Re: replace text

2008-07-28 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
G. Milde wrote: Maybe LyX need chemistry mode similar to the math mode (with certainly less options). In LyX 1.6, this could (probably) be done with a character style (similar to an URL, say). character styles are also avaliable in 1.5. Jürgen

[ANNOUNCE] LyX 1.5.6 is released

2008-07-28 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Public release of LyX version 1.5.6 We are pleased to announce the release of LyX 1.5.6. This is the fifth maintenance release in the 1.5.x cycle that has been started exactly one year ago. The aim of this release was to make LyX even more robust and to solve

Watermark across a book?

2008-07-28 Thread Frederick Noronha [फ़रेदरिक नोरोनया]
Is it possible to use Lyx to create a 'watermark' across all the pages of a book -- say, something in grey to read 'Unedited Rough Draft'? I've seen this on another draft copy of a book (not done in Lyx) and was wondering if similar capabilities existed here. Just need to use this while submitting

Re: Watermark across a book?

2008-07-28 Thread Typhoon
On Sat, 26 Jul 2008 01:52:59 +0530 Frederick Noronha [फ़रेदरिक नोरोनया] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to use Lyx to create a 'watermark' across all the pages of a book -- say, something in grey to read 'Unedited Rough Draft'? I've seen this on another draft copy of a book (not done in

Re: LyX website displays incorrectly w/ Safari

2008-07-28 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Sun, 27 Jul 2008, Jens Noeckel wrote: I can't repeat this with Opera on Windows, do you still see this problem? (I was doing stuff with the web backend, so maybe it's just your browser that needs to reload it's cache or something) Do others seem something strange when looking at the page:

Re: Math in a footnote

2008-07-28 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Marwan Boustany wrote: On Sun, 27 Jul 2008 21:16:56 +0100, Marwan Boustany [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peace, Is there a way to put math (using ctrl-m in windows) into a footnote? When I tried, the document would not allow conversion into pdf or any other format. Only when removed would it

Re: Math in a footnote

2008-07-28 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Yago wrote: Peace Are you going to pollute the list with your empty replies each time Marwan send something? Humour is best appreciated when done once... Abdel.

Re: Difficulty with LyX-Code and Copystyle

2008-07-28 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, I'm not calling this a bug because maybe it was never intended to work this way, but if I create and use two LyX styles, Code1 and Code2, each of them with CopyStyle LyX-Code, then on conversion to PDF I get the following error message: Hi Steve, Not directly

Re: Progress on the MS Word to LyX conversion (xml)

2008-07-28 Thread Steve Litt
On Monday 28 July 2008 01:10, John McCabe-Dansted wrote: On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 4:43 PM, Manveru [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To the discussion about data format preference: I am reading all your comments about XML, YAML and other suggested data formats. And this discussion reminds me

Re: Difficulty with LyX-Code and Copystyle

2008-07-28 Thread Steve Litt
On Monday 28 July 2008 03:22, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, I'm not calling this a bug because maybe it was never intended to work this way, but if I create and use two LyX styles, Code1 and Code2, each of them with CopyStyle LyX-Code, then on conversion to PDF I

Re: 1.6.x Beta 4 bug -- section heading.

2008-07-28 Thread G. Milde
On 27.07.08, killermike wrote: Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: killermike wrote: I was unable to find any mention of this in bugzilla. http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5053 Damn. Sorry about that. I searched bugzilla without finding anything. I found, that the default settings of the

Re: 1.6.x Beta 4 bug -- section heading.

2008-07-28 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
G. Milde wrote: Damn. Sorry about that. I searched bugzilla without finding anything. I found, that the default settings of the bugzilla search does not include UNCONFIRMED bugs. This way, it is quite common to miss the most recent bug reports. In general, when referring to a beta release,

Lyx functions

2008-07-28 Thread Simeon Simeonov
I really like lyx. I just find something a bit hard. Some things are easier to be done via the keyboard (otherwise it's back to MS point and click nightmare). I mean in an equation it is much easier to just do \pi for Pi or \neq for the not equal sign. What about in standard mode when I am

Excel graphs into Lyx

2008-07-28 Thread timtheenchanter
Sorry if this question has been answered before but what is the best way to import excel graphs (Charts) into Lyx. If I convert them to a .jpg for example the quality of the finished document is poor. Thanks John -- View this message in context:

Re: Difficulty with LyX-Code and Copystyle FIX FOUND

2008-07-28 Thread G. Milde
On 27.07.08, Steve Litt wrote: On Sunday 27 July 2008 17:09, Steve Litt wrote: ... if I create and use two LyX styles, Code1 and Code2, each of them with CopyStyle LyX-Code, then on conversion to PDF I get the following error message: LaXeX Error: Command \lyxcode already defined

Re: Progress on the MS Word to LyX conversion (xml)

2008-07-28 Thread G. Milde
On 28.07.08, Steve Litt wrote: On Monday 28 July 2008 01:10, John McCabe-Dansted wrote: On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 4:43 PM, Manveru [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To the discussion about data format preference: ... Have you ever merged XML? I tried - it is horrible work. I don't see why it

Re: Finding Bad characters

2008-07-28 Thread G. Milde
On 25.07.08, Steve Litt wrote: ... I know nothing about unicode, so I'd need to be brought up to speed on that before writing the program. References: * The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!)

Re: Excel graphs into Lyx

2008-07-28 Thread Manveru
Two different suggestions: 1. Open .xls in OpenOffice Calc; then copy chart to OO Draw and save as EPS. 2. Print chart to .ps file and convert to .eps by ghostscript; some Postscript printers in windows allows to enable .eps mode. I think I have one yet solution, but I forgot now how I copied

Re: LyX website displays incorrectly w/ Safari

2008-07-28 Thread Manveru
IVHMO it is Safari bug, that it does not add domain automatically when the path starts from /. M. 2008/7/28 Christian Ridderström [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sun, 27 Jul 2008, Jens Noeckel wrote: I can't repeat this with Opera on Windows, do you still see this problem? (I was doing stuff with

Re: Finding Bad characters

2008-07-28 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
G. Milde wrote: On 25.07.08, Steve Litt wrote: I assume unicode is a 16 bit representation of characters. Actually, unicode is a character-- number mapping without an upper limit to the numbers. Once upon a time, 16 bit where enough to represent all defined unicode characters, but even then

Re: Lyx functions

2008-07-28 Thread Manveru
If I understood your thoughts correctly you are looking for ERT. 2008/7/28 Simeon Simeonov [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I really like lyx. I just find something a bit hard. Some things are easier to be done via the keyboard (otherwise it's back to MS point and click nightmare). I mean in an equation it

Re: making a binary tarball from SVN

2008-07-28 Thread G. Milde
On 14.07.08, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: G. Milde [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: compiling LyX from the source took me some hours, so I thought I could install from a tarball on my second machine. However, trying with make dist-bzip2 Does it work now? Sort of: it complained about a too

Re: Lyx functions

2008-07-28 Thread Daniel Lohmann
I really like lyx. I just find something a bit hard. Some things are easier to be done via the keyboard (otherwise it's back to MS point and click nightmare). I mean in an equation it is much easier to just do \pi for Pi or \neq for the not equal sign. What about in standard mode when I am

Re: Progress on the MS Word to LyX conversion (xml)

2008-07-28 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
G. Milde wrote: On 28.07.08, Steve Litt wrote: On Monday 28 July 2008 01:10, John McCabe-Dansted wrote: On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 4:43 PM, Manveru[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To the discussion about data format preference: ... Have you ever merged XML? I tried - it is horrible work. I don't see

Re: making a binary tarball from SVN

2008-07-28 Thread Pavel Sanda
On 14.07.08, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: G. Milde [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: compiling LyX from the source took me some hours, so I thought I could install from a tarball on my second machine. However, trying with make dist-bzip2 Does it work now? Sort of: it complained

Re: Lyx functions

2008-07-28 Thread Pavel Sanda
What about in standard mode when I am writing text? nearly all mouse actions can be done by keyboard action, you just have to lern the keybindings or bind new functions for your usage. Can I use lyx as a non WYSIWYG editor? you have to choose what you want. if you want vim-li editing, use vim

Re: Progress on the MS Word to LyX conversion (xml)

2008-07-28 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
John McCabe-Dansted wrote: On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 4:43 PM, Manveru[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To the discussion about data format preference: I am reading all your comments about XML, YAML and other suggested data formats. And this discussion reminds me something about XML what almost nobody is

1.5.6 deb

2008-07-28 Thread Tomasz Kołodziejski
Hi, since I experienced some problems with using the opensuse rpm package I compiled from source myself. I really like LyX so I want help others to use it. I've created a package for Ubuntu Hardy which you can find on my server --- http://neo.mlodzi.pl/tmp/lyx_1.5.6-1_i386.deb . I'd like to see

Re: 1.5.6 deb

2008-07-28 Thread Manveru
This was discussed some time ago that plenty security rules does not allow LyX team and other to publish such packages. There is a team in Ubuntu which should be responsible for preparing secure reviewed packages for Ubuntu/Debian users. Try to join them if you want contribute in pacakge

[Fwd: Re: [ANNOUNCE] LyX 1.5.6 is released]

2008-07-28 Thread ddimuc
I forgot to mention: I am a reluctant? proud? against my wishes? member of the LyX group :) Original Message Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] LyX 1.5.6 is released Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 06:11:59 -0400 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Jürgen Spitzmüller [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL

Re: Math in a footnote

2008-07-28 Thread rgheck
Marwan Boustany wrote: On Sun, 27 Jul 2008 21:50:16 +0100, Marwan Boustany [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 27 Jul 2008 21:19:55 +0100, rgheck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Marwan Boustany wrote: Peace, Is there a way to put math (using ctrl-m in windows) into a footnote? When I tried, the

Re: Difficulty with LyX-Code and Copystyle FIX FOUND

2008-07-28 Thread rgheck
G. Milde wrote: On 27.07.08, Steve Litt wrote: Is there a simple way I can use CopyStyle with LyX-Code and not get this error? Yes. Overwrite the Preamble definiton by defining a replacement (maybe empty) in your copy. FYI: LyX 1.6 has a new AddToPreamble tag for cases where you

Re: Difficulty with LyX-Code and Copystyle FIX FOUND

2008-07-28 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
rgheck wrote: G. Milde wrote: On 27.07.08, Steve Litt wrote: Is there a simple way I can use CopyStyle with LyX-Code and not get this error? Yes. Overwrite the Preamble definiton by defining a replacement (maybe empty) in your copy. FYI: LyX 1.6 has a new AddToPreamble tag for cases where

Re: Difficulty with LyX-Code and Copystyle FIX FOUND

2008-07-28 Thread rgheck
Abdelrazak Younes wrote: rgheck wrote: G. Milde wrote: On 27.07.08, Steve Litt wrote: Is there a simple way I can use CopyStyle with LyX-Code and not get this error? Yes. Overwrite the Preamble definiton by defining a replacement (maybe empty) in your copy. FYI: LyX 1.6 has a new

Re: Difficulty with LyX-Code and Copystyle

2008-07-28 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Steve Litt wrote: On Monday 28 July 2008 03:22, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, I'm not calling this a bug because maybe it was never intended to work this way, but if I create and use two LyX styles, Code1 and Code2, each of them with CopyStyle LyX-Code, then on conversion

Re: LyX website displays incorrectly w/ Safari

2008-07-28 Thread Jens Noeckel
Christian, On Jul 28, 2008, at 12:12 AM, Christian Ridderström wrote: On Sun, 27 Jul 2008, Jens Noeckel wrote: I can't repeat this with Opera on Windows, do you still see this problem? (I was doing stuff with the web backend, so maybe it's just your browser that needs to reload it's cache

Re: Excel graphs into Lyx

2008-07-28 Thread Siegfried MEUNIER-GUTTIN-CLUZEL
I tried this and it works with an excellent quality (vector format). It seems that it doesn't work with excel 2007. Copy the graph as an image ( press shift and go in the edit menu then choose something like save an image ). You'll have a little dialog where you choose the appearance like in

Re: Excel graphs into Lyx

2008-07-28 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Siegfried MEUNIER-GUTTIN-CLUZEL wrote: I tried this and it works with an excellent quality (vector format). It seems that it doesn't work with excel 2007. Copy the graph as an image ( press shift and go in the edit menu then choose something like save an image ). You'll have a little dialog

Double-click inside math mode

2008-07-28 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All, Do you think this new requested feature would be helpful http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5095 ? Thanks in advance, Paul

Re: Finding Bad characters

2008-07-28 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Fri, 25 Jul 2008, Sebastian Rohrer wrote: after pasting from OOwriter. Is there any way to find those characters? It is very tedious by eye... you can try a divide-and-conquer approach. Erase the last half and see if the problem persists. If it does, erase the now remaining last half and

RE: Math in a footnote

2008-07-28 Thread Marwan Boustany
-Original Message- From: rgheck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 28 July 2008 15:44 To: Marwan Boustany Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: Re: Math in a footnote Marwan Boustany wrote: On Sun, 27 Jul 2008 21:50:16 +0100, Marwan Boustany [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 27 Jul 2008

Re: Math in a footnote

2008-07-28 Thread rgheck
Marwan Boustany wrote: I tried what you said, it just says the format is unavailable. I have a complete miktex installation here with the install packages on the fly enabled... Can you compile anything? rh

Reproducible crash 1.6 beta 4

2008-07-28 Thread killermike
Crash when promoting section heading in branch. I don't know if this is a bug that is revealed by http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5053 (now solved) or caused by it. Unfortunately, I don't have the facilities to compile the latest version on my Windows box. To reproduce 1. Start new

Re: Double-click inside math mode

2008-07-28 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Paul Smith wrote: Dear All, Do you think this new requested feature would be helpful http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5095 I confirmed it. Abdel.

Re: Reproducible crash 1.6 beta 4

2008-07-28 Thread rgheck
killermike wrote: Crash when promoting section heading in branch. I don't know if this is a bug that is revealed by http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5053 (now solved) or caused by it. Unfortunately, I don't have the facilities to compile the latest version on my Windows box. To

Re: Excel graphs into Lyx

2008-07-28 Thread Manveru
Oh YES! This _will_ be very nice feature. 2008/7/28 Abdelrazak Younes [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [...] Just FYI, 1.6 _will_ have native graphics clipboard support. On Windows the emf and wmf formats will also be supported. This means that all you _will_ need to do is: - select the graph in Excel -

[announce] LyXWinInstaller for LyX 1.5.6

2008-07-28 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Hello LyXers, I uploaded the new version 3.25 of the LyXWinInstaller. Like for the last versions, an update installer is offered. With this you can easily update your LyX 1.5.5 installation to LyX 1.5.6: Log in as adminstrator on your PC and execute the update installer. Note: The update

Re: Difficulty with LyX-Code and Copystyle

2008-07-28 Thread Steve Litt
On Monday 28 July 2008 11:35, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Steve Litt wrote: On Monday 28 July 2008 03:22, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, I'm not calling this a bug because maybe it was never intended to work this way, but if I create and use two LyX styles, Code1 and

RE: Math in a footnote

2008-07-28 Thread Marwan Boustany
-Original Message- From: rgheck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 28 July 2008 18:11 To: Marwan Boustany Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: Re: Math in a footnote Marwan Boustany wrote: I tried what you said, it just says the format is unavailable. I have a complete miktex installation

Re: Math in a footnote

2008-07-28 Thread rgheck
Marwan Boustany wrote: No. If the math is left in the footnote. Nothing compiles, pdf, dvi or anything else will not work. When I remove it. It works perfectly. OK. Try the attached. What happens? Please run LyX from a terminal, thus: lyx -dbg latex and post whatever LyX produces when you

Re: Math in a footnote

2008-07-28 Thread rgheck
Marwan Boustany wrote: No. If the math is left in the footnote. Nothing compiles, pdf, dvi or anything else will not work. When I remove it. It works perfectly. OK. Try the attached. What happens? Please run LyX from a terminal, thus: lyx -dbg latex and post whatever LyX produces when you

Re: LyX website displays incorrectly w/ Safari

2008-07-28 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Mon, 28 Jul 2008, Jens Noeckel wrote: The correct URI should be http://www.lyx.org/farm/pub/skins/lyx/lyx.css I don't know how your server is set up, but relative addresses should always be fine, and even your intended approach should be doable: Everything should work fine if you leave

Re: LyX website displays incorrectly w/ Safari

2008-07-28 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 4:44 PM, Christian Ridderström [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 28 Jul 2008, Jens Noeckel wrote: The correct URI should be http://www.lyx.org/farm/pub/skins/lyx/lyx.css I don't know how your server is set up, but relative addresses should always be fine, and even

Re: making a binary tarball from SVN

2008-07-28 Thread Enrico Forestieri
G. Milde writes: Is there an easy way to make a *binary* tarball out of the SVN sources? Use make DESTDIR=/tmp/lyx-inst install and then make an archive of everything in /tmp/lyx-inst. -- Enrico

Assymetrical LyX layout template

2008-07-28 Thread Fred Sias
A little help please, I have been searching for this information in vain. I know someone on this list must know where to find a method for setting up an asymmetrical page layout in LyX with a 4 inch column and a 1.5 inch left-hand column for sidenotes and illustration captions. I want my headings

Re: Excel graphs into Lyx

2008-07-28 Thread Les Denham
On Mon, 2008-07-28 at 01:55 -0700, timtheenchanter wrote: Sorry if this question has been answered before but what is the best way to import excel graphs (Charts) into Lyx. If I convert them to a .jpg for example the quality of the finished document is poor. The new capabilities in 1.6 will

Re: [announce] LyXWinInstaller for LyX 1.5.6

2008-07-28 Thread James Mansion
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Note: The update installer only works when LyX 1.5.5 was installed also with the LyXWinInstaller! Does it have to be 1.5.5, or will a prior 1.5.x also be OK?

Re: replace text

2008-07-28 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
G. Milde wrote: Maybe LyX need chemistry mode similar to the math mode (with certainly less options). In LyX 1.6, this could (probably) be done with a character style (similar to an URL, say). character styles are also avaliable in 1.5. Jürgen

[ANNOUNCE] LyX 1.5.6 is released

2008-07-28 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Public release of LyX version 1.5.6 We are pleased to announce the release of LyX 1.5.6. This is the fifth maintenance release in the 1.5.x cycle that has been started exactly one year ago. The aim of this release was to make LyX even more robust and to solve

Watermark across a book?

2008-07-28 Thread Frederick Noronha [फ़रेदरिक नोरोनया]
Is it possible to use Lyx to create a 'watermark' across all the pages of a book -- say, something in grey to read 'Unedited Rough Draft'? I've seen this on another draft copy of a book (not done in Lyx) and was wondering if similar capabilities existed here. Just need to use this while submitting

Re: Watermark across a book?

2008-07-28 Thread Typhoon
On Sat, 26 Jul 2008 01:52:59 +0530 Frederick Noronha [फ़रेदरिक नोरोनया] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to use Lyx to create a 'watermark' across all the pages of a book -- say, something in grey to read 'Unedited Rough Draft'? I've seen this on another draft copy of a book (not done in

Re: LyX website displays incorrectly w/ Safari

2008-07-28 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Sun, 27 Jul 2008, Jens Noeckel wrote: I can't repeat this with Opera on Windows, do you still see this problem? (I was doing stuff with the web backend, so maybe it's just your browser that needs to reload it's cache or something) Do others seem something strange when looking at the page:

Re: Math in a footnote

2008-07-28 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Marwan Boustany wrote: On Sun, 27 Jul 2008 21:16:56 +0100, Marwan Boustany [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peace, Is there a way to put math (using ctrl-m in windows) into a footnote? When I tried, the document would not allow conversion into pdf or any other format. Only when removed would it

Re: Math in a footnote

2008-07-28 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Yago wrote: Peace Are you going to pollute the list with your empty replies each time Marwan send something? Humour is best appreciated when done once... Abdel.

Re: Difficulty with LyX-Code and Copystyle

2008-07-28 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, I'm not calling this a bug because maybe it was never intended to work this way, but if I create and use two LyX styles, Code1 and Code2, each of them with CopyStyle LyX-Code, then on conversion to PDF I get the following error message: Hi Steve, Not directly

Re: Progress on the MS Word to LyX conversion (xml)

2008-07-28 Thread Steve Litt
On Monday 28 July 2008 01:10, John McCabe-Dansted wrote: On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 4:43 PM, Manveru [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To the discussion about data format preference: I am reading all your comments about XML, YAML and other suggested data formats. And this discussion reminds me

Re: Difficulty with LyX-Code and Copystyle

2008-07-28 Thread Steve Litt
On Monday 28 July 2008 03:22, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, I'm not calling this a bug because maybe it was never intended to work this way, but if I create and use two LyX styles, Code1 and Code2, each of them with CopyStyle LyX-Code, then on conversion to PDF I

Re: 1.6.x Beta 4 bug -- section heading.

2008-07-28 Thread G. Milde
On 27.07.08, killermike wrote: Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: killermike wrote: I was unable to find any mention of this in bugzilla. http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5053 Damn. Sorry about that. I searched bugzilla without finding anything. I found, that the default settings of the

Re: 1.6.x Beta 4 bug -- section heading.

2008-07-28 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
G. Milde wrote: Damn. Sorry about that. I searched bugzilla without finding anything. I found, that the default settings of the bugzilla search does not include UNCONFIRMED bugs. This way, it is quite common to miss the most recent bug reports. In general, when referring to a beta release,

Lyx functions

2008-07-28 Thread Simeon Simeonov
I really like lyx. I just find something a bit hard. Some things are easier to be done via the keyboard (otherwise it's back to MS point and click nightmare). I mean in an equation it is much easier to just do \pi for Pi or \neq for the not equal sign. What about in standard mode when I am

Excel graphs into Lyx

2008-07-28 Thread timtheenchanter
Sorry if this question has been answered before but what is the best way to import excel graphs (Charts) into Lyx. If I convert them to a .jpg for example the quality of the finished document is poor. Thanks John -- View this message in context:

Re: Difficulty with LyX-Code and Copystyle FIX FOUND

2008-07-28 Thread G. Milde
On 27.07.08, Steve Litt wrote: On Sunday 27 July 2008 17:09, Steve Litt wrote: ... if I create and use two LyX styles, Code1 and Code2, each of them with CopyStyle LyX-Code, then on conversion to PDF I get the following error message: LaXeX Error: Command \lyxcode already defined

Re: Progress on the MS Word to LyX conversion (xml)

2008-07-28 Thread G. Milde
On 28.07.08, Steve Litt wrote: On Monday 28 July 2008 01:10, John McCabe-Dansted wrote: On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 4:43 PM, Manveru [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To the discussion about data format preference: ... Have you ever merged XML? I tried - it is horrible work. I don't see why it

Re: Finding Bad characters

2008-07-28 Thread G. Milde
On 25.07.08, Steve Litt wrote: ... I know nothing about unicode, so I'd need to be brought up to speed on that before writing the program. References: * The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!)

Re: Excel graphs into Lyx

2008-07-28 Thread Manveru
Two different suggestions: 1. Open .xls in OpenOffice Calc; then copy chart to OO Draw and save as EPS. 2. Print chart to .ps file and convert to .eps by ghostscript; some Postscript printers in windows allows to enable .eps mode. I think I have one yet solution, but I forgot now how I copied

Re: LyX website displays incorrectly w/ Safari

2008-07-28 Thread Manveru
IVHMO it is Safari bug, that it does not add domain automatically when the path starts from /. M. 2008/7/28 Christian Ridderström [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sun, 27 Jul 2008, Jens Noeckel wrote: I can't repeat this with Opera on Windows, do you still see this problem? (I was doing stuff with

Re: Finding Bad characters

2008-07-28 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
G. Milde wrote: On 25.07.08, Steve Litt wrote: I assume unicode is a 16 bit representation of characters. Actually, unicode is a character-- number mapping without an upper limit to the numbers. Once upon a time, 16 bit where enough to represent all defined unicode characters, but even then

Re: Lyx functions

2008-07-28 Thread Manveru
If I understood your thoughts correctly you are looking for ERT. 2008/7/28 Simeon Simeonov [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I really like lyx. I just find something a bit hard. Some things are easier to be done via the keyboard (otherwise it's back to MS point and click nightmare). I mean in an equation it

Re: making a binary tarball from SVN

2008-07-28 Thread G. Milde
On 14.07.08, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: G. Milde [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: compiling LyX from the source took me some hours, so I thought I could install from a tarball on my second machine. However, trying with make dist-bzip2 Does it work now? Sort of: it complained about a too

Re: Lyx functions

2008-07-28 Thread Daniel Lohmann
I really like lyx. I just find something a bit hard. Some things are easier to be done via the keyboard (otherwise it's back to MS point and click nightmare). I mean in an equation it is much easier to just do \pi for Pi or \neq for the not equal sign. What about in standard mode when I am

Re: Progress on the MS Word to LyX conversion (xml)

2008-07-28 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
G. Milde wrote: On 28.07.08, Steve Litt wrote: On Monday 28 July 2008 01:10, John McCabe-Dansted wrote: On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 4:43 PM, Manveru[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To the discussion about data format preference: ... Have you ever merged XML? I tried - it is horrible work. I don't see

Re: making a binary tarball from SVN

2008-07-28 Thread Pavel Sanda
On 14.07.08, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: G. Milde [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: compiling LyX from the source took me some hours, so I thought I could install from a tarball on my second machine. However, trying with make dist-bzip2 Does it work now? Sort of: it complained

Re: Lyx functions

2008-07-28 Thread Pavel Sanda
What about in standard mode when I am writing text? nearly all mouse actions can be done by keyboard action, you just have to lern the keybindings or bind new functions for your usage. Can I use lyx as a non WYSIWYG editor? you have to choose what you want. if you want vim-li editing, use vim

Re: Progress on the MS Word to LyX conversion (xml)

2008-07-28 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
John McCabe-Dansted wrote: On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 4:43 PM, Manveru[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To the discussion about data format preference: I am reading all your comments about XML, YAML and other suggested data formats. And this discussion reminds me something about XML what almost nobody is

1.5.6 deb

2008-07-28 Thread Tomasz Kołodziejski
Hi, since I experienced some problems with using the opensuse rpm package I compiled from source myself. I really like LyX so I want help others to use it. I've created a package for Ubuntu Hardy which you can find on my server --- http://neo.mlodzi.pl/tmp/lyx_1.5.6-1_i386.deb . I'd like to see

Re: 1.5.6 deb

2008-07-28 Thread Manveru
This was discussed some time ago that plenty security rules does not allow LyX team and other to publish such packages. There is a team in Ubuntu which should be responsible for preparing secure reviewed packages for Ubuntu/Debian users. Try to join them if you want contribute in pacakge

[Fwd: Re: [ANNOUNCE] LyX 1.5.6 is released]

2008-07-28 Thread ddimuc
I forgot to mention: I am a reluctant? proud? against my wishes? member of the LyX group :) Original Message Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] LyX 1.5.6 is released Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 06:11:59 -0400 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Jürgen Spitzmüller [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL

Re: Math in a footnote

2008-07-28 Thread rgheck
Marwan Boustany wrote: On Sun, 27 Jul 2008 21:50:16 +0100, Marwan Boustany [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 27 Jul 2008 21:19:55 +0100, rgheck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Marwan Boustany wrote: Peace, Is there a way to put math (using ctrl-m in windows) into a footnote? When I tried, the

Re: Difficulty with LyX-Code and Copystyle FIX FOUND

2008-07-28 Thread rgheck
G. Milde wrote: On 27.07.08, Steve Litt wrote: Is there a simple way I can use CopyStyle with LyX-Code and not get this error? Yes. Overwrite the Preamble definiton by defining a replacement (maybe empty) in your copy. FYI: LyX 1.6 has a new AddToPreamble tag for cases where you

Re: Difficulty with LyX-Code and Copystyle FIX FOUND

2008-07-28 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
rgheck wrote: G. Milde wrote: On 27.07.08, Steve Litt wrote: Is there a simple way I can use CopyStyle with LyX-Code and not get this error? Yes. Overwrite the Preamble definiton by defining a replacement (maybe empty) in your copy. FYI: LyX 1.6 has a new AddToPreamble tag for cases where

Re: Difficulty with LyX-Code and Copystyle FIX FOUND

2008-07-28 Thread rgheck
Abdelrazak Younes wrote: rgheck wrote: G. Milde wrote: On 27.07.08, Steve Litt wrote: Is there a simple way I can use CopyStyle with LyX-Code and not get this error? Yes. Overwrite the Preamble definiton by defining a replacement (maybe empty) in your copy. FYI: LyX 1.6 has a new

Re: Difficulty with LyX-Code and Copystyle

2008-07-28 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Steve Litt wrote: On Monday 28 July 2008 03:22, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, I'm not calling this a bug because maybe it was never intended to work this way, but if I create and use two LyX styles, Code1 and Code2, each of them with CopyStyle LyX-Code, then on conversion

Re: LyX website displays incorrectly w/ Safari

2008-07-28 Thread Jens Noeckel
Christian, On Jul 28, 2008, at 12:12 AM, Christian Ridderström wrote: On Sun, 27 Jul 2008, Jens Noeckel wrote: I can't repeat this with Opera on Windows, do you still see this problem? (I was doing stuff with the web backend, so maybe it's just your browser that needs to reload it's cache

Re: Excel graphs into Lyx

2008-07-28 Thread Siegfried MEUNIER-GUTTIN-CLUZEL
I tried this and it works with an excellent quality (vector format). It seems that it doesn't work with excel 2007. Copy the graph as an image ( press shift and go in the edit menu then choose something like save an image ). You'll have a little dialog where you choose the appearance like in

Re: Excel graphs into Lyx

2008-07-28 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Siegfried MEUNIER-GUTTIN-CLUZEL wrote: I tried this and it works with an excellent quality (vector format). It seems that it doesn't work with excel 2007. Copy the graph as an image ( press shift and go in the edit menu then choose something like save an image ). You'll have a little dialog

Double-click inside math mode

2008-07-28 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All, Do you think this new requested feature would be helpful http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5095 ? Thanks in advance, Paul

Re: Finding Bad characters

2008-07-28 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Fri, 25 Jul 2008, Sebastian Rohrer wrote: after pasting from OOwriter. Is there any way to find those characters? It is very tedious by eye... you can try a divide-and-conquer approach. Erase the last half and see if the problem persists. If it does, erase the now remaining last half and

RE: Math in a footnote

2008-07-28 Thread Marwan Boustany
-Original Message- From: rgheck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 28 July 2008 15:44 To: Marwan Boustany Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: Re: Math in a footnote Marwan Boustany wrote: On Sun, 27 Jul 2008 21:50:16 +0100, Marwan Boustany [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 27 Jul 2008

Re: Math in a footnote

2008-07-28 Thread rgheck
Marwan Boustany wrote: I tried what you said, it just says the format is unavailable. I have a complete miktex installation here with the install packages on the fly enabled... Can you compile anything? rh

Reproducible crash 1.6 beta 4

2008-07-28 Thread killermike
Crash when promoting section heading in branch. I don't know if this is a bug that is revealed by http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5053 (now solved) or caused by it. Unfortunately, I don't have the facilities to compile the latest version on my Windows box. To reproduce 1. Start new

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