Re: a4paper: Random Margins?

2006-02-20 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
John McCabe-Dansted wrote: Hi, I've been using a4wide, which seems to behave reasonably with a4 paper, but now I am trying to get border correction (so that the inner margin is wider than the outer) The problem with a4wide and a4.sty is that there are several different versions around, which

Re: Text of diagram with the font of the main document

2006-02-20 Thread Johan Ingvast
Paul Smith wrote: I have a diagram which I can export as PNG, JPG, PDF or SVG. What should I do so that the text of the diagram appears with the same font of the main document? Is that possible? If you also can export into eps without first making a bitmap you can have latex typeset your

rpm lyx-1.3.7 for Mandriva 2006

2006-02-20 Thread icebna
Please, someone should built the rpm with qt, to lyx-1.3.7 for Mandriva 2006, and send to www.lyx.org to put in the server ? Thanks Miguel smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: text figures and lining figures

2006-02-20 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
mail.k wrote: C'mon, somebody has to know, right? The following works for me with mathpazo: \usepackage[osf]{mathpazo} \newcommand{\nooldstylenums}[1]{{\fontfamily{ppl}\selectfont #1}} [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] } The redefinition of the footnotesymbol depends on the class you are

Re: Text of diagram with the font of the main document

2006-02-20 Thread Vaclav Smidl
On Friday 17 February 2006 20:14, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All I have a diagram which I can export as PNG, JPG, PDF or SVG. What should I do so that the text of the diagram appears with the same font of the main document? Is that possible? Thanks in advance, Paul Hi, this is possible with

Re: software manuals using Lyx

2006-02-20 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Jose' Matos a écrit : On Friday 17 February 2006 07:55, John Pye wrote: Hi there, Can anyone tell me if there is an up-to-date HOWTO somewhere for using Lyx for DocBook output of software user's manuals? No, that has been in my TODO list for a long time. :-( In particular, I want to be

Re: text figures and lining figures

2006-02-20 Thread Bruce Pourciau
Some time ago Karsten Heymann offered the advice below (about oldstyle figures, but not about footnotes). Bruce use \usepackage{mathpazo} (or even better \usepackage[sc]{mathpazo} if your latex is new enough) for better math support (and better \textsc output). See

Re: Minimal LyX installation

2006-02-20 Thread Helge Hafting
Gunnar wrote: What is the bare minimum for a LyX installation if the only thing that should be done is writing new LyX documents and producing pdf's? LyX, LaTeX, ghostscript, what else? As I remember, the LyX installer installed both Perl and Python. Will LyX work without them? The reason

Re: vspace between sections and figures help!

2006-02-20 Thread Helge Hafting
Myriam Abramson wrote: I've \setlength{\parskip {-1pt}} but that seems only to affect the vertical space between paragraphs. How can I set the vertical space length between sections and figures? It's quite urgent as I am trying to fit this paper into a ridiculous 6-page limit. Wider

Re: I need workaround of encoding problem

2006-02-20 Thread Helge Hafting
Marcelo Acuña wrote: I can't to use spellchecker. Accented letters and ñ, Ñ are not recognized by ispell, aspell. Common problem for unicode users, because lyx doesn't support unicode. That cause trouble when the spellchekcer expects unicode while lyx gives it iso8859 encoded text.

Re: vspace between sections and figures help!

2006-02-20 Thread Herbert Voss
Myriam Abramson wrote: I've \setlength{\parskip {-1pt}} but that seems only to affect the vertical space between paragraphs. How can I set the vertical space length between sections and figures? \floatsep (\dblfloatsep) vertical glue between floats with placement [t,b]

Re: text figures and lining figures

2006-02-20 Thread mail.k
That's useful advice, thanks! Do you know where I should look to implement this trick for nonstandard fonts? For example, to use a Linotype font with Walter Schmidt's package, that has two versions: l__x l__j? Many thanks, E. Bruce Pourciau wrote: Some time ago Karsten Heymann

Re: text figures and lining figures

2006-02-20 Thread Karsten Heymann
Hi, Bruce Pourciau schrieb: Some time ago Karsten Heymann offered the advice below (about oldstyle figures, but not about footnotes). Bruce Well, there isn't much about oldfigs in my text :) mail.k wrote: Can anyone tell me how to use oldstyle figures in my body text (i.e., text figures

Re: vspace between sections and figures help!

2006-02-20 Thread Herbert Voss
Helge Hafting wrote: Myriam Abramson wrote: I've \setlength{\parskip {-1pt}} but that seems only to affect the vertical space between paragraphs. How can I set the vertical space length between sections and figures? It's quite urgent as I am trying to fit this paper into a ridiculous

Re: Minimal LyX installation

2006-02-20 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Paul A. Rubin wrote: Gunnar wrote: What is the bare minimum for a LyX installation if the only thing that should be done is writing new LyX documents and producing pdf's? LyX, LaTeX, ghostscript, what else? As I remember, the LyX installer installed both Perl and Python. Will LyX work

Re: rpm lyx-1.3.7 for Mandriva 2006

2006-02-20 Thread Paul Smith
On 2/20/06, icebna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please, someone should built the rpm with qt, to lyx-1.3.7 for Mandriva 2006, and send to www.lyx.org to put in the server ? Please, do not hesitate: do it yourself! :-) Paul

Re: rpm lyx-1.3.7 for Mandriva 2006

2006-02-20 Thread Paul Smith
On 2/20/06, icebna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know. My experience is few. Can you help me, for know as built the rpm to update my lyx-1.3.6 ? Certainly, I can help you with my best pleasure. The procedure is as follows: 1. download the source of LyX 1.3.7 from

How to produce a decent x'_{t}^{2}?

2006-02-20 Thread Bo Peng
Dear list, If I insert x', subscript t and superscript 2, latex will complain ! Double superscript. l.17 $x'_{t}^ {2}$ I do not know exactly what latex is saying since $x'^{2}$ will work fine. If then I try to put ' in the {2}, but ' will be taller than 2 and make the formula ugly.

Re: vspace between sections and figures help!

2006-02-20 Thread Nicolás
Hi! Probably the best is to use the commands suggested by Herbert (I have not used them, but according to their short explanation, they seems to be what you are looking for). But if that does not help, try using vspace with a negative value (e.g. \vspace{-0.45cm}) at the end of sections,

Re: How to produce a decent x'_{t}^{2}?

2006-02-20 Thread Herbert Voss
Bo Peng wrote: If I insert x', subscript t and superscript 2, latex will complain ! Double superscript. l.17 $x'_{t}^ {2}$ I do not know exactly what latex is saying since $x'^{2}$ will work fine. If then I try to put ' in the {2}, but ' will be taller than 2 and make the formula

LyX-Code and Typewriter environment: how to change the font?

2006-02-20 Thread Joerg Hau
Hi, How does one change the font that is used (a) for the LyX-Code environment, (b) for typewriter character markup? I would like to modify the font size, and/or eventually change the font for these two completely. Maybe I have searched in the wrong places ;-), but I have not found an answer

Automatic formatting of a particular word?

2006-02-20 Thread Joerg Hau
Hi again, Yet another question ... I am currently writing a manual for some software, and I would like the name of the software to appear automagically in a particular typesetting, i.e. without the need for special markup in the text of the document (not unlike the proper names of LyX and

Re: LyX fails picture conversion

2006-02-20 Thread Paul Smith
On 2/19/06, Herbert Voss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: sure, LyX detects the source and the target extension of images files and should do the conversion by default. Run from command line lyx -dbg graphics and have a look at the output when you try to view your document. Thanks to all. Something

Re: Ebuild for LyX

2006-02-20 Thread Hannan Sadar
Thanks, It helped and i was able to emerge LyX 1.4.0 pre5 on my Gentoo with out any problems. Hannan On 2/20/06, Daniel Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 20 February 2006 16:00, you wrote: Hi Daniel, Hi there! Are you going to place your ebuild in the gentoo mirror's or was it

Marginal Note in Enumerate

2006-02-20 Thread Bruce Pourciau
Using the enumerate environment to number problems on an exam, I would like to place [20] just to the left of the number of the problem to tell the students that this is a 20 point problem. I tried in ERT \marginpar[text] and \reversemarginpar{text}, with the text being [20], but neither

Re: Text of diagram with the font of the main document

2006-02-20 Thread Paul Smith
On 2/20/06, Vaclav Smidl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a diagram which I can export as PNG, JPG, PDF or SVG. What should I do so that the text of the diagram appears with the same font of the main document? Is that possible? Hi, this is possible with xfig. One of its export options is

Re: Ebuild for LyX

2006-02-20 Thread Gour
On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 19:14 +0100, Hannan Sadar wrote: It helped and i was able to emerge LyX 1.4.0 pre5 on my Gentoo with out any problems. Is it stable enough for normal usage? I see that ebuild is not in bugzilla? Can you, pls. add it to http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=118140 ?

Re: LyX fails picture conversion

2006-02-20 Thread Paul Smith
On 2/19/06, Stephen Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks. I checked in texmf and had a dvipdfmx .exe so I changed the converter in Preferences by adding an x. You are luckier, as there is no binary of dvipdfmx for Linux! Paul

Re: rpm lyx-1.3.7 for Mandriva 2006

2006-02-20 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Mon, 20 Feb 2006, Paul Smith wrote: On 2/20/06, icebna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know. My experience is few. Can you help me, for know as built the rpm to update my lyx-1.3.6 ? Certainly, I can help you with my best pleasure. The procedure is as follows: 1. download the

[O-T] Re: Ebuild for LyX

2006-02-20 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Mon, 20 Feb 2006, Gour wrote: On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 19:14 +0100, Hannan Sadar wrote: It helped and i was able to emerge LyX 1.4.0 pre5 on my Gentoo with out any problems. Is it stable enough for normal usage? I see that ebuild is not in bugzilla? Can you, pls. add it to

Re: rpm lyx-1.3.7 for Mandriva 2006

2006-02-20 Thread Paul Smith
On 2/20/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Won't he need some Qt-related packages in order to build it? Having said that, I took the liberty of placing your instructions on this page for future reference: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LyXOnRedHat Of course, I just noticed that

Re: LyX fails picture conversion

2006-02-20 Thread Herbert Voss
Paul Smith wrote: On 2/19/06, Stephen Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks. I checked in texmf and had a dvipdfmx .exe so I changed the converter in Preferences by adding an x. You are luckier, as there is no binary of dvipdfmx for Linux! e.g.:

Re: Ebuild for LyX

2006-02-20 Thread Hannan Sadar
I dont understand so much about how to create ebuilds and what are the new dependences of LyX 1.4.0 pre5. I guessed that the dependences of 1.4.0 pre3 are the same like 1.4.0 pre5, then i just rename the name of the ebuild 1.4.0_pre3 to 1.4.0_pre5 and it worked on my computer with out any

Re: Automatic formatting of a particular word?

2006-02-20 Thread Kevin Pfeiffer
Joerg Hau writes: The problem is, I don't have the slightest idea about the way to define this .. preamble, yes, but how exactly? Any pointers? For example... In preamble: \newcommand{\PKflasche}{\textit{Die Flasche}} In text (ERT): \PKflasche{} The rest you can probably find online (here,

Re: LyX fails picture conversion

2006-02-20 Thread Paul Smith
On 2/20/06, Herbert Voss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks. I checked in texmf and had a dvipdfmx .exe so I changed the converter in Preferences by adding an x. You are luckier, as there is no binary of dvipdfmx for Linux! e.g.: /usr/local/texlive/2005/bin/i386-linux/dvipdfmx You are

Uppercase F not rendering on screen properly

2006-02-20 Thread Rex Eastbourne
Within LyX, my uppercase F's look like black blobs. Does anyone know of the solution to this problem? I'm using LyX 1.3.6 on Ubuntu. Rex

Confusion With PowerPoint

2006-02-20 Thread Rich Shepard
Has anyone else come across people who download a beamer presentation (as a .pdf file) but refer to it as a PowerPoint presentation? Sheesh! I know that all my clients are stuck in the Microsoft world, but I would have thought the quality difference in the 'slides' was readily apparent. Guess

Re: LyX fails picture conversion

2006-02-20 Thread Herbert Voss
Paul Smith wrote: On 2/20/06, Herbert Voss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks. I checked in texmf and had a dvipdfmx .exe so I changed the converter in Preferences by adding an x. You are luckier, as there is no binary of dvipdfmx for Linux! e.g.:

Re: Automatic formatting of a particular word?

2006-02-20 Thread Joerg Hau
Hi Kevin, In preamble: \newcommand{\PKflasche}{\textit{Die Flasche}} In text (ERT): \PKflasche{} Inserting ERT in the text is exactly the opposite of what I want to do. An example of what I am looking for: Open a document in LyX, write e.g. LyX is a kind of LaTeX frontend

Re: LyX fails picture conversion

2006-02-20 Thread Paul Smith
On 2/20/06, Herbert Voss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You are luckier, Herbert. With tetex, no dvipdfmx, unless it is contained in some package that I have not installed. Do people here with tetex have dvipdfmx? CTAN: ftp://dante.ctan.org/tex-archive/dviware/dvipdfmx/dvipdfmx-20050831.tar.gz

Re: Automatic formatting of a particular word?

2006-02-20 Thread Kevin Pfeiffer
Joerg Hau writes: Inserting ERT in the text is exactly the opposite of what I want to do. An example of what I am looking for: Open a document in LyX, write e.g. LyX is a kind of LaTeX frontend (upper/lowercase!), and go to the preview ... the two words LyX and LaTeX are displayed in their

Re: Confusion With PowerPoint

2006-02-20 Thread Paul Smith
On 2/20/06, Rich Shepard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone else come across people who download a beamer presentation (as a .pdf file) but refer to it as a PowerPoint presentation? Perhaps, it is just a typo: they meant powerdot! :-) Paul

Re: LyX fails picture conversion

2006-02-20 Thread Stephen Harris
- Original Message - From: Paul Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Monday, February 20, 2006 10:31 AM Subject: Re: LyX fails picture conversion On 2/19/06, Stephen Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks. I checked in texmf and had a dvipdfmx .exe so I changed

Re: Confusion With PowerPoint

2006-02-20 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 20 Feb 2006, Paul Smith wrote: Perhaps, it is just a typo: they meant powerdot! :-) Paul, Not when it's verbal. It's an assumption 'cause they don't know there's anything else. Rich -- Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D. | Author of Quantifying Environmental Applied

Re: Automatic formatting of a particular word?

2006-02-20 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 20 Feb 2006, Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: ... how can I get this behavior with any word? Good question. Maybe Herbert or someone else can help. That's like the user calling the help desk because she cannot find the any key on her keyboard. But the instructions say to press any key! Rich

Re: LyX-Code and Typewriter environment: how to change the font?

2006-02-20 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Joerg Hau wrote: Hi, How does one change the font that is used (a) for the LyX-Code environment, (b) for typewriter character markup? I would like to modify the font size, and/or eventually change the font for these two completely. Maybe I have searched in the wrong places ;-), but I have

Re: Automatic formatting of a particular word?

2006-02-20 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Joerg Hau schrieb: Inserting ERT in the text is exactly the opposite of what I want to do. An example of what I am looking for: Open a document in LyX, write e.g. LyX is a kind of LaTeX frontend (upper/lowercase!), and go to the preview ... the two words LyX and LaTeX are displayed in their

Re: Confusion With PowerPoint

2006-02-20 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Rich Shepard wrote: On Mon, 20 Feb 2006, Paul Smith wrote: Perhaps, it is just a typo: they meant powerdot! :-) Paul, Not when it's verbal. It's an assumption 'cause they don't know there's anything else. Rich It's the Kleenex phenomenon -- a brand name gets so ingrained in the

Re: Uppercase F not rendering on screen properly

2006-02-20 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
On 2/21/06, Rex Eastbourne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Within LyX, my uppercase F's look like black blobs. Does anyone know of the solution to this problem? I'm using LyX 1.3.6 on Ubuntu. Rex I had this too. Try going into Edit-Preferences-LookandFeel-ScreenFonts and change the Roman fonts from

Re: Marginal Note in Enumerate

2006-02-20 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Bruce Pourciau wrote: Using the enumerate environment to number problems on an exam, I would like to place [20] just to the left of the number of the problem to tell the students that this is a 20 point problem. I tried in ERT \marginpar[text] and \reversemarginpar{text}, with the text being

Re: Marginal Note in Enumerate

2006-02-20 Thread Charles de Miramon
Bruce Pourciau wrote: Using the enumerate environment to number problems on an exam, I would like to place [20] just to the left of the number of the problem to tell the students that this is a 20 point problem. I tried in ERT \marginpar[text] and \reversemarginpar{text}, with the text being

Re: Marginal Note in Enumerate

2006-02-20 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Uwe Stöhr [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Bruce Pourciau wrote: Using the enumerate environment to number problems on an exam, I would like to place [20] just to the left of the number of the problem to tell the students that this is a 20 point problem. I tried in ERT \marginpar[text]

Re: Marginal Note in Enumerate

2006-02-20 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Charles de Miramon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yes, you can do it. See attached file. The problem is that the marginal footnote is not positioned exactly by LaTeX on the line where you call it. I don't think there is anything you can do about it. Simply don't put the marginal note at the very

--- em dash without hyphenation, global setting

2006-02-20 Thread Marcelo Acuña
Jürgen, Kevin, Bruce, excuse me for my english, I need a global setting for avoid that latex hyphenat a comment --- in this manner---. In spanish we can include comments with em dash sticked to the word, but is not wanted that the hy- phen broke dash and word like above. Is wanted that em

Re: Automatic formatting of a particular word?

2006-02-20 Thread Stephen Harris
- Original Message - From: Joerg Hau [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Monday, February 20, 2006 1:23 PM Subject: Re: Automatic formatting of a particular word? An example of what I am looking for: Open a document in LyX, write e.g. LyX is a kind of LaTeX frontend

How to convert letter to math symbol/font in 1.3+?

2006-02-20 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
I recall that in 1.2 we could convert a ordinary letter to math font simply by selecting it and pressing cntl-M. In 1.3 it converts it into math mode, but leaves it in the original font. Is there an easy way to convert letters into math font in 1.3+? -- John C. McCabe-Dansted Master's Student

Re: software manuals using Lyx

2006-02-20 Thread John Pye
Hi Abdel, You suggested exporting HTML then importing that to the CHM tool from MS. That is what i would plan to do, but note that one needs various support files for using the index feature, and for creating the navigation hierarchy on the left hand side of the CHM window. These are things that

Re: Uppercase F not rendering on screen properly

2006-02-20 Thread Anders Ekberg
John McCabe-Dansted Mon, 20 Feb 2006 15:43:56 -0800 On 2/21/06, Rex Eastbourne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Within LyX, my uppercase F's look like black blobs. Does anyone know of the solution to this problem? I'm using LyX 1.3.6 on Ubuntu. Rex I had this too. Try going into

Re: --- em dash without hyphenation, global setting

2006-02-20 Thread Kevin Pfeiffer
Marcelo Acuña writes: Jürgen, Kevin, Bruce, excuse me for my english, I need a global setting for avoid that latex hyphenat a comment --- in this manner---. In spanish we can include comments with em dash sticked to the word, but is not wanted that the hy- phen broke dash and word

Re: a4paper: Random Margins?

2006-02-20 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
John McCabe-Dansted wrote: Hi, I've been using a4wide, which seems to behave reasonably with a4 paper, but now I am trying to get border correction (so that the inner margin is wider than the outer) The problem with a4wide and a4.sty is that there are several different versions around, which

Re: Text of diagram with the font of the main document

2006-02-20 Thread Johan Ingvast
Paul Smith wrote: I have a diagram which I can export as PNG, JPG, PDF or SVG. What should I do so that the text of the diagram appears with the same font of the main document? Is that possible? If you also can export into eps without first making a bitmap you can have latex typeset your

rpm lyx-1.3.7 for Mandriva 2006

2006-02-20 Thread icebna
Please, someone should built the rpm with qt, to lyx-1.3.7 for Mandriva 2006, and send to www.lyx.org to put in the server ? Thanks Miguel smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: text figures and lining figures

2006-02-20 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
mail.k wrote: C'mon, somebody has to know, right? The following works for me with mathpazo: \usepackage[osf]{mathpazo} \newcommand{\nooldstylenums}[1]{{\fontfamily{ppl}\selectfont #1}} [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] } The redefinition of the footnotesymbol depends on the class you are

Re: Text of diagram with the font of the main document

2006-02-20 Thread Vaclav Smidl
On Friday 17 February 2006 20:14, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All I have a diagram which I can export as PNG, JPG, PDF or SVG. What should I do so that the text of the diagram appears with the same font of the main document? Is that possible? Thanks in advance, Paul Hi, this is possible with

Re: software manuals using Lyx

2006-02-20 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Jose' Matos a écrit : On Friday 17 February 2006 07:55, John Pye wrote: Hi there, Can anyone tell me if there is an up-to-date HOWTO somewhere for using Lyx for DocBook output of software user's manuals? No, that has been in my TODO list for a long time. :-( In particular, I want to be

Re: text figures and lining figures

2006-02-20 Thread Bruce Pourciau
Some time ago Karsten Heymann offered the advice below (about oldstyle figures, but not about footnotes). Bruce use \usepackage{mathpazo} (or even better \usepackage[sc]{mathpazo} if your latex is new enough) for better math support (and better \textsc output). See

Re: Minimal LyX installation

2006-02-20 Thread Helge Hafting
Gunnar wrote: What is the bare minimum for a LyX installation if the only thing that should be done is writing new LyX documents and producing pdf's? LyX, LaTeX, ghostscript, what else? As I remember, the LyX installer installed both Perl and Python. Will LyX work without them? The reason

Re: vspace between sections and figures help!

2006-02-20 Thread Helge Hafting
Myriam Abramson wrote: I've \setlength{\parskip {-1pt}} but that seems only to affect the vertical space between paragraphs. How can I set the vertical space length between sections and figures? It's quite urgent as I am trying to fit this paper into a ridiculous 6-page limit. Wider

Re: I need workaround of encoding problem

2006-02-20 Thread Helge Hafting
Marcelo Acuña wrote: I can't to use spellchecker. Accented letters and ñ, Ñ are not recognized by ispell, aspell. Common problem for unicode users, because lyx doesn't support unicode. That cause trouble when the spellchekcer expects unicode while lyx gives it iso8859 encoded text.

Re: vspace between sections and figures help!

2006-02-20 Thread Herbert Voss
Myriam Abramson wrote: I've \setlength{\parskip {-1pt}} but that seems only to affect the vertical space between paragraphs. How can I set the vertical space length between sections and figures? \floatsep (\dblfloatsep) vertical glue between floats with placement [t,b]

Re: text figures and lining figures

2006-02-20 Thread mail.k
That's useful advice, thanks! Do you know where I should look to implement this trick for nonstandard fonts? For example, to use a Linotype font with Walter Schmidt's package, that has two versions: l__x l__j? Many thanks, E. Bruce Pourciau wrote: Some time ago Karsten Heymann

Re: text figures and lining figures

2006-02-20 Thread Karsten Heymann
Hi, Bruce Pourciau schrieb: Some time ago Karsten Heymann offered the advice below (about oldstyle figures, but not about footnotes). Bruce Well, there isn't much about oldfigs in my text :) mail.k wrote: Can anyone tell me how to use oldstyle figures in my body text (i.e., text figures

Re: vspace between sections and figures help!

2006-02-20 Thread Herbert Voss
Helge Hafting wrote: Myriam Abramson wrote: I've \setlength{\parskip {-1pt}} but that seems only to affect the vertical space between paragraphs. How can I set the vertical space length between sections and figures? It's quite urgent as I am trying to fit this paper into a ridiculous

Re: Minimal LyX installation

2006-02-20 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Paul A. Rubin wrote: Gunnar wrote: What is the bare minimum for a LyX installation if the only thing that should be done is writing new LyX documents and producing pdf's? LyX, LaTeX, ghostscript, what else? As I remember, the LyX installer installed both Perl and Python. Will LyX work

Re: rpm lyx-1.3.7 for Mandriva 2006

2006-02-20 Thread Paul Smith
On 2/20/06, icebna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please, someone should built the rpm with qt, to lyx-1.3.7 for Mandriva 2006, and send to www.lyx.org to put in the server ? Please, do not hesitate: do it yourself! :-) Paul

Re: rpm lyx-1.3.7 for Mandriva 2006

2006-02-20 Thread Paul Smith
On 2/20/06, icebna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know. My experience is few. Can you help me, for know as built the rpm to update my lyx-1.3.6 ? Certainly, I can help you with my best pleasure. The procedure is as follows: 1. download the source of LyX 1.3.7 from

How to produce a decent x'_{t}^{2}?

2006-02-20 Thread Bo Peng
Dear list, If I insert x', subscript t and superscript 2, latex will complain ! Double superscript. l.17 $x'_{t}^ {2}$ I do not know exactly what latex is saying since $x'^{2}$ will work fine. If then I try to put ' in the {2}, but ' will be taller than 2 and make the formula ugly.

Re: vspace between sections and figures help!

2006-02-20 Thread Nicolás
Hi! Probably the best is to use the commands suggested by Herbert (I have not used them, but according to their short explanation, they seems to be what you are looking for). But if that does not help, try using vspace with a negative value (e.g. \vspace{-0.45cm}) at the end of sections,

Re: How to produce a decent x'_{t}^{2}?

2006-02-20 Thread Herbert Voss
Bo Peng wrote: If I insert x', subscript t and superscript 2, latex will complain ! Double superscript. l.17 $x'_{t}^ {2}$ I do not know exactly what latex is saying since $x'^{2}$ will work fine. If then I try to put ' in the {2}, but ' will be taller than 2 and make the formula

LyX-Code and Typewriter environment: how to change the font?

2006-02-20 Thread Joerg Hau
Hi, How does one change the font that is used (a) for the LyX-Code environment, (b) for typewriter character markup? I would like to modify the font size, and/or eventually change the font for these two completely. Maybe I have searched in the wrong places ;-), but I have not found an answer

Automatic formatting of a particular word?

2006-02-20 Thread Joerg Hau
Hi again, Yet another question ... I am currently writing a manual for some software, and I would like the name of the software to appear automagically in a particular typesetting, i.e. without the need for special markup in the text of the document (not unlike the proper names of LyX and

Re: LyX fails picture conversion

2006-02-20 Thread Paul Smith
On 2/19/06, Herbert Voss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: sure, LyX detects the source and the target extension of images files and should do the conversion by default. Run from command line lyx -dbg graphics and have a look at the output when you try to view your document. Thanks to all. Something

Re: Ebuild for LyX

2006-02-20 Thread Hannan Sadar
Thanks, It helped and i was able to emerge LyX 1.4.0 pre5 on my Gentoo with out any problems. Hannan On 2/20/06, Daniel Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 20 February 2006 16:00, you wrote: Hi Daniel, Hi there! Are you going to place your ebuild in the gentoo mirror's or was it

Marginal Note in Enumerate

2006-02-20 Thread Bruce Pourciau
Using the enumerate environment to number problems on an exam, I would like to place [20] just to the left of the number of the problem to tell the students that this is a 20 point problem. I tried in ERT \marginpar[text] and \reversemarginpar{text}, with the text being [20], but neither

Re: Text of diagram with the font of the main document

2006-02-20 Thread Paul Smith
On 2/20/06, Vaclav Smidl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a diagram which I can export as PNG, JPG, PDF or SVG. What should I do so that the text of the diagram appears with the same font of the main document? Is that possible? Hi, this is possible with xfig. One of its export options is

Re: Ebuild for LyX

2006-02-20 Thread Gour
On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 19:14 +0100, Hannan Sadar wrote: It helped and i was able to emerge LyX 1.4.0 pre5 on my Gentoo with out any problems. Is it stable enough for normal usage? I see that ebuild is not in bugzilla? Can you, pls. add it to http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=118140 ?

Re: LyX fails picture conversion

2006-02-20 Thread Paul Smith
On 2/19/06, Stephen Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks. I checked in texmf and had a dvipdfmx .exe so I changed the converter in Preferences by adding an x. You are luckier, as there is no binary of dvipdfmx for Linux! Paul

Re: rpm lyx-1.3.7 for Mandriva 2006

2006-02-20 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Mon, 20 Feb 2006, Paul Smith wrote: On 2/20/06, icebna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know. My experience is few. Can you help me, for know as built the rpm to update my lyx-1.3.6 ? Certainly, I can help you with my best pleasure. The procedure is as follows: 1. download the

[O-T] Re: Ebuild for LyX

2006-02-20 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Mon, 20 Feb 2006, Gour wrote: On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 19:14 +0100, Hannan Sadar wrote: It helped and i was able to emerge LyX 1.4.0 pre5 on my Gentoo with out any problems. Is it stable enough for normal usage? I see that ebuild is not in bugzilla? Can you, pls. add it to

Re: rpm lyx-1.3.7 for Mandriva 2006

2006-02-20 Thread Paul Smith
On 2/20/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Won't he need some Qt-related packages in order to build it? Having said that, I took the liberty of placing your instructions on this page for future reference: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LyXOnRedHat Of course, I just noticed that

Re: LyX fails picture conversion

2006-02-20 Thread Herbert Voss
Paul Smith wrote: On 2/19/06, Stephen Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks. I checked in texmf and had a dvipdfmx .exe so I changed the converter in Preferences by adding an x. You are luckier, as there is no binary of dvipdfmx for Linux! e.g.:

Re: Ebuild for LyX

2006-02-20 Thread Hannan Sadar
I dont understand so much about how to create ebuilds and what are the new dependences of LyX 1.4.0 pre5. I guessed that the dependences of 1.4.0 pre3 are the same like 1.4.0 pre5, then i just rename the name of the ebuild 1.4.0_pre3 to 1.4.0_pre5 and it worked on my computer with out any

Re: Automatic formatting of a particular word?

2006-02-20 Thread Kevin Pfeiffer
Joerg Hau writes: The problem is, I don't have the slightest idea about the way to define this .. preamble, yes, but how exactly? Any pointers? For example... In preamble: \newcommand{\PKflasche}{\textit{Die Flasche}} In text (ERT): \PKflasche{} The rest you can probably find online (here,

Re: LyX fails picture conversion

2006-02-20 Thread Paul Smith
On 2/20/06, Herbert Voss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks. I checked in texmf and had a dvipdfmx .exe so I changed the converter in Preferences by adding an x. You are luckier, as there is no binary of dvipdfmx for Linux! e.g.: /usr/local/texlive/2005/bin/i386-linux/dvipdfmx You are

Uppercase F not rendering on screen properly

2006-02-20 Thread Rex Eastbourne
Within LyX, my uppercase F's look like black blobs. Does anyone know of the solution to this problem? I'm using LyX 1.3.6 on Ubuntu. Rex

Confusion With PowerPoint

2006-02-20 Thread Rich Shepard
Has anyone else come across people who download a beamer presentation (as a .pdf file) but refer to it as a PowerPoint presentation? Sheesh! I know that all my clients are stuck in the Microsoft world, but I would have thought the quality difference in the 'slides' was readily apparent. Guess

Re: LyX fails picture conversion

2006-02-20 Thread Herbert Voss
Paul Smith wrote: On 2/20/06, Herbert Voss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks. I checked in texmf and had a dvipdfmx .exe so I changed the converter in Preferences by adding an x. You are luckier, as there is no binary of dvipdfmx for Linux! e.g.:

Re: Automatic formatting of a particular word?

2006-02-20 Thread Joerg Hau
Hi Kevin, In preamble: \newcommand{\PKflasche}{\textit{Die Flasche}} In text (ERT): \PKflasche{} Inserting ERT in the text is exactly the opposite of what I want to do. An example of what I am looking for: Open a document in LyX, write e.g. LyX is a kind of LaTeX frontend

Re: LyX fails picture conversion

2006-02-20 Thread Paul Smith
On 2/20/06, Herbert Voss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You are luckier, Herbert. With tetex, no dvipdfmx, unless it is contained in some package that I have not installed. Do people here with tetex have dvipdfmx? CTAN: ftp://dante.ctan.org/tex-archive/dviware/dvipdfmx/dvipdfmx-20050831.tar.gz

Re: Automatic formatting of a particular word?

2006-02-20 Thread Kevin Pfeiffer
Joerg Hau writes: Inserting ERT in the text is exactly the opposite of what I want to do. An example of what I am looking for: Open a document in LyX, write e.g. LyX is a kind of LaTeX frontend (upper/lowercase!), and go to the preview ... the two words LyX and LaTeX are displayed in their

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