case insertion in a lyx document

2005-05-05 Thread Harold Mouras
Dear Lyx Users, would someone know how to insert in a Lyx document a symbol like ð. Thanks, Harold - Harold Mouras ATER Neurosciences - Université Paris 5 Inserm U742, Université Pierre et Marie Curie 9, quai Saint Bernard 75005 Paris

Re: case insertion in a lyx document

2005-05-05 Thread Paul Medwell
Harold Mouras wrote: Dear Lyx Users, would someone know how to insert in a Lyx document a symbol like ð. Thanks, Harold get a copy of the latex symbol bible http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/symbols/comprehensive/symbols-a4.pdf

Re: notes in footnotes?

2005-05-05 Thread Angus Leeming
Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: Hi, My author has notes inside her footnotes reminding her to verify references, archive information, etc., but it seems to me that if I leave them there (we are migrating a book from Word to Lyx that she won't be able to easily find them using the navigation menu. Am

Re: Strange Bib Behaviour

2005-05-05 Thread Angus Leeming
Meri Williams wrote: Hi I'm getting some really random bibliography behaviour. In the Layout - Document menu, I've chosen to use Natbib, in the Author-Year cite style. Then, where I've added my Bibliography at the end of the document, I've selected the format as apalike. This worked

Re: notes in footnotes?

2005-05-05 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Angus Leeming wrote: My author has notes inside her footnotes reminding her to verify references, archive information, etc., but it seems to me that if I leave them there (we are migrating a book from Word to Lyx that she won't be able to easily find them using the navigation menu. Am I

Re: notes in footnotes?

2005-05-05 Thread Kevin Pfeiffer
Juergen Spitzmueller writes: Angus Leeming wrote: [...] Notes are visible in the Navigate menu. I think you're doing the right thing. But I think there is a bug in 1.3 that note-next does not find notes which are nested in insets (i.e. the Navigate menu will probably skip your notes

Re: notes in footnotes?

2005-05-05 Thread Angus Leeming
Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: Juergen Spitzmueller writes: Angus Leeming wrote: [...] Notes are visible in the Navigate menu. I think you're doing the right thing. But I think there is a bug in 1.3 that note-next does not find notes which are nested in insets (i.e. the Navigate menu will

quotation marks -- double _and_ single

2005-05-05 Thread Kevin Pfeiffer
Hi all, I've found the setting Layout -- Document -- Language where one can select language-appropriate quotation marks and so I get my funny German double quotation marks that look a very tiny bit like ,,this''. But I also need the same thing as single quotation marks, i.e. ,this' for nested

Re: notes in footnotes?

2005-05-05 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: That is what I am observing with 1.3.5. :-( Is there a newer version that is not too alpha-ish? The bug has been fixed in the 1.4 development version, which is not ready for release yet. I think there is less chance that this will also be fixed in the 1.3.x tree because

Re: quotation marks -- double _and_ single

2005-05-05 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: I've found the setting Layout -- Document -- Language where one can select language-appropriate quotation marks and so I get my funny German double quotation marks that look a very tiny bit like ,,this''. But I also need the same thing as single quotation marks, i.e.

Re: Strange Bib Behaviour

2005-05-05 Thread Meri Williams
In cases such as this I'd suggest looking at: 1. The contents of the LyX file itself. It's just text. You should find entries near the top of the document: \use_natbib 1 \use_numerical_citations 0 Those are both there and near the bottom \begin_inset LatexCommand

working with repeat references to titles of other works

2005-05-05 Thread Kevin Pfeiffer
Me, again. :-) The project I am working on frequently refers to titles of magazines, works of art, publications, etc. It has occurred to me that this could cause a number of problems later on if, for example, the spelling or title changes, or something with the style (I'm using

Re: What is beamer?

2005-05-05 Thread chr
On Wed, 4 May 2005, samar wrote: I am enclosing a sample file. which uses Lyx with a lot of ERT. Even then it saves a lot of typing using Lyx. I have not used Harvard Graphics so one cant really compare but Beamer does give a very nice, slightly unusual presentation, very quickly and easily

Newbie question

2005-05-05 Thread Brian Williams
Hi, Hope this isn't too simple I'd like to define a quick way in Lyx of entering this construct for entering a system of equations: $\left\{ \begin{array}{r} \\\end{array}\right.$ Currently I achieve this by using the Math panel to insert an unmatched left squiggly brace, then a 2

Re: working with repeat references to titles of other works

2005-05-05 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 01:41:22PM +0200, Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: Is there a way to structurally identify such objects such that when later we should find out that the publication was not called Der Cicerone but rather Das Bologne or something, that I can update all 364 mentions of this by

Re: working with repeat references to titles of other works

2005-05-05 Thread Angus Leeming
Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: Me, again. :-) The project I am working on frequently refers to titles of magazines, works of art, publications, etc. It has occurred to me that this could cause a number of problems later on if, for example, the spelling or title changes, or something with the style

[slightly OT response] to Re: Strange Bib Behaviour

2005-05-05 Thread Todd Denniston
Meri Williams wrote: Hi I'm getting some really random bibliography behaviour. SNIP Sometime this evening when I was editing the document, the citations changed to numbers and so did the Bibliography!! I am completely confused. I haven't knowingly changed anything -- both the

Re: notes in footnotes?

2005-05-05 Thread Johan Ingvast
On Thu, 5 May 2005, Angus Leeming wrote: An alternative suggestion to your original problem: use Insert-Label inside your notes and navigate using the Insert-Cross Reference dialog. If you start each label as nb: foo, it'll be trivial to find 'em. There is an alternative way of

[slightly OT response] to Re: Strange Bib Behaviour

2005-05-05 Thread Meri Williams
Meri, I know it may be a bit too late for you now, but I have found that by keeping my lyx files in RCS/CVS/some SCM system, if something goes a little strange it makes figuring out what a lot easier. LyX makes doing so fairly easy on a unix system with RCS installed, just pick

Re: Newbie question

2005-05-05 Thread Paul Smith
On 5/5/05, Brian Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hope this isn't too simple I'd like to define a quick way in Lyx of entering this construct for entering a system of equations: $\left\{ \begin{array}{r} \\\end{array}\right.$ Currently I achieve this by using the Math panel to

Re: working with repeat references to titles of other works

2005-05-05 Thread Kevin Pfeiffer
Andrew Sullivan writes: Isn't this just what BibTeX is for (maybe I don't understand your problem). I like this idea, but do not know how to get: The book, My Title Here, was written... instead of: The book, [1], was written... I assume that this has something to do with the style of

Re: working with repeat references to titles of other works

2005-05-05 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: I like this idea, but do not know how to get: The book, My Title Here, was written... instead of: The book, [1], was written... Jurabib has The book, \citetitle{mybook}, was written But LyX doesn't support this natively. Jürgen

Strange behavior LyxWin qt 1.3.5 - possibly relating to Bibtex

2005-05-05 Thread Ekkehart Schlicht
Hi, If I want to view the Lyx file I am working at with pdflatex, I always get the message 3 errors detected. You should try to fix them. The error messages are 1. LaTeX Error: Something's wrong--perhaps a missing \item. 2. and 3. Extra \else. I'm ignoring this; it doesn't match any \if. If I

Re: Strange behavior LyxWin qt 1.3.5 - possibly relating to Bibtex - addendum

2005-05-05 Thread Ekkehart Schlicht
Ekkehart Schlicht wrote: If I export the file as Latex and compile with pdflatex (4 times), I get the desired output. If I open the lyx file in Lyx, after having done the latex compilation I can compile nicely as well. Ekkehart

Re: working with repeat references to titles of other works

2005-05-05 Thread Kevin Pfeiffer
Angus Leeming writes: I think that I'd use ERT. See attached. I looked at this and it works fine, but I don't see it as being very practical as there are dozens and more of such references. Another pitfall I see is that many of the footnotes are truly citations and some even repeat; therefore

Re: working with repeat references to titles of other works

2005-05-05 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 06:11:38PM +0200, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: Jurabib has The book, \citetitle{mybook}, was written But LyX doesn't support this natively. Couldn't you make a BibTeX style that'd do it? (I'm fiddling with such styles lately anyway, and it seems that LyX will do

Re: working with repeat references to titles of other works

2005-05-05 Thread Kevin Pfeiffer
Andrew Sullivan writes: Couldn't you make a BibTeX style that'd do it? (I'm fiddling with such styles lately anyway, and it seems that LyX will do whatever your style tells it to. I don't understand the software completely yet, so I may be totally off the mark here.) Yes, I'm sure (hah)

Re: working with repeat references to titles of other works

2005-05-05 Thread Angus Leeming
Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: Andrew Sullivan writes: Couldn't you make a BibTeX style that'd do it? (I'm fiddling with such styles lately anyway, and it seems that LyX will do whatever your style tells it to. I don't understand the software completely yet, so I may be totally off the mark here.)

find/replace with lyx objects (such as ERTs, footnotes, etc.)

2005-05-05 Thread Kevin Pfeiffer
(Starting a new thread to keep things clear) Is there a way that I can do this: Find: My text to replace Replace with: [an ERT container and its contents] -Kevin -- Kevin Pfeiffer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tiros-Translations

Re: find/replace with lyx objects (such as ERTs, footnotes, etc.)

2005-05-05 Thread Angus Leeming
Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: (Starting a new thread to keep things clear) Is there a way that I can do this: Find: My text to replace Replace with: [an ERT container and its contents] -Kevin Not within LyX. Outside LyX it's trivial because you're just replacing one string with another. Eg

Re: working with repeat references to titles of other works

2005-05-05 Thread Kevin Pfeiffer
Angus Leeming writes: Another way would be to use BibTeX and some black magic :) Seriously. As Jürgen says, the jurabib package can do what you want out of the box. LyX 1.4.x will support jurabib and \citetitle, but for now I'd suggest that you could set things up in LyX to use natbib and

Re: [slightly OT response] to Re: Strange Bib Behaviour

2005-05-05 Thread Matej Cepl
Meri Williams wrote: Hi Todd -- thanks for the advice. I do already have versions saved which still work as intended, I just can't see any difference in the config! I don't particularly want to have to go back and retype anything, but if it's necessary I can do so. I was just hoping there was

Re: find/replace with lyx objects (such as ERTs, footnotes, etc.)

2005-05-05 Thread Kevin Pfeiffer
Angus Leeming writes: Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: (Starting a new thread to keep things clear) Is there a way that I can do this: Find: My text to replace Replace with: [an ERT container and its contents] -Kevin Not within LyX. Outside LyX it's trivial because you're just replacing

Re: working with repeat references to titles of other works

2005-05-05 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Angus Leeming wrote: LyX 1.4.x will support jurabib and \citetitle \citetitle not (natively), I'm afraid. Jürgen

Re: working with repeat references to titles of other works

2005-05-05 Thread Angus Leeming
Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: Angus Leeming writes: Another way would be to use BibTeX and some black magic :) Seriously. As Jürgen says, the jurabib package can do what you want out of the box. LyX 1.4.x will support jurabib and \citetitle, but for now I'd suggest that you could set things up in

Re: working with repeat references to titles of other works

2005-05-05 Thread Angus Leeming
Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: Angus Leeming wrote: LyX 1.4.x will support jurabib and \citetitle \citetitle not (natively), I'm afraid. Really? I see it in src/frontends/controllers/biblio.C. -- Angus

Re: working with repeat references to titles of other works

2005-05-05 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Angus Leeming wrote: Really? I see it in src/frontends/controllers/biblio.C. but there's no gui for it. Jürgen

line numbers in Lyx?

2005-05-05 Thread Kevin Pfeiffer
(my day for questions) I have trouble keeping track of where I am in Lyx and think it would be really nice to have line numbers available -- either on the left, or simply a current line number below the document window (like vim does). I know that these would be changeable and not correspond

Re: Newbie question

2005-05-05 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Brian Williams wrote: Hi, Hope this isn't too simple I'd like to define a quick way in Lyx of entering this construct for entering a system of equations: $\left\{ \begin{array}{r} \\\end{array}\right.$ Currently I achieve this by using the Math panel to insert an unmatched left

Issues with Table of Contents

2005-05-05 Thread George Leach
Hello fellow LyX users, I'm currently heading for a last minute deadline and have found a couple of small hitches with my document in LyX. I was hoping I might get some help (one can but try). If people would like to see the document before commenting please just ask and I'll be willing to send

Re: working with repeat references to titles of other works

2005-05-05 Thread Matej Cepl
Angus Leeming wrote: \textit{\cite{cicerone}} Really? Why not do that in the BibTeX database? @String{BAUHAUS = {\textit{Das Bauhaus}}} Because I do not think it is wise to put presentation markup (or any non-database markup for that matter) into BibTeX database. Matj -- Matej Cepl,

Re: working with repeat references to titles of other works

2005-05-05 Thread Angus Leeming
Matej Cepl wrote: Angus Leeming wrote: \textit{\cite{cicerone}} Really? Why not do that in the BibTeX database? @String{BAUHAUS = {\textit{Das Bauhaus}}} Because I do not think it is wise to put presentation markup (or any non-database markup for that matter) into BibTeX database.

List of tables, figres, and footnotes for article submission

2005-05-05 Thread Leonid Belostotski
Hello This is an addition to my own question I asked a yesterday. I found a WIKI page (http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/RedefiningListOfFigures) that deals with refining the lest of figures. I am trying to follow the description by starting Latex and then running \documentclass{article} BTW, I use

Re: working with repeat references to titles of other works

2005-05-05 Thread Matej Cepl
Angus Leeming wrote: Shrug. Taste's differ. Change \textit to \magazine_style and define \magazine_style as you choose in the preamble of the document. No, that is not what I meant -- try to imagine, that I will finally get fed up with the slowness of LyX development and if (or when)

case insertion in a lyx document

2005-05-05 Thread Harold Mouras
Dear Lyx Users, would someone know how to insert in a Lyx document a symbol like ð. Thanks, Harold - Harold Mouras ATER Neurosciences - Université Paris 5 Inserm U742, Université Pierre et Marie Curie 9, quai Saint Bernard 75005 Paris

Re: case insertion in a lyx document

2005-05-05 Thread Paul Medwell
Harold Mouras wrote: Dear Lyx Users, would someone know how to insert in a Lyx document a symbol like ð. Thanks, Harold get a copy of the latex symbol bible http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/symbols/comprehensive/symbols-a4.pdf

Re: notes in footnotes?

2005-05-05 Thread Angus Leeming
Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: Hi, My author has notes inside her footnotes reminding her to verify references, archive information, etc., but it seems to me that if I leave them there (we are migrating a book from Word to Lyx that she won't be able to easily find them using the navigation menu. Am

Re: Strange Bib Behaviour

2005-05-05 Thread Angus Leeming
Meri Williams wrote: Hi I'm getting some really random bibliography behaviour. In the Layout - Document menu, I've chosen to use Natbib, in the Author-Year cite style. Then, where I've added my Bibliography at the end of the document, I've selected the format as apalike. This worked

Re: notes in footnotes?

2005-05-05 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Angus Leeming wrote: My author has notes inside her footnotes reminding her to verify references, archive information, etc., but it seems to me that if I leave them there (we are migrating a book from Word to Lyx that she won't be able to easily find them using the navigation menu. Am I

Re: notes in footnotes?

2005-05-05 Thread Kevin Pfeiffer
Juergen Spitzmueller writes: Angus Leeming wrote: [...] Notes are visible in the Navigate menu. I think you're doing the right thing. But I think there is a bug in 1.3 that note-next does not find notes which are nested in insets (i.e. the Navigate menu will probably skip your notes

Re: notes in footnotes?

2005-05-05 Thread Angus Leeming
Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: Juergen Spitzmueller writes: Angus Leeming wrote: [...] Notes are visible in the Navigate menu. I think you're doing the right thing. But I think there is a bug in 1.3 that note-next does not find notes which are nested in insets (i.e. the Navigate menu will

quotation marks -- double _and_ single

2005-05-05 Thread Kevin Pfeiffer
Hi all, I've found the setting Layout -- Document -- Language where one can select language-appropriate quotation marks and so I get my funny German double quotation marks that look a very tiny bit like ,,this''. But I also need the same thing as single quotation marks, i.e. ,this' for nested

Re: notes in footnotes?

2005-05-05 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: That is what I am observing with 1.3.5. :-( Is there a newer version that is not too alpha-ish? The bug has been fixed in the 1.4 development version, which is not ready for release yet. I think there is less chance that this will also be fixed in the 1.3.x tree because

Re: quotation marks -- double _and_ single

2005-05-05 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: I've found the setting Layout -- Document -- Language where one can select language-appropriate quotation marks and so I get my funny German double quotation marks that look a very tiny bit like ,,this''. But I also need the same thing as single quotation marks, i.e.

Re: Strange Bib Behaviour

2005-05-05 Thread Meri Williams
In cases such as this I'd suggest looking at: 1. The contents of the LyX file itself. It's just text. You should find entries near the top of the document: \use_natbib 1 \use_numerical_citations 0 Those are both there and near the bottom \begin_inset LatexCommand

working with repeat references to titles of other works

2005-05-05 Thread Kevin Pfeiffer
Me, again. :-) The project I am working on frequently refers to titles of magazines, works of art, publications, etc. It has occurred to me that this could cause a number of problems later on if, for example, the spelling or title changes, or something with the style (I'm using

Re: What is beamer?

2005-05-05 Thread chr
On Wed, 4 May 2005, samar wrote: I am enclosing a sample file. which uses Lyx with a lot of ERT. Even then it saves a lot of typing using Lyx. I have not used Harvard Graphics so one cant really compare but Beamer does give a very nice, slightly unusual presentation, very quickly and easily

Newbie question

2005-05-05 Thread Brian Williams
Hi, Hope this isn't too simple I'd like to define a quick way in Lyx of entering this construct for entering a system of equations: $\left\{ \begin{array}{r} \\\end{array}\right.$ Currently I achieve this by using the Math panel to insert an unmatched left squiggly brace, then a 2

Re: working with repeat references to titles of other works

2005-05-05 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 01:41:22PM +0200, Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: Is there a way to structurally identify such objects such that when later we should find out that the publication was not called Der Cicerone but rather Das Bologne or something, that I can update all 364 mentions of this by

Re: working with repeat references to titles of other works

2005-05-05 Thread Angus Leeming
Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: Me, again. :-) The project I am working on frequently refers to titles of magazines, works of art, publications, etc. It has occurred to me that this could cause a number of problems later on if, for example, the spelling or title changes, or something with the style

[slightly OT response] to Re: Strange Bib Behaviour

2005-05-05 Thread Todd Denniston
Meri Williams wrote: Hi I'm getting some really random bibliography behaviour. SNIP Sometime this evening when I was editing the document, the citations changed to numbers and so did the Bibliography!! I am completely confused. I haven't knowingly changed anything -- both the

Re: notes in footnotes?

2005-05-05 Thread Johan Ingvast
On Thu, 5 May 2005, Angus Leeming wrote: An alternative suggestion to your original problem: use Insert-Label inside your notes and navigate using the Insert-Cross Reference dialog. If you start each label as nb: foo, it'll be trivial to find 'em. There is an alternative way of

[slightly OT response] to Re: Strange Bib Behaviour

2005-05-05 Thread Meri Williams
Meri, I know it may be a bit too late for you now, but I have found that by keeping my lyx files in RCS/CVS/some SCM system, if something goes a little strange it makes figuring out what a lot easier. LyX makes doing so fairly easy on a unix system with RCS installed, just pick

Re: Newbie question

2005-05-05 Thread Paul Smith
On 5/5/05, Brian Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hope this isn't too simple I'd like to define a quick way in Lyx of entering this construct for entering a system of equations: $\left\{ \begin{array}{r} \\\end{array}\right.$ Currently I achieve this by using the Math panel to

Re: working with repeat references to titles of other works

2005-05-05 Thread Kevin Pfeiffer
Andrew Sullivan writes: Isn't this just what BibTeX is for (maybe I don't understand your problem). I like this idea, but do not know how to get: The book, My Title Here, was written... instead of: The book, [1], was written... I assume that this has something to do with the style of

Re: working with repeat references to titles of other works

2005-05-05 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: I like this idea, but do not know how to get: The book, My Title Here, was written... instead of: The book, [1], was written... Jurabib has The book, \citetitle{mybook}, was written But LyX doesn't support this natively. Jürgen

Strange behavior LyxWin qt 1.3.5 - possibly relating to Bibtex

2005-05-05 Thread Ekkehart Schlicht
Hi, If I want to view the Lyx file I am working at with pdflatex, I always get the message 3 errors detected. You should try to fix them. The error messages are 1. LaTeX Error: Something's wrong--perhaps a missing \item. 2. and 3. Extra \else. I'm ignoring this; it doesn't match any \if. If I

Re: Strange behavior LyxWin qt 1.3.5 - possibly relating to Bibtex - addendum

2005-05-05 Thread Ekkehart Schlicht
Ekkehart Schlicht wrote: If I export the file as Latex and compile with pdflatex (4 times), I get the desired output. If I open the lyx file in Lyx, after having done the latex compilation I can compile nicely as well. Ekkehart

Re: working with repeat references to titles of other works

2005-05-05 Thread Kevin Pfeiffer
Angus Leeming writes: I think that I'd use ERT. See attached. I looked at this and it works fine, but I don't see it as being very practical as there are dozens and more of such references. Another pitfall I see is that many of the footnotes are truly citations and some even repeat; therefore

Re: working with repeat references to titles of other works

2005-05-05 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 06:11:38PM +0200, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: Jurabib has The book, \citetitle{mybook}, was written But LyX doesn't support this natively. Couldn't you make a BibTeX style that'd do it? (I'm fiddling with such styles lately anyway, and it seems that LyX will do

Re: working with repeat references to titles of other works

2005-05-05 Thread Kevin Pfeiffer
Andrew Sullivan writes: Couldn't you make a BibTeX style that'd do it? (I'm fiddling with such styles lately anyway, and it seems that LyX will do whatever your style tells it to. I don't understand the software completely yet, so I may be totally off the mark here.) Yes, I'm sure (hah)

Re: working with repeat references to titles of other works

2005-05-05 Thread Angus Leeming
Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: Andrew Sullivan writes: Couldn't you make a BibTeX style that'd do it? (I'm fiddling with such styles lately anyway, and it seems that LyX will do whatever your style tells it to. I don't understand the software completely yet, so I may be totally off the mark here.)

find/replace with lyx objects (such as ERTs, footnotes, etc.)

2005-05-05 Thread Kevin Pfeiffer
(Starting a new thread to keep things clear) Is there a way that I can do this: Find: My text to replace Replace with: [an ERT container and its contents] -Kevin -- Kevin Pfeiffer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tiros-Translations

Re: find/replace with lyx objects (such as ERTs, footnotes, etc.)

2005-05-05 Thread Angus Leeming
Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: (Starting a new thread to keep things clear) Is there a way that I can do this: Find: My text to replace Replace with: [an ERT container and its contents] -Kevin Not within LyX. Outside LyX it's trivial because you're just replacing one string with another. Eg

Re: working with repeat references to titles of other works

2005-05-05 Thread Kevin Pfeiffer
Angus Leeming writes: Another way would be to use BibTeX and some black magic :) Seriously. As Jürgen says, the jurabib package can do what you want out of the box. LyX 1.4.x will support jurabib and \citetitle, but for now I'd suggest that you could set things up in LyX to use natbib and

Re: [slightly OT response] to Re: Strange Bib Behaviour

2005-05-05 Thread Matej Cepl
Meri Williams wrote: Hi Todd -- thanks for the advice. I do already have versions saved which still work as intended, I just can't see any difference in the config! I don't particularly want to have to go back and retype anything, but if it's necessary I can do so. I was just hoping there was

Re: find/replace with lyx objects (such as ERTs, footnotes, etc.)

2005-05-05 Thread Kevin Pfeiffer
Angus Leeming writes: Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: (Starting a new thread to keep things clear) Is there a way that I can do this: Find: My text to replace Replace with: [an ERT container and its contents] -Kevin Not within LyX. Outside LyX it's trivial because you're just replacing

Re: working with repeat references to titles of other works

2005-05-05 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Angus Leeming wrote: LyX 1.4.x will support jurabib and \citetitle \citetitle not (natively), I'm afraid. Jürgen

Re: working with repeat references to titles of other works

2005-05-05 Thread Angus Leeming
Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: Angus Leeming writes: Another way would be to use BibTeX and some black magic :) Seriously. As Jürgen says, the jurabib package can do what you want out of the box. LyX 1.4.x will support jurabib and \citetitle, but for now I'd suggest that you could set things up in

Re: working with repeat references to titles of other works

2005-05-05 Thread Angus Leeming
Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: Angus Leeming wrote: LyX 1.4.x will support jurabib and \citetitle \citetitle not (natively), I'm afraid. Really? I see it in src/frontends/controllers/biblio.C. -- Angus

Re: working with repeat references to titles of other works

2005-05-05 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Angus Leeming wrote: Really? I see it in src/frontends/controllers/biblio.C. but there's no gui for it. Jürgen

line numbers in Lyx?

2005-05-05 Thread Kevin Pfeiffer
(my day for questions) I have trouble keeping track of where I am in Lyx and think it would be really nice to have line numbers available -- either on the left, or simply a current line number below the document window (like vim does). I know that these would be changeable and not correspond

Re: Newbie question

2005-05-05 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Brian Williams wrote: Hi, Hope this isn't too simple I'd like to define a quick way in Lyx of entering this construct for entering a system of equations: $\left\{ \begin{array}{r} \\\end{array}\right.$ Currently I achieve this by using the Math panel to insert an unmatched left

Issues with Table of Contents

2005-05-05 Thread George Leach
Hello fellow LyX users, I'm currently heading for a last minute deadline and have found a couple of small hitches with my document in LyX. I was hoping I might get some help (one can but try). If people would like to see the document before commenting please just ask and I'll be willing to send

Re: working with repeat references to titles of other works

2005-05-05 Thread Matej Cepl
Angus Leeming wrote: \textit{\cite{cicerone}} Really? Why not do that in the BibTeX database? @String{BAUHAUS = {\textit{Das Bauhaus}}} Because I do not think it is wise to put presentation markup (or any non-database markup for that matter) into BibTeX database. Matj -- Matej Cepl,

Re: working with repeat references to titles of other works

2005-05-05 Thread Angus Leeming
Matej Cepl wrote: Angus Leeming wrote: \textit{\cite{cicerone}} Really? Why not do that in the BibTeX database? @String{BAUHAUS = {\textit{Das Bauhaus}}} Because I do not think it is wise to put presentation markup (or any non-database markup for that matter) into BibTeX database.

List of tables, figres, and footnotes for article submission

2005-05-05 Thread Leonid Belostotski
Hello This is an addition to my own question I asked a yesterday. I found a WIKI page (http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/RedefiningListOfFigures) that deals with refining the lest of figures. I am trying to follow the description by starting Latex and then running \documentclass{article} BTW, I use

Re: working with repeat references to titles of other works

2005-05-05 Thread Matej Cepl
Angus Leeming wrote: Shrug. Taste's differ. Change \textit to \magazine_style and define \magazine_style as you choose in the preamble of the document. No, that is not what I meant -- try to imagine, that I will finally get fed up with the slowness of LyX development and if (or when)

case insertion in a lyx document

2005-05-05 Thread Harold Mouras
Dear Lyx Users, would someone know how to insert in a Lyx document a symbol like ð. Thanks, Harold - Harold Mouras ATER Neurosciences - Université Paris 5 Inserm U742, Université Pierre et Marie Curie 9, quai Saint Bernard 75005 Paris

Re: case insertion in a lyx document

2005-05-05 Thread Paul Medwell
Harold Mouras wrote: Dear Lyx Users, would someone know how to insert in a Lyx document a symbol like ð. Thanks, Harold get a copy of the latex "symbol bible" http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/symbols/comprehensive/symbols-a4.pdf

Re: notes in footnotes?

2005-05-05 Thread Angus Leeming
Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: > Hi, > > My author has notes inside her footnotes reminding her to verify > references, archive information, etc., but it seems to me that if I leave > them there (we are migrating a book from Word to Lyx that she won't be > able to easily find them using the navigation

Re: Strange Bib Behaviour

2005-05-05 Thread Angus Leeming
Meri Williams wrote: > Hi > > I'm getting some really random bibliography behaviour. In the Layout > -> Document menu, I've chosen to use Natbib, in the Author-Year cite > style. Then, where I've added my Bibliography at the end of the > document, I've selected the format as apalike. > > This

Re: notes in footnotes?

2005-05-05 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Angus Leeming wrote: > > My author has notes inside her footnotes reminding her to verify > > references, archive information, etc., but it seems to me that if I leave > > them there (we are migrating a book from Word to Lyx that she won't be > > able to easily find them using the navigation menu.

Re: notes in footnotes?

2005-05-05 Thread Kevin Pfeiffer
Juergen Spitzmueller writes: > Angus Leeming wrote: [...] > > Notes are visible in the Navigate menu. I think you're doing the > > right thing. > > But I think there is a bug in 1.3 that note-next does not find notes > which are nested in insets (i.e. the Navigate menu will probably skip > your

Re: notes in footnotes?

2005-05-05 Thread Angus Leeming
Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: > Juergen Spitzmueller writes: >> Angus Leeming wrote: > [...] >> > Notes are visible in the Navigate menu. I think you're doing the >> > right thing. >> >> But I think there is a bug in 1.3 that note-next does not find notes >> which are nested in insets (i.e. the Navigate

quotation marks -- double _and_ single

2005-05-05 Thread Kevin Pfeiffer
Hi all, I've found the setting Layout --> Document --> Language where one can select language-appropriate quotation marks and so I get my funny German double quotation marks that look a very tiny bit like ,,this''. But I also need the same thing as single quotation marks, i.e. ,this' for

Re: notes in footnotes?

2005-05-05 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: > That is what I am observing with 1.3.5. :-( > Is there a newer version that is not too "alpha-ish"? The bug has been fixed in the 1.4 development version, which is not ready for release yet. I think there is less chance that this will also be fixed in the 1.3.x tree

Re: quotation marks -- double _and_ single

2005-05-05 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: > I've found the setting Layout --> Document --> Language where one can > select language-appropriate quotation marks and so I get my funny German > double quotation marks that look a very tiny bit like ,,this''. But I > also need the same thing as single quotation marks,

Re: Strange Bib Behaviour

2005-05-05 Thread Meri Williams
> In cases such as this I'd suggest looking at: > 1. The contents of the LyX file itself. > > It's just text. You should find entries near the top of the document: > \use_natbib 1 > \use_numerical_citations 0 Those are both there > and near the bottom > \begin_inset LatexCommand

working with repeat references to titles of other works

2005-05-05 Thread Kevin Pfeiffer
Me, again. :-) The project I am working on frequently refers to titles of magazines, works of art, publications, etc. It has occurred to me that this could cause a number of problems later on if, for example, the spelling or title changes, or something with the style (I'm using

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