Re: long 's' in Lyx

2007-07-26 Thread Lyx user
> Is it possible to display the 'long s' (ſ) (Wikipedia: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_s) in Lyx? If you use the LyX version 1.5 (being released today) you can insert the Unicode character directly into your document. You may need to compile with xetex instead of latex for this to work.

Re: Figure caption macro

2007-07-03 Thread Lyx user
> May I ask why you want to do that? What is wrong with using > Insert>Short Title? Simple, I didn't know that Short Title worked on captions. Maybe it should be called "Short Title or Caption" or "Short Title/Caption." Nevertheless, I am going to use the macro because it will save me some effort

Figure caption macro

2007-07-02 Thread Lyx user
I would like to insert code in my preamble that will replace every instance of \caption{Short. Long long long long.} with \caption[Short]{Short. Long long long long.} However, I am not too familiar with LaTeX and TeX commands. Specifically, I don't know how to extract the text before the '.' ch

Re: Counting Words

2004-12-08 Thread Lyx User
- use wc (lines/words/chars count), e.g. "wc yourfile.lyx" to estimate the (relative?!) number of words - first convert to pdf, then use a tool that can count words in pdf documents, e.g. http://www.globalrendering.com/download.html http://www.handyarchive.com/free/word-count/ - let someon

width problem of a minipage in a tabular

2004-12-05 Thread Lyx User
Hi all, I tried to make a new environment in Lyx, much like the lyx comment environment, but I want it to show up in the output. Also, I made a gray box around it (pity it's totally black and unreadable in dvi...) so I cannot miss it. My problem is that the width of the resulting gray box is mo

unary minus

2004-10-11 Thread Lyx User
Is there a special unary minus in the math panel somewhere? Or does it actually exists in latex? I did a search, but could not find anything better than just using '-'. I think intervals such as $[-\infty, \infty)$ don't look very nice. I could use some negative space, though I was wondering whethe

Width of a box (minipage inside tabular)

2004-07-02 Thread lyx-user
Hi all, I tried to make a new environment in Lyx, much like the lyx comment environment, but I want it to show up in the output. Also, I made a gray box around it (pity it's totally black and unreadable in dvi...) so I cannot miss it. My problem is that the width of the resulting gray box is more

Re: tabular - horizontal width

2004-06-30 Thread Lyx User
d, 30 Jun 2004 13:26:26 +0200, Christian Ridderström wrote: > Hi "Lyx User" > >> Are those units documented somewhere? Like text%, line%, col%, etc.? > > Maybe this helps: > http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/FAQ/Units > > /Christian

tabular - horizontal width

2004-06-30 Thread Lyx User
Hi all, My question concerns the tabular environment. I have a tabular with two columns and I want the full tabular to be exactly 1.0\textwidth width (horizontal width equal to text around the tabular). I tried to give column one width "20 text%" and column two "80 text%", but that does not work o

howto type "^" ?

2000-02-15 Thread LyX user
Hi, Sorry I'm newbie with lyx. I use lyx-1.1.2 on Linux box. I can't type charcter "^" in my text ! How I can do that please. Thanks in advance ! -- Nguyen-Dai Quy, LTAS-ULG, http://w3.to/quy -- "I'd crawl over an acre of 'Visual This++' and 'Integrated De