Re: Lyx... setting text in circular shape

2013-09-28 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Am Samstag 28 September 2013, 07:31:45 schrieb stefano franchi: Not with LyX, as far as I know. But everything is possible with latex. In particular, the command \parshape allows you to build paragraphs of arbitrary shapes. The package shapepar, which is built on top of parshape, provides a

Re: How to install the booktabs LaTeX package

2013-09-28 Thread Ian P.L. Kwan
Thanks for the reply. I worked out what was wrong, that is, why MiKTeX was not installing the packages I wanted. The problem was with my proxy settings within my university. Not only do I have proxy settings for my internet connection, you also need to have the same proxy settings within MiKTeX

Re: Lyx... setting text in circular shape

2013-09-28 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Am Samstag 28 September 2013, 07:31:45 schrieb stefano franchi: Not with LyX, as far as I know. But everything is possible with latex. In particular, the command \parshape allows you to build paragraphs of arbitrary shapes. The package shapepar, which is built on top of parshape, provides a

Re: How to install the booktabs LaTeX package

2013-09-28 Thread Ian P.L. Kwan
Thanks for the reply. I worked out what was wrong, that is, why MiKTeX was not installing the packages I wanted. The problem was with my proxy settings within my university. Not only do I have proxy settings for my internet connection, you also need to have the same proxy settings within MiKTeX

Re: Lyx... setting text in circular shape

2013-09-28 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Am Samstag 28 September 2013, 07:31:45 schrieb stefano franchi: > Not with LyX, as far as I know. But everything is possible with latex. In > particular, the command \parshape allows you to build paragraphs of > arbitrary shapes. The package shapepar, which is built on top of parshape, > provides

Re: How to install the booktabs LaTeX package

2013-09-28 Thread Ian P.L. Kwan
Thanks for the reply. I worked out what was wrong, that is, why MiKTeX was not installing the packages I wanted. The problem was with my proxy settings within my university. Not only do I have proxy settings for my internet connection, you also need to have the same proxy settings within MiKTeX