Re: Entering foreign language characters

2007-02-06 Thread John Coppens
On Tue, 06 Feb 2007 23:14:45 -0500 "David L. Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Cool. It works, except that it is Winkey-` e rather than the other > way around. That depends on if the combinations are defined - in my case both work. There's a lot of fun to be had with combinations. Try thing

Re: Entering foreign language characters

2007-02-06 Thread David L. Johnson
John Coppens wrote: On Tue, 06 Feb 2007 21:13:47 -0500 "David L. Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Doesn't work for me (debian linux/american keyboard). If you feel like it, try to check if you have a file in your home directory called .Xmodmap (it's a hidden file). If so, add the following

Re: Entering foreign language characters

2007-02-06 Thread John Coppens
On Tue, 06 Feb 2007 21:13:47 -0500 "David L. Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Doesn't work for me (debian linux/american keyboard). If you feel like it, try to check if you have a file in your home directory called .Xmodmap (it's a hidden file). If so, add the following line, else create it:

Re: How to get "Contents" and similar labels in other languages?

2007-02-06 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Stefano Franchi writes: > Well, I think I have hit the LyX/Babel bug/feature again. I have a > babel declaration in my standard preamble, which declares both English > and Italian, with English coming last. That seems to be the problem. > selecting Italian in the language pane of the LyX settin

Re: .tex to .lyx to .tex problem

2007-02-06 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Kevin Paunovic writes: > > I start from a .tex latex file that contains: > \lipsum[11] blahblah > > I import this in LyX. > > Then I export the .lyx file to plain latex (.tex) and I find this line: > \lipsum{[}11] > > This seems to be due to the fact \lipsum command don't take arguments > but

Re: Entering foreign language characters

2007-02-06 Thread David L. Johnson
John Coppens wrote: I've noticed that in many keyboards Ctl-. (Ctl + decimal point) is defined as the Compose character. Try to enter the è as: Ctl-. e `or reversed: Ctl-. ` e If necessary, it's possible to define another character as Compose (or, more 'modern', as MultiKey). I think thi

Re: Entering foreign language characters

2007-02-06 Thread John Coppens
On Tue, 06 Feb 2007 19:28:29 -0500 "David L. Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > > > >> Neal Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> I'm using lyx-1.4.3 on Fedora with kde. What is the easiest way to > >> enter a > >> few special accented characters?

Re: Entering foreign language characters

2007-02-06 Thread David L. Johnson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Neal Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm using lyx-1.4.3 on Fedora with kde. What is the easiest way to enter a few special accented characters? My language and document is english, but let's say I'd like to enter a few spanish symbols. I know I can do this w

Re: Slide number in beamer presentation

2007-02-06 Thread Paul Smith
On 2/6/07, Paul Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > How can one add a slide number for each slide in the very basic > > attached beamer presentation? > > Is this what you want? (The change is in the preamble.) Note that this > is not necessarily how I would do it using one of the prefab themes

Re: Entering foreign language characters

2007-02-06 Thread bruce . weller
> Neal Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm using lyx-1.4.3 on Fedora with kde. What is the easiest way to > enter a > few special accented characters? My language and document is english, > but > let's say I'd like to enter a few spanish symbols. I know I can do this > with special

Re: Slide number in beamer presentation

2007-02-06 Thread Paul Smith
On 2/6/07, Paul A. Rubin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How can one add a slide number for each slide in the very basic > attached beamer presentation? Is this what you want? (The change is in the preamble.) Note that this is not necessarily how I would do it using one of the prefab themes. Th

Re: Font problems of pdf-files generated on Mac

2007-02-06 Thread Nick Hopton
In a recent message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Anders Ekberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote. I have a more and more annoying problem. The pdf-files I create works for about 90% of the colleagues I send them to. But on some computers (or rather installations) the fonts get messed up. This has always been

Re: Slide number in beamer presentation

2007-02-06 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Paul Smith wrote: Dear All How can one add a slide number for each slide in the very basic attached beamer presentation? Thanks in advance, Paul Is this what you want? (The change is in the preamble.) Note that this is not necessarily how I would do it using one of the prefab themes. /P

Re: Alt key "stuck"

2007-02-06 Thread Paul A. Rubin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I have something weird going on - whenever I press one of the following keys - pskxcm - and as far as I can tell only those keys, Lyx thinks I had Meta-keyed instead. (e.g. I press "s" and get Alt+S options: T Shift+S ... etc.) tried clean reinstall, no good. using

Re: Having my own layout removes navigation in LyX 1.4.2

2007-02-06 Thread Steve Litt
On Tuesday 06 February 2007 09:27, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > "Steve" == Steve Litt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Steve> Unknown alignment `LeftMargin' > Steve> [around line 13 of file /tmp/lyx_tmpdir6058ekMlTP/605827MUiz] > Steve> [EMAIL PROTECTED] tsjustfacts]$ > > Try to move the hash

Re: How to get "Contents" and similar labels in other languages?

2007-02-06 Thread Stefano Franchi
On 6 Feb, 2007, at 10:35 AM, Richard Heck wrote: Stefano Franchi wrote: Problem: What should I do to convince LlyX/LaTex to use the Italian version of the internally generated labels like "Contents" (for TOC), References (for bib)., etc.? I thought switching the language to Italian would be su

Re: Having my own layout removes navigation in LyX 1.4.2

2007-02-06 Thread Steve Litt
On Tuesday 06 February 2007 08:29, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > "Steve" == Steve Litt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Steve> It's at the bottom of the email. Note that in order to rule out > Steve> my "story" LaTeX environment, I had this LyX environment refer > Steve> to the built-in LaTeX

Re: How to get "Contents" and similar labels in other languages?

2007-02-06 Thread Stefano Franchi
On 6 Feb, 2007, at 10:35 AM, Richard Heck wrote: Stefano Franchi wrote: Problem: What should I do to convince LlyX/LaTex to use the Italian version of the internally generated labels like "Contents" (for TOC), References (for bib)., etc.? I thought switching the language to Italian would be su

Re: How to get "Contents" and similar labels in other languages?

2007-02-06 Thread Richard Heck
Stefano Franchi wrote: > Problem: What should I do to convince LlyX/LaTex to use the Italian > version of the internally generated labels like "Contents" (for TOC), > References (for bib)., etc.? > I thought switching the language to Italian would be sufficient, but > clearly it is not. Hopefully I

How to get "Contents" and similar labels in other languages?

2007-02-06 Thread Stefano Franchi
I am sorry if this question has been addressed already, but my search of the usual sites came up empty. Problem: What should I do to convince LlyX/LaTex to use the Italian version of the internally generated labels like "Contents" (for TOC), References (for bib)., etc.? I thought switching the

Re: LyX adds packages declaration I already use

2007-02-06 Thread Richard Heck
Ah, yes, true. The only other option I can see, if the "declare options later" method won't work, is to mess with the compilation process itself, so that you can remove the offending lines that LyX inserts. If you look under Tools > Preferences > Converters, you'll see the command LyX is using to

Re: LyX adds packages declaration I already use

2007-02-06 Thread Kevin Paunovic
Aye aye, but this becomes tweaky when LyX declares a "nude" package (without any option) and you declare, after that, the same package but this time with options. Ex: \usepackage{graphicx} \usepackage[dvips]{graphicx} This causes Latex compiler hauling that graphicx was already loaded

Re: LyX adds packages declaration I already use

2007-02-06 Thread Richard Heck
The way to handle this, I'd think, is to use some kind of conditional. LyX adds its material BEFORE your custom preamble stuff gets included. So you basically just need to check for the existence of something you know LyX will have done. LyX pretty much always to use inputenc.sty, so perhaps check

.tex to .lyx to .tex problem

2007-02-06 Thread Kevin Paunovic
I start from a .tex latex file that contains: \lipsum[11] blahblah I import this in LyX. Then I export the .lyx file to plain latex (.tex) and I find this line: \lipsum{[}11] This seems to be due to the fact \lipsum command don't take arguments but a unique optional argument (between square b

LyX adds packages declaration I already use

2007-02-06 Thread Kevin Paunovic
I use LyX as a structured content editor. I mean, I need people write the documentation of software manuals in a structured language and, as they fear xml, I proposed LyX. So I wrote a .sty that contains everything we need to generate manuals and documentation. This includes commands Latex

RE: Re: Error on startup

2007-02-06 Thread Steven Harms \(stharms\)
Paul, Your solution essentially pointed me in the right direction: it was a pathing issue that was causing the problem. I, too had installed CYGWIN LyX ( which was working ) and that had caused a confusion when I installed Win32 LyX. Order of operations: I re-installed MikTex Changed path to

Entering foreign language characters

2007-02-06 Thread Neal Becker
I'm using lyx-1.4.3 on Fedora with kde. What is the easiest way to enter a few special accented characters? My language and document is english, but let's say I'd like to enter a few spanish symbols. I know I can do this with special latex, but is there a more generic (and newbie friendly) way?

Re: float placement refinements

2007-02-06 Thread Ramon Flores
Em Sexta, 2 de Fevereiro de 2007 20:53, Enrico Forestieri escreveu: >LaTeX is a quite sophisticated typesetting system and lets you fine tune a >large set of style parameters. Below you can find a list of parameters that >I think are of interest to you. Those not starting with a backslash are >co

Re: Having my own layout removes navigation in LyX 1.4.2

2007-02-06 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Steve" == Steve Litt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Steve> Unknown alignment `LeftMargin' Steve> [around line 13 of file /tmp/lyx_tmpdir6058ekMlTP/605827MUiz] Steve> [EMAIL PROTECTED] tsjustfacts]$ Try to move the hash mark in the line below #Align Block # Left ali

Re: [announce] LyX150alpha from 05-02-2007 for Windows

2007-02-06 Thread Olivier Ripoll
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Hello LyXTesters, I published a new version with LyX1.5.0alpha from 05-02-2007: http://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5117&release_id=12178 This is mainly a bugfix release to the bug I accidentally introduced in the last release from 04-02-2007. If you

[announce] LyX150alpha from 05-02-2007 for Windows

2007-02-06 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Hello LyXTesters, I published a new version with LyX1.5.0alpha from 05-02-2007: http://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5117&release_id=12178 This is mainly a bugfix release to the bug I accidentally introduced in the last release from 04-02-2007. If you still have python pr

Re: Having my own layout removes navigation in LyX 1.4.2

2007-02-06 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Steve" == Steve Litt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Steve> It's at the bottom of the email. Note that in order to rule out Steve> my "story" LaTeX environment, I had this LyX environment refer Steve> to the built-in LaTeX "quotation" environment. I suggest that you start with Format 2 Inp

Re: Having my own layout removes navigation in LyX 1.4.2

2007-02-06 Thread Steve Litt
On Tuesday 06 February 2007 05:51, José Matos wrote: > On Tuesday 06 February 2007 12:13:47 am Steve Litt wrote: > > Then I created my own layout file, deriving a tsjsbook layout > > derived from the book class. My new layout was minimal -- it did nothing > > except create a new environment called

Re: Crash when using TitlelatexCommand in layout def

2007-02-06 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Kevin" == Kevin Paunovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Kevin> Hi, I'm having problems when using TitleLatexCommand in my Kevin> .layout file. Kevin> I use the command \coverpage instead of \maketitle to generate Kevin> the title page. This command is defined in my .sty file Kevin> (included

Re: Having my own layout removes navigation in LyX 1.4.2

2007-02-06 Thread Steve Litt
On Tuesday 06 February 2007 04:49, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > "Steve" == Steve Litt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Steve> Hi all, As you all remember, when I switched to LyX 1.4.2 I > Steve> griped that one of my books no longer had navigation. > > Steve> Now the other shoe dropped. I've

Crash when using TitlelatexCommand in layout def

2007-02-06 Thread Kevin Paunovic
Hi, I'm having problems when using TitleLatexCommand in my .layout file. I use the command \coverpage instead of \maketitle to generate the title page. This command is defined in my .sty file (included in the Preamble section of the layout file). Everything goes well until I specify "TitleL

Re: Command line options

2007-02-06 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Tue, 6 Feb 2007, Hellmut Weber wrote: Hi list, who can tell me where i can find a list of command line options lyx accepts? I do know about '--export latex' (and do use it a lot), but i would like e.g. to ask lyx from the command line to reconfigure. I googled for 'lyx command line' but did

Command line options

2007-02-06 Thread Hellmut Weber
Hi list, who can tell me where i can find a list of command line options lyx accepts? I do know about '--export latex' (and do use it a lot), but i would like e.g. to ask lyx from the command line to reconfigure. I googled for 'lyx command line' but didn't get any reasonable result. Neither could

Slide number in beamer presentation

2007-02-06 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All How can one add a slide number for each slide in the very basic attached beamer presentation? Thanks in advance, Paul beamer_example.lyx Description: application/lyx

Re: Having my own layout removes navigation in LyX 1.4.2

2007-02-06 Thread José Matos
On Tuesday 06 February 2007 12:13:47 am Steve Litt wrote: > Then I created my own layout file, deriving a tsjsbook layout > derived from the book class. My new layout was minimal -- it did nothing > except create a new environment called Story, which worked perfectly well > when converting to dvi.

Re: changing Xfig figures in LyX

2007-02-06 Thread Philipp Fleig
Hello Georg, I am sorry for the very late reply, but I was away for the last few days! The file Test.lyx which I had sent to you was correct and also read the file TestFig.fig, but for some reason LyX seems to change the name of the file from TestFig.fig to LyX when I include it via Exter

Re: tables: multirow ok, but multiline?

2007-02-06 Thread Nick Hopton
In a recent message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Uwe Stöhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote. [...] The I can recommend to recompile LyX and test out a more recent LyX 1.5 version, we made big efforts the last weeks. There's also a manual version for LyX 1.5: http://www.lyx.org/trac/browser/lyx-devel/trunk/

Re: Having my own layout removes navigation in LyX 1.4.2

2007-02-06 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Steve" == Steve Litt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Steve> Hi all, As you all remember, when I switched to LyX 1.4.2 I Steve> griped that one of my books no longer had navigation. Steve> Now the other shoe dropped. I've been writing a new book, using Steve> the book document class in LyX 1.4.

Re: How to keeping Enumerate items together?

2007-02-06 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Steve" == Steve Litt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Steve> Hi all, In my book created with the Book document class, I have Steve> a four item bullet list in environment Itemize. It pagebreaks Steve> after the second item, and even more lame than that, the next Steve> page is consumed with a gr