Re: table settings and setting border does all or nothing

2007-10-16 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Jeremy C. Reed wrote: Thanks. That worked. Is it standard for not being able to align text in a cell vertically? My capitalized letters are touching the top of the cell border -- but their is a big whitespace gap below each character. Is this in the GUI or when you generate a DVI or PDF?

Re: Backup failure w/ LyX 1.5.2

2007-10-16 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Dave Hewitt wrote: Whenever I try to save LyX documents (File -> Save or Ctrl-S), I get a Backup Failure notification (image attached). After I hit OK, the Save option in the File menu is grayed out, indicating that the file has been saved. When I reopen the file, it looks fine, so the file

Re: table settings and setting border does all or nothing

2007-10-16 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, Paul A. Rubin wrote: > > Is it standard for not being able to align text in a cell vertically? My > > capitalized letters are touching the top of the cell border -- but their is > > a big whitespace gap below each character. > > Is this in the GUI or when you generate a DVI

Re: exporting to rtf?

2007-10-16 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
B. Bogart wrote: > Is there a way I can export my LyX document as an RTF including > footnotes, section references, images and bibliography? > > I tried exporting as HTML, where most stuff works but not the > bibliography. I suppose I would need to manually convert my PDF figures > to png? You

Re: Backup failure w/ LyX 1.5.2

2007-10-16 Thread Dave Hewitt
Dave Hewitt wrote: Whenever I try to save LyX documents (File -> Save or Ctrl-S), I get a Backup Failure notification (image attached). After I hit OK, the Save option in the File menu is grayed out, indicating that the file has been saved. When I reopen the file, it looks fine, so the

where is ExportFormats documented?

2007-10-16 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
I am trying to figure out why after my upgrade from 1.4.x to 1.5.2 I lost my Export menu option and View choice for PDF (pdflatex). It appears to be fine under my preferences. I do have dvipdfm and ps2pdf but I don't want to use DVI or postscript first. I see my user interface (stdmenus.inc)

Re: where is ExportFormats documented?

2007-10-16 Thread Bennett Helm
On Oct 16, 2007, at 5:42 PM, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: I am trying to figure out why after my upgrade from 1.4.x to 1.5.2 I lost my Export menu option and View choice for PDF (pdflatex). ... I have thjis File format: PDF (pdflatex) Format: pdf2 (I don't know that) Shortcut: F Viewer: xpdf

Re: Backup failure w/ LyX 1.5.2

2007-10-16 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Dave Hewitt wrote: And, no files of any type are appearing in this new backup directory I created, so where are these backups going (i.e., what is the purpose of this folder)? Maybe there aren't any. Do you have Tools -> Preferences... -> Look and feel -> User interface -> Backup

Re: table settings and setting border does all or nothing

2007-10-16 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Jeremy C. Reed wrote: In the generated output. Not all the rows have a descender (a "g"). Every row has the characters jammed up to the top. All the rows appear to be the same height. And even the bottom of the "g" doesn't touch the bottom of the row (the border), but the tops of letters

Re: where is ExportFormats documented?

2007-10-16 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, Bennett Helm wrote: > On Oct 16, 2007, at 5:42 PM, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > > > I am trying to figure out why after my upgrade from 1.4.x to 1.5.2 I lost > > my Export menu option and View choice for PDF (pdflatex). > > ... > > > I have thjis File format: > > > > PDF

Re: table settings and setting border does all or nothing

2007-10-16 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, Paul A. Rubin wrote: > > In the generated output. Not all the rows have a descender (a "g"). Every > > row has the characters jammed up to the top. All the rows appear to be the > > same height. And even the bottom of the "g" doesn't touch the bottom of the > > row (the

Re: Backup failure w/ LyX 1.5.2

2007-10-16 Thread Dave Hewitt
Marc, the directory is set to: C:\Program Files\LyX 1.5.2\backup (Recall that I created this folder to make it available and stop the error messages on every save instance.) Dave Hewitt wrote: And, no files of any type are appearing in this new backup directory I created, so where

Re: Backup failure w/ LyX 1.5.2

2007-10-16 Thread Marc Driftmeyer
Do either of you have RCS installed and running on your systems? http://www.gnu.org/software/rcs This is the RCS system accessible via LyX under File->Version Control The system doesn't have a GUI to work within. It's command line driven. I'm using LyX on Debian Linux Sid and OS X 10.4.10 -

Re: table settings and setting border does all or nothing

2007-10-16 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Jeremy C. Reed writes: > > On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, Paul A. Rubin wrote: > > > > Is it standard for not being able to align text in a cell vertically? My > > > capitalized letters are touching the top of the cell border -- but their > > > is > > > a big whitespace gap below each character. > > >

Re: Backup failure w/ LyX 1.5.2

2007-10-16 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Marc Driftmeyer wrote: Do either of you have RCS installed and running on your systems? Not I. /Paul

Re: Backup failure w/ LyX 1.5.2

2007-10-16 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Dave Hewitt wrote: Marc indicated that the files with tildes are the just-prior saved version (an at-the-time-of-last-opening backup, if you will). So those aren't the backups. But, like you Paul, I get the #...# files in the same directory as I'm working in. I get those files regularly when

Re: table settings and setting border does all or nothing

2007-10-16 Thread Brian Kidd
another option that i've used for adding custom white space is to create a new command in the preamble using \rule. this is an extension of the suggestion by Enrico and you can fine tune the extra space as needed. \newcommand\T{\rule{0pt}{2.6ex}} \newcommand\B{\rule[-1.2ex]{0pt}{0pt}} add

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