help with box widths (LaTeX)

2007-05-23 Thread Trevor Nicholls
Hello This is a LaTeX question more than a LyX one - is there a latex-users list somewhere? But it's relevant to Lyx because I'm experimenting with LaTeX at the moment, intending to migrate a whole lot of XML documents into LyX when I have the necessary classes/layouts working. Anyway, I'm

Re: Small caps italic revisited

2007-05-23 Thread Charles de Miramon
Sam Lewis wrote: On Tue, 22 May 2007 14:24:35 GMT Charles de Miramon wrote: URL: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.general/38724 In traditional European typography (before the computer), there are no italic (or bold) small capitals. If you are a purist typographer, you should

how to get unnumbered sections in TOC and headers

2007-05-23 Thread Marc Flerackers
I would like to put my introduction section in the TOC, but without it having a number, as otherwise my section numbers start from 2. I tried using section*, but then the section doesn't show up in the TOC, and the headers show the wrong section name. The closest I managed to get to what I

A shell for launching figure editor under Mac OS

2007-05-23 Thread Mael Hilléreau
Hi all, As you might know, LyX graphics dialog has an Edit button intended to open figures in an editor which may be selected by the system depending on their file format. But figures included in LyX using the graphics dialog are almost always made with external editors using their own

Re: A shell for launching figure editor under Mac OS

2007-05-23 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Mael == Mael Hilléreau [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Mael To solve this problem, I wrote lyxfigedit, a little bash script Mael (see attached file) that allows to edit a figure by opening the Mael appropriate file in its editor. This trick only works on Mac OS. Mael [To developpers: For sure, a

Re: how to get unnumbered sections in TOC and headers

2007-05-23 Thread Charles de Miramon
Marc Flerackers wrote: I would like to put my introduction section in the TOC, but without it having a number, as otherwise my section numbers start from 2. I tried using section*, but then the section doesn't show up in the TOC, and the headers show the wrong section name. The closest I

Re: how to get unnumbered sections in TOC and headers

2007-05-23 Thread Marc Flerackers
Charles de Miramon wrote: Marc Flerackers wrote: I would like to put my introduction section in the TOC, but without it having a number, as otherwise my section numbers start from 2. I tried using section*, but then the section doesn't show up in the TOC, and the headers show the wrong

Re: A shell for launching figure editor under Mac OS

2007-05-23 Thread Mael Hilléreau
Le 23 mai 07 à 11:53, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes a écrit : What about adding the format .graffle in your preferences and documenting the command to create a pdf from graffle (assuming this is possible, of course). The you just insert the graffle file into LyX and forget about the rest. Ooops, I

Re: Help needed in getting the English Dictionary to work with LyX1.4.4-4

2007-05-23 Thread Brian Shand
Ralph wrote: What's strange is that the spellchecker was working fine before I reinstalled I also had difficulties installing the aspell dictionary manually, when LyX 1.4.4-4 failed to download the dictionary automatically on installation. This is what worked for me: - Download and run

General stability issues, moving out of lyx

2007-05-23 Thread stefan wolfbauer
I have experienced several times, that Lyx itself creates errors in latex code. I suddenly have errors in the middle of simple text and the conversion of the document to anything else fails. Also sometimes when opening a document it gets truncated and only a tiny part of it gets displayed. 1.)

Re: General stability issues, moving out of lyx

2007-05-23 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
stefan == stefan wolfbauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: stefan I have experienced several times, that Lyx itself creates stefan errors in latex code. I suddenly have errors in the middle of stefan simple text and the conversion of the document to anything stefan else fails. If you could send us

How to Install Docbook Class on Vista?

2007-05-23 Thread Richard Heck
I don't know how to do this, so I'm reposting. Lars Olesen wrote: 2007/5/22, Richard Heck [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Lars Olesen wrote: How do I translate a lyx document to docbook Open DocumentSettingsDocumentClass. In the Document Class drop box, choose DocBook (article) or whatever. Choose OK.

Re: Small caps italic revisited

2007-05-23 Thread Bruce Pourciau
If you want to improve your typography : The Elements of Typographic Style of Robert Bringhurst is a nice book. Cheers, Charles -- http://www.kde-france.org I second that advice: read Bringhurst. Bruce

Re: Small caps italic revisited

2007-05-23 Thread Eran Kaplinsky
I am also a fan of this book. For some perspective, here's a review by William Berkson, a prominent contributor to Typophile.com. I think it's important to keep in mind while discussing italic small caps. *Reviewd by William Berkson:* Few books deserve the name 'great', but this is one. The

Re: Small caps italic revisited

2007-05-23 Thread Sam Lewis
Charles wrote: URL: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.general/38743 Normally, in English typography, acronyms are set in upper case. But rules are made to be bent and the invention of computer typography gave new possibilities and wordprocessor gave bad habits to writers and

Re: Equations display improperly on x86-64 linux build

2007-05-23 Thread Paul A. Rubin
James wrote: All, I am trying to get 1.50b3 running on my desktop (Linux). I have it running on my laptop (Mac) and am very pleased with the new look and feel. On the linux build, I am having trouble with math symbols in preview. They come out fine in a DVI/PS/PDF document, but don't show up

Re: How to use 'block' in beamer?

2007-05-23 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Neal Becker wrote: This is lyx-1.5.0b3. I selected 'block' and I get something that says: block ( ERT[{title}] body ): my text here... There is no way to select that block... with the mouse. How do I edit it? You can select the my text here... part with the mouse, right? The other part

Re: Equations display improperly on x86-64 linux build

2007-05-23 Thread James
Looking at the *.log file I found the following error: ! LaTeX Error: File `preview.sty' not found. Does this indicate the source of the problem? I will send a trivial example file together with the 01lyxpreview.tex and 01lyxpreview.log files in a separate email (in case it doesn't make it

Re: Equations display improperly on x86-64 linux build

2007-05-23 Thread James
Here are the files relevant to my previous post. On 5/23/07 2:22 PM, Paul A. Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: James wrote: All, I am trying to get 1.50b3 running on my desktop (Linux). I have it running on my laptop (Mac) and am very pleased with the new look and feel. On the linux

Re[2]: Fully contained lyx + miktex distribution!

2007-05-23 Thread Alan G Isaac
On Mon, 21 May 2007, William Adams apparently wrote: One free alternative is SumatraPDF: http://blog.kowalczyk.info/software/sumatrapdf/ which shows promise for being a tex-oriented pdf previewing app/util. Very impressive! What is the license? Why Windows only? Cheers, Alan Isaac

help with box widths (LaTeX)

2007-05-23 Thread Trevor Nicholls
Hello This is a LaTeX question more than a LyX one - is there a latex-users list somewhere? But it's relevant to Lyx because I'm experimenting with LaTeX at the moment, intending to migrate a whole lot of XML documents into LyX when I have the necessary classes/layouts working. Anyway, I'm

Re: Small caps italic revisited

2007-05-23 Thread Charles de Miramon
Sam Lewis wrote: On Tue, 22 May 2007 14:24:35 GMT Charles de Miramon wrote: URL: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.general/38724 In traditional European typography (before the computer), there are no italic (or bold) small capitals. If you are a purist typographer, you should

how to get unnumbered sections in TOC and headers

2007-05-23 Thread Marc Flerackers
I would like to put my introduction section in the TOC, but without it having a number, as otherwise my section numbers start from 2. I tried using section*, but then the section doesn't show up in the TOC, and the headers show the wrong section name. The closest I managed to get to what I

A shell for launching figure editor under Mac OS

2007-05-23 Thread Mael Hilléreau
Hi all, As you might know, LyX graphics dialog has an Edit button intended to open figures in an editor which may be selected by the system depending on their file format. But figures included in LyX using the graphics dialog are almost always made with external editors using their own

Re: A shell for launching figure editor under Mac OS

2007-05-23 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Mael == Mael Hilléreau [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Mael To solve this problem, I wrote lyxfigedit, a little bash script Mael (see attached file) that allows to edit a figure by opening the Mael appropriate file in its editor. This trick only works on Mac OS. Mael [To developpers: For sure, a

Re: how to get unnumbered sections in TOC and headers

2007-05-23 Thread Charles de Miramon
Marc Flerackers wrote: I would like to put my introduction section in the TOC, but without it having a number, as otherwise my section numbers start from 2. I tried using section*, but then the section doesn't show up in the TOC, and the headers show the wrong section name. The closest I

Re: how to get unnumbered sections in TOC and headers

2007-05-23 Thread Marc Flerackers
Charles de Miramon wrote: Marc Flerackers wrote: I would like to put my introduction section in the TOC, but without it having a number, as otherwise my section numbers start from 2. I tried using section*, but then the section doesn't show up in the TOC, and the headers show the wrong

Re: A shell for launching figure editor under Mac OS

2007-05-23 Thread Mael Hilléreau
Le 23 mai 07 à 11:53, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes a écrit : What about adding the format .graffle in your preferences and documenting the command to create a pdf from graffle (assuming this is possible, of course). The you just insert the graffle file into LyX and forget about the rest. Ooops, I

Re: Help needed in getting the English Dictionary to work with LyX1.4.4-4

2007-05-23 Thread Brian Shand
Ralph wrote: What's strange is that the spellchecker was working fine before I reinstalled I also had difficulties installing the aspell dictionary manually, when LyX 1.4.4-4 failed to download the dictionary automatically on installation. This is what worked for me: - Download and run

General stability issues, moving out of lyx

2007-05-23 Thread stefan wolfbauer
I have experienced several times, that Lyx itself creates errors in latex code. I suddenly have errors in the middle of simple text and the conversion of the document to anything else fails. Also sometimes when opening a document it gets truncated and only a tiny part of it gets displayed. 1.)

Re: General stability issues, moving out of lyx

2007-05-23 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
stefan == stefan wolfbauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: stefan I have experienced several times, that Lyx itself creates stefan errors in latex code. I suddenly have errors in the middle of stefan simple text and the conversion of the document to anything stefan else fails. If you could send us

How to Install Docbook Class on Vista?

2007-05-23 Thread Richard Heck
I don't know how to do this, so I'm reposting. Lars Olesen wrote: 2007/5/22, Richard Heck [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Lars Olesen wrote: How do I translate a lyx document to docbook Open DocumentSettingsDocumentClass. In the Document Class drop box, choose DocBook (article) or whatever. Choose OK.

Re: Small caps italic revisited

2007-05-23 Thread Bruce Pourciau
If you want to improve your typography : The Elements of Typographic Style of Robert Bringhurst is a nice book. Cheers, Charles -- http://www.kde-france.org I second that advice: read Bringhurst. Bruce

Re: Small caps italic revisited

2007-05-23 Thread Eran Kaplinsky
I am also a fan of this book. For some perspective, here's a review by William Berkson, a prominent contributor to Typophile.com. I think it's important to keep in mind while discussing italic small caps. *Reviewd by William Berkson:* Few books deserve the name 'great', but this is one. The

Re: Small caps italic revisited

2007-05-23 Thread Sam Lewis
Charles wrote: URL: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.general/38743 Normally, in English typography, acronyms are set in upper case. But rules are made to be bent and the invention of computer typography gave new possibilities and wordprocessor gave bad habits to writers and

Re: Equations display improperly on x86-64 linux build

2007-05-23 Thread Paul A. Rubin
James wrote: All, I am trying to get 1.50b3 running on my desktop (Linux). I have it running on my laptop (Mac) and am very pleased with the new look and feel. On the linux build, I am having trouble with math symbols in preview. They come out fine in a DVI/PS/PDF document, but don't show up

Re: How to use 'block' in beamer?

2007-05-23 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Neal Becker wrote: This is lyx-1.5.0b3. I selected 'block' and I get something that says: block ( ERT[{title}] body ): my text here... There is no way to select that block... with the mouse. How do I edit it? You can select the my text here... part with the mouse, right? The other part

Re: Equations display improperly on x86-64 linux build

2007-05-23 Thread James
Looking at the *.log file I found the following error: ! LaTeX Error: File `preview.sty' not found. Does this indicate the source of the problem? I will send a trivial example file together with the 01lyxpreview.tex and 01lyxpreview.log files in a separate email (in case it doesn't make it

Re: Equations display improperly on x86-64 linux build

2007-05-23 Thread James
Here are the files relevant to my previous post. On 5/23/07 2:22 PM, Paul A. Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: James wrote: All, I am trying to get 1.50b3 running on my desktop (Linux). I have it running on my laptop (Mac) and am very pleased with the new look and feel. On the linux

Re[2]: Fully contained lyx + miktex distribution!

2007-05-23 Thread Alan G Isaac
On Mon, 21 May 2007, William Adams apparently wrote: One free alternative is SumatraPDF: http://blog.kowalczyk.info/software/sumatrapdf/ which shows promise for being a tex-oriented pdf previewing app/util. Very impressive! What is the license? Why Windows only? Cheers, Alan Isaac

help with box widths (LaTeX)

2007-05-23 Thread Trevor Nicholls
Hello This is a LaTeX question more than a LyX one - is there a latex-users list somewhere? But it's relevant to Lyx because I'm experimenting with LaTeX at the moment, intending to migrate a whole lot of XML documents into LyX when I have the necessary classes/layouts working. Anyway, I'm

Re: Small caps italic revisited

2007-05-23 Thread Charles de Miramon
Sam Lewis wrote: > On Tue, 22 May 2007 14:24:35 GMT > Charles de Miramon wrote: > >> URL: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.general/38724 >> In traditional European typography (before the computer), there are >> no italic (or bold) small capitals. If you are a purist typographer, >>

how to get unnumbered sections in TOC and headers

2007-05-23 Thread Marc Flerackers
I would like to put my introduction section in the TOC, but without it having a number, as otherwise my section numbers start from 2. I tried using section*, but then the section doesn't show up in the TOC, and the headers show the wrong section name. The closest I managed to get to what I

A shell for launching figure editor under Mac OS

2007-05-23 Thread Mael Hilléreau
Hi all, As you might know, LyX graphics dialog has an "Edit" button intended to open figures in an editor which may be selected by the system depending on their file format. But figures included in LyX using the graphics dialog are almost always made with external editors using their own

Re: A shell for launching figure editor under Mac OS

2007-05-23 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Mael" == Mael Hilléreau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Mael> To solve this problem, I wrote lyxfigedit, a little bash script Mael> (see attached file) that allows to edit a figure by opening the Mael> appropriate file in its editor. This trick only works on Mac OS. Mael> [To developpers: For

Re: how to get unnumbered sections in TOC and headers

2007-05-23 Thread Charles de Miramon
Marc Flerackers wrote: > I would like to put my introduction section in the TOC, but without it > having a number, as otherwise my section numbers start from 2. I tried > using section*, but then the section doesn't show up in the TOC, and the > headers show the wrong section name. The closest I

Re: how to get unnumbered sections in TOC and headers

2007-05-23 Thread Marc Flerackers
Charles de Miramon wrote: Marc Flerackers wrote: I would like to put my introduction section in the TOC, but without it having a number, as otherwise my section numbers start from 2. I tried using section*, but then the section doesn't show up in the TOC, and the headers show the wrong

Re: A shell for launching figure editor under Mac OS

2007-05-23 Thread Mael Hilléreau
Le 23 mai 07 à 11:53, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes a écrit : What about adding the format .graffle in your preferences and documenting the command to create a pdf from graffle (assuming this is possible, of course). The you just insert the graffle file into LyX and forget about the rest. Ooops, I

Re: Help needed in getting the English Dictionary to work with LyX1.4.4-4

2007-05-23 Thread Brian Shand
Ralph wrote: What's strange is that the spellchecker was working fine before I reinstalled I also had difficulties installing the aspell dictionary manually, when LyX 1.4.4-4 failed to download the dictionary automatically on installation. This is what worked for me: - Download and run

General stability issues, moving out of lyx

2007-05-23 Thread stefan wolfbauer
I have experienced several times, that Lyx itself creates errors in latex code. I suddenly have errors in the middle of simple text and the conversion of the document to anything else fails. Also sometimes when opening a document it gets truncated and only a tiny part of it gets displayed. 1.)

Re: General stability issues, moving out of lyx

2007-05-23 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "stefan" == stefan wolfbauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: stefan> I have experienced several times, that Lyx itself creates stefan> errors in latex code. I suddenly have errors in the middle of stefan> simple text and the conversion of the document to anything stefan> else fails. If you

How to Install Docbook Class on Vista?

2007-05-23 Thread Richard Heck
I don't know how to do this, so I'm reposting. Lars Olesen wrote: > 2007/5/22, Richard Heck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Lars Olesen wrote: >> > How do I translate a lyx document to docbook >> Open Document>Settings>DocumentClass. In the Document Class drop box, >> choose "DocBook (article)" or

Re: Small caps italic revisited

2007-05-23 Thread Bruce Pourciau
If you want to improve your typography : The Elements of Typographic Style of Robert Bringhurst is a nice book. Cheers, Charles -- http://www.kde-france.org I second that advice: read Bringhurst. Bruce

Re: Small caps italic revisited

2007-05-23 Thread Eran Kaplinsky
I am also a fan of this book. For some perspective, here's a review by William Berkson, a prominent contributor to Typophile.com. I think it's important to keep in mind while discussing italic small caps. *Reviewd by William Berkson:* Few books deserve the name 'great', but this is one. The

Re: Small caps italic revisited

2007-05-23 Thread Sam Lewis
Charles wrote: URL: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.general/38743 > > Normally, in English typography, acronyms are set in upper case. But > rules are made to be bent and the invention of computer typography > gave new possibilities and wordprocessor gave bad habits to writers > and

Re: Equations display improperly on x86-64 linux build

2007-05-23 Thread Paul A. Rubin
James wrote: All, I am trying to get 1.50b3 running on my desktop (Linux). I have it running on my laptop (Mac) and am very pleased with the new look and feel. On the linux build, I am having trouble with math symbols in preview. They come out fine in a DVI/PS/PDF document, but don't show up

Re: How to use 'block' in beamer?

2007-05-23 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Neal Becker wrote: This is lyx-1.5.0b3. I selected 'block' and I get something that says: block ( ERT[{title}] body ): There is no way to select that block... with the mouse. How do I edit it? You can select the part with the mouse, right? The other part seems to be just a prompt as to

Re: Equations display improperly on x86-64 linux build

2007-05-23 Thread James
Looking at the *.log file I found the following error: ! LaTeX Error: File `preview.sty' not found. Does this indicate the source of the problem? I will send a trivial example file together with the 01lyxpreview.tex and 01lyxpreview.log files in a separate email (in case it doesn't make it

Re: Equations display improperly on x86-64 linux build

2007-05-23 Thread James
Here are the files relevant to my previous post. On 5/23/07 2:22 PM, "Paul A. Rubin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > James wrote: >> All, >> >> I am trying to get 1.50b3 running on my desktop (Linux). I have it running >> on my laptop (Mac) and am very pleased with the new look and feel. >> >>

Re[2]: Fully contained lyx + miktex distribution!

2007-05-23 Thread Alan G Isaac
On Mon, 21 May 2007, William Adams apparently wrote: > One free alternative is SumatraPDF: > http://blog.kowalczyk.info/software/sumatrapdf/ > which shows promise for being a tex-oriented pdf previewing app/util. Very impressive! What is the license? Why Windows only? Cheers, Alan Isaac