Re: Babel (or not).

On 1.03.05, Stacy Prowell wrote: LyX helpfully includes \usepackage{babel} in all generated LaTeX. This is a Good Thing in most cases... but seems to cause problems in my current document. Can I prevent LyX from including this? More details below. Babel can be disabled via

Re: selling lyx part 2

On 1.03.05, Martin A. Hansen wrote: i hereby suggest we make one - and perhaps even include it in the documentation on lyx.org? ... or simply on the LyX wiki? Maybe even more than one. pros: = * well written and intelligent docs IMHO, the online help is sometimes quite

Re: selling lyx

On 1.03.05, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: Am Montag, 28. Februar 2005 19:51 schrieb Martin A. Hansen: ... , how to produce figures (mentioning gimp for bitmapped and xfig for vector graphics and PSTricks), math-stuff, formats, styles, margins, references and bibtex (pybliographer and lyxpipe),

Wiki page for presentations (was Re: selling lyx part 2)

On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Martin A. Hansen wrote: apparently noone have any slideshow presentations introducing lyx to the ignorant word user. Here is a suitable place on the wiki for uploading presentation about LyX: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Presentations or if you already have the

Re: selling lyx part 2

On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Martin A. Hansen wrote: i hereby suggest we make one - and perhaps even include it in the documentation on lyx.org? but first i will summon up the pro/con input from the mailing list: I placed your list on the following wiki page:

Online help difficult to navigate (Re: selling lyx part 2)

On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, G. Milde wrote: * well written and intelligent docs IMHO, the online help is sometimes quite cumbersome and hard to navigate/search. When you say online help, do you mean the wiki or something else? If you mean the wiki, I'd appreciate tips on how this

Re: How I can get help with Index Entry?

Hi Marcelo mark the whole String, e.g. Arsenio Ferraces Rodríguez, and then select Insert Index Entry. On my system i do a Ctrl+C (copy of the string) first, because the marked string is replaced with the index entry mark. After that i do a Ctrl+V (paste). Yours Roland

Re: Babel (or not).

- Original Message - From: G. Milde [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2005 10:28 AM Subject: Re: Babel (or not). On 1.03.05, Stacy Prowell wrote: LyX helpfully includes \usepackage{babel} in all generated LaTeX. This is a Good Thing in most

Re: selling lyx part 2

My suggestion: Go personally and install lyx by yourself on your boss's/co-author's computer, make sure everything works by yourself. Now spend 5 minutes with him on basic editing in lyx, and hope for the best. Is that feasable? Martin A. Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL

Re: selling lyx part 2

does lyx run on mac os9? word does ... martin On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 02:27:28PM +0200, Miki Dovrat wrote: My suggestion: Go personally and install lyx by yourself on your boss's/co-author's computer, make sure everything works by yourself. Now spend 5 minutes with him on basic

Re: selling lyx part 2

On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Martin A. Hansen wrote: Hello! This is a litle besides the thread but I think it could be useful pros: = * journals may provide latex classes of thier own I'm a physcist and a couple of years ago I tried (and failed) to adapt the revtex layout to the style

Re: selling lyx part 2

Martin A. Hansen wrote: does lyx run on mac os9? word does ... I believe that the native Aqua port of LyX/Mac discussed here: http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/LyX/Mac requires Mac OS 10.2. However, there's also an X11 port, described here: http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/LyX/Mac-X11 I don't see

Re: selling lyx part 2

JORGE HERNANDO wrote: On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Martin A. Hansen wrote: Hello! This is a litle besides the thread but I think it could be useful pros: = * journals may provide latex classes of thier own I'm a physcist and a couple of years ago I tried (and failed) to adapt the revtex layout to

Re: selling lyx

On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, G. Milde wrote: On 1.03.05, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: Am Montag, 28. Februar 2005 19:51 schrieb Martin A. Hansen: ... , how to produce figures (mentioning gimp for bitmapped and xfig for vector graphics and PSTricks), math-stuff, formats, styles, margins,

Re: Online help difficult to navigate (Re: selling lyx part 2)

On 2.03.05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, G. Milde wrote: * well written and intelligent docs IMHO, the online help is sometimes quite cumbersome and hard to navigate/search. When you say online help, do you mean the wiki or something else? Sorry, I was

Re: selling lyx part 2

On 2.03.05, Miki Dovrat wrote: My suggestion: Go personally and install lyx by yourself on your boss's/co-author's computer, make sure everything works by yourself. Now spend 5 minutes with him on basic editing in lyx, and hope for the best. Is that feasable? Only with a very

Re: selling lyx

JORGE HERNANDO wrote: Plain postcript also works perfectly. Also, if you compile lyx with grace already installed (http://plasma-gate.weizmann.ac.il/Grace) it understands (and opens) its files *.agr. Or just run Edit-Reconfigure. No need to compile anything. I don't know if that it

Re: Superscript Positioning

I would like to clearly distinguish between two sets of superscript by positioning them at successive heights/offsets from the baseline. Math mode allows you to have multiple level superscripts, including leaving a lower level blank. That might be a possible work around Hope that helps, Steve

Re: What to teach first: LyX or LaTeX ?

On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 18:03:54 -0600, Bo Peng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would it make sense to link to this guide from the wiki? For instance from http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Documentation under the section External documentation. (Alternatively we oculd put a copy of the guide on the

Re: Online help difficult to navigate (Re: selling lyx part 2)

On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, G. Milde wrote: On 2.03.05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, G. Milde wrote: * well written and intelligent docs IMHO, the online help is sometimes quite cumbersome and hard to navigate/search. When you say online help, do you mean

Re: selling lyx part 2

On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, G. Milde wrote: Is that feasable? Only with a very well-meaning boss. For a more cautious one who refuses to let you install stuff on his/her computer, you could try with the Knoppix live linux CD. Does that have LyX? If not, does anyone know of a live CD with a

Re: Superscript Positioning

Thanks Stephen, True, unfortunately the subscripts don't appear to be distinct when printed as the offset is too small. I was thinking that there might be length(s) or measure(s) that could be reset within an environment? Matt On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 14:32 -0500, Stephen Buonopane wrote: I

unnumbered footnote

How can I use lyx to produce an unnumbered footnote? I've searched the web for LaTeX2e solutions, but nothing I've tried has worked. Ben Hourigan http://benhourigan.com

Re: Superscript Positioning

On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 08:13:41AM +1000, Matt Davies wrote: On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 14:32 -0500, Stephen Buonopane wrote: I would like to clearly distinguish between two sets of superscript by positioning them at successive heights/offsets from the baseline. Math mode allows you to

Re: selling lyx part 2

Does that have LyX? If not, does anyone know of a live CD with a working LyX installation? I have taken the knoppix CD and remastered it (easy instructions on the knoppix website, long and exhausting procedure) to include TeTex, LyX, fonts, imagemagick, viewers, etc. I put Open-office on it

Re: unnumbered footnote

Ben Hourigan wrote: How can I use lyx to produce an unnumbered footnote? \makeatletter \newcommand\unmarkfootnote[1]{% \begingroup [EMAIL PROTECTED] \footnotetext{#1}% \endgroup} \makeatother If you do not need numbered footnotes at all, you can additionally do

Re: Babel (or not).

On 1.03.05, Stacy Prowell wrote: LyX helpfully includes \usepackage{babel} in all generated LaTeX. This is a Good Thing in most cases... but seems to cause problems in my current document. Can I prevent LyX from including this? More details below. Babel can be disabled via

Re: selling lyx part 2

On 1.03.05, Martin A. Hansen wrote: i hereby suggest we make one - and perhaps even include it in the documentation on lyx.org? ... or simply on the LyX wiki? Maybe even more than one. pros: = * well written and intelligent docs IMHO, the online help is sometimes quite

Re: selling lyx

On 1.03.05, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: Am Montag, 28. Februar 2005 19:51 schrieb Martin A. Hansen: ... , how to produce figures (mentioning gimp for bitmapped and xfig for vector graphics and PSTricks), math-stuff, formats, styles, margins, references and bibtex (pybliographer and lyxpipe),

Wiki page for presentations (was Re: selling lyx part 2)

On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Martin A. Hansen wrote: apparently noone have any slideshow presentations introducing lyx to the ignorant word user. Here is a suitable place on the wiki for uploading presentation about LyX: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Presentations or if you already have the

Re: selling lyx part 2

On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Martin A. Hansen wrote: i hereby suggest we make one - and perhaps even include it in the documentation on lyx.org? but first i will summon up the pro/con input from the mailing list: I placed your list on the following wiki page:

Online help difficult to navigate (Re: selling lyx part 2)

On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, G. Milde wrote: * well written and intelligent docs IMHO, the online help is sometimes quite cumbersome and hard to navigate/search. When you say online help, do you mean the wiki or something else? If you mean the wiki, I'd appreciate tips on how this

Re: How I can get help with Index Entry?

Hi Marcelo mark the whole String, e.g. Arsenio Ferraces Rodríguez, and then select Insert Index Entry. On my system i do a Ctrl+C (copy of the string) first, because the marked string is replaced with the index entry mark. After that i do a Ctrl+V (paste). Yours Roland

Re: Babel (or not).

- Original Message - From: G. Milde [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2005 10:28 AM Subject: Re: Babel (or not). On 1.03.05, Stacy Prowell wrote: LyX helpfully includes \usepackage{babel} in all generated LaTeX. This is a Good Thing in most

Re: selling lyx part 2

My suggestion: Go personally and install lyx by yourself on your boss's/co-author's computer, make sure everything works by yourself. Now spend 5 minutes with him on basic editing in lyx, and hope for the best. Is that feasable? Martin A. Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL

Re: selling lyx part 2

does lyx run on mac os9? word does ... martin On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 02:27:28PM +0200, Miki Dovrat wrote: My suggestion: Go personally and install lyx by yourself on your boss's/co-author's computer, make sure everything works by yourself. Now spend 5 minutes with him on basic

Re: selling lyx part 2

On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Martin A. Hansen wrote: Hello! This is a litle besides the thread but I think it could be useful pros: = * journals may provide latex classes of thier own I'm a physcist and a couple of years ago I tried (and failed) to adapt the revtex layout to the style

Re: selling lyx part 2

Martin A. Hansen wrote: does lyx run on mac os9? word does ... I believe that the native Aqua port of LyX/Mac discussed here: http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/LyX/Mac requires Mac OS 10.2. However, there's also an X11 port, described here: http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/LyX/Mac-X11 I don't see

Re: selling lyx part 2

JORGE HERNANDO wrote: On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Martin A. Hansen wrote: Hello! This is a litle besides the thread but I think it could be useful pros: = * journals may provide latex classes of thier own I'm a physcist and a couple of years ago I tried (and failed) to adapt the revtex layout to

Re: selling lyx

On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, G. Milde wrote: On 1.03.05, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: Am Montag, 28. Februar 2005 19:51 schrieb Martin A. Hansen: ... , how to produce figures (mentioning gimp for bitmapped and xfig for vector graphics and PSTricks), math-stuff, formats, styles, margins,

Re: Online help difficult to navigate (Re: selling lyx part 2)

On 2.03.05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, G. Milde wrote: * well written and intelligent docs IMHO, the online help is sometimes quite cumbersome and hard to navigate/search. When you say online help, do you mean the wiki or something else? Sorry, I was

Re: selling lyx part 2

On 2.03.05, Miki Dovrat wrote: My suggestion: Go personally and install lyx by yourself on your boss's/co-author's computer, make sure everything works by yourself. Now spend 5 minutes with him on basic editing in lyx, and hope for the best. Is that feasable? Only with a very

Re: selling lyx

JORGE HERNANDO wrote: Plain postcript also works perfectly. Also, if you compile lyx with grace already installed (http://plasma-gate.weizmann.ac.il/Grace) it understands (and opens) its files *.agr. Or just run Edit-Reconfigure. No need to compile anything. I don't know if that it

Re: Superscript Positioning

I would like to clearly distinguish between two sets of superscript by positioning them at successive heights/offsets from the baseline. Math mode allows you to have multiple level superscripts, including leaving a lower level blank. That might be a possible work around Hope that helps, Steve

Re: What to teach first: LyX or LaTeX ?

On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 18:03:54 -0600, Bo Peng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would it make sense to link to this guide from the wiki? For instance from http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Documentation under the section External documentation. (Alternatively we oculd put a copy of the guide on the

Re: Online help difficult to navigate (Re: selling lyx part 2)

On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, G. Milde wrote: On 2.03.05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, G. Milde wrote: * well written and intelligent docs IMHO, the online help is sometimes quite cumbersome and hard to navigate/search. When you say online help, do you mean

Re: selling lyx part 2

On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, G. Milde wrote: Is that feasable? Only with a very well-meaning boss. For a more cautious one who refuses to let you install stuff on his/her computer, you could try with the Knoppix live linux CD. Does that have LyX? If not, does anyone know of a live CD with a

Re: Superscript Positioning

Thanks Stephen, True, unfortunately the subscripts don't appear to be distinct when printed as the offset is too small. I was thinking that there might be length(s) or measure(s) that could be reset within an environment? Matt On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 14:32 -0500, Stephen Buonopane wrote: I

unnumbered footnote

How can I use lyx to produce an unnumbered footnote? I've searched the web for LaTeX2e solutions, but nothing I've tried has worked. Ben Hourigan http://benhourigan.com

Re: Superscript Positioning

On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 08:13:41AM +1000, Matt Davies wrote: On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 14:32 -0500, Stephen Buonopane wrote: I would like to clearly distinguish between two sets of superscript by positioning them at successive heights/offsets from the baseline. Math mode allows you to

Re: selling lyx part 2

Does that have LyX? If not, does anyone know of a live CD with a working LyX installation? I have taken the knoppix CD and remastered it (easy instructions on the knoppix website, long and exhausting procedure) to include TeTex, LyX, fonts, imagemagick, viewers, etc. I put Open-office on it

Re: unnumbered footnote

Ben Hourigan wrote: How can I use lyx to produce an unnumbered footnote? \makeatletter \newcommand\unmarkfootnote[1]{% \begingroup [EMAIL PROTECTED] \footnotetext{#1}% \endgroup} \makeatother If you do not need numbered footnotes at all, you can additionally do

Re: Babel (or not).

On 1.03.05, Stacy Prowell wrote: > LyX helpfully includes \usepackage{babel} in all generated LaTeX. > This is a Good Thing in most cases... but seems to cause problems in > my current document. Can I prevent LyX from including this? More > details below. Babel can be disabled via

Re: selling lyx part 2

On 1.03.05, Martin A. Hansen wrote: > > i hereby suggest we make one - and perhaps even include it in the > documentation on lyx.org? ... or simply on the LyX wiki? Maybe even more than one. > pros: > = > * well written and intelligent docs IMHO, the online help is sometimes quite

Re: selling lyx

On 1.03.05, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > Am Montag, 28. Februar 2005 19:51 schrieb Martin A. Hansen: > ... , how to produce figures (mentioning gimp > for bitmapped and xfig for vector graphics and PSTricks), math-stuff, > formats, styles, margins, references and bibtex (pybliographer and

Wiki page for presentations (was Re: selling lyx part 2)

On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Martin A. Hansen wrote: > apparently noone have any slideshow presentations introducing lyx to the > ignorant word user. Here is a suitable place on the wiki for uploading presentation about LyX: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Presentations or if you already have the

Re: selling lyx part 2

On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Martin A. Hansen wrote: > i hereby suggest we make one - and perhaps even include it in the > documentation on lyx.org? > > but first i will summon up the pro/con input from the mailing list: I placed your list on the following wiki page:

Online help difficult to navigate (Re: selling lyx part 2)

On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, G. Milde wrote: > > * well written and intelligent docs > > IMHO, the online help is sometimes quite cumbersome and hard to > navigate/search. When you say online help, do you mean the wiki or something else? If you mean the wiki, I'd appreciate tips on how this

Re: How I can get help with Index Entry?

Hi Marcelo mark the whole String, e.g. Arsenio Ferraces Rodríguez, and then select Insert > Index Entry. On my system i do a "Ctrl+C" (copy of the string) first, because the marked string is replaced with the index entry "mark". After that i do a "Ctrl+V" (paste). Yours Roland

Re: Babel (or not).

- Original Message - From: "G. Milde" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2005 10:28 AM Subject: Re: Babel (or not). On 1.03.05, Stacy Prowell wrote: LyX helpfully includes \usepackage{babel} in all generated LaTeX. This is a Good Thing in most

Re: selling lyx part 2

My suggestion: Go personally and install lyx by yourself on your boss's/co-author's computer, make sure everything works by yourself. Now spend 5 minutes with him on basic editing in lyx, and hope for the best. Is that feasable? "Martin A. Hansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message

Re: selling lyx part 2

does lyx run on mac os9? word does ... martin On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 02:27:28PM +0200, Miki Dovrat wrote: > My suggestion: > > Go personally and install lyx by yourself on your boss's/co-author's > computer, make sure everything works by yourself. > > Now spend 5 minutes with him on

Re: selling lyx part 2

On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Martin A. Hansen wrote: Hello! This is a litle besides the thread but I think it could be useful > pros: > = > > > * journals may provide latex classes of thier own > > I'm a physcist and a couple of years ago I tried (and failed) to adapt the revtex layout to the

Re: selling lyx part 2

Martin A. Hansen wrote: > does lyx run on mac os9? word does ... I believe that the native Aqua port of LyX/Mac discussed here: http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/LyX/Mac requires Mac OS 10.2. However, there's also an X11 port, described here: http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/LyX/Mac-X11 I don't see

Re: selling lyx part 2

JORGE HERNANDO wrote: On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Martin A. Hansen wrote: Hello! This is a litle besides the thread but I think it could be useful pros: = * journals may provide latex classes of thier own I'm a physcist and a couple of years ago I tried (and failed) to adapt the revtex layout to

Re: selling lyx

On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, G. Milde wrote: > On 1.03.05, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > > Am Montag, 28. Februar 2005 19:51 schrieb Martin A. Hansen: > > > ... , how to produce figures (mentioning gimp > > for bitmapped and xfig for vector graphics and PSTricks), math-stuff, > > formats, styles, margins,

Re: Online help difficult to navigate (Re: selling lyx part 2)

On 2.03.05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, G. Milde wrote: > > > > * well written and intelligent docs > > > > IMHO, the online help is sometimes quite cumbersome and hard to > > navigate/search. > > When you say online help, do you mean the wiki or something else?

Re: selling lyx part 2

On 2.03.05, Miki Dovrat wrote: > My suggestion: > > Go personally and install lyx by yourself on your boss's/co-author's > computer, make sure everything works by yourself. > > Now spend 5 minutes with him on basic editing in lyx, and hope for the best. > > Is that feasable? Only with a very

Re: selling lyx

JORGE HERNANDO wrote: > Plain postcript also works perfectly. Also, if you compile > lyx with grace already installed > (http://plasma-gate.weizmann.ac.il/Grace) > it understands (and opens) its files *.agr. Or just run Edit->Reconfigure. No need to compile anything. > I don't know if >

Re: Superscript Positioning

I would like to clearly distinguish between two sets of superscript by positioning them at successive heights/offsets from the baseline. Math mode allows you to have multiple level superscripts, including leaving a lower level blank. That might be a possible work around Hope that helps, Steve

Re: What to teach first: LyX or LaTeX ?

On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 18:03:54 -0600, Bo Peng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Would it make sense to link to this guide from the wiki? For instance from > > > > http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Documentation > > > > under the section "External documentation". (Alternatively we oculd put a > > copy of

Re: Online help difficult to navigate (Re: selling lyx part 2)

On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, G. Milde wrote: > On 2.03.05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, G. Milde wrote: > > > > > > * well written and intelligent docs > > > > > > IMHO, the online help is sometimes quite cumbersome and hard to > > > navigate/search. > > > > When you say

Re: selling lyx part 2

On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, G. Milde wrote: > > Is that feasable? > > Only with a very well-meaning boss. For a more cautious one who refuses to > let you install stuff on his/her computer, you could try with the Knoppix > live linux CD. Does that have LyX? If not, does anyone know of a live CD with a

Re: Superscript Positioning

Thanks Stephen, True, unfortunately the subscripts don't appear to be distinct when printed as the offset is too small. I was thinking that there might be length(s) or measure(s) that could be reset within an environment? Matt On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 14:32 -0500, Stephen Buonopane wrote: > > > >

unnumbered footnote

How can I use lyx to produce an unnumbered footnote? I've searched the web for LaTeX2e solutions, but nothing I've tried has worked. Ben Hourigan http://benhourigan.com

Re: Superscript Positioning

On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 08:13:41AM +1000, Matt Davies wrote: > On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 14:32 -0500, Stephen Buonopane wrote: > > > > > > I would like to clearly distinguish between two sets of superscript by > > > positioning them at successive heights/offsets from the baseline. > > > > > Math mode

Re: selling lyx part 2

> Does that have LyX? If not, does anyone know of a live CD with a working > LyX installation? I have taken the knoppix CD and remastered it (easy instructions on the knoppix website, long and exhausting procedure) to include TeTex, LyX, fonts, imagemagick, viewers, etc. I put Open-office on

Re: unnumbered footnote

Ben Hourigan wrote: > How can I use lyx to produce an unnumbered footnote? \makeatletter \newcommand\unmarkfootnote[1]{% \begingroup [EMAIL PROTECTED] \footnotetext{#1}% \endgroup} \makeatother If you do not need numbered footnotes at all, you can additionally do