What's the real name??

2002-11-17 Thread Ivan Marchesini
Hi to all. I would whant to know if I have to pronunce the name Lyx like Latex (Latec) or simply like: Lycs.. thank you very much!!! Bye Ivan

Re: What's the real name??

2002-11-17 Thread Matej Cepl
Ivan Marchesini wrote: I would whant to know if I have to pronunce the name Lyx like Latex (Latec) or simply like: Lycs.. thank you very much!!! We really need that .au file ``My name is Matthias Ettrich and I pronounce LyX LyX.'' I believe that correct pronounciation is the second one

Re: nesting question

2002-11-17 Thread Nirmal Govind
Desc * Item1 * Item2 start the description line as usual and then insert a minipage with a vertical alignment of top. In the minipage write your itemize lines Thanks a lot.. this works great! I tried the same when the environment was Section instead of a Desc .. but get errors..

Re: Which drawing program?

2002-11-17 Thread Fernando Perez
On Sun, 10 Nov 2002, Fernando Perez wrote: On Fri, 8 Nov 2002, Dekel Tsur wrote: 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

Re: copy/paste between two lyx.

2002-11-17 Thread |b|c|r|
this is an unsatisfying reply. why would it be difficult to cut/paste between two different lyx's? and if it is, could you say a bit more about it? Why can't you copy it into a text editor, then copy it again from there? = Have freedom, Be authentic,

Re: copy/paste between two lyx.

2002-11-17 Thread Nirmal Govind
On Sun, 17 Nov 2002 14:43:59 -0600 (EST) |b|c|r| [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: this is an unsatisfying reply. why would it be difficult to cut/paste between two different lyx's? and if it is, could you say a bit more It is possible to cut/paste between two different lyx sessions on the same

wrapping a minipage across pages?

2002-11-17 Thread Nirmal Govind
Hi.. in the documentation, there's a warning that the minipages won't wrap across pages.. is there any workaround to this? Is this being implemented in 1.3? Thanks, nirmal

Re: Which drawing program?

2002-11-17 Thread Matej Cepl
Fernando Perez wrote: My apologies: convert is weird. For some eps files I have made with the old killustrator, it works fine (meaning, they remain as clean vector files). But some gnuplot graphs are indeed damaged, meaning they end up with ugly bitmapped fonts. It seems that the problem is

Re: PDF Export

2002-11-17 Thread Myriam Abramson
Does anyone knows from which version of Lyx on, it was possible to export to pdf? 1.1.6 And what packages exactly do I need to do so? You just need ghostscript or pdflatex. Do I need to convert all the included graphics from .eps to .pdf as well or does it do it automatically?

help with graphics

2002-11-17 Thread Myriam Abramson
Hi! I have this .eps graphics (attached) which I can see properly with ghostview. When I insert it in Lyx with insert-graphics and specifying original size, I don't see the coordinates on the sides of the pictures. What to do? completegame7.eps Description: graphics --

Re: wrapping a minipage across pages?

2002-11-17 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 04:23:22PM -0500, Nirmal Govind wrote: Hi.. in the documentation, there's a warning that the minipages won't wrap across pages.. is there any workaround to this? Is this being implemented in 1.3? This is a feature of latex minipages, so it won't be changed in 1.3.

Re: PDF Export

2002-11-17 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 04:39:21PM -0500, Myriam Abramson wrote: Does anyone knows from which version of Lyx on, it was possible to export to pdf? 1.1.6 And what packages exactly do I need to do so? You just need ghostscript or pdflatex. Do I need to convert all the

Re: help with graphics

2002-11-17 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 04:45:50PM -0500, Myriam Abramson wrote: I have this .eps graphics (attached) which I can see properly with ghostview. When I insert it in Lyx with insert-graphics and specifying original size, I don't see the coordinates on the sides of the pictures. What to do? I

Re: Figures

2002-11-17 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 04:28:18PM +, Koundinya wrote: Hi all Lyx Users, Few days back, there was a talk to using xfig for figures. I'm having some .ps files that I need to edit using xfig and then export as .eps for use in my report. I have pstoedit installed on my system. Can

Re: PDF Export

2002-11-17 Thread Matej Cepl
Myriam Abramson wrote: Do I need to convert all the included graphics from .eps to .pdf as well or does it do it automatically? Since 1.2.* it is done automagically, but in 1.1.6fix4 you needed to create copies of all eps files in pdf (with epstopdf) and then use the name of the picture without

Re: help with graphics

2002-11-17 Thread Myriam Abramson
After exiting Lyx and restarting I don't have this problem anymore. Thanks anyway! -- myriam

Re: wrapping a minipage across pages?

2002-11-17 Thread Herbert Voss
Nirmal Govind schrieb: Hi.. in the documentation, there's a warning that the minipages won't wrap across pages.. is there any workaround to this? Is this being implemented in 1.3? what do you think, where the name _mini_pages comes from? Herbert

Re: wrapping a minipage across pages?

2002-11-17 Thread Nirmal Govind
what do you think, where the name _mini_pages comes from? Okay so it's supposed to be mini.. but it doesn't naturally imply that a half-page, for example, can't start at 3/4th (from the top) of one page and end at 1/4th of the next right? Anyways, I understand that's how Latex does it but maybe

Re: copy/paste between two lyx.

2002-11-17 Thread Steve Litt
On Saturday 16 November 2002 11:58 pm, Bo Peng wrote: Hi, I opened two lyx, one locally and one from the server. I then tried to copy some paragraphs from one lyx application to another. The result was disappointing. Is this something that can be improved? I 'solved' this problem by copying

Re: copy/paste between two lyx.

2002-11-17 Thread John Levon
On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 04:21:22PM -0500, Nirmal Govind wrote: this is an unsatisfying reply. why would it be difficult to cut/paste between two different lyx's? and if it is, could you say a bit more It is possible to cut/paste between two different lyx sessions on the same computer

Re: copy/paste between two lyx.

2002-11-17 Thread Nirmal Govind
the same computer (try it out!).. the problem that was reported was but no formatting is preserved I see.. hmm, I can't test this but I really don't know how you could transfer between two X servers well, usually it's not a problem, say if I were copying from an emacs session on a remote

Re: copy/paste between two lyx.

2002-11-17 Thread John Levon
On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 07:31:27PM -0500, Nirmal Govind wrote: session on a remote server that I logged into and pasted it into a LyX session on my local machine.. and it worked.. I can't test pasting from a remote server LyX to my local LyX though since I don't have a server on which LyX is

Re: copy/paste between two lyx.

2002-11-17 Thread Bo Peng
On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 10:58:30PM -0600, Bo Peng wrote: Hi, I opened two lyx, one locally and one from the server. I then tried to copy some paragraphs from one lyx application to another. The result was disappointing. Is this something that can be improved? Sorry that I should have been

Re: Figures

2002-11-17 Thread Larry Kollar
Koundinya wrote: ... I have pstoedit installed on my system. Can anyone of you help me by telling how to convert the .ps files to .fig format Try pstoedit -f fig file.ps file.fig Worked for me Larry

Page numbering

2002-11-17 Thread James Clement Bennett
Hi, I'm just learing to use LyX, so I'm sorry if this is a bit of a gumby question. I am writing a largei-sh report, and have included individual chapters as files in a master document. When I generate tables of contents, figures and tables, the page numbers begin from the start of the table of

Re: pasting ASCII text into lyx is not possible?!

2002-11-17 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 01:11:35PM +0100, Jörn Lindmaier wrote: This I can not do as I have set the middlebutton for close window. But it should nevertheless work with ctrl+v - but it does not. Well, the traditional way in X apps is to paste the selection with the middle mouse button. It is

What's the real name??

2002-11-17 Thread Ivan Marchesini
Hi to all. I would whant to know if I have to pronunce the name Lyx like Latex (Latec) or simply like: Lycs.. thank you very much!!! Bye Ivan

Re: What's the real name??

2002-11-17 Thread Matej Cepl
Ivan Marchesini wrote: I would whant to know if I have to pronunce the name Lyx like Latex (Latec) or simply like: Lycs.. thank you very much!!! We really need that .au file ``My name is Matthias Ettrich and I pronounce LyX LyX.'' I believe that correct pronounciation is the second one

Re: nesting question

2002-11-17 Thread Nirmal Govind
Desc * Item1 * Item2 start the description line as usual and then insert a minipage with a vertical alignment of top. In the minipage write your itemize lines Thanks a lot.. this works great! I tried the same when the environment was Section instead of a Desc .. but get errors..

Re: Which drawing program?

2002-11-17 Thread Fernando Perez
On Sun, 10 Nov 2002, Fernando Perez wrote: On Fri, 8 Nov 2002, Dekel Tsur wrote: 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

Re: copy/paste between two lyx.

2002-11-17 Thread |b|c|r|
this is an unsatisfying reply. why would it be difficult to cut/paste between two different lyx's? and if it is, could you say a bit more about it? Why can't you copy it into a text editor, then copy it again from there? = Have freedom, Be authentic,

Re: copy/paste between two lyx.

2002-11-17 Thread Nirmal Govind
On Sun, 17 Nov 2002 14:43:59 -0600 (EST) |b|c|r| [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: this is an unsatisfying reply. why would it be difficult to cut/paste between two different lyx's? and if it is, could you say a bit more It is possible to cut/paste between two different lyx sessions on the same

wrapping a minipage across pages?

2002-11-17 Thread Nirmal Govind
Hi.. in the documentation, there's a warning that the minipages won't wrap across pages.. is there any workaround to this? Is this being implemented in 1.3? Thanks, nirmal

Re: Which drawing program?

2002-11-17 Thread Matej Cepl
Fernando Perez wrote: My apologies: convert is weird. For some eps files I have made with the old killustrator, it works fine (meaning, they remain as clean vector files). But some gnuplot graphs are indeed damaged, meaning they end up with ugly bitmapped fonts. It seems that the problem is

Re: PDF Export

2002-11-17 Thread Myriam Abramson
Does anyone knows from which version of Lyx on, it was possible to export to pdf? 1.1.6 And what packages exactly do I need to do so? You just need ghostscript or pdflatex. Do I need to convert all the included graphics from .eps to .pdf as well or does it do it automatically?

help with graphics

2002-11-17 Thread Myriam Abramson
Hi! I have this .eps graphics (attached) which I can see properly with ghostview. When I insert it in Lyx with insert-graphics and specifying original size, I don't see the coordinates on the sides of the pictures. What to do? completegame7.eps Description: graphics --

Re: wrapping a minipage across pages?

2002-11-17 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 04:23:22PM -0500, Nirmal Govind wrote: Hi.. in the documentation, there's a warning that the minipages won't wrap across pages.. is there any workaround to this? Is this being implemented in 1.3? This is a feature of latex minipages, so it won't be changed in 1.3.

Re: PDF Export

2002-11-17 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 04:39:21PM -0500, Myriam Abramson wrote: Does anyone knows from which version of Lyx on, it was possible to export to pdf? 1.1.6 And what packages exactly do I need to do so? You just need ghostscript or pdflatex. Do I need to convert all the

Re: help with graphics

2002-11-17 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 04:45:50PM -0500, Myriam Abramson wrote: I have this .eps graphics (attached) which I can see properly with ghostview. When I insert it in Lyx with insert-graphics and specifying original size, I don't see the coordinates on the sides of the pictures. What to do? I

Re: Figures

2002-11-17 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 04:28:18PM +, Koundinya wrote: Hi all Lyx Users, Few days back, there was a talk to using xfig for figures. I'm having some .ps files that I need to edit using xfig and then export as .eps for use in my report. I have pstoedit installed on my system. Can

Re: PDF Export

2002-11-17 Thread Matej Cepl
Myriam Abramson wrote: Do I need to convert all the included graphics from .eps to .pdf as well or does it do it automatically? Since 1.2.* it is done automagically, but in 1.1.6fix4 you needed to create copies of all eps files in pdf (with epstopdf) and then use the name of the picture without

Re: help with graphics

2002-11-17 Thread Myriam Abramson
After exiting Lyx and restarting I don't have this problem anymore. Thanks anyway! -- myriam

Re: wrapping a minipage across pages?

2002-11-17 Thread Herbert Voss
Nirmal Govind schrieb: Hi.. in the documentation, there's a warning that the minipages won't wrap across pages.. is there any workaround to this? Is this being implemented in 1.3? what do you think, where the name _mini_pages comes from? Herbert

Re: wrapping a minipage across pages?

2002-11-17 Thread Nirmal Govind
what do you think, where the name _mini_pages comes from? Okay so it's supposed to be mini.. but it doesn't naturally imply that a half-page, for example, can't start at 3/4th (from the top) of one page and end at 1/4th of the next right? Anyways, I understand that's how Latex does it but maybe

Re: copy/paste between two lyx.

2002-11-17 Thread Steve Litt
On Saturday 16 November 2002 11:58 pm, Bo Peng wrote: Hi, I opened two lyx, one locally and one from the server. I then tried to copy some paragraphs from one lyx application to another. The result was disappointing. Is this something that can be improved? I 'solved' this problem by copying

Re: copy/paste between two lyx.

2002-11-17 Thread John Levon
On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 04:21:22PM -0500, Nirmal Govind wrote: this is an unsatisfying reply. why would it be difficult to cut/paste between two different lyx's? and if it is, could you say a bit more It is possible to cut/paste between two different lyx sessions on the same computer

Re: copy/paste between two lyx.

2002-11-17 Thread Nirmal Govind
the same computer (try it out!).. the problem that was reported was but no formatting is preserved I see.. hmm, I can't test this but I really don't know how you could transfer between two X servers well, usually it's not a problem, say if I were copying from an emacs session on a remote

Re: copy/paste between two lyx.

2002-11-17 Thread John Levon
On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 07:31:27PM -0500, Nirmal Govind wrote: session on a remote server that I logged into and pasted it into a LyX session on my local machine.. and it worked.. I can't test pasting from a remote server LyX to my local LyX though since I don't have a server on which LyX is

Re: copy/paste between two lyx.

2002-11-17 Thread Bo Peng
On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 10:58:30PM -0600, Bo Peng wrote: Hi, I opened two lyx, one locally and one from the server. I then tried to copy some paragraphs from one lyx application to another. The result was disappointing. Is this something that can be improved? Sorry that I should have been

Re: Figures

2002-11-17 Thread Larry Kollar
Koundinya wrote: ... I have pstoedit installed on my system. Can anyone of you help me by telling how to convert the .ps files to .fig format Try pstoedit -f fig file.ps file.fig Worked for me Larry

Page numbering

2002-11-17 Thread James Clement Bennett
Hi, I'm just learing to use LyX, so I'm sorry if this is a bit of a gumby question. I am writing a largei-sh report, and have included individual chapters as files in a master document. When I generate tables of contents, figures and tables, the page numbers begin from the start of the table of

Re: pasting ASCII text into lyx is not possible?!

2002-11-17 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 01:11:35PM +0100, Jörn Lindmaier wrote: This I can not do as I have set the middlebutton for close window. But it should nevertheless work with ctrl+v - but it does not. Well, the traditional way in X apps is to paste the selection with the middle mouse button. It is

What's the real name??

2002-11-17 Thread Ivan Marchesini
Hi to all. I would whant to know if I have to pronunce the name Lyx like Latex ("Latec") or simply like: "Lycs".. thank you very much!!! Bye Ivan

Re: What's the real name??

2002-11-17 Thread Matej Cepl
Ivan Marchesini wrote: > I would whant to know if I have to pronunce the name Lyx like Latex ("Latec") > or simply like: "Lycs".. > thank you very much!!! We really need that .au file ``My name is Matthias Ettrich and I pronounce LyX LyX.'' I believe that correct pronounciation is the second

Re: nesting question

2002-11-17 Thread Nirmal Govind
> > > >Desc * Item1 > > * Item2 > > > start the description line as usual and then insert a minipage > with a vertical alignment of "top". In the minipage write your > itemize lines > Thanks a lot.. this works great! I tried the same when the environment was Section instead of a Desc .. but

Re: Which drawing program?

2002-11-17 Thread Fernando Perez
On Sun, 10 Nov 2002, Fernando Perez wrote: > On Fri, 8 Nov 2002, Dekel Tsur wrote: > > > 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?

Re: copy/paste between two lyx.

2002-11-17 Thread |b|c|r|
this is an unsatisfying reply. why would it be difficult to cut/paste between two different lyx's? and if it is, could you say a bit more about it? Why can't you copy it into a text editor, then copy it again from there? = Have freedom, Be authentic,

Re: copy/paste between two lyx.

2002-11-17 Thread Nirmal Govind
On Sun, 17 Nov 2002 14:43:59 -0600 (EST) |b|c|r| <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > this is an unsatisfying reply. why would it be difficult to cut/paste > between two different lyx's? and if it is, could you say a bit more It is possible to cut/paste between two different lyx sessions on the same

wrapping a minipage across pages?

2002-11-17 Thread Nirmal Govind
Hi.. in the documentation, there's a warning that the minipages won't wrap across pages.. is there any workaround to this? Is this being implemented in 1.3? Thanks, nirmal

Re: Which drawing program?

2002-11-17 Thread Matej Cepl
Fernando Perez wrote: > My apologies: convert is weird. For some eps files I have made with the > old killustrator, it works fine (meaning, they remain as clean vector > files). But some gnuplot graphs are indeed damaged, meaning they end up > with ugly bitmapped fonts. It seems that the problem

Re: PDF Export

2002-11-17 Thread Myriam Abramson
> > Does anyone knows from which version of Lyx on, > > it was possible to export to pdf? > > 1.1.6 > > > And what packages exactly do I need to do so? > > You just need ghostscript or pdflatex. Do I need to convert all the included graphics from .eps to .pdf as well or does it do it

help with graphics

2002-11-17 Thread Myriam Abramson
Hi! I have this .eps graphics (attached) which I can see properly with ghostview. When I insert it in Lyx with insert->graphics and specifying "original size", I don't see the coordinates on the sides of the pictures. What to do? completegame7.eps Description: graphics --

Re: wrapping a minipage across pages?

2002-11-17 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 04:23:22PM -0500, Nirmal Govind wrote: > Hi.. in the documentation, there's a warning that the minipages won't > wrap across pages.. is there any workaround to this? Is this being > implemented in 1.3? This is a feature of latex minipages, so it won't be changed in 1.3.

Re: PDF Export

2002-11-17 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 04:39:21PM -0500, Myriam Abramson wrote: > > > Does anyone knows from which version of Lyx on, > > > it was possible to export to pdf? > > > > 1.1.6 > > > > > And what packages exactly do I need to do so? > > > > You just need ghostscript or pdflatex. > > Do I need to

Re: help with graphics

2002-11-17 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 04:45:50PM -0500, Myriam Abramson wrote: > > I have this .eps graphics (attached) which I can see properly with > ghostview. When I insert it in Lyx with insert->graphics and > specifying "original size", I don't see the coordinates on the sides > of the pictures. What to

Re: Figures

2002-11-17 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 04:28:18PM +, Koundinya wrote: > Hi all Lyx Users, > Few days back, there was a talk to using xfig for figures. I'm > having some .ps files that I need to edit using xfig and then > export as .eps for use in my report. I have pstoedit installed > on my system.

Re: PDF Export

2002-11-17 Thread Matej Cepl
Myriam Abramson wrote: > Do I need to convert all the included graphics from .eps to > .pdf as well or does it do it automatically? Since 1.2.* it is done automagically, but in 1.1.6fix4 you needed to create copies of all eps files in pdf (with epstopdf) and then use the name of the picture

Re: help with graphics

2002-11-17 Thread Myriam Abramson
After exiting Lyx and restarting I don't have this problem anymore. Thanks anyway! -- myriam

Re: wrapping a minipage across pages?

2002-11-17 Thread Herbert Voss
Nirmal Govind schrieb: Hi.. in the documentation, there's a warning that the minipages won't wrap across pages.. is there any workaround to this? Is this being implemented in 1.3? what do you think, where the name _mini_pages comes from? Herbert

Re: wrapping a minipage across pages?

2002-11-17 Thread Nirmal Govind
> what do you think, where the name _mini_pages comes from? Okay so it's supposed to be "mini".. but it doesn't naturally imply that a half-page, for example, can't start at 3/4th (from the top) of one page and end at 1/4th of the next right? Anyways, I understand that's how Latex does it but

Re: copy/paste between two lyx.

2002-11-17 Thread Steve Litt
On Saturday 16 November 2002 11:58 pm, Bo Peng wrote: > Hi, > > I opened two lyx, one locally and one from the server. I then tried to > copy some paragraphs from one lyx application to another. The result was > disappointing. Is this something that can be improved? > > I 'solved' this problem by

Re: copy/paste between two lyx.

2002-11-17 Thread John Levon
On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 04:21:22PM -0500, Nirmal Govind wrote: > > this is an unsatisfying reply. why would it be difficult to cut/paste > > between two different lyx's? and if it is, could you say a bit more > > It is possible to cut/paste between two different lyx sessions on the > same

Re: copy/paste between two lyx.

2002-11-17 Thread Nirmal Govind
> > the same computer (try it out!).. the problem that was reported was > > but no formatting is preserved I see.. > hmm, I can't test this but I really don't know how you could transfer > between two X servers well, usually it's not a problem, say if I were copying from an emacs session on a

Re: copy/paste between two lyx.

2002-11-17 Thread John Levon
On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 07:31:27PM -0500, Nirmal Govind wrote: > session on a remote server that I logged into and pasted it into a LyX > session on my local machine.. and it worked.. I can't test pasting from > a remote server LyX to my local LyX though since I don't have a server > on which LyX

Re: copy/paste between two lyx.

2002-11-17 Thread Bo Peng
On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 10:58:30PM -0600, Bo Peng wrote: > Hi, > I opened two lyx, one locally and one from the server. I then tried to > copy some paragraphs from one lyx application to another. The result was > disappointing. Is this something that can be improved? Sorry that I should have

Re: Figures

2002-11-17 Thread Larry Kollar
Koundinya wrote: ... I have pstoedit installed on my system. Can anyone of you help me by telling how to convert the .ps files to .fig format Try pstoedit -f fig file.ps file.fig Worked for me Larry

Page numbering

2002-11-17 Thread James Clement Bennett
Hi, I'm just learing to use LyX, so I'm sorry if this is a bit of a gumby question. I am writing a largei-sh report, and have included individual chapters as files in a master document. When I generate tables of contents, figures and tables, the page numbers begin from the start of the table of

Re: pasting ASCII text into lyx is not possible?!

2002-11-17 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 01:11:35PM +0100, Jörn Lindmaier wrote: > This I can not do as I have set the middlebutton for "close" window. But > it should nevertheless work with ctrl+v - but it does not. Well, the "traditional way" in X apps is to paste the selection with the middle mouse button. It