Re: Using Covington (problems with ERT - latex conversion!)

2005-09-02 Thread Georg Baum
Am Freitag, 2. September 2005 00:02 schrieb Stacia Hartleben:
 I am using the package Covington to make numbered linguistic examples.
 The following text displays fine through latex:
 
 \gll Dit is een Nederlands voorbeeld. 
  This is a Dutch example. 
 \glt `This is an example in Dutch.'
 
 But in Lyx, it does not line up like it should. I checked the Latex
 output file and it turned it into this:
 
 \gll Dit is een Nederlands voorbeeld.
 
 This is a Dutch example. 
 
 \glt `This is an example in Dutch.'
 
 \glend
 
 Which doesn't line up properly. How can I stop ERT from putting in those 
spaces?

This is a bug that will be fixed in LyX 1.4.0. For now, don't use normal 
linebreaks in ERT, but protected linebreaks (hit Control-Enter). They 
will produce single line breaks in the .tex file.


Georg



lyx could not get font

2005-09-02 Thread Nicolas Sabouret
Hi,

I am using Debian with lyx 1.3.6  xforms. When I open a document with
math symbols, I get a serie of Could not get font ..., using fixed. And
as a matter of fact, the math symbols are not displayed properly. This
makes the edition of such document a real pain.

I believe this is not really a lyx problem but it rather comes from my
distribution and fonts in tetex-extra that are not fetched. However, I
could not find any solution and lyx is the only application that has this
bug (xfontsel also can't display the mentioned fonts). This is the reason
why I ask here for any clue that could help me solve this issue.

Note that in the dvi document, math symbols are properly displayed.

Thanks in advance for any help,
Nicolas.

PS : please CC me in your answer.
-- 
Nicolas SABOURET
Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris 6 (LIP6)
8, rue du Capitaine Scott, 75015 Paris, France
http://www-poleia.lip6.fr/~sabouret






Re: lyx could not get font

2005-09-02 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
 Nicolas == Nicolas Sabouret [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

Nicolas Hi, I am using Debian with lyx 1.3.6  xforms. When I open a
Nicolas document with math symbols, I get a serie of Could not get
Nicolas font ..., using fixed. And as a matter of fact, the math
Nicolas symbols are not displayed properly. This makes the edition of
Nicolas such document a real pain.

Nicolas I believe this is not really a lyx problem but it rather
Nicolas comes from my distribution and fonts in tetex-extra that are
Nicolas not fetched. However, I could not find any solution and lyx
Nicolas is the only application that has this bug (xfontsel also
Nicolas can't display the mentioned fonts). This is the reason why I
Nicolas ask here for any clue that could help me solve this issue.

If your debien is fontconfig-based, you should install the fonts from 
  ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/contrib/latex-xft-fonts-0.1.tar.gz
in a place where fontconfig can find it.

JMarc


Lyx Wiki's links do not work (?!)

2005-09-02 Thread Dr Gyorgy Pota

Dear Users,

Help! When I click on any links of the Lyx Wiki page  (including those 
in the navigation table on the right) nothing happens. Only the opening 
page can bee seen.


This is valid for both Firefox and Internet Explorer on the 2nd of 
September at 12.30.


The webpage: http://wiki.lyx.org/


Best wishes,

Gyorgy Pota

--

Dr. Gyorgy Pota
associate professor
Institute of Physical Chemistry
University of Debrecen
H-4010 Debrecen, P. O. Box 7,
Hungary
Tel.: (36) 52-512-90022383
Fax: (36) 52-512-915
homepage: http://dragon.unideb.hu/~wwwphch/potae.htm




Re: Lyx Wiki's links do not work (?!)

2005-09-02 Thread Roy Schestowitz

_/ On Fri 02 Sep 2005 11:33:41 BST, [Dr Gyorgy Pota] wrote : \_


Dear Users,

Help! When I click on any links of the Lyx Wiki page  (including those
in the navigation table on the right) nothing happens. Only the opening
page can bee seen.

This is valid for both Firefox and Internet Explorer on the 2nd of
September at 12.30.

The webpage: http://wiki.lyx.org/


Best wishes,

Gyorgy Pota


Same behaviour is observed here. It is not just you. I can recall some Apache
issues recently, which perhaps are related.

Roy


--
Roy S. Schestowitz
http://Schestowitz.com



language for amsmath

2005-09-02 Thread Christian Fischer

hi everybody,
i'm using the windows port of lyx 1.3.5. i'm creating a document witch 
the documentclass article{ams}, language is set to german.
the problem is, when i insert a theorem, a fact or something else, all 
this is english in the created dvi but i want it to be german.

any ideas?
thx
christian



Re: Lyx Wiki's links do not work (?!)

2005-09-02 Thread Stephen P. Harris


- Original Message - 
From: Roy Schestowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED]

To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Sent: Friday, September 02, 2005 4:17 AM
Subject: Re: Lyx Wiki's links do not work (?!)



_/ On Fri 02 Sep 2005 11:33:41 BST, [Dr Gyorgy Pota] wrote : \_


Dear Users,

Help! When I click on any links of the Lyx Wiki page  (including those
in the navigation table on the right) nothing happens. Only the opening
page can bee seen.

This is valid for both Firefox and Internet Explorer on the 2nd of
September at 12.30.

The webpage: http://wiki.lyx.org/


Best wishes,

Gyorgy Pota


Same behaviour is observed here. It is not just you. I can recall some 
Apache

issues recently, which perhaps are related.

Roy


--
Roy S. Schestowitz
http://Schestowitz.com




This is working OK at 4:47am Pacific Coast time. 


Re: Lyx Wiki's links do not work (?!)

2005-09-02 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
 Gyorgy == Gyorgy Pota [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

Gyorgy Dear Users, Help! When I click on any links of the Lyx Wiki
Gyorgy page (including those in the navigation table on the right)
Gyorgy nothing happens. Only the opening page can bee seen.

Gyorgy This is valid for both Firefox and Internet Explorer on the
Gyorgy 2nd of September at 12.30.

Gyorgy The webpage: http://wiki.lyx.org/

The lyx servers are in the process of being reinstalled currently. In
particular, the wiki, bugzilla and cvs access are broken.

What works now is mailing lists (hosted elsewhere), web sites, and
mail @lyx.org.

JMarc


how to share BibTeX references across platforms

2005-09-02 Thread David Soukal

Dear LyXers,

I would like to ask you for help with the following problem. I'm writing 
papers with my advisor and we decided to use LyX. She uses Windows 
version while I work from Linux. Our problem is sharing documents with 
BibTeX references. While sharing LyX documents works flawlessy, we have 
problems with BibTeX generated references.


The problem is where to store the BibTeX files. Each of us would like to 
have the references in a place where they can be accesses from several 
papers. The problem is how to achieve this in situation where the 
database is in different locations on different machines. For example, 
my advisor prefers c:\papers\bibliography\1994.bib while I prefer 
~/work/references/1994.bib. When I'm entering the database file in LyX, 
I have two options, either hit the Browse button in which case LyX 
enters the full path, or I can manually add relative path.


I thought I'd add a symbolic link into each directory with a paper and 
then I'd add the databases using relative path, like so


./ref/1994.bib,

where ref is the link to whatever directory the database is stored in 
on particular machine (e.g. ~/work/references for on my machine).


Now, while this works for me on Linux. Windows shortcuts don't seem to 
do the trick.


My question is, does anybody have experience with sharing LyX documents 
with BibTeX references that are not stored in one fixed place?


Thank you for any comments,

David



Problem with depth.

2005-09-02 Thread José Pablo Ezequiel Fernández
Hello,
I am having a problem with depths where I have a paragraph and a set of items 
(itemize) and everything should be in depth 1 (not 0), so I select it and I 
choose increse depth. All the items except the fisrt one are put inside an 
incresed depth (the first item and the paragraph are left out). Am I doing 
something wrong ?
I am attaching the example file, I am using LyX 1.3.5 on Linux.
Thanks.
-- 
José Pablo Ezequiel Fernández


test.lyx
Description: application/lyx


Box around system of equations.

2005-09-02 Thread Rudi Gaelzer
Has anyone managed to get a box wrapped around a system of equations or a 
multiline equation?

The usual LaTeX and AMSTex commands, \fbox and \boxed only work for 
single-lined equations like \begin{displaymath} of \begin{equation}.

On the other hand, the empheq package is able to render very exquisite boxes, 
but the syntax seems to be incompatible with LyX.  For instance, to generate 
a box around a system of equations I have to use the empheq environment, 
which invokes the AMS mathematical environments, as in the example below:

\begin{empheq}[box=\fbox]{align*}
a = b \\
b = c
\end{enpheq}

Lyx does not seem to offer any standard way to do this and even inside an ugly 
ERT box it's not trivial to use the empheq package...
-- 
Rudi Gaelzer
Departamento de Física
Instituto de Física e Matemática
Fundação Universidade Federal de Pelotas
Caixa Postal 354 - Campus UFPel
96010-900 Pelotas - RS
Fone: (53) 3275-7468
FAX:  (53) 3275-7343
Usuário de Linux registrado # 153741


Re: how to share BibTeX references across platforms

2005-09-02 Thread Paul A. Rubin

David Soukal wrote:

Dear LyXers,

I would like to ask you for help with the following problem. I'm writing 
papers with my advisor and we decided to use LyX. She uses Windows 
version while I work from Linux. Our problem is sharing documents with 
BibTeX references. While sharing LyX documents works flawlessy, we have 
problems with BibTeX generated references.


The problem is where to store the BibTeX files. Each of us would like to 
have the references in a place where they can be accesses from several 
papers. The problem is how to achieve this in situation where the 
database is in different locations on different machines. For example, 
my advisor prefers c:\papers\bibliography\1994.bib while I prefer 
~/work/references/1994.bib. When I'm entering the database file in LyX, 
I have two options, either hit the Browse button in which case LyX 
enters the full path, or I can manually add relative path.


I thought I'd add a symbolic link into each directory with a paper and 
then I'd add the databases using relative path, like so


./ref/1994.bib,

where ref is the link to whatever directory the database is stored in 
on particular machine (e.g. ~/work/references for on my machine).


Now, while this works for me on Linux. Windows shortcuts don't seem to 
do the trick.


My question is, does anybody have experience with sharing LyX documents 
with BibTeX references that are not stored in one fixed place?


Thank you for any comments,

David


If your advisor has installed (or is willing to install) the MinSYS 
system (subsystem? package? whatever), you can use symbolic links.  I 
believe MinSYS is mandatory for LyX 1.3.6 and later on Windows.


From MinSYS's interactive shell, you create the link pretty much as you 
would on Linux, other than to remember that the C: drive is /c in 
MinSYS.  So, for instance, you would use


ln -s /c/papers/bibliography ./ref

on her machine.  Alternatively, you can do the same thing from a DOS 
command prompt, by providing the path to ln if necessary, for instance


C:\Program Files\msys\1.0\bin\ln.exe -s /c/papers/bibliography ./ref

(assuming the default installation location).

I've tried it here (Win XP) and it seems to work as expected.

Paul




Re: Problem with depth.

2005-09-02 Thread Paul A. Rubin

José Pablo Ezequiel Fernández wrote:

Hello,
I am having a problem with depths where I have a paragraph and a set of items 
(itemize) and everything should be in depth 1 (not 0), so I select it and I 
choose increse depth. All the items except the fisrt one are put inside an 
incresed depth (the first item and the paragraph are left out). Am I doing 
something wrong ?

I am attaching the example file, I am using LyX 1.3.5 on Linux.
Thanks.


You cannot nest anything into a standard environment.  Have a look at 
section 3.4.2 of the LyX User's Guide.


Paul




Generating LyX docs in a build

2005-09-02 Thread Jane McKean
Hi there:

I have a question that I hope you can help me with. I'm using LyX 1.3.6
on Fedora Core 4 (Linux) with the change bar patch (using dvipost).

I create all of the user documentation for our compiler suite (except
for the README and man pages) in LyX, and up until now, I've generated
PDFs and checked them into our build tree. We automatically build the
compiler environment software daily and those PDFs get picked up as a
final step in the build. 

Our buildmaster would like to have the build process generate the final
PDFs and only have the .lyx files (and possibly the .tex files) checked
in. This way the build process could generate the most current daily
PDFs that would be up-to-date with the software. 

During our production cycle, I use change bars on the docs and generate
the PDF using PDF (dvipdfm) from the LyX menu bar, and then about a week
before release, I turn the change bars off and generate the PDF using
PDF (pdflatex). 

To accomplish this as part of the build, I need a command line
equivalent (and it could be multiple command lines) for each of these
methods. 

- The command-line equivalent for View  PDF (dvipdfm)

- The command-line equivalent for View  PDF (latexpdf)

Has anyone tried doing something like this? Is anyone currently
generating their docs as part of a source code build with build script? 

Many thanks in advance,

--jane

-- 
Jane McKean
Technical Documentation
PathScale, Inc.
jane at pathscale.com



Re: Generating LyX docs in a build

2005-09-02 Thread Jose' Matos
On Friday 02 September 2005 23:33, Jane McKean wrote:
 To accomplish this as part of the build, I need a command line
 equivalent (and it could be multiple command lines) for each of these
 methods.

 - The command-line equivalent for View  PDF (dvipdfm)

 - The command-line equivalent for View  PDF (latexpdf)

 That is a good question that I have seen answered sometimes on this list. :-)

 Searching...

  $ lyx --help

Usage: lyx [ command line switches ] [ name.lyx ... ]
Command line switches (case sensitive):
-help  summarize LyX usage
-userdir dir   try to set user directory to dir
-sysdir dirtry to set system directory to dir
-geometry WxH+X+Y  set geometry of the main window
-dbg feature[,feature]...
  select the features to debug.
  Type `lyx -dbg' to see the list of features
-x [--execute] command
  where command is a lyx command.
-e [--export] fmt
  where fmt is the export format of choice.
-i [--import] fmt file.xxx
  where fmt is the import format of choice
  and file.xxx is the file to be imported.
-versionsummarize version and build info
Check the LyX man page for more details.

  Now this is the funny part, the _fmt_ key that we are searching for is 
defined in: Edit-Preferences-File Formats, look then for format.

  In my case I have 3 defined pdf formats. Using pdf2 I get:

$ lyx -e pdf2 spyce.lyx
Document exported as PDF (pdflatex) to file `~/thunderbird/level-3/spyce.pdf'
$ lyx -e pdf3 spyce.lyx
Executing command:dvipdfm -p letter 'spyce.dvi'

spyce.dvi - spyce.pdf
[1]
55669 bytes written
Document exported as PDF (dvipdfm) to file `~/thunderbird/level-3/spyce.pdf'

  Bingo. :-)

 Has anyone tried doing something like this? Is anyone currently
 generating their docs as part of a source code build with build script?

 Many thanks in advance,

 --
 Jane McKean

-- 
José Abílio


quotes in the lyx

2005-09-02 Thread Leon Chen
Hi I am confused with the quotes on the keyboard.

where type the double quotes, like this:   

They are both the 'right-quote' in my output. I am not sure about the
symbol usage in English, is it the right form of a mistake?

However in the user guide,I saw some example text is right with this
pair. The left-quote in lyx is slightly leanes to left while the right
quote is just vertical. Are they different symols which need different
key to input? or the lyx will fix them automatically?

I hope I expressed myself correctly... Thank you for your time.



-- 
Leon Chen,
Imperial College, London

MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED]


Re: quotes in the lyx

2005-09-02 Thread Roy Schestowitz

_/ On Sat 03 Sep 2005 04:59:31 BST, [Leon Chen] wrote : \_


Hi I am confused with the quotes on the keyboard.

where type the double quotes, like this:   

They are both the 'right-quote' in my output. I am not sure about the
symbol usage in English, is it the right form of a mistake?

However in the user guide,I saw some example text is right with this
pair. The left-quote in lyx is slightly leanes to left while the right
quote is just vertical. Are they different symols which need different
key to input? or the lyx will fix them automatically?

I hope I expressed myself correctly... Thank you for your time.



--
Leon Chen,
Imperial College, London


Leon,

Here is what I suggest you have a look at and change as required:

o Open the document in question

o Layout in the top horizonal menu

o Document... in the drop-down

o Language in the left vertical pane

o Look under Quote Style

If this did not solve the problem, this might go much deeper. I have 
just tested

the characters which you quoted to verify they should work.

Hope it helps,

Roy

--
Roy S. Schestowitz  | while (sig==sig) sig=!sig;
http://Schestowitz.com  |SuSE Linux| PGP-Key: 74572E8E
 4:05am  up 9 days 17:13,  3 users,  load average: 1.03, 0.80, 0.60



Re: quotes in the lyx

2005-09-02 Thread Leon Chen
Hi Roy,

Thank you for your advice, and I checked the setting, finding
everything is just like you said, in double quote mode. I did some
tests, and find out the cause of my trouble:

if the  follows a character tightly, i.e. no space, it is a
right-quote automatically. So if i want to get a left-quote, i have to
type the  symbol at the beginning of the line or, after a space in
side the paragraph.

So I think problem solved, thank you very much. :)

-- 
Leon Chen,
Imperial College, London

MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED]


Re: Using Covington (problems with ERT - latex conversion!)

2005-09-02 Thread Georg Baum
Am Freitag, 2. September 2005 00:02 schrieb Stacia Hartleben:
 I am using the package Covington to make numbered linguistic examples.
 The following text displays fine through latex:
 
 \gll Dit is een Nederlands voorbeeld. 
  This is a Dutch example. 
 \glt `This is an example in Dutch.'
 
 But in Lyx, it does not line up like it should. I checked the Latex
 output file and it turned it into this:
 
 \gll Dit is een Nederlands voorbeeld.
 
 This is a Dutch example. 
 
 \glt `This is an example in Dutch.'
 
 \glend
 
 Which doesn't line up properly. How can I stop ERT from putting in those 
spaces?

This is a bug that will be fixed in LyX 1.4.0. For now, don't use normal 
linebreaks in ERT, but protected linebreaks (hit Control-Enter). They 
will produce single line breaks in the .tex file.


Georg



lyx could not get font

2005-09-02 Thread Nicolas Sabouret
Hi,

I am using Debian with lyx 1.3.6  xforms. When I open a document with
math symbols, I get a serie of Could not get font ..., using fixed. And
as a matter of fact, the math symbols are not displayed properly. This
makes the edition of such document a real pain.

I believe this is not really a lyx problem but it rather comes from my
distribution and fonts in tetex-extra that are not fetched. However, I
could not find any solution and lyx is the only application that has this
bug (xfontsel also can't display the mentioned fonts). This is the reason
why I ask here for any clue that could help me solve this issue.

Note that in the dvi document, math symbols are properly displayed.

Thanks in advance for any help,
Nicolas.

PS : please CC me in your answer.
-- 
Nicolas SABOURET
Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris 6 (LIP6)
8, rue du Capitaine Scott, 75015 Paris, France
http://www-poleia.lip6.fr/~sabouret






Re: lyx could not get font

2005-09-02 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
 Nicolas == Nicolas Sabouret [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

Nicolas Hi, I am using Debian with lyx 1.3.6  xforms. When I open a
Nicolas document with math symbols, I get a serie of Could not get
Nicolas font ..., using fixed. And as a matter of fact, the math
Nicolas symbols are not displayed properly. This makes the edition of
Nicolas such document a real pain.

Nicolas I believe this is not really a lyx problem but it rather
Nicolas comes from my distribution and fonts in tetex-extra that are
Nicolas not fetched. However, I could not find any solution and lyx
Nicolas is the only application that has this bug (xfontsel also
Nicolas can't display the mentioned fonts). This is the reason why I
Nicolas ask here for any clue that could help me solve this issue.

If your debien is fontconfig-based, you should install the fonts from 
  ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/contrib/latex-xft-fonts-0.1.tar.gz
in a place where fontconfig can find it.

JMarc


Lyx Wiki's links do not work (?!)

2005-09-02 Thread Dr Gyorgy Pota

Dear Users,

Help! When I click on any links of the Lyx Wiki page  (including those 
in the navigation table on the right) nothing happens. Only the opening 
page can bee seen.


This is valid for both Firefox and Internet Explorer on the 2nd of 
September at 12.30.


The webpage: http://wiki.lyx.org/


Best wishes,

Gyorgy Pota

--

Dr. Gyorgy Pota
associate professor
Institute of Physical Chemistry
University of Debrecen
H-4010 Debrecen, P. O. Box 7,
Hungary
Tel.: (36) 52-512-90022383
Fax: (36) 52-512-915
homepage: http://dragon.unideb.hu/~wwwphch/potae.htm




Re: Lyx Wiki's links do not work (?!)

2005-09-02 Thread Roy Schestowitz

_/ On Fri 02 Sep 2005 11:33:41 BST, [Dr Gyorgy Pota] wrote : \_


Dear Users,

Help! When I click on any links of the Lyx Wiki page  (including those
in the navigation table on the right) nothing happens. Only the opening
page can bee seen.

This is valid for both Firefox and Internet Explorer on the 2nd of
September at 12.30.

The webpage: http://wiki.lyx.org/


Best wishes,

Gyorgy Pota


Same behaviour is observed here. It is not just you. I can recall some Apache
issues recently, which perhaps are related.

Roy


--
Roy S. Schestowitz
http://Schestowitz.com



language for amsmath

2005-09-02 Thread Christian Fischer

hi everybody,
i'm using the windows port of lyx 1.3.5. i'm creating a document witch 
the documentclass article{ams}, language is set to german.
the problem is, when i insert a theorem, a fact or something else, all 
this is english in the created dvi but i want it to be german.

any ideas?
thx
christian



Re: Lyx Wiki's links do not work (?!)

2005-09-02 Thread Stephen P. Harris


- Original Message - 
From: Roy Schestowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED]

To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Sent: Friday, September 02, 2005 4:17 AM
Subject: Re: Lyx Wiki's links do not work (?!)



_/ On Fri 02 Sep 2005 11:33:41 BST, [Dr Gyorgy Pota] wrote : \_


Dear Users,

Help! When I click on any links of the Lyx Wiki page  (including those
in the navigation table on the right) nothing happens. Only the opening
page can bee seen.

This is valid for both Firefox and Internet Explorer on the 2nd of
September at 12.30.

The webpage: http://wiki.lyx.org/


Best wishes,

Gyorgy Pota


Same behaviour is observed here. It is not just you. I can recall some 
Apache

issues recently, which perhaps are related.

Roy


--
Roy S. Schestowitz
http://Schestowitz.com




This is working OK at 4:47am Pacific Coast time. 


Re: Lyx Wiki's links do not work (?!)

2005-09-02 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
 Gyorgy == Gyorgy Pota [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

Gyorgy Dear Users, Help! When I click on any links of the Lyx Wiki
Gyorgy page (including those in the navigation table on the right)
Gyorgy nothing happens. Only the opening page can bee seen.

Gyorgy This is valid for both Firefox and Internet Explorer on the
Gyorgy 2nd of September at 12.30.

Gyorgy The webpage: http://wiki.lyx.org/

The lyx servers are in the process of being reinstalled currently. In
particular, the wiki, bugzilla and cvs access are broken.

What works now is mailing lists (hosted elsewhere), web sites, and
mail @lyx.org.

JMarc


how to share BibTeX references across platforms

2005-09-02 Thread David Soukal

Dear LyXers,

I would like to ask you for help with the following problem. I'm writing 
papers with my advisor and we decided to use LyX. She uses Windows 
version while I work from Linux. Our problem is sharing documents with 
BibTeX references. While sharing LyX documents works flawlessy, we have 
problems with BibTeX generated references.


The problem is where to store the BibTeX files. Each of us would like to 
have the references in a place where they can be accesses from several 
papers. The problem is how to achieve this in situation where the 
database is in different locations on different machines. For example, 
my advisor prefers c:\papers\bibliography\1994.bib while I prefer 
~/work/references/1994.bib. When I'm entering the database file in LyX, 
I have two options, either hit the Browse button in which case LyX 
enters the full path, or I can manually add relative path.


I thought I'd add a symbolic link into each directory with a paper and 
then I'd add the databases using relative path, like so


./ref/1994.bib,

where ref is the link to whatever directory the database is stored in 
on particular machine (e.g. ~/work/references for on my machine).


Now, while this works for me on Linux. Windows shortcuts don't seem to 
do the trick.


My question is, does anybody have experience with sharing LyX documents 
with BibTeX references that are not stored in one fixed place?


Thank you for any comments,

David



Problem with depth.

2005-09-02 Thread José Pablo Ezequiel Fernández
Hello,
I am having a problem with depths where I have a paragraph and a set of items 
(itemize) and everything should be in depth 1 (not 0), so I select it and I 
choose increse depth. All the items except the fisrt one are put inside an 
incresed depth (the first item and the paragraph are left out). Am I doing 
something wrong ?
I am attaching the example file, I am using LyX 1.3.5 on Linux.
Thanks.
-- 
José Pablo Ezequiel Fernández


test.lyx
Description: application/lyx


Box around system of equations.

2005-09-02 Thread Rudi Gaelzer
Has anyone managed to get a box wrapped around a system of equations or a 
multiline equation?

The usual LaTeX and AMSTex commands, \fbox and \boxed only work for 
single-lined equations like \begin{displaymath} of \begin{equation}.

On the other hand, the empheq package is able to render very exquisite boxes, 
but the syntax seems to be incompatible with LyX.  For instance, to generate 
a box around a system of equations I have to use the empheq environment, 
which invokes the AMS mathematical environments, as in the example below:

\begin{empheq}[box=\fbox]{align*}
a = b \\
b = c
\end{enpheq}

Lyx does not seem to offer any standard way to do this and even inside an ugly 
ERT box it's not trivial to use the empheq package...
-- 
Rudi Gaelzer
Departamento de Física
Instituto de Física e Matemática
Fundação Universidade Federal de Pelotas
Caixa Postal 354 - Campus UFPel
96010-900 Pelotas - RS
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Re: how to share BibTeX references across platforms

2005-09-02 Thread Paul A. Rubin

David Soukal wrote:

Dear LyXers,

I would like to ask you for help with the following problem. I'm writing 
papers with my advisor and we decided to use LyX. She uses Windows 
version while I work from Linux. Our problem is sharing documents with 
BibTeX references. While sharing LyX documents works flawlessy, we have 
problems with BibTeX generated references.


The problem is where to store the BibTeX files. Each of us would like to 
have the references in a place where they can be accesses from several 
papers. The problem is how to achieve this in situation where the 
database is in different locations on different machines. For example, 
my advisor prefers c:\papers\bibliography\1994.bib while I prefer 
~/work/references/1994.bib. When I'm entering the database file in LyX, 
I have two options, either hit the Browse button in which case LyX 
enters the full path, or I can manually add relative path.


I thought I'd add a symbolic link into each directory with a paper and 
then I'd add the databases using relative path, like so


./ref/1994.bib,

where ref is the link to whatever directory the database is stored in 
on particular machine (e.g. ~/work/references for on my machine).


Now, while this works for me on Linux. Windows shortcuts don't seem to 
do the trick.


My question is, does anybody have experience with sharing LyX documents 
with BibTeX references that are not stored in one fixed place?


Thank you for any comments,

David


If your advisor has installed (or is willing to install) the MinSYS 
system (subsystem? package? whatever), you can use symbolic links.  I 
believe MinSYS is mandatory for LyX 1.3.6 and later on Windows.


From MinSYS's interactive shell, you create the link pretty much as you 
would on Linux, other than to remember that the C: drive is /c in 
MinSYS.  So, for instance, you would use


ln -s /c/papers/bibliography ./ref

on her machine.  Alternatively, you can do the same thing from a DOS 
command prompt, by providing the path to ln if necessary, for instance


C:\Program Files\msys\1.0\bin\ln.exe -s /c/papers/bibliography ./ref

(assuming the default installation location).

I've tried it here (Win XP) and it seems to work as expected.

Paul




Re: Problem with depth.

2005-09-02 Thread Paul A. Rubin

José Pablo Ezequiel Fernández wrote:

Hello,
I am having a problem with depths where I have a paragraph and a set of items 
(itemize) and everything should be in depth 1 (not 0), so I select it and I 
choose increse depth. All the items except the fisrt one are put inside an 
incresed depth (the first item and the paragraph are left out). Am I doing 
something wrong ?

I am attaching the example file, I am using LyX 1.3.5 on Linux.
Thanks.


You cannot nest anything into a standard environment.  Have a look at 
section 3.4.2 of the LyX User's Guide.


Paul




Generating LyX docs in a build

2005-09-02 Thread Jane McKean
Hi there:

I have a question that I hope you can help me with. I'm using LyX 1.3.6
on Fedora Core 4 (Linux) with the change bar patch (using dvipost).

I create all of the user documentation for our compiler suite (except
for the README and man pages) in LyX, and up until now, I've generated
PDFs and checked them into our build tree. We automatically build the
compiler environment software daily and those PDFs get picked up as a
final step in the build. 

Our buildmaster would like to have the build process generate the final
PDFs and only have the .lyx files (and possibly the .tex files) checked
in. This way the build process could generate the most current daily
PDFs that would be up-to-date with the software. 

During our production cycle, I use change bars on the docs and generate
the PDF using PDF (dvipdfm) from the LyX menu bar, and then about a week
before release, I turn the change bars off and generate the PDF using
PDF (pdflatex). 

To accomplish this as part of the build, I need a command line
equivalent (and it could be multiple command lines) for each of these
methods. 

- The command-line equivalent for View  PDF (dvipdfm)

- The command-line equivalent for View  PDF (latexpdf)

Has anyone tried doing something like this? Is anyone currently
generating their docs as part of a source code build with build script? 

Many thanks in advance,

--jane

-- 
Jane McKean
Technical Documentation
PathScale, Inc.
jane at pathscale.com



Re: Generating LyX docs in a build

2005-09-02 Thread Jose' Matos
On Friday 02 September 2005 23:33, Jane McKean wrote:
 To accomplish this as part of the build, I need a command line
 equivalent (and it could be multiple command lines) for each of these
 methods.

 - The command-line equivalent for View  PDF (dvipdfm)

 - The command-line equivalent for View  PDF (latexpdf)

 That is a good question that I have seen answered sometimes on this list. :-)

 Searching...

  $ lyx --help

Usage: lyx [ command line switches ] [ name.lyx ... ]
Command line switches (case sensitive):
-help  summarize LyX usage
-userdir dir   try to set user directory to dir
-sysdir dirtry to set system directory to dir
-geometry WxH+X+Y  set geometry of the main window
-dbg feature[,feature]...
  select the features to debug.
  Type `lyx -dbg' to see the list of features
-x [--execute] command
  where command is a lyx command.
-e [--export] fmt
  where fmt is the export format of choice.
-i [--import] fmt file.xxx
  where fmt is the import format of choice
  and file.xxx is the file to be imported.
-versionsummarize version and build info
Check the LyX man page for more details.

  Now this is the funny part, the _fmt_ key that we are searching for is 
defined in: Edit-Preferences-File Formats, look then for format.

  In my case I have 3 defined pdf formats. Using pdf2 I get:

$ lyx -e pdf2 spyce.lyx
Document exported as PDF (pdflatex) to file `~/thunderbird/level-3/spyce.pdf'
$ lyx -e pdf3 spyce.lyx
Executing command:dvipdfm -p letter 'spyce.dvi'

spyce.dvi - spyce.pdf
[1]
55669 bytes written
Document exported as PDF (dvipdfm) to file `~/thunderbird/level-3/spyce.pdf'

  Bingo. :-)

 Has anyone tried doing something like this? Is anyone currently
 generating their docs as part of a source code build with build script?

 Many thanks in advance,

 --
 Jane McKean

-- 
José Abílio


quotes in the lyx

2005-09-02 Thread Leon Chen
Hi I am confused with the quotes on the keyboard.

where type the double quotes, like this:   

They are both the 'right-quote' in my output. I am not sure about the
symbol usage in English, is it the right form of a mistake?

However in the user guide,I saw some example text is right with this
pair. The left-quote in lyx is slightly leanes to left while the right
quote is just vertical. Are they different symols which need different
key to input? or the lyx will fix them automatically?

I hope I expressed myself correctly... Thank you for your time.



-- 
Leon Chen,
Imperial College, London

MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED]


Re: quotes in the lyx

2005-09-02 Thread Roy Schestowitz

_/ On Sat 03 Sep 2005 04:59:31 BST, [Leon Chen] wrote : \_


Hi I am confused with the quotes on the keyboard.

where type the double quotes, like this:   

They are both the 'right-quote' in my output. I am not sure about the
symbol usage in English, is it the right form of a mistake?

However in the user guide,I saw some example text is right with this
pair. The left-quote in lyx is slightly leanes to left while the right
quote is just vertical. Are they different symols which need different
key to input? or the lyx will fix them automatically?

I hope I expressed myself correctly... Thank you for your time.



--
Leon Chen,
Imperial College, London


Leon,

Here is what I suggest you have a look at and change as required:

o Open the document in question

o Layout in the top horizonal menu

o Document... in the drop-down

o Language in the left vertical pane

o Look under Quote Style

If this did not solve the problem, this might go much deeper. I have 
just tested

the characters which you quoted to verify they should work.

Hope it helps,

Roy

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Re: quotes in the lyx

2005-09-02 Thread Leon Chen
Hi Roy,

Thank you for your advice, and I checked the setting, finding
everything is just like you said, in double quote mode. I did some
tests, and find out the cause of my trouble:

if the  follows a character tightly, i.e. no space, it is a
right-quote automatically. So if i want to get a left-quote, i have to
type the  symbol at the beginning of the line or, after a space in
side the paragraph.

So I think problem solved, thank you very much. :)

-- 
Leon Chen,
Imperial College, London

MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED]


Re: Using Covington (problems with ERT - latex conversion!)

2005-09-02 Thread Georg Baum
Am Freitag, 2. September 2005 00:02 schrieb Stacia Hartleben:
> I am using the package Covington to make numbered linguistic examples.
> The following text displays fine through latex:
> 
> \gll Dit is een Nederlands voorbeeld. 
>  This is a Dutch example. 
> \glt `This is an example in Dutch.'
> 
> But in Lyx, it does not line up like it should. I checked the Latex
> output file and it turned it into this:
> 
> \gll Dit is een Nederlands voorbeeld.
> 
> This is a Dutch example. 
> 
> \glt `This is an example in Dutch.'
> 
> \glend
> 
> Which doesn't line up properly. How can I stop ERT from putting in those 
spaces?

This is a bug that will be fixed in LyX 1.4.0. For now, don't use normal 
linebreaks in ERT, but protected linebreaks (hit Control-Enter). They 
will produce single line breaks in the .tex file.


Georg



lyx could not get font

2005-09-02 Thread Nicolas Sabouret
Hi,

I am using Debian with lyx 1.3.6 & xforms. When I open a document with
math symbols, I get a serie of "Could not get font ..., using fixed". And
as a matter of fact, the math symbols are not displayed properly. This
makes the edition of such document a real pain.

I believe this is not really a lyx problem but it rather comes from my
distribution and fonts in tetex-extra that are not fetched. However, I
could not find any solution and lyx is the only application that has this
bug (xfontsel also can't display the mentioned fonts). This is the reason
why I ask here for any clue that could help me solve this issue.

Note that in the dvi document, math symbols are properly displayed.

Thanks in advance for any help,
Nicolas.

PS : please CC me in your answer.
-- 
Nicolas SABOURET
Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris 6 (LIP6)
8, rue du Capitaine Scott, 75015 Paris, France
http://www-poleia.lip6.fr/~sabouret






Re: lyx could not get font

2005-09-02 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Nicolas" == Nicolas Sabouret <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Nicolas> Hi, I am using Debian with lyx 1.3.6 & xforms. When I open a
Nicolas> document with math symbols, I get a serie of "Could not get
Nicolas> font ..., using fixed". And as a matter of fact, the math
Nicolas> symbols are not displayed properly. This makes the edition of
Nicolas> such document a real pain.

Nicolas> I believe this is not really a lyx problem but it rather
Nicolas> comes from my distribution and fonts in tetex-extra that are
Nicolas> not fetched. However, I could not find any solution and lyx
Nicolas> is the only application that has this bug (xfontsel also
Nicolas> can't display the mentioned fonts). This is the reason why I
Nicolas> ask here for any clue that could help me solve this issue.

If your debien is fontconfig-based, you should install the fonts from 
  ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/contrib/latex-xft-fonts-0.1.tar.gz
in a place where fontconfig can find it.

JMarc


Lyx Wiki's links do not work (?!)

2005-09-02 Thread Dr Gyorgy Pota

Dear Users,

Help! When I click on any links of the Lyx Wiki page  (including those 
in the navigation table on the right) nothing happens. Only the opening 
page can bee seen.


This is valid for both Firefox and Internet Explorer on the 2nd of 
September at 12.30.


The webpage: http://wiki.lyx.org/


Best wishes,

Gyorgy Pota

--

Dr. Gyorgy Pota
associate professor
Institute of Physical Chemistry
University of Debrecen
H-4010 Debrecen, P. O. Box 7,
Hungary
Tel.: (36) 52-512-90022383
Fax: (36) 52-512-915
homepage: http://dragon.unideb.hu/~wwwphch/potae.htm




Re: Lyx Wiki's links do not work (?!)

2005-09-02 Thread Roy Schestowitz

_/ On Fri 02 Sep 2005 11:33:41 BST, [Dr Gyorgy Pota] wrote : \_


Dear Users,

Help! When I click on any links of the Lyx Wiki page  (including those
in the navigation table on the right) nothing happens. Only the opening
page can bee seen.

This is valid for both Firefox and Internet Explorer on the 2nd of
September at 12.30.

The webpage: http://wiki.lyx.org/


Best wishes,

Gyorgy Pota


Same behaviour is observed here. It is not just you. I can recall some Apache
issues recently, which perhaps are related.

Roy


--
Roy S. Schestowitz
http://Schestowitz.com



language for amsmath

2005-09-02 Thread Christian Fischer

hi everybody,
i'm using the windows port of lyx 1.3.5. i'm creating a document witch 
the documentclass article{ams}, language is set to german.
the problem is, when i insert a theorem, a fact or something else, all 
this is english in the created dvi but i want it to be german.

any ideas?
thx
christian



Re: Lyx Wiki's links do not work (?!)

2005-09-02 Thread Stephen P. Harris


- Original Message - 
From: "Roy Schestowitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

To: 
Sent: Friday, September 02, 2005 4:17 AM
Subject: Re: Lyx Wiki's links do not work (?!)



_/ On Fri 02 Sep 2005 11:33:41 BST, [Dr Gyorgy Pota] wrote : \_


Dear Users,

Help! When I click on any links of the Lyx Wiki page  (including those
in the navigation table on the right) nothing happens. Only the opening
page can bee seen.

This is valid for both Firefox and Internet Explorer on the 2nd of
September at 12.30.

The webpage: http://wiki.lyx.org/


Best wishes,

Gyorgy Pota


Same behaviour is observed here. It is not just you. I can recall some 
Apache

issues recently, which perhaps are related.

Roy


--
Roy S. Schestowitz
http://Schestowitz.com




This is working OK at 4:47am Pacific Coast time. 


Re: Lyx Wiki's links do not work (?!)

2005-09-02 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Gyorgy" == Gyorgy Pota <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Gyorgy> Dear Users, Help! When I click on any links of the Lyx Wiki
Gyorgy> page (including those in the navigation table on the right)
Gyorgy> nothing happens. Only the opening page can bee seen.

Gyorgy> This is valid for both Firefox and Internet Explorer on the
Gyorgy> 2nd of September at 12.30.

Gyorgy> The webpage: http://wiki.lyx.org/

The lyx servers are in the process of being reinstalled currently. In
particular, the wiki, bugzilla and cvs access are broken.

What works now is mailing lists (hosted elsewhere), web sites, and
mail @lyx.org.

JMarc


how to share BibTeX references across platforms

2005-09-02 Thread David Soukal

Dear LyXers,

I would like to ask you for help with the following problem. I'm writing 
papers with my advisor and we decided to use LyX. She uses Windows 
version while I work from Linux. Our problem is sharing documents with 
BibTeX references. While sharing LyX documents works flawlessy, we have 
problems with BibTeX generated references.


The problem is where to store the BibTeX files. Each of us would like to 
have the references in a place where they can be accesses from several 
papers. The problem is how to achieve this in situation where the 
database is in different locations on different machines. For example, 
my advisor prefers c:\papers\bibliography\1994.bib while I prefer 
~/work/references/1994.bib. When I'm entering the database file in LyX, 
I have two options, either hit the Browse button in which case LyX 
enters the full path, or I can manually add relative path.


I thought I'd add a symbolic link into each directory with a paper and 
then I'd add the databases using relative path, like so


./ref/1994.bib,

where "ref" is the link to whatever directory the database is stored in 
on particular machine (e.g. ~/work/references for on my machine).


Now, while this works for me on Linux. Windows shortcuts don't seem to 
do the trick.


My question is, does anybody have experience with sharing LyX documents 
with BibTeX references that are not stored in one fixed place?


Thank you for any comments,

David



Problem with depth.

2005-09-02 Thread José Pablo Ezequiel Fernández
Hello,
I am having a problem with depths where I have a paragraph and a set of items 
(itemize) and everything should be in depth 1 (not 0), so I select it and I 
choose "increse depth". All the items except the fisrt one are put inside an 
incresed depth (the first item and the paragraph are left out). Am I doing 
something wrong ?
I am attaching the example file, I am using LyX 1.3.5 on Linux.
Thanks.
-- 
José Pablo Ezequiel Fernández


test.lyx
Description: application/lyx


Box around system of equations.

2005-09-02 Thread Rudi Gaelzer
Has anyone managed to get a box wrapped around a system of equations or a 
multiline equation?

The usual LaTeX and AMSTex commands, \fbox and \boxed only work for 
single-lined equations like \begin{displaymath} of \begin{equation}.

On the other hand, the empheq package is able to render very exquisite boxes, 
but the syntax seems to be incompatible with LyX.  For instance, to generate 
a box around a system of equations I have to use the empheq environment, 
which invokes the AMS mathematical environments, as in the example below:

\begin{empheq}[box=\fbox]{align*}
a &= b \\
b &= c
\end{enpheq}

Lyx does not seem to offer any standard way to do this and even inside an ugly 
ERT box it's not trivial to use the empheq package...
-- 
Rudi Gaelzer
Departamento de Física
Instituto de Física e Matemática
Fundação Universidade Federal de Pelotas
Caixa Postal 354 - Campus UFPel
96010-900 Pelotas - RS
Fone: (53) 3275-7468
FAX:  (53) 3275-7343
Usuário de Linux registrado # 153741


Re: how to share BibTeX references across platforms

2005-09-02 Thread Paul A. Rubin

David Soukal wrote:

Dear LyXers,

I would like to ask you for help with the following problem. I'm writing 
papers with my advisor and we decided to use LyX. She uses Windows 
version while I work from Linux. Our problem is sharing documents with 
BibTeX references. While sharing LyX documents works flawlessy, we have 
problems with BibTeX generated references.


The problem is where to store the BibTeX files. Each of us would like to 
have the references in a place where they can be accesses from several 
papers. The problem is how to achieve this in situation where the 
database is in different locations on different machines. For example, 
my advisor prefers c:\papers\bibliography\1994.bib while I prefer 
~/work/references/1994.bib. When I'm entering the database file in LyX, 
I have two options, either hit the Browse button in which case LyX 
enters the full path, or I can manually add relative path.


I thought I'd add a symbolic link into each directory with a paper and 
then I'd add the databases using relative path, like so


./ref/1994.bib,

where "ref" is the link to whatever directory the database is stored in 
on particular machine (e.g. ~/work/references for on my machine).


Now, while this works for me on Linux. Windows shortcuts don't seem to 
do the trick.


My question is, does anybody have experience with sharing LyX documents 
with BibTeX references that are not stored in one fixed place?


Thank you for any comments,

David


If your advisor has installed (or is willing to install) the MinSYS 
system (subsystem? package? whatever), you can use symbolic links.  I 
believe MinSYS is mandatory for LyX 1.3.6 and later on Windows.


From MinSYS's interactive shell, you create the link pretty much as you 
would on Linux, other than to remember that the C: drive is /c in 
MinSYS.  So, for instance, you would use


ln -s /c/papers/bibliography ./ref

on her machine.  Alternatively, you can do the same thing from a DOS 
command prompt, by providing the path to ln if necessary, for instance


"C:\Program Files\msys\1.0\bin\ln.exe" -s /c/papers/bibliography ./ref

(assuming the default installation location).

I've tried it here (Win XP) and it seems to work as expected.

Paul




Re: Problem with depth.

2005-09-02 Thread Paul A. Rubin

José Pablo Ezequiel Fernández wrote:

Hello,
I am having a problem with depths where I have a paragraph and a set of items 
(itemize) and everything should be in depth 1 (not 0), so I select it and I 
choose "increse depth". All the items except the fisrt one are put inside an 
incresed depth (the first item and the paragraph are left out). Am I doing 
something wrong ?

I am attaching the example file, I am using LyX 1.3.5 on Linux.
Thanks.


You cannot nest anything into a standard environment.  Have a look at 
section 3.4.2 of the LyX User's Guide.


Paul




Generating LyX docs in a build

2005-09-02 Thread Jane McKean
Hi there:

I have a question that I hope you can help me with. I'm using LyX 1.3.6
on Fedora Core 4 (Linux) with the change bar patch (using dvipost).

I create all of the user documentation for our compiler suite (except
for the README and man pages) in LyX, and up until now, I've generated
PDFs and checked them into our build tree. We automatically build the
compiler environment software daily and those PDFs get picked up as a
final step in the build. 

Our buildmaster would like to have the build process generate the final
PDFs and only have the .lyx files (and possibly the .tex files) checked
in. This way the build process could generate the most current daily
PDFs that would be up-to-date with the software. 

During our production cycle, I use change bars on the docs and generate
the PDF using PDF (dvipdfm) from the LyX menu bar, and then about a week
before release, I turn the change bars off and generate the PDF using
PDF (pdflatex). 

To accomplish this as part of the build, I need a command line
equivalent (and it could be multiple command lines) for each of these
methods. 

- The command-line equivalent for View > PDF (dvipdfm)

- The command-line equivalent for View > PDF (latexpdf)

Has anyone tried doing something like this? Is anyone currently
generating their docs as part of a source code build with build script? 

Many thanks in advance,

--jane

-- 
Jane McKean
Technical Documentation
PathScale, Inc.
jane at pathscale.com



Re: Generating LyX docs in a build

2005-09-02 Thread Jose' Matos
On Friday 02 September 2005 23:33, Jane McKean wrote:
> To accomplish this as part of the build, I need a command line
> equivalent (and it could be multiple command lines) for each of these
> methods.
>
> - The command-line equivalent for View > PDF (dvipdfm)
>
> - The command-line equivalent for View > PDF (latexpdf)

 That is a good question that I have seen answered sometimes on this list. :-)

 Searching...

  $ lyx --help

Usage: lyx [ command line switches ] [ name.lyx ... ]
Command line switches (case sensitive):
-help  summarize LyX usage
-userdir dir   try to set user directory to dir
-sysdir dirtry to set system directory to dir
-geometry WxH+X+Y  set geometry of the main window
-dbg feature[,feature]...
  select the features to debug.
  Type `lyx -dbg' to see the list of features
-x [--execute] command
  where command is a lyx command.
-e [--export] fmt
  where fmt is the export format of choice.
-i [--import] fmt file.xxx
  where fmt is the import format of choice
  and file.xxx is the file to be imported.
-versionsummarize version and build info
Check the LyX man page for more details.

  Now this is the funny part, the _fmt_ key that we are searching for is 
defined in: Edit->Preferences->File Formats, look then for format.

  In my case I have 3 defined pdf formats. Using pdf2 I get:

$ lyx -e pdf2 spyce.lyx
Document exported as PDF (pdflatex) to file `~/thunderbird/level-3/spyce.pdf'
$ lyx -e pdf3 spyce.lyx
Executing command:dvipdfm -p letter 'spyce.dvi'

spyce.dvi -> spyce.pdf
[1]
55669 bytes written
Document exported as PDF (dvipdfm) to file `~/thunderbird/level-3/spyce.pdf'

  Bingo. :-)

> Has anyone tried doing something like this? Is anyone currently
> generating their docs as part of a source code build with build script?
>
> Many thanks in advance,
>
> --
> Jane McKean

-- 
José Abílio


quotes in the lyx

2005-09-02 Thread Leon Chen
Hi I am confused with the quotes on the keyboard.

where type the double quotes, like this:  " "

They are both the 'right-quote' in my output. I am not sure about the
symbol usage in English, is it the right form of a mistake?

However in the user guide,I saw some example text is right with this
pair. The left-quote in lyx is slightly leanes to left while the right
quote is just vertical. Are they different symols which need different
key to input? or the lyx will fix them automatically?

I hope I expressed myself correctly... Thank you for your time.



-- 
Leon Chen,
Imperial College, London

MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED]


Re: quotes in the lyx

2005-09-02 Thread Roy Schestowitz

_/ On Sat 03 Sep 2005 04:59:31 BST, [Leon Chen] wrote : \_


Hi I am confused with the quotes on the keyboard.

where type the double quotes, like this:  " "

They are both the 'right-quote' in my output. I am not sure about the
symbol usage in English, is it the right form of a mistake?

However in the user guide,I saw some example text is right with this
pair. The left-quote in lyx is slightly leanes to left while the right
quote is just vertical. Are they different symols which need different
key to input? or the lyx will fix them automatically?

I hope I expressed myself correctly... Thank you for your time.



--
Leon Chen,
Imperial College, London


Leon,

Here is what I suggest you have a look at and change as required:

o Open the document in question

o "Layout" in the top horizonal menu

o "Document..." in the drop-down

o "Language" in the left vertical pane

o Look under "Quote Style"

If this did not solve the problem, this might go much deeper. I have 
just tested

the characters which you quoted to verify they should work.

Hope it helps,

Roy

--
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http://Schestowitz.com  |SuSE Linux| PGP-Key: 74572E8E
 4:05am  up 9 days 17:13,  3 users,  load average: 1.03, 0.80, 0.60



Re: quotes in the lyx

2005-09-02 Thread Leon Chen
Hi Roy,

Thank you for your advice, and I checked the setting, finding
everything is just like you said, in double quote mode. I did some
tests, and find out the cause of my trouble:

if the " follows a character tightly, i.e. no space, it is a
right-quote automatically. So if i want to get a left-quote, i have to
type the " symbol at the beginning of the line or, after a space in
side the paragraph.

So I think problem solved, thank you very much. :)

-- 
Leon Chen,
Imperial College, London

MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED]