Re: Kudos for the website layout!

2008-06-10 Thread Manveru
This really great job put into new look of web page - this is how others see the LyX project. Now MUCH more professional! [...] This is great for the expansion of the LyX user base! I'd like to second that!! I love sending prospective users to the website now. It has been designed and

Re: greek fonts

2008-06-10 Thread G. Milde
On 9.06.08, Andre Poenitz wrote: On Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 02:18:15PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: On Monday 09 June 2008 08:10, Anthony Campbell wrote: I tried to use Lyx for ancient Greek but the circumflex (tilde) keeps appearing before the letter instead of above it. In most fonts,

Re: greek fonts

2008-06-10 Thread G. Milde
On 9.06.08, Pavel Sanda wrote: It works in LyX, if you use the correct unicode char (from the extended Greek table) out of the box, but not so good with combining chars. Also, there there any way to get the characters to appear in Greek on-screen (i.e. before converting the text to

Re: greek fonts

2008-06-10 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 10 Jun 2008, G. Milde wrote: On 9.06.08, Andre Poenitz wrote: On Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 02:18:15PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: On Monday 09 June 2008 08:10, Anthony Campbell wrote: I tried to use Lyx for ancient Greek but the circumflex (tilde) keeps appearing before the letter

Re: paste into table

2008-06-10 Thread Boffinboy
Hold shift when you paste (shift-ctrl-v) and it should put the values in the correct cells. Rune Schjellerup Philosof wrote: Hi Is it somehow possible to paste data from another application into a table in lyx? When I try, all the table data is placed in into one cell. -- Rune

Re: greek fonts

2008-06-10 Thread G. Milde
On 9.06.08, Anthony Campbell wrote: On 09 Jun 2008, G. Milde wrote: On 9.06.08, Anthony Campbell wrote: I tried to use Lyx for ancient Greek but the circumflex (tilde) keeps appearing before the letter instead of above it. This is normal for capital greek letters. Small letters

Re: greek fonts

2008-06-10 Thread G. Milde
On 10.06.08, Anthony Campbell wrote: Although I have unicode fonts installed they don't show up as a possible choice in Lyx. How can you make it see them? For LyX GUI or as document font? * The LyX GUI should let you select between all properly installed system fonts (I use DejaVu). *

Re: greek fonts

2008-06-10 Thread G. Milde
On 10.06.08, Anthony Campbell wrote: I tried to use Lyx for ancient Greek but the circumflex (tilde) keeps appearing before the letter instead of above it. In most fonts, even in the Standard glyph list of the Unicode consortium and fonts from the Greek Font Society, the

Re: greek fonts

2008-06-10 Thread Pavel Sanda
* For the LyX GUI, I use DejaVu Serif, DejaVu Sans and Inconsolata. i installed these and it works beatifully on the screen. now the next step :) i see latex error that utf8x.def file is missing. is tetex supposed to work with the chosen encoding or do i need texlive? what tex distribution do

Re: greek fonts

2008-06-10 Thread Pavel Sanda
I copied them from the `gucharmap` character listing application. Many editors (but not LyX) have a special chars feature where you can select any character from a table. fyi lyx 1.6 should solve this http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX16#toc16 pavel

Re: greek fonts

2008-06-10 Thread G. Milde
On 10.06.08, Pavel Sanda wrote: now the next step :) i see latex error that utf8x.def file is missing. Where you able to select utf8x font encoding from the LyX gui? Normally LyX checks the package availability for any extensions, so this might count as a (minor) LyX bug, is tetex supposed

Re: Footnote without numbering (new)

2008-06-10 Thread Helge Hafting
Adrian Peter wrote: Thank you for the suggestion but unfortunately I really need to put a footnote without a symbol or anything. I am trying to use Lyx for my thesis. Our college requires that if any of the chapters has already appeared as a publication that we need to list it on the first

Re: converting documents to lyx - writer2latex 0.5

2008-06-10 Thread Helge Hafting
ian.ogilvy wrote: We were in the process of moving some documentation from being maintained by open office over to lyx. The process started and all was going well, then the computers being used for the task were upgraded and now in place of writer2latex 0.4b, writer2latex0.5 is the tool used by

Re: greek fonts

2008-06-10 Thread Pavel Sanda
On 10.06.08, Pavel Sanda wrote: now the next step :) i see latex error that utf8x.def file is missing. Where you able to select utf8x font encoding from the LyX gui? i dont think this is possible. you can only select language encoding, which was set to utf8x in your previous file. i

Re: Symlinked layout files: DANGER!!!

2008-06-10 Thread Richard heck
Steve Litt wrote: I use 1.5.3, and so far I've *absolutely* had to have a copy (in my case a symlink) in /home/slitt/.lyx/layouts. I'd love to know how you can just have the layout file in the same directory, and have the layout file magically recognized. What LyX version do you use, on what

Re: paragraph not visible in pdf output

2008-06-10 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Hans, There may be a specific problem with that one document that is not visible in the LyX GUI. Can you cut down the offending document to just enough to demonstrate the problem and either post it to the list or, if it is too large (or too private), mail it to me? /Paul Hans J. Prueller

Error when using ticks in lyx-code or program listing

2008-06-10 Thread Rune Schjellerup Philosof
I'm using Lyx 1.5.4 in Windows Vista (official installer on top of an installed unofficial, because pdf thingie didn't work in Vista). When I try to insert ` or ´ in lyx-code or program listing the document won't compile. Actually nothing at all happens when I click any of the button that are

Re: Error when using ticks in lyx-code or program listing

2008-06-10 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Rune Schjellerup Philosof wrote: I'm using Lyx 1.5.4 in Windows Vista (official installer on top of an installed unofficial, because pdf thingie didn't work in Vista). When I try to insert ` or ´ in lyx-code or program listing the document won't compile. Actually nothing at all happens when I

Re: paragraph not visible in pdf output -- RESOLVED

2008-06-10 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Short synopsis of what transpired off-list, in case anyone cares: the problem occurs when a paragraph environment is used and the line spacing is changed, so that the emitted LaTeX looks like \begin{singlespace} \paragraph{\noindent \textmd{Definition}: } \end{singlespace} for example.

conversion to open doc format and tables

2008-06-10 Thread Maria Gouskova
Dear LyX users, Does anyone know why conversion from LyX to Open Document format adds blank rows to tables? I'd say about three extra blank rows in the Open Doc file for each row in the original LyX document. Even when the simplest table is converted, an extra cell is added at the bottom. Mac OS

Re: Kudos for the website layout!

2008-06-10 Thread Manveru
This really great job put into new look of web page - this is how others see the LyX project. Now MUCH more professional! [...] This is great for the expansion of the LyX user base! I'd like to second that!! I love sending prospective users to the website now. It has been designed and

Re: greek fonts

2008-06-10 Thread G. Milde
On 9.06.08, Andre Poenitz wrote: On Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 02:18:15PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: On Monday 09 June 2008 08:10, Anthony Campbell wrote: I tried to use Lyx for ancient Greek but the circumflex (tilde) keeps appearing before the letter instead of above it. In most fonts,

Re: greek fonts

2008-06-10 Thread G. Milde
On 9.06.08, Pavel Sanda wrote: It works in LyX, if you use the correct unicode char (from the extended Greek table) out of the box, but not so good with combining chars. Also, there there any way to get the characters to appear in Greek on-screen (i.e. before converting the text to

Re: greek fonts

2008-06-10 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 10 Jun 2008, G. Milde wrote: On 9.06.08, Andre Poenitz wrote: On Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 02:18:15PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: On Monday 09 June 2008 08:10, Anthony Campbell wrote: I tried to use Lyx for ancient Greek but the circumflex (tilde) keeps appearing before the letter

Re: paste into table

2008-06-10 Thread Boffinboy
Hold shift when you paste (shift-ctrl-v) and it should put the values in the correct cells. Rune Schjellerup Philosof wrote: Hi Is it somehow possible to paste data from another application into a table in lyx? When I try, all the table data is placed in into one cell. -- Rune

Re: greek fonts

2008-06-10 Thread G. Milde
On 9.06.08, Anthony Campbell wrote: On 09 Jun 2008, G. Milde wrote: On 9.06.08, Anthony Campbell wrote: I tried to use Lyx for ancient Greek but the circumflex (tilde) keeps appearing before the letter instead of above it. This is normal for capital greek letters. Small letters

Re: greek fonts

2008-06-10 Thread G. Milde
On 10.06.08, Anthony Campbell wrote: Although I have unicode fonts installed they don't show up as a possible choice in Lyx. How can you make it see them? For LyX GUI or as document font? * The LyX GUI should let you select between all properly installed system fonts (I use DejaVu). *

Re: greek fonts

2008-06-10 Thread G. Milde
On 10.06.08, Anthony Campbell wrote: I tried to use Lyx for ancient Greek but the circumflex (tilde) keeps appearing before the letter instead of above it. In most fonts, even in the Standard glyph list of the Unicode consortium and fonts from the Greek Font Society, the

Re: greek fonts

2008-06-10 Thread Pavel Sanda
* For the LyX GUI, I use DejaVu Serif, DejaVu Sans and Inconsolata. i installed these and it works beatifully on the screen. now the next step :) i see latex error that utf8x.def file is missing. is tetex supposed to work with the chosen encoding or do i need texlive? what tex distribution do

Re: greek fonts

2008-06-10 Thread Pavel Sanda
I copied them from the `gucharmap` character listing application. Many editors (but not LyX) have a special chars feature where you can select any character from a table. fyi lyx 1.6 should solve this http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX16#toc16 pavel

Re: greek fonts

2008-06-10 Thread G. Milde
On 10.06.08, Pavel Sanda wrote: now the next step :) i see latex error that utf8x.def file is missing. Where you able to select utf8x font encoding from the LyX gui? Normally LyX checks the package availability for any extensions, so this might count as a (minor) LyX bug, is tetex supposed

Re: Footnote without numbering (new)

2008-06-10 Thread Helge Hafting
Adrian Peter wrote: Thank you for the suggestion but unfortunately I really need to put a footnote without a symbol or anything. I am trying to use Lyx for my thesis. Our college requires that if any of the chapters has already appeared as a publication that we need to list it on the first

Re: converting documents to lyx - writer2latex 0.5

2008-06-10 Thread Helge Hafting
ian.ogilvy wrote: We were in the process of moving some documentation from being maintained by open office over to lyx. The process started and all was going well, then the computers being used for the task were upgraded and now in place of writer2latex 0.4b, writer2latex0.5 is the tool used by

Re: greek fonts

2008-06-10 Thread Pavel Sanda
On 10.06.08, Pavel Sanda wrote: now the next step :) i see latex error that utf8x.def file is missing. Where you able to select utf8x font encoding from the LyX gui? i dont think this is possible. you can only select language encoding, which was set to utf8x in your previous file. i

Re: Symlinked layout files: DANGER!!!

2008-06-10 Thread Richard heck
Steve Litt wrote: I use 1.5.3, and so far I've *absolutely* had to have a copy (in my case a symlink) in /home/slitt/.lyx/layouts. I'd love to know how you can just have the layout file in the same directory, and have the layout file magically recognized. What LyX version do you use, on what

Re: paragraph not visible in pdf output

2008-06-10 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Hans, There may be a specific problem with that one document that is not visible in the LyX GUI. Can you cut down the offending document to just enough to demonstrate the problem and either post it to the list or, if it is too large (or too private), mail it to me? /Paul Hans J. Prueller

Error when using ticks in lyx-code or program listing

2008-06-10 Thread Rune Schjellerup Philosof
I'm using Lyx 1.5.4 in Windows Vista (official installer on top of an installed unofficial, because pdf thingie didn't work in Vista). When I try to insert ` or ´ in lyx-code or program listing the document won't compile. Actually nothing at all happens when I click any of the button that are

Re: Error when using ticks in lyx-code or program listing

2008-06-10 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Rune Schjellerup Philosof wrote: I'm using Lyx 1.5.4 in Windows Vista (official installer on top of an installed unofficial, because pdf thingie didn't work in Vista). When I try to insert ` or ´ in lyx-code or program listing the document won't compile. Actually nothing at all happens when I

Re: paragraph not visible in pdf output -- RESOLVED

2008-06-10 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Short synopsis of what transpired off-list, in case anyone cares: the problem occurs when a paragraph environment is used and the line spacing is changed, so that the emitted LaTeX looks like \begin{singlespace} \paragraph{\noindent \textmd{Definition}: } \end{singlespace} for example.

conversion to open doc format and tables

2008-06-10 Thread Maria Gouskova
Dear LyX users, Does anyone know why conversion from LyX to Open Document format adds blank rows to tables? I'd say about three extra blank rows in the Open Doc file for each row in the original LyX document. Even when the simplest table is converted, an extra cell is added at the bottom. Mac OS

Re: Kudos for the website layout!

2008-06-10 Thread Manveru
This really great job put into new look of web page - this is how others see the LyX project. Now MUCH more professional! [...] This is great for the expansion of the > > LyX user base! > > I'd like to second that!! I love sending prospective users to the > website now. It has been designed and

Re: greek fonts

2008-06-10 Thread G. Milde
On 9.06.08, Andre Poenitz wrote: > On Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 02:18:15PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > > On Monday 09 June 2008 08:10, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > > > I tried to use Lyx for ancient Greek but the circumflex (tilde) keeps > > > appearing before the letter instead of above it. In most

Re: greek fonts

2008-06-10 Thread G. Milde
On 9.06.08, Pavel Sanda wrote: > > It works in LyX, if you use the correct unicode char (from the extended > > Greek table) out of the box, but not so good with combining chars. > > > > > Also, there there any way to get the characters to appear in Greek > > > on-screen (i.e. before converting

Re: greek fonts

2008-06-10 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 10 Jun 2008, G. Milde wrote: > On 9.06.08, Andre Poenitz wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 02:18:15PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > > > On Monday 09 June 2008 08:10, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > > > > > I tried to use Lyx for ancient Greek but the circumflex (tilde) keeps > > > > appearing

Re: paste into table

2008-06-10 Thread Boffinboy
Hold shift when you paste (shift-ctrl-v) and it should put the values in the correct cells. Rune Schjellerup Philosof wrote: > > Hi > > Is it somehow possible to paste data from another application into a > table in lyx? > When I try, all the table data is placed in into one cell. > > -- >

Re: greek fonts

2008-06-10 Thread G. Milde
On 9.06.08, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 09 Jun 2008, G. Milde wrote: > > On 9.06.08, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > > > I tried to use Lyx for ancient Greek but the circumflex (tilde) keeps > > > appearing before the letter instead of above it. This is normal for capital greek letters. Small

Re: greek fonts

2008-06-10 Thread G. Milde
On 10.06.08, Anthony Campbell wrote: > Although I have unicode fonts installed they don't show up as a possible > choice in Lyx. How can you make it see them? For LyX GUI or as document font? * The LyX GUI should let you select between all properly installed system fonts (I use DejaVu). *

Re: greek fonts

2008-06-10 Thread G. Milde
On 10.06.08, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > > > > > > > I tried to use Lyx for ancient Greek but the circumflex (tilde) keeps > > > > > appearing before the letter instead of above it. > > > > In most fonts, even in the "Standard glyph list" of the Unicode > > consortium and fonts from the Greek

Re: greek fonts

2008-06-10 Thread Pavel Sanda
> * For the LyX GUI, I use DejaVu Serif, DejaVu Sans and Inconsolata. i installed these and it works beatifully on the screen. now the next step :) i see latex error that utf8x.def file is missing. is tetex supposed to work with the chosen encoding or do i need texlive? what tex distribution do

Re: greek fonts

2008-06-10 Thread Pavel Sanda
> I copied them from the `gucharmap` character listing application. Many > editors (but not LyX) have a "special chars" feature where you can select > any character from a table. fyi lyx 1.6 should solve this http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX16#toc16 pavel

Re: greek fonts

2008-06-10 Thread G. Milde
On 10.06.08, Pavel Sanda wrote: > now the next step :) i see latex error that utf8x.def file is missing. Where you able to select utf8x font encoding from the LyX gui? Normally LyX checks the package availability for any extensions, so this might count as a (minor) LyX bug, > is tetex

Re: Footnote without numbering (new)

2008-06-10 Thread Helge Hafting
Adrian Peter wrote: Thank you for the suggestion but unfortunately I really need to put a footnote without a symbol or anything. I am trying to use Lyx for my thesis. Our college requires that if any of the chapters has already appeared as a publication that we need to list it on the first

Re: converting documents to lyx - writer2latex 0.5

2008-06-10 Thread Helge Hafting
ian.ogilvy wrote: We were in the process of moving some documentation from being maintained by open office over to lyx. The process started and all was going well, then the computers being used for the task were upgraded and now in place of writer2latex 0.4b, writer2latex0.5 is the tool used by

Re: greek fonts

2008-06-10 Thread Pavel Sanda
> On 10.06.08, Pavel Sanda wrote: > > > now the next step :) i see latex error that utf8x.def file is missing. > > Where you able to select utf8x font encoding from the LyX gui? i dont think this is possible. you can only select language encoding, which was set to utf8x in your previous file.

Re: Symlinked layout files: DANGER!!!

2008-06-10 Thread Richard heck
Steve Litt wrote: I use 1.5.3, and so far I've *absolutely* had to have a copy (in my case a symlink) in /home/slitt/.lyx/layouts. I'd love to know how you can just have the layout file in the same directory, and have the layout file magically recognized. What LyX version do you use, on what

Re: paragraph not visible in pdf output

2008-06-10 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Hans, There may be a specific problem with that one document that is not visible in the LyX GUI. Can you cut down the offending document to just enough to demonstrate the problem and either post it to the list or, if it is too large (or too private), mail it to me? /Paul Hans J. Prueller

Error when using ticks in lyx-code or program listing

2008-06-10 Thread Rune Schjellerup Philosof
I'm using Lyx 1.5.4 in Windows Vista ("official" installer on top of an installed "unofficial", because pdf thingie didn't work in Vista). When I try to insert ` or ´ in lyx-code or program listing the document won't compile. Actually nothing at all happens when I click any of the button that

Re: Error when using ticks in lyx-code or program listing

2008-06-10 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Rune Schjellerup Philosof wrote: I'm using Lyx 1.5.4 in Windows Vista ("official" installer on top of an installed "unofficial", because pdf thingie didn't work in Vista). When I try to insert ` or ´ in lyx-code or program listing the document won't compile. Actually nothing at all happens

Re: paragraph not visible in pdf output -- RESOLVED

2008-06-10 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Short synopsis of what transpired off-list, in case anyone cares: the problem occurs when a paragraph environment is used and the line spacing is changed, so that the emitted LaTeX looks like \begin{singlespace} \paragraph{\noindent \textmd{Definition}: } \end{singlespace} for example.

conversion to open doc format and tables

2008-06-10 Thread Maria Gouskova
Dear LyX users, Does anyone know why conversion from LyX to Open Document format adds blank rows to tables? I'd say about three extra blank rows in the Open Doc file for each row in the original LyX document. Even when the simplest table is converted, an extra cell is added at the bottom. Mac OS