[OT] Re: apology

2005-01-22 Thread Kevin Pfeiffer
Subir Singh Lamba writes: Please accept my apology for breaking the thread. I did not know about the fine points of thread. Thanks for educating me. Almost no one knows about message threading nowadays (thanks to the mass dissemination of lousy software and a lack of interest in learning about

Re: Greek Letters in Index Entries?

2005-01-22 Thread =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Uwe_St=F6hr?=
Rich Shepard wrote: I want to put \alpha (and other) Greek letters in the index entries. Math mode won't turn on inside the index entry window and when I tried to invoke ERT, it placed the results outside the index entry box. You have to turn on math mode manually by using two $ signs: E.g.

Re: When to use quote and quotation

2005-01-22 Thread Michael Wojcik
Rich Shepard wrote: On Fri, 21 Jan 2005, G. Milde wrote: Did you ever try both of them? Actually, quote formats with space delimited paragraphs, quotation uses indented paragraphs. How interesting! I have not noticed that although I use both in my book and in reports. I guess that I never

Re: Searching In Index References

2005-01-22 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 22 Jan 2005, Uwe Stöhr wrote: Not with LyX :-( but you could search in the LyX-file for \index{ with a text editor of your choice. Uwe, The reason I appear so clueless about searching the text file is that when I'm working within LyX I just don't think of using another tool to make

Re: Greek Letters in Index Entries?

2005-01-22 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 22 Jan 2005, Uwe Stöhr wrote: You have to turn on math mode manually by using two $ signs: E.g. insert $\nu$ in an index box and you'll get a nu, see the attached example. Uwe, Aha! I just didn't think of that. And, I will admit to not pulling down the copy of TLC2 that sits

disabling fonts on mac os x

2005-01-22 Thread Stefano Baroni
Hi! I am an occasional user of LyX on a mac running osx 10.3.7. Opening a file that was written a while ago, I notice that all the math formulas are messed up. I understand that this is possibly due to some incompatibility with a handful of fonts AMS.dfont, CM_2.dfont, CM_4.dfont, LaTeX.dfont,

blank email

2005-01-22 Thread John A. White, Jr.
Hi, I would like to become a member and ask a lyx question. John

vertical lines

2005-01-22 Thread John A. White, Jr.
Hi list, I am not sure I am accepted on this list yet, so optimistically, I write. How can I put a vertical line down the right side of a minipage? I am a lawyer and typically put the case caption (parties' names) in a minipage that takes up the top left quarter or so of the page. Custom is

Re: disabling fonts on mac os x

2005-01-22 Thread Bennett Helm
On Jan 22, 2005, at 1:33 PM, Stefano Baroni wrote: Hi! I am an occasional user of LyX on a mac running osx 10.3.7. Opening a file that was written a while ago, I notice that all the math formulas are messed up. I understand that this is possibly due to some incompatibility with a handful of

Re: [OT] Re: apology

2005-01-22 Thread Matej Cepl
Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: Almost no one knows about message threading nowadays (thanks to the mass dissemination of lousy software and a lack of interest in learning about established list conventions). On many lists I simply turn it off as it causes more trouble than it's worth (not everyone

Re: vertical lines

2005-01-22 Thread Herbert Voss
John A. White, Jr. wrote: How can I put a vertical line down the right side of a minipage? I am a choose a table and insert a minipage in one cell Herbert -- http://TeXnik.de/ http://PSTricks.de/ ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/info/math/voss/Voss-Mathmode.pdf http://www.dante.de/faq/de-tex-faq/

Re: blank email

2005-01-22 Thread Paul Smith
On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 10:55:26 -0800, John A. White, Jr. I would like to become a member and ask a lyx question. Then, John, have a look at: http://www.lyx.org/internet/mailing.php3 Regards, Paul

Re: Q: Define shading (or frame) for all floats in a LyX document?

2005-01-22 Thread =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Uwe_St=F6hr?=
Joerg Hau wrote: I'm currently writing a long document with a number of table floats (actually they contain code snippets). I would like to put a frame around those, and/or use a shaded background. With the LaTeX-package float, you can define your own float or redefine an existing one. But the

accents no work

2005-01-22 Thread =?iso-8859-1?q?Marcelo=20Acu=FFfffff1a?=
I have Suse Linux 9.1 and selected Spanish keyboard. In all soft accents work fine. I compiled Lyx 1.3.5. I selected Edit Preferences Lang Opts Language and selected Default Language = Spanish, I check keyboard map and then choose espanol.kmap, then click Apply button, but accents no

[OT] Re: apology

2005-01-22 Thread Kevin Pfeiffer
Subir Singh Lamba writes: Please accept my apology for breaking the thread. I did not know about the fine points of thread. Thanks for educating me. Almost no one knows about message threading nowadays (thanks to the mass dissemination of lousy software and a lack of interest in learning about

Re: Greek Letters in Index Entries?

2005-01-22 Thread =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Uwe_St=F6hr?=
Rich Shepard wrote: I want to put \alpha (and other) Greek letters in the index entries. Math mode won't turn on inside the index entry window and when I tried to invoke ERT, it placed the results outside the index entry box. You have to turn on math mode manually by using two $ signs: E.g.

Re: When to use quote and quotation

2005-01-22 Thread Michael Wojcik
Rich Shepard wrote: On Fri, 21 Jan 2005, G. Milde wrote: Did you ever try both of them? Actually, quote formats with space delimited paragraphs, quotation uses indented paragraphs. How interesting! I have not noticed that although I use both in my book and in reports. I guess that I never

Re: Searching In Index References

2005-01-22 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 22 Jan 2005, Uwe Stöhr wrote: Not with LyX :-( but you could search in the LyX-file for \index{ with a text editor of your choice. Uwe, The reason I appear so clueless about searching the text file is that when I'm working within LyX I just don't think of using another tool to make

Re: Greek Letters in Index Entries?

2005-01-22 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 22 Jan 2005, Uwe Stöhr wrote: You have to turn on math mode manually by using two $ signs: E.g. insert $\nu$ in an index box and you'll get a nu, see the attached example. Uwe, Aha! I just didn't think of that. And, I will admit to not pulling down the copy of TLC2 that sits

disabling fonts on mac os x

2005-01-22 Thread Stefano Baroni
Hi! I am an occasional user of LyX on a mac running osx 10.3.7. Opening a file that was written a while ago, I notice that all the math formulas are messed up. I understand that this is possibly due to some incompatibility with a handful of fonts AMS.dfont, CM_2.dfont, CM_4.dfont, LaTeX.dfont,

blank email

2005-01-22 Thread John A. White, Jr.
Hi, I would like to become a member and ask a lyx question. John

vertical lines

2005-01-22 Thread John A. White, Jr.
Hi list, I am not sure I am accepted on this list yet, so optimistically, I write. How can I put a vertical line down the right side of a minipage? I am a lawyer and typically put the case caption (parties' names) in a minipage that takes up the top left quarter or so of the page. Custom is

Re: disabling fonts on mac os x

2005-01-22 Thread Bennett Helm
On Jan 22, 2005, at 1:33 PM, Stefano Baroni wrote: Hi! I am an occasional user of LyX on a mac running osx 10.3.7. Opening a file that was written a while ago, I notice that all the math formulas are messed up. I understand that this is possibly due to some incompatibility with a handful of

Re: [OT] Re: apology

2005-01-22 Thread Matej Cepl
Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: Almost no one knows about message threading nowadays (thanks to the mass dissemination of lousy software and a lack of interest in learning about established list conventions). On many lists I simply turn it off as it causes more trouble than it's worth (not everyone

Re: vertical lines

2005-01-22 Thread Herbert Voss
John A. White, Jr. wrote: How can I put a vertical line down the right side of a minipage? I am a choose a table and insert a minipage in one cell Herbert -- http://TeXnik.de/ http://PSTricks.de/ ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/info/math/voss/Voss-Mathmode.pdf http://www.dante.de/faq/de-tex-faq/

Re: blank email

2005-01-22 Thread Paul Smith
On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 10:55:26 -0800, John A. White, Jr. I would like to become a member and ask a lyx question. Then, John, have a look at: http://www.lyx.org/internet/mailing.php3 Regards, Paul

Re: Q: Define shading (or frame) for all floats in a LyX document?

2005-01-22 Thread =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Uwe_St=F6hr?=
Joerg Hau wrote: I'm currently writing a long document with a number of table floats (actually they contain code snippets). I would like to put a frame around those, and/or use a shaded background. With the LaTeX-package float, you can define your own float or redefine an existing one. But the

accents no work

2005-01-22 Thread =?iso-8859-1?q?Marcelo=20Acu=FFfffff1a?=
I have Suse Linux 9.1 and selected Spanish keyboard. In all soft accents work fine. I compiled Lyx 1.3.5. I selected Edit Preferences Lang Opts Language and selected Default Language = Spanish, I check keyboard map and then choose espanol.kmap, then click Apply button, but accents no

[OT] Re: apology

2005-01-22 Thread Kevin Pfeiffer
Subir Singh Lamba writes: > Please accept my apology for breaking the thread. I did not know about > the fine points of thread. Thanks for educating me. Almost no one knows about message threading nowadays (thanks to the mass dissemination of lousy software and a lack of interest in learning

Re: Greek Letters in Index Entries?

2005-01-22 Thread =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Uwe_St=F6hr?=
Rich Shepard wrote: I want to put \alpha (and other) Greek letters in the index entries. Math mode won't turn on inside the index entry window and when I tried to invoke ERT, it placed the results outside the index entry box. You have to turn on math mode manually by using two "$" signs: E.g.

Re: When to use quote and quotation

2005-01-22 Thread Michael Wojcik
Rich Shepard wrote: On Fri, 21 Jan 2005, G. Milde wrote: Did you ever try both of them? Actually, "quote" formats with space delimited paragraphs, "quotation" uses indented paragraphs. How interesting! I have not noticed that although I use both in my book and in reports. I guess that I never

Re: Searching In Index References

2005-01-22 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 22 Jan 2005, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > Not with LyX :-( but you could search in the LyX-file for "\index{" with a > text editor of your choice. Uwe, The reason I appear so clueless about searching the text file is that when I'm working within LyX I just don't think of using another tool to

Re: Greek Letters in Index Entries?

2005-01-22 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 22 Jan 2005, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > You have to turn on math mode manually by using two "$" signs: E.g. insert > > $\nu$ > > in an index box and you'll get a nu, see the attached example. Uwe, Aha! I just didn't think of that. And, I will admit to not pulling down the copy of TLC2 that

disabling fonts on mac os x

2005-01-22 Thread Stefano Baroni
Hi! I am an occasional user of LyX on a mac running osx 10.3.7. Opening a file that was written a while ago, I notice that all the math formulas are messed up. I understand that this is possibly due to some incompatibility with a handful of fonts AMS.dfont, CM_2.dfont, CM_4.dfont, LaTeX.dfont,

blank email

2005-01-22 Thread John A. White, Jr.
Hi, I would like to become a member and ask a lyx question. John

vertical lines

2005-01-22 Thread John A. White, Jr.
Hi list, I am not sure I am accepted on this list yet, so optimistically, I write. How can I put a vertical line down the right side of a minipage? I am a lawyer and typically put the case caption (parties' names) in a minipage that takes up the top left quarter or so of the page. Custom is

Re: disabling fonts on mac os x

2005-01-22 Thread Bennett Helm
On Jan 22, 2005, at 1:33 PM, Stefano Baroni wrote: Hi! I am an occasional user of LyX on a mac running osx 10.3.7. Opening a file that was written a while ago, I notice that all the math formulas are messed up. I understand that this is possibly due to some incompatibility with a handful of

Re: [OT] Re: apology

2005-01-22 Thread Matej Cepl
Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: > Almost no one knows about message threading nowadays (thanks to the mass > dissemination of lousy software and a lack of interest in learning about > established list conventions). On many lists I simply turn it off as it > causes more trouble than it's worth (not everyone

Re: vertical lines

2005-01-22 Thread Herbert Voss
John A. White, Jr. wrote: How can I put a vertical line down the right side of a minipage? I am a choose a table and insert a minipage in one cell Herbert -- http://TeXnik.de/ http://PSTricks.de/ ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/info/math/voss/Voss-Mathmode.pdf http://www.dante.de/faq/de-tex-faq/

Re: blank email

2005-01-22 Thread Paul Smith
On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 10:55:26 -0800, John A. White, Jr. > I would like to become a member and ask a lyx question. Then, John, have a look at: http://www.lyx.org/internet/mailing.php3 Regards, Paul

Re: Q: Define shading (or frame) for all floats in a LyX document?

2005-01-22 Thread =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Uwe_St=F6hr?=
Joerg Hau wrote: I'm currently writing a long document with a number of table floats (actually they contain code snippets). I would like to put a frame around those, and/or use a shaded background. With the LaTeX-package "float", you can define your own float or redefine an existing one. But

accents no work

2005-01-22 Thread =?iso-8859-1?q?Marcelo=20Acu=FFfffff1a?=
> I have Suse Linux 9.1 and selected Spanish keyboard. > In all soft accents work fine. > I compiled Lyx 1.3.5. > I selected Edit > Preferences > Lang Opts > Language and selected > Default Language = Spanish, > I check keyboard map and then choose espanol.kmap, > then click Apply button, > but