Re: Some LIGHT on the LyXTextClassList::Read: no textclasses found problem

2007-02-01 Thread Thomas Sauter
8. in C:\lyx c:\lyx14\bin\lyx.exe –userdir c:\lyx packages are loaded but lyx doesn’t start (textclass error), although a lot of textclasses are true in the textclass file and packages.lst is also not empty. (c:\lyx\textclass.lst is the only textclass file) If the startup in step

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

2007-02-01 Thread Julio Rojas
Guess for the good of every user, expert or not, the second option is the one you should pick. On 2/1/07, Bo Peng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/31/07, Uwe Stöhr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Uwe, if the option is set to off (no download whatsoever), can configure succeed? I guess configure will

Re: Some LIGHT on the LyXTextClassList::Read: no textclasses found problem

2007-02-01 Thread Jean-Pierre Chretien
Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 11:02:29 +1800 From: Bo Peng [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Nicolás [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Some LIGHT on the LyXTextClassList::Read: no textclasses found problem Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org And here it is conclusion: The configure.py script does not work correctly. My

Re: changing Xfig figures in LyX

2007-02-01 Thread Georg Baum
Philipp Fleig wrote: Hello, thanks for your quick reply. Basically this is what I have done, although instead of Insert- External I used File-Import-Latex (Plain). Don't use that for xfig figures. I don't have Insert-External in my LyX version, which is 1.4.3, run on a Mac. Is what I

Re: horizontal rule before every section unless at top or bottom of page?

2007-02-01 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Jeremy C. Reed schrieb: As Steve mentioned, I need to find out if I am at the top or bottom of the page. I am searching but haven't found it yet. I think this is impossible. regards Uwe

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

2007-02-01 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Bo Peng schrieb: You would not agree with me but my opinion is that we have shot ourselves in the foot by enabling this automatic downloading option. The default is Ask me first which has the same problem. The simple fix for this problem is that we disable this option and allow lyx to be

LyX 1.5svn PDF testers needed

2007-02-01 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Helly LyXers, some of you have already tested one of the development snapshot of LyX 1.5svn: http://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5117release_id=12083 Could anybody who has LyX 1.5svn still on the system and use Acrobat 8/Adobe reader 8 please test out the following: 1.

Re: [Totally New] Trying to format mathematical equations in two columns

2007-02-01 Thread Helge Hafting
Steven Harms (stharms) wrote: Hello All, LyX is great! It's helped me so much already! Regrettably, as you learn the power of LyX, the more you can be obsessive about tiny little details, so here's mine. I'm doing some math homework and I've been laying out my homework brilliantly with

Re: Font problems of pdf-files generated on Mac

2007-02-01 Thread William Adams
On Feb 1, 2007, at 2:21 AM, Anders Ekberg wrote: Has anyone experienced anything similar. Or better still, does anyone know about a cure?! (The one I have is opening the file in GraphicConverter, saving as Tif, re-opening and printing as pdf, but this is not really ideal...) What TeX

Re: Font problems of pdf-files generated on Mac

2007-02-01 Thread Anders Ekberg
Thanks William. It is the latest i-Installer distribution with gwTeX, but the same problem has occurred also with previous versions. Anders On 1 feb 2007, at 13.53, William Adams wrote: On Feb 1, 2007, at 2:21 AM, Anders Ekberg wrote: Has anyone experienced anything similar. Or better

Culmus Hebrew fonts

2007-02-01 Thread Miki Dovrat
A question for the Hebrew users of lyx/latex. How do I change the font of the entire document? The lyx editor allows only to mark some text as belonging to a different font family (sans serif, typewriter), but I don't know which Hebrew fonts these are (although they are different). The Culmus

Re: Font problems of pdf-files generated on Mac

2007-02-01 Thread Alan G Isaac
On Thu, 1 Feb 2007, Anders Ekberg apparently wrote: The pdf-files I create works for about 90% of the colleagues I send them to. But on some computers (or rather installations) the fonts get messed up. It sounds like you are not embedding your fonts, so they cannot read it if they do not

Re: Culmus Hebrew fonts

2007-02-01 Thread Georg Baum
Miki Dovrat wrote: A question for the Hebrew users of lyx/latex. How do I change the font of the entire document? The lyx editor allows only to mark some text as belonging to a different font family (sans serif, typewriter), but I don't know which Hebrew fonts these are (although they

Problem with german template g-brief-de.lyx

2007-02-01 Thread Matthias Diehl
Hi, I had following latex-error when running the original template g-brief-de.lyx: LaTeX Error: Cammand\Telefon alrready defined. \newcommand\Telefon{\mvchr{84}} Your command was ignored. Type I command return to replace it with another command, or return

Re: Culmus Hebrew fonts

2007-02-01 Thread Miki Dovrat
I am a Hebrew user, and I know how to use the default Hebrew font, which I guess comes from the culmus package (ivritex on linux), but that package contains many other fonts (according to the culmus site) which I would like to use, and I don't know how to get lyx or latex to use them. You can

Re: globally changing typewriter font scale

2007-02-01 Thread Guy Hindell
Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: Guy Hindell wrote: There is one odd side effect though - the \baseskip spacing appears to still be what it would have been at the normal font size, so verbatim blocks look more spread out than they did previously by using \footnotesize. Is there anything I can do

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

2007-02-01 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Thu, 1 Feb 2007, Uwe Stöhr wrote: The simple fix for this problem is that we disable this option and allow lyx to be installed without these classes. It is NOT our responsibility to install latex packages. We are! about 50% of the LyXers I know don't know anything about LaTeX and will

Re: changing Xfig figures in LyX

2007-02-01 Thread Philipp Fleig
Hello Georg, hello Curtis, thank you very much for the kind help. Unfortunately it still does not work. So just to get this right. What I include in LyX via Insert-File- External material is the original Xfig file .fig and not some .latex file which I exported in Xfig!? Now, when I do this

Re: changing Xfig figures in LyX

2007-02-01 Thread Georg Baum
Philipp Fleig wrote: So just to get this right. What I include in LyX via Insert-File- External material is the original Xfig file .fig and not some .latex file which I exported in Xfig!? Exactly. Now, when I do this and include the .fig file in my document and then try to run pdflatex I

Re: changing Xfig figures in LyX

2007-02-01 Thread Philipp Fleig
Hello, ok. Attached you find a sample .lyx + xfig file. When I go to preferences in LyX there are a number of converters, including some like FIG - EPS, FIG - PDFTEX and FIG - PSTEX, which I guess would be the relevant ones. I read on http://www.xfig.org/ userman/latex_and_xfig.html

Re: Problem with german template g-brief-de.lyx

2007-02-01 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Matthias Diehl wrote: How can I print this letter? It's an incompatibility of the recent marvosym package with g-brief. You have to hack the sources. In marvosym.sty, change the line 49 \def\Telefon{{\mvchr84}} to \providecommand\Telefon{{\mvchr84}} Is it worth to be reported as a bug? I

Re: LyX 1.5svn PDF testers needed

2007-02-01 Thread Nick Hopton
In a recent message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Uwe Stöhr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote. [...] some of you have already tested one of the development snapshot of LyX 1.5svn: http://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5117release_ id=12083 Could anybody who has LyX 1.5svn still on the system

AW: lyx-installation without internet connection

2007-02-01 Thread NicoWinger
Didn't find the directory in the Lyx-folder, but I got another work-around: I just loaded the package-repository from the internet and changed it in miktex-package-manager before starting lyx after installation to a local folder... it works. That was my only attention. Now I'm happy! ;-) But

Re: changing Xfig figures in LyX

2007-02-01 Thread A. Scottedward Hodel
I use the fig2ps script (available on sourceforge) to convert xfig to eps, and then use the eps file in LyX. My makefile has entry: %.eps : %.fig @echo Making $@ from $ @fig2ps --forcespecial --add=epsfig --input=../../2120/notes/ 2120head.tex --bbox=dvips --eps $ rm

Re: Culmus Hebrew fonts

2007-02-01 Thread Miki Dovrat
I actually got it working I feel I am stating the obvious to the Hebrew users who already KNOW the answer and didn't have time to respond. There is a package called hebfont.sty, written by Boris Lavva, which has created macros to use all the hebrew fonts (culmus, and the old default ones)

Re: Problem with german template g-brief-de.lyx

2007-02-01 Thread Matthias Diehl
Hello, sorry, the last e-mail to you, Juergen, was an error. Your info helped me to fix it, it just works now! Thank you very much! Matthias Diehl

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

2007-02-01 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Bo Peng schrieb: You would not agree with me but my opinion is that we have shot ourselves in the foot by enabling this automatic downloading option. The default is Ask me first which has the same problem. Does it? I've installed the thin version on my home PC a few

Re: Some LIGHT on the LyXTextClassList::Read: no textclasses found problem

2007-02-01 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Thomas Sauter wrote: OK. It's starting now. I think it was a path problem. I renamed the c:\lyx directory to c:\userlyx, deleted all the files there and restarted lyx with c:\lyx14\bin\lyx -userdir c:\userlyx and it running now. Odd! I just created a directory named c:\lyx and started LyX

Re: Beamer class and pdf meta-information

2007-02-01 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Jean-Pierre Chretien wrote: Hello, Using the beamer layout, the Title, Author, Subject styles are used after the \begin{document} as they appear in the LyX window. As a consequence, the \hypersetup commands which set pdftitle and such do not have the right information and thus pdfinfo foo.pdf

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

2007-02-01 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Paul A. Rubin schrieb: Does it? I've installed the thin version on my home PC a few times. The home PC has a dial-up connection (which is off during installation) and MikTeX set to ask. It asks, I say no (repeatedly), and installation goes fine. But if you press yes - same problem. And I

Re: LyX 1.5svn PDF testers needed

2007-02-01 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Nick Hopton schrieb: Win XP-Pro, latest Alpha release of LyX for Windows, 1.5.0svn, Tue Jan 23-01-2007. Everything works up to Step 5. After I delete the character I added and press the view-PDF button, Adobe Reader crashes So there is no other solution for this crash other then the one I

different headers

2007-02-01 Thread Bob Lounsbury
Hello, Is there a way to have a different custom heading on the first and subsequent pages? What I need is a specific left header on the first page and then a different specific left header on all the subsequent pages. Thanks, Bob Lounsbury

Re: Font problems of pdf-files generated on Mac

2007-02-01 Thread Anders Ekberg
The pdf-files I create works for about 90% of the colleagues I send them to. But on some computers (or rather installations) the fonts get messed up. It sounds like you are not embedding your fonts, so they cannot read it if they do not have the fonts locally. Cheers, Alan Isaac Yes, that

Re: Some LIGHT on the LyXTextClassList::Read: no textclasses found problem

2007-02-01 Thread Thomas Sauter
8. in C:\lyx c:\lyx14\bin\lyx.exe –userdir c:\lyx packages are loaded but lyx doesn’t start (textclass error), although a lot of textclasses are true in the textclass file and packages.lst is also not empty. (c:\lyx\textclass.lst is the only textclass file) If the startup in step

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

2007-02-01 Thread Julio Rojas
Guess for the good of every user, expert or not, the second option is the one you should pick. On 2/1/07, Bo Peng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/31/07, Uwe Stöhr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Uwe, if the option is set to off (no download whatsoever), can configure succeed? I guess configure will

Re: Some LIGHT on the LyXTextClassList::Read: no textclasses found problem

2007-02-01 Thread Jean-Pierre Chretien
Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 11:02:29 +1800 From: Bo Peng [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Nicolás [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Some LIGHT on the LyXTextClassList::Read: no textclasses found problem Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org And here it is conclusion: The configure.py script does not work correctly. My

Re: changing Xfig figures in LyX

2007-02-01 Thread Georg Baum
Philipp Fleig wrote: Hello, thanks for your quick reply. Basically this is what I have done, although instead of Insert- External I used File-Import-Latex (Plain). Don't use that for xfig figures. I don't have Insert-External in my LyX version, which is 1.4.3, run on a Mac. Is what I

Re: horizontal rule before every section unless at top or bottom of page?

2007-02-01 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Jeremy C. Reed schrieb: As Steve mentioned, I need to find out if I am at the top or bottom of the page. I am searching but haven't found it yet. I think this is impossible. regards Uwe

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

2007-02-01 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Bo Peng schrieb: You would not agree with me but my opinion is that we have shot ourselves in the foot by enabling this automatic downloading option. The default is Ask me first which has the same problem. The simple fix for this problem is that we disable this option and allow lyx to be

LyX 1.5svn PDF testers needed

2007-02-01 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Helly LyXers, some of you have already tested one of the development snapshot of LyX 1.5svn: http://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5117release_id=12083 Could anybody who has LyX 1.5svn still on the system and use Acrobat 8/Adobe reader 8 please test out the following: 1.

Re: [Totally New] Trying to format mathematical equations in two columns

2007-02-01 Thread Helge Hafting
Steven Harms (stharms) wrote: Hello All, LyX is great! It's helped me so much already! Regrettably, as you learn the power of LyX, the more you can be obsessive about tiny little details, so here's mine. I'm doing some math homework and I've been laying out my homework brilliantly with

Re: Font problems of pdf-files generated on Mac

2007-02-01 Thread William Adams
On Feb 1, 2007, at 2:21 AM, Anders Ekberg wrote: Has anyone experienced anything similar. Or better still, does anyone know about a cure?! (The one I have is opening the file in GraphicConverter, saving as Tif, re-opening and printing as pdf, but this is not really ideal...) What TeX

Re: Font problems of pdf-files generated on Mac

2007-02-01 Thread Anders Ekberg
Thanks William. It is the latest i-Installer distribution with gwTeX, but the same problem has occurred also with previous versions. Anders On 1 feb 2007, at 13.53, William Adams wrote: On Feb 1, 2007, at 2:21 AM, Anders Ekberg wrote: Has anyone experienced anything similar. Or better

Culmus Hebrew fonts

2007-02-01 Thread Miki Dovrat
A question for the Hebrew users of lyx/latex. How do I change the font of the entire document? The lyx editor allows only to mark some text as belonging to a different font family (sans serif, typewriter), but I don't know which Hebrew fonts these are (although they are different). The Culmus

Re: Font problems of pdf-files generated on Mac

2007-02-01 Thread Alan G Isaac
On Thu, 1 Feb 2007, Anders Ekberg apparently wrote: The pdf-files I create works for about 90% of the colleagues I send them to. But on some computers (or rather installations) the fonts get messed up. It sounds like you are not embedding your fonts, so they cannot read it if they do not

Re: Culmus Hebrew fonts

2007-02-01 Thread Georg Baum
Miki Dovrat wrote: A question for the Hebrew users of lyx/latex. How do I change the font of the entire document? The lyx editor allows only to mark some text as belonging to a different font family (sans serif, typewriter), but I don't know which Hebrew fonts these are (although they

Problem with german template g-brief-de.lyx

2007-02-01 Thread Matthias Diehl
Hi, I had following latex-error when running the original template g-brief-de.lyx: LaTeX Error: Cammand\Telefon alrready defined. \newcommand\Telefon{\mvchr{84}} Your command was ignored. Type I command return to replace it with another command, or return

Re: Culmus Hebrew fonts

2007-02-01 Thread Miki Dovrat
I am a Hebrew user, and I know how to use the default Hebrew font, which I guess comes from the culmus package (ivritex on linux), but that package contains many other fonts (according to the culmus site) which I would like to use, and I don't know how to get lyx or latex to use them. You can

Re: globally changing typewriter font scale

2007-02-01 Thread Guy Hindell
Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: Guy Hindell wrote: There is one odd side effect though - the \baseskip spacing appears to still be what it would have been at the normal font size, so verbatim blocks look more spread out than they did previously by using \footnotesize. Is there anything I can do

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

2007-02-01 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Thu, 1 Feb 2007, Uwe Stöhr wrote: The simple fix for this problem is that we disable this option and allow lyx to be installed without these classes. It is NOT our responsibility to install latex packages. We are! about 50% of the LyXers I know don't know anything about LaTeX and will

Re: changing Xfig figures in LyX

2007-02-01 Thread Philipp Fleig
Hello Georg, hello Curtis, thank you very much for the kind help. Unfortunately it still does not work. So just to get this right. What I include in LyX via Insert-File- External material is the original Xfig file .fig and not some .latex file which I exported in Xfig!? Now, when I do this

Re: changing Xfig figures in LyX

2007-02-01 Thread Georg Baum
Philipp Fleig wrote: So just to get this right. What I include in LyX via Insert-File- External material is the original Xfig file .fig and not some .latex file which I exported in Xfig!? Exactly. Now, when I do this and include the .fig file in my document and then try to run pdflatex I

Re: changing Xfig figures in LyX

2007-02-01 Thread Philipp Fleig
Hello, ok. Attached you find a sample .lyx + xfig file. When I go to preferences in LyX there are a number of converters, including some like FIG - EPS, FIG - PDFTEX and FIG - PSTEX, which I guess would be the relevant ones. I read on http://www.xfig.org/ userman/latex_and_xfig.html

Re: Problem with german template g-brief-de.lyx

2007-02-01 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Matthias Diehl wrote: How can I print this letter? It's an incompatibility of the recent marvosym package with g-brief. You have to hack the sources. In marvosym.sty, change the line 49 \def\Telefon{{\mvchr84}} to \providecommand\Telefon{{\mvchr84}} Is it worth to be reported as a bug? I

Re: LyX 1.5svn PDF testers needed

2007-02-01 Thread Nick Hopton
In a recent message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Uwe Stöhr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote. [...] some of you have already tested one of the development snapshot of LyX 1.5svn: http://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5117release_ id=12083 Could anybody who has LyX 1.5svn still on the system

AW: lyx-installation without internet connection

2007-02-01 Thread NicoWinger
Didn't find the directory in the Lyx-folder, but I got another work-around: I just loaded the package-repository from the internet and changed it in miktex-package-manager before starting lyx after installation to a local folder... it works. That was my only attention. Now I'm happy! ;-) But

Re: changing Xfig figures in LyX

2007-02-01 Thread A. Scottedward Hodel
I use the fig2ps script (available on sourceforge) to convert xfig to eps, and then use the eps file in LyX. My makefile has entry: %.eps : %.fig @echo Making $@ from $ @fig2ps --forcespecial --add=epsfig --input=../../2120/notes/ 2120head.tex --bbox=dvips --eps $ rm

Re: Culmus Hebrew fonts

2007-02-01 Thread Miki Dovrat
I actually got it working I feel I am stating the obvious to the Hebrew users who already KNOW the answer and didn't have time to respond. There is a package called hebfont.sty, written by Boris Lavva, which has created macros to use all the hebrew fonts (culmus, and the old default ones)

Re: Problem with german template g-brief-de.lyx

2007-02-01 Thread Matthias Diehl
Hello, sorry, the last e-mail to you, Juergen, was an error. Your info helped me to fix it, it just works now! Thank you very much! Matthias Diehl

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

2007-02-01 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Bo Peng schrieb: You would not agree with me but my opinion is that we have shot ourselves in the foot by enabling this automatic downloading option. The default is Ask me first which has the same problem. Does it? I've installed the thin version on my home PC a few

Re: Some LIGHT on the LyXTextClassList::Read: no textclasses found problem

2007-02-01 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Thomas Sauter wrote: OK. It's starting now. I think it was a path problem. I renamed the c:\lyx directory to c:\userlyx, deleted all the files there and restarted lyx with c:\lyx14\bin\lyx -userdir c:\userlyx and it running now. Odd! I just created a directory named c:\lyx and started LyX

Re: Beamer class and pdf meta-information

2007-02-01 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Jean-Pierre Chretien wrote: Hello, Using the beamer layout, the Title, Author, Subject styles are used after the \begin{document} as they appear in the LyX window. As a consequence, the \hypersetup commands which set pdftitle and such do not have the right information and thus pdfinfo foo.pdf

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

2007-02-01 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Paul A. Rubin schrieb: Does it? I've installed the thin version on my home PC a few times. The home PC has a dial-up connection (which is off during installation) and MikTeX set to ask. It asks, I say no (repeatedly), and installation goes fine. But if you press yes - same problem. And I

Re: LyX 1.5svn PDF testers needed

2007-02-01 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Nick Hopton schrieb: Win XP-Pro, latest Alpha release of LyX for Windows, 1.5.0svn, Tue Jan 23-01-2007. Everything works up to Step 5. After I delete the character I added and press the view-PDF button, Adobe Reader crashes So there is no other solution for this crash other then the one I

different headers

2007-02-01 Thread Bob Lounsbury
Hello, Is there a way to have a different custom heading on the first and subsequent pages? What I need is a specific left header on the first page and then a different specific left header on all the subsequent pages. Thanks, Bob Lounsbury

Re: Font problems of pdf-files generated on Mac

2007-02-01 Thread Anders Ekberg
The pdf-files I create works for about 90% of the colleagues I send them to. But on some computers (or rather installations) the fonts get messed up. It sounds like you are not embedding your fonts, so they cannot read it if they do not have the fonts locally. Cheers, Alan Isaac Yes, that

Re: Some LIGHT on the "LyXTextClassList::Read: no textclasses found" problem

2007-02-01 Thread Thomas Sauter
>> 8. in C:\lyx > c:\lyx14\bin\lyx.exe –userdir c:\lyx >> packages are loaded but lyx doesn’t start (textclass error), although a >> lot of textclasses are true in the textclass file and packages.lst is >> also not empty. >> (c:\lyx\textclass.lst is the only textclass file) > > If the

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

2007-02-01 Thread Julio Rojas
Guess for the good of every user, expert or not, the second option is the one you should pick. On 2/1/07, Bo Peng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 1/31/07, Uwe Stöhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Uwe, if the option is set to off (no download whatsoever), can > > configure succeed? I guess

Re: Some LIGHT on the "LyXTextClassList::Read: no textclasses found" problem

2007-02-01 Thread Jean-Pierre Chretien
>>Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 11:02:29 +1800 >>From: "Bo Peng" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>To: "Nicolás" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Subject: Re: Some LIGHT on the "LyXTextClassList::Read: no textclasses found" problem >>Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org >> >>> And here it is conclusion: >>> >>> The configure.py script

Re: changing Xfig figures in LyX

2007-02-01 Thread Georg Baum
Philipp Fleig wrote: > Hello, > > thanks for your quick reply. > Basically this is what I have done, although instead of Insert- > >External I used File->Import->Latex (Plain). Don't use that for xfig figures. > I don't have Insert->External in my LyX version, which is 1.4.3, run > on a Mac.

Re: horizontal rule before every section unless at top or bottom of page?

2007-02-01 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Jeremy C. Reed schrieb: As Steve mentioned, I need to find out if I am at the top or bottom of the page. I am searching but haven't found it yet. I think this is impossible. regards Uwe

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

2007-02-01 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Bo Peng schrieb: You would not agree with me but my opinion is that we have shot ourselves in the foot by enabling this automatic downloading option. The default is "Ask me first" which has the same problem. The simple fix for this problem is that we disable this option and allow lyx to be

LyX 1.5svn PDF testers needed

2007-02-01 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Helly LyXers, some of you have already tested one of the development snapshot of LyX 1.5svn: http://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5117_id=12083 Could anybody who has LyX 1.5svn still on the system and use Acrobat 8/Adobe reader 8 please test out the following: 1. Copy

Re: [Totally New] Trying to format mathematical equations in two columns

2007-02-01 Thread Helge Hafting
Steven Harms (stharms) wrote: Hello All, LyX is great! It's helped me so much already! Regrettably, as you learn the power of LyX, the more you can be obsessive about tiny little details, so here's mine. I'm doing some math homework and I've been laying out my homework brilliantly with

Re: Font problems of pdf-files generated on Mac

2007-02-01 Thread William Adams
On Feb 1, 2007, at 2:21 AM, Anders Ekberg wrote: > Has anyone experienced anything similar. Or better still, does > anyone know about a cure?! > (The one I have is opening the file in GraphicConverter, saving as > Tif, re-opening and printing as pdf, but this is not really ideal...) What TeX

Re: Font problems of pdf-files generated on Mac

2007-02-01 Thread Anders Ekberg
Thanks William. It is the latest i-Installer distribution with gwTeX, but the same problem has occurred also with previous versions. Anders On 1 feb 2007, at 13.53, William Adams wrote: On Feb 1, 2007, at 2:21 AM, Anders Ekberg wrote: Has anyone experienced anything similar. Or better

Culmus Hebrew fonts

2007-02-01 Thread Miki Dovrat
A question for the Hebrew users of lyx/latex. How do I change the font of the entire document? The lyx editor allows only to mark some text as belonging to a different font family (sans serif, typewriter), but I don't know which Hebrew fonts these are (although they are different). The Culmus

Re: Font problems of pdf-files generated on Mac

2007-02-01 Thread Alan G Isaac
On Thu, 1 Feb 2007, Anders Ekberg apparently wrote: > The pdf-files I create works for about 90% of the > colleagues I send them to. But on some computers (or > rather installations) the fonts get messed up. It sounds like you are not embedding your fonts, so they cannot read it if they do

Re: Culmus Hebrew fonts

2007-02-01 Thread Georg Baum
Miki Dovrat wrote: > A question for the Hebrew users of lyx/latex. > > How do I change the font of the entire document? > > The lyx editor allows only to mark some text as belonging to a different > font family (sans serif, typewriter), but I don't know which Hebrew fonts > these are (although

Problem with german template g-brief-de.lyx

2007-02-01 Thread Matthias Diehl
Hi, I had following latex-error when running the original template g-brief-de.lyx: LaTeX Error: Cammand\Telefon alrready defined. \newcommand\Telefon{\mvchr{84}} Your command was ignored. Type Ito replace it with another command, orto continue

Re: Culmus Hebrew fonts

2007-02-01 Thread Miki Dovrat
I am a Hebrew user, and I know how to use the "default" Hebrew font, which I guess comes from the culmus package (ivritex on linux), but that package contains many other fonts (according to the culmus site) which I would like to use, and I don't know how to get lyx or latex to use them. You

Re: globally changing typewriter font scale

2007-02-01 Thread Guy Hindell
Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: Guy Hindell wrote: There is one odd side effect though - the \baseskip spacing appears to still be what it would have been at the normal font size, so verbatim blocks look more spread out than they did previously by using \footnotesize. Is there anything I can do

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

2007-02-01 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Thu, 1 Feb 2007, Uwe Stöhr wrote: The simple fix for this problem is that we disable this option and allow lyx to be installed without these classes. It is NOT our responsibility to install latex packages. We are! about 50% of the LyXers I know don't know anything about LaTeX and will

Re: changing Xfig figures in LyX

2007-02-01 Thread Philipp Fleig
Hello Georg, hello Curtis, thank you very much for the kind help. Unfortunately it still does not work. So just to get this right. What I include in LyX via Insert->File- >External material is the original Xfig file .fig and not some .latex file which I exported in Xfig!? Now, when I do this

Re: changing Xfig figures in LyX

2007-02-01 Thread Georg Baum
Philipp Fleig wrote: > So just to get this right. What I include in LyX via Insert->File- > >External material is the original Xfig file .fig and not > some .latex file which I exported in Xfig!? Exactly. > Now, when I do this and include the .fig file in my document and then > try to run

Re: changing Xfig figures in LyX

2007-02-01 Thread Philipp Fleig
Hello, ok. Attached you find a sample .lyx + xfig file. When I go to preferences in LyX there are a number of converters, including some like FIG -> EPS, FIG -> PDFTEX and FIG -> PSTEX, which I guess would be the relevant ones. I read on http://www.xfig.org/ userman/latex_and_xfig.html

Re: Problem with german template g-brief-de.lyx

2007-02-01 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Matthias Diehl wrote: > How can I print this letter? It's an incompatibility of the recent marvosym package with g-brief. You have to hack the sources. In marvosym.sty, change the line 49 \def\Telefon{{\mvchr84}} to \providecommand\Telefon{{\mvchr84}} > Is it worth to be reported as a bug?

Re: LyX 1.5svn PDF testers needed

2007-02-01 Thread Nick Hopton
In a recent message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Uwe Stöhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote. [...] some of you have already tested one of the development snapshot of LyX 1.5svn: http://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5117_ id=12083 Could anybody who has LyX 1.5svn still on the system and

AW: lyx-installation without internet connection

2007-02-01 Thread NicoWinger
Didn't find the directory in the Lyx-folder, but I got another work-around: I just loaded the package-repository from the internet and changed it in miktex-package-manager before starting lyx after installation to a local folder... it works. That was my only attention. Now I'm happy! ;-) But

Re: changing Xfig figures in LyX

2007-02-01 Thread A. Scottedward Hodel
I use the fig2ps script (available on sourceforge) to convert xfig to eps, and then use the eps file in LyX. My makefile has entry: %.eps : %.fig @echo "Making $@ from $<" @fig2ps --forcespecial --add=epsfig --input=../../2120/notes/ 2120head.tex --bbox=dvips --eps $<

Re: Culmus Hebrew fonts

2007-02-01 Thread Miki Dovrat
I actually got it working I feel I am stating the obvious to the Hebrew users who already KNOW the answer and didn't have time to respond. There is a package called "hebfont.sty", written by Boris Lavva, which has created macros to use all the hebrew fonts (culmus, and the old default

Re: Problem with german template g-brief-de.lyx

2007-02-01 Thread Matthias Diehl
Hello, sorry, the last e-mail to you, Juergen, was an error. Your info helped me to fix it, it just works now! Thank you very much! Matthias Diehl

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

2007-02-01 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Bo Peng schrieb: You would not agree with me but my opinion is that we have shot ourselves in the foot by enabling this automatic downloading option. The default is "Ask me first" which has the same problem. Does it? I've installed the "thin" version on my home PC a few

Re: Some LIGHT on the "LyXTextClassList::Read: no textclasses found" problem

2007-02-01 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Thomas Sauter wrote: OK. It's starting now. I think it was a path problem. I renamed the c:\lyx directory to c:\userlyx, deleted all the files there and restarted lyx with c:\lyx14\bin\lyx -userdir c:\userlyx and it running now. Odd! I just created a directory named c:\lyx and started LyX

Re: Beamer class and pdf meta-information

2007-02-01 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Jean-Pierre Chretien wrote: Hello, Using the beamer layout, the Title, Author, Subject styles are used after the \begin{document} as they appear in the LyX window. As a consequence, the \hypersetup commands which set pdftitle and such do not have the right information and thus pdfinfo foo.pdf

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

2007-02-01 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Paul A. Rubin schrieb: Does it? I've installed the "thin" version on my home PC a few times. The home PC has a dial-up connection (which is off during installation) and MikTeX set to "ask". It asks, I say no (repeatedly), and installation goes fine. But if you press "yes" -> same problem.

Re: LyX 1.5svn PDF testers needed

2007-02-01 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Nick Hopton schrieb: Win XP-Pro, latest Alpha release of LyX for Windows, 1.5.0svn, Tue Jan 23-01-2007. Everything works up to Step 5. After I delete the character I added and press the view-PDF button, Adobe Reader crashes So there is no other solution for this crash other then the one I

different headers

2007-02-01 Thread Bob Lounsbury
Hello, Is there a way to have a different custom heading on the first and subsequent pages? What I need is a specific left header on the first page and then a different specific left header on all the subsequent pages. Thanks, Bob Lounsbury

Re: Font problems of pdf-files generated on Mac

2007-02-01 Thread Anders Ekberg
> The pdf-files I create works for about 90% of the > colleagues I send them to. But on some computers (or > rather installations) the fonts get messed up. It sounds like you are not embedding your fonts, so they cannot read it if they do not have the fonts locally. Cheers, Alan Isaac Yes,