Dumb LyX question (fwd)

2007-12-20 Thread christian . ridderstrom
I got the following question from a friend, any ideas? (I'm not on Mac...) --- Thanks -- it's probably really stupid, so try not to laugh... When I click the pdf icon (LyX 5 but the same happens in older versions with menu commands), it opens a viewer (in my case Preview.app on

Re: \includeonly NOT WORKING in LyX 1.5.2

2007-12-20 Thread Siegfried MEUNIER-GUTTIN-CLUZEL
César Vasques wrote: I am using LyX version 1.5.2 and I haven't been able to make the command "\includeonly{file1.lyx,file2.lyx,...}" placed in the preamble work. I use it to make LyX only to include some of the chapter files of a master document with entries "\include{*.lyx}". Can anyb

Re: smarten up quotation marks

2007-12-20 Thread Michael Thompson
I import a lot of text from online sources and databases, and often end > up with straight quotation marks. > > Can anyone suggest an efficient search&replace or macro to replace them > all with proper quotation marks (i.e., 66 and 99)? If your problem is the one familiar to me, then it isn't

smarten up quotation marks

2007-12-20 Thread Eran Kaplinsky
I import a lot of text from online sources and databases, and often end up with straight quotation marks. Can anyone suggest an efficient search&replace or macro to replace them all with proper quotation marks (i.e., 66 and 99)? I don't mind working on the source (with TeXnic Center). Thank

Re: Find & Replace: using special characters and formatting

2007-12-20 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Tobias Krause wrote: Hi Guenter and Paul, thanks for your answers! This was pretty much what I was doing - I was just not sure if it would mess up something since the line break changes,... Is there something special I have to be carefully about? Toby I don't know enough to answer that, ot

Re: Don't want equations numbered within sections

2007-12-20 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Neal Becker wrote: Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Neal Becker wrote: lyx-1.5.2. I chose ams article class. I don't have any sections in this short memo, and the first equation is 0.1. Exporting latexpdf, I see: \numberwithin{equation}{section} %% Comment out for sequentially-numbered \numberwith

Re: Don't want equations numbered within sections

2007-12-20 Thread Neal Becker
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > Neal Becker wrote: >> lyx-1.5.2.  I chose ams article class.  I don't have any sections in this >> short memo, and the first equation is 0.1. >> >> Exporting latexpdf, I see: >> \numberwithin{equation}{section} %% Comment out for sequentially-numbered >> \numberwithin{f

Re: \includeonly NOT WORKING in LyX 1.5.2

2007-12-20 Thread rgheck
César Vasques wrote: Not working. How do I include the full path? Something like this: "c:/path/dir/file.lyx"? Not working. Yes, that was my idea, but if it's not working, then I don't know what the problem is. Try exporting to LaTeX and looking at the source. rh Cesar - Original Mess

Re: \includeonly NOT WORKING in LyX 1.5.2

2007-12-20 Thread César Vasques
Not working. How do I include the full path? Something like this: "c:/path/dir/file.lyx"? Not working. Cesar - Original Message - From: "rgheck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "César Vasques" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2007 7:35 PM Subject: Re: \includeonly NOT WORK

Re: Periods Not at End of Sentence

2007-12-20 Thread Bruce Pourciau
On Dec 20, 2007, at 12:06 PM, rgheck wrote: Bruce Pourciau wrote: On Dec 20, 2007, at 11:36 AM, Bennett Helm wrote: On Dec 20, 2007, at 12:16 PM, rgheck wrote: Is there some way in LyX to do this: Mr.\ Dedekind without using ERT? Insert > Formatting > Inter-word space. Bennett Thanks

Re: \includeonly NOT WORKING in LyX 1.5.2

2007-12-20 Thread rgheck
César Vasques wrote: I am using LyX version 1.5.2 and I haven't been able to make the command "\includeonly{file1.lyx,file2.lyx,...}" placed in the preamble work. I use it to make LyX only to include some of the chapter files of a master document with entries "\include{*.lyx}". Can anybody

\includeonly NOT WORKING in LyX 1.5.2

2007-12-20 Thread César Vasques
I am using LyX version 1.5.2 and I haven't been able to make the command "\includeonly{file1.lyx,file2.lyx,...}" placed in the preamble work. I use it to make LyX only to include some of the chapter files of a master document with entries "\include{*.lyx}". Can anybody tell me if it SHOULD or S

Re: Periods Not at End of Sentence

2007-12-20 Thread Uwe Stöhr
rgheck schrieb: Is there some way in LyX to do this: Mr.\ Dedekind without using ERT? Ctrl-Space, or better in this case Shift-Ctrl-Space regards Uwe

Re: Periods Not at End of Sentence

2007-12-20 Thread rgheck
Bruce Pourciau wrote: On Dec 20, 2007, at 11:36 AM, Bennett Helm wrote: On Dec 20, 2007, at 12:16 PM, rgheck wrote: Is there some way in LyX to do this: Mr.\ Dedekind without using ERT? Insert > Formatting > Inter-word space. Bennett Thanks Bennett. You can also cut down on the number

Re: Periods Not at End of Sentence

2007-12-20 Thread Bruce Pourciau
On Dec 20, 2007, at 11:36 AM, Bennett Helm wrote: On Dec 20, 2007, at 12:16 PM, rgheck wrote: Is there some way in LyX to do this: Mr.\ Dedekind without using ERT? Insert > Formatting > Inter-word space. Bennett You can also cut down on the number of periods that don't end sentence

Re: Find & Replace: using special characters and formatting

2007-12-20 Thread Tobias Krause
Hi Guenter and Paul, thanks for your answers! This was pretty much what I was doing - I was just not sure if it would mess up something since the line break changes,... Is there something special I have to be carefully about? Toby

Re: Periods Not at End of Sentence

2007-12-20 Thread Bennett Helm
On Dec 20, 2007, at 12:16 PM, rgheck wrote: Is there some way in LyX to do this: Mr.\ Dedekind without using ERT? Insert > Formatting > Inter-word space. Bennett

Periods Not at End of Sentence

2007-12-20 Thread rgheck
Is there some way in LyX to do this: Mr.\ Dedekind without using ERT? Richard

Re: Hebrew on Mac OS X

2007-12-20 Thread Charles de Miramon
Abdelrazak Younes wrote: >> On a related note, don't you guys think that an application should >> work out of the box, without having to go hunt around the internet for >> packages and such? > > Sure and you are welcome to help us toward this goal ;-) > I guess that for Hebrew and Arabic we co

Re: LyX and biblatex

2007-12-20 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Timo Laine wrote: > I tried this, but unfortunately it does not seem to change anything. > It seems the problem is somehow deeper. Could you provide a small example file? Jürgen

Re: LyX and biblatex

2007-12-20 Thread Timo Laine
Hi! \usepackage[% bibstyle=authoryear-comp, citestyle=authoryear-comp, natbib=true, sorting=nyvt, sortcites=true] {biblatex} I tried this, but unfortunately it does not seem to change anything. It seems the problem is somehow deeper. Is there anythi

Re: LyX and biblatex

2007-12-20 Thread K. Elo
Juergen Spitzmueller wrote (20.12.2007): > K. Elo wrote: > > In a note? You mean your bibliography-field is in a yellow note? > > Well, if this is the case, this might be Your problem. Just move > > the "Bibtex generated bibliography"-field to be part of your normal > > text (at the very end of you

Re: Conversion to OpenOffice error

2007-12-20 Thread Hellmut Weber
Hi Les, Les Denham schrieb: On Wednesday 19 December 2007, Hellmut Weber wrote: Hi, as far as I know are ligatures (ff, ft, ...) special glyphs, i.e. the two letters are represented by ONE symbol which (surprise?) is not recognized by text processing software. ... and maybe cannot be recognized

Re: LyX and biblatex

2007-12-20 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
K. Elo wrote: > In a note? You mean your bibliography-field is in a yellow note? Well, > if this is the case, this might be Your problem. Just move the "Bibtex > generated bibliography"-field to be part of your normal text (at the > very end of your document). No, for biblatex, it must be in a no

Re: LyX and biblatex

2007-12-20 Thread K. Elo
Hi again! Timo Laine wrote (20.12.2007): > I inserted a BibTeX Generated Bibliography within a LyX note. I hope > this is the right way to do it but I am not completely sure. In a note? You mean your bibliography-field is in a yellow note? Well, if this is the case, this might be Your problem. J