tex to quarkexpress

2002-11-08 Thread Jeroen Vriesman
Hi, Does anyone know about a way to make quarkexpress and latex communicate? Is there a plugin for quarkexpress to read tex? Or is there a tex exportable format, usefull for quarkxpress? Cheers, Jeroen.

Re: Which drawing program?

2002-11-08 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Thu, 7 Nov 2002, Chris Carlen wrote: Hi folks: I am convinced there is something very wrong with .eps exported from OpenOffice. Which brings us to my first question: 1. Does anyone here use OpenOffice to produce figures to import into Lyx, and if so how do you generate the .eps

Re: Which drawing program?

2002-11-08 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 05:48:54PM -0800, Chris Carlen wrote: 1. Does anyone here use OpenOffice to produce figures to import into Lyx, and if so how do you generate the .eps files? Not me. Maybe you could send us one of the .eps so we can have a look how wrong they are... My interest at

Re: Bug report: LyX 1.2.1 delete spaces in labels when loading a saved document

2002-11-08 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 06:44:28PM +0200, Yossi Weinstein wrote: Hi there, I have many equation labels written as sentences with spaces (i.e. \label{eq. x axis}). when I save the document the output file contains these spaces, however when I load the document again the spaces are deleted

Re: Which drawing program?

2002-11-08 Thread Milos Komarcevic
Xfig does the job for me, it just takes a bit of time getting used to. Haven't tried Dia or Sodipodi yet, but they also look promising. As far as equations in figures go, I use psfrag: http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/psfrag.html It lets you replace any text in the eps

Re: Which drawing program?

2002-11-08 Thread Lucian Muresan
On 11/8/2002 11:55 AM, Milos Komarcevic wrote: Xfig does the job for me, it just takes a bit of time getting used to. Haven't tried Dia or Sodipodi yet, but they also look promising. As far as equations in figures go, I use psfrag:

Re: Docbook problems

2002-11-08 Thread José Abílio Oliveira Matos
On Tuesday 05 November 2002 17:18, Matej Cepl wrote: Hi, Hi, I'm sorry for replaying so late but I have been busy before. I am a total newbie in Docbook area, so I have tried to create a short document (with rich structure) to try it. However, I do not seem to be able to make .sgml

Re: Which drawing program?

2002-11-08 Thread Thorsten Fischer
Am Freitag, 8. November 2002 02:48 schrieb Chris Carlen: 1. Does anyone here use OpenOffice to produce figures to import into Lyx, and if so how do you generate the .eps files? I had the same problem. You normally can fix the .eps files using ps2ps or psresize fo the pstools package. This

Re: Howto Appendix

2002-11-08 Thread Christian Ridderström
To add an appendix in a book class, create a new chapter and then go to the menu Layout - Start appendix here /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-790 91 37 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr Mechatronics lab, Dept. of Machine Designhttp://www.md.kth.se

Re: Which drawing program?

2002-11-08 Thread Nirmal Govind
Either use the combined eps/tex export of xfig and set the formulas tospecial text or use psfrag. Why not just include the xfig figure with the math (with the special text option turned on) directly into LyX (Insert-External Material-selectxfig) and leave it to LyX to do the rest of the

Re: Which drawing program?

2002-11-08 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 05:48:54PM -0800, Chris Carlen wrote: Trouble is, I have to do drawings too, and I have discovered that I can't import the .eps files exported by OpenOffice Draw into Lyx. Furthermore, the .eps files crash the ghostscript interpreter when running most of the

Re: automatic float rotate if it is on one page?

2002-11-08 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 10:38:20AM -0800, Max Bian wrote: Is there a way to automatically rotate a figure or table in a float 90 degree when it is placed on a page alone? It would be perfect if it is configurable, because there are floats that should not be rotated even if placed on a page

Re: Which drawing program?

2002-11-08 Thread Kirk R. Wythers
On Thu, 2002-11-07 at 19:48, Chris Carlen wrote: Hi folks: I abandoned effort recently on a document that I was preparing in OpenOffice mostly because the equations looked really awful. Furthermore, I failed at convincing anybody in the OpenOffice/StarOffice world that they are not up to

Re: Lyx Printing to HP LJ2

2002-11-08 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 05:23:55PM -0700, Reed Loefgren wrote: 2. Yes, exporting as a .dvi and then running it through dvips works beautifully. Can't this be set up in Lyx's preferences, as if it was going to an inkjet? I'm going through the manual again to see what I might have missed; it

Re: cut words at the end of line

2002-11-08 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 05:47:37PM +0100, Javi Castelo wrote: I have selected spanish in language option but Lyx (1.1.6fix4) cut the words at the end of line without respecting the spanish grammatical rules. I'm resolving this problem by hand. It's too much heavy. What can I do? Perhaps

Re: Bitmapped fonts on EPS incusion in 1.2.1

2002-11-08 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 05:33:59PM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote: Nice debug output (attached). Looks like it knows it is an EPS file (calendar.eps), but then converts it to PNG. :-( I use groff to create the calendar.ps file, then ps2epsi to convert that to eps. Viewing calendar.eps using gv

Re: Which drawing program?

2002-11-08 Thread Max Bian
Sorry for jumping in the conversation. I really need a good drawing package that is is able to draw a closed path with different line types/colors/thicknesses along it. I also need it allows straight lines, spine lines, bezier curves at the different segments on the same path. And finally, it

Re: Bitmapped fonts on EPS incusion in 1.2.1

2002-11-08 Thread Bruce Momjian
OK, thanks. It isn't a big deal. I can wait. --- Dekel Tsur wrote: On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 05:33:59PM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote: Nice debug output (attached). Looks like it knows it is an EPS file (calendar.eps),

Re: Which drawing program?

2002-11-08 Thread I Wayan Warmada
On Fri, 8 Nov 2002, Max Bian wrote: | I really need a good drawing package that is is able to draw a closed | path with different line types/colors/thicknesses along it. I also need | it allows straight lines, spine lines, bezier curves at the different | segments on the same path. And

Re: Which drawing program?

2002-11-08 Thread I Wayan Warmada
On 8 Nov 2002, Kirk R. Wythers wrote: | I use programs for figures: (1) xmgrace for scientific plotting and gimp | for drawing. They both produce wonderful eps output that lyx has no | trouble with sketch for vector drawing instead of gimp... gimp is not good if you add some text because is a

Re: Which drawing program?

2002-11-08 Thread Peter Martin
I have used Dia with great success. One feature is that it is cross platform, so people who don't use Linux (many corporations and some of my clients) can also use it to view/create diagrams in Windoze. It comes with several pre-defined libraries for UML, flowcharts etc which makes it easy to

Re: my top pet peeves wrt 1.2.0

2002-11-08 Thread John Levon
On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 03:49:14PM +1100, Steven Homolya wrote: http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=705 No good whining about it if you don't supply testcases as we asked. - cursor gets stuck in floats/ERT boxes (I'm sure this was reported but I can't find it on bugzilla) I don't

Re:cut words at the end of line

2002-11-08 Thread Ignacio Garcia
On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 05:47:37PM +0100, Javi Castelo wrote: I have selected spanish in language option but Lyx (1.1.6fix4) cut the words at the end of line without respecting the spanish grammatical rules. I'm resolving this problem by hand. It's too much heavy. What can I do? En el

Re: Which drawing program? --Thanks

2002-11-08 Thread Chris Carlen
Chris Carlen wrote: [edit] 1. Does anyone here use OpenOffice to produce figures to import into Lyx, and if so how do you generate the .eps files? [edit] 2. What program is used most often, and what might you recommend? [edit] Thanks for all the responses to the above question. The volume

Re: Which drawing program? --Thanks

2002-11-08 Thread Kayvan A. Sylvan
On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 11:34:14AM -0800, Chris Carlen wrote: Chris Carlen wrote: [edit] 1. Does anyone here use OpenOffice to produce figures to import into Lyx, and if so how do you generate the .eps files? [edit] 2. What program is used most often, and what might you recommend? [edit]

LyX Code Editor

2002-11-08 Thread Norman Kabir
LyX is a phenomenal text editor. Has anyone considered building a code editor on top of LyX? I think it would be very useful to be able to mingle formulas, text, images and source code. A filter could generate proper *.c or *.java files from the appropriate blocks in the documentation. And

Re: LyX Code Editor

2002-11-08 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Norman Kabir [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | LyX is a phenomenal text editor. | | Has anyone considered building a code editor on top of LyX? I think it | would be very useful to be able to mingle formulas, text, images and | source code. Well... LyX has been used for (and is still beeing used?)

Re: Which drawing program?

2002-11-08 Thread Max Bian
Thanks for the suggestion, but all those combined cannot do what I really need. Max --- I Wayan Warmada [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 8 Nov 2002, Max Bian wrote: | I really need a good drawing package that is is able to draw a closed | path with different line types/colors/thicknesses

Re: Which drawing program? (getting equations in figures)

2002-11-08 Thread Ralph P. Boland
One solution to the problem of which drawing program to use with lyx when equations need to be added to the figure might be the following. Assume that an .eps figure is displayed on your screen from lyx. Move your cursor to the point on the figure where you want an equation. Now type in the

Re: LyX Code Editor

2002-11-08 Thread Kayvan A. Sylvan
On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 08:30:44PM +0100, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: Norman Kabir [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | LyX is a phenomenal text editor. | | Has anyone considered building a code editor on top of LyX? I think it | would be very useful to be able to mingle formulas, text, images and

Re: Which drawing program?

2002-11-08 Thread Matej Cepl
On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 11:37:34AM -0800, Max Bian wrote: Thanks for the suggestion, but all those combined cannot do what I really need. Which is? -- Matej Cepl, [EMAIL PROTECTED], PGP ID# D96484AC 138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617) 623-1488 The American Republic will

Re: Which drawing program?

2002-11-08 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 01:41:02PM -0700, Fernando Perez wrote: 1. Does anyone here use OpenOffice to produce figures to import into Lyx, and if so how do you generate the .eps files? Try $ convert bad_file.eps new_name.eps This is a bad idea as convert will rasterize the figure

Re: Which drawing program?

2002-11-08 Thread Fernando Perez
On Thu, 7 Nov 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 7 Nov 2002, Chris Carlen wrote: snip... I am convinced there is something very wrong with .eps exported from OpenOffice. Which brings us to my first question: 1. Does anyone here use OpenOffice to produce figures to import into

\footnote

2002-11-08 Thread J.Lauffenburger
Dear lyxers, I'm writing a document using the article class. I've inserted a footnote and no there is a compilation error each time I generate the dvi file. the error says: undefined control sequence \footnote. Where does it come from?

Re: \footnote

2002-11-08 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 11:56:17PM +0100, J.Lauffenburger wrote: Dear lyxers, I'm writing a document using the article class. I've inserted a footnote and no there is a compilation error each time I generate the dvi file. the error says: undefined control sequence \footnote. Where does

Re: Lyx Printing to HP LJ2

2002-11-08 Thread Reed Loefgren
On Fri, 8 Nov 2002, Dekel Tsur wrote: On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 05:23:55PM -0700, Reed Loefgren wrote: 2. Yes, exporting as a .dvi and then running it through dvips works beautifully. Can't this be set up in Lyx's preferences, as if it was going to an inkjet? I'm going through the manual

Re: Need some help.

2002-11-08 Thread Koundinya K
Many thanks all of you for the quick response. I was just not doing what john was telling. Now it works. Cheers, Koundinya [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: - 2 possible reasons: - 1. You need to set pagestyle to fancy (in the Layout-Paper menu) 2. - You may have LaTeX errors. Click on the error

Just wondering if this would be relevant to the lyx project

2002-11-08 Thread Guru -
http://www.stixfonts.org/ Just wondering whether this would be relevant to the LyX project, LyX tends to use scientific/mathamatical fonts a lot so I thought the project might be interestedand I'm also not sure whether the developers are already aware of this Note: I don't intend to

tex to quarkexpress

2002-11-08 Thread Jeroen Vriesman
Hi, Does anyone know about a way to make quarkexpress and latex communicate? Is there a plugin for quarkexpress to read tex? Or is there a tex exportable format, usefull for quarkxpress? Cheers, Jeroen.

Re: Which drawing program?

2002-11-08 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Thu, 7 Nov 2002, Chris Carlen wrote: Hi folks: I am convinced there is something very wrong with .eps exported from OpenOffice. Which brings us to my first question: 1. Does anyone here use OpenOffice to produce figures to import into Lyx, and if so how do you generate the .eps

Re: Which drawing program?

2002-11-08 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 05:48:54PM -0800, Chris Carlen wrote: 1. Does anyone here use OpenOffice to produce figures to import into Lyx, and if so how do you generate the .eps files? Not me. Maybe you could send us one of the .eps so we can have a look how wrong they are... My interest at

Re: Bug report: LyX 1.2.1 delete spaces in labels when loading a saved document

2002-11-08 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 06:44:28PM +0200, Yossi Weinstein wrote: Hi there, I have many equation labels written as sentences with spaces (i.e. \label{eq. x axis}). when I save the document the output file contains these spaces, however when I load the document again the spaces are deleted

Re: Which drawing program?

2002-11-08 Thread Milos Komarcevic
Xfig does the job for me, it just takes a bit of time getting used to. Haven't tried Dia or Sodipodi yet, but they also look promising. As far as equations in figures go, I use psfrag: http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/psfrag.html It lets you replace any text in the eps

Re: Which drawing program?

2002-11-08 Thread Lucian Muresan
On 11/8/2002 11:55 AM, Milos Komarcevic wrote: Xfig does the job for me, it just takes a bit of time getting used to. Haven't tried Dia or Sodipodi yet, but they also look promising. As far as equations in figures go, I use psfrag:

Re: Docbook problems

2002-11-08 Thread José Abílio Oliveira Matos
On Tuesday 05 November 2002 17:18, Matej Cepl wrote: Hi, Hi, I'm sorry for replaying so late but I have been busy before. I am a total newbie in Docbook area, so I have tried to create a short document (with rich structure) to try it. However, I do not seem to be able to make .sgml

Re: Which drawing program?

2002-11-08 Thread Thorsten Fischer
Am Freitag, 8. November 2002 02:48 schrieb Chris Carlen: 1. Does anyone here use OpenOffice to produce figures to import into Lyx, and if so how do you generate the .eps files? I had the same problem. You normally can fix the .eps files using ps2ps or psresize fo the pstools package. This

Re: Howto Appendix

2002-11-08 Thread Christian Ridderström
To add an appendix in a book class, create a new chapter and then go to the menu Layout - Start appendix here /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-790 91 37 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr Mechatronics lab, Dept. of Machine Designhttp://www.md.kth.se

Re: Which drawing program?

2002-11-08 Thread Nirmal Govind
Either use the combined eps/tex export of xfig and set the formulas tospecial text or use psfrag. Why not just include the xfig figure with the math (with the special text option turned on) directly into LyX (Insert-External Material-selectxfig) and leave it to LyX to do the rest of the

Re: Which drawing program?

2002-11-08 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 05:48:54PM -0800, Chris Carlen wrote: Trouble is, I have to do drawings too, and I have discovered that I can't import the .eps files exported by OpenOffice Draw into Lyx. Furthermore, the .eps files crash the ghostscript interpreter when running most of the

Re: automatic float rotate if it is on one page?

2002-11-08 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 10:38:20AM -0800, Max Bian wrote: Is there a way to automatically rotate a figure or table in a float 90 degree when it is placed on a page alone? It would be perfect if it is configurable, because there are floats that should not be rotated even if placed on a page

Re: Which drawing program?

2002-11-08 Thread Kirk R. Wythers
On Thu, 2002-11-07 at 19:48, Chris Carlen wrote: Hi folks: I abandoned effort recently on a document that I was preparing in OpenOffice mostly because the equations looked really awful. Furthermore, I failed at convincing anybody in the OpenOffice/StarOffice world that they are not up to

Re: Lyx Printing to HP LJ2

2002-11-08 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 05:23:55PM -0700, Reed Loefgren wrote: 2. Yes, exporting as a .dvi and then running it through dvips works beautifully. Can't this be set up in Lyx's preferences, as if it was going to an inkjet? I'm going through the manual again to see what I might have missed; it

Re: cut words at the end of line

2002-11-08 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 05:47:37PM +0100, Javi Castelo wrote: I have selected spanish in language option but Lyx (1.1.6fix4) cut the words at the end of line without respecting the spanish grammatical rules. I'm resolving this problem by hand. It's too much heavy. What can I do? Perhaps

Re: Bitmapped fonts on EPS incusion in 1.2.1

2002-11-08 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 05:33:59PM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote: Nice debug output (attached). Looks like it knows it is an EPS file (calendar.eps), but then converts it to PNG. :-( I use groff to create the calendar.ps file, then ps2epsi to convert that to eps. Viewing calendar.eps using gv

Re: Which drawing program?

2002-11-08 Thread Max Bian
Sorry for jumping in the conversation. I really need a good drawing package that is is able to draw a closed path with different line types/colors/thicknesses along it. I also need it allows straight lines, spine lines, bezier curves at the different segments on the same path. And finally, it

Re: Bitmapped fonts on EPS incusion in 1.2.1

2002-11-08 Thread Bruce Momjian
OK, thanks. It isn't a big deal. I can wait. --- Dekel Tsur wrote: On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 05:33:59PM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote: Nice debug output (attached). Looks like it knows it is an EPS file (calendar.eps),

Re: Which drawing program?

2002-11-08 Thread I Wayan Warmada
On Fri, 8 Nov 2002, Max Bian wrote: | I really need a good drawing package that is is able to draw a closed | path with different line types/colors/thicknesses along it. I also need | it allows straight lines, spine lines, bezier curves at the different | segments on the same path. And

Re: Which drawing program?

2002-11-08 Thread I Wayan Warmada
On 8 Nov 2002, Kirk R. Wythers wrote: | I use programs for figures: (1) xmgrace for scientific plotting and gimp | for drawing. They both produce wonderful eps output that lyx has no | trouble with sketch for vector drawing instead of gimp... gimp is not good if you add some text because is a

Re: Which drawing program?

2002-11-08 Thread Peter Martin
I have used Dia with great success. One feature is that it is cross platform, so people who don't use Linux (many corporations and some of my clients) can also use it to view/create diagrams in Windoze. It comes with several pre-defined libraries for UML, flowcharts etc which makes it easy to

Re: my top pet peeves wrt 1.2.0

2002-11-08 Thread John Levon
On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 03:49:14PM +1100, Steven Homolya wrote: http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=705 No good whining about it if you don't supply testcases as we asked. - cursor gets stuck in floats/ERT boxes (I'm sure this was reported but I can't find it on bugzilla) I don't

Re:cut words at the end of line

2002-11-08 Thread Ignacio Garcia
On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 05:47:37PM +0100, Javi Castelo wrote: I have selected spanish in language option but Lyx (1.1.6fix4) cut the words at the end of line without respecting the spanish grammatical rules. I'm resolving this problem by hand. It's too much heavy. What can I do? En el

Re: Which drawing program? --Thanks

2002-11-08 Thread Chris Carlen
Chris Carlen wrote: [edit] 1. Does anyone here use OpenOffice to produce figures to import into Lyx, and if so how do you generate the .eps files? [edit] 2. What program is used most often, and what might you recommend? [edit] Thanks for all the responses to the above question. The volume

Re: Which drawing program? --Thanks

2002-11-08 Thread Kayvan A. Sylvan
On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 11:34:14AM -0800, Chris Carlen wrote: Chris Carlen wrote: [edit] 1. Does anyone here use OpenOffice to produce figures to import into Lyx, and if so how do you generate the .eps files? [edit] 2. What program is used most often, and what might you recommend? [edit]

LyX Code Editor

2002-11-08 Thread Norman Kabir
LyX is a phenomenal text editor. Has anyone considered building a code editor on top of LyX? I think it would be very useful to be able to mingle formulas, text, images and source code. A filter could generate proper *.c or *.java files from the appropriate blocks in the documentation. And

Re: LyX Code Editor

2002-11-08 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Norman Kabir [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | LyX is a phenomenal text editor. | | Has anyone considered building a code editor on top of LyX? I think it | would be very useful to be able to mingle formulas, text, images and | source code. Well... LyX has been used for (and is still beeing used?)

Re: Which drawing program?

2002-11-08 Thread Max Bian
Thanks for the suggestion, but all those combined cannot do what I really need. Max --- I Wayan Warmada [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 8 Nov 2002, Max Bian wrote: | I really need a good drawing package that is is able to draw a closed | path with different line types/colors/thicknesses

Re: Which drawing program? (getting equations in figures)

2002-11-08 Thread Ralph P. Boland
One solution to the problem of which drawing program to use with lyx when equations need to be added to the figure might be the following. Assume that an .eps figure is displayed on your screen from lyx. Move your cursor to the point on the figure where you want an equation. Now type in the

Re: LyX Code Editor

2002-11-08 Thread Kayvan A. Sylvan
On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 08:30:44PM +0100, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: Norman Kabir [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | LyX is a phenomenal text editor. | | Has anyone considered building a code editor on top of LyX? I think it | would be very useful to be able to mingle formulas, text, images and

Re: Which drawing program?

2002-11-08 Thread Matej Cepl
On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 11:37:34AM -0800, Max Bian wrote: Thanks for the suggestion, but all those combined cannot do what I really need. Which is? -- Matej Cepl, [EMAIL PROTECTED], PGP ID# D96484AC 138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617) 623-1488 The American Republic will

Re: Which drawing program?

2002-11-08 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 01:41:02PM -0700, Fernando Perez wrote: 1. Does anyone here use OpenOffice to produce figures to import into Lyx, and if so how do you generate the .eps files? Try $ convert bad_file.eps new_name.eps This is a bad idea as convert will rasterize the figure

Re: Which drawing program?

2002-11-08 Thread Fernando Perez
On Thu, 7 Nov 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 7 Nov 2002, Chris Carlen wrote: snip... I am convinced there is something very wrong with .eps exported from OpenOffice. Which brings us to my first question: 1. Does anyone here use OpenOffice to produce figures to import into

\footnote

2002-11-08 Thread J.Lauffenburger
Dear lyxers, I'm writing a document using the article class. I've inserted a footnote and no there is a compilation error each time I generate the dvi file. the error says: undefined control sequence \footnote. Where does it come from?

Re: \footnote

2002-11-08 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 11:56:17PM +0100, J.Lauffenburger wrote: Dear lyxers, I'm writing a document using the article class. I've inserted a footnote and no there is a compilation error each time I generate the dvi file. the error says: undefined control sequence \footnote. Where does

Re: Lyx Printing to HP LJ2

2002-11-08 Thread Reed Loefgren
On Fri, 8 Nov 2002, Dekel Tsur wrote: On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 05:23:55PM -0700, Reed Loefgren wrote: 2. Yes, exporting as a .dvi and then running it through dvips works beautifully. Can't this be set up in Lyx's preferences, as if it was going to an inkjet? I'm going through the manual

Re: Need some help.

2002-11-08 Thread Koundinya K
Many thanks all of you for the quick response. I was just not doing what john was telling. Now it works. Cheers, Koundinya [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: - 2 possible reasons: - 1. You need to set pagestyle to fancy (in the Layout-Paper menu) 2. - You may have LaTeX errors. Click on the error

Just wondering if this would be relevant to the lyx project

2002-11-08 Thread Guru -
http://www.stixfonts.org/ Just wondering whether this would be relevant to the LyX project, LyX tends to use scientific/mathamatical fonts a lot so I thought the project might be interestedand I'm also not sure whether the developers are already aware of this Note: I don't intend to

tex to quarkexpress

2002-11-08 Thread Jeroen Vriesman
Hi, Does anyone know about a way to make quarkexpress and latex communicate? Is there a plugin for quarkexpress to read tex? Or is there a tex exportable format, usefull for quarkxpress? Cheers, Jeroen.

Re: Which drawing program?

2002-11-08 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Thu, 7 Nov 2002, Chris Carlen wrote: > Hi folks: > > I am convinced there is something very wrong with .eps exported from > OpenOffice. Which brings us to my first question: > > 1. Does anyone here use OpenOffice to produce figures to import into > Lyx, and if so how do you generate the

Re: Which drawing program?

2002-11-08 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 05:48:54PM -0800, Chris Carlen wrote: > 1. Does anyone here use OpenOffice to produce figures to import into > Lyx, and if so how do you generate the .eps files? Not me. Maybe you could send us one of the .eps so we can have a look "how wrong" they are... > My interest

Re: Bug report: LyX 1.2.1 delete spaces in labels when loading a saved document

2002-11-08 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 06:44:28PM +0200, Yossi Weinstein wrote: > Hi there, > I have many equation labels written as sentences with spaces (i.e. > \label{eq. x axis}). when I save the document the output file contains > these spaces, however when I load the document again the spaces are >

Re: Which drawing program?

2002-11-08 Thread Milos Komarcevic
Xfig does the job for me, it just takes a bit of time getting used to. Haven't tried Dia or Sodipodi yet, but they also look promising. As far as equations in figures go, I use psfrag: http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/psfrag.html It lets you replace any text in the eps

Re: Which drawing program?

2002-11-08 Thread Lucian Muresan
On 11/8/2002 11:55 AM, Milos Komarcevic wrote: Xfig does the job for me, it just takes a bit of time getting used to. Haven't tried Dia or Sodipodi yet, but they also look promising. As far as equations in figures go, I use psfrag:

Re: Docbook problems

2002-11-08 Thread José Abílio Oliveira Matos
On Tuesday 05 November 2002 17:18, Matej Cepl wrote: > Hi, Hi, I'm sorry for replaying so late but I have been busy before. > I am a total newbie in Docbook area, so I have tried to create > a short document (with rich structure) to try it. However, > I do not seem to be able to make

Re: Which drawing program?

2002-11-08 Thread Thorsten Fischer
Am Freitag, 8. November 2002 02:48 schrieb Chris Carlen: > 1. Does anyone here use OpenOffice to produce figures to import into > Lyx, and if so how do you generate the .eps files? I had the same problem. You normally can fix the .eps files using ps2ps or psresize fo the pstools package. This

Re: Howto Appendix

2002-11-08 Thread Christian Ridderström
To add an appendix in a book class, create a new chapter and then go to the menu Layout -> Start appendix here /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-790 91 37 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr Mechatronics lab, Dept. of Machine Designhttp://www.md.kth.se

Re: Which drawing program?

2002-11-08 Thread Nirmal Govind
> > Either use the "combined eps/tex" export of xfig and set the formulas > to"special text" or use psfrag. > Why not just include the xfig figure with the math (with the special text option turned on) directly into LyX (Insert->External Material->xfig) and leave it to LyX to do the rest of

Re: Which drawing program?

2002-11-08 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 05:48:54PM -0800, Chris Carlen wrote: > > Trouble is, I have to do drawings too, and I have discovered that I > can't import the .eps files exported by OpenOffice Draw into Lyx. > Furthermore, the .eps files crash the ghostscript interpreter when > running most of the

Re: automatic float rotate if it is on one page?

2002-11-08 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 10:38:20AM -0800, Max Bian wrote: > Is there a way to automatically rotate a figure or table in a float 90 > degree when it is placed on a page alone? > > It would be perfect if it is configurable, because there are floats > that should not be rotated even if placed on a

Re: Which drawing program?

2002-11-08 Thread Kirk R. Wythers
On Thu, 2002-11-07 at 19:48, Chris Carlen wrote: > Hi folks: > > I abandoned effort recently on a document that I was preparing in > OpenOffice mostly because the equations looked really awful. > Furthermore, I failed at convincing anybody in the OpenOffice/StarOffice > world that they are not

Re: Lyx Printing to HP LJ2

2002-11-08 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 05:23:55PM -0700, Reed Loefgren wrote: > > 2. Yes, exporting as a .dvi and then running it through dvips works > beautifully. Can't this be set up in Lyx's preferences, as if it was going > to an inkjet? I'm going through the manual again to see what I might have > missed;

Re: cut words at the end of line

2002-11-08 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 05:47:37PM +0100, Javi Castelo wrote: > I have selected "spanish" in language option but Lyx (1.1.6fix4) cut the > words at the end of line without respecting the spanish grammatical rules. > > I'm resolving this problem by hand. It's too much heavy. > > What can I do?

Re: Bitmapped fonts on EPS incusion in 1.2.1

2002-11-08 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 05:33:59PM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote: > Nice debug output (attached). Looks like it knows it is an EPS file > (calendar.eps), but then converts it to PNG. :-( > > I use groff to create the calendar.ps file, then ps2epsi to convert that > to eps. Viewing calendar.eps

Re: Which drawing program?

2002-11-08 Thread Max Bian
Sorry for jumping in the conversation. I really need a good drawing package that is is able to draw a closed path with different line types/colors/thicknesses along it. I also need it allows straight lines, spine lines, bezier curves at the different segments on the same path. And finally, it

Re: Bitmapped fonts on EPS incusion in 1.2.1

2002-11-08 Thread Bruce Momjian
OK, thanks. It isn't a big deal. I can wait. --- Dekel Tsur wrote: > On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 05:33:59PM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > Nice debug output (attached). Looks like it knows it is an EPS file > >

Re: Which drawing program?

2002-11-08 Thread I Wayan Warmada
On Fri, 8 Nov 2002, Max Bian wrote: | I really need a good drawing package that is is able to draw a closed | path with different line types/colors/thicknesses along it. I also need | it allows straight lines, spine lines, bezier curves at the different | segments on the same path. And

Re: Which drawing program?

2002-11-08 Thread I Wayan Warmada
On 8 Nov 2002, Kirk R. Wythers wrote: | I use programs for figures: (1) xmgrace for scientific plotting and gimp | for drawing. They both produce wonderful eps output that lyx has no | trouble with sketch for vector drawing instead of gimp... gimp is not good if you add some text because is a

Re: Which drawing program?

2002-11-08 Thread Peter Martin
I have used Dia with great success. One feature is that it is cross platform, so people who don't use Linux (many corporations and some of my clients) can also use it to view/create diagrams in Windoze. It comes with several pre-defined libraries for UML, flowcharts etc which makes it easy to

Re: my "top pet peeves wrt 1.2.0"

2002-11-08 Thread John Levon
On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 03:49:14PM +1100, Steven Homolya wrote: > http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=705 No good whining about it if you don't supply testcases as we asked. > - cursor gets stuck in floats/ERT boxes (I'm sure this was reported but I > can't find it on bugzilla) I don't

Re:cut words at the end of line

2002-11-08 Thread Ignacio Garcia
On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 05:47:37PM +0100, Javi Castelo wrote: > I have selected "spanish" in language option but Lyx (1.1.6fix4) cut the > words at the end of line without respecting the spanish grammatical rules. > > I'm resolving this problem by hand. It's too much heavy. > > What can I do?

Re: Which drawing program? --Thanks

2002-11-08 Thread Chris Carlen
Chris Carlen wrote: [edit] 1. Does anyone here use OpenOffice to produce figures to import into Lyx, and if so how do you generate the .eps files? [edit] 2. What program is used most often, and what might you recommend? [edit] Thanks for all the responses to the above question. The volume

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