Re: Windows Command Line

2010-11-04 Thread Jacob Bishop
On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 9:09 PM, Richard Heck rgh...@comcast.net wrote: Can someone on Windows explain the right thing to do here? Shucks, I guess I'll give it a go. Go to the command line (windowsbubbleruncmd). Type in our command. C:\Users\MyNamelyx.exe -help 'lyx.exe' is not recognized

Re: Spellchecker and ú

2010-11-04 Thread Stephan Witt
Am 03.11.2010 um 18:57 schrieb Christopher Menzel: On Nov 2, 2010, at 3:26 AM, Stephan Witt wrote: Am 02.11.2010 um 03:28 schrieb Christopher Menzel: On 10/30/2010 02:53 AM, Stephan Witt wrote: Am 29.10.2010 um 22:01 schrieb Christopher Menzel: Greetings LyX users, The aspell-based

Re: Sharing documents among different versions of Lyx

2010-11-04 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-11-02, Frederick Noronha wrote: Is there some tool that makes the sharing of documents among different versions of Lyx a little easier? FN lyx2lyx comes with every LyX version. It's a Python module (i.e. a set of interdependent Python scripts living in LYXDIR/lyx2lyx/). To down-convert

figure*

2010-11-04 Thread george legge
A simple question, I believe: How do I get captions printed without Figure numbers? Both with the figures and in the list of figures, I wish to have only the captions printed. I am using Book (Memoir). The help file on Additional LyX Features (or Extended) mentions the float environment figure*.

Re: LyX and LuaTeX

2010-11-04 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-11-02, Rob Oakes wrote: But, initial experiments show that it was easy to get up and running, and that it works with LyX 2.0 very well. Take care with UTF characters, though. I probably could have gotten it sorted out, but didn't really want to fuss with it. There is an ongoing

Re: Windows Command Line

2010-11-04 Thread Richard Heck
On 11/04/2010 02:02 AM, Jacob Bishop wrote: First, we have to go to where the file lives. C:\Users\MyNamecd C:\Program Files\LyX 1.6.7\bin Some versions of the Windows shell, I know, require that this kind of thing be put in quotes. So: C:\Users\MyNamecd C:\Program Files\LyX 1.6.7\bin This

Re: figure*

2010-11-04 Thread Paul A. Rubin
On 11/4/2010 3:30 AM, george legge wrote: A simple question, I believe: How do I get captions printed without Figure numbers? Both with the figures and in the list of figures, I wish to have only the captions printed. I am using Book (Memoir). The help file on Additional LyX Features (or

Done something wrong

2010-11-04 Thread Paul Sutton
Hi I am creating a newsletter for my local rugby club and have inserted a table I have a typo somewhere, not inserted a $ however I can't see where I have done this, can someone with fresh eyes have a look and perhaps point me in the right direction please

SV: Done something wrong

2010-11-04 Thread Ingar Pareliussen
You have a $ extra at the end of this line: \hline 30-Oct M H Devonport Services Won $ 10-9 $$ \\ Ingar

Re: pdfpages: remove blank page between two included pdfs?

2010-11-04 Thread Marcelo Acuña
I am using pdfpages to include pdf pages into my LyX document. However, when I have two pdf files included this way, one immediately after the other, the resulting pdf will include a blank page between the two included pdfs. Is there a way to remove the blank page? I have 3 pdf

Re: Done something wrong

2010-11-04 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn
\hline 30-Oct M H Devonport Services Won $ 10-9 $$ \\ Between Won and 10-9, there should be a '' instead of '$'. Vincent

Re: pdfpages: remove blank page between two included pdfs?

2010-11-04 Thread Stephen Buonopane
On Nov 1, 2010, at 5:08 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote: Dear all I am using pdfpages to include pdf pages into my LyX document. However, when I have two pdf files included this way, one immediately after the other, the resulting pdf will include a blank page between the two included pdfs. Is there a

Re: Windows Command Line

2010-11-04 Thread Jacob Bishop
and windows is meant to be easier than Linux, even the command line on Linux is easier to use, I remember the old path command had a limit of something like 128 characters is this still the case. I got curious, and found this: Windows 2000 has a 254 character limit. Windows XP has a 255

about the improvement plan of the lyx graphical interface

2010-11-04 Thread Wei-Dong Lian
hi everyone, there is no doubt that at present lyx is really more stable and easy-to-use. Thanks again for the developer of lyx. And I am wondering if there exists the plan or the idea to improve the editor of lyx. I think, just a short advice, if the editor of lyx could be somewhat like emacs, we

Re: Windows Command Line

2010-11-04 Thread Venable
Thanks everyone, this is really useful. Someone posted a while back about working on a book on LyX - this would be a great topic to include.

Can't open/save documents

2010-11-04 Thread Fernando Lemos
Hi Everyone, I installed Lyx 1.6.7 in a windows 7 pro 64 bits. The problem is that I can't open/save any document from the File menu. It seams Lyx can't call the windows explorer interface from which I can choose the document I want to open/save. I tried to run Lyx in many different

Auto-Replace

2010-11-04 Thread Martin Probst
Is there any possibility to define some custom auto-replacements? I mean in the same way like when you enter 'LyX' in the editor, then this appears as '\LyX{}' in the LaTeX-source. Thanks, Martin

Re: Auto-Replace

2010-11-04 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Am 04.11.2010 21:01, schrieb Martin Probst: Is there any possibility to define some custom auto-replacements? I mean in the same way like when you enter 'LyX' in the editor, then this appears as '\LyX{}' in the LaTeX-source. Not yet possible. regards Uwe

Re: about the improvement plan of the lyx graphical interface

2010-11-04 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Am 04.11.2010 17:32, schrieb Wei-Dong Lian: I am wondering if there exists the plan or the idea to improve the editor of lyx. I think, just a short advice, if the editor of lyx could be somewhat like emacs, we could customize the highlight of the keyword, with several kinds of colors, it will

Re: figure*

2010-11-04 Thread george legge
Thank you for replying Paul. Figures to be labeled in both the List of Figures and in the caption beneath the figures: My smiling face George On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 12:08 AM, Paul A. Rubin ru...@msu.edu wrote: On 11/4/2010 3:30 AM, george legge wrote: A simple question, I believe: How do I

Re: figure*

2010-11-04 Thread Paul A. Rubin
On 11/04/2010 05:26 PM, george legge wrote: Thank you for replying Paul. Figures to be labeled in both the List of Figures and in the caption beneath the figures: My smiling face Does the attached example do what you want? (If so, just note the line in the document preamble.) /Paul

Re: how to change GUI Language

2010-11-04 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Am 04.11.2010 09:59, schrieb Christian del Castillo: 1) using the version I installed last time from here: ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.6.7/LyX-1.6.7-4-Installer.exe I still do not get to choose a GUI/ install language, and in the end my LyX was (automatically) in Japanese, again. This is

Re: how to change GUI Language

2010-11-04 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Am 04.11.2010 09:59, schrieb Christian del Castillo: 1) using the version I installed last time from here: ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.6.7/LyX-1.6.7-4-Installer.exe I still do not get to choose a GUI/ install language, and in the end my LyX was (automatically) in Japanese, again. This is

Page headers problem... LaTeX rather

2010-11-04 Thread Manveru
Hello, I know this is rather LaTeX related problem, but maybe someone from this list is able to help me. I have following code in my preamble: \newcommand{\kopia}{\tiny Kopia dla Gal Anonim} \usepackage{fancyhdr} \fancypagestyle{empty}{% \fancyfoot[L]{\kopia} %\fancyfoot[LE]{\kopia} }

powerdot font too small

2010-11-04 Thread Payal
Hi, I am very very new to tex and lyx and am using v.1.6.5 on Ubuntu 10.04. I am trying to make a presentation in lyx with powerdot class. I did File-New, then Documents - Settings-Document class- presentation(powerdot) did a simple file. The file is at, http://pastebin.com/QATBYsJ1 But when I

How to use babel -shortcuts in LYX directly?

2010-11-04 Thread Vasily Letov
Hello, people! In Babel there are many language-specific shortcuts. For example, we have ---, --~, --* and another. The package extdash (ncc-tools collection) provides extra useful shortcuts, too. Unfortunatelly, LYX converts into \char`\{}, so, we forced to use ERT for such shortcuts. It is

New LaTeX TeX Lyx user

2010-11-04 Thread Bryan Baldwin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Lyx lovers, I've had a long time interest in LaTeX TeX and Lyx, and finally made some time to dig into the software and learn how to write all my documents using this incredible program. Thank you for your efforts. Bryan -BEGIN PGP

Re: powerdot font too small

2010-11-04 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Am 05.11.2010 01:39, schrieb Payal: But when I do View-Pdf the font looks too small. What PDF method did you use? Powerdot does not work with the pdflatex method because it is based on the PostScript language and not on PDF. regards Uwe

Re: powerdot font too small

2010-11-04 Thread Payal
On Fri, Nov 05, 2010 at 04:07:28AM +0100, Uwe Stöhr wrote: Am 05.11.2010 01:39, schrieb Payal: But when I do View-Pdf the font looks too small. What PDF method did you use? Powerdot does not work with the pdflatex method because it is based on the PostScript language and not on PDF. Thanks

Re: Spellchecker and ú

2010-11-04 Thread Christopher Menzel
On Nov 4, 2010, at 1:48 AM, Stephan Witt wrote: Am 03.11.2010 um 18:57 schrieb Christopher Menzel: On Nov 2, 2010, at 3:26 AM, Stephan Witt wrote: Am 02.11.2010 um 03:28 schrieb Christopher Menzel: On 10/30/2010 02:53 AM, Stephan Witt wrote: Am 29.10.2010 um 22:01 schrieb Christopher

Re: Page headers problem... LaTeX rather

2010-11-04 Thread Steve Litt
On Thursday 04 November 2010 18:26:22 Manveru wrote: Hello, I know this is rather LaTeX related problem, but maybe someone from this list is able to help me. I have following code in my preamble: \newcommand{\kopia}{\tiny Kopia dla Gal Anonim} \usepackage{fancyhdr}

Re: Windows Command Line

2010-11-04 Thread Jacob Bishop
On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 9:09 PM, Richard Heck rgh...@comcast.net wrote: Can someone on Windows explain the right thing to do here? Shucks, I guess I'll give it a go. Go to the command line (windowsbubbleruncmd). Type in our command. C:\Users\MyNamelyx.exe -help 'lyx.exe' is not recognized

Re: Spellchecker and ú

2010-11-04 Thread Stephan Witt
Am 03.11.2010 um 18:57 schrieb Christopher Menzel: On Nov 2, 2010, at 3:26 AM, Stephan Witt wrote: Am 02.11.2010 um 03:28 schrieb Christopher Menzel: On 10/30/2010 02:53 AM, Stephan Witt wrote: Am 29.10.2010 um 22:01 schrieb Christopher Menzel: Greetings LyX users, The aspell-based

Re: Sharing documents among different versions of Lyx

2010-11-04 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-11-02, Frederick Noronha wrote: Is there some tool that makes the sharing of documents among different versions of Lyx a little easier? FN lyx2lyx comes with every LyX version. It's a Python module (i.e. a set of interdependent Python scripts living in LYXDIR/lyx2lyx/). To down-convert

figure*

2010-11-04 Thread george legge
A simple question, I believe: How do I get captions printed without Figure numbers? Both with the figures and in the list of figures, I wish to have only the captions printed. I am using Book (Memoir). The help file on Additional LyX Features (or Extended) mentions the float environment figure*.

Re: LyX and LuaTeX

2010-11-04 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-11-02, Rob Oakes wrote: But, initial experiments show that it was easy to get up and running, and that it works with LyX 2.0 very well. Take care with UTF characters, though. I probably could have gotten it sorted out, but didn't really want to fuss with it. There is an ongoing

Re: Windows Command Line

2010-11-04 Thread Richard Heck
On 11/04/2010 02:02 AM, Jacob Bishop wrote: First, we have to go to where the file lives. C:\Users\MyNamecd C:\Program Files\LyX 1.6.7\bin Some versions of the Windows shell, I know, require that this kind of thing be put in quotes. So: C:\Users\MyNamecd C:\Program Files\LyX 1.6.7\bin This

Re: figure*

2010-11-04 Thread Paul A. Rubin
On 11/4/2010 3:30 AM, george legge wrote: A simple question, I believe: How do I get captions printed without Figure numbers? Both with the figures and in the list of figures, I wish to have only the captions printed. I am using Book (Memoir). The help file on Additional LyX Features (or

Done something wrong

2010-11-04 Thread Paul Sutton
Hi I am creating a newsletter for my local rugby club and have inserted a table I have a typo somewhere, not inserted a $ however I can't see where I have done this, can someone with fresh eyes have a look and perhaps point me in the right direction please

SV: Done something wrong

2010-11-04 Thread Ingar Pareliussen
You have a $ extra at the end of this line: \hline 30-Oct M H Devonport Services Won $ 10-9 $$ \\ Ingar

Re: pdfpages: remove blank page between two included pdfs?

2010-11-04 Thread Marcelo Acuña
I am using pdfpages to include pdf pages into my LyX document. However, when I have two pdf files included this way, one immediately after the other, the resulting pdf will include a blank page between the two included pdfs. Is there a way to remove the blank page? I have 3 pdf

Re: Done something wrong

2010-11-04 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn
\hline 30-Oct M H Devonport Services Won $ 10-9 $$ \\ Between Won and 10-9, there should be a '' instead of '$'. Vincent

Re: pdfpages: remove blank page between two included pdfs?

2010-11-04 Thread Stephen Buonopane
On Nov 1, 2010, at 5:08 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote: Dear all I am using pdfpages to include pdf pages into my LyX document. However, when I have two pdf files included this way, one immediately after the other, the resulting pdf will include a blank page between the two included pdfs. Is there a

Re: Windows Command Line

2010-11-04 Thread Jacob Bishop
and windows is meant to be easier than Linux, even the command line on Linux is easier to use, I remember the old path command had a limit of something like 128 characters is this still the case. I got curious, and found this: Windows 2000 has a 254 character limit. Windows XP has a 255

about the improvement plan of the lyx graphical interface

2010-11-04 Thread Wei-Dong Lian
hi everyone, there is no doubt that at present lyx is really more stable and easy-to-use. Thanks again for the developer of lyx. And I am wondering if there exists the plan or the idea to improve the editor of lyx. I think, just a short advice, if the editor of lyx could be somewhat like emacs, we

Re: Windows Command Line

2010-11-04 Thread Venable
Thanks everyone, this is really useful. Someone posted a while back about working on a book on LyX - this would be a great topic to include.

Can't open/save documents

2010-11-04 Thread Fernando Lemos
Hi Everyone, I installed Lyx 1.6.7 in a windows 7 pro 64 bits. The problem is that I can't open/save any document from the File menu. It seams Lyx can't call the windows explorer interface from which I can choose the document I want to open/save. I tried to run Lyx in many different

Auto-Replace

2010-11-04 Thread Martin Probst
Is there any possibility to define some custom auto-replacements? I mean in the same way like when you enter 'LyX' in the editor, then this appears as '\LyX{}' in the LaTeX-source. Thanks, Martin

Re: Auto-Replace

2010-11-04 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Am 04.11.2010 21:01, schrieb Martin Probst: Is there any possibility to define some custom auto-replacements? I mean in the same way like when you enter 'LyX' in the editor, then this appears as '\LyX{}' in the LaTeX-source. Not yet possible. regards Uwe

Re: about the improvement plan of the lyx graphical interface

2010-11-04 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Am 04.11.2010 17:32, schrieb Wei-Dong Lian: I am wondering if there exists the plan or the idea to improve the editor of lyx. I think, just a short advice, if the editor of lyx could be somewhat like emacs, we could customize the highlight of the keyword, with several kinds of colors, it will

Re: figure*

2010-11-04 Thread george legge
Thank you for replying Paul. Figures to be labeled in both the List of Figures and in the caption beneath the figures: My smiling face George On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 12:08 AM, Paul A. Rubin ru...@msu.edu wrote: On 11/4/2010 3:30 AM, george legge wrote: A simple question, I believe: How do I

Re: figure*

2010-11-04 Thread Paul A. Rubin
On 11/04/2010 05:26 PM, george legge wrote: Thank you for replying Paul. Figures to be labeled in both the List of Figures and in the caption beneath the figures: My smiling face Does the attached example do what you want? (If so, just note the line in the document preamble.) /Paul

Re: how to change GUI Language

2010-11-04 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Am 04.11.2010 09:59, schrieb Christian del Castillo: 1) using the version I installed last time from here: ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.6.7/LyX-1.6.7-4-Installer.exe I still do not get to choose a GUI/ install language, and in the end my LyX was (automatically) in Japanese, again. This is

Re: how to change GUI Language

2010-11-04 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Am 04.11.2010 09:59, schrieb Christian del Castillo: 1) using the version I installed last time from here: ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.6.7/LyX-1.6.7-4-Installer.exe I still do not get to choose a GUI/ install language, and in the end my LyX was (automatically) in Japanese, again. This is

Page headers problem... LaTeX rather

2010-11-04 Thread Manveru
Hello, I know this is rather LaTeX related problem, but maybe someone from this list is able to help me. I have following code in my preamble: \newcommand{\kopia}{\tiny Kopia dla Gal Anonim} \usepackage{fancyhdr} \fancypagestyle{empty}{% \fancyfoot[L]{\kopia} %\fancyfoot[LE]{\kopia} }

powerdot font too small

2010-11-04 Thread Payal
Hi, I am very very new to tex and lyx and am using v.1.6.5 on Ubuntu 10.04. I am trying to make a presentation in lyx with powerdot class. I did File-New, then Documents - Settings-Document class- presentation(powerdot) did a simple file. The file is at, http://pastebin.com/QATBYsJ1 But when I

How to use babel -shortcuts in LYX directly?

2010-11-04 Thread Vasily Letov
Hello, people! In Babel there are many language-specific shortcuts. For example, we have ---, --~, --* and another. The package extdash (ncc-tools collection) provides extra useful shortcuts, too. Unfortunatelly, LYX converts into \char`\{}, so, we forced to use ERT for such shortcuts. It is

New LaTeX TeX Lyx user

2010-11-04 Thread Bryan Baldwin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Lyx lovers, I've had a long time interest in LaTeX TeX and Lyx, and finally made some time to dig into the software and learn how to write all my documents using this incredible program. Thank you for your efforts. Bryan -BEGIN PGP

Re: powerdot font too small

2010-11-04 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Am 05.11.2010 01:39, schrieb Payal: But when I do View-Pdf the font looks too small. What PDF method did you use? Powerdot does not work with the pdflatex method because it is based on the PostScript language and not on PDF. regards Uwe

Re: powerdot font too small

2010-11-04 Thread Payal
On Fri, Nov 05, 2010 at 04:07:28AM +0100, Uwe Stöhr wrote: Am 05.11.2010 01:39, schrieb Payal: But when I do View-Pdf the font looks too small. What PDF method did you use? Powerdot does not work with the pdflatex method because it is based on the PostScript language and not on PDF. Thanks

Re: Spellchecker and ú

2010-11-04 Thread Christopher Menzel
On Nov 4, 2010, at 1:48 AM, Stephan Witt wrote: Am 03.11.2010 um 18:57 schrieb Christopher Menzel: On Nov 2, 2010, at 3:26 AM, Stephan Witt wrote: Am 02.11.2010 um 03:28 schrieb Christopher Menzel: On 10/30/2010 02:53 AM, Stephan Witt wrote: Am 29.10.2010 um 22:01 schrieb Christopher

Re: Page headers problem... LaTeX rather

2010-11-04 Thread Steve Litt
On Thursday 04 November 2010 18:26:22 Manveru wrote: Hello, I know this is rather LaTeX related problem, but maybe someone from this list is able to help me. I have following code in my preamble: \newcommand{\kopia}{\tiny Kopia dla Gal Anonim} \usepackage{fancyhdr}

Re: Windows Command Line

2010-11-04 Thread Jacob Bishop
> > On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 9:09 PM, Richard Heck wrote: > >> >> Can someone on Windows explain the right thing to do here? >> > Shucks, I guess I'll give it a go. Go to the command line (windowsbubble>run>cmd). Type in our command. C:\Users\MyName>lyx.exe -help 'lyx.exe' is

Re: Spellchecker and ú

2010-11-04 Thread Stephan Witt
Am 03.11.2010 um 18:57 schrieb Christopher Menzel: > On Nov 2, 2010, at 3:26 AM, Stephan Witt wrote: >> Am 02.11.2010 um 03:28 schrieb Christopher Menzel: >> >>> On 10/30/2010 02:53 AM, Stephan Witt wrote: Am 29.10.2010 um 22:01 schrieb Christopher Menzel: > Greetings LyX users,

Re: Sharing documents among different versions of Lyx

2010-11-04 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-11-02, Frederick Noronha wrote: > Is there some tool that makes the sharing of documents among different > versions of Lyx a little easier? FN lyx2lyx comes with every LyX version. It's a Python module (i.e. a set of interdependent Python scripts living in LYXDIR/lyx2lyx/). To

figure*

2010-11-04 Thread george legge
A simple question, I believe: How do I get captions printed without Figure numbers? Both with the figures and in the list of figures, I wish to have only the captions printed. I am using Book (Memoir). The help file on Additional LyX Features (or Extended) mentions the float environment figure*.

Re: LyX and LuaTeX

2010-11-04 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-11-02, Rob Oakes wrote: > But, initial experiments show that it was easy to get up and running, > and that it works with LyX 2.0 very well. Take care with UTF > characters, though. I probably could have gotten it sorted out, but > didn't really want to fuss with it. There is an ongoing

Re: Windows Command Line

2010-11-04 Thread Richard Heck
On 11/04/2010 02:02 AM, Jacob Bishop wrote: First, we have to go to where the file lives. C:\Users\MyName>cd C:\Program Files\LyX 1.6.7\bin Some versions of the Windows shell, I know, require that this kind of thing be put in quotes. So: C:\Users\MyName>cd "C:\Program Files\LyX 1.6.7\bin"

Re: figure*

2010-11-04 Thread Paul A. Rubin
On 11/4/2010 3:30 AM, george legge wrote: A simple question, I believe: How do I get captions printed without Figure numbers? Both with the figures and in the list of figures, I wish to have only the captions printed. I am using Book (Memoir). The help file on Additional LyX Features (or

Done something wrong

2010-11-04 Thread Paul Sutton
Hi I am creating a newsletter for my local rugby club and have inserted a table I have a typo somewhere, not inserted a $ however I can't see where I have done this, can someone with fresh eyes have a look and perhaps point me in the right direction please

SV: Done something wrong

2010-11-04 Thread Ingar Pareliussen
You have a $ extra at the end of this line: \hline 30-Oct & M & H & Devonport Services & Won $ 10-9 $$ \\ Ingar

Re: pdfpages: remove blank page between two included pdfs?

2010-11-04 Thread Marcelo Acuña
> > I am using pdfpages to include pdf pages into my LyX > document. > > However, when I have two pdf files included this way, > one immediately > > after the other, the resulting pdf will include a > blank page between > > the two included pdfs. Is there a way to remove the > blank page? > > I

Re: Done something wrong

2010-11-04 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn
>\hline 30-Oct & M & H & Devonport Services & Won $ 10-9 $$ \\ Between "Won" and "10-9", there should be a '&' instead of '$'. Vincent

Re: pdfpages: remove blank page between two included pdfs?

2010-11-04 Thread Stephen Buonopane
On Nov 1, 2010, at 5:08 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote: Dear all I am using pdfpages to include pdf pages into my LyX document. However, when I have two pdf files included this way, one immediately after the other, the resulting pdf will include a blank page between the two included pdfs. Is there a

Re: Windows Command Line

2010-11-04 Thread Jacob Bishop
"and windows is meant to be easier than Linux, even the command line on Linux is easier to use, I remember the old path command had a limit of something like 128 characters is this still the case." I got curious, and found this: Windows 2000 has a 254 character limit. Windows XP has a 255

about the improvement plan of the lyx graphical interface

2010-11-04 Thread Wei-Dong Lian
hi everyone, there is no doubt that at present lyx is really more stable and easy-to-use. Thanks again for the developer of lyx. And I am wondering if there exists the plan or the idea to improve the editor of lyx. I think, just a short advice, if the editor of lyx could be somewhat like emacs, we

Re: Windows Command Line

2010-11-04 Thread Venable
Thanks everyone, this is really useful. Someone posted a while back about working on a book on LyX - this would be a great topic to include.

Can't open/save documents

2010-11-04 Thread Fernando Lemos
Hi Everyone, I installed Lyx 1.6.7 in a windows 7 pro 64 bits. The problem is that I can't open/save any document from the File menu. It seams Lyx can't call the "windows explorer interface" from which I can choose the document I want to open/save. I tried to run Lyx in many different

Auto-Replace

2010-11-04 Thread Martin Probst
Is there any possibility to define some custom auto-replacements? I mean in the same way like when you enter 'LyX' in the editor, then this appears as '\LyX{}' in the LaTeX-source. Thanks, Martin

Re: Auto-Replace

2010-11-04 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Am 04.11.2010 21:01, schrieb Martin Probst: Is there any possibility to define some custom auto-replacements? I mean in the same way like when you enter 'LyX' in the editor, then this appears as '\LyX{}' in the LaTeX-source. Not yet possible. regards Uwe

Re: about the improvement plan of the lyx graphical interface

2010-11-04 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Am 04.11.2010 17:32, schrieb Wei-Dong Lian: I am wondering if there exists the plan or the idea to improve the editor of lyx. I think, just a short advice, if the editor of lyx could be somewhat like emacs, we could customize the highlight of the keyword, with several kinds of colors, it will

Re: figure*

2010-11-04 Thread george legge
Thank you for replying Paul. Figures to be labeled in both the List of Figures and in the caption beneath the figures: My smiling face George On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 12:08 AM, Paul A. Rubin wrote: > On 11/4/2010 3:30 AM, george legge wrote: > >> A simple question, I believe: How

Re: figure*

2010-11-04 Thread Paul A. Rubin
On 11/04/2010 05:26 PM, george legge wrote: Thank you for replying Paul. Figures to be labeled in both the List of Figures and in the caption beneath the figures: My smiling face Does the attached example do what you want? (If so, just note the line in the document preamble.) /Paul

Re: how to change GUI Language

2010-11-04 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Am 04.11.2010 09:59, schrieb Christian del Castillo: 1) using the version I installed last time from here: ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.6.7/LyX-1.6.7-4-Installer.exe I still do not get to choose a GUI/ install language, and in the end my LyX was (automatically) in Japanese, again. This is

Re: how to change GUI Language

2010-11-04 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Am 04.11.2010 09:59, schrieb Christian del Castillo: 1) using the version I installed last time from here: ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.6.7/LyX-1.6.7-4-Installer.exe I still do not get to choose a GUI/ install language, and in the end my LyX was (automatically) in Japanese, again. This is

Page headers problem... LaTeX rather

2010-11-04 Thread Manveru
Hello, I know this is rather LaTeX related problem, but maybe someone from this list is able to help me. I have following code in my preamble: \newcommand{\kopia}{\tiny Kopia dla Gal Anonim} \usepackage{fancyhdr} \fancypagestyle{empty}{% \fancyfoot[L]{\kopia} %\fancyfoot[LE]{\kopia} }

powerdot font too small

2010-11-04 Thread Payal
Hi, I am very very new to tex and lyx and am using v.1.6.5 on Ubuntu 10.04. I am trying to make a presentation in lyx with powerdot class. I did File->New, then Documents -> Settings->Document class-> presentation(powerdot) did a simple file. The file is at, http://pastebin.com/QATBYsJ1 But when

How to use babel "-shortcuts in LYX directly?

2010-11-04 Thread Vasily Letov
Hello, people! In Babel there are many language-specific shortcuts. For example, we have "---, "--~, "--* and another. The package extdash (ncc-tools collection) provides extra useful shortcuts, too. Unfortunatelly, LYX converts " into \char`\"{}, so, we forced to use ERT for such shortcuts. It

New LaTeX TeX Lyx user

2010-11-04 Thread Bryan Baldwin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Lyx lovers, I've had a long time interest in LaTeX TeX and Lyx, and finally made some time to dig into the software and learn how to write all my documents using this incredible program. Thank you for your efforts. Bryan -BEGIN PGP

Re: powerdot font too small

2010-11-04 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Am 05.11.2010 01:39, schrieb Payal: But when I do View->Pdf the font looks too small. What PDF method did you use? Powerdot does not work with the pdflatex method because it is based on the PostScript language and not on PDF. regards Uwe

Re: powerdot font too small

2010-11-04 Thread Payal
On Fri, Nov 05, 2010 at 04:07:28AM +0100, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > Am 05.11.2010 01:39, schrieb Payal: > >> But when I do View->Pdf the font looks too small. > > What PDF method did you use? Powerdot does not work with the pdflatex > method because it is based on the PostScript language and not on PDF.

Re: Spellchecker and ú

2010-11-04 Thread Christopher Menzel
On Nov 4, 2010, at 1:48 AM, Stephan Witt wrote: > Am 03.11.2010 um 18:57 schrieb Christopher Menzel: > On Nov 2, 2010, at 3:26 AM, Stephan Witt wrote: >>> Am 02.11.2010 um 03:28 schrieb Christopher Menzel: >>> On 10/30/2010 02:53 AM, Stephan Witt wrote: > Am 29.10.2010 um 22:01 schrieb

Re: Page headers problem... LaTeX rather

2010-11-04 Thread Steve Litt
On Thursday 04 November 2010 18:26:22 Manveru wrote: > Hello, > > I know this is rather LaTeX related problem, but maybe someone from > this list is able to help me. > > I have following code in my preamble: > \newcommand{\kopia}{\tiny Kopia dla Gal Anonim} > \usepackage{fancyhdr} > >