Re: Section numbers in left margin?

2007-01-26 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Steve Litt wrote: How do you know about all these packages? This is true for many on the list -- someone comes up with a need and you know exactly what package to use to accomplish it. Do you have all this memorized, or do you have a quick way of looking it up? Either way, how do you do it --

Ÿ without ERT (\Y)?

2007-01-26 Thread Tobias Krause
Hi, is there a way to insert Ÿ without using the ERT \Y? I'm using LyX 1.4.3-5, language: German, inputenc: latin1 Regards, Toby

Re: error producing output files from g-letter

2007-01-26 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Uwe Stöhr wrote: The reason is that MiKTeX loads marvosym automatically and I currently don't know why. Could you please report this on http://bugzilla.lyx.org It's not MikTeX. This is a well known g-brief bug (it relies on marvosym). The g-brief maintainer is informed about this, but I'm not

Re: Ÿ without ERT (\Y)?

2007-01-26 Thread Susanne Gütter
Hi, maybe in the math mod with \bar Y Susanne Am Freitag, 26. Januar 2007 09:47 schrieb Tobias Krause: Hi, is there a way to insert Ÿ without using the ERT \Y? I'm using LyX 1.4.3-5, language: German, inputenc: latin1 Regards, Toby

Re: Ÿ without ERT (\Y)?

2007-01-26 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Tobias Krause wrote: Hi, is there a way to insert Ÿ without using the ERT \Y? You can use \ddot{Y} in math mode. Abdel.

Re: Ÿ without ERT (\Y)?

2007-01-26 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Tobias == Tobias Krause [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tobias Hi, is there a way to insert Ÿ without using the ERT \Y? Tobias I'm using LyX 1.4.3-5, language: German, inputenc: latin1 You can try to use latin9, where it is available. Just by curiosity: why do you need it ? I know only of two

Re: Ÿ without ERT (\Y)?

2007-01-26 Thread Tobias Krause
maybe in the math mod with \bar Y It has to be in normal text (it's a name: Seÿffert) Toby

Re: Ÿ without ERT (\Y)?

2007-01-26 Thread Georg Baum
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Tobias == Tobias Krause [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tobias Hi, is there a way to insert Ÿ without using the ERT \Y? Tobias I'm using LyX 1.4.3-5, language: German, inputenc: latin1 You can try to use latin9, where it is available. If you need to use latin1

Re: Ÿ without ERT (\Y)?

2007-01-26 Thread Tobias Krause
Jma You can try to use latin9, where it is available. Might there be problems with special german characters using latin9? And if I trust wikipedia it should be in latin1 as well (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin1). But anyway, how would I type it? Just by curiosity: why do you need it ? I

Re: Ÿ without ERT (\Y)?

2007-01-26 Thread André Bonhôte
Hi I think I have read you're using Windows, so this won't help at all. I just tried to type it here on my mac with lyx 1.4.3, and it works fine with my dead key ¨, follwed by y. Seÿffert. It looks fine in the output too. I don't know about German keyboards, but my Swiss German layout

Re: Ÿ without ERT (\Y)?

2007-01-26 Thread Georg Baum
Tobias Krause wrote: It has to be in normal text (it's a name: Seÿffert) Then the file I just sent is wrong, but if you open it with a text editor you will see how to change it to produce ÿ instead of Ÿ. Georg

RE: Re: LyXTextClassList::Read: no textclasses found!

2007-01-26 Thread Bradburn, Edward
Hi Thomas, See my mail I sent to the list today -- have you tried installing MikTex *separately*, i.e. not with the bundle installer? That was the only thing that got Lyx working for me. Cheers, Ed Bradburn -Original Message- From: Thomas Sauter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

Re: Ÿ without ERT (\Y)?

2007-01-26 Thread Tobias Krause
Thanks! Unfortunately if I copy it to my file it just produces \{Y}... Maybe ERT is the best way... Thanks to everybody!

Re: Ÿ without ERT (\Y)?

2007-01-26 Thread Georg Baum
André Bonhôte wrote: Hi I think I have read you're using Windows, so this won't help at all. I just tried to type it here on my mac with lyx 1.4.3, and it works fine with my dead key ¨, follwed by y. Seÿffert. It looks fine in the output too. I don't know about German keyboards, but my

Comment on Lyx Windows Install: the textclasses not found problem

2007-01-26 Thread Bradburn, Edward
Hi Folks, Just installed Lyx yesterday on Windows, and, since I had a bit of trouble getting it to run, I thought I would post a quick report of what got it working. I installed using the network bundle at first, but constantly got a problem with Lyx refusing to start: the now quite famous

Re: Ÿ without ERT (\Y)?

2007-01-26 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Tobias == Tobias Krause [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tobias Jma You can try to use latin9, where it is available. Tobias Might there be problems with special german characters using Tobias latin9? And if I trust wikipedia it should be in latin1 as Tobias well

Re: Another eps problem

2007-01-26 Thread Miki Dovrat
After some playing around trying to answer Paul's and Georg's questions, I came up with these conclusions: My ghostview prints everything correctly - the eps's by themselves, the lyx ps and pdf (dvipdfm and pdftex) outputs. Acrobat Reader (both versions 7.0.9 and 8) fail to print the figures

Re: Ÿ without ERT (\Y)?

2007-01-26 Thread Georg Baum
Tobias Krause wrote: Thanks! Unfortunately if I copy it to my file it just produces \{Y}... In LyX or in the generated TeX? If you looked at the generated TeX this is intended. In LyX it should look like a real Ÿ. If it does not, did you open both files in the same LyX instance? Maybe ERT

Re: Another eps problem

2007-01-26 Thread Jean-Pierre Chretien
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org From: Miki Dovrat [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Another eps problem Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 12:01:20 +0200 X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2180 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Original [..] It is a problem since the most wide-spread pdf viewer on windows

Re: Ÿ without ERT (\Y)?

2007-01-26 Thread Tobias Krause
Great! Now it works. You where right: I had two LyX instances... (This is where I realize I'm new a LyX) Thanks, Toby

Installing dvipost on Windows

2007-01-26 Thread Kurt Pernstich
Hello everybody, does anybody know if and how it is possible to install dvipost on a Windows machine? Thanks a lot and best regards, Kurt link to dvipost: http://efeu.cybertec.at/index_en.html why do I need it: http://wiki.lyx.org/Tips/ChangeTrackingLyx1-3-2

RE: Re: LyXTextClassList::Read: no textclasses found!

2007-01-26 Thread Bradburn, Edward
Hi Thomas, See my mail I sent to the list today -- have you tried installing MikTex *separately*, i.e. not with the bundle installer? That was the only thing that got Lyx working for me. Cheers, Ed Bradburn -Original Message- From: Thomas Sauter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

Comment on Lyx Windows Install: the textclasses not found problem

2007-01-26 Thread Bradburn, Edward
Hi Folks, Just installed Lyx yesterday on Windows, and, since I had a bit of trouble getting it to run, I thought I would post a quick report of what got it working. I installed using the network bundle at first, but constantly got a problem with Lyx refusing to start: the now quite famous

Create hyperlink in presentation (beamer) which launches program when clicked?

2007-01-26 Thread Rainer M Krug
Hi Is it possible to insert into a document (class: beamer) a hyperlink via URL which launches a program? Thanks Rainer -- Rainer M. Krug, Dipl. Phys. (Germany), MSc Conservation Biology (UCT) Department of Conservation Ecology and Entomology University of Stellenbosch Matieland 7602 South

Re: Comment on Lyx Windows Install: the textclasses not found problem

2007-01-26 Thread Thomas Sauter
Hi Ed, -- Install MikTex (from the site, www.miktex.org). I used the basic version. -- Install Lyx Oh, I'm using Win XP with SP 2, and running Lyx 1.4.3-5. it still doesn't work here. I deinstalled lyx and miktex, then installed miktex (c:\MiKTeX25) from the miktex-website (basic), then

Re: Ÿ without ERT (\Y)?

2007-01-26 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Georg == Georg Baum [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Georg I attach a second file for copying. Note that I see the second Georg capital Ÿ as ¾ on screen. I don't know if that is a LyX bug or Georg a font problem, but the Postscript output is OK. 3/4 is what you should see in latin1. Only latin15 has

Re: Another eps problem

2007-01-26 Thread Georg Baum
Miki Dovrat wrote: After some playing around trying to answer Paul's and Georg's questions, I came up with these conclusions: My ghostview prints everything correctly - the eps's by themselves, the lyx ps and pdf (dvipdfm and pdftex) outputs. That either means that the eps generated by

Re: Another eps problem

2007-01-26 Thread Miki Dovrat
I tried other viewers - foxit on windows and kpdf (xpdf variant of KDE) on linux, and they both failed to print the file correctly, even when the file is made on a lyx 1.4.2 on Linux. Does that mean that the file itself (or the eps figures of Origin) is somehow non-standard, and only ghostview

Re: Another eps problem

2007-01-26 Thread Miki Dovrat
I have on Windows Ghostscript 8.54 and ghostview 4.8. They came with the lyx 1.4.3-5 bundle. Georg Baum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Miki Dovrat wrote: After some playing around trying to answer Paul's and Georg's questions, I came up with these conclusions:

Re: Ÿ without ERT (\Y)?

2007-01-26 Thread Georg Baum
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Georg == Georg Baum [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Georg I attach a second file for copying. Note that I see the second Georg capital Ÿ as ¾ on screen. I don't know if that is a LyX bug or Georg a font problem, but the Postscript output is OK. 3/4 is what you

Re: Another eps problem

2007-01-26 Thread Jean-Pierre Chretien
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org From: Miki Dovrat [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Another eps problem Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 16:31:37 +0200 I tried other viewers - foxit on windows and kpdf (xpdf variant of KDE) on linux, and they both failed to print the file correctly, even when the file is made

Re: Section numbers in left margin?

2007-01-26 Thread Richard Heck
Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: Steve Litt wrote: How do you know about all these packages? This is true for many on the list -- someone comes up with a need and you know exactly what package to use to accomplish it. Do you have all this memorized, or do you have a quick way of looking it

Re: Ÿ without ERT (\Y)?

2007-01-26 Thread Tobias Krause
Hi, Georg I attach a second file for copying. Note that I see the second Georg capital Ÿ as ¾ on screen. I don't know if that is a LyX bug or Georg a font problem, but the Postscript output is OK. 3/4 is what you should see in latin1. Only latin15 has Ÿ. Yes I know. The problem is that

Re: Ÿ without ERT (\Y)?

2007-01-26 Thread Nick Hopton
In a recent message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tobias Krause [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote. Hi, is there a way to insert Ÿ without using the ERT \Y? [...] Hello Tobias, on my Windows system Alt-0255 produces the little 'y' with the dots over the top and Alt-0159 produces the big 'y' with dots over the

Re: Ÿ without ERT (\Y)?

2007-01-26 Thread Georg Baum
Tobias Krause wrote: I've set latin1 inputenc in the latex preamble and I see Ÿ in the LyX-file and in the pdf output using 1.4.3-5. How does that happen? Small or capital Ÿ? The small one is both in latin1 and latin9, the capital one only in latin9. If you really mean capital Ÿ: This should

Re: Comment on Lyx Windows Install: the textclasses not found problem

2007-01-26 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Thomas Sauter wrote: it still doesn't work here. I deinstalled lyx and miktex, then installed miktex (c:\MiKTeX25) from the miktex-website (basic), then lyx (c:\Lyx14) (not the bundle and in a second try after deinstallation: miktex and the lyx-bundle). I changed the path to

Re: Installing dvipost on Windows

2007-01-26 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Kurt Pernstich schrieb: does anybody know if and how it is possible to install dvipost on a Windows machine? It's installed together with LyX's Windows installer: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/Windows regards Uwe

Re: OpenOffice vs. LyX

2007-01-26 Thread John Kane
--- deedee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I like LyX for complex documents because I can set a document up and not have to worry about the fact that so many people who claim to understand how to use styles don't bother to use them with any consistency in practice with any word processing

LyX wiki | Examples / AcmSigplan -- Problem with citations

2007-01-26 Thread Frederic Fol Leymarie
Hi I followed the steps indicated under : http://wiki.lyx.org/Examples/AcmSigplan I installed / reconfigured LyX and can open my article in the new ACM class; fine. The problem I encounter is when I include citations. I run into errors; here is an example of the error messages I get for

Re: OpenOffice vs. LyX

2007-01-26 Thread Stefano Franchi
On 26 Jan, 2007, at 11:46 AM, John Kane wrote: As a new LyX user I cannot comment for sure but I do think that LyX does look superiour for books and large reports but for other works (say anything under 8-10 pages and that does not need a lot of math I'd still go with OOo. I'd have to

Re: Comment on LyX Windows Install: the textclasses not found problem

2007-01-26 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Bradburn, Edward schrieb: I installed using the network bundle at first, but constantly got a problem with Lyx refusing to start: the now quite famous textclasses not found problem. More precisely, the programs refuses to start and prints this as the error: LyXTextClassList::Read: no

Re: Ÿ without ERT (\Y)?

2007-01-26 Thread Tobias Krause
Thanks for all your help! I've set latin1 inputenc in the latex preamble and I see Ÿ in the LyX-file and in the pdf output using 1.4.3-5. How does that happen? Small or capital Ÿ? The small one is both in latin1 and latin9, the capital one only in latin9. If you really mean capital Ÿ:

updating the latex distro using cygwin

2007-01-26 Thread Francesco
Hi, I tried to install lyx on my pc (which is running windows xp sp2) but I didn't succeed for the notorious no textclasses found problem. I then tried to install it using cygwin and everything went fine. I have now another problem: I need to use the IEEEtrans.cls for producing the output of my

Re: updating the latex distro using cygwin

2007-01-26 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Francesco [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I tried to install lyx on my pc (which is running windows xp sp2) but I didn't succeed for the notorious no textclasses found problem. I then tried to install it using cygwin and everything went fine. I have now another problem: I need to use the

Re: Section numbers in left margin?

2007-01-26 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Steve Litt wrote: How do you know about all these packages? This is true for many on the list -- someone comes up with a need and you know exactly what package to use to accomplish it. Do you have all this memorized, or do you have a quick way of looking it up? Either way, how do you do it --

Ÿ without ERT (\Y)?

2007-01-26 Thread Tobias Krause
Hi, is there a way to insert Ÿ without using the ERT \Y? I'm using LyX 1.4.3-5, language: German, inputenc: latin1 Regards, Toby

Re: error producing output files from g-letter

2007-01-26 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Uwe Stöhr wrote: The reason is that MiKTeX loads marvosym automatically and I currently don't know why. Could you please report this on http://bugzilla.lyx.org It's not MikTeX. This is a well known g-brief bug (it relies on marvosym). The g-brief maintainer is informed about this, but I'm not

Re: Ÿ without ERT (\Y)?

2007-01-26 Thread Susanne Gütter
Hi, maybe in the math mod with \bar Y Susanne Am Freitag, 26. Januar 2007 09:47 schrieb Tobias Krause: Hi, is there a way to insert Ÿ without using the ERT \Y? I'm using LyX 1.4.3-5, language: German, inputenc: latin1 Regards, Toby

Re: Ÿ without ERT (\Y)?

2007-01-26 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Tobias Krause wrote: Hi, is there a way to insert Ÿ without using the ERT \Y? You can use \ddot{Y} in math mode. Abdel.

Re: Ÿ without ERT (\Y)?

2007-01-26 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Tobias == Tobias Krause [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tobias Hi, is there a way to insert Ÿ without using the ERT \Y? Tobias I'm using LyX 1.4.3-5, language: German, inputenc: latin1 You can try to use latin9, where it is available. Just by curiosity: why do you need it ? I know only of two

Re: Ÿ without ERT (\Y)?

2007-01-26 Thread Tobias Krause
maybe in the math mod with \bar Y It has to be in normal text (it's a name: Seÿffert) Toby

Re: Ÿ without ERT (\Y)?

2007-01-26 Thread Georg Baum
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Tobias == Tobias Krause [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tobias Hi, is there a way to insert Ÿ without using the ERT \Y? Tobias I'm using LyX 1.4.3-5, language: German, inputenc: latin1 You can try to use latin9, where it is available. If you need to use latin1

Re: Ÿ without ERT (\Y)?

2007-01-26 Thread Tobias Krause
Jma You can try to use latin9, where it is available. Might there be problems with special german characters using latin9? And if I trust wikipedia it should be in latin1 as well (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin1). But anyway, how would I type it? Just by curiosity: why do you need it ? I

Re: Ÿ without ERT (\Y)?

2007-01-26 Thread André Bonhôte
Hi I think I have read you're using Windows, so this won't help at all. I just tried to type it here on my mac with lyx 1.4.3, and it works fine with my dead key ¨, follwed by y. Seÿffert. It looks fine in the output too. I don't know about German keyboards, but my Swiss German layout

Re: Ÿ without ERT (\Y)?

2007-01-26 Thread Georg Baum
Tobias Krause wrote: It has to be in normal text (it's a name: Seÿffert) Then the file I just sent is wrong, but if you open it with a text editor you will see how to change it to produce ÿ instead of Ÿ. Georg

RE: Re: LyXTextClassList::Read: no textclasses found!

2007-01-26 Thread Bradburn, Edward
Hi Thomas, See my mail I sent to the list today -- have you tried installing MikTex *separately*, i.e. not with the bundle installer? That was the only thing that got Lyx working for me. Cheers, Ed Bradburn -Original Message- From: Thomas Sauter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

Re: Ÿ without ERT (\Y)?

2007-01-26 Thread Tobias Krause
Thanks! Unfortunately if I copy it to my file it just produces \{Y}... Maybe ERT is the best way... Thanks to everybody!

Re: Ÿ without ERT (\Y)?

2007-01-26 Thread Georg Baum
André Bonhôte wrote: Hi I think I have read you're using Windows, so this won't help at all. I just tried to type it here on my mac with lyx 1.4.3, and it works fine with my dead key ¨, follwed by y. Seÿffert. It looks fine in the output too. I don't know about German keyboards, but my

Comment on Lyx Windows Install: the textclasses not found problem

2007-01-26 Thread Bradburn, Edward
Hi Folks, Just installed Lyx yesterday on Windows, and, since I had a bit of trouble getting it to run, I thought I would post a quick report of what got it working. I installed using the network bundle at first, but constantly got a problem with Lyx refusing to start: the now quite famous

Re: Ÿ without ERT (\Y)?

2007-01-26 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Tobias == Tobias Krause [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tobias Jma You can try to use latin9, where it is available. Tobias Might there be problems with special german characters using Tobias latin9? And if I trust wikipedia it should be in latin1 as Tobias well

Re: Another eps problem

2007-01-26 Thread Miki Dovrat
After some playing around trying to answer Paul's and Georg's questions, I came up with these conclusions: My ghostview prints everything correctly - the eps's by themselves, the lyx ps and pdf (dvipdfm and pdftex) outputs. Acrobat Reader (both versions 7.0.9 and 8) fail to print the figures

Re: Ÿ without ERT (\Y)?

2007-01-26 Thread Georg Baum
Tobias Krause wrote: Thanks! Unfortunately if I copy it to my file it just produces \{Y}... In LyX or in the generated TeX? If you looked at the generated TeX this is intended. In LyX it should look like a real Ÿ. If it does not, did you open both files in the same LyX instance? Maybe ERT

Re: Another eps problem

2007-01-26 Thread Jean-Pierre Chretien
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org From: Miki Dovrat [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Another eps problem Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 12:01:20 +0200 X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2180 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Original [..] It is a problem since the most wide-spread pdf viewer on windows

Re: Ÿ without ERT (\Y)?

2007-01-26 Thread Tobias Krause
Great! Now it works. You where right: I had two LyX instances... (This is where I realize I'm new a LyX) Thanks, Toby

Installing dvipost on Windows

2007-01-26 Thread Kurt Pernstich
Hello everybody, does anybody know if and how it is possible to install dvipost on a Windows machine? Thanks a lot and best regards, Kurt link to dvipost: http://efeu.cybertec.at/index_en.html why do I need it: http://wiki.lyx.org/Tips/ChangeTrackingLyx1-3-2

RE: Re: LyXTextClassList::Read: no textclasses found!

2007-01-26 Thread Bradburn, Edward
Hi Thomas, See my mail I sent to the list today -- have you tried installing MikTex *separately*, i.e. not with the bundle installer? That was the only thing that got Lyx working for me. Cheers, Ed Bradburn -Original Message- From: Thomas Sauter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

Comment on Lyx Windows Install: the textclasses not found problem

2007-01-26 Thread Bradburn, Edward
Hi Folks, Just installed Lyx yesterday on Windows, and, since I had a bit of trouble getting it to run, I thought I would post a quick report of what got it working. I installed using the network bundle at first, but constantly got a problem with Lyx refusing to start: the now quite famous

Create hyperlink in presentation (beamer) which launches program when clicked?

2007-01-26 Thread Rainer M Krug
Hi Is it possible to insert into a document (class: beamer) a hyperlink via URL which launches a program? Thanks Rainer -- Rainer M. Krug, Dipl. Phys. (Germany), MSc Conservation Biology (UCT) Department of Conservation Ecology and Entomology University of Stellenbosch Matieland 7602 South

Re: Comment on Lyx Windows Install: the textclasses not found problem

2007-01-26 Thread Thomas Sauter
Hi Ed, -- Install MikTex (from the site, www.miktex.org). I used the basic version. -- Install Lyx Oh, I'm using Win XP with SP 2, and running Lyx 1.4.3-5. it still doesn't work here. I deinstalled lyx and miktex, then installed miktex (c:\MiKTeX25) from the miktex-website (basic), then

Re: Ÿ without ERT (\Y)?

2007-01-26 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Georg == Georg Baum [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Georg I attach a second file for copying. Note that I see the second Georg capital Ÿ as ¾ on screen. I don't know if that is a LyX bug or Georg a font problem, but the Postscript output is OK. 3/4 is what you should see in latin1. Only latin15 has

Re: Another eps problem

2007-01-26 Thread Georg Baum
Miki Dovrat wrote: After some playing around trying to answer Paul's and Georg's questions, I came up with these conclusions: My ghostview prints everything correctly - the eps's by themselves, the lyx ps and pdf (dvipdfm and pdftex) outputs. That either means that the eps generated by

Re: Another eps problem

2007-01-26 Thread Miki Dovrat
I tried other viewers - foxit on windows and kpdf (xpdf variant of KDE) on linux, and they both failed to print the file correctly, even when the file is made on a lyx 1.4.2 on Linux. Does that mean that the file itself (or the eps figures of Origin) is somehow non-standard, and only ghostview

Re: Another eps problem

2007-01-26 Thread Miki Dovrat
I have on Windows Ghostscript 8.54 and ghostview 4.8. They came with the lyx 1.4.3-5 bundle. Georg Baum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Miki Dovrat wrote: After some playing around trying to answer Paul's and Georg's questions, I came up with these conclusions:

Re: Ÿ without ERT (\Y)?

2007-01-26 Thread Georg Baum
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Georg == Georg Baum [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Georg I attach a second file for copying. Note that I see the second Georg capital Ÿ as ¾ on screen. I don't know if that is a LyX bug or Georg a font problem, but the Postscript output is OK. 3/4 is what you

Re: Another eps problem

2007-01-26 Thread Jean-Pierre Chretien
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org From: Miki Dovrat [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Another eps problem Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 16:31:37 +0200 I tried other viewers - foxit on windows and kpdf (xpdf variant of KDE) on linux, and they both failed to print the file correctly, even when the file is made

Re: Section numbers in left margin?

2007-01-26 Thread Richard Heck
Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: Steve Litt wrote: How do you know about all these packages? This is true for many on the list -- someone comes up with a need and you know exactly what package to use to accomplish it. Do you have all this memorized, or do you have a quick way of looking it

Re: Ÿ without ERT (\Y)?

2007-01-26 Thread Tobias Krause
Hi, Georg I attach a second file for copying. Note that I see the second Georg capital Ÿ as ¾ on screen. I don't know if that is a LyX bug or Georg a font problem, but the Postscript output is OK. 3/4 is what you should see in latin1. Only latin15 has Ÿ. Yes I know. The problem is that

Re: Ÿ without ERT (\Y)?

2007-01-26 Thread Nick Hopton
In a recent message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tobias Krause [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote. Hi, is there a way to insert Ÿ without using the ERT \Y? [...] Hello Tobias, on my Windows system Alt-0255 produces the little 'y' with the dots over the top and Alt-0159 produces the big 'y' with dots over the

Re: Ÿ without ERT (\Y)?

2007-01-26 Thread Georg Baum
Tobias Krause wrote: I've set latin1 inputenc in the latex preamble and I see Ÿ in the LyX-file and in the pdf output using 1.4.3-5. How does that happen? Small or capital Ÿ? The small one is both in latin1 and latin9, the capital one only in latin9. If you really mean capital Ÿ: This should

Re: Comment on Lyx Windows Install: the textclasses not found problem

2007-01-26 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Thomas Sauter wrote: it still doesn't work here. I deinstalled lyx and miktex, then installed miktex (c:\MiKTeX25) from the miktex-website (basic), then lyx (c:\Lyx14) (not the bundle and in a second try after deinstallation: miktex and the lyx-bundle). I changed the path to

Re: Installing dvipost on Windows

2007-01-26 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Kurt Pernstich schrieb: does anybody know if and how it is possible to install dvipost on a Windows machine? It's installed together with LyX's Windows installer: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/Windows regards Uwe

Re: OpenOffice vs. LyX

2007-01-26 Thread John Kane
--- deedee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I like LyX for complex documents because I can set a document up and not have to worry about the fact that so many people who claim to understand how to use styles don't bother to use them with any consistency in practice with any word processing

LyX wiki | Examples / AcmSigplan -- Problem with citations

2007-01-26 Thread Frederic Fol Leymarie
Hi I followed the steps indicated under : http://wiki.lyx.org/Examples/AcmSigplan I installed / reconfigured LyX and can open my article in the new ACM class; fine. The problem I encounter is when I include citations. I run into errors; here is an example of the error messages I get for

Re: OpenOffice vs. LyX

2007-01-26 Thread Stefano Franchi
On 26 Jan, 2007, at 11:46 AM, John Kane wrote: As a new LyX user I cannot comment for sure but I do think that LyX does look superiour for books and large reports but for other works (say anything under 8-10 pages and that does not need a lot of math I'd still go with OOo. I'd have to

Re: Comment on LyX Windows Install: the textclasses not found problem

2007-01-26 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Bradburn, Edward schrieb: I installed using the network bundle at first, but constantly got a problem with Lyx refusing to start: the now quite famous textclasses not found problem. More precisely, the programs refuses to start and prints this as the error: LyXTextClassList::Read: no

Re: Ÿ without ERT (\Y)?

2007-01-26 Thread Tobias Krause
Thanks for all your help! I've set latin1 inputenc in the latex preamble and I see Ÿ in the LyX-file and in the pdf output using 1.4.3-5. How does that happen? Small or capital Ÿ? The small one is both in latin1 and latin9, the capital one only in latin9. If you really mean capital Ÿ:

updating the latex distro using cygwin

2007-01-26 Thread Francesco
Hi, I tried to install lyx on my pc (which is running windows xp sp2) but I didn't succeed for the notorious no textclasses found problem. I then tried to install it using cygwin and everything went fine. I have now another problem: I need to use the IEEEtrans.cls for producing the output of my

Re: updating the latex distro using cygwin

2007-01-26 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Francesco [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I tried to install lyx on my pc (which is running windows xp sp2) but I didn't succeed for the notorious no textclasses found problem. I then tried to install it using cygwin and everything went fine. I have now another problem: I need to use the

Re: Section numbers in left margin?

2007-01-26 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Steve Litt wrote: > How do you know about all these packages? This is true for many on the > list -- someone comes up with a need and you know exactly what package to > use to accomplish it. Do you have all this memorized, or do you have a > quick way of looking it up? Either way, how do you do it

Ÿ without ERT (\"Y)?

2007-01-26 Thread Tobias Krause
Hi, is there a way to insert Ÿ without using the ERT \"Y? I'm using LyX 1.4.3-5, language: German, inputenc: latin1 Regards, Toby

Re: error producing output files from "g-letter"

2007-01-26 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Uwe Stöhr wrote: > The reason is that MiKTeX loads marvosym automatically and I currently > don't know why. Could you please report this on > http://bugzilla.lyx.org It's not MikTeX. This is a well known g-brief bug (it relies on marvosym). The g-brief maintainer is informed about this, but I'm

Re: Ÿ without ERT (\"Y)?

2007-01-26 Thread Susanne Gütter
Hi, maybe in the math mod with \bar Y Susanne Am Freitag, 26. Januar 2007 09:47 schrieb Tobias Krause: > Hi, > > is there a way to insert Ÿ without using the ERT \"Y? > > I'm using LyX 1.4.3-5, language: German, inputenc: latin1 > > Regards, Toby

Re: Ÿ without ERT (\"Y)?

2007-01-26 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Tobias Krause wrote: Hi, is there a way to insert Ÿ without using the ERT \"Y? You can use \ddot{Y} in math mode. Abdel.

Re: Ÿ without ERT (\"Y)?

2007-01-26 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Tobias" == Tobias Krause <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Tobias> Hi, is there a way to insert Ÿ without using the ERT \"Y? Tobias> I'm using LyX 1.4.3-5, language: German, inputenc: latin1 You can try to use latin9, where it is available. Just by curiosity: why do you need it ? I know only

Re: Ÿ without ERT (\"Y)?

2007-01-26 Thread Tobias Krause
> maybe in the math mod with \bar Y It has to be in normal text (it's a name: Seÿffert) Toby

Re: Ÿ without ERT (\"Y)?

2007-01-26 Thread Georg Baum
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: >> "Tobias" == Tobias Krause <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> writes: > > Tobias> Hi, is there a way to insert Ÿ without using the ERT \"Y? > > Tobias> I'm using LyX 1.4.3-5, language: German, inputenc: latin1 > > You can try to use latin9, where it is available. If

Re: Ÿ without ERT (\"Y)?

2007-01-26 Thread Tobias Krause
Jma > You can try to use latin9, where it is available. Might there be problems with special german characters using latin9? And if I trust wikipedia it should be in latin1 as well (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin1). But anyway, how would I type it? > Just by curiosity: why do you need it ? I

Re: Ÿ without ERT (\"Y)?

2007-01-26 Thread André Bonhôte
Hi I think I have read you're using Windows, so this won't help at all. I just tried to type it here on my mac with lyx 1.4.3, and it works fine with my dead key ¨, follwed by y. Seÿffert. It looks fine in the output too. I don't know about German keyboards, but my Swiss German layout

Re: Ÿ without ERT (\"Y)?

2007-01-26 Thread Georg Baum
Tobias Krause wrote: > It has to be in normal text (it's a name: Seÿffert) Then the file I just sent is wrong, but if you open it with a text editor you will see how to change it to produce ÿ instead of Ÿ. Georg

RE: Re: LyXTextClassList::Read: no textclasses found!

2007-01-26 Thread Bradburn, Edward
Hi Thomas, See my mail I sent to the list today -- have you tried installing MikTex *separately*, i.e. not with the bundle installer? That was the only thing that got Lyx working for me. Cheers, Ed Bradburn > -Original Message- > From: Thomas Sauter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >

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