Re: beamer presentations & projectors

2005-10-07 Thread John Coppens
On Fri, 7 Oct 2005 15:21:47 +0200 Gour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Although it's a little bit OT, I'd like to hear some experiences from > LyX & beamers users, i.e. is it the resolution of 800x600 (aka SVGA) > enough for a beamer presentations in a classroom-size room? SVGA is sufficient, normal

Re: convert text to math equation

2005-06-27 Thread John Coppens
On Tue, 28 Jun 2005 00:08:20 -0500 Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does Lyx work that way on your system? > Yes - Math mode is not analogous to 'Bold' or 'Italic', it's a completely different work environment. If it's only x's and y's (no real formulas), you could select one, assign

Re: 1/2

2005-05-23 Thread John Coppens
On Mon, 23 May 2005 11:05:07 +0100 "Geoffrey Lloyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > 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. Hi Geoff. If you enable

Re: Row Padding in Tables

2005-05-22 Thread John Coppens
On Sun, 22 May 2005 11:21:45 -0500 Bruce Pourciau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 > arrays

Re: Asking for confirming a bug

2005-03-29 Thread John Coppens
On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 16:26:07 +0100 Paul Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear All > > I would like to ask you for confirming the following bug, which can be > reproduced in the following way: > > * open a new document and open an empty ERT, keeping the ERT and the > document open; > * open a d

Re: Degrees

2005-03-24 Thread John Coppens
On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 15:59:45 + (GMT) Geoffrey Lloyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anyone know how to do the little circle that denotes angle in degrees. > I cant seem to find a satifactory symbol. > > > Geoff BTW, the complete table is here: http://www.texnik.de/symbols/textcomp.phtml John

Re: Degrees

2005-03-24 Thread John Coppens
On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 15:59:45 + (GMT) Geoffrey Lloyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anyone know how to do the little circle that denotes angle in degrees. > I cant seem to find a satifactory symbol. > > > Geoff I put \usepackage{textcomp} in the preamble and \textdegree or even \textcelsius

a Font question

2004-11-16 Thread John Coppens
Hi all... I'm not sure where to ask this question, but I'm sure there are quite a few people on this list that had similar problems. I wonder if some utility exists (for Linux) that can - Validate a font (there are lots of good -free- fonts on the 'net but many of them have errors in the packa

Re: quality of graph previews

2004-09-04 Thread John Coppens
On Fri, 03 Sep 2004 21:08:32 +0200 Martijn Brouwer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > When I reread my message, I realised that I have been very unclear. What > > I meant with the bad quality is that the lines are very unclear, and > letters are only small patches of noise. I have included an ex

Re: Drowing

2004-08-23 Thread John Coppens
On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 16:14:58 + Hannan Seder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am looking for a program to drown shapes and surfaces in physics > (Electricity). > > Does someone have any recommendation? Hi Hannan. Think first if you really _want_ to draw these complicated shapes. If y

Re: Changing text height and width?

2004-08-14 Thread John Coppens
On Sat, 14 Aug 2004 14:59:45 +1200 Stefano Franchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Rich, > > thank for the suggestion, but my problem is not changing the paper > > size. I need to change the size of the text block. I do not really > care about the paper size and I was hopeful that

Re: LyXFont::setLyXShape: Unknown shape `normal'

2004-07-15 Thread John Coppens
On Fri, 16 Jul 2004 00:42:09 +0200 Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>>>> "John" == John Coppens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > John> That was 1.3.5cvs... Maybe I shouldn't report this 'cause it is > John> not g

Re: LyXFont::setLyXShape: Unknown shape `normal'

2004-07-15 Thread John Coppens
On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 10:08:45 +0200 Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>>>> "John" == John Coppens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > John> Hello people. When loading a lyx-document, I see: > > John> LyXFont::setLyXShape: U

Re: LyXFont::setLyXShape: Unknown shape `normal'

2004-07-14 Thread John Coppens
On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 15:33:24 -0300 John Coppens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello people. > > When loading a lyx-document, I see: > > LyXFont::setLyXShape: Unknown shape `normal' > > on the terminal. Though I cannot detect any later problems, I'd like t

LyXFont::setLyXShape: Unknown shape `normal'

2004-07-14 Thread John Coppens
Hello people. When loading a lyx-document, I see: LyXFont::setLyXShape: Unknown shape `normal' on the terminal. Though I cannot detect any later problems, I'd like to eliminate this. What is the cause? (I've checked the .lyx file - no word 'normal' is present. Is this a template problem or so?)

(no) Index problem

2004-07-08 Thread John Coppens
Hello people. For the first time, I was trying out the index feature of LyX. I've marked tens of works for inclusion, and added the index at the end of the doc. No index appeared. I exported Latex, and ran Latex and makeindex manually. That worked fine, and now the index also appeared from LyX it

Re: shortcut for export -> pdflatex

2004-07-03 Thread John Coppens
On Sun, 04 Jul 2004 00:09:23 +0200 Uwe Stöhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello LyXers, > > does anybody know a way to define a shortcut for export -> pdflatex? > > thanks Uwe This was just asked a few messages ago. Check /bind for a lot of examples how to bind keys to things. You can then def

Re: LyX 1.3.4 problems

2004-06-21 Thread John Coppens
On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 15:10:35 -0600 (MDT) PAGRATIS KOSTAS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a powerbook titanium with gs 8.1.4 and LyX 1.3.4 and eps inline > figures cannot be displayed. It gives me a box of where the image is > supposed to be and shows the following error: error loading to load

Re: The (eternal?) EPS-problem

2004-06-17 Thread John Coppens
On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 09:52:52 +0200 Georg Baum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Confirmed. My results are: > > - display in lyx is ok if the bounding box is 0 0 454 454 and the > %%DocumentMedia: line removed, regardless of the clip setting. > - ps output is likewise > - pdf output is likewise if d

Re: Compiling with gcc 3.4

2004-06-16 Thread John Coppens
On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 20:40:43 +0100 Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is g++ 3.4 ABI compatible with g++ 3.3? If so, then all would be well, > but this has not been the case in the past. > A quick search showed comments they are not compatible. Thanks, John

Re: Compiling with gcc 3.4

2004-06-16 Thread John Coppens
On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 19:23:07 +0100 Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John Coppens wrote: > > I tried to compile 1.3.4 with gcc 3.4 > > Hi, John. > > A bunch of fixes have been checked into the 1.3.x branch so that it will > compile with gcc 3.4. (W

Re: The (eternal?) EPS-problem

2004-06-16 Thread John Coppens
On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 19:31:34 +0200 Georg Baum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It does not ignore the bounding box. Your bounding box does include all > the whitespace. If you change > > %%BoundingBox: 0 0 596 842 > to > %%BoundingBox: 0 0 454 454 Hello Georg Thanks for the reply. It doesn't wor

Compiling with gcc 3.4

2004-06-16 Thread John Coppens
Hi all I tried to compile 1.3.4 with gcc 3.4 - I don't know if that is the motive for the errors, but here they are: In file included from ../../boost/boost/format.hpp:50, from ../../src/BoostFormat.h:9, from formulamacro.C:43: ../../boost/boost/format/format_imp

The (eternal?) EPS-problem

2004-06-16 Thread John Coppens
Hi all. I've spent a good while experimenting with EPS figures. I wrote a program using GnomePrint, which produces PS files. These seem to include a few commands which do not allow using the bounding box. I've noticed many threads on the EPS theme, but have not been able to find a solution (includ

Compiling with gcc 3.4

2004-06-16 Thread John Coppens
Hi all I tried to compile 1.3.4 with gcc 3.4 - I don't know if that is the motive for the errors, but here they are: In file included from ../../boost/boost/format.hpp:50, from ../../src/BoostFormat.h:9, from formulamacro.C:43: ../../boost/boost/format/format_imp

Re: resolution of figures

2004-06-07 Thread John Coppens
On Mon, 7 Jun 2004 08:01:41 +0200 Wolfgang Engelmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If I try to print a pnm or eps figure in lyx at the highest reasonable > solution with a 600*600dpi printer, it shows only a fourth of the figure > on the printpage. It is as if one pixel is printed in 4 pixels. gif

Re: help with accents

2004-04-28 Thread John Coppens
On Tue, 27 Apr 2004 12:49:06 -0300 Beny Spira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > So, I understand that the document _did_ show correctly at your home, > > but was modified when you sent it back to your work. Is that correct? > > Or was it already missing characters when you worked on it at home?

Re: help with accents

2004-04-27 Thread John Coppens
On Tue, 27 Apr 2004 12:49:06 -0300 Beny Spira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > So, I understand that the document _did_ show correctly at your home, > > but was modified when you sent it back to your work. Is that correct? > > Or was it already missing characters when you worked on it at home?

Re: help with accents

2004-04-27 Thread John Coppens
On Mon, 26 Apr 2004 12:49:21 -0300 Beny Spira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Could you post a (short) example lyx document that works on your home > > machine and not on your work one. > > > Sure, but first i would like to make something clear. The original > document was written at work (with

Re: "ASCII" considered obscure

2004-04-27 Thread John Coppens
On Mon, 26 Apr 2004 12:55:24 +0200 Helge Hafting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Reuben Thomas wrote: > > First, in most programs, "Text" is a file type listed on the save > > dialog, not under "Export", which tends to be reserved for > > non-editable formats such as PDF. This is certainly the case i

Re: Large size PS image - paneling

2004-04-14 Thread John Coppens
On Wed, 14 Apr 2004 15:13:14 -0300 John Coppens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there any tool to cut a large size PS image into several panels, > print them separately (then glue them together)? Preferably with > optional reference marks added? Answering my own mail... I had b

Large size PS image - paneling

2004-04-14 Thread John Coppens
Hello all. Maybe it's so easy it isn't mentioned, but I could not find a reference anywhere. And sorry - it is only indirectly LyX related: Is there any tool to cut a large size PS image into several panels, print them separately (then glue them together)? Preferably with optional reference marks

Re: Font problems and PNGs? Help...

2003-10-14 Thread John Coppens
On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 17:36:19 + Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John Coppens wrote: > >> What route are you taking to generate the pdf? Are you going > >> * lyx->latex-(latex)->dvi-(dvips)->ps-(ps2pdf)->pdf > >> which requires t

Re: Font problems and PNGs? Help...

2003-10-14 Thread John Coppens
On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 08:58:26 + Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John Coppens wrote: > > > Hi all... > > > > After some guesswork and a huge amount of luck, I found that the > > font problem could be solved inverting the font dirs in > &g

Re: Font problems and PNGs? Help...

2003-10-13 Thread John Coppens
PDF (latex). I've saved this PNG if someone is interested. I rotated the image, saved it again, and all was well. John On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 13:37:39 -0300 John Coppens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all > > It started quite innocently with a broken font, but I somehow go

Font problems and PNGs? Help...

2003-10-13 Thread John Coppens
Hi all It started quite innocently with a broken font, but I somehow got into a mess... I think these are different issues: 1) Opening a document I get: LyXFont::setLyXShape: Unknown shape `normal' I have no idea where this comes from. The document has only PNGs in it - nothing else (no fonts).

Re: Lyx-spanish and the accented vowels dilema.

2003-09-07 Thread John Coppens
On Sun, 07 Sep 2003 13:19:46 -0400 Eric Fuchs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi: > >Does anybody use LÝX in spanish? My lyx won't accept accented > vowels, it will display them as à (capital A with a tilde on top). I > know I've set up Xkeyboard correctly, because lyx will actually accept

Re: accentuated characters in 1.2.3 XForms

2003-03-29 Thread John Coppens
On Sat, 29 Mar 2003 18:06:57 +0100 Olivier Ripoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John Coppens wrote: > > > > > May I suggest going to 1.3 or 1.3.1? I had the same problem, and it > > disappeared when upgrading. > > > > I did a lot on investigating on t

Re: accentuated characters in 1.2.3 XForms

2003-03-28 Thread John Coppens
On Fri, 28 Mar 2003 14:54:16 + Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Olivier Ripoll wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > I have just upgraded my Mandrake 9.0 to a 9.1 yesterday, and have > > noticed that in LyX menus and popups (and Enlightenment by the way), > > the accentuated (french locale)

Re: Using LyX with the QT GUI environment

2002-12-13 Thread John Coppens
On Fri, 13 Dec 2002 14:48:42 +0100 Janine C.Buorditez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello. > > I heard this was possible, but have no idea how. > > Could anybody point me in the right direction? > > Thanks. > > --janine You have to recompile. As far as I've seen, no packages are available comp

Re: qt and math panel

2002-12-09 Thread John Coppens
I'm proud to say that my freshly compiled LyX doesn't have that problem. That's Qt2. Maybe the problem is with Qt3? Just trying to identify... John

Re: QT compile problems.

2002-12-09 Thread John Coppens
On Mon, 9 Dec 2002 15:50:46 +0100 Andre Poenitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 11:39:15AM -0300, John Coppens wrote: > > I'm not sure I'm capable of modifying the code and getting it to work. > > But maybe it wouldn't be bad to warn peop

Re: QT compile problems.

2002-12-07 Thread John Coppens
On Sat, 7 Dec 2002 18:38:52 + John Levon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 12:25:03PM -0300, John Coppens wrote: > > > I appreciate your help, John. I've also learned a few things from the other > > comments. LyX is now working fine wi

Re: QT compile problems.

2002-12-07 Thread John Coppens
On Sat, 7 Dec 2002 03:34:27 + John Levon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I do not understand how this can happen. Are you sure that you do a > "make distclean" after fiddling with the configuration ? That was it. I only did a 'make clean'. I did mention that before somewhere, I believe. I a

Re: QT compile problems.

2002-12-05 Thread John Coppens
Hi John. I didn't notice the first time around this reply was turned down by the lyx mail server (happened before): On Thu, 5 Dec 2002 22:17:38 + John Levon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 07:11:57PM -0300, John Coppens wrote: > > > > Where a

Re: pdf won't open on other platform

2002-12-05 Thread John Coppens
On Thu, 5 Dec 2002 17:36:17 -0500 (EST) Diab Jerius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 5 Dec, Paul Tremblay wrote: > > I have just done a search on the web and found that no one else has had > > this problem, or at least that I could find. > > I just had this experience last night, as a matter of

Re: QT compile problems.

2002-12-05 Thread John Coppens
On Thu, 5 Dec 2002 18:33:30 + John Levon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 03:09:20PM -0300, John Coppens wrote: > > > QTDIR is pointing to the 3.0.4 version, which is logical, because its > > the latest. But LyX internally has quite a few hardwi

Re: pdf won't open on other platform

2002-12-05 Thread John Coppens
On Thu, 5 Dec 2002 14:23:31 -0500 Paul Tremblay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Any idea what is going on here? > > Thanks > > Paul > Did you try to re-install Acrobat on the Windows machine? Even if you can open other pdfs, the executable or libraries can be damaged or incomplete. John

Re: QT compile problems.

2002-12-05 Thread John Coppens
Dec 2002 12:46:07 + John Levon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 01:02:45AM -0300, John Coppens wrote: > > > I'm trying to compile LyX CVS with the --with-frontend=qt option. > > Configure goes quite well, but compilation fails at the end

QT compile problems.

2002-12-04 Thread John Coppens
Hi all. I'm trying to compile LyX CVS with the --with-frontend=qt option. Configure goes quite well, but compilation fails at the end with a long list of messages about missing references. Now, configure reports Qt3, which really is installed. And I've noticed that LyX actually explicitly links t

Re: Herbert's pages down? --- ok from work, but fails from home ????

2002-12-03 Thread John Coppens
On Tue, 3 Dec 2002 19:24:47 +0100 Christian Ridderström <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 3 Dec 2002, Christian Ridderström wrote: > > On Tue, 3 Dec 2002, Christian Ridderström wrote: > > > > > Is it just me, or are Herbert's pages not workign? > > > > > > > > > > http://www.educat.hu-be

Good news (was Re: Is there an image cache somewhere?)

2002-11-27 Thread John Coppens
On Wed, 27 Nov 2002 18:52:45 -0300 John Coppens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 27 Nov 2002 19:35:31 +0100 > Christian Ridderström <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Thanks Christian! I'll have a go with the CVS version. > > John CVS works fine... S

Re: Is there an image cache somewhere?

2002-11-27 Thread John Coppens
On Wed, 27 Nov 2002 19:35:31 +0100 Christian Ridderström <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's a known bug, see: > > http://ev-en.org/wiki/moin.cgi/LyxFAQ#line76 > > and from bugzilla it looks like this is fixed in some CVS-version. > > /Christian > Thanks Christian! I'll have a go with the

Is there an image cache somewhere?

2002-11-27 Thread John Coppens
Hi all... Lyx is GREAT! That said, do have a problem: When generating PDFs with images in them, and sometimes just inside LyX itself, I find that the images don't update, like if there's a cache somewhere that doesn't get flushed after a change. Example: I have a PS image that I include in the L

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