Re: Babel in LyX 1.1.6

2001-01-13 Thread Herbert Voss
Matthew Lovell wrote: Hi, Lyx1.1.6 seems to be including the babel package in the resulting LaTeX code. Is there a way to turn off this behavior? It doesn't appear that I can select "none" for a language in the document settings. :) I have a thesis class which is not compatible with

LyX 1.1.6 - preferences

2001-01-13 Thread Herbert Voss
i have the german localisation and when i change any of the fontsizes i always get: # # SCREEN FONTS SECTION # \screen_dpi 75 \screen_zoom 175 \screen_font_sizes 5,00 6,00 7,00 8,00 9,00 10,00 11,00 12,00 13,00 14,00 i put in the values 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14

Lyx Docbook

2001-01-13 Thread Juergen Kleiminger
Dear Users, Cofiguring the new lyx 1.1.6 I cannnot find the textclass docbook. This message appears : +checking for docbook class docbook-book... no checking for docbook class docbook... no Where can I find these classes. Greetings from Emden Harbour ( Germany), Jrgen Kleiminger

Re: lyx-1.1.5fix2 on SuSE-7-PPC?

2001-01-13 Thread Niklas Werner
well, answering myself.. compiling lyx-1.1.6 works... (at least without -fno-rtti and using the system's string classes) ppc-rpm is on ftp.sylvan.com have fun* Niklas *** Niklas Werner http://www.user.tu-berlin.de/~nickgfec/

Algorithm-style release (0.3)

2001-01-13 Thread ben
Hello, A new release of the Algorithm-style package for lyx is now available (0.3). It includes some new features, bug fixes, and the style file (.inc) is now splitted in two files, a latex package file (.sty) and a light style file (.inc). The previous version (0.2) is still available. You can

pdflatex error on XFig inset in 1.1.6

2001-01-13 Thread Jan Ulrich Hasecke
Hi! Just playing around with lyx 1.1.6 I discovered an error using the external inset with a XFig-Graphic. Lyx converts it to eps so that pdflatex returns an error because of a wrong extension. Wouldn't it be better to include a graphic without extension and to convert the XFig also to png or

Re: Algorithm-style release (0.3)

2001-01-13 Thread Herbert Voss
ben wrote: light style file (.inc). The previous version (0.2) is still available. You can find the package at: http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/Informatik/lyx/algorithm.html sorry, it's http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/algorithm/algorithm.html Herbert -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Should Lyx allow me to introduce a mistake like this?

2001-01-13 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 10:46:05AM -0600, Paul E Johnson wrote: If it is true that sections cannot be correctly modified through layout-paragraph, shouldn't LyX block me from making those changes? Yes, it should. I'll fix this.

Re: Release LyX 1.1.6

2001-01-13 Thread Armin Geisse
On Sat, 13 Jan 2001, Allan Rae wrote: ... saved your changes LyX uses ~/.lyx/preferences for its settings from then on. That is, it ignores your old ~/.lyx/.lyxrc in future if a preferences file exists. But it still seems to read a ~/.lyx/lyxrc-defaults file. This was the only way I found

reading text out of ps/pdf

2001-01-13 Thread Christopher Jones
This is a reach, I know. But in the hopes that there is something out there for me, I'll ask the question: is there anything which reads text out of a bitmaped pdf or ps file?

Re: reading text out of ps/pdf

2001-01-13 Thread R. E. de Lima-Lopes
yes there is a tool called ps2ascii, it extracts plain texts form *.ps files []s lima-lopes R.E. de Lima-Lopes [EMAIL PROTECTED] GNU/Linux Registered User # 182240 On Sat, 13 Jan 2001, Christopher Jones wrote: Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 11:34:48 -0600 From: Christopher

Re: reading text out of ps/pdf

2001-01-13 Thread Christopher Jones
I have that tool. But some pdf or ps files consist not of coded text but a bitmapped image. For instance, pdf and ps files which I download from journal databases are scanned images of journal pages. ps2ascii and pdftotext will not extract text from these files, since there is no ascii content to

Re: reading text out of ps/pdf

2001-01-13 Thread Herbert Voss
Christopher Jones wrote: I have that tool. But some pdf or ps files consist not of coded text but a bitmapped image. For instance, pdf and ps files which I download from journal databases are scanned images of journal pages. ps2ascii and pdftotext will not extract text from these files,

Re: keyboard bindings colliding?

2001-01-13 Thread Andre Poenitz
files, but it does not work. each time i type "M-a" the view menu (in german A|nzeigen) pops up. what can i do? You could change in /usr/share/lyx/bind/ every M-a to M-p to get access to the paragraph styles via M-p. Andre' -- Andr Pnitz [EMAIL

Re: reading text out of ps/pdf

2001-01-13 Thread Matej Cepl
Christopher Jones wrote: So my question is: is there any software out there which attempts to look at bitmaps and guess what the ascii would be-- something like those programs which read books through a scanner and try to match font characters to the image. And I say this question is a reach,

LyX 1.1.6 and DocBook

2001-01-13 Thread ben
Hello, I've jumpped from lyx-1.1.5fix1 to lyx-1.1.6, and I have some remarks about the DocBook class: * The docbook-book.layout doesn't define the Part style, which should be available in a DocBook book. It is possible to define it, only by removing the line 172 from the file docbook-book.layout

Re: LyX 1.1.6 and DocBook

2001-01-13 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
ben [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | I've jumpped from lyx-1.1.5fix1 to lyx-1.1.6, and I have some remarks | about the DocBook class: You really should have tested 1.1.6pre3, then we could have caught this before release... actually it seems that _no_ docbook users tested pre3... (seems that the

Nested Tabs in Preferences etc.

2001-01-13 Thread Allan Rae
On Sat, 13 Jan 2001, Dr. Ing. Dieter Jurzitza wrote: Lars has answered the first part of your question. Besides; I was not able to enter the Look Feel part of the preferences menue, maybe it can be found there? Many thanks for any recommendation! The tabs are nested. That is the top row

Re: Release LyX 1.1.6

2001-01-13 Thread Allan Rae
On Sat, 13 Jan 2001, Armin Geisse wrote: On Sat, 13 Jan 2001, Allan Rae wrote: ... saved your changes LyX uses ~/.lyx/preferences for its settings from then on. That is, it ignores your old ~/.lyx/.lyxrc in future if a preferences file exists. But it still seems to read a

Re: Babel in LyX 1.1.6

2001-01-13 Thread Herbert Voss
Matthew Lovell wrote: Hi, Lyx1.1.6 seems to be including the babel package in the resulting LaTeX code. Is there a way to turn off this behavior? It doesn't appear that I can select "none" for a language in the document settings. :) I have a thesis class which is not compatible with

LyX 1.1.6 - preferences

2001-01-13 Thread Herbert Voss
i have the german localisation and when i change any of the fontsizes i always get: # # SCREEN FONTS SECTION # \screen_dpi 75 \screen_zoom 175 \screen_font_sizes 5,00 6,00 7,00 8,00 9,00 10,00 11,00 12,00 13,00 14,00 i put in the values 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14

Lyx Docbook

2001-01-13 Thread Juergen Kleiminger
Dear Users, Cofiguring the new lyx 1.1.6 I cannnot find the textclass docbook. This message appears : +checking for docbook class docbook-book... no checking for docbook class docbook... no Where can I find these classes. Greetings from Emden Harbour ( Germany), Jrgen Kleiminger

Re: lyx-1.1.5fix2 on SuSE-7-PPC?

2001-01-13 Thread Niklas Werner
well, answering myself.. compiling lyx-1.1.6 works... (at least without -fno-rtti and using the system's string classes) ppc-rpm is on ftp.sylvan.com have fun* Niklas *** Niklas Werner http://www.user.tu-berlin.de/~nickgfec/

Algorithm-style release (0.3)

2001-01-13 Thread ben
Hello, A new release of the Algorithm-style package for lyx is now available (0.3). It includes some new features, bug fixes, and the style file (.inc) is now splitted in two files, a latex package file (.sty) and a light style file (.inc). The previous version (0.2) is still available. You can

pdflatex error on XFig inset in 1.1.6

2001-01-13 Thread Jan Ulrich Hasecke
Hi! Just playing around with lyx 1.1.6 I discovered an error using the external inset with a XFig-Graphic. Lyx converts it to eps so that pdflatex returns an error because of a wrong extension. Wouldn't it be better to include a graphic without extension and to convert the XFig also to png or

Re: Algorithm-style release (0.3)

2001-01-13 Thread Herbert Voss
ben wrote: light style file (.inc). The previous version (0.2) is still available. You can find the package at: http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/Informatik/lyx/algorithm.html sorry, it's http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/algorithm/algorithm.html Herbert -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Should Lyx allow me to introduce a mistake like this?

2001-01-13 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 10:46:05AM -0600, Paul E Johnson wrote: If it is true that sections cannot be correctly modified through layout-paragraph, shouldn't LyX block me from making those changes? Yes, it should. I'll fix this.

Re: Release LyX 1.1.6

2001-01-13 Thread Armin Geisse
On Sat, 13 Jan 2001, Allan Rae wrote: ... saved your changes LyX uses ~/.lyx/preferences for its settings from then on. That is, it ignores your old ~/.lyx/.lyxrc in future if a preferences file exists. But it still seems to read a ~/.lyx/lyxrc-defaults file. This was the only way I found

reading text out of ps/pdf

2001-01-13 Thread Christopher Jones
This is a reach, I know. But in the hopes that there is something out there for me, I'll ask the question: is there anything which reads text out of a bitmaped pdf or ps file?

Re: reading text out of ps/pdf

2001-01-13 Thread R. E. de Lima-Lopes
yes there is a tool called ps2ascii, it extracts plain texts form *.ps files []s lima-lopes R.E. de Lima-Lopes [EMAIL PROTECTED] GNU/Linux Registered User # 182240 On Sat, 13 Jan 2001, Christopher Jones wrote: Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 11:34:48 -0600 From: Christopher

Re: reading text out of ps/pdf

2001-01-13 Thread Christopher Jones
I have that tool. But some pdf or ps files consist not of coded text but a bitmapped image. For instance, pdf and ps files which I download from journal databases are scanned images of journal pages. ps2ascii and pdftotext will not extract text from these files, since there is no ascii content to

Re: reading text out of ps/pdf

2001-01-13 Thread Herbert Voss
Christopher Jones wrote: I have that tool. But some pdf or ps files consist not of coded text but a bitmapped image. For instance, pdf and ps files which I download from journal databases are scanned images of journal pages. ps2ascii and pdftotext will not extract text from these files,

Re: keyboard bindings colliding?

2001-01-13 Thread Andre Poenitz
files, but it does not work. each time i type "M-a" the view menu (in german A|nzeigen) pops up. what can i do? You could change in /usr/share/lyx/bind/ every M-a to M-p to get access to the paragraph styles via M-p. Andre' -- Andr Pnitz [EMAIL

Re: reading text out of ps/pdf

2001-01-13 Thread Matej Cepl
Christopher Jones wrote: So my question is: is there any software out there which attempts to look at bitmaps and guess what the ascii would be-- something like those programs which read books through a scanner and try to match font characters to the image. And I say this question is a reach,

LyX 1.1.6 and DocBook

2001-01-13 Thread ben
Hello, I've jumpped from lyx-1.1.5fix1 to lyx-1.1.6, and I have some remarks about the DocBook class: * The docbook-book.layout doesn't define the Part style, which should be available in a DocBook book. It is possible to define it, only by removing the line 172 from the file docbook-book.layout

Re: LyX 1.1.6 and DocBook

2001-01-13 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
ben [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | I've jumpped from lyx-1.1.5fix1 to lyx-1.1.6, and I have some remarks | about the DocBook class: You really should have tested 1.1.6pre3, then we could have caught this before release... actually it seems that _no_ docbook users tested pre3... (seems that the

Nested Tabs in Preferences etc.

2001-01-13 Thread Allan Rae
On Sat, 13 Jan 2001, Dr. Ing. Dieter Jurzitza wrote: Lars has answered the first part of your question. Besides; I was not able to enter the Look Feel part of the preferences menue, maybe it can be found there? Many thanks for any recommendation! The tabs are nested. That is the top row

Re: Release LyX 1.1.6

2001-01-13 Thread Allan Rae
On Sat, 13 Jan 2001, Armin Geisse wrote: On Sat, 13 Jan 2001, Allan Rae wrote: ... saved your changes LyX uses ~/.lyx/preferences for its settings from then on. That is, it ignores your old ~/.lyx/.lyxrc in future if a preferences file exists. But it still seems to read a

Re: Babel in LyX 1.1.6

2001-01-13 Thread Herbert Voss
Matthew Lovell wrote: > > Hi, > > Lyx1.1.6 seems to be including the babel package in the resulting > LaTeX code. Is there a way to turn off this behavior? It doesn't > appear that I can select "none" for a language in the document > settings. :) > > I have a thesis class which is not

LyX 1.1.6 - preferences

2001-01-13 Thread Herbert Voss
i have the german localisation and when i change any of the fontsizes i always get: # # SCREEN & FONTS SECTION # \screen_dpi 75 \screen_zoom 175 \screen_font_sizes 5,00 6,00 7,00 8,00 9,00 10,00 11,00 12,00 13,00 14,00 i put in the values 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14

Lyx Docbook

2001-01-13 Thread Juergen Kleiminger
Dear Users, Cofiguring the new lyx 1.1.6 I cannnot find the textclass docbook. This message appears : +checking for docbook class docbook-book... no checking for docbook class docbook... no Where can I find these classes. Greetings from Emden Harbour ( Germany), Jürgen Kleiminger

Re: lyx-1.1.5fix2 on SuSE-7-PPC?

2001-01-13 Thread Niklas Werner
well, answering myself.. compiling lyx-1.1.6 works... (at least without -fno-rtti and using the system's string classes) ppc-rpm is on ftp.sylvan.com have fun* Niklas *** Niklas Werner http://www.user.tu-berlin.de/~nickgfec/

Algorithm-style release (0.3)

2001-01-13 Thread ben
Hello, A new release of the Algorithm-style package for lyx is now available (0.3). It includes some new features, bug fixes, and the style file (.inc) is now splitted in two files, a latex package file (.sty) and a light style file (.inc). The previous version (0.2) is still available. You can

pdflatex error on XFig inset in 1.1.6

2001-01-13 Thread Jan Ulrich Hasecke
Hi! Just playing around with lyx 1.1.6 I discovered an error using the external inset with a XFig-Graphic. Lyx converts it to eps so that pdflatex returns an error because of a wrong extension. Wouldn't it be better to include a graphic without extension and to convert the XFig also to png or

Re: Algorithm-style release (0.3)

2001-01-13 Thread Herbert Voss
ben wrote: > light style file (.inc). The previous version (0.2) is still available. > > You can find the package at: > http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/Informatik/lyx/algorithm.html sorry, it's http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/algorithm/algorithm.html Herbert -- [EMAIL

Re: Should Lyx allow me to introduce a mistake like this?

2001-01-13 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 10:46:05AM -0600, Paul E Johnson wrote: > If it is true that sections cannot be correctly modified through > layout-paragraph, shouldn't LyX block me from making those changes? Yes, it should. I'll fix this.

Re: Release LyX 1.1.6

2001-01-13 Thread Armin Geisse
On Sat, 13 Jan 2001, Allan Rae wrote: > ... > saved your changes LyX uses ~/.lyx/preferences for its settings from then > on. That is, it ignores your old ~/.lyx/.lyxrc in future if a > preferences file exists. > But it still seems to read a ~/.lyx/lyxrc-defaults file. This was the only way I

reading text out of ps/pdf

2001-01-13 Thread Christopher Jones
This is a reach, I know. But in the hopes that there is something out there for me, I'll ask the question: is there anything which reads text out of a bitmaped pdf or ps file?

Re: reading text out of ps/pdf

2001-01-13 Thread R. E. de Lima-Lopes
yes there is a tool called ps2ascii, it extracts plain texts form *.ps files []s lima-lopes R.E. de Lima-Lopes [EMAIL PROTECTED] GNU/Linux Registered User # 182240 On Sat, 13 Jan 2001, Christopher Jones wrote: > Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 11:34:48 -0600 > From: Christopher

Re: reading text out of ps/pdf

2001-01-13 Thread Christopher Jones
I have that tool. But some pdf or ps files consist not of coded text but a bitmapped image. For instance, pdf and ps files which I download from journal databases are scanned images of journal pages. ps2ascii and pdftotext will not extract text from these files, since there is no ascii content to

Re: reading text out of ps/pdf

2001-01-13 Thread Herbert Voss
Christopher Jones wrote: > > I have that tool. But some pdf or ps files consist not of coded text but a > bitmapped image. For instance, pdf and ps files which I download from journal > databases are scanned images of journal pages. ps2ascii and pdftotext will not > extract text from these

Re: keyboard bindings colliding?

2001-01-13 Thread Andre Poenitz
> files, but it does not work. each time i type "M-a" the view menu (in german > A|nzeigen) pops up. what can i do? You could change in /usr/share/lyx/bind/ every M-a to M-p to get access to the paragraph styles via M-p. Andre' -- André Pönitz [EMAIL

Re: reading text out of ps/pdf

2001-01-13 Thread Matej Cepl
Christopher Jones wrote: > So my question is: is there any software out there which attempts to look at > bitmaps and guess what the ascii would be-- something like those programs which > read books through a scanner and try to match font characters to the image. And > I say this question is a

LyX 1.1.6 and DocBook

2001-01-13 Thread ben
Hello, I've jumpped from lyx-1.1.5fix1 to lyx-1.1.6, and I have some remarks about the DocBook class: * The docbook-book.layout doesn't define the Part style, which should be available in a DocBook book. It is possible to define it, only by removing the line 172 from the file docbook-book.layout

Re: LyX 1.1.6 and DocBook

2001-01-13 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | I've jumpped from lyx-1.1.5fix1 to lyx-1.1.6, and I have some remarks | about the DocBook class: You really should have tested 1.1.6pre3, then we could have caught this before release... actually it seems that _no_ docbook users tested pre3... (seems that the

Nested Tabs in Preferences etc.

2001-01-13 Thread Allan Rae
On Sat, 13 Jan 2001, Dr. Ing. Dieter Jurzitza wrote: Lars has answered the first part of your question. > Besides; I was not able to enter the Look & Feel part of the > preferences menue, maybe it can be found there? Many thanks for any > recommendation! The tabs are nested. That is the top

Re: Release LyX 1.1.6

2001-01-13 Thread Allan Rae
On Sat, 13 Jan 2001, Armin Geisse wrote: > On Sat, 13 Jan 2001, Allan Rae wrote: > > > ... > > saved your changes LyX uses ~/.lyx/preferences for its settings from then > > on. That is, it ignores your old ~/.lyx/.lyxrc in future if a > > preferences file exists. > > > But it still seems to