Re: Float placement

2008-08-22 Thread G. Milde
On 21.08.08, Guillaume Larocque wrote: Ok, here are the exact symptoms of the problem. If I have a few floats inserted in a sequence in Lyx, as soon as Latex decides that one float will be on a separate page, all the floats following it will also be placed on a separate page, regardless of

Re: Interesting thread on Slashdot

2008-08-22 Thread G. Milde
On 21.08.08, Steve Litt wrote: I write letters in LyX too. The letter template makes it brutally easy, except you need to remember to insert the \date{9/9/2099} via ERT or every time you print it the date will change. ... Why don't you create your own template then, which reminds you on

Re: Floating Table Objects Error

2008-08-22 Thread G. Milde
On 21.08.08, Nico wrote: Hello Christian, thanks for the fast reply, but this was not the reason... the float is inserted in the standard environment. Just the error-message points to the subsection environment but at a totally different place of the document. Is there another

Re: Excluding LyX notes from word counts

2008-08-22 Thread G. Milde
On 21.08.08, Konrad Hofbauer wrote: I would find it preferable to exclude LyX Notes from almost everything and especially: - Spell-Checking (!!!) - Section Numbering - Outline View Opinions? Actually, I'd prefer an option to exclude spell-checking independent of the notes. Maybe the

Include image in title page when documentclass = report

2008-08-22 Thread Matthieu Stigler
Hello I want to include an image in the title page. However, I see that using the class report puts automatically the image at the second page... is there a way to force the image to be on the first page within report documentclass? thank you! Mat

Re: \textservicemark vs. \texttrademark

2008-08-22 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Rich Shepard wrote: No, the workaround still works. I would, however, like to learn why symbol cannot be produced by the package in which it's defined. The problem is that the font you're using does not provide the appropriate glyph (for SM). Thus textcomp bails out. Consult the LaTeX

Re: example of layout module for LyX 1.6

2008-08-22 Thread Helge Hafting
Steve Litt wrote: Thanks Oliver, I still don't understand the underlying philosophy of layout modules: 0) What is a layout module? A modular approach to layout files. 1) Why are they better than just writing your own layout file? Flexibility. For example, lets say you need a special kind

Re: How to create Table of Contents from separate files?

2008-08-22 Thread Helge Hafting
Hesham Kamel wrote: Hi, I am a new Latex user and I have started to write my thesis using LyX. I have each chapter in a separate folder. That is ok. Please, I want to know how do make LyX generate

Re: Trouble importing latex file in Lyx

2008-08-22 Thread Helge Hafting
christiaan pauw wrote: Hi everybody Lyx 1.5.4 on Mac OS X leopard, Texshop 2.14 I have a latex file which is an export from SAS which is basically huge collection of tables that I need to use in a report which i write in Lyx. I want to import the tables into the Lyx document. The TeX document

Re: class could not be loaded error (Lyx 1.5.6, Mac)

2008-08-22 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
#% Do not delete the line below; configure depends on this # \DeclareLaTeXClass[unimr-brief]{letter (unimr-brief)} # Letter textclass definition file. # Author : Johannes Knaus [EMAIL PROTECTED] based on work from # Thomas Hartkens [EMAIL PROTECTED] # Input general definitions

use {gmeometric} in Lyx?

2008-08-22 Thread Joanne Demmler
Hello everyone, has anyone ever tried to insert an A3 page within an A4 document? I found it mentioned on a LaTex site, where they suggest to use \usepackage{gmeometric}. This theoretically enables to use the \geometry command within the document. Apparently it needs another package called

funny bug in bibliography

2008-08-22 Thread Florin Oprina
Hi all. Today I've seen the funniest bug in LyX: I have a paper which uses natbib for citations. In my bib database, I have an entry which says: @ARTICLE{kageyama89, author = {Kageyama, Tarō}, title = {The Place of Morphology in the Grammar: Verb-Verb compounds in {J}apa nese}, journal =

Re: funny bug in bibliography

2008-08-22 Thread Johannes Knaus
Hi Florin, I can confirm this for Lyx 1.5.6 and 1.6.x. I realized this already but as the typesetting is ok, I thought this was maybe some weird but expected behaviour of Lyx. But as you pointed it out, it seems to be an error. Maybe you could post it on the bugtracker?

Re: funny bug in bibliography

2008-08-22 Thread Florin Oprina
There seems to be an open bug regarding the strange behavior of LyX with this regard: http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3676 Best, Florin On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 8:55 PM, Johannes Knaus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Florin, I can confirm this for Lyx 1.5.6 and 1.6.x. I realized this

Re: \textservicemark vs. \texttrademark

2008-08-22 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 22 Aug 2008, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: The problem is that the font you're using does not provide the appropriate glyph (for SM). Thus textcomp bails out. Jürgen, That occurred to me, but I neglected to ask. I'm surprised that the Palatino fonts don't contain that glyph since this

Re: class could not be loaded error (Lyx 1.5.6, Mac)

2008-08-22 Thread Johannes Knaus
Oh, now it works perfectly, Thank you! Johannes Am 22.08.2008 um 12:07 schrieb Jürgen Spitzmüller: #% Do not delete the line below; configure depends on this # \DeclareLaTeXClass[unimr-brief]{letter (unimr-brief)} # Letter textclass definition file. # Author : Johannes Knaus [EMAIL

Re: Floating Table Objects Error

2008-08-22 Thread Nico
Hello Günter, I don't think that some unbalanced brackets are in my float... It's the same effect if I insert just an empty tabular-float-environment. It works with figure-float-environment... I also tried to export it in LaTeX, but there the same error appears. The misterious aspect is, that

Re: Excluding LyX notes from word counts

2008-08-22 Thread Marcelo Acuña
I would find it preferable to exclude LyX Notes from almost everything and especially: - Spell-Checking (!!!) - Section Numbering - Outline View Opinions? Actually, I'd prefer an option to exclude spell-checking independent of the notes. Maybe the option to set text in the

Re: use {gmeometric} in Lyx?

2008-08-22 Thread rgheck
Joanne Demmler wrote: Hello everyone, has anyone ever tried to insert an A3 page within an A4 document? I found it mentioned on a LaTex site, where they suggest to use \usepackage{gmeometric}. This theoretically enables to use the \geometry command within the document. Apparently it needs

Re: funny bug in bibliography

2008-08-22 Thread rgheck
Florin Oprina wrote: Hi all. Today I've seen the funniest bug in LyX: I have a paper which uses natbib for citations. In my bib database, I have an entry which says: @ARTICLE{kageyama89, author = {Kageyama, Tarō}, title = {The Place of Morphology in the Grammar: Verb-Verb compounds in

Re: funny bug in bibliography

2008-08-22 Thread rgheck
Florin Oprina wrote: There seems to be an open bug regarding the strange behavior of LyX with this regard: http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3676 Yes, and it's marked fixedintrunk, which means it's fixed in the development version. rh

Re: funny bug in bibliography

2008-08-22 Thread rgheck
Johannes Knaus wrote: Hi Florin, I can confirm this for Lyx 1.5.6 and 1.6.x. This should be fixed in 1.6. I've just checked it, and it works fine for me. I'd send a screenshot, but the mailer won't let me. rh I realized this already but as the typesetting is ok, I thought this was maybe

Re: Float placement

2008-08-22 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Guillaume Larocque wrote: Ok, here are the exact symptoms of the problem. If I have a few floats inserted in a sequence in Lyx, as soon as Latex decides that one float will be on a separate page, all the floats following it will also be placed on a separate page, regardless of their size. That

1.5.6: Are layouts now findable in the current directory?

2008-08-22 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, I remember a discussion, following my disappearing styles problem accompanied by a double listing of the document class, that the intent was to have layout files findable within the current directory, so that symlinks in $HOME/.lyx/layouts are no longer necessary. My experimentation

Re: exam layout

2008-08-22 Thread Paul A. Rubin
RGH wrote: Andrés Becerra Sandoval wrote: Hello, I have been fighting a little bit to create a layout for exam (http://tug.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=exam) So far I have a *small* layout with two styles, one for questions and another for solutions. In the jpg attached you

Any words of wisdom switching from 1.4.2 to 1.5.6?

2008-08-22 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, As a result of a hardware upgrade and a switch from Mandriva 2007 to Mandriva 2008.1, I'm upgrading to LyX 1.5.6 and abandoning the 1.4.2 that came with my old Mandriva 2007. On the old computer, I kept 1.4.2 in parallel with 1.5.3. My newer books were compiled in 1.5.3, and all

Re: Float placement

2008-08-22 Thread Guillaume Larocque
Guillaume Larocque wrote: Ok, here are the exact symptoms of the problem. If I have a few floats inserted in a sequence in Lyx, as soon as Latex decides that one float will be on a separate page, all the floats following it will also be placed on a separate page, regardless of their size. That

Re: funny bug in bibliography

2008-08-22 Thread Florin Oprina
Well, it's good to know it's fixed. I'm dying to see the new 1.6 version! On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 1:34 AM, rgheck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Johannes Knaus wrote: Hi Florin, I can confirm this for Lyx 1.5.6 and 1.6.x. This should be fixed in 1.6. I've just checked it, and it works fine for

Re: Float placement

2008-08-22 Thread G. Milde
On 21.08.08, Guillaume Larocque wrote: Ok, here are the exact symptoms of the problem. If I have a few floats inserted in a sequence in Lyx, as soon as Latex decides that one float will be on a separate page, all the floats following it will also be placed on a separate page, regardless of

Re: Interesting thread on Slashdot

2008-08-22 Thread G. Milde
On 21.08.08, Steve Litt wrote: I write letters in LyX too. The letter template makes it brutally easy, except you need to remember to insert the \date{9/9/2099} via ERT or every time you print it the date will change. ... Why don't you create your own template then, which reminds you on

Re: Floating Table Objects Error

2008-08-22 Thread G. Milde
On 21.08.08, Nico wrote: Hello Christian, thanks for the fast reply, but this was not the reason... the float is inserted in the standard environment. Just the error-message points to the subsection environment but at a totally different place of the document. Is there another

Re: Excluding LyX notes from word counts

2008-08-22 Thread G. Milde
On 21.08.08, Konrad Hofbauer wrote: I would find it preferable to exclude LyX Notes from almost everything and especially: - Spell-Checking (!!!) - Section Numbering - Outline View Opinions? Actually, I'd prefer an option to exclude spell-checking independent of the notes. Maybe the

Include image in title page when documentclass = report

2008-08-22 Thread Matthieu Stigler
Hello I want to include an image in the title page. However, I see that using the class report puts automatically the image at the second page... is there a way to force the image to be on the first page within report documentclass? thank you! Mat

Re: \textservicemark vs. \texttrademark

2008-08-22 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Rich Shepard wrote: No, the workaround still works. I would, however, like to learn why symbol cannot be produced by the package in which it's defined. The problem is that the font you're using does not provide the appropriate glyph (for SM). Thus textcomp bails out. Consult the LaTeX

Re: example of layout module for LyX 1.6

2008-08-22 Thread Helge Hafting
Steve Litt wrote: Thanks Oliver, I still don't understand the underlying philosophy of layout modules: 0) What is a layout module? A modular approach to layout files. 1) Why are they better than just writing your own layout file? Flexibility. For example, lets say you need a special kind

Re: How to create Table of Contents from separate files?

2008-08-22 Thread Helge Hafting
Hesham Kamel wrote: Hi, I am a new Latex user and I have started to write my thesis using LyX. I have each chapter in a separate folder. That is ok. Please, I want to know how do make LyX generate

Re: Trouble importing latex file in Lyx

2008-08-22 Thread Helge Hafting
christiaan pauw wrote: Hi everybody Lyx 1.5.4 on Mac OS X leopard, Texshop 2.14 I have a latex file which is an export from SAS which is basically huge collection of tables that I need to use in a report which i write in Lyx. I want to import the tables into the Lyx document. The TeX document

Re: class could not be loaded error (Lyx 1.5.6, Mac)

2008-08-22 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
#% Do not delete the line below; configure depends on this # \DeclareLaTeXClass[unimr-brief]{letter (unimr-brief)} # Letter textclass definition file. # Author : Johannes Knaus [EMAIL PROTECTED] based on work from # Thomas Hartkens [EMAIL PROTECTED] # Input general definitions

use {gmeometric} in Lyx?

2008-08-22 Thread Joanne Demmler
Hello everyone, has anyone ever tried to insert an A3 page within an A4 document? I found it mentioned on a LaTex site, where they suggest to use \usepackage{gmeometric}. This theoretically enables to use the \geometry command within the document. Apparently it needs another package called

funny bug in bibliography

2008-08-22 Thread Florin Oprina
Hi all. Today I've seen the funniest bug in LyX: I have a paper which uses natbib for citations. In my bib database, I have an entry which says: @ARTICLE{kageyama89, author = {Kageyama, Tarō}, title = {The Place of Morphology in the Grammar: Verb-Verb compounds in {J}apa nese}, journal =

Re: funny bug in bibliography

2008-08-22 Thread Johannes Knaus
Hi Florin, I can confirm this for Lyx 1.5.6 and 1.6.x. I realized this already but as the typesetting is ok, I thought this was maybe some weird but expected behaviour of Lyx. But as you pointed it out, it seems to be an error. Maybe you could post it on the bugtracker?

Re: funny bug in bibliography

2008-08-22 Thread Florin Oprina
There seems to be an open bug regarding the strange behavior of LyX with this regard: http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3676 Best, Florin On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 8:55 PM, Johannes Knaus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Florin, I can confirm this for Lyx 1.5.6 and 1.6.x. I realized this

Re: \textservicemark vs. \texttrademark

2008-08-22 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 22 Aug 2008, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: The problem is that the font you're using does not provide the appropriate glyph (for SM). Thus textcomp bails out. Jürgen, That occurred to me, but I neglected to ask. I'm surprised that the Palatino fonts don't contain that glyph since this

Re: class could not be loaded error (Lyx 1.5.6, Mac)

2008-08-22 Thread Johannes Knaus
Oh, now it works perfectly, Thank you! Johannes Am 22.08.2008 um 12:07 schrieb Jürgen Spitzmüller: #% Do not delete the line below; configure depends on this # \DeclareLaTeXClass[unimr-brief]{letter (unimr-brief)} # Letter textclass definition file. # Author : Johannes Knaus [EMAIL

Re: Floating Table Objects Error

2008-08-22 Thread Nico
Hello Günter, I don't think that some unbalanced brackets are in my float... It's the same effect if I insert just an empty tabular-float-environment. It works with figure-float-environment... I also tried to export it in LaTeX, but there the same error appears. The misterious aspect is, that

Re: Excluding LyX notes from word counts

2008-08-22 Thread Marcelo Acuña
I would find it preferable to exclude LyX Notes from almost everything and especially: - Spell-Checking (!!!) - Section Numbering - Outline View Opinions? Actually, I'd prefer an option to exclude spell-checking independent of the notes. Maybe the option to set text in the

Re: use {gmeometric} in Lyx?

2008-08-22 Thread rgheck
Joanne Demmler wrote: Hello everyone, has anyone ever tried to insert an A3 page within an A4 document? I found it mentioned on a LaTex site, where they suggest to use \usepackage{gmeometric}. This theoretically enables to use the \geometry command within the document. Apparently it needs

Re: funny bug in bibliography

2008-08-22 Thread rgheck
Florin Oprina wrote: Hi all. Today I've seen the funniest bug in LyX: I have a paper which uses natbib for citations. In my bib database, I have an entry which says: @ARTICLE{kageyama89, author = {Kageyama, Tarō}, title = {The Place of Morphology in the Grammar: Verb-Verb compounds in

Re: funny bug in bibliography

2008-08-22 Thread rgheck
Florin Oprina wrote: There seems to be an open bug regarding the strange behavior of LyX with this regard: http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3676 Yes, and it's marked fixedintrunk, which means it's fixed in the development version. rh

Re: funny bug in bibliography

2008-08-22 Thread rgheck
Johannes Knaus wrote: Hi Florin, I can confirm this for Lyx 1.5.6 and 1.6.x. This should be fixed in 1.6. I've just checked it, and it works fine for me. I'd send a screenshot, but the mailer won't let me. rh I realized this already but as the typesetting is ok, I thought this was maybe

Re: Float placement

2008-08-22 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Guillaume Larocque wrote: Ok, here are the exact symptoms of the problem. If I have a few floats inserted in a sequence in Lyx, as soon as Latex decides that one float will be on a separate page, all the floats following it will also be placed on a separate page, regardless of their size. That

1.5.6: Are layouts now findable in the current directory?

2008-08-22 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, I remember a discussion, following my disappearing styles problem accompanied by a double listing of the document class, that the intent was to have layout files findable within the current directory, so that symlinks in $HOME/.lyx/layouts are no longer necessary. My experimentation

Re: exam layout

2008-08-22 Thread Paul A. Rubin
RGH wrote: Andrés Becerra Sandoval wrote: Hello, I have been fighting a little bit to create a layout for exam (http://tug.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=exam) So far I have a *small* layout with two styles, one for questions and another for solutions. In the jpg attached you

Any words of wisdom switching from 1.4.2 to 1.5.6?

2008-08-22 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, As a result of a hardware upgrade and a switch from Mandriva 2007 to Mandriva 2008.1, I'm upgrading to LyX 1.5.6 and abandoning the 1.4.2 that came with my old Mandriva 2007. On the old computer, I kept 1.4.2 in parallel with 1.5.3. My newer books were compiled in 1.5.3, and all

Re: Float placement

2008-08-22 Thread Guillaume Larocque
Guillaume Larocque wrote: Ok, here are the exact symptoms of the problem. If I have a few floats inserted in a sequence in Lyx, as soon as Latex decides that one float will be on a separate page, all the floats following it will also be placed on a separate page, regardless of their size. That

Re: funny bug in bibliography

2008-08-22 Thread Florin Oprina
Well, it's good to know it's fixed. I'm dying to see the new 1.6 version! On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 1:34 AM, rgheck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Johannes Knaus wrote: Hi Florin, I can confirm this for Lyx 1.5.6 and 1.6.x. This should be fixed in 1.6. I've just checked it, and it works fine for

Re: Float placement

2008-08-22 Thread G. Milde
On 21.08.08, Guillaume Larocque wrote: > Ok, here are the exact symptoms of the problem. If I have a few floats > inserted in a sequence in Lyx, as soon as Latex decides that one float > will be on a separate page, all the floats following it will also be > placed on a separate page, regardless of

Re: Interesting thread on Slashdot

2008-08-22 Thread G. Milde
On 21.08.08, Steve Litt wrote: > I write letters in LyX too. The letter template makes it brutally easy, > except you need to remember to insert the \date{9/9/2099} via ERT or > every time you print it the date will change. ... Why don't you create your own template then, which reminds you on

Re: Floating Table Objects Error

2008-08-22 Thread G. Milde
On 21.08.08, Nico wrote: > Hello Christian, > thanks for the fast reply, but this was not the reason... the float is > inserted in the standard environment. Just the error-message points to > the subsection environment but at a totally different place of the > document. Is there another

Re: Excluding LyX notes from word counts

2008-08-22 Thread G. Milde
On 21.08.08, Konrad Hofbauer wrote: > I would find it preferable to exclude LyX Notes from almost everything > and especially: > - Spell-Checking (!!!) > - Section Numbering > - Outline View > Opinions? Actually, I'd prefer an option to exclude spell-checking independent of the notes. Maybe

Include image in title page when documentclass = report

2008-08-22 Thread Matthieu Stigler
Hello I want to include an image in the title page. However, I see that using the class "report" puts automatically the image at the second page... is there a way to force the image to be on the first page within report documentclass? thank you! Mat

Re: \textservicemark vs. \texttrademark

2008-08-22 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Rich Shepard wrote: > No, the workaround still works. I would, however, like to learn why symbol > cannot be produced by the package in which it's defined. The problem is that the font you're using does not provide the appropriate glyph (for SM). Thus textcomp bails out. Consult the LaTeX

Re: example of layout module for LyX 1.6

2008-08-22 Thread Helge Hafting
Steve Litt wrote: Thanks Oliver, I still don't understand the underlying philosophy of layout modules: 0) What is a layout module? A modular approach to layout files. 1) Why are they better than just writing your own layout file? Flexibility. For example, lets say you need a special kind

Re: How to create Table of Contents from separate files?

2008-08-22 Thread Helge Hafting
Hesham Kamel wrote: Hi, I am a new Latex user and I have started to write my thesis using LyX. I have each chapter in a separate folder. That is ok. Please, I want to know how do make LyX generate

Re: Trouble importing latex file in Lyx

2008-08-22 Thread Helge Hafting
christiaan pauw wrote: Hi everybody Lyx 1.5.4 on Mac OS X leopard, Texshop 2.14 I have a latex file which is an export from SAS which is basically huge collection of tables that I need to use in a report which i write in Lyx. I want to import the tables into the Lyx document. The TeX document

Re: class could not be loaded error (Lyx 1.5.6, Mac)

2008-08-22 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
> #% Do not delete the line below; configure depends on this > # \DeclareLaTeXClass[unimr-brief]{letter (unimr-brief)} > # Letter textclass definition file. > > # Author : Johannes Knaus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> based on work from > # Thomas Hartkens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > # Input general

use {gmeometric} in Lyx?

2008-08-22 Thread Joanne Demmler
Hello everyone, has anyone ever tried to insert an A3 page within an A4 document? I found it mentioned on a LaTex site, where they suggest to use \usepackage{gmeometric}. This theoretically enables to use the \geometry command within the document. Apparently it needs another package called

funny bug in bibliography

2008-08-22 Thread Florin Oprina
Hi all. Today I've seen the funniest bug in LyX: I have a paper which uses natbib for citations. In my bib database, I have an entry which says: @ARTICLE{kageyama89, author = {Kageyama, Tarō}, title = {The Place of Morphology in the Grammar: Verb-Verb compounds in {J}apa nese}, journal =

Re: funny bug in bibliography

2008-08-22 Thread Johannes Knaus
Hi Florin, I can confirm this for Lyx 1.5.6 and 1.6.x. I realized this already but as the typesetting is ok, I thought this was maybe some weird but expected behaviour of Lyx. But as you pointed it out, it seems to be an error. Maybe you could post it on the bugtracker?

Re: funny bug in bibliography

2008-08-22 Thread Florin Oprina
There seems to be an open bug regarding the strange behavior of LyX with this regard: http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3676 Best, Florin > > On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 8:55 PM, Johannes Knaus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi Florin, >> >> I can confirm this for Lyx 1.5.6 and 1.6.x. >> I

Re: \textservicemark vs. \texttrademark

2008-08-22 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 22 Aug 2008, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: The problem is that the font you're using does not provide the appropriate glyph (for SM). Thus textcomp bails out. Jürgen, That occurred to me, but I neglected to ask. I'm surprised that the Palatino fonts don't contain that glyph since this

Re: class could not be loaded error (Lyx 1.5.6, Mac)

2008-08-22 Thread Johannes Knaus
Oh, now it works perfectly, Thank you! Johannes Am 22.08.2008 um 12:07 schrieb Jürgen Spitzmüller: #% Do not delete the line below; configure depends on this # \DeclareLaTeXClass[unimr-brief]{letter (unimr-brief)} # Letter textclass definition file. # Author : Johannes Knaus <[EMAIL

Re: Floating Table Objects Error

2008-08-22 Thread Nico
Hello Günter, I don't think that some unbalanced brackets are in my float... It's the same effect if I insert just an empty tabular-float-environment. It works with figure-float-environment... I also tried to export it in LaTeX, but there the same error appears. The misterious aspect is, that

Re: Excluding LyX notes from word counts

2008-08-22 Thread Marcelo Acuña
> > I would find it preferable to exclude LyX Notes from > almost everything > > and especially: > > > - Spell-Checking (!!!) > > - Section Numbering > > - Outline View > > > Opinions? > > Actually, I'd prefer an option to exclude > spell-checking independent of > the notes. Maybe the option

Re: use {gmeometric} in Lyx?

2008-08-22 Thread rgheck
Joanne Demmler wrote: Hello everyone, has anyone ever tried to insert an A3 page within an A4 document? I found it mentioned on a LaTex site, where they suggest to use \usepackage{gmeometric}. This theoretically enables to use the \geometry command within the document. Apparently it needs

Re: funny bug in bibliography

2008-08-22 Thread rgheck
Florin Oprina wrote: Hi all. Today I've seen the funniest bug in LyX: I have a paper which uses natbib for citations. In my bib database, I have an entry which says: @ARTICLE{kageyama89, author = {Kageyama, Tarō}, title = {The Place of Morphology in the Grammar: Verb-Verb compounds in

Re: funny bug in bibliography

2008-08-22 Thread rgheck
Florin Oprina wrote: There seems to be an open bug regarding the strange behavior of LyX with this regard: http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3676 Yes, and it's marked "fixedintrunk", which means it's fixed in the development version. rh

Re: funny bug in bibliography

2008-08-22 Thread rgheck
Johannes Knaus wrote: Hi Florin, I can confirm this for Lyx 1.5.6 and 1.6.x. This should be fixed in 1.6. I've just checked it, and it works fine for me. I'd send a screenshot, but the mailer won't let me. rh I realized this already but as the typesetting is ok, I thought this was maybe

Re: Float placement

2008-08-22 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Guillaume Larocque wrote: Ok, here are the exact symptoms of the problem. If I have a few floats inserted in a sequence in Lyx, as soon as Latex decides that one float will be on a separate page, all the floats following it will also be placed on a separate page, regardless of their size. That

1.5.6: Are layouts now findable in the current directory?

2008-08-22 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, I remember a discussion, following my disappearing styles problem accompanied by a double listing of the document class, that the intent was to have layout files findable within the current directory, so that symlinks in $HOME/.lyx/layouts are no longer necessary. My experimentation

Re: exam layout

2008-08-22 Thread Paul A. Rubin
RGH wrote: Andrés Becerra Sandoval wrote: Hello, I have been fighting a little bit to create a layout for exam (http://tug.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=exam) So far I have a *small* layout with two styles, one for questions and another for solutions. In the jpg attached you

Any words of wisdom switching from 1.4.2 to 1.5.6?

2008-08-22 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, As a result of a hardware upgrade and a switch from Mandriva 2007 to Mandriva 2008.1, I'm upgrading to LyX 1.5.6 and abandoning the 1.4.2 that came with my old Mandriva 2007. On the old computer, I kept 1.4.2 in parallel with 1.5.3. My newer books were compiled in 1.5.3, and all

Re: Float placement

2008-08-22 Thread Guillaume Larocque
Guillaume Larocque wrote: >> Ok, here are the exact symptoms of the problem. If I have a few floats >> inserted in a sequence in Lyx, as soon as Latex decides that one float >> will be on a separate page, all the floats following it will also be >> placed on a separate page, regardless of their

Re: funny bug in bibliography

2008-08-22 Thread Florin Oprina
Well, it's good to know it's fixed. I'm dying to see the new 1.6 version! On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 1:34 AM, rgheck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Johannes Knaus wrote: >> >> Hi Florin, >> >> I can confirm this for Lyx 1.5.6 and 1.6.x. >> > This should be fixed in 1.6. I've just checked it, and it