the next document I put together will me lyx

2009-11-08 Thread Neal Becker
http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/11/the_next_document_i_put_togeth.php

Re: Drawing tool for LyX

2009-11-08 Thread Stefaan Himpe
If you want to have a programming language in which you can accurately calculate your drawings, asymptote[1] is a good candidate. Best regards, Stefaan. [1] http://http://asymptote.sourceforge.net/

Re: the next document I put together will me lyx

2009-11-08 Thread Steve Litt
On Sunday 08 November 2009 07:25:21 Neal Becker wrote: http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/11/the_next_document_i_put_togeth.ph p Great post Neal! I think a lot of your responders missed the point that it's all about styles. I've made excellently formatted books in WordPerfect 5.1, MS Word

Re: the next document I put together will me lyx

2009-11-08 Thread Neal Becker
Steve Litt wrote: On Sunday 08 November 2009 07:25:21 Neal Becker wrote: http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/11/the_next_document_i_put_togeth.ph p Great post Neal! I think a lot of your responders missed the point that it's all about styles. I've made excellently formatted books in

Re: Drawing tool for LyX

2009-11-08 Thread Jason Waskiewicz
I've found several tools that work for my drawings, depending on the application. Inkscape is my favorite for diagrams or sketches of graphs. I can point you to one diagram I just made with it for my Chemistry class: http://www.flickr.com/photos/waski_the_squirrel/4079787050/ You can also

Lyx doens't see installed latex package

2009-11-08 Thread phillip burns
Can anyone help me install a latex package? I installed the package via MikTex and it's there but Lyx doens't see it after reconfiguring. thanks

Re: Lyx doens't see installed latex package

2009-11-08 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn
phillip burns schreef: Can anyone help me install a latex package? I installed the package via MikTex and it's there but Lyx doens't see it after reconfiguring. thanks Did you refresh the file name database. MikTeX options - General - Refresh FNDB ? Vincent

Re: Lyx doens't see installed latex package

2009-11-08 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Vincent van Ravesteijn wrote: phillip burns schreef: Can anyone help me install a latex package? I installed the package via MikTex and it's there but Lyx doens't see it after reconfiguring. thanks Did you refresh the file name database. MikTeX options - General - Refresh FNDB ? This

table contents get cropped

2009-11-08 Thread Sajjad
Hello Forum, I have inserted a 2 column table inside the table float . But the contents are getting cropped. Any hint to get around that issue? Regards Sajjad

Re: table contents get cropped

2009-11-08 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Sajjad schrieb: I have inserted a 2 column table inside the table float . But the contents are getting cropped. I guess that you table columns are too wide to fit on the page. To fix this, set a defined with for the column tables. For more info about tables, see the EmbeddedObjects manual

Re: trouble using TeX Gyre Pagella instead of Palatino

2009-11-08 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-11-07, Liviu Andronic wrote: Dear all I get some unexpected behaviour when using the TeX Gyre Pagella font (using \usepackage{tgpagella} in the preamble) instead of Palatino ... It seems that with this combination LM Sans bold gets replaced with LM Sans regular [2], thus preventing

Re: Drawing tool for LyX

2009-11-08 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-11-07, Rich Shepard wrote: ... However, some figures need to have lines that meet very precisely (no overshoots or gaps between them) or be placed with high precision. While this may well be possible and easy for those more skilled than I am, I found my xfig and similar figures to

Re: URL wraping - someone got it working?

2009-11-08 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-11-06, Sven Hoexter wrote: On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 05:28:13PM +0100, Uwe Stöhr wrote: Sven Hoexter schrieb: The Break links over lines checkbox in the document settings is activated and the 'breaklinks' setting is set in the tex export. This will enable breaking hyperlinks -

Re: trouble using TeX Gyre Pagella instead of Palatino

2009-11-08 Thread Liviu Andronic
On 11/8/09, Guenter Milde mi...@users.berlios.de wrote: Either use the TeX Gyre Hermes as matching sans serif font or undo this change with \renewcommand\bfdefault{bx} in the LaTex preamble (after \usepackage{tgpagella}, of course. Nice. Using \usepackage{tgpagella}

Problems with shortcuts

2009-11-08 Thread Luca Carlon
Hi! I've written many formulas, but I still can't figure out how to use the shortcut to write square parenthesis in a formula under MacOSX. I read I have to use option-M and then the [, but if I press option+è I get 'unknown function'. Round parenthesis are ok, but the others are not... am I doing

Re: Problems with shortcuts

2009-11-08 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-11-09, Luca Carlon wrote: Hi! I've written many formulas, but I still can't figure out how to use the shortcut to write square parenthesis in a formula under MacOSX. I read I have to use option-M and then the [, but if I press option+è I get 'unknown function'. Round parenthesis are

Re: Problems including a document

2009-11-08 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-11-06, Manolo Martí­nez wrote: Eventually, the problem was with a typographic accent in one of the references cited in the offending chapter. Thanks for your advise! As you said, the information in the compilation log is invaluable when things go wrong. It's a pity that LyX does not

Re: Paragraph Indent Alignment in .layout file

2009-11-08 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-11-06, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Guenter Milde mi...@users.berlios.de writes: ... the on-screen display should be (configurable to) leftalign instead of block align, *independent of the alignment in the output* OK. Then we should have a preference show justified text as

Re: Problems with shortcuts

2009-11-08 Thread Luca Carlon
Guenter Milde mi...@... writes: I would really be surprised, if option+è (i.e. option + LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH GRAVE) resulted in a opening square bracket by default! It sound like on your keyboard the square brackets are not on the same position as on a US keyboard (similar to my German

the next document I put together will me lyx

2009-11-08 Thread Neal Becker
http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/11/the_next_document_i_put_togeth.php

Re: Drawing tool for LyX

2009-11-08 Thread Stefaan Himpe
If you want to have a programming language in which you can accurately calculate your drawings, asymptote[1] is a good candidate. Best regards, Stefaan. [1] http://http://asymptote.sourceforge.net/

Re: the next document I put together will me lyx

2009-11-08 Thread Steve Litt
On Sunday 08 November 2009 07:25:21 Neal Becker wrote: http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/11/the_next_document_i_put_togeth.ph p Great post Neal! I think a lot of your responders missed the point that it's all about styles. I've made excellently formatted books in WordPerfect 5.1, MS Word

Re: the next document I put together will me lyx

2009-11-08 Thread Neal Becker
Steve Litt wrote: On Sunday 08 November 2009 07:25:21 Neal Becker wrote: http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/11/the_next_document_i_put_togeth.ph p Great post Neal! I think a lot of your responders missed the point that it's all about styles. I've made excellently formatted books in

Re: Drawing tool for LyX

2009-11-08 Thread Jason Waskiewicz
I've found several tools that work for my drawings, depending on the application. Inkscape is my favorite for diagrams or sketches of graphs. I can point you to one diagram I just made with it for my Chemistry class: http://www.flickr.com/photos/waski_the_squirrel/4079787050/ You can also

Lyx doens't see installed latex package

2009-11-08 Thread phillip burns
Can anyone help me install a latex package? I installed the package via MikTex and it's there but Lyx doens't see it after reconfiguring. thanks

Re: Lyx doens't see installed latex package

2009-11-08 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn
phillip burns schreef: Can anyone help me install a latex package? I installed the package via MikTex and it's there but Lyx doens't see it after reconfiguring. thanks Did you refresh the file name database. MikTeX options - General - Refresh FNDB ? Vincent

Re: Lyx doens't see installed latex package

2009-11-08 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Vincent van Ravesteijn wrote: phillip burns schreef: Can anyone help me install a latex package? I installed the package via MikTex and it's there but Lyx doens't see it after reconfiguring. thanks Did you refresh the file name database. MikTeX options - General - Refresh FNDB ? This

table contents get cropped

2009-11-08 Thread Sajjad
Hello Forum, I have inserted a 2 column table inside the table float . But the contents are getting cropped. Any hint to get around that issue? Regards Sajjad

Re: table contents get cropped

2009-11-08 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Sajjad schrieb: I have inserted a 2 column table inside the table float . But the contents are getting cropped. I guess that you table columns are too wide to fit on the page. To fix this, set a defined with for the column tables. For more info about tables, see the EmbeddedObjects manual

Re: trouble using TeX Gyre Pagella instead of Palatino

2009-11-08 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-11-07, Liviu Andronic wrote: Dear all I get some unexpected behaviour when using the TeX Gyre Pagella font (using \usepackage{tgpagella} in the preamble) instead of Palatino ... It seems that with this combination LM Sans bold gets replaced with LM Sans regular [2], thus preventing

Re: Drawing tool for LyX

2009-11-08 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-11-07, Rich Shepard wrote: ... However, some figures need to have lines that meet very precisely (no overshoots or gaps between them) or be placed with high precision. While this may well be possible and easy for those more skilled than I am, I found my xfig and similar figures to

Re: URL wraping - someone got it working?

2009-11-08 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-11-06, Sven Hoexter wrote: On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 05:28:13PM +0100, Uwe Stöhr wrote: Sven Hoexter schrieb: The Break links over lines checkbox in the document settings is activated and the 'breaklinks' setting is set in the tex export. This will enable breaking hyperlinks -

Re: trouble using TeX Gyre Pagella instead of Palatino

2009-11-08 Thread Liviu Andronic
On 11/8/09, Guenter Milde mi...@users.berlios.de wrote: Either use the TeX Gyre Hermes as matching sans serif font or undo this change with \renewcommand\bfdefault{bx} in the LaTex preamble (after \usepackage{tgpagella}, of course. Nice. Using \usepackage{tgpagella}

Problems with shortcuts

2009-11-08 Thread Luca Carlon
Hi! I've written many formulas, but I still can't figure out how to use the shortcut to write square parenthesis in a formula under MacOSX. I read I have to use option-M and then the [, but if I press option+è I get 'unknown function'. Round parenthesis are ok, but the others are not... am I doing

Re: Problems with shortcuts

2009-11-08 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-11-09, Luca Carlon wrote: Hi! I've written many formulas, but I still can't figure out how to use the shortcut to write square parenthesis in a formula under MacOSX. I read I have to use option-M and then the [, but if I press option+è I get 'unknown function'. Round parenthesis are

Re: Problems including a document

2009-11-08 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-11-06, Manolo Martí­nez wrote: Eventually, the problem was with a typographic accent in one of the references cited in the offending chapter. Thanks for your advise! As you said, the information in the compilation log is invaluable when things go wrong. It's a pity that LyX does not

Re: Paragraph Indent Alignment in .layout file

2009-11-08 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-11-06, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Guenter Milde mi...@users.berlios.de writes: ... the on-screen display should be (configurable to) leftalign instead of block align, *independent of the alignment in the output* OK. Then we should have a preference show justified text as

Re: Problems with shortcuts

2009-11-08 Thread Luca Carlon
Guenter Milde mi...@... writes: I would really be surprised, if option+è (i.e. option + LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH GRAVE) resulted in a opening square bracket by default! It sound like on your keyboard the square brackets are not on the same position as on a US keyboard (similar to my German

the next document I put together will me lyx

2009-11-08 Thread Neal Becker
http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/11/the_next_document_i_put_togeth.php

Re: Drawing tool for LyX

2009-11-08 Thread Stefaan Himpe
If you want to have a programming language in which you can accurately "calculate" your drawings, "asymptote"[1] is a good candidate. Best regards, Stefaan. [1] http://http://asymptote.sourceforge.net/

Re: the next document I put together will me lyx

2009-11-08 Thread Steve Litt
On Sunday 08 November 2009 07:25:21 Neal Becker wrote: > http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/11/the_next_document_i_put_togeth.ph >p Great post Neal! I think a lot of your responders missed the point that it's all about styles. I've made excellently formatted books in WordPerfect 5.1, MS

Re: the next document I put together will me lyx

2009-11-08 Thread Neal Becker
Steve Litt wrote: > On Sunday 08 November 2009 07:25:21 Neal Becker wrote: >> http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/11/the_next_document_i_put_togeth.ph >>p > > Great post Neal! > > I think a lot of your responders missed the point that it's all about > styles. I've made excellently formatted

Re: Drawing tool for LyX

2009-11-08 Thread Jason Waskiewicz
I've found several tools that work for my drawings, depending on the application. Inkscape is my favorite for diagrams or sketches of graphs. I can point you to one diagram I just made with it for my Chemistry class: http://www.flickr.com/photos/waski_the_squirrel/4079787050/ You can also

Lyx doens't see installed latex package

2009-11-08 Thread phillip burns
Can anyone help me install a latex package? I installed the package via MikTex and it's there but Lyx doens't see it after reconfiguring. thanks

Re: Lyx doens't see installed latex package

2009-11-08 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn
phillip burns schreef: Can anyone help me install a latex package? I installed the package via MikTex and it's there but Lyx doens't see it after reconfiguring. thanks Did you refresh the file name database. MikTeX options -> General -> Refresh FNDB ? Vincent

Re: Lyx doens't see installed latex package

2009-11-08 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Vincent van Ravesteijn wrote: phillip burns schreef: Can anyone help me install a latex package? I installed the package via MikTex and it's there but Lyx doens't see it after reconfiguring. thanks Did you refresh the file name database. MikTeX options -> General -> Refresh FNDB ?

table contents get cropped

2009-11-08 Thread Sajjad
Hello Forum, I have inserted a 2 column table inside the table float . But the contents are getting cropped. Any hint to get around that issue? Regards Sajjad

Re: table contents get cropped

2009-11-08 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Sajjad schrieb: I have inserted a 2 column table inside the table float . But the contents are getting cropped. I guess that you table columns are too wide to fit on the page. To fix this, set a defined with for the column tables. For more info about tables, see the EmbeddedObjects manual

Re: trouble using TeX Gyre Pagella instead of Palatino

2009-11-08 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-11-07, Liviu Andronic wrote: > Dear all > I get some unexpected behaviour when using the TeX Gyre Pagella font > (using "\usepackage{tgpagella}" in the preamble) instead of Palatino ... > It seems that with this combination LM Sans bold gets replaced with LM > Sans regular [2], thus

Re: Drawing tool for LyX

2009-11-08 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-11-07, Rich Shepard wrote: ... >However, some figures need to have lines that meet very precisely (no > overshoots or gaps between them) or be placed with high precision. While > this may well be possible and easy for those more skilled than I am, I found > my xfig and similar figures

Re: URL wraping - someone got it working?

2009-11-08 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-11-06, Sven Hoexter wrote: > On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 05:28:13PM +0100, Uwe Stöhr wrote: >> Sven Hoexter schrieb: >> >The "Break links over lines" checkbox in the document settings is activated >> >and the 'breaklinks' setting is set in the tex export. This will enable breaking hyperlinks

Re: trouble using TeX Gyre Pagella instead of Palatino

2009-11-08 Thread Liviu Andronic
On 11/8/09, Guenter Milde wrote: > Either use the TeX Gyre Hermes as matching sans serif font or undo this > change with > > \renewcommand\bfdefault{bx} > > in the LaTex preamble (after \usepackage{tgpagella}, of course. > Nice. Using \usepackage{tgpagella}

Problems with shortcuts

2009-11-08 Thread Luca Carlon
Hi! I've written many formulas, but I still can't figure out how to use the shortcut to write square parenthesis in a formula under MacOSX. I read I have to use option-M and then the [, but if I press option+è I get 'unknown function'. Round parenthesis are ok, but the others are not... am I doing

Re: Problems with shortcuts

2009-11-08 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-11-09, Luca Carlon wrote: > Hi! I've written many formulas, but I still can't figure out how to use > the shortcut to write square parenthesis in a formula under MacOSX. I > read I have to use option-M and then the [, but if I press option+è I > get 'unknown function'. Round parenthesis

Re: Problems including a document

2009-11-08 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-11-06, Manolo Martí­nez wrote: > Eventually, the problem was with a typographic accent in one of the > references cited in the offending chapter. Thanks for your advise! > As you said, the information in the compilation log is invaluable when > things go wrong. It's a pity that LyX does

Re: Paragraph Indent Alignment in .layout file

2009-11-08 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-11-06, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Guenter Milde writes: ... >> the on-screen display should be (configurable to) leftalign instead of >> block align, *independent of the alignment in the output* > OK. Then we should have a preference "show justified text

Re: Problems with shortcuts

2009-11-08 Thread Luca Carlon
Guenter Milde writes: > I would really be surprised, if "option+è" (i.e. option + LATIN SMALL > LETTER E WITH GRAVE) resulted in a opening square bracket by default! > > It sound like on your keyboard the square brackets are not on the same > position as on a US keyboard (similar to