Re: easiest way to type accents, graves, and other interesting letters

2008-02-06 Thread G. Milde
On 5.02.08, rgheck wrote: G. Milde wrote: Nothing's being done immediately. Actually, it would help a lot if you could play around with the changes that have been suggested, namely: My experiences with Debian Gnu/Linux and German keyboard: \bind M-apostrophe quote-insert single \bind

Re: Fonts for Lyx

2008-02-06 Thread Helge Hafting
John Culleton wrote: I use a variety of fonts with e.g. pdftex or Context. But when I fire up Lyx I find about five available. What can be done to make my additional fonts, some of which are purchased, available to Lyx? I use Slackware Linux and Lyx 1.5.1. Is the answer to the above

Last page customizing in Koma-Script (book)

2008-02-06 Thread David Hewitt
I need to have a single final page in a Koma-Script book that I can format rather freely. I can always make a separate single-page PDF, but I was wondering if there was a way to force it into the regular document. - David Hewitt Virginia Institute of Marine Science

Presentations in LyX?

2008-02-06 Thread bigblop
I normally use: \documentclass{beamer} when I create presentations in LaTeX. But how compatible is LyX with Beamer? I just imported an old beamer tex file, but it looks very confusing. Am I better of using a traditional latex editor for presentations/beamers? -- View this message in context:

Re: custom layout

2008-02-06 Thread Robert Orr
I did something similar. I used a 1x2 table at each step and in the table I put the graphic in one column, the text in the other. Perhaps that is workable for you too. Z. Bian wrote: I am trying to write a book with lyx. The book is mostly tutorials with step by step instructions. For

Re: Presentations in LyX?

2008-02-06 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 6 Feb 2008, bigblop wrote: \documentclass{beamer} when I create presentations in LaTeX. But how compatible is LyX with Beamer? Perfectly compatible. Read the beamer docs for specific setup instructions to use it within LyX. Rich -- Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D. |

Repeating numbered Examples

2008-02-06 Thread Manolo Martínez
Hello, I'm writing a paper using numbered examples, with Covington.sty. I would like to repeat one example later in the text, like this *** Some text (1) The first example (2) The second example Some more text (3) The third example (1) The first example *** I have found no easy way to do

Exporting non-unicode characters to Latex

2008-02-06 Thread ashinpan
Hi! All I usually use LyX 1.5.3 and XeTeX to type Pali, Sanskrit and (mainly) English in the same document. After finishing the contents of my documents, I export it to Latex and run XeTeX to convert to PDF. As LyX 1.5.3 is Unicode-compliant, my tex editor supports unicode characters,

Re: Last page customizing in Koma-Script (book)

2008-02-06 Thread Uwe Stöhr
David Hewitt schrieb: I need to have a single final page in a Koma-Script book that I can format rather freely. I wouls simply insert a forced newpage at the end, this gives you a new page that you can formnat as you like. To turn off the default page layout, use the commands \thispagestyle

how to add a header to the document?

2008-02-06 Thread Sophie Vandenbussche
Hello I am looking for a way to add a header on the pages of a book or report class. More precisely, I would like to have at the top of each page the title of the corresponding part of the document (except on the page where the title of the part is written of course, and except at the

Re: Exporting non-unicode characters to Latex

2008-02-06 Thread Uwe Stöhr
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: I export it to Latex and run XeTeX to convert to PDF. As LyX 1.5.3 is Unicode-compliant, my tex editor supports unicode characters, and XeTeX can access all unicode fonts in the operating system, I do not need in my latex file the tex formatting for diacritics,

Re: Presentations in LyX?

2008-02-06 Thread David Hewitt
A search of the mail archives will get you started. E.g., http://www.nabble.com/Latex-presentation-with-lyx-to15043014.html There's stuff on the LyX wiki specific to Beamer. I normally use: \documentclass{beamer} when I create presentations in LaTeX. But how compatible is LyX with

vertical spacing between table rows

2008-02-06 Thread Adrian Peter
Hi, I was wondering if anyone could tell me how to manually adjust (may be through ERT) the row spacing in a large table. Some rows have a large space between the previous row and I would like to reduce it. I tried looking in the wiki tables section but could not find anything. Thank you

Re: Last page customizing in Koma-Script (book)

2008-02-06 Thread David Hewitt
I need to have a single final page in a Koma-Script book that I can format rather freely. I wouls simply insert a forced newpage at the end, this gives you a new page that you can formnat as you like. To turn off the default page layout, use the commands \thispagestyle and the like.

Re: Last page customizing in Koma-Script (book)

2008-02-06 Thread Uwe Stöhr
David Hewitt schrieb: inserted the following commands in an ERT box: \newpage This command can also be entered wothout ERT, see the menu Insert- Formatting. regards Uwe

Re: vertical spacing between table rows

2008-02-06 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Adrian Peter schrieb: I was wondering if anyone could tell me how to manually adjust (may be through ERT) the row spacing in a large table. Some rows have a large space between the previous row and I would like to reduce it. I tried looking in the wiki tables section but could not find

Italian Aspell Dictionary corrupt?

2008-02-06 Thread Leonardo Valeri Manera
Even downloading and installing manually fails... Mmm, yeah, looks like the italian dictionary installation file for win32 is corrupt, who do I talk to? Cheers, Leo

Re: Italian Aspell Dictionary corrupt?

2008-02-06 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Leonardo Valeri Manera schrieb: Even downloading and installing manually fails... Try to install it manually from here: http://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5117release_id=12973 (This repository is used by this installer: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinInstaller)

Re: Italian Aspell Dictionary corrupt?

2008-02-06 Thread Joost Verburg
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Leonardo Valeri Manera schrieb: Even downloading and installing manually fails... Try to install it manually from here: http://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5117release_id=12973 The Italian dictionary on ftp.lyx.org is indeed corrupt. You can

Re: Italian Aspell Dictionary corrupt?

2008-02-06 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Joost Verburg schrieb: Uwe, the dictionaries on your berlios site are outdated. I would recommend you to update them to the latest version from ftp.lyx.org. Did I miss a new aspell release, or have you updated them silently? Have you rebuilt all dictionaries or only some of them? The next

Re: how to add a header to the document?

2008-02-06 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Sophie Vandenbussche schrieb: I am looking for a way to add a header on the pages of a book or report class. Select headings or fancy as page layout in the document settings menu. Headings should be what you want, to be able to customize the headings, use fancy and have a look at the

RE: vertical spacing between table rows

2008-02-06 Thread Adrian Peter
I looked at the Embedded Objects manual but it was not clear how I could get my desired effect of just adjusting the space between consecutive rows. I'm kind of new to Latex so I'm sure I missed something. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. Adrian -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

Printing from LyX on a mac

2008-02-06 Thread jf7
Hi, I've been using LyX for years -- since maybe 1.2 or earlier. I've always been able to print well-formatted out-put directly from LyX. But now on 1.5.3 I cannot. I have dvips defined as the print command in preferences. And it does print but it cuts off the footer no matter what I do.

Re: Printing from LyX on a mac

2008-02-06 Thread M-L
On Thu, 7 Feb 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] shared this with us all: --} --} Hi, I've been using LyX for years -- since maybe 1.2 or earlier. I've --} always been able to print well-formatted out-put directly from LyX. --} But now on 1.5.3 I cannot. --} --} I have dvips defined as the print command in

Re: easiest way to type accents, graves, and other interesting letters

2008-02-06 Thread G. Milde
On 5.02.08, rgheck wrote: G. Milde wrote: Nothing's being done immediately. Actually, it would help a lot if you could play around with the changes that have been suggested, namely: My experiences with Debian Gnu/Linux and German keyboard: \bind M-apostrophe quote-insert single \bind

Re: Fonts for Lyx

2008-02-06 Thread Helge Hafting
John Culleton wrote: I use a variety of fonts with e.g. pdftex or Context. But when I fire up Lyx I find about five available. What can be done to make my additional fonts, some of which are purchased, available to Lyx? I use Slackware Linux and Lyx 1.5.1. Is the answer to the above

Last page customizing in Koma-Script (book)

2008-02-06 Thread David Hewitt
I need to have a single final page in a Koma-Script book that I can format rather freely. I can always make a separate single-page PDF, but I was wondering if there was a way to force it into the regular document. - David Hewitt Virginia Institute of Marine Science

Presentations in LyX?

2008-02-06 Thread bigblop
I normally use: \documentclass{beamer} when I create presentations in LaTeX. But how compatible is LyX with Beamer? I just imported an old beamer tex file, but it looks very confusing. Am I better of using a traditional latex editor for presentations/beamers? -- View this message in context:

Re: custom layout

2008-02-06 Thread Robert Orr
I did something similar. I used a 1x2 table at each step and in the table I put the graphic in one column, the text in the other. Perhaps that is workable for you too. Z. Bian wrote: I am trying to write a book with lyx. The book is mostly tutorials with step by step instructions. For

Re: Presentations in LyX?

2008-02-06 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 6 Feb 2008, bigblop wrote: \documentclass{beamer} when I create presentations in LaTeX. But how compatible is LyX with Beamer? Perfectly compatible. Read the beamer docs for specific setup instructions to use it within LyX. Rich -- Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D. |

Repeating numbered Examples

2008-02-06 Thread Manolo Martínez
Hello, I'm writing a paper using numbered examples, with Covington.sty. I would like to repeat one example later in the text, like this *** Some text (1) The first example (2) The second example Some more text (3) The third example (1) The first example *** I have found no easy way to do

Exporting non-unicode characters to Latex

2008-02-06 Thread ashinpan
Hi! All I usually use LyX 1.5.3 and XeTeX to type Pali, Sanskrit and (mainly) English in the same document. After finishing the contents of my documents, I export it to Latex and run XeTeX to convert to PDF. As LyX 1.5.3 is Unicode-compliant, my tex editor supports unicode characters,

Re: Last page customizing in Koma-Script (book)

2008-02-06 Thread Uwe Stöhr
David Hewitt schrieb: I need to have a single final page in a Koma-Script book that I can format rather freely. I wouls simply insert a forced newpage at the end, this gives you a new page that you can formnat as you like. To turn off the default page layout, use the commands \thispagestyle

how to add a header to the document?

2008-02-06 Thread Sophie Vandenbussche
Hello I am looking for a way to add a header on the pages of a book or report class. More precisely, I would like to have at the top of each page the title of the corresponding part of the document (except on the page where the title of the part is written of course, and except at the

Re: Exporting non-unicode characters to Latex

2008-02-06 Thread Uwe Stöhr
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: I export it to Latex and run XeTeX to convert to PDF. As LyX 1.5.3 is Unicode-compliant, my tex editor supports unicode characters, and XeTeX can access all unicode fonts in the operating system, I do not need in my latex file the tex formatting for diacritics,

Re: Presentations in LyX?

2008-02-06 Thread David Hewitt
A search of the mail archives will get you started. E.g., http://www.nabble.com/Latex-presentation-with-lyx-to15043014.html There's stuff on the LyX wiki specific to Beamer. I normally use: \documentclass{beamer} when I create presentations in LaTeX. But how compatible is LyX with

vertical spacing between table rows

2008-02-06 Thread Adrian Peter
Hi, I was wondering if anyone could tell me how to manually adjust (may be through ERT) the row spacing in a large table. Some rows have a large space between the previous row and I would like to reduce it. I tried looking in the wiki tables section but could not find anything. Thank you

Re: Last page customizing in Koma-Script (book)

2008-02-06 Thread David Hewitt
I need to have a single final page in a Koma-Script book that I can format rather freely. I wouls simply insert a forced newpage at the end, this gives you a new page that you can formnat as you like. To turn off the default page layout, use the commands \thispagestyle and the like.

Re: Last page customizing in Koma-Script (book)

2008-02-06 Thread Uwe Stöhr
David Hewitt schrieb: inserted the following commands in an ERT box: \newpage This command can also be entered wothout ERT, see the menu Insert- Formatting. regards Uwe

Re: vertical spacing between table rows

2008-02-06 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Adrian Peter schrieb: I was wondering if anyone could tell me how to manually adjust (may be through ERT) the row spacing in a large table. Some rows have a large space between the previous row and I would like to reduce it. I tried looking in the wiki tables section but could not find

Italian Aspell Dictionary corrupt?

2008-02-06 Thread Leonardo Valeri Manera
Even downloading and installing manually fails... Mmm, yeah, looks like the italian dictionary installation file for win32 is corrupt, who do I talk to? Cheers, Leo

Re: Italian Aspell Dictionary corrupt?

2008-02-06 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Leonardo Valeri Manera schrieb: Even downloading and installing manually fails... Try to install it manually from here: http://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5117release_id=12973 (This repository is used by this installer: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinInstaller)

Re: Italian Aspell Dictionary corrupt?

2008-02-06 Thread Joost Verburg
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Leonardo Valeri Manera schrieb: Even downloading and installing manually fails... Try to install it manually from here: http://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5117release_id=12973 The Italian dictionary on ftp.lyx.org is indeed corrupt. You can

Re: Italian Aspell Dictionary corrupt?

2008-02-06 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Joost Verburg schrieb: Uwe, the dictionaries on your berlios site are outdated. I would recommend you to update them to the latest version from ftp.lyx.org. Did I miss a new aspell release, or have you updated them silently? Have you rebuilt all dictionaries or only some of them? The next

Re: how to add a header to the document?

2008-02-06 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Sophie Vandenbussche schrieb: I am looking for a way to add a header on the pages of a book or report class. Select headings or fancy as page layout in the document settings menu. Headings should be what you want, to be able to customize the headings, use fancy and have a look at the

RE: vertical spacing between table rows

2008-02-06 Thread Adrian Peter
I looked at the Embedded Objects manual but it was not clear how I could get my desired effect of just adjusting the space between consecutive rows. I'm kind of new to Latex so I'm sure I missed something. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. Adrian -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

Printing from LyX on a mac

2008-02-06 Thread jf7
Hi, I've been using LyX for years -- since maybe 1.2 or earlier. I've always been able to print well-formatted out-put directly from LyX. But now on 1.5.3 I cannot. I have dvips defined as the print command in preferences. And it does print but it cuts off the footer no matter what I do.

Re: Printing from LyX on a mac

2008-02-06 Thread M-L
On Thu, 7 Feb 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] shared this with us all: --} --} Hi, I've been using LyX for years -- since maybe 1.2 or earlier. I've --} always been able to print well-formatted out-put directly from LyX. --} But now on 1.5.3 I cannot. --} --} I have dvips defined as the print command in

Re: easiest way to type accents, graves, and other interesting letters

2008-02-06 Thread G. Milde
On 5.02.08, rgheck wrote: > G. Milde wrote: > Nothing's being done immediately. Actually, it would help a lot if you > could play around with the changes that have been suggested, namely: My experiences with Debian Gnu/Linux and German keyboard: > \bind "M-apostrophe" "quote-insert single" >

Re: Fonts for Lyx

2008-02-06 Thread Helge Hafting
John Culleton wrote: I use a variety of fonts with e.g. pdftex or Context. But when I fire up Lyx I find about five available. What can be done to make my additional fonts, some of which are purchased, available to Lyx? I use Slackware Linux and Lyx 1.5.1. Is the answer to the above

Last page customizing in Koma-Script (book)

2008-02-06 Thread David Hewitt
I need to have a single final page in a Koma-Script book that I can format rather freely. I can always make a separate single-page PDF, but I was wondering if there was a way to force it into the regular document. - David Hewitt Virginia Institute of Marine Science

Presentations in LyX?

2008-02-06 Thread bigblop
I normally use: \documentclass{beamer} when I create presentations in LaTeX. But how compatible is LyX with Beamer? I just imported an old beamer tex file, but it looks very confusing. Am I better of using a traditional latex editor for presentations/beamers? -- View this message in context:

Re: custom layout

2008-02-06 Thread Robert Orr
I did something similar. I used a 1x2 table at each step and in the table I put the graphic in one column, the text in the other. Perhaps that is workable for you too. > Z. Bian wrote: > > I am trying to write a book with lyx. The book is > mostly tutorials with step by step instructions.

Re: Presentations in LyX?

2008-02-06 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 6 Feb 2008, bigblop wrote: \documentclass{beamer} when I create presentations in LaTeX. But how compatible is LyX with Beamer? Perfectly compatible. Read the beamer docs for specific setup instructions to use it within LyX. Rich -- Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D. |

Repeating numbered Examples

2008-02-06 Thread Manolo Martínez
Hello, I'm writing a paper using numbered examples, with Covington.sty. I would like to repeat one example later in the text, like this *** Some text (1) The first example (2) The second example Some more text (3) The third example (1) The first example *** I have found no easy way to do

Exporting non-unicode characters to Latex

2008-02-06 Thread ashinpan
> > Hi! All > > I usually use LyX 1.5.3 and XeTeX to type Pali, Sanskrit and (mainly) > English in the same document. After finishing the contents of my > documents, > I export it to Latex and run XeTeX to convert to PDF. > > As LyX 1.5.3 is Unicode-compliant, my tex editor supports unicode >

Re: Last page customizing in Koma-Script (book)

2008-02-06 Thread Uwe Stöhr
David Hewitt schrieb: I need to have a single final page in a Koma-Script book that I can format rather freely. I wouls simply insert a forced newpage at the end, this gives you a new page that you can formnat as you like. To turn off the default page layout, use the commands \thispagestyle

how to add a header to the document?

2008-02-06 Thread Sophie Vandenbussche
Hello I am looking for a way to add a header on the pages of a book or report class. More precisely, I would like to have at the top of each page the title of the corresponding part of the document (except on the page where the title of the part is written of course, and except at the

Re: Exporting non-unicode characters to Latex

2008-02-06 Thread Uwe Stöhr
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: I export it to Latex and run XeTeX to convert to PDF. As LyX 1.5.3 is Unicode-compliant, my tex editor supports unicode characters, and XeTeX can access all unicode fonts in the operating system, I do not need in my latex file the tex formatting for diacritics,

Re: Presentations in LyX?

2008-02-06 Thread David Hewitt
A search of the mail archives will get you started. E.g., http://www.nabble.com/Latex-presentation-with-lyx-to15043014.html There's stuff on the LyX wiki specific to Beamer. > I normally use: > > \documentclass{beamer} > > when I create presentations in LaTeX. But how compatible is LyX

vertical spacing between table rows

2008-02-06 Thread Adrian Peter
Hi, I was wondering if anyone could tell me how to manually adjust (may be through ERT) the row spacing in a large table. Some rows have a large space between the previous row and I would like to reduce it. I tried looking in the wiki tables section but could not find anything. Thank you

Re: Last page customizing in Koma-Script (book)

2008-02-06 Thread David Hewitt
> > I need to have a single final page in a Koma-Script book that I can > format > > rather freely. > > I wouls simply insert a forced newpage at the end, this gives you a new > page that you can formnat as > you like. To turn off the default page layout, use the commands > \thispagestyle and the

Re: Last page customizing in Koma-Script (book)

2008-02-06 Thread Uwe Stöhr
David Hewitt schrieb: inserted the following commands in an ERT box: \newpage This command can also be entered wothout ERT, see the menu Insert-> Formatting. regards Uwe

Re: vertical spacing between table rows

2008-02-06 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Adrian Peter schrieb: I was wondering if anyone could tell me how to manually adjust (may be through ERT) the row spacing in a large table. Some rows have a large space between the previous row and I would like to reduce it. I tried looking in the wiki tables section but could not find

Italian Aspell Dictionary corrupt?

2008-02-06 Thread Leonardo Valeri Manera
Even downloading and installing manually fails... Mmm, yeah, looks like the italian dictionary installation file for win32 is corrupt, who do I talk to? Cheers, Leo

Re: Italian Aspell Dictionary corrupt?

2008-02-06 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Leonardo Valeri Manera schrieb: Even downloading and installing manually fails... Try to install it manually from here: http://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5117_id=12973 (This repository is used by this installer: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinInstaller) regards

Re: Italian Aspell Dictionary corrupt?

2008-02-06 Thread Joost Verburg
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Leonardo Valeri Manera schrieb: Even downloading and installing manually fails... Try to install it manually from here: http://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5117_id=12973 The Italian dictionary on ftp.lyx.org is indeed corrupt. You can download the

Re: Italian Aspell Dictionary corrupt?

2008-02-06 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Joost Verburg schrieb: Uwe, the dictionaries on your berlios site are outdated. I would recommend you to update them to the latest version from ftp.lyx.org. Did I miss a new aspell release, or have you updated them silently? Have you rebuilt all dictionaries or only some of them? The next

Re: how to add a header to the document?

2008-02-06 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Sophie Vandenbussche schrieb: I am looking for a way to add a header on the pages of a book or report class. Select "headings" or "fancy" as page layout in the document settings menu. Headings should be what you want, to be able to customize the headings, use fancy and have a look at the

RE: vertical spacing between table rows

2008-02-06 Thread Adrian Peter
I looked at the Embedded Objects manual but it was not clear how I could get my desired effect of just adjusting the space between consecutive rows. I'm kind of new to Latex so I'm sure I missed something. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. Adrian -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

Printing from LyX on a mac

2008-02-06 Thread jf7
Hi, I've been using LyX for years -- since maybe 1.2 or earlier. I've always been able to print well-formatted out-put directly from LyX. But now on 1.5.3 I cannot. I have dvips defined as the print command in preferences. And it does print but it cuts off the footer no matter what I do.

Re: Printing from LyX on a mac

2008-02-06 Thread M-L
On Thu, 7 Feb 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] shared this with us all: >--} >--} Hi, I've been using LyX for years -- since maybe 1.2 or earlier. I've >--} always been able to print well-formatted out-put directly from LyX. >--} But now on 1.5.3 I cannot. >--} >--} I have dvips defined as the print