Writing Russian in an English document

2004-09-18 Thread Peter Clark
I have an English document in which I want to include a couple of Russian words. However, even after reading the documentation, I'm no closer to understanding what should be an easy process. If I create a new document with the default language as Russian, I can input Russian text by

Writing Russian in an English document

2004-09-18 Thread Peter Clark
I have an English document in which I want to include a couple of Russian words. However, even after reading the documentation, I'm no closer to understanding what should be an easy process. If I create a new document with the default language as Russian, I can input Russian text by

Writing Russian in an English document

2004-09-18 Thread Peter Clark
I have an English document in which I want to include a couple of Russian words. However, even after reading the documentation, I'm no closer to understanding what should be an easy process. If I create a new document with the default language as Russian, I can input Russian text by

Re: Writing a Novel with LyX?

2003-03-18 Thread Peter Clark
On Tuesday 18 March 2003 07:44 pm, Peter Hutnick wrote: Please re-read my post. I have used the book class quite a bit myself. It is great for technical books, but it is totally inappropriate for a novel in my estimation. I tried using it, but I spent a lot of time fudging it around just to

Re: Writing a Novel with LyX?

2003-03-18 Thread Peter Clark
On Tuesday 18 March 2003 07:44 pm, Peter Hutnick wrote: Please re-read my post. I have used the book class quite a bit myself. It is great for technical books, but it is totally inappropriate for a novel in my estimation. I tried using it, but I spent a lot of time fudging it around just to

Re: Writing a Novel with LyX?

2003-03-18 Thread Peter Clark
On Tuesday 18 March 2003 07:44 pm, Peter Hutnick wrote: > Please re-read my post. I have used the "book" class quite a bit myself. > It is great for technical books, but it is totally inappropriate for a > novel in my estimation. > > I tried using it, but I spent a lot of time fudging it around

Re: superscript and textrm

2003-02-21 Thread Peter Clark
On Friday 21 February 2003 11:29 am, Max Bian wrote: I know I can use ERT and make it like $^{\mu}$. However it appears in itallic shape. I guess \textrm will make it stand straight. But if I put math symbol in like \textrm{\mu}, latex complains. Is there other way to do it? Have a

Re: superscript and textrm

2003-02-21 Thread Peter Clark
On Friday 21 February 2003 11:29 am, Max Bian wrote: I know I can use ERT and make it like $^{\mu}$. However it appears in itallic shape. I guess \textrm will make it stand straight. But if I put math symbol in like \textrm{\mu}, latex complains. Is there other way to do it? Have a

Re: superscript and textrm

2003-02-21 Thread Peter Clark
On Friday 21 February 2003 11:29 am, Max Bian wrote: > I know I can use ERT and make it like "$^{\mu}$. However it appears in > itallic shape. I guess "\textrm" will make it stand straight. But if I > put math symbol in like \textrm{\mu}, latex complains. > > Is there other way to do it?

Re: big fle, footnote isn't created in HTML view

2003-02-17 Thread Peter Clark
On Monday 17 February 2003 11:13 pm, Adinda Praditya wrote: Is there any documentations or tips for writing a book? LyX specific: http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/lyx/ LaTeX specific: http://www.ntg.nl/maps/pdf/19_10.pdf (part 1)

Re: Margin notes

2003-02-17 Thread Peter Clark
On Sunday 16 February 2003 10:19 pm, Peter Clark wrote: Replying to myself again (am I talking to myself?), the 'footmisc' package provides numbered footnotes in the margin. Very nice. One last question: is there any way to redefine \footnotesize so that it is \scriptsize instead

Re: big fle, footnote isn't created in HTML view

2003-02-17 Thread Peter Clark
On Monday 17 February 2003 11:13 pm, Adinda Praditya wrote: Is there any documentations or tips for writing a book? LyX specific: http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/lyx/ LaTeX specific: http://www.ntg.nl/maps/pdf/19_10.pdf (part 1)

Re: Margin notes

2003-02-17 Thread Peter Clark
On Sunday 16 February 2003 10:19 pm, Peter Clark wrote: Replying to myself again (am I talking to myself?), the 'footmisc' package provides numbered footnotes in the margin. Very nice. One last question: is there any way to redefine \footnotesize so that it is \scriptsize instead

Re: big fle, footnote isn't created in HTML view

2003-02-17 Thread Peter Clark
On Monday 17 February 2003 11:13 pm, Adinda Praditya wrote: > Is there any documentations or tips for writing a book? LyX specific: http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/lyx/ LaTeX specific: http://www.ntg.nl/maps/pdf/19_10.pdf (part 1)

Re: Margin notes

2003-02-17 Thread Peter Clark
On Sunday 16 February 2003 10:19 pm, Peter Clark wrote: Replying to myself again (am I talking to myself?), the 'footmisc' package provides numbered footnotes in the margin. Very nice. One last question: is there any way to redefine \footnotesize so that it is \scriptsize instead

Re: Ack! What happened to the preamble?

2003-02-16 Thread Peter Clark
On Sunday 16 February 2003 08:41 pm, John Levon wrote: On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 08:39:02PM -0600, Peter Clark wrote: I'm using LyX 1.3 (QT) and there's no option in the Layout menu for accessing the preamble. I haven't changed anything (to my knowledge) from when I switched from 1.2

Re: Margin notes

2003-02-16 Thread Peter Clark
On Sunday 16 February 2003 10:05 pm, Peter Clark wrote: Since the document I am currently working on will need many short notes (almost one per line), I thought it would be better to use margin notes rather than footnotes. What would be the best way to redefine the margin notes so

Re: Ack! What happened to the preamble?

2003-02-16 Thread Peter Clark
On Sunday 16 February 2003 08:41 pm, John Levon wrote: On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 08:39:02PM -0600, Peter Clark wrote: I'm using LyX 1.3 (QT) and there's no option in the Layout menu for accessing the preamble. I haven't changed anything (to my knowledge) from when I switched from 1.2

Re: Margin notes

2003-02-16 Thread Peter Clark
On Sunday 16 February 2003 10:05 pm, Peter Clark wrote: Since the document I am currently working on will need many short notes (almost one per line), I thought it would be better to use margin notes rather than footnotes. What would be the best way to redefine the margin notes so

Re: Ack! What happened to the preamble?

2003-02-16 Thread Peter Clark
On Sunday 16 February 2003 08:41 pm, John Levon wrote: > On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 08:39:02PM -0600, Peter Clark wrote: > > I'm using LyX 1.3 (QT) and there's no option in the Layout menu for > > accessing the preamble. I haven't changed anything (to my knowledge) from > >

Re: Margin notes

2003-02-16 Thread Peter Clark
On Sunday 16 February 2003 10:05 pm, Peter Clark wrote: > Since the document I am currently working on will need many short notes > (almost one per line), I thought it would be better to use margin notes > rather than footnotes. What would be the best way to redefine the margin &

Re: How to get Lyx 1.3.0 to play with Qt

2003-02-07 Thread Peter Clark
On Friday 07 February 2003 10:08 am, Jeffrey Stephens wrote: I am running RH 7.3 with KDE 3.0.5 and gcc-2.96-113. I just downloaded Lyx 1.3.0 and am compiling it as I write this. Perhaps this is premature, but I am confused after looking in the Makefile for the Qt frontend. Did you

Re: How to get Lyx 1.3.0 to play with Qt

2003-02-07 Thread Peter Clark
On Friday 07 February 2003 10:08 am, Jeffrey Stephens wrote: I am running RH 7.3 with KDE 3.0.5 and gcc-2.96-113. I just downloaded Lyx 1.3.0 and am compiling it as I write this. Perhaps this is premature, but I am confused after looking in the Makefile for the Qt frontend. Did you

Re: How to get Lyx 1.3.0 to play with Qt

2003-02-07 Thread Peter Clark
On Friday 07 February 2003 10:08 am, Jeffrey Stephens wrote: > I am running RH 7.3 with KDE 3.0.5 and gcc-2.96-113. I just downloaded > Lyx 1.3.0 and am compiling it as I write this. Perhaps this is premature, > but I am confused after looking in the Makefile for the Qt frontend. Did

moc2 was Re: Announce: LyX 1.3.0 released.

2003-02-06 Thread Peter Clark
On Thursday 06 February 2003 04:43 pm, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: We are glad to announce the release of LyX 1.3.0. What's moc2? ./configure --prefix=/usr --with-frontend=qt errors with checking for moc2... not found checking for moc... not found configure: error: moc binary not found

Re: moc2 was Re: Announce: LyX 1.3.0 released.

2003-02-06 Thread Peter Clark
On Thursday 06 February 2003 07:43 pm, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: Meta Object Compiler for QT http://doc.trolltech.com/3.1/moc.html#moc Do you have the qt-devel packages installed? You need them to compile LyX against qt. Ah, ha! Thanks for the pointer. I had libqt3-devel-3.1.1

moc2 was Re: Announce: LyX 1.3.0 released.

2003-02-06 Thread Peter Clark
On Thursday 06 February 2003 04:43 pm, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: We are glad to announce the release of LyX 1.3.0. What's moc2? ./configure --prefix=/usr --with-frontend=qt errors with checking for moc2... not found checking for moc... not found configure: error: moc binary not found

Re: moc2 was Re: Announce: LyX 1.3.0 released.

2003-02-06 Thread Peter Clark
On Thursday 06 February 2003 07:43 pm, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: Meta Object Compiler for QT http://doc.trolltech.com/3.1/moc.html#moc Do you have the qt-devel packages installed? You need them to compile LyX against qt. Ah, ha! Thanks for the pointer. I had libqt3-devel-3.1.1

moc2 was Re: Announce: LyX 1.3.0 released.

2003-02-06 Thread Peter Clark
On Thursday 06 February 2003 04:43 pm, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > We are glad to announce the release of LyX 1.3.0. What's moc2? ./configure --prefix=/usr --with-frontend=qt errors with checking for moc2... not found checking for moc... not found configure: error: moc binary not found

Re: moc2 was Re: Announce: LyX 1.3.0 released.

2003-02-06 Thread Peter Clark
On Thursday 06 February 2003 07:43 pm, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: > Meta Object Compiler for QT > http://doc.trolltech.com/3.1/moc.html#moc > > Do you have the qt-devel packages installed? You need them to compile LyX > against qt. Ah, ha! Thanks for the pointer. I had libqt3-devel-3.1.1

cd-box template?

2003-01-14 Thread Peter Clark
According to http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/layouts/cd.phtml, there ought to be a cd-box template, but my LyX 1.2.1 (Mdk rpm) installation doesn't have it. :Peter

cd-box template?

2003-01-14 Thread Peter Clark
According to http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/layouts/cd.phtml, there ought to be a cd-box template, but my LyX 1.2.1 (Mdk rpm) installation doesn't have it. :Peter

cd-box template?

2003-01-14 Thread Peter Clark
According to http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/layouts/cd.phtml, there ought to be a cd-box template, but my LyX 1.2.1 (Mdk rpm) installation doesn't have it. :Peter

More text tricks

2002-11-16 Thread Peter Clark
Thanks for the tips on making text vertical--now one more question: Is there any way to make the text in reverse, i.e. from right-to-left? Preferably, without having to install Hebrew or Arabic support. In this case, the letters don't need to be completely reverse; .enif si siht ekil

More text tricks

2002-11-16 Thread Peter Clark
Thanks for the tips on making text vertical--now one more question: Is there any way to make the text in reverse, i.e. from right-to-left? Preferably, without having to install Hebrew or Arabic support. In this case, the letters don't need to be completely reverse; .enif si siht ekil

More text tricks

2002-11-16 Thread Peter Clark
Thanks for the tips on making text vertical--now one more question: Is there any way to make the text in reverse, i.e. from right-to-left? Preferably, without having to install Hebrew or Arabic support. In this case, the letters don't need to be completely reverse; .enif si siht ekil

Vertical text

2002-11-15 Thread Peter Clark
Is it possible to have a portion of a text turned 90 degrees (clockwise), with the letters and the text itself running from top to bottom? The rest of the text, of course, would be standard horizontal left-right text. A search on CTAN didn't turn up anything, but I image that there is a

Re: Vertical text

2002-11-15 Thread Peter Clark
On Friday 15 November 2002 11:35 am, Dekel Tsur wrote: On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 09:37:06AM -0600, Peter Clark wrote: Is it possible to have a portion of a text turned 90 degrees (clockwise), with the letters and the text itself running from top to bottom? The rest of the text, of course

Vertical text

2002-11-15 Thread Peter Clark
Is it possible to have a portion of a text turned 90 degrees (clockwise), with the letters and the text itself running from top to bottom? The rest of the text, of course, would be standard horizontal left-right text. A search on CTAN didn't turn up anything, but I image that there is a

Re: Vertical text

2002-11-15 Thread Peter Clark
On Friday 15 November 2002 11:35 am, Dekel Tsur wrote: On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 09:37:06AM -0600, Peter Clark wrote: Is it possible to have a portion of a text turned 90 degrees (clockwise), with the letters and the text itself running from top to bottom? The rest of the text, of course

Vertical text

2002-11-15 Thread Peter Clark
Is it possible to have a portion of a text turned 90 degrees (clockwise), with the letters and the text itself running from top to bottom? The rest of the text, of course, would be standard horizontal left-right text. A search on CTAN didn't turn up anything, but I image that there is a

Re: Vertical text

2002-11-15 Thread Peter Clark
On Friday 15 November 2002 11:35 am, Dekel Tsur wrote: > On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 09:37:06AM -0600, Peter Clark wrote: > > Is it possible to have a portion of a text turned 90 degrees > > (clockwise), with the letters and the text itself running from top to > > bottom?

Re: totally lost newby (yes I'm blond) question.

2002-10-30 Thread Peter Clark
Quoting Joao Luis Meloni Assirati [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, 30 Oct 2002, Robin Turner wrote: sty and cls files need to go in the latex subdirectory of your TeX installation. As root, cd to wherever it is (e.g. /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex) then copy the files (you probably want to makea

Re: totally lost newby (yes I'm blond) question.

2002-10-30 Thread Peter Clark
Quoting Joao Luis Meloni Assirati [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, 30 Oct 2002, Robin Turner wrote: sty and cls files need to go in the latex subdirectory of your TeX installation. As root, cd to wherever it is (e.g. /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex) then copy the files (you probably want to makea

Re: totally lost newby (yes I'm blond) question.

2002-10-30 Thread Peter Clark
Quoting Joao Luis Meloni Assirati <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wed, 30 Oct 2002, Robin Turner wrote: > > sty and cls files need to go in the latex subdirectory of your TeX > > installation. As root, cd to wherever it is (e.g. > > /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex) then copy the files (you probably want to

[OT] Linux fonts was Re: window font looks like crumbled cookies

2002-10-10 Thread Peter Clark
Quoting Paul Tremblay [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Fonts are always a mystery in linux, especially when I have used a Macintosh my whole life. (In a Macintosh, you simply drag a font to a folder, and voila! You have the font available for printing and viewing.) Tangentally off-topic, but KDE has

Re: [OT] Linux fonts was Re: window font looks like crumbled cookies

2002-10-10 Thread Peter Clark
I'm condensing several messages here, beware! Quoting Andre Poenitz [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Given 'xset +fp path' and 'xset fp rehash' restarting the X server should never be needed. Oops, my bad, I meant restart the X *font* server. Well, I guess technically it isn't the font server, but

[OT] Linux fonts was Re: window font looks like crumbled cookies

2002-10-10 Thread Peter Clark
Quoting Paul Tremblay [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Fonts are always a mystery in linux, especially when I have used a Macintosh my whole life. (In a Macintosh, you simply drag a font to a folder, and voila! You have the font available for printing and viewing.) Tangentally off-topic, but KDE has

Re: [OT] Linux fonts was Re: window font looks like crumbled cookies

2002-10-10 Thread Peter Clark
I'm condensing several messages here, beware! Quoting Andre Poenitz [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Given 'xset +fp path' and 'xset fp rehash' restarting the X server should never be needed. Oops, my bad, I meant restart the X *font* server. Well, I guess technically it isn't the font server, but

[OT] Linux fonts was Re: window font looks like crumbled cookies

2002-10-10 Thread Peter Clark
Quoting Paul Tremblay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Fonts are always a mystery in linux, especially when I have used a > Macintosh my whole life. (In a Macintosh, you simply drag a font to a > folder, and voila! You have the font available for printing and > viewing.) Tangentally off-topic, but

Re: [OT] Linux fonts was Re: window font looks like crumbled cookies

2002-10-10 Thread Peter Clark
I'm condensing several messages here, beware! Quoting Andre Poenitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Given 'xset +fp path' and 'xset fp rehash' restarting the X server should > never be needed. Oops, my bad, I meant "restart the X *font* server." Well, I guess technically it isn't the font

Re: QT/KDE or GTK support

2002-08-03 Thread Peter Clark
On Saturday 03 August 2002 13:54, Carlos Arroyo Junior wrote: How do I compile lyx for QT/KDE or GTK ? You wait until 1.3.0. According to http://www.devel.lyx.org/guii.php3 (which was updated in late May), the QT interface is almost done, while the GTK interface has a long ways to go.

Re: how to use the character table?

2002-08-03 Thread Peter Clark
On Saturday 03 August 2002 15:48, Vinay wrote: how do you write accented characters? You need to use the compose key. Essentially, the steps are as follows: hit the compose key, then the accent key, and then the letter key. They can be hit one at a time, no need to press all three at

Re: QT/KDE or GTK support

2002-08-03 Thread Peter Clark
On Saturday 03 August 2002 13:54, Carlos Arroyo Junior wrote: How do I compile lyx for QT/KDE or GTK ? You wait until 1.3.0. According to http://www.devel.lyx.org/guii.php3 (which was updated in late May), the QT interface is almost done, while the GTK interface has a long ways to go.

Re: how to use the character table?

2002-08-03 Thread Peter Clark
On Saturday 03 August 2002 15:48, Vinay wrote: how do you write accented characters? You need to use the compose key. Essentially, the steps are as follows: hit the compose key, then the accent key, and then the letter key. They can be hit one at a time, no need to press all three at

Re: QT/KDE or GTK support

2002-08-03 Thread Peter Clark
On Saturday 03 August 2002 13:54, Carlos Arroyo Junior wrote: > How do I compile lyx for QT/KDE or GTK ? You wait until 1.3.0. According to http://www.devel.lyx.org/guii.php3 (which was updated in late May), the QT interface is almost done, while the GTK interface has a long ways to go.

Re: how to use the character table?

2002-08-03 Thread Peter Clark
On Saturday 03 August 2002 15:48, Vinay wrote: > how do you write accented characters? You need to use the "compose" key. Essentially, the steps are as follows: hit the compose key, then the accent key, and then the letter key. They can be hit one at a time, no need to press all three

Reverse indentation

2002-07-15 Thread Peter Clark
I'm looking to reverse indent several paragraphs; that is, the first line is not indented, but then the following lines are. What's the ERT for this? Thanks, :Peter

Reverse indentation

2002-07-15 Thread Peter Clark
I'm looking to reverse indent several paragraphs; that is, the first line is not indented, but then the following lines are. What's the ERT for this? Thanks, :Peter

Reverse indentation

2002-07-15 Thread Peter Clark
I'm looking to reverse indent several paragraphs; that is, the first line is not indented, but then the following lines are. What's the ERT for this? Thanks, :Peter

Joining PDFs and changing spacing

2002-07-09 Thread Peter Clark
First question: how does one go about joining two PDF files? (I'm running Linux). Second question: is there an easy way to go from single spacing to double spacing in LyX? I've created a fancy layout for my title pages, but when I doublespace my reports, the title page also

Joining PDFs and changing spacing

2002-07-09 Thread Peter Clark
First question: how does one go about joining two PDF files? (I'm running Linux). Second question: is there an easy way to go from single spacing to double spacing in LyX? I've created a fancy layout for my title pages, but when I doublespace my reports, the title page also

Joining PDFs and changing spacing

2002-07-09 Thread Peter Clark
First question: how does one go about joining two PDF files? (I'm running Linux). Second question: is there an easy way to go from single spacing to double spacing in LyX? I've created a fancy layout for my title pages, but when I doublespace my reports, the title page also

Re: Brazilian Language

2002-07-04 Thread Peter Clark
On Thursday 04 July 2002 08:44 am, Ricardo Gonçalves Da-Silva wrote: Dear All I'm running Lyx in my RedHat 7.3. The problem is that I dont know how I procced in order to use accents direclty from the Keyboard, i.e., the latex c{c}, ~{a} commands and so on. Any help Will be very appreciated.

Re: Brazilian Language

2002-07-04 Thread Peter Clark
On Thursday 04 July 2002 08:44 am, Ricardo Gonçalves Da-Silva wrote: Dear All I'm running Lyx in my RedHat 7.3. The problem is that I dont know how I procced in order to use accents direclty from the Keyboard, i.e., the latex c{c}, ~{a} commands and so on. Any help Will be very appreciated.

Re: Brazilian Language

2002-07-04 Thread Peter Clark
On Thursday 04 July 2002 08:44 am, Ricardo Gonçalves Da-Silva wrote: > Dear All > I'm running Lyx in my RedHat 7.3. The problem is that I dont know how I > procced in order to use accents direclty from the Keyboard, i.e., the latex > c{c}, ~{a} commands and so on. Any help Will be very

Re: Fifth prerelease of LyX 1.2.0

2002-05-03 Thread Peter Clark
Will the QT frontend be finished in 1.2.0? (I'm stuck on a 56k modem and am in no mood to download everything until I know for sure. :) If not, is there a rough ball-park guess for when I can dump ugly, ugly xforms? The GUII page shows QT tauntingly close to completion, but a month

Re: Fifth prerelease of LyX 1.2.0

2002-05-03 Thread Peter Clark
Will the QT frontend be finished in 1.2.0? (I'm stuck on a 56k modem and am in no mood to download everything until I know for sure. :) If not, is there a rough ball-park guess for when I can dump ugly, ugly xforms? The GUII page shows QT tauntingly close to completion, but a month

Re: Fifth prerelease of LyX 1.2.0

2002-05-03 Thread Peter Clark
Will the QT frontend be finished in 1.2.0? (I'm stuck on a 56k modem and am in no mood to download everything until I know for sure. :) If not, is there a rough ball-park guess for when I can dump ugly, ugly xforms? The GUII page shows QT tauntingly close to completion, but a month

I hate asking compile questions...

2002-04-26 Thread Peter Clark
So I saw on Freshmeat the LyX1.2pre4 had been released and decided to see how it would look in QT (since I hate xforms). I did ./configure --with-frontend=qt2 and got no error messages. At the very end of the make process, however, I got the following error: make[6]: Entering

I hate asking compile questions...

2002-04-26 Thread Peter Clark
So I saw on Freshmeat the LyX1.2pre4 had been released and decided to see how it would look in QT (since I hate xforms). I did ./configure --with-frontend=qt2 and got no error messages. At the very end of the make process, however, I got the following error: make[6]: Entering

I hate asking compile questions...

2002-04-26 Thread Peter Clark
So I saw on Freshmeat the LyX1.2pre4 had been released and decided to see how it would look in QT (since I hate xforms). I did ./configure --with-frontend=qt2 and got no error messages. At the very end of the make process, however, I got the following error: make[6]: Entering

Two questions regarding minipages

2002-04-23 Thread Peter Clark
First, is it possible for text to flow around a minipage? For instance, using nothing but LyX, when I create a minipage between two paragraphs, the second paragraph only starts after the minipage ends. I would like it to wrap around instead, preferably without having to make the second

Re: Two questions regarding minipages

2002-04-23 Thread Peter Clark
On Tuesday 23 April 2002 12:12, Herbert Voss wrote: you can put the minipage inside a floatflt environment. LyX 1.1.6 has support for this Hmm--doesn't work. Under Layout Paragraph Extra Options, minipage and floatflt are two seperate options that cannot be combined. (I read the

Two questions regarding minipages

2002-04-23 Thread Peter Clark
First, is it possible for text to flow around a minipage? For instance, using nothing but LyX, when I create a minipage between two paragraphs, the second paragraph only starts after the minipage ends. I would like it to wrap around instead, preferably without having to make the second

Re: Two questions regarding minipages

2002-04-23 Thread Peter Clark
On Tuesday 23 April 2002 12:12, Herbert Voss wrote: you can put the minipage inside a floatflt environment. LyX 1.1.6 has support for this Hmm--doesn't work. Under Layout Paragraph Extra Options, minipage and floatflt are two seperate options that cannot be combined. (I read the

Two questions regarding minipages

2002-04-23 Thread Peter Clark
First, is it possible for text to flow around a minipage? For instance, using nothing but LyX, when I create a minipage between two paragraphs, the second paragraph only starts after the minipage ends. I would like it to wrap around instead, preferably without having to make the second

Re: Two questions regarding minipages

2002-04-23 Thread Peter Clark
On Tuesday 23 April 2002 12:12, Herbert Voss wrote: > you can put the minipage inside a floatflt environment. > LyX 1.1.6 has support for this Hmm--doesn't work. Under Layout > Paragraph > Extra Options, minipage and floatflt are two seperate options that cannot be combined. (I read the

Re: International Phonetic Alphabet wit lyx

2002-04-09 Thread Peter Clark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 09 April 2002 11:19 am, Andre Poenitz wrote: From what I can tell, support for TIPA is conceptionally not much different from what we do for AMS math symbols so I guess if people _really_ need it, it could be added during the 1.3 cycle.

Re: International Phonetic Alphabet wit lyx

2002-04-09 Thread Peter Clark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 09 April 2002 11:19 am, Andre Poenitz wrote: From what I can tell, support for TIPA is conceptionally not much different from what we do for AMS math symbols so I guess if people _really_ need it, it could be added during the 1.3 cycle.

Re: International Phonetic Alphabet wit lyx

2002-04-09 Thread Peter Clark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 09 April 2002 11:19 am, Andre Poenitz wrote: > From what I can tell, support for TIPA is conceptionally not much different > from what we do for AMS math symbols so I guess if people _really_ need it, > it could be added during the 1.3

Dictionary style?

2002-03-30 Thread Peter Clark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Can anyone recommend a style for a dictionary layout? Searching CTAN turned up lexikon, but the results are not as...compact...as I desire. I don't read German, so there might be a way to make it look like a regular dictionary, but the

Dictionary style?

2002-03-30 Thread Peter Clark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Can anyone recommend a style for a dictionary layout? Searching CTAN turned up lexikon, but the results are not as...compact...as I desire. I don't read German, so there might be a way to make it look like a regular dictionary, but the

Dictionary style?

2002-03-30 Thread Peter Clark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Can anyone recommend a style for a dictionary layout? Searching CTAN turned up lexikon, but the results are not as...compact...as I desire. I don't read German, so there might be a way to make it look like a regular dictionary, but the

General typesetting question (slightly OT)

2002-03-28 Thread Peter Clark
This is not so much of a technical question as a stylistic one. I am in the process of writing a grammar book and my attention has turned to the fonts that I am using. I want the body text to be in a serif font, while headings and such in a sans-serif font. The question is not how do I do

General typesetting question (slightly OT)

2002-03-28 Thread Peter Clark
This is not so much of a technical question as a stylistic one. I am in the process of writing a grammar book and my attention has turned to the fonts that I am using. I want the body text to be in a serif font, while headings and such in a sans-serif font. The question is not how do I do

General typesetting question (slightly OT)

2002-03-28 Thread Peter Clark
This is not so much of a technical question as a stylistic one. I am in the process of writing a grammar book and my attention has turned to the fonts that I am using. I want the body text to be in a serif font, while headings and such in a sans-serif font. The question is not how do I do

Re: question: Dictionary pronunciation symbols

2002-03-21 Thread Peter Clark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 21 March 2002 01:38 pm, Zhi Wen Huang wrote: I don't know much of Latex or Lyx, and I want to type pronunciation symbols in computer. For example, I want to type: he[hi], they[th's_symbol ei], thick[th's_pronunciation_symbol shorter_i

Re: question: Dictionary pronunciation symbols

2002-03-21 Thread Peter Clark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 21 March 2002 01:38 pm, Zhi Wen Huang wrote: I don't know much of Latex or Lyx, and I want to type pronunciation symbols in computer. For example, I want to type: he[hi], they[th's_symbol ei], thick[th's_pronunciation_symbol shorter_i

Re: question: Dictionary pronunciation symbols

2002-03-21 Thread Peter Clark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 21 March 2002 01:38 pm, Zhi Wen Huang wrote: > I don't know much of Latex or Lyx, and I want to type pronunciation symbols > in computer. For example, I want to type: he[hi], > they[th's_symbol ei], thick[th's_pronunciation_symbol

s-hachek and other accents?

2002-02-23 Thread Peter Clark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm having a bit of trouble with ERT: I want to write an s-hachek (the hachek looks like a little v above the s) but \vs (with the \v in ERT) produces the following error: Undefined control sequece. \vs The control

s-hachek and other accents?

2002-02-23 Thread Peter Clark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm having a bit of trouble with ERT: I want to write an s-hachek (the hachek looks like a little v above the s) but \vs (with the \v in ERT) produces the following error: Undefined control sequece. \vs The control

s-hachek and other accents?

2002-02-23 Thread Peter Clark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm having a bit of trouble with ERT: I want to write an s-hachek (the hachek looks like a little "v" above the "s") but \vs (with the "\v" in ERT) produces the following error: " Undefined control sequece. \vs The

Another font question... :)

2002-02-03 Thread Peter Clark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 First, thanks to Herbert for his good advice on using minipage to make custom boxes. I'll just have to remember not to put any footnotes in it. :) Now I'm sure you're getting tired of font questions, but this is a little different.

Another font question... :)

2002-02-03 Thread Peter Clark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 First, thanks to Herbert for his good advice on using minipage to make custom boxes. I'll just have to remember not to put any footnotes in it. :) Now I'm sure you're getting tired of font questions, but this is a little different.

Another font question... :)

2002-02-03 Thread Peter Clark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 First, thanks to Herbert for his good advice on using minipage to make custom boxes. I'll just have to remember not to put any footnotes in it. :) Now I'm sure you're getting tired of font questions, but this is a little different.

Rules above and below boxes

2002-02-01 Thread Peter Clark
I'm playing around with boxed text, and in an effort to spice up the appearence of the box, tried to place horizontal lines above and below the box, just for added visual interest. Here's what I have: \rule [1mm]{4.5cm}{.2mm} \fbox{\parbox{5cm}{ Just some filler text to keep things

Re: Rules above and below boxes

2002-02-01 Thread Peter Clark
On Friday 01 February 2002 03:51 pm, you wrote: something like this: \begin{center}\rule [1mm]{4.5cm}{.2mm}\\ \fbox{\parbox{5cm}{% Just some filler text to keep things interesting% } } \\\rule [-1.2mm]{4.5cm}{.2mm}\end{center} Except that centers the whole box in the center of

Rules above and below boxes

2002-02-01 Thread Peter Clark
I'm playing around with boxed text, and in an effort to spice up the appearence of the box, tried to place horizontal lines above and below the box, just for added visual interest. Here's what I have: \rule [1mm]{4.5cm}{.2mm} \fbox{\parbox{5cm}{ Just some filler text to keep things

Re: Rules above and below boxes

2002-02-01 Thread Peter Clark
On Friday 01 February 2002 03:51 pm, you wrote: something like this: \begin{center}\rule [1mm]{4.5cm}{.2mm}\\ \fbox{\parbox{5cm}{% Just some filler text to keep things interesting% } } \\\rule [-1.2mm]{4.5cm}{.2mm}\end{center} Except that centers the whole box in the center of

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