Re: LFUN to open label / reference inset dialog

2008-03-23 Thread Bo Peng
> Before posting, I did look through the list of LFUNs (as offered by > the Alt+X command bar). However, I couldn't imagine next-inset-toggle > as the one I was looking for. Me neither, and I spent a whole day re-inventing the wheels. Bo

Non-starter

2008-03-23 Thread Les Sharpe
Good Morning All, Not sure who can best advise me so I am sending to both suggested addresses. I cannot get past the first example/test in the Tutorial (2.1.1 et seq). I type in the suggested sentence and whether I hit the view - dvi item in the drop down menu or the square toolbar dvi butto

Possible bug on document encoding.

2008-03-23 Thread Rudi Gaelzer
I want to report this first here. If you agree that this is a bug, I can file a report... I want to export a LyX file containing figure floats to LaTeX using ASC II language encoding. However, I detected something strange. If I process (view dvi) and/or export the file using LaTeX default enc

Re: LFUN to open label / reference inset dialog

2008-03-23 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 23.03.2008, at 22:53, Pavel Sanda wrote: Anybody an idea? Yes: next-inset-toggle (Ctrl-i with cua.bind) this behaviour is intended? i find the naming confusing. wouldn't be better to have clear distinction between toggling and dialog showing? also what is the relation to dialog-show lfun?

Re: Long table settings problem

2008-03-23 Thread Julio Rojas
Ok. Thx. On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 1:20 PM, Uwe Stöhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Julio Rojas schrieb: > > > Hi, I have been using the long table settings in the attached sample > > document with two tables, ... > > You inserted the longtable into a float. But longtables are desgned to > be longer

Re: Issue with LyX 1.5.3

2008-03-23 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Bruno Azria wrote: Gents, I am a new user of the LyX system, which I find outstanding. I face the following issue: - when I try to open the User's Guide from the LyX Help menu, I get the following error message : "Document class not available : layout file requested by this document is not avai

Re: Fix to quality of screencasts

2008-03-23 Thread Dominik Böhm
On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 11:14 PM, Rex C. Eastbourne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Important note for anyone making flash screencasts using Wink: when you > upload to the Wiki, make sure to upload not just the SWF file, but also the > .htm file and .js file that Wink generates. Then link to the .h

Re: Website re-design ideas

2008-03-23 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Sat, 22 Mar 2008, Rex C. Eastbourne wrote: www.lyx.org. I'd like to get some feedback so we know what people think looks best. Here are some links to some other websites with designs that all look nice, although there's a wide range in their design style. Hi Rex, I asked my girlfriend who

Ask for help!

2008-03-23 Thread WT
Dear LyX Developer, I am a LyX user from China. At first, thank you for giving us such a useful tool. I have some question about the template of LyX. I need to write my thesis in Chinese, so I can't use the inherent template. How can I construct my own template? Could you help me? T

Fix to quality of screencasts

2008-03-23 Thread Rex C. Eastbourne
Hello, Important note for anyone making flash screencasts using Wink: when you upload to the Wiki, make sure to upload not just the SWF file, but also the .htm file and .js file that Wink generates. Then link to the .htm file. This should improve the video quality. For example, compare the qualit

Re: UI changes

2008-03-23 Thread Pavel Sanda
> > -When I first inserted TeX code, I found the label "ERT" confusing, since > > I didn't know what it meant. (However, it is a pretty funny label.) evil red tex(t) :)) p

Re: LFUN to open label / reference inset dialog

2008-03-23 Thread Pavel Sanda
> > Anybody an idea? > > Yes: next-inset-toggle (Ctrl-i with cua.bind) this behaviour is intended? i find the naming confusing. wouldn't be better to have clear distinction between toggling and dialog showing? also what is the relation to dialog-show lfun? pavel

Re: LFUN to open label / reference inset dialog

2008-03-23 Thread Bo Peng
On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 7:50 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Daniel Lohmann wrote: > > Anybody an idea? > > Yes: next-inset-toggle (Ctrl-i with cua.bind) With a patch I have prepared (see another thread), inset-settings would work for InsetGraphics, and InsetLabel, InsetRef

Re: UI changes

2008-03-23 Thread Rex C. Eastbourne
Whoops, didn't reply all: On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 3:24 PM, Rex C. Eastbourne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -Personally, I would change the default background color from pink to some > other color -- white, light grey, light blue, ... > -When I first inserted TeX code, I found the label "ERT" confu

Upload screenshots to wiki! (Was: Request for screenshots)

2008-03-23 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Sun, 23 Mar 2008, Julio Rojas wrote: P.S.: 3rd time I try to send this message. File size limits sucks!!! ;) Hi, This is just a reminder that you can upload the screenshots (or screencasts!) directly to the wiki. Just ask me, or any other developer, for the upload password. /Christian

Re: Using a network printer

2008-03-23 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Fri, 21 Mar 2008, Michael Wojcik wrote: .ps-files... Personally, I think it'd be nice to be able to rpint directly from LyX. Out of curiosity, why? Different work flows I guess... I was writing a bit of math, more or less doing the derivations inside LyX. Now and then I want a hard cop

Re: Is there an AMS report class for LyX?

2008-03-23 Thread Geevarghese Philip
This is fixed now. See the layout file attached. The fix was to add: Preamble \usepackage{amsthm} EndPreamble to the layout file. Yes, sorry. That's elsewhere in the ams class files. Put that in the theorem environment and it will be picked up elsew

Re: feedback on LyX 1.5.1

2008-03-23 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Sun, 23 Mar 2008, Uwe Stöhr wrote: Michael Wojcik schrieb: I believe he meant: "I have some comments regarding the LyX tutorial. I do not want to join a mailing list. I do not want my comments posted to a mailing list. I am not interested in replies to my comments. Why does he posting

Re: Is there an AMS report class for LyX?

2008-03-23 Thread Geevarghese Philip
rgheck wrote: This results in an output file where the theorems etc have the section numbers in their numbering. Eg: Theorem 1.2.1 . I would like to have the theorems etc numbered sequentially,eg:- Theorem 5. I tried replacing "Input amsmaths.inc" with "Input amsmaths-seq.inc", but that res

Re: Website re-design ideas

2008-03-23 Thread John
On Monday 24 March 2008 06:09:32 am Rich Shepard wrote: > On Sun, 23 Mar 2008, Les Denham wrote: > > I would suggest the following rules: > >I did not comment on the various designs because everyone's going to > like something different, so just pick whatever looks good to you. > >Regardles

Issue with LyX 1.5.3

2008-03-23 Thread Bruno Azria
Gents, I am a new user of the LyX system, which I find outstanding. I face the following issue: - when I try to open the User's Guide from the LyX Help menu, I get the following error message : "Document class not available : layout file requested by this document is not available : scrbook.layou

Re: Question about 'keep with next'

2008-03-23 Thread Steve Litt
On Sunday 23 March 2008 09:56, Paul A. Rubin wrote: > James Mansion wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have a writing 'style' that tends to use a lot of bullet lists. I've > > been using 'Itemize' in my Koma-script book. > > > > The style tends to be: > > > > * with a point > > > > * or two > > > > In word

Re: LFUN to open label / reference inset dialog

2008-03-23 Thread rgheck
Steve Litt wrote: On Sunday 23 March 2008 08:30, Daniel Lohmann wrote: Anybody an idea? Otherwise I might add a feature request. Changing an already inserted (bibliographic) reference is a quite common task. It should be, IMHO, possible to do this without having to leave the keyboard. Thank

Re: LFUN to open label / reference inset dialog

2008-03-23 Thread Steve Litt
On Sunday 23 March 2008 08:30, Daniel Lohmann wrote: > Anybody an idea? > > Otherwise I might add a feature request. Changing an already inserted > (bibliographic) reference is a quite common task. It should be, IMHO, > possible to do this without having to leave the keyboard. > > Thanks, > > Danie

Re: Is there an AMS report class for LyX?

2008-03-23 Thread rgheck
Geevarghese Philip wrote: Geevarghese Philip wrote: but there is something wrong with the layout: LyX has no problem processing (using Ctrl-D) the attached file nodef.lyx , in which a Definition is included using tex code. But it gives the error "Undefined control sequence." This is fixed n

Re: Is there an AMS report class for LyX?

2008-03-23 Thread Geevarghese Philip
Geevarghese Philip wrote: but there is something wrong with the layout: LyX has no problem processing (using Ctrl-D) the attached file nodef.lyx , in which a Definition is included using tex code. But it gives the error "Undefined control sequence." This is fixed now. See the layout file att

Re: Request for screenshots

2008-03-23 Thread Dominik Böhm
On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 8:02 PM, Andre Poenitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Since you are at it: Feel free to make proposals how LyX appearance > might be improved. After all, some (most... all...?) of the visual > appearance of the main LyX canvas looks a bit old-fashioned, too. To be honest

Re: Request for screenshots

2008-03-23 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 02:48:26PM -0400, Rex C. Eastbourne wrote: > > > > Would you like people to send them to you directly? It might help if you > > gave some specific list of the kind of screenshots you'd like, at least as a > > starter. > > > > Best regards, > > /Christian > > > Right. It wo

Re: Request for screenshots

2008-03-23 Thread Rex C. Eastbourne
> > Would you like people to send them to you directly? It might help if you > gave some specific list of the kind of screenshots you'd like, at least as a > starter. > > Best regards, > /Christian Right. It would be best if you sent them to me directly. Format: I think it would be most useful i

Re: Long table settings problem

2008-03-23 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Julio Rojas schrieb: Hi, I have been using the long table settings in the attached sample document with two tables, ... You inserted the longtable into a float. But longtables are desgned to be longer than a page while floats are not. A longtble can therefore not really be floated. So take i

Re: feedback on LyX 1.5.1

2008-03-23 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Michael Wojcik schrieb: I believe he meant: "I have some comments regarding the LyX tutorial. I do not want to join a mailing list. I do not want my comments posted to a mailing list. I am not interested in replies to my comments. Why does he posting then his comments? Why sending comments wh

Re: Website re-design ideas

2008-03-23 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sun, 23 Mar 2008, Les Denham wrote: I would suggest the following rules: I did not comment on the various designs because everyone's going to like something different, so just pick whatever looks good to you. Regardless of what layout you choose and how you go about building it (I, too

Re: Using a network printer

2008-03-23 Thread Helge Hafting
Dave Wood wrote: How do I set up Lyx to use a network printer? At the moment I can print by viewing as pdf in kpdf which sees my printer. I would like to be able to print direct from Lyx though, as I sometimes want to print old files and not have to preview them first. I have tried using the cup

Re: Using a network printer

2008-03-23 Thread Michael Wojcik
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 21 Mar 2008, Mark Hansel wrote: A restriction to print exclusively through viewers breaks lyx! There are circumstances where printing an exported ps file makes sense (e.g., multiple collated copies, transmit). All of that can be done through viewers. I don't

Re: feedback on LyX 1.5.1

2008-03-23 Thread Michael Wojcik
Uwe Stöhr wrote: William B. King schrieb: Don't particularly want this posted. Don't want replies. Don't want to join any lists. You asked for feedback, and I'm sending to the only address you gave me. What are you talking about? I believe he meant: "I have some comments regarding the L

Re: Website re-design ideas

2008-03-23 Thread Les Denham
On Sat, 2008-03-22 at 19:01 -0400, Rex C. Eastbourne wrote: > Hello all, > > Over on lyx-devel, I've been discussing doing some re-design to the look and > feel of www.lyx.org. I'd like to get some feedback so we know what people > think looks best. Here are some links to some other websites with

Re: Is there an AMS report class for LyX?

2008-03-23 Thread Geevarghese Philip
rgheck wrote: Geevarghese Philip wrote: Hi, Is there a report class available for LyX that is an analogue of the article(ams) class that is present in LyX? I am writing a report and couldn't find a LyX report class with the AMS environments (Algorithm, Theorem, Lemma, Corollary, ...) built

Re: Website re-design ideas

2008-03-23 Thread David Hewitt
SciPy Rex Eastbourne wrote: > > Hello all, > > Over on lyx-devel, I've been discussing doing some re-design to the look > and > feel of www.lyx.org. I'd like to get some feedback so we know what people > think looks best. Here are some links to some other websites with designs > that all look

Re: Website re-design ideas

2008-03-23 Thread killermike
In addition to my other comments, I like the SciPy.org site too. For some reason, I couldn't access that site this morning. -- http://www.unmusic.co.uk - about me, writing, music, gender, geek sitcom Previous three articles: Linux for mother - http://www.linux.com/feature/125799 IBM refuse to op

Re: Suggestion for bibliography

2008-03-23 Thread rgheck
James Mansion wrote: I find it distracting to have to go to the bibliography section and use the (handy!) bibiography editor and then go back to where I was to add a Citation. It would be really handy if the Add Citation dialog had an option to create a new one and pop in a reference to it in

Re: LFUN to open label / reference inset dialog

2008-03-23 Thread rgheck
Daniel Lohmann wrote: Anybody an idea? Otherwise I might add a feature request. Changing an already inserted (bibliographic) reference is a quite common task. It should be, IMHO, possible to do this without having to leave the keyboard. If the cursor is directly in front of the citation inse

Re: Is there an AMS report class for LyX?

2008-03-23 Thread rgheck
Geevarghese Philip wrote: Hi, Is there a report class available for LyX that is an analogue of the article(ams) class that is present in LyX? I am writing a report and couldn't find a LyX report class with the AMS environments (Algorithm, Theorem, Lemma, Corollary, ...) built into it. No

Re: Question about 'keep with next'

2008-03-23 Thread Paul A. Rubin
James Mansion wrote: Hi, I have a writing 'style' that tends to use a lot of bullet lists. I've been using 'Itemize' in my Koma-script book. The style tends to be: * with a point * or two In word annd OOo I use 'keep with next' and 'don't break paragraph' and widow and orphan control and

Re: Website re-design ideas

2008-03-23 Thread Julio Rojas
For me SciPy and Ruby (in that order) are the best. Both look really professionally designed, but ScyPy site uses all the screen, letting you spread the information in a better way. All you have to do is pick the color scheme, which at least by my tastes should include blue, put the logo/mascot in

Announcement: Screencasts in the wiki

2008-03-23 Thread Dominik Böhm
Hello everyone, I would like to inform you, that there is a new section in the wiki with screencasts (recordings of the screen) that demonstrate and document certain features of LyX. You can find it here: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Screencasts At the moment there are just a few screencasts that illu

Re: Website re-design ideas

2008-03-23 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Rex C. Eastbourne wrote: Hello all, Over on lyx-devel, I've been discussing doing some re-design to the look and feel of www.lyx.org. I'd like to get some feedback so we know what people think looks best. Here are some links to some other websites with designs that all look nice, although there'

Re: Request for screenshots

2008-03-23 Thread Julio Rojas
My "snippet"... A labeled table float with two tables inside table cells and a big multiline equation inside another cell. P.S.: 3rd time I try to send this message. File size limits sucks!!! ;) -- - Julio Rojas [EMAIL PROTECTED] <>

Suggestion for bibliography

2008-03-23 Thread James Mansion
I find it distracting to have to go to the bibliography section and use the (handy!) bibiography editor and then go back to where I was to add a Citation. It would be really handy if the Add Citation dialog had an option to create a new one and pop in a reference to it in one go. I'm using 1

Question about 'keep with next'

2008-03-23 Thread James Mansion
Hi, I have a writing 'style' that tends to use a lot of bullet lists. I've been using 'Itemize' in my Koma-script book. The style tends to be: * with a point * or two In word annd OOo I use 'keep with next' and 'don't break paragraph' and widow and orphan control and the layout engine gen

Re: LFUN to open label / reference inset dialog

2008-03-23 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 23.03.2008, at 13:50, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Daniel Lohmann wrote: Anybody an idea? Yes: next-inset-toggle (Ctrl-i with cua.bind) Otherwise I might add a feature request. Changing an already inserted (bibliographic) reference is a quite common task. It should be, IMHO, possible to do

Re: LFUN to open label / reference inset dialog

2008-03-23 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Daniel Lohmann wrote: > Anybody an idea? Yes: next-inset-toggle (Ctrl-i with cua.bind) > Otherwise I might add a feature request. Changing an already inserted   > (bibliographic) reference is a quite common task. It should be, IMHO,   > possible to do this without having to leave the keyboard. D

Re: Precompiled binaries for LyX1.5.x on Linux

2008-03-23 Thread Geevarghese Philip
Richard Heck wrote: Steve Litt wrote: On Friday 21 March 2008 02:14, rgheck wrote: Geevarghese Philip wrote: Hi, I have no root permission on my Linux machine, and I would like to install LyX1.5.x on it. Is there a way to get precompiled binaries for Lyx1.5.x that can be installed in m

LFUN to open label / reference inset dialog

2008-03-23 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Anybody an idea? Otherwise I might add a feature request. Changing an already inserted (bibliographic) reference is a quite common task. It should be, IMHO, possible to do this without having to leave the keyboard. Thanks, Daniel Begin forwarded message: From: Daniel Lohmann <[EMAIL PR

Re: Request for screenshots

2008-03-23 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Sat, 22 Mar 2008, Rex C. Eastbourne wrote: Depending on our final website design, I think it might be nice to include couple of small image snippets of what LyX looks like on the front page. I like the way the following site has several images of the software in action: http://www.r-project

Is there an AMS report class for LyX?

2008-03-23 Thread Geevarghese Philip
Hi, Is there a report class available for LyX that is an analogue of the article(ams) class that is present in LyX? I am writing a report and couldn't find a LyX report class with the AMS environments (Algorithm, Theorem, Lemma, Corollary, ...) built into it. Thanks, Philip

Re: Request for screenshots

2008-03-23 Thread Dominik Böhm
On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 12:43 AM, Rex C. Eastbourne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It would be great if some people could send in some images, along the lines > of the attached image, that are nice graphical demonstrations of some > functionality of LyX (equations, images, references, bibliography, y