Re: Simpler than beamer?

2006-04-01 Thread Curtis Osterhoudt
On 4/1/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Could someone recommend to me a simpler (less sophisticated) way > > than > > > > beamer to make pdf transparencies? > > > > > >I used to use mgp, but that did not produce pdf files. Have you > > looked at > > > the OpenOffice.o

Re: How to rotate the caption of a rotated table?

2006-04-01 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Bo Peng wrote: > Thanks! I was trying sidewaystable environment in ERT in the table float... You would have to do that without a foat (sidewaystable is itself a float). Anyway, the described mew GUI does that for you. Jürgen

Re: floatflt

2006-04-01 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Lee Yeoh wrote: Hmm... well I seem to have isolated the problem a little. I tried to make an example file, and the text wrap worked perfectly this time... It seems that if I have standard text following the float, then it will display fine. Where I run into problems is when I use the itemise

Re: Simpler than beamer?

2006-04-01 Thread ingarp
Siterer Paul Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 4/1/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Could someone recommend to me a simpler (less sophisticated) > way > > > than > > > > > beamer to make pdf transparencies? > > > > > > > >I used to use mgp, but that did not produce pdf

Re: Simpler than beamer?

2006-04-01 Thread Paul Smith
On 4/1/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Could someone recommend to me a simpler (less sophisticated) way > > than > > > > beamer to make pdf transparencies? > > > > > >I used to use mgp, but that did not produce pdf files. Have you > > looked at > > > the OpenOffice.org

Re: LyX to OpenOffice

2006-04-01 Thread Stephen Harris
Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: Stephen Harris wrote: Perhaps putting it on the LyX Wiki is a good idea? I'll second that. Nick or Stephen, please put it here: http://wiki.lyx.org/Tools/Tools Jürgen http://wiki.lyx.org/ipfm/index.php?dir=Tools/LyX2OpenOffice Collection of Python scripts to con

Re: Simpler than beamer?

2006-04-01 Thread ingarp
Siterer Paul Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 4/1/06, Rich Shepard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Could someone recommend to me a simpler (less sophisticated) way > than > > > beamer to make pdf transparencies? > > > >I used to use mgp, but that did not produce pdf files. Have you > looked at

Re: page break and numbering issues

2006-04-01 Thread Richard Heck
You can download the paper class from ctan.org: http://ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/paper/. Info about how to install it in LaTeX and then get LyX to recognize it is in Ch 5 of the Customization manual. The koma-script article class may also serve you well. It's very customizable. If

Re: page break and numbering issues

2006-04-01 Thread Bo Peng
> This unfortunatly didn't work. The title I gave the table was already > set to align in the center, and when I go to the layout menu from any > cell of my table, the 'paragraph' option is greyed out. > I mean select the whole table. Regarding latex class you should use. Usually you will work wi

Re: Simpler than beamer?

2006-04-01 Thread Paul Smith
On 4/1/06, Rich Shepard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Could someone recommend to me a simpler (less sophisticated) way than > > beamer to make pdf transparencies? > >I used to use mgp, but that did not produce pdf files. Have you looked at > the OpenOffice.org presentation component? Thanks,

Re: page break and numbering issues

2006-04-01 Thread jesse mejia
In fact I do see a class called 'paper' and a lot of other things that look worth checking out, "apa" etc. unfortunately in my installation (osx) they all say 'Unavailable:' in front of em. Can someone point me to a howto about installing new document classes, or making available those that ar

Re: Simpler than beamer?

2006-04-01 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 1 Apr 2006, Paul Smith wrote: Could someone recommend to me a simpler (less sophisticated) way than beamer to make pdf transparencies? Paul, I used to use mgp, but that did not produce pdf files. Have you looked at the OpenOffice.org presentation component? Rich -- Richard B. Shep

Re: Simpler than beamer?

2006-04-01 Thread Robert Orr
powerdot. You could try that. --- Paul Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear All > > Could someone recommend to me a simpler (less > sophisticated) way than > beamer to make pdf transparencies? > > Thanks in advance, > > Paul > __ Do You

Simpler than beamer?

2006-04-01 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All Could someone recommend to me a simpler (less sophisticated) way than beamer to make pdf transparencies? Thanks in advance, Paul

Re: page break and numbering issues

2006-04-01 Thread jesse mejia
On Apr 1, 2006, at 6:58 PM, Bo Peng wrote: What exactly do you want? For article, bibliography should not start a separate page. If you really want it, of course you have to insert pagebreak by yourself. This is, if you consider it a problem, a latex problem, not lyx'. Well I'm actually worki

Re: How to rotate the caption of a rotated table?

2006-04-01 Thread Bo Peng
> In LyX 1.4, right-click on the float and check "rotate sidewards" in the float > dialog. Thanks! I was trying sidewaystable environment in ERT in the table float... Bo

Re: How to rotate the caption of a rotated table?

2006-04-01 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Bo Peng wrote: > When I use the rotate 90 degree option of table. The table is rotated, > but not its caption. In LyX 1.4, right-click on the float and check "rotate sidewards" in the float dialog. Jürgen

Re: page break and numbering issues

2006-04-01 Thread Bo Peng
On 4/1/06, jesse mejia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am brand new to lyx, and was surprised to find myself needing to > manually insert pagebreaks for my bibliography page, and for a table > float. It seems like it should've happened automatically (I tried both > the Report and Article document cl

How to rotate the caption of a rotated table?

2006-04-01 Thread Bo Peng
Dear list, When I use the rotate 90 degree option of table. The table is rotated, but not its caption. I currently use the landscape environment but this makes the table non-float. Is there a solution to this problem? Many thanks in advance. Bo

page break and numbering issues

2006-04-01 Thread jesse mejia
I am brand new to lyx, and was surprised to find myself needing to manually insert pagebreaks for my bibliography page, and for a table float. It seems like it should've happened automatically (I tried both the Report and Article document classes) Also, is there a way to remove page numbers fr

Re: LyX to OpenOffice

2006-04-01 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Stephen Harris wrote: > Perhaps putting it > on the LyX Wiki is a good idea? I'll second that. Nick or Stephen, please put it here: http://wiki.lyx.org/Tools/Tools Jürgen

Old layout files

2006-04-01 Thread Georg Baum
Several people have reported problems with customized layout files from LyX 1.3.x that would not work anymore in 1.4.0. It would be nice if those could test the new layout file conversion script that will go into 1.4.1. To do so, put the attached file stdsections.inc in .lyx/layouts and the fil