Re: need suggestion on book

2011-06-26 Thread Trevor Jenkins
On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 3:09 AM, Liviu Andronic landronim...@gmail.comwrote: I couldn't have said it better myself. And because of what Marcelo said, I find LyX is a MUCH faster authoring environment than anything in which I need to see markup. As much as I agree with this, the one

Re: Re: Indent picture (only)

2011-06-26 Thread Dirk Heine
Dirk Heine dirk at common-future.org writes: Dear list,I would like to move a picture horizontally to place it more leftwards (towards the page edge). While moving this picture I would like to leave the text of the document unchanged and also not move the picture vertically. So this would

Footnotes... across the chapters

2011-06-26 Thread Frederick FN Noronha फ्रेडरिक नोरोन्या *فريدريك نورونيا
Is it possible for Lyx to offer footnote numbering across the chapters? I mean, if there are 17 footnotes in Chapter 1, the first footnote in Chapter 2 should be #18, and not #1. Many thanks for any help you could offer. FN FN +91-832-2409490 or +91-9822122436 (after 2pm) #784 Nr Lourdes

Re: Can't convert

2011-06-26 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Yes, you do have separate user directories (which is good). The configuration logs in the user directories look fine. Both of them found MiKTeX. In particular, the 2.0 log shows that it has the correct converter path for producing PDF output, so View PDF (pdflatex) should be working in

Re: need suggestion on book

2011-06-26 Thread Steve Litt
On Saturday 25 June 2011 22:09:36 Liviu Andronic wrote: On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 1:52 AM, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: On Saturday 25 June 2011 19:17:18 Marcelo Acuña wrote: 2. Yes, I remember this is a lyx list, but ... are there any advantages or writing this book in

Re: Can't convert

2011-06-26 Thread Richard Heck
On 06/26/2011 10:41 AM, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Yes, you do have separate user directories (which is good). The configuration logs in the user directories look fine. Both of them found MiKTeX. In particular, the 2.0 log shows that it has the correct converter path for producing PDF output, so

Re: Footnotes... across the chapters

2011-06-26 Thread Richard Heck
On 06/26/2011 07:43 AM, Frederick FN Noronha फ्रेडरिक नोरोन्या *فريدريك نورونيا wrote: Is it possible for Lyx to offer footnote numbering across the chapters? I mean, if there are 17 footnotes in Chapter 1, the first footnote in Chapter 2 should be #18, and not #1. There is a LaTeX package

Re: need suggestion on book

2011-06-26 Thread Shantanu N Kulkarni
* Marcelo Acu?a mv...@yahoo.com.ar [110626 09:18]: 2. Yes, I remember this is a lyx list, but ... are there any advantages or writing this book in plain latex instead of lyx? If you work in plain latex, while you write it, you get a text pestered with commands. That makes difficult

Re: Font Problem with Lyx - Metric (TFM) file not found

2011-06-26 Thread ölm
same problem with lyx 2.0.0 under ubuntu 11.04 64bit but THE SAME document is working under WinXP32bitSP3 only the (pre)view using xetex is working without error, but all greek letters and italic are then missing. under windows everything is working (except correct linebreaks at inline-formulas

Re: need suggestion on book

2011-06-26 Thread Trevor Jenkins
On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 10:13 PM, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.comwrote: I am interested in which font do I use, because usually lyx fonts are somewhat pale. On my setup, Century Schoolbook is the least pale font. I use Century Schoolbook on all my books, although I'm looking for a

Re: Can't convert

2011-06-26 Thread William Hanson
Richard, Paul In response to Paul's latest message: 1. No, I can't produce pdf output in LyX 2.0. 2. In each version of LyX, what do you see in the Converter and Extra flag fields when you go to Tools Preferences... File Handling Converters and highlight LaTeX (pdflatex) - PDF (pdflatex)? In

Re: need suggestion on book

2011-06-26 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 9:09 PM, Shantanu N Kulkarni m...@lists.shantanukulkarni.org wrote: I am interested in which font do I use, because usually lyx fonts are somewhat pale. In many cases the fonts pre-selected by default are indeed ghastly. Personally I tend to stick to Palatino Optima

Re: need suggestion on book

2011-06-26 Thread Steve Litt
On Sunday 26 June 2011 17:38:12 Trevor Jenkins wrote: On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 10:13 PM, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.comwrote: I am interested in which font do I use, because usually lyx fonts are somewhat pale. On my setup, Century Schoolbook is the least pale font. I use

Re: Indent picture (only)

2011-06-26 Thread Paul Rubin
Dirk Heine dirk at common-future.org writes: Thanks for your reply. The picture is not a wrap float; it is a logo in a letter (g-brief-2) and positioned above the text. The picture's boundary is currently too far to the right and I would like to push it a bit leftwards (yes, somewhat

Re: need suggestion on book

2011-06-26 Thread Trevor Jenkins
On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 3:09 AM, Liviu Andronic landronim...@gmail.comwrote: I couldn't have said it better myself. And because of what Marcelo said, I find LyX is a MUCH faster authoring environment than anything in which I need to see markup. As much as I agree with this, the one

Re: Re: Indent picture (only)

2011-06-26 Thread Dirk Heine
Dirk Heine dirk at common-future.org writes: Dear list,I would like to move a picture horizontally to place it more leftwards (towards the page edge). While moving this picture I would like to leave the text of the document unchanged and also not move the picture vertically. So this would

Footnotes... across the chapters

2011-06-26 Thread Frederick FN Noronha फ्रेडरिक नोरोन्या *فريدريك نورونيا
Is it possible for Lyx to offer footnote numbering across the chapters? I mean, if there are 17 footnotes in Chapter 1, the first footnote in Chapter 2 should be #18, and not #1. Many thanks for any help you could offer. FN FN +91-832-2409490 or +91-9822122436 (after 2pm) #784 Nr Lourdes

Re: Can't convert

2011-06-26 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Yes, you do have separate user directories (which is good). The configuration logs in the user directories look fine. Both of them found MiKTeX. In particular, the 2.0 log shows that it has the correct converter path for producing PDF output, so View PDF (pdflatex) should be working in

Re: need suggestion on book

2011-06-26 Thread Steve Litt
On Saturday 25 June 2011 22:09:36 Liviu Andronic wrote: On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 1:52 AM, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: On Saturday 25 June 2011 19:17:18 Marcelo Acuña wrote: 2. Yes, I remember this is a lyx list, but ... are there any advantages or writing this book in

Re: Can't convert

2011-06-26 Thread Richard Heck
On 06/26/2011 10:41 AM, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Yes, you do have separate user directories (which is good). The configuration logs in the user directories look fine. Both of them found MiKTeX. In particular, the 2.0 log shows that it has the correct converter path for producing PDF output, so

Re: Footnotes... across the chapters

2011-06-26 Thread Richard Heck
On 06/26/2011 07:43 AM, Frederick FN Noronha फ्रेडरिक नोरोन्या *فريدريك نورونيا wrote: Is it possible for Lyx to offer footnote numbering across the chapters? I mean, if there are 17 footnotes in Chapter 1, the first footnote in Chapter 2 should be #18, and not #1. There is a LaTeX package

Re: need suggestion on book

2011-06-26 Thread Shantanu N Kulkarni
* Marcelo Acu?a mv...@yahoo.com.ar [110626 09:18]: 2. Yes, I remember this is a lyx list, but ... are there any advantages or writing this book in plain latex instead of lyx? If you work in plain latex, while you write it, you get a text pestered with commands. That makes difficult

Re: Font Problem with Lyx - Metric (TFM) file not found

2011-06-26 Thread ölm
same problem with lyx 2.0.0 under ubuntu 11.04 64bit but THE SAME document is working under WinXP32bitSP3 only the (pre)view using xetex is working without error, but all greek letters and italic are then missing. under windows everything is working (except correct linebreaks at inline-formulas

Re: need suggestion on book

2011-06-26 Thread Trevor Jenkins
On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 10:13 PM, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.comwrote: I am interested in which font do I use, because usually lyx fonts are somewhat pale. On my setup, Century Schoolbook is the least pale font. I use Century Schoolbook on all my books, although I'm looking for a

Re: Can't convert

2011-06-26 Thread William Hanson
Richard, Paul In response to Paul's latest message: 1. No, I can't produce pdf output in LyX 2.0. 2. In each version of LyX, what do you see in the Converter and Extra flag fields when you go to Tools Preferences... File Handling Converters and highlight LaTeX (pdflatex) - PDF (pdflatex)? In

Re: need suggestion on book

2011-06-26 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 9:09 PM, Shantanu N Kulkarni m...@lists.shantanukulkarni.org wrote: I am interested in which font do I use, because usually lyx fonts are somewhat pale. In many cases the fonts pre-selected by default are indeed ghastly. Personally I tend to stick to Palatino Optima

Re: need suggestion on book

2011-06-26 Thread Steve Litt
On Sunday 26 June 2011 17:38:12 Trevor Jenkins wrote: On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 10:13 PM, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.comwrote: I am interested in which font do I use, because usually lyx fonts are somewhat pale. On my setup, Century Schoolbook is the least pale font. I use

Re: Indent picture (only)

2011-06-26 Thread Paul Rubin
Dirk Heine dirk at common-future.org writes: Thanks for your reply. The picture is not a wrap float; it is a logo in a letter (g-brief-2) and positioned above the text. The picture's boundary is currently too far to the right and I would like to push it a bit leftwards (yes, somewhat

Re: need suggestion on book

2011-06-26 Thread Trevor Jenkins
On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 3:09 AM, Liviu Andronic wrote: > I couldn't have said it better myself. And because of what Marcelo > > said, I find LyX is a MUCH faster authoring environment than anything > > in which I need to see markup. > > > As much as I agree with this, the

Re: Re: Indent picture (only)

2011-06-26 Thread Dirk Heine
Dirk Heine common-future.org> writes: > > Dear list,I would like to move a picture horizontally to place it more leftwards (towards the page edge). While moving this picture I would like to leave the text of the document unchanged and also not move the picture vertically. So this would basically

Footnotes... across the chapters

2011-06-26 Thread Frederick FN Noronha फ्रेडरिक नोरोन्या *فريدريك نورونيا
Is it possible for Lyx to offer footnote numbering across the chapters? I mean, if there are 17 footnotes in Chapter 1, the first footnote in Chapter 2 should be #18, and not #1. Many thanks for any help you could offer. FN FN +91-832-2409490 or +91-9822122436 (after 2pm) #784 Nr Lourdes

Re: Can't convert

2011-06-26 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Yes, you do have separate user directories (which is good). The configuration logs in the user directories look fine. Both of them found MiKTeX. In particular, the 2.0 log shows that it has the correct converter path for producing PDF output, so View > PDF (pdflatex) should be working in

Re: need suggestion on book

2011-06-26 Thread Steve Litt
On Saturday 25 June 2011 22:09:36 Liviu Andronic wrote: > On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 1:52 AM, Steve Litt wrote: > > On Saturday 25 June 2011 19:17:18 Marcelo Acuña wrote: > >> > 2. Yes, I remember this is a lyx list, but ... are there > >> > any advantages or > >> >

Re: Can't convert

2011-06-26 Thread Richard Heck
On 06/26/2011 10:41 AM, Paul A. Rubin wrote: > Yes, you do have separate user directories (which is good). The > configuration logs in the user directories look fine. Both of them > found MiKTeX. In particular, the 2.0 log shows that it has the > correct converter path for producing PDF output,

Re: Footnotes... across the chapters

2011-06-26 Thread Richard Heck
On 06/26/2011 07:43 AM, Frederick FN Noronha फ्रेडरिक नोरोन्या *فريدريك نورونيا wrote: > Is it possible for Lyx to offer footnote numbering across the > chapters? I mean, if there are 17 footnotes in Chapter 1, the first > footnote in Chapter 2 should be #18, and not #1. > There is a LaTeX

Re: need suggestion on book

2011-06-26 Thread Shantanu N Kulkarni
* Marcelo Acu?a [110626 09:18]: > > 2. Yes, I remember this is a lyx list, but ... are there > > any advantages or > > writing this book in plain latex instead of lyx? > > If you work in plain latex, while you write it, you get a text pestered > with commands. That makes

Re: Font Problem with Lyx - Metric (TFM) file not found

2011-06-26 Thread ölm
same problem with lyx 2.0.0 under ubuntu 11.04 64bit but THE SAME document is working under WinXP32bitSP3 only the (pre)view using xetex is working without error, but all greek letters and italic are then missing. under windows everything is working (except correct linebreaks at inline-formulas

Re: need suggestion on book

2011-06-26 Thread Trevor Jenkins
On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 10:13 PM, Steve Litt wrote: > > I am interested in which font do I use, because usually lyx fonts > > are somewhat "pale". > > On my setup, Century Schoolbook is the least pale font. I use Century > Schoolbook on all my books, although I'm

Re: Can't convert

2011-06-26 Thread William Hanson
Richard, Paul In response to Paul's latest message: 1. No, I can't produce pdf output in LyX 2.0. 2. "In each version of LyX, what do you see in the "Converter" and "Extra flag" fields when you go to Tools > Preferences... > File Handling > Converters and highlight "LaTeX (pdflatex) -> PDF

Re: need suggestion on book

2011-06-26 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 9:09 PM, Shantanu N Kulkarni wrote: > I am interested in which font do I use, because usually lyx fonts > are somewhat "pale". > In many cases the fonts pre-selected by default are indeed ghastly. Personally I tend to stick to Palatino &

Re: need suggestion on book

2011-06-26 Thread Steve Litt
On Sunday 26 June 2011 17:38:12 Trevor Jenkins wrote: > On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 10:13 PM, Steve Litt wrote: > > > I am interested in which font do I use, because usually lyx > > > fonts are somewhat "pale". > > > > On my setup, Century Schoolbook is the least pale

Re: Indent picture (only)

2011-06-26 Thread Paul Rubin
Dirk Heine common-future.org> writes: > Thanks for your reply. The picture is not a wrap float; it is a logo > in a letter (g-brief-2) and positioned above the text. The picture's > boundary is currently too far to the right and I would like to push it > a bit leftwards (yes, somewhat intruding