Lining up text and graphics in tables?

2010-01-11 Thread Steve Litt
Ugh! I wanted rows with 3 columns. Column 1 is the name of the graphic. Column 2 is the graphic itself. Column 3 is a short explanation of the graphic. I used individual 1 row, 3 column tables to save room and make sure pages broke reasonably. Trouble is, no matter how I set cell alignment in

Re: Suggestions for keyboard binding interface

2010-01-11 Thread Steve Litt
I've just thought of a way to make creating and troubleshooting bind files much easier. If someone would create an LFUN_REREAD_BINDFILE, then I could directly edit user.bind and then run LFUN_REREAD_BINDFILE to assess the result without closing and reopening LyX. Cool, huh? I'd like to see a s

Suggestions for keyboard binding interface

2010-01-11 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, I think the user interface for setting keyboard bindings can use considerable improvement. Let's start with the worst thing: If you've done something wrong with the keyboard binding function area, LyX closes the keyboard binding dialog box and prints an error message like "you can't ins

Re: numbering style

2010-01-11 Thread Uwe Stöhr
meo...@techunix.technion.ac.il schrieb: You really helped me with the figures numbering. I have used the \renewcommand{\thefigure}{\arabic{figure}} command. As for the equations, I have used the same, with "equation" instead of "figure". It did solved the nesting problem, however it restarts the

RE: Lyx - Sweave in MS WIndows XP

2010-01-11 Thread Rob Oakes
Hi Steve, You might have better luck installing the Cygwin version of LyX. The last time I checked, Cygwin included a version of R that could also be used. This would solve the requirements for a Unix like shell on Windows and simplify the configurations. The Cygwin version of LyX also works wit

Re: numbering style

2010-01-11 Thread Uwe Stöhr
meo...@techunix.technion.ac.il schrieb: I use LyX and the document type is article(ams). My problem is that suddenly the numbering of both the equations and figures became nested according to the sections (2.1,2.2 ext.), while I want it to be in a regular simple order (1, 2, ext.). Nested numb

Re: numbering style

2010-01-11 Thread Yago
For your first question, you can put in your preamble this two commands: \renewcommand{\thefigure}{\arabic{figure}} \renewcommand{\theequation}{\arabic{equation}} - Original Message - From: To: Sent: Monday, January 11, 2010 11:06 AM Subject: numbering style Hello, I use LyX and

Re: "Document Class not Available" error message

2010-01-11 Thread Paul A. Rubin
wolflpc wrote: Hi, Paul, I followed the instructions here but can not work out. Could you please help me check out. This is the text in the log file. Everything in your log file looks fine -- the installer if finding LaTeX and most if not all document classes. Does LyX start? Are you able

Re: A Question regarding "fonts"

2010-01-11 Thread Siegfried Meunier-Guttin-Cluzel
In this case, I use the listings package (Insert > Listings). There are two possibilities : inline or separated. The main advantage for me is the syntax highlighting and a lot of other possibilities (frames, captions ...). There's a very good documentation. Hope it helps. Siegfried.

Re: Lyx in Fedora 12

2010-01-11 Thread José Matos
On Saturday 09 January 2010 11:33:25 Alex Fernandez wrote: > Are you interested in packaging eLyXer for Fedora? May I help in any way? > > The Debian package is in testing (ready for the next stable) and it is > quite mature. The latest version is also in Ubuntu: > http://packages.ubuntu.com/luc

Re: Lenny backports for LyX 1.6.5 and eLyXer 0.39

2010-01-11 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Thanks, Sven > > where could one get your Debian LyX 1.6.5 backport? > > backports.org instructions can be found unter 'Instructions' ;): > http://www.backports.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=instructions > > HTH > Sven

numbering style

2010-01-11 Thread meorli
Hello, I use LyX and the document type is article(ams). My problem is that suddenly the numbering of both the equations and figures became nested according to the sections (2.1,2.2 ext.), while I want it to be in a regular simple order (1, 2, ext.). Another problem I have is not being able to w

Re: floats and subfloats with longtables SOLVED

2010-01-11 Thread Manveru
2010/1/11 Liviu Andronic : > On 1/11/10, Manveru wrote: >> It sounds interesting to have such functionality, but if you have >>  LaTeX-based solution you should consider publishing it as a package, >>  then it could be used by LyX. >> > The solution uses the package subfloat, an existing LaTeX pac

Re: floats and subfloats with longtables SOLVED

2010-01-11 Thread Liviu Andronic
On 1/11/10, Manveru wrote: > It sounds interesting to have such functionality, but if you have > LaTeX-based solution you should consider publishing it as a package, > then it could be used by LyX. > The solution uses the package subfloat, an existing LaTeX package. Liviu

Re: Lenny backports for LyX 1.6.5 and eLyXer 0.39

2010-01-11 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 08:59:59AM +0100, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > Am Sunday 10 January 2010 18:16:54 schrieb Sven Hoexter: > > Hi, > > some of you might have noticed that Reinhard Tartler had uploaded a LyX > > 1.6.4 backport to backports.org in November last year. Now I finally got my > > key

Re: How to insert text plus charstyle with a click or keypress?

2010-01-11 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-01-11, Steve Litt wrote: > Hundreds of times in my next book I will need to insert the words "Seek and > Destroy", and will need those words to be in a specific charstyle (seekdest). > I'd love to be able to do that with a key combo to speed up my authoring. Is > there a way I can inser

Re: floats and subfloats with longtables SOLVED

2010-01-11 Thread Manveru
2010/1/9 Liviu Andronic : [...] > I've been using table floats with subfloats and normal tables, and > they work nicely. However, when the float becomes too long for the > page---because of the length of the subtables---, it will not break. > I've tried to use longtables in the subfloats, but compi

Lyx - Sweave in MS WIndows XP

2010-01-11 Thread SteveSB
Dear all I have spent the last day trying to get Lyx / Sweave to work and after reading whatever info I could get my hands on, including the various posts on this forum as well as Gregor Gorjanc's blog I have managed to get to the point where Lyx reports that the pdf file does not exist. Looking

Re: "Document Class not Available" error message

2010-01-11 Thread wolflpc
Hi, Paul, I followed the instructions here but can not work out. Could you please help me check out. This is the text in the log file. configure: TeX engine needs windows-style paths in latex files checking for DVI to DTL converter... +checking for "dv2dt"... no checking for a Latex2e program

Re: Lenny backports for LyX 1.6.5 and eLyXer 0.39

2010-01-11 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Am Sunday 10 January 2010 18:16:54 schrieb Sven Hoexter: > Hi, > some of you might have noticed that Reinhard Tartler had uploaded a LyX > 1.6.4 backport to backports.org in November last year. Now I finally got my > key added on bpo aswell (thanks to formorer) and just found some time to > upload

Re: Lenny backports for LyX 1.6.5 and eLyXer 0.39

2010-01-11 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Am Sunday 10 January 2010 18:16:54 schrieb Sven Hoexter: > Hi, > some of you might have noticed that Reinhard Tartler had uploaded a LyX > 1.6.4 backport to backports.org in November last year. Now I finally got my > key added on bpo aswell (thanks to formorer) and just found some time to > upload