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

2006-02-21 Thread Helge Hafting
John McCabe-Dansted wrote: 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+? I don't know

Re: Confusion With PowerPoint

2006-02-21 Thread Jose' Matos
On Monday 20 February 2006 21:13, Rich Shepard wrote: 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

Re: LyX fails picture conversion

2006-02-21 Thread Paul Smith
On 2/20/06, Herbert Voss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You are luckier, as there is no binary of dvipdfmx for Linux! e.g.: /usr/local/texlive/2005/bin/i386-linux/dvipdfmx You are luckier, Herbert. With tetex, no dvipdfmx, unless it is contained in some package that I have not installed. Do

Re: Automatic formatting of a particular word?

2006-02-21 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Joerg == Joerg Hau [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Joerg Hi again, Yet another question ... Joerg I am currently writing a manual for some software, and I would Joerg like the name of the software to appear automagically in a Joerg particular typesetting, i.e. without the need for special Joerg

Re: Automatic formatting of a particular word?

2006-02-21 Thread Kevin Pfeiffer
Joerg Hau writes: ... how can I get this behavior with any word? Jean-Marc says it's not possible. But then you could do this in one search-and-replace step (replacing your SpecialWord with its ERT-LaTeX equivalent command) in a text editor after your LyX document is ready. -Kevin -- Kevin

Re: rpm lyx-1.3.7 for Mandriva 2006

2006-02-21 Thread Paul Smith
On 2/21/06, icebna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Don't work for Mandriva 2006. The problem, I think is the package Qt. Mandriva 2006 work with qt3-common and libqt3, and the installer from de sources, don't recognize the command --with-frontend=qt. If I put = qt3 neither, and if I put = lyx-qt

Re: software manuals using Lyx

2006-02-21 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
John Pye a écrit : 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.

Layout / Document / Layout / font size: Palatino style obsolete?

2006-02-21 Thread Peter Hegt
Hi, (I use Palatino because I like the font). Just wondering, I read in ftp://tug.ctan.org/pub/tex-archive/info/l2tabu/english/l2tabuen.pdf; that palatino.sty is outdated and should be replaced by \usepackage{mathpazo} \usepackage[scaled=.95]{helvet} \usepackage{courier} (or some better sans

Re: Layout / Document / Layout / font size: Palatino style obsolete?

2006-02-21 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Peter Hegt wrote: Just wondering, I read in ftp://tug.ctan.org/pub/tex-archive/info/l2tabu/english/l2tabuen.pdf; that palatino.sty is outdated and should be replaced by \usepackage{mathpazo} \usepackage[scaled=.95]{helvet} \usepackage{courier} Yes, that's right. (or some better sans

Palatino leads to many overfull hbox-es

2006-02-21 Thread Peter Hegt
Hi, I use the Palatinodefault fontsize, paper A5, margins default, but this leads to many words sticking out into the right margin. If I use default fontsize (Times), then there are only a few overful hbox-es, but then again I like the Paltino font more. The text is in English and afaik the

RE: Layout / Document / Layout / font size: Palatino style obsolete?

2006-02-21 Thread Peter Hegt
Hi Jürgen, I see. That wasn't clear from the 1.3.7 docu. So let's wait for the 1.4. Thanks Met vriendelijke groet, Peter Hegt -Original Message- From: Juergen Spitzmueller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: dinsdag 21 februari 2006 13:23 To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: Re: Layout

Re: Layout / Document / Layout / font size: Palatino style obsolete?

2006-02-21 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Peter Hegt wrote: I see. That wasn't clear from the 1.3.7 docu. So let's wait for the 1.4. I'm afraid to tell you that it won't change with 1.4 (nobody volunteered to change it). But it's very high on my agenda for 1.5 Jürgen

Re: Layout / Document / Layout / font size: Palatino style obsolete?

2006-02-21 Thread Karsten Heymann
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Juergen Spitzmueller schrieb: ~ I'm afraid to tell you that it won't change with 1.4 (nobody volunteered to | change it). But it's very high on my agenda for 1.5 Finally :) Will there be a osf or sc checkbox too? Yours, Karsten -BEGIN PGP

Re: Layout / Document / Layout / font size: Palatino style obsolete?

2006-02-21 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Karsten Heymann wrote: ~ I'm afraid to tell you that it won't change with 1.4 (nobody volunteered to | change it). But it's very high on my agenda for 1.5 Finally :) Will there be a osf or sc checkbox too? I think so. But the ui needs some careful thought (separation of Roman, Sans and

Re: Layout / Document / Layout / font size: Palatino style obsolete?

2006-02-21 Thread Karsten Heymann
Juergen Spitzmueller schrieb: Karsten Heymann wrote: Finally :) Will there be a osf or sc checkbox too? I think so. But the ui needs some careful thought (separation of Roman, Sans and Typewriter fonts etc.; another reason why I didn't happen yet). Math and maybe Symbol font are missing

Re: Palatino leads to many overfull hbox-es

2006-02-21 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 21 Feb 2006, Peter Hegt wrote: But I am wondering, is it in the `nature' of the font Palatino that is justifies worse than Times or is there something else going on? Peter, What I read in the past is that the Times typeface was designed specifically for the London Times newspaper,

RE: Palatino leads to many overfull hbox-es

2006-02-21 Thread Peter Hegt
I see. Well, maybe A5 (== half A4) is just too narrow (the lines have around 47-52 letters (excl space)), because small words like: wouldn't branch. known great at the end of the line cannot be hyphenated. Also I noticed no ligatures (ff, ffi, fi, ...) with Palatino, which makes words

Re: Marginal Note in Enumerate

2006-02-21 Thread Bruce Pourciau
Thanks, Uwe, Charles, and Enrico On Monday, February 20, 2006, at 05:58 PM, Uwe Stöhr wrote: 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

citation reference is wrong

2006-02-21 Thread Matthias Schmidt
Hallo, I`m working with WinXP, Lyx 1.3.7 and JabRef 2.0.1. The citation reference is positioned in the footnote. The bibliography for the document is formatted as natbib and author-year. So far so good: in the Lyx user interface the result is given correct as in this case Gerhard (1953).

Re: rpm lyx-1.3.7 for Mandriva 2006

2006-02-21 Thread Paul Smith
On 2/21/06, icebna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm sorry. Mandriva in the repository rpmfind, don't have qt3-devel, neither in the official site. I have download, with my slow RTB conexion, qt3-devel of Suse, but don't install because have many dependences : libmng-devel, Xfree86-Mesa-devel

Re: TIPA (IPA) and limited tree support previews in LyX, working!

2006-02-21 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Maria Gouskova wrote: what do people think of starting a wiki page LyX for Linguists, similar to LaTeX for linguists? I started such a page, using some of your text: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LinguistLyX Now it just needs to be filled with information. (It'd probably be good to use separate

enumerate alignment

2006-02-21 Thread Jeoffrey Young
hello, How do you change the alignment of the enumerate environment? i.e. when I get to the roman numerals numbering depth I find the number/label alignment is to the right which is not good for readability. thanks.. __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of

Re: citation reference is wrong

2006-02-21 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Matthias Schmidt wrote: Hallo, I`m working with WinXP, Lyx 1.3.7 and JabRef 2.0.1. The citation reference is positioned in the footnote. The bibliography for the document is formatted as natbib and author-year. So far so good: in the Lyx user interface the result is given correct as in this

Re: citation reference is wrong

2006-02-21 Thread Herbert Voss
Matthias Schmidt wrote: I`m working with WinXP, Lyx 1.3.7 and JabRef 2.0.1. The citation reference is positioned in the footnote. The bibliography for the document is formatted as natbib and author-year. So far so good: in the Lyx user interface the result is given correct as in this case

Re: TIPA (IPA) and limited tree support previews in LyX, working!

2006-02-21 Thread Stacia Hartleben
I'll see what I can write on it - although if others could add to it, it might be better, because frankly I did not know what I was doing when I found out how to make it display IPA and trees. Also if this is going to get removed in 1.4 should we wait to write it? (Although I've been tracking the

Re: LyX fails picture conversion

2006-02-21 Thread Paul Smith
On 2/21/06, Kornel Benko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have just installed dvipdfmx, but when running it, I get $ dvipdfmx test2.dvi teste2.dvi - test2.pdf ** WARNING ** Failed to load AGL file glyphlist.txt... [1] 7284 bytes written $ Notwithstanding, pdf file is generated.

Re: TIPA (IPA) and limited tree support previews in LyX, working!

2006-02-21 Thread Stacia Hartleben
I added a few things to the Wiki. Feel free to flesh it out if you want and add new things (I don't do any optimality theory for examples so I won't be writing anything related to it) On 2/21/06, Stacia Hartleben [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'll see what I can write on it - although if others could

selecting special fonts

2006-02-21 Thread Stacia Hartleben
Is there a better way to select special special fonts other than doing ERT? I know under character I can change it to san serif or whatever but for a special font I installed I have to do something like this: \usefont{T1}{stacish}{m}{n} \selectfont myword \usefont{T1}{ae}{m}{n} \selectfont in a

Re: TIPA (IPA) and limited tree support previews in LyX, working!

2006-02-21 Thread Georg Baum
Am Dienstag, 21. Februar 2006 21:11 schrieb Stacia Hartleben: I'll see what I can write on it - although if others could add to it, it might be better, because frankly I did not know what I was doing when I found out how to make it display IPA and trees. Well, since it is a wiki simply write

Re: LyX fails picture conversion

2006-02-21 Thread Stephen Harris
- Original Message - From: Paul Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2006 2:03 AM Subject: Re: LyX fails picture conversion On 2/20/06, Herbert Voss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You are luckier, as there is no binary of dvipdfmx for Linux!

Re: Automatic formatting of a particular word?

2006-02-21 Thread Stephen Harris
- Original Message - From: Jean-Marc Lasgouttes [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Joerg Hau [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2006 2:14 AM Subject: Re: Automatic formatting of a particular word? Joerg == Joerg Hau [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Joerg Hi

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

2006-02-21 Thread Helge Hafting
John McCabe-Dansted wrote: 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+? I don't know

Re: Confusion With PowerPoint

2006-02-21 Thread Jose' Matos
On Monday 20 February 2006 21:13, Rich Shepard wrote: 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

Re: LyX fails picture conversion

2006-02-21 Thread Paul Smith
On 2/20/06, Herbert Voss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You are luckier, as there is no binary of dvipdfmx for Linux! e.g.: /usr/local/texlive/2005/bin/i386-linux/dvipdfmx You are luckier, Herbert. With tetex, no dvipdfmx, unless it is contained in some package that I have not installed. Do

Re: Automatic formatting of a particular word?

2006-02-21 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Joerg == Joerg Hau [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Joerg Hi again, Yet another question ... Joerg I am currently writing a manual for some software, and I would Joerg like the name of the software to appear automagically in a Joerg particular typesetting, i.e. without the need for special Joerg

Re: Automatic formatting of a particular word?

2006-02-21 Thread Kevin Pfeiffer
Joerg Hau writes: ... how can I get this behavior with any word? Jean-Marc says it's not possible. But then you could do this in one search-and-replace step (replacing your SpecialWord with its ERT-LaTeX equivalent command) in a text editor after your LyX document is ready. -Kevin -- Kevin

Re: rpm lyx-1.3.7 for Mandriva 2006

2006-02-21 Thread Paul Smith
On 2/21/06, icebna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Don't work for Mandriva 2006. The problem, I think is the package Qt. Mandriva 2006 work with qt3-common and libqt3, and the installer from de sources, don't recognize the command --with-frontend=qt. If I put = qt3 neither, and if I put = lyx-qt

Re: software manuals using Lyx

2006-02-21 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
John Pye a écrit : 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.

Layout / Document / Layout / font size: Palatino style obsolete?

2006-02-21 Thread Peter Hegt
Hi, (I use Palatino because I like the font). Just wondering, I read in ftp://tug.ctan.org/pub/tex-archive/info/l2tabu/english/l2tabuen.pdf; that palatino.sty is outdated and should be replaced by \usepackage{mathpazo} \usepackage[scaled=.95]{helvet} \usepackage{courier} (or some better sans

Re: Layout / Document / Layout / font size: Palatino style obsolete?

2006-02-21 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Peter Hegt wrote: Just wondering, I read in ftp://tug.ctan.org/pub/tex-archive/info/l2tabu/english/l2tabuen.pdf; that palatino.sty is outdated and should be replaced by \usepackage{mathpazo} \usepackage[scaled=.95]{helvet} \usepackage{courier} Yes, that's right. (or some better sans

Palatino leads to many overfull hbox-es

2006-02-21 Thread Peter Hegt
Hi, I use the Palatinodefault fontsize, paper A5, margins default, but this leads to many words sticking out into the right margin. If I use default fontsize (Times), then there are only a few overful hbox-es, but then again I like the Paltino font more. The text is in English and afaik the

RE: Layout / Document / Layout / font size: Palatino style obsolete?

2006-02-21 Thread Peter Hegt
Hi Jürgen, I see. That wasn't clear from the 1.3.7 docu. So let's wait for the 1.4. Thanks Met vriendelijke groet, Peter Hegt -Original Message- From: Juergen Spitzmueller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: dinsdag 21 februari 2006 13:23 To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: Re: Layout

Re: Layout / Document / Layout / font size: Palatino style obsolete?

2006-02-21 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Peter Hegt wrote: I see. That wasn't clear from the 1.3.7 docu. So let's wait for the 1.4. I'm afraid to tell you that it won't change with 1.4 (nobody volunteered to change it). But it's very high on my agenda for 1.5 Jürgen

Re: Layout / Document / Layout / font size: Palatino style obsolete?

2006-02-21 Thread Karsten Heymann
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Juergen Spitzmueller schrieb: ~ I'm afraid to tell you that it won't change with 1.4 (nobody volunteered to | change it). But it's very high on my agenda for 1.5 Finally :) Will there be a osf or sc checkbox too? Yours, Karsten -BEGIN PGP

Re: Layout / Document / Layout / font size: Palatino style obsolete?

2006-02-21 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Karsten Heymann wrote: ~ I'm afraid to tell you that it won't change with 1.4 (nobody volunteered to | change it). But it's very high on my agenda for 1.5 Finally :) Will there be a osf or sc checkbox too? I think so. But the ui needs some careful thought (separation of Roman, Sans and

Re: Layout / Document / Layout / font size: Palatino style obsolete?

2006-02-21 Thread Karsten Heymann
Juergen Spitzmueller schrieb: Karsten Heymann wrote: Finally :) Will there be a osf or sc checkbox too? I think so. But the ui needs some careful thought (separation of Roman, Sans and Typewriter fonts etc.; another reason why I didn't happen yet). Math and maybe Symbol font are missing

Re: Palatino leads to many overfull hbox-es

2006-02-21 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 21 Feb 2006, Peter Hegt wrote: But I am wondering, is it in the `nature' of the font Palatino that is justifies worse than Times or is there something else going on? Peter, What I read in the past is that the Times typeface was designed specifically for the London Times newspaper,

RE: Palatino leads to many overfull hbox-es

2006-02-21 Thread Peter Hegt
I see. Well, maybe A5 (== half A4) is just too narrow (the lines have around 47-52 letters (excl space)), because small words like: wouldn't branch. known great at the end of the line cannot be hyphenated. Also I noticed no ligatures (ff, ffi, fi, ...) with Palatino, which makes words

Re: Marginal Note in Enumerate

2006-02-21 Thread Bruce Pourciau
Thanks, Uwe, Charles, and Enrico On Monday, February 20, 2006, at 05:58 PM, Uwe Stöhr wrote: 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

citation reference is wrong

2006-02-21 Thread Matthias Schmidt
Hallo, I`m working with WinXP, Lyx 1.3.7 and JabRef 2.0.1. The citation reference is positioned in the footnote. The bibliography for the document is formatted as natbib and author-year. So far so good: in the Lyx user interface the result is given correct as in this case Gerhard (1953).

Re: rpm lyx-1.3.7 for Mandriva 2006

2006-02-21 Thread Paul Smith
On 2/21/06, icebna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm sorry. Mandriva in the repository rpmfind, don't have qt3-devel, neither in the official site. I have download, with my slow RTB conexion, qt3-devel of Suse, but don't install because have many dependences : libmng-devel, Xfree86-Mesa-devel

Re: TIPA (IPA) and limited tree support previews in LyX, working!

2006-02-21 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Maria Gouskova wrote: what do people think of starting a wiki page LyX for Linguists, similar to LaTeX for linguists? I started such a page, using some of your text: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LinguistLyX Now it just needs to be filled with information. (It'd probably be good to use separate

enumerate alignment

2006-02-21 Thread Jeoffrey Young
hello, How do you change the alignment of the enumerate environment? i.e. when I get to the roman numerals numbering depth I find the number/label alignment is to the right which is not good for readability. thanks.. __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of

Re: citation reference is wrong

2006-02-21 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Matthias Schmidt wrote: Hallo, I`m working with WinXP, Lyx 1.3.7 and JabRef 2.0.1. The citation reference is positioned in the footnote. The bibliography for the document is formatted as natbib and author-year. So far so good: in the Lyx user interface the result is given correct as in this

Re: citation reference is wrong

2006-02-21 Thread Herbert Voss
Matthias Schmidt wrote: I`m working with WinXP, Lyx 1.3.7 and JabRef 2.0.1. The citation reference is positioned in the footnote. The bibliography for the document is formatted as natbib and author-year. So far so good: in the Lyx user interface the result is given correct as in this case

Re: TIPA (IPA) and limited tree support previews in LyX, working!

2006-02-21 Thread Stacia Hartleben
I'll see what I can write on it - although if others could add to it, it might be better, because frankly I did not know what I was doing when I found out how to make it display IPA and trees. Also if this is going to get removed in 1.4 should we wait to write it? (Although I've been tracking the

Re: LyX fails picture conversion

2006-02-21 Thread Paul Smith
On 2/21/06, Kornel Benko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have just installed dvipdfmx, but when running it, I get $ dvipdfmx test2.dvi teste2.dvi - test2.pdf ** WARNING ** Failed to load AGL file glyphlist.txt... [1] 7284 bytes written $ Notwithstanding, pdf file is generated.

Re: TIPA (IPA) and limited tree support previews in LyX, working!

2006-02-21 Thread Stacia Hartleben
I added a few things to the Wiki. Feel free to flesh it out if you want and add new things (I don't do any optimality theory for examples so I won't be writing anything related to it) On 2/21/06, Stacia Hartleben [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'll see what I can write on it - although if others could

selecting special fonts

2006-02-21 Thread Stacia Hartleben
Is there a better way to select special special fonts other than doing ERT? I know under character I can change it to san serif or whatever but for a special font I installed I have to do something like this: \usefont{T1}{stacish}{m}{n} \selectfont myword \usefont{T1}{ae}{m}{n} \selectfont in a

Re: TIPA (IPA) and limited tree support previews in LyX, working!

2006-02-21 Thread Georg Baum
Am Dienstag, 21. Februar 2006 21:11 schrieb Stacia Hartleben: I'll see what I can write on it - although if others could add to it, it might be better, because frankly I did not know what I was doing when I found out how to make it display IPA and trees. Well, since it is a wiki simply write

Re: LyX fails picture conversion

2006-02-21 Thread Stephen Harris
- Original Message - From: Paul Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2006 2:03 AM Subject: Re: LyX fails picture conversion On 2/20/06, Herbert Voss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You are luckier, as there is no binary of dvipdfmx for Linux!

Re: Automatic formatting of a particular word?

2006-02-21 Thread Stephen Harris
- Original Message - From: Jean-Marc Lasgouttes [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Joerg Hau [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2006 2:14 AM Subject: Re: Automatic formatting of a particular word? Joerg == Joerg Hau [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Joerg Hi

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

2006-02-21 Thread Helge Hafting
John McCabe-Dansted wrote: 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+? I don't know

Re: Confusion With PowerPoint

2006-02-21 Thread Jose' Matos
On Monday 20 February 2006 21:13, Rich Shepard wrote: >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

Re: LyX fails picture conversion

2006-02-21 Thread Paul Smith
On 2/20/06, Herbert Voss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>>You are luckier, as there is no binary of dvipdfmx for Linux! > >> > >>e.g.: > >> > >>/usr/local/texlive/2005/bin/i386-linux/dvipdfmx > > > > You are luckier, Herbert. With tetex, no dvipdfmx, unless it is > > contained in some package that

Re: Automatic formatting of a particular word?

2006-02-21 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Joerg" == Joerg Hau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Joerg> Hi again, Yet another question ... Joerg> I am currently writing a manual for some software, and I would Joerg> like the name of the software to appear automagically in a Joerg> particular typesetting, i.e. without the need for

Re: Automatic formatting of a particular word?

2006-02-21 Thread Kevin Pfeiffer
Joerg Hau writes: > ... how can I get this behavior with "any" word? Jean-Marc says it's not possible. But then you could do this in one search-and-replace step (replacing your SpecialWord with its ERT-LaTeX equivalent command) in a text editor after your LyX document is ready. -Kevin --

Re: rpm lyx-1.3.7 for Mandriva 2006

2006-02-21 Thread Paul Smith
On 2/21/06, icebna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Don't work for Mandriva 2006. The problem, I think is the package Qt. > Mandriva 2006 work with qt3-common and libqt3, and the installer from de > sources, don't recognize the command --with-frontend=qt. If I put = qt3 > neither, and if I put =

Re: software manuals using Lyx

2006-02-21 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
John Pye a écrit : 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.

Layout / Document / Layout / font & size: Palatino style obsolete?

2006-02-21 Thread Peter Hegt
Hi, (I use Palatino because I like the font). Just wondering, I read in "ftp://tug.ctan.org/pub/tex-archive/info/l2tabu/english/l2tabuen.pdf; that palatino.sty is outdated and should be replaced by \usepackage{mathpazo} \usepackage[scaled=.95]{helvet} \usepackage{courier} (or some better sans

Re: Layout / Document / Layout / font & size: Palatino style obsolete?

2006-02-21 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Peter Hegt wrote: > Just wondering, I read in > "ftp://tug.ctan.org/pub/tex-archive/info/l2tabu/english/l2tabuen.pdf; > that palatino.sty is outdated and should be replaced by > > \usepackage{mathpazo} > \usepackage[scaled=.95]{helvet} > \usepackage{courier} Yes, that's right. > (or some better

Palatino leads to many overfull hbox-es

2006-02-21 Thread Peter Hegt
Hi, I use the Palatino font, paper A5, margins default, but this leads to many words sticking out into the right margin. If I use default font (Times), then there are only a few overful hbox-es, but then again I like the Paltino font more. The text is in English and afaik the correct

RE: Layout / Document / Layout / font & size: Palatino style obsolete?

2006-02-21 Thread Peter Hegt
Hi Jürgen, I see. That wasn't clear from the 1.3.7 docu. So let's wait for the 1.4. Thanks Met vriendelijke groet, Peter Hegt -Original Message- From: Juergen Spitzmueller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: dinsdag 21 februari 2006 13:23 To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: Re: Layout

Re: Layout / Document / Layout / font & size: Palatino style obsolete?

2006-02-21 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Peter Hegt wrote: > I see. That wasn't clear from the 1.3.7 docu. So let's wait for the 1.4. I'm afraid to tell you that it won't change with 1.4 (nobody volunteered to change it). But it's very high on my agenda for 1.5 Jürgen

Re: Layout / Document / Layout / font & size: Palatino style obsolete?

2006-02-21 Thread Karsten Heymann
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Juergen Spitzmueller schrieb: ~ > I'm afraid to tell you that it won't change with 1.4 (nobody volunteered to | change it). But it's very high on my agenda for 1.5 Finally :) Will there be a "osf" or "sc" checkbox too? Yours, Karsten -BEGIN PGP

Re: Layout / Document / Layout / font & size: Palatino style obsolete?

2006-02-21 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Karsten Heymann wrote: > ~ > I'm afraid to tell you that it won't change with 1.4 (nobody > volunteered to > > | change it). But it's very high on my agenda for 1.5 > > Finally :) Will there be a "osf" or "sc" checkbox too? I think so. But the ui needs some careful thought (separation of Roman,

Re: Layout / Document / Layout / font & size: Palatino style obsolete?

2006-02-21 Thread Karsten Heymann
Juergen Spitzmueller schrieb: Karsten Heymann wrote: Finally :) Will there be a "osf" or "sc" checkbox too? I think so. But the ui needs some careful thought (separation of Roman, Sans and Typewriter fonts etc.; another reason why I didn't happen yet). Math and maybe Symbol font are

Re: Palatino leads to many overfull hbox-es

2006-02-21 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 21 Feb 2006, Peter Hegt wrote: But I am wondering, is it in the `nature' of the font Palatino that is justifies worse than Times or is there something else going on? Peter, What I read in the past is that the Times typeface was designed specifically for the London Times newspaper,

RE: Palatino leads to many overfull hbox-es

2006-02-21 Thread Peter Hegt
I see. Well, maybe A5 (== half A4) is just too narrow (the lines have around 47-52 letters (excl space)), because small words like: wouldn't branch. known great at the end of the line cannot be hyphenated. Also I noticed no ligatures (ff, ffi, fi, ...) with Palatino, which makes words

Re: Marginal Note in Enumerate

2006-02-21 Thread Bruce Pourciau
Thanks, Uwe, Charles, and Enrico On Monday, February 20, 2006, at 05:58 PM, Uwe Stöhr wrote: 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

citation reference is wrong

2006-02-21 Thread Matthias Schmidt
Hallo, I`m working with WinXP, Lyx 1.3.7 and JabRef 2.0.1. The citation reference is positioned in the footnote. The bibliography for the document is formatted as natbib and author-year. So far so good: in the Lyx user interface the result is given correct as in this case "Gerhard (1953)".

Re: rpm lyx-1.3.7 for Mandriva 2006

2006-02-21 Thread Paul Smith
On 2/21/06, icebna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm sorry. Mandriva in the repository rpmfind, don't have qt3-devel, > neither in the official site. I have download, with my slow RTB conexion, > qt3-devel of Suse, but don't install because have many dependences : > libmng-devel,

Re: TIPA (IPA) and limited tree support previews in LyX, working!

2006-02-21 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Maria Gouskova wrote: > what do people think of starting a wiki page "LyX for Linguists," > similar to "LaTeX for linguists"? I started such a page, using some of your text: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LinguistLyX Now it just needs to be filled with information. (It'd probably be good to use

enumerate alignment

2006-02-21 Thread Jeoffrey Young
hello, How do you change the alignment of the enumerate environment? i.e. when I get to the roman numerals numbering depth I find the number/label alignment is to the right which is not good for readability. thanks.. __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of

Re: citation reference is wrong

2006-02-21 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Matthias Schmidt wrote: Hallo, I`m working with WinXP, Lyx 1.3.7 and JabRef 2.0.1. The citation reference is positioned in the footnote. The bibliography for the document is formatted as natbib and author-year. So far so good: in the Lyx user interface the result is given correct as in this

Re: citation reference is wrong

2006-02-21 Thread Herbert Voss
Matthias Schmidt wrote: I`m working with WinXP, Lyx 1.3.7 and JabRef 2.0.1. The citation reference is positioned in the footnote. The bibliography for the document is formatted as natbib and author-year. So far so good: in the Lyx user interface the result is given correct as in this case

Re: TIPA (IPA) and limited tree support previews in LyX, working!

2006-02-21 Thread Stacia Hartleben
I'll see what I can write on it - although if others could add to it, it might be better, because frankly I did not know what I was doing when I found out how to make it display IPA and trees. Also if this is going to get removed in 1.4 should we wait to write it? (Although I've been tracking the

Re: LyX fails picture conversion

2006-02-21 Thread Paul Smith
On 2/21/06, Kornel Benko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have just installed dvipdfmx, but when running it, I get > > > > $ dvipdfmx test2.dvi > > teste2.dvi -> test2.pdf > > > > ** WARNING ** Failed to load AGL file "glyphlist.txt"... > > [1] > > 7284 bytes written > > $ > > > > Notwithstanding,

Re: TIPA (IPA) and limited tree support previews in LyX, working!

2006-02-21 Thread Stacia Hartleben
I added a few things to the Wiki. Feel free to flesh it out if you want and add new things (I don't do any optimality theory for examples so I won't be writing anything related to it) On 2/21/06, Stacia Hartleben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'll see what I can write on it - although if others

selecting special fonts

2006-02-21 Thread Stacia Hartleben
Is there a better way to select special special fonts other than doing ERT? I know under character I can change it to san serif or whatever but for a special font I installed I have to do something like this: \usefont{T1}{stacish}{m}{n} \selectfont myword \usefont{T1}{ae}{m}{n} \selectfont in a

Re: TIPA (IPA) and limited tree support previews in LyX, working!

2006-02-21 Thread Georg Baum
Am Dienstag, 21. Februar 2006 21:11 schrieb Stacia Hartleben: > I'll see what I can write on it - although if others could add to it, > it might be better, because frankly I did not know what I was doing > when I found out how to make it display IPA and trees. Well, since it is a wiki simply

Re: LyX fails picture conversion

2006-02-21 Thread Stephen Harris
- Original Message - From: "Paul Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2006 2:03 AM Subject: Re: LyX fails picture conversion On 2/20/06, Herbert Voss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>You are luckier, as there is no binary of dvipdfmx for

Re: Automatic formatting of a particular word?

2006-02-21 Thread Stephen Harris
- Original Message - From: "Jean-Marc Lasgouttes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Joerg Hau" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2006 2:14 AM Subject: Re: Automatic formatting of a particular word? "Joerg" == Joerg Hau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: