RE: Mac Word 98 to Lyx

1999-09-03 Thread Juergen Vigna
On 02-Sep-99 Ralph Boland wrote: 3) A minor problem I tried to print the users manual. However the construction of the tex file from the lyx file failed because the file 'rotating.sty' was not found. Lyx was installed by the computer administrators for the computer science

Re: latex symbols

1999-09-03 Thread Juergen Vigna
On 03-Sep-99 Christopher Sawtell wrote: Find a possible solution attached. I'm sending it to the list so that the experts in Europe can express an opinion. As Allan explained you have to use Math-Mode, but you don't have to use the ugly \(\) or $$ as we have native mathmode in LyX #:O) Look

errors caused by marginpar?

1999-09-03 Thread Reinhard Borek
Hi, I have LateX errors when I try to compile my Lyx-Document. I use Lyx 1.0pre4. I have 7 LaTex error message from lyx: 1.--- Too many unprocessed floats. l.188 lauten\cite{Fletcher91_II}\marginpar You've lost some text. Try typing return to proceed.

Re: errors caused by marginpar?

1999-09-03 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
"Reinhard" == Reinhard Borek [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Reinhard But I do not think, what is wrong with marginpars! Do you have a lot of these marginpars? It cause problems to LaTeX when there are too many on a page. JMarc

Re: ?use custom latex class at non-standard directory?

1999-09-03 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
"Nien-Po" == Nien-Po Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Nien-Po Hi LyX users, I just discovered LyX and am very excited about Nien-Po it. I want to use it with a custom LaTeX class file Nien-Po (foo.cls), but it is not part of the standard LaTeX Nien-Po installation. I use a shared UNIX host, so

Re: errors caused by marginpar?

1999-09-03 Thread Reinhard Borek
Hi, at Fri, 03 Sep 1999 Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: "Reinhard" == Reinhard Borek [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Reinhard But I do not think, what is wrong with marginpars! Do you have a lot of these marginpars? It cause problems to LaTeX when there are too many on a page. Yes, I have (had) a

Re: Mac Word 98 to Lyx

1999-09-03 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
"Ralph" == Ralph Boland [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ralph When I filed out a tex document and just filed it back in again Ralph I did not get the exactly the same document. Lyx gave no Ralph complaints when I used a (") character. But when I saved it to Ralph tex and read it back in each (")

hyphens

1999-09-03 Thread me
g'day again, in my 'book' class document i've foudn that Lyx and/or latex insists on putting hyphens in unintelligent places, such as "system-s". can anyone tell me how i can disable all hyphenation ? or is it possible to disable it on an individual paragraph basis at least ? please

Re: hyphens

1999-09-03 Thread Dirk Klugmann
susie wrote: in my 'book' class document i've foudn that Lyx and/or latex insists on putting hyphens in unintelligent places, such as "system-s". can anyone tell me how i can disable all hyphenation ? or is it possible to disable it on an individual paragraph basis at least ? I

Re: hyphens

1999-09-03 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
"Susie" == me [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Susie g'day again, Susie in my 'book' class document i've foudn that Lyx and/or latex Susie insists on putting hyphens in unintelligent places, such as Susie "system-s". can anyone tell me how i can disable all Susie hyphenation ? or is it possible

Captions in italics?

1999-09-03 Thread Knut Lian
Is it possible to make figure and table captions in italic fonts? I'm using the Report environment. Cheers Knut -- Knut Lian Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering The University of Edinburgh King's Buildings Mayfield Rd Edinburgh EH9 3JL (Int +44) 131 650 5608 (direct) [EMAIL

Re: hyphens

1999-09-03 Thread me
Dirk Hope this helps. actually, it didnt work completely. i put \sloppy at the beginning of a line and it made "system-s" change to "sys-tems" which is certainly an improvement, but \sloppy at the beginning of another paragraph had no affect at all. i then removed these and put \sloppy in

Re: hyphens

1999-09-03 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
"Susie" == me [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: JMarc In what language are you typesetting your document? I just JMarc checked and the only hypenation proposed by TeX in english for JMarc `systems' is `sys-tems'. I do not understand how you could get JMarc something as `system-s'. Susie english. as

Re: hyphens

1999-09-03 Thread me
JMarc Could you send a short TeX document that produces the problem, JMarc along with the .log file? I am curious to know what the JMarc problem is... Do you have unusually short lines or long words? here's the tex file. it's an A4 document, and i havent changed the line settings.

Re: hyphens

1999-09-03 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
"Susie" == me [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: JMarc Could you send a short TeX document that produces the problem, JMarc along with the .log file? I am curious to know what the problem JMarc is... Do you have unusually short lines or long words? Susie here's the tex file. it's an A4 document, and

[Fwd: fonts]

1999-09-03 Thread François Patte
-- François Patte. UFR de mathématiques et informatique. 45 rue des St Pères. 75270 Paris Cedex 06 Tel: 01 44 55 35 59 -- Fax: 01 44 55 35 35 http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte Bonjour, I want to add specific fonts to lyx: I have installed some fonts in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ and

Fancy Headings on first page of article class?

1999-09-03 Thread Kayvan A. Sylvan
How can I get the fancyheaders package to start working on the first page of my document? Here's an example that does not seem to work even though I use the recommended \thispagestyle{fancy} at the beginning of the first page. Anyone have any ideas for me? ---Kayvan --

Vertical Page Centering

1999-09-03 Thread Technical Support
I have been using LaTeX for some time and am now switching to LyX. In my first few attempts I have had a hard time getting some sample letters I have written centered vertically on the page. Is this a feature of LyX or am I doing something wrong? How can I influence this vertical positioning

Re: Vertical Page Centering

1999-09-03 Thread Kayvan A. Sylvan
On Fri, Sep 03, 1999 at 03:28:46PM -0700, Technical Support wrote: I have been using LaTeX for some time and am now switching to LyX. In my first few attempts I have had a hard time getting some sample letters I have written centered vertically on the page. Is this a feature of LyX or

Re: Printing Users Manual

1999-09-03 Thread Kayvan A. Sylvan
On Fri, Sep 03, 1999 at 06:30:40PM -0400, Ralph Boland wrote: All the errors appear to be of the form: ! Undefined control sequence. l.# message The control sequence at the end of the top line of your error message was never \def'ed. If ... Can you send me the LaTeX file

Re: hyphens

1999-09-03 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Sat, 04 Sep 1999, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: "Susie" == me [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: JMarc Could you send a short TeX document that produces the problem, JMarc along with the .log file? I am curious to know what the problem JMarc is... Do you have unusually short lines or long words?

RE: Mac Word 98 to Lyx

1999-09-03 Thread Juergen Vigna
On 02-Sep-99 Ralph Boland wrote: 3) A minor problem I tried to print the users manual. However the construction of the tex file from the lyx file failed because the file 'rotating.sty' was not found. Lyx was installed by the computer administrators for the computer science

Re: latex symbols

1999-09-03 Thread Juergen Vigna
On 03-Sep-99 Christopher Sawtell wrote: Find a possible solution attached. I'm sending it to the list so that the experts in Europe can express an opinion. As Allan explained you have to use Math-Mode, but you don't have to use the ugly \(\) or $$ as we have native mathmode in LyX #:O) Look

errors caused by marginpar?

1999-09-03 Thread Reinhard Borek
Hi, I have LateX errors when I try to compile my Lyx-Document. I use Lyx 1.0pre4. I have 7 LaTex error message from lyx: 1.--- Too many unprocessed floats. l.188 lauten\cite{Fletcher91_II}\marginpar You've lost some text. Try typing return to proceed.

Re: errors caused by marginpar?

1999-09-03 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
"Reinhard" == Reinhard Borek [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Reinhard But I do not think, what is wrong with marginpars! Do you have a lot of these marginpars? It cause problems to LaTeX when there are too many on a page. JMarc

Re: ?use custom latex class at non-standard directory?

1999-09-03 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
"Nien-Po" == Nien-Po Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Nien-Po Hi LyX users, I just discovered LyX and am very excited about Nien-Po it. I want to use it with a custom LaTeX class file Nien-Po (foo.cls), but it is not part of the standard LaTeX Nien-Po installation. I use a shared UNIX host, so

Re: errors caused by marginpar?

1999-09-03 Thread Reinhard Borek
Hi, at Fri, 03 Sep 1999 Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: "Reinhard" == Reinhard Borek [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Reinhard But I do not think, what is wrong with marginpars! Do you have a lot of these marginpars? It cause problems to LaTeX when there are too many on a page. Yes, I have (had) a

Re: Mac Word 98 to Lyx

1999-09-03 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
"Ralph" == Ralph Boland [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ralph When I filed out a tex document and just filed it back in again Ralph I did not get the exactly the same document. Lyx gave no Ralph complaints when I used a (") character. But when I saved it to Ralph tex and read it back in each (")

hyphens

1999-09-03 Thread me
g'day again, in my 'book' class document i've foudn that Lyx and/or latex insists on putting hyphens in unintelligent places, such as "system-s". can anyone tell me how i can disable all hyphenation ? or is it possible to disable it on an individual paragraph basis at least ? please

Re: hyphens

1999-09-03 Thread Dirk Klugmann
susie wrote: in my 'book' class document i've foudn that Lyx and/or latex insists on putting hyphens in unintelligent places, such as "system-s". can anyone tell me how i can disable all hyphenation ? or is it possible to disable it on an individual paragraph basis at least ? I

Re: hyphens

1999-09-03 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
"Susie" == me [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Susie g'day again, Susie in my 'book' class document i've foudn that Lyx and/or latex Susie insists on putting hyphens in unintelligent places, such as Susie "system-s". can anyone tell me how i can disable all Susie hyphenation ? or is it possible

Captions in italics?

1999-09-03 Thread Knut Lian
Is it possible to make figure and table captions in italic fonts? I'm using the Report environment. Cheers Knut -- Knut Lian Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering The University of Edinburgh King's Buildings Mayfield Rd Edinburgh EH9 3JL (Int +44) 131 650 5608 (direct) [EMAIL

Re: hyphens

1999-09-03 Thread me
Dirk Hope this helps. actually, it didnt work completely. i put \sloppy at the beginning of a line and it made "system-s" change to "sys-tems" which is certainly an improvement, but \sloppy at the beginning of another paragraph had no affect at all. i then removed these and put \sloppy in

Re: hyphens

1999-09-03 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
"Susie" == me [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: JMarc In what language are you typesetting your document? I just JMarc checked and the only hypenation proposed by TeX in english for JMarc `systems' is `sys-tems'. I do not understand how you could get JMarc something as `system-s'. Susie english. as

Re: hyphens

1999-09-03 Thread me
JMarc Could you send a short TeX document that produces the problem, JMarc along with the .log file? I am curious to know what the JMarc problem is... Do you have unusually short lines or long words? here's the tex file. it's an A4 document, and i havent changed the line settings.

Re: hyphens

1999-09-03 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
"Susie" == me [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: JMarc Could you send a short TeX document that produces the problem, JMarc along with the .log file? I am curious to know what the problem JMarc is... Do you have unusually short lines or long words? Susie here's the tex file. it's an A4 document, and

[Fwd: fonts]

1999-09-03 Thread François Patte
-- François Patte. UFR de mathématiques et informatique. 45 rue des St Pères. 75270 Paris Cedex 06 Tel: 01 44 55 35 59 -- Fax: 01 44 55 35 35 http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte Bonjour, I want to add specific fonts to lyx: I have installed some fonts in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ and

Fancy Headings on first page of article class?

1999-09-03 Thread Kayvan A. Sylvan
How can I get the fancyheaders package to start working on the first page of my document? Here's an example that does not seem to work even though I use the recommended \thispagestyle{fancy} at the beginning of the first page. Anyone have any ideas for me? ---Kayvan --

Vertical Page Centering

1999-09-03 Thread Technical Support
I have been using LaTeX for some time and am now switching to LyX. In my first few attempts I have had a hard time getting some sample letters I have written centered vertically on the page. Is this a feature of LyX or am I doing something wrong? How can I influence this vertical positioning

Re: Vertical Page Centering

1999-09-03 Thread Kayvan A. Sylvan
On Fri, Sep 03, 1999 at 03:28:46PM -0700, Technical Support wrote: I have been using LaTeX for some time and am now switching to LyX. In my first few attempts I have had a hard time getting some sample letters I have written centered vertically on the page. Is this a feature of LyX or

Re: Printing Users Manual

1999-09-03 Thread Kayvan A. Sylvan
On Fri, Sep 03, 1999 at 06:30:40PM -0400, Ralph Boland wrote: All the errors appear to be of the form: ! Undefined control sequence. l.# message The control sequence at the end of the top line of your error message was never \def'ed. If ... Can you send me the LaTeX file

Re: hyphens

1999-09-03 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Sat, 04 Sep 1999, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: "Susie" == me [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: JMarc Could you send a short TeX document that produces the problem, JMarc along with the .log file? I am curious to know what the problem JMarc is... Do you have unusually short lines or long words?

RE: Mac Word 98 to Lyx

1999-09-03 Thread Juergen Vigna
On 02-Sep-99 Ralph Boland wrote: > 3) A minor problem > > I tried to print the users manual. However the construction > of the tex file from the lyx file failed because the file > 'rotating.sty' was not found. Lyx was installed by the computer > administrators for the computer

Re: latex symbols

1999-09-03 Thread Juergen Vigna
On 03-Sep-99 Christopher Sawtell wrote: > Find a possible solution attached. I'm sending it to the list so that the > experts in Europe can express an opinion. As Allan explained you have to use Math-Mode, but you don't have to use the ugly \(\) or $$ as we have native mathmode in LyX #:O)

errors caused by marginpar?

1999-09-03 Thread Reinhard Borek
Hi, I have LateX errors when I try to compile my Lyx-Document. I use Lyx 1.0pre4. I have 7 LaTex error message from lyx: 1.--- Too many unprocessed floats. l.188 lauten\cite{Fletcher91_II}\marginpar You've lost some text. Try typing to proceed. If that

Re: errors caused by marginpar?

1999-09-03 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Reinhard" == Reinhard Borek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Reinhard> But I do not think, what is wrong with marginpars! Do you have a lot of these marginpars? It cause problems to LaTeX when there are too many on a page. JMarc

Re: ?use custom latex class at non-standard directory?

1999-09-03 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Nien-Po" == Nien-Po Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Nien-Po> Hi LyX users, I just discovered LyX and am very excited about Nien-Po> it. I want to use it with a custom LaTeX class file Nien-Po> (foo.cls), but it is not part of the standard LaTeX Nien-Po> installation. I use a shared

Re: errors caused by marginpar?

1999-09-03 Thread Reinhard Borek
Hi, at Fri, 03 Sep 1999 Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > "Reinhard" == Reinhard Borek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Reinhard> But I do not think, what is wrong with marginpars! > > Do you have a lot of these marginpars? It cause problems to LaTeX when > there are too many on a page. Yes,

Re: Mac Word 98 to Lyx

1999-09-03 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Ralph" == Ralph Boland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ralph> When I filed out a tex document and just filed it back in again Ralph> I did not get the exactly the same document. Lyx gave no Ralph> complaints when I used a (") character. But when I saved it to Ralph> tex and read it back in

hyphens

1999-09-03 Thread me
g'day again, in my 'book' class document i've foudn that Lyx and/or latex insists on putting hyphens in unintelligent places, such as "system-s". can anyone tell me how i can disable all hyphenation ? or is it possible to disable it on an individual paragraph basis at least ? please

Re: hyphens

1999-09-03 Thread Dirk Klugmann
susie wrote: > > in my 'book' class document i've foudn that Lyx > and/or latex insists on putting hyphens in unintelligent > places, such as "system-s". > can anyone tell me how i can disable all hyphenation ? > or is it possible to disable it on an individual paragraph > basis at least ?

Re: hyphens

1999-09-03 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Susie" == me <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Susie> g'day again, Susie> in my 'book' class document i've foudn that Lyx and/or latex Susie> insists on putting hyphens in unintelligent places, such as Susie> "system-s". can anyone tell me how i can disable all Susie> hyphenation ? or is

Captions in italics?

1999-09-03 Thread Knut Lian
Is it possible to make figure and table captions in italic fonts? I'm using the Report environment. Cheers Knut -- Knut Lian Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering The University of Edinburgh King's Buildings Mayfield Rd Edinburgh EH9 3JL (Int +44) 131 650 5608 (direct) [EMAIL

Re: hyphens

1999-09-03 Thread me
Dirk> Hope this helps. actually, it didnt work completely. i put \sloppy at the beginning of a line and it made "system-s" change to "sys-tems" which is certainly an improvement, but \sloppy at the beginning of another paragraph had no affect at all. i then removed these and put \sloppy in

Re: hyphens

1999-09-03 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Susie" == me <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JMarc> In what language are you typesetting your document? I just JMarc> checked and the only hypenation proposed by TeX in english for JMarc> `systems' is `sys-tems'. I do not understand how you could get JMarc> something as `system-s'. Susie>

Re: hyphens

1999-09-03 Thread me
JMarc> Could you send a short TeX document that produces the problem, JMarc> along with the .log file? I am curious to know what the JMarc> problem is... Do you have unusually short lines or long words? here's the tex file. it's an A4 document, and i havent changed the line settings.

Re: hyphens

1999-09-03 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Susie" == me <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JMarc> Could you send a short TeX document that produces the problem, JMarc> along with the .log file? I am curious to know what the problem JMarc> is... Do you have unusually short lines or long words? Susie> here's the tex file. it's an A4

[Fwd: fonts]

1999-09-03 Thread François Patte
-- François Patte. UFR de mathématiques et informatique. 45 rue des St Pères. 75270 Paris Cedex 06 Tel: 01 44 55 35 59 -- Fax: 01 44 55 35 35 http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte Bonjour, I want to add specific fonts to lyx: I have installed some fonts in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ and

Fancy Headings on first page of article class?

1999-09-03 Thread Kayvan A. Sylvan
How can I get the fancyheaders package to start working on the first page of my document? Here's an example that does not seem to work even though I use the recommended \thispagestyle{fancy} at the beginning of the first page. Anyone have any ideas for me? ---Kayvan --

Vertical Page Centering

1999-09-03 Thread Technical Support
I have been using LaTeX for some time and am now switching to LyX. In my first few attempts I have had a hard time getting some sample letters I have written centered vertically on the page. Is this a feature of LyX or am I doing something wrong? How can I influence this vertical positioning

Re: Vertical Page Centering

1999-09-03 Thread Kayvan A. Sylvan
On Fri, Sep 03, 1999 at 03:28:46PM -0700, Technical Support wrote: > > I have been using LaTeX for some time and am now switching to LyX. In > my first few attempts I have had a hard time getting some sample letters > > I have written centered vertically on the page. Is this a feature of >

Re: Printing Users Manual

1999-09-03 Thread Kayvan A. Sylvan
On Fri, Sep 03, 1999 at 06:30:40PM -0400, Ralph Boland wrote: > > All the errors appear to be of the form: > > ! Undefined control sequence. > > l.# message > The control sequence at the end of the top line > of your error message was never \def'ed. If ... > Can you send me the

Re: hyphens

1999-09-03 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Sat, 04 Sep 1999, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > "Susie" == me <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > JMarc> Could you send a short TeX document that produces the problem, > JMarc> along with the .log file? I am curious to know what the problem > JMarc> is... Do you have unusually short lines