lyx1.4.2 in kubuntu

2006-07-31 Thread Christopher Winkler
Hello all, is there anything I have overseen in the mailing-list archive? I cannot manage to install lyx 1.4.1. on ubuntu dapper, and I have found no package hidden anywhere. Is there a secret about ubuntu still wanting to install lyx 1.3.7 per default and, more important, is there a way to

Re: aspell / problems with umlauts

2006-07-31 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Reinhard Mayr aka Czerwinski wrote: Words containing an umlaut (äöü) are not properly recognized, e.g. the   word für is suggested to be replaced by für. Accepting the   replacement leads, in turn, to an unrecognized word error. Can anyone please give me a hint what to tweak in order to get

Re: 3 column long table and caption

2006-07-31 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Tom Tom wrote: Well I cant find any extra alignment tabs in the file... Am I missing something? Put an ERT containing % in the cell after the one ontaining the caption. (the long table caption solution is just a hack, such errors are to be expected). Jürgen

lyx1.4.2 in kubuntu

2006-07-31 Thread Christopher Winkler
sorry for breaking the thread ... new mailing programme ... Hello all, is there anything I have overseen in the mailing-list archive? I cannot manage to install lyx 1.4.1. on ubuntu dapper, and I have found no package hidden anywhere. Is there a secret about ubuntu still wanting to install

Re: lyx1.4.2 in kubuntu

2006-07-31 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 08:24:11AM +0200, Christopher Winkler wrote: sorry for breaking the thread ... new mailing programme ... Hello all, is there anything I have overseen in the mailing-list archive? I cannot manage to install lyx 1.4.1. on ubuntu dapper, and I have found no package

restricted reference list

2006-07-31 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
I use a larger bibfile (jabref created) for inserting references in a document. Is there an easy way to produce a new bibfile which contains only the references of the aux-file? Wolfgang

Re: Rotated longtable with multiple pages and caption

2006-07-31 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Reinhard Mayr aka Czerwinski wrote: Hello, I am looking for a solution in a somehow tricky situation. (1) In my document there is a table that is quite long and wide. Therefore, I would like to implement it as a rotated longtable. But as soon as I tick the Rotate table 90 degrees checkbox,

Re: restricted reference list

2006-07-31 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: I use a larger bibfile (jabref created) for inserting references in a document. Is there an easy way to produce a new bibfile which contains only the references of the aux-file? http://wiki.lyx.org/BibTeX/Programs#toc8 (aux2bib) Jürgen

Re: restricted reference list

2006-07-31 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Am Montag, 31. Juli 2006 08:51 schrieb Juergen Spitzmueller: Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: I use a larger bibfile (jabref created) for inserting references in a document. Is there an easy way to produce a new bibfile which contains only the references of the aux-file?

Re: 3 column long table and caption

2006-07-31 Thread Tom Tom
Hi Paul, the automatic page-break of a long table inside a float does not occur. At least in my hands the table is printed over the end of the initial (table-) page after the pdflatex run. Cheers L. __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail

Re: Re: 3 column long table and caption

2006-07-31 Thread Reinhard Mayr
As far as I understood it, you have to decide to either use a longtable or a float. A float can not go over a page break. I think your problems are similar to that discussed in this thread http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg49807.html hth, cz. Original-Nachricht

Re: Re: aspell / problems with umlauts

2006-07-31 Thread Reinhard Mayr aka Czerwinski
Hi Jürgen, thanks for the advice! In the beginning it looked as if it worked out: I selected one the affected paragraphs, changed the language to German and run the spellchecker. But this did not work twice, meaning when I re-run the spellchecker it thinks the text is English. The same

Re: aspell / problems with umlauts

2006-07-31 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Reinhard Mayr aka Czerwinski wrote: But this did not work twice, meaning when I re-run the spellchecker it thinks the text is English. The same situation for all other German paragraphs and now, after I restarted LyX, it thinks, the entire doc is in English. Is this a known bug (LyX

Re: Lyx User's Guide won't work

2006-07-31 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Tommy schrieb: Hello, thanks for the quick reply. I have installed the windows package lyx-142-1.exe available from http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/Windows . That is the one that is trying to uses the koma-script classes. What's the language of the menus in your LyX installation? I tried

index in tex file

2006-07-31 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
What is the best way to get the index (.idx) into the tex file of my document? Unfortunately the publisher wants a .doc file ... (ConvTex - swx - OO - word) Wolfgang

Re: index in tex file

2006-07-31 Thread Stephen Harris
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: What is the best way to get the index (.idx) into the tex file of my document? Unfortunately the publisher wants a .doc file ... (ConvTex - swx - OO - word) Wolfgang I've tested ConvTex and it works, but not consistently from what I've seen for equations, so it

Re: Rotated longtable with multiple pages and caption

2006-07-31 Thread Reinhard Mayr aka Czerwinski
Original-Nachricht Datum: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 08:49:22 +0200 Von: Juergen Spitzmueller [EMAIL PROTECTED] An: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Betreff: Re: Rotated longtable with multiple pages and caption Reinhard Mayr aka Czerwinski wrote: Hello, I am looking for a solution in a

Re: figures in margin?

2006-07-31 Thread Steve Litt
On Sunday 30 July 2006 11:44 pm, chipbrock wrote: I would like to include figures in a wide, outside margin and can do so easily in LaTeX by inserting a \includegraphics call into a properly configured \wrapfig package call (with outside of the binding parameter) . This works fine in a regular

Re: lyx1.4.2 in kubuntu

2006-07-31 Thread Richard Kleeman
I tried to recompile lyx-1.4.2 packages for Dapper using the new Debian unstable packages. The packaging failed right at the end (no version number for lyx-common found). So I recompiled myself and used checkinstall to produce an interim package. You can get it here:

Re: lyx1.4.2 in kubuntu

2006-07-31 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 10:37:14AM -0400, Richard Kleeman wrote: I tried to recompile lyx-1.4.2 packages for Dapper using the new Debian unstable packages. The packaging failed right at the end (no version number for lyx-common found). So I recompiled myself and used checkinstall to produce

Re: lyx1.4.2 in kubuntu

2006-07-31 Thread Richard Kleeman
Sven Hoexter wrote: On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 10:37:14AM -0400, Richard Kleeman wrote: I tried to recompile lyx-1.4.2 packages for Dapper using the new Debian unstable packages. The packaging failed right at the end (no version number for lyx-common found). So I recompiled myself and used

Page break bug?

2006-07-31 Thread Reinhard Mayr aka Czerwinski
Hello, actually this should not be, but it seems as if TeX sometimes forgets to break my pages properly ... (see attached image) My current version of my doc (but 380 kB) lets me reproduce the buggy output. Is this a known bug? How can I solve such a situation? Thanks for any hints! Cz. --

Re: Page break bug?

2006-07-31 Thread Richard Heck
It looks to me as if there is a problem with page size in your viewer. Check that you are viewing pages of the same size you are outputing. Reinhard Mayr aka Czerwinski wrote: Hello, actually this should not be, but it seems as if TeX sometimes forgets to break my pages properly ... (see

Re: Postscript preview

2006-07-31 Thread LB
Hello I didn't have any bright ideas. But since it seems you are close to giving up, I thought I would toss out some longshots. PROGRA~1\MENTOR~1\PADS\2005_1\Programs;c:\lyx\ly (from 7/28/2006 12:03 pm, PATH report) SH: Maybe that is a typo the ly looks wrong. This was not a typo. That's

Fw: Postscript preview

2006-07-31 Thread LB
Hi one more idea: if this is really a PATH problem and things worked normally under lyx 1.4.1, then I would do the following simple steps (unless you already tried this and I didn't see it in the earlier messages): (a) Revert to LyX 1.4.1 and open the Preferences dialog to find out EXACTLY

Re: Postscript preview

2006-07-31 Thread LB
When I start lyx1.4.2 I see two black windows (shell windows???) pop-up and dissapear before Lyx actually appears. Lyx1.4.1 only flashes one black window. Does that mean anything? Leo

Re: Page break bug?

2006-07-31 Thread Reinhard Mayr aka Czerwinski
I checked that -- all pages are A4. The page with the missing break contains o a float figure o a float table o section and subsection headings o a non-floatoing table o some text The following page is in landscape format. Maybe this is helpful to describe the

Re: Re: Lyx User's Guide won't work

2006-07-31 Thread Hartmut Haase
Am Montag, 31. Juli 2006 01:38 schrieben Sie: Indeed. We'll try to get rid of koma-script in the next release. does that mean I shall revert the 150svn documentation back to book? -- Viele Grüße, Hartmut Hungerhilfe: http://www.thehungersite.com Kampagne gegen den Ausverkauf der Deutschen

Re: Fw: Postscript preview

2006-07-31 Thread Stephen Harris
LB wrote: Hi one more idea: if this is really a PATH problem and things worked normally under lyx 1.4.1, then I would do the following simple steps (unless you already tried this and I didn't see it in the earlier messages): (a) Revert to LyX 1.4.1 and open the Preferences dialog to find

One bibliography, separated by chapter

2006-07-31 Thread Curtis Osterhoudt
Hi, all, At the end of my dissertation, I would like to include a bibliography which is divided into sections like References for Chapter 1, References for Chapter 2, etc. I do not want separate bibliographies at the end of each chapter. The package \chapterbib with the gather option seems

Re: Fw: Postscript preview

2006-07-31 Thread LB
The paths are not supposed to be the same. LyX 1.4.1 did not install a python directory under LyX. Also the batfiles are not the same. This usually happens when the preferences files under c:\documents and settings\yourusername~~~\~ are not deleted during the uninstall. Then the next version

Re: lyx1.4.2 in kubuntu

2006-07-31 Thread Christopher Winkler
Am Montag, 31. Juli 2006 08:24 schrieb Christopher Winkler: Hello, my system: ubuntu dapper, i386 .. ,thank you for your help, but nothing helped... I thought the best thing was to try to compile it myself. What a nightmare! After googling for hours (with a 56k modem!) and resolving most of

Re: lyx1.4.2 in kubuntu

2006-07-31 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 10:32:38PM +0200, Christopher Winkler wrote: Am Montag, 31. Juli 2006 08:24 schrieb Christopher Winkler: Hello Christopher, my system: ubuntu dapper, i386 .. ,thank you for your help, but nothing helped... I thought the best thing was to try to compile it myself.

Re: lyx1.4.2 in kubuntu

2006-07-31 Thread Christopher Winkler
Am Montag, 31. Juli 2006 22:44 schrieb Sven Hoexter: Hello Sven, My advise would be to install a pure Debian. There I can even provide you backported packages for Debian/sarge. I've no clue about what strange things they've br0ken in all those different *buntus. Hey: I have a job, a wife and

Re: lyx1.4.2 in kubuntu

2006-07-31 Thread Curtis Osterhoudt
From: Christopher Winkler [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: Re: lyx1.4.2 in kubuntu Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 22:32:38 +0200 Am Montag, 31. Juli 2006 08:24 schrieb Christopher Winkler: Hello, my system: ubuntu dapper, i386 .. ,thank you for your help, but nothing helped...

Re: lyx1.4.2 in kubuntu

2006-07-31 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 10:50:57PM +0200, Christopher Winkler wrote: Am Montag, 31. Juli 2006 22:44 schrieb Sven Hoexter: Hi Christopher, My advise would be to install a pure Debian. There I can even provide you backported packages for Debian/sarge. I've no clue about what strange things

Re: lyx1.4.2 in kubuntu

2006-07-31 Thread Russell Davie
On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 22:32:38 +0200 Christopher Winkler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Montag, 31. Juli 2006 08:24 schrieb Christopher Winkler: Hello, my system: ubuntu dapper, i386 .. ,thank you for your help, but nothing helped... I thought the best thing was to try to compile it

Long message(s) from me showing up?

2006-07-31 Thread Curtis Osterhoudt
Hi, all, I posted a longish question to the list this morning. Normally I get copies of the messages immediately; this time (and a few times previously), it never showed up, either in my email Inbox, nor in the new mail archive (a message I sent in response to someone else's question

RE: Long message(s) from me showing up? Ans: Yeah, sort of

2006-07-31 Thread Curtis Osterhoudt
From: Curtis Osterhoudt [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: Long message(s) from me showing up? Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 22:37:31 + Hi, all, I posted a longish question to the list this morning. Normally I get copies of the messages immediately; this time (and a

Re: Fw: Postscript preview

2006-07-31 Thread Stephen Harris
LB wrote: The paths are not supposed to be the same. LyX 1.4.1 did not install a python directory under LyX. Also the batfiles are not the same. This usually happens when the preferences files under c:\documents and settings\yourusername~~~\~ are not deleted during the uninstall. Then the next

Re: re-generating microtype (solved)

2006-07-31 Thread mail.k
Helge Hafting wrote: On Sat, Jul 22, 2006 at 09:55:02PM -0400, mail.k wrote: Friends, I'd like to re-generate the Microtype package (to enable the pdfadjustinterowrdglue option). The instructions require me to look at the .ins .dtx files in the package.cab, edit out the comment:

Fresh Eyes Needed to See Error

2006-07-31 Thread Rich Shepard
For some reason I cannot see, the attached file does not display properly in acroread/xpdf. The menu bar is missing across the top of the page, there's the tops of page numbers along the bottom edge, and I do not have the navigation controls along the bottom right side. The preamble is the

lyx1.4.2 in kubuntu

2006-07-31 Thread Christopher Winkler
Hello all, is there anything I have overseen in the mailing-list archive? I cannot manage to install lyx 1.4.1. on ubuntu dapper, and I have found no package hidden anywhere. Is there a secret about ubuntu still wanting to install lyx 1.3.7 per default and, more important, is there a way to

Re: aspell / problems with umlauts

2006-07-31 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Reinhard Mayr aka Czerwinski wrote: Words containing an umlaut (äöü) are not properly recognized, e.g. the   word für is suggested to be replaced by für. Accepting the   replacement leads, in turn, to an unrecognized word error. Can anyone please give me a hint what to tweak in order to get

Re: 3 column long table and caption

2006-07-31 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Tom Tom wrote: Well I cant find any extra alignment tabs in the file... Am I missing something? Put an ERT containing % in the cell after the one ontaining the caption. (the long table caption solution is just a hack, such errors are to be expected). Jürgen

lyx1.4.2 in kubuntu

2006-07-31 Thread Christopher Winkler
sorry for breaking the thread ... new mailing programme ... Hello all, is there anything I have overseen in the mailing-list archive? I cannot manage to install lyx 1.4.1. on ubuntu dapper, and I have found no package hidden anywhere. Is there a secret about ubuntu still wanting to install

Re: lyx1.4.2 in kubuntu

2006-07-31 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 08:24:11AM +0200, Christopher Winkler wrote: sorry for breaking the thread ... new mailing programme ... Hello all, is there anything I have overseen in the mailing-list archive? I cannot manage to install lyx 1.4.1. on ubuntu dapper, and I have found no package

restricted reference list

2006-07-31 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
I use a larger bibfile (jabref created) for inserting references in a document. Is there an easy way to produce a new bibfile which contains only the references of the aux-file? Wolfgang

Re: Rotated longtable with multiple pages and caption

2006-07-31 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Reinhard Mayr aka Czerwinski wrote: Hello, I am looking for a solution in a somehow tricky situation. (1) In my document there is a table that is quite long and wide. Therefore, I would like to implement it as a rotated longtable. But as soon as I tick the Rotate table 90 degrees checkbox,

Re: restricted reference list

2006-07-31 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: I use a larger bibfile (jabref created) for inserting references in a document. Is there an easy way to produce a new bibfile which contains only the references of the aux-file? http://wiki.lyx.org/BibTeX/Programs#toc8 (aux2bib) Jürgen

Re: restricted reference list

2006-07-31 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Am Montag, 31. Juli 2006 08:51 schrieb Juergen Spitzmueller: Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: I use a larger bibfile (jabref created) for inserting references in a document. Is there an easy way to produce a new bibfile which contains only the references of the aux-file?

Re: 3 column long table and caption

2006-07-31 Thread Tom Tom
Hi Paul, the automatic page-break of a long table inside a float does not occur. At least in my hands the table is printed over the end of the initial (table-) page after the pdflatex run. Cheers L. __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail

Re: Re: 3 column long table and caption

2006-07-31 Thread Reinhard Mayr
As far as I understood it, you have to decide to either use a longtable or a float. A float can not go over a page break. I think your problems are similar to that discussed in this thread http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg49807.html hth, cz. Original-Nachricht

Re: Re: aspell / problems with umlauts

2006-07-31 Thread Reinhard Mayr aka Czerwinski
Hi Jürgen, thanks for the advice! In the beginning it looked as if it worked out: I selected one the affected paragraphs, changed the language to German and run the spellchecker. But this did not work twice, meaning when I re-run the spellchecker it thinks the text is English. The same

Re: aspell / problems with umlauts

2006-07-31 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Reinhard Mayr aka Czerwinski wrote: But this did not work twice, meaning when I re-run the spellchecker it thinks the text is English. The same situation for all other German paragraphs and now, after I restarted LyX, it thinks, the entire doc is in English. Is this a known bug (LyX

Re: Lyx User's Guide won't work

2006-07-31 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Tommy schrieb: Hello, thanks for the quick reply. I have installed the windows package lyx-142-1.exe available from http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/Windows . That is the one that is trying to uses the koma-script classes. What's the language of the menus in your LyX installation? I tried

index in tex file

2006-07-31 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
What is the best way to get the index (.idx) into the tex file of my document? Unfortunately the publisher wants a .doc file ... (ConvTex - swx - OO - word) Wolfgang

Re: index in tex file

2006-07-31 Thread Stephen Harris
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: What is the best way to get the index (.idx) into the tex file of my document? Unfortunately the publisher wants a .doc file ... (ConvTex - swx - OO - word) Wolfgang I've tested ConvTex and it works, but not consistently from what I've seen for equations, so it

Re: Rotated longtable with multiple pages and caption

2006-07-31 Thread Reinhard Mayr aka Czerwinski
Original-Nachricht Datum: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 08:49:22 +0200 Von: Juergen Spitzmueller [EMAIL PROTECTED] An: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Betreff: Re: Rotated longtable with multiple pages and caption Reinhard Mayr aka Czerwinski wrote: Hello, I am looking for a solution in a

Re: figures in margin?

2006-07-31 Thread Steve Litt
On Sunday 30 July 2006 11:44 pm, chipbrock wrote: I would like to include figures in a wide, outside margin and can do so easily in LaTeX by inserting a \includegraphics call into a properly configured \wrapfig package call (with outside of the binding parameter) . This works fine in a regular

Re: lyx1.4.2 in kubuntu

2006-07-31 Thread Richard Kleeman
I tried to recompile lyx-1.4.2 packages for Dapper using the new Debian unstable packages. The packaging failed right at the end (no version number for lyx-common found). So I recompiled myself and used checkinstall to produce an interim package. You can get it here:

Re: lyx1.4.2 in kubuntu

2006-07-31 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 10:37:14AM -0400, Richard Kleeman wrote: I tried to recompile lyx-1.4.2 packages for Dapper using the new Debian unstable packages. The packaging failed right at the end (no version number for lyx-common found). So I recompiled myself and used checkinstall to produce

Re: lyx1.4.2 in kubuntu

2006-07-31 Thread Richard Kleeman
Sven Hoexter wrote: On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 10:37:14AM -0400, Richard Kleeman wrote: I tried to recompile lyx-1.4.2 packages for Dapper using the new Debian unstable packages. The packaging failed right at the end (no version number for lyx-common found). So I recompiled myself and used

Page break bug?

2006-07-31 Thread Reinhard Mayr aka Czerwinski
Hello, actually this should not be, but it seems as if TeX sometimes forgets to break my pages properly ... (see attached image) My current version of my doc (but 380 kB) lets me reproduce the buggy output. Is this a known bug? How can I solve such a situation? Thanks for any hints! Cz. --

Re: Page break bug?

2006-07-31 Thread Richard Heck
It looks to me as if there is a problem with page size in your viewer. Check that you are viewing pages of the same size you are outputing. Reinhard Mayr aka Czerwinski wrote: Hello, actually this should not be, but it seems as if TeX sometimes forgets to break my pages properly ... (see

Re: Postscript preview

2006-07-31 Thread LB
Hello I didn't have any bright ideas. But since it seems you are close to giving up, I thought I would toss out some longshots. PROGRA~1\MENTOR~1\PADS\2005_1\Programs;c:\lyx\ly (from 7/28/2006 12:03 pm, PATH report) SH: Maybe that is a typo the ly looks wrong. This was not a typo. That's

Fw: Postscript preview

2006-07-31 Thread LB
Hi one more idea: if this is really a PATH problem and things worked normally under lyx 1.4.1, then I would do the following simple steps (unless you already tried this and I didn't see it in the earlier messages): (a) Revert to LyX 1.4.1 and open the Preferences dialog to find out EXACTLY

Re: Postscript preview

2006-07-31 Thread LB
When I start lyx1.4.2 I see two black windows (shell windows???) pop-up and dissapear before Lyx actually appears. Lyx1.4.1 only flashes one black window. Does that mean anything? Leo

Re: Page break bug?

2006-07-31 Thread Reinhard Mayr aka Czerwinski
I checked that -- all pages are A4. The page with the missing break contains o a float figure o a float table o section and subsection headings o a non-floatoing table o some text The following page is in landscape format. Maybe this is helpful to describe the

Re: Re: Lyx User's Guide won't work

2006-07-31 Thread Hartmut Haase
Am Montag, 31. Juli 2006 01:38 schrieben Sie: Indeed. We'll try to get rid of koma-script in the next release. does that mean I shall revert the 150svn documentation back to book? -- Viele Grüße, Hartmut Hungerhilfe: http://www.thehungersite.com Kampagne gegen den Ausverkauf der Deutschen

Re: Fw: Postscript preview

2006-07-31 Thread Stephen Harris
LB wrote: Hi one more idea: if this is really a PATH problem and things worked normally under lyx 1.4.1, then I would do the following simple steps (unless you already tried this and I didn't see it in the earlier messages): (a) Revert to LyX 1.4.1 and open the Preferences dialog to find

One bibliography, separated by chapter

2006-07-31 Thread Curtis Osterhoudt
Hi, all, At the end of my dissertation, I would like to include a bibliography which is divided into sections like References for Chapter 1, References for Chapter 2, etc. I do not want separate bibliographies at the end of each chapter. The package \chapterbib with the gather option seems

Re: Fw: Postscript preview

2006-07-31 Thread LB
The paths are not supposed to be the same. LyX 1.4.1 did not install a python directory under LyX. Also the batfiles are not the same. This usually happens when the preferences files under c:\documents and settings\yourusername~~~\~ are not deleted during the uninstall. Then the next version

Re: lyx1.4.2 in kubuntu

2006-07-31 Thread Christopher Winkler
Am Montag, 31. Juli 2006 08:24 schrieb Christopher Winkler: Hello, my system: ubuntu dapper, i386 .. ,thank you for your help, but nothing helped... I thought the best thing was to try to compile it myself. What a nightmare! After googling for hours (with a 56k modem!) and resolving most of

Re: lyx1.4.2 in kubuntu

2006-07-31 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 10:32:38PM +0200, Christopher Winkler wrote: Am Montag, 31. Juli 2006 08:24 schrieb Christopher Winkler: Hello Christopher, my system: ubuntu dapper, i386 .. ,thank you for your help, but nothing helped... I thought the best thing was to try to compile it myself.

Re: lyx1.4.2 in kubuntu

2006-07-31 Thread Christopher Winkler
Am Montag, 31. Juli 2006 22:44 schrieb Sven Hoexter: Hello Sven, My advise would be to install a pure Debian. There I can even provide you backported packages for Debian/sarge. I've no clue about what strange things they've br0ken in all those different *buntus. Hey: I have a job, a wife and

Re: lyx1.4.2 in kubuntu

2006-07-31 Thread Curtis Osterhoudt
From: Christopher Winkler [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: Re: lyx1.4.2 in kubuntu Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 22:32:38 +0200 Am Montag, 31. Juli 2006 08:24 schrieb Christopher Winkler: Hello, my system: ubuntu dapper, i386 .. ,thank you for your help, but nothing helped...

Re: lyx1.4.2 in kubuntu

2006-07-31 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 10:50:57PM +0200, Christopher Winkler wrote: Am Montag, 31. Juli 2006 22:44 schrieb Sven Hoexter: Hi Christopher, My advise would be to install a pure Debian. There I can even provide you backported packages for Debian/sarge. I've no clue about what strange things

Re: lyx1.4.2 in kubuntu

2006-07-31 Thread Russell Davie
On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 22:32:38 +0200 Christopher Winkler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Montag, 31. Juli 2006 08:24 schrieb Christopher Winkler: Hello, my system: ubuntu dapper, i386 .. ,thank you for your help, but nothing helped... I thought the best thing was to try to compile it

Long message(s) from me showing up?

2006-07-31 Thread Curtis Osterhoudt
Hi, all, I posted a longish question to the list this morning. Normally I get copies of the messages immediately; this time (and a few times previously), it never showed up, either in my email Inbox, nor in the new mail archive (a message I sent in response to someone else's question

RE: Long message(s) from me showing up? Ans: Yeah, sort of

2006-07-31 Thread Curtis Osterhoudt
From: Curtis Osterhoudt [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: Long message(s) from me showing up? Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 22:37:31 + Hi, all, I posted a longish question to the list this morning. Normally I get copies of the messages immediately; this time (and a

Re: Fw: Postscript preview

2006-07-31 Thread Stephen Harris
LB wrote: The paths are not supposed to be the same. LyX 1.4.1 did not install a python directory under LyX. Also the batfiles are not the same. This usually happens when the preferences files under c:\documents and settings\yourusername~~~\~ are not deleted during the uninstall. Then the next

Re: re-generating microtype (solved)

2006-07-31 Thread mail.k
Helge Hafting wrote: On Sat, Jul 22, 2006 at 09:55:02PM -0400, mail.k wrote: Friends, I'd like to re-generate the Microtype package (to enable the pdfadjustinterowrdglue option). The instructions require me to look at the .ins .dtx files in the package.cab, edit out the comment:

Fresh Eyes Needed to See Error

2006-07-31 Thread Rich Shepard
For some reason I cannot see, the attached file does not display properly in acroread/xpdf. The menu bar is missing across the top of the page, there's the tops of page numbers along the bottom edge, and I do not have the navigation controls along the bottom right side. The preamble is the

lyx1.4.2 in kubuntu

2006-07-31 Thread Christopher Winkler
Hello all, is there anything I have overseen in the mailing-list archive? I cannot manage to install lyx 1.4.1. on ubuntu dapper, and I have found no package hidden anywhere. Is there a secret about ubuntu still wanting to install lyx 1.3.7 per default and, more important, is there a way to

Re: aspell / problems with umlauts

2006-07-31 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Reinhard Mayr aka Czerwinski wrote: > Words containing an umlaut (äöü) are not properly recognized, e.g. the   > word "für" is suggested to be replaced by "für". Accepting the   > replacement leads, in turn, to an "unrecognized word" error. > > Can anyone please give me a hint what to tweak in

Re: 3 column long table and caption

2006-07-31 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Tom Tom wrote: > Well I cant find any extra alignment tabs in the > file... Am I missing something? Put an ERT containing % in the cell after the one ontaining the caption. (the long table caption solution is just a hack, such errors are to be expected). Jürgen

lyx1.4.2 in kubuntu

2006-07-31 Thread Christopher Winkler
sorry for breaking the thread ... new mailing programme ... Hello all, is there anything I have overseen in the mailing-list archive? I cannot manage to install lyx 1.4.1. on ubuntu dapper, and I have found no package hidden anywhere. Is there a secret about ubuntu still wanting to install

Re: lyx1.4.2 in kubuntu

2006-07-31 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 08:24:11AM +0200, Christopher Winkler wrote: > sorry for breaking the thread ... > new mailing programme ... > > Hello all, > > is there anything I have overseen in the mailing-list archive? > I cannot manage to install lyx 1.4.1. on ubuntu dapper, and I have found > no

restricted reference list

2006-07-31 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
I use a larger bibfile (jabref created) for inserting references in a document. Is there an easy way to produce a new bibfile which contains only the references of the aux-file? Wolfgang

Re: Rotated longtable with multiple pages and caption

2006-07-31 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Reinhard Mayr aka Czerwinski wrote: > Hello, > > I am looking for a solution in a somehow tricky situation. > > (1) In my document there is a table that is quite long and wide. > Therefore, I would like to implement it as a rotated longtable. But as > soon as I tick the "Rotate table 90 degrees"

Re: restricted reference list

2006-07-31 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > I use a larger bibfile (jabref created) for inserting references in a > document. Is there an easy way to produce a new bibfile which contains only > the references of the aux-file? http://wiki.lyx.org/BibTeX/Programs#toc8 (aux2bib) Jürgen

Re: restricted reference list

2006-07-31 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Am Montag, 31. Juli 2006 08:51 schrieb Juergen Spitzmueller: > Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > > I use a larger bibfile (jabref created) for inserting references in a > > document. Is there an easy way to produce a new bibfile which contains > > only the references of the aux-file? > >

Re: 3 column long table and caption

2006-07-31 Thread Tom Tom
Hi Paul, the automatic page-break of a long table inside a float does not occur. At least in my hands the table is printed over the end of the initial (table-) page after the pdflatex run. Cheers L. __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail

Re: Re: 3 column long table and caption

2006-07-31 Thread Reinhard Mayr
As far as I understood it, you have to decide to either use a longtable or a float. A float can not go over a page break. I think your problems are similar to that discussed in this thread http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg49807.html hth, cz. Original-Nachricht

Re: Re: aspell / problems with umlauts

2006-07-31 Thread Reinhard Mayr aka Czerwinski
Hi Jürgen, thanks for the advice! In the beginning it looked as if it worked out: I selected one the affected paragraphs, changed the language to German and run the spellchecker. But this did not work twice, meaning when I re-run the spellchecker it thinks the text is English. The same

Re: aspell / problems with umlauts

2006-07-31 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Reinhard Mayr aka Czerwinski wrote: > But this did not work twice, meaning when I re-run the spellchecker it > thinks the text is English. The same situation for all other German > paragraphs and now, after I restarted LyX, it thinks, the entire doc is > in English. > > Is this a known bug

Re: Lyx User's Guide won't work

2006-07-31 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Tommy schrieb: Hello, thanks for the quick reply. I have installed the windows package lyx-142-1.exe available from http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/Windows . That is the one that is trying to uses the koma-script classes. What's the language of the menus in your LyX installation? I tried

index in tex file

2006-07-31 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
What is the best way to get the index (.idx) into the tex file of my document? Unfortunately the publisher wants a .doc file ... (ConvTex -> swx -> OO -> word) Wolfgang

Re: index in tex file

2006-07-31 Thread Stephen Harris
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: What is the best way to get the index (.idx) into the tex file of my document? Unfortunately the publisher wants a .doc file ... (ConvTex -> swx -> OO -> word) Wolfgang I've tested ConvTex and it works, but not consistently from what I've seen for equations, so

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