Re: Customize Margins

2004-11-11 Thread Robert Orr
that it would not be logical to set a margin to less than zero. Anyway, is working just fine now. Thanks. --- Robert Orr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am not sure how to make margins in my document > wider. I have read the tips and tricks on the > subject and I have fol

Customize Margins

2004-11-11 Thread Robert Orr
I am not sure how to make margins in my document wider. I have read the tips and tricks on the subject and I have followed the examples but they are not helping. The only thing I can find is to increase the size of the margins. I can not find how to decrease them. I want to make, for isolat

Re: How to debug a lyx file: where the error is?

2004-07-06 Thread Robert Orr
> > What bug fighting strategy do you recomend in this > kind of case? Here is what I do. First! I make a backup copy of the .lyx file! Then I take the original .lyx and start deleting pages. I work backwards, deleting most recently added content. Each time I delete something I tr

Re: appendix

2004-04-29 Thread Robert Orr
You will want to use the listings package for this. http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/listings/listings.pdf --- Melanie Gross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have inserted an appendix in my file which should > contain some > programs that I have written. I have inserte

Re: eps versus jpg

2004-04-29 Thread Robert Orr
> > If on Windows an excellent application dealing with > various file formats is > IrfanView. > > http://www.irfanview.com I've also found www.xnview.com to be very good for handling images. __ Do you Yahoo!? Win a $20,000 Career

Re: Two pictures side by side

2004-04-27 Thread Robert Orr
> > Set the paragraph type to caption, and enter > caption text. Works very well except I am getting "senseless" when I try to put a caption there. Does that happen to you? Phil __ Do you Yahoo!? Win a $20,000 Career Makeover at Yahoo

Re: Looking for a layout for reports that include computer language code.

2004-04-15 Thread Robert Orr
> I'm writing a report that describes several changes > in a database. I > want to include some SQL code that I've used but I > couldn't find a > layout with a computer code style. > > Is there something allready done for this ? You can use the listings package to include computer code in you

Re: Large size PS image - paneling

2004-04-14 Thread Robert Orr
Poster. Works nice.Thx. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - File online by April 15th http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html

Re: myTitlePage

2004-04-12 Thread Robert Orr
I think you need to re-configure after putting the .sty file where LyX can find it. edit->reconfigure --- Beny Spira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > I am a newbie trying to use the "myTitlePage" > package created by > Herbert Voss in Lyx. I got the following latex error > when I put > \usepack

Re: beamer class problems

2004-04-07 Thread Robert Orr
> Has anybody some experiences (or > example LyX-files) with prosper, slide etc.? Check under the tips and tricks. There are a number of links there for prosper where you can get examples. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business $15K Web Design Giveaway http:

can not add a logo using prosper

2004-04-05 Thread Robert Orr
I am trying to add a logo to my file that is using prosper class. I am setting it in my preamble like so \Logo{\includegraphics[width=1cm]{logo.eps}} I am sure the logo.eps file is there in the same directory. If I take this out I am able to view->pdf just fine, except, of course, no

how to create custom prosper .sty

2004-03-29 Thread Robert Orr
I want to create my own custom style for prosper. I used LyX for a presentation and I have been using one of the built in prosper styles, however I'm told my presentation has to have a logo and some background graphics so I need to find out how to include them using a custom .sty file. I need

Re: Newbie question: is there a Draft mode?

2004-02-29 Thread Robert Orr
You should be able to set the skip under the document settings. --- Stefano Franchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm switching from FrameMaker to LyX and haven't > quite got the hang of > it. > I am using the standard Article class but I would > like to use > something like

Re: lyx-1.3.4 rpm

2004-02-19 Thread Robert Orr
I don't know how to make a package. How can I find out what I need to do to make a package?? __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard - Read only the mail you want. http://antispam.yahoo.com/tools

Re: break up an .pdf file into smaller files

2004-01-16 Thread Robert Orr
Hi Nirmal, Here are the permissions I have set for pdftex.cfg # ls -ltr total 10 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root2890 Jun 30 1998 cmttf.map -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 609 Oct 12 2002 pdftex.cfg drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 512 Feb 1 2003 context # # exit pdf_nup> pd

Re: break up an .pdf file into smaller files

2004-01-16 Thread Robert Orr
--- Nirmal wrote: > You need to edit the pdfnup script and specify the > location of the > pdflatex executable. You'll see this near the top of > the pdfnup script: > > pdflatex="/usr/bin/pdflatex" Thanks Nirmal, I definitely have that set correctly. %> pdfnup --nup 1x1 --pages 1

Re: break up an .pdf file into smaller files

2004-01-16 Thread Robert Orr
Thanks for the reply Herbert. To answer your question... > this is done by the installtion and it is saved in > /texmf/pdftex/config > I found pdftex.cfg. It is there under /usr/local/share/texmf/pdftex/config/pdftex.cfg > > %> pdflatex temppdffile.pdf > > what is this? Are you run

Re: break up an .pdf file into smaller files

2004-01-15 Thread Robert Orr
I tried to use the pdfpages package in LyX but it gave me errors. I think it is because of this problem with pdflatex not having a .cfg file. Anybody know how to generate a pdftex.cfg file? This is the output I got from pdflatex... %> pdflatex temppdffile.pdf This is pdfTeX, Vers

Re: break up an .pdf file into smaller files

2004-01-15 Thread Robert Orr
> \usepackage{pdfpages} > I'm sorry, I'm not up to understanding what this does after it is added to the preamble. How do I then go about splitting up the .pdf? __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Hotjobs: Enter the "Signing Bonus" Sweepstakes http://hotjobs.sweepsta

break up an .pdf file into smaller files

2004-01-15 Thread Robert Orr
I'm writting a lyx document and I want to include some figures & text from a .pdf document, but not the whole .pdf. How can I break up my .pdf file into smaller pieces (ideally I'd like to save each page of the .pdf as it's own separate file). Does any lyx user know of a tool I could use

adding a relative file /href{file:./thisfile.htm}

2003-12-18 Thread Robert Orr
A quick question... I was a bit confused with how to do this, if indeed it is even possible. I want to reference a file in the current directory where my .pdf file will be located. The only way I could do it was to give the absolute file location in the /hfef{}.Is there a way to put a r

Re: Help: LyX wasn't able to find any layout description!

2003-12-09 Thread Robert Orr
I removed the textclass.lst file an was able to get going again. --- Robert Orr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I seem to have messed up my configuration. How can > I > get back to my old > configuration? > > I was trying to install the prosper layout c

Help: LyX wasn't able to find any layout description!

2003-12-09 Thread Robert Orr
I seem to have messed up my configuration. How can I get back to my old configuration? I was trying to install the prosper layout class and so I setup an environment variable pointing to my .sty and .cls files for prosper, then I opened a shell and started lyx. Then I reconfigured, quit,

Re: LyX and flowcharts

2003-12-06 Thread Robert Orr
I have used xcircuit to draw my charts and then load the graphics into lyx. It works very well, not only for the flowcharts but anykind of simple drawing. Phil --- Paul Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > don't know. I need only small flowcharts which I > created with > > PSTricks, like the

Re: Is there a limit to number of sub-sections?

2003-09-15 Thread Robert Orr
.dvi is similarly corrupted. I can only see the title page clearly. The second page has two pages superimposed on it. The bulk of the document is not visible. --- Andre Poenitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 04:07:40AM -0700, Robert Orr > wrote:

Is there a limit to number of sub-sections?

2003-09-15 Thread Robert Orr
I have a document that is article class, has a title, author, one section, and 279 subsections. If I export-> pdf, the pdf only shows the first two pages of the document and only the first few sections are shown in the .pdf. What I have to do is export plain text and then the entire documen

Re: Having lyx build problems

2003-04-04 Thread Robert Orr
Thanks Diab, That works. Now I'm beyond that and hanging up with missing libjpeg.h jerror.h I'll keep chipping away at it. Thanks for the assist. Phil --- Diab Jerius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 4 Apr, Robert Orr wrote: > > I am getting this

Re: Having lyx build problems

2003-04-04 Thread Robert Orr
I am going to pursue this with the xforms mailing list. But, I need the xforms binaries but it appears they are no longer available and that I have to build from source. What are lyx users doing to get binaries of libxforms? I am getting this error below and I would prefer to go ar

Having lyx build problems

2003-04-04 Thread Robert Orr
Is this the right place to post inquiry for build problems? I don't want to burden the list with it if not. Thx. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - File online, calculators, forms, and more http://tax.yahoo.com

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