Re: kerning of letters with hyphen not so great

2006-01-23 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 07:09:10PM +0100, Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: > I must say that I am somewhat disappointed at the lack of kerning of > letter combinations such as "-W" in the word "non-Western". This is > using the standard CM font. To get the hyphen to appear visually > balanced in "non-Weste

Re: [ANNOUNCE] LyX 1.3.7 is released

2006-01-22 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Sat, Jan 21, 2006 at 10:59:29PM +, Enrico Forestieri wrote: > Andre Poenitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Is there a bugzilla entry for this? > > Here it is: > http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2234 Thanks. Andre'

Re: find equation labels in a lyx document

2006-01-22 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 11:18:23AM -0600, David Halpern wrote: > I would like to be able to find equation labels, say eq:eq1, in a lyx > document to check whether they are being referenced to in the text. > How does one do this? I am not sure this is possible in LyX itself. But you can open the .l

Re: [ANNOUNCE] LyX 1.3.7 is released

2006-01-21 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Sat, Jan 21, 2006 at 03:21:41PM +, Enrico Forestieri wrote: > Andre Poenitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Be cautious. tex2lyx is not perfect when importing LaTeX and I doubt any > > tool ever will be. But it should not be worse than reLyX. > > It c

Re: Business letter (on letterhead) template for LyX - simple _working_ minipage solution

2006-01-21 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 03:49:44PM +0100, Herbert Voss wrote: > Helge Hafting wrote: > > >Latex does not seem to offer a proper way of aligning boxes by the > >box top, but there is a simple workaround. > > TeX offers everything ... Except undoing paragraph breaks. SCNR. Andre'

Re: 1.3.7 and 1.4

2006-01-21 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 10:59:37AM +, Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: > Hi > > I just wondered if anyone knew the timescale for 1.4 release. I know that > 1.4pre3 has been available since christmas and this is nearly the final > version. > > The reason I ask is that with the release of 1.3.7 I have t

Re: [ANNOUNCE] LyX 1.3.7 is released

2006-01-21 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 10:45:03AM +0100, Sven Schreiber wrote: > One question about that: am I right in assuming that Uwe's Windows > installer of 1.3.7 will bundle tex2lyx so that proper (meaning non-relyx) > latex import becomes a reality with 1.3.7? (That is basically the only > missing feat

Re: Business letter (on letterhead) template for LyX

2006-01-16 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 11:11:39AM +0100, Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: > Paul A. Rubin writes: > > > 1. (This is the only major issue.) Our letterhead includes logos on > > both the left side of the paper and along the top. Dealing with the > > top is not a problem, but for the life of me I cannot find

Re: copying and pasting a LyX environment? (like Word's Format Painter)

2006-01-13 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 02:26:48PM +0100, Abdel wrote: > >This functionality could be implemneted in the Navigate menu in the > >Qt frontend: Make the menu a list view, allowm multiple selection, > >create and connect actions to movce things a level in or out. > > I was thinking about modifying th

Re: copying and pasting a LyX environment? (like Word's Format Painter)

2006-01-09 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 10:22:48AM +0100, Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: > Helge Hafting writes: > > I don't know how this "format painter" works, but here is something > > I imagine could be useful: > > > > * Mark the part of the document to be changed - possibly all > > * Use a menu (or keypress) to chang

Re: [announce] sixth release of LyXWinInstaller

2006-01-08 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 02:24:58PM -0800, Stephen Harris wrote: > Why doesn't English have the default of C:\Programs? > Is it because C:\program files adheres to basic Windows guidelines? > No, certainly not. > Just because Word pioneered filenames with spaces doesn't > mean that practice should b

Re: Math mode ERT problems

2005-12-04 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 09:40:55AM +, Drop Box wrote: [If that was my real name I'd seriously consider sueing my mother...] > ERT in mathed seems to have a few issues. It surely has. There is no such thing like a TeX parser other than TeX itself... And TeX has the benefit of operating on sta

Re: mission lyx ...

2005-12-03 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 10:03:50AM -0500, Bennett Helm wrote: > Note that compilation will take hours -- especially Qt. However, you > don't need to compile the Qt tutorial or examples. (I believe you can > simply delete those directories -- or, better, move them aside -- > before compiling;

Re: Forget Windows

2005-11-11 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 06:37:52PM +0100, Gour wrote: > I could also say: gnome, gnome-vfs, internationalization (I18N), > localization (L10N), OS X is there, cairo back-end, win32, and lgpl > license, i.e. not depending on trolltech... What's wrong with Qt's GPL? Andre'

Re: Forget Windows

2005-11-11 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 07:45:00PM +0100, Ingar Pareliussen wrote: > So it is possible to port to other tookits without to much work That is wrong and does not get better by repeating it. Supporting yet another toolkit is a significant amount of work, and the GUII framework makes using toolkits

Re: Forget Windows

2005-11-11 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 08:24:58AM +0200, Martin Vermeer wrote: > > The idea is that each frontend author is free to implement the dialogs > > as he wants. There is no contraint on their layout and/or text. > > But that's a bug, not a feature, right? We _should_ strive for uniformity. This would

Re: Forget Windows

2005-11-11 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 11:54:30AM +0100, Helge Hafting wrote: > >Multi-platform? > > I have no idea - but the existing qt port is multiplatform so a port > to another toolkit doesn't have to be. Indeed. And note that we get much better multi-platform support when using Qt alone than with any hom

Re: Forget Windows

2005-11-11 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 02:43:00PM -0500, William F. Adams wrote: > On Nov 8, 2005, at 11:52 AM, Angus Leeming wrote: > > >You have a strange definition of ``for free'', William. There are 295 > >files in the Qt frontend totalling some 27,000 lines of code. And > >that's neglecting the .ui files t

Re: Drawing of polynomials

2005-10-16 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Sun, Oct 16, 2005 at 07:44:16AM +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote: > I couldn't get it to compile trivially... > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> gcc graf.cpp Unless you definitely know what you are doiung, use g++ to compile C++ code. Andre'

Re: Poor men's scientific workplace.

2005-10-10 Thread Andre Poenitz
> On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 11:24:05AM -0700, Bo Peng wrote: > > > Have you considered adding LyX to a Knoppix cdrom and running > > > that in a Microsoft machine? > > > > Reboot, Not needed in the age of virtual machines. > > writing something that can not be viewed and printed under > > windows,

Re: Increase features!

2005-10-10 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Sat, Oct 08, 2005 at 12:36:48PM -0700, Bo Peng wrote: > > I'm tired, but would like to ask a simple > > question: Is there some way to use a non-english dict > > on Lyx (not on theory, but I want some stuff that > > really works!)? > > I understand your frustration and I thank you for suppo

Re: equations in lyx

2005-10-02 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 01:10:16PM -0700, gajus miknaitis wrote: > Now if there was only a way to turn on this numbering for the entire > document, instead of case by case. I think the idea is to number only those numbers that you need to refer to in which case they need a label anyway... Andre'

Re: copying LaTeX text into a LyX document from clipboard

2005-09-05 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Sun, Sep 04, 2005 at 06:09:48PM -0400, David Soukal wrote: > > You can do this for mathed but not for the rest of LyX. Eg, typing as > > normal text "$a=b+c$" (without quotes), highlighting the block and > > selecting Insert->Math->Display Formula will convert the code into a > > mathed inset. >

Re: CAS in LyX!

2005-08-27 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 05:00:51PM -0300, Rudi Gaelzer wrote: > However, it seems that there's no reference for the use of CAS in LyX either > in the User Guide or in the Extended Features guide. Where can I find a > tutorial or something like that? There is no such entry in the tutorial since

Re: problem compiling on x86_64 (Slamd64)

2005-08-21 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 03:20:41AM -0700, Nathan Becker wrote: > I'm having trouble compiling LyX 1.3.6 on an AMD64 machine. For some > reason LyX is looking in the /usr/lib directory for some libraries even > though all environment variables point it to /usr/lib64 > > Here is the error message

Re: Mathpazo and Slow Printing

2005-08-14 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Sat, Aug 13, 2005 at 01:32:46PM -0500, Bruce Pourciau wrote: > Yes, as you seem to have anticipated, it's not happening now. Do you > know the cause? The fonts are installed in some kind of 'descriptive' form initially. To view dvi you need a bitmap form. Computing this from the 'descriptive'

Re: Lyx crashes when hitting Help/Manual

2005-08-13 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Sun, Jul 31, 2005 at 11:28:30AM -0700, Rich Shepard wrote: > I suspect that Qt seems sluggish because it's object oriented and, > therefore, large. That assumption is wrong. Object orientation does not make things slower by itself. But if it is accompanied with certain design decisions that w

Re: Mathpazo and Slow Printing

2005-08-13 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 04:17:42PM -0500, Bruce Pourciau wrote: > The same document prints much more slowly using the mathpazo package > than using the default (European modern) fonts. Is this normal? Does this happen always or only at the first time? Andre'

Re: Making Custom Symbol sets? IPA

2005-08-13 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Aug 01, 2005 at 04:53:08AM -0400, Stacia Hartleben wrote: > I was looking at the math editor and I was wondering if I could add my > own symbol sets, particularly for the IPA (using tipa). I found a file > called "symbol" but I don't know how to edit the stuff in it. Will > support for phon

Re: Defaults

2005-08-08 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 04:48:10PM -0400, Matthew Cohen wrote: > Second, I don't particularly like the way the borders are handled in > the default setting for "insert tabular material" in LyX. In > everything I write, I like to have a border above and below the first > row, and nowhere else

Re: 1.3.6pre and 1.4 windows

2005-07-08 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 11:04:38AM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > "Angus" == Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Angus> Nothing but bug fixes are being committed to the 1.4 tree and > Angus> they're being committed at a fairly steady rate. Jürgen > Angus> Spitzmüller, Martin

Re: 1.3.6pre and 1.4 windows

2005-07-08 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 09:25:37PM +0100, Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: > A question to anyone that might know the answer. With the large amount > of work going into Lyx 1.3.6 for Windows am I to assume the following > > 1) Lyx 1.4 release is a long way off Possibly. However there don't seem any big obst

Re: convert text to math equation

2005-07-04 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 12:08:20AM -0500, Paul Johnson wrote: > I was lazy and typed several pages with ordinary text for variables x, > y, and z. Later, I wanted to convert those to math, and I try to > highlight the things and hit C-m. That does create the math box, but it > does not convert

Re: convert text to math equation

2005-07-04 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 02:25:53PM +0200, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > Paul Johnson schrieb: > > >I was lazy and typed several pages with ordinary text for variables x, > >y, and z. Later, I wanted to convert those to math, and I try to > >highlight the things and hit C-m. That does create the math box,

Re: Words containing Umlaute not found by find and replace

2005-06-20 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 03:56:21PM +0200, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > > > > LANG=de_DE lyx $* > > > > What happened to "$@"? > > I do not understand this "$@" does the same for arguments without spaces as $*, yet does not break with spaces. So it is uniformly better. Andre'

Re: My versions won't control

2005-06-18 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 08:11:04PM -0400, Matej Cepl wrote: > Andre Poenitz wrote: > > As a sidenote: RCS has been (sort of) superseded by CVS a dozen years > > ago which in turn is in the process of being superseded by SVN as far > > as I can tell. Things might be bearable on

Re: Words containing Umlaute not found by find and replace

2005-06-18 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 11:20:05AM +0100, Angus Leeming wrote: > Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > > Do I understand you correctly, that I should use at least under SuSe 9.2 > > (and 9.3?) LyX xforms instead of QT? Or switch to another distribution? > > Nope. It's sufficient to follow Georg's suggestion

Re: My versions won't control

2005-06-14 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 03:05:54PM +0200, Nicolás wrote: > >I'd like to be able to do version control of my Lyx files running on Win > >XP; but I find the manual etc less than clear. > >... > >I did step 1, putting the RCS directoru in C:\lyx\bin which is where > >lyx.exe is. But when I try step 1,

Re: Problem with adjacent thingies

2005-06-13 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Sun, Jun 12, 2005 at 11:22:32PM +0100, Paul Smith wrote: > On 6/11/05, Andre Poenitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I originally reported this difficuly with the "case" environment but have > > > since noticed the problem with lots of other

Re: Problem with adjacent thingies

2005-06-12 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 03:12:43PM -0500, Srinivas Nedunuri wrote: > I originally reported this difficuly with the "case" environment but have > since noticed the problem with lots of other environments, including Lemma, > Definition, etc. Essentially the problem is that Lyx wont let me create > ad

Re: Two dashes vs. en-dash

2005-06-11 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 10:33:00PM -0700, ADT wrote: > I'm writing some technical documentation which covers the usage of GNU > style long-opts where multi-character options are preceded with two > dashes (--). However, when LyX sees two dashes together, it turns it > into an elongated single dash

Re: Problem w/ Windows install: no layout description

2005-06-06 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 09:23:24PM -0700, Steven Ning wrote: > Gah, no read-receipts please! Good point indeed. Now, since you bring up that kind of topic: Please no full quotes either. Cut down any mail you are replying to to contain only the parts you are replying to, mark 'important' ommissio

Re: Force in-line equations to one line

2005-06-06 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 12:41:50PM +1000, Roger McMurtrie wrote: > Does anybody know how to stop, other than forcing a line break, a > short in-line equation from being split into two parts by an automatic > line break? '\mbox{' before and '}' after the equation in ERT is ugly but should help. A

Re: 1/2

2005-05-23 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 11:05:07AM +0100, Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: > Is it possible to create the 1/2 symbol, available in many fonts, > using lyx. I don't wish to use three characters as in 1 / 2 or the > fraction command but just a single character. Put \usepackage{nicefrac} in the preamble and \n

Re: Row Padding in Tables

2005-05-23 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 11:21:45AM -0500, Bruce Pourciau wrote: > To my eye the default tables produced by LaTex are too crowded, the > cells having too little breathing space above and below the cell > contents. For an individual table, I can increase this space using the > arraystretch command

Re: Newbie question

2005-05-09 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 11:13:12PM +0200, Helge Hafting wrote: > On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 08:58:56PM +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote: > > On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 12:40:04PM +0200, Helge Hafting wrote: > > > There is a way around this, if tex seems too limiting. A lyx macro > >

Re: Newbie question

2005-05-09 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 12:40:04PM +0200, Helge Hafting wrote: > There is a way around this, if tex seems too limiting. A lyx macro > doesn't have to have a corresponding tex macro. Lyx could simply > expand "lyx-macros" itself when exporting tex, instead of outputting a > tex macro. That'd allo

Re: Newbie question

2005-05-06 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 10:12:50AM +0100, Paul Smith wrote: > > where the 8 indicates you will have 8 editable entries. In the macro > > definition box, insert the left brace, the 2x4 array (with right > > justification) and the right null delimiter. Then (still in the macro > > definition box) s

Re: find/replace with lyx objects (such as ERTs, footnotes, etc.) [& regexes]

2005-05-06 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 03:36:32PM +0200, Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: > Following up on myself again, 'Idx'es are another object that I would like > to be able to find/replace. As mentioned, actually _any_ inline container > should be find/replaceable if possible. > > Is this the best place to post wi

Re: Numbered, bracketed, Systems of Equations - How??

2005-05-06 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 02:46:41PM +0100, Brian Williams wrote: > Hi Herbert, > > using some of your ideas, I've got what I wanted using a single row, 3 > element array. It's almost all done with LyX with a minimum of Latex > in-line code. > > Question is, do you think it's terribly kludgy? See

Re: bibtex with long author lists

2005-05-02 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Sun, May 01, 2005 at 06:55:00PM +0100, Angus Leeming wrote: > Now that we have tex2lyx, a formally correct latex parser This is exaggerated. It just happens to be able to parse most of TeX we've needed so far... Andre'

Re: installing cvs [Re: lyx bugfix releases]

2005-05-02 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Sun, May 01, 2005 at 06:58:12PM +0200, Tim Michelsen wrote: > > ./configure --with-version-suffix=1.4 > I get this error: > > checking for C compiler default output file name... configure: error: C > compiler cannot create executables > See `config.log' for more details. > > Do I need to inst

Re: Copiright Symbol, Registered Symbol and Trademark Symbol

2005-04-30 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 08:48:43AM +0930, Paul Medwell wrote: > Uwe Stöhr wrote: > >Paul Medwell wrote: > > > >>I don't know how to do a centreline symbol (a C overlapped by an L). > >>Anyone know of a LaTeX code / package for this? > > > > > >Have a look at > > > >http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/i

Re: How do you "comment out" content?

2005-04-22 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 07:14:58PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a small (< 1 page) section of my book which I'd like to temporarily > comment out. Is there an environment with which I can make this text into a > comment, so it can later easily be reincorporated as Standard envir

Re: Lyx on a USB-Stick?

2005-04-21 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 09:16:20AM +0200, Joachim Krieg wrote: > Hello, > I'm a real lyx newbie but I very impressed about the possibilities to > work with lyx. > Now I have one question. Is there any possibility to run lyx on an > USB-Stick? Have you actually tried installing LyX (and LaTeX etc)

Re: More than one appendix in IEEEtran

2005-04-21 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 08:11:22AM +0200, G. Milde wrote: > On 20.04.05, LB wrote: > > I'm not very experienced with this: How do I apply a patch in Windows XP? > > This patch adds just one line (the one with the + before it), so the > easisest way is: copy IEEEtran.layout to your local LyX direct

Re: "why lyx when there's word?"

2005-04-20 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 08:33:56AM +0200, Alexander Blüm wrote: > But I've also met a few very stubborn people, like most of my school. > They say that you can solve any problem you're approaching with > WORD2000... > I'm running out of arguments.. They've not even tried LyX and knock it > already.

Re: Should this behavior be expected?

2005-04-20 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 11:51:21AM +0100, Angus Leeming wrote: > I guess we just need to look at a kde app to see how they stuff the > clipboard. Plain Qt should be sufficient as far as I can tell.. Andre'

Re: Should this behavior be expected?

2005-04-20 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 11:43:41AM +0100, Paul Smith wrote: > On 4/18/05, Charles de Miramon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Cut&paste is a sad example of the results of the over-engineered and > > under-staffed toolkit independent LyX Sonderweg. > > In spite of being few, LyX staff deserves a hig

Re: "why lyx when there's word?"

2005-04-20 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 10:44:08AM -0700, Rich Drewes wrote: > There are good equation packages (third party) for Word as well, I am > told. I've seen a couple of them. I would even admit that most of them look better than LyX _on screen_. But when the criteria are either quality of print output o

Re: LyX and amsmath

2005-04-15 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 08:20:38PM +0200, Georg Baum wrote: > > - split could be added in the 'Insert->Math' menu, > > You can do this yourself: Add the line > > Item "Split Environment" "command-sequence math-insert \split; > tabular-feature append-column" > > (all in one line) in your .ui fil

Re: Lyx (latex) to xml

2005-04-15 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 10:52:50AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > Why change the LyX native language? It's incredibly readable and > parsable the way it is. It is neither. It is "sort of" readable and parsable at most. And it hampers progress in a few areas. The last step of math and non-math inset u

Re: What are makeatletter and makeatother for?

2005-04-11 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 06:57:38PM +, Angus Leeming wrote: > \begingroup \catcode`\%=12 > \toks0={\endgroup > \def\percentchar{%}} > \the\toks0 \relax > > \includegraphics{"F:/Download/ima\percentchar ge"} > > Urgh! Isn't TeX horrible ? You need to prevent '%' being recognized as comment,

Re: ERT out of box - 1.1.6 style?

2005-04-09 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 05:51:39PM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > I guess you'll agree with me that being forced to do that is a bit > silly :) The question is: what good binding could we have for that? A new LFUN doing exactly this? LFUN_INSET_CHANGE_STATE insettype from to or similar? A

Re: Borders around figures

2005-03-21 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 06:28:58PM +0200, Miki Dovrat wrote: > Hi, > > Is there a way in lyx (or in ERT) to have a black line - border around a > figure? > > In LaTeX I would enclose the figure in a \fbox{...} but I don't know how to > work that around the figure floats in lyx. > > Does anyone

Re: [nooby q] 'linked' text flow

2005-02-21 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Sat, Feb 19, 2005 at 11:53:01PM +1100, Glenn Davy wrote: > I imagine given the 'structured' nature of lyx that this isn't possible? It's almost impossible to do with (La)TeX, so it is not exactly LyX's fault that this is not possible. > Correct? Is it however possible to use some LaTeX tricks

Re: How to pronounce LyX?

2005-02-12 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 04:11:29PM +0300, V.Yumashev wrote: > I am quite satisfied with LyX. > But how shall I pronounce LyX ([liks] or [lik] or ...)? Tradionally, everybody tries to pronounce it as written in his mother tongue. So in your case it depends whether you see the latin 'L' as a flipped

Re: How to cross reference a float

2005-01-28 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 11:20:16AM -0500, Steve Litt wrote: > Having to label chapters doesn't bother me because there are so few chapters > (17 in my upcoming book). But there are multiple floats per chapter, and I > know of no sane naming convention, and labels are global, not local to a > cha

Re: How to cross reference a float

2005-01-28 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 10:14:14AM +0100, Johan Ingvast wrote: > Hi list > I'm writing on my thesis and recognize the problem. The labeling is a bit > of a problem. Not only one have to find a good name that describes the > label, but also when inserting the label one have to find it in a list of >

Re: Latex output of xfig

2005-01-28 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 01:03:29PM -0700, LB wrote: > Hello, > > When I generate Latex part (.pstex_t) of a xfig picture, xfig inserts: > \color[rgb]{0,0,0} in front of every line of text in the pstex_t document. > Lyx seem to have a problem with \color[rgb]{0,0,0}. As soon as edit > .pstex_t

Re: follow-up: relyx / lyx2lyx problems -- solution

2005-01-28 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 09:02:17PM +0100, Sven Schreiber wrote: > (Latex doesn't complain, so I guess that theoretically this should be > supported by relyx -- but it's a bit unfair. Maybe someone knows if that > was clean latex in some "official" sense?) Official TeX syntax is whatever TeX unde

Re: How to cross reference a float

2005-01-28 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 11:41:56AM -0500, Steve Litt wrote: > Seriously, there's got to be some way to make it easier. Your method > of "fig:" is a start, and makes things tolerable (THANKS!), but I'm > wondering if something could be done with automatic labels or maybe > local labels. I think one

Re: failed import of latex doc (relyx produces something that causes lyx2lyx to hang)

2005-01-28 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 06:59:29PM -0500, Michael Wojcik wrote: > >I understand that that wouldn't work even if it had a .py extension. > >That mechanism is triggered only if you click on the blighter or such > >like. Apparently. The only sure fire way to get things working is to > >invoke it as "p

Re: Adding a second "index" to document

2005-01-21 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 10:55:55AM +0100, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: > The splitindex package is probably the best choice. > You will need some ERT in any case, most likely, you will also need to > export your document to LaTeX and compile it manually (because you need to > call splitindex instead

Re: Hello LyX list - Getting my University to adopt LyX - CAS integration

2005-01-15 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 03:30:27PM +, Luke Stutters wrote: > Hello everyone - I have just subscribed to this LyX user list after > using LyX to complete (amongst other things) my final year Maths project. > > LyX is a fantastic piece of software and I have been trying to encourage > staff a

Re: Equation labelling

2005-01-15 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 01:38:09PM -0500, Vaibhav Srivastava wrote: > Hi , > I am new to Lyx. I have a problem with Lyx in equation labeling in the > math mode. I use the version 1.3.1 > In UserGuide it has shown how to label equations and when I do > Insert->Label from the math mode in the user

Re: book chapter

2005-01-15 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 10:31:53PM -0500, Myriam Abramson wrote: > I used one of the class provided by the publisher. Is it possible to > provide the publisher with the tex output exported from Lyx while the > other authors provide non-Lyx tex output for the other chapters? Can > they be mixed tog

Re: Portability of lyx documents for document collaboration

2005-01-08 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 05:01:13PM -0500, Paul A. Rubin wrote: > And, worse yet, SciWord makes extensive use of "proprietary" (perhaps I > should say unique to SciWord) styles, which you won't find in any > standard LaTeX distribution. I'm not sure if it's within licensing > terms for your coll

Re: No Search & Replace in 1.3.5?

2005-01-08 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 10:10:30PM +, John Levon wrote: > Wherever it makes sense we do use the Qt library for UI, as much as > possible. Unfortunately the Qt library is very much "our way or no way > at all" in large part... in particular truly separated MVC seems very > hard to do if we use t

Re: Comments on structured authoring, LyX, OpenOffice, and life

2005-01-08 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 12:17:12PM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Juergen> I don't think that "completely broken" still holds. The > Juergen> assert with change tracking has been fixed recently, and > Juergen> AFAICS change tracking works quite well now (there are still > Juergen> some minor

Re: Comments on structured authoring, LyX, OpenOffice, and life

2005-01-08 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 12:36:18AM +0100, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > And it is not supposed to be lcd of qt and xforms. Maybe it's not supposed to be like this, but face it: it mostly is. Moreover, currently a lot of LyX's manpower seems to go into platform independence code that would come for

Re: No Search & Replace in 1.3.5?

2005-01-08 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 01:00:50PM +0100, Charles de Miramon wrote: > Wordprocessor) we have this feature. Not because, KWord has a big > development team (it is indeed less numerous than the LyX team) but because > we use the Qtextdocument class which gives us the possibility for regexp > expressi

Re: Comments on structured authoring, LyX, OpenOffice, and life

2005-01-08 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 06:23:29PM +0100, Charles de Miramon wrote: > Previous situations (configuration in either Edit or Option menus) was > rather illogical and caused by the fact that the average screen was much > smaller than today. And how exactly did my average screen grow during the last e

Re: Comments on structured authoring, LyX, OpenOffice, and life

2005-01-08 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 03:31:39PM +0100, Charles de Miramon wrote: > Plugins also make sense with the LateX model. If I'm using natbib, I won't > be using jurabib and vice-versa. Plugins do not play well with TeX at all. Basically the only reliable context there is a full file. Even an 'a' in a

Re: Comments on structured authoring, LyX, OpenOffice, and life

2005-01-08 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 02:50:58PM -0500, Steve Litt wrote: > I hope LyX *NEVER* depends on KDE in any way. My personal experience tells me > that KDE is unstable, to the point where I use very few KDE apps. I use Kmail > right now, but am looking for a replacement. Kmail crashes on me regularly.

Re: No Search & Replace in 1.3.5?

2005-01-08 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 03:56:38PM +0100, Charles de Miramon wrote: > I'm going way outside my competence, but the difference between Boost and > Qt/KDE is that Boost seems to me that Boost is a classical library : more > algorithms, more data structures but very little concerning the interface >

Re: LyX-1.3.5-qt and memory-leak?

2004-12-11 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 10:17:09AM +, Angus Leeming wrote: > I have seen André in the past suggest that this particular problem can be > 'cured' by replacing the offending code with something as trivial as > 'return 0'. I can't remember the details; maybe a search of the archives > for 'Poen

Re: PICT conversion from LyX

2004-12-06 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Sun, Dec 05, 2004 at 03:45:45PM +, Angus Leeming wrote: > > I did as long as it worked. Lately there had been so problems with > > spurious mouse events, though, that made the thing unusable. > > In 1.4.x? Fixed last week ;-) I know. Otherwise I would have dropped the 'SCNR' line... Thank

Re: PICT conversion from LyX

2004-12-04 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 08:48:23AM +, Angus Leeming wrote: > Not many people seem to use the XForms frontend. Ahh well. I did as long as it worked. Lately there had been so problems with spurious mouse events, though, that made the thing unusable. SCNR, Andre'

Re: Removing an index entry

2004-11-29 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Sat, Nov 27, 2004 at 01:04:38PM -0800, Rich Shepard wrote: > This, of course, makes more sense. I mis-read the instructions. Well, > there goes the weekend, correcting my mistakes. :-( Open the raw .lyx file in an editor and replace \begin_inset LaTeXCommand \index{X} by X

Re: Removing an index entry

2004-11-29 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Sat, Nov 27, 2004 at 09:08:14PM +0100, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > Rich Shepard wrote: > > >It becomes impossible to read the text since the word or > >phrase is replaced by a small, grey box that shows "IDX". > > I always set the box behind the word that I want to be indexed so that I > always know w

Re: \underrrightarrow not working

2004-11-27 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Thu, Nov 25, 2004 at 02:52:58PM +, Angus Leeming wrote: > Actually, it's something of a conscious decision. Andre didn't want > to force the user to use AMSMath. Maybe he uses a package that > defines \underrightarrow that we don't know about. No, I think I just forgot ams in the inset's

Re: \underrrightarrow not working

2004-11-27 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Thu, Nov 25, 2004 at 02:47:15PM +0100, Herbert Voss wrote: > Angus Leeming wrote: > >Johannes Behr wrote: > > > >>I tried to use the \underrightarrow Frame decorator from > >>the math-panel inside of a display formula. > > > > > >Check the 'Use AMS math' button in the 'Packages' pane of the > >'

Re: Centering paragraphs easily War: Re: Centering graphics in float

2004-11-20 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 08:11:30PM +0100, Matthias Quick wrote: > while i read this i remember that i#m always confused why lyx does'nt offer a > button "centre" "flushleft" or "flushright" in the toolbar or a shortcut for > this. I could not find anything in defaults.ui neither could i in cua.bi

Re: Change bar patch for 1.3.5

2004-11-20 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 01:57:29PM +0100, Vaclav Smidl wrote: > Hi Jane, > thanks for the patch, it works beautifully. > > I vote for its inclusion into 1.3.6cvs. That's not the kind of thing that changed in the stable series. However, when it comes for voting, _I_ vote that somebody ports the t

Re: short cut for inputing sin, cos, max, min

2004-11-20 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Sat, Nov 20, 2004 at 01:00:03AM +0100, Alfredo Braunstein wrote: > Jianwei Huang wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Is there a way of inputting function names such as > > "sin", "cos" or "max", "min" without using the math > > panal? Say with keyboard shortcuts? If there is no > > Just type \sin, \cos,

Re: Character styles yet?

2004-11-20 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 09:02:36AM -0500, Steve Litt wrote: > The only reason lack of a GUI would scare me is if it takes a lot of time and > keystrokes entering ERT (do they still call it ERT :-) Some of us used to call it P-ERT for a while, which, of course, was a misnomer, and should have been

Re: Change bar patch for 1.3.5

2004-11-19 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 06:26:05AM +0100, Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: > John Levon writes: > > A pity that there's nowhere we can put these patches and officially > > release them... > > Lyx doesn't have a Sourceforge (or similar) site? What's wrong with LyX's ftp or web server? Or even cvs? Andre'

Re: Faxing with lyx?

2004-11-19 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 02:48:50PM +0100, Carsten Kaemmerer wrote: > Although I don't use kde (or gnome) I am able fax now - I simply renamed > my faxing application to 'ksendfax' and adapted the way the parameters > are passed into it. Now, if you revealed the real name and needed parameters of y

Re: LyX-->LaTeX request/question (tex4ht+Hebrew related)

2004-11-13 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Sat, Nov 13, 2004 at 12:29:17PM +0200, Amir Seginer wrote: > Is it possible to modify lyx2lyx/relyx, so that (in RTL paragraphs) the > \L{} appears within the text parts of the equations (as in the example > above)? Is there some special reason why this should not be done? As this is 'LyX exp

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