Re: How to use PSfrag within LyX?

2007-03-05 Thread Urtzi Jauregi
On Sunday 04 March 2007 15:04:31 Georg Baum wrote: Am Freitag, 2. März 2007 18:13 schrieb Urtzi Jauregi: Where exacty do you insert the ERT? I've tried several places, but without success. Directly before the figure you put the ERT in an own paragraph with standard alignment (not

Re: Math fonts problem when upgrading to 1.4.4

2007-03-05 Thread J . M . Melkonian
Paul A. Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Uwe Stöhr wrote: Bob Lounsbury schrieb: I also have a math font problem with 1.4.4 on XP. I installed yesterday with LyXWinInstaller. I have all 8 of the .ttf-files in ~\Resources\fonts. I've run texhash and reconfigured and restarted

Building 1.5.0beta1 on FreeBSD

2007-03-05 Thread Koji Yokota
Dear list, I'm trying to build 1.5.0beta1 on FreeBSD 6.1, but there seems a problem with included boost. Up to 1.4.4 release, FreeBSD's lyx port was using devel/boost in ports, not included one in lyx. However, it seems lyx-1.5.0beta1 is using functions which is only in cvs, not release version

Bounding box once again

2007-03-05 Thread Póta György
In a former message I complained that the new Lyx 1.4.4 neglects the bounding boxes of the .eps figures. Now I would like to stress that the easy and correct treatment of .eps figures would be extremely important for those who, like me, use Lyx in their everyday's work. In one of the

LyX, SVG and PSFrag: case report

2007-03-05 Thread Urtzi Jauregi
Hi everybody! I want to report the results of my experiments in combining SVG figures and the PSFrag package in LyX, hoping that they will be useful to somebody. The point was to draw a SVG figure in, say, Inkscape and insert it directly into LyX without converting it

LyX, SVG and PSFrag: case report [UPDATED]

2007-03-05 Thread Urtzi Jauregi
Hi everybody! [I sent this message about an hour ago, but it looks like it got lost. In the meantime, I solved one of the problems I had, so I send an updated version of my original message hoping that it will be useful to somebody else]. I want to report the results

Keyboard punctuation not working - have to double press to input punctuation chars

2007-03-05 Thread Robert Orr
I have a strange problem with my LyX keyboard entry. It seems that I have to double enter the punctuation characters on the keyboard. The first press has no effect, the character appears on screen only after the second press. Has anyone else seen this? It seems it just started

pstricks and lyx question

2007-03-05 Thread Ben White
Hello Lyxers-- I just joined up with Lyx and was wondering if some kind soul might help me with an issue I am working on. Basically, I have a program that spits out pstricks decision trees. I turned to lyx as an alternative means of getting my trees done since my tex abilities are well

Re: LyX, SVG and PSFrag: case report [UPDATED]

2007-03-05 Thread killermike
On Monday 05 March 2007 13:16, Urtzi Jauregi wrote: Hi everybody! [I sent this message about an hour ago, but it looks like it got lost. In the meantime, I solved one of the problems I had, so I send an updated version of my original message hoping that it will be useful to

Re: Bibtex question on URL references

2007-03-05 Thread Richard Heck
OK. We'll modify apalike.bst. (I'm assuming that apalike is otherwise OK, and therefore that the formatting of the author field, etc, is as you would want it. If you want to start with something else, you can do that, too.) Copy apalike to apalikemod.bst, put this in your local TeX tree, run

Re: Keyboard punctuation not working - have to double press to input punctuation chars

2007-03-05 Thread Michael Wojcik
Robert Orr wrote: I have a strange problem with my LyX keyboard entry. It seems that I have to double enter the punctuation characters on the keyboard. The first press has no effect, the character appears on screen only after the second press. It sounds like they're being treated as

wiki: FeaturePoll vs Complaints

2007-03-05 Thread Sam Lewis
The LyX wiki is great! But quite a bit of overlap (as one would expect with disparate authorship). How about merging these two sections: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Complaints http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/FeaturePoll Or perhaps any other suggestions for more cohrerent sturcture? Cheers, Sam

Re: pdf question

2007-03-05 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Steve Litt wrote: On Sunday 04 March 2007 22:36, Myriam Abramson wrote: Hello, Some pdfs can be modified and saved with the modifications using acroread I believe. How can you produce such pdfs with LyX? I would like to make an exam with empty boxes for the students to fill out. Is it

Re: wiki: FeaturePoll vs Complaints

2007-03-05 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Mon, 5 Mar 2007, Sam Lewis wrote: The LyX wiki is great! But quite a bit of overlap (as one would expect with disparate authorship). How about merging these two sections: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Complaints http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/FeaturePoll I'm not sure merging is a good solution as

Re: Keyboard punctuation not working - have to double press to input punctuation chars

2007-03-05 Thread Robert Orr
Do you get an e with an accute accent? Yep. Bored stiff? Loosen up... Download and play hundreds of games for free on Yahoo! Games. http://games.yahoo.com/games/front

Re: LyX, SVG and PSFrag: case report [UPDATED]

2007-03-05 Thread Georg Baum
killermike wrote: I had noticed that the fonts in an included .svg are slightly different in the finished PDF and the .svg in Inkscape but I haven't tried to solve the problem yet. I take it that this is what PSFrag is for? No. psfrag enables you to put formulas in your figure, and it makes

Re: LyX, SVG and PSFrag: case report [UPDATED]

2007-03-05 Thread Georg Baum
Urtzi Jauregi wrote: 1. The info in [1] is wrong; to convert SVG to EPS, you have to disable the convert text to path function in Inkscape or your text will be exported as a picture, as explained in [2]. Do *not* use the--export-text-to-path switch with Inkscape. I don't know why this

Re: wiki: FeaturePoll vs Complaints

2007-03-05 Thread Sam Lewis
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Perhaps a better description of the purpose of each page is needed? Sounds good! I guess, then, 'Complaints' really just some general voicing of ideas and concerns (presumably unstructured), whereas 'FeaturePoll' specific suggestion within a more structured setting

Re: Keyboard punctuation not working - have to double press to input punctuation chars

2007-03-05 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Robert Orr wrote: I have a strange problem with my LyX keyboard entry. It seems that I have to double enter the punctuation characters on the keyboard. The first press has no effect, the character appears on screen only after the second press. Has anyone else seen this? It

I'm looking for suggestions on indexing

2007-03-05 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, Yes, I'm aware that I'm looking for suggestions on indexing is a rather open ended question :-). I've only indexed one book before, and on this one I intend to use multiple levels something like this: Bottleneck Analysis Offloading Speed up Slow down

Handy word list program for indexing

2007-03-05 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, In preparation to create my index for my book, I created a Ruby program to list every word in a file (in this case the .lyx file). Now of course this could be done with a simple one-liner using sed and sort -u, but my program lists the words in 2 different orders, first in alpha

Single column index?

2007-03-05 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, My index contains lots of long phrases, meaning most of them wrap. This makes it harder to read and use, and also makes it very long. In fact, having a single column index probably wouldn't be much longer, because entries would not wrap. Anyone know how to create a single column

Re: pdf question

2007-03-05 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Myriam Abramson schrieb: Some pdfs can be modified and saved with the modifications using acroread I believe. How can you produce such pdfs with LyX? I would like to make an exam with empty boxes for the students to fill out. Is it possible? Attached is an example LyX-file. You haev to

Re: RCS on Windows

2007-03-05 Thread Alan Isaac
On Sat, 24 Feb 2007, Michael Wojcik wrote: I'd avoid GNU RCS for Windows. I've seen it corrupt working files numerous times. Perhaps relevant: http://www.uvm.edu/~ashawley/rcs/faq.txt Cheers, Alan Isaac

Re: Single column index?

2007-03-05 Thread curtis osterhoudt
Hi, Steve, I haven't tried it yet for single-column mode (I use it for *forcing* a 3-columned index), but the package multicol http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/multicol.html might work for you. In my preamble, I have the following: %%% %

Re: Handy word list program for indexing

2007-03-05 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Mon, 5 Mar 2007, Steve Litt wrote: In preparation to create my index for my book, I created a Ruby program to list every word in a file (in this case the .lyx file). Now of course this could be done with a simple one-liner using sed and sort -u, but my program lists the words in 2

Re: pdf question

2007-03-05 Thread Myriam Abramson
Cool! thanks! -- myriam

Re: Handy word list program for indexing

2007-03-05 Thread Steve Litt
Hi Jeremy, On Monday 05 March 2007 21:05, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: On Mon, 5 Mar 2007, Steve Litt wrote: In preparation to create my index for my book, I created a Ruby program to list every word in a file (in this case the .lyx file). Now of course this could be done with a simple

degree symbol in lyx on ubuntu with the Compose key

2007-03-05 Thread John Pye
Hi all I have been trying to work out how to make the degree symbol appear in Lyx. There was a thread on this recently but it was all about using mathematical equations, whereas I want to just insert the symbol as a regular character. Under Ubuntu, one can use the Keyboard preferences to set up

Re: LyX, SVG and PSFrag: case report [UPDATED]

2007-03-05 Thread killermike
On Monday 05 March 2007 17:25, Georg Baum wrote: killermike wrote: I had noticed that the fonts in an included .svg are slightly different in the finished PDF and the .svg in Inkscape but I haven't tried to solve the problem yet. I take it that this is what PSFrag is for? No. psfrag

Re: Handy word list program for indexing

2007-03-05 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Tue, 6 Mar 2007, Steve Litt wrote: Indexing is the most distasteful, boring, and tedious part of writing a book. Making word lists like this at least makes it a brainless activity. I've linked to this thread from the following page http://wiki.lyx.org/Tips/Indexing Maybe you

Re: How to use PSfrag within LyX?

2007-03-05 Thread Urtzi Jauregi
On Sunday 04 March 2007 15:04:31 Georg Baum wrote: Am Freitag, 2. März 2007 18:13 schrieb Urtzi Jauregi: Where exacty do you insert the ERT? I've tried several places, but without success. Directly before the figure you put the ERT in an own paragraph with standard alignment (not

Re: Math fonts problem when upgrading to 1.4.4

2007-03-05 Thread J . M . Melkonian
Paul A. Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Uwe Stöhr wrote: Bob Lounsbury schrieb: I also have a math font problem with 1.4.4 on XP. I installed yesterday with LyXWinInstaller. I have all 8 of the .ttf-files in ~\Resources\fonts. I've run texhash and reconfigured and restarted

Building 1.5.0beta1 on FreeBSD

2007-03-05 Thread Koji Yokota
Dear list, I'm trying to build 1.5.0beta1 on FreeBSD 6.1, but there seems a problem with included boost. Up to 1.4.4 release, FreeBSD's lyx port was using devel/boost in ports, not included one in lyx. However, it seems lyx-1.5.0beta1 is using functions which is only in cvs, not release version

Bounding box once again

2007-03-05 Thread Póta György
In a former message I complained that the new Lyx 1.4.4 neglects the bounding boxes of the .eps figures. Now I would like to stress that the easy and correct treatment of .eps figures would be extremely important for those who, like me, use Lyx in their everyday's work. In one of the

LyX, SVG and PSFrag: case report

2007-03-05 Thread Urtzi Jauregi
Hi everybody! I want to report the results of my experiments in combining SVG figures and the PSFrag package in LyX, hoping that they will be useful to somebody. The point was to draw a SVG figure in, say, Inkscape and insert it directly into LyX without converting it

LyX, SVG and PSFrag: case report [UPDATED]

2007-03-05 Thread Urtzi Jauregi
Hi everybody! [I sent this message about an hour ago, but it looks like it got lost. In the meantime, I solved one of the problems I had, so I send an updated version of my original message hoping that it will be useful to somebody else]. I want to report the results

Keyboard punctuation not working - have to double press to input punctuation chars

2007-03-05 Thread Robert Orr
I have a strange problem with my LyX keyboard entry. It seems that I have to double enter the punctuation characters on the keyboard. The first press has no effect, the character appears on screen only after the second press. Has anyone else seen this? It seems it just started

pstricks and lyx question

2007-03-05 Thread Ben White
Hello Lyxers-- I just joined up with Lyx and was wondering if some kind soul might help me with an issue I am working on. Basically, I have a program that spits out pstricks decision trees. I turned to lyx as an alternative means of getting my trees done since my tex abilities are well

Re: LyX, SVG and PSFrag: case report [UPDATED]

2007-03-05 Thread killermike
On Monday 05 March 2007 13:16, Urtzi Jauregi wrote: Hi everybody! [I sent this message about an hour ago, but it looks like it got lost. In the meantime, I solved one of the problems I had, so I send an updated version of my original message hoping that it will be useful to

Re: Bibtex question on URL references

2007-03-05 Thread Richard Heck
OK. We'll modify apalike.bst. (I'm assuming that apalike is otherwise OK, and therefore that the formatting of the author field, etc, is as you would want it. If you want to start with something else, you can do that, too.) Copy apalike to apalikemod.bst, put this in your local TeX tree, run

Re: Keyboard punctuation not working - have to double press to input punctuation chars

2007-03-05 Thread Michael Wojcik
Robert Orr wrote: I have a strange problem with my LyX keyboard entry. It seems that I have to double enter the punctuation characters on the keyboard. The first press has no effect, the character appears on screen only after the second press. It sounds like they're being treated as

wiki: FeaturePoll vs Complaints

2007-03-05 Thread Sam Lewis
The LyX wiki is great! But quite a bit of overlap (as one would expect with disparate authorship). How about merging these two sections: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Complaints http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/FeaturePoll Or perhaps any other suggestions for more cohrerent sturcture? Cheers, Sam

Re: pdf question

2007-03-05 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Steve Litt wrote: On Sunday 04 March 2007 22:36, Myriam Abramson wrote: Hello, Some pdfs can be modified and saved with the modifications using acroread I believe. How can you produce such pdfs with LyX? I would like to make an exam with empty boxes for the students to fill out. Is it

Re: wiki: FeaturePoll vs Complaints

2007-03-05 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Mon, 5 Mar 2007, Sam Lewis wrote: The LyX wiki is great! But quite a bit of overlap (as one would expect with disparate authorship). How about merging these two sections: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Complaints http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/FeaturePoll I'm not sure merging is a good solution as

Re: Keyboard punctuation not working - have to double press to input punctuation chars

2007-03-05 Thread Robert Orr
Do you get an e with an accute accent? Yep. Bored stiff? Loosen up... Download and play hundreds of games for free on Yahoo! Games. http://games.yahoo.com/games/front

Re: LyX, SVG and PSFrag: case report [UPDATED]

2007-03-05 Thread Georg Baum
killermike wrote: I had noticed that the fonts in an included .svg are slightly different in the finished PDF and the .svg in Inkscape but I haven't tried to solve the problem yet. I take it that this is what PSFrag is for? No. psfrag enables you to put formulas in your figure, and it makes

Re: LyX, SVG and PSFrag: case report [UPDATED]

2007-03-05 Thread Georg Baum
Urtzi Jauregi wrote: 1. The info in [1] is wrong; to convert SVG to EPS, you have to disable the convert text to path function in Inkscape or your text will be exported as a picture, as explained in [2]. Do *not* use the--export-text-to-path switch with Inkscape. I don't know why this

Re: wiki: FeaturePoll vs Complaints

2007-03-05 Thread Sam Lewis
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Perhaps a better description of the purpose of each page is needed? Sounds good! I guess, then, 'Complaints' really just some general voicing of ideas and concerns (presumably unstructured), whereas 'FeaturePoll' specific suggestion within a more structured setting

Re: Keyboard punctuation not working - have to double press to input punctuation chars

2007-03-05 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Robert Orr wrote: I have a strange problem with my LyX keyboard entry. It seems that I have to double enter the punctuation characters on the keyboard. The first press has no effect, the character appears on screen only after the second press. Has anyone else seen this? It

I'm looking for suggestions on indexing

2007-03-05 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, Yes, I'm aware that I'm looking for suggestions on indexing is a rather open ended question :-). I've only indexed one book before, and on this one I intend to use multiple levels something like this: Bottleneck Analysis Offloading Speed up Slow down

Handy word list program for indexing

2007-03-05 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, In preparation to create my index for my book, I created a Ruby program to list every word in a file (in this case the .lyx file). Now of course this could be done with a simple one-liner using sed and sort -u, but my program lists the words in 2 different orders, first in alpha

Single column index?

2007-03-05 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, My index contains lots of long phrases, meaning most of them wrap. This makes it harder to read and use, and also makes it very long. In fact, having a single column index probably wouldn't be much longer, because entries would not wrap. Anyone know how to create a single column

Re: pdf question

2007-03-05 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Myriam Abramson schrieb: Some pdfs can be modified and saved with the modifications using acroread I believe. How can you produce such pdfs with LyX? I would like to make an exam with empty boxes for the students to fill out. Is it possible? Attached is an example LyX-file. You haev to

Re: RCS on Windows

2007-03-05 Thread Alan Isaac
On Sat, 24 Feb 2007, Michael Wojcik wrote: I'd avoid GNU RCS for Windows. I've seen it corrupt working files numerous times. Perhaps relevant: http://www.uvm.edu/~ashawley/rcs/faq.txt Cheers, Alan Isaac

Re: Single column index?

2007-03-05 Thread curtis osterhoudt
Hi, Steve, I haven't tried it yet for single-column mode (I use it for *forcing* a 3-columned index), but the package multicol http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/multicol.html might work for you. In my preamble, I have the following: %%% %

Re: Handy word list program for indexing

2007-03-05 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Mon, 5 Mar 2007, Steve Litt wrote: In preparation to create my index for my book, I created a Ruby program to list every word in a file (in this case the .lyx file). Now of course this could be done with a simple one-liner using sed and sort -u, but my program lists the words in 2

Re: pdf question

2007-03-05 Thread Myriam Abramson
Cool! thanks! -- myriam

Re: Handy word list program for indexing

2007-03-05 Thread Steve Litt
Hi Jeremy, On Monday 05 March 2007 21:05, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: On Mon, 5 Mar 2007, Steve Litt wrote: In preparation to create my index for my book, I created a Ruby program to list every word in a file (in this case the .lyx file). Now of course this could be done with a simple

degree symbol in lyx on ubuntu with the Compose key

2007-03-05 Thread John Pye
Hi all I have been trying to work out how to make the degree symbol appear in Lyx. There was a thread on this recently but it was all about using mathematical equations, whereas I want to just insert the symbol as a regular character. Under Ubuntu, one can use the Keyboard preferences to set up

Re: LyX, SVG and PSFrag: case report [UPDATED]

2007-03-05 Thread killermike
On Monday 05 March 2007 17:25, Georg Baum wrote: killermike wrote: I had noticed that the fonts in an included .svg are slightly different in the finished PDF and the .svg in Inkscape but I haven't tried to solve the problem yet. I take it that this is what PSFrag is for? No. psfrag

Re: Handy word list program for indexing

2007-03-05 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Tue, 6 Mar 2007, Steve Litt wrote: Indexing is the most distasteful, boring, and tedious part of writing a book. Making word lists like this at least makes it a brainless activity. I've linked to this thread from the following page http://wiki.lyx.org/Tips/Indexing Maybe you

Re: How to use PSfrag within LyX?

2007-03-05 Thread Urtzi Jauregi
On Sunday 04 March 2007 15:04:31 Georg Baum wrote: > Am Freitag, 2. März 2007 18:13 schrieb Urtzi Jauregi: > > Where exacty do you insert the ERT? I've tried several places, but > > without > > > success. > > Directly before the figure you put the ERT in an own paragraph with > standard

Re: Math fonts problem when upgrading to 1.4.4

2007-03-05 Thread J . M . Melkonian
Paul A. Rubin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Uwe Stöhr wrote: > > Bob Lounsbury schrieb: > > > >> I also have a math font problem with 1.4.4 on XP. I installed > >> yesterday with > >> LyXWinInstaller. I have all 8 of the .ttf-files in ~\Resources\fonts. > >> I've > >> run texhash and

Building 1.5.0beta1 on FreeBSD

2007-03-05 Thread Koji Yokota
Dear list, I'm trying to build 1.5.0beta1 on FreeBSD 6.1, but there seems a problem with included boost. Up to 1.4.4 release, FreeBSD's lyx port was using devel/boost in ports, not included one in lyx. However, it seems lyx-1.5.0beta1 is using functions which is only in cvs, not release version

Bounding box once again

2007-03-05 Thread Póta György
In a former message I complained that the new Lyx 1.4.4 neglects the bounding boxes of the .eps figures. Now I would like to stress that the easy and correct treatment of .eps figures would be extremely important for those who, like me, use Lyx in their everyday's work. In one of the

LyX, SVG and PSFrag: case report

2007-03-05 Thread Urtzi Jauregi
Hi everybody! I want to report the results of my experiments in combining SVG figures and the PSFrag package in LyX, hoping that they will be useful to somebody. The point was to draw a SVG figure in, say, Inkscape and insert it directly into LyX without converting it

LyX, SVG and PSFrag: case report [UPDATED]

2007-03-05 Thread Urtzi Jauregi
Hi everybody! [I sent this message about an hour ago, but it looks like it got lost. In the meantime, I solved one of the problems I had, so I send an updated version of my original message hoping that it will be useful to somebody else]. I want to report the results

Keyboard punctuation not working - have to double press to input punctuation chars

2007-03-05 Thread Robert Orr
I have a strange problem with my LyX keyboard entry. It seems that I have to double enter the punctuation characters on the keyboard. The first press has no effect, the character appears on screen only after the second press. Has anyone else seen this? It seems it just started

pstricks and lyx question

2007-03-05 Thread Ben White
Hello Lyxers-- I just joined up with Lyx and was wondering if some kind soul might help me with an issue I am working on. Basically, I have a program that spits out pstricks decision trees. I turned to lyx as an alternative means of getting my trees done since my tex abilities are well

Re: LyX, SVG and PSFrag: case report [UPDATED]

2007-03-05 Thread killermike
On Monday 05 March 2007 13:16, Urtzi Jauregi wrote: > Hi everybody! > > [I sent this message about an hour ago, but it looks like it got lost. > In > the meantime, I solved one of the problems I had, so I send an updated > version of my original message hoping that it will be useful

Re: Bibtex question on URL references

2007-03-05 Thread Richard Heck
OK. We'll modify apalike.bst. (I'm assuming that apalike is otherwise OK, and therefore that the formatting of the author field, etc, is as you would want it. If you want to start with something else, you can do that, too.) Copy apalike to apalikemod.bst, put this in your local TeX tree, run

Re: Keyboard punctuation not working - have to double press to input punctuation chars

2007-03-05 Thread Michael Wojcik
Robert Orr wrote: I have a strange problem with my LyX keyboard entry. It seems that I have to double enter the punctuation characters on the keyboard. The first press has no effect, the character appears on screen only after the second press. It sounds like they're being treated as

wiki: FeaturePoll vs Complaints

2007-03-05 Thread Sam Lewis
The LyX wiki is great! But quite a bit of overlap (as one would expect with disparate authorship). How about merging these two sections: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Complaints http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/FeaturePoll Or perhaps any other suggestions for more cohrerent sturcture? Cheers, Sam

Re: pdf question

2007-03-05 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Steve Litt wrote: On Sunday 04 March 2007 22:36, Myriam Abramson wrote: Hello, Some pdfs can be modified and saved with the modifications using acroread I believe. How can you produce such pdfs with LyX? I would like to make an exam with empty boxes for the students to fill out. Is it

Re: wiki: FeaturePoll vs Complaints

2007-03-05 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Mon, 5 Mar 2007, Sam Lewis wrote: The LyX wiki is great! But quite a bit of overlap (as one would expect with disparate authorship). How about merging these two sections: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Complaints http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/FeaturePoll I'm not sure merging is a good solution as

Re: Keyboard punctuation not working - have to double press to input punctuation chars

2007-03-05 Thread Robert Orr
> Do you get an e with an accute accent? Yep. Bored stiff? Loosen up... Download and play hundreds of games for free on Yahoo! Games. http://games.yahoo.com/games/front

Re: LyX, SVG and PSFrag: case report [UPDATED]

2007-03-05 Thread Georg Baum
killermike wrote: > I had noticed that the fonts in an included .svg are slightly different in > the finished PDF and the .svg in Inkscape but I haven't tried to solve the > problem yet. I take it that this is what PSFrag is for? No. psfrag enables you to put formulas in your figure, and it

Re: LyX, SVG and PSFrag: case report [UPDATED]

2007-03-05 Thread Georg Baum
Urtzi Jauregi wrote: > 1. The info in [1] is wrong; to convert SVG to EPS, you have to disable > the "convert text to path" function in Inkscape or your text will be > exported as a picture, as explained in [2]. Do *not* use > the--export-text-to-path switch with Inkscape. I don't know why this

Re: wiki: FeaturePoll vs Complaints

2007-03-05 Thread Sam Lewis
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Perhaps a better description of the purpose of each page is needed? Sounds good! I guess, then, 'Complaints' really just some general voicing of ideas and concerns (presumably unstructured), whereas 'FeaturePoll' specific suggestion within a more structured

Re: Keyboard punctuation not working - have to double press to input punctuation chars

2007-03-05 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Robert Orr wrote: I have a strange problem with my LyX keyboard entry. It seems that I have to double enter the punctuation characters on the keyboard. The first press has no effect, the character appears on screen only after the second press. Has anyone else seen this? It

I'm looking for suggestions on indexing

2007-03-05 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, Yes, I'm aware that "I'm looking for suggestions on indexing" is a rather open ended question :-). I've only indexed one book before, and on this one I intend to use multiple levels something like this: Bottleneck Analysis Offloading Speed up Slow down

Handy word list program for indexing

2007-03-05 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, In preparation to create my index for my book, I created a Ruby program to list every word in a file (in this case the .lyx file). Now of course this could be done with a simple one-liner using sed and sort -u, but my program lists the words in 2 different orders, first in alpha

Single column index?

2007-03-05 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, My index contains lots of long phrases, meaning most of them wrap. This makes it harder to read and use, and also makes it very long. In fact, having a single column index probably wouldn't be much longer, because entries would not wrap. Anyone know how to create a single column

Re: pdf question

2007-03-05 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Myriam Abramson schrieb: Some pdfs can be modified and saved with the modifications using acroread I believe. How can you produce such pdfs with LyX? I would like to make an exam with empty boxes for the students to fill out. Is it possible? Attached is an example LyX-file. You haev to

Re: RCS on Windows

2007-03-05 Thread Alan Isaac
On Sat, 24 Feb 2007, Michael Wojcik wrote: > I'd avoid GNU RCS for Windows. I've seen it corrupt > working files numerous times. Perhaps relevant: http://www.uvm.edu/~ashawley/rcs/faq.txt Cheers, Alan Isaac

Re: Single column index?

2007-03-05 Thread curtis osterhoudt
Hi, Steve, I haven't tried it yet for single-column mode (I use it for *forcing* a 3-columned index), but the package "multicol" http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/multicol.html might work for you. In my preamble, I have the following: %%%

Re: Handy word list program for indexing

2007-03-05 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Mon, 5 Mar 2007, Steve Litt wrote: > In preparation to create my index for my book, I created a Ruby program to > list every word in a file (in this case the .lyx file). > > Now of course this could be done with a simple one-liner using sed and > sort -u, but my program lists the words in 2

Re: pdf question

2007-03-05 Thread Myriam Abramson
Cool! thanks! -- myriam

Re: Handy word list program for indexing

2007-03-05 Thread Steve Litt
Hi Jeremy, On Monday 05 March 2007 21:05, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > On Mon, 5 Mar 2007, Steve Litt wrote: > > In preparation to create my index for my book, I created a Ruby program > > to list every word in a file (in this case the .lyx file). > > > > Now of course this could be done with a simple

degree symbol in lyx on ubuntu with the Compose key

2007-03-05 Thread John Pye
Hi all I have been trying to work out how to make the degree symbol appear in Lyx. There was a thread on this recently but it was all about using mathematical equations, whereas I want to just insert the symbol as a regular character. Under Ubuntu, one can use the Keyboard preferences to set up

Re: LyX, SVG and PSFrag: case report [UPDATED]

2007-03-05 Thread killermike
On Monday 05 March 2007 17:25, Georg Baum wrote: > killermike wrote: > > I had noticed that the fonts in an included .svg are slightly different > > in the finished PDF and the .svg in Inkscape but I haven't tried to solve > > the problem yet. I take it that this is what PSFrag is for? > > No.

Re: Handy word list program for indexing

2007-03-05 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Tue, 6 Mar 2007, Steve Litt wrote: Indexing is the most distasteful, boring, and tedious part of writing a book. Making word lists like this at least makes it a brainless activity. I've linked to this thread from the following page http://wiki.lyx.org/Tips/Indexing Maybe you