Re: Simplest approach to hanging indent paragraph?

2005-11-29 Thread Paul Johnson
Kenward Vaughan wrote: On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 11:52:08AM +0100, Helge Hafting wrote: Paul Johnson wrote: What is the best advice now for LyX users who want paragraphs shaped like this X But we want to

Re[4]: Label font -- wrong encoding (+ ERT encoding)

2005-11-29 Thread Andrei Popov
You might search the archives for Kuba Ober. He's got things to workwith Cyrillic encodings in the past I believe. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=lyx-develw=2r=1s=Kuba+Ober OK, thanks, I'll try that. What really _is_ annoying, is that I have a similar problem with

Re[2]: Simplest approach to hanging indent paragraph?

2005-11-29 Thread Andrei Popov
Hello Paul, Tuesday, November 29, 2005, 12:22:16 PM, you wrote: works to pull back the first line. This is a good solution, EXCEPT if you are doing this to the first paragraph of a section. As another poster noted, LyX (and LaTeX) are stubborn about that one. I'm not sure, but maybe

Re[2]: Lyx and language depended characters / A Unicode Problem?

2005-11-29 Thread Andrei Popov
Now my «locale -a | grep de» gives following output: de_DE [EMAIL PROTECTED] de_DE.iso88591 de_DE.utf8 Where are the dashes left?? But ok, so I enterd: I'm not sure about the dashes, I don't have access to my Linux box right now. There can be some

Re: The best 2d and 3d eps math graphs to Lyx

2005-11-29 Thread Paul Smith
On 11/27/05, Michel Gosse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Texgraph is a beautiful program, exporting in pstricks and eps : http://perso.wanadoo.fr/Fradin.Patrick/TeXgraph/accueil.html Easy to use. Unfortunately, Texgraph is in French... Paul

Re: The best 2d and 3d eps math graphs to Lyx

2005-11-29 Thread mywebs2005-lyx
I want to thank everyone these suggestions: both the scilab and texgraph are really nice softwares, truly remarkable ones! Is there some way to translate the texgraph from french, or to get some english version? (I can't speak french). Cheers! Douglas

Re: Controling indentation of lists

2005-11-29 Thread James Kebinger
Thanks a lot! As a followup,is there a way to indent and/or single space a list/enumeration? On 11/29/05, Johan Ingvast [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: James Kebinger wrote: Hi all, can anyone tell me how to control the layout of lists? Right now, using the article class, I get huge indents

Re: Controling indentation of lists

2005-11-29 Thread Stephen Buonopane
On Nov 29, 2005, at 8:14 AM, James Kebinger wrote: Thanks a lot! As a followup,is there a way to indent and/or single space a list/enumeration? Try the mdwlist package. It gives easier control over spacing and other options. I have used it to define a new LyX environment so that it is

Re: The best 2d and 3d eps math graphs to Lyx

2005-11-29 Thread Andrei Popov
Hey guys, how are you? I'm fine, thanx =) Well, I'm using the best free LaTeX visual editor (Lyx) and I would like to know what is the best software to generate good math graphics in EPS format. jPicEdt, jfig, Ipe, Xfig, scilab, Tgif, TeXpict (limited)... The ones using Java will run

Re[2]: Controling indentation of lists

2005-11-29 Thread Andrei Popov
Hello Stephen, Tuesday, November 29, 2005, 3:37:32 PM, you wrote: Try the mdwlist package. It gives easier control over spacing and other options. I have used it to define a new LyX environment so that it is available directly from the pull-down menu. Could you please share it? I think a

Re: lyx on windows (and printing notes)

2005-11-29 Thread Angus Leeming
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Angus Leeming wrote: shrug You can modify the registry without admin priviliges as HKCU rather than HKLM. /shrug There are reasons that not every user is allowed to install programs. If you don't have admin privileges your employer knows in most cases why. I'm afraid we're

Re: lyx on windows (and printing notes)

2005-11-29 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Angus Leeming wrote: There are reasons that not every user is allowed to install programs. If you don't have admin privileges your employer knows in most cases why. I'm afraid we're going to just have to disagree fundamentally once again, Uwe. ;-) We aren't fundamentalists! It's not the

Re: Re[2]: Controling indentation of lists

2005-11-29 Thread Stephen Buonopane
On Nov 29, 2005, at 8:53 AM, Andrei Popov wrote: Hello Stephen, Tuesday, November 29, 2005, 3:37:32 PM, you wrote: Try the mdwlist package. It gives easier control over spacing and other options. I have used it to define a new LyX environment so that it is available directly from the

lyx can not find any description of the environment :/

2005-11-29 Thread mamato
when i run lyx (right after installation) i get the following error message: lyx can not find any description of the environment. please verify the content of textclass.lst the file in question looks fine to me, it's 73 lines long and has the default layouts set to true... what could be wrong

lyxwininstall 0.4 doesn't detect my M iktex settings

2005-11-29 Thread YOUNES Abdelrazak / M3SYSTEM
Hello, My Miktex install is very complete so I don't want to download the full package. The path to latex.exe is in the system wide path (D:\program\texmf\miktex\bin), is there anything I could do to tell the installer it's there? Maybe adding a registry key or something? Thanks in advance,

Re: lyx on windows (and printing notes)

2005-11-29 Thread mamato
it mainly depends on which registry the install is trying to write to. - in many cases you can install software to your home directory without any admin privileges because it uses the user registry and not the main registry. - sometimes it asks whether it should be installed for everyone (main

WinLyx 1.3.7pre4 install - missing textclass.lst

2005-11-29 Thread YOUNES Abdelrazak \(M3SYSTEM\)
Hello, I have a problem with the install of lyx 1.3.7pre4 (lyx-1.3.6 is OK). At the install, a popup box says: Failed attempting to execute the configure script. I click on OK and let it launch but then a new box says: Lyx wasn't able to find it's layout descriptions! Check that the file

Re[4]: Controling indentation of lists

2005-11-29 Thread Andrei Popov
Hello Stephen, Tuesday, November 29, 2005, 4:26:42 PM, you wrote: I should have been a bit more specific... mdwlists has predefined compact environments called itemize* enumerate* and description* which reduce the interline spacing from the normal LaTex defaults. To enable these in LyX I

Re: lyx can not find any description of the environment :/

2005-11-29 Thread mamato
i looked briefly at the code in cvs and the weird thing is that if i rename the textclass.lst file it looks like i should get a check that the file is installed correctly error instead of the check the content one that i'm getting. where in hell could it be looking at?! mamato On

Re: orientation of .eps figures

2005-11-29 Thread Herbert Voss
Richard Sherman wrote: Thanks again to those of you who are helping me with this. Herbert Voss wrote: first do not use an extension for file names. The graphic driver can detect the right extension. It is a typical behaviour for ghostscript, that it thinks, that your graphic should be

Re: Label font -- wrong encoding (+ ERT encoding)

2005-11-29 Thread Angus Leeming
Andrei Popov wrote: However, I'm at a loss -- lyx-xforms appears to be fixable, while lyx-qt apparently not. How is it possible, if they're both based on the same code? A. The penny drops. (I start to understand.) We rely on the frontend toolkits to supply us with the fonts we ask

Re: WinLyx 1.3.7pre4 install - missing textclass.lst

2005-11-29 Thread YOUNES Abdelrazak / M3SYSTEM
One additional information: I have just installed Python 2.4.2. Maybe this is the problem? Anyway, I have re-installed 1.3.6 and overwrite the bin directory with the one from 1.3.7pre4 installation. Seems to work fine... Thanks, Abdel. YOUNES Abdelrazak (M3SYSTEM) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in

Re: lyx on windows (and printing notes)

2005-11-29 Thread Angus Leeming
Uwe Stöhr wrote: It's not the installer's business to enforce such policies. The current installer runs without admin priviliges; so should yours. I tried it but there were too many problems to cover all specialities of the third-party programs. If the user has admin privileges I can assure

Spellcheck on Windows

2005-11-29 Thread Vic Kelson
Hi All, I'm running LyX 1.3.6 on Win32, and I can't figure out how to make the spellcheck work. I had it working on one of the previous versions, but I can't recall how I did it. Is it now possible to make it work? THANKS! --vic

Re: lyx can not find any description of the environment :/

2005-11-29 Thread Angus Leeming
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i looked briefly at the code in cvs and the weird thing is that if i rename the textclass.lst file it looks like i should get a check that the file is installed correctly error instead of the check the content one that i'm getting. where in hell could it be looking at?!

Re[2]: Label font -- wrong encoding (+ ERT encoding)

2005-11-29 Thread Andrei Popov
However, I'm at a loss -- lyx-xforms appears to be fixable, while lyx-qt apparently not. How is it possible, if they're both based on the same code? We rely on the frontend toolkits to supply us with the fonts we ask for. XForms does as we ask, but Qt occassionally lies to us. You

Re: lyx can not find any description of the environment :/

2005-11-29 Thread mamato
windows has been searching my whole drive for most of the afternoon now and has only found the one file it should have (even though it's not done yet) i've only ever tried to install this lyx-1.3.6 but i've done it multiple times and the only other directory i installed it to has been deleted.

Re: The best 2d and 3d eps math graphs to Lyx

2005-11-29 Thread Stephen Harris
- Original Message - From: Paul Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2005 3:38 AM Subject: Re: The best 2d and 3d eps math graphs to Lyx On 11/27/05, Michel Gosse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Texgraph is a beautiful program, exporting in

Re: Spellcheck on Windows

2005-11-29 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Vic Kelson wrote: Hi All, I'm running LyX 1.3.6 on Win32, and I can't figure out how to make the spellcheck work. I had it working on one of the previous versions, but I can't recall how I did it. Is it now possible to make it work? THANKS! --vic You need aspell (and a dictionary)

Re: WinLyx 1.3.7pre4 install - missing textclass.lst

2005-11-29 Thread Paul A. Rubin
YOUNES Abdelrazak / M3SYSTEM wrote: One additional information: I have just installed Python 2.4.2. Maybe this is the problem? Anyway, I have re-installed 1.3.6 and overwrite the bin directory with the one from 1.3.7pre4 installation. Seems to work fine... Thanks, Abdel. YOUNES Abdelrazak

Re: WinLyx 1.3.7pre4 install - missing textclass.lst

2005-11-29 Thread YOUNES Abdelrazak / M3SYSTEM
Paul A. Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] YOUNES Abdelrazak / M3SYSTEM wrote: One additional information: I have just installed Python 2.4.2. Maybe this is the problem? Anyway, I have re-installed 1.3.6 and overwrite the bin directory with the one from

Re: lyx can not find any description of the environment :/

2005-11-29 Thread mamato
fixed it... should have read your mail more carefully :/ it was in App Data. mamato On 11/29/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: windows has been searching my whole drive for most of the afternoon now and has only found the one file it should have (even though it's

indent + raggedright

2005-11-29 Thread Mike Leahy
Hello list, I'm a new user, and just getting familiar with LaTeX/LyX. I'm just wondering if anyone knows of a way to get the 'standard' style of text to have both indents for new paragraphs AND have ragged right edges (since that's a requirement for a paper I'm working on). Every time I enable

Re: lyx on windows (and printing notes)

2005-11-29 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Angus Leeming wrote: * You say ImageMagick does, but ImageMagick isn't *required* to run LyX. I never said this. But ImageMagick is of course required to run LyX. A wordprocessor is useless when no images can be processed. * There are certainly latex distributions out there that don't

Re: Spellcheck on Windows

2005-11-29 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Vic Kelson wrote: I'm running LyX 1.3.6 on Win32, and I can't figure out how to make the spellcheck work. I had it working on one of the previous versions, but I can't recall how I did it. Is it now possible to make it work? Simply install Aspell, but it must be installed to C:\Aspell. You

Re: indent + raggedright

2005-11-29 Thread Mike Leahy
Nevermind - I missed this: http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg15610.html That solution worked for me. Mike Leahy wrote: Hello list, I'm a new user, and just getting familiar with LaTeX/LyX. I'm just wondering if anyone knows of a way to get the 'standard' style of text

Re: lyx on windows (and printing notes)

2005-11-29 Thread Herbert Voss
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Angus Leeming wrote: * You say ImageMagick does, but ImageMagick isn't *required* to run LyX. I never said this. But ImageMagick is of course required to run LyX. A wordprocessor is useless when no images can be processed. there are a lot of other tools ... * There are

Re: lyx on windows (and printing notes)

2005-11-29 Thread mamato
admin priviliges. Again, you don't *need* latex installed to run LyX. Angus, then try to install LyX without an installed TeX system and try to run LyX ... ;-) being able to run lyx without latex is IMHO a good and useful thing! i almost decided to go with that solution on my laptop from

Windows and spellcheck

2005-11-29 Thread Vic Kelson
THANKS everyone! It works now. --v

Re: lyx on windows (and printing notes)

2005-11-29 Thread David L. Johnson
On Tue, 29 Nov 2005 21:24:39 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: admin priviliges. Again, you don't *need* latex installed to run LyX. Angus, then try to install LyX without an installed TeX system and try to run LyX ... ;-) being able to run lyx without latex is IMHO a good and useful

Re[2]: URGENT:Prezentation with Prosper [Win98]

2005-11-29 Thread Alex
Hello Robert, RO If I may make a suggestion here. Yes, of course. RO Try powerdot rather than prosper. I think you will RO find it an improvement and may not have as many RO problems. I faced to the same problem trying powerdot. :( I installed everything (LyX 1.3.6) on an XP machine and I

Re: lyx on windows (and printing notes)

2005-11-29 Thread Stephen Harris
- Original Message - From: Angus Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2005 2:28 AM Subject: Re: lyx on windows (and printing notes) Uwe Stöhr wrote: Angus Leeming wrote: shrug You can modify the registry without admin priviliges as HKCU

Re: lyx on windows (and printing notes)

2005-11-29 Thread Angus Leeming
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Hä? Run a program is not just starting it. If I run LyX I want to be able to get a result. Your definition of result is different to mine then. I want to write a paper on my laptop. I don't need to see the thing typeset. This is the reason why I build the new installer! No,

Re: lyx on windows (and printing notes)

2005-11-29 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Herbert == Herbert Voss [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Herbert Angus, then try to install LyX without an installed TeX Herbert system and try to run LyX ... ;-) You are supposed to be able to edit files without LaTeX installed. If it does not work, there is a bug. JMarc

Re: lyx on windows (and printing notes)

2005-11-29 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
David == David L Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: David I don't want to get too involved in the debate, but I also find David being able to install lyx on a computer that does not have TeX David is a good option. On my Zaurus, there is not only not enough David room for TeX, there is no direct

Re: lyx on windows (and printing notes)

2005-11-29 Thread Stephen Harris
- Original Message - From: Uwe Stöhr [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Angus Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2005 6:16 AM Subject: Re: lyx on windows (and printing notes) Angus Leeming wrote: There are reasons that not every user is allowed to

Re: lyxwininstall 0.4 doesn't detect my M iktex settings

2005-11-29 Thread Angus Leeming
YOUNES Abdelrazak wrote: Hello, My Miktex install is very complete so I don't want to download the full package. The path to latex.exe is in the system wide path (D:\program\texmf\miktex\bin), is there anything I could do to tell the installer it's there? Maybe adding a registry key or

Re: lyxwininstall 0.4 doesn't detect my M iktex settings

2005-11-29 Thread Stephen Harris
YOUNES Abdelrazak / M3SYSTEM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello, My Miktex install is very complete so I don't want to download the full package. The path to latex.exe is in the system wide path (D:\program\texmf\miktex\bin), is there anything I could do to tell

Re: lyxwininstall 0.4 doesn't detect my M iktex settings

2005-11-29 Thread Angus Leeming
Stephen Harris wrote: I am not sure of the command line for the frontend for Windows. It is supposed to use Qt but I don't know if Qt3 is used for Windows and all I saw in the cvs was Qt2. That's just a directory name thing. CVS isn't very smart when it comes to renaming things or adding

Re: lyxwininstall 0.4 doesn't detect my M iktex settings

2005-11-29 Thread Uwe Stöhr
YOUNES Abdelrazak wrote: My Miktex install is very complete so I don't want to download the full package. The path to latex.exe is in the system wide path (D:\program\texmf\miktex\bin), is there anything I could do to tell the installer it's there? Maybe adding a registry key or something?

Re: lyxwininstall 0.4 doesn't detect my M iktex settings

2005-11-29 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Stephen Harris wrote: YOUNES Abdelrazak / M3SYSTEM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello, My Miktex install is very complete so I don't want to download the full package. The path to latex.exe is in the system wide path (D:\program\texmf\miktex\bin), is there

Re: lyxwininstall 0.4 doesn't detect my M iktex settings

2005-11-29 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Paul A. Rubin wrote: I may be wrong, but isn't lyxwininstall 0.4 Uwe's installer (rather than Angus's)? Does it support selective installation of components? (I've never tried it.) Yes, the Nwetwork variant allows you to choose a LaTeX-distribution. regards Uwe

lyxwin136-small-04 and instant preview

2005-11-29 Thread H. Peter Gumm
Is the new installer meant to install everything Lyx needs for instant preview to work ? After - installing the preview package in LaTeX, - checking Edit-Preferences-Graphics-Instant Preview - doing a Reconfigure - restarting LyX instant preview still does not work. What is missing ? H.Peter

Re: lyxwin136-small-04 and instant preview

2005-11-29 Thread Uwe Stöhr
H. Peter Gumm schrieb: Is the new installer meant to install everything Lyx needs for instant preview to work ? No, Instant Preview is not yet supported but I'm working on it. At the moment you have to install needed programs manually after you have installed LyX. I missed to give this

Re: lyxwininstall 0.4 doesn't detect my M iktex settings

2005-11-29 Thread Stephen Harris
- Original Message - From: Paul A. Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2005 2:14 PM Subject: Re: lyxwininstall 0.4 doesn't detect my M iktex settings I may be wrong, but isn't lyxwininstall 0.4 Uwe's installer (rather than Angus's)?

Re: lyxwin136-small-04 and instant preview

2005-11-29 Thread Paul A. Rubin
H. Peter Gumm wrote: Is the new installer meant to install everything Lyx needs for instant preview to work ? After - installing the preview package in LaTeX, - checking Edit-Preferences-Graphics-Instant Preview - doing a Reconfigure - restarting LyX instant preview still does not work. What

Re: lyxwininstall 0.4 doesn't detect my M iktex settings

2005-11-29 Thread Stephen Harris
- Original Message - From: Angus Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2005 2:07 PM Subject: Re: lyxwininstall 0.4 doesn't detect my M iktex settings Stephen Harris wrote: I am not sure of the command line for the frontend for Windows. It

Re: lyxwin136-small-04 and instant preview

2005-11-29 Thread Angus Leeming
Paul A. Rubin wrote: instant preview still does not work. What is missing ? You need to have Python, dvips and Ghostscript installed and on your system command path. Do you have all of them? (Incidentally, Angus recommends the Win32all extensions for Python as well. See

Re: lyxwininstall 0.4 doesn't detect my M iktex settings

2005-11-29 Thread Angus Leeming
Stephen Harris wrote: Have a look at development/Win32/packaging/build_lyxwin.sh to see what needs to be done to build LyX using the MinGW/MSYS environment. In truth, I haven't used this with 1.4 for ages because I tend to use the MSVS.Net 2003 compiler (there's a .sln file in

Cites from pybliographic

2005-11-29 Thread lewisa
Many thanks, Worked a treat. Alastair Lewis

Re: Re[2]: URGENT:Prezentation with Prosper [Win98]

2005-11-29 Thread Robert Orr
Hi Alex, I just fired up LyX and loaded one of my powerdot presentations; looks like you have to export .ps and then run ps2pdf on the .ps file to generate a .pdf If you have powerdot, check the users guide, section 8.2 for info on creating/viewing output. Phil --- [EMAIL

Re: lyxwin136-small-04 and instant preview

2005-11-29 Thread Uwe Stöhr
H. Peter Gumm schrieb: instant preview still does not work. The upcoming new version of the installer comes with all necessary files. All you need then is to install the LaTeX-package preview (using e.g. MiKTeX's package Manager), to enable Edit-Preferences-Graphics-Instant Preview, and to

Re: lyxwin136-small-04 and instant preview

2005-11-29 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Angus Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Paul A. Rubin wrote: instant preview still does not work. What is missing ? You need to have Python, dvips and Ghostscript installed and on your system command path. Do you have all of them? (Incidentally, Angus recommends the Win32all

Re: URGENT:Prezentation with Prosper [Win98]

2005-11-29 Thread Herbert Voss
Robert Orr wrote: I just fired up LyX and loaded one of my powerdot presentations; looks like you have to export .ps and then run ps2pdf on the .ps file to generate a .pdf powerdot is derived from prosper, it uses heavily PSTricks code, so dvi-ps-pdf is the correct sequence. Herbert

Re: Simplest approach to hanging indent paragraph?

2005-11-29 Thread Paul Johnson
Kenward Vaughan wrote: On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 11:52:08AM +0100, Helge Hafting wrote: Paul Johnson wrote: What is the best advice now for LyX users who want paragraphs shaped like this X But we want to

Re[4]: Label font -- wrong encoding (+ ERT encoding)

2005-11-29 Thread Andrei Popov
You might search the archives for Kuba Ober. He's got things to workwith Cyrillic encodings in the past I believe. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=lyx-develw=2r=1s=Kuba+Ober OK, thanks, I'll try that. What really _is_ annoying, is that I have a similar problem with

Re[2]: Simplest approach to hanging indent paragraph?

2005-11-29 Thread Andrei Popov
Hello Paul, Tuesday, November 29, 2005, 12:22:16 PM, you wrote: works to pull back the first line. This is a good solution, EXCEPT if you are doing this to the first paragraph of a section. As another poster noted, LyX (and LaTeX) are stubborn about that one. I'm not sure, but maybe

Re[2]: Lyx and language depended characters / A Unicode Problem?

2005-11-29 Thread Andrei Popov
Now my «locale -a | grep de» gives following output: de_DE [EMAIL PROTECTED] de_DE.iso88591 de_DE.utf8 Where are the dashes left?? But ok, so I enterd: I'm not sure about the dashes, I don't have access to my Linux box right now. There can be some

Re: The best 2d and 3d eps math graphs to Lyx

2005-11-29 Thread Paul Smith
On 11/27/05, Michel Gosse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Texgraph is a beautiful program, exporting in pstricks and eps : http://perso.wanadoo.fr/Fradin.Patrick/TeXgraph/accueil.html Easy to use. Unfortunately, Texgraph is in French... Paul

Re: The best 2d and 3d eps math graphs to Lyx

2005-11-29 Thread mywebs2005-lyx
I want to thank everyone these suggestions: both the scilab and texgraph are really nice softwares, truly remarkable ones! Is there some way to translate the texgraph from french, or to get some english version? (I can't speak french). Cheers! Douglas

Re: Controling indentation of lists

2005-11-29 Thread James Kebinger
Thanks a lot! As a followup,is there a way to indent and/or single space a list/enumeration? On 11/29/05, Johan Ingvast [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: James Kebinger wrote: Hi all, can anyone tell me how to control the layout of lists? Right now, using the article class, I get huge indents

Re: Controling indentation of lists

2005-11-29 Thread Stephen Buonopane
On Nov 29, 2005, at 8:14 AM, James Kebinger wrote: Thanks a lot! As a followup,is there a way to indent and/or single space a list/enumeration? Try the mdwlist package. It gives easier control over spacing and other options. I have used it to define a new LyX environment so that it is

Re: The best 2d and 3d eps math graphs to Lyx

2005-11-29 Thread Andrei Popov
Hey guys, how are you? I'm fine, thanx =) Well, I'm using the best free LaTeX visual editor (Lyx) and I would like to know what is the best software to generate good math graphics in EPS format. jPicEdt, jfig, Ipe, Xfig, scilab, Tgif, TeXpict (limited)... The ones using Java will run

Re[2]: Controling indentation of lists

2005-11-29 Thread Andrei Popov
Hello Stephen, Tuesday, November 29, 2005, 3:37:32 PM, you wrote: Try the mdwlist package. It gives easier control over spacing and other options. I have used it to define a new LyX environment so that it is available directly from the pull-down menu. Could you please share it? I think a

Re: lyx on windows (and printing notes)

2005-11-29 Thread Angus Leeming
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Angus Leeming wrote: shrug You can modify the registry without admin priviliges as HKCU rather than HKLM. /shrug There are reasons that not every user is allowed to install programs. If you don't have admin privileges your employer knows in most cases why. I'm afraid we're

Re: lyx on windows (and printing notes)

2005-11-29 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Angus Leeming wrote: There are reasons that not every user is allowed to install programs. If you don't have admin privileges your employer knows in most cases why. I'm afraid we're going to just have to disagree fundamentally once again, Uwe. ;-) We aren't fundamentalists! It's not the

Re: Re[2]: Controling indentation of lists

2005-11-29 Thread Stephen Buonopane
On Nov 29, 2005, at 8:53 AM, Andrei Popov wrote: Hello Stephen, Tuesday, November 29, 2005, 3:37:32 PM, you wrote: Try the mdwlist package. It gives easier control over spacing and other options. I have used it to define a new LyX environment so that it is available directly from the

lyx can not find any description of the environment :/

2005-11-29 Thread mamato
when i run lyx (right after installation) i get the following error message: lyx can not find any description of the environment. please verify the content of textclass.lst the file in question looks fine to me, it's 73 lines long and has the default layouts set to true... what could be wrong

lyxwininstall 0.4 doesn't detect my M iktex settings

2005-11-29 Thread YOUNES Abdelrazak / M3SYSTEM
Hello, My Miktex install is very complete so I don't want to download the full package. The path to latex.exe is in the system wide path (D:\program\texmf\miktex\bin), is there anything I could do to tell the installer it's there? Maybe adding a registry key or something? Thanks in advance,

Re: lyx on windows (and printing notes)

2005-11-29 Thread mamato
it mainly depends on which registry the install is trying to write to. - in many cases you can install software to your home directory without any admin privileges because it uses the user registry and not the main registry. - sometimes it asks whether it should be installed for everyone (main

WinLyx 1.3.7pre4 install - missing textclass.lst

2005-11-29 Thread YOUNES Abdelrazak \(M3SYSTEM\)
Hello, I have a problem with the install of lyx 1.3.7pre4 (lyx-1.3.6 is OK). At the install, a popup box says: Failed attempting to execute the configure script. I click on OK and let it launch but then a new box says: Lyx wasn't able to find it's layout descriptions! Check that the file

Re[4]: Controling indentation of lists

2005-11-29 Thread Andrei Popov
Hello Stephen, Tuesday, November 29, 2005, 4:26:42 PM, you wrote: I should have been a bit more specific... mdwlists has predefined compact environments called itemize* enumerate* and description* which reduce the interline spacing from the normal LaTex defaults. To enable these in LyX I

Re: lyx can not find any description of the environment :/

2005-11-29 Thread mamato
i looked briefly at the code in cvs and the weird thing is that if i rename the textclass.lst file it looks like i should get a check that the file is installed correctly error instead of the check the content one that i'm getting. where in hell could it be looking at?! mamato On

Re: orientation of .eps figures

2005-11-29 Thread Herbert Voss
Richard Sherman wrote: Thanks again to those of you who are helping me with this. Herbert Voss wrote: first do not use an extension for file names. The graphic driver can detect the right extension. It is a typical behaviour for ghostscript, that it thinks, that your graphic should be

Re: Label font -- wrong encoding (+ ERT encoding)

2005-11-29 Thread Angus Leeming
Andrei Popov wrote: However, I'm at a loss -- lyx-xforms appears to be fixable, while lyx-qt apparently not. How is it possible, if they're both based on the same code? A. The penny drops. (I start to understand.) We rely on the frontend toolkits to supply us with the fonts we ask

Re: WinLyx 1.3.7pre4 install - missing textclass.lst

2005-11-29 Thread YOUNES Abdelrazak / M3SYSTEM
One additional information: I have just installed Python 2.4.2. Maybe this is the problem? Anyway, I have re-installed 1.3.6 and overwrite the bin directory with the one from 1.3.7pre4 installation. Seems to work fine... Thanks, Abdel. YOUNES Abdelrazak (M3SYSTEM) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in

Re: lyx on windows (and printing notes)

2005-11-29 Thread Angus Leeming
Uwe Stöhr wrote: It's not the installer's business to enforce such policies. The current installer runs without admin priviliges; so should yours. I tried it but there were too many problems to cover all specialities of the third-party programs. If the user has admin privileges I can assure

Spellcheck on Windows

2005-11-29 Thread Vic Kelson
Hi All, I'm running LyX 1.3.6 on Win32, and I can't figure out how to make the spellcheck work. I had it working on one of the previous versions, but I can't recall how I did it. Is it now possible to make it work? THANKS! --vic

Re: lyx can not find any description of the environment :/

2005-11-29 Thread Angus Leeming
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i looked briefly at the code in cvs and the weird thing is that if i rename the textclass.lst file it looks like i should get a check that the file is installed correctly error instead of the check the content one that i'm getting. where in hell could it be looking at?!

Re[2]: Label font -- wrong encoding (+ ERT encoding)

2005-11-29 Thread Andrei Popov
However, I'm at a loss -- lyx-xforms appears to be fixable, while lyx-qt apparently not. How is it possible, if they're both based on the same code? We rely on the frontend toolkits to supply us with the fonts we ask for. XForms does as we ask, but Qt occassionally lies to us. You

Re: lyx can not find any description of the environment :/

2005-11-29 Thread mamato
windows has been searching my whole drive for most of the afternoon now and has only found the one file it should have (even though it's not done yet) i've only ever tried to install this lyx-1.3.6 but i've done it multiple times and the only other directory i installed it to has been deleted.

Re: The best 2d and 3d eps math graphs to Lyx

2005-11-29 Thread Stephen Harris
- Original Message - From: Paul Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2005 3:38 AM Subject: Re: The best 2d and 3d eps math graphs to Lyx On 11/27/05, Michel Gosse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Texgraph is a beautiful program, exporting in

Re: Spellcheck on Windows

2005-11-29 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Vic Kelson wrote: Hi All, I'm running LyX 1.3.6 on Win32, and I can't figure out how to make the spellcheck work. I had it working on one of the previous versions, but I can't recall how I did it. Is it now possible to make it work? THANKS! --vic You need aspell (and a dictionary)

Re: WinLyx 1.3.7pre4 install - missing textclass.lst

2005-11-29 Thread Paul A. Rubin
YOUNES Abdelrazak / M3SYSTEM wrote: One additional information: I have just installed Python 2.4.2. Maybe this is the problem? Anyway, I have re-installed 1.3.6 and overwrite the bin directory with the one from 1.3.7pre4 installation. Seems to work fine... Thanks, Abdel. YOUNES Abdelrazak

Re: WinLyx 1.3.7pre4 install - missing textclass.lst

2005-11-29 Thread YOUNES Abdelrazak / M3SYSTEM
Paul A. Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] YOUNES Abdelrazak / M3SYSTEM wrote: One additional information: I have just installed Python 2.4.2. Maybe this is the problem? Anyway, I have re-installed 1.3.6 and overwrite the bin directory with the one from

Re: lyx can not find any description of the environment :/

2005-11-29 Thread mamato
fixed it... should have read your mail more carefully :/ it was in App Data. mamato On 11/29/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: windows has been searching my whole drive for most of the afternoon now and has only found the one file it should have (even though it's

indent + raggedright

2005-11-29 Thread Mike Leahy
Hello list, I'm a new user, and just getting familiar with LaTeX/LyX. I'm just wondering if anyone knows of a way to get the 'standard' style of text to have both indents for new paragraphs AND have ragged right edges (since that's a requirement for a paper I'm working on). Every time I enable

Re: lyx on windows (and printing notes)

2005-11-29 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Angus Leeming wrote: * You say ImageMagick does, but ImageMagick isn't *required* to run LyX. I never said this. But ImageMagick is of course required to run LyX. A wordprocessor is useless when no images can be processed. * There are certainly latex distributions out there that don't

Re: Spellcheck on Windows

2005-11-29 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Vic Kelson wrote: I'm running LyX 1.3.6 on Win32, and I can't figure out how to make the spellcheck work. I had it working on one of the previous versions, but I can't recall how I did it. Is it now possible to make it work? Simply install Aspell, but it must be installed to C:\Aspell. You

Re: indent + raggedright

2005-11-29 Thread Mike Leahy
Nevermind - I missed this: http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg15610.html That solution worked for me. Mike Leahy wrote: Hello list, I'm a new user, and just getting familiar with LaTeX/LyX. I'm just wondering if anyone knows of a way to get the 'standard' style of text

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