Re: Latex import problem

2005-05-19 Thread Jose' Matos
On Thursday 19 May 2005 02:49, Luis Rivera wrote: In fact, the newer lyx2lyx packed with tex2lyx (binary) is incompatible with the python version packed by Ruurd: the newest version requires python 2.3 at least, and Ruurd packed python 2.2.  So Angus was right: dump the python version packed

Re: Latex import problem

2005-05-19 Thread Angus Leeming
On Wednesday 18 May 2005 21:18, Luis Rivera wrote: Angus, I'm sorry I might have stepped on your toe. You didn't. However, the best way to prevent misunderstandings from developing in an email correspondence is by being clear and firm that a particular statment is not correct. Anyway, I'm

Re: Path problem pdf output in Lyx for Win32

2005-05-19 Thread Angus Leeming
Paul A. Rubin wrote: Sounds likely. One other thing to keep in mind about PDFs on Windows v. Unix (using Acrobat Reader): if you try to View-PDF (regular, dvipdfm or pdflatex) while Reader is open, the operation will fail with an error message saying that Reader can't find the file. There

Re: Latex import problem

2005-05-19 Thread Angus Leeming
Jose' Matos wrote: On Thursday 19 May 2005 02:49, Luis Rivera wrote: In fact, the newer lyx2lyx packed with tex2lyx (binary) is incompatible with the python version packed by Ruurd: the newest version requires python 2.3 at least, and Ruurd packed python 2.2.  So Angus was right: dump the

Re: Latex import problem

2005-05-19 Thread Jose' Matos
On Thursday 19 May 2005 10:02, Angus Leeming wrote: I think that Luis is finding that Ruurd's stripped down python package doesn't include some of the modules that lyx2lyx makes use of. That is fair. I was not sure if this was a problem with Ruurd's port or with lyx2lyx itself, if the later

Re: Latex import problem

2005-05-19 Thread TGreiner
Yes , at first I tried the original version in Ruurd´s package essential modules are missing. Thomas Greiner On Thu, 19 May 2005 10:02:40 +0100, Angus Leeming wrote: Jose' Matos wrote: On Thursday 19 May 2005 02:49, Luis Rivera wrote: In fact, the newer lyx2lyx packed with tex2lyx (binary) is

lyx window settings

2005-05-19 Thread treefox
hello i love lyx, writing novels with it - but i just have not found any function allowing me to have lyx for windows save the window size and position i give it each time i start it: currently i have to do that every time again. is that function available? if not, may the developers please put it

Re: lyx window settings

2005-05-19 Thread Kevin Pfeiffer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: hello i love lyx, writing novels with it - but i just have not found any function allowing me to have lyx for windows save the window size and position i give it each time i start it: currently i have to do that every time again. is that function available? if not,

Problem with table layout

2005-05-19 Thread Invisible Person
Hello, I have created a table with two columns, and inserted text. A preview shows me, the text of the columns only in one line, so I don't see all the text. How can I use multiple lines in one column, or should I use linebreaks? Thanks, Christian

Table of contents

2005-05-19 Thread Invisible Person
Hello, I want to add the index, list of figures to the table of contents, But don't know how ? I am using the book (koma-script) class. Thanks, Christian

Re: Table of contents

2005-05-19 Thread Kevin Pfeiffer
Invisible Person writes: [Please use a real name if you are asking someone for help.] I want to add the index, list of figures to the table of contents, But don't know how ? I am using the book (koma-script) class. I thought that the list of figures, etc., happens automatically, but I had the

Re: Table of contents

2005-05-19 Thread Kevin Pfeiffer
Kevin Pfeiffer writes: I thought that the list of figures, etc., happens automatically, but I had the same question a couple weeks ago regarding the TOC Sorry, that should be regarding the index and not regarding the TOC... -- Kevin Pfeiffer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tiros-Translations

Preview in 1.3.5 on MAC OS X

2005-05-19 Thread Hank Stevens
Mac OS X 10.3.9 I have always had trouble previewing since my upgrade to LyX 1.3.5. Just yesterday, I tried updating LyX and teTeX (Wierda site) with all the suggested apps. I have tried TeXShop and TeXniscope, following (to the best of my meager abilities) the instructions on the Wiki, but

Re: Preview in 1.3.5 on MAC OS X

2005-05-19 Thread Bennett Helm
On May 19, 2005, at 9:56 AM, Hank Stevens wrote: Mac OS X 10.3.9 I have always had trouble previewing since my upgrade to LyX 1.3.5. Just yesterday, I tried updating LyX and teTeX (Wierda site) with all the suggested apps. I have tried TeXShop and TeXniscope, following (to the best of my meager

Re: Problem with table layout

2005-05-19 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Invisible Person wrote: Hello, I have created a table with two columns, and inserted text. A preview shows me, the text of the columns only in one line, so I don't see all the text. How can I use multiple lines in one column, or should I use linebreaks? Thanks, Christian Right click the

Wiki: Separate group for windows-related pages?

2005-05-19 Thread chr
Hi I've noticed that pages related to running/using LyX on windows are getting bigger. If you'd like, it's perfectly possible to create a separate wiki group for this purpose. This might for instance make it easier to restructure big pages into several smaller pages (assuming this is of interest

Re: Preview in 1.3.5 on MAC OS X

2005-05-19 Thread Hank Stevens
Bennett - Thank you for your assistance. The problem is that I don't get previews of .ps or .pdf files. I performed the steps you laid out (THANKYOU for the clarity). Unfortunately, I now can neither get previews nor convert to Postcript or pdf. 1. My PDF (dvipdfm) option gives me text with

Re: Path problem pdf output in Lyx for Win32

2005-05-19 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Angus Leeming wrote: Paul A. Rubin wrote: Sounds likely. One other thing to keep in mind about PDFs on Windows v. Unix (using Acrobat Reader): if you try to View-PDF (regular, dvipdfm or pdflatex) while Reader is open, the operation will fail with an error message saying that Reader can't find

Re: lyx in spanish?

2005-05-19 Thread Marcelo Acuÿfffff1a
Hola, in /etc/sysconfig/laguage I try with es_ES.UTF-8 es_ES.ISO-8859-1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] for variable RC_LANG but I not solved the problem How I can solved the problem? Thanks in advance. Marcelo Acuña Jose' Matos [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: On Tuesday 10 May 2005 00:36, Marcelo Acuÿf1a

Re: lyx in spanish?

2005-05-19 Thread Angus Leeming
Marcelo Acuÿf1a wrote: Hola, in /etc/sysconfig/laguage I try with es_ES.UTF-8 es_ES.ISO-8859-1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] for variable RC_LANG but I not solved the problem How I can solved the problem? Try launching LyX from the command line as: $ LANG=es_ES lyx Angus Thanks in advance.

Re: Wiki: Separate group for windows-related pages?

2005-05-19 Thread Angus Leeming
Christian wrote: Hi I've noticed that pages related to running/using LyX on windows are getting bigger. If you'd like, it's perfectly possible to create a separate wiki group for this purpose. This might for instance make it easier to restructure big pages into several smaller pages

Re: Wiki: Separate group for windows-related pages?

2005-05-19 Thread Rob S
This makes sense to me. A lot of the traffic on this list is caused by Windows-specific bugs and work arounds. Making the Windows pages more visible and easier to extract the desired information from would be a good thing IMO. Of course, adding an automatic redirect to the new pages would be a

Re: question: no font-slant function?

2005-05-19 Thread Jose' Matos
On Friday 13 May 2005 13:39, G. Milde wrote: On 11.05.05, Jose' Matos wrote: (This would need some more thoughts about the right place of the files and incorporating with the python path.) That was also my thought. :-) One idea would be to transform LyX into a package instead of

Right alignment of text

2005-05-19 Thread Angus Leeming
I'm having problems with right alignment of some text. The problem exists (to my eyes anyway) with a standard article, but is much worse with the curriculum vitae class. See attached .lyx files; the resulting .dvi files are, well, ugly. Is there any way I can make the text line up 'pleasingly'?

Re: Right alignment of text

2005-05-19 Thread Angus Leeming
Angus Leeming wrote: I'm having problems with right alignment of some text. The problem exists (to my eyes anyway) with a standard article, but is much worse with the curriculum vitae class. See attached .lyx files; the resulting .dvi files are, well, ugly. Is there any way I can make the

Re: Wiki: Separate group for windows-related pages?

2005-05-19 Thread chr
On Thu, 19 May 2005, Rob S wrote: This makes sense to me. A lot of the traffic on this list is caused by Windows-specific bugs and work arounds. Making the Windows pages more visible and easier to extract the desired information from would be a good thing IMO. Of course, adding an

Re: Wiki: Separate group for windows-related pages?

2005-05-19 Thread Ekkehart Schlicht
Uwe suggested this to me when I put some new stuff on the LayXWin Wiki page. He sees the Windows page as concerned with essentials, and I agree. So I took some of my suggestions to another page http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LyXWinTips Uwe will transfer other inessential items to this page. I hope that

Re: lyx window settings

2005-05-19 Thread Matej Cepl
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i love lyx, writing novels with it - but i just have not found any function allowing me to have lyx for windows save the window size and position i give it each time i start it: currently i have to do that every time again. is that function available? if not, may the

Re: Wiki: Separate group for windows-related pages?

2005-05-19 Thread chr
On Thu, 19 May 2005, Ekkehart Schlicht wrote: Uwe suggested this to me when I put some new stuff on the LayXWin Wiki page. He sees the Windows page as concerned with essentials, and I agree. So I took some of my suggestions to another page http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LyXWinTips Uwe will

Re: lyx window settings

2005-05-19 Thread Kevin Pfeiffer
Matej Cepl writes: It is crucial to know what platform are you on. If it is X Window (i.e., you are on Linux, FreeBSD, etc.), then size of the window, its placement, etc. are really not done by the application, but by a window manager. Yes, but aren't applications also capable of

lyx command for do not indent paragraph?

2005-05-19 Thread Kevin Pfeiffer
Hi all, I spent some time on the train yesterday trying to set up a shortcut for this option (the checkbox under Layout -- Paragraph) but could not steal-- or _find_ a name for this command in any of the keybindings or any other files in LYXDIR. Can anyone help? -K -- Kevin Pfeiffer [EMAIL

Re: lyx window settings

2005-05-19 Thread Angus Leeming
Matej Cepl wrote: If you are on Windows, then the problem is that you have to persuade that one developer who already fights with making LyX working on Windows to make this work. :) That'll be me then. Actually, we have a new volunteer on lyx-devel, Hammer Armin, who is interested in adding

Re: lyx command for do not indent paragraph?

2005-05-19 Thread Angus Leeming
Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: Hi all, I spent some time on the train yesterday trying to set up a shortcut for this option (the checkbox under Layout -- Paragraph) but could not steal-- or _find_ a name for this command in any of the keybindings or any other files in LYXDIR. Can anyone help? No,

Re: Latex import problem

2005-05-19 Thread Luis Rivera
TGreiner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yes , at first I tried the original version in Ruurds package essential modules are missing. Thomas Greiner On Thu, 19 May 2005 10:02:40 +0100, Angus Leeming wrote: It seems to be something like that... or I failed to redirect pythonpath to the right

Re: Latex import problem

2005-05-19 Thread chr
On Thu, 19 May 2005, Luis Rivera wrote: Yes , at first I tried the original version in Ruurd´s package essential modules are missing. Thomas Greiner On Thu, 19 May 2005 10:02:40 +0100, Angus Leeming wrote: It seems to be something like that... or I failed to redirect pythonpath

Setting the spacing between \itemize entries?

2005-05-19 Thread Angus Leeming
I can do it with ERT in the body of the document as ERT\begin{itemize} \setlength{\itemsep}{0pt}/ERT ERT\item /ERTfoo ERT\item /ERTbar ERT\end{itemize} But can I do it for all itemize lists by shoving something in the preamble instead and using LyX's itemize environment? Angus

cross references to other footnotes?

2005-05-19 Thread Kevin Pfeiffer
I need to have a footnote refer to another footnote _or else_ multiple references to the same footnote. Is there a way to do this that maintains automated numbering? Browsing has not turned up anything, yet. The case here is a reference to names that appear more than once in the book. It

Re: Right alignment of text

2005-05-19 Thread Kevin Pfeiffer
Hi Angus, Angus Leeming writes: Angus Leeming wrote: I'm having problems with right alignment of some text. The problem exists (to my eyes anyway) with a standard article, but is much worse with the curriculum vitae class. See attached .lyx files; the resulting .dvi files are, well,

Re: cross references to other footnotes?

2005-05-19 Thread Angus Leeming
Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: I need to have a footnote refer to another footnote _or else_ multiple references to the same footnote. Add a label (Insert-Label) to the footnote to which you wish to refer and then reference it using Insert-Cross Reference. Angus

Re: cross references to other footnotes?

2005-05-19 Thread Kevin Pfeiffer
Angus Leeming writes: Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: I need to have a footnote refer to another footnote _or else_ multiple references to the same footnote. Add a label (Insert-Label) to the footnote to which you wish to refer and then reference it using Insert-Cross Reference. Oh. I had tried

Re: Right alignment of text

2005-05-19 Thread Angus Leeming
Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: Hi Angus, Hi! I'm having problems with right alignment of some text. The problem exists (to my eyes anyway) with a standard article, but is much worse with the curriculum vitae class. See attached .lyx files; the resulting .dvi files are, well, ugly. Is there any way I can

Re: Setting the spacing between \itemize entries?

2005-05-19 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Angus Leeming wrote: I can do it with ERT in the body of the document as ERT\begin{itemize} \setlength{\itemsep}{0pt}/ERT ERT\item /ERTfoo ERT\item /ERTbar ERT\end{itemize} But can I do it for all itemize lists by shoving something in the preamble instead and using LyX's itemize environment?

Re: lyx command for do not indent paragraph?

2005-05-19 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Angus Leeming wrote: Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: Hi all, I spent some time on the train yesterday trying to set up a shortcut for this option (the checkbox under Layout -- Paragraph) but could not steal-- or _find_ a name for this command in any of the keybindings or any other files in LYXDIR. Can

Re: Right alignment of text

2005-05-19 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Angus Leeming wrote: Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: Hi Angus, Hi! I'm having problems with right alignment of some text. The problem exists (to my eyes anyway) with a standard article, but is much worse with the curriculum vitae class. See attached .lyx files; the resulting .dvi files are, well, ugly. Is

Conversion to PDF fails

2005-05-19 Thread Roger McMurtrie
When using ViewPDF which has been working without problems in the past with a large document I have been developing for over a year, I now get the following Lyx error dialog: Cannot convert file Error while executing ps2pdf  -dCompatibilityLevel=1.3 'thesis5.ps' How do I go about finding the

Re: Right alignment of text

2005-05-19 Thread Paul Medwell
Angus Leeming wrote: I'm having problems with right alignment of some text. The problem exists (to my eyes anyway) with a standard article, but is much worse with the curriculum vitae class. See attached .lyx files; the resulting .dvi files are, well, ugly. Is there any way I can make the text

Re: Preview in 1.3.5 on MAC OS X

2005-05-19 Thread Bennett Helm
On May 19, 2005, at 10:48 AM, Hank Stevens wrote: The problem is that I don't get previews of .ps or .pdf files. I performed the steps you laid out (THANKYOU for the clarity). Unfortunately, I now can neither get previews nor convert to Postcript or pdf. 1. My PDF (dvipdfm) option gives me text

Re: Wiki: Separate group for windows-related pages?

2005-05-19 Thread Ekkehart Schlicht
It would be good if someone takes charge and notifies the list in order to avoid that two persons work on this. I cannot do this at the moment. Ekkehart

Re: Latex import problem

2005-05-19 Thread Jose' Matos
On Thursday 19 May 2005 02:49, Luis Rivera wrote: In fact, the newer lyx2lyx packed with tex2lyx (binary) is incompatible with the python version packed by Ruurd: the newest version requires python 2.3 at least, and Ruurd packed python 2.2.  So Angus was right: dump the python version packed

Re: Latex import problem

2005-05-19 Thread Angus Leeming
On Wednesday 18 May 2005 21:18, Luis Rivera wrote: Angus, I'm sorry I might have stepped on your toe. You didn't. However, the best way to prevent misunderstandings from developing in an email correspondence is by being clear and firm that a particular statment is not correct. Anyway, I'm

Re: Path problem pdf output in Lyx for Win32

2005-05-19 Thread Angus Leeming
Paul A. Rubin wrote: Sounds likely. One other thing to keep in mind about PDFs on Windows v. Unix (using Acrobat Reader): if you try to View-PDF (regular, dvipdfm or pdflatex) while Reader is open, the operation will fail with an error message saying that Reader can't find the file. There

Re: Latex import problem

2005-05-19 Thread Angus Leeming
Jose' Matos wrote: On Thursday 19 May 2005 02:49, Luis Rivera wrote: In fact, the newer lyx2lyx packed with tex2lyx (binary) is incompatible with the python version packed by Ruurd: the newest version requires python 2.3 at least, and Ruurd packed python 2.2.  So Angus was right: dump the

Re: Latex import problem

2005-05-19 Thread Jose' Matos
On Thursday 19 May 2005 10:02, Angus Leeming wrote: I think that Luis is finding that Ruurd's stripped down python package doesn't include some of the modules that lyx2lyx makes use of. That is fair. I was not sure if this was a problem with Ruurd's port or with lyx2lyx itself, if the later

Re: Latex import problem

2005-05-19 Thread TGreiner
Yes , at first I tried the original version in Ruurd´s package essential modules are missing. Thomas Greiner On Thu, 19 May 2005 10:02:40 +0100, Angus Leeming wrote: Jose' Matos wrote: On Thursday 19 May 2005 02:49, Luis Rivera wrote: In fact, the newer lyx2lyx packed with tex2lyx (binary) is

lyx window settings

2005-05-19 Thread treefox
hello i love lyx, writing novels with it - but i just have not found any function allowing me to have lyx for windows save the window size and position i give it each time i start it: currently i have to do that every time again. is that function available? if not, may the developers please put it

Re: lyx window settings

2005-05-19 Thread Kevin Pfeiffer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: hello i love lyx, writing novels with it - but i just have not found any function allowing me to have lyx for windows save the window size and position i give it each time i start it: currently i have to do that every time again. is that function available? if not,

Problem with table layout

2005-05-19 Thread Invisible Person
Hello, I have created a table with two columns, and inserted text. A preview shows me, the text of the columns only in one line, so I don't see all the text. How can I use multiple lines in one column, or should I use linebreaks? Thanks, Christian

Table of contents

2005-05-19 Thread Invisible Person
Hello, I want to add the index, list of figures to the table of contents, But don't know how ? I am using the book (koma-script) class. Thanks, Christian

Re: Table of contents

2005-05-19 Thread Kevin Pfeiffer
Invisible Person writes: [Please use a real name if you are asking someone for help.] I want to add the index, list of figures to the table of contents, But don't know how ? I am using the book (koma-script) class. I thought that the list of figures, etc., happens automatically, but I had the

Re: Table of contents

2005-05-19 Thread Kevin Pfeiffer
Kevin Pfeiffer writes: I thought that the list of figures, etc., happens automatically, but I had the same question a couple weeks ago regarding the TOC Sorry, that should be regarding the index and not regarding the TOC... -- Kevin Pfeiffer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tiros-Translations

Preview in 1.3.5 on MAC OS X

2005-05-19 Thread Hank Stevens
Mac OS X 10.3.9 I have always had trouble previewing since my upgrade to LyX 1.3.5. Just yesterday, I tried updating LyX and teTeX (Wierda site) with all the suggested apps. I have tried TeXShop and TeXniscope, following (to the best of my meager abilities) the instructions on the Wiki, but

Re: Preview in 1.3.5 on MAC OS X

2005-05-19 Thread Bennett Helm
On May 19, 2005, at 9:56 AM, Hank Stevens wrote: Mac OS X 10.3.9 I have always had trouble previewing since my upgrade to LyX 1.3.5. Just yesterday, I tried updating LyX and teTeX (Wierda site) with all the suggested apps. I have tried TeXShop and TeXniscope, following (to the best of my meager

Re: Problem with table layout

2005-05-19 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Invisible Person wrote: Hello, I have created a table with two columns, and inserted text. A preview shows me, the text of the columns only in one line, so I don't see all the text. How can I use multiple lines in one column, or should I use linebreaks? Thanks, Christian Right click the

Wiki: Separate group for windows-related pages?

2005-05-19 Thread chr
Hi I've noticed that pages related to running/using LyX on windows are getting bigger. If you'd like, it's perfectly possible to create a separate wiki group for this purpose. This might for instance make it easier to restructure big pages into several smaller pages (assuming this is of interest

Re: Preview in 1.3.5 on MAC OS X

2005-05-19 Thread Hank Stevens
Bennett - Thank you for your assistance. The problem is that I don't get previews of .ps or .pdf files. I performed the steps you laid out (THANKYOU for the clarity). Unfortunately, I now can neither get previews nor convert to Postcript or pdf. 1. My PDF (dvipdfm) option gives me text with

Re: Path problem pdf output in Lyx for Win32

2005-05-19 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Angus Leeming wrote: Paul A. Rubin wrote: Sounds likely. One other thing to keep in mind about PDFs on Windows v. Unix (using Acrobat Reader): if you try to View-PDF (regular, dvipdfm or pdflatex) while Reader is open, the operation will fail with an error message saying that Reader can't find

Re: lyx in spanish?

2005-05-19 Thread Marcelo Acuÿfffff1a
Hola, in /etc/sysconfig/laguage I try with es_ES.UTF-8 es_ES.ISO-8859-1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] for variable RC_LANG but I not solved the problem How I can solved the problem? Thanks in advance. Marcelo Acuña Jose' Matos [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: On Tuesday 10 May 2005 00:36, Marcelo Acuÿf1a

Re: lyx in spanish?

2005-05-19 Thread Angus Leeming
Marcelo Acuÿf1a wrote: Hola, in /etc/sysconfig/laguage I try with es_ES.UTF-8 es_ES.ISO-8859-1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] for variable RC_LANG but I not solved the problem How I can solved the problem? Try launching LyX from the command line as: $ LANG=es_ES lyx Angus Thanks in advance.

Re: Wiki: Separate group for windows-related pages?

2005-05-19 Thread Angus Leeming
Christian wrote: Hi I've noticed that pages related to running/using LyX on windows are getting bigger. If you'd like, it's perfectly possible to create a separate wiki group for this purpose. This might for instance make it easier to restructure big pages into several smaller pages

Re: Wiki: Separate group for windows-related pages?

2005-05-19 Thread Rob S
This makes sense to me. A lot of the traffic on this list is caused by Windows-specific bugs and work arounds. Making the Windows pages more visible and easier to extract the desired information from would be a good thing IMO. Of course, adding an automatic redirect to the new pages would be a

Re: question: no font-slant function?

2005-05-19 Thread Jose' Matos
On Friday 13 May 2005 13:39, G. Milde wrote: On 11.05.05, Jose' Matos wrote: (This would need some more thoughts about the right place of the files and incorporating with the python path.) That was also my thought. :-) One idea would be to transform LyX into a package instead of

Right alignment of text

2005-05-19 Thread Angus Leeming
I'm having problems with right alignment of some text. The problem exists (to my eyes anyway) with a standard article, but is much worse with the curriculum vitae class. See attached .lyx files; the resulting .dvi files are, well, ugly. Is there any way I can make the text line up 'pleasingly'?

Re: Right alignment of text

2005-05-19 Thread Angus Leeming
Angus Leeming wrote: I'm having problems with right alignment of some text. The problem exists (to my eyes anyway) with a standard article, but is much worse with the curriculum vitae class. See attached .lyx files; the resulting .dvi files are, well, ugly. Is there any way I can make the

Re: Wiki: Separate group for windows-related pages?

2005-05-19 Thread chr
On Thu, 19 May 2005, Rob S wrote: This makes sense to me. A lot of the traffic on this list is caused by Windows-specific bugs and work arounds. Making the Windows pages more visible and easier to extract the desired information from would be a good thing IMO. Of course, adding an

Re: Wiki: Separate group for windows-related pages?

2005-05-19 Thread Ekkehart Schlicht
Uwe suggested this to me when I put some new stuff on the LayXWin Wiki page. He sees the Windows page as concerned with essentials, and I agree. So I took some of my suggestions to another page http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LyXWinTips Uwe will transfer other inessential items to this page. I hope that

Re: lyx window settings

2005-05-19 Thread Matej Cepl
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i love lyx, writing novels with it - but i just have not found any function allowing me to have lyx for windows save the window size and position i give it each time i start it: currently i have to do that every time again. is that function available? if not, may the

Re: Wiki: Separate group for windows-related pages?

2005-05-19 Thread chr
On Thu, 19 May 2005, Ekkehart Schlicht wrote: Uwe suggested this to me when I put some new stuff on the LayXWin Wiki page. He sees the Windows page as concerned with essentials, and I agree. So I took some of my suggestions to another page http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LyXWinTips Uwe will

Re: lyx window settings

2005-05-19 Thread Kevin Pfeiffer
Matej Cepl writes: It is crucial to know what platform are you on. If it is X Window (i.e., you are on Linux, FreeBSD, etc.), then size of the window, its placement, etc. are really not done by the application, but by a window manager. Yes, but aren't applications also capable of

lyx command for do not indent paragraph?

2005-05-19 Thread Kevin Pfeiffer
Hi all, I spent some time on the train yesterday trying to set up a shortcut for this option (the checkbox under Layout -- Paragraph) but could not steal-- or _find_ a name for this command in any of the keybindings or any other files in LYXDIR. Can anyone help? -K -- Kevin Pfeiffer [EMAIL

Re: lyx window settings

2005-05-19 Thread Angus Leeming
Matej Cepl wrote: If you are on Windows, then the problem is that you have to persuade that one developer who already fights with making LyX working on Windows to make this work. :) That'll be me then. Actually, we have a new volunteer on lyx-devel, Hammer Armin, who is interested in adding

Re: lyx command for do not indent paragraph?

2005-05-19 Thread Angus Leeming
Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: Hi all, I spent some time on the train yesterday trying to set up a shortcut for this option (the checkbox under Layout -- Paragraph) but could not steal-- or _find_ a name for this command in any of the keybindings or any other files in LYXDIR. Can anyone help? No,

Re: Latex import problem

2005-05-19 Thread Luis Rivera
TGreiner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yes , at first I tried the original version in Ruurds package essential modules are missing. Thomas Greiner On Thu, 19 May 2005 10:02:40 +0100, Angus Leeming wrote: It seems to be something like that... or I failed to redirect pythonpath to the right

Re: Latex import problem

2005-05-19 Thread chr
On Thu, 19 May 2005, Luis Rivera wrote: Yes , at first I tried the original version in Ruurd´s package essential modules are missing. Thomas Greiner On Thu, 19 May 2005 10:02:40 +0100, Angus Leeming wrote: It seems to be something like that... or I failed to redirect pythonpath

Setting the spacing between \itemize entries?

2005-05-19 Thread Angus Leeming
I can do it with ERT in the body of the document as ERT\begin{itemize} \setlength{\itemsep}{0pt}/ERT ERT\item /ERTfoo ERT\item /ERTbar ERT\end{itemize} But can I do it for all itemize lists by shoving something in the preamble instead and using LyX's itemize environment? Angus

cross references to other footnotes?

2005-05-19 Thread Kevin Pfeiffer
I need to have a footnote refer to another footnote _or else_ multiple references to the same footnote. Is there a way to do this that maintains automated numbering? Browsing has not turned up anything, yet. The case here is a reference to names that appear more than once in the book. It

Re: Right alignment of text

2005-05-19 Thread Kevin Pfeiffer
Hi Angus, Angus Leeming writes: Angus Leeming wrote: I'm having problems with right alignment of some text. The problem exists (to my eyes anyway) with a standard article, but is much worse with the curriculum vitae class. See attached .lyx files; the resulting .dvi files are, well,

Re: cross references to other footnotes?

2005-05-19 Thread Angus Leeming
Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: I need to have a footnote refer to another footnote _or else_ multiple references to the same footnote. Add a label (Insert-Label) to the footnote to which you wish to refer and then reference it using Insert-Cross Reference. Angus

Re: cross references to other footnotes?

2005-05-19 Thread Kevin Pfeiffer
Angus Leeming writes: Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: I need to have a footnote refer to another footnote _or else_ multiple references to the same footnote. Add a label (Insert-Label) to the footnote to which you wish to refer and then reference it using Insert-Cross Reference. Oh. I had tried

Re: Right alignment of text

2005-05-19 Thread Angus Leeming
Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: Hi Angus, Hi! I'm having problems with right alignment of some text. The problem exists (to my eyes anyway) with a standard article, but is much worse with the curriculum vitae class. See attached .lyx files; the resulting .dvi files are, well, ugly. Is there any way I can

Re: Setting the spacing between \itemize entries?

2005-05-19 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Angus Leeming wrote: I can do it with ERT in the body of the document as ERT\begin{itemize} \setlength{\itemsep}{0pt}/ERT ERT\item /ERTfoo ERT\item /ERTbar ERT\end{itemize} But can I do it for all itemize lists by shoving something in the preamble instead and using LyX's itemize environment?

Re: lyx command for do not indent paragraph?

2005-05-19 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Angus Leeming wrote: Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: Hi all, I spent some time on the train yesterday trying to set up a shortcut for this option (the checkbox under Layout -- Paragraph) but could not steal-- or _find_ a name for this command in any of the keybindings or any other files in LYXDIR. Can

Re: Right alignment of text

2005-05-19 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Angus Leeming wrote: Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: Hi Angus, Hi! I'm having problems with right alignment of some text. The problem exists (to my eyes anyway) with a standard article, but is much worse with the curriculum vitae class. See attached .lyx files; the resulting .dvi files are, well, ugly. Is

Conversion to PDF fails

2005-05-19 Thread Roger McMurtrie
When using ViewPDF which has been working without problems in the past with a large document I have been developing for over a year, I now get the following Lyx error dialog: Cannot convert file Error while executing ps2pdf  -dCompatibilityLevel=1.3 'thesis5.ps' How do I go about finding the

Re: Right alignment of text

2005-05-19 Thread Paul Medwell
Angus Leeming wrote: I'm having problems with right alignment of some text. The problem exists (to my eyes anyway) with a standard article, but is much worse with the curriculum vitae class. See attached .lyx files; the resulting .dvi files are, well, ugly. Is there any way I can make the text

Re: Preview in 1.3.5 on MAC OS X

2005-05-19 Thread Bennett Helm
On May 19, 2005, at 10:48 AM, Hank Stevens wrote: The problem is that I don't get previews of .ps or .pdf files. I performed the steps you laid out (THANKYOU for the clarity). Unfortunately, I now can neither get previews nor convert to Postcript or pdf. 1. My PDF (dvipdfm) option gives me text

Re: Wiki: Separate group for windows-related pages?

2005-05-19 Thread Ekkehart Schlicht
It would be good if someone takes charge and notifies the list in order to avoid that two persons work on this. I cannot do this at the moment. Ekkehart

Re: Latex import problem

2005-05-19 Thread Jose' Matos
On Thursday 19 May 2005 02:49, Luis Rivera wrote: > In fact, the newer lyx2lyx packed with tex2lyx (binary) is incompatible > with the python version packed by Ruurd: the newest version requires > python 2.3 at least, and Ruurd packed python 2.2.  So Angus was right: > dump the python version

Re: Latex import problem

2005-05-19 Thread Angus Leeming
On Wednesday 18 May 2005 21:18, Luis Rivera wrote: > Angus, > I'm sorry I might have stepped on your toe. You didn't. However, the best way to prevent misunderstandings from developing in an email correspondence is by being clear and firm that a particular statment is not correct. Anyway, I'm

Re: Path problem & pdf output in Lyx for Win32

2005-05-19 Thread Angus Leeming
Paul A. Rubin wrote: > Sounds likely. One other thing to keep in mind about PDFs on Windows v. > Unix (using Acrobat Reader): if you try to View->PDF (regular, dvipdfm > or pdflatex) while Reader is open, the operation will fail with an error > message saying that Reader can't find the file.

Re: Latex import problem

2005-05-19 Thread Angus Leeming
Jose' Matos wrote: > On Thursday 19 May 2005 02:49, Luis Rivera wrote: >> In fact, the newer lyx2lyx packed with tex2lyx (binary) is incompatible >> with the python version packed by Ruurd: the newest version requires >> python 2.3 at least, and Ruurd packed python 2.2.  So Angus was right: >>

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