Re: multiplatform vector drawing program to use

2008-04-07 Thread G. Milde
On 7.04.08, Steve Litt wrote: > On Monday 07 April 2008 10:54, Oscar Lopez wrote: > > ... My colleague uses the windows > > version of lyx and I use the linux version. ... > > Now we are concerned with the use of a common vector drawing program > > that can be used at both platforms. > Try in

Re: Lyx crashing on custom template

2008-04-07 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 01:41:14PM +1000, hectic styler wrote: > The template can be found here > > http://www.threewordslong.com/blog/entry/63/A_LyX_Thesis_Layout_for_UNSW_T > > wes > > On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 1:36 PM, hectic styler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Upon installing Lyx

Re: Lyx crashing on custom template

2008-04-07 Thread hectic styler
The template can be found here http://www.threewordslong.com/blog/entry/63/A_LyX_Thesis_Layout_for_UNSW_T wes On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 1:36 PM, hectic styler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Upon installing Lyx 1.5.4 (+ MiKTex) on MS Vista, I can open up my > custom template fine, but trying

Lyx crashing on custom template

2008-04-07 Thread hectic styler
Hi, Upon installing Lyx 1.5.4 (+ MiKTex) on MS Vista, I can open up my custom template fine, but trying to view the main.lyx as pdf generates an error "Undefined control error" - viewing the chapter alone generates the same error but I can view the pdf. Installing Lyx 1.5.3 allows me to view as pd

Re: Chapter counter position in layout.

2008-04-07 Thread Jinghua Zhong
GM, Thanks for pointing that out. That was actually the first thing I tried. I figured its LabelType must have been defined as Top_Environment somewhere but I couldn't find it. It's defined as Counter in numarticle.inc, so it should not be display on top at all. I tried defining it again as Counte

Re: Strange segfault of dvipost when compiling lyx file

2008-04-07 Thread Pavel Sanda
>> can anybody confirm on some other tex install that attached dvi fails too? >> i dont have any idea what went wrong. > > Try dvipost-1.1.patch in development\Win32\patches. i had dvipost 1.0 and just upgrading to 1.1 was enough. pavel

Creating LaTeX File Programmatically: The Solution

2008-04-07 Thread Rich Shepard
Well, I've learned a lot of LaTeX -- and how it needs to be written in a Python program -- with re-writing this report. And now it's done. Looks great; works like a charm. If anyone wants to see the results, ask off the list and I send you the file. I use pdflatex to compile it, and it certai

Re: break long URL lines with LyX

2008-04-07 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 7 Apr 2008, Enrique J. Madrid M. wrote: How to break long URL lines with LyX?. I am using \url{}. Use the \href{} package instead. Rich -- Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D. | IntegrityCredibility Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc.|Innovation

break long URL lines with LyX

2008-04-07 Thread Enrique J. Madrid M.
Hi, How to break long URL lines with LyX?. I am using \url{}. enrique j. madrid m. Tecnología y Desarrollo. Soluciones Info Móviles S.A.C Avda. javier prado oeste 203 piso 13, lima 27 Telfs: + 51 (1) 211-0608, RPM #620193

Re: Missing the Obvious? -- FIXED!

2008-04-07 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 7 Apr 2008, Rich Shepard wrote: No matter how often I look at the code, I don't see what's pushing the table to the next page. Probably fresh eyeballs will spot it right away. Hey! It worked again! As soon as I sent off the message and looked again at the code, I saw that the \texth

Missing the Obvious?

2008-04-07 Thread Rich Shepard
I'd greatly appreciate having eyeballs other than mine looking at the attached code. It compiles file both as a python program and using pdflatex to produce the output. But, ... it prints the table on the second page, despite there being plenty of room for it on the first page. No matter how

Re: multiplatform vector drawing program to use

2008-04-07 Thread Steve Litt
On Monday 07 April 2008 10:54, Oscar Lopez wrote: > Dear lyxers > > I am starting a document project with a colleague using lyx. The goal is to > obtain a big document of a technical course. My colleague uses the windows > version of lyx and I use the linux version. At this initial stage we can > e

Re: multiplatform vector drawing program to use

2008-04-07 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 7 Apr 2008, Daniel Lohmann wrote: I would recommend OpenOffice Draw. It is one of the few programs that are multi-platform and that provide excellent export to the UNIX world (saying: EPS) as well as to the Windows world (saying: WMF). We have been using it for cross Windows/Linux projec

Re: ERT to inline by command

2008-04-07 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 11:25:45PM +0200, Daniel Lohmann wrote: > > On 07.04.2008, at 16:01, Ethan Metsger wrote: >> On Mon, 07 Apr 2008 09:04:16 -0400, Daniel Lohmann >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> AFAIK there is, unfortunately, no LFUN for this >>> I too would really appreciate a keyboard

Re: multiplatform vector drawing program to use

2008-04-07 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 07.04.2008, at 18:51, Walter H. van Holst wrote: Of course, there are also other vector drawing programs (besides Xfig), so what is outlined here is not the only option you have. If only Linux and Windows are required, I'd recommend Inkscape. It is much more polished and user friendly tha

Re: ERT to inline by command

2008-04-07 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 07.04.2008, at 16:01, Ethan Metsger wrote: On Mon, 07 Apr 2008 09:04:16 -0400, Daniel Lohmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: AFAIK there is, unfortunately, no LFUN for this I too would really appreciate a keyboard shortcut. I was under the impression that using CTRL-I would do the job. I

Re: No accents when mastering a document (Spanish) ??

2008-04-07 Thread Filippo Zangheri
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Miguel Daniel Rodríguez Magarzo ha scritto: > Hi again, > ... > In the master, Document > Settings > Language > Spanish, and encoding > "LaTeX default" > but into each child document, I have set Language Spanish too, but > encoding "utf8", with good re

Re: No accents when mastering a document (Spanish) ??

2008-04-07 Thread Miguel Daniel Rodríguez Magarzo
El lun, 07-04-2008 a las 19:11 +, Luis Rivera escribió: > Miguel Daniel Rodríguez Magarzo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > In the master, Document > Settings > Language > Spanish, and encoding > > "LaTeX default" > > but into each child document, I have set Language Spanish too, but > >

Re: Conceptual doubt about graphics in LyX

2008-04-07 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 7 Apr 2008, Miguel Daniel Rodríguez Magarzo wrote: Images are usual, a great many in my texts, since they are necessary needed by the text. They are sketch, diagrams, graphics, draws, etc... made with The Gimp most of the times, also some formed images caught over there or even scanned,

Conceptual doubt about graphics in LyX

2008-04-07 Thread Miguel Daniel Rodríguez Magarzo
Hi again, Sorry for so many bursts in the list, I think this is the last question I'm dropping here for now. This is not an issue to solve, but a doubt I had in mind since several weeks ago. Images are usual, a great many in my texts, since they are necessary needed by the text. They are sketc

Re: Numbering of floats in appendices

2008-04-07 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 1:29 PM, David Hewitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > How do you change the numbering of table and figure floats to include the > appendix letter. E.g., > > In Appendix A, I would like Table A1 rather than a continuous numbering > system from the main text. I looked around

Just the name of the chapter right in the header, unable of getting it. How how how...

2008-04-07 Thread Miguel Daniel Rodríguez Magarzo
Hi again, Honestly, I hope to get to explain good enough. The issue is very simple. What I've done until now in order to sorting this out has been just taping in the preamble, inside "\rhead{}", the string I wanted to be appeared there (using the fancyhdr). But how to do if I want the same resul

Re: Why does Windows LyX 1.5.3 care about Xetex?

2008-04-07 Thread David Hewitt
> > Why in the world does a Windows installation of MikTeX and LyX care about > > Xetex -- a Mac TeX system?? > > XeTeX is not a MAC system. It is a Unicode variant of LaTeX and the new > thing in MiKTeX 2.7. So perhaps one of the LaTeX-packages you load in your > preamble use now XeTeX when it i

Numbering of floats in appendices

2008-04-07 Thread David Hewitt
How do you change the numbering of table and figure floats to include the appendix letter. E.g., In Appendix A, I would like Table A1 rather than a continuous numbering system from the main text. I looked around at the appendix package and in the LyX Docs and came up empty. - David Hewitt Re

Re: bibtex/makebst: address not shown in bibliography

2008-04-07 Thread cmiramon
Berthold Metz (PH-Freiburg) wrote: > as document-class i use book (koma script), when i change to book the > problem persists (was this your question?) > No, I was asking what happens if you cite a book like \cite{SachsHombach:2003c} > Are you using crossref or not ? > > yes, and the address exi

Re: No accents when mastering a document (Spanish) ??

2008-04-07 Thread Luis Rivera
Miguel Daniel Rodríguez Magarzo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > In the master, Document > Settings > Language > Spanish, and encoding > "LaTeX default" > but into each child document, I have set Language Spanish too, but > encoding "utf8", with good results. > If I switch to "utf8" in the master

Re: WRB - Summary of Experience with LyX

2008-04-07 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 11:15:13AM -0700, William R. Buckley wrote: Hi Francis. > First, I vote for LICK. Usually the right of naming a child belongs to the parents, so I really wonder why _this_ discussion pops up every second year or so... Andre' PS: I surely forgot one or two of those again

No accents when mastering a document (Spanish) ??

2008-04-07 Thread Miguel Daniel Rodríguez Magarzo
Hi again, These days I've got the (longed-for) moment where much of the work was definitively done. Result of this is a set of different LyX documents (book-style), each one is a chapter. I've tried that called master/child document, but the resulting preview is absolutely unacceptable, 'cause it

WRB - Summary of Experience with LyX

2008-04-07 Thread William R. Buckley
First, I vote for LICK. If the goal is to be a TeX product, then extend the language, and avoid the sound of plurality, Second, I think LyX has a wonderful potential, and a magnificently executed actual. I have learned from where most of the text formatting is controlled, and it is surprisingly

Re: Strange segfault of dvipost when compiling lyx file

2008-04-07 Thread Joost Verburg
Pavel Sanda wrote: can anybody confirm on some other tex install that attached dvi fails too? i dont have any idea what went wrong. Try dvipost-1.1.patch in development\Win32\patches. Joost

Re: Howto for footnoting from a table

2008-04-07 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Miguel Daniel Rodríguez Magarzo schrieb: One of the doubts is how to do a footnote from a table element, if possible. Lyx behaves as it had been done, but it hadn't, according with the xdvi preview. See sec. 4.2 and 5.4 of the EmbeddedObjects manual. > I'm working with LyX 1.5.1, and here I c

Re: Hyphenation problem with two languages

2008-04-07 Thread Mark Reglewski
G. Milde wrote: On 7.04.08, Liviu Andronic wrote: On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 10:01 AM, G. Milde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 6.04.08, snvv wrote: > I have a problem with hyphenation when I use two or more character sets > in the same document. Did you check "Use Babel" in the Document>Sett

Re: AMS article

2008-04-07 Thread Richard Heck
Julio Rojas wrote: Hostility and cynicism. A very nice way of answering a totally naive question. Good for you Mr. Heck. Sorry, that wasn't meant to be hostile or cynical. Maybe a smiley would have helped rh On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 9:35 PM, rgheck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Julio

Howto for footnoting from a table

2008-04-07 Thread Miguel Daniel Rodríguez Magarzo
Hi list, Again, I'd like to get some help from here about some issues where I'm stuck at the moment. I usually try CTAN documentation firstly, but also vainly most of the times... I thing I do not get to catch most of the substance. As I've already said in previous occasions in the list, I have n

Re: multiplatform vector drawing program to use

2008-04-07 Thread Walter H. van Holst
> Of course, there are also other vector drawing programs (besides > Xfig), so > what is outlined here is not the only option you have. If only Linux and Windows are required, I'd recommend Inkscape. It is much more polished and user friendly than Xfig whose UI is a bit daunting. Regards, Walt

Re: Setting align as the default environment for multiline formulas

2008-04-07 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Guy Rutenberg schrieb: I'm looking for a way to set the align environment as the default one in LyX for multiline formulas. E.g. when in display mode and I press Ctrl+Enter I want the formula to use the align environment instead of the eqnarray one. This can be done by redefining the eqnarray

Re: multiplatform vector drawing program to use

2008-04-07 Thread David A. Case
On Mon, Apr 07, 2008, Oscar Lopez wrote: > > My colleague uses the windows version of lyx and I use the linux > version. I am quite satisfied with the current support of xfig at lyx > using external material. However, as far as I know, xfig only runs at linux > machines... Xfig runs fine und

Re: Why does Windows LyX 1.5.3 care about Xetex?

2008-04-07 Thread Uwe Stöhr
David Hewitt schrieb: So, I went and updated my MikTeX packages (the only ones that needed updating were authordate, floatflt, pdfpages, cm, caption, and babel) and also installed the ifxetex package, and the problem went away. I don't think any of the packages but ifxetex have anything to do wi

Re: Hyphenation problem with two languages

2008-04-07 Thread snvv
On Monday 07 April 2008 11:31:36 Liviu Andronic wrote: > Hello, > > On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 10:01 AM, G. Milde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 6.04.08, snvv wrote: > > > I have a problem with hyphenation when I use two or more character > > > sets in the same document. > > Try \usepackage[greek

Re: lyx2lyx fails to import .tex document created by openoffice

2008-04-07 Thread José Matos
On Monday 07 April 2008 16:39:25 José Matos wrote: > This problem happens both for lyx 1.5.5svn and 1.6.0svn. > > > best, > > rené toth In order not to forget this bug I filled this in bugzilla: http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4719 -- José Abílio

Re: Hyphenation problem with two languages

2008-04-07 Thread snvv
On Monday 07 April 2008 11:01:28 G. Milde wrote: > On 6.04.08, snvv wrote: > > I have a problem with hyphenation when I use two or more character sets > > in the same document. > > Did you check "Use Babel" in the Document>Settings>Languages tab? > > GM Hello I can't see any option about babel i

Re: lyx2lyx fails to import .tex document created by openoffice

2008-04-07 Thread José Matos
On Monday 07 April 2008 15:21:07 René Toth wrote: > hello, > > it seems that i've got a problem with lyx2lyx, when i try to import .tex > documents which i've created with openoffice. > lyx always reports an error to me, that the conversion-script failed, > because the created .lyx file comes from

Re: multiplatform vector drawing program to use

2008-04-07 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 8:54 AM, Oscar Lopez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear lyxers > > I am starting a document project with a colleague using lyx. The goal is to > obtain a big document of a technical course. My colleague uses the windows > version of lyx and I use the linux version. At this

multiplatform vector drawing program to use

2008-04-07 Thread Oscar Lopez
Dear lyxers I am starting a document project with a colleague using lyx. The goal is to obtain a big document of a technical course. My colleague uses the windows version of lyx and I use the linux version. At this initial stage we can easily share simple documents. Now we are concerned with the

Re: bibtex/makebst: address not shown in bibliography

2008-04-07 Thread Berthold Metz (PH-Freiburg)
hi, thanks for the fast reply. but ... so i want: Smith, J. (1980): Title. In Mayer (ed): Title1, pp. 135-146. London: Publishing-Company. but i get: Smith, J. (1980): Title. In Mayer (ed): Title1, pp. 135-146. Publishing-Company. ... Does it work with a normal book ? as document-class i use

lyx2lyx fails to import .tex document created by openoffice

2008-04-07 Thread René Toth
hello, it seems that i've got a problem with lyx2lyx, when i try to import .tex documents which i've created with openoffice. lyx always reports an error to me, that the conversion-script failed, because the created .lyx file comes from a different lyx-version and the lyx2lyx script couldn't c

Re: ERT to inline by command

2008-04-07 Thread Ethan Metsger
On Mon, 07 Apr 2008 09:04:16 -0400, Daniel Lohmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: AFAIK there is, unfortunately, no LFUN for this I too would really appreciate a keyboard shortcut. I was under the impression that using CTRL-I would do the job. I just tested it on 1.5.2/Ubuntu and it seems to

Why does Windows LyX 1.5.3 care about Xetex?

2008-04-07 Thread David Hewitt
In a document that uses the pdflscape package to render landscape pages, I recently got an error that I had not encountered before. When I tried to compile the PDF (pdflatex), I got a LaTeX error that said something like "ifxetex.sty not found" with details that made it clear that pdflscape was th

Re: Strange segfault of dvipost when compiling lyx file

2008-04-07 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 3:29 AM, Pavel Sanda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Here's my output from lyx while generating a .dvi of your example: > > i guess you must generate postscript. > > what happens if you run: dvipost a.dvi ? Sorry, I mis-read your post. I don't have dvipost installed and I t

Re: ERT to inline by command

2008-04-07 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 07.04.2008, at 12:44, Salát Máté wrote: Hi! What command makes the "Display" option of the active ERT to "Inline"? I want to create a key binding to this function. AFAIK there is, unfortunately, no LFUN for this I too would really appreciate a keyboard shortcut. Daniel

Re: okay, can't resist one more bit of "feedback"

2008-04-07 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Manveru schrieb: I've installed Lyx a few times... and once... s* happend to MikTeX, which causes LyX to not work. I took my one evening resolving problem... and then I read next day that MikTeX repositories are broken so updated MikTeX could not work with LyX. This was the first time for over

Re: okay, can't resist one more bit of "feedback"

2008-04-07 Thread Manveru
I've installed Lyx a few times... and once... s* happend to MikTeX, which causes LyX to not work. I took my one evening resolving problem... and then I read next day that MikTeX repositories are broken so updated MikTeX could not work with LyX. LyX is great. MikTeX sometime makes problems. This fa

Re: math-macros in included file

2008-04-07 Thread Stefan Schimanski
Am 07.04.2008 um 11:44 schrieb G. Milde: Dear LyX users, for my thesis, I define a set of about 20 math-macros that reside in a well commented file math-macros.lyx that is included by the document file(s). When I open the document file before opening the math-macro.lyx file, all macros will

Setting align as the default environment for multiline formulas

2008-04-07 Thread Guy Rutenberg
Hi, I'm looking for a way to set the align environment as the default one in LyX for multiline formulas. E.g. when in display mode and I press Ctrl+Enter I want the formula to use the align environment instead of the eqnarray one. Is it possible? If so, how can I do it? Thanks, Guy

ERT to inline by command

2008-04-07 Thread Salát Máté
Hi! What command makes the "Display" option of the active ERT to "Inline"? I want to create a key binding to this function. Cheers, Máté

left-align paragraphs in GUI

2008-04-07 Thread G. Milde
Dear LyX-Users, Attach: /home/milde/.lyx/layouts/leftalign.inc As LyX's linebreaking algorithm does not include hyphenation of longer words, some very large inter-word spaces frequently occure (especially in languages with many long words as e.g. German). Readability can be improved by setting th

math-macros in included file

2008-04-07 Thread G. Milde
Dear LyX users, for my thesis, I define a set of about 20 math-macros that reside in a well commented file math-macros.lyx that is included by the document file(s). When I open the document file before opening the math-macro.lyx file, all macros will be shown as ERT. Unfortunately, they remain in

Re: Strange segfault of dvipost when compiling lyx file

2008-04-07 Thread Pavel Sanda
> Here's my output from lyx while generating a .dvi of your example: i guess you must generate postscript. what happens if you run: dvipost a.dvi ? > lyx > dvipng warning: at (-1,-1) ignored header \special{!userdict > begin/bop-hook{/isls false def/vsize 792 def/hsize 612 def}def end}. you hav

Re: Hyphenation problem with two languages

2008-04-07 Thread G. Milde
On 7.04.08, Liviu Andronic wrote: > On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 10:01 AM, G. Milde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 6.04.08, snvv wrote: > > > I have a problem with hyphenation when I use two or more character sets > > > in the same document. > > Did you check "Use Babel" in the Document>Settings

Re: tex2lyx converts comments to ERT

2008-04-07 Thread G. Milde
On 4.04.08, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > G. Milde schrieb: >> trying to convert the sciposter.tex example to a lyx file (after creating a >> basic layout), I realized that all comments were translated to raw latex >> (ERT). I would prefer it to go to a 'Comment' box. > I think there is alredy a bug report

Re: Hyphenation problem with two languages

2008-04-07 Thread Liviu Andronic
Hello, On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 10:01 AM, G. Milde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 6.04.08, snvv wrote: > > I have a problem with hyphenation when I use two or more character sets > > in the same document. Try \usepackage[greek, english]{babel} in the Preamble. It might solve the issue. > > Di

Re: www.lyx.org/test temporarily down (renamed..)

2008-04-07 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Jean-Marc, could you modify > > /etc/httpd/virtual.d/www.lyx.org.conf I did it. JMarc

Re: Chapter counter position in layout.

2008-04-07 Thread G. Milde
On 6.04.08, Jinghua Zhong wrote: > The label for Chapter is displayed differently from those of Part, > Section, Subsection, etc. The label (e.g., "Chapter 1") appears above > the text, but the label for everything else appears to the left. > However, I couldn't find anything in the layout files

Re: Hyphenation problem with two languages

2008-04-07 Thread G. Milde
On 6.04.08, snvv wrote: > I have a problem with hyphenation when I use two or more character sets > in the same document. Did you check "Use Babel" in the Document>Settings>Languages tab? GM