Re: Differences in Output Quality?

2009-04-28 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-04-27, Rich Shepard wrote: Question for folks here: will pdf output display differently if I insert figures as .eps or .pdf? In the first case, I need to export to plain LaTeX, run latex a couple of times on the resulting .tex file, then dvips followed by ps2pdf. In the second

Re: 1.6.2 Spelling Check Issue

2009-04-28 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-04-27, Rich Shepard wrote: I don't recall having this problem before: when I check spelling in a document I add words and variants of words that appear in multiple documents. However, those attempts at addition appear to not work. The next time I check the same document, the same

Re: question re citation

2009-04-28 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-04-27, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: In a document (Lyx1.6.1) I get an error message TeX capacity exceeded cite{a reference}{319}{13.5.3}{section*.37} If you really absolutely need more capacity ... I tried to remove the citation from the text for a later inspection what was going

Re: references and coding

2009-04-28 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: The current LyX version is using utf8, right? Yes, LyX internally uses utf8. Bib files, however, must not be encoded in utf8: http://wiki.lyx.org/BibTeX/Tips#toc1 Jürgen

Re: references and coding

2009-04-28 Thread Kosta Welke
On Tue, 28 Apr 2009 11:35:35 +0200 Wolfgang Engelmann engelm...@uni-tuebingen.de wrote: I have a reference from a (JabRef created) bib-file which LyX (1.6.2) does not like. The begin of the bib file states that it is encoded in utf8. I can't see anything strange in the reference and in the

Re: references and coding

2009-04-28 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Kosta Welke wrote: I'm not sure if BibTeX files are allowed to have non-ASCII characters in normal LaTeX (I'm completely LaTeX incompetent), but I know that with XeTeX, you can have utf8 characters in you BibTeX file. Which, however, will make bibtex (the program) fail (at least) on sorting.

Re: references and coding

2009-04-28 Thread Kosta Welke
On Tue, 28 Apr 2009 11:59:23 +0200 Jürgen Spitzmüller sp...@lyx.org wrote: Which, however, will make bibtex (the program) fail (at least) on sorting. Or does XeTeX ship its own bibtex variant? Sorry, I'm completely ignorant of the details. I just know that adding weird swedish special

Re: 1.6.2 instability with multiple child docs, OSX?

2009-04-28 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 07:41:52AM +0200, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: A backtrace would be even better. Is there some Fine Manual I ought to be reading to learn where I ought to expect the core file? A -- Andrew Sullivan a...@shinkuro.com Shinkuro, Inc.

Re: references and coding

2009-04-28 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Kosta Welke wrote: Which, however, will make bibtex (the program) fail (at least) on sorting. Or does XeTeX ship its own bibtex variant? Sorry, I'm completely ignorant of the details. I just know that adding weird swedish special characters to my bibtex file just worked in a XeTeX LyX

Re: 1.6.2 instability with multiple child docs, OSX?

2009-04-28 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Andrew Sullivan wrote: A backtrace would be even better. Is there some Fine Manual I ought to be reading to learn where I ought to expect the core file? No, just run LyX from within the debugger of your choice. Here are some (very) basic instructions, only relevant if you didn't use a

Re: references and coding

2009-04-28 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Also sprach Wolfgang Engelmann: Bib files, however, must not be encoded in utf8: http://wiki.lyx.org/BibTeX/Tips#toc1 Jürgen same with biblatex? Yes. Quoting the biblatex manual (sec. 2.4.3): Using UTF-8 encoding in both the tex and the bib file is not possible since neither traditional

Re: references and coding

2009-04-28 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Am Tuesday 28 April 2009 12:43:32 schrieb Jürgen Spitzmüller: Having said that, a replacement program for bibtex (written in Perl) with specific target to biblatex is just being developed: http://biblatex-biber.sourceforge.net/ Jürgen good to know. Is it already in a functioning stage?

Re: references and coding

2009-04-28 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: good to know. Is it already in a functioning stage? I haven't tested it yet. Officially, it is in beta stage, but some people apparently already use it for daily work. Jürgen

Re: question re citation

2009-04-28 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Am Tuesday 28 April 2009 10:26:30 schrieb Guenter Milde: Still, the aux-file is generated (from the document and the bibtex-extracted citations). It is annoying to have to restart the session for each removal. Is there a better way? Does closing and reopening the doc help? Or just try a

references and coding

2009-04-28 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
I have a reference from a (JabRef created) bib-file which LyX (1.6.2) does not like. The begin of the bib file states that it is encoded in utf8. I can't see anything strange in the reference and in the bibtex output. How can I check this (and if possible the whole file) for coding errors? The

Re: references and coding

2009-04-28 Thread Kosta Welke
On Tue, 28 Apr 2009 12:25:49 +0200 Jürgen Spitzmüller sp...@lyx.org wrote: Bibtex can only handle 7-bit correctly. Bibtex8 handles 8-bit. Neither can deal with multibyte characters (although apparently only bibtex8 complains about such files, bibtex just passes it silently [which is bad]).

kpsewhich appears to require root permissions (Ubunutu 9.04)

2009-04-28 Thread David A. Case
I know this is a LaTeX (or Tex-live) question, but it keeps me from running LyX: I upgraded from ubuntu 8.10 to 9.04; now kpsewhich requires root permissions: e.g. kpsewhich article.cls returns nothins, but sudo kpsewhich article.cls returns the correct path. Hence, LyX seems to work fine when

Re: kpsewhich appears to require root permissions (Ubunutu 9.04) --FIXED

2009-04-28 Thread David A. Case
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009, David A. Case wrote: I upgraded from ubuntu 8.10 to 9.04; now kpsewhich requires root permissions: e.g. kpsewhich article.cls returns nothins, but sudo kpsewhich article.cls returns the correct path. Sorry for the false alarm--I tracked the problem down to a stray (and

Re: 1.6.2 Spelling Check Issue

2009-04-28 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 28 Apr 2009, Guenter Milde wrote: ToolsSettingsLanguage or Spellcheck or somethingPersonal Dir. Guenter, I don't have a Tools menu; File, Edit, Insert, Layout, View, Navigate, Document, Help is all I have had. However, ... in Edit-Preferences-Language-Spell checking I see that no

Re: 1.6.2 Spelling Check Issue

2009-04-28 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 28 Apr 2009, Rich Shepard wrote: However, since aspell is used in other text editors (emacs, joe), I'm sure it must be somewhere on the system. I'll see if I can identify the file name. And there it is ~/.aspell.en.pws. Thanks for the pointer, Rich -- Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D.

Re: text styles

2009-04-28 Thread Paul A. Rubin
tedc wrote: I do have one question, though. The OO file used text styles to specify the formatting of inline source code, names of GUI tools, and chapter crossreferences. In LyX these show up as ERT, like the boldfaced bit here: \textstyleInlinecode{for i=0,n-1} When I click on View DVI, these

Re: references and coding

2009-04-28 Thread Kosta Welke
On Tue, 28 Apr 2009 13:05:48 +0200 Kosta Welke ko...@fillibach.de wrote: Well, I just tried adding some characters that definitely are multi-byte (e.g. ค from the thai alphabet) to a test bibtex file. It worked with XeTeX in the sense that [...] the character was replaced by whitespace (just

RE: references and coding

2009-04-28 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW
Bibtex can only handle 7-bit correctly. Bibtex8 handles 8-bit. Neither can deal with multibyte characters (although apparently only bibtex8 complains about such files, bibtex just passes it silently [which is bad]). Can't we make LyX giving a warning when it detects multi-byte characters

Re: references and coding

2009-04-28 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Kosta Welke wrote: I just tried adding a chinese character using {\fontspec{Sazanami Mincho}猫} into the BibTeX and it worked flawlessly. It seems that BibTeX does not really care what is between the curly braces and just copies the octets. And as utf8 encodes multibyte characters into the

blue underline of pasted text

2009-04-28 Thread James C . Sutherland
When I paste text from one document to another, I get blue underlines. I do not have change tracking turned on. Does anyone know how to disable this underlining? The underlining does not show up in compiled output - only in the LyX editor...

Re: blue underline of pasted text

2009-04-28 Thread James C. Sutherland
On Apr 28, 2009, at 8:29 AM, James C. Sutherland wrote: When I paste text from one document to another, I get blue underlines. I do not have change tracking turned on. Does anyone know how to disable this underlining? The underlining does not show up in compiled output - only in the

RE: blue underline of pasted text

2009-04-28 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW
When I paste text from one document to another, I get blue underlines. I do not have change tracking turned on. Does anyone know how to disable this underlining? Yes, then the language setting of this text is different as the default language of the document. Select the text and choose the

Re: references and coding

2009-04-28 Thread Kosta Welke
On Tue, 28 Apr 2009 16:24:07 +0200 Jürgen Spitzmüller sp...@lyx.org wrote: Kosta Welke wrote: I just tried adding a chinese character using {\fontspec{Sazanami Mincho}猫} into the BibTeX and it worked flawlessly. However, this does not fix the sorting problem. Well if we're happy with 'sort

Re: references and coding

2009-04-28 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW wrote: Can't we make LyX giving a warning when it detects multi-byte characters in a bibtex file ? This often leads to questions. I'm not sure we can detect those characters. Jürgen

Re: references and coding

2009-04-28 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Kosta Welke wrote: Kosta Welke wrote: I just tried adding a chinese character using {\fontspec{Sazanami Mincho}猫} into the BibTeX and it worked flawlessly. However, this does not fix the sorting problem. Well if we're happy with 'sort by unicode number', sorting utf8 byte-by-byte

hyperref conflicts with cite package?

2009-04-28 Thread James C. Sutherland
If I turn on hyperref support, then the cite package breaks. Specifically, citations that would normally appear as [5-9] now appear as [5,6,7,8,9]. If I turn off hyperref then it works again. Is this a package conflict, or a bug in LyX? LyX 1.6.2, Mac OSX 10.5.6

Re: Differences in Output Quality?

2009-04-28 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 28 Apr 2009, Guenter Milde wrote: This is no longer true, as you can define lossless PDF - EPS conversion. Description should be in the Wiki. Newer LyX installs will set up this by default, if the required programs are available. Guenter, I found nothing when I searched the wiki

Re: Beamer Class Viewing -- RESOLVED

2009-04-28 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 27 Apr 2009, Rich Shepard wrote: When I try to view the developing presentation using pdflatex I get errors. I also get errors if I try to view it with dvi because the included graphics are .pdf format. I have this resolved, but it's not displaying as expected. So, it's back to the

Símbolos musicales

2009-04-28 Thread Daniel Blech
¿Cómo hago para insertar símbolos musicales en un documento lyx? Hasta ahora sólo pude hacerlo con imágenes, pero supongo que hay fuentes específicas disponibles. Gracias por la ayuda! Daniel

Beamer color theme question

2009-04-28 Thread Rich Shepard
I copied a presentation made about three years ago to a new name for use with the upcoming presentation. Since the original was written I upgraded beamer to the current 3.07. I see that the definitions of various themes have changed. Regardless, in the preamble I specify \usecolortheme{crane},

Re: Símbolos musicales

2009-04-28 Thread Piero Faustini
Daniel Blech blech.dan...@... writes: ¿Cómo hago para insertar símbolos musicales en un documento lyx? Hasta ahora sólo pude hacerlo con imágenes, pero supongo que hay fuentes específicas disponibles. Gracias por la ayuda! Daniel depende de cuales simbulos necesitas. - en LyX

2 or more Figures/examples with convenient numbering

2009-04-28 Thread Piero Faustini
Hello, I would like to put 2 or more figures of an example in a way that they are somewhat put together for comparing them, and I want them to be numbered, instead, let's say of 1.1, 1.2 and 1.3 in a more convenient and logical way, for example 1.1a, 1.1b, 1.1c (subsequent figures/examples

Re: 2 or more Figures/examples with convenient numbering

2009-04-28 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 28 Apr 2009, Piero Faustini wrote: I would like to put 2 or more figures of an example in a way that they are somewhat put together for comparing them, Piero, Use minipages. Put each figure into a separate minipage and they can be sized to fit across the width of the text area.

Re: 2 or more Figures/examples with convenient numbering

2009-04-28 Thread James C. Sutherland
On Apr 28, 2009, at 12:51 PM, Piero Faustini wrote: Hello, I would like to put 2 or more figures of an example in a way that they are somewhat put together for comparing them, and I want them to be numbered, instead, let's say of 1.1, 1.2 and 1.3 in a more convenient and logical way,

Re: text styles

2009-04-28 Thread Steve Litt
On Monday 27 April 2009 11:51:38 pm Drew Kime wrote: On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 8:02 PM, tedc carneva...@sbcglobal.net wrote: So my question is: how do I tell LyX or LaTeX that \textstyleInlinecode{for i=0,n-1} means to render for i=0,n-1 with a specified typeface? or at least as

Re: Open .lyx document on different computer and have graphics be okay

2009-04-28 Thread Adam Kennedy
Yep, it was setting an absolute path. Your suggestion solved the problem. Thanks, Adam On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 2:30 PM, Kosta Welke ko...@fillibach.de wrote: On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 23:24:23 +0200, ad_ke kennas...@gmail.com wrote: However, I can't figure out how to make the document portable.

Re: text styles

2009-04-28 Thread Drew Kime
2009/4/28 Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com Lyx has an option to specify a typewriter face. Simply highlight the text, click on Edit-Text Style-Customized, and under Family select Typewriter. Then check what it does to the code, and do a global replace to get all occurrences. You

Re: Beamer color theme question

2009-04-28 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Rich Shepard wrote: I copied a presentation made about three years ago to a new name for use with the upcoming presentation. Since the original was written I upgraded beamer to the current 3.07. I see that the definitions of various themes have changed. Regardless, in the preamble I specify

Re: 2 or more Figures/examples with convenient numbering

2009-04-28 Thread Piero Faustini
James C. Sutherland james.sutherl...@... writes: You can use subfigures (available in 1.6). See section 1.2 in the Embedded Objects help manual. This will give you exactly what you want, I think. Yes, I already knew it existed, and only now I realize it does the same and is even more

Re: Beamer color adventure

2009-04-28 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 28 Apr 2009, Paul A. Rubin wrote: If my PDF is colored in places yours wouldn't be, that suggests the problem is either somewhere in the presentation other than the preamble or else something in your setup. You can detect the latter by trying to view my LyX file at your end. Paul,

Re: text styles

2009-04-28 Thread rgheck
Drew Kime wrote: 2009/4/28 Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com Lyx has an option to specify a typewriter face. Simply highlight the text, click on Edit-Text Style-Customized, and under Family select Typewriter. Then check what it does to the code, and do a global replace

Re: Beamer color theme question

2009-04-28 Thread Rich Shepard
Update and next plea for help. Thanks to Paul's sending me a text document as a .pdf file I discovered the problem was how I was compiling/viewing the developing presentation. So, now I converted the few .eps files to .pdf and viewing the presentation via pdflatex. Within xpdf the colors are

Re: Beamer color theme question

2009-04-28 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 28 Apr 2009, Rich Shepard wrote: I think this is because when I view either format, it's in the lower left corner of a letter-size page. I assume that what I'm seeing on the slides is the white space above the logo. I don't know of a tool I have that will let me crop an .eps file. I

Re: Beamer color adventure

2009-04-28 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Rich Shepard wrote: On Tue, 28 Apr 2009, Paul A. Rubin wrote: If my PDF is colored in places yours wouldn't be, that suggests the problem is either somewhere in the presentation other than the preamble or else something in your setup. You can detect the latter by trying to view my LyX file

Re: Beamer color adventure

2009-04-28 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 28 Apr 2009, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Any reason not to use pdflatex? Paul, Nope. I'm not sure it's officially preferred for beamer presentations, but one out of one beamer users surveyed (me) prefers it. Actually, I think it is. Now I'm getting back to the rhythm I recall using

Re: hyperref conflicts with cite package?

2009-04-28 Thread BH
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 11:10 AM, James C. Sutherland james.sutherl...@utah.edu wrote: If I turn on hyperref support, then the cite package breaks.  Specifically, citations that would normally appear as [5-9] now appear as [5,6,7,8,9].  If I turn off hyperref then it works again. Is this a

Re: Beamer color theme question

2009-04-28 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Rich Shepard wrote: On the initial slide with the title and presenter information, I have these two pieces of LaTeX: \pgfdeclareimage[height=0.5cm]{institution-logo}{/home/rshepard/data/wpdocs/workshop-presentations/aust-may-2009/aesi-logo.pdf} \logo{\pgfuseimage{institution-logo}}

cross reference as line number in page

2009-04-28 Thread Abe Lau
Hi all, Is there any good way to put a cross reference to a label in a format like line 38 on page 123? Thanks, Abe

Re: Differences in Output Quality?

2009-04-28 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-04-27, Rich Shepard wrote: Question for folks here: will pdf output display differently if I insert figures as .eps or .pdf? In the first case, I need to export to plain LaTeX, run latex a couple of times on the resulting .tex file, then dvips followed by ps2pdf. In the second

Re: 1.6.2 Spelling Check Issue

2009-04-28 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-04-27, Rich Shepard wrote: I don't recall having this problem before: when I check spelling in a document I add words and variants of words that appear in multiple documents. However, those attempts at addition appear to not work. The next time I check the same document, the same

Re: question re citation

2009-04-28 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-04-27, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: In a document (Lyx1.6.1) I get an error message TeX capacity exceeded cite{a reference}{319}{13.5.3}{section*.37} If you really absolutely need more capacity ... I tried to remove the citation from the text for a later inspection what was going

Re: references and coding

2009-04-28 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: The current LyX version is using utf8, right? Yes, LyX internally uses utf8. Bib files, however, must not be encoded in utf8: http://wiki.lyx.org/BibTeX/Tips#toc1 Jürgen

Re: references and coding

2009-04-28 Thread Kosta Welke
On Tue, 28 Apr 2009 11:35:35 +0200 Wolfgang Engelmann engelm...@uni-tuebingen.de wrote: I have a reference from a (JabRef created) bib-file which LyX (1.6.2) does not like. The begin of the bib file states that it is encoded in utf8. I can't see anything strange in the reference and in the

Re: references and coding

2009-04-28 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Kosta Welke wrote: I'm not sure if BibTeX files are allowed to have non-ASCII characters in normal LaTeX (I'm completely LaTeX incompetent), but I know that with XeTeX, you can have utf8 characters in you BibTeX file. Which, however, will make bibtex (the program) fail (at least) on sorting.

Re: references and coding

2009-04-28 Thread Kosta Welke
On Tue, 28 Apr 2009 11:59:23 +0200 Jürgen Spitzmüller sp...@lyx.org wrote: Which, however, will make bibtex (the program) fail (at least) on sorting. Or does XeTeX ship its own bibtex variant? Sorry, I'm completely ignorant of the details. I just know that adding weird swedish special

Re: 1.6.2 instability with multiple child docs, OSX?

2009-04-28 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 07:41:52AM +0200, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: A backtrace would be even better. Is there some Fine Manual I ought to be reading to learn where I ought to expect the core file? A -- Andrew Sullivan a...@shinkuro.com Shinkuro, Inc.

Re: references and coding

2009-04-28 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Kosta Welke wrote: Which, however, will make bibtex (the program) fail (at least) on sorting. Or does XeTeX ship its own bibtex variant? Sorry, I'm completely ignorant of the details. I just know that adding weird swedish special characters to my bibtex file just worked in a XeTeX LyX

Re: 1.6.2 instability with multiple child docs, OSX?

2009-04-28 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Andrew Sullivan wrote: A backtrace would be even better. Is there some Fine Manual I ought to be reading to learn where I ought to expect the core file? No, just run LyX from within the debugger of your choice. Here are some (very) basic instructions, only relevant if you didn't use a

Re: references and coding

2009-04-28 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Also sprach Wolfgang Engelmann: Bib files, however, must not be encoded in utf8: http://wiki.lyx.org/BibTeX/Tips#toc1 Jürgen same with biblatex? Yes. Quoting the biblatex manual (sec. 2.4.3): Using UTF-8 encoding in both the tex and the bib file is not possible since neither traditional

Re: references and coding

2009-04-28 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Am Tuesday 28 April 2009 12:43:32 schrieb Jürgen Spitzmüller: Having said that, a replacement program for bibtex (written in Perl) with specific target to biblatex is just being developed: http://biblatex-biber.sourceforge.net/ Jürgen good to know. Is it already in a functioning stage?

Re: references and coding

2009-04-28 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: good to know. Is it already in a functioning stage? I haven't tested it yet. Officially, it is in beta stage, but some people apparently already use it for daily work. Jürgen

Re: question re citation

2009-04-28 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Am Tuesday 28 April 2009 10:26:30 schrieb Guenter Milde: Still, the aux-file is generated (from the document and the bibtex-extracted citations). It is annoying to have to restart the session for each removal. Is there a better way? Does closing and reopening the doc help? Or just try a

references and coding

2009-04-28 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
I have a reference from a (JabRef created) bib-file which LyX (1.6.2) does not like. The begin of the bib file states that it is encoded in utf8. I can't see anything strange in the reference and in the bibtex output. How can I check this (and if possible the whole file) for coding errors? The

Re: references and coding

2009-04-28 Thread Kosta Welke
On Tue, 28 Apr 2009 12:25:49 +0200 Jürgen Spitzmüller sp...@lyx.org wrote: Bibtex can only handle 7-bit correctly. Bibtex8 handles 8-bit. Neither can deal with multibyte characters (although apparently only bibtex8 complains about such files, bibtex just passes it silently [which is bad]).

kpsewhich appears to require root permissions (Ubunutu 9.04)

2009-04-28 Thread David A. Case
I know this is a LaTeX (or Tex-live) question, but it keeps me from running LyX: I upgraded from ubuntu 8.10 to 9.04; now kpsewhich requires root permissions: e.g. kpsewhich article.cls returns nothins, but sudo kpsewhich article.cls returns the correct path. Hence, LyX seems to work fine when

Re: kpsewhich appears to require root permissions (Ubunutu 9.04) --FIXED

2009-04-28 Thread David A. Case
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009, David A. Case wrote: I upgraded from ubuntu 8.10 to 9.04; now kpsewhich requires root permissions: e.g. kpsewhich article.cls returns nothins, but sudo kpsewhich article.cls returns the correct path. Sorry for the false alarm--I tracked the problem down to a stray (and

Re: 1.6.2 Spelling Check Issue

2009-04-28 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 28 Apr 2009, Guenter Milde wrote: ToolsSettingsLanguage or Spellcheck or somethingPersonal Dir. Guenter, I don't have a Tools menu; File, Edit, Insert, Layout, View, Navigate, Document, Help is all I have had. However, ... in Edit-Preferences-Language-Spell checking I see that no

Re: 1.6.2 Spelling Check Issue

2009-04-28 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 28 Apr 2009, Rich Shepard wrote: However, since aspell is used in other text editors (emacs, joe), I'm sure it must be somewhere on the system. I'll see if I can identify the file name. And there it is ~/.aspell.en.pws. Thanks for the pointer, Rich -- Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D.

Re: text styles

2009-04-28 Thread Paul A. Rubin
tedc wrote: I do have one question, though. The OO file used text styles to specify the formatting of inline source code, names of GUI tools, and chapter crossreferences. In LyX these show up as ERT, like the boldfaced bit here: \textstyleInlinecode{for i=0,n-1} When I click on View DVI, these

Re: references and coding

2009-04-28 Thread Kosta Welke
On Tue, 28 Apr 2009 13:05:48 +0200 Kosta Welke ko...@fillibach.de wrote: Well, I just tried adding some characters that definitely are multi-byte (e.g. ค from the thai alphabet) to a test bibtex file. It worked with XeTeX in the sense that [...] the character was replaced by whitespace (just

RE: references and coding

2009-04-28 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW
Bibtex can only handle 7-bit correctly. Bibtex8 handles 8-bit. Neither can deal with multibyte characters (although apparently only bibtex8 complains about such files, bibtex just passes it silently [which is bad]). Can't we make LyX giving a warning when it detects multi-byte characters

Re: references and coding

2009-04-28 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Kosta Welke wrote: I just tried adding a chinese character using {\fontspec{Sazanami Mincho}猫} into the BibTeX and it worked flawlessly. It seems that BibTeX does not really care what is between the curly braces and just copies the octets. And as utf8 encodes multibyte characters into the

blue underline of pasted text

2009-04-28 Thread James C . Sutherland
When I paste text from one document to another, I get blue underlines. I do not have change tracking turned on. Does anyone know how to disable this underlining? The underlining does not show up in compiled output - only in the LyX editor...

Re: blue underline of pasted text

2009-04-28 Thread James C. Sutherland
On Apr 28, 2009, at 8:29 AM, James C. Sutherland wrote: When I paste text from one document to another, I get blue underlines. I do not have change tracking turned on. Does anyone know how to disable this underlining? The underlining does not show up in compiled output - only in the

RE: blue underline of pasted text

2009-04-28 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW
When I paste text from one document to another, I get blue underlines. I do not have change tracking turned on. Does anyone know how to disable this underlining? Yes, then the language setting of this text is different as the default language of the document. Select the text and choose the

Re: references and coding

2009-04-28 Thread Kosta Welke
On Tue, 28 Apr 2009 16:24:07 +0200 Jürgen Spitzmüller sp...@lyx.org wrote: Kosta Welke wrote: I just tried adding a chinese character using {\fontspec{Sazanami Mincho}猫} into the BibTeX and it worked flawlessly. However, this does not fix the sorting problem. Well if we're happy with 'sort

Re: references and coding

2009-04-28 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW wrote: Can't we make LyX giving a warning when it detects multi-byte characters in a bibtex file ? This often leads to questions. I'm not sure we can detect those characters. Jürgen

Re: references and coding

2009-04-28 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Kosta Welke wrote: Kosta Welke wrote: I just tried adding a chinese character using {\fontspec{Sazanami Mincho}猫} into the BibTeX and it worked flawlessly. However, this does not fix the sorting problem. Well if we're happy with 'sort by unicode number', sorting utf8 byte-by-byte

hyperref conflicts with cite package?

2009-04-28 Thread James C. Sutherland
If I turn on hyperref support, then the cite package breaks. Specifically, citations that would normally appear as [5-9] now appear as [5,6,7,8,9]. If I turn off hyperref then it works again. Is this a package conflict, or a bug in LyX? LyX 1.6.2, Mac OSX 10.5.6

Re: Differences in Output Quality?

2009-04-28 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 28 Apr 2009, Guenter Milde wrote: This is no longer true, as you can define lossless PDF - EPS conversion. Description should be in the Wiki. Newer LyX installs will set up this by default, if the required programs are available. Guenter, I found nothing when I searched the wiki

Re: Beamer Class Viewing -- RESOLVED

2009-04-28 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 27 Apr 2009, Rich Shepard wrote: When I try to view the developing presentation using pdflatex I get errors. I also get errors if I try to view it with dvi because the included graphics are .pdf format. I have this resolved, but it's not displaying as expected. So, it's back to the

Símbolos musicales

2009-04-28 Thread Daniel Blech
¿Cómo hago para insertar símbolos musicales en un documento lyx? Hasta ahora sólo pude hacerlo con imágenes, pero supongo que hay fuentes específicas disponibles. Gracias por la ayuda! Daniel

Beamer color theme question

2009-04-28 Thread Rich Shepard
I copied a presentation made about three years ago to a new name for use with the upcoming presentation. Since the original was written I upgraded beamer to the current 3.07. I see that the definitions of various themes have changed. Regardless, in the preamble I specify \usecolortheme{crane},

Re: Símbolos musicales

2009-04-28 Thread Piero Faustini
Daniel Blech blech.dan...@... writes: ¿Cómo hago para insertar símbolos musicales en un documento lyx? Hasta ahora sólo pude hacerlo con imágenes, pero supongo que hay fuentes específicas disponibles. Gracias por la ayuda! Daniel depende de cuales simbulos necesitas. - en LyX

2 or more Figures/examples with convenient numbering

2009-04-28 Thread Piero Faustini
Hello, I would like to put 2 or more figures of an example in a way that they are somewhat put together for comparing them, and I want them to be numbered, instead, let's say of 1.1, 1.2 and 1.3 in a more convenient and logical way, for example 1.1a, 1.1b, 1.1c (subsequent figures/examples

Re: 2 or more Figures/examples with convenient numbering

2009-04-28 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 28 Apr 2009, Piero Faustini wrote: I would like to put 2 or more figures of an example in a way that they are somewhat put together for comparing them, Piero, Use minipages. Put each figure into a separate minipage and they can be sized to fit across the width of the text area.

Re: 2 or more Figures/examples with convenient numbering

2009-04-28 Thread James C. Sutherland
On Apr 28, 2009, at 12:51 PM, Piero Faustini wrote: Hello, I would like to put 2 or more figures of an example in a way that they are somewhat put together for comparing them, and I want them to be numbered, instead, let's say of 1.1, 1.2 and 1.3 in a more convenient and logical way,

Re: text styles

2009-04-28 Thread Steve Litt
On Monday 27 April 2009 11:51:38 pm Drew Kime wrote: On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 8:02 PM, tedc carneva...@sbcglobal.net wrote: So my question is: how do I tell LyX or LaTeX that \textstyleInlinecode{for i=0,n-1} means to render for i=0,n-1 with a specified typeface? or at least as

Re: Open .lyx document on different computer and have graphics be okay

2009-04-28 Thread Adam Kennedy
Yep, it was setting an absolute path. Your suggestion solved the problem. Thanks, Adam On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 2:30 PM, Kosta Welke ko...@fillibach.de wrote: On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 23:24:23 +0200, ad_ke kennas...@gmail.com wrote: However, I can't figure out how to make the document portable.

Re: text styles

2009-04-28 Thread Drew Kime
2009/4/28 Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com Lyx has an option to specify a typewriter face. Simply highlight the text, click on Edit-Text Style-Customized, and under Family select Typewriter. Then check what it does to the code, and do a global replace to get all occurrences. You

Re: Beamer color theme question

2009-04-28 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Rich Shepard wrote: I copied a presentation made about three years ago to a new name for use with the upcoming presentation. Since the original was written I upgraded beamer to the current 3.07. I see that the definitions of various themes have changed. Regardless, in the preamble I specify

Re: 2 or more Figures/examples with convenient numbering

2009-04-28 Thread Piero Faustini
James C. Sutherland james.sutherl...@... writes: You can use subfigures (available in 1.6). See section 1.2 in the Embedded Objects help manual. This will give you exactly what you want, I think. Yes, I already knew it existed, and only now I realize it does the same and is even more

Re: Beamer color adventure

2009-04-28 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 28 Apr 2009, Paul A. Rubin wrote: If my PDF is colored in places yours wouldn't be, that suggests the problem is either somewhere in the presentation other than the preamble or else something in your setup. You can detect the latter by trying to view my LyX file at your end. Paul,

Re: text styles

2009-04-28 Thread rgheck
Drew Kime wrote: 2009/4/28 Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com Lyx has an option to specify a typewriter face. Simply highlight the text, click on Edit-Text Style-Customized, and under Family select Typewriter. Then check what it does to the code, and do a global replace

Re: Beamer color theme question

2009-04-28 Thread Rich Shepard
Update and next plea for help. Thanks to Paul's sending me a text document as a .pdf file I discovered the problem was how I was compiling/viewing the developing presentation. So, now I converted the few .eps files to .pdf and viewing the presentation via pdflatex. Within xpdf the colors are

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