Re: LyX 1.6.4.1 and Snow Leopard

2009-09-22 Thread Christian Liesen
I hope you're not holding your breath. We really don't have any LyX developers on Mac, and we'd welcome anyone with expertise who could help out here. (I'm able to package up the binaries, but that's far from being a developer.) What exactly would a LyX developer on Mac need to know? I'm

Re: LyX 1.6.4.1 and Snow Leopard

2009-09-22 Thread Christian Liesen
I hope you're not holding your breath. We really don't have any LyX developers on Mac, and we'd welcome anyone with expertise who could help out here. (I'm able to package up the binaries, but that's far from being a developer.) What exactly would a LyX developer on Mac need to know? I'm

Re: LyX 1.6.4.1 and Snow Leopard

2009-09-22 Thread Christian Liesen
> > I hope you're not holding your breath. We really don't have any LyX > developers on Mac, and we'd welcome anyone with expertise who could > help out here. (I'm able to package up the binaries, but that's far > from being a developer.) > What exactly would a LyX developer on Mac need to know?

Conversion error message -- no PDF output

2009-09-21 Thread Christian Liesen
Hi, I have a LyX document that compiled just fine three days ago (pdflatex), but now I keep getting an error message with the description: basic_filebuf::_M_convert_to_external conversion error and no PDF output is produced. Only minor changes have been made since the last printing. I can not

[SOLVED] Conversion error message -- no PDF output

2009-09-21 Thread Christian Liesen
Hi, following Richard's hint -- LaTeX export and then manually running latex -- I was able to see that all links to embedded objects were incomplete. No idea what caused this, though ... After a bit of experimenting, I moved my LyX file to the LyX working directory, along with all source files

Conversion error message -- no PDF output

2009-09-21 Thread Christian Liesen
Hi, I have a LyX document that compiled just fine three days ago (pdflatex), but now I keep getting an error message with the description: basic_filebuf::_M_convert_to_external conversion error and no PDF output is produced. Only minor changes have been made since the last printing. I can not

[SOLVED] Conversion error message -- no PDF output

2009-09-21 Thread Christian Liesen
Hi, following Richard's hint -- LaTeX export and then manually running latex -- I was able to see that all links to embedded objects were incomplete. No idea what caused this, though ... After a bit of experimenting, I moved my LyX file to the LyX working directory, along with all source files

Conversion error message -- no PDF output

2009-09-21 Thread Christian Liesen
Hi, I have a LyX document that compiled just fine three days ago (pdflatex), but now I keep getting an error message with the description: basic_filebuf::_M_convert_to_external conversion error and no PDF output is produced. Only minor changes have been made since the last printing. I can not

[SOLVED] Conversion error message -- no PDF output

2009-09-21 Thread Christian Liesen
Hi, following Richard's hint -- LaTeX export and then manually running latex -- I was able to see that all links to embedded objects were incomplete. No idea what caused this, though ... After a bit of experimenting, I moved my LyX file to the LyX working directory, along with all source files

Formatting all hyperlinks with a TT-font

2009-08-31 Thread Christian Liesen
Hi LyX users, I would like to make all hyperlinks in my report more distinguishable by formatting them in a typewriter font (\ttfamily). How do I do that? I could't find anything about it in the hyperref-documentation, the wiki or this list's archives. I'm on LyX 1.6.3 for Mac OS X. My

Re: Formatting all hyperlinks with a TT-font

2009-08-31 Thread Christian Liesen
Works like a charm, many thanks! Am 31.08.2009 um 15:36 schrieb Uwe Stöhr: Christian Liesen schrieb: I would like to make all hyperlinks in my report more distinguishable by formatting them in a typewriter font (\ttfamily). How do I do that? See the attached LyX file. Look in its

Re: How to install new packages to Lyx?

2009-08-31 Thread Christian Liesen
Hi, sorry for insisting but i tried searching with google how to enter these characters and i came accross hep package again..i don't understand.. You will need to install the hep package just as you would with any additional TeX package on your system, i.e. by downloading it from CTAN,

Formatting all hyperlinks with a TT-font

2009-08-31 Thread Christian Liesen
Hi LyX users, I would like to make all hyperlinks in my report more distinguishable by formatting them in a typewriter font (\ttfamily). How do I do that? I could't find anything about it in the hyperref-documentation, the wiki or this list's archives. I'm on LyX 1.6.3 for Mac OS X. My

Re: Formatting all hyperlinks with a TT-font

2009-08-31 Thread Christian Liesen
Works like a charm, many thanks! Am 31.08.2009 um 15:36 schrieb Uwe Stöhr: Christian Liesen schrieb: I would like to make all hyperlinks in my report more distinguishable by formatting them in a typewriter font (\ttfamily). How do I do that? See the attached LyX file. Look in its

Re: How to install new packages to Lyx?

2009-08-31 Thread Christian Liesen
Hi, sorry for insisting but i tried searching with google how to enter these characters and i came accross hep package again..i don't understand.. You will need to install the hep package just as you would with any additional TeX package on your system, i.e. by downloading it from CTAN,

Formatting all hyperlinks with a TT-font

2009-08-31 Thread Christian Liesen
Hi LyX users, I would like to make all hyperlinks in my report more distinguishable by formatting them in a typewriter font (\ttfamily). How do I do that? I could't find anything about it in the hyperref-documentation, the wiki or this list's archives. I'm on LyX 1.6.3 for Mac OS X. My

Re: Formatting all hyperlinks with a TT-font

2009-08-31 Thread Christian Liesen
Works like a charm, many thanks! Am 31.08.2009 um 15:36 schrieb Uwe Stöhr: Christian Liesen schrieb: I would like to make all hyperlinks in my report more distinguishable by formatting them in a typewriter font (\ttfamily). How do I do that? See the attached LyX file. Look in its

Re: How to install new packages to Lyx?

2009-08-31 Thread Christian Liesen
Hi, > > sorry for insisting but i tried searching with google how to enter these > characters and i came accross hep package again..i don't > understand.. You will need to install the hep package just as you would with any additional TeX package on your system, i.e. by downloading it from CTAN,

Re: Sure Fire Way to Create Lyx Layouts

2009-03-13 Thread Christian Liesen
Cool, comes in very handy. Many thanks for sharing this. -- Christian Am 11.03.2009 um 11:09 schrieb Steve Litt: Hi all, I just created a new web page called Steve Litt's Sure Fire, No Fail Way to Create Lyx Layouts. Most people won't need it, but some people (like me) have trouble getting

Re: Sure Fire Way to Create Lyx Layouts

2009-03-13 Thread Christian Liesen
Cool, comes in very handy. Many thanks for sharing this. -- Christian Am 11.03.2009 um 11:09 schrieb Steve Litt: Hi all, I just created a new web page called Steve Litt's Sure Fire, No Fail Way to Create Lyx Layouts. Most people won't need it, but some people (like me) have trouble getting

Re: Sure Fire Way to Create Lyx Layouts

2009-03-13 Thread Christian Liesen
Cool, comes in very handy. Many thanks for sharing this. -- Christian Am 11.03.2009 um 11:09 schrieb Steve Litt: Hi all, I just created a new web page called "Steve Litt's Sure Fire, No Fail Way to Create Lyx Layouts". Most people won't need it, but some people (like me) have trouble getting

Re: Sure Fire Way to Create Lyx Layouts

2009-03-12 Thread Christian Liesen
Cool, comes in very useful. Many thanks for sharing this. -- Christian Am 11.03.2009 um 11:09 schrieb Steve Litt: Hi all, I just created a new web page called Steve Litt's Sure Fire, No Fail Way to Create Lyx Layouts. Most people won't need it, but some people (like me) have trouble

Re: Sure Fire Way to Create Lyx Layouts

2009-03-12 Thread Christian Liesen
Cool, comes in very useful. Many thanks for sharing this. -- Christian Am 11.03.2009 um 11:09 schrieb Steve Litt: Hi all, I just created a new web page called Steve Litt's Sure Fire, No Fail Way to Create Lyx Layouts. Most people won't need it, but some people (like me) have trouble

Re: Sure Fire Way to Create Lyx Layouts

2009-03-12 Thread Christian Liesen
Cool, comes in very useful. Many thanks for sharing this. -- Christian Am 11.03.2009 um 11:09 schrieb Steve Litt: Hi all, I just created a new web page called "Steve Litt's Sure Fire, No Fail Way to Create Lyx Layouts". Most people won't need it, but some people (like me) have trouble

Re: Problems on a Mac

2009-03-01 Thread Christian Liesen
Hi, did you check the Path Prefix in LyX -- Preferences? On my MacBook Pro with OS X 10.5.6 I once had a problem with an old prefix that did not correctly specify the paths to TeX Live 2008 in my /usr folder. FYI, my path prefix entry reads:

Re: Problems on a Mac

2009-03-01 Thread Christian Liesen
-- Sorry, this message did not appear on the LyX user's list after I sent it yesterday, don't know why. Resending it now. -- Hi, did you check the Path Prefix in LyX -- Preferences? On my MacBook Pro with OS X 10.5.6 I once had a problem with an old prefix that did not correctly specify

Re: Problems on a Mac

2009-03-01 Thread Christian Liesen
Hi, did you check the Path Prefix in LyX -- Preferences? On my MacBook Pro with OS X 10.5.6 I once had a problem with an old prefix that did not correctly specify the paths to TeX Live 2008 in my /usr folder. FYI, my path prefix entry reads:

Re: Problems on a Mac

2009-03-01 Thread Christian Liesen
-- Sorry, this message did not appear on the LyX user's list after I sent it yesterday, don't know why. Resending it now. -- Hi, did you check the Path Prefix in LyX -- Preferences? On my MacBook Pro with OS X 10.5.6 I once had a problem with an old prefix that did not correctly specify

Re: Problems on a Mac

2009-03-01 Thread Christian Liesen
Hi, did you check the Path Prefix in LyX --> Preferences? On my MacBook Pro with OS X 10.5.6 I once had a problem with an old prefix that did not correctly specify the paths to TeX Live 2008 in my /usr folder. FYI, my path prefix entry reads:

Re: Problems on a Mac

2009-03-01 Thread Christian Liesen
-- Sorry, this message did not appear on the LyX user's list after I sent it yesterday, don't know why. Resending it now. -- Hi, did you check the Path Prefix in LyX --> Preferences? On my MacBook Pro with OS X 10.5.6 I once had a problem with an old prefix that did not correctly specify

Re: Lyx and R some help appreciated : not Sweave

2009-02-27 Thread Christian Liesen
in Word. I shall have a look at the links you have sent and see if it makes more sense to me than it did before. Graham Christian Liesen wrote: Hi, I use LyX and R with Sweave and it works fine. If I get you correctly what you do is produce some output in R, then copy it from Word to LyX

Re: Lyx and R some help appreciated : not Sweave

2009-02-27 Thread Christian Liesen
in Word. I shall have a look at the links you have sent and see if it makes more sense to me than it did before. Graham Christian Liesen wrote: Hi, I use LyX and R with Sweave and it works fine. If I get you correctly what you do is produce some output in R, then copy it from Word to LyX

Re: Lyx and R some help appreciated : not Sweave

2009-02-27 Thread Christian Liesen
ady in Word. I shall have a look at the links you have sent and see if it makes more sense to me than it did before. Graham Christian Liesen wrote: > Hi, > > I use LyX and R with Sweave and it works fine. > > If I get you correctly what you do is produce some output in R, then &

Re: Again on interrupted lists

2008-11-30 Thread Christian Liesen
Maybe you will also find the following link helpful: http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=interruptlist As Günter said, enumlist is clearly to be recommended for interrupted list. -- Christian Am 30.11.2008 um 22:34 schrieb Guenter Milde: On 2008-11-30, stefano franchi wrote:

Re: Again on interrupted lists

2008-11-30 Thread Christian Liesen
Maybe you will also find the following link helpful: http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=interruptlist As Günter said, enumlist is clearly to be recommended for interrupted list. -- Christian Am 30.11.2008 um 22:34 schrieb Guenter Milde: On 2008-11-30, stefano franchi wrote:

Re: Again on interrupted lists

2008-11-30 Thread Christian Liesen
Maybe you will also find the following link helpful: http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=interruptlist As Günter said, enumlist is clearly to be recommended for interrupted list. -- Christian Am 30.11.2008 um 22:34 schrieb Guenter Milde: On 2008-11-30, stefano franchi wrote:

Re: Edit Header on 1 page of a Koma book

2008-11-29 Thread Christian Liesen
\cleardoublepage in ERT should do the trick. If not, did you try \clearpage{\pagestyle{empty} \cleardoublepage}? -- Christian Am 29.11.2008 um 00:52 schrieb Jonathan Kroner: How can I change a single page's header? The last page of a chapter is an odd numbered (right) page. The next page

Re: Edit Header on 1 page of a Koma book

2008-11-29 Thread Christian Liesen
\cleardoublepage in ERT should do the trick. If not, did you try \clearpage{\pagestyle{empty} \cleardoublepage}? -- Christian Am 29.11.2008 um 00:52 schrieb Jonathan Kroner: How can I change a single page's header? The last page of a chapter is an odd numbered (right) page. The next page

Re: Edit Header on 1 page of a Koma book

2008-11-29 Thread Christian Liesen
\cleardoublepage in ERT should do the trick. If not, did you try \clearpage{\pagestyle{empty} \cleardoublepage}? -- Christian Am 29.11.2008 um 00:52 schrieb Jonathan Kroner: How can I change a single page's header? The last page of a chapter is an odd numbered (right) page. The next page

Re: Single Author, Single Year, Multiple Articles

2008-11-23 Thread Christian Liesen
Hi, could you briefly explain why you would want the citation to show up as a/b although you seem to include only a single reference in your text? After all, a unique letter would be required only if you had two or more citations in your article that would otherwise look the same when

Re: Single Author, Single Year, Multiple Articles

2008-11-23 Thread Christian Liesen
Hi Norbert, I see. What style are you using? And in the LyX: Citation dialogue, can you select a citation style (in the Formatting section)? If not, make sure to select Document -- Settings -- Bibliography -- Natbib with Natbib style Author-year. Best, -- Christian Am 24.11.2008 um

Re: Single Author, Single Year, Multiple Articles

2008-11-23 Thread Christian Liesen
Hi, could you briefly explain why you would want the citation to show up as a/b although you seem to include only a single reference in your text? After all, a unique letter would be required only if you had two or more citations in your article that would otherwise look the same when

Re: Single Author, Single Year, Multiple Articles

2008-11-23 Thread Christian Liesen
Hi Norbert, I see. What style are you using? And in the LyX: Citation dialogue, can you select a citation style (in the Formatting section)? If not, make sure to select Document -- Settings -- Bibliography -- Natbib with Natbib style Author-year. Best, -- Christian Am 24.11.2008 um

Re: Single Author, Single Year, Multiple Articles

2008-11-23 Thread Christian Liesen
Hi, could you briefly explain why you would want the citation to show up as a/b although you seem to include only a single reference in your text? After all, a unique letter would be required only if you had two or more citations in your article that would otherwise look the same when

Re: Single Author, Single Year, Multiple Articles

2008-11-23 Thread Christian Liesen
Hi Norbert, I see. What style are you using? And in the LyX: Citation dialogue, can you select a citation style (in the Formatting section)? If not, make sure to select Document --> Settings --> Bibliography --> Natbib with Natbib style "Author-year". Best, -- Christian Am 24.11.2008

Re: How to change pdf viewer?

2008-10-21 Thread Christian Liesen
Thanks, it works finally. But for someone else who also might want to change the pdf viewer I add: it it not sufficient to give in the path to the application package but to the application EXECutable itself, at least on Mac-OSX, in my case: /Applications/Skim.app/Contents/MacOS/Skim

Re: How to change pdf viewer?

2008-10-21 Thread Christian Liesen
Thanks, it works finally. But for someone else who also might want to change the pdf viewer I add: it it not sufficient to give in the path to the application package but to the application EXECutable itself, at least on Mac-OSX, in my case: /Applications/Skim.app/Contents/MacOS/Skim

Re: How to change pdf viewer?

2008-10-21 Thread Christian Liesen
Thanks, it works finally. But for someone else who also might want to change the pdf viewer I add: it it not sufficient to give in the path to the application package but to the application EXECutable itself, at least on Mac-OSX, in my case: /Applications/Skim.app/Contents/MacOS/Skim

Re: scaling a longtable

2008-06-14 Thread Christian Liesen
Hi, would it be possible for you to provide an example file? I'm not sure what it is you're trying to do with the longtable. Cheers, -- Christian Am 13.06.2008 um 09:20 schrieb Stefan Buchholz: Hi Guys, i tried to scale a normal table, and that worked quiet well. i tried also to scale

Re: scaling a longtable

2008-06-14 Thread Christian Liesen
Hi, would it be possible for you to provide an example file? I'm not sure what it is you're trying to do with the longtable. Cheers, -- Christian Am 13.06.2008 um 09:20 schrieb Stefan Buchholz: Hi Guys, i tried to scale a normal table, and that worked quiet well. i tried also to scale

Re: scaling a "longtable"

2008-06-14 Thread Christian Liesen
Hi, would it be possible for you to provide an example file? I'm not sure what it is you're trying to do with the longtable. Cheers, -- Christian Am 13.06.2008 um 09:20 schrieb Stefan Buchholz: Hi Guys, i tried to scale a normal table, and that worked quiet well. i tried also to scale

Re: watching dvi/pdf under Mac

2008-02-14 Thread Christian Liesen
Hi, Just another stupid question: how do I call it from LyX? I tried to change the Viewer field in Preferences/File Formats/pdflatex to skim but that doesn't seem to work. Do I need to add any command options? that is by no means a stupid question, and besides, you're almost there: Go to

Re: watching dvi/pdf under Mac

2008-02-14 Thread Christian Liesen
Hi, Just another stupid question: how do I call it from LyX? I tried to change the Viewer field in Preferences/File Formats/pdflatex to skim but that doesn't seem to work. Do I need to add any command options? that is by no means a stupid question, and besides, you're almost there: Go to

Re: watching dvi/pdf under Mac

2008-02-14 Thread Christian Liesen
Hi, Just another stupid question: how do I call it from LyX? I tried to change the "Viewer" field in Preferences/File Formats/pdflatex to "skim" but that doesn't seem to work. Do I need to add any command options? that is by no means a stupid question, and besides, you're almost there:

Re: No Page number on the pages with the titel of a new \part (report KOMA-Script)

2007-12-21 Thread Christian Liesen
Hi, yes there is: The KOMA-script specific command is \renewcommand*{\partpagestyle}{empty} Hope this helps, -- Christian Am 21.12.2007 um 19:16 schrieb Tobias Krause: Hi, in a document using report (KOMA-Script) I'd like to delete the page numbers on the page containing the titel of a

Re: No Page number on the pages with the titel of a new \part (report KOMA-Script)

2007-12-21 Thread Christian Liesen
Hi, yes there is: The KOMA-script specific command is \renewcommand*{\partpagestyle}{empty} Hope this helps, -- Christian Am 21.12.2007 um 19:16 schrieb Tobias Krause: Hi, in a document using report (KOMA-Script) I'd like to delete the page numbers on the page containing the titel of a

Re: No Page number on the pages with the titel of a new \part (report KOMA-Script)

2007-12-21 Thread Christian Liesen
Hi, yes there is: The KOMA-script specific command is \renewcommand*{\partpagestyle}{empty} Hope this helps, -- Christian Am 21.12.2007 um 19:16 schrieb Tobias Krause: Hi, in a document using report (KOMA-Script) I'd like to delete the page numbers on the page containing the titel of a

Re: Help with bulleted items with in list

2007-10-27 Thread Christian Liesen
Hi, you need to nest the bulleted list into the LyX List. The M-Return won't work, because LyX will then of course change the entire paragraph to itemise -- just as you experienced. Instead, make the sentences that you want to appear bulleted an itemised list as usual, then click the

Re: Help with bulleted items with in list

2007-10-27 Thread Christian Liesen
Hi, you need to nest the bulleted list into the LyX List. The M-Return won't work, because LyX will then of course change the entire paragraph to itemise -- just as you experienced. Instead, make the sentences that you want to appear bulleted an itemised list as usual, then click the

Re: Help with bulleted items with in list

2007-10-27 Thread Christian Liesen
Hi, you need to nest the bulleted list into the LyX List. The M-Return won't work, because LyX will then of course change the entire paragraph to itemise -- just as you experienced. Instead, make the sentences that you want to appear bulleted an itemised list as usual, then click the

Re: New docs on making your own list

2007-10-12 Thread Christian Liesen
Steve Litt wrote: I just wrote a document on making your own lists in LaTeX. Here it is: http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/lyx/ownlists.htm Many thanks for sharing this! -- Christian

Re: New docs on making your own list

2007-10-12 Thread Christian Liesen
Steve Litt wrote: I just wrote a document on making your own lists in LaTeX. Here it is: http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/lyx/ownlists.htm Many thanks for sharing this! -- Christian

Re: New docs on making your own list

2007-10-12 Thread Christian Liesen
Steve Litt wrote: I just wrote a document on making your own lists in LaTeX. Here it is: http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/lyx/ownlists.htm Many thanks for sharing this! -- Christian

Natbib numerical citations with links in PDF

2007-10-11 Thread Christian Liesen
Hi, does anyone know how to make citations appear as clickable links in the pdf output? I'm using the Natbib numerical style with pdflatex and want something like ... the moon is made of cheese [1] ... to appear in the body text with the citation [1] being clickable and refering to the

Re: Natbib numerical citations with links in PDF

2007-10-11 Thread Christian Liesen
Indeed, It's enough to put \usepackage{hyperref} in the preamble. and if you wish to add color, for example: \usepackage{hyperref} \hypersetup{colorlinks=true,citecolor=blue} yields nice results. I've added something about this to the Wiki: http://wiki.lyx.org/BibTeX/Tips#toc6 With many

Natbib numerical citations with links in PDF

2007-10-11 Thread Christian Liesen
Hi, does anyone know how to make citations appear as clickable links in the pdf output? I'm using the Natbib numerical style with pdflatex and want something like ... the moon is made of cheese [1] ... to appear in the body text with the citation [1] being clickable and refering to the

Re: Natbib numerical citations with links in PDF

2007-10-11 Thread Christian Liesen
Indeed, It's enough to put \usepackage{hyperref} in the preamble. and if you wish to add color, for example: \usepackage{hyperref} \hypersetup{colorlinks=true,citecolor=blue} yields nice results. I've added something about this to the Wiki: http://wiki.lyx.org/BibTeX/Tips#toc6 With many

Natbib numerical citations with links in PDF

2007-10-11 Thread Christian Liesen
Hi, does anyone know how to make citations appear as clickable links in the pdf output? I'm using the Natbib numerical style with pdflatex and want something like ... the moon is made of cheese [1] ... to appear in the body text with the citation [1] being clickable and refering to the

Re: Natbib numerical citations with links in PDF

2007-10-11 Thread Christian Liesen
Indeed, It's enough to put "\usepackage{hyperref}" in the preamble. and if you wish to add color, for example: \usepackage{hyperref} \hypersetup{colorlinks=true,citecolor=blue} yields nice results. I've added something about this to the Wiki: http://wiki.lyx.org/BibTeX/Tips#toc6 With

Re: [Announce] LyX 1.5.2 is released

2007-10-08 Thread Christian Liesen
I'd just like to confirm this for an Intel Mac running OS X 10.4.10. Zooming does not help on my system. I'm switiching back to 1.5.1 for the time being. By the way, could this have anything to do with localisation? My LyX GUI is in German all of a sudden ... I liked it better in English

Re: [Announce] LyX 1.5.2 is released

2007-10-08 Thread Christian Liesen
I'd just like to confirm this for an Intel Mac running OS X 10.4.10. Zooming does not help on my system. I'm switiching back to 1.5.1 for the time being. By the way, could this have anything to do with localisation? My LyX GUI is in German all of a sudden ... I liked it better in English

Re: [Announce] LyX 1.5.2 is released

2007-10-08 Thread Christian Liesen
I'd just like to confirm this for an Intel Mac running OS X 10.4.10. Zooming does not help on my system. I'm switiching back to 1.5.1 for the time being. By the way, could this have anything to do with localisation? My LyX GUI is in German all of a sudden ... I liked it better in English

Re: Difference between \parskip and \parsep ?

2007-10-07 Thread Christian Liesen
Hi Steve, What I've come up with so far is that \parsep operates only within lists, while \parskip operates only outside of lists. Yes I think that's exactly it. \parskip refers to the spacing between paragraphs, \parsep to the spacing in lists. Cheers, -- Christian

Re: Difference between \parskip and \parsep ?

2007-10-07 Thread Christian Liesen
Hi Steve, What I've come up with so far is that \parsep operates only within lists, while \parskip operates only outside of lists. Yes I think that's exactly it. \parskip refers to the spacing between paragraphs, \parsep to the spacing in lists. Cheers, -- Christian

Re: Difference between \parskip and \parsep ?

2007-10-07 Thread Christian Liesen
Hi Steve, What I've come up with so far is that \parsep operates only within lists, while \parskip operates only outside of lists. Yes I think that's exactly it. \parskip refers to the spacing between paragraphs, \parsep to the spacing in lists. Cheers, -- Christian

Re: Section orphans

2007-10-02 Thread Christian Liesen
Does \usepackage{verse} have to be called in the preamble? -- Christian Donn Ingle wrote: Hi, (I post with trepidation; having searched the wiki -- I promise.) I am setting poems with this kind of approach (using memoir class.) --- \poemtitle{Blah}

Re: Section orphans

2007-10-02 Thread Christian Liesen
not simply insert a page break before the poem's title? -- Christian Donn Ingle wrote: On 02/10/2007, Christian Liesen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does \usepackage{verse} have to be called in the preamble? Don't know. I would think that if it was expected then there would be an error. I

Re: Section orphans

2007-10-02 Thread Christian Liesen
Yes it should, but I continue to experience problems with widows and orphans, too. I think that in many cases manually fine-tuning the document is inevitable. Tweaking the layout is always the very last thing I do to a document once the content is settled. Then -- if at all necessary -- I

Re: Verse margin

2007-10-02 Thread Christian Liesen
layouts. Please give me a hand. I am thinking that OpenOffice might be the way to go, but I don't want that kind of pain! \d -- Christian Liesen Universität Zürich Institut für Sonderpädagogik Sonderforschungsbereich Hirschengraben 48 8001 Zürich University

Re: Section orphans

2007-10-02 Thread Christian Liesen
Does \usepackage{verse} have to be called in the preamble? -- Christian Donn Ingle wrote: Hi, (I post with trepidation; having searched the wiki -- I promise.) I am setting poems with this kind of approach (using memoir class.) --- \poemtitle{Blah}

Re: Section orphans

2007-10-02 Thread Christian Liesen
not simply insert a page break before the poem's title? -- Christian Donn Ingle wrote: On 02/10/2007, Christian Liesen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does \usepackage{verse} have to be called in the preamble? Don't know. I would think that if it was expected then there would be an error. I

Re: Section orphans

2007-10-02 Thread Christian Liesen
Yes it should, but I continue to experience problems with widows and orphans, too. I think that in many cases manually fine-tuning the document is inevitable. Tweaking the layout is always the very last thing I do to a document once the content is settled. Then -- if at all necessary -- I

Re: Verse margin

2007-10-02 Thread Christian Liesen
layouts. Please give me a hand. I am thinking that OpenOffice might be the way to go, but I don't want that kind of pain! \d -- Christian Liesen Universität Zürich Institut für Sonderpädagogik Sonderforschungsbereich Hirschengraben 48 8001 Zürich University

Re: Section orphans

2007-10-02 Thread Christian Liesen
Does \usepackage{verse} have to be called in the preamble? -- Christian Donn Ingle wrote: Hi, (I post with trepidation; having searched the wiki -- I promise.) I am setting poems with this kind of approach (using memoir class.) --- \poemtitle{Blah}

Re: Section orphans

2007-10-02 Thread Christian Liesen
not simply insert a page break before the poem's title? -- Christian Donn Ingle wrote: On 02/10/2007, Christian Liesen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Does \usepackage{verse} have to be called in the preamble? Don't know. I would think that if it was expected then there would be an er

Re: Section orphans

2007-10-02 Thread Christian Liesen
Yes it should, but I continue to experience problems with widows and orphans, too. I think that in many cases manually fine-tuning the document is inevitable. Tweaking the layout is always the very last thing I do to a document once the content is settled. Then -- if at all necessary -- I

Re: Verse margin

2007-10-02 Thread Christian Liesen
nteresting layouts. Please give me a hand. I am thinking that OpenOffice might be the way to go, but I don't want that kind of pain! \d -- Christian Liesen Universität Zürich Institut für Sonderpädagogik Sonderforschungsbereich Hirschengraben 48 8001 Zürich

Re: Bibtex problem: Question marks instead of citations [RESOLVED]

2007-09-29 Thread Christian Liesen
... well, well ... I found it. I had several citations with the ampersand '' in the journal's title. Replacing this with '\' did the trick: My document output is fine now. Silly me. -- Christian Christian Liesen wrote: Hi, I'm writing a scrreport with LyX 1.5.1 (Mac) and have a problem

Bibtex problem: Question marks instead of citations

2007-09-29 Thread Christian Liesen
Hi, I'm writing a scrreport with LyX 1.5.1 (Mac) and have a problem with Bibtex. I have a lot of citations, and until yesterday evening, everything went smoothly. Then all of a sudden LyX started complaining about a Misplaced alignment tab character . Bibtex stopped formatting any citations

Re: Bibtex problem: Question marks instead of citations [RESOLVED]

2007-09-29 Thread Christian Liesen
... well, well ... I found it. I had several citations with the ampersand '' in the journal's title. Replacing this with '\' did the trick: My document output is fine now. Silly me. -- Christian Christian Liesen wrote: Hi, I'm writing a scrreport with LyX 1.5.1 (Mac) and have a problem

Bibtex problem: Question marks instead of citations

2007-09-29 Thread Christian Liesen
Hi, I'm writing a scrreport with LyX 1.5.1 (Mac) and have a problem with Bibtex. I have a lot of citations, and until yesterday evening, everything went smoothly. Then all of a sudden LyX started complaining about a Misplaced alignment tab character . Bibtex stopped formatting any citations

Re: Bibtex problem: Question marks instead of citations [RESOLVED]

2007-09-29 Thread Christian Liesen
... well, well ... I found it. I had several citations with the ampersand '&' in the journal's title. Replacing this with '\&' did the trick: My document output is fine now. Silly me. -- Christian Christian Liesen wrote: Hi, I'm writing a scrreport with LyX 1.5.1 (Mac)

Bibtex problem: Question marks instead of citations

2007-09-29 Thread Christian Liesen
Hi, I'm writing a scrreport with LyX 1.5.1 (Mac) and have a problem with Bibtex. I have a lot of citations, and until yesterday evening, everything went smoothly. Then all of a sudden LyX started complaining about a "Misplaced alignment tab character &". Bibtex stopped formatting any

Re: Center wide float across the page into both margins

2007-09-28 Thread Christian Liesen
Hi, if the file is inside a float, you can mark the float or the image and then choose Edit -- Paragraph Settings to set the alignment to Centered. Alternatively, you might consider to put the file in a \resizebox similar to the steps described here: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Tables#toc17.

Re: Center wide float across the page into both margins

2007-09-28 Thread Christian Liesen
Hi, if the file is inside a float, you can mark the float or the image and then choose Edit -- Paragraph Settings to set the alignment to Centered. Alternatively, you might consider to put the file in a \resizebox similar to the steps described here: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Tables#toc17.

Re: Center wide float across the page into both margins

2007-09-28 Thread Christian Liesen
Hi, if the file is inside a float, you can mark the float or the image and then choose Edit --> Paragraph Settings to set the alignment to "Centered". Alternatively, you might consider to put the file in a \resizebox similar to the steps described here: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Tables#toc17.

aspell umlaut problems after updating to LyX 1.5 (Mac)

2007-09-24 Thread Christian Liesen
Hi, sorry to ask again, but I'm STILL experiencing weird behaviour of aspell after updating from LyX 1.4.4 to 1.5.1 (Intel Mac). aspell starts working but highlights all kinds of words it should surely know, like möglich, für, März or Ärmel in German. All these words contain Umlauts. Maybe

aspell umlaut problems after updating to LyX 1.5 (Mac)

2007-09-24 Thread Christian Liesen
Hi, sorry to ask again, but I'm STILL experiencing weird behaviour of aspell after updating from LyX 1.4.4 to 1.5.1 (Intel Mac). aspell starts working but highlights all kinds of words it should surely know, like möglich, für, März or Ärmel in German. All these words contain Umlauts. Maybe

aspell umlaut problems after updating to LyX 1.5 (Mac)

2007-09-24 Thread Christian Liesen
Hi, sorry to ask again, but I'm STILL experiencing weird behaviour of aspell after updating from LyX 1.4.4 to 1.5.1 (Intel Mac). aspell starts working but highlights all kinds of words it should surely know, like "möglich", "für", "März" or "Ärmel" in German. All these words contain Umlauts.

aspell problems after updating to LyX 1.5 (Mac)

2007-09-15 Thread Christian Liesen
Hi, I'm experiencing weird behaviour of aspell after updating from LyX 1.4.4 to 1.5.1 (Intel Mac). aspell starts working but points out all kinds of words it should surely know, like das, ein, an or Kaffee in Swiss German. I checked my aspell installation and made sure that the path is

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