Re: LYX software query

2011-03-28 Thread Pavel Sanda
Guenter Milde wrote: This is not necessary. Either you install MikTeX (assuming you are talking about windows) separately, or you can download the installer-bundle (IIRC this includes MikTeX). the problem is that some styles/classes are downloaded by miktex itself and by default

Re: How to change box/minipage text color?

2011-03-28 Thread Ignacio García
Nikos Chantziaras wrote, Sat, 26 Mar 2011 I'm trying to figure out how to have boxes (inserted with Insert-Box-Shaded Background) have a specific background color and text color. I was able to figure out the background color part. For example, for black I've put this into the preamble:

Re: How to change box/minipage text color?

2011-03-28 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Ignacio García wrote: But I can't figure out how to change the text color. Select the text and go to Edit Text Style Custom Color or with the appropriate toolbar button Text Style I suppose Nikos is looking for a global solution. For this, you have to redefine the environment, since the

Re: LYX software query

2011-03-28 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2011-03-28, Pavel Sanda wrote: Guenter Milde wrote: This is not necessary. Either you install MikTeX (assuming you are talking about windows) separately, or you can download the installer-bundle (IIRC this includes MikTeX). the problem is that some styles/classes are downloaded by

Re: howto install .cls file !?

2011-03-28 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2011-03-27, stephen's mailinglist account wrote: --bcaec5016413414940049f7c084b Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 On 27 March 2011 14:17, Jim Maas jimmaa...@gmail.com wrote: I'm trying to create a new .cls file for a journal called Bayesian Analysis. They supply a list of files

Dissapeared content

2011-03-28 Thread Pereyra, Victor
I am writing a book and I had all the chapters in separated .lyx files. I was trying to put everything together and I did no succeed. Now all my .lyx files are empty while the .lyx~ seem to be OK. How can I recuperate my content (i.e., the .lyx files?). I also have the .odf but those are probably

Re: Dissapeared content

2011-03-28 Thread Steve Litt
On Monday 28 March 2011 14:48:38 Pereyra, Victor wrote: I am writing a book and I had all the chapters in separated .lyx files. I was trying to put everything together and I did no succeed. Now all my .lyx files are empty while the .lyx~ seem to be OK. How can I recuperate my content (i.e.,

Re: Dissapeared content

2011-03-28 Thread Richard Heck
On 03/28/2011 03:10 PM, Steve Litt wrote: On Monday 28 March 2011 14:48:38 Pereyra, Victor wrote: I am writing a book and I had all the chapters in separated .lyx files. I was trying to put everything together and I did no succeed. Now all my .lyx files are empty while the .lyx~ seem to be OK.

Re: Dissapeared content

2011-03-28 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
On 2011-03-28 21:10 , Steve Litt wrote: On Monday 28 March 2011 14:48:38 Pereyra, Victor wrote: I am writing a book and I had all the chapters in separated .lyx files. I was trying to put everything together and I did no succeed. Now all my .lyx files are empty while the .lyx~ seem to be OK.

Re: LYX software query

2011-03-28 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
Did I read somewhere once that one can have a local MikTeX server (some form of a mirror) so that can be done under controlled condition and then the local user(s) pull off of that one? el On 2011-03-28 15:13 , Guenter Milde wrote: On 2011-03-28, Pavel Sanda wrote: Guenter Milde wrote: This

contrast of pdf files

2011-03-28 Thread Paul Sutton
Hi I produce a newsletter for my local rugby club, in a mix of LyX and LaTeX, I have been informed that for some people the pdf is hard to read, I just wondered if there was anything I could do about this, perhaps as its a pdf with black text and a white background is there a way to alter the

rcs-multi and LyX 2.0 RC1

2011-03-28 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
Hi, I am writing a document with multiple include chapters using the intrinsic RCS on LyX RC1 on OS X 10.6.7. I am using pdfdraftcopy to watermark the master document and all included files, and have \usepackage{rcs-multi} \rcsid{$Id$} \usepackage[draft]{pdfdraftcopy} \draftfontsize{60}

SV: contrast of pdf files

2011-03-28 Thread Ingar Pareliussen
Hi I just wondered if there was anything I could do about this, perhaps as its a pdf with black text and a white background is there a way to alter the back ground colour of the pdf file so its slightly off white, which could make it easier to read. In the preamble put something like:

Suggestions on which revision control system to use with LyX?

2011-03-28 Thread stefano franchi
Dear all, I have decided to take the plunge and start to use a revision control system for all or almost all my projects from here on. However, I have no experience with any of the many options available (i.e. RCS, SVN, Git?, etc.). In other words, I must learn how to use the system *and*

Re: contrast of pdf files

2011-03-28 Thread Steve Litt
On Monday 28 March 2011 16:16:38 Paul Sutton wrote: Hi I produce a newsletter for my local rugby club, in a mix of LyX and LaTeX, I have been informed that for some people the pdf is hard to read, I just wondered if there was anything I could do about this, perhaps as its a pdf with black

Re: Suggestions on which revision control system to use with LyX?

2011-03-28 Thread Steve Litt
On Monday 28 March 2011 17:18:47 stefano franchi wrote: Dear all, I have decided to take the plunge and start to use a revision control system for all or almost all my projects from here on. However, I have no experience with any of the many options available (i.e. RCS, SVN, Git?, etc.).

Re: LYX software query

2011-03-28 Thread Paul Rubin
Dr Eberhard W Lisse el at lisse.na writes: Did I read somewhere once that one can have a local MikTeX server (some form of a mirror) so that can be done under controlled condition and then the local user(s) pull off of that one? Apologies if I'm answering a question you are not asking; I

Re: [LyX 2.0.0rc1] LyX file symbol in explorer disappeared

2011-03-28 Thread Pavel Sanda
Jannick Asmus wrote: Hi, after installation of LyY 2.0.0rc1-2 on my WinVista machine the symbol (blue L) for LyX files has disappeared in the explorer, whereas the application to files with extension .lyx is LyX. Moreover in the list of installed programs (system panel - don't know the

Re: rcs-multi and LyX 2.0 RC1

2011-03-28 Thread Pavel Sanda
Dr Eberhard W Lisse wrote: How do I achieve the wanted behaviour so I an see when I last edited a particular page? commit number should be doable via insetinfo (insert revision information on VCS toolbar), use context menu to change. the routine for timedate is not implemented for RCS, but

Re: Suggestions on which revision control system to use with LyX?

2011-03-28 Thread Pavel Sanda
Steve Litt wrote: Any suggestions is very welcome. I haven't started using version control yet, but all my friends love Git. which is not supported by lyx at all. we know RCS, CVS, SVN. RCS is good for local usage only (not to be shared among people) while SVN (newer replacement of CVS)

directed graphs and benchmarks in lyx

2011-03-28 Thread Eisa Ayed
hello , i'm looking for an easy and powerful tool to draw directed and undirected graphs and also benchmarks in lyx any suggestions ? thanks

Re: directed graphs and benchmarks in lyx

2011-03-28 Thread Julien Rioux
On 28/03/2011 10:40 PM, Eisa Ayed wrote: hello , i'm looking for an easy and powerful tool to draw directed and undirected graphs and also benchmarks in lyx any suggestions ? thanks graphviz you can insert a .dot file into LyX as graphics. -- Julien

Re: LYX software query

2011-03-28 Thread Pavel Sanda
Guenter Milde wrote: This is not necessary. Either you install MikTeX (assuming you are talking about windows) separately, or you can download the installer-bundle (IIRC this includes MikTeX). the problem is that some styles/classes are downloaded by miktex itself and by default

Re: How to change box/minipage text color?

2011-03-28 Thread Ignacio García
Nikos Chantziaras wrote, Sat, 26 Mar 2011 I'm trying to figure out how to have boxes (inserted with Insert-Box-Shaded Background) have a specific background color and text color. I was able to figure out the background color part. For example, for black I've put this into the preamble:

Re: How to change box/minipage text color?

2011-03-28 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Ignacio García wrote: But I can't figure out how to change the text color. Select the text and go to Edit Text Style Custom Color or with the appropriate toolbar button Text Style I suppose Nikos is looking for a global solution. For this, you have to redefine the environment, since the

Re: LYX software query

2011-03-28 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2011-03-28, Pavel Sanda wrote: Guenter Milde wrote: This is not necessary. Either you install MikTeX (assuming you are talking about windows) separately, or you can download the installer-bundle (IIRC this includes MikTeX). the problem is that some styles/classes are downloaded by

Re: howto install .cls file !?

2011-03-28 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2011-03-27, stephen's mailinglist account wrote: --bcaec5016413414940049f7c084b Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 On 27 March 2011 14:17, Jim Maas jimmaa...@gmail.com wrote: I'm trying to create a new .cls file for a journal called Bayesian Analysis. They supply a list of files

Dissapeared content

2011-03-28 Thread Pereyra, Victor
I am writing a book and I had all the chapters in separated .lyx files. I was trying to put everything together and I did no succeed. Now all my .lyx files are empty while the .lyx~ seem to be OK. How can I recuperate my content (i.e., the .lyx files?). I also have the .odf but those are probably

Re: Dissapeared content

2011-03-28 Thread Steve Litt
On Monday 28 March 2011 14:48:38 Pereyra, Victor wrote: I am writing a book and I had all the chapters in separated .lyx files. I was trying to put everything together and I did no succeed. Now all my .lyx files are empty while the .lyx~ seem to be OK. How can I recuperate my content (i.e.,

Re: Dissapeared content

2011-03-28 Thread Richard Heck
On 03/28/2011 03:10 PM, Steve Litt wrote: On Monday 28 March 2011 14:48:38 Pereyra, Victor wrote: I am writing a book and I had all the chapters in separated .lyx files. I was trying to put everything together and I did no succeed. Now all my .lyx files are empty while the .lyx~ seem to be OK.

Re: Dissapeared content

2011-03-28 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
On 2011-03-28 21:10 , Steve Litt wrote: On Monday 28 March 2011 14:48:38 Pereyra, Victor wrote: I am writing a book and I had all the chapters in separated .lyx files. I was trying to put everything together and I did no succeed. Now all my .lyx files are empty while the .lyx~ seem to be OK.

Re: LYX software query

2011-03-28 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
Did I read somewhere once that one can have a local MikTeX server (some form of a mirror) so that can be done under controlled condition and then the local user(s) pull off of that one? el On 2011-03-28 15:13 , Guenter Milde wrote: On 2011-03-28, Pavel Sanda wrote: Guenter Milde wrote: This

contrast of pdf files

2011-03-28 Thread Paul Sutton
Hi I produce a newsletter for my local rugby club, in a mix of LyX and LaTeX, I have been informed that for some people the pdf is hard to read, I just wondered if there was anything I could do about this, perhaps as its a pdf with black text and a white background is there a way to alter the

rcs-multi and LyX 2.0 RC1

2011-03-28 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
Hi, I am writing a document with multiple include chapters using the intrinsic RCS on LyX RC1 on OS X 10.6.7. I am using pdfdraftcopy to watermark the master document and all included files, and have \usepackage{rcs-multi} \rcsid{$Id$} \usepackage[draft]{pdfdraftcopy} \draftfontsize{60}

SV: contrast of pdf files

2011-03-28 Thread Ingar Pareliussen
Hi I just wondered if there was anything I could do about this, perhaps as its a pdf with black text and a white background is there a way to alter the back ground colour of the pdf file so its slightly off white, which could make it easier to read. In the preamble put something like:

Suggestions on which revision control system to use with LyX?

2011-03-28 Thread stefano franchi
Dear all, I have decided to take the plunge and start to use a revision control system for all or almost all my projects from here on. However, I have no experience with any of the many options available (i.e. RCS, SVN, Git?, etc.). In other words, I must learn how to use the system *and*

Re: contrast of pdf files

2011-03-28 Thread Steve Litt
On Monday 28 March 2011 16:16:38 Paul Sutton wrote: Hi I produce a newsletter for my local rugby club, in a mix of LyX and LaTeX, I have been informed that for some people the pdf is hard to read, I just wondered if there was anything I could do about this, perhaps as its a pdf with black

Re: Suggestions on which revision control system to use with LyX?

2011-03-28 Thread Steve Litt
On Monday 28 March 2011 17:18:47 stefano franchi wrote: Dear all, I have decided to take the plunge and start to use a revision control system for all or almost all my projects from here on. However, I have no experience with any of the many options available (i.e. RCS, SVN, Git?, etc.).

Re: LYX software query

2011-03-28 Thread Paul Rubin
Dr Eberhard W Lisse el at lisse.na writes: Did I read somewhere once that one can have a local MikTeX server (some form of a mirror) so that can be done under controlled condition and then the local user(s) pull off of that one? Apologies if I'm answering a question you are not asking; I

Re: [LyX 2.0.0rc1] LyX file symbol in explorer disappeared

2011-03-28 Thread Pavel Sanda
Jannick Asmus wrote: Hi, after installation of LyY 2.0.0rc1-2 on my WinVista machine the symbol (blue L) for LyX files has disappeared in the explorer, whereas the application to files with extension .lyx is LyX. Moreover in the list of installed programs (system panel - don't know the

Re: rcs-multi and LyX 2.0 RC1

2011-03-28 Thread Pavel Sanda
Dr Eberhard W Lisse wrote: How do I achieve the wanted behaviour so I an see when I last edited a particular page? commit number should be doable via insetinfo (insert revision information on VCS toolbar), use context menu to change. the routine for timedate is not implemented for RCS, but

Re: Suggestions on which revision control system to use with LyX?

2011-03-28 Thread Pavel Sanda
Steve Litt wrote: Any suggestions is very welcome. I haven't started using version control yet, but all my friends love Git. which is not supported by lyx at all. we know RCS, CVS, SVN. RCS is good for local usage only (not to be shared among people) while SVN (newer replacement of CVS)

directed graphs and benchmarks in lyx

2011-03-28 Thread Eisa Ayed
hello , i'm looking for an easy and powerful tool to draw directed and undirected graphs and also benchmarks in lyx any suggestions ? thanks

Re: directed graphs and benchmarks in lyx

2011-03-28 Thread Julien Rioux
On 28/03/2011 10:40 PM, Eisa Ayed wrote: hello , i'm looking for an easy and powerful tool to draw directed and undirected graphs and also benchmarks in lyx any suggestions ? thanks graphviz you can insert a .dot file into LyX as graphics. -- Julien

Re: LYX software query

2011-03-28 Thread Pavel Sanda
Guenter Milde wrote: > >> This is not necessary. Either you install MikTeX (assuming you are talking > >> about windows) separately, or you can download the installer-bundle (IIRC > >> this includes MikTeX). > > > the problem is that some styles/classes are downloaded by miktex itself > > and

Re: How to change box/minipage text color?

2011-03-28 Thread Ignacio García
Nikos Chantziaras wrote, Sat, 26 Mar 2011 > I'm trying to figure out how to have boxes (inserted with "Insert->Box->Shaded Background") have a specific background color and text color. I was able to figure out the background color part. For example, for black I've put this into the preamble:

Re: How to change box/minipage text color?

2011-03-28 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Ignacio García wrote: > > But I can't figure out how to change the text color. > > Select the text and go to Edit > Text Style > Custom > Color > or with the appropriate toolbar button Text Style I suppose Nikos is looking for a global solution. For this, you have to redefine the environment,

Re: LYX software query

2011-03-28 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2011-03-28, Pavel Sanda wrote: > Guenter Milde wrote: >> >> This is not necessary. Either you install MikTeX (assuming you are >> >> talking about windows) separately, or you can download the >> >> installer-bundle (IIRC this includes MikTeX). >> > the problem is that some styles/classes are

Re: howto install .cls file !?

2011-03-28 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2011-03-27, stephen's mailinglist account wrote: > --bcaec5016413414940049f7c084b > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > On 27 March 2011 14:17, Jim Maas wrote: >> I'm trying to create a new .cls file for a journal called Bayesian >> Analysis. They supply a list of

Dissapeared content

2011-03-28 Thread Pereyra, Victor
I am writing a book and I had all the chapters in separated .lyx files. I was trying to put everything together and I did no succeed. Now all my .lyx files are empty while the .lyx~ seem to be OK. How can I recuperate my content (i.e., the .lyx files?). I also have the .odf but those are probably

Re: Dissapeared content

2011-03-28 Thread Steve Litt
On Monday 28 March 2011 14:48:38 Pereyra, Victor wrote: > I am writing a book and I had all the chapters in separated .lyx files. > I was trying to put everything together and I did no succeed. Now all my > .lyx files are empty while the .lyx~ seem to be OK. How can I recuperate my > content

Re: Dissapeared content

2011-03-28 Thread Richard Heck
On 03/28/2011 03:10 PM, Steve Litt wrote: On Monday 28 March 2011 14:48:38 Pereyra, Victor wrote: I am writing a book and I had all the chapters in separated .lyx files. I was trying to put everything together and I did no succeed. Now all my .lyx files are empty while the .lyx~ seem to be OK.

Re: Dissapeared content

2011-03-28 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
On 2011-03-28 21:10 , Steve Litt wrote: > On Monday 28 March 2011 14:48:38 Pereyra, Victor wrote: >> I am writing a book and I had all the chapters in separated .lyx files. >> I was trying to put everything together and I did no succeed. Now all my >> .lyx files are empty while the .lyx~ seem to

Re: LYX software query

2011-03-28 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
Did I read somewhere once that one can have a local MikTeX server (some form of a mirror) so that can be done under controlled condition and then the local user(s) pull off of that one? el On 2011-03-28 15:13 , Guenter Milde wrote: > On 2011-03-28, Pavel Sanda wrote: >> Guenter Milde wrote: >

contrast of pdf files

2011-03-28 Thread Paul Sutton
Hi I produce a newsletter for my local rugby club, in a mix of LyX and LaTeX, I have been informed that for some people the pdf is hard to read, I just wondered if there was anything I could do about this, perhaps as its a pdf with black text and a white background is there a way to alter the

rcs-multi and LyX 2.0 RC1

2011-03-28 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
Hi, I am writing a document with multiple include chapters using the intrinsic RCS on LyX RC1 on OS X 10.6.7. I am using pdfdraftcopy to watermark the master document and all included files, and have \usepackage{rcs-multi} \rcsid{$Id$} \usepackage[draft]{pdfdraftcopy} \draftfontsize{60}

SV: contrast of pdf files

2011-03-28 Thread Ingar Pareliussen
Hi >I just wondered if there was anything I could do about this, perhaps as >its a pdf with black text and a white background is there a way to alter >the back ground colour of the pdf file so its slightly off white, which >could make it easier to read. In the preamble put something like:

Suggestions on which revision control system to use with LyX?

2011-03-28 Thread stefano franchi
Dear all, I have decided to take the plunge and start to use a revision control system for all or almost all my projects from here on. However, I have no experience with any of the many options available (i.e. RCS, SVN, Git?, etc.). In other words, I must learn how to use the system *and*

Re: contrast of pdf files

2011-03-28 Thread Steve Litt
On Monday 28 March 2011 16:16:38 Paul Sutton wrote: > Hi > > I produce a newsletter for my local rugby club, in a mix of LyX and > LaTeX, I have been informed that for some people the pdf is hard to read, > > I just wondered if there was anything I could do about this, perhaps as > its a pdf

Re: Suggestions on which revision control system to use with LyX?

2011-03-28 Thread Steve Litt
On Monday 28 March 2011 17:18:47 stefano franchi wrote: > Dear all, > >I have decided to take the plunge and start to use a revision > control system for all or almost all my projects from here on. > However, I have no experience with any of the many options available > (i.e. RCS, SVN, Git?,

Re: LYX software query

2011-03-28 Thread Paul Rubin
Dr Eberhard W Lisse lisse.na> writes: > > Did I read somewhere once that one can have a local MikTeX server > (some form of a mirror) so that can be done under controlled condition > and then the local user(s) pull off of that one? > Apologies if I'm answering a question you are not asking;

Re: [LyX 2.0.0rc1] LyX file symbol in explorer disappeared

2011-03-28 Thread Pavel Sanda
Jannick Asmus wrote: > Hi, > > after installation of LyY 2.0.0rc1-2 on my WinVista machine the symbol > (blue L) for LyX files has disappeared in the explorer, whereas the > application to files with extension .lyx is LyX. Moreover in the list of > installed programs ("system panel" - don't

Re: rcs-multi and LyX 2.0 RC1

2011-03-28 Thread Pavel Sanda
Dr Eberhard W Lisse wrote: > How do I achieve the wanted behaviour so I an see when I last edited a > particular page? commit number should be doable via insetinfo (insert revision information on VCS toolbar), use context menu to change. the routine for time is not implemented for RCS, but

Re: Suggestions on which revision control system to use with LyX?

2011-03-28 Thread Pavel Sanda
Steve Litt wrote: > > Any suggestions is very welcome. > > I haven't started using version control yet, but all my friends love Git. which is not supported by lyx at all. we know RCS, CVS, SVN. RCS is good for local usage only (not to be shared among people) while SVN (newer replacement of CVS)

directed graphs and benchmarks in lyx

2011-03-28 Thread Eisa Ayed
hello , i'm looking for an easy and powerful tool to draw directed and undirected graphs and also benchmarks in lyx any suggestions ? thanks

Re: directed graphs and benchmarks in lyx

2011-03-28 Thread Julien Rioux
On 28/03/2011 10:40 PM, Eisa Ayed wrote: hello , i'm looking for an easy and powerful tool to draw directed and undirected graphs and also benchmarks in lyx any suggestions ? thanks graphviz you can insert a .dot file into LyX as graphics. -- Julien