Re: [Fwd: Re: Word processor bashing]

2008-11-06 Thread Brett Dikeman
Micha wrote: Writing a letter in lyx is a pain. Eh? I think I've only ever once written a letter in LyX - because I very rarely write letters on the computer - but it was trivial. I just created a new document using the Koma-script letter v2 template and filled in the blanks. ...except

Getting to the RC5 binaries

2008-11-06 Thread Brett Dikeman
RC5 was released more than a week ago, and when I try connecting to the FTP site via both OS X and Firefox, I get errors, empty directory listings, or the connection hangs indefinitely. I was only able to retrieve them with a command-line FTP client. Could someone please put them up on an HTTP

Re: [Fwd: Re: Word processor bashing]

2008-11-06 Thread Brett Dikeman
Micha wrote: Writing a letter in lyx is a pain. Eh? I think I've only ever once written a letter in LyX - because I very rarely write letters on the computer - but it was trivial. I just created a new document using the Koma-script letter v2 template and filled in the blanks. ...except

Getting to the RC5 binaries

2008-11-06 Thread Brett Dikeman
RC5 was released more than a week ago, and when I try connecting to the FTP site via both OS X and Firefox, I get errors, empty directory listings, or the connection hangs indefinitely. I was only able to retrieve them with a command-line FTP client. Could someone please put them up on an HTTP

Re: [Fwd: Re: Word processor bashing]

2008-11-06 Thread Brett Dikeman
> Micha wrote: >> >> Writing a letter in lyx is a pain. > > Eh? I think I've only ever once written a letter in LyX - because I > very rarely write letters on the computer - but it was trivial. I just > created a new document using the Koma-script letter v2 template and > filled in the blanks.

Getting to the RC5 binaries

2008-11-06 Thread Brett Dikeman
RC5 was released more than a week ago, and when I try connecting to the FTP site via both OS X and Firefox, I get errors, empty directory listings, or the connection hangs indefinitely. I was only able to retrieve them with a command-line FTP client. Could someone please put them up on an HTTP

selecting change control menu in OS X Leopard corrupts preferences

2008-01-26 Thread Brett Dikeman
A very, very annoying bug- on my Leopard system with version 1.5.3, if you select the menu item Change Control (from Document), LyX immediately crashes, and corrupts its preference file so badly it won't re-launch. It's 100% reproducible. The only way to get Lyx to stop crashing on launch

selecting change control menu in OS X Leopard corrupts preferences

2008-01-26 Thread Brett Dikeman
A very, very annoying bug- on my Leopard system with version 1.5.3, if you select the menu item Change Control (from Document), LyX immediately crashes, and corrupts its preference file so badly it won't re-launch. It's 100% reproducible. The only way to get Lyx to stop crashing on launch

selecting "change control" menu in OS X Leopard corrupts preferences

2008-01-26 Thread Brett Dikeman
A very, very annoying bug- on my Leopard system with version 1.5.3, if you select the menu item "Change Control" (from "Document"), LyX immediately crashes, and corrupts its preference file so badly it won't re-launch. It's 100% reproducible. The only way to get Lyx to stop crashing on

LyX sends PDFs to Yojimbo?

2007-01-25 Thread Brett Dikeman
Hey all, I love LyX, but some behavior is driving me nuts- specifically, it's sending PDFs to Yojimbo, instead of creating a temp file and opening it with Preview. This isn't the system-wide default (pdfs are assigned to Preview!) How do I fix this? Under the preferences pane for

Re: LyX sends PDFs to Yojimbo?

2007-01-25 Thread Brett Dikeman
On Jan 25, 2007, at 11:08 PM, Bennett Helm wrote: On Jan 25, 2007, at 10:55 PM, Brett Dikeman wrote: Hey all, I love LyX, but some behavior is driving me nuts- specifically, it's sending PDFs to Yojimbo, instead of creating a temp file and opening it with Preview. This isn't the system

LyX sends PDFs to Yojimbo?

2007-01-25 Thread Brett Dikeman
Hey all, I love LyX, but some behavior is driving me nuts- specifically, it's sending PDFs to Yojimbo, instead of creating a temp file and opening it with Preview. This isn't the system-wide default (pdfs are assigned to Preview!) How do I fix this? Under the preferences pane for

Re: LyX sends PDFs to Yojimbo?

2007-01-25 Thread Brett Dikeman
On Jan 25, 2007, at 11:08 PM, Bennett Helm wrote: On Jan 25, 2007, at 10:55 PM, Brett Dikeman wrote: Hey all, I love LyX, but some behavior is driving me nuts- specifically, it's sending PDFs to Yojimbo, instead of creating a temp file and opening it with Preview. This isn't the system

LyX sends PDFs to Yojimbo?

2007-01-25 Thread Brett Dikeman
Hey all, I love LyX, but some behavior is driving me nuts- specifically, it's sending PDFs to Yojimbo, instead of creating a temp file and opening it with Preview. This isn't the system-wide default (pdfs are assigned to Preview!) How do I fix this? Under the preferences pane for

Re: LyX sends PDFs to Yojimbo?

2007-01-25 Thread Brett Dikeman
On Jan 25, 2007, at 11:08 PM, Bennett Helm wrote: On Jan 25, 2007, at 10:55 PM, Brett Dikeman wrote: Hey all, I love LyX, but some behavior is driving me nuts- specifically, it's sending PDFs to Yojimbo, instead of creating a temp file and opening it with Preview. This isn't the system

Re: current issue of Nature

2003-09-04 Thread Brett Dikeman
On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 02:31:41AM -0500, david nicol wrote: there's a letter talking up Lyx in the current issue of Nature Care to type it in for us ? :) http://www.nature.com/, Search for Lyx. Subscription is necessary. Most libraries also carry Nature, and I'd be willing to bet they'd

Re: current issue of Nature

2003-09-04 Thread Brett Dikeman
On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 02:31:41AM -0500, david nicol wrote: there's a letter talking up Lyx in the current issue of Nature Care to type it in for us ? :) http://www.nature.com/, Search for Lyx. Subscription is necessary. Most libraries also carry Nature, and I'd be willing to bet they'd

Re: current issue of Nature

2003-09-04 Thread Brett Dikeman
> On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 02:31:41AM -0500, david nicol wrote: > >> there's a letter talking up Lyx in the current issue of Nature > > Care to type it in for us ? :) http://www.nature.com/, Search for "Lyx". Subscription is necessary. Most libraries also carry Nature, and I'd be willing to bet

staying inside a nested list level

2003-08-14 Thread Brett Dikeman
Hi folks, This one's been bugging me for a while- when doing an itemized(or numerated) list, if I go in a level, enter an item, and hit enter to input another list item(on that same nested level), lyx bounces me ALL the way out to the highest list level. Is there another command I can give to

staying inside a nested list level

2003-08-14 Thread Brett Dikeman
Hi folks, This one's been bugging me for a while- when doing an itemized(or numerated) list, if I go in a level, enter an item, and hit enter to input another list item(on that same nested level), lyx bounces me ALL the way out to the highest list level. Is there another command I can give to

staying inside a nested list level

2003-08-14 Thread Brett Dikeman
Hi folks, This one's been bugging me for a while- when doing an itemized(or numerated) list, if I go in a level, enter an item, and hit enter to input another list item(on that same nested level), lyx bounces me ALL the way out to the highest list level. Is there another command I can give to

label width in book class

2003-01-08 Thread Brett Dikeman
Question- why is 'label width' senseless in the book class? I love the Description type, and use it often- but got a big surprise when it became nearly useless in the Book class, which I need to use for a document or two. Help! Brett --

label width in book class

2003-01-08 Thread Brett Dikeman
Question- why is 'label width' senseless in the book class? I love the Description type, and use it often- but got a big surprise when it became nearly useless in the Book class, which I need to use for a document or two. Help! Brett --

label width in book class

2003-01-08 Thread Brett Dikeman
Question- why is 'label width' "senseless" in the book class? I love the Description type, and use it often- but got a big surprise when it became nearly useless in the Book class, which I need to use for a document or two. Help! Brett --

Re: viruses

2002-04-29 Thread Brett Dikeman
At 3:15 PM -0500 4/29/02, Mate Wierdl wrote: Lately, I received emails such as I received a lot viruses from the lyx users list, and now my windows partition is ruined. I am truly sorry to hear this, but: --- The virus _never_ originates from my server What follows is my personal opinion; I

Re: viruses

2002-04-29 Thread Brett Dikeman
At 3:15 PM -0500 4/29/02, Mate Wierdl wrote: Lately, I received emails such as I received a lot viruses from the lyx users list, and now my windows partition is ruined. I am truly sorry to hear this, but: --- The virus _never_ originates from my server What follows is my personal opinion; I

Re: viruses

2002-04-29 Thread Brett Dikeman
At 3:15 PM -0500 4/29/02, Mate Wierdl wrote: >Lately, I received emails such as > >"I received a lot viruses from the lyx users list, and now my >windows partition is ruined." > >I am truly sorry to hear this, but: > >--- The virus _never_ originates from my server What follows is my personal

Re: subsetting of type 1 fonts(was PDF weirdness)

2002-01-30 Thread Brett Dikeman
At 7:16 PM +0200 1/30/02, Dekel Tsur wrote: There are versions of pdftex that are buggy, e.g. 0.13d. If this is the case, try to upgrade your pdftex. It is possible to change the .map files used by pdftex so it will not do font subsetting. Read the pdftex manual. This was suggested to me by a

Re: subsetting of type 1 fonts(was PDF weirdness)

2002-01-30 Thread Brett Dikeman
At 7:16 PM +0200 1/30/02, Dekel Tsur wrote: There are versions of pdftex that are buggy, e.g. 0.13d. If this is the case, try to upgrade your pdftex. It is possible to change the .map files used by pdftex so it will not do font subsetting. Read the pdftex manual. This was suggested to me by a

Re: subsetting of type 1 fonts(was PDF weirdness)

2002-01-30 Thread Brett Dikeman
At 7:16 PM +0200 1/30/02, Dekel Tsur wrote: >There are versions of pdftex that are buggy, e.g. 0.13d. >If this is the case, try to upgrade your pdftex. >It is possible to change the .map files used by pdftex so it will not do >font subsetting. Read the pdftex manual. This was suggested to me by

subsetting of type 1 fonts(was PDF weirdness)

2002-01-29 Thread Brett Dikeman
Alright,this is a long shot, but the only difference I can tell between my PDF and others I have hanging around on my system is that none of them use subsetted fonts. Is there an option I can give somewhere to turn off font subsetting? latex2pdf documentation is incredibly sparse(and it looks

subsetting of type 1 fonts(was PDF weirdness)

2002-01-29 Thread Brett Dikeman
Alright,this is a long shot, but the only difference I can tell between my PDF and others I have hanging around on my system is that none of them use subsetted fonts. Is there an option I can give somewhere to turn off font subsetting? latex2pdf documentation is incredibly sparse(and it looks

subsetting of type 1 fonts(was PDF weirdness)

2002-01-29 Thread Brett Dikeman
Alright,this is a long shot, but the only difference I can tell between my PDF and others I have hanging around on my system is that none of them use subsetted fonts. Is there an option I can give somewhere to turn off font subsetting? latex2pdf documentation is incredibly sparse(and it looks