Re: file recovery

2009-07-02 Thread humanengr
Helge, Olivier -- thanks. On my Mac (10.5.7), the backup preference doesn't seem to work. The ~ file gets created at the first save and gets updated at subsequent saves to reflect the prior save. The emergency file has appeared on each of the handful of crashes I've had the pleasure to

Re: defining custom font size and indentation

2009-07-02 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Markus Büchele wrote: Have you got a clue what needs to be changed? Without the sourcefile: no. Jürgen

Latex error

2009-07-02 Thread solvi . natland
Hi I'm using the 1.6.2 version of LyX for Windows. I'm working on a large document, so I have made this masterdocument with a lot of child documents included. I have no problems with runnig the child documents and get pdf's and it hasn't been a problem with the masterdocument until today. I

Re: LyX 163-4-19

2009-07-02 Thread Michael Joyner ᏩᏯ
paul saumane wrote: You probably need to add additional style sheets in the MikTex setup. Then tell LyX to reconfigure. Thanks for the tip, it is working properly now. However and for Windows Seven the MikTex\bin\...exe windows opened several times and LyX 1.6.3 has been launched several

Re: Dot Leaders

2009-07-02 Thread Helge Hafting
Tad Marko wrote: On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 8:03 AM, Helge Hafting helge.haft...@hist.no mailto:helge.haft...@hist.no wrote: Tad Marko wrote: Hopefully this question has a simple answer. I'm working on a book which has a table of contents. Is there any way to get the

RE: Latex error

2009-07-02 Thread Ingar Pareliussen
Hi Sølvi, Sadly these things happen and they are also sadly difficult to find where it goes wrong, when you have complex documents these things are more likely to happen. Even if I do not know what have gone wrong it is likely that an environment is not properly ended. As an example you might

Re: defining custom font size and indentation

2009-07-02 Thread Markus Büchele
Am Thursday 02 July 2009 10:06:57 schrieb Jürgen Spitzmüller: Markus Büchele wrote: Have you got a clue what needs to be changed? Without the sourcefile: no. Jürgen Here is the sourcefile (slightly abridged ;-) and my PDF output - by the way, thanks and I'm using Lyx 1.6.2 Markus

Endnotes that Contains the References

2009-07-02 Thread Bruce Pourciau
Fellow LyXers, In a volume to which I am contributing, each article ends with a set of Notes in numerical order. When a note cites a reference for the first time, it gives the full bibliographic information (what would normally be given in the list of references). Ibid and loc cit are

Re: Endnotes that Contains the References

2009-07-02 Thread BH
On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 10:42 AM, Bruce Pourciaubruce.h.pourc...@lawrence.edu wrote: Fellow LyXers, In a volume to which I am contributing, each article ends with a set of Notes in numerical order. When a note cites a reference for the first time, it gives the full bibliographic information

Re: using hyperref with Hebrew documents

2009-07-02 Thread Ronen Abravanel
Hebrew+hyperref works well using XeTex and bidi package. Unfortunately, LyX's stable version dose not support XeTeX. I could not get any output for Hebrew and hyperref using LaTeX on Tex-Live. Ronen. On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 10:41 PM, Orgad Shaneh org...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, When I use

Consecutive theorems

2009-07-02 Thread Luca Brandolini
I am trying to write two consecutive theorems in my paper. However Lyx always joints the two theorems into a single enviromes. The only way seems to insert a non-empty line in between. Is there a solution for this?

New from local template (LyX 1.6.3)

2009-07-02 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Hi all, File - New from Template opens a file chooser dialog pointing at LyXDir/Resources/templates. To get to a template stored in UserDir/templates, I apparently have to navigate through the file system (which, in Windows, is a whole lot of clicking). Similarly, to change the ui or bind

How to add the word Chapter in Table of Contents

2009-07-02 Thread Hesham Kamel
Hello, Please, I need to show the word chapter in the table of contents, so it will look like this: Chapter 1 Chapter Heading. Page number Thank you, Hesham

Re: Endnotes that Contains the References

2009-07-02 Thread Bruce Pourciau
On Jul 2, 2009, at 9:50 AM, BH wrote: On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 10:42 AM, Bruce Pourciaubruce.h.pourc...@lawrence.edu wrote: Fellow LyXers, In a volume to which I am contributing, each article ends with a set of Notes in numerical order. When a note cites a reference for the first time, it

Simple way to get TWO fonts

2009-07-02 Thread J Worky
I am new to this whole LyX/LaTeX thing, but I am loving it! I am creating a book that looks pretty good in Palatino font, but I want to spice it up a little. I would at least like to be able to have one font for headings (sans serif) and one font for everything else (serif). I am happy with the

Re: Consecutive theorems

2009-07-02 Thread Ignacio García
Luca Brandolini wrote: I am trying to write two consecutive theorems in my paper. However Lyx always joints the two theorems into a single enviromes. The only way seems to insert a non-empty line in between. Is there a solution for this? Yes, increase the nesting depth of the consecutive

Re: Consecutive theorems

2009-07-02 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 11:55 PM, Luca Brandoliniluca.brandol...@unibg.it wrote: I am trying to write two consecutive theorems in my paper. However Lyx always joints the two theorems into a single enviromes. The only way seems to insert a non-empty line in between. Is there a solution for this?

Re: Consecutive theorems

2009-07-02 Thread rgheck
Ignacio García wrote: Luca Brandolini wrote: I am trying to write two consecutive theorems in my paper. However Lyx always joints the two theorems into a single enviromes. The only way seems to insert a non-empty line in between. Is there a solution for this? Yes, increase the

Re: Simple way to get TWO fonts

2009-07-02 Thread rgheck
J Worky wrote: I am new to this whole LyX/LaTeX thing, but I am loving it! I am creating a book that looks pretty good in Palatino font, but I want to spice it up a little. I would at least like to be able to have one font for headings (sans serif) and one font for everything else (serif). I am

Re: file recovery

2009-07-02 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 2:11 PM, humanengrhumane...@gmail.com wrote: Does anyone know what role the # are supposed to play? These appear to be autosaves. Also there is yet another type of file you can recover from. If you have done a view DVI etc, there is also likely to be a .tex file sitting

Problems with svn and Vista

2009-07-02 Thread James Mansion
Hi, I'm using lyx 1.6.2 on Vista 32 bit. I have svn 1.6 installed (sliksvn release) and it works fine, with the programs running OK from the standard command prompt. I have tried using File / Version Control / Register on files in directories that are already in svn (and also not). But,

Re: Simple way to get TWO fonts

2009-07-02 Thread Marcelo Acuña
I am new to this whole LyX/LaTeX thing, but I am loving it! I am creating a book that looks pretty good in Palatino font, but I want to spice it up a little. I would at least like to be able to have one font for headings (sans serif) and one font for everything else (serif). I am happy

lyx doesn't split footnotes

2009-07-02 Thread Jan David Hauck
dear all, I'm trying to format my MA thesis for publication and am stuck with a problem: I can't get lyx/latex to split all of my footnotes. It's not that no footnote gets split but a whole bunch of very large footnotes (some more than 20 lines) just don't split at all and are causing some half a

Re: lyx doesn't split footnotes

2009-07-02 Thread Marcelo Acuña
dear all, I'm trying to format my MA thesis for publication and am stuck with a problem: I can't get lyx/latex to split all of my footnotes. It's not that no footnote gets split but a whole bunch of very large footnotes (some more than 20 lines) just don't split at all and are causing

Re: lyx doesn't split footnotes

2009-07-02 Thread Jan David Hauck
hi marcelo, thank you so much for your suggestion loading bigfoot indeed helped a lot, the final output is much better I didn't know of that package before nevertheless I'm getting Latex Errors that haven't been there before for example: Paragraph ended before \...@subsection was complete. Extra

Re: lyx doesn't split footnotes

2009-07-02 Thread Jan David Hauck
update: bigfoot messed my cross references up for example the cross reference that says on page 102 actually points to a label which is to be found on page 100 pretty much always 2 pages difference any help? 2009/7/2 Jan David Hauck jdh...@gmail.com: hi marcelo, thank you so much for your

Re: Simple way to get TWO fonts

2009-07-02 Thread J Worky
rgheck wrote: The first question is what document class you are using. Many classes do use different fonts for the headings and body text, so you might just try switching from whatever you are using (book?) to something else, such as book (koma-script). You're a lifesaver! The

newbie questions - URLs in PDF, graphical diff

2009-07-02 Thread Andrew Daviel
I haven't used Lyx or LaTeX for some time, so things have changed, if I ever knew.. 1) If I create a document with blank style, or from the letter template, when I add a URL link it does not work, either in xdvi or PDF. If I add the following preamble (stolen from the UserGuide source)

Re: file recovery

2009-07-02 Thread humanengr
John -- yes, the # files appear to be autosaves. And thanks for the fallback DVI, etc., suggestion. After testing, I see that: emergency files are created if there is a crash. ~ files are archive backups of the last saved version. (These appear beginning with the second save.) # are autosave

Re: Problems with svn and Vista

2009-07-02 Thread James Mansion
Paul A. Rubin wrote: James Mansion wrote: I have tried using File / Version Control / Register on files in directories that are already in svn (and also not). See section 6.2.4.1 of the Additional Features manual. The Register menu option appears only if the document is not already under

Re: file recovery

2009-07-02 Thread humanengr
Helge, Olivier -- thanks. On my Mac (10.5.7), the backup preference doesn't seem to work. The ~ file gets created at the first save and gets updated at subsequent saves to reflect the prior save. The emergency file has appeared on each of the handful of crashes I've had the pleasure to

Re: defining custom font size and indentation

2009-07-02 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Markus Büchele wrote: Have you got a clue what needs to be changed? Without the sourcefile: no. Jürgen

Latex error

2009-07-02 Thread solvi . natland
Hi I'm using the 1.6.2 version of LyX for Windows. I'm working on a large document, so I have made this masterdocument with a lot of child documents included. I have no problems with runnig the child documents and get pdf's and it hasn't been a problem with the masterdocument until today. I

Re: LyX 163-4-19

2009-07-02 Thread Michael Joyner ᏩᏯ
paul saumane wrote: You probably need to add additional style sheets in the MikTex setup. Then tell LyX to reconfigure. Thanks for the tip, it is working properly now. However and for Windows Seven the MikTex\bin\...exe windows opened several times and LyX 1.6.3 has been launched several

Re: Dot Leaders

2009-07-02 Thread Helge Hafting
Tad Marko wrote: On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 8:03 AM, Helge Hafting helge.haft...@hist.no mailto:helge.haft...@hist.no wrote: Tad Marko wrote: Hopefully this question has a simple answer. I'm working on a book which has a table of contents. Is there any way to get the

RE: Latex error

2009-07-02 Thread Ingar Pareliussen
Hi Sølvi, Sadly these things happen and they are also sadly difficult to find where it goes wrong, when you have complex documents these things are more likely to happen. Even if I do not know what have gone wrong it is likely that an environment is not properly ended. As an example you might

Re: defining custom font size and indentation

2009-07-02 Thread Markus Büchele
Am Thursday 02 July 2009 10:06:57 schrieb Jürgen Spitzmüller: Markus Büchele wrote: Have you got a clue what needs to be changed? Without the sourcefile: no. Jürgen Here is the sourcefile (slightly abridged ;-) and my PDF output - by the way, thanks and I'm using Lyx 1.6.2 Markus

Endnotes that Contains the References

2009-07-02 Thread Bruce Pourciau
Fellow LyXers, In a volume to which I am contributing, each article ends with a set of Notes in numerical order. When a note cites a reference for the first time, it gives the full bibliographic information (what would normally be given in the list of references). Ibid and loc cit are

Re: Endnotes that Contains the References

2009-07-02 Thread BH
On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 10:42 AM, Bruce Pourciaubruce.h.pourc...@lawrence.edu wrote: Fellow LyXers, In a volume to which I am contributing, each article ends with a set of Notes in numerical order. When a note cites a reference for the first time, it gives the full bibliographic information

Re: using hyperref with Hebrew documents

2009-07-02 Thread Ronen Abravanel
Hebrew+hyperref works well using XeTex and bidi package. Unfortunately, LyX's stable version dose not support XeTeX. I could not get any output for Hebrew and hyperref using LaTeX on Tex-Live. Ronen. On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 10:41 PM, Orgad Shaneh org...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, When I use

Consecutive theorems

2009-07-02 Thread Luca Brandolini
I am trying to write two consecutive theorems in my paper. However Lyx always joints the two theorems into a single enviromes. The only way seems to insert a non-empty line in between. Is there a solution for this?

New from local template (LyX 1.6.3)

2009-07-02 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Hi all, File - New from Template opens a file chooser dialog pointing at LyXDir/Resources/templates. To get to a template stored in UserDir/templates, I apparently have to navigate through the file system (which, in Windows, is a whole lot of clicking). Similarly, to change the ui or bind

How to add the word Chapter in Table of Contents

2009-07-02 Thread Hesham Kamel
Hello, Please, I need to show the word chapter in the table of contents, so it will look like this: Chapter 1 Chapter Heading. Page number Thank you, Hesham

Re: Endnotes that Contains the References

2009-07-02 Thread Bruce Pourciau
On Jul 2, 2009, at 9:50 AM, BH wrote: On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 10:42 AM, Bruce Pourciaubruce.h.pourc...@lawrence.edu wrote: Fellow LyXers, In a volume to which I am contributing, each article ends with a set of Notes in numerical order. When a note cites a reference for the first time, it

Simple way to get TWO fonts

2009-07-02 Thread J Worky
I am new to this whole LyX/LaTeX thing, but I am loving it! I am creating a book that looks pretty good in Palatino font, but I want to spice it up a little. I would at least like to be able to have one font for headings (sans serif) and one font for everything else (serif). I am happy with the

Re: Consecutive theorems

2009-07-02 Thread Ignacio García
Luca Brandolini wrote: I am trying to write two consecutive theorems in my paper. However Lyx always joints the two theorems into a single enviromes. The only way seems to insert a non-empty line in between. Is there a solution for this? Yes, increase the nesting depth of the consecutive

Re: Consecutive theorems

2009-07-02 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 11:55 PM, Luca Brandoliniluca.brandol...@unibg.it wrote: I am trying to write two consecutive theorems in my paper. However Lyx always joints the two theorems into a single enviromes. The only way seems to insert a non-empty line in between. Is there a solution for this?

Re: Consecutive theorems

2009-07-02 Thread rgheck
Ignacio García wrote: Luca Brandolini wrote: I am trying to write two consecutive theorems in my paper. However Lyx always joints the two theorems into a single enviromes. The only way seems to insert a non-empty line in between. Is there a solution for this? Yes, increase the

Re: Simple way to get TWO fonts

2009-07-02 Thread rgheck
J Worky wrote: I am new to this whole LyX/LaTeX thing, but I am loving it! I am creating a book that looks pretty good in Palatino font, but I want to spice it up a little. I would at least like to be able to have one font for headings (sans serif) and one font for everything else (serif). I am

Re: file recovery

2009-07-02 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 2:11 PM, humanengrhumane...@gmail.com wrote: Does anyone know what role the # are supposed to play? These appear to be autosaves. Also there is yet another type of file you can recover from. If you have done a view DVI etc, there is also likely to be a .tex file sitting

Problems with svn and Vista

2009-07-02 Thread James Mansion
Hi, I'm using lyx 1.6.2 on Vista 32 bit. I have svn 1.6 installed (sliksvn release) and it works fine, with the programs running OK from the standard command prompt. I have tried using File / Version Control / Register on files in directories that are already in svn (and also not). But,

Re: Simple way to get TWO fonts

2009-07-02 Thread Marcelo Acuña
I am new to this whole LyX/LaTeX thing, but I am loving it! I am creating a book that looks pretty good in Palatino font, but I want to spice it up a little. I would at least like to be able to have one font for headings (sans serif) and one font for everything else (serif). I am happy

lyx doesn't split footnotes

2009-07-02 Thread Jan David Hauck
dear all, I'm trying to format my MA thesis for publication and am stuck with a problem: I can't get lyx/latex to split all of my footnotes. It's not that no footnote gets split but a whole bunch of very large footnotes (some more than 20 lines) just don't split at all and are causing some half a

Re: lyx doesn't split footnotes

2009-07-02 Thread Marcelo Acuña
dear all, I'm trying to format my MA thesis for publication and am stuck with a problem: I can't get lyx/latex to split all of my footnotes. It's not that no footnote gets split but a whole bunch of very large footnotes (some more than 20 lines) just don't split at all and are causing

Re: lyx doesn't split footnotes

2009-07-02 Thread Jan David Hauck
hi marcelo, thank you so much for your suggestion loading bigfoot indeed helped a lot, the final output is much better I didn't know of that package before nevertheless I'm getting Latex Errors that haven't been there before for example: Paragraph ended before \...@subsection was complete. Extra

Re: lyx doesn't split footnotes

2009-07-02 Thread Jan David Hauck
update: bigfoot messed my cross references up for example the cross reference that says on page 102 actually points to a label which is to be found on page 100 pretty much always 2 pages difference any help? 2009/7/2 Jan David Hauck jdh...@gmail.com: hi marcelo, thank you so much for your

Re: Simple way to get TWO fonts

2009-07-02 Thread J Worky
rgheck wrote: The first question is what document class you are using. Many classes do use different fonts for the headings and body text, so you might just try switching from whatever you are using (book?) to something else, such as book (koma-script). You're a lifesaver! The

newbie questions - URLs in PDF, graphical diff

2009-07-02 Thread Andrew Daviel
I haven't used Lyx or LaTeX for some time, so things have changed, if I ever knew.. 1) If I create a document with blank style, or from the letter template, when I add a URL link it does not work, either in xdvi or PDF. If I add the following preamble (stolen from the UserGuide source)

Re: file recovery

2009-07-02 Thread humanengr
John -- yes, the # files appear to be autosaves. And thanks for the fallback DVI, etc., suggestion. After testing, I see that: emergency files are created if there is a crash. ~ files are archive backups of the last saved version. (These appear beginning with the second save.) # are autosave

Re: Problems with svn and Vista

2009-07-02 Thread James Mansion
Paul A. Rubin wrote: James Mansion wrote: I have tried using File / Version Control / Register on files in directories that are already in svn (and also not). See section 6.2.4.1 of the Additional Features manual. The Register menu option appears only if the document is not already under

Re: file recovery

2009-07-02 Thread humanengr
Helge, Olivier -- thanks. On my Mac (10.5.7), the backup preference doesn't seem to work. The "~" file gets created at the first "save" and gets updated at subsequent saves to reflect the prior save. The emergency file has appeared on each of the handful of crashes I've had the pleasure to

Re: defining custom font size and indentation

2009-07-02 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Markus Büchele wrote: > Have you got a clue what needs to be changed? Without the sourcefile: no. Jürgen

Latex error

2009-07-02 Thread solvi . natland
Hi I'm using the 1.6.2 version of LyX for Windows. I'm working on a large document, so I have made this masterdocument with a lot of child documents included. I have no problems with runnig the child documents and get pdf's and it hasn't been a problem with the masterdocument until today. I

Re: LyX 163-4-19

2009-07-02 Thread Michael Joyner ᏩᏯ
paul saumane wrote: You probably need to add additional style sheets in the MikTex setup. Then tell LyX to reconfigure. > Thanks for the tip, it is working properly now. > However and for Windows Seven the MikTex\bin\...exe windows opened > several times and LyX 1.6.3 has been launched several

Re: Dot Leaders

2009-07-02 Thread Helge Hafting
Tad Marko wrote: On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 8:03 AM, Helge Hafting > wrote: Tad Marko wrote: Hopefully this question has a simple answer. I'm working on a book which has a table of contents. Is there any way to get

RE: Latex error

2009-07-02 Thread Ingar Pareliussen
Hi Sølvi, Sadly these things happen and they are also sadly difficult to find where it goes wrong, when you have complex documents these things are more likely to happen. Even if I do not know what have gone wrong it is likely that an environment is not properly ended. As an example you might

Re: defining custom font size and indentation

2009-07-02 Thread Markus Büchele
Am Thursday 02 July 2009 10:06:57 schrieb Jürgen Spitzmüller: > Markus Büchele wrote: > > Have you got a clue what needs to be changed? > > Without the sourcefile: no. > > Jürgen Here is the sourcefile (slightly abridged ;-) and my PDF output - by the way, thanks and I'm using Lyx 1.6.2 Markus

Endnotes that Contains the References

2009-07-02 Thread Bruce Pourciau
Fellow LyXers, In a volume to which I am contributing, each article ends with a set of "Notes" in numerical order. When a note cites a reference for the first time, it gives the full bibliographic information (what would normally be given in the list of references). Ibid and loc cit are

Re: Endnotes that Contains the References

2009-07-02 Thread BH
On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 10:42 AM, Bruce Pourciau wrote: > Fellow LyXers, > > In a volume to which I am contributing, each article ends with a set of > "Notes" in numerical order. When a note cites a reference for the first > time, it gives the full bibliographic

Re: using hyperref with Hebrew documents

2009-07-02 Thread Ronen Abravanel
Hebrew+hyperref works well using XeTex and "bidi" package. Unfortunately, LyX's stable version dose not support XeTeX. I could not get any output for Hebrew and hyperref using LaTeX on Tex-Live. Ronen. On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 10:41 PM, Orgad Shaneh wrote: > Hello, > > When I

Consecutive theorems

2009-07-02 Thread Luca Brandolini
I am trying to write two consecutive theorems in my paper. However Lyx always joints the two theorems into a single enviromes. The only way seems to insert a non-empty line in between. Is there a solution for this?

New from local template (LyX 1.6.3)

2009-07-02 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Hi all, File -> New from Template opens a file chooser dialog pointing at /Resources/templates. To get to a template stored in /templates, I apparently have to navigate through the file system (which, in Windows, is a whole lot of clicking). Similarly, to change the ui or bind file to a

How to add the word "Chapter" in Table of Contents

2009-07-02 Thread Hesham Kamel
Hello, Please, I need to show the word chapter in the table of contents, so it will look like this: Chapter 1 Chapter Heading. Page number Thank you, Hesham

Re: Endnotes that Contains the References

2009-07-02 Thread Bruce Pourciau
On Jul 2, 2009, at 9:50 AM, BH wrote: On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 10:42 AM, Bruce Pourciau wrote: Fellow LyXers, In a volume to which I am contributing, each article ends with a set of "Notes" in numerical order. When a note cites a reference for the first time,

Simple way to get TWO fonts

2009-07-02 Thread J Worky
I am new to this whole LyX/LaTeX thing, but I am loving it! I am creating a book that looks pretty good in Palatino font, but I want to spice it up a little. I would at least like to be able to have one font for headings (sans serif) and one font for everything else (serif). I am happy with the

Re: Consecutive theorems

2009-07-02 Thread Ignacio García
Luca Brandolini wrote: > I am trying to write two consecutive theorems in my paper. However Lyx > always joints the two theorems into a single enviromes. > The only way seems to insert a non-empty line in between. > Is there a solution for this? Yes, increase the nesting depth of the consecutive

Re: Consecutive theorems

2009-07-02 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 11:55 PM, Luca Brandolini wrote: > I am trying to write two consecutive theorems in my paper. However Lyx > always joints the two theorems into a single enviromes. > The only way seems to insert a non-empty line in between. > Is there a solution for

Re: Consecutive theorems

2009-07-02 Thread rgheck
Ignacio García wrote: Luca Brandolini wrote: I am trying to write two consecutive theorems in my paper. However Lyx always joints the two theorems into a single enviromes. The only way seems to insert a non-empty line in between. Is there a solution for this? Yes, increase the

Re: Simple way to get TWO fonts

2009-07-02 Thread rgheck
J Worky wrote: I am new to this whole LyX/LaTeX thing, but I am loving it! I am creating a book that looks pretty good in Palatino font, but I want to spice it up a little. I would at least like to be able to have one font for headings (sans serif) and one font for everything else (serif). I am

Re: file recovery

2009-07-02 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 2:11 PM, humanengr wrote: > Does anyone know what role the "#" are supposed to play? These appear to be autosaves. Also there is yet another type of file you can recover from. If you have done a view DVI etc, there is also likely to be a .tex file

Problems with svn and Vista

2009-07-02 Thread James Mansion
Hi, I'm using lyx 1.6.2 on Vista 32 bit. I have svn 1.6 installed (sliksvn release) and it works fine, with the programs running OK from the standard command prompt. I have tried using File / Version Control / Register on files in directories that are already in svn (and also not). But,

Re: Simple way to get TWO fonts

2009-07-02 Thread Marcelo Acuña
> I am new to this whole LyX/LaTeX > thing, but I am loving it! I am > creating a book that looks pretty good in Palatino font, > but I want to > spice it up a little. I would at least like to be able to > have one font > for headings (sans serif) and one font for everything else > (serif). I am

lyx doesn't split footnotes

2009-07-02 Thread Jan David Hauck
dear all, I'm trying to format my MA thesis for publication and am stuck with a problem: I can't get lyx/latex to split all of my footnotes. It's not that no footnote gets split but a whole bunch of very large footnotes (some more than 20 lines) just don't split at all and are causing some half a

Re: lyx doesn't split footnotes

2009-07-02 Thread Marcelo Acuña
> dear all, > > I'm trying to format my MA thesis for publication and am > stuck with a problem: > I can't get lyx/latex to split all of my footnotes. > It's not that no footnote gets split but a whole bunch of > very large > footnotes (some more than 20 lines) just don't split at all > and are

Re: lyx doesn't split footnotes

2009-07-02 Thread Jan David Hauck
hi marcelo, thank you so much for your suggestion loading bigfoot indeed helped a lot, the final output is much better I didn't know of that package before nevertheless I'm getting Latex Errors that haven't been there before for example: "Paragraph ended before \...@subsection was complete."

Re: lyx doesn't split footnotes

2009-07-02 Thread Jan David Hauck
update: bigfoot messed my cross references up for example the cross reference that says "on page 102" actually points to a label which is to be found on page 100 pretty much always 2 pages difference any help? 2009/7/2 Jan David Hauck : > hi marcelo, > thank you so much for

Re: Simple way to get TWO fonts

2009-07-02 Thread J Worky
rgheck wrote: > The first question is what document class you are using. > Many classes do use different fonts for the headings and > body text, so you might just try switching from whatever > you are using (book?) to something else, such as > book (koma-script). You're a lifesaver! The

newbie questions - URLs in PDF, graphical diff

2009-07-02 Thread Andrew Daviel
I haven't used Lyx or LaTeX for some time, so things have changed, if I ever knew.. 1) If I create a document with blank style, or from the letter template, when I add a URL link it does not work, either in xdvi or PDF. If I add the following preamble (stolen from the UserGuide source)

Re: file recovery

2009-07-02 Thread humanengr
John -- yes, the "#" files appear to be autosaves. And thanks for the fallback DVI, etc., suggestion. After testing, I see that: "emergency" files are created if there is a crash. "~" files are "archive" backups of the last "saved" version. (These appear beginning with the second "save".) "#"

Re: Problems with svn and Vista

2009-07-02 Thread James Mansion
Paul A. Rubin wrote: James Mansion wrote: I have tried using File / Version Control / Register on files in directories that are already in svn (and also not). See section 6.2.4.1 of the Additional Features manual. The Register menu option appears only if the document is not already under