Re: File format extension

2005-08-08 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Paul A. Rubin wrote: (In other words, making it pdf4 does not tell LyX to modify the pdflatex command to produce an output file named whatever.pdf4.) No. it just tells LyX what to do with given whatever.pdf4 files. You could define a pdf-pdf4 converter, although I think this is rather silly.

Re: File format extension

2005-08-08 Thread Angus Leeming
Stephen P. Harris wrote: Before I answer that question I would like to comment on your advice to change the Path statement in the preference file rather than run a reconfigure. Since the location of the preference file is somewhat out of the way, I usually Search for it, starting from

Re: File format extension

2005-08-08 Thread Stephen P. Harris
- Original Message - From: Angus Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Monday, August 08, 2005 1:43 AM Subject: Re: File format extension Stephen P. Harris wrote: Before I answer that question I would like to comment on your advice to change the Path statement

Re: File format extension

2005-08-08 Thread Angus Leeming
Stephen P. Harris wrote: I provided the tip because a Windows user already complained about not being able to find the file and using the Search engine. It is also more efficient than navigating to the file in order to edit it. Search, double-click on file, and it opens with the default

lengths

2005-08-08 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
Hi I am trying to make a line on a page that is as long as the actual text in the paragraph, not the width of the text on the page. This may sound confusing but it should look like this MY NAME UNIVERSITY ADDRESS DATE _ Rather than a line that goes across the whole page.

after error correction a temp file is not updated? (1.3.5)

2005-08-08 Thread Kevin Pfeiffer
Hi all, (Perhaps this is already fixed in the newer version?) After getting an error report when trying to generate a dvi file, then fixing the error and deleting the error message I again select view DVI. This then generates 250 errors found at which point I have to close and re-open the LyX

Re: no TeX classes after FC4 upgrade

2005-08-08 Thread Derek Lamb
Milos Komarcevic wrote: Derek Lamb [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have run texhash and LyX-Edit-Reconfigure, deleted my ~/.lyx directory and restarted, even reinstalled LyX just to be sure, to no avail. When I do LyX-Help-LaTeX Configuration, Section 1 says that The LaTeX version that

Re: no TeX classes after FC4 upgrade

2005-08-08 Thread Paul Smith
On 8/8/05, Derek Lamb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have run texhash and LyX-Edit-Reconfigure, deleted my ~/.lyx directory and restarted, even reinstalled LyX just to be sure, to no avail. When I do LyX-Help-LaTeX Configuration, Section 1 says that The LaTeX version that LyX will use is: ???

Re: no TeX classes after FC4 upgrade

2005-08-08 Thread Jose' Matos
On Monday 08 August 2005 16:53, Derek Lamb wrote: So, I now have to agree with Paul that there is a problem with my LaTeX, not with LyX.  So this should get classified as a Fedora bug (big surprise) rather than a LyX problem. What do you get with the following command? $ rpm -qa tetex*

Re: no TeX classes after FC4 upgrade

2005-08-08 Thread Derek Lamb
Jose' Matos wrote: On Monday 08 August 2005 16:53, Derek Lamb wrote: So, I now have to agree with Paul that there is a problem with my LaTeX, not with LyX. So this should get classified as a Fedora bug (big surprise) rather than a LyX problem. What do you get with the following

Text and figure layout - HELP!

2005-08-08 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
Ok I have been struggling with this all day and it seems to me there must be an obvious solution. The layout I would like is as follows: A name and address above each other right aligned - this bit is easy as I can just align the paragraph. Under that a rule as wide as the text above it.

doubleclicking files vs. file-open in lyx/win

2005-08-08 Thread Sven Schreiber
Hi, this is from a happy user of 1.3.6 on win 2000. Nevertheless, one little quirk I want to ask about: I get different results from the same lyx-file when 1) opening it via file-open dialog, and 2) double-clicking it to be automatically opened. In case 1, everything is perfect. In case 2, the

Re: doubleclicking files vs. file-open in lyx/win

2005-08-08 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
- Original Message - From: Sven Schreiber [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: LyX Users List lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Monday, August 08, 2005 6:20 PM Subject: doubleclicking files vs. file-open in lyx/win Hi, this is from a happy user of 1.3.6 on win 2000. Nevertheless, one little quirk I

Re: Defaults

2005-08-08 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 04:48:10PM -0400, Matthew Cohen wrote: Second, I don't particularly like the way the borders are handled in the default setting for insert tabular material in LyX. In everything I write, I like to have a border above and below the first row, and nowhere else.

Re: Text and figure layout - HELP!

2005-08-08 Thread Herbert Voss
Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: Ok I have been struggling with this all day and it seems to me there must be an obvious solution. The layout I would like is as follows: A name and address above each other right aligned - this bit is easy as I can just align the paragraph. Under that a rule as wide

Re: Defaults

2005-08-08 Thread Matthew Cohen
Sorry to have been unclear, and come off like a megalomaniac in the process. I didn't mean to imply that my way should be the default for everyone. Rather, I thought it might be convenient to be able to change the default settings for such things via Preferences. Matt Cohen On Aug 8,

Re: Text and figure layout - HELP!

2005-08-08 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
- Original Message - From: Herbert Voss [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Monday, August 08, 2005 8:12 PM Subject: Re: Text and figure layout - HELP! Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: Ok I have been struggling with this all day and it seems to me there must be an obvious

Re: doubleclicking files vs. file-open in lyx/win

2005-08-08 Thread Angus Leeming
Sven Schreiber wrote: Hi, this is from a happy user of 1.3.6 on win 2000. Nevertheless, one little quirk I want to ask about: I get different results from the same lyx-file when 1) opening it via file-open dialog, and 2) double-clicking it to be automatically opened. In case 1, everything is

Re: Version 1.3.6 for windows

2005-08-08 Thread Angus Leeming
Jose Capco wrote: Is there already a stable binary. Last time I download the binaries (it was stated In a few days we will have the binaries.. and funnily there was a link to the binary).. there were a few problems and so lyx wasn't able to run.. so I swtiched back to 1.3.5 .. I was wondering if

Space between table columns

2005-08-08 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
Hi I have created a table in latex and imported it into Lyx. Unfortunately there is a large amount of space between the contents of each column. I want them to almost touch. If I right align the left hand column and left align the right, then I can get what I want (albeit with the insertion of

Re: Space between table columns

2005-08-08 Thread Herbert Voss
Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: I have created a table in latex and imported it into Lyx. Unfortunately there is a large amount of space between the contents of each column. I want them to almost touch. If I right align the left hand column and left align the right, then I can get what I want (albeit

Re: Space between table columns

2005-08-08 Thread Herbert Voss
Herbert Voss wrote: Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: I have created a table in latex and imported it into Lyx. Unfortunately there is a large amount of space between the contents of each column. I want them to almost touch. If I right align the left hand column and left align the right, then I can get

Re: File format extension

2005-08-08 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Paul A. Rubin wrote: (In other words, making it pdf4 does not tell LyX to modify the pdflatex command to produce an output file named whatever.pdf4.) No. it just tells LyX what to do with given whatever.pdf4 files. You could define a pdf-pdf4 converter, although I think this is rather silly.

Re: File format extension

2005-08-08 Thread Angus Leeming
Stephen P. Harris wrote: Before I answer that question I would like to comment on your advice to change the Path statement in the preference file rather than run a reconfigure. Since the location of the preference file is somewhat out of the way, I usually Search for it, starting from

Re: File format extension

2005-08-08 Thread Stephen P. Harris
- Original Message - From: Angus Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Monday, August 08, 2005 1:43 AM Subject: Re: File format extension Stephen P. Harris wrote: Before I answer that question I would like to comment on your advice to change the Path statement

Re: File format extension

2005-08-08 Thread Angus Leeming
Stephen P. Harris wrote: I provided the tip because a Windows user already complained about not being able to find the file and using the Search engine. It is also more efficient than navigating to the file in order to edit it. Search, double-click on file, and it opens with the default

lengths

2005-08-08 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
Hi I am trying to make a line on a page that is as long as the actual text in the paragraph, not the width of the text on the page. This may sound confusing but it should look like this MY NAME UNIVERSITY ADDRESS DATE _ Rather than a line that goes across the whole page.

after error correction a temp file is not updated? (1.3.5)

2005-08-08 Thread Kevin Pfeiffer
Hi all, (Perhaps this is already fixed in the newer version?) After getting an error report when trying to generate a dvi file, then fixing the error and deleting the error message I again select view DVI. This then generates 250 errors found at which point I have to close and re-open the LyX

Re: no TeX classes after FC4 upgrade

2005-08-08 Thread Derek Lamb
Milos Komarcevic wrote: Derek Lamb [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have run texhash and LyX-Edit-Reconfigure, deleted my ~/.lyx directory and restarted, even reinstalled LyX just to be sure, to no avail. When I do LyX-Help-LaTeX Configuration, Section 1 says that The LaTeX version that

Re: no TeX classes after FC4 upgrade

2005-08-08 Thread Paul Smith
On 8/8/05, Derek Lamb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have run texhash and LyX-Edit-Reconfigure, deleted my ~/.lyx directory and restarted, even reinstalled LyX just to be sure, to no avail. When I do LyX-Help-LaTeX Configuration, Section 1 says that The LaTeX version that LyX will use is: ???

Re: no TeX classes after FC4 upgrade

2005-08-08 Thread Jose' Matos
On Monday 08 August 2005 16:53, Derek Lamb wrote: So, I now have to agree with Paul that there is a problem with my LaTeX, not with LyX.  So this should get classified as a Fedora bug (big surprise) rather than a LyX problem. What do you get with the following command? $ rpm -qa tetex*

Re: no TeX classes after FC4 upgrade

2005-08-08 Thread Derek Lamb
Jose' Matos wrote: On Monday 08 August 2005 16:53, Derek Lamb wrote: So, I now have to agree with Paul that there is a problem with my LaTeX, not with LyX. So this should get classified as a Fedora bug (big surprise) rather than a LyX problem. What do you get with the following

Text and figure layout - HELP!

2005-08-08 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
Ok I have been struggling with this all day and it seems to me there must be an obvious solution. The layout I would like is as follows: A name and address above each other right aligned - this bit is easy as I can just align the paragraph. Under that a rule as wide as the text above it.

doubleclicking files vs. file-open in lyx/win

2005-08-08 Thread Sven Schreiber
Hi, this is from a happy user of 1.3.6 on win 2000. Nevertheless, one little quirk I want to ask about: I get different results from the same lyx-file when 1) opening it via file-open dialog, and 2) double-clicking it to be automatically opened. In case 1, everything is perfect. In case 2, the

Re: doubleclicking files vs. file-open in lyx/win

2005-08-08 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
- Original Message - From: Sven Schreiber [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: LyX Users List lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Monday, August 08, 2005 6:20 PM Subject: doubleclicking files vs. file-open in lyx/win Hi, this is from a happy user of 1.3.6 on win 2000. Nevertheless, one little quirk I

Re: Defaults

2005-08-08 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 04:48:10PM -0400, Matthew Cohen wrote: Second, I don't particularly like the way the borders are handled in the default setting for insert tabular material in LyX. In everything I write, I like to have a border above and below the first row, and nowhere else.

Re: Text and figure layout - HELP!

2005-08-08 Thread Herbert Voss
Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: Ok I have been struggling with this all day and it seems to me there must be an obvious solution. The layout I would like is as follows: A name and address above each other right aligned - this bit is easy as I can just align the paragraph. Under that a rule as wide

Re: Defaults

2005-08-08 Thread Matthew Cohen
Sorry to have been unclear, and come off like a megalomaniac in the process. I didn't mean to imply that my way should be the default for everyone. Rather, I thought it might be convenient to be able to change the default settings for such things via Preferences. Matt Cohen On Aug 8,

Re: Text and figure layout - HELP!

2005-08-08 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
- Original Message - From: Herbert Voss [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Monday, August 08, 2005 8:12 PM Subject: Re: Text and figure layout - HELP! Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: Ok I have been struggling with this all day and it seems to me there must be an obvious

Re: doubleclicking files vs. file-open in lyx/win

2005-08-08 Thread Angus Leeming
Sven Schreiber wrote: Hi, this is from a happy user of 1.3.6 on win 2000. Nevertheless, one little quirk I want to ask about: I get different results from the same lyx-file when 1) opening it via file-open dialog, and 2) double-clicking it to be automatically opened. In case 1, everything is

Re: Version 1.3.6 for windows

2005-08-08 Thread Angus Leeming
Jose Capco wrote: Is there already a stable binary. Last time I download the binaries (it was stated In a few days we will have the binaries.. and funnily there was a link to the binary).. there were a few problems and so lyx wasn't able to run.. so I swtiched back to 1.3.5 .. I was wondering if

Space between table columns

2005-08-08 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
Hi I have created a table in latex and imported it into Lyx. Unfortunately there is a large amount of space between the contents of each column. I want them to almost touch. If I right align the left hand column and left align the right, then I can get what I want (albeit with the insertion of

Re: Space between table columns

2005-08-08 Thread Herbert Voss
Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: I have created a table in latex and imported it into Lyx. Unfortunately there is a large amount of space between the contents of each column. I want them to almost touch. If I right align the left hand column and left align the right, then I can get what I want (albeit

Re: Space between table columns

2005-08-08 Thread Herbert Voss
Herbert Voss wrote: Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: I have created a table in latex and imported it into Lyx. Unfortunately there is a large amount of space between the contents of each column. I want them to almost touch. If I right align the left hand column and left align the right, then I can get

Re: File format extension

2005-08-08 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Paul A. Rubin wrote: > (In other words, making it "pdf4" > does not tell LyX to modify the pdflatex command to produce an output > file named whatever.pdf4.) No. it just tells LyX what to do with given whatever.pdf4 files. You could define a pdf->pdf4 converter, although I think this is rather

Re: File format extension

2005-08-08 Thread Angus Leeming
Stephen P. Harris wrote: > Before I answer that question I would like to comment on your > advice to change the Path statement in the preference file rather > than run a reconfigure. Since the location of the preference file > is somewhat out of the way, I usually Search for it, starting > from

Re: File format extension

2005-08-08 Thread Stephen P. Harris
- Original Message - From: "Angus Leeming" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, August 08, 2005 1:43 AM Subject: Re: File format extension Stephen P. Harris wrote: Before I answer that question I would like to comment on your advice to change the Path

Re: File format extension

2005-08-08 Thread Angus Leeming
Stephen P. Harris wrote: > I provided the tip because a Windows user already complained > about not being able to "find" the file and using the Search engine. > It is also more efficient than navigating to the file in order to > edit it. Search, double-click on file, and it opens with the default

lengths

2005-08-08 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
Hi I am trying to make a line on a page that is as long as the actual text in the paragraph, not the width of the text on the page. This may sound confusing but it should look like this MY NAME UNIVERSITY ADDRESS DATE _ Rather than a line that goes across the whole page.

after error correction a temp file is not updated? (1.3.5)

2005-08-08 Thread Kevin Pfeiffer
Hi all, (Perhaps this is already fixed in the newer version?) After getting an error report when trying to generate a dvi file, then fixing the error and deleting the error message I again select "view DVI". This then generates "250 errors found" at which point I have to close and re-open the

Re: no TeX classes after FC4 upgrade

2005-08-08 Thread Derek Lamb
Milos Komarcevic wrote: Derek Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I have run texhash and LyX->Edit->Reconfigure, deleted my ~/.lyx directory and restarted, even reinstalled LyX just to be sure, to no avail. When I do LyX->Help->LaTeX Configuration, Section 1 says that "The LaTeX version

Re: no TeX classes after FC4 upgrade

2005-08-08 Thread Paul Smith
On 8/8/05, Derek Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>I have run texhash and LyX->Edit->Reconfigure, deleted my ~/.lyx > >>directory and restarted, even reinstalled LyX just to be sure, to no > >>avail. > >> > >>When I do LyX->Help->LaTeX Configuration, Section 1 says that "The LaTeX > >>version

Re: no TeX classes after FC4 upgrade

2005-08-08 Thread Jose' Matos
On Monday 08 August 2005 16:53, Derek Lamb wrote: > So, I now have to agree with Paul that there is a problem with my LaTeX, > not with LyX.  So this should get classified as a Fedora bug (big > surprise) rather than a LyX problem. What do you get with the following command? $ rpm -qa

Re: no TeX classes after FC4 upgrade

2005-08-08 Thread Derek Lamb
Jose' Matos wrote: On Monday 08 August 2005 16:53, Derek Lamb wrote: So, I now have to agree with Paul that there is a problem with my LaTeX, not with LyX. So this should get classified as a Fedora bug (big surprise) rather than a LyX problem. What do you get with the following

Text and figure layout - HELP!

2005-08-08 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
Ok I have been struggling with this all day and it seems to me there must be an obvious solution.   The layout I would like is as follows:   A name and address above each other right aligned - this bit is easy as I can just align the paragraph.   Under that a rule as wide as the text above

doubleclicking files vs. file-open in lyx/win

2005-08-08 Thread Sven Schreiber
Hi, this is from a happy user of 1.3.6 on win 2000. Nevertheless, one little quirk I want to ask about: I get different results from the same lyx-file when 1) opening it via file-open dialog, and 2) double-clicking it to be automatically opened. In case 1, everything is perfect. In case 2, the

Re: doubleclicking files vs. file-open in lyx/win

2005-08-08 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
- Original Message - From: "Sven Schreiber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "LyX Users List" Sent: Monday, August 08, 2005 6:20 PM Subject: doubleclicking files vs. file-open in lyx/win Hi, this is from a happy user of 1.3.6 on win 2000. Nevertheless, one little

Re: Defaults

2005-08-08 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 04:48:10PM -0400, Matthew Cohen wrote: > Second, I don't particularly like the way the borders are handled in > the default setting for "insert tabular material" in LyX. In > everything I write, I like to have a border above and below the first > row, and nowhere

Re: Text and figure layout - HELP!

2005-08-08 Thread Herbert Voss
Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: Ok I have been struggling with this all day and it seems to me there must be an obvious solution. The layout I would like is as follows: A name and address above each other right aligned - this bit is easy as I can just align the paragraph. Under that a rule as wide

Re: Defaults

2005-08-08 Thread Matthew Cohen
Sorry to have been unclear, and come off like a megalomaniac in the process. I didn't mean to imply that my way should be the default for everyone. Rather, I thought it might be convenient to be able to change the default settings for such things via Preferences. Matt Cohen On Aug 8,

Re: Text and figure layout - HELP!

2005-08-08 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
- Original Message - From: "Herbert Voss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, August 08, 2005 8:12 PM Subject: Re: Text and figure layout - HELP! Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: Ok I have been struggling with this all day and it seems to me there must be an obvious

Re: doubleclicking files vs. file-open in lyx/win

2005-08-08 Thread Angus Leeming
Sven Schreiber wrote: Hi, this is from a happy user of 1.3.6 on win 2000. Nevertheless, one little quirk I want to ask about: I get different results from the same lyx-file when 1) opening it via file-open dialog, and 2) double-clicking it to be automatically opened. In case 1, everything is

Re: Version 1.3.6 for windows

2005-08-08 Thread Angus Leeming
Jose Capco wrote: Is there already a stable binary. Last time I download the binaries (it was stated "In a few days we will have the binaries.. and funnily there was a link to the binary).. there were a few problems and so lyx wasn't able to run.. so I swtiched back to 1.3.5 .. I was wondering

Space between table columns

2005-08-08 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
Hi I have created a table in latex and imported it into Lyx. Unfortunately there is a large amount of space between the contents of each column. I want them to almost touch. If I right align the left hand column and left align the right, then I can get what I want (albeit with the insertion of

Re: Space between table columns

2005-08-08 Thread Herbert Voss
Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: I have created a table in latex and imported it into Lyx. Unfortunately there is a large amount of space between the contents of each column. I want them to almost touch. If I right align the left hand column and left align the right, then I can get what I want (albeit

Re: Space between table columns

2005-08-08 Thread Herbert Voss
Herbert Voss wrote: Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: I have created a table in latex and imported it into Lyx. Unfortunately there is a large amount of space between the contents of each column. I want them to almost touch. If I right align the left hand column and left align the right, then I can get