Re: Problem with pdf-view in Lyx 1.6.0

2008-11-18 Thread Guenter Milde
Matthias Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: But I have some problems with pdf-view, that I had not with Lyx 1.5.6. It turns out to be a LaTeX problem (see below). Problem with help-file userguide.lyx: ... LaTeX Error: File `wasysym.sty' not found. Problem with help-file extended.lyx:

Re: can't use in hebrew under lyx

2008-11-18 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Micha wrote: When I use the (quote) in hebrew under lyx I get the following error: LaTeX Error: Command \textquotedbl unavailable in encoding LHE. I have to change language to english in order to insert the symbol. Is there a problem with my setup or is this a problem with lyx? A problem

Re: can't use in hebrew under lyx

2008-11-18 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: When I use the (quote) in hebrew under lyx I get the following error: LaTeX Error: Command \textquotedbl unavailable in encoding LHE. I have to change language to english in order to insert the symbol. Is there a problem with my setup or is this a problem with lyx?

headings

2008-11-18 Thread Vittorio Zuccala'
Hello, sorry for my bad english... I'd like to have particular headings. How can i change them? In other words, i want somethings as follow: \begin_example_heading LOGO.jpg company name company address company tel/fax

Amazon Kindle Conversion from Lyx?

2008-11-18 Thread Jonathan Kroner
If you published a LyX book to an Amazon Kindle what format did you use? How did you do it? Amazon accepts only the following file formats for conversion for viewing on Kindle: MS Word (.DOC),Structured HTML (.HTML, .HTM), .JPEG, .JPG , .GIF, .PNG, and .BMP. It will not accept a pdf. I have a

Re: Amazon Kindle Conversion from Lyx?

2008-11-18 Thread Manveru
2008/11/18 Jonathan Kroner [EMAIL PROTECTED]: If you published a LyX book to an Amazon Kindle what format did you use? How did you do it? Amazon accepts only the following file formats for conversion for viewing on Kindle: MS Word (.DOC),Structured HTML (.HTML, .HTM), .JPEG, .JPG , .GIF,

Standard State Symbol in Lyx

2008-11-18 Thread Tilman Schmidt
Hi, how may I use the standard state symbol (\stst) in Lyx math mode? Entering as TEX doesn't work (Undefined Control Sequence). Please compare http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/symbols/comprehensive/symbols-a4.pdf Page 91 on how the symbol looks. Thanks for your suggestions. Regards,

Re: Print list of notes

2008-11-18 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Nick Bell wrote: Thanks for that, but how do I print a list of comments? Nick With some trickery, you can redefine the LyX comments (not Notes, though) to be output as todonotes. Using the todonotes package [1], this gives output that might look like what you want. Attached is an example.

Fwd: [Tugindia] Query on printing with 'screens'

2008-11-18 Thread Frederick Noronha [फ़रेदरिक नोरोनया]
Can you please help my friend seeking the info below? FN -- Forwarded message -- From: Derek Cordeiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2008/11/18 Subject: Re: [Tugindia] Query on printing with 'screens' To: TUGIndia Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 11:43 AM, Nina

Re: Open a New Window in read-only mode?

2008-11-18 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Keith Roberts wrote: Thanks Paul. That sounds feasable. I did edit the document in both windows! Maybe there could be an option in preferences to set the second or more window(s) to read-only mode? That will stop anyone from accidently editing the document in the other opened windows. That

Re: Lyx 1.6 on ubuntu 8.04

2008-11-18 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Graham Smith wrote: Has anyone installed 1.6 on Ubuntu 8.04? Its available for Jaunty (as pointed out elsewhere on this forum), but not sure of the risks that may be involved. I currently have 1.5.5 installed via the Ubuntu repository, should I uninstall this before installing 1.6, or is it

Re: Print list of notes

2008-11-18 Thread Nick Bell
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Nick Bell wrote: Thanks for that, but how do I print a list of comments? Nick With some trickery, you can redefine the LyX comments (not Notes, though) to be output as todonotes. Using the todonotes package [1], this gives output that might look like what you want.

Re: Standard State Symbol in Lyx

2008-11-18 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Tilman Schmidt wrote: Hi, how may I use the standard state symbol (\stst) in Lyx math mode? Entering as TEX doesn't work (Undefined Control Sequence). Please compare http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/symbols/comprehensive/symbols-a4.pdf Page 91 on how the symbol looks. Thanks for your

citation style does not mention author et. al. as promised

2008-11-18 Thread Manoj Rajagopalan
Hi all, In my document, I have inserted a Bibtex bibliography. For certain citation items, I choose the author et. al. Citation style from the Formatting section of the Citation dialog. This is supposed to give me reference of the form author et. al. [ref#] However, when I view the

Re: Lyx 1.6 on ubuntu 8.04

2008-11-18 Thread Graham Smith
Paul, Thanks, but I have a a question below. Don't know about 8.04, but I installed LyX 1.6.0-1 on Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid), and so far so good (in limited use). Rather than building it myself, I installed a couple of .deb archives. The steps are: 1. Go to http://www.debian.org/mirror/list

Re: Amazon Kindle Conversion from Lyx?

2008-11-18 Thread David A. Case
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008, Jonathan Kroner wrote: Amazon accepts only the following file formats for conversion for viewing on Kindle: MS Word (.DOC),Structured HTML (.HTML, .HTM), .JPEG, .JPG , .GIF, .PNG, and .BMP. It will not accept a pdf. Sounds like MS Word is the closest fit to your

Re: headings

2008-11-18 Thread rgheck
Vittorio Zuccala' wrote: Hello, sorry for my bad english... I'd like to have particular headings. How can i change them? In other words, i want somethings as follow: \begin_example_heading LOGO.jpg company name company address

Re: Amazon Kindle Conversion from Lyx?

2008-11-18 Thread rgheck
Jonathan Kroner wrote: If you published a LyX book to an Amazon Kindle what format did you use? How did you do it? Amazon accepts only the following file formats for conversion for viewing on Kindle: MS Word (.DOC),Structured HTML (.HTML, .HTM), .JPEG, .JPG , .GIF, .PNG, and .BMP. It will not

Re: citation style does not mention author et. al. as promised

2008-11-18 Thread rgheck
Manoj Rajagopalan wrote: Hi all, In my document, I have inserted a Bibtex bibliography. For certain citation items, I choose the author et. al. Citation style from the Formatting section of the Citation dialog. This is supposed to give me reference of the form author et. al. [ref#]

Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

2008-11-18 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 09:58:50PM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Andre Poenitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In fact that's actually the most sensible behaviour since there are only very few cases where a new version indeed can replace an older one without any existing or imagined problem.

Re: Lyx 1.6 on ubuntu 8.04

2008-11-18 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Graham Smith wrote: Paul, Thanks, but I have a a question below. Don't know about 8.04, but I installed LyX 1.6.0-1 on Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid), and so far so good (in limited use). Rather than building it myself, I installed a couple of .deb archives. The steps are: 1. Go to

Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

2008-11-18 Thread Michael Wojcik
Andre Poenitz wrote: On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 11:07:05AM -0500, Paul A. Rubin wrote: I wonder if disk manufacturers are paying M$ to do this? I've got about 54MB of crap in %windir%\winsxs, with multiple versions of each set of files. Presumably there's no way for Windoze to know that

Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

2008-11-18 Thread Michael Wojcik
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: What's wrong with static linking? At least it goes away when the application goes away. Completely infeasible on Windows. The loss of shared text would make the working set of the typical application mix grossly exceed even the absurd amounts of RAM available in

Re: Lyx 1.6 on ubuntu 8.04

2008-11-18 Thread Graham Smith
Paul Will this result in all packages being updated through the deb repository rather than the Ubuntu repository? Or does the sid bit restrict it to the Lyx files. No, SID doesn't restrict it to LyX, and you're right in not wanting to update other stuff from there. The trick is to enable

Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

2008-11-18 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 03:42:52PM -0500, Michael Wojcik wrote: Andre Poenitz wrote: On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 11:07:05AM -0500, Paul A. Rubin wrote: I wonder if disk manufacturers are paying M$ to do this? I've got about 54MB of crap in %windir%\winsxs, with multiple versions of each set

Re: Steps towards a portable LyX installation on Windows

2008-11-18 Thread Thomas Steffen
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 8:19 PM, Joost Verburg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The build-in ImageMagick does not rely on registry keys but uses the environment variables set by LyXLauncher (see the source for details) to get the location of the Ghostscript directories. Note that not only @PSdelegate@

Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

2008-11-18 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 03:47:45PM -0500, Michael Wojcik wrote: Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: What's wrong with static linking? At least it goes away when the application goes away. Completely infeasible on Windows. The loss of shared text would make the working set of the typical

Re: Steps towards a portable LyX installation on Windows

2008-11-18 Thread Joost Verburg
Thomas Steffen wrote: 1. configure fails because it cannot find python 2. LyX fails to convert an EPS to a bitmap, so there is no preview This is because the directories in Resources\lyxrc.dist are wrong. Joost

Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

2008-11-18 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
PPS: I cut a few smileys from the mail to avoid the embarassing ranking in the 1.7 smiley-per-mail statistics. Chicken! Does not even dare to be rude anymore. JMarc

Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

2008-11-18 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Completely infeasible on Windows. The loss of shared text would make the working set of the typical application mix grossly exceed even the absurd amounts of RAM available in typical machines today. The disk space problem would be even worse. I meant just for application which feel that they

Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

2008-11-18 Thread Pavel Sanda
PPS: I cut a few smileys from the mail to avoid the embarassing ranking in the 1.7 smiley-per-mail statistics. feel free to uncover yourself, users list is not evaluated... pavel

Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

2008-11-18 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 11:43:34PM +0100, Pavel Sanda wrote: PPS: I cut a few smileys from the mail to avoid the embarassing ranking in the 1.7 smiley-per-mail statistics. feel free to uncover yourself, users list is not evaluated... Nobody expected the Spanish Inquisition... Andre'

Re: citation style does not mention author et. al. as promised

2008-11-18 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
rgheck wrote: If you're not using BibTeX but are entering the references manually, then the problem is that you can only use author-year citations if you're using BibTeX. Again: no, not true. Natbib works well with standard bibliography, and I use it all the time. Test file attached.

Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

2008-11-18 Thread Pavel Sanda
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 11:43:34PM +0100, Pavel Sanda wrote: PPS: I cut a few smileys from the mail to avoid the embarassing ranking in the 1.7 smiley-per-mail statistics. feel free to uncover yourself, users list is not evaluated... Nobody expected the Spanish Inquisition... of

Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

2008-11-18 Thread Richard heck
Andre Poenitz wrote: PPS: I cut a few smileys from the mail to avoid the embarassing ranking in the 1.7 smiley-per-mail statistics. Best to start now, eh? rh

Re: citation style does not mention author et. al. as promised

2008-11-18 Thread Richard heck
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: rgheck wrote: If you're not using BibTeX but are entering the references manually, then the problem is that you can only use author-year citations if you're using BibTeX. Again: no, not true. Natbib works well with standard bibliography, and I use it all

Can't get interrupted enumerated list to work

2008-11-18 Thread Stefano Franchi
I'm running into problems using the mdwlist package. I followed the example on the wiki page. The example file works fine on my installation (LyX 1.6.0 on Kubuntu 8.10), but when I try to replicate the behavior on my files, I cannot get them to compile. All I do is: 1. add \usepackage{mdwlist}

Koma-script not fully compatible with hyperref package

2008-11-18 Thread Alex
This message is more FYI: the intoc and bibtotoc options of the report(koma-scrpt) package, as well as the addchap, addpart and their *-red counterparts to not create the correct hyperlinks in the PDF document. For the part/chapter, it will link on the page _before_ the start of your actual

Error message in LyX 1.5.7

2008-11-18 Thread Alex
I am using 1.5.7 as I think it is the most stable version currently. I unistalled all other versions of the software and did a clean install. I used the new AltInstaller However, whenever I try to convert to .dvi or .ps, the following message comes up: --- LyX: Cannot Convert File --- An error

Re: citation style does not mention author et. al. as promised

2008-11-18 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Richard heck wrote: Yes, IF you carefully format the label yourself, as you show. (BibTeX just does this for you, yes?) Perhaps we should add a note about this to the docs. The question often comes up. People expect to be able just to enter the reference data and have author-year work. You

Re: Error message in LyX 1.5.7

2008-11-18 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Alex wrote: P.S. I assume no one will be fixing any 1.5.7 bugs now that 1.6.0 is out? However this new AltInstaller might be causing some of the problems. This specific bug will be fixed in the official installer that comes out in a few days. And probably Uwe will also implement it in an

Re: Print list of notes

2008-11-18 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Nick Bell wrote: I also took the \requirepackage{todonotes} out of the module-preamble, and put it in the document manually, so that I can disable todonotes from time to time with \usepackage[disabled]{todonotes}. putting disabled in Document-Class Options will also work. Jürgen

Re: Problem with pdf-view in Lyx 1.6.0

2008-11-18 Thread Guenter Milde
Matthias Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: But I have some problems with pdf-view, that I had not with Lyx 1.5.6. It turns out to be a LaTeX problem (see below). Problem with help-file userguide.lyx: ... LaTeX Error: File `wasysym.sty' not found. Problem with help-file extended.lyx:

Re: can't use in hebrew under lyx

2008-11-18 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Micha wrote: When I use the (quote) in hebrew under lyx I get the following error: LaTeX Error: Command \textquotedbl unavailable in encoding LHE. I have to change language to english in order to insert the symbol. Is there a problem with my setup or is this a problem with lyx? A problem

Re: can't use in hebrew under lyx

2008-11-18 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: When I use the (quote) in hebrew under lyx I get the following error: LaTeX Error: Command \textquotedbl unavailable in encoding LHE. I have to change language to english in order to insert the symbol. Is there a problem with my setup or is this a problem with lyx?

headings

2008-11-18 Thread Vittorio Zuccala'
Hello, sorry for my bad english... I'd like to have particular headings. How can i change them? In other words, i want somethings as follow: \begin_example_heading LOGO.jpg company name company address company tel/fax

Amazon Kindle Conversion from Lyx?

2008-11-18 Thread Jonathan Kroner
If you published a LyX book to an Amazon Kindle what format did you use? How did you do it? Amazon accepts only the following file formats for conversion for viewing on Kindle: MS Word (.DOC),Structured HTML (.HTML, .HTM), .JPEG, .JPG , .GIF, .PNG, and .BMP. It will not accept a pdf. I have a

Re: Amazon Kindle Conversion from Lyx?

2008-11-18 Thread Manveru
2008/11/18 Jonathan Kroner [EMAIL PROTECTED]: If you published a LyX book to an Amazon Kindle what format did you use? How did you do it? Amazon accepts only the following file formats for conversion for viewing on Kindle: MS Word (.DOC),Structured HTML (.HTML, .HTM), .JPEG, .JPG , .GIF,

Standard State Symbol in Lyx

2008-11-18 Thread Tilman Schmidt
Hi, how may I use the standard state symbol (\stst) in Lyx math mode? Entering as TEX doesn't work (Undefined Control Sequence). Please compare http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/symbols/comprehensive/symbols-a4.pdf Page 91 on how the symbol looks. Thanks for your suggestions. Regards,

Re: Print list of notes

2008-11-18 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Nick Bell wrote: Thanks for that, but how do I print a list of comments? Nick With some trickery, you can redefine the LyX comments (not Notes, though) to be output as todonotes. Using the todonotes package [1], this gives output that might look like what you want. Attached is an example.

Fwd: [Tugindia] Query on printing with 'screens'

2008-11-18 Thread Frederick Noronha [फ़रेदरिक नोरोनया]
Can you please help my friend seeking the info below? FN -- Forwarded message -- From: Derek Cordeiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2008/11/18 Subject: Re: [Tugindia] Query on printing with 'screens' To: TUGIndia Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 11:43 AM, Nina

Re: Open a New Window in read-only mode?

2008-11-18 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Keith Roberts wrote: Thanks Paul. That sounds feasable. I did edit the document in both windows! Maybe there could be an option in preferences to set the second or more window(s) to read-only mode? That will stop anyone from accidently editing the document in the other opened windows. That

Re: Lyx 1.6 on ubuntu 8.04

2008-11-18 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Graham Smith wrote: Has anyone installed 1.6 on Ubuntu 8.04? Its available for Jaunty (as pointed out elsewhere on this forum), but not sure of the risks that may be involved. I currently have 1.5.5 installed via the Ubuntu repository, should I uninstall this before installing 1.6, or is it

Re: Print list of notes

2008-11-18 Thread Nick Bell
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Nick Bell wrote: Thanks for that, but how do I print a list of comments? Nick With some trickery, you can redefine the LyX comments (not Notes, though) to be output as todonotes. Using the todonotes package [1], this gives output that might look like what you want.

Re: Standard State Symbol in Lyx

2008-11-18 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Tilman Schmidt wrote: Hi, how may I use the standard state symbol (\stst) in Lyx math mode? Entering as TEX doesn't work (Undefined Control Sequence). Please compare http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/symbols/comprehensive/symbols-a4.pdf Page 91 on how the symbol looks. Thanks for your

citation style does not mention author et. al. as promised

2008-11-18 Thread Manoj Rajagopalan
Hi all, In my document, I have inserted a Bibtex bibliography. For certain citation items, I choose the author et. al. Citation style from the Formatting section of the Citation dialog. This is supposed to give me reference of the form author et. al. [ref#] However, when I view the

Re: Lyx 1.6 on ubuntu 8.04

2008-11-18 Thread Graham Smith
Paul, Thanks, but I have a a question below. Don't know about 8.04, but I installed LyX 1.6.0-1 on Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid), and so far so good (in limited use). Rather than building it myself, I installed a couple of .deb archives. The steps are: 1. Go to http://www.debian.org/mirror/list

Re: Amazon Kindle Conversion from Lyx?

2008-11-18 Thread David A. Case
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008, Jonathan Kroner wrote: Amazon accepts only the following file formats for conversion for viewing on Kindle: MS Word (.DOC),Structured HTML (.HTML, .HTM), .JPEG, .JPG , .GIF, .PNG, and .BMP. It will not accept a pdf. Sounds like MS Word is the closest fit to your

Re: headings

2008-11-18 Thread rgheck
Vittorio Zuccala' wrote: Hello, sorry for my bad english... I'd like to have particular headings. How can i change them? In other words, i want somethings as follow: \begin_example_heading LOGO.jpg company name company address

Re: Amazon Kindle Conversion from Lyx?

2008-11-18 Thread rgheck
Jonathan Kroner wrote: If you published a LyX book to an Amazon Kindle what format did you use? How did you do it? Amazon accepts only the following file formats for conversion for viewing on Kindle: MS Word (.DOC),Structured HTML (.HTML, .HTM), .JPEG, .JPG , .GIF, .PNG, and .BMP. It will not

Re: citation style does not mention author et. al. as promised

2008-11-18 Thread rgheck
Manoj Rajagopalan wrote: Hi all, In my document, I have inserted a Bibtex bibliography. For certain citation items, I choose the author et. al. Citation style from the Formatting section of the Citation dialog. This is supposed to give me reference of the form author et. al. [ref#]

Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

2008-11-18 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 09:58:50PM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Andre Poenitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In fact that's actually the most sensible behaviour since there are only very few cases where a new version indeed can replace an older one without any existing or imagined problem.

Re: Lyx 1.6 on ubuntu 8.04

2008-11-18 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Graham Smith wrote: Paul, Thanks, but I have a a question below. Don't know about 8.04, but I installed LyX 1.6.0-1 on Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid), and so far so good (in limited use). Rather than building it myself, I installed a couple of .deb archives. The steps are: 1. Go to

Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

2008-11-18 Thread Michael Wojcik
Andre Poenitz wrote: On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 11:07:05AM -0500, Paul A. Rubin wrote: I wonder if disk manufacturers are paying M$ to do this? I've got about 54MB of crap in %windir%\winsxs, with multiple versions of each set of files. Presumably there's no way for Windoze to know that

Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

2008-11-18 Thread Michael Wojcik
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: What's wrong with static linking? At least it goes away when the application goes away. Completely infeasible on Windows. The loss of shared text would make the working set of the typical application mix grossly exceed even the absurd amounts of RAM available in

Re: Lyx 1.6 on ubuntu 8.04

2008-11-18 Thread Graham Smith
Paul Will this result in all packages being updated through the deb repository rather than the Ubuntu repository? Or does the sid bit restrict it to the Lyx files. No, SID doesn't restrict it to LyX, and you're right in not wanting to update other stuff from there. The trick is to enable

Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

2008-11-18 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 03:42:52PM -0500, Michael Wojcik wrote: Andre Poenitz wrote: On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 11:07:05AM -0500, Paul A. Rubin wrote: I wonder if disk manufacturers are paying M$ to do this? I've got about 54MB of crap in %windir%\winsxs, with multiple versions of each set

Re: Steps towards a portable LyX installation on Windows

2008-11-18 Thread Thomas Steffen
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 8:19 PM, Joost Verburg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The build-in ImageMagick does not rely on registry keys but uses the environment variables set by LyXLauncher (see the source for details) to get the location of the Ghostscript directories. Note that not only @PSdelegate@

Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

2008-11-18 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 03:47:45PM -0500, Michael Wojcik wrote: Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: What's wrong with static linking? At least it goes away when the application goes away. Completely infeasible on Windows. The loss of shared text would make the working set of the typical

Re: Steps towards a portable LyX installation on Windows

2008-11-18 Thread Joost Verburg
Thomas Steffen wrote: 1. configure fails because it cannot find python 2. LyX fails to convert an EPS to a bitmap, so there is no preview This is because the directories in Resources\lyxrc.dist are wrong. Joost

Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

2008-11-18 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
PPS: I cut a few smileys from the mail to avoid the embarassing ranking in the 1.7 smiley-per-mail statistics. Chicken! Does not even dare to be rude anymore. JMarc

Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

2008-11-18 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Completely infeasible on Windows. The loss of shared text would make the working set of the typical application mix grossly exceed even the absurd amounts of RAM available in typical machines today. The disk space problem would be even worse. I meant just for application which feel that they

Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

2008-11-18 Thread Pavel Sanda
PPS: I cut a few smileys from the mail to avoid the embarassing ranking in the 1.7 smiley-per-mail statistics. feel free to uncover yourself, users list is not evaluated... pavel

Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

2008-11-18 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 11:43:34PM +0100, Pavel Sanda wrote: PPS: I cut a few smileys from the mail to avoid the embarassing ranking in the 1.7 smiley-per-mail statistics. feel free to uncover yourself, users list is not evaluated... Nobody expected the Spanish Inquisition... Andre'

Re: citation style does not mention author et. al. as promised

2008-11-18 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
rgheck wrote: If you're not using BibTeX but are entering the references manually, then the problem is that you can only use author-year citations if you're using BibTeX. Again: no, not true. Natbib works well with standard bibliography, and I use it all the time. Test file attached.

Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

2008-11-18 Thread Pavel Sanda
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 11:43:34PM +0100, Pavel Sanda wrote: PPS: I cut a few smileys from the mail to avoid the embarassing ranking in the 1.7 smiley-per-mail statistics. feel free to uncover yourself, users list is not evaluated... Nobody expected the Spanish Inquisition... of

Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

2008-11-18 Thread Richard heck
Andre Poenitz wrote: PPS: I cut a few smileys from the mail to avoid the embarassing ranking in the 1.7 smiley-per-mail statistics. Best to start now, eh? rh

Re: citation style does not mention author et. al. as promised

2008-11-18 Thread Richard heck
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: rgheck wrote: If you're not using BibTeX but are entering the references manually, then the problem is that you can only use author-year citations if you're using BibTeX. Again: no, not true. Natbib works well with standard bibliography, and I use it all

Can't get interrupted enumerated list to work

2008-11-18 Thread Stefano Franchi
I'm running into problems using the mdwlist package. I followed the example on the wiki page. The example file works fine on my installation (LyX 1.6.0 on Kubuntu 8.10), but when I try to replicate the behavior on my files, I cannot get them to compile. All I do is: 1. add \usepackage{mdwlist}

Koma-script not fully compatible with hyperref package

2008-11-18 Thread Alex
This message is more FYI: the intoc and bibtotoc options of the report(koma-scrpt) package, as well as the addchap, addpart and their *-red counterparts to not create the correct hyperlinks in the PDF document. For the part/chapter, it will link on the page _before_ the start of your actual

Error message in LyX 1.5.7

2008-11-18 Thread Alex
I am using 1.5.7 as I think it is the most stable version currently. I unistalled all other versions of the software and did a clean install. I used the new AltInstaller However, whenever I try to convert to .dvi or .ps, the following message comes up: --- LyX: Cannot Convert File --- An error

Re: citation style does not mention author et. al. as promised

2008-11-18 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Richard heck wrote: Yes, IF you carefully format the label yourself, as you show. (BibTeX just does this for you, yes?) Perhaps we should add a note about this to the docs. The question often comes up. People expect to be able just to enter the reference data and have author-year work. You

Re: Error message in LyX 1.5.7

2008-11-18 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Alex wrote: P.S. I assume no one will be fixing any 1.5.7 bugs now that 1.6.0 is out? However this new AltInstaller might be causing some of the problems. This specific bug will be fixed in the official installer that comes out in a few days. And probably Uwe will also implement it in an

Re: Print list of notes

2008-11-18 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Nick Bell wrote: I also took the \requirepackage{todonotes} out of the module-preamble, and put it in the document manually, so that I can disable todonotes from time to time with \usepackage[disabled]{todonotes}. putting disabled in Document-Class Options will also work. Jürgen

Re: Problem with pdf-view in Lyx 1.6.0

2008-11-18 Thread Guenter Milde
Matthias Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > But I have some problems with pdf-view, that I had not with Lyx 1.5.6. It turns out to be a LaTeX problem (see below). > Problem with help-file userguide.lyx: ... >LaTeX Error: File `wasysym.sty' not found. > Problem with help-file

Re: can't use " in hebrew under lyx

2008-11-18 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Micha wrote: > When I use the " (quote) in hebrew under lyx I get the following error: > LaTeX Error: Command \textquotedbl unavailable in encoding LHE. > I have to change language to english in order to insert the symbol. > Is there a problem with my setup or is this a problem with lyx? A

Re: can't use " in hebrew under lyx

2008-11-18 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: >> When I use the " (quote) in hebrew under lyx I get the following error: >> LaTeX Error: Command \textquotedbl unavailable in encoding LHE. >> I have to change language to english in order to insert the symbol. >> Is there a problem with my setup or is this a problem

headings

2008-11-18 Thread Vittorio Zuccala'
Hello, sorry for my bad english... I'd like to have particular headings. How can i change them? In other words, i want somethings as follow: \begin_example_heading LOGO.jpg company name company address company tel/fax

Amazon Kindle Conversion from Lyx?

2008-11-18 Thread Jonathan Kroner
If you published a LyX book to an Amazon Kindle what format did you use? How did you do it? Amazon accepts only the following file formats for conversion for viewing on Kindle: MS Word (.DOC),Structured HTML (.HTML, .HTM), .JPEG, .JPG , .GIF, .PNG, and .BMP. It will not accept a pdf. I have a

Re: Amazon Kindle Conversion from Lyx?

2008-11-18 Thread Manveru
2008/11/18 Jonathan Kroner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > If you published a LyX book to an Amazon Kindle what format did you use? > How did you do it? > > Amazon accepts only the following file formats for conversion for viewing on > Kindle: MS Word (.DOC),Structured HTML (.HTML, .HTM), .JPEG, .JPG ,

Standard State Symbol in Lyx

2008-11-18 Thread Tilman Schmidt
Hi, how may I use the standard state symbol (\stst) in Lyx math mode? Entering as TEX doesn't work (Undefined Control Sequence). Please compare http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/symbols/comprehensive/symbols-a4.pdf Page 91 on how the symbol looks. Thanks for your suggestions. Regards,

Re: Print list of notes

2008-11-18 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Nick Bell wrote: > Thanks for that, but how do I print a list of comments? Nick With some trickery, you can redefine the LyX comments (not Notes, though) to be output as todonotes. Using the todonotes package [1], this gives output that might look like what you want. Attached is an example.

Fwd: [Tugindia] Query on printing with 'screens'

2008-11-18 Thread Frederick Noronha [फ़रेदरिक नोरोनया]
Can you please help my friend seeking the info below? FN -- Forwarded message -- From: Derek Cordeiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 2008/11/18 Subject: Re: [Tugindia] Query on printing with 'screens' To: TUGIndia Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 11:43 AM,

Re: Open a New Window in read-only mode?

2008-11-18 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Keith Roberts wrote: Thanks Paul. That sounds feasable. I did edit the document in both windows! Maybe there could be an option in preferences to set the second or more window(s) to read-only mode? That will stop anyone from accidently editing the document in the other opened windows. That

Re: Lyx 1.6 on ubuntu 8.04

2008-11-18 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Graham Smith wrote: Has anyone installed 1.6 on Ubuntu 8.04? Its available for Jaunty (as pointed out elsewhere on this forum), but not sure of the risks that may be involved. I currently have 1.5.5 installed via the Ubuntu repository, should I uninstall this before installing 1.6, or is it

Re: Print list of notes

2008-11-18 Thread Nick Bell
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Nick Bell wrote: Thanks for that, but how do I print a list of comments? Nick With some trickery, you can redefine the LyX comments (not Notes, though) to be output as todonotes. Using the todonotes package [1], this gives output that might look like what you want.

Re: Standard State Symbol in Lyx

2008-11-18 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Tilman Schmidt wrote: Hi, how may I use the standard state symbol (\stst) in Lyx math mode? Entering as TEX doesn't work (Undefined Control Sequence). Please compare http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/symbols/comprehensive/symbols-a4.pdf Page 91 on how the symbol looks. Thanks for your

citation style does not mention " et. al." as promised

2008-11-18 Thread Manoj Rajagopalan
Hi all, In my document, I have inserted a Bibtex bibliography. For certain citation items, I choose the " et. al." Citation style from the Formatting section of the Citation dialog. This is supposed to give me reference of the form " et. al. [ref#] ...". However, when I view the DVI I only

Re: Lyx 1.6 on ubuntu 8.04

2008-11-18 Thread Graham Smith
Paul, Thanks, but I have a a question below. Don't know about 8.04, but I installed LyX 1.6.0-1 on Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid), and so far so good (in limited use). Rather than building it myself, I installed a couple of .deb archives. The steps are: 1. Go to http://www.debian.org/mirror/list

Re: Amazon Kindle Conversion from Lyx?

2008-11-18 Thread David A. Case
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008, Jonathan Kroner wrote: > > Amazon accepts only the following file formats for conversion for viewing on > Kindle: MS Word (.DOC),Structured HTML (.HTML, .HTM), .JPEG, .JPG , .GIF, > .PNG, and .BMP. It will not accept a pdf. Sounds like MS Word is the closest fit to your

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