Re: 100% CPU usage for LyX 1.3.5 and questions on LyX 1.4

2006-01-16 Thread Jose Capco
--- Angus Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyway, rather than try and debug the problem in LyX 1.3.5 which isn't anything to do with us, perhaps you'll try out LyX 1.3.7pre5 (http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX137pre) which is now known to run reasonably well on Win98. A (small) word of

Re: LyX 1.3.6 and ispell problem

2006-01-16 Thread Helge Hafting
Jan Willemson wrote: [...] Well, actually I am trying to spell an Estonian text, but the problem with English was the same so I described that one. Anyway, after installing the aspell-en package, I can spell English text, though LyX still shows me that it is using ispell, and installing

Re: Lyx-WIndows-Python

2006-01-16 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Mohsin Mohd Sies wrote: I have a strange problem. I've just installed Lyx on Windows. What installer did you use, this one: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinInstaller or this one http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX136 http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX137pre I've also installed Python and all

Re: Lyx-WIndows-Python

2006-01-16 Thread Georg Baum
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Could you please start LyX from then Win console with the command lyx -dbg 3 better: lyx -dbg info,init (the result is the same, but using names for the debug flags is better to remember) Georg

Re: Business letter (on letterhead) template for LyX

2006-01-16 Thread Kevin Pfeiffer
Paul A. Rubin writes: 1. (This is the only major issue.) Our letterhead includes logos on both the left side of the paper and along the top. Dealing with the top is not a problem, but for the life of me I cannot find a way in komascript to make the left margin two inches on the first page

Re: LyX 1.3.6 and ispell problem

2006-01-16 Thread Jan Willemson
So in the end of the day, I suspect that LyX 1.3.6 has a bug of still trying to use aspell, even if ispell is chosen in Preferences - Spellchecker. Or is is the problem between the chair and the computer Looks like your lyx decides to use aspell anyway - maybe ispell support isn't

Re: LyX 1.3.6 and ispell problem

2006-01-16 Thread Georg Baum
Jan Willemson wrote: LyX 1.4.0beta seems to handle ispell better (apart from the fact that spelling in 1.4.0beta is broken in general, but that's due to being beta). Is that reported in bugzilla? If not, please do that. BTW, there is no beta. There is 1.4.0pre1, pre2 and pre3. So unless

Re: New Windows version

2006-01-16 Thread Enrico Forestieri
David A. Case [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Have you also tried to build a cygwin version? Since cygwin already suppies tex/latex/perl/python/sh/sed, etc., and since many people (like me) make extensive use of cygwin, having a cygwin package (that understands its posix-like paths) would be very

Creating a .layout file with two command arguments

2006-01-16 Thread Jeremy Daily
Group, I'm trying to make a .layout file for sae.cls. I have everything working except the authors. In the sae class, the authors are added using the command: \AddAuthor{Author name}{Affiliation} If I try: Style Author MarginStatic LatexTypeCommand InTitle1

Re: Lyx-WIndows-Python

2006-01-16 Thread Mohsin Mohd Sies
On 1/16/06, Uwe Stöhr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mohsin Mohd Sies wrote: I have a strange problem. I've just installed Lyx on Windows. What installer did you use, this one: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinInstaller Sorry about that, I used lyx-1.3.6_win32_setup_v1.exe. I also have

Re: Lyx-WIndows-Python

2006-01-16 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Mohsin Mohd Sies [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Executing command: python C:/Program Files/LyX/Resources/lyx/scripts/clean_dvi.py newfile3.dvi tmpfile.out I wonder if cygwin's latex packages is conflicting with Miktex? (Newbie's suspicion) Please, see this post:

Re: Lyx-WIndows-Python

2006-01-16 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Mohsin Mohd Sies wrote: I wonder if cygwin's latex packages is conflicting with Miktex? (Newbie's suspicion) It seems so. The console messages don't help. Could you deinstall cygwin (or if this isn't possible cygwin's LaTeX-packages), restart your system and try to install with the

Re: Creating a .layout file with two command arguments

2006-01-16 Thread Mael Hilléreau
in the LyX .layout file, an error is given. I cannot figure out a way to include two two values for one command in LyX. This is not possible in a dynamic way (i.e. you only can specify one parameter into LyX window). Perhaps, a workaround could consist in using two layout styles as the

Re: Lyx-WIndows-Python

2006-01-16 Thread Mohsin Mohd Sies
I didn't deinstall cygwin, but I removed cygwin's paths from Windows Environment and I also deleted my local Lyx settings under C:\Document Settings\luser\Application Data and restarted Lyx and let it rebuild that directory. It seems to work fine after that. Afterwards, I put back cygwin's path

ERT Latex export

2006-01-16 Thread Ernesto Posse
Hi. Is there any way to tell lyx not to put empty lines when generating latex from an ERT box? I'm trying to use a latex package which for some reason doesn't like empty lines, but it looks like LyX always adds empty lines between lines written in an ERT box. This is quite inconvenient, since I

Re: Business letter (on letterhead) template for LyX

2006-01-16 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: Paul A. Rubin writes: 1. (This is the only major issue.) Our letterhead includes logos on both the left side of the paper and along the top. Dealing with the top is not a problem, but for the life of me I cannot find a way in komascript to make the left margin two

Re: ERT Latex export

2006-01-16 Thread Georg Baum
Ernesto Posse wrote: Hi. Is there any way to tell lyx not to put empty lines when generating latex from an ERT box? I'm trying to use a latex package which for some reason doesn't like empty lines, but it looks like LyX always adds empty lines between lines written in an ERT box. This is

Re: ERT Latex export

2006-01-16 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Ernesto Posse wrote: Hi. Is there any way to tell lyx not to put empty lines when generating latex from an ERT box? I'm trying to use a latex package which for some reason doesn't like empty lines, but it looks like LyX always adds empty lines between lines written in an ERT box. This is quite

fbox with a predefined width

2006-01-16 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All I would like to box the text Exercise 1 in such a way that the box of the text Exercise 23 has the same width of the one surrounding Exercise 1. I tried \fbox, but with no success. Thanks in advance, Paul

Re: fbox with a predefined width

2006-01-16 Thread Herbert Voss
Paul Smith wrote: I would like to box the text Exercise 1 in such a way that the box of the text Exercise 23 has the same width of the one surrounding Exercise 1. I tried \fbox, but with no success. with package calc \fbox{\makebox[\widthof{Exercise 23}]{Exercise 1}} \fbox{Exercise 23}

Re: fbox with a predefined width

2006-01-16 Thread Paul Smith
On 1/16/06, Herbert Voss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to box the text Exercise 1 in such a way that the box of the text Exercise 23 has the same width of the one surrounding Exercise 1. I tried \fbox, but with no success. with package calc

Re: fbox with a predefined width

2006-01-16 Thread Herbert Voss
Paul Smith wrote: \fbox{\makebox[\widthof{Exercise 23}]{Exercise 1}} \fbox{Exercise 23} Thanks, Herbert. Is it possible to use left alignment (only inside the box) for the two boxes? I tried \raggedleft, but with no success. \fbox{\makebox[\widthof{Exercise 23}][l]{Exercise 1}} Herbert

Re: fbox with a predefined width

2006-01-16 Thread Paul Smith
On 1/16/06, Herbert Voss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: \fbox{\makebox[\widthof{Exercise 23}]{Exercise 1}} \fbox{Exercise 23} Thanks, Herbert. Is it possible to use left alignment (only inside the box) for the two boxes? I tried \raggedleft, but with no success.

LyX 1.4 test

2006-01-16 Thread Horacio Emilio Pérez Sánchez
Hola, I use lyx 1.3.5 in suse 9.0 and I would like to test the new lyx 1.4.0pre3. I would like to install this new version in my system without uninstalling/deleting/erasing the old one (lyx 1.3.5), in order to test the new features and to be able to use the old version if the new one doesn't

Re: fbox with a predefined width

2006-01-16 Thread Herbert Voss
Paul Smith wrote: On 1/16/06, Herbert Voss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: \fbox{\makebox[\widthof{Exercise 23}]{Exercise 1}} \fbox{Exercise 23} Thanks, Herbert. Is it possible to use left alignment (only inside the box) for the two boxes? I tried \raggedleft, but with no success.

Re: Business letter (on letterhead) template for LyX

2006-01-16 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 11:11:39AM +0100, Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: Paul A. Rubin writes: 1. (This is the only major issue.) Our letterhead includes logos on both the left side of the paper and along the top. Dealing with the top is not a problem, but for the life of me I cannot find a way

Re: fbox with a predefined width

2006-01-16 Thread Paul Smith
On 1/16/06, Herbert Voss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: LyX isn't made for TeX code, this is the reason why you shouldn't mix ERT and LyX text. Write the \fbox{\makebox[\widthof{Exercise 23}][l]{Exercise 1}} _only_ in ERT. At least you need a % \fbox{\makebox[\widthof{Exercise 23}][l]{% Exercise

optional EOL comma?

2006-01-16 Thread Kevin Pfeiffer
Might there be a way that one can write a command for an optional comma? That is a command that would look ahead to see if it is the last character before a linebreak? Something like: \newcommand\optComma{% [EMAIL PROTECTED],}{}} So that in a case like this: New York, New York, Saturday

Re: LyX 1.4 test

2006-01-16 Thread Georg Baum
Am Montag, 16. Januar 2006 20:56 schrieb Horacio Emilio Pérez Sánchez: I would like to install this new version in my system without uninstalling/deleting/erasing the old one (lyx 1.3.5), in order to test the new features and to be able to use the old version if the new one doesn't work

Re: Business letter (on letterhead) template for LyX

2006-01-16 Thread John O'Gorman
I have a similar problem but not with a letter class. I am trying to put a logo at the top left of the page. Alongside the logo, I want my business name in \Huge letters. (This is mainly for the purpose of building web pages.) The problem is that the Name is vertically centred alongside the

Re: Business letter (on letterhead) template for LyX

2006-01-16 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 17 Jan 2006, John O'Gorman wrote: I am trying to put a logo at the top left of the page. Alongside the logo, I want my business name in \Huge letters. (This is mainly for the purpose of building web pages.) John, Something like the attached? I did this in OO.o, trimmed the page

Re: Business letter (on letterhead) template for LyX

2006-01-16 Thread john
On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 15:16 -0800, Rich Shepard wrote: On Tue, 17 Jan 2006, John O'Gorman wrote: I am trying to put a logo at the top left of the page. Alongside the logo, I want my business name in \Huge letters. (This is mainly for the purpose of building web pages.) John,

Re: Business letter (on letterhead) template for LyX

2006-01-16 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 17 Jan 2006, john wrote: Shrug. I had hoped it would be easy in LyX (because that's what I tell everyone!) John, It probably _is_ easy when you know exactly how to do it. :-) I found this approach took me less time. Rich -- Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D. | Author of

Re: Business letter (on letterhead) template for LyX

2006-01-16 Thread john
On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 16:23 -0800, Rich Shepard wrote: It probably _is_ easy when you know exactly how to do it. :-) I found this approach took me less time. Yes. In fact I have a little progress. With a bit of bodging tables within tables I have got it how I like for DVI and PDF output.

Re: LyX 1.4 test

2006-01-16 Thread Paul Johnson
Be Cautious! IF you edit a document with Lyx-1.4, then you will not be able to edit with Lyx-1.3.X. pj On 1/16/06, Georg Baum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Montag, 16. Januar 2006 20:56 schrieb Horacio Emilio Pérez Sánchez: I would like to install this new version in my system without

Re: Business letter (on letterhead) template for LyX

2006-01-16 Thread Kevin Pfeiffer
john writes: In fact I have a little progress. With a bit of bodging tables within tables I have got it how I like for DVI and PDF output. Unfortunately latex2html now stuffs up the logo (making it too big). Attached is one rough suggestion (just cribbed together with some hard-wired values

Re: Creating a .layout file with two command arguments

2006-01-16 Thread Jeremy Daily
Mael, Thanks for the suggestion. The logic made sense, but your suggestion did not work. LyX generated an extra line between the commands in the tex file. Another question: How can I get the Date environment to display Copyright: 2006 in LyX? The final output is correct so this display is a

Re: Business letter (on letterhead) template for LyX

2006-01-16 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 17 Jan 2006, Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: Attached is one rough suggestion (just cribbed together with some hard-wired values and not tried in a letter template. Kevin, Very nicely done! Rich -- Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D. | Author of Quantifying Environmental Applied

Re: Business letter (on letterhead) template for LyX

2006-01-16 Thread john
On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 04:19 +0100, Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: Attached is one rough suggestion (just cribbed together with some hard-wired values and not tried in a letter template. Thanks for that. A different approach. Unfortunately, latex2html could not render it properly. The -ve vspace

Re: Business letter (on letterhead) template for LyX

2006-01-16 Thread john
Aha! I've done it! The secret was rather silly. It was in the includegraphics dialogue box. I had been supplying a width and checking the maintain aspect ratio box. Regardless of what size I set, latex2htnl was creating an IMG .. tag with WIDTH=470 HEIGHT=471. Looking at Kevin's code, I noticed

Re: 100% CPU usage for LyX 1.3.5 and questions on LyX 1.4

2006-01-16 Thread Jose Capco
--- Angus Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyway, rather than try and debug the problem in LyX 1.3.5 which isn't anything to do with us, perhaps you'll try out LyX 1.3.7pre5 (http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX137pre) which is now known to run reasonably well on Win98. A (small) word of

Re: LyX 1.3.6 and ispell problem

2006-01-16 Thread Helge Hafting
Jan Willemson wrote: [...] Well, actually I am trying to spell an Estonian text, but the problem with English was the same so I described that one. Anyway, after installing the aspell-en package, I can spell English text, though LyX still shows me that it is using ispell, and installing

Re: Lyx-WIndows-Python

2006-01-16 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Mohsin Mohd Sies wrote: I have a strange problem. I've just installed Lyx on Windows. What installer did you use, this one: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinInstaller or this one http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX136 http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX137pre I've also installed Python and all

Re: Lyx-WIndows-Python

2006-01-16 Thread Georg Baum
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Could you please start LyX from then Win console with the command lyx -dbg 3 better: lyx -dbg info,init (the result is the same, but using names for the debug flags is better to remember) Georg

Re: Business letter (on letterhead) template for LyX

2006-01-16 Thread Kevin Pfeiffer
Paul A. Rubin writes: 1. (This is the only major issue.) Our letterhead includes logos on both the left side of the paper and along the top. Dealing with the top is not a problem, but for the life of me I cannot find a way in komascript to make the left margin two inches on the first page

Re: LyX 1.3.6 and ispell problem

2006-01-16 Thread Jan Willemson
So in the end of the day, I suspect that LyX 1.3.6 has a bug of still trying to use aspell, even if ispell is chosen in Preferences - Spellchecker. Or is is the problem between the chair and the computer Looks like your lyx decides to use aspell anyway - maybe ispell support isn't

Re: LyX 1.3.6 and ispell problem

2006-01-16 Thread Georg Baum
Jan Willemson wrote: LyX 1.4.0beta seems to handle ispell better (apart from the fact that spelling in 1.4.0beta is broken in general, but that's due to being beta). Is that reported in bugzilla? If not, please do that. BTW, there is no beta. There is 1.4.0pre1, pre2 and pre3. So unless

Re: New Windows version

2006-01-16 Thread Enrico Forestieri
David A. Case [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Have you also tried to build a cygwin version? Since cygwin already suppies tex/latex/perl/python/sh/sed, etc., and since many people (like me) make extensive use of cygwin, having a cygwin package (that understands its posix-like paths) would be very

Creating a .layout file with two command arguments

2006-01-16 Thread Jeremy Daily
Group, I'm trying to make a .layout file for sae.cls. I have everything working except the authors. In the sae class, the authors are added using the command: \AddAuthor{Author name}{Affiliation} If I try: Style Author MarginStatic LatexTypeCommand InTitle1

Re: Lyx-WIndows-Python

2006-01-16 Thread Mohsin Mohd Sies
On 1/16/06, Uwe Stöhr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mohsin Mohd Sies wrote: I have a strange problem. I've just installed Lyx on Windows. What installer did you use, this one: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinInstaller Sorry about that, I used lyx-1.3.6_win32_setup_v1.exe. I also have

Re: Lyx-WIndows-Python

2006-01-16 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Mohsin Mohd Sies [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Executing command: python C:/Program Files/LyX/Resources/lyx/scripts/clean_dvi.py newfile3.dvi tmpfile.out I wonder if cygwin's latex packages is conflicting with Miktex? (Newbie's suspicion) Please, see this post:

Re: Lyx-WIndows-Python

2006-01-16 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Mohsin Mohd Sies wrote: I wonder if cygwin's latex packages is conflicting with Miktex? (Newbie's suspicion) It seems so. The console messages don't help. Could you deinstall cygwin (or if this isn't possible cygwin's LaTeX-packages), restart your system and try to install with the

Re: Creating a .layout file with two command arguments

2006-01-16 Thread Mael Hilléreau
in the LyX .layout file, an error is given. I cannot figure out a way to include two two values for one command in LyX. This is not possible in a dynamic way (i.e. you only can specify one parameter into LyX window). Perhaps, a workaround could consist in using two layout styles as the

Re: Lyx-WIndows-Python

2006-01-16 Thread Mohsin Mohd Sies
I didn't deinstall cygwin, but I removed cygwin's paths from Windows Environment and I also deleted my local Lyx settings under C:\Document Settings\luser\Application Data and restarted Lyx and let it rebuild that directory. It seems to work fine after that. Afterwards, I put back cygwin's path

ERT Latex export

2006-01-16 Thread Ernesto Posse
Hi. Is there any way to tell lyx not to put empty lines when generating latex from an ERT box? I'm trying to use a latex package which for some reason doesn't like empty lines, but it looks like LyX always adds empty lines between lines written in an ERT box. This is quite inconvenient, since I

Re: Business letter (on letterhead) template for LyX

2006-01-16 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: Paul A. Rubin writes: 1. (This is the only major issue.) Our letterhead includes logos on both the left side of the paper and along the top. Dealing with the top is not a problem, but for the life of me I cannot find a way in komascript to make the left margin two

Re: ERT Latex export

2006-01-16 Thread Georg Baum
Ernesto Posse wrote: Hi. Is there any way to tell lyx not to put empty lines when generating latex from an ERT box? I'm trying to use a latex package which for some reason doesn't like empty lines, but it looks like LyX always adds empty lines between lines written in an ERT box. This is

Re: ERT Latex export

2006-01-16 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Ernesto Posse wrote: Hi. Is there any way to tell lyx not to put empty lines when generating latex from an ERT box? I'm trying to use a latex package which for some reason doesn't like empty lines, but it looks like LyX always adds empty lines between lines written in an ERT box. This is quite

fbox with a predefined width

2006-01-16 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All I would like to box the text Exercise 1 in such a way that the box of the text Exercise 23 has the same width of the one surrounding Exercise 1. I tried \fbox, but with no success. Thanks in advance, Paul

Re: fbox with a predefined width

2006-01-16 Thread Herbert Voss
Paul Smith wrote: I would like to box the text Exercise 1 in such a way that the box of the text Exercise 23 has the same width of the one surrounding Exercise 1. I tried \fbox, but with no success. with package calc \fbox{\makebox[\widthof{Exercise 23}]{Exercise 1}} \fbox{Exercise 23}

Re: fbox with a predefined width

2006-01-16 Thread Paul Smith
On 1/16/06, Herbert Voss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to box the text Exercise 1 in such a way that the box of the text Exercise 23 has the same width of the one surrounding Exercise 1. I tried \fbox, but with no success. with package calc

Re: fbox with a predefined width

2006-01-16 Thread Herbert Voss
Paul Smith wrote: \fbox{\makebox[\widthof{Exercise 23}]{Exercise 1}} \fbox{Exercise 23} Thanks, Herbert. Is it possible to use left alignment (only inside the box) for the two boxes? I tried \raggedleft, but with no success. \fbox{\makebox[\widthof{Exercise 23}][l]{Exercise 1}} Herbert

Re: fbox with a predefined width

2006-01-16 Thread Paul Smith
On 1/16/06, Herbert Voss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: \fbox{\makebox[\widthof{Exercise 23}]{Exercise 1}} \fbox{Exercise 23} Thanks, Herbert. Is it possible to use left alignment (only inside the box) for the two boxes? I tried \raggedleft, but with no success.

LyX 1.4 test

2006-01-16 Thread Horacio Emilio Pérez Sánchez
Hola, I use lyx 1.3.5 in suse 9.0 and I would like to test the new lyx 1.4.0pre3. I would like to install this new version in my system without uninstalling/deleting/erasing the old one (lyx 1.3.5), in order to test the new features and to be able to use the old version if the new one doesn't

Re: fbox with a predefined width

2006-01-16 Thread Herbert Voss
Paul Smith wrote: On 1/16/06, Herbert Voss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: \fbox{\makebox[\widthof{Exercise 23}]{Exercise 1}} \fbox{Exercise 23} Thanks, Herbert. Is it possible to use left alignment (only inside the box) for the two boxes? I tried \raggedleft, but with no success.

Re: Business letter (on letterhead) template for LyX

2006-01-16 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 11:11:39AM +0100, Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: Paul A. Rubin writes: 1. (This is the only major issue.) Our letterhead includes logos on both the left side of the paper and along the top. Dealing with the top is not a problem, but for the life of me I cannot find a way

Re: fbox with a predefined width

2006-01-16 Thread Paul Smith
On 1/16/06, Herbert Voss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: LyX isn't made for TeX code, this is the reason why you shouldn't mix ERT and LyX text. Write the \fbox{\makebox[\widthof{Exercise 23}][l]{Exercise 1}} _only_ in ERT. At least you need a % \fbox{\makebox[\widthof{Exercise 23}][l]{% Exercise

optional EOL comma?

2006-01-16 Thread Kevin Pfeiffer
Might there be a way that one can write a command for an optional comma? That is a command that would look ahead to see if it is the last character before a linebreak? Something like: \newcommand\optComma{% [EMAIL PROTECTED],}{}} So that in a case like this: New York, New York, Saturday

Re: LyX 1.4 test

2006-01-16 Thread Georg Baum
Am Montag, 16. Januar 2006 20:56 schrieb Horacio Emilio Pérez Sánchez: I would like to install this new version in my system without uninstalling/deleting/erasing the old one (lyx 1.3.5), in order to test the new features and to be able to use the old version if the new one doesn't work

Re: Business letter (on letterhead) template for LyX

2006-01-16 Thread John O'Gorman
I have a similar problem but not with a letter class. I am trying to put a logo at the top left of the page. Alongside the logo, I want my business name in \Huge letters. (This is mainly for the purpose of building web pages.) The problem is that the Name is vertically centred alongside the

Re: Business letter (on letterhead) template for LyX

2006-01-16 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 17 Jan 2006, John O'Gorman wrote: I am trying to put a logo at the top left of the page. Alongside the logo, I want my business name in \Huge letters. (This is mainly for the purpose of building web pages.) John, Something like the attached? I did this in OO.o, trimmed the page

Re: Business letter (on letterhead) template for LyX

2006-01-16 Thread john
On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 15:16 -0800, Rich Shepard wrote: On Tue, 17 Jan 2006, John O'Gorman wrote: I am trying to put a logo at the top left of the page. Alongside the logo, I want my business name in \Huge letters. (This is mainly for the purpose of building web pages.) John,

Re: Business letter (on letterhead) template for LyX

2006-01-16 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 17 Jan 2006, john wrote: Shrug. I had hoped it would be easy in LyX (because that's what I tell everyone!) John, It probably _is_ easy when you know exactly how to do it. :-) I found this approach took me less time. Rich -- Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D. | Author of

Re: Business letter (on letterhead) template for LyX

2006-01-16 Thread john
On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 16:23 -0800, Rich Shepard wrote: It probably _is_ easy when you know exactly how to do it. :-) I found this approach took me less time. Yes. In fact I have a little progress. With a bit of bodging tables within tables I have got it how I like for DVI and PDF output.

Re: LyX 1.4 test

2006-01-16 Thread Paul Johnson
Be Cautious! IF you edit a document with Lyx-1.4, then you will not be able to edit with Lyx-1.3.X. pj On 1/16/06, Georg Baum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Montag, 16. Januar 2006 20:56 schrieb Horacio Emilio Pérez Sánchez: I would like to install this new version in my system without

Re: Business letter (on letterhead) template for LyX

2006-01-16 Thread Kevin Pfeiffer
john writes: In fact I have a little progress. With a bit of bodging tables within tables I have got it how I like for DVI and PDF output. Unfortunately latex2html now stuffs up the logo (making it too big). Attached is one rough suggestion (just cribbed together with some hard-wired values

Re: Creating a .layout file with two command arguments

2006-01-16 Thread Jeremy Daily
Mael, Thanks for the suggestion. The logic made sense, but your suggestion did not work. LyX generated an extra line between the commands in the tex file. Another question: How can I get the Date environment to display Copyright: 2006 in LyX? The final output is correct so this display is a

Re: Business letter (on letterhead) template for LyX

2006-01-16 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 17 Jan 2006, Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: Attached is one rough suggestion (just cribbed together with some hard-wired values and not tried in a letter template. Kevin, Very nicely done! Rich -- Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D. | Author of Quantifying Environmental Applied

Re: Business letter (on letterhead) template for LyX

2006-01-16 Thread john
On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 04:19 +0100, Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: Attached is one rough suggestion (just cribbed together with some hard-wired values and not tried in a letter template. Thanks for that. A different approach. Unfortunately, latex2html could not render it properly. The -ve vspace

Re: Business letter (on letterhead) template for LyX

2006-01-16 Thread john
Aha! I've done it! The secret was rather silly. It was in the includegraphics dialogue box. I had been supplying a width and checking the maintain aspect ratio box. Regardless of what size I set, latex2htnl was creating an IMG .. tag with WIDTH=470 HEIGHT=471. Looking at Kevin's code, I noticed

Re: 100% CPU usage for LyX 1.3.5 and questions on LyX 1.4

2006-01-16 Thread Jose Capco
--- Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anyway, rather than try and debug the problem in LyX > 1.3.5 which isn't > anything to do with us, perhaps you'll try out LyX > 1.3.7pre5 > (http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX137pre) which is now > known to run > reasonably well on Win98. > > A (small)

Re: LyX 1.3.6 and ispell problem

2006-01-16 Thread Helge Hafting
Jan Willemson wrote: [...] Well, actually I am trying to spell an Estonian text, but the problem with English was the same so I described that one. Anyway, after installing the aspell-en package, I can spell English text, though LyX still shows me that it is using ispell, and installing

Re: Lyx-WIndows-Python

2006-01-16 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Mohsin Mohd Sies wrote: I have a strange problem. I've just installed Lyx on Windows. What installer did you use, this one: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinInstaller or this one http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX136 http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX137pre I've also installed Python and all

Re: Lyx-WIndows-Python

2006-01-16 Thread Georg Baum
Uwe Stöhr wrote: > Could you please start LyX from then Win console with the command > > lyx -dbg 3 better: lyx -dbg info,init (the result is the same, but using names for the debug flags is better to remember) Georg

Re: Business letter (on letterhead) template for LyX

2006-01-16 Thread Kevin Pfeiffer
Paul A. Rubin writes: > 1. (This is the only major issue.) Our letterhead includes logos on > both the left side of the paper and along the top. Dealing with the > top is not a problem, but for the life of me I cannot find a way in > komascript to make the left margin two inches on the first

Re: LyX 1.3.6 and ispell problem

2006-01-16 Thread Jan Willemson
> >So in the end of the day, I suspect that LyX 1.3.6 has a bug of still > >trying to use aspell, even if ispell is chosen in Preferences -> > >Spellchecker. Or is is the problem between the chair and the > >computer > > > > > Looks like your lyx decides to use aspell anyway - maybe ispell

Re: LyX 1.3.6 and ispell problem

2006-01-16 Thread Georg Baum
Jan Willemson wrote: > LyX 1.4.0beta seems to handle ispell better (apart from the fact that > spelling in 1.4.0beta is broken in general, but that's due to being > beta). Is that reported in bugzilla? If not, please do that. BTW, there is no beta. There is 1.4.0pre1, pre2 and pre3. > So unless

Re: New Windows version

2006-01-16 Thread Enrico Forestieri
David A. Case <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Have you also tried to build a cygwin version? Since cygwin already suppies > tex/latex/perl/python/sh/sed, etc., and since many people (like me) make > extensive use of cygwin, having a cygwin package (that understands its > posix-like paths) would be

Creating a .layout file with two command arguments

2006-01-16 Thread Jeremy Daily
Group, I'm trying to make a .layout file for sae.cls. I have everything working except the authors. In the sae class, the authors are added using the command: \AddAuthor{Author name}{Affiliation} If I try: Style Author MarginStatic LatexTypeCommand InTitle1

Re: Lyx-WIndows-Python

2006-01-16 Thread Mohsin Mohd Sies
On 1/16/06, Uwe Stöhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Mohsin Mohd Sies wrote: > > > I have a strange problem. I've just installed Lyx on Windows. > > What installer did you use, this one: > > http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinInstaller Sorry about that, I used lyx-1.3.6_win32_setup_v1.exe. I

Re: Lyx-WIndows-Python

2006-01-16 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Mohsin Mohd Sies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Executing command: python "C:/Program > Files/LyX/Resources/lyx/scripts/clean_dvi.py" "newfile3.dvi" "tmpfile.out" > > I wonder if cygwin's latex packages is conflicting with Miktex? (Newbie's > suspicion) Please, see this post:

Re: Lyx-WIndows-Python

2006-01-16 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Mohsin Mohd Sies wrote: I wonder if cygwin's latex packages is conflicting with Miktex? (Newbie's suspicion) It seems so. The console messages don't help. Could you deinstall cygwin (or if this isn't possible cygwin's LaTeX-packages), restart your system and try to install with the

Re: Creating a .layout file with two command arguments

2006-01-16 Thread Mael Hilléreau
in the LyX .layout file, an error is given. I cannot figure out a way to include two two values for one command in LyX. This is not possible in a dynamic way (i.e. you only can specify one parameter into LyX window). Perhaps, a workaround could consist in using two layout styles as the

Re: Lyx-WIndows-Python

2006-01-16 Thread Mohsin Mohd Sies
I didn't deinstall cygwin, but I removed cygwin's paths from Windows Environment and I also deleted my local Lyx settings under C:\Document Settings\luser\Application Data and restarted Lyx and let it rebuild that directory. It seems to work fine after that. Afterwards, I put back cygwin's path

ERT & Latex export

2006-01-16 Thread Ernesto Posse
Hi. Is there any way to tell lyx not to put empty lines when generating latex from an ERT box? I'm trying to use a latex package which for some reason doesn't like empty lines, but it looks like LyX always adds empty lines between lines written in an ERT box. This is quite inconvenient, since I

Re: Business letter (on letterhead) template for LyX

2006-01-16 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: Paul A. Rubin writes: 1. (This is the only major issue.) Our letterhead includes logos on both the left side of the paper and along the top. Dealing with the top is not a problem, but for the life of me I cannot find a way in komascript to make the left margin two

Re: ERT & Latex export

2006-01-16 Thread Georg Baum
Ernesto Posse wrote: > > Hi. Is there any way to tell lyx not to put empty lines when generating > latex from an ERT box? I'm trying to use a latex package which for some > reason doesn't like empty lines, but it looks like LyX always adds empty > lines between lines written in an ERT box. This

Re: ERT & Latex export

2006-01-16 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Ernesto Posse wrote: Hi. Is there any way to tell lyx not to put empty lines when generating latex from an ERT box? I'm trying to use a latex package which for some reason doesn't like empty lines, but it looks like LyX always adds empty lines between lines written in an ERT box. This is quite

fbox with a predefined width

2006-01-16 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All I would like to box the text Exercise 1 in such a way that the box of the text Exercise 23 has the same width of the one surrounding "Exercise 1". I tried \fbox, but with no success. Thanks in advance, Paul

Re: fbox with a predefined width

2006-01-16 Thread Herbert Voss
Paul Smith wrote: I would like to box the text Exercise 1 in such a way that the box of the text Exercise 23 has the same width of the one surrounding "Exercise 1". I tried \fbox, but with no success. with package calc \fbox{\makebox[\widthof{Exercise 23}]{Exercise 1}} \fbox{Exercise

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