Re: Spellchecker identifying correct words as incorrect

Am 11.12.2010 um 06:52 schrieb Pete Crite: Am 09.12.2010 um 05:57 schrieb Pete Crite: Hi, I'm running the latest LyX on Mac OS X. I've had the spellchecker work fine in the past, using aspell. I've just tried to spellcheck a new file, and strange things are happening. Quite frequently,

Re: Can't get XeTeX to work

Eran Kaplinsky wrote: I still can't make XeTex work in 2.0 beta 2 with a fully updated MiKTeX 2.9. I don't know how recent MikTeX 2.9 ist, but from a quick glance at our log, it looks like at least the l3* packages (LaTeX3 = package expl3) are not up to date. (C:\Program Files\MiKTeX

Re: Can't get XeTeX to work

Just a comment to those still using Miktex as their Latex after-Lyx engine: After many years of using Miktex, I have recently switched to TexLive (which I use on both Linux-Ubuntu and Windows-XP), mostly because of its superior updating facilities. Now I update/upgrade Latex with a single click

Re: Labels with barcodes

On 10/12/2010 18:47, sunfire wrote: Hi Abdel, as for the barcodes, maybe you'll find some hint's here: http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/barcodes/willadt/ here are the corresponding files as well: ftp://anonym...@ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/fonts/barcodes/willadt I don't know if it will

Re: My Lyx citation output is inconsistent

On 12/11/2010 12:35 AM, Earl Alpert wrote: Dear folks, I am using Lyx 1.6.4 with Jabref. My problem is that I want my citations in the footnotes to look like 'Author Year, page number'. About half the time they do look like this; the other half I get 'Author, Full Title, Year, Page Number'.

PDF output question

Hi, I'm a relative newbie to Lyx and am using it for writing my thesis. The problem I'm having is that the pdf output I generate, which looks OK (bit 'jumpy' looking though), appears to be bitmap images rather than proper searchable text. For example I need to submit my document to my university

Re: PDF output question

On 12/11/2010 06:41 PM, Alan McIntyre wrote: Hi, I'm a relative newbie to Lyx and am using it for writing my thesis. The problem I'm having is that the pdf output I generate, which looks OK (bit 'jumpy' looking though), appears to be bitmap images rather than proper searchable text. For example

Re: XY-pic won't render

I notice nobody has responded to this. Is it still a problem? If so: 1. What OS are you using? 2. If you run 'kpsewhich xyd.enc' from a DOS prompt/terminal, do you get the path to xyd.enc? 3. If you open a new doc in LyX and follow the steps under section 2 (Preparation) in Peter's manual,

Re: PDF output question

Hi try to give a look at Laport's book http://www.amazon.com/LaTeX-Document-Preparation-System-2nd/dp/0201529831 It helps. My best wishes for your thesis mario On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 04:41 PM, Alan McIntyre lt;apmcint...@gmail.comgt; wrote: Hi, I'm a relative newbie to Lyx and am using it

Re: PDF output question

Thanks Nikos for reply - I've tried pdflatex output option with same result. See output file at... http://dl.dropbox.com/u/14591540/newfile1.pdf On 11 December 2010 16:41, Alan McIntyre apmcint...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm a relative newbie to Lyx and am using it for writing my thesis. The

Re: PDF output question

Nikos Chantziaras realnc at arcor.de writes: Always use the pdflatex export option. This will use scalable fonts. Thanks Nikos for reply - I've tried pdflatex output option with same result. See output file at... http://dl.dropbox.com/u/14591540/newfile1.pdf

Re: How to use short dashes in program listings?

Nikos Chantziaras realnc at arcor.de writes: When inserting a program listing, all - characters in the source code are converted to long dashes. This results in the C operator -- looking more like a single long line rather than two dashes. (There is some space between each dash, but

Re: PDF output question

Alan I can search your file. How do you look at it? Or am I misunderstanding your issue? mario On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 05:21 PM, Alan McIntyre lt;apmcint...@gmail.comgt; wrote: Nikos Chantziaras realnc at arcor.de writes: Always use the pdflatex export option. This will use scalable

Re: PDF output question

On 12/11/2010 07:21 PM, Alan McIntyre wrote: Nikos Chantziarasrealncat arcor.de writes: Always use the pdflatex export option. This will use scalable fonts. Thanks Nikos for reply - I've tried pdflatex output option with same result. See output file at...

Re: PDF output question

On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 7:15 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/14591540/newfile1.pdf I see.  Those are indeed bitmap fonts and not recommended for PDFs (or anything else, actually.)  I guess your TeX installation is missing the scalable version of the

Re: PDF output question

Hmmm... that's strange. I've been using Nitro PDF Professional and that won't allow searching or cut'n'paste. But in response to your comment, I've just installed Acrobat X and that does! However, someone else on this thread has confirmed that the fonts in the document sre indeed bitmaps? I'm

Re: Can't get XeTeX to work

You are right. It's a MikteX issue. Jürgen

Re: PDF output question

Hi Nikos, Looks like my installation does indeed include those fonts... 1.2 Latin Modern MM Found: yes MM CTAN: fonts/lm/ MM Notes: The Latin Modern fonts are PostScript versions of LaTeX' standard font (Computer Modern). They aim to become the default LaTeX font eventually. We recommend to use

Re: PDF output question

On 12/11/2010 08:42 PM, Alan McIntyre wrote: Hmmm... that's strange. I've been using Nitro PDF Professional and that won't allow searching or cut'n'paste. But in response to your comment, I've just installed Acrobat X and that does! However, someone else on this thread has confirmed that the

Re: PDF output question

Guys, Thanks for your help, I've followed your instructions and changed the default fonts to Computer Modern and using the Export - PDF(ps2pdf) I can get searchable/selectable/paste'able' text output! :-) Interestingly, using Export - PDF(pdflatex) doesn't produce the same result. I guess the

doc class g-brief2: serial letters?

Hi, how can I use the serial letter feature, but with the output like with the doc class g-brief2? The serial letter examples shipped with LyX 2.0 beta1 have doc class letter (KOMA-script v.2). If I have to switch to another doc class, then I would like to keep the output format of my

Re: PDF output question

On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 8:09 PM, Alan McIntyre apmcint...@gmail.com wrote: Guys, Thanks for your help, I've followed your instructions and changed the default fonts to Computer Modern and using the Export - PDF(ps2pdf) I can get searchable/selectable/paste'able' text output! :-)

Re: PDF output question

On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 1:24 PM, Liviu Andronic landronim...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 7:15 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/14591540/newfile1.pdf I see.  Those are indeed bitmap fonts and not recommended for PDFs (or anything else,

Re: PDF output question

On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 10:42 PM, Venable venabl...@gmail.com wrote: This (bitmap as default) has always been puzzling to me. Even though it's a small thing to correct, I've seen it be a barrier to adoption by the less-technically-inclined. It seems like making a scalable font the default

Re: PDF output question

On Saturday 11 December 2010 16:42:45 Venable wrote: On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 1:24 PM, Liviu Andronic landronim...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 7:15 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/14591540/newfile1.pdf I see. Those are indeed bitmap

Re: Spellchecker identifying correct words as incorrect

Am 11.12.2010 um 06:52 schrieb Pete Crite: Am 09.12.2010 um 05:57 schrieb Pete Crite: Hi, I'm running the latest LyX on Mac OS X. I've had the spellchecker work fine in the past, using aspell. I've just tried to spellcheck a new file, and strange things are happening. Quite frequently,

Re: Can't get XeTeX to work

Eran Kaplinsky wrote: I still can't make XeTex work in 2.0 beta 2 with a fully updated MiKTeX 2.9. I don't know how recent MikTeX 2.9 ist, but from a quick glance at our log, it looks like at least the l3* packages (LaTeX3 = package expl3) are not up to date. (C:\Program Files\MiKTeX

Re: Can't get XeTeX to work

Just a comment to those still using Miktex as their Latex after-Lyx engine: After many years of using Miktex, I have recently switched to TexLive (which I use on both Linux-Ubuntu and Windows-XP), mostly because of its superior updating facilities. Now I update/upgrade Latex with a single click

Re: Labels with barcodes

On 10/12/2010 18:47, sunfire wrote: Hi Abdel, as for the barcodes, maybe you'll find some hint's here: http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/barcodes/willadt/ here are the corresponding files as well: ftp://anonym...@ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/fonts/barcodes/willadt I don't know if it will

Re: My Lyx citation output is inconsistent

On 12/11/2010 12:35 AM, Earl Alpert wrote: Dear folks, I am using Lyx 1.6.4 with Jabref. My problem is that I want my citations in the footnotes to look like 'Author Year, page number'. About half the time they do look like this; the other half I get 'Author, Full Title, Year, Page Number'.

PDF output question

Hi, I'm a relative newbie to Lyx and am using it for writing my thesis. The problem I'm having is that the pdf output I generate, which looks OK (bit 'jumpy' looking though), appears to be bitmap images rather than proper searchable text. For example I need to submit my document to my university

Re: PDF output question

On 12/11/2010 06:41 PM, Alan McIntyre wrote: Hi, I'm a relative newbie to Lyx and am using it for writing my thesis. The problem I'm having is that the pdf output I generate, which looks OK (bit 'jumpy' looking though), appears to be bitmap images rather than proper searchable text. For example

Re: XY-pic won't render

I notice nobody has responded to this. Is it still a problem? If so: 1. What OS are you using? 2. If you run 'kpsewhich xyd.enc' from a DOS prompt/terminal, do you get the path to xyd.enc? 3. If you open a new doc in LyX and follow the steps under section 2 (Preparation) in Peter's manual,

Re: PDF output question

Hi try to give a look at Laport's book http://www.amazon.com/LaTeX-Document-Preparation-System-2nd/dp/0201529831 It helps. My best wishes for your thesis mario On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 04:41 PM, Alan McIntyre lt;apmcint...@gmail.comgt; wrote: Hi, I'm a relative newbie to Lyx and am using it

Re: PDF output question

Thanks Nikos for reply - I've tried pdflatex output option with same result. See output file at... http://dl.dropbox.com/u/14591540/newfile1.pdf On 11 December 2010 16:41, Alan McIntyre apmcint...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm a relative newbie to Lyx and am using it for writing my thesis. The

Re: PDF output question

Nikos Chantziaras realnc at arcor.de writes: Always use the pdflatex export option. This will use scalable fonts. Thanks Nikos for reply - I've tried pdflatex output option with same result. See output file at... http://dl.dropbox.com/u/14591540/newfile1.pdf

Re: How to use short dashes in program listings?

Nikos Chantziaras realnc at arcor.de writes: When inserting a program listing, all - characters in the source code are converted to long dashes. This results in the C operator -- looking more like a single long line rather than two dashes. (There is some space between each dash, but

Re: PDF output question

Alan I can search your file. How do you look at it? Or am I misunderstanding your issue? mario On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 05:21 PM, Alan McIntyre lt;apmcint...@gmail.comgt; wrote: Nikos Chantziaras realnc at arcor.de writes: Always use the pdflatex export option. This will use scalable

Re: PDF output question

On 12/11/2010 07:21 PM, Alan McIntyre wrote: Nikos Chantziarasrealncat arcor.de writes: Always use the pdflatex export option. This will use scalable fonts. Thanks Nikos for reply - I've tried pdflatex output option with same result. See output file at...

Re: PDF output question

On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 7:15 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/14591540/newfile1.pdf I see.  Those are indeed bitmap fonts and not recommended for PDFs (or anything else, actually.)  I guess your TeX installation is missing the scalable version of the

Re: PDF output question

Hmmm... that's strange. I've been using Nitro PDF Professional and that won't allow searching or cut'n'paste. But in response to your comment, I've just installed Acrobat X and that does! However, someone else on this thread has confirmed that the fonts in the document sre indeed bitmaps? I'm

Re: Can't get XeTeX to work

You are right. It's a MikteX issue. Jürgen

Re: PDF output question

Hi Nikos, Looks like my installation does indeed include those fonts... 1.2 Latin Modern MM Found: yes MM CTAN: fonts/lm/ MM Notes: The Latin Modern fonts are PostScript versions of LaTeX' standard font (Computer Modern). They aim to become the default LaTeX font eventually. We recommend to use

Re: PDF output question

On 12/11/2010 08:42 PM, Alan McIntyre wrote: Hmmm... that's strange. I've been using Nitro PDF Professional and that won't allow searching or cut'n'paste. But in response to your comment, I've just installed Acrobat X and that does! However, someone else on this thread has confirmed that the

Re: PDF output question

Guys, Thanks for your help, I've followed your instructions and changed the default fonts to Computer Modern and using the Export - PDF(ps2pdf) I can get searchable/selectable/paste'able' text output! :-) Interestingly, using Export - PDF(pdflatex) doesn't produce the same result. I guess the

doc class g-brief2: serial letters?

Hi, how can I use the serial letter feature, but with the output like with the doc class g-brief2? The serial letter examples shipped with LyX 2.0 beta1 have doc class letter (KOMA-script v.2). If I have to switch to another doc class, then I would like to keep the output format of my

Re: PDF output question

On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 8:09 PM, Alan McIntyre apmcint...@gmail.com wrote: Guys, Thanks for your help, I've followed your instructions and changed the default fonts to Computer Modern and using the Export - PDF(ps2pdf) I can get searchable/selectable/paste'able' text output! :-)

Re: PDF output question

On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 1:24 PM, Liviu Andronic landronim...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 7:15 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/14591540/newfile1.pdf I see.  Those are indeed bitmap fonts and not recommended for PDFs (or anything else,

Re: PDF output question

On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 10:42 PM, Venable venabl...@gmail.com wrote: This (bitmap as default) has always been puzzling to me. Even though it's a small thing to correct, I've seen it be a barrier to adoption by the less-technically-inclined. It seems like making a scalable font the default

Re: PDF output question

On Saturday 11 December 2010 16:42:45 Venable wrote: On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 1:24 PM, Liviu Andronic landronim...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 7:15 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/14591540/newfile1.pdf I see. Those are indeed bitmap

Re: Spellchecker identifying correct words as incorrect

Am 11.12.2010 um 06:52 schrieb Pete Crite: >> Am 09.12.2010 um 05:57 schrieb Pete Crite: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I'm running the latest LyX on Mac OS X. I've had the spellchecker work fine >>> in the past, using aspell. I've just tried to spellcheck a new file, and >>> strange things are happening.

Re: Can't get XeTeX to work

Eran Kaplinsky wrote: > I still can't make XeTex work in 2.0 beta 2 with a fully updated MiKTeX > 2.9. I don't know how recent MikTeX 2.9 ist, but from a quick glance at our log, it looks like at least the l3* packages (LaTeX3 = package "expl3") are not up to date. > ("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX

Re: Can't get XeTeX to work

Just a comment to those still using Miktex as their Latex after-Lyx engine: After many years of using Miktex, I have recently switched to TexLive (which I use on both Linux-Ubuntu and Windows-XP), mostly because of its superior updating facilities. Now I update/upgrade Latex with a single click

Re: Labels with barcodes

On 10/12/2010 18:47, sunfire wrote: Hi Abdel, as for the barcodes, maybe you'll find some hint's here: http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/barcodes/willadt/ here are the corresponding files as well: ftp://anonym...@ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/fonts/barcodes/willadt I don't know if it will

Re: My Lyx citation output is inconsistent

On 12/11/2010 12:35 AM, Earl Alpert wrote: Dear folks, I am using Lyx 1.6.4 with Jabref. My problem is that I want my citations in the footnotes to look like 'Author Year, page number'. About half the time they do look like this; the other half I get 'Author, Full Title, Year, Page Number'.

PDF output question

Hi, I'm a relative newbie to Lyx and am using it for writing my thesis. The problem I'm having is that the pdf output I generate, which looks OK (bit 'jumpy' looking though), appears to be bitmap images rather than proper searchable text. For example I need to submit my document to my university

Re: PDF output question

On 12/11/2010 06:41 PM, Alan McIntyre wrote: Hi, I'm a relative newbie to Lyx and am using it for writing my thesis. The problem I'm having is that the pdf output I generate, which looks OK (bit 'jumpy' looking though), appears to be bitmap images rather than proper searchable text. For example

Re: XY-pic won't render

I notice nobody has responded to this. Is it still a problem? If so: 1. What OS are you using? 2. If you run 'kpsewhich xyd.enc' from a DOS prompt/terminal, do you get the path to xyd.enc? 3. If you open a new doc in LyX and follow the steps under section 2 (Preparation) in Peter's manual,

Re: PDF output question

Hi try to give a look at Laport's book http://www.amazon.com/LaTeX-Document-Preparation-System-2nd/dp/0201529831 It helps. My best wishes for your thesis mario On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 04:41 PM, Alan McIntyre apmcint...@gmail.com wrote: > Hi, > > I'm a relative newbie to Lyx and am using it

Re: PDF output question

Thanks Nikos for reply - I've tried pdflatex output option with same result. See output file at... http://dl.dropbox.com/u/14591540/newfile1.pdf On 11 December 2010 16:41, Alan McIntyre wrote: > Hi, > > I'm a relative newbie to Lyx and am using it for writing my thesis.

Re: PDF output question

Nikos Chantziaras arcor.de> writes: > > > Always use the "pdflatex" export option. This will use scalable fonts. > > Thanks Nikos for reply - I've tried pdflatex output option with same result. See output file at... http://dl.dropbox.com/u/14591540/newfile1.pdf

Re: How to use short dashes in program listings?

Nikos Chantziaras arcor.de> writes: > > When inserting a program listing, all "-" characters in the source code > are converted to long dashes. This results in the C operator "--" > looking more like a single long line rather than two dashes. (There is > some space between each dash, but

Re: PDF output question

Alan I can search your file. How do you look at it? Or am I misunderstanding your issue? mario On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 05:21 PM, Alan McIntyre apmcint...@gmail.com wrote: > Nikos Chantziaras arcor.de> writes: > > > > > > > Always use the "pdflatex" export option. This will use scalable

Re: PDF output question

On 12/11/2010 07:21 PM, Alan McIntyre wrote: Nikos Chantziaras writes: Always use the "pdflatex" export option. This will use scalable fonts. Thanks Nikos for reply - I've tried pdflatex output option with same result. See output file at...

Re: PDF output question

On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 7:15 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/14591540/newfile1.pdf > > I see.  Those are indeed bitmap fonts and not recommended for PDFs (or > anything else, actually.)  I guess your TeX installation is missing the > scalable version of

Re: PDF output question

Hmmm... that's strange. I've been using Nitro PDF Professional and that won't allow searching or cut'n'paste. But in response to your comment, I've just installed Acrobat X and that does! However, someone else on this thread has confirmed that the fonts in the document sre indeed bitmaps? I'm

Re: Can't get XeTeX to work

You are right. It's a MikteX issue. > Jürgen > >

Re: PDF output question

Hi Nikos, Looks like my installation does indeed include those fonts... 1.2 Latin Modern MM Found: yes MM CTAN: fonts/lm/ MM Notes: The Latin Modern fonts are PostScript versions of LaTeX' standard font (Computer Modern). They aim to become the default LaTeX font eventually. We recommend to use

Re: PDF output question

On 12/11/2010 08:42 PM, Alan McIntyre wrote: Hmmm... that's strange. I've been using Nitro PDF Professional and that won't allow searching or cut'n'paste. But in response to your comment, I've just installed Acrobat X and that does! However, someone else on this thread has confirmed that the

Re: PDF output question

Guys, Thanks for your help, I've followed your instructions and changed the default fonts to Computer Modern and using the Export -> PDF(ps2pdf) I can get searchable/selectable/paste'able' text output! :-) Interestingly, using Export -> PDF(pdflatex) doesn't produce the same result. I guess the

doc class g-brief2: serial letters?

Hi, how can I use the serial letter feature, but with the output like with the doc class g-brief2? The serial letter examples shipped with LyX 2.0 beta1 have doc class letter (KOMA-script v.2). If I have to switch to another doc class, then I would like to keep the output format of my

Re: PDF output question

On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 8:09 PM, Alan McIntyre wrote: > Guys, > > Thanks for your help, I've followed your instructions and changed the default > fonts to Computer Modern and using the Export -> PDF(ps2pdf) I can get > searchable/selectable/paste'able' text output! :-) > >

Re: PDF output question

On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 1:24 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote: > On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 7:15 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >>> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/14591540/newfile1.pdf >> >> I see.  Those are indeed bitmap fonts and not recommended for PDFs (or >> anything

Re: PDF output question

On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 10:42 PM, Venable wrote: > This (bitmap as default) has always been puzzling to me. Even though > it's a small thing to correct, I've seen it be a barrier to adoption > by the less-technically-inclined. It seems like making a scalable font > the

Re: PDF output question

On Saturday 11 December 2010 16:42:45 Venable wrote: > On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 1:24 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 7:15 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > >>> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/14591540/newfile1.pdf > >> > >> I see. Those are