lyx but can?t find it. That is probably your problem. It should work if you start lyx via LANG=de_DE

Re: Words containing Umlaute not found by find and replace

2005-06-17 Thread Angus Leeming
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: Do I understand you correctly, that I should use at least under SuSe 9.2 (and 9.3?) LyX xforms instead of QT? Or switch to another distribution? Nope. It's sufficient to follow Georg's suggestion of invoking lyx through a wrapper script #! /bin/sh LANG=de_DE lyx $*

Re: Words containing Umlaute not found by find and replace

2005-06-17 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Am Freitag, 17. Juni 2005 12:07 schrieb Georg Baum: Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: bad news: if I export document as .txt (ASCII), it?s still a problem e.g.: Sie bedankt sich fr alle Anteilnahme an der ?tissinnen-Weihe. ^^^^ The

Re: Words containing Umlaute not found by find and replace

2005-06-17 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: Jrgen, what are your settings in BearbeitenEinstellungenSprache (sorry, use german) ngerman. But this is most likely independent (this is the document language, not the interface language). I do also get no Umlaute and sz in the dropdown menue of Navigating (with

Re: Words containing Umlaute not found by find and replace

2005-06-17 Thread Angus Leeming
Georg and Angus, do I understand you right that my Umlaut-problem with the lyx exported .txt and .tex file has nothing to do with lyx, but with the kwrite prg under SuSe (or do I have to set something in kwrite?) AND with the konqueror (because, if I click on the txt file it also misses

Re: Words containing Umlaute not found by find and replace

2005-06-17 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Am Freitag, 17. Juni 2005 13:16 schrieb Angus Leeming: Georg and Angus, do I understand you right that my Umlaut-problem with the lyx exported .txt and .tex file has nothing to do with lyx, but with the kwrite prg under SuSe (or do I have to set something in kwrite?) AND with the

Re: Words containing Umlaute not found by find and replace

2005-06-17 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Am Freitag, 17. Juni 2005 13:03 schrieb Juergen Spitzmueller: Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: Jrgen, what are your settings in BearbeitenEinstellungenSprache (sorry, use german) ngerman. But this is most likely independent (this is the document language, not the interface language). I do

Re: Words containing Umlaute not found by find and replace

2005-06-17 Thread Angus Leeming
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: Now you try and read this exported text file into other, KDE apps. kwrite is a KDE apps? Yes. Which means that it is using the Qt libraries, just like LyX. Is there a reason they are using UTF-8 encoding? Yes! Your LANG environment variable is set to de_DE.UTF-8.

Re: Words containing Umlaute not found by find and replace

2005-06-17 Thread Angus Leeming
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: Try export [EMAIL PROTECTED] lyx (or even LANG=de_DE lyx). before I start lyx, and in a shell? Correct. However, why not rename your lyx executable as my_lyx and put a little shell script lyx in the same directory: #! /bin/sh LANG=de_DE my_lyx $* If you $

aspell

2005-06-17 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Sorry, its me again I try to use aspell and get the following info: Spellchecking failed /usr/lib/aspell/ngerman can not be opened for reading. I thought to put a soft link in the texmf directory of my home. ln -s ngerman /usr/lib/aspell/ngerman ln: Erzeugen der symbolischen Verknpfung

Re: Words containing Umlaute not found by find and replace

2005-06-17 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Am Freitag, 17. Juni 2005 14:09 schrieb Angus Leeming: Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: Now you try and read this exported text file into other, KDE apps. kwrite is a KDE apps? Yes. Which means that it is using the Qt libraries, just like LyX. Is there a reason they are using UTF-8 encoding?

Re: beamerlyxexample1.lyx

2005-06-17 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 16 Jun 2005, Myriam Abramson wrote: Package xcolor Error: Undefined color `averagebackgroundcolor'. ...beamerexample!10!averagebackgroundcolor)} I, too, found the same error when I tried to view the example file. So, I gave up on it. Instead, I'm using a different example file

Re: Words containing Umlaute not found by find and replace

2005-06-17 Thread Angus Leeming
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: Am Freitag, 17. Juni 2005 14:09 schrieb Angus Leeming: Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: Now you try and read this exported text file into other, KDE apps. kwrite is a KDE apps? Yes. Which means that it is using the Qt libraries, just like LyX. Is there a reason

Re: aspell

2005-06-17 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: Spellchecking failed /usr/lib/aspell/ngerman can not be opened for reading. does it help, if you put german in Preferences-Language-Spellchecker-alternative Language? (the aspell dictionary is called german afair, also for new spellling). HTH, Jrgen

Re: search hits hidden by window

2005-06-17 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 17 Jun 2005, Martin A. Hansen wrote: when searching or using the spell checker, the hits sometimes are hidden behind the search/spell checker window. would it be possible to prevent this? martin, Yes. Move that little window out of the way. I have it off the right side of the lyx

Re: Words containing Umlaute not found by find and replace

2005-06-17 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: So LANG is used globally, and I can change it locally for certain circumstances (eg for lyx)? Could I change it also globally? You can reset the system encoding to latin-1. http://portal.suse.com/sdb/de/2004/05/jbartsh_utf-8.html Jrgen

Re: search hits hidden by window

2005-06-17 Thread Martin A. Hansen
i would like future versions to make sure the text scrolls out of the way of the window, so this doesnt happen. martin On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 05:56:23AM -0700, Rich Shepard wrote: On Fri, 17 Jun 2005, Martin A. Hansen wrote: when searching or using the spell checker, the hits sometimes

Re: aspell

2005-06-17 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Am Freitag, 17. Juni 2005 15:57 schrieb Wolfgang Engelmann: Am Freitag, 17. Juni 2005 14:55 schrieben Sie: Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: Spellchecking failed /usr/lib/aspell/ngerman can not be opened for reading. does it help, if you put german in

Re: aspell

2005-06-17 Thread Angus Leeming
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: how is it with the `personal dictionary: I tried to put the name of a newly created file `myspellcheckfile.ispell (filetype ispell, because that was proposed in Preferences), but that was not accepted. I changed to `myspellcheckfile.aspell, but that did not work

Re: Words containing Umlaute not found by find and replace

2005-06-17 Thread Georg Baum
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: do I understand you right that my Umlaut-problem with the lyx exported .txt and .tex file has nothing to do with lyx, but with the kwrite prg under SuSe (or do I have to set something in kwrite?) AND with the konqueror (because, if I click on the txt file it also

Re: Words containing Umlaute not found by find and replace

2005-06-17 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Am Freitag, 17. Juni 2005 16:27 schrieb Georg Baum: Thanks, Georg, I am slowly understanding all that. Each coin has two sides. Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: do I understand you right that my Umlaut-problem with the lyx exported .txt and .tex file has nothing to do with lyx, but with the kwrite

Re: Words containing Umlaute not found by find and replace

2005-06-17 Thread Georg Baum
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: would you recommend Westeuropisch iso 8859-1 or Westeuropisch iso 8859-15? I guess -15 is best in most cases. And what is the difference? (That question should come first...) -15 has the euro sign, -1 has not (there are other subtle differences that I forgot, but

Re: beamerlyxexample1.lyx

2005-06-17 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Myriam Abramson wrote: Hi! I started to use Beamer. I get this error with Beamer 3.05 and LyX 1.3.5 on the example file beamerlyxexample1.lyx provided with Beamer: Package xcolor Error: Undefined color `averagebackgroundcolor'. ...beamerexample!10!averagebackgroundcolor)} I do have xcolor

PStricks figures - Beamer Presentation

2005-06-17 Thread Rich Shepard
I don't have a reference in my saved e-mail messages about this. What is the recommended protocol for adding figures drawn with PStricks in LyX to a beamer presentation, also in LyX? I recall threads about pstricks not playing nice with pdflatex, so I assume I cannot make a figure float

Re: lmodern, ae and missing fonts

2005-06-17 Thread Matej Cepl
On Friday 17 of June 2005 18:01, Martijn Brouwer wrote: Which means that lm fonts are fine as long you only use a few common font sizes, I assume. It is OK to use them for whatever -- extrapolation of the sizes not covered directly by the fonts is done by lmodern.sty (which is what you load

Re: Strange behavior LyxWin qt 1.3.5 - possibly relating to Bibtex - solved: bug in babel.def and correction

2005-06-17 Thread Ekkehart Schlicht
Piet van Ostrum has solved the problem. It is due to a bug in babel.def. See the thread *babel + fancyhdr + natbib = ! Extra \else *in the comp.text.tex group. He suggests the following correction: In babel.def replace the three occurrences of \noexpand\bbl(at)restore(at)actives with

search hits hidden by window

2005-06-17 Thread Martin A. Hansen
when searching or using the spell checker, the hits sometimes are hidden behind the search/spell checker window. would it be possible to prevent this? best regards martin

Re: Abstract in 3 languages?

2005-06-17 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Jean-Claude Christnach wrote: I have to provide an abstract for my resume in 3 different languages. I can use the abstract environment several times, but there must be another environment in between, but which one does provide only a blank skip? And what about the title of the abstract which

Re: Words containing Umlaute not found by find and replace

2005-06-17 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
-- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -- Subject: Re: Words containing Umlaute not found by find and replace Date: Freitag, 17. Juni 2005 10:59 From: Wolfgang Engelmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Juergen Spitzmueller [EMAIL PROTECTED] sorry Jrgen, forgot to send it to the list Am

Re: Words containing Umlaute not found by find and replace

2005-06-17 Thread Georg Baum
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: I remember a mail mentioning to use something like LANG= ... before starting Lyx but can?t find it. That is probably your problem. It should work if you start lyx via LANG=de_DE lyx SuSE 9.2 has LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, and that is not really supported by LyX. Georg

Re: Words containing Umlaute not found by find and replace

2005-06-17 Thread Angus Leeming
Georg Baum wrote: Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: I remember a mail mentioning to use something like LANG= ... before starting Lyx but can?t find it. That is probably your problem. It should work if you start lyx via LANG=de_DE lyx SuSE 9.2 has LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, and that is not really

Re: Words containing Umlaute not found by find and replace

2005-06-17 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Am Freitag, 17. Juni 2005 11:25 schrieb Georg Baum: Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: I remember a mail mentioning to use something like LANG= ... before starting Lyx but can?t find it. That is probably your problem. It should work if you start lyx via LANG=de_DE lyx SuSE 9.2 has

Re: Words containing Umlaute not found by find and replace

2005-06-17 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Am Freitag, 17. Juni 2005 11:43 schrieb Angus Leeming: Georg Baum wrote: Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: I remember a mail mentioning to use something like LANG= ... before starting Lyx but can?t find it. That is probably your problem. It should work if you start lyx via LANG=de_DE

Re: Words containing Umlaute not found by find and replace

2005-06-17 Thread Georg Baum
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: bad news: if I export document as .txt (ASCII), it?s still a problem e.g.: Sie bedankt sich fr alle Anteilnahme an der ?tissinnen-Weihe. ^^^^ The document is in latin1 encoding. Open it in a decent text

Re: Words containing Umlaute not found by find and replace

2005-06-17 Thread Angus Leeming
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: Am Freitag, 17. Juni 2005 11:25 schrieb Georg Baum: Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: I remember a mail mentioning to use something like LANG= ... before starting Lyx but can?t find it. That is probably your problem. It should work if you start lyx via LANG=de_DE

Re: Words containing Umlaute not found by find and replace

2005-06-17 Thread Angus Leeming
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: Do I understand you correctly, that I should use at least under SuSe 9.2 (and 9.3?) LyX xforms instead of QT? Or switch to another distribution? Nope. It's sufficient to follow Georg's suggestion of invoking lyx through a wrapper script #! /bin/sh LANG=de_DE lyx $*

Re: Words containing Umlaute not found by find and replace

2005-06-17 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Am Freitag, 17. Juni 2005 12:07 schrieb Georg Baum: Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: bad news: if I export document as .txt (ASCII), it?s still a problem e.g.: Sie bedankt sich fr alle Anteilnahme an der ?tissinnen-Weihe. ^^^^ The

Re: Words containing Umlaute not found by find and replace

2005-06-17 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: Jrgen, what are your settings in BearbeitenEinstellungenSprache (sorry, use german) ngerman. But this is most likely independent (this is the document language, not the interface language). I do also get no Umlaute and sz in the dropdown menue of Navigating (with

Re: Words containing Umlaute not found by find and replace

2005-06-17 Thread Angus Leeming
Georg and Angus, do I understand you right that my Umlaut-problem with the lyx exported .txt and .tex file has nothing to do with lyx, but with the kwrite prg under SuSe (or do I have to set something in kwrite?) AND with the konqueror (because, if I click on the txt file it also misses

Re: Words containing Umlaute not found by find and replace

2005-06-17 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Am Freitag, 17. Juni 2005 13:16 schrieb Angus Leeming: Georg and Angus, do I understand you right that my Umlaut-problem with the lyx exported .txt and .tex file has nothing to do with lyx, but with the kwrite prg under SuSe (or do I have to set something in kwrite?) AND with the

Re: Words containing Umlaute not found by find and replace

2005-06-17 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Am Freitag, 17. Juni 2005 13:03 schrieb Juergen Spitzmueller: Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: Jrgen, what are your settings in BearbeitenEinstellungenSprache (sorry, use german) ngerman. But this is most likely independent (this is the document language, not the interface language). I do

Re: Words containing Umlaute not found by find and replace

2005-06-17 Thread Angus Leeming
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: Now you try and read this exported text file into other, KDE apps. kwrite is a KDE apps? Yes. Which means that it is using the Qt libraries, just like LyX. Is there a reason they are using UTF-8 encoding? Yes! Your LANG environment variable is set to de_DE.UTF-8.

Re: Words containing Umlaute not found by find and replace

2005-06-17 Thread Angus Leeming
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: Try export [EMAIL PROTECTED] lyx (or even LANG=de_DE lyx). before I start lyx, and in a shell? Correct. However, why not rename your lyx executable as my_lyx and put a little shell script lyx in the same directory: #! /bin/sh LANG=de_DE my_lyx $* If you $

aspell

2005-06-17 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Sorry, its me again I try to use aspell and get the following info: Spellchecking failed /usr/lib/aspell/ngerman can not be opened for reading. I thought to put a soft link in the texmf directory of my home. ln -s ngerman /usr/lib/aspell/ngerman ln: Erzeugen der symbolischen Verknpfung

Re: Words containing Umlaute not found by find and replace

2005-06-17 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Am Freitag, 17. Juni 2005 14:09 schrieb Angus Leeming: Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: Now you try and read this exported text file into other, KDE apps. kwrite is a KDE apps? Yes. Which means that it is using the Qt libraries, just like LyX. Is there a reason they are using UTF-8 encoding?

Re: beamerlyxexample1.lyx

2005-06-17 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 16 Jun 2005, Myriam Abramson wrote: Package xcolor Error: Undefined color `averagebackgroundcolor'. ...beamerexample!10!averagebackgroundcolor)} I, too, found the same error when I tried to view the example file. So, I gave up on it. Instead, I'm using a different example file

Re: Words containing Umlaute not found by find and replace

2005-06-17 Thread Angus Leeming
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: Am Freitag, 17. Juni 2005 14:09 schrieb Angus Leeming: Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: Now you try and read this exported text file into other, KDE apps. kwrite is a KDE apps? Yes. Which means that it is using the Qt libraries, just like LyX. Is there a reason

Re: aspell

2005-06-17 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: Spellchecking failed /usr/lib/aspell/ngerman can not be opened for reading. does it help, if you put german in Preferences-Language-Spellchecker-alternative Language? (the aspell dictionary is called german afair, also for new spellling). HTH, Jrgen

Re: search hits hidden by window

2005-06-17 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 17 Jun 2005, Martin A. Hansen wrote: when searching or using the spell checker, the hits sometimes are hidden behind the search/spell checker window. would it be possible to prevent this? martin, Yes. Move that little window out of the way. I have it off the right side of the lyx

Re: Words containing Umlaute not found by find and replace

2005-06-17 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: So LANG is used globally, and I can change it locally for certain circumstances (eg for lyx)? Could I change it also globally? You can reset the system encoding to latin-1. http://portal.suse.com/sdb/de/2004/05/jbartsh_utf-8.html Jrgen

Re: search hits hidden by window

2005-06-17 Thread Martin A. Hansen
i would like future versions to make sure the text scrolls out of the way of the window, so this doesnt happen. martin On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 05:56:23AM -0700, Rich Shepard wrote: On Fri, 17 Jun 2005, Martin A. Hansen wrote: when searching or using the spell checker, the hits sometimes

Re: aspell

2005-06-17 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Am Freitag, 17. Juni 2005 15:57 schrieb Wolfgang Engelmann: Am Freitag, 17. Juni 2005 14:55 schrieben Sie: Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: Spellchecking failed /usr/lib/aspell/ngerman can not be opened for reading. does it help, if you put german in

Re: aspell

2005-06-17 Thread Angus Leeming
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: how is it with the `personal dictionary: I tried to put the name of a newly created file `myspellcheckfile.ispell (filetype ispell, because that was proposed in Preferences), but that was not accepted. I changed to `myspellcheckfile.aspell, but that did not work

Re: Words containing Umlaute not found by find and replace

2005-06-17 Thread Georg Baum
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: do I understand you right that my Umlaut-problem with the lyx exported .txt and .tex file has nothing to do with lyx, but with the kwrite prg under SuSe (or do I have to set something in kwrite?) AND with the konqueror (because, if I click on the txt file it also

Re: Words containing Umlaute not found by find and replace

2005-06-17 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Am Freitag, 17. Juni 2005 16:27 schrieb Georg Baum: Thanks, Georg, I am slowly understanding all that. Each coin has two sides. Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: do I understand you right that my Umlaut-problem with the lyx exported .txt and .tex file has nothing to do with lyx, but with the kwrite

Re: Words containing Umlaute not found by find and replace

2005-06-17 Thread Georg Baum
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: would you recommend Westeuropisch iso 8859-1 or Westeuropisch iso 8859-15? I guess -15 is best in most cases. And what is the difference? (That question should come first...) -15 has the euro sign, -1 has not (there are other subtle differences that I forgot, but

Re: beamerlyxexample1.lyx

2005-06-17 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Myriam Abramson wrote: Hi! I started to use Beamer. I get this error with Beamer 3.05 and LyX 1.3.5 on the example file beamerlyxexample1.lyx provided with Beamer: Package xcolor Error: Undefined color `averagebackgroundcolor'. ...beamerexample!10!averagebackgroundcolor)} I do have xcolor

PStricks figures - Beamer Presentation

2005-06-17 Thread Rich Shepard
I don't have a reference in my saved e-mail messages about this. What is the recommended protocol for adding figures drawn with PStricks in LyX to a beamer presentation, also in LyX? I recall threads about pstricks not playing nice with pdflatex, so I assume I cannot make a figure float

Re: lmodern, ae and missing fonts

2005-06-17 Thread Matej Cepl
On Friday 17 of June 2005 18:01, Martijn Brouwer wrote: Which means that lm fonts are fine as long you only use a few common font sizes, I assume. It is OK to use them for whatever -- extrapolation of the sizes not covered directly by the fonts is done by lmodern.sty (which is what you load

Re: Strange behavior LyxWin qt 1.3.5 - possibly relating to Bibtex - solved: bug in babel.def and correction

2005-06-17 Thread Ekkehart Schlicht
Piet van Ostrum has solved the problem. It is due to a bug in babel.def. See the thread *babel + fancyhdr + natbib = ! Extra \else *in the comp.text.tex group. He suggests the following correction: In babel.def replace the three occurrences of \noexpand\bbl(at)restore(at)actives with

search hits hidden by window

2005-06-17 Thread Martin A. Hansen
when searching or using the spell checker, the "hits" sometimes are hidden behind the search/spell checker window. would it be possible to prevent this? best regards martin

Re: Abstract in 3 languages?

2005-06-17 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Jean-Claude Christnach wrote: > I have to provide an abstract for my resume in 3 different languages. I can > use the abstract environment several times, but there must be another > environment in between, but which one does provide only a blank skip? And > what about the title of the abstract

Re: Words containing Umlaute not found by find and replace

2005-06-17 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
-- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -- Subject: Re: Words containing Umlaute not found by find and replace Date: Freitag, 17. Juni 2005 10:59 From: Wolfgang Engelmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Juergen Spitzmueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sorry Jürgen, forgot to send it to the list Am

Re: Words containing Umlaute not found by find and replace

2005-06-17 Thread Georg Baum
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > I remember a mail mentioning to use something like > LANG= ... > before starting Lyx > but can?t find it. That is probably your problem. It should work if you start lyx via LANG=de_DE lyx SuSE 9.2 has LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, and that is not really supported by LyX.

Re: Words containing Umlaute not found by find and replace

2005-06-17 Thread Angus Leeming
Georg Baum wrote: > Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > >> I remember a mail mentioning to use something like >> LANG= ... >> before starting Lyx >> but can?t find it. > > That is probably your problem. It should work if you start lyx via > > LANG=de_DE lyx > > SuSE 9.2 has LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, and

Re: Words containing Umlaute not found by find and replace

2005-06-17 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Am Freitag, 17. Juni 2005 11:25 schrieb Georg Baum: > Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > > I remember a mail mentioning to use something like > > LANG= ... > > before starting Lyx > > but can?t find it. > > That is probably your problem. It should work if you start lyx via > > LANG=de_DE lyx > > SuSE

Re: Words containing Umlaute not found by find and replace

2005-06-17 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Am Freitag, 17. Juni 2005 11:43 schrieb Angus Leeming: > Georg Baum wrote: > > Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > >> I remember a mail mentioning to use something like > >> LANG= ... > >> before starting Lyx > >> but can?t find it. > > > > That is probably your problem. It should work if you start lyx

Re: Words containing Umlaute not found by find and replace

2005-06-17 Thread Georg Baum
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > bad news: if I export document as .txt (ASCII), it?s still a problem > e.g.: > Sie bedankt sich fr alle Anteilnahme an der ?tissinnen-Weihe. > ^^^^ The document is in latin1 encoding. Open it in a decent

Re: Words containing Umlaute not found by find and replace

2005-06-17 Thread Angus Leeming
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > Am Freitag, 17. Juni 2005 11:25 schrieb Georg Baum: >> Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: >> > I remember a mail mentioning to use something like >> > LANG= ... >> > before starting Lyx >> > but can?t find it. >> >> That is probably your problem. It should work if you start

Re: Words containing Umlaute not found by find and replace

2005-06-17 Thread Angus Leeming
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > Do I understand you correctly, that I should use at least under SuSe 9.2 > (and 9.3?) LyX xforms instead of QT? Or switch to another distribution? Nope. It's sufficient to follow Georg's suggestion of invoking lyx through a wrapper script #! /bin/sh LANG=de_DE lyx $*

Re: Words containing Umlaute not found by find and replace

2005-06-17 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Am Freitag, 17. Juni 2005 12:07 schrieb Georg Baum: > Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > > bad news: if I export document as .txt (ASCII), it?s still a problem > > e.g.: > > Sie bedankt sich fr alle Anteilnahme an der ?tissinnen-Weihe. > > ^^^^

Re: Words containing Umlaute not found by find and replace

2005-06-17 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: >  Jürgen, > > what are your settings in Bearbeiten>Einstellungen>Sprache (sorry, use > german) ngerman. But this is most likely independent (this is the document language, not the interface language). > I do also get no Umlaute and sz in the dropdown menue of

Re: Words containing Umlaute not found by find and replace

2005-06-17 Thread Angus Leeming
> Georg and Angus, > > do I understand you right that my Umlaut-problem with the lyx exported > .txt and .tex file has nothing to do with lyx, but with the kwrite prg > under SuSe (or do I have to set something in kwrite?) > AND > with the konqueror (because, if I click on the txt file it also

Re: Words containing Umlaute not found by find and replace

2005-06-17 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Am Freitag, 17. Juni 2005 13:16 schrieb Angus Leeming: > > Georg and Angus, > > > > do I understand you right that my Umlaut-problem with the lyx exported > > .txt and .tex file has nothing to do with lyx, but with the kwrite prg > > under SuSe (or do I have to set something in kwrite?) > > AND

Re: Words containing Umlaute not found by find and replace

2005-06-17 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Am Freitag, 17. Juni 2005 13:03 schrieb Juergen Spitzmueller: > Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > >  Jürgen, > > > > what are your settings in Bearbeiten>Einstellungen>Sprache (sorry, use > > german) > > ngerman. But this is most likely independent (this is the document > language, not the interface

Re: Words containing Umlaute not found by find and replace

2005-06-17 Thread Angus Leeming
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: >> Now you try and read this exported text file into other, KDE apps. > kwrite is a KDE apps? Yes. Which means that it is using the Qt libraries, just like LyX. > Is there a reason they are using UTF-8 encoding? Yes! Your LANG environment variable is set to

Re: Words containing Umlaute not found by find and replace

2005-06-17 Thread Angus Leeming
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: >> Try >> export [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> lyx >> >> (or even "LANG=de_DE lyx"). > > before I start lyx, and in a shell? Correct. However, why not rename your lyx executable as "my_lyx" and put a little shell script "lyx" in the same directory: #! /bin/sh LANG=de_DE my_lyx

aspell

2005-06-17 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Sorry, its me again I try to use aspell and get the following info: Spellchecking failed /usr/lib/aspell/ngerman can not be opened for reading. I thought to put a soft link in the texmf directory of my home. ln -s ngerman /usr/lib/aspell/ngerman ln: Erzeugen der symbolischen Verknüpfung

Re: Words containing Umlaute not found by find and replace

2005-06-17 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Am Freitag, 17. Juni 2005 14:09 schrieb Angus Leeming: > Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > >> Now you try and read this exported text file into other, KDE apps. > > > > kwrite is a KDE apps? > > Yes. Which means that it is using the Qt libraries, just like LyX. > > > Is there a reason they are using

Re: beamerlyxexample1.lyx

2005-06-17 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 16 Jun 2005, Myriam Abramson wrote: Package xcolor Error: Undefined color `averagebackgroundcolor'. ...beamerexample!10!averagebackgroundcolor)} I, too, found the same error when I tried to view the example file. So, I gave up on it. Instead, I'm using a different example file

Re: Words containing Umlaute not found by find and replace

2005-06-17 Thread Angus Leeming
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > Am Freitag, 17. Juni 2005 14:09 schrieb Angus Leeming: >> Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: >> >> Now you try and read this exported text file into other, KDE apps. >> > >> > kwrite is a KDE apps? >> >> Yes. Which means that it is using the Qt libraries, just like LyX. >> >> >

Re: aspell

2005-06-17 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > Spellchecking failed > /usr/lib/aspell/ngerman can not be opened for reading. does it help, if you put "german" in Preferences->Language->Spellchecker->alternative Language? (the aspell dictionary is called german afair, also for "new spellling"). HTH, Jürgen

Re: search hits hidden by window

2005-06-17 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 17 Jun 2005, Martin A. Hansen wrote: when searching or using the spell checker, the "hits" sometimes are hidden behind the search/spell checker window. would it be possible to prevent this? martin, Yes. Move that little window out of the way. I have it off the right side of the lyx

Re: Words containing Umlaute not found by find and replace

2005-06-17 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > So LANG is used globally, and I can change it locally for certain > circumstances (eg for lyx)? Could I change it also globally? You can reset the system encoding to latin-1. http://portal.suse.com/sdb/de/2004/05/jbartsh_utf-8.html Jürgen

Re: search hits hidden by window

2005-06-17 Thread Martin A. Hansen
i would like future versions to make sure the text scrolls out of the way of the window, so this doesnt happen. martin On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 05:56:23AM -0700, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Fri, 17 Jun 2005, Martin A. Hansen wrote: > > >when searching or using the spell checker, the "hits"

Re: aspell

2005-06-17 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Am Freitag, 17. Juni 2005 15:57 schrieb Wolfgang Engelmann: > Am Freitag, 17. Juni 2005 14:55 schrieben Sie: > > Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > > > Spellchecking failed > > > /usr/lib/aspell/ngerman can not be opened for reading. > > > > does it help, if you put "german" in > >

Re: aspell

2005-06-17 Thread Angus Leeming
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > how is it with the `personal dictionary´: > I tried to put the name of a newly created file > `myspellcheckfile.ispell´ (filetype ispell, because that was proposed in > Preferences), but that was not accepted. I changed to > `myspellcheckfile.aspell´, but that did

Re: Words containing Umlaute not found by find and replace

2005-06-17 Thread Georg Baum
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > do I understand you right that my Umlaut-problem with the lyx exported > .txt and .tex file has nothing to do with lyx, but with the kwrite prg > under SuSe (or do I have to set something in kwrite?) > AND > with the konqueror (because, if I click on the txt file it

Re: Words containing Umlaute not found by find and replace

2005-06-17 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Am Freitag, 17. Juni 2005 16:27 schrieb Georg Baum: Thanks, Georg, I am slowly understanding all that. Each coin has two sides. > Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > > do I understand you right that my Umlaut-problem with the lyx exported > > .txt and .tex file has nothing to do with lyx, but with the

Re: Words containing Umlaute not found by find and replace

2005-06-17 Thread Georg Baum
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > would you recommend Westeuropäisch iso 8859-1 > or Westeuropäisch iso 8859-15? I guess -15 is best in most cases. > And what is the difference? (That question should come first...) -15 has the euro sign, -1 has not (there are other subtle differences that I forgot,

Re: beamerlyxexample1.lyx

2005-06-17 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Myriam Abramson wrote: Hi! I started to use Beamer. I get this error with Beamer 3.05 and LyX 1.3.5 on the example file beamerlyxexample1.lyx provided with Beamer: Package xcolor Error: Undefined color `averagebackgroundcolor'. ...beamerexample!10!averagebackgroundcolor)} I do have xcolor

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