Re: randomly rotated graphics

2009-10-28 Thread Guy Hindell
Pavel Sanda wrote: Guy Hindell wrote: Does anyone know? not directly done by lyx, but anyway you can post example file and report by which tool it was done. pavel OK, I think this is actually something within the guts of pdftex that reads the image files. It turns out

Re: randomly rotated graphics

2009-10-28 Thread Guy Hindell
Guy Hindell wrote: Pavel Sanda wrote: Guy Hindell wrote: Does anyone know? not directly done by lyx, but anyway you can post example file and report by which tool it was done. pavel OK, I think this is actually something within the guts of pdftex that reads the image files

Re: randomly rotated graphics

2009-10-28 Thread Guy Hindell
Pavel Sanda wrote: Guy Hindell wrote: Does anyone know? not directly done by lyx, but anyway you can post example file and report by which tool it was done. pavel OK, I think this is actually something within the guts of pdftex that reads the image files. It turns out

Re: randomly rotated graphics

2009-10-28 Thread Guy Hindell
Guy Hindell wrote: Pavel Sanda wrote: Guy Hindell wrote: Does anyone know? not directly done by lyx, but anyway you can post example file and report by which tool it was done. pavel OK, I think this is actually something within the guts of pdftex that reads the image files

Re: randomly rotated graphics

2009-10-28 Thread Guy Hindell
Pavel Sanda wrote: Guy Hindell wrote: Does anyone know? not directly done by lyx, but anyway you can post example file and report by which tool it was done. pavel OK, I think this is actually something within the guts of pdftex that reads the image files. It turns out

Re: randomly rotated graphics

2009-10-28 Thread Guy Hindell
Guy Hindell wrote: Pavel Sanda wrote: Guy Hindell wrote: Does anyone know? not directly done by lyx, but anyway you can post example file and report by which tool it was done. pavel OK, I think this is actually something within the guts of pdftex that reads the image files

randomly rotated graphics

2009-10-22 Thread Guy Hindell
Hi there, I think this is more a LaTeX question than LyX, but... I have some LyX documents that include (via graphicx.sty) graphics files supplied in a variety of formats (png, jpg, PDF) that I output as PDFs using pdflatex. This works fine on Windows (XP, Vista using MiKTeX v2.7) and Linux

randomly rotated graphics

2009-10-22 Thread Guy Hindell
Hi there, I think this is more a LaTeX question than LyX, but... I have some LyX documents that include (via graphicx.sty) graphics files supplied in a variety of formats (png, jpg, PDF) that I output as PDFs using pdflatex. This works fine on Windows (XP, Vista using MiKTeX v2.7) and Linux

randomly rotated graphics

2009-10-22 Thread Guy Hindell
Hi there, I think this is more a LaTeX question than LyX, but... I have some LyX documents that include (via graphicx.sty) graphics files supplied in a variety of formats (png, jpg, PDF) that I output as PDFs using pdflatex. This works fine on Windows (XP, Vista using MiKTeX v2.7) and Linux

Re: globally changing typewriter font scale

2007-02-01 Thread Guy Hindell
Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: Guy Hindell wrote: There is one odd side effect though - the \baseskip spacing appears to still be what it would have been at the normal font size, so verbatim blocks look more spread out than they did previously by using \footnotesize. Is there anything I can do

Re: globally changing typewriter font scale

2007-02-01 Thread Guy Hindell
Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: Guy Hindell wrote: There is one odd side effect though - the \baseskip spacing appears to still be what it would have been at the normal font size, so verbatim blocks look more spread out than they did previously by using \footnotesize. Is there anything I can do

Re: globally changing typewriter font scale

2007-02-01 Thread Guy Hindell
Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: Guy Hindell wrote: There is one odd side effect though - the \baseskip spacing appears to still be what it would have been at the normal font size, so verbatim blocks look more spread out than they did previously by using \footnotesize. Is there anything I can do

globally changing typewriter font scale

2007-01-31 Thread Guy Hindell
Hi all - I'm sure there's a TeX trick to doing this, I just don't know what it is, so... Is there some way I can scale the size of fixed pitch fonts (courier)? In my preamble I have \usepackage[scaled=0.92]{helvet} which tweaks the size of the sans serif fonts down to something which better

Re: globally changing typewriter font scale

2007-01-31 Thread Guy Hindell
Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: Guy Hindell wrote: Is there some way I can scale the size of fixed pitch fonts (courier)? In my preamble I have \usepackage[scaled=0.92]{helvet} which tweaks the size of the sans serif fonts down to something which better matches the serif font (times), but can't

globally changing typewriter font scale

2007-01-31 Thread Guy Hindell
Hi all - I'm sure there's a TeX trick to doing this, I just don't know what it is, so... Is there some way I can scale the size of fixed pitch fonts (courier)? In my preamble I have \usepackage[scaled=0.92]{helvet} which tweaks the size of the sans serif fonts down to something which better

Re: globally changing typewriter font scale

2007-01-31 Thread Guy Hindell
Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: Guy Hindell wrote: Is there some way I can scale the size of fixed pitch fonts (courier)? In my preamble I have \usepackage[scaled=0.92]{helvet} which tweaks the size of the sans serif fonts down to something which better matches the serif font (times), but can't

globally changing typewriter font scale

2007-01-31 Thread Guy Hindell
Hi all - I'm sure there's a TeX trick to doing this, I just don't know what it is, so... Is there some way I can scale the size of fixed pitch fonts (courier)? In my preamble I have \usepackage[scaled=0.92]{helvet} which tweaks the size of the sans serif fonts down to something which better

Re: globally changing typewriter font scale

2007-01-31 Thread Guy Hindell
Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: Guy Hindell wrote: Is there some way I can scale the size of fixed pitch fonts (courier)? In my preamble I have \usepackage[scaled=0.92]{helvet} which tweaks the size of the sans serif fonts down to something which better matches the serif font (times), but can't

lyx1.4.2 under redhat el3

2007-01-23 Thread Guy Hindell
I need to get lyx1.4.2 running on redhat el3 (don't ask why). Having fetched the sources (I couldn't find an rpm ready to go) and sorted out the dependencies (qt etc.) I went for a configure; make and the build ran off without a hitch. But... on running up the binary something fails as LyX

Re: lyx1.4.2 under redhat el3

2007-01-23 Thread Guy Hindell
José Matos wrote: On Tuesday 23 January 2007 1:40:34 pm Guy Hindell wrote: I need to get lyx1.4.2 running on redhat el3 (don't ask why). Having fetched the sources (I couldn't find an rpm ready to go) and sorted out the dependencies (qt etc.) I went for a configure; make and the build ran

lyx1.4.2 under redhat el3

2007-01-23 Thread Guy Hindell
I need to get lyx1.4.2 running on redhat el3 (don't ask why). Having fetched the sources (I couldn't find an rpm ready to go) and sorted out the dependencies (qt etc.) I went for a configure; make and the build ran off without a hitch. But... on running up the binary something fails as LyX

Re: lyx1.4.2 under redhat el3

2007-01-23 Thread Guy Hindell
José Matos wrote: On Tuesday 23 January 2007 1:40:34 pm Guy Hindell wrote: I need to get lyx1.4.2 running on redhat el3 (don't ask why). Having fetched the sources (I couldn't find an rpm ready to go) and sorted out the dependencies (qt etc.) I went for a configure; make and the build ran

lyx1.4.2 under redhat el3

2007-01-23 Thread Guy Hindell
I need to get lyx1.4.2 running on redhat el3 (don't ask why). Having fetched the sources (I couldn't find an rpm ready to go) and sorted out the dependencies (qt etc.) I went for a "configure; make" and the build ran off without a hitch. But... on running up the binary something fails as LyX

Re: lyx1.4.2 under redhat el3

2007-01-23 Thread Guy Hindell
José Matos wrote: On Tuesday 23 January 2007 1:40:34 pm Guy Hindell wrote: I need to get lyx1.4.2 running on redhat el3 (don't ask why). Having fetched the sources (I couldn't find an rpm ready to go) and sorted out the dependencies (qt etc.) I went for a "configure; make" and the

Re: Using LyX for design documentation

2007-01-02 Thread Guy Hindell
Bill Wood wrote: On Wed, 2006-12-27 at 09:13 -0700, Shawn Willden wrote: I'm looking into the possibility of using LyX for design documentation, and I'd like to get some feedback on the feasibility of what I'd like to do, and recommendations for packages that might help. We currently

Re: Using LyX for design documentation

2007-01-02 Thread Guy Hindell
Bill Wood wrote: On Wed, 2006-12-27 at 09:13 -0700, Shawn Willden wrote: I'm looking into the possibility of using LyX for design documentation, and I'd like to get some feedback on the feasibility of what I'd like to do, and recommendations for packages that might help. We currently

Re: Using LyX for design documentation

2007-01-02 Thread Guy Hindell
Bill Wood wrote: On Wed, 2006-12-27 at 09:13 -0700, Shawn Willden wrote: I'm looking into the possibility of using LyX for design documentation, and I'd like to get some feedback on the feasibility of what I'd like to do, and recommendations for packages that might help. We currently

Re: config and comments

2006-10-13 Thread Guy Hindell
José Matos wrote: On Monday 09 October 2006 14:32, Guy Hindell wrote: Hi there - a couple of questions. First, I have lyx integrated into our build environment so that it exports to latex (lyx -export pdflatex) and runs pdflatex as part of a software build. This means I have users

Re: config and comments

2006-10-13 Thread Guy Hindell
José Matos wrote: On Monday 09 October 2006 14:32, Guy Hindell wrote: Hi there - a couple of questions. First, I have lyx integrated into our build environment so that it exports to latex (lyx -export pdflatex) and runs pdflatex as part of a software build. This means I have users

Re: config and comments

2006-10-13 Thread Guy Hindell
José Matos wrote: On Monday 09 October 2006 14:32, Guy Hindell wrote: Hi there - a couple of questions. First, I have lyx integrated into our build environment so that it exports to latex (lyx -export pdflatex) and runs pdflatex as part of a software build. This means I have users

config and comments

2006-10-09 Thread Guy Hindell
Hi there - a couple of questions. First, I have lyx integrated into our build environment so that it exports to latex (lyx -export pdflatex) and runs pdflatex as part of a software build. This means I have users (developers) who run lyx without being aware of it as part of their build in

config and comments

2006-10-09 Thread Guy Hindell
Hi there - a couple of questions. First, I have lyx integrated into our build environment so that it exports to latex (lyx -export pdflatex) and runs pdflatex as part of a software build. This means I have users (developers) who run lyx without being aware of it as part of their build in

config and comments

2006-10-09 Thread Guy Hindell
Hi there - a couple of questions. First, I have lyx integrated into our build environment so that it exports to latex (lyx -export pdflatex) and runs pdflatex as part of a software build. This means I have users (developers) who run lyx without being aware of it as part of their build in

Using prettyref

2006-09-19 Thread Guy Hindell
Sorry if I'm asking a question to which there is an obvious answer... How can I get LyX to use \prettyref from the prettyref.sty package rather than the usual \ref when I export to latex? I have \usepackage{prettyref} in the preamble, but that doesn't seem to be enough. guy

Re: Using prettyref

2006-09-19 Thread Guy Hindell
Guy Hindell wrote: Sorry if I'm asking a question to which there is an obvious answer... How can I get LyX to use \prettyref from the prettyref.sty package rather than the usual \ref when I export to latex? I have \usepackage{prettyref} in the preamble, but that doesn't seem to be enough

Using prettyref

2006-09-19 Thread Guy Hindell
Sorry if I'm asking a question to which there is an obvious answer... How can I get LyX to use \prettyref from the prettyref.sty package rather than the usual \ref when I export to latex? I have \usepackage{prettyref} in the preamble, but that doesn't seem to be enough. guy

Re: Using prettyref

2006-09-19 Thread Guy Hindell
Guy Hindell wrote: Sorry if I'm asking a question to which there is an obvious answer... How can I get LyX to use \prettyref from the prettyref.sty package rather than the usual \ref when I export to latex? I have \usepackage{prettyref} in the preamble, but that doesn't seem to be enough

Using prettyref

2006-09-19 Thread Guy Hindell
Sorry if I'm asking a question to which there is an obvious answer... How can I get LyX to use \prettyref from the prettyref.sty package rather than the usual \ref when I export to latex? I have \usepackage{prettyref} in the preamble, but that doesn't seem to be enough. guy

Re: Using prettyref

2006-09-19 Thread Guy Hindell
Guy Hindell wrote: Sorry if I'm asking a question to which there is an obvious answer... How can I get LyX to use \prettyref from the prettyref.sty package rather than the usual \ref when I export to latex? I have \usepackage{prettyref} in the preamble, but that doesn't seem to be enough

What lyx commands are available?

2006-09-13 Thread Guy Hindell
Hi there - it's been a long time since I last posted anything here. How can I get a list of lyx commands which can be called from macros or passed via the -x flag? I'm using LyX1.4.2 on windows and linux. thanks guy

What lyx commands are available?

2006-09-13 Thread Guy Hindell
Hi there - it's been a long time since I last posted anything here. How can I get a list of lyx commands which can be called from macros or passed via the -x flag? I'm using LyX1.4.2 on windows and linux. thanks guy

What lyx commands are available?

2006-09-13 Thread Guy Hindell
Hi there - it's been a long time since I last posted anything here. How can I get a list of lyx commands which can be called from macros or passed via the -x flag? I'm using LyX1.4.2 on windows and linux. thanks guy

Odd problems with spacing

2004-11-29 Thread Guy Hindell
I'm using the windows build of lyx 1.3.3 (old, I know. I'll move up to the more recent version when I get a chance) so the following little issues might not still be present in the current version. Alternatively, they may be something to do with MikTex which I'm using to generate PDFs. Anyhow.

Odd problems with spacing

2004-11-29 Thread Guy Hindell
I'm using the windows build of lyx 1.3.3 (old, I know. I'll move up to the more recent version when I get a chance) so the following little issues might not still be present in the current version. Alternatively, they may be something to do with MikTex which I'm using to generate PDFs. Anyhow.

Odd problems with spacing

2004-11-29 Thread Guy Hindell
I'm using the windows build of lyx 1.3.3 (old, I know. I'll move up to the more recent version when I get a chance) so the following little issues might not still be present in the current version. Alternatively, they may be something to do with MikTex which I'm using to generate PDFs. Anyhow.

Figure floats mid sentence

2004-11-12 Thread Guy Hindell
Can anyone suggest a way (if any exists) of preventing or discouraging latex from breaking a sentence across a page break where a figure float occupies the whole of the next page, essentially interposing a figure in a sentence? Sort of like this. Page1 Text of first page etc. etc.

Figure floats mid sentence

2004-11-12 Thread Guy Hindell
Can anyone suggest a way (if any exists) of preventing or discouraging latex from breaking a sentence across a page break where a figure float occupies the whole of the next page, essentially interposing a figure in a sentence? Sort of like this. Page1 Text of first page etc. etc.

Figure floats mid sentence

2004-11-12 Thread Guy Hindell
Can anyone suggest a way (if any exists) of preventing or discouraging latex from breaking a sentence across a page break where a figure float occupies the whole of the next page, essentially interposing a figure in a sentence? Sort of like this. Page1 Text of first page etc. etc.

RE: Preface on header

2004-02-13 Thread Guy Hindell
First off, I'm no expert in Lyx or latex. However, I have recently been trying to achieve a similar effect, in my case trying to make sure that the preface (which I have after the TOC) has roman page numbers in the footer rather than Arabic. After a bit of trawling usenet I found out to use the

RE: Preface on header

2004-02-13 Thread Guy Hindell
First off, I'm no expert in Lyx or latex. However, I have recently been trying to achieve a similar effect, in my case trying to make sure that the preface (which I have after the TOC) has roman page numbers in the footer rather than Arabic. After a bit of trawling usenet I found out to use the

RE: "Preface" on header

2004-02-13 Thread Guy Hindell
First off, I'm no expert in Lyx or latex. However, I have recently been trying to achieve a similar effect, in my case trying to make sure that the preface (which I have after the TOC) has roman page numbers in the footer rather than Arabic. After a bit of trawling usenet I found out to use the

RE: How to reduce spacing on TOC page?

2004-01-28 Thread Guy Hindell
of contents, but (like I said) that wasn't really what I needed. Anything else I can try? guy -Original Message- From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Herbert Voss Sent: 27 January 2004 19:10 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: How to reduce spacing on TOC page? Guy Hindell wrote: So

RE: How to reduce spacing on TOC page?

2004-01-28 Thread Guy Hindell
of contents, but (like I said) that wasn't really what I needed. Anything else I can try? guy -Original Message- From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Herbert Voss Sent: 27 January 2004 19:10 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: How to reduce spacing on TOC page? Guy Hindell wrote: So

RE: How to reduce spacing on TOC page?

2004-01-28 Thread Guy Hindell
the table of contents, but (like I said) that wasn't really what I needed. Anything else I can try? guy -Original Message- From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Herbert Voss Sent: 27 January 2004 19:10 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: How to reduce spacing on TOC page? Guy Hin

How to reduce spacing on TOC page?

2004-01-27 Thread Guy Hindell
One of my more critical document reviewers doesn’t like the large amount of space which is left on the first contents page between the top of the page and the word Contents and then between that and the first TOC entry. This is covered on Herbert Voss’ excellent tips and tricks pages

How to reduce spacing on TOC page?

2004-01-27 Thread Guy Hindell
One of my more critical document reviewers doesn’t like the large amount of space which is left on the first contents page between the top of the page and the word Contents and then between that and the first TOC entry. This is covered on Herbert Voss’ excellent tips and tricks pages

How to reduce spacing on TOC page?

2004-01-27 Thread Guy Hindell
One of my more critical document reviewers doesn’t like the large amount of space which is left on the first contents page between the top of the page and the word "Contents" and then between that and the first TOC entry. This is covered on Herbert Voss’ excellent tips and tricks pages

how to position longtables?

2003-12-03 Thread Guy Hindell
Hi. I’m sure this must be easy, maybe I’m just not looking in the right places. I have a table which was originally designed using the normal ‘tabular’ environment. It has grown to the point that it won’t fit on a page, so I switched to ‘longtable’. However, the table is now created in the

RE: how to position longtables?

2003-12-03 Thread Guy Hindell
Not to worry – found the trick \setlength\LTleft{0pt} -Original Message- From: Guy Hindell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 03 December 2003 13:08 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: how to position longtables? Hi. I'm sure this must be easy, maybe I'm just not looking in the right places

how to position longtables?

2003-12-03 Thread Guy Hindell
Hi. I’m sure this must be easy, maybe I’m just not looking in the right places. I have a table which was originally designed using the normal ‘tabular’ environment. It has grown to the point that it won’t fit on a page, so I switched to ‘longtable’. However, the table is now created in the

RE: how to position longtables?

2003-12-03 Thread Guy Hindell
Not to worry – found the trick \setlength\LTleft{0pt} -Original Message- From: Guy Hindell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 03 December 2003 13:08 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: how to position longtables? Hi. I'm sure this must be easy, maybe I'm just not looking in the right places

how to position longtables?

2003-12-03 Thread Guy Hindell
Hi. I’m sure this must be easy, maybe I’m just not looking in the right places. I have a table which was originally designed using the normal ‘tabular’ environment. It has grown to the point that it won’t fit on a page, so I switched to ‘longtable’. However, the table is now created in the

RE: how to position longtables?

2003-12-03 Thread Guy Hindell
Not to worry – found the trick \setlength\LTleft{0pt} -Original Message- From: Guy Hindell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 03 December 2003 13:08 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: how to position longtables? Hi. I'm sure this must be easy, maybe I'm just not looking in the right places

font size changes

2003-10-20 Thread Guy Hindell
Hi there I am creating a document which includes some latex material generated by the doxygen code documentation package. My document preamble is setting the doc class to book with a 12pt font, a4paper – so my latex output files have the following line… \documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{book} The

RE: font size changes

2003-10-20 Thread Guy Hindell
Well, after a lot of trial and error it turns out that doxygen is a red herring – it’s the use of the moreverb.sty package which seems to be the culprit. But I don’t know why. Anyone familiar with this package? guy I am creating a document which includes some latex material generated by the

font size changes

2003-10-20 Thread Guy Hindell
Hi there I am creating a document which includes some latex material generated by the doxygen code documentation package. My document preamble is setting the doc class to book with a 12pt font, a4paper – so my latex output files have the following line… \documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{book} The

RE: font size changes

2003-10-20 Thread Guy Hindell
Well, after a lot of trial and error it turns out that doxygen is a red herring – it’s the use of the moreverb.sty package which seems to be the culprit. But I don’t know why. Anyone familiar with this package? guy I am creating a document which includes some latex material generated by the

font size changes

2003-10-20 Thread Guy Hindell
Hi there I am creating a document which includes some latex material generated by the doxygen code documentation package. My document preamble is setting the doc class to book with a 12pt font, a4paper – so my latex output files have the following line… \documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{book} The

RE: font size changes

2003-10-20 Thread Guy Hindell
Well, after a lot of trial and error it turns out that doxygen is a red herring – it’s the use of the moreverb.sty package which seems to be the culprit. But I don’t know why. Anyone familiar with this package? guy >I am creating a document which includes some latex material generated by >the

Which spellchecker dictionary?

2003-10-13 Thread Guy Hindell
Hi all I'm still making progress with the 1.3.2 win32-qt port of lyx. However, I'm not quite there yet with the spell checker. I have downloaded and installed the lyx_aspell_dict_en.rar aspell dictionary linked on the win32-qt port page. Hitting F7 brings up the spell checker. The spell checker

Which spellchecker dictionary?

2003-10-13 Thread Guy Hindell
Hi all I'm still making progress with the 1.3.2 win32-qt port of lyx. However, I'm not quite there yet with the spell checker. I have downloaded and installed the lyx_aspell_dict_en.rar aspell dictionary linked on the win32-qt port page. Hitting F7 brings up the spell checker. The spell checker

Which spellchecker dictionary?

2003-10-13 Thread Guy Hindell
Hi all I'm still making progress with the 1.3.2 win32-qt port of lyx. However, I'm not quite there yet with the spell checker. I have downloaded and installed the lyx_aspell_dict_en.rar aspell dictionary linked on the win32-qt port page. Hitting F7 brings up the spell checker. The spell checker

modular lyx documents?

2003-10-10 Thread Guy Hindell
Hi I notice that I can include external Tex documents in my lyx files, but it seems I can't include another lyx document - i.e. I can't make multipart lyx docs. Using Insert-Insert File-Lyx Document actually copies the text of the other lyx doc into my current one. Is there a clever way to do

RE: modular lyx documents?

2003-10-10 Thread Guy Hindell
Sure you can. Insert-Include File pops up a dialog. Enter the lyx file yo want and there you are. Ususally yo want to Input the file rather than Include it. (Subtle latex difference.) Ah, that easy :-) Also (working in the other direction) is it possible to export the contents of the lyx

RE: modular lyx documents?

2003-10-10 Thread Guy Hindell
Sure you can. Insert-Include File pops up a dialog. Enter the lyx file yo want and there you are. Ususally yo want to Input the file rather than Include it. (Subtle latex difference.) Ah, that easy :-) Which leads to another question. I tried the Verbatim input. If the file I include has a

modular lyx documents?

2003-10-10 Thread Guy Hindell
Hi I notice that I can include external Tex documents in my lyx files, but it seems I can't include another lyx document - i.e. I can't make multipart lyx docs. Using Insert-Insert File-Lyx Document actually copies the text of the other lyx doc into my current one. Is there a clever way to do

RE: modular lyx documents?

2003-10-10 Thread Guy Hindell
Sure you can. Insert-Include File pops up a dialog. Enter the lyx file yo want and there you are. Ususally yo want to Input the file rather than Include it. (Subtle latex difference.) Ah, that easy :-) Also (working in the other direction) is it possible to export the contents of the lyx

RE: modular lyx documents?

2003-10-10 Thread Guy Hindell
Sure you can. Insert-Include File pops up a dialog. Enter the lyx file yo want and there you are. Ususally yo want to Input the file rather than Include it. (Subtle latex difference.) Ah, that easy :-) Which leads to another question. I tried the Verbatim input. If the file I include has a

modular lyx documents?

2003-10-10 Thread Guy Hindell
Hi I notice that I can include external Tex documents in my lyx files, but it seems I can't include another lyx document - i.e. I can't make multipart lyx docs. Using Insert->Insert File->Lyx Document actually copies the text of the other lyx doc into my current one. Is there a clever way to do

RE: modular lyx documents?

2003-10-10 Thread Guy Hindell
>Sure you can. Insert->Include File pops up a dialog. Enter the lyx >file yo want and there you are. Ususally yo want to Input the file >rather than Include it. (Subtle latex difference.) Ah, that easy :-) >> Also (working in the other direction) is it possible to export the >> contents of

RE: modular lyx documents?

2003-10-10 Thread Guy Hindell
>>Sure you can. Insert->Include File pops up a dialog. Enter the lyx >>file yo want and there you are. Ususally yo want to Input the file >>rather than Include it. (Subtle latex difference.) > >Ah, that easy :-) Which leads to another question. I tried the "Verbatim" input. If the file I

RE: export to named file or stdout

2003-10-08 Thread Guy Hindell
On 2003-10-07, 18:00 GMT, Guy Hindell wrote: In the end I've just extended my perl scripts to copy the image files to the build directory. Its a bit crude, but it works fine. Why crude ? Seems OK to delegate OS tasks to a scripting language... AFAIU, that's a mere extension if what

RE: export to named file or stdout

2003-10-08 Thread Guy Hindell
Guy, why are you exporting as Latex and then using pdflatex by hand? Why not export as pdf2? (I believe that this is the pdf 'flavour' corresponding to use of pdflatex.) I want to apply a standard header controlling layout and typesetting rules to any document I prepare (basically the same as

RE: export to named file or stdout

2003-10-08 Thread Guy Hindell
On 2003-10-07, 18:00 GMT, Guy Hindell wrote: In the end I've just extended my perl scripts to copy the image files to the build directory. Its a bit crude, but it works fine. Why crude ? Seems OK to delegate OS tasks to a scripting language... AFAIU, that's a mere extension if what

RE: export to named file or stdout

2003-10-08 Thread Guy Hindell
Guy, why are you exporting as Latex and then using pdflatex by hand? Why not export as pdf2? (I believe that this is the pdf 'flavour' corresponding to use of pdflatex.) I want to apply a standard header controlling layout and typesetting rules to any document I prepare (basically the same as

RE: export to named file or stdout

2003-10-08 Thread Guy Hindell
>> >>On 2003-10-07, 18:00 GMT, Guy Hindell wrote: >>> In the end I've just extended my perl scripts to copy the image >>> files to the build directory. Its a bit crude, but it works >>> fine. >Why crude ? Seems OK to delegate OS tasks to a scripting l

RE: export to named file or stdout

2003-10-08 Thread Guy Hindell
>Guy, why are you exporting as Latex and then using pdflatex by hand? >Why not export as pdf2? (I believe that this is the pdf 'flavour' >corresponding to use of pdflatex.) I want to apply a standard header controlling layout and typesetting rules to any document I prepare (basically the same

RE: export to named file or stdout

2003-10-07 Thread Guy Hindell
My only outstanding problem is that the build area into which all code, and now documentation, is built is separate from the source tree. Would ``Edit/Preferences/Paths/Use Temporary Directory'' help? Matej Not really, unless there is a way of setting it from the command line at the time

RE: export to named file or stdout

2003-10-07 Thread Guy Hindell
My only outstanding problem is that the build area into which all code, and now documentation, is built is separate from the source tree. Would ``Edit/Preferences/Paths/Use Temporary Directory'' help? Matej Not really, unless there is a way of setting it from the command line at the time

RE: export to named file or stdout

2003-10-07 Thread Guy Hindell
>> My only outstanding problem is that the build area into which >> all code, and now documentation, is built is separate from the >> source tree. >Would ``Edit/Preferences/Paths/Use Temporary Directory'' help? >Matej Not really, unless there is a way of setting it from the command line at