Re: View-PDF lost

2005-08-02 Thread Roger McMurtrie
Thanks for your advice. I did as you suggested and found the DVI-Postscript converter missing so I specfied a new one with dvips -o $$o $$i and got the View-PDF back. But then View-PDF gave me errors! In desperation I reinstalled Lyx 1.3.6 and everything worked. The DVI-Postscript converter

Re: Indenting Text

2005-08-02 Thread Roy Schestowitz
Quoting Rich Shepard: On Mon, 1 Aug 2005, Stacia Hartleben wrote: Could someone please explain to me how text indenting works in Lyx? I can't seem to figure it out. Thanks! You can change it in two places: Layout-Document-Layout choose Indent or Skip for paragraph spacing. Then, in

Re: Indenting Text

2005-08-02 Thread G. Milde
On 2.08.05, Roy Schestowitz wrote: Quoting Rich Shepard: On Mon, 1 Aug 2005, Stacia Hartleben wrote: Could someone please explain to me how text indenting works in Lyx? I can't seem to figure it out. Thanks! Do you mean the indentation at the start of a paragraph? You can change it in

Re: Excel data sheets

2005-08-02 Thread Brian Williams
William, have you actually managed to make this work with LyX? If so, what is the trick? Thanks, Brian Williams William F. Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jul 28, 2005, at 9:06 AM, Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: Has anyone had any experience or success in importing MS Excel data sheets into

Re: Excel data sheets

2005-08-02 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
- Original Message - From: Brian Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: William F. Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: lyx lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2005 1:36 PM Subject: Re: Excel data sheets William, have you actually managed to make this work with LyX? If so, what is the

Re: Renumbering Sections - How to keep WYSIWYM up to date?

2005-08-02 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Wil == Wil Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Wil Hey all, I'm currently writing a study guide for a class, and Wil thus need to skip over some chapters in the book that are not Wil being covered in the class. I've found the Wil \setcounter{section}{...} command, and this works great for the Wil

Re: Any successes w/ LyX 1.3.6 for Windows 98SE

2005-08-02 Thread William F. Adams
On Aug 1, 2005, at 6:18 PM, Roy Schestowitz wrote: All I can contribute is the fact that I ran it successfully under Windows 98 SE. have you tried re-installing? When I downloaded it last (2+ years ago), it was from a small and obscure page offering the Win32 port. I can't be sure if the

Re: Math symbol not displayed in LyX-1.3.6 even after installing latex-xft-fonts

2005-08-02 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
R == R S Ananda Murthy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: R The fonts are installed in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF. After R installing this, I did R cd /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF cp fonts.dir fonts.dir.bak cp R fonts.scale fonts.scale.bak mkfontscale mkfontdir fc-cache xset fp R rehash R But even

Spellcheck with Windows?

2005-08-02 Thread Stacia Hartleben
I'm not sure how to set up spellcheck for windows. It kind of looks like Ispell is only for Unix. How would I do this?

Re: Spellcheck with Windows?

2005-08-02 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
- Original Message - From: Stacia Hartleben [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2005 2:36 PM Subject: Spellcheck with Windows? I'm not sure how to set up spellcheck for windows. It kind of looks like Ispell is only for Unix. How would I do this?

Re: Excel data sheets

2005-08-02 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 09:06:55AM -0400, samar j. singh wrote: ... You may find it useful to try what I do normally. I've added a few more details about the sequence I have to go through to get this to work. 1. open your xls file with gnumeric or open office. 2. Select the requisite

Re: Heretical question?

2005-08-02 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Michael Wojcik wrote: Paul A. Rubin wrote: Can anyone summarize pros/cons of the various options listed in this thread? You're all using (and most are actively developing) LyX, so I assume you see some advantages to LyX, right? [This is late, but Paul's query doesn't seem to have

Compiling from source on Tiger

2005-08-02 Thread owlofminerva
I'm trying to compile and install LyX 1.3.6 from source on Mac OS 10.4.2, and I've found that the instructions for installation included with the package don't work. First of all, the instructions suggest using gcc 2.95.2 to compile both QT and LyX -- but this compiler is not included with

Re: Heretical question?

2005-08-02 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 12:00:20PM -0400, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Michael Wojcik wrote: Paul A. Rubin wrote: Can anyone summarize pros/cons of the various options listed in this thread? You're all using (and most are actively developing) LyX, so I assume you see some advantages to LyX,

patch change tracking for OS X

2005-08-02 Thread Jordi Tritlla i Cambra
Hi lyxers, I would like to know if this patch is also possible to use in the aqua version (OS X) of Lyx Cheers, Jordi -- === Dr. Jordi Tritlla i Cambra ¡PAGINA WEB PUESTA AL DIA

Re: patch change tracking for OS X

2005-08-02 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Jordi == Jordi Tritlla i Cambra [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jordi Hi lyxers, I would like to know if this patch is also possible Jordi to use in the aqua version (OS X) of Lyx There is no reason why it would not work, I think. Of course, someone has to compile it :) JMarc

Lyx 1.3.6 and Debian Sarge, something went wrong again

2005-08-02 Thread Gilles Mioni
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 When fakerout was compiling, errors ocurred as : *libtool: link: `package.lo' is not a valid libtool object* That should be fixed by the latest version of http://wiki.lyx.org/uploads/LyX/Linux/lyx_1.3.6-0.lyx.org.1.diff (uploaded yesterday).

Installing beamer class layouts for lyx under Win XP

2005-08-02 Thread klemm
Hi there, I am new to LyX and I try to install the layout files for the beamer class for LyX on a Windows XP box. Unfortunately without much success so far. I tried the hints for Linux which were given in some earlier thread but it doesn't work. I hve installed MikTeX and the beamer class

Colored table rows

2005-08-02 Thread Søren O'Neill
I've managed to get the backgrounds of rows in my table gray using colortbl, but it skips all multicolumn cells (i.e they are not gray'ed) - what should I do? Kind regards -- Soren O'Neill, kiropraktor, MSc, klinisk lektor Rygambulatoriet, Sygehus Fyn Lindevej 5, 5750 Ringe [EMAIL PROTECTED]

center figures with paragraph skip

2005-08-02 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
Hi I use the center paragraph option when I place figures in floats to ensure they are in the center of the page. However with this option the spacing between the figure and the caption increases relative to the default (justified). Is there any way of having centered figures without this

Re: center figures with paragraph skip

2005-08-02 Thread Paul Smith
On 8/2/05, Geoffrey Lloyd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use the center paragraph option when I place figures in floats to ensure they are in the center of the page. However with this option the spacing between the figure and the caption increases relative to the default (justified). Is

Ubuntu debs for 1.3.6 available

2005-08-02 Thread Richard Kleeman
I have compiled some debs for Ubuntu hoary using the third version of the script kindly provided by the developers for Debian on the wiki site. If anyone can tell me where to upload them I would be grateful (the site mentioned on the wiki ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/incoming did not work. There are

Section headings

2005-08-02 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
By default the section heading in Latex are bold. This is fine. In the table of contents they are written in normal type. Again all this looks good. However I need to use some math in one of my section headings. If I input it as normal it appears in the heading in normal (non-bold font). If I

SOLVED:bold math in section heading

2005-08-02 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
In fact this is a generic solution for section and toc headings to differ in form. I simply used the Insert-Short title option. In the Heading I had bold, in the Short title normal text. Geoff

Using mla.sty in Lyx

2005-08-02 Thread Wil Hunt
Hey all, I'm trying to use the MLA style downloaded from CTAN to get the MLA stylings. There are a couple of issues I've found with it, and I was hoping someone might have some ideas for how to deal with it. Both issues involve the Works Cited page. First, I need to have the Works Cited

Re: Using mla.sty in Lyx

2005-08-02 Thread Todd Denniston
Wil Hunt wrote: Hey all, I'm trying to use the MLA style downloaded from CTAN to get the MLA stylings. There are a couple of issues I've found with it, and I was hoping someone might have some ideas for how to deal with it. Both issues involve the Works Cited page.

Re: Ubuntu debs for 1.3.6 available

2005-08-02 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Richard == Richard Kleeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Richard I have compiled some debs for Ubuntu hoary using the third Richard version of the script kindly provided by the developers for Richard Debian on the wiki site. If anyone can tell me where to Richard upload them I would be grateful (the

Re: Using mla.sty in Lyx

2005-08-02 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Wil == Wil Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Wil Hey all, I'm trying to use the MLA style downloaded from CTAN to Wil get the MLA stylings. There are a couple of issues I've found Wil with it, and I was hoping someone might have some ideas for how Wil to deal with it. WilBoth issues involve

Paste External

2005-08-02 Thread Stacia Hartleben
Is there a way I could make a keyboard command for paste external? I need to paste a lot of external things and it takes a long time to go to the menu all the time. I don't mind if there are two seperate functions, but I want easy acess to the external paste one. Thanks!

Re: Paste External

2005-08-02 Thread Paul Smith
On 8/3/05, Stacia Hartleben [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way I could make a keyboard command for paste external? I need to paste a lot of external things and it takes a long time to go to the menu all the time. I don't mind if there are two seperate functions, but I want easy acess to

How to print change bars

2005-08-02 Thread Roger McMurtrie
The change tracking function is working well on screen but when I View-DVI or PDF the change bars don't appear. Is there ant way of having them appear on the printed page? Roger

How to reduce the size of italics in mathpazo?

2005-08-02 Thread Ekkehart Schlicht
Moton Hogholm suggested the solution which works just fine: For the osf option, use the praeamble \usepackage[osf]{mathpazo} \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \normalfont \DeclareFontShape{T1}{pplj}{m}{it}{- s * [.97] pplri9d}{} \DeclareFontShape{T1}{pplj}{b}{it}{- s * [.97] pplbi9d}{} For the sc

Re: View-PDF lost

2005-08-02 Thread Roger McMurtrie
Thanks for your advice. I did as you suggested and found the DVI-Postscript converter missing so I specfied a new one with dvips -o $$o $$i and got the View-PDF back. But then View-PDF gave me errors! In desperation I reinstalled Lyx 1.3.6 and everything worked. The DVI-Postscript converter

Re: Indenting Text

2005-08-02 Thread Roy Schestowitz
Quoting Rich Shepard: On Mon, 1 Aug 2005, Stacia Hartleben wrote: Could someone please explain to me how text indenting works in Lyx? I can't seem to figure it out. Thanks! You can change it in two places: Layout-Document-Layout choose Indent or Skip for paragraph spacing. Then, in

Re: Indenting Text

2005-08-02 Thread G. Milde
On 2.08.05, Roy Schestowitz wrote: Quoting Rich Shepard: On Mon, 1 Aug 2005, Stacia Hartleben wrote: Could someone please explain to me how text indenting works in Lyx? I can't seem to figure it out. Thanks! Do you mean the indentation at the start of a paragraph? You can change it in

Re: Excel data sheets

2005-08-02 Thread Brian Williams
William, have you actually managed to make this work with LyX? If so, what is the trick? Thanks, Brian Williams William F. Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jul 28, 2005, at 9:06 AM, Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: Has anyone had any experience or success in importing MS Excel data sheets into

Re: Excel data sheets

2005-08-02 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
- Original Message - From: Brian Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: William F. Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: lyx lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2005 1:36 PM Subject: Re: Excel data sheets William, have you actually managed to make this work with LyX? If so, what is the

Re: Renumbering Sections - How to keep WYSIWYM up to date?

2005-08-02 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Wil == Wil Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Wil Hey all, I'm currently writing a study guide for a class, and Wil thus need to skip over some chapters in the book that are not Wil being covered in the class. I've found the Wil \setcounter{section}{...} command, and this works great for the Wil

Re: Any successes w/ LyX 1.3.6 for Windows 98SE

2005-08-02 Thread William F. Adams
On Aug 1, 2005, at 6:18 PM, Roy Schestowitz wrote: All I can contribute is the fact that I ran it successfully under Windows 98 SE. have you tried re-installing? When I downloaded it last (2+ years ago), it was from a small and obscure page offering the Win32 port. I can't be sure if the

Re: Math symbol not displayed in LyX-1.3.6 even after installing latex-xft-fonts

2005-08-02 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
R == R S Ananda Murthy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: R The fonts are installed in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF. After R installing this, I did R cd /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF cp fonts.dir fonts.dir.bak cp R fonts.scale fonts.scale.bak mkfontscale mkfontdir fc-cache xset fp R rehash R But even

Spellcheck with Windows?

2005-08-02 Thread Stacia Hartleben
I'm not sure how to set up spellcheck for windows. It kind of looks like Ispell is only for Unix. How would I do this?

Re: Spellcheck with Windows?

2005-08-02 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
- Original Message - From: Stacia Hartleben [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2005 2:36 PM Subject: Spellcheck with Windows? I'm not sure how to set up spellcheck for windows. It kind of looks like Ispell is only for Unix. How would I do this?

Re: Excel data sheets

2005-08-02 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 09:06:55AM -0400, samar j. singh wrote: ... You may find it useful to try what I do normally. I've added a few more details about the sequence I have to go through to get this to work. 1. open your xls file with gnumeric or open office. 2. Select the requisite

Re: Heretical question?

2005-08-02 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Michael Wojcik wrote: Paul A. Rubin wrote: Can anyone summarize pros/cons of the various options listed in this thread? You're all using (and most are actively developing) LyX, so I assume you see some advantages to LyX, right? [This is late, but Paul's query doesn't seem to have

Compiling from source on Tiger

2005-08-02 Thread owlofminerva
I'm trying to compile and install LyX 1.3.6 from source on Mac OS 10.4.2, and I've found that the instructions for installation included with the package don't work. First of all, the instructions suggest using gcc 2.95.2 to compile both QT and LyX -- but this compiler is not included with

Re: Heretical question?

2005-08-02 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 12:00:20PM -0400, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Michael Wojcik wrote: Paul A. Rubin wrote: Can anyone summarize pros/cons of the various options listed in this thread? You're all using (and most are actively developing) LyX, so I assume you see some advantages to LyX,

patch change tracking for OS X

2005-08-02 Thread Jordi Tritlla i Cambra
Hi lyxers, I would like to know if this patch is also possible to use in the aqua version (OS X) of Lyx Cheers, Jordi -- === Dr. Jordi Tritlla i Cambra ¡PAGINA WEB PUESTA AL DIA

Re: patch change tracking for OS X

2005-08-02 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Jordi == Jordi Tritlla i Cambra [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jordi Hi lyxers, I would like to know if this patch is also possible Jordi to use in the aqua version (OS X) of Lyx There is no reason why it would not work, I think. Of course, someone has to compile it :) JMarc

Lyx 1.3.6 and Debian Sarge, something went wrong again

2005-08-02 Thread Gilles Mioni
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 When fakerout was compiling, errors ocurred as : *libtool: link: `package.lo' is not a valid libtool object* That should be fixed by the latest version of http://wiki.lyx.org/uploads/LyX/Linux/lyx_1.3.6-0.lyx.org.1.diff (uploaded yesterday).

Installing beamer class layouts for lyx under Win XP

2005-08-02 Thread klemm
Hi there, I am new to LyX and I try to install the layout files for the beamer class for LyX on a Windows XP box. Unfortunately without much success so far. I tried the hints for Linux which were given in some earlier thread but it doesn't work. I hve installed MikTeX and the beamer class

Colored table rows

2005-08-02 Thread Søren O'Neill
I've managed to get the backgrounds of rows in my table gray using colortbl, but it skips all multicolumn cells (i.e they are not gray'ed) - what should I do? Kind regards -- Soren O'Neill, kiropraktor, MSc, klinisk lektor Rygambulatoriet, Sygehus Fyn Lindevej 5, 5750 Ringe [EMAIL PROTECTED]

center figures with paragraph skip

2005-08-02 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
Hi I use the center paragraph option when I place figures in floats to ensure they are in the center of the page. However with this option the spacing between the figure and the caption increases relative to the default (justified). Is there any way of having centered figures without this

Re: center figures with paragraph skip

2005-08-02 Thread Paul Smith
On 8/2/05, Geoffrey Lloyd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use the center paragraph option when I place figures in floats to ensure they are in the center of the page. However with this option the spacing between the figure and the caption increases relative to the default (justified). Is

Ubuntu debs for 1.3.6 available

2005-08-02 Thread Richard Kleeman
I have compiled some debs for Ubuntu hoary using the third version of the script kindly provided by the developers for Debian on the wiki site. If anyone can tell me where to upload them I would be grateful (the site mentioned on the wiki ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/incoming did not work. There are

Section headings

2005-08-02 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
By default the section heading in Latex are bold. This is fine. In the table of contents they are written in normal type. Again all this looks good. However I need to use some math in one of my section headings. If I input it as normal it appears in the heading in normal (non-bold font). If I

SOLVED:bold math in section heading

2005-08-02 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
In fact this is a generic solution for section and toc headings to differ in form. I simply used the Insert-Short title option. In the Heading I had bold, in the Short title normal text. Geoff

Using mla.sty in Lyx

2005-08-02 Thread Wil Hunt
Hey all, I'm trying to use the MLA style downloaded from CTAN to get the MLA stylings. There are a couple of issues I've found with it, and I was hoping someone might have some ideas for how to deal with it. Both issues involve the Works Cited page. First, I need to have the Works Cited

Re: Using mla.sty in Lyx

2005-08-02 Thread Todd Denniston
Wil Hunt wrote: Hey all, I'm trying to use the MLA style downloaded from CTAN to get the MLA stylings. There are a couple of issues I've found with it, and I was hoping someone might have some ideas for how to deal with it. Both issues involve the Works Cited page.

Re: Ubuntu debs for 1.3.6 available

2005-08-02 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Richard == Richard Kleeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Richard I have compiled some debs for Ubuntu hoary using the third Richard version of the script kindly provided by the developers for Richard Debian on the wiki site. If anyone can tell me where to Richard upload them I would be grateful (the

Re: Using mla.sty in Lyx

2005-08-02 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Wil == Wil Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Wil Hey all, I'm trying to use the MLA style downloaded from CTAN to Wil get the MLA stylings. There are a couple of issues I've found Wil with it, and I was hoping someone might have some ideas for how Wil to deal with it. WilBoth issues involve

Paste External

2005-08-02 Thread Stacia Hartleben
Is there a way I could make a keyboard command for paste external? I need to paste a lot of external things and it takes a long time to go to the menu all the time. I don't mind if there are two seperate functions, but I want easy acess to the external paste one. Thanks!

Re: Paste External

2005-08-02 Thread Paul Smith
On 8/3/05, Stacia Hartleben [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way I could make a keyboard command for paste external? I need to paste a lot of external things and it takes a long time to go to the menu all the time. I don't mind if there are two seperate functions, but I want easy acess to

How to print change bars

2005-08-02 Thread Roger McMurtrie
The change tracking function is working well on screen but when I View-DVI or PDF the change bars don't appear. Is there ant way of having them appear on the printed page? Roger

How to reduce the size of italics in mathpazo?

2005-08-02 Thread Ekkehart Schlicht
Moton Hogholm suggested the solution which works just fine: For the osf option, use the praeamble \usepackage[osf]{mathpazo} \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \normalfont \DeclareFontShape{T1}{pplj}{m}{it}{- s * [.97] pplri9d}{} \DeclareFontShape{T1}{pplj}{b}{it}{- s * [.97] pplbi9d}{} For the sc

Re: View->PDF lost

2005-08-02 Thread Roger McMurtrie
Thanks for your advice. I did as you suggested and found the DVI->Postscript converter missing so I specfied a new one with dvips -o $$o $$i and got the View->PDF back. But then View->PDF gave me errors! In desperation I reinstalled Lyx 1.3.6 and everything worked. The DVI->Postscript

Re: Indenting Text

2005-08-02 Thread Roy Schestowitz
Quoting Rich Shepard: On Mon, 1 Aug 2005, Stacia Hartleben wrote: Could someone please explain to me how text indenting works in Lyx? I can't seem to figure it out. Thanks! You can change it in two places: Layout->Document->Layout choose Indent or Skip for paragraph spacing. Then, in

Re: Indenting Text

2005-08-02 Thread G. Milde
On 2.08.05, Roy Schestowitz wrote: > Quoting Rich Shepard: > > >On Mon, 1 Aug 2005, Stacia Hartleben wrote: > > > >>Could someone please explain to me how text indenting works in Lyx? I > >>can't seem to figure it out. Thanks! Do you mean the indentation at the start of a paragraph? > > You can

Re: Excel data sheets

2005-08-02 Thread Brian Williams
William, have you actually managed to make this work with LyX? If so, what is the trick? Thanks, Brian Williams "William F. Adams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Jul 28, 2005, at 9:06 AM, Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: > Has anyone had any experience or success in importing MS Excel data > sheets

Re: Excel data sheets

2005-08-02 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
- Original Message - From: "Brian Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "William F. Adams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "lyx" Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2005 1:36 PM Subject: Re: Excel data sheets William, have you actually managed to make this work with LyX? If so,

Re: Renumbering Sections - How to keep WYSIWYM up to date?

2005-08-02 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Wil" == Wil Hunt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Wil> Hey all, I'm currently writing a study guide for a class, and Wil> thus need to skip over some chapters in the book that are not Wil> being covered in the class. I've found the Wil> \setcounter{section}{...} command, and this works great

Re: Any successes w/ LyX 1.3.6 for Windows 98SE

2005-08-02 Thread William F. Adams
On Aug 1, 2005, at 6:18 PM, Roy Schestowitz wrote: All I can contribute is the fact that I ran it successfully under Windows 98 SE. have you tried re-installing? When I downloaded it last (2+ years ago), it was from a small and obscure page offering the Win32 port. I can't be sure if the

Re: Math symbol not displayed in LyX-1.3.6 even after installing latex-xft-fonts

2005-08-02 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "R" == R S Ananda Murthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: R> The fonts are installed in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF. After R> installing this, I did R> cd /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF cp fonts.dir fonts.dir.bak cp R> fonts.scale fonts.scale.bak mkfontscale mkfontdir fc-cache xset fp R> rehash

Spellcheck with Windows?

2005-08-02 Thread Stacia Hartleben
I'm not sure how to set up spellcheck for windows. It kind of looks like Ispell is only for Unix. How would I do this?

Re: Spellcheck with Windows?

2005-08-02 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
- Original Message - From: "Stacia Hartleben" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2005 2:36 PM Subject: Spellcheck with Windows? I'm not sure how to set up spellcheck for windows. It kind of looks like Ispell is only for Unix. How would I do

Re: Excel data sheets

2005-08-02 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 09:06:55AM -0400, samar j. singh wrote: ... > You may find it useful to try what I do normally. I've added a few more details about the sequence I have to go through to get this to work. > 1. open your xls file with gnumeric or open office. > > 2. Select the requisite

Re: Heretical question?

2005-08-02 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Michael Wojcik wrote: Paul A. Rubin wrote: Can anyone summarize pros/cons of the various options listed in this thread? You're all using (and most are actively developing) LyX, so I assume you see some advantages to LyX, right? [This is late, but Paul's query doesn't seem to have

Compiling from source on Tiger

2005-08-02 Thread owlofminerva
I'm trying to compile and install LyX 1.3.6 from source on Mac OS 10.4.2, and I've found that the instructions for installation included with the package don't work. First of all, the instructions suggest using gcc 2.95.2 to compile both QT and LyX -- but this compiler is not included with

Re: Heretical question?

2005-08-02 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 12:00:20PM -0400, Paul A. Rubin wrote: > Michael Wojcik wrote: > >Paul A. Rubin wrote: > > > >>> > >>Can anyone summarize pros/cons of the various options listed in this > >>thread? You're all using (and most are actively developing) LyX, so I > >>assume you see some

patch change tracking for OS X

2005-08-02 Thread Jordi Tritlla i Cambra
Hi lyxers, I would like to know if this patch is also possible to use in the aqua version (OS X) of Lyx Cheers, Jordi -- === Dr. Jordi Tritlla i Cambra ¡PAGINA WEB PUESTA AL DIA

Re: patch change tracking for OS X

2005-08-02 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Jordi" == Jordi Tritlla i Cambra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jordi> Hi lyxers, I would like to know if this patch is also possible Jordi> to use in the aqua version (OS X) of Lyx There is no reason why it would not work, I think. Of course, someone has to compile it :) JMarc

Lyx 1.3.6 and Debian Sarge, something went wrong again

2005-08-02 Thread Gilles Mioni
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 >> When fakerout was compiling, errors ocurred as : >> >> *libtool: link: `package.lo' is not a valid libtool object* > > > That should be fixed by the latest version of > http://wiki.lyx.org/uploads/LyX/Linux/lyx_1.3.6-0.lyx.org.1.diff > (uploaded

Installing beamer class layouts for lyx under Win XP

2005-08-02 Thread klemm
Hi there, I am new to LyX and I try to install the layout files for the beamer class for LyX on a Windows XP box. Unfortunately without much success so far. I tried the hints for Linux which were given in some earlier thread but it doesn't work. I hve installed MikTeX and the beamer class

Colored table rows

2005-08-02 Thread Søren O'Neill
I've managed to get the backgrounds of rows in my table gray using colortbl, but it skips all multicolumn cells (i.e they are not gray'ed) - what should I do? Kind regards -- Soren O'Neill, kiropraktor, MSc, klinisk lektor Rygambulatoriet, Sygehus Fyn Lindevej 5, 5750 Ringe [EMAIL PROTECTED]

center figures with paragraph skip

2005-08-02 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
Hi I use the center paragraph option when I place figures in floats to ensure they are in the center of the page. However with this option the spacing between the figure and the caption increases relative to the default (justified). Is there any way of having centered figures without this

Re: center figures with paragraph skip

2005-08-02 Thread Paul Smith
On 8/2/05, Geoffrey Lloyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I use the center paragraph option when I place figures in floats to ensure > they are in the center of the page. However with this option the spacing > between the figure and the caption increases relative to the default > (justified). > >

Ubuntu debs for 1.3.6 available

2005-08-02 Thread Richard Kleeman
I have compiled some debs for Ubuntu hoary using the third version of the script kindly provided by the developers for Debian on the wiki site. If anyone can tell me where to upload them I would be grateful (the site mentioned on the wiki ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/incoming did not work. There are

Section headings

2005-08-02 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
By default the section heading in Latex are bold. This is fine. In the table of contents they are written in normal type. Again all this looks good. However I need to use some math in one of my section headings. If I input it as normal it appears in the heading in normal (non-bold font). If I

SOLVED:bold math in section heading

2005-08-02 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
In fact this is a generic solution for section and toc headings to differ in form. I simply used the Insert->Short title option. In the Heading I had bold, in the Short title normal text. Geoff

Using mla.sty in Lyx

2005-08-02 Thread Wil Hunt
Hey all, I'm trying to use the MLA style downloaded from CTAN to get the MLA stylings. There are a couple of issues I've found with it, and I was hoping someone might have some ideas for how to deal with it. Both issues involve the Works Cited page. First, I need to have the Works Cited

Re: Using mla.sty in Lyx

2005-08-02 Thread Todd Denniston
Wil Hunt wrote: > > Hey all, > > I'm trying to use the MLA style downloaded from CTAN to get the MLA > stylings. There are a couple of issues I've found with it, and I was > hoping someone might have some ideas for how to deal with it. > > Both issues involve the Works Cited

Re: Ubuntu debs for 1.3.6 available

2005-08-02 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Richard" == Richard Kleeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Richard> I have compiled some debs for Ubuntu hoary using the third Richard> version of the script kindly provided by the developers for Richard> Debian on the wiki site. If anyone can tell me where to Richard> upload them I would be

Re: Using mla.sty in Lyx

2005-08-02 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Wil" == Wil Hunt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Wil> Hey all, I'm trying to use the MLA style downloaded from CTAN to Wil> get the MLA stylings. There are a couple of issues I've found Wil> with it, and I was hoping someone might have some ideas for how Wil> to deal with it. Wil>Both

Paste External

2005-08-02 Thread Stacia Hartleben
Is there a way I could make a keyboard command for paste external? I need to paste a lot of external things and it takes a long time to go to the menu all the time. I don't mind if there are two seperate functions, but I want easy acess to the external paste one. Thanks!

Re: Paste External

2005-08-02 Thread Paul Smith
On 8/3/05, Stacia Hartleben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a way I could make a keyboard command for paste external? I > need to paste a lot of external things and it takes a long time to go > to the menu all the time. I don't mind if there are two seperate > functions, but I want easy

How to print change bars

2005-08-02 Thread Roger McMurtrie
The change tracking function is working well on screen but when I View->DVI or PDF the change bars don't appear. Is there ant way of having them appear on the printed page? Roger

How to reduce the size of italics in mathpazo?

2005-08-02 Thread Ekkehart Schlicht
Moton Hogholm suggested the solution which works just fine: For the osf option, use the praeamble \usepackage[osf]{mathpazo} \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \normalfont \DeclareFontShape{T1}{pplj}{m}{it}{<-> s * [.97] pplri9d}{} \DeclareFontShape{T1}{pplj}{b}{it}{<-> s * [.97] pplbi9d}{} For the sc