Re: LyX mangles Unicode Greek during import from LaTeX (2nd try)

2009-04-06 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-04-03, signu...@norvelle.org wrote: Thanks, Günter, Perhaps I'm going about things the wrong way. Instead of trying to use XeTeX, perhaps I can just use one of the engines that is already built into LyX. Yes. So, with my sample document, set to utf8-extended encoding, if I try

Re: right hand margin when font:family=typewriter

2009-04-06 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-04-05, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote: Now I really don't understand why it's assumed that typewritten output doesn't need the same right hand margin as the rest of the document??? I do not think it is. I rather assume that there are lots of overfull hbox warnings in the LaTeX log -- TeX

Re: How to adjust float figure behavior?

2009-04-06 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-04-05, Vincent van Ravesteijn wrote: Sophie (itsme213) schreef: Is there a way to get float figures to appear at or after the point in the text where they are introduced, even if that means the top of the *next* page? Yes. Assuming a standard document where the floats shall stay

Re: help me with a layout module, please!

2009-04-06 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-04-05, Vito De Tullio wrote: Vito De Tullio wrote: I need to know if (and how!) is possible to: 1) force the documentclass (book, article) to use the titlepage ambient. mmm I think this is resolved, using: ClassOptions Other titlepage End 2) tell lyx that, to generate the pdf (via

Insert character by Unicode code point

2009-04-06 Thread John Jason Jordan
The Lyx wiki leads me to believe this is possible, but I can't get it to work. Suppose I have a font that contains a character at a certain code point. I want to insert this character directly into text. There is an lfun insert-unicode, but it doesn't work. Could someone who is smart give me a

Re: N00bie font issues

2009-04-06 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-04-05, John Jason Jordan wrote: On Sun, 05 Apr 2009 23:20:40 +0200 Abdelrazak Younes you...@lyx.org dijo: You said you are using Ubuntu, so your LaTeX distribution is TeXLive. I did succeed in getting Bera Serif installed. ... Did you already look at the various texlive-* packages

Re: Insert character by Unicode code point

2009-04-06 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
John Jason Jordan wrote: Suppose I have a font that contains a character at a certain code point. I want to insert this character directly into text. There is an lfun insert-unicode, but it doesn't work. Could someone who is smart give me a step by step? I mean, what button do i click on and

Re: N00bie font issues

2009-04-06 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
John Jason Jordan wrote: Stoked with success I did the same thing for the kpfonts package. Except the kpfonts package had an installable zip file. I had to open File Roller as root, but it seemed to install all the files in the right folders. Then I did texhash again, and udmap --enable Map

Re: LyX vs. wordprocessors

2009-04-06 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-04-05, Rich Shepard wrote: I'm surprised that no one seems to use the most reasonable solution for collaborative text: have everyone use plain text and only futz with formatting when you agree on a final version. It may not look pretty, but it's efficient. This does not work for

Re: Ghostscript 8.63: Unrecoverable error

2009-04-06 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Am Friday 03 April 2009 21:11:53 schrieben Sie: Wolfgang Engelmann schrieb: PostScript GPL Ghostscript 8.63: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1 I used LyX1.6.1 I though this would have gone after installing 1.6.2, but I have the same problem. This is then a bug in Ghostscript. Updating to

Re: LyX vs. wordprocessors

2009-04-06 Thread Typhoon
On Mon, 6 Apr 2009 06:38:35 + (UTC) Guenter Milde mi...@users.berlios.de wrote: On 2009-04-05, Rich Shepard wrote: I'm surprised that no one seems to use the most reasonable solution for collaborative text: have everyone use plain text and only futz with formatting when you agree

Re: Lyx 1.6.2 debian binaries (LyX Branch, self-compiled [was: lyx 1.6.2 for debian using rpm and alien])

2009-04-06 Thread Nina Lafayette
Am 03.04.2009, 00:46 Uhr, schrieb Per Olofsson pe...@dsv.su.se: Thanks a lot, Per. Nina Nina Lafayette wrote: Am 24.03.2009, 15:29 Uhr, schrieb Guenter Milde milde-96fysp9jrkaatytw5x5...@public.gmane.org: Hi folks, isn't there anybody who can put the debian binaries for Lyx 1.6.2 on a

Re: LyX vs. wordprocessors

2009-04-06 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-04-06, Typhoon wrote: On Mon, 6 Apr 2009 06:38:35 + (UTC) Guenter Milde mi...@users.berlios.de wrote: On 2009-04-05, Rich Shepard wrote: I'm surprised that no one seems to use the most reasonable solution for collaborative text: have everyone use plain text ... This does

Bold index entry with link

2009-04-06 Thread Martin Görg
Hi there, Does anyone know how I can create a bold index entry with a link to the text location where the index is specified? Greetings Martin PS: I know I already posted this a while ago, but much more detailed, so maybe it scared people. This time I just ask a simple question. -- For

Re: Lyx 1.6.2 debian binaries (LyX Branch, self-compiled [was: lyx 1.6.2 for debian using rpm and alien])

2009-04-06 Thread Per Olofsson
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: Am Friday 03 April 2009 09:24:10 schrieb Guenter Milde: On 2009-04-02, Per Olofsson wrote: FWIW, I just uploaded lyx 1.6.2 to Debian unstable. Thanks a lot. Günter Very good news. I was struggling with installing from sources -which is probably a good idea in

Re: Bold index entry with link

2009-04-06 Thread Florian Rubach
Martin Görg schrieb: Hi there, Does anyone know how I can create a bold index entry with a link to the text location where the index is specified? Greetings Martin Hi Martin, do you want the text of the index entry to be a link? I could not figure out any reasonable way to achieve this.

Re: help me with a layout module, please!

2009-04-06 Thread Vito De Tullio
Guenter Milde wrote: 2) tell lyx that, to generate the pdf (via pdflatex), it must do 3 passes (pass 0): generate the FILE.tex from FILE.lyx (as all documents, I think) (pass 1): pdflatex FILE.tex (as all documents?) (pass 2): pdflatex FILE-frn.tex (this file is auto-generated!)

Re: help me with a layout module, please!

2009-04-06 Thread rgheck
Vito De Tullio wrote: I don't know how clean this solution is, but I think I find a way... http://github.com/ZeeD/frontespizio basically I use the OutputType directive (no documentation about, I just found this in some .layout files) to tell lyx that I'm *not* gonna create a simple .tex file...

Re: My new environment

2009-04-06 Thread Olivier Ripoll
Steve Litt wrote: On Saturday 04 April 2009 06:34:40 am Pavel Sanda wrote: Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, I decided to put a short statement at the beginning of each chapter. I wanted it to be surrounded by lines, a little bit narrower than general text, and I wanted the print slightly bigger than

Re: Bold index entry with link

2009-04-06 Thread Martin Görg
On Mon, 06 Apr 2009 11:40:13 +0200, Florian Rubach wrote: do you want the text of the index entry to be a link? I could not figure out any reasonable way to achieve this. But when you are using hyperref, the page number will be the clickable link to the text location. You can simply specify

Re: help me with a layout module, please!

2009-04-06 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-04-06, rgheck wrote: Vito De Tullio wrote: 1) Can I use a custom OutputType? LyX tells me: No. The allowed types are hardcoded. However, the OutputType literate has been hijacked to work with sweave (see the wiki and archives for details). However, I would like to see this

Re: Bold index entry with link

2009-04-06 Thread Florian Rubach
Martin Görg schrieb: On Mon, 06 Apr 2009 11:40:13 +0200, Florian Rubach wrote: do you want the text of the index entry to be a link? I could not figure out any reasonable way to achieve this. But when you are using hyperref, the page number will be the clickable link to the text location.

Re: My new environment

2009-04-06 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-04-06, Olivier Ripoll wrote: Just for fun, I've tried to make a module out of it. I am no LaTeX expert at all, so I have issues and perhaps someone can clarify them to me: LaTeX complains about environment Sbox being undefined. I can work around using sbox instead, but then, I

Re: help me with a layout module, please!

2009-04-06 Thread Vito De Tullio
rgheck wrote: then I tell lyx that, to generate the pdf, I must run the 3 passes... but This is documented in the Customization manual. could you please be a little more specific? I read the entire manual, but I cannot find a section where it's exposed how to force certain passes. At the best

Re: help me with a layout module, please!

2009-04-06 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Guenter Milde mi...@users.berlios.de writes: However, I would like to see this restriction on OutputType lifted, so that LyX can be told to generate latex + specials output for a pre-processor like: I have a plan for creating a new OutputFormat format tag that would allow to determine the

Re: No longer able to cross-reference between files?

2009-04-06 Thread Rudi Gaelzer
On Sunday 05 April 2009 16:09:05 Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Haha, now we know what this was about! FYI we just hide the document selection combo since 1.6.0 because nobody knew why this was needed. Maybe we can restore it back in 1.6.3 as we found a user :-) Abdel. Please do. I'm surprised

Re: Ghostscript 8.63: Unrecoverable error

2009-04-06 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Wolfgang Engelmann schrieb: Is there any other way to avoid the Ghostscript error I am getting? I don't know. What you see is an error in Ghostscript, but can also be caused by buggy libraries at your Linux installation. The only thing I can say for sure is that I don't get the error here

Re: Bold index entry with link

2009-04-06 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Martin Görg schrieb: I want the page number to be clickable *and* bold. I know how to get it clickable (just use hyperref) and I know how to get it bold (add |textbf) but it doesn't work simultaneously. Using hyperref is one step, making it bold another one that is described in sec. 6.6.5

Re: LyX vs. wordprocessors

2009-04-06 Thread Steve Litt
On Sunday 05 April 2009 11:06:38 am Rich Shepard wrote: On Sun, 5 Apr 2009, Wolfgang Keller wrote: In fact in collaborative environments (e.g. companies), where several people work together on the same document, Word documents _always_ end up like that - A hopelessly tangled spaghetti mess.

Re: LyX vs. wordprocessors

2009-04-06 Thread Steve Litt
On Monday 06 April 2009 03:01:37 am Typhoon wrote: Even emacs outline mode will provide the section structure - used in conjunction with Muse mode, you get a lot of the other stuff as well. VimOutliner (cough cough hint hint) SteveT Steve Litt Recession Relief Package

Border table in footer possible?

2009-04-06 Thread John Mok
Hi, I am preparing a user manual with a table footer (repeating on each page). The footer is a border table which contains a company logo, page numbers and others. I checked the documentation and found no clue how to do that. I hope someone could help and advise how to make the table

CJK UTF-8 encoding for CJK document

2009-04-06 Thread John Mok
Hi, I am using LyX 1.6.2-1 on Windows XP. I would like to prepare an article with Traditional Chinese, Japanese and English, i.e. CJK characters mixed in one document. I tried the document settings :- 1. Language=Chinese and Encoding=Chinese(EUC-TW) Result: Japanese part neglected in PDF

Re: My new environment

2009-04-06 Thread Steve Litt
On Monday 06 April 2009 05:02:20 am Olivier Ripoll wrote: Steve Litt wrote: On Saturday 04 April 2009 06:34:40 am Pavel Sanda wrote: Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, I decided to put a short statement at the beginning of each chapter. I wanted it to be surrounded by lines, a little bit

latex template in lyx, newbe

2009-04-06 Thread Janwillem vn Dijk
I have downloaded a latex template from a publisher (Oxford University Press). It is a zip file with a few dozen files, mainly .sty/.cfg, one document.tex and one document.pdf. What am I to do to get starting to write a publication using LyX? Thanks, Janwillem

Re: latex template in lyx, newbe

2009-04-06 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 6 Apr 2009, Janwillem vn Dijk wrote: What am I to do to get starting to write a publication using LyX? Janwillem, Download and install the latest version then work the Tutorial. Rich -- Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D. | IntegrityCredibility Applied Ecosystem

Re: CJK UTF-8 encoding for CJK document

2009-04-06 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
John Mok wrote: I hope someone could advise if UTF-8 support (CJK) in LyX is available or not, or I have done something wrong. You probably need to install the appropriate fonts. Here is some kind of HowTo: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Unicode#toc4 Thanks a lot. John Mok Jürgen

Re: Insert character by Unicode code point

2009-04-06 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Mon, 6 Apr 2009 08:42:49 +0200 Jürgen Spitzmüller sp...@lyx.org dijo: John Jason Jordan wrote: Suppose I have a font that contains a character at a certain code point. I want to insert this character directly into text. There is an lfun insert-unicode, but it doesn't work. Could

Re: Insert character by Unicode code point

2009-04-06 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-04-06, John Jason Jordan wrote: On Mon, 6 Apr 2009 08:42:49 +0200 Jürgen Spitzmüller sp...@lyx.org dijo: But I am using XeLaTeX so I can use a specific font that has the IPA characters I need. So after entering the word I exported to LaTeX (pdflatex) to get a .tex file, and then used

Org-mode for Emacs (perhaps like VimOutliner?)

2009-04-06 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Mon, 6 Apr 2009, Steve Litt wrote: VimOutliner (http://www.vimoutliner.org). Because it was authored as an For the Emacs users, I think 'org-mode' might work as a substitute (on steroids that is). On a more serious note, I'm using org-mode for general purpose outlining and note taking,

Re: Insert character by Unicode code point

2009-04-06 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
John Jason Jordan wrote: So I'm getting closer, but still not quite there. I guess this is a problem in XeLaTeX, but I don't know what to do next. It works for me with the DejaVu font. This is the corresponding LaTeX output. Note that you need all the stuff marked by %-- in

Re: CJK UTF-8 encoding for CJK document

2009-04-06 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-04-06, John Mok wrote: I am using LyX 1.6.2-1 on Windows XP. I would like to prepare an article with Traditional Chinese, Japanese and English, i.e. CJK characters mixed in one document. I tried the document settings :- 1. Language=Chinese and Encoding=Chinese(EUC-TW) Result:

Re: CJK UTF-8 encoding for CJK document

2009-04-06 Thread John Mok
Thanks for your prompt reply. I tried and the result PDF got a little better. Some of the Chinese characters were missed out, but it did show some Japanese and Chinese mixed characters in one document, e.g. 你 in 你們好 was missed out. Is there any anything I can do to make it complete? Thanks

Re: help me with a layout module, please!

2009-04-06 Thread Richard Heck
Vito De Tullio wrote: rgheck wrote: then I tell lyx that, to generate the pdf, I must run the 3 passes... but This is documented in the Customization manual. could you please be a little more specific? What I meant was that the OutputType tag is there. Just search for

Re: LyX - rtf, doc or openoffice convert: ONCE AGAIN

2009-04-06 Thread Piero Faustini
After the total re-installation of LyX 1.6.2 and MikTeX, now I'm able to produce simple .odt, but still can't convert my thesis.

Re: LyX - rtf, doc or openoffice convert: ONCE AGAIN

2009-04-06 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Piero Faustini schrieb: After the total re-installation of LyX 1.6.2 and MikTeX, now I'm able to produce simple .odt, but still can't convert my thesis. It is well known that ooolatex is buggy and often fails. I would try to use eLyXer to convert your document to HTML and then open the

Re: SIAM layout

2009-04-06 Thread Reinaldo
I updated my version of LyX to 1.6.2. I still cannot have available the SIAM article class document. Can somebody help me with this? What do I need to do in order to have that option available in the Document Class options ? I'm working on Ubuntu and the first version I had there was 1.5.6 but

Break line in TOC

2009-04-06 Thread Valter Filipe Silva
Hello, How i can break a line in TOC ?? my problem is the right margin The section name is to big to fit the defined margins. I try: \section [TOC \\ title]{document \\ title} in the first argument did not work, in the socond it works great ! Any ideia ? Best regards Valter

Re: How to adjust float figure behavior?

2009-04-06 Thread Nikos Alexandris
Sophie: At the moment, when I use a float figure it typically appears before the point where it is introduced in the text, often appears in the middle/end of the *previous* section. Is there a way to get float figures to appear at or after the point in the text where they are

Re: automatically create table based on external (ascii) data

2009-04-06 Thread Siegfried Meunier-Guttin-Cluzel
Did you try the csv format (coma separated values ) ? Siegfried.

Re: Insert character by Unicode code point

2009-04-06 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Mon, 6 Apr 2009 17:12:49 +0200 Jürgen Spitzmüller sp...@lyx.org dijo: John Jason Jordan wrote: So I'm getting closer, but still not quite there. I guess this is a problem in XeLaTeX, but I don't know what to do next. It works for me with the DejaVu font. This is the corresponding LaTeX

Re: automatically create table based on external (ascii) data

2009-04-06 Thread Nikos Alexandris
On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 18:50 +0200, Siegfried Meunier-Guttin-Cluzel wrote: Did you try the csv format (coma separated values ) ? Siegfried. You mean... ? Insert directly a csv file? No, I did not. I just try to copy-paste from R. The (=space) also can (or should be able to) act as a field

Re: Break line in TOC

2009-04-06 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Valter Filipe Silva schrieb: How i can break a line in TOC ?? my problem is the right margin The section name is to big to fit the defined margins. For this case, LyX provides short titles, see sec. 3.3.4.4 Short Titles of Headings of the LyX UserGuide that you find in the Help menu.

Getting LyX to play nice with an external document specification

2009-04-06 Thread Corey Yanofsky
Greetings, I'm using LyX 1.6.1 on Windows Vista. (I've verified that the problem persists using my home computer - LyX 1.6.2 and Windows XP.) I'm trying to generate a pdf version of a manuscript using the LaTeX files provided at

Importing tables

2009-04-06 Thread Anders Host-Madsen
Talking about tables. I'm trying to import a table from excel. I get the error this file is from an earlier version of LyX, but LyX failed to convert it. If I try to open the file lyx created from the CSV, LyX crashes. I tried to shorten my csv file to a few lines, and then LyX managed to import

Re: SIAM layout

2009-04-06 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Reinaldo wrote: I updated my version of LyX to 1.6.2. I still cannot have available the SIAM article class document. Can somebody help me with this? What do I need to do in order to have that option available in the Document Class options ? I'm working on Ubuntu and the first version I had there

TOC

2009-04-06 Thread Yago
Hello to all. I have a problem with the TOC of my document (two sides) that's is placed at the end. I use the package fancyhdr and the titlesec/titletoc, among the others. This is my preamble: \documentclass[spanish]{book} \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \usepackage[latin9]{inputenc}

Re: N00bie font issues

2009-04-06 Thread Yago
it. But reconfiguring, stopping and restarting Lyx several times has failed to get the kpfonts visible in the Document Settings window. So now I'm sad again. :( __ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 3990 (20090406) __ The message was checked

Re: LyX vs. wordprocessors

2009-04-06 Thread Typhoon
On Mon, 6 Apr 2009 08:15:10 + (UTC) Guenter Milde mi...@users.berlios.de wrote: On 2009-04-06, Typhoon wrote: On Mon, 6 Apr 2009 06:38:35 + (UTC) Guenter Milde mi...@users.berlios.de wrote: On 2009-04-05, Rich Shepard wrote: I'm surprised that no one seems to use the most

Re: LyX vs. wordprocessors

2009-04-06 Thread Typhoon
On Mon, 6 Apr 2009 10:09:19 -0400 Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: On Monday 06 April 2009 03:01:37 am Typhoon wrote: Even emacs outline mode will provide the section structure - used in conjunction with Muse mode, you get a lot of the other stuff as well. VimOutliner (cough

Re: LyX - rtf, doc or openoffice convert: ONCE AGAIN

2009-04-06 Thread Alex Fernandez
On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 5:54 PM, Uwe Stöhr uwesto...@web.de wrote: It is well known that ooolatex is buggy and often fails. I would try to use eLyXer to convert your document to HTML and then open the result With OpenOffice 3 and save it as RTF or whatever you like.

Re: Break line in TOC

2009-04-06 Thread Waluyo Adi Siswanto
After you type the section name, then use Insert Short title. This name that will be written in TOC, which is the short version. was On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 17:41 +0100, Valter Filipe Silva wrote: Hello, How i can break a line in TOC ?? my problem is the right margin The section name

RE: LyX - rtf, doc or openoffice convert: ONCE AGAIN

2009-04-06 Thread Piero Faustini
On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 5:54 PM, Uwe Stöhr uwesto...@web.de wrote: It is well known that ooolatex is buggy and often fails. I would try to use eLyXer to convert your document to HTML and then open the result With OpenOffice 3 and save it as RTF or whatever you like.

Re: Insert character by Unicode code point

2009-04-06 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
First, I had to delete \documentclass{article} because it was creating a conflict with the document class setting in the GUI - and I couldn't figure out how not to specify the document class by the GUI. But that shouldn't be a problem. In the GUI I set it to article - plain. Sure, that's why

Re: LyX mangles Unicode Greek during import from LaTeX (2nd try)

2009-04-06 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-04-03, signu...@norvelle.org wrote: Thanks, Günter, Perhaps I'm going about things the wrong way. Instead of trying to use XeTeX, perhaps I can just use one of the engines that is already built into LyX. Yes. So, with my sample document, set to utf8-extended encoding, if I try

Re: right hand margin when font:family=typewriter

2009-04-06 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-04-05, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote: Now I really don't understand why it's assumed that typewritten output doesn't need the same right hand margin as the rest of the document??? I do not think it is. I rather assume that there are lots of overfull hbox warnings in the LaTeX log -- TeX

Re: How to adjust float figure behavior?

2009-04-06 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-04-05, Vincent van Ravesteijn wrote: Sophie (itsme213) schreef: Is there a way to get float figures to appear at or after the point in the text where they are introduced, even if that means the top of the *next* page? Yes. Assuming a standard document where the floats shall stay

Re: help me with a layout module, please!

2009-04-06 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-04-05, Vito De Tullio wrote: Vito De Tullio wrote: I need to know if (and how!) is possible to: 1) force the documentclass (book, article) to use the titlepage ambient. mmm I think this is resolved, using: ClassOptions Other titlepage End 2) tell lyx that, to generate the pdf (via

Insert character by Unicode code point

2009-04-06 Thread John Jason Jordan
The Lyx wiki leads me to believe this is possible, but I can't get it to work. Suppose I have a font that contains a character at a certain code point. I want to insert this character directly into text. There is an lfun insert-unicode, but it doesn't work. Could someone who is smart give me a

Re: N00bie font issues

2009-04-06 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-04-05, John Jason Jordan wrote: On Sun, 05 Apr 2009 23:20:40 +0200 Abdelrazak Younes you...@lyx.org dijo: You said you are using Ubuntu, so your LaTeX distribution is TeXLive. I did succeed in getting Bera Serif installed. ... Did you already look at the various texlive-* packages

Re: Insert character by Unicode code point

2009-04-06 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
John Jason Jordan wrote: Suppose I have a font that contains a character at a certain code point. I want to insert this character directly into text. There is an lfun insert-unicode, but it doesn't work. Could someone who is smart give me a step by step? I mean, what button do i click on and

Re: N00bie font issues

2009-04-06 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
John Jason Jordan wrote: Stoked with success I did the same thing for the kpfonts package. Except the kpfonts package had an installable zip file. I had to open File Roller as root, but it seemed to install all the files in the right folders. Then I did texhash again, and udmap --enable Map

Re: LyX vs. wordprocessors

2009-04-06 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-04-05, Rich Shepard wrote: I'm surprised that no one seems to use the most reasonable solution for collaborative text: have everyone use plain text and only futz with formatting when you agree on a final version. It may not look pretty, but it's efficient. This does not work for

Re: Ghostscript 8.63: Unrecoverable error

2009-04-06 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Am Friday 03 April 2009 21:11:53 schrieben Sie: Wolfgang Engelmann schrieb: PostScript GPL Ghostscript 8.63: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1 I used LyX1.6.1 I though this would have gone after installing 1.6.2, but I have the same problem. This is then a bug in Ghostscript. Updating to

Re: LyX vs. wordprocessors

2009-04-06 Thread Typhoon
On Mon, 6 Apr 2009 06:38:35 + (UTC) Guenter Milde mi...@users.berlios.de wrote: On 2009-04-05, Rich Shepard wrote: I'm surprised that no one seems to use the most reasonable solution for collaborative text: have everyone use plain text and only futz with formatting when you agree

Re: Lyx 1.6.2 debian binaries (LyX Branch, self-compiled [was: lyx 1.6.2 for debian using rpm and alien])

2009-04-06 Thread Nina Lafayette
Am 03.04.2009, 00:46 Uhr, schrieb Per Olofsson pe...@dsv.su.se: Thanks a lot, Per. Nina Nina Lafayette wrote: Am 24.03.2009, 15:29 Uhr, schrieb Guenter Milde milde-96fysp9jrkaatytw5x5...@public.gmane.org: Hi folks, isn't there anybody who can put the debian binaries for Lyx 1.6.2 on a

Re: LyX vs. wordprocessors

2009-04-06 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-04-06, Typhoon wrote: On Mon, 6 Apr 2009 06:38:35 + (UTC) Guenter Milde mi...@users.berlios.de wrote: On 2009-04-05, Rich Shepard wrote: I'm surprised that no one seems to use the most reasonable solution for collaborative text: have everyone use plain text ... This does

Bold index entry with link

2009-04-06 Thread Martin Görg
Hi there, Does anyone know how I can create a bold index entry with a link to the text location where the index is specified? Greetings Martin PS: I know I already posted this a while ago, but much more detailed, so maybe it scared people. This time I just ask a simple question. -- For

Re: Lyx 1.6.2 debian binaries (LyX Branch, self-compiled [was: lyx 1.6.2 for debian using rpm and alien])

2009-04-06 Thread Per Olofsson
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: Am Friday 03 April 2009 09:24:10 schrieb Guenter Milde: On 2009-04-02, Per Olofsson wrote: FWIW, I just uploaded lyx 1.6.2 to Debian unstable. Thanks a lot. Günter Very good news. I was struggling with installing from sources -which is probably a good idea in

Re: Bold index entry with link

2009-04-06 Thread Florian Rubach
Martin Görg schrieb: Hi there, Does anyone know how I can create a bold index entry with a link to the text location where the index is specified? Greetings Martin Hi Martin, do you want the text of the index entry to be a link? I could not figure out any reasonable way to achieve this.

Re: help me with a layout module, please!

2009-04-06 Thread Vito De Tullio
Guenter Milde wrote: 2) tell lyx that, to generate the pdf (via pdflatex), it must do 3 passes (pass 0): generate the FILE.tex from FILE.lyx (as all documents, I think) (pass 1): pdflatex FILE.tex (as all documents?) (pass 2): pdflatex FILE-frn.tex (this file is auto-generated!)

Re: help me with a layout module, please!

2009-04-06 Thread rgheck
Vito De Tullio wrote: I don't know how clean this solution is, but I think I find a way... http://github.com/ZeeD/frontespizio basically I use the OutputType directive (no documentation about, I just found this in some .layout files) to tell lyx that I'm *not* gonna create a simple .tex file...

Re: My new environment

2009-04-06 Thread Olivier Ripoll
Steve Litt wrote: On Saturday 04 April 2009 06:34:40 am Pavel Sanda wrote: Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, I decided to put a short statement at the beginning of each chapter. I wanted it to be surrounded by lines, a little bit narrower than general text, and I wanted the print slightly bigger than

Re: Bold index entry with link

2009-04-06 Thread Martin Görg
On Mon, 06 Apr 2009 11:40:13 +0200, Florian Rubach wrote: do you want the text of the index entry to be a link? I could not figure out any reasonable way to achieve this. But when you are using hyperref, the page number will be the clickable link to the text location. You can simply specify

Re: help me with a layout module, please!

2009-04-06 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-04-06, rgheck wrote: Vito De Tullio wrote: 1) Can I use a custom OutputType? LyX tells me: No. The allowed types are hardcoded. However, the OutputType literate has been hijacked to work with sweave (see the wiki and archives for details). However, I would like to see this

Re: Bold index entry with link

2009-04-06 Thread Florian Rubach
Martin Görg schrieb: On Mon, 06 Apr 2009 11:40:13 +0200, Florian Rubach wrote: do you want the text of the index entry to be a link? I could not figure out any reasonable way to achieve this. But when you are using hyperref, the page number will be the clickable link to the text location.

Re: My new environment

2009-04-06 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-04-06, Olivier Ripoll wrote: Just for fun, I've tried to make a module out of it. I am no LaTeX expert at all, so I have issues and perhaps someone can clarify them to me: LaTeX complains about environment Sbox being undefined. I can work around using sbox instead, but then, I

Re: help me with a layout module, please!

2009-04-06 Thread Vito De Tullio
rgheck wrote: then I tell lyx that, to generate the pdf, I must run the 3 passes... but This is documented in the Customization manual. could you please be a little more specific? I read the entire manual, but I cannot find a section where it's exposed how to force certain passes. At the best

Re: help me with a layout module, please!

2009-04-06 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Guenter Milde mi...@users.berlios.de writes: However, I would like to see this restriction on OutputType lifted, so that LyX can be told to generate latex + specials output for a pre-processor like: I have a plan for creating a new OutputFormat format tag that would allow to determine the

Re: No longer able to cross-reference between files?

2009-04-06 Thread Rudi Gaelzer
On Sunday 05 April 2009 16:09:05 Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Haha, now we know what this was about! FYI we just hide the document selection combo since 1.6.0 because nobody knew why this was needed. Maybe we can restore it back in 1.6.3 as we found a user :-) Abdel. Please do. I'm surprised

Re: Ghostscript 8.63: Unrecoverable error

2009-04-06 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Wolfgang Engelmann schrieb: Is there any other way to avoid the Ghostscript error I am getting? I don't know. What you see is an error in Ghostscript, but can also be caused by buggy libraries at your Linux installation. The only thing I can say for sure is that I don't get the error here

Re: Bold index entry with link

2009-04-06 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Martin Görg schrieb: I want the page number to be clickable *and* bold. I know how to get it clickable (just use hyperref) and I know how to get it bold (add |textbf) but it doesn't work simultaneously. Using hyperref is one step, making it bold another one that is described in sec. 6.6.5

Re: LyX vs. wordprocessors

2009-04-06 Thread Steve Litt
On Sunday 05 April 2009 11:06:38 am Rich Shepard wrote: On Sun, 5 Apr 2009, Wolfgang Keller wrote: In fact in collaborative environments (e.g. companies), where several people work together on the same document, Word documents _always_ end up like that - A hopelessly tangled spaghetti mess.

Re: LyX vs. wordprocessors

2009-04-06 Thread Steve Litt
On Monday 06 April 2009 03:01:37 am Typhoon wrote: Even emacs outline mode will provide the section structure - used in conjunction with Muse mode, you get a lot of the other stuff as well. VimOutliner (cough cough hint hint) SteveT Steve Litt Recession Relief Package

Border table in footer possible?

2009-04-06 Thread John Mok
Hi, I am preparing a user manual with a table footer (repeating on each page). The footer is a border table which contains a company logo, page numbers and others. I checked the documentation and found no clue how to do that. I hope someone could help and advise how to make the table

CJK UTF-8 encoding for CJK document

2009-04-06 Thread John Mok
Hi, I am using LyX 1.6.2-1 on Windows XP. I would like to prepare an article with Traditional Chinese, Japanese and English, i.e. CJK characters mixed in one document. I tried the document settings :- 1. Language=Chinese and Encoding=Chinese(EUC-TW) Result: Japanese part neglected in PDF

Re: My new environment

2009-04-06 Thread Steve Litt
On Monday 06 April 2009 05:02:20 am Olivier Ripoll wrote: Steve Litt wrote: On Saturday 04 April 2009 06:34:40 am Pavel Sanda wrote: Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, I decided to put a short statement at the beginning of each chapter. I wanted it to be surrounded by lines, a little bit

latex template in lyx, newbe

2009-04-06 Thread Janwillem vn Dijk
I have downloaded a latex template from a publisher (Oxford University Press). It is a zip file with a few dozen files, mainly .sty/.cfg, one document.tex and one document.pdf. What am I to do to get starting to write a publication using LyX? Thanks, Janwillem

Re: latex template in lyx, newbe

2009-04-06 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 6 Apr 2009, Janwillem vn Dijk wrote: What am I to do to get starting to write a publication using LyX? Janwillem, Download and install the latest version then work the Tutorial. Rich -- Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D. | IntegrityCredibility Applied Ecosystem

Re: CJK UTF-8 encoding for CJK document

2009-04-06 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
John Mok wrote: I hope someone could advise if UTF-8 support (CJK) in LyX is available or not, or I have done something wrong. You probably need to install the appropriate fonts. Here is some kind of HowTo: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Unicode#toc4 Thanks a lot. John Mok Jürgen

Re: Insert character by Unicode code point

2009-04-06 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Mon, 6 Apr 2009 08:42:49 +0200 Jürgen Spitzmüller sp...@lyx.org dijo: John Jason Jordan wrote: Suppose I have a font that contains a character at a certain code point. I want to insert this character directly into text. There is an lfun insert-unicode, but it doesn't work. Could

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