Lines and decorative separations

2007-10-12 Thread Donn
Hello list. I am suffering from search-term-itis trying to find how to: 1. Draw horizontal lines that are of varying lengths and thickness. Also, perhaps some decorative lines, like double lines with a thin part and a thick part under it. 2. Decorative separators between paragraphs, sections or

Re: Lines and decorative separations

2007-10-12 Thread Donn
\rule{length}{thickness}, for example \rule{3in}{2pt} Great, already a huge improvement. Thanks. \d

Re: Lines and decorative separations

2007-10-12 Thread Helge Hafting
Donn wrote: Hello list. I am suffering from search-term-itis trying to find how to: 1. Draw horizontal lines that are of varying lengths and thickness. Also, perhaps some decorative lines, like double lines with a thin part and a thick part under it. 2. Decorative separators between

Re: configure default paragraph alignment

2007-10-12 Thread Marcelo Acuña
--- Richard Heck [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: Check their documentation.) Changing the display in LyX is a matter of editing the layout file, in which alignment is controlled by the Align directive. If you're using, say, book.cls, then copy book.layout to your local LyX directory (where

Re: lyx-1.5.1 apa style question

2007-10-12 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Mirko Briemle wrote: Thanks for your response. That helped a lot. I installed the apa and the apacite package but I receive a Missing \begin{document} Error when trying to preview the apa document. What can I do to fix this? (By the way I am using lyx-1.5.2 now too. It looks great.) That

Re: Fwd: exercise support in LyX

2007-10-12 Thread Gunnar Lindholm
What do other people use for exercises? And will this ever be built into LyX? I have to use ERT to get exercise.sty working. I use \usepackage{answers} To get it working more easy, I put the stuff below into my lyx configuration files. With this I can just press M-g u to insert an exercise,

Fwd: exercise support in LyX

2007-10-12 Thread Ramin Nakisa
Hi, I've tried various packages for including exercises in a book I'm writing in LyX. I settled on exercise.sty which is nice because you write all the exercises and their answers, then the command \shipout spews out all the answers since the previous \shipout. This means I can easily put all

bug using lyx-1.5.2 export at the command line?

2007-10-12 Thread Oscar Lopez
Hello When I try to export a pdf file using the command line at my linux box the I get the following message % lyx -e pdf2 file.lyx lyx: SIGSEGV signal caught Sorry, you have found a bug in LyX. Please read the bug-reporting instructions in Help-Introduction and send us a bug report, if

Toggle between documents

2007-10-12 Thread Nicolás
Hi! In Opera and Acrobat I can use Ctrl-Tab to toggle between opened documents. Is there (or can I declare) a similar shortcut in LyX? Cheers, Nicolás

I have a problem with language

2007-10-12 Thread Marcelo Acuña
Hello, When I try to get a solution (before Ignacio's letter) for page numbering in roman instead Roman I changed language from Spanish to American in Document Config Language. I can see that roman problem was solved but now I have several titles like Index and Contents in English

Re: Differences using beamer class in lyx-1.5.2 versus lyx-1.4.x

2007-10-12 Thread José Matos
On Thursday 11 October 2007 16:40:51 Paul A. Rubin wrote: No, I've had no problems opening old beamer presentations (and, like you, I have a bunch of them).  The format for LyX document files evolves with new releases, and there is a conversion tool included with LyX to convert older format

Re: Lines and decorative separations

2007-10-12 Thread Donn
These are called ``rules'' in printer's parlance. Ah, thanks for the keyword. Some dingbats / ornaments can be used as such as well, so check out ornament fonts. I have a lot of free/open fonts that I installed via apt-get but I'm not sure why they are not listed in Lyx. I have not had the

Re: Lines and decorative separations

2007-10-12 Thread William Adams
On Oct 12, 2007, at 4:24 AM, Donn wrote: 1. Draw horizontal lines that are of varying lengths and thickness. Also, perhaps some decorative lines, like double lines with a thin part and a thick part under it. These are called ``rules'' in printer's parlance. Some dingbats / ornaments can

Re: Differences using beamer class in lyx-1.5.2 versus lyx-1.4.x

2007-10-12 Thread Oscar Lopez
José Matos [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I think that in this case the problem is not lyx2lyx but it is a bug that is scheduled to be fixed in 1.5.3. Please could you elaborate more on that? I mean, I have tried to produce, using lyx-1.5.2, a minimal example showing the problem and I haven't

Re: configure default paragraph alignment

2007-10-12 Thread Richard Heck
Marcelo Acuña wrote: --- Richard Heck [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: Excuse me Richard, You said that I can change align in Lyx screen? Yes, you can change the way the alignment appears on the screen in LyX by editing the layout files, which you'll find in (e.g.) /usr/share/lyx/layouts/.

Nested environments in LyX?

2007-10-12 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, You can nest environments within LaTeX: \begin{parent} \begin{child}Kid #1\end{child} \begin{child}Kid #2\end{child} \begin{child}Kid #3\end{child} \end{parent} Can you do that also within the normal LyX user interface? If so, how? Thanks StevET Steve Litt Books written in LyX:

What's the problem with encoding?

2007-10-12 Thread Armando Duarte Senra Martins
Hello! I am trying to get through with Latex using Lyx to type a document in portuguese. I had a document previously typed with a WYSIWYG. When I imported it to Lyx lots af characters were lost. So I had to do find replace to restore de accented characters. I tried many options: switched

Re: New docs on making your own list

2007-10-12 Thread Christian Liesen
Steve Litt wrote: I just wrote a document on making your own lists in LaTeX. Here it is: http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/lyx/ownlists.htm Many thanks for sharing this! -- Christian

More on nesting environments

2007-10-12 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, Within LyX, I put in a list environment for several paragraphs, and within those, nested one itemize paragraph, as shown below: === #LyX 1.4.2 created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/ \lyxformat 245 \begin_document \begin_header

Re: More on nesting environments

2007-10-12 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Steve Litt wrote: Within LyX, I put in a list environment for several paragraphs, and within those, nested one itemize paragraph, as shown below: [snip] As you can see, my nesting an itemize paragraph ended the lyxlist environment, instead of nesting. Does anyone know how I can force

Re: Nested environments in LyX?

2007-10-12 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, You can nest environments within LaTeX: \begin{parent} \begin{child}Kid #1\end{child} \begin{child}Kid #2\end{child} \begin{child}Kid #3\end{child} \end{parent} Can you do that also within the normal LyX user interface? If so, how? Yes -- see response to your

Re: LyxWinInstaller Update issue

2007-10-12 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Dave Hewitt schrieb: Can you elaborate on what we need to do to fix our ImageMagick problems when we've used the updater. I did and images aren't handled, just as you indicate. Should I uninstall LyX 1.5.2 from the Add/Remove Programs interface and then just run the small installer for 1.5.2?

Lines and decorative separations

2007-10-12 Thread Donn
Hello list. I am suffering from search-term-itis trying to find how to: 1. Draw horizontal lines that are of varying lengths and thickness. Also, perhaps some decorative lines, like double lines with a thin part and a thick part under it. 2. Decorative separators between paragraphs, sections or

Re: Lines and decorative separations

2007-10-12 Thread Donn
\rule{length}{thickness}, for example \rule{3in}{2pt} Great, already a huge improvement. Thanks. \d

Re: Lines and decorative separations

2007-10-12 Thread Helge Hafting
Donn wrote: Hello list. I am suffering from search-term-itis trying to find how to: 1. Draw horizontal lines that are of varying lengths and thickness. Also, perhaps some decorative lines, like double lines with a thin part and a thick part under it. 2. Decorative separators between

Re: configure default paragraph alignment

2007-10-12 Thread Marcelo Acuña
--- Richard Heck [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: Check their documentation.) Changing the display in LyX is a matter of editing the layout file, in which alignment is controlled by the Align directive. If you're using, say, book.cls, then copy book.layout to your local LyX directory (where

Re: lyx-1.5.1 apa style question

2007-10-12 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Mirko Briemle wrote: Thanks for your response. That helped a lot. I installed the apa and the apacite package but I receive a Missing \begin{document} Error when trying to preview the apa document. What can I do to fix this? (By the way I am using lyx-1.5.2 now too. It looks great.) That

Re: Fwd: exercise support in LyX

2007-10-12 Thread Gunnar Lindholm
What do other people use for exercises? And will this ever be built into LyX? I have to use ERT to get exercise.sty working. I use \usepackage{answers} To get it working more easy, I put the stuff below into my lyx configuration files. With this I can just press M-g u to insert an exercise,

Fwd: exercise support in LyX

2007-10-12 Thread Ramin Nakisa
Hi, I've tried various packages for including exercises in a book I'm writing in LyX. I settled on exercise.sty which is nice because you write all the exercises and their answers, then the command \shipout spews out all the answers since the previous \shipout. This means I can easily put all

bug using lyx-1.5.2 export at the command line?

2007-10-12 Thread Oscar Lopez
Hello When I try to export a pdf file using the command line at my linux box the I get the following message % lyx -e pdf2 file.lyx lyx: SIGSEGV signal caught Sorry, you have found a bug in LyX. Please read the bug-reporting instructions in Help-Introduction and send us a bug report, if

Toggle between documents

2007-10-12 Thread Nicolás
Hi! In Opera and Acrobat I can use Ctrl-Tab to toggle between opened documents. Is there (or can I declare) a similar shortcut in LyX? Cheers, Nicolás

I have a problem with language

2007-10-12 Thread Marcelo Acuña
Hello, When I try to get a solution (before Ignacio's letter) for page numbering in roman instead Roman I changed language from Spanish to American in Document Config Language. I can see that roman problem was solved but now I have several titles like Index and Contents in English

Re: Differences using beamer class in lyx-1.5.2 versus lyx-1.4.x

2007-10-12 Thread José Matos
On Thursday 11 October 2007 16:40:51 Paul A. Rubin wrote: No, I've had no problems opening old beamer presentations (and, like you, I have a bunch of them).  The format for LyX document files evolves with new releases, and there is a conversion tool included with LyX to convert older format

Re: Lines and decorative separations

2007-10-12 Thread Donn
These are called ``rules'' in printer's parlance. Ah, thanks for the keyword. Some dingbats / ornaments can be used as such as well, so check out ornament fonts. I have a lot of free/open fonts that I installed via apt-get but I'm not sure why they are not listed in Lyx. I have not had the

Re: Lines and decorative separations

2007-10-12 Thread William Adams
On Oct 12, 2007, at 4:24 AM, Donn wrote: 1. Draw horizontal lines that are of varying lengths and thickness. Also, perhaps some decorative lines, like double lines with a thin part and a thick part under it. These are called ``rules'' in printer's parlance. Some dingbats / ornaments can

Re: Differences using beamer class in lyx-1.5.2 versus lyx-1.4.x

2007-10-12 Thread Oscar Lopez
José Matos [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I think that in this case the problem is not lyx2lyx but it is a bug that is scheduled to be fixed in 1.5.3. Please could you elaborate more on that? I mean, I have tried to produce, using lyx-1.5.2, a minimal example showing the problem and I haven't

Re: configure default paragraph alignment

2007-10-12 Thread Richard Heck
Marcelo Acuña wrote: --- Richard Heck [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: Excuse me Richard, You said that I can change align in Lyx screen? Yes, you can change the way the alignment appears on the screen in LyX by editing the layout files, which you'll find in (e.g.) /usr/share/lyx/layouts/.

Nested environments in LyX?

2007-10-12 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, You can nest environments within LaTeX: \begin{parent} \begin{child}Kid #1\end{child} \begin{child}Kid #2\end{child} \begin{child}Kid #3\end{child} \end{parent} Can you do that also within the normal LyX user interface? If so, how? Thanks StevET Steve Litt Books written in LyX:

What's the problem with encoding?

2007-10-12 Thread Armando Duarte Senra Martins
Hello! I am trying to get through with Latex using Lyx to type a document in portuguese. I had a document previously typed with a WYSIWYG. When I imported it to Lyx lots af characters were lost. So I had to do find replace to restore de accented characters. I tried many options: switched

Re: New docs on making your own list

2007-10-12 Thread Christian Liesen
Steve Litt wrote: I just wrote a document on making your own lists in LaTeX. Here it is: http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/lyx/ownlists.htm Many thanks for sharing this! -- Christian

More on nesting environments

2007-10-12 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, Within LyX, I put in a list environment for several paragraphs, and within those, nested one itemize paragraph, as shown below: === #LyX 1.4.2 created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/ \lyxformat 245 \begin_document \begin_header

Re: More on nesting environments

2007-10-12 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Steve Litt wrote: Within LyX, I put in a list environment for several paragraphs, and within those, nested one itemize paragraph, as shown below: [snip] As you can see, my nesting an itemize paragraph ended the lyxlist environment, instead of nesting. Does anyone know how I can force

Re: Nested environments in LyX?

2007-10-12 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, You can nest environments within LaTeX: \begin{parent} \begin{child}Kid #1\end{child} \begin{child}Kid #2\end{child} \begin{child}Kid #3\end{child} \end{parent} Can you do that also within the normal LyX user interface? If so, how? Yes -- see response to your

Re: LyxWinInstaller Update issue

2007-10-12 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Dave Hewitt schrieb: Can you elaborate on what we need to do to fix our ImageMagick problems when we've used the updater. I did and images aren't handled, just as you indicate. Should I uninstall LyX 1.5.2 from the Add/Remove Programs interface and then just run the small installer for 1.5.2?

Lines and decorative separations

2007-10-12 Thread Donn
Hello list. I am suffering from search-term-itis trying to find how to: 1. Draw horizontal lines that are of varying lengths and thickness. Also, perhaps some decorative lines, like double lines with a thin part and a thick part under it. 2. Decorative separators between paragraphs, sections or

Re: Lines and decorative separations

2007-10-12 Thread Donn
> \rule{length}{thickness}, for example \rule{3in}{2pt} Great, already a huge improvement. Thanks. \d

Re: Lines and decorative separations

2007-10-12 Thread Helge Hafting
Donn wrote: Hello list. I am suffering from search-term-itis trying to find how to: 1. Draw horizontal lines that are of varying lengths and thickness. Also, perhaps some decorative lines, like double lines with a thin part and a thick part under it. 2. Decorative separators between

Re: configure default paragraph alignment

2007-10-12 Thread Marcelo Acuña
--- Richard Heck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > Check their documentation.) Changing > the display in LyX > is a matter of editing the layout file, in which > alignment is controlled > by the Align directive. If you're using, say, > book.cls, then copy > book.layout to your local LyX

Re: lyx-1.5.1 apa style question

2007-10-12 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Mirko Briemle wrote: Thanks for your response. That helped a lot. I installed the apa and the apacite package but I receive a "Missing \begin{document}" Error when trying to preview the apa document. What can I do to fix this? (By the way I am using lyx-1.5.2 now too. It looks great.) That

Re: Fwd: exercise support in LyX

2007-10-12 Thread Gunnar Lindholm
> What do other people use for exercises? And will this ever be built into > LyX? I have to use ERT to get exercise.sty working. I use \usepackage{answers} To get it working more easy, I put the stuff below into my lyx configuration files. With this I can just press M-g u to insert an

Fwd: exercise support in LyX

2007-10-12 Thread Ramin Nakisa
Hi, I've tried various packages for including exercises in a book I'm writing in LyX. I settled on exercise.sty which is nice because you write all the exercises and their answers, then the command \shipout spews out all the answers since the previous \shipout. This means I can easily put all

bug using lyx-1.5.2 export at the command line?

2007-10-12 Thread Oscar Lopez
Hello When I try to export a pdf file using the command line at my linux box the I get the following message % lyx -e pdf2 file.lyx lyx: SIGSEGV signal caught Sorry, you have found a bug in LyX. Please read the bug-reporting instructions in Help->Introduction and send us a bug report, if

Toggle between documents

2007-10-12 Thread Nicolás
Hi! In Opera and Acrobat I can use Ctrl-Tab to toggle between opened documents. Is there (or can I declare) a similar shortcut in LyX? Cheers, Nicolás

I have a problem with language

2007-10-12 Thread Marcelo Acuña
Hello, When I try to get a solution (before Ignacio's letter) for page numbering in roman instead Roman I changed language from Spanish to American in Document > Config > Language. I can see that roman problem was solved but now I have several titles like Index and Contents in English

Re: Differences using beamer class in lyx-1.5.2 versus lyx-1.4.x

2007-10-12 Thread José Matos
On Thursday 11 October 2007 16:40:51 Paul A. Rubin wrote: > No, I've had no problems opening old beamer presentations (and, like > you, I have a bunch of them).  The format for LyX document files evolves > with new releases, and there is a conversion tool included with LyX to > convert older

Re: Lines and decorative separations

2007-10-12 Thread Donn
> These are called ``rules'' in printer's parlance. Ah, thanks for the keyword. > Some dingbats / ornaments can be used as such as well, so check out > ornament fonts. I have a lot of free/open fonts that I installed via apt-get but I'm not sure why they are not listed in Lyx. I have not had the

Re: Lines and decorative separations

2007-10-12 Thread William Adams
On Oct 12, 2007, at 4:24 AM, Donn wrote: 1. Draw horizontal lines that are of varying lengths and thickness. Also, perhaps some decorative lines, like double lines with a thin part and a thick part under it. These are called ``rules'' in printer's parlance. Some dingbats / ornaments can

Re: Differences using beamer class in lyx-1.5.2 versus lyx-1.4.x

2007-10-12 Thread Oscar Lopez
José Matos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I think that in this case the problem is not lyx2lyx but it is a bug that is > scheduled to be fixed in 1.5.3. Please could you elaborate more on that? I mean, I have tried to produce, using lyx-1.5.2, a minimal example showing the problem and I haven't

Re: configure default paragraph alignment

2007-10-12 Thread Richard Heck
Marcelo Acuña wrote: --- Richard Heck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: Excuse me Richard, You said that I can change align in Lyx screen? Yes, you can change the way the alignment appears on the screen in LyX by editing the layout files, which you'll find in (e.g.)

Nested environments in LyX?

2007-10-12 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, You can nest environments within LaTeX: \begin{parent} \begin{child}Kid #1\end{child} \begin{child}Kid #2\end{child} \begin{child}Kid #3\end{child} \end{parent} Can you do that also within the normal LyX user interface? If so, how? Thanks StevET Steve Litt Books written in LyX:

What's the problem with encoding?

2007-10-12 Thread Armando Duarte Senra Martins
Hello! I am trying to get through with Latex using Lyx to type a document in portuguese. I had a document previously typed with a WYSIWYG. When I imported it to Lyx lots af characters were lost. So I had to do find & replace to restore de accented characters. I tried many options: switched

Re: New docs on making your own list

2007-10-12 Thread Christian Liesen
Steve Litt wrote: I just wrote a document on making your own lists in LaTeX. Here it is: http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/lyx/ownlists.htm Many thanks for sharing this! -- Christian

More on nesting environments

2007-10-12 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, Within LyX, I put in a list environment for several paragraphs, and within those, nested one itemize paragraph, as shown below: === #LyX 1.4.2 created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/ \lyxformat 245 \begin_document \begin_header

Re: More on nesting environments

2007-10-12 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Steve Litt wrote: Within LyX, I put in a list environment for several paragraphs, and within those, nested one itemize paragraph, as shown below: [snip] As you can see, my nesting an itemize paragraph ended the lyxlist environment, instead of nesting. Does anyone know how I can force

Re: Nested environments in LyX?

2007-10-12 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, You can nest environments within LaTeX: \begin{parent} \begin{child}Kid #1\end{child} \begin{child}Kid #2\end{child} \begin{child}Kid #3\end{child} \end{parent} Can you do that also within the normal LyX user interface? If so, how? Yes -- see response to your

Re: LyxWinInstaller Update issue

2007-10-12 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Dave Hewitt schrieb: Can you elaborate on what we need to do to fix our ImageMagick problems when we've used the updater. I did and images aren't handled, just as you indicate. Should I uninstall LyX 1.5.2 from the Add/Remove Programs interface and then just run the small installer for 1.5.2?