ChkTex for Windows

2008-06-11 Thread Martin Görg
Hello, I read about the ChkTex tool in the LyX documentation. It sound very nice. But I can't find a (current) Windows binary for it. Does anyone know of a place where I can download it? TIA Martin -- For emails, please use cs.tu-berlin.de instead of gmx.de behind the at.

Re: greek fonts (summary?)

2008-06-11 Thread Rune Schjellerup Philosof
Pavel Sanda skrev: (or even hard code ~ as a dead key). On some keyboard layouts ~ is a dead key by default (danish for instance). My guess is that people, who wish to write greek, use such a keyboard layout (or changes to one). I wonder why tilde is a dead key on danish keyboards, we don

Re: greek fonts (summary?)

2008-06-11 Thread Pavel Sanda
> > > Question to the developers: Would it be possible to pass the tilde '~' > > > to LaTeX as-is if the language is set to polutonikogreek? > > > please correct me if i'm wrong, but i think this is wrong direction. > > how will you determine nonbreak. space vs tilde accent then? > > The same way

Re: Line spacing in author

2008-06-11 Thread Rune Schjellerup Philosof
Bob Lounsbury skrev: I agree there are usability issues, but once you play with the program more you get used to those and they transform from usability issues to LaTeX formatting guidelines :-}. Then you learn how to work with those guidelines. Hope you keep plugging away with LyX, it really is

Re: Line spacing in author

2008-06-11 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 1:34 PM, Bob Lounsbury <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 12:25 PM, Rune Schjellerup Philosof > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Nice, the workaround seems to work. >> Anoying when LaTeX is so much worse at producing the desired result than >> Lyx. >> And no e

Re: Line spacing in author

2008-06-11 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 12:25 PM, Rune Schjellerup Philosof <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nice, the workaround seems to work. > Anoying when LaTeX is so much worse at producing the desired result than > Lyx. > And no errormessages, even though they probably wouldn't have made much > sense, they rare

Short indexes reference

2008-06-11 Thread MonAmiPierrot
Hello all, this is my first time in this very useful forum! As a historian (of opera) I use the analytical index to refer to people's name and sometimes to their works. But I find really annoying to write every single time in the index line "Verdi, Giuseppe") in Lyx (or a LaTeX editor). Additional

Spell checking problems

2008-06-11 Thread RyanC
Hello, LyX 1.5.3 on Mepis Linux does not seem to be able to make use of any of my spell checking libraries. I'm pretty sure I have them all installed - ispell, aspell, etc; American and British English. With ispell I get: The spellchecker could not be started Can't open /usr/lib/ispell/englis

Re: Line spacing in author

2008-06-11 Thread Rune Schjellerup Philosof
Bob Lounsbury skrev: On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 10:04 AM, Rune Schjellerup Philosof <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Bob Lounsbury skrev: On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 8:44 AM, Rune Schjellerup Philosof <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Bob Lounsbury skrev: On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 3:37 AM

Re: Line spacing in author

2008-06-11 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 10:04 AM, Rune Schjellerup Philosof <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bob Lounsbury skrev: >> >> On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 8:44 AM, Rune Schjellerup Philosof >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> >>> Bob Lounsbury skrev: >>> On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 3:37 AM, Rune Schjelleru

Re: Line spacing in author

2008-06-11 Thread Rune Schjellerup Philosof
Bob Lounsbury skrev: On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 8:44 AM, Rune Schjellerup Philosof <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Bob Lounsbury skrev: On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 3:37 AM, Rune Schjellerup Philosof <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm trying to change the line spacing in the author environment (in a re

Re: greek fonts

2008-06-11 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 11 Jun 2008, G. Milde wrote: > On 11.06.08, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > It still doesn't work here. That is, the tilde comes out before the > > letter, not on top of it. > > > But I think this is something to do with the current version of Latex, > > not Lyx, because the same thing is now ha

Re: greek fonts

2008-06-11 Thread G. Milde
On 11.06.08, Anthony Campbell wrote: > It still doesn't work here. That is, the tilde comes out before the > letter, not on top of it. > But I think this is something to do with the current version of Latex, > not Lyx, because the same thing is now happening in native Latex as > well. Strange.

Re: Line spacing in author

2008-06-11 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 8:44 AM, Rune Schjellerup Philosof <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bob Lounsbury skrev: >> >> On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 3:37 AM, Rune Schjellerup Philosof >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> >>> Hi >>> >>> I'm trying to change the line spacing in the author environment (in a >>>

Re: greek fonts

2008-06-11 Thread G. Milde
On 11.06.08, Pavel Sanda wrote: > > Question to the developers: Would it be possible to pass the tilde '~' > > to LaTeX as-is if the language is set to polutonikogreek? > please correct me if i'm wrong, but i think this is wrong direction. > how will you determine nonbreak. space vs tilde accent

Re: greek fonts

2008-06-11 Thread Pavel Sanda
> On 11 Jun 2008, G. Milde wrote: > It still doesn't work here. That is, the tilde comes out before the > letter, not on top of it. > > But I think this is something to do with the current version of Latex, > not Lyx, because the same thing is now happening in native Latex as > well. > > Looks li

Re: Line spacing in author

2008-06-11 Thread Rune Schjellerup Philosof
Bob Lounsbury skrev: On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 3:37 AM, Rune Schjellerup Philosof <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi I'm trying to change the line spacing in the author environment (in a report). Lyx shows the change perfectly, but when I view it in pdf or dvi the line spacing setting is ignored. E

Re: Line spacing in author

2008-06-11 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 3:37 AM, Rune Schjellerup Philosof <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > I'm trying to change the line spacing in the author environment (in a > report). > Lyx shows the change perfectly, but when I view it in pdf or dvi the line > spacing setting is ignored. > Even when I try

Re: greek fonts

2008-06-11 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 11 Jun 2008, G. Milde wrote: > > Unfortunately, lyx currently only supports modern Greek, but has no > support for polytonic Greek (babel option polutonikogreek). > > However, this can be easily fixed by adding polutonikogreek to the > languages file and re-configuring: > > --- /usr/share/lyx

Re: greek fonts

2008-06-11 Thread Pavel Sanda
> But this is inconsistent with handling of other extensions. > Editing in LyX works even without any tex distribution, still > reconfigure checks availability of fonts, classes and packages -- > but not inputenc nor ucs. which is a different story then prohibit this encoding ;) pavel

Re: greek fonts

2008-06-11 Thread Pavel Sanda
> > is tetex supposed to work with the chosen encoding or do i need texlive? > > what tex distribution do you use? > > utf8x.def is part of the "ucs" package for comprehensive unicode support. > > I use the texlive packages from Debian/testing which contain ucs in > texlive-latex-recommended. >

Re: greek fonts

2008-06-11 Thread Pavel Sanda
> it. When you put "tilde-accent" into the command buffer and then strike the > desired key, sorry i meant "accent-tilde" > > pavel

Re: greek fonts

2008-06-11 Thread Pavel Sanda
> With this fix, your lyx example can be set to use the language "Greek > (polytonic)". > > However, as the tilde acts as a non-breakable space in LaTeX, it is > escaped by LyX (converted to \asciitilde) and hence the example will only > work right, if you put the tilde (or the whole text) in an E

Re: greek fonts

2008-06-11 Thread G. Milde
On 11.06.08, Pavel Sanda wrote: > > > > Normally LyX checks the package availability for any extensions, > > > > so this might count as a (minor) LyX bug, > > > > > no i dont have this package locally, so its not lyx problem. > > > > It is a lyx problem if you can actively set > > Document>Settin

Re: greek fonts

2008-06-11 Thread G. Milde
On 11.06.08, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 10 Jun 2008, G. Milde wrote: > > 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. Unfortunatel

Nomenclature

2008-06-11 Thread Rune Schjellerup Philosof
Hi I'm trying to make a nomenclature list, however, does some strange things. If I put a nomenclature (MS) in a section environment then the list becomes: LC Liquid Chromatography, page 13 MS MASS SPECTROMETRY, page 8–10 MS MASS SPECTROMETRY, page 11 MS MASS SPECTROMETRY, page 12, 13 MS Mass spec

Re: greek fonts

2008-06-11 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 11 Jun 2008, Rune Schjellerup Philosof wrote: > Anthony Campbell skrev: >> On 11 Jun 2008, Pavel Sanda wrote: >> On 10 Jun 2008, G. Milde wrote: > On 10.06.08, Anthony Campbell wrote: > >> I tried to use Lyx for ancient Greek but the circumflex (tilde

Re: greek fonts

2008-06-11 Thread Rune Schjellerup Philosof
Anthony Campbell skrev: On 11 Jun 2008, Pavel Sanda wrote: On 10 Jun 2008, G. Milde wrote: 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

Re: greek fonts

2008-06-11 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 11 Jun 2008, Pavel Sanda wrote: > > On 10 Jun 2008, G. Milde wrote: > > > 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. >

Line spacing in author

2008-06-11 Thread Rune Schjellerup Philosof
Hi I'm trying to change the line spacing in the author environment (in a report). Lyx shows the change perfectly, but when I view it in pdf or dvi the line spacing setting is ignored. Even when I try to insert vertical spaces they are partly ignored. Actually the size of first vertical space i

Re: greek fonts

2008-06-11 Thread Pavel Sanda
> On 10 Jun 2008, G. Milde wrote: > > 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 "Stan

Re: greek fonts

2008-06-11 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 10 Jun 2008, G. Milde wrote: > 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"

Re: greek fonts

2008-06-11 Thread Pavel Sanda
> > > Normally LyX checks the package availability for any extensions, so this > > > might count as a (minor) LyX bug, > > > no i dont have this package locally, so its not lyx problem. > > It is a lyx problem if you can actively set > Document>Settings>Language>Encoding to utf8x while the packag

Re: pgf and external table plot

2008-06-11 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Willem van Engen wrote: [referencing external file inside ERT] It occurs to me that a simpler solution might be to put an absolute reference to the file in the ERT. LyX still will not copy it to the temp directory, but it won't need to. Hmm that makes sense, good idea :) Is there a w

Re: pgf and external table plot

2008-06-11 Thread Willem van Engen
> > > > [referencing external file inside ERT] > > > > It occurs to me that a simpler solution might be to put an absolute > reference to the file in the ERT. LyX still will not copy it to the > temp directory, but it won't need to. Hmm that makes sense, good idea :) Is there a way to ha