alignment in tables

2007-07-09 Thread Giuseppe Vitalone
Hi, how can I horizontal align the first row and left align the others? It's not possible to use paragraph settings inside the float table... thanks

Re: Lyx cv class

2007-07-09 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Jim == Jim Rockford [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jim In my current installation (linux) of 1.5.0rc2, I see that the Jim lyx curriculum vitae class (cv.cls) is not available, allthough Jim lyx apparently installed it in /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/lyx/. The reason for this is that the class has been

Powerdot users: how to create pdf?

2007-07-09 Thread Rudi Gaelzer
I'm trying to create a presentation using powerdot for the first time. First, the powerdot-example.lyx file would not run because my xkeyval package was outdated. I tried to install xkeyval v2.5f and it forced me to install first the fourier-GUT package, which was also not present in my tetex

Re: Powerdot users: how to create pdf?

2007-07-09 Thread Robert Orr
See section 8 of the user manual for powerdot. I believe you want to use ps2pdf to generate the pdf file. --- Rudi Gaelzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to create a presentation using powerdot for the first time. First, the powerdot-example.lyx file would not run because my xkeyval

Re: Powerdot users: how to create pdf?

2007-07-09 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Rudi Gaelzer schrieb: After all that, I was able to generate the dvi from the powerdot-example.lyx file, but I'm still not able to create a pdf using pdflatex. Powerdot uses PSTricks and is therefore not compatible to pdftex. To get a PDF you have to use dvipdfm or better ps2pdf as export

Re: document style ingheritance

2007-07-09 Thread Richard Heck
Giuseppe Vitalone wrote: Hi, I'm writing my thesis as a book document with the option two face checked. I'm using the child documents mechanism, as inputs. Is it possible to have the childs behaving differently? In other words, I would like to have the frontmatter not two faced... There may

Re: alignment in tables

2007-07-09 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Giuseppe Vitalone wrote: Hi, how can I horizontal align the first row Do you mean center or right justify it? and left align the others? It's not possible to use paragraph settings inside the float table... thanks There may be a more efficient approach, but the following, while tedious,

Separate bibliography

2007-07-09 Thread James
All, Does anyone know how to export a bibliography as a separate document? I am using a bibtex bibliography... James

Re: Difficulty viewing document in DVI

2007-07-09 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Gauri Karve wrote: Hi, I have attached a portion of my document where the error is showing up. I can view all other files in the DVI mode..in this document, I tried deleting various lines in the para but the same error shows up, highlighting different sets of words! for eg, to begin with, it

Re: UI Bug: Shortcut missing in Caption menu item

2007-07-09 Thread Hellmut Weber
Hi, if I may give a user's two cents on this topic, I learned only recently that i can activate a duplicate shortcut alt-letter just by keying alt+letter+letter. So I would prefer to have a shortcut for every entry even if there are duplicates because that permits to avoid using the mouse while

Re: Separate bibliography

2007-07-09 Thread Paul A. Rubin
James wrote: Does anyone know how to export a bibliography as a separate document? I am using a bibtex bibliography... Do you want a document that contains just a references section listing all the entries in your BibTeX database? If so, create a new document, use Insert - List/TOC -

Re: Difficulty viewing document in DVI

2007-07-09 Thread Gauri Karve
Thanks for the help! I did make the changes after Bob's reply. I don't know how that command got there but I have made the necessary changes now! Gauri On 7/9/07, Paul A. Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gauri Karve wrote: Hi, I have attached a portion of my document where the error is

Re: Separate bibliography

2007-07-09 Thread James
On 7/9/07 9:38 AM, Paul A. Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: James wrote: Does anyone know how to export a bibliography as a separate document? I am using a bibtex bibliography... Do you want a document that contains just a references section listing all the entries in your BibTeX

all Lyx-xforms menus completely black

2007-07-09 Thread Jim Dannemiller
I feel really stupid. I am using lyx-xforms in Ubuntu Feisty. When I went to the dialog boxes that allow me to choose the bibliography file or the bibliography style, the text was invisible, so the current file or a new file that I choose would be invisible. No good. In an attempt to get some

Re: Separate bibliography

2007-07-09 Thread Paul A. Rubin
James wrote: I want the bibliography that would be generated by the document, but I would like it exported to a separate document. Your suggestion works for a small number of references, but would be very tedious for a large number, particularly if the ordering of these references changes...

Re: Template based style builder tools?

2007-07-09 Thread Michael Anderson
Steve, I really can't see why you would want to reduce LaTeX or LyX to a competitor to Word. They are designed for completely different purposes and markets. I also take exception the concept of such a comparison, just on the principle they were never intended to be anything like one

Re: all Lyx-xforms menus completely black

2007-07-09 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Jim == Jim Dannemiller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jim I feel really stupid. I am using lyx-xforms in Ubuntu Feisty. Jim When I went to the dialog boxes that allow me to choose the Jim bibliography file or the bibliography style, the text was Jim invisible, so the current file or a new file that I

Re: Separate bibliography

2007-07-09 Thread James
On 7/9/07 11:45 AM, Paul A. Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: James wrote: I want the bibliography that would be generated by the document, but I would like it exported to a separate document. Your suggestion works for a small number of references, but would be very tedious for a large

Re: Template based style builder tools?

2007-07-09 Thread Mael Hilléreau
Le 9 juil. 07 à 21:33, Michael Anderson a écrit : I'd just like to say a few words on this topic. I really can't see why you would want to reduce LaTeX or LyX to a competitor to Word. I completely agree with this point of view: LyX use is by essence different from Word use. However, ...

Re: Separate bibliography

2007-07-09 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Am Montag, 9. Juli 2007 15:22 schrieb James: All, Does anyone know how to export a bibliography as a separate document? I am using a bibtex bibliography... James James, if you want to export all the references you have cited in your document and your bibfile has (many) more, I would

Re: Template based style builder tools?

2007-07-09 Thread Michael Anderson
I think that my point was lost in the analogy... My point about the calligraphy was that I've taken the time to really learn what makes a beautiful document from the study of classical texts and manuscripts that are the foundation of the modern typographical rules that govern professional

Re: Template based style builder tools?

2007-07-09 Thread Steve Litt
All -- I can see this is a controversial topic. Once again I'd like to stress that I'm advocating a program completely separate from LyX, not needed by LyX. LyX need not know anything about this program. People using LyX can continue using it exactly as they've always used it, without this

alignment in tables

2007-07-09 Thread Giuseppe Vitalone
Hi, how can I horizontal align the first row and left align the others? It's not possible to use paragraph settings inside the float table... thanks

Re: Lyx cv class

2007-07-09 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Jim == Jim Rockford [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jim In my current installation (linux) of 1.5.0rc2, I see that the Jim lyx curriculum vitae class (cv.cls) is not available, allthough Jim lyx apparently installed it in /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/lyx/. The reason for this is that the class has been

Powerdot users: how to create pdf?

2007-07-09 Thread Rudi Gaelzer
I'm trying to create a presentation using powerdot for the first time. First, the powerdot-example.lyx file would not run because my xkeyval package was outdated. I tried to install xkeyval v2.5f and it forced me to install first the fourier-GUT package, which was also not present in my tetex

Re: Powerdot users: how to create pdf?

2007-07-09 Thread Robert Orr
See section 8 of the user manual for powerdot. I believe you want to use ps2pdf to generate the pdf file. --- Rudi Gaelzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to create a presentation using powerdot for the first time. First, the powerdot-example.lyx file would not run because my xkeyval

Re: Powerdot users: how to create pdf?

2007-07-09 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Rudi Gaelzer schrieb: After all that, I was able to generate the dvi from the powerdot-example.lyx file, but I'm still not able to create a pdf using pdflatex. Powerdot uses PSTricks and is therefore not compatible to pdftex. To get a PDF you have to use dvipdfm or better ps2pdf as export

Re: document style ingheritance

2007-07-09 Thread Richard Heck
Giuseppe Vitalone wrote: Hi, I'm writing my thesis as a book document with the option two face checked. I'm using the child documents mechanism, as inputs. Is it possible to have the childs behaving differently? In other words, I would like to have the frontmatter not two faced... There may

Re: alignment in tables

2007-07-09 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Giuseppe Vitalone wrote: Hi, how can I horizontal align the first row Do you mean center or right justify it? and left align the others? It's not possible to use paragraph settings inside the float table... thanks There may be a more efficient approach, but the following, while tedious,

Separate bibliography

2007-07-09 Thread James
All, Does anyone know how to export a bibliography as a separate document? I am using a bibtex bibliography... James

Re: Difficulty viewing document in DVI

2007-07-09 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Gauri Karve wrote: Hi, I have attached a portion of my document where the error is showing up. I can view all other files in the DVI mode..in this document, I tried deleting various lines in the para but the same error shows up, highlighting different sets of words! for eg, to begin with, it

Re: UI Bug: Shortcut missing in Caption menu item

2007-07-09 Thread Hellmut Weber
Hi, if I may give a user's two cents on this topic, I learned only recently that i can activate a duplicate shortcut alt-letter just by keying alt+letter+letter. So I would prefer to have a shortcut for every entry even if there are duplicates because that permits to avoid using the mouse while

Re: Separate bibliography

2007-07-09 Thread Paul A. Rubin
James wrote: Does anyone know how to export a bibliography as a separate document? I am using a bibtex bibliography... Do you want a document that contains just a references section listing all the entries in your BibTeX database? If so, create a new document, use Insert - List/TOC -

Re: Difficulty viewing document in DVI

2007-07-09 Thread Gauri Karve
Thanks for the help! I did make the changes after Bob's reply. I don't know how that command got there but I have made the necessary changes now! Gauri On 7/9/07, Paul A. Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gauri Karve wrote: Hi, I have attached a portion of my document where the error is

Re: Separate bibliography

2007-07-09 Thread James
On 7/9/07 9:38 AM, Paul A. Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: James wrote: Does anyone know how to export a bibliography as a separate document? I am using a bibtex bibliography... Do you want a document that contains just a references section listing all the entries in your BibTeX

all Lyx-xforms menus completely black

2007-07-09 Thread Jim Dannemiller
I feel really stupid. I am using lyx-xforms in Ubuntu Feisty. When I went to the dialog boxes that allow me to choose the bibliography file or the bibliography style, the text was invisible, so the current file or a new file that I choose would be invisible. No good. In an attempt to get some

Re: Separate bibliography

2007-07-09 Thread Paul A. Rubin
James wrote: I want the bibliography that would be generated by the document, but I would like it exported to a separate document. Your suggestion works for a small number of references, but would be very tedious for a large number, particularly if the ordering of these references changes...

Re: Template based style builder tools?

2007-07-09 Thread Michael Anderson
Steve, I really can't see why you would want to reduce LaTeX or LyX to a competitor to Word. They are designed for completely different purposes and markets. I also take exception the concept of such a comparison, just on the principle they were never intended to be anything like one

Re: all Lyx-xforms menus completely black

2007-07-09 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Jim == Jim Dannemiller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jim I feel really stupid. I am using lyx-xforms in Ubuntu Feisty. Jim When I went to the dialog boxes that allow me to choose the Jim bibliography file or the bibliography style, the text was Jim invisible, so the current file or a new file that I

Re: Separate bibliography

2007-07-09 Thread James
On 7/9/07 11:45 AM, Paul A. Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: James wrote: I want the bibliography that would be generated by the document, but I would like it exported to a separate document. Your suggestion works for a small number of references, but would be very tedious for a large

Re: Template based style builder tools?

2007-07-09 Thread Mael Hilléreau
Le 9 juil. 07 à 21:33, Michael Anderson a écrit : I'd just like to say a few words on this topic. I really can't see why you would want to reduce LaTeX or LyX to a competitor to Word. I completely agree with this point of view: LyX use is by essence different from Word use. However, ...

Re: Separate bibliography

2007-07-09 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Am Montag, 9. Juli 2007 15:22 schrieb James: All, Does anyone know how to export a bibliography as a separate document? I am using a bibtex bibliography... James James, if you want to export all the references you have cited in your document and your bibfile has (many) more, I would

Re: Template based style builder tools?

2007-07-09 Thread Michael Anderson
I think that my point was lost in the analogy... My point about the calligraphy was that I've taken the time to really learn what makes a beautiful document from the study of classical texts and manuscripts that are the foundation of the modern typographical rules that govern professional

Re: Template based style builder tools?

2007-07-09 Thread Steve Litt
All -- I can see this is a controversial topic. Once again I'd like to stress that I'm advocating a program completely separate from LyX, not needed by LyX. LyX need not know anything about this program. People using LyX can continue using it exactly as they've always used it, without this

alignment in tables

2007-07-09 Thread Giuseppe Vitalone
Hi, how can I horizontal align the first row and left align the others? It's not possible to use "paragraph settings" inside the float table... thanks

Re: Lyx cv class

2007-07-09 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Jim" == Jim Rockford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jim> In my current installation (linux) of 1.5.0rc2, I see that the Jim> lyx curriculum vitae class (cv.cls) is not available, allthough Jim> lyx apparently installed it in /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/lyx/. The reason for this is that the

Powerdot users: how to create pdf?

2007-07-09 Thread Rudi Gaelzer
I'm trying to create a presentation using powerdot for the first time. First, the powerdot-example.lyx file would not run because my xkeyval package was outdated. I tried to install xkeyval v2.5f and it forced me to install first the fourier-GUT package, which was also not present in my tetex

Re: Powerdot users: how to create pdf?

2007-07-09 Thread Robert Orr
See section 8 of the user manual for powerdot. I believe you want to use ps2pdf to generate the pdf file. --- Rudi Gaelzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to create a presentation using powerdot > for the first time. > > First, the powerdot-example.lyx file would not run > because my

Re: Powerdot users: how to create pdf?

2007-07-09 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Rudi Gaelzer schrieb: After all that, I was able to generate the dvi from the powerdot-example.lyx file, but I'm still not able to create a pdf using pdflatex. Powerdot uses PSTricks and is therefore not compatible to pdftex. To get a PDF you have to use dvipdfm or better ps2pdf as export

Re: document style ingheritance

2007-07-09 Thread Richard Heck
Giuseppe Vitalone wrote: Hi, I'm writing my thesis as a book document with the option "two face" checked. I'm using the child documents mechanism, as inputs. Is it possible to have the childs behaving differently? In other words, I would like to have the frontmatter not two faced... There may

Re: alignment in tables

2007-07-09 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Giuseppe Vitalone wrote: Hi, how can I horizontal align the first row Do you mean center or right justify it? and left align the others? It's not possible to use "paragraph settings" inside the float table... thanks There may be a more efficient approach, but the following, while

Separate bibliography

2007-07-09 Thread James
All, Does anyone know how to export a bibliography as a separate document? I am using a bibtex bibliography... James

Re: Difficulty viewing document in DVI

2007-07-09 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Gauri Karve wrote: Hi, I have attached a portion of my document where the error is showing up. I can view all other files in the DVI mode..in this document, I tried deleting various lines in the para but the same error shows up, highlighting different sets of words! for eg, to begin with, it

Re: UI Bug: Shortcut missing in Caption menu item

2007-07-09 Thread Hellmut Weber
Hi, if I may give a user's two cents on this topic, I learned only recently that i can activate a duplicate shortcut alt-letter just by keying alt+letter+letter. So I would prefer to have a shortcut for every entry even if there are duplicates because that permits to avoid using the mouse while

Re: Separate bibliography

2007-07-09 Thread Paul A. Rubin
James wrote: Does anyone know how to export a bibliography as a separate document? I am using a bibtex bibliography... Do you want a document that contains just a references section listing all the entries in your BibTeX database? If so, create a new document, use Insert -> List/TOC ->

Re: Difficulty viewing document in DVI

2007-07-09 Thread Gauri Karve
Thanks for the help! I did make the changes after Bob's reply. I don't know how that command got there but I have made the necessary changes now! Gauri On 7/9/07, Paul A. Rubin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Gauri Karve wrote: > Hi, > > I have attached a portion of my document where the error is

Re: Separate bibliography

2007-07-09 Thread James
On 7/9/07 9:38 AM, "Paul A. Rubin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > James wrote: >> >> Does anyone know how to export a bibliography as a separate document? I am >> using a bibtex bibliography... >> > > Do you want a document that contains just a references section listing > all the entries in

all Lyx-xforms menus completely black

2007-07-09 Thread Jim Dannemiller
I feel really stupid. I am using lyx-xforms in Ubuntu Feisty. When I went to the dialog boxes that allow me to choose the bibliography file or the bibliography style, the text was invisible, so the current file or a new file that I choose would be invisible. No good. In an attempt to get some

Re: Separate bibliography

2007-07-09 Thread Paul A. Rubin
James wrote: I want the bibliography that would be generated by the document, but I would like it exported to a separate document. Your suggestion works for a small number of references, but would be very tedious for a large number, particularly if the ordering of these references changes...

Re: Template based style builder tools?

2007-07-09 Thread Michael Anderson
Steve, I really can't see why you would want to reduce LaTeX or LyX to a competitor to Word. They are designed for completely different purposes and markets. I also take exception the concept of such a comparison, just on the principle they were never intended to be anything like one

Re: all Lyx-xforms menus completely black

2007-07-09 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Jim" == Jim Dannemiller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jim> I feel really stupid. I am using lyx-xforms in Ubuntu Feisty. Jim> When I went to the dialog boxes that allow me to choose the Jim> bibliography file or the bibliography style, the text was Jim> invisible, so the current file or a

Re: Separate bibliography

2007-07-09 Thread James
On 7/9/07 11:45 AM, "Paul A. Rubin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > James wrote: >> >> I want the bibliography that would be generated by the document, but I would >> like it exported to a separate document. Your suggestion works for a small >> number of references, but would be very tedious for

Re: Template based style builder tools?

2007-07-09 Thread Mael Hilléreau
Le 9 juil. 07 à 21:33, Michael Anderson a écrit : I'd just like to say a few words on this topic. I really can't see why you would want to reduce LaTeX or LyX to a competitor to Word. I completely agree with this point of view: LyX use is by essence different from Word use. However, ...

Re: Separate bibliography

2007-07-09 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Am Montag, 9. Juli 2007 15:22 schrieb James: > All, > > Does anyone know how to export a bibliography as a separate document? I am > using a bibtex bibliography... > > James James, if you want to export all the references you have cited in your document and your bibfile has (many) more, I would

Re: Template based style builder tools?

2007-07-09 Thread Michael Anderson
I think that my point was lost in the analogy... My point about the calligraphy was that I've taken the time to really learn what makes a beautiful document from the study of classical texts and manuscripts that are the foundation of the modern typographical rules that govern professional

Re: Template based style builder tools?

2007-07-09 Thread Steve Litt
All -- I can see this is a controversial topic. Once again I'd like to stress that I'm advocating a program completely separate from LyX, not needed by LyX. LyX need not know anything about this program. People using LyX can continue using it exactly as they've always used it, without this