Re: Importing tables

2009-04-07 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-04-06, Anders Host-Madsen wrote: 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

Re: Getting LyX to play nice with an external document specification

2009-04-07 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-04-06, Corey Yanofsky wrote: I'm trying to generate a pdf version of a manuscript using the LaTeX files provided at http://www.oxfordjournals.org/our_journals/biosts/for_authors/latex%20te mplate.zip. ... created the following file, bio.layout, in my /Resources/layouts folder: #%

Re: CJK UTF-8 encoding for CJK document

2009-04-07 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-04-06, John Mok wrote: 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? I

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

2009-04-07 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-04-06, Nikos Alexandris wrote: 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

Re: Importing tables

2009-04-07 Thread José Matos
On Monday 06 April 2009 21:58:24 Anders Host-Madsen wrote: 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

Re: My new environment

2009-04-07 Thread Olivier Ripoll
Hi again, Steve Litt wrote: 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

LyX vs Word processors

2009-04-07 Thread Paul Sutton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I accidently sent this to Typhoon, so have now posted to the right place , (hopefully) Seems to be that ReST would yet another markup to learn, where as if we stick to say Latex or plain text, we use what we are familar with, and can go back to

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

2009-04-07 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-04-05, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: On 05/04/2009 18:37, Rudi Gaelzer wrote: 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 :-) At least two. Günter

lyx and gnome document viewer

2009-04-07 Thread Paul Sutton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Using 1.5.6 I am trying to create an a5 document, I have selected a5 in the right place in lyx, however it seems that this is not being passed on to gnome document viewer, I thought it looked odd, as the text for title was not in the right place

Re: Thanks for LyX

2009-04-07 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 07 Apr 2009, Ernesto Jardim wrote: Dear developers, I'd like to thank you for developing LyX ! I've just finished my PhD in Marine Science and I used LyX to write the final document and the four papers that compose the PhD. I never had problems, never lost documents, and all the

Re: Thanks for LyX

2009-04-07 Thread Ernesto Jardim
Anthony Campbell wrote: On 07 Apr 2009, Ernesto Jardim wrote: Dear developers, I'd like to thank you for developing LyX ! I've just finished my PhD in Marine Science and I used LyX to write the final document and the four papers that compose the PhD. I never had problems, never lost

Re: LyX vs. wordprocessors

2009-04-07 Thread Joachim Osnabryg
Am 05.04.2009, 00:46 Uhr, schrieb Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com: If it's longer than 5 pages, I use LyX or Komposer (a WYSIWYG HTML editor). Sorry, Steve, do you mean »kompozer« http://www.kompozer.net/ or Nvu - HTML-Editor (for Windows) or Nvu Composer (for several OSs) or something

Rv: Re: lyx and gnome document viewer

2009-04-07 Thread Marcelo Acuña
Using 1.5.6 I am trying to create an a5 document, I have selected a5 in the right place in lyx, however it seems that this is not being passed on to gnome document viewer, [...] Paul With DVI viewer I have same problem, but with pdf viewer size of page is correctly passed.

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

2009-04-07 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Rudi Gaelzer wrote: 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

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

2009-04-07 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Pavel Sanda wrote: Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Rudi Gaelzer wrote: If you could enable again the use of the document selection combo, I'd be very grateful. I'll see what I can do but it won't be soon. But I copy the devel list in case someone could do it before. no he

Re: LyX vs Word processors

2009-04-07 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Tue, 7 Apr 2009, Paul Sutton wrote: pastebin supports LaTex, so i what would be needed is some sort of website that people working on a paper can log in to, and paste bits of code, and then perhaps upload pdf, ps, or dvi files to link to the code, Or even better something like this

Thanks for LyX

2009-04-07 Thread Ernesto Jardim
Dear developers, I'd like to thank you for developing LyX ! I've just finished my PhD in Marine Science and I used LyX to write the final document and the four papers that compose the PhD. I never had problems, never lost documents, and all the minor issues were sorted out in a few hours

Re: Thanks for LyX

2009-04-07 Thread José Matos
On Tuesday 07 April 2009 11:14:05 Ernesto Jardim wrote: Dear developers, I'd like to thank you for developing LyX ! I've just finished my PhD in Marine Science and I used LyX to write the final document and the four papers that compose the PhD. I never had problems, never lost documents,

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

2009-04-07 Thread Piero Faustini
Sure, but it is good to have a starting point. At least you don't have to retype it all again. Thanks, Alex Fernández. HTML quality is much better than I thought, but I can't open it with OOo 3.0 (I obtani only markup text) Good work!

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

2009-04-07 Thread Pavel Sanda
Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Rudi Gaelzer wrote: 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

Re: LyX vs. wordprocessors

2009-04-07 Thread Wolfgang Keller
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. In fact I never managed to figure out how to copy and paste content from two different versions

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

2009-04-07 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Piero Faustini schrieb: HTML quality is much better than I thought, but I can't open it with OOo 3.0 (I obtani only markup text) I tested yesterday some files and get relatively nice looking files (OOo 3.0.1). You could now alternatively look for HTML to RTF/ODT converters. regards Uwe

Float with wrapped table inside

2009-04-07 Thread Carnë Draug
Hi I'm trying to get a float in LyX with a 3 figures and a table and some text. I made a image of the layout I want and uploaded it here http://picpaste.com/layout.png I also made it in ASCII since some people may not wish to follow a link 1 word +---+ |

Re: Float with wrapped table inside

2009-04-07 Thread Florian Rubach
Carnë Draug schrieb: Hi I'm trying to get a float in LyX with a 3 figures and a table and some text. I made a image of the layout I want and uploaded it here http://picpaste.com/layout.png I also made it in ASCII since some people may not wish to follow a link 1 word

Re: Insert character by Unicode code point

2009-04-07 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: Insert character by Unicode code point

2009-04-07 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
John Jason Jordan wrote: I think the problem is that the export to pdflatex understands it needs to use XeTeX, but the export to PostScript does not. Therefore, the PostScript interpreter can't figure what font I want. XeTeX does not support PostScript. Jürgen

Re: Insert character by Unicode code point

2009-04-07 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 7 Apr 2009, Juergen Spitzm?ller wrote: XeTeX does not support PostScript. However, all distributions should have pdf2ps. Rich -- Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D. | IntegrityCredibility Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc.|Innovation

Re: Re: Float with wrapped table inside

2009-04-07 Thread Carnë Draug
Thanks Florian but that didn't work. It just gave me a bunch of errors. I attached the lyx file.I would be most thankful if you could give me a hand with this. Thanks, Carnë Draug test_layout.lyx Description: application/lyx

Re: Float with wrapped table inside

2009-04-07 Thread Florian Rubach
Carnë Draug schrieb: Thanks Florian but that didn't work. It just gave me a bunch of errors. I attached the lyx file.I would be most thankful if you could give me a hand with this. Thanks, Carnë Draug Well, your file works fine at my place, apart from the fact that it looks ugly because of

Re: Thanks for LyX

2009-04-07 Thread Steve Litt
+1 SteveT On Tuesday 07 April 2009 06:14:05 am Ernesto Jardim wrote: Dear developers, I'd like to thank you for developing LyX ! I've just finished my PhD in Marine Science and I used LyX to write the final document and the four papers that compose the PhD. I never had problems, never lost

Re: Insert character by Unicode code point

2009-04-07 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Tue, 7 Apr 2009 08:10:20 -0700 (PDT) Rich Shepard rshep...@appl-ecosys.com dijo: On Tue, 7 Apr 2009, Juergen Spitzm?ller wrote: XeTeX does not support PostScript. However, all distributions should have pdf2ps. Indeed, I am (for perhaps the first time in my life) one step ahead of

[Fwd: Re: CJK UTF-8 encoding for CJK document]

2009-04-07 Thread John Mok
---BeginMessage--- What I tried was make a document with two lines :- 你們好 私は Following the instruction from Jürgen Spitzmüller to add Unicode font, the results got a little better :- 1. Language=Chinese and Encoding=Chinese(EUC-TW) Result: Partial Chinese character missed out and Japanese

my file does not compile to pdf anymore

2009-04-07 Thread Niko Schwarz
Hello! a moment ago it worked fine. now it ust won't compile. no error message, nothing. is there a log somewhere? what can i do? niko

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

2009-04-07 Thread Anders Host-Madsen
Guenter Milde mi...@... writes: Pasting into a table works with table-data if it is TAB separated. The space is too often needed inside a table cell in the general case. Thanks for the tip. I didn't realize this was possible. I tried exporting to csv and importing to LyX (see my previous

Re: Float with wrapped table inside

2009-04-07 Thread Florian Rubach
Carnë Draug schrieb: Sned me an example file if you can then. Thanks a lot for your help Carnë Draug The attached works fine for me. Ask again if you have any questions! Regards, Florian graphics_layout.lyx Description: application/lyx

Re: my file does not compile to pdf anymore

2009-04-07 Thread Niko Schwarz
Ok, I exported to .tex and ran pflatex file.tex. here is the result: Chapter 1 Package natbib Warning: Citation `Kemeny1959' on page 4 undefined on input line 112. [4] Package natbib Warning: Citation `Dwork2001' on page 5 undefined on input line 188. Underfull \vbox (badness 1) has

RE: my file does not compile to pdf anymore

2009-04-07 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW
! LaTeX Error: Unknown graphics extension: .eps. See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation. Type H return for immediate help. ... l.326 ...ingcombinatorical explosion\string.eps} Now what does this mean? The references and graphics inclusions worked just fine half an hour

Re: my file does not compile to pdf anymore

2009-04-07 Thread rgheck
Niko Schwarz wrote: ! LaTeX Error: Unknown graphics extension: .eps. See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation. Type H return for immediate help. ... l.326 ...ingcombinatorical explosion\string.eps} The error is right there, but why you're getting it I don't know. It

Re: my file does not compile to pdf anymore

2009-04-07 Thread Niko Schwarz
I don't think so. Firstly, I am on OSX and secondly, I haven't changed anything about the graphics files recently. I think it's strange. I dropbox collect recent versions, and even after going 3 hours back in time, it won't compile, then with another strange error message: Paragraph ended before

problem inserting .pdf as external material

2009-04-07 Thread Giovanni
Hi list! I've tried to insert various .pdfs as external material, using the pdfpages package. Everything works fine, except that any imported pdf seems to start a new page. This is not the best looking result... I get something like: As you can see in the .pdf: empty space, till the end of the

Re: my file does not compile to pdf anymore

2009-04-07 Thread Niko Schwarz
If I go 7 hours back in time, I get this error: Paragraph ended before \...@setref@link was complete. I know that this file used to compile because I have the pdf. Something outside of my document is causing this failure, I think, however the only 2 things I changed were the bibliography and the

Re: my file does not compile to pdf anymore

2009-04-07 Thread Niko Schwarz
I'm going nuts. If I add the ERT \end{document} right as the first thing all at the top of the document, it still does not compile, with no error message. It doesn't even take time. It simply doesn't react. However, if I cut everything and write hi into the document, it compiles. On Tue, Apr 7,

Re: LyX vs. wordprocessors

2009-04-07 Thread Steve Litt
On Tuesday 07 April 2009 07:32:03 am Joachim Osnabryg wrote: Am 05.04.2009, 00:46 Uhr, schrieb Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com: If it's longer than 5 pages, I use LyX or Komposer (a WYSIWYG HTML editor). Sorry, Steve, do you mean ÂģkompozerÂĢ http://www.kompozer.net/ =THIS or Nvu -

Keyboard Shortcut

2009-04-07 Thread Rich Shepard
I've looked at all the lists under Edit-Preferences-Shortcuts and cannot find where I can assign ctrl-l to 'Insert TeX code'. Where is it hidden? In earlier versions, when all shortcuts were in the appropriate bind file, it was easy enough to add new ones to make my writing more efficient.

Re: Getting LyX to play nice with an external document specification

2009-04-07 Thread Corey Yanofsky
#% Do not delete the line below; configure depends on this # \DeclareLaTeXClass[bio, times.sty,modamsfonts.sty,modamssymb.sty,modamsthm.sty,modnatbib.sty,mod bm.sty,modlastpage.sty]{article (Biostatistics)} Do you really have a blank line below the first? I always thought the layout

Re: Float with wrapped table inside

2009-04-07 Thread Florian Rubach
Carnë Draug schrieb: Hmmm... it complains that the file you sent is from a different version and that it failed to open. That's probably why you're not having problems with my files. I'm using 1.5.6 in Ubuntu 8.10 Thanks anyway Carnë Draug Ok, that piece of information is of value... I'm

Re: Keyboard Shortcut -- FOUND

2009-04-07 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 7 Apr 2009, Rich Shepard wrote: I've looked at all the lists under Edit-Preferences-Shortcuts and cannot find where I can assign ctrl-l to 'Insert TeX code'. Where is it hidden? Found it: 'ert-insert.' Rich -- Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D. | Integrity

Re: my file does not compile to pdf anymore

2009-04-07 Thread rgheck
Niko Schwarz wrote: I'm going nuts. If I add the ERT \end{document} right as the first thing all at the top of the document, it still does not compile, with no error message. It doesn't even take time. It simply doesn't react. However, if I cut everything and write hi into the document, it

RE: my file does not compile to pdf anymore

2009-04-07 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW
Niko Schwarz wrote: I'm going nuts. If I add the ERT \end{document} right as the first thing all at the top of the document, it still does not compile, with no error message. It doesn't even take time. It simply doesn't react. However, if I cut everything and write hi into the document,

Re: Getting LyX to play nice with an external document specification

2009-04-07 Thread Corey Yanofsky
Unfortunately, I have experience interpreting latex error messages. Er, that should read no experience.

Re: my file does not compile to pdf anymore

2009-04-07 Thread Niko Schwarz
Ok, I discovered something. Only the version I sent you is broken. Going one version back, QUITTING LYX and restarting lyx, then loading the older version – works fine. Apparantly the last save broke something that takes lyx with it. It is not just my machine, my other Mac cannot compile the last

Re: Getting LyX to play nice with an external document specification

2009-04-07 Thread Corey Yanofsky
As a DVI file does not contain any fonts, it looks like a font problem. I think I've tracked the critical error to the following message: {C:/Program Files/MiKTeX 2.7/fonts/enc/dvips/fontname/8r.enc} !pdfTeX error: pdflatex (file mtsy.pfb): cannot open Type 1 font file for readi ng == Fatal

Re: my file does not compile to pdf anymore

2009-04-07 Thread Niko Schwarz
alright, i know what happened. I was adding page numbers to a citation, the page numbers were pp.485–488, where the hyphen is some strange uni-code uber-thing that kills lyx it comes within 3 miles of lyx. once you do that, you need to delete it and restart lyx. Do not use fancy characters in

Formatting marginal notes

2009-04-07 Thread Stefano Franchi
Hi all, I have been trying to produce a format for marginal notes more suitable to my documents, but I am stuck with leading space. I can successfully change the font size of the margin note by using the marginnote package and then issuing: \let\marginpar\marginnote

Re: problem inserting .pdf as external material

2009-04-07 Thread Anders Host-Madsen
Giovanni giovanni...@... writes: It's possible to have the content inserted in line, as a paragraph? Can't you just insert the pdf a graphic? Anyway, I had the opposite problem. I wanted to insert whole pages of an external pdf. I didn't know about the pdfpages package until you posting. This

Caption width in wrapped figures

2009-04-07 Thread Ehud Kaplan
Is there a way to control the width of a caption of a wrapped figure? I think in Latex you can specify this independently of the width of the graphics in the wrppaed figure, but how do I do it in Lyx? The current Lyx leaves too much white space around the figure, because the caption is much

Mac bug: default save path for creating docs from template

2009-04-07 Thread Maria Gouskova
Dear lyx users, The Lyx Bugzilla server seems to be down, so I am posting this here. There seems to be a minor bug in Mac OS Lyx 1.6.1. The steps: Go to FileNew From Template, which opens /User/Library/Application Support/Lyx-1.6/templates/ and prompts for a lyx template to be opened. Choose a

Re: my file does not compile to pdf anymore

2009-04-07 Thread rgheck
Niko Schwarz wrote: alright, i know what happened. I was adding page numbers to a citation, the page numbers were pp.485–488, where the hyphen is some strange uni-code uber-thing that kills lyx it comes within 3 miles of lyx. once you do that, you need to delete it and restart lyx. Do not use

Installing Memoir Class Upgrade

2009-04-07 Thread Rich Shepard
Yesterday I downloaded the latest memoir class to replace the 5-year-old version I had here. I placed all the .sty and .clo files in /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/memoir/, and memoir.layout in ~/.lyx/layouts. Next, I ran /usr/share/texmf/bin/texhash, reconfigured LyX, killed the process, and

Re: Caption width in wrapped figures

2009-04-07 Thread Florian Rubach
Ehud Kaplan schrieb: Is there a way to control the width of a caption of a wrapped figure? I think in Latex you can specify this independently of the width of the graphics in the wrppaed figure, but how do I do it in Lyx? The current Lyx leaves too much white space around the figure, because

Re: problem inserting .pdf as external material

2009-04-07 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Giovanni wrote: Hi list! I've tried to insert various .pdfs as external material, using the pdfpages package. Everything works fine, except that any imported pdf seems to start a new page. This is not the best looking result... I get something like: As you can see in the .pdf: empty space,

Re: Caption width in wrapped figures

2009-04-07 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Ehud Kaplan schrieb: Is there a way to control the width of a caption of a wrapped figure? You can insert a line break or use some special commands provided by the LaTeX package caption. For more infos, see the EmbeddedObjects manual that you find in the Help menu. regards Uwe

Re: Formatting marginal notes

2009-04-07 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Stefano Franchi schrieb: I have been trying to produce a format for marginal notes more suitable to my documents, but I am stuck with leading space. I can successfully change the font size of the margin note by using the marginnote package and then issuing: \let\marginpar\marginnote

Re: Thanks for LyX

2009-04-07 Thread Yury Davidouski
Once I got my assignment back from the university with some feedback from the tutor saying Your papers are a pleasure to read :) On Tue, 07 Apr 2009 11:14:05 +0100, Ernesto Jardim erne...@ipimar.pt wrote: Dear developers, I'd like to thank you for developing LyX ! I've just finished my

Re: Thanks for LyX

2009-04-07 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn
Yury Davidouski schreef: Dear developers, I'd like to thank you for developing LyX ! I've just finished my PhD in Marine Science and I used LyX to write the final document and the four papers that compose the PhD. I never had problems, never lost documents, and all the minor issues were

Re: Caption width in wrapped figures

2009-04-07 Thread Ehud Kaplan
The caption package does have some useful features, which allowed me to change the width of the caption (among other things). But the white space around the graphics itself persists. If I make the caption as wide as the graphics, the white space now surrounds the caption as well. What I really

Re: Mac bug: default save path for creating docs from template

2009-04-07 Thread BH
On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Maria Gouskova gousk...@gmail.com wrote: Dear lyx users, The Lyx Bugzilla server seems to be down, so I am posting this here. There seems to be a minor bug in Mac OS Lyx 1.6.1. The steps: Go to FileNew From Template, which opens /User/Library/Application

Re: Border table in footer possible?

2009-04-07 Thread cmiramon
John Mok wrote: 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

Re: right hand margin when font:family=typewriter

2009-04-07 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
It would appear that on Apr 6, Guenter Milde did say: 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

Re: Mac bug: default save path for creating docs from template

2009-04-07 Thread Anders Host-Madsen
I cannot confirm this either. In my 1.6.1 Lyx, the save as location is my working directory. There must be something amiss in your installation.

Re: Caption width in wrapped figures

2009-04-07 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Ehud Kaplan schrieb: The caption package does have some useful features, which allowed me to change the width of the caption (among other things). But the white space around the graphics itself persists. If I make the caption as wide as the graphics, the white space now surrounds the caption

Re: Importing tables

2009-04-07 Thread Anders Host-Madsen
Problem solved: There was an apostrophe (') that had been converted to a weird character when Excel saved the file (Excel for Mac, it seems, only has the options of Windows format or MS-DOS format, both incompatible with Mac). After removing that, it converted correctly. So, it was Excel's

Document Class

2009-04-07 Thread Edwin Davis
Hello, I am using LyX 1.6 to write a thesis and am having  a hard time figuring out how to change the document class for a single page. Please email me back at your earliest convenience. Mr. Davis

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

2009-04-07 Thread Nikos Alexandris
On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 16:17 +, Anders Host-Madsen wrote: Guenter Milde mi...@... writes: Pasting into a table works with table-data if it is TAB separated. The space is too often needed inside a table cell in the general case. Thanks for the tip. I didn't realize this was possible. I

Re: Importing tables

2009-04-07 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-04-06, Anders Host-Madsen wrote: 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

Re: Getting LyX to play nice with an external document specification

2009-04-07 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-04-06, Corey Yanofsky wrote: I'm trying to generate a pdf version of a manuscript using the LaTeX files provided at http://www.oxfordjournals.org/our_journals/biosts/for_authors/latex%20te mplate.zip. ... created the following file, bio.layout, in my /Resources/layouts folder: #%

Re: CJK UTF-8 encoding for CJK document

2009-04-07 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-04-06, John Mok wrote: 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? I

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

2009-04-07 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-04-06, Nikos Alexandris wrote: 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

Re: Importing tables

2009-04-07 Thread José Matos
On Monday 06 April 2009 21:58:24 Anders Host-Madsen wrote: 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

Re: My new environment

2009-04-07 Thread Olivier Ripoll
Hi again, Steve Litt wrote: 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

LyX vs Word processors

2009-04-07 Thread Paul Sutton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I accidently sent this to Typhoon, so have now posted to the right place , (hopefully) Seems to be that ReST would yet another markup to learn, where as if we stick to say Latex or plain text, we use what we are familar with, and can go back to

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

2009-04-07 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-04-05, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: On 05/04/2009 18:37, Rudi Gaelzer wrote: 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 :-) At least two. Günter

lyx and gnome document viewer

2009-04-07 Thread Paul Sutton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Using 1.5.6 I am trying to create an a5 document, I have selected a5 in the right place in lyx, however it seems that this is not being passed on to gnome document viewer, I thought it looked odd, as the text for title was not in the right place

Re: Thanks for LyX

2009-04-07 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 07 Apr 2009, Ernesto Jardim wrote: Dear developers, I'd like to thank you for developing LyX ! I've just finished my PhD in Marine Science and I used LyX to write the final document and the four papers that compose the PhD. I never had problems, never lost documents, and all the

Re: Thanks for LyX

2009-04-07 Thread Ernesto Jardim
Anthony Campbell wrote: On 07 Apr 2009, Ernesto Jardim wrote: Dear developers, I'd like to thank you for developing LyX ! I've just finished my PhD in Marine Science and I used LyX to write the final document and the four papers that compose the PhD. I never had problems, never lost

Re: LyX vs. wordprocessors

2009-04-07 Thread Joachim Osnabryg
Am 05.04.2009, 00:46 Uhr, schrieb Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com: If it's longer than 5 pages, I use LyX or Komposer (a WYSIWYG HTML editor). Sorry, Steve, do you mean »kompozer« http://www.kompozer.net/ or Nvu - HTML-Editor (for Windows) or Nvu Composer (for several OSs) or something

Rv: Re: lyx and gnome document viewer

2009-04-07 Thread Marcelo Acuña
Using 1.5.6 I am trying to create an a5 document, I have selected a5 in the right place in lyx, however it seems that this is not being passed on to gnome document viewer, [...] Paul With DVI viewer I have same problem, but with pdf viewer size of page is correctly passed.

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

2009-04-07 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Rudi Gaelzer wrote: 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

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

2009-04-07 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Pavel Sanda wrote: Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Rudi Gaelzer wrote: If you could enable again the use of the document selection combo, I'd be very grateful. I'll see what I can do but it won't be soon. But I copy the devel list in case someone could do it before. no he

Re: LyX vs Word processors

2009-04-07 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Tue, 7 Apr 2009, Paul Sutton wrote: pastebin supports LaTex, so i what would be needed is some sort of website that people working on a paper can log in to, and paste bits of code, and then perhaps upload pdf, ps, or dvi files to link to the code, Or even better something like this

Thanks for LyX

2009-04-07 Thread Ernesto Jardim
Dear developers, I'd like to thank you for developing LyX ! I've just finished my PhD in Marine Science and I used LyX to write the final document and the four papers that compose the PhD. I never had problems, never lost documents, and all the minor issues were sorted out in a few hours

Re: Thanks for LyX

2009-04-07 Thread José Matos
On Tuesday 07 April 2009 11:14:05 Ernesto Jardim wrote: Dear developers, I'd like to thank you for developing LyX ! I've just finished my PhD in Marine Science and I used LyX to write the final document and the four papers that compose the PhD. I never had problems, never lost documents,

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

2009-04-07 Thread Piero Faustini
Sure, but it is good to have a starting point. At least you don't have to retype it all again. Thanks, Alex Fernández. HTML quality is much better than I thought, but I can't open it with OOo 3.0 (I obtani only markup text) Good work!

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

2009-04-07 Thread Pavel Sanda
Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Rudi Gaelzer wrote: 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

Re: LyX vs. wordprocessors

2009-04-07 Thread Wolfgang Keller
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. In fact I never managed to figure out how to copy and paste content from two different versions

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

2009-04-07 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Piero Faustini schrieb: HTML quality is much better than I thought, but I can't open it with OOo 3.0 (I obtani only markup text) I tested yesterday some files and get relatively nice looking files (OOo 3.0.1). You could now alternatively look for HTML to RTF/ODT converters. regards Uwe

Float with wrapped table inside

2009-04-07 Thread Carnë Draug
Hi I'm trying to get a float in LyX with a 3 figures and a table and some text. I made a image of the layout I want and uploaded it here http://picpaste.com/layout.png I also made it in ASCII since some people may not wish to follow a link 1 word +---+ |

Re: Float with wrapped table inside

2009-04-07 Thread Florian Rubach
Carnë Draug schrieb: Hi I'm trying to get a float in LyX with a 3 figures and a table and some text. I made a image of the layout I want and uploaded it here http://picpaste.com/layout.png I also made it in ASCII since some people may not wish to follow a link 1 word

Re: Insert character by Unicode code point

2009-04-07 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: Insert character by Unicode code point

2009-04-07 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
John Jason Jordan wrote: I think the problem is that the export to pdflatex understands it needs to use XeTeX, but the export to PostScript does not. Therefore, the PostScript interpreter can't figure what font I want. XeTeX does not support PostScript. Jürgen

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