Re: LInebreaks in a table

2001-10-11 Thread Robin Turner
Dekel Tsur wrote: On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 06:55:20PM +0300, Kari Ruohonen wrote: Hi! I used to manage to fix the width of a table column by giving the width and choosing the linebreaks option from the table layout display. This is explained in User's guide. However, with 1.1.6fix3 I

Re: LInebreaks in a table

2001-10-11 Thread Robin Turner
Dekel Tsur wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 06:55:20PM +0300, Kari Ruohonen wrote: > > Hi! > > I used to manage to fix the width of a table column by giving the width > > and choosing the "linebreaks" option from the table layout display. This > > is explained in User's guide. However, with

Re: boxing a description

2001-10-02 Thread Robin Turner
On Tuesday 02 October 2001 13:42, Myriam Abramson wrote: Hi! I'm trying to put a box around a description (describing an algorithm with keywords) but I get errors even in the tex file! \fbox is fragile, if I remember rightly. You can get out of this by using a minipage. Put something

Re: boxing a description

2001-10-02 Thread Robin Turner
On Tuesday 02 October 2001 14:28, Robin Turner wrote: On Tuesday 02 October 2001 13:42, Myriam Abramson wrote: Hi! I'm trying to put a box around a description (describing an algorithm with keywords) but I get errors even in the tex file! \fbox is fragile, if I remember rightly. You

Re: boxing a description

2001-10-02 Thread Robin Turner
On Tuesday 02 October 2001 13:42, Myriam Abramson wrote: Hi! I'm trying to put a box around a description (describing an algorithm with keywords) but I get errors even in the tex file! \fbox is fragile, if I remember rightly. You can get out of this by using a minipage. Put something

Re: boxing a description

2001-10-02 Thread Robin Turner
On Tuesday 02 October 2001 14:28, Robin Turner wrote: On Tuesday 02 October 2001 13:42, Myriam Abramson wrote: Hi! I'm trying to put a box around a description (describing an algorithm with keywords) but I get errors even in the tex file! \fbox is fragile, if I remember rightly. You

Re: boxing a description

2001-10-02 Thread Robin Turner
On Tuesday 02 October 2001 13:42, Myriam Abramson wrote: > Hi! > > I'm trying to put a box around a description (describing an > algorithm with keywords) but I get errors even in the tex file! \fbox is fragile, if I remember rightly. You can get out of this by using a minipage. Put something

Re: boxing a description

2001-10-02 Thread Robin Turner
On Tuesday 02 October 2001 14:28, Robin Turner wrote: > On Tuesday 02 October 2001 13:42, Myriam Abramson wrote: > > Hi! > > > > I'm trying to put a box around a description (describing an > > algorithm with keywords) but I get errors even in the tex file! > >

Re: Confusing error message

2001-09-24 Thread Robin Turner
On Sunday 23 September 2001 18:02, Steve Litt wrote: Divide the problem in half. Export to postscript on each machine, then print the postscript files on the alternate machines. Does the error follow the export to postscript, or the printing of the postscript? Seems to be coming on the first

Re: Confusing error message

2001-09-24 Thread Robin Turner
On Sunday 23 September 2001 18:02, Steve Litt wrote: Divide the problem in half. Export to postscript on each machine, then print the postscript files on the alternate machines. Does the error follow the export to postscript, or the printing of the postscript? Seems to be coming on the first

Re: Confusing error message

2001-09-24 Thread Robin Turner
On Sunday 23 September 2001 18:02, Steve Litt wrote: > Divide the problem in half. Export to postscript on each machine, then > print the postscript files on the alternate machines. Does the error follow > the export to postscript, or the printing of the postscript? Seems to be coming on the

Re: lyx-word

2001-09-17 Thread Robin Turner
On Sunday 16 September 2001 17:57, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: What is the latest recommendation to convert a lyx/tex file into a word file? I could take care of the figures manually, but would be nice to keep the italics and, more important, the references and bibliography (my mistake was to

Re: word to lyx

2001-09-17 Thread Robin Turner
On Sunday 16 September 2001 16:54, Herbert Voss wrote: Javier López wrote: Please, I am looking for a file converter program from MS Word to Lyx (or another Linux' DB software). Does it exists? save in word to rtf, than use rtf2latex, than try from within lyx relyx. the easiest way is

Re: user guide problem

2001-09-17 Thread Robin Turner
On Monday 17 September 2001 16:57, davide wrote: Hello I've installed lyx and it's a wonderful program, *thans to developers* , I've a problem with user guide, latex gives me many errors of the same type: extra /fi, i don't know latex so I don't know to solve this please help me It's a TeX

Re: lyx-word

2001-09-17 Thread Robin Turner
On Sunday 16 September 2001 17:57, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: What is the latest recommendation to convert a lyx/tex file into a word file? I could take care of the figures manually, but would be nice to keep the italics and, more important, the references and bibliography (my mistake was to

Re: word to lyx

2001-09-17 Thread Robin Turner
On Sunday 16 September 2001 16:54, Herbert Voss wrote: Javier López wrote: Please, I am looking for a file converter program from MS Word to Lyx (or another Linux' DB software). Does it exists? save in word to rtf, than use rtf2latex, than try from within lyx relyx. the easiest way is

Re: user guide problem

2001-09-17 Thread Robin Turner
On Monday 17 September 2001 16:57, davide wrote: Hello I've installed lyx and it's a wonderful program, *thans to developers* , I've a problem with user guide, latex gives me many errors of the same type: extra /fi, i don't know latex so I don't know to solve this please help me It's a TeX

Re: lyx->word

2001-09-17 Thread Robin Turner
On Sunday 16 September 2001 17:57, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > What is the latest recommendation to convert a lyx/tex file into a word > file? I could take care of the figures manually, but would be nice to keep > the italics and, more important, the references and bibliography > > (my mistake

Re: word to lyx

2001-09-17 Thread Robin Turner
On Sunday 16 September 2001 16:54, Herbert Voss wrote: > Javier López wrote: > > Please, I am looking for a file converter program > > from MS Word to Lyx (or another Linux' DB software). Does it exists? > > save in word to rtf, than use rtf2latex, > than try from within lyx relyx. > > the

Re: user guide problem

2001-09-17 Thread Robin Turner
On Monday 17 September 2001 16:57, davide wrote: > Hello > I've installed lyx and it's a wonderful program, *thans to developers* , > I've a problem with user guide, latex gives me many errors of the same > type: "extra /fi", i don't know latex so I don't know to solve this > please help me It's

Re: Can I name a font?

2001-09-11 Thread Robin Turner
On Tuesday 11 September 2001 11:08, Dekel Tsur wrote: On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 04:52:47PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: By the way, if \textsf is sans, and \textbf is bold, anyone know how to make underline? \underline{text}. However, underlined text won't break at line end. For a breakable

Re: Can I name a font?

2001-09-11 Thread Robin Turner
On Tuesday 11 September 2001 11:08, Dekel Tsur wrote: On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 04:52:47PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: By the way, if \textsf is sans, and \textbf is bold, anyone know how to make underline? \underline{text}. However, underlined text won't break at line end. For a breakable

Re: Can I name a font?

2001-09-11 Thread Robin Turner
On Tuesday 11 September 2001 11:08, Dekel Tsur wrote: > On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 04:52:47PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > > By the way, if \textsf is sans, and \textbf is bold, anyone know how to > > make underline? > > \underline{text}. > However, underlined text won't break at line end. > For a

Installing fonts [was: Re: Why Lyx?]

2001-09-07 Thread Robin Turner
On Friday 07 September 2001 01:51, Kathryn Andersen wrote: On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 05:46:55PM +0300, Robin Turner wrote: On Wednesday 05 September 2001 17:24, John Levon wrote: On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 10:08:24PM +1000, Kathryn Andersen wrote: One thing that LyX definitely does worse

Installing fonts [was: Re: Why Lyx?]

2001-09-07 Thread Robin Turner
On Friday 07 September 2001 01:51, Kathryn Andersen wrote: On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 05:46:55PM +0300, Robin Turner wrote: On Wednesday 05 September 2001 17:24, John Levon wrote: On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 10:08:24PM +1000, Kathryn Andersen wrote: One thing that LyX definitely does worse

Installing fonts [was: Re: Why Lyx?]

2001-09-07 Thread Robin Turner
On Friday 07 September 2001 01:51, Kathryn Andersen wrote: > On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 05:46:55PM +0300, Robin Turner wrote: > > On Wednesday 05 September 2001 17:24, John Levon wrote: > > > On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 10:08:24PM +1000, Kathryn Andersen wrote: > > > > One

Re: Why Lyx ?

2001-09-05 Thread Robin Turner
On Wednesday 05 September 2001 14:48, Steve Litt wrote: On Wednesday 05 September 2001 04:52, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Finally, I like the idea that my work will be accessible in its source format in 20 or 30 years time, as long as I have a readable ascii file, I can get to it, I would be

Re: Why Lyx ?

2001-09-05 Thread Robin Turner
On Wednesday 05 September 2001 15:02, Andre Poenitz wrote: On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 02:53:57PM +0300, Robin Turner wrote: Well, that goes for most formats other than the notorious .doc. That does not even hold for most .ps files. Having a format using ASCII char does not necessarily mean you

Re: Why Lyx?

2001-09-05 Thread Robin Turner
On Wednesday 05 September 2001 17:45, Jean-Pierre.Chretien wrote: Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 22:08:24 +1000 From: Kathryn Andersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Why Lyx? I wish I could use Lyx at work. Unfortunately the manual for the software I work on is required (by the

Re: Why Lyx ?

2001-09-05 Thread Robin Turner
On Wednesday 05 September 2001 14:48, Steve Litt wrote: On Wednesday 05 September 2001 04:52, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Finally, I like the idea that my work will be accessible in its source format in 20 or 30 years time, as long as I have a readable ascii file, I can get to it, I would be

Re: Why Lyx ?

2001-09-05 Thread Robin Turner
On Wednesday 05 September 2001 15:02, Andre Poenitz wrote: On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 02:53:57PM +0300, Robin Turner wrote: Well, that goes for most formats other than the notorious .doc. That does not even hold for most .ps files. Having a format using ASCII char does not necessarily mean you

Re: Why Lyx?

2001-09-05 Thread Robin Turner
On Wednesday 05 September 2001 17:45, Jean-Pierre.Chretien wrote: Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 22:08:24 +1000 From: Kathryn Andersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Why Lyx? I wish I could use Lyx at work. Unfortunately the manual for the software I work on is required (by the

Re: Why Lyx ?

2001-09-05 Thread Robin Turner
On Wednesday 05 September 2001 14:48, Steve Litt wrote: > On Wednesday 05 September 2001 04:52, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Finally, I like the idea that my work will be accessible in its source > > format in 20 or 30 years time, as long as I have a readable ascii file, I > > can get to it, I

Re: Why Lyx ?

2001-09-05 Thread Robin Turner
On Wednesday 05 September 2001 15:02, Andre Poenitz wrote: > On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 02:53:57PM +0300, Robin Turner wrote: > > Well, that goes for most formats other than the notorious .doc. > > That does not even hold for most .ps files. Having a format using ASCII > char do

Re: Why Lyx?

2001-09-05 Thread Robin Turner
On Wednesday 05 September 2001 17:45, Jean-Pierre.Chretien wrote: > >>Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 22:08:24 +1000 > >>From: Kathryn Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>Subject: Why Lyx? > >>I wish I could use Lyx at work. Unfortunately the manual for the > >>software I work on

Re: Another BibTeX/Pybliographic question

2001-08-29 Thread Robin Turner
On Thursday 09 August 2001 09:54, Herbert Voss wrote: robin wrote: but URLs don't show up. I can get a URL to come up by using a different field, but the effect is ugly. Is there any way to force this (MLA style is not the only culprit, BTW)? do a search in comp.text.tex, there were

Re: Another BibTeX/Pybliographic question

2001-08-29 Thread Robin Turner
On Thursday 09 August 2001 09:54, Herbert Voss wrote: robin wrote: but URLs don't show up. I can get a URL to come up by using a different field, but the effect is ugly. Is there any way to force this (MLA style is not the only culprit, BTW)? do a search in comp.text.tex, there were

Re: Another BibTeX/Pybliographic question

2001-08-29 Thread Robin Turner
On Thursday 09 August 2001 09:54, Herbert Voss wrote: > robin wrote: > > but URLs don't > > show up. I can get a URL to come up by using a different field, but the > > effect is ugly. Is there any way to force this (MLA style is not the > > only culprit, BTW)? > > do a search in comp.text.tex,

Re: LyX

2001-08-26 Thread Robin Turner
On Monday 27 August 2001 07:56, John O'Gorman wrote: Aw cmon. You just don't want to give up your LyX chicks on Unix catchphrase. LOL Me, I believe that once you have the Greek letter y present, that makes the X a CHI (else why is presented as uppercase?). So (in the spirit of TeX

Re: LyX

2001-08-26 Thread Robin Turner
On Monday 27 August 2001 07:56, John O'Gorman wrote: Aw cmon. You just don't want to give up your LyX chicks on Unix catchphrase. LOL Me, I believe that once you have the Greek letter y present, that makes the X a CHI (else why is presented as uppercase?). So (in the spirit of TeX

Re: LyX

2001-08-26 Thread Robin Turner
On Monday 27 August 2001 07:56, John O'Gorman wrote: > Aw cmon. > > You just don't want to give up your > LyX chicks on Unix > catchphrase. LOL > > Me, I believe that once you have the Greek letter y present, that makes > the > X a CHI (else why is presented as uppercase?). > > So (in the

Re: insert __.txt into klyx

2001-07-30 Thread Robin Turner
Oh yeah, I've just remembered another alternative. Open your text document in an editor like Gedit or KWrite. Copy everything to the clipboard. Open KLyX and choose (assuming it's the same as LyX) Edit - Paste primary selection - as paragraphs Robin

Re: insert __.txt into klyx

2001-07-30 Thread Robin Turner
Oh yeah, I've just remembered another alternative. Open your text document in an editor like Gedit or KWrite. Copy everything to the clipboard. Open KLyX and choose (assuming it's the same as LyX) Edit - Paste primary selection - as paragraphs Robin

Re: insert __.txt into klyx

2001-07-30 Thread Robin Turner
Oh yeah, I've just remembered another alternative. Open your text document in an editor like Gedit or KWrite. Copy everything to the clipboard. Open KLyX and choose (assuming it's the same as LyX) Edit -> Paste primary selection -> as paragraphs Robin

Re: LaTeX import

2001-07-21 Thread Robin Turner
On Thursday 19 July 2001 00:57, ben wrote: Robin Turner a écrit : Does anyone know of a utility that will clean up (La)TeX files so that ReLyX can handle them? I've a .tex file that was automatically generated (by Jade?) from a DocBook file and is too messy for LyX to import. I suppose

Re: LaTeX import

2001-07-21 Thread Robin Turner
On Thursday 19 July 2001 00:57, ben wrote: Robin Turner a écrit : Does anyone know of a utility that will clean up (La)TeX files so that ReLyX can handle them? I've a .tex file that was automatically generated (by Jade?) from a DocBook file and is too messy for LyX to import. I suppose

Re: LaTeX import

2001-07-21 Thread Robin Turner
On Thursday 19 July 2001 00:57, ben wrote: > Robin Turner a écrit : > > Does anyone know of a utility that will clean up (La)TeX files so that > > ReLyX can handle them? I've a .tex file that was automatically generated > > (by Jade?) from a DocBook file and is too messy

LaTeX import

2001-07-18 Thread Robin Turner
Does anyone know of a utility that will clean up (La)TeX files so that ReLyX can handle them? I've a .tex file that was automatically generated (by Jade?) from a DocBook file and is too messy for LyX to import. I suppose what I'm looking for is the equivalent of the Tidy program for HTML.

LaTeX import

2001-07-18 Thread Robin Turner
Does anyone know of a utility that will clean up (La)TeX files so that ReLyX can handle them? I've a .tex file that was automatically generated (by Jade?) from a DocBook file and is too messy for LyX to import. I suppose what I'm looking for is the equivalent of the Tidy program for HTML.

LaTeX import

2001-07-18 Thread Robin Turner
Does anyone know of a utility that will clean up (La)TeX files so that ReLyX can handle them? I've a .tex file that was automatically generated (by Jade?) from a DocBook file and is too messy for LyX to import. I suppose what I'm looking for is the equivalent of the Tidy program for HTML.

Re: Font resolution

2001-07-06 Thread Robin Turner
On Monday 02 July 2001 23:26, A. Gunes Koru wrote: Lyx fonts that I view on the screen seem like they have a low resolution. I was wondering if it is the same for everybody. Is there any way of improving it? Have you checked Edit-Preferences-Interface? You may have the resolution set too

Re: Font resolution

2001-07-06 Thread Robin Turner
On Monday 02 July 2001 23:26, A. Gunes Koru wrote: Lyx fonts that I view on the screen seem like they have a low resolution. I was wondering if it is the same for everybody. Is there any way of improving it? Have you checked Edit-Preferences-Interface? You may have the resolution set too

Re: Font resolution

2001-07-06 Thread Robin Turner
On Monday 02 July 2001 23:26, A. Gunes Koru wrote: > Lyx fonts that I view on the screen seem like they have a low resolution. > I was wondering if it is the same for everybody. Is there any way of > improving it? Have you checked Edit->Preferences->Interface? You may have the resolution set

Re: converting klyx file

2001-06-29 Thread Robin Turner
On Friday 29 June 2001 11:27, kathryn Wotton wrote: Hey , i was just wondering whether I can convert a document so that it can be accessed in microsoft word, because i have done a cross country report for school and one of my teachers asked me to put it on a disk and give it to our school

Re: converting klyx file

2001-06-29 Thread Robin Turner
On Friday 29 June 2001 11:27, kathryn Wotton wrote: > Hey , i was just wondering whether I can convert a document so that it can > be accessed in microsoft word, because i have done a cross country report > for school and one of my teachers asked me to put it on a disk and give it > to our school

Re: New LyX website released

2001-06-26 Thread Robin Turner
On Tuesday 26 June 2001 09:05, Baruch Even wrote: An extension of this is something i've seen in Wikis, that is the ability of the user to say what is the url of the CSS file he wants, he can then point it to a local file and edit the look of the site to whatever he wants, though I believe

Re: New LyX website released

2001-06-26 Thread Robin Turner
On Tuesday 26 June 2001 09:05, Baruch Even wrote: An extension of this is something i've seen in Wikis, that is the ability of the user to say what is the url of the CSS file he wants, he can then point it to a local file and edit the look of the site to whatever he wants, though I believe

Re: New LyX website released

2001-06-26 Thread Robin Turner
On Tuesday 26 June 2001 09:05, Baruch Even wrote: > An extension of this is something i've seen in Wikis, that is the > ability of the user to say what is the url of the CSS file he wants, he > can then point it to a local file and edit the look of the site to > whatever he wants, though I

Re: Tex2lyx

2001-06-25 Thread Robin Turner
On Monday 25 June 2001 11:34, ABe wrote: Hi all Lyx-users, I have q question. If I have a file Tex, How can I read with Lyx ? Go to File-Import-LaTeX and cross your fingers. This command invokes a script called reLyX, which will convert _most_ LaTeX to LyX format pretty well, but some

Re: Bibtex and apalike [off-topic]

2001-06-25 Thread Robin Turner
On Friday 22 June 2001 21:31, Rodrigo Esteves de Lima-Lopes wrote: Hi I et. al means and others (in latin), and it is used in some bibliographich styles to supress authors names, when they are more than 3. One reason for any academic with a family name starting late in the alphabet to

Re: Tex2lyx

2001-06-25 Thread Robin Turner
On Monday 25 June 2001 11:34, ABe wrote: Hi all Lyx-users, I have q question. If I have a file Tex, How can I read with Lyx ? Go to File-Import-LaTeX and cross your fingers. This command invokes a script called reLyX, which will convert _most_ LaTeX to LyX format pretty well, but some

Re: Bibtex and apalike [off-topic]

2001-06-25 Thread Robin Turner
On Friday 22 June 2001 21:31, Rodrigo Esteves de Lima-Lopes wrote: Hi I et. al means and others (in latin), and it is used in some bibliographich styles to supress authors names, when they are more than 3. One reason for any academic with a family name starting late in the alphabet to

Re: Tex2lyx

2001-06-25 Thread Robin Turner
On Monday 25 June 2001 11:34, ABe wrote: > Hi all Lyx-users, > > I have q question. If I have a file Tex, How can I read with Lyx ? > Go to File->Import->LaTeX and cross your fingers. This command invokes a script called reLyX, which will convert _most_ LaTeX to LyX format pretty well, but

Re: Bibtex and apalike [off-topic]

2001-06-25 Thread Robin Turner
On Friday 22 June 2001 21:31, Rodrigo Esteves de Lima-Lopes wrote: > Hi > > I et. al means and others (in latin), and it is used in some > bibliographich styles to supress authors names, when they are more than 3. One reason for any academic with a family name starting late in the alphabet to

Re: Conversion Lyx to doc

2001-06-22 Thread Robin Turner
On Thursday 21 June 2001 13:29, you wrote: chebira [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I would like to know if ther are some converters from Lyx documents to RTF or DOC format. I never found a better solution than this bad solution. ;-) 1. Convert Lyx to HTML via tth 2. Start StarOffice :-( ,

Re: Conversion Lyx to doc

2001-06-22 Thread Robin Turner
On Thursday 21 June 2001 13:29, you wrote: chebira [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I would like to know if ther are some converters from Lyx documents to RTF or DOC format. I never found a better solution than this bad solution. ;-) 1. Convert Lyx to HTML via tth 2. Start StarOffice :-( ,

Re: Conversion Lyx to doc

2001-06-22 Thread Robin Turner
On Thursday 21 June 2001 13:29, you wrote: > chebira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I would like to know if ther are some converters from Lyx documents to > > RTF or DOC format. > > I never found a better solution than this bad solution. ;-) > > 1. Convert Lyx to HTML via tth > 2. Start

Re: Dumb math question

2001-06-13 Thread Robin Turner
Alberto Vecchiato wrote: On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Robin Turner wrote: Well, I've looked through the Tutorial, the User Guide and a LaTeX command summary, and I still can't find how to do the following ... 1. Type a fraction as an ordinary slash fraction rather than a math fraction

Re: Dumb math question

2001-06-13 Thread Robin Turner
Herbert Voss wrote: Robin Turner wrote: Well, I've looked through the Tutorial, the User Guide and a LaTeX command summary, and I still can't find how to do the following ... 1. Type a fraction as an ordinary slash fraction rather than a math fraction; http://www.educat.hu

Re: Dumb math question

2001-06-13 Thread Robin Turner
Alberto Vecchiato wrote: On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Robin Turner wrote: Well, I've looked through the Tutorial, the User Guide and a LaTeX command summary, and I still can't find how to do the following ... 1. Type a fraction as an ordinary slash fraction rather than a math fraction

Re: Dumb math question

2001-06-13 Thread Robin Turner
Herbert Voss wrote: Robin Turner wrote: Well, I've looked through the Tutorial, the User Guide and a LaTeX command summary, and I still can't find how to do the following ... 1. Type a fraction as an ordinary slash fraction rather than a math fraction; http://www.educat.hu

Re: Dumb math question

2001-06-13 Thread Robin Turner
Alberto Vecchiato wrote: > > On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Robin Turner wrote: > > > Well, I've looked through the Tutorial, the User Guide and a LaTeX command > > summary, and I still can't find how to do the following ... > > > > 1. Type a fraction as an ordinary

Re: Dumb math question

2001-06-13 Thread Robin Turner
Herbert Voss wrote: > > Robin Turner wrote: > > > > Well, I've looked through the Tutorial, the User Guide and a LaTeX command > > summary, and I still can't find how to do the following ... > > > > 1. Type a fraction as an ordinary slash fraction ra

Dumb math question

2001-06-12 Thread Robin Turner
Well, I've looked through the Tutorial, the User Guide and a LaTeX command summary, and I still can't find how to do the following ... 1. Type a fraction as an ordinary slash fraction rather than a math fraction; 2. Type a degree sign (as in a 90 degree arc). Am I stupid or what? Robin

Dumb math question

2001-06-12 Thread Robin Turner
Well, I've looked through the Tutorial, the User Guide and a LaTeX command summary, and I still can't find how to do the following ... 1. Type a fraction as an ordinary slash fraction rather than a math fraction; 2. Type a degree sign (as in a 90 degree arc). Am I stupid or what? Robin

Dumb math question

2001-06-12 Thread Robin Turner
Well, I've looked through the Tutorial, the User Guide and a LaTeX command summary, and I still can't find how to do the following ... 1. Type a fraction as an ordinary slash fraction rather than a math fraction; 2. Type a degree sign (as in "a 90 degree arc"). Am I stupid or what? Robin

Re: LyX on a CD

2001-06-11 Thread Robin Turner
On Monday 11 June 2001 02:05, Baruch Even wrote: A project idea I came up with after one too many requests for LyX is to have a Linux (or any other unix for that matter) distribution complete with LaTeX/DocBook support an X-Server and LyX to be booted into from the CD itself. Basically the

Re: LyX on a CD

2001-06-11 Thread Robin Turner
On Monday 11 June 2001 02:05, Baruch Even wrote: A project idea I came up with after one too many requests for LyX is to have a Linux (or any other unix for that matter) distribution complete with LaTeX/DocBook support an X-Server and LyX to be booted into from the CD itself. Basically the

Re: LyX on a CD

2001-06-11 Thread Robin Turner
On Monday 11 June 2001 02:05, Baruch Even wrote: > A project idea I came up with after one too many requests for LyX is to > have a Linux (or any other unix for that matter) distribution complete > with LaTeX/DocBook support an X-Server and LyX to be booted into from > the CD itself. > >

Re: pdf error...

2001-06-09 Thread Robin Turner
On Friday 08 June 2001 11:52, Michael wrote: When I insert an eps graphic in my document pdflatex gives an error: unknown graphics extension .ps The extension doesn't matter, I allways get that error. Without graphic, pdflatex works fine. PS2PDF also works, but doesn't look as good

Re: graphics question

2001-06-09 Thread Robin Turner
On Thursday 07 June 2001 08:03, Herbert Voss wrote: Myriam Abramson wrote: I have a jpep picture that I converted to postscript to insert it in maybe a problem of the converter? Could be - works fine for me using the Gimp. What happens if you use Insert - External Material - Rasterimage?

Re: [mbmarduk@lycos.nl] Feedback from www.lyx.org

2001-06-09 Thread Robin Turner
On Thursday 07 June 2001 19:00, Henk Coetzee wrote: On Thu 07 Jun 01 15:20, Emmanuel GUREGHIAN wrote: A.Gulino a écrit : Helge Hafting wrote: [snip] There are many reasons: There are indeed! Most of the reasons why I like LyX have been mentioned already, but one that I find

Re: pdf error...

2001-06-09 Thread Robin Turner
On Friday 08 June 2001 11:52, Michael wrote: When I insert an eps graphic in my document pdflatex gives an error: unknown graphics extension .ps The extension doesn't matter, I allways get that error. Without graphic, pdflatex works fine. PS2PDF also works, but doesn't look as good

Re: graphics question

2001-06-09 Thread Robin Turner
On Thursday 07 June 2001 08:03, Herbert Voss wrote: Myriam Abramson wrote: I have a jpep picture that I converted to postscript to insert it in maybe a problem of the converter? Could be - works fine for me using the Gimp. What happens if you use Insert - External Material - Rasterimage?

Re: [mbmarduk@lycos.nl] Feedback from www.lyx.org

2001-06-09 Thread Robin Turner
On Thursday 07 June 2001 19:00, Henk Coetzee wrote: On Thu 07 Jun 01 15:20, Emmanuel GUREGHIAN wrote: A.Gulino a écrit : Helge Hafting wrote: [snip] There are many reasons: There are indeed! Most of the reasons why I like LyX have been mentioned already, but one that I find

Re: pdf error...

2001-06-09 Thread Robin Turner
On Friday 08 June 2001 11:52, Michael wrote: > When I insert an eps graphic in my document pdflatex gives an error: > >unknown graphics extension .ps > > The extension doesn't matter, I allways get that error. Without graphic, > pdflatex works fine. PS2PDF also works, but doesn't look as

Re: graphics question

2001-06-09 Thread Robin Turner
On Thursday 07 June 2001 08:03, Herbert Voss wrote: > Myriam Abramson wrote: > > I have a jpep picture that I converted to postscript to insert it in > > maybe a problem of the converter? Could be - works fine for me using the Gimp. What happens if you use Insert -> External Material ->

Re: [mbmarduk@lycos.nl] Feedback from www.lyx.org

2001-06-09 Thread Robin Turner
On Thursday 07 June 2001 19:00, Henk Coetzee wrote: > On Thu 07 Jun 01 15:20, Emmanuel GUREGHIAN wrote: > > "A.Gulino" a écrit : > > > Helge Hafting wrote: > > > > [snip] > > > > > > There are many reasons: There are indeed! Most of the reasons why I like LyX have been mentioned already, but

Re: Mandrake's RPM

2001-06-05 Thread Robin Turner
On Tuesday 05 June 2001 18:48, becherini yvonne Gruppo II wrote: Hi, I tried to install Mandrake's RPM from http://cronos.dci.ubiobio.cl/~gpoo/lyx but I got some errors: libstdc++-libc6.1-2.so.3 is needed by lyx-1.1.6fix2-1mdk Which version of Mandrake are you using? On 8.0 I had to

Re: Mandrake's RPM

2001-06-05 Thread Robin Turner
On Tuesday 05 June 2001 18:48, becherini yvonne Gruppo II wrote: Hi, I tried to install Mandrake's RPM from http://cronos.dci.ubiobio.cl/~gpoo/lyx but I got some errors: libstdc++-libc6.1-2.so.3 is needed by lyx-1.1.6fix2-1mdk Which version of Mandrake are you using? On 8.0 I had to

Re: Mandrake's RPM

2001-06-05 Thread Robin Turner
On Tuesday 05 June 2001 18:48, becherini yvonne Gruppo II wrote: > Hi, > I tried to install Mandrake's RPM from > > http://cronos.dci.ubiobio.cl/~gpoo/lyx > > but I got some errors: > > libstdc++-libc6.1-2.so.3 is needed by lyx-1.1.6fix2-1mdk Which version of Mandrake are you using? On 8.0 I

Re: Mandrake's RPM

2001-06-04 Thread Robin Turner
On Friday 01 June 2001 17:38, German Poo Caaman~o wrote: I don't know if mandrake's rpm are available. But I built some of them I uploaded to http://cronos.dci.ubiboio.cl/~gpoo/lyx as before version. I tried to download, but got an unrecognised server message. How does the Mandrake version

Re: Mandrake's RPM

2001-06-04 Thread Robin Turner
On Friday 01 June 2001 17:38, German Poo Caaman~o wrote: I don't know if mandrake's rpm are available. But I built some of them I uploaded to http://cronos.dci.ubiboio.cl/~gpoo/lyx as before version. I tried to download, but got an unrecognised server message. How does the Mandrake version

Re: Mandrake's RPM

2001-06-04 Thread Robin Turner
On Friday 01 June 2001 17:38, German Poo Caaman~o wrote: > I don't know if mandrake's rpm are available. > > But I built some of them I uploaded to > http://cronos.dci.ubiboio.cl/~gpoo/lyx as before version. I tried to download, but got an "unrecognised server" message. How does the Mandrake

Re: csv2lyx (was Re: sorting tables?)

2001-05-25 Thread Robin Turner
Just tried running it, but perl -d came out with unrecognized character \xA0 at line 60 (which seems to be in the middle of a comment, so shouldn't apply, unless perl only numbers lines with instructions - it's been so long I can't remember). Looks pretty nifty if I can make it work though,

Re: csv2lyx (was Re: sorting tables?)

2001-05-25 Thread Robin Turner
Just tried running it, but perl -d came out with unrecognized character \xA0 at line 60 (which seems to be in the middle of a comment, so shouldn't apply, unless perl only numbers lines with instructions - it's been so long I can't remember). Looks pretty nifty if I can make it work though,

Re: csv2lyx (was Re: sorting tables?)

2001-05-25 Thread Robin Turner
Just tried running it, but perl -d came out with "unrecognized character \xA0 at line 60" (which seems to be in the middle of a comment, so shouldn't apply, unless perl only numbers lines with instructions - it's been so long I can't remember). Looks pretty nifty if I can make it work though,

Re: [Fwd: Re: sorting tables?]

2001-05-23 Thread Robin Turner
On Wednesday 23 May 2001 18:17, Allan Rae wrote: On 23 May 2001, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: What is .cvs? csv comma separated values Yup, that's what I meant. My tendency to reverse keys is one reason I never got very far with Prel scripting ;-) Allan. (ARRae) Why is it taking so

Re: [Fwd: Re: sorting tables?]

2001-05-23 Thread Robin Turner
On Wednesday 23 May 2001 16:18, Juergen Vigna wrote: On 23-May-2001 Niklas Werner wrote: this would allow for importing database-records as well, since dumping them cvs-split is fairly easy. I'd like to add that to the 2.0-wishlist! I already told here that this IS already possible. Just

Re: [Fwd: Re: sorting tables?]

2001-05-23 Thread Robin Turner
On Wednesday 23 May 2001 18:17, Allan Rae wrote: On 23 May 2001, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: What is .cvs? csv comma separated values Yup, that's what I meant. My tendency to reverse keys is one reason I never got very far with Prel scripting ;-) Allan. (ARRae) Why is it taking so

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