Re: thoughts on the LyX gui.

2001-04-27 Thread Christopher Jones
Is that what a troll is! I always wondered what people were talking about when they complained about them. Thanks for the heads up on the menus being configurable--probably an obvious thing that I have never had the occasion to need, and therefore to know about. But I perhaps should have omitte

Re: thoughts on the LyX gui.

2001-04-27 Thread Matej Cepl
On pátek 27 duben 2001 10:56 Christopher Johns wrote: > And with that, may I add my voice to that of others who, over > the years, have made known their appreciation for all the hard > work and thought that has gone into making LyX the fabulous > application it is. Yes, that is the thing, which

U.S. Legal Briefs

2001-04-27 Thread Dave Tweten
I searched the LyX Users archives in vain for a reference to a LyX template or layout file for U.S. legal briefs, with their peculiar title pages and reference formats. I saw another question like mine in the archives, but no answers. Is there no help for a LyX fan who finds himself needing t

Re: LyX-1.1.6 compile problem on OSF

2001-04-27 Thread David Bailey
Hi Allan, I tried exactly as you suggested and that did not work. So I finally gave up and downloaded GNU make. All my missing file problems went away. I did configure with the --with-included-string option, but now it complains with: ../../src/LString.h:20: #error The header has been included

latex2rtf...loss of citations and bibliography

2001-04-27 Thread Praedor Tempus
I exported a document from lyx to latex format. This doc has lots of citations and an extensive bibliography. I then ran latex2rtf on the tex doc and find that when I open it in Word, all my citations are gone as is the bibliography page. Is there no format that lyx can save to, or no tool t

Re: Lyx (forwarded to lyx-users from a German user)

2001-04-27 Thread Andre Berger
* Albrecht Dreß <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 2001-04-27 10:09 +0200: > Andre Berger wrote: > > Just don't tell him that it's Helvetica and not Arial. Most people won't > > be able to distinguish between these fonts anyway. IIRC it's > > theoratically possible in LaTeX, but it would be much harder to do th

Re: Package Babel error

2001-04-27 Thread Matej Cepl
On pátek 27 duben 2001 14:23 Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > > or insert german in layout->document->options. > > I succeeded in getting rid of the Babel error messages. > However, I am getting now > Inhaltsverzeichnis instead of table of contents > and same with table of figures, tables, Bibliograp

equation wrap-around

2001-04-27 Thread Anna H. Pryor
Version 1.1.6fix1 Linux. Is there a way for equations to automatically wrap-around in Lyx? Anna

Re: thoughts on the LyX gui.

2001-04-27 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Christopher Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | -do- like about the behemoth WYSIWYG applications, which I otherwise despise. | This menu should be *fully* customizable (as should everything in | LyX) But they are! (and the toolbar) But we have no gui to control it, only text files. --

thoughts on the LyX gui.

2001-04-27 Thread Christopher Jones
Since there has been some discussion of incorporation of Python into LyX, let me say that I think this is something like what I wanted when I posted that strange request some time ago (I don't remember how I put it: I think I talked about having the ability to integrate other applications' guis in

Re: Package Babel error

2001-04-27 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
On Sunday 22 April 2001 16:40, you wrote: > Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > > I am getting many `Package Babel error´ > > `You havent defined the language german yet ..´ > > while trying to view the dvi output, > > although I am using english. > > Same under latex runs. > > you can delete the entry

Re: cite in a formula

2001-04-27 Thread Jörg Haug
Herbert Voss schrieb: > Jörg Haug wrote: > > > > I want to put a cite in a formula but if i insert it Lyx put it in front > > of the formular. > > Is there a possibility to place it in the formular ? > > write it as tex(red) in the formula > \cite{ > lyx puts by default the closing parenthesis. i

Re: article (koma-script) with smallest font size

2001-04-27 Thread Herbert Voss
"Jacek M. Holeczek" wrote: > > > what's compact? > > > > one line, one page ... > zusammengedaerngt :-) > For example, an A3 sheet shrunk to A6 (by downscaling fonts :-) as Günther said, it's a good way: psresize -Pa3 -pa5 test.ps | lpr or psresize -Pa3 -w6cm -w4cm test.ps | lpr for an extra

Re: cite in a formula

2001-04-27 Thread Herbert Voss
Jörg Haug wrote: > > I want to put a cite in a formula but if i insert it Lyx put it in front > of the formular. > Is there a possibility to place it in the formular ? write it as tex(red) in the formula \cite{ lyx puts by default the closing parenthesis. insert the key. but let me say, that i

RE: pretty-printing XML

2001-04-27 Thread Beyer, Marcus
> >>Is there an instant solution available? > >> > >>Marcus > > Maybe a recent veriosn of lgrind does it ? > (my version knows nothing about *ML stuff) > You can check CTAN perhaps. > > -- > Jean-Pierre Found nothing in ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/nonfree/support/lgrind/lgrindef (lgrindef,

RE: pretty-printing XML

2001-04-27 Thread Jean-Pierre.Chretien
[snip] >> >>I don't see how to do this, since "keywords" (element names) >>are implicit (different for each document) in XML. >> >>I also had a quick look at "xmltex" but this seems to be quite >>complex and seems to be more intended as a replacement of the >>TeX-syntax than a pretty-printer(?)

cite in a formula

2001-04-27 Thread Jörg Haug
I want to put a cite in a formula but if i insert it Lyx put it in front of the formular. Is there a possibility to place it in the formular ? Thanks, Jörg

Re: (Was: Re: Laurent's sigfile suggestion)

2001-04-27 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 02:23:48PM -0400, Matej Cepl wrote: > On ?tvrtek 26 duben 2001 3:49 Juha Siltala wrote: > > This would reduce the traffic on this list by half :-) > > Having toubles with PostScript and postscript fonts. Trying to > get working ae,aecompl package (I guess I am really add

Re: article (koma-script) with smallest font size

2001-04-27 Thread Jacek M. Holeczek
Hi, The following does the trick for me. (...) \setlength{\mySkip}{0.1ex \@plus0.1ex}% \renewcommand\section{\@startsection{section}{1}{\z@}% {-2.5ex \@plus -1ex \@minus -.2ex}% (...) Your next advice works too : \LTpre=\smallskipamount \LT

Re[2]: article (koma-script) with smallest font size

2001-04-27 Thread Guenter Milde
On Fri, 27 Apr 2001 10:04:41 +0200 (MET DST) wrote Jacek M. Holeczek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Can I somehow say that the whole article should be "compact" ? How about trying to give A3 as papersize and scaling down the .ps output? Guenter -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: article (koma-script) with smallest font size

2001-04-27 Thread Tuukka Toivonen
On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Jacek M. Holeczek wrote: > Could you also, please, give me a small hint how can I make the "free > space" between "Enumerate" items smaller. Paragraph Layout/Vertical Spaces/Length and use some negative value such as "-1 cm". You will need to experiment and the result may be

Re: article (koma-script) with smallest font size

2001-04-27 Thread Herbert Voss
"Jacek M. Holeczek" wrote: > > Could you also, please, give me a small hint how can I make the "free > space" between "Enumerate" items smaller. http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/list/list.html Herbert

Spanish and Lyx

2001-04-27 Thread Jaime Robles
Hello! I am writing to this list to ask for spanish Lyx's users... I am also interested in find the lyx translator team or something like that. Thanks! -- Un saludo, Jaime Robles [EMAIL PROTECTED] Coordinador KDE-ES http://www.kde.org/es

Re: /renewcommand doesn't always work

2001-04-27 Thread Herbert Voss
Guenter Milde wrote: > > http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/Informatik/lyx/bibtex/bibtex.html#bibname > > This does not work if you load any specific language package, like german. > These packages overwrite all language specific commands. In this case write > > \AtBeginDocument[\renewcommand

Re: article (koma-script) with smallest font size

2001-04-27 Thread Herbert Voss
"Jacek M. Holeczek" wrote: > > Hi, > Unfortunately I think I need your help again. > I use the "\usepackage[8pt]{extsizes}" package with the "article > (koma-script)". Works quite nicely, except that ... > I would like to make the "free space" between the "Section" title and the > preceding and t

RE: pretty-printing XML

2001-04-27 Thread Beyer, Marcus
> > until now I always used listings.sty to pretty-print my > > source code. This always worked very well for Java etc. > > > > Now I have XML-documents, but listings doesn't seem to > > support that (I cannot find the string "XML" in > > > ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/su

Re: article (koma-script) with smallest font size

2001-04-27 Thread Jacek M. Holeczek
Hi, Could you also, please, give me a small hint how can I make the "free space" between "Enumerate" items smaller. Thanks in advance, Jacek

Re: /renewcommand doesn't always work

2001-04-27 Thread Guenter Milde
On Thu, 26 Apr 2001 15:53:42 -0700 (PDT) wrote Craig Finch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I am trying to call my "Bibliography" a "List of > References." I have created a custom style file based > on the Report class where I use the command: > > \renewcommand{\bibname}{LIST OF REFERENCES} > > Unfortun

Re: article (koma-script) with smallest font size

2001-04-27 Thread Jacek M. Holeczek
Hi, Unfortunately I think I need your help again. I use the "\usepackage[8pt]{extsizes}" package with the "article (koma-script)". Works quite nicely, except that ... I would like to make the "free space" between the "Section" title and the preceding and the following text much smaller. I would al

Re: Lyx (forwarded to lyx-users from a German user)

2001-04-27 Thread Albrecht Dreß
Andre Berger wrote: > Just don't tell him that it's Helvetica and not Arial. Most people won't > be able to distinguish between these fonts anyway. IIRC it's > theoratically possible in LaTeX, but it would be much harder to do than > your Jahresarbeit. > > Helvetica und Arial sehen sich so aehnli