Re: Problems installing LyX - better method

2008-03-18 Thread Juha Meriluoto
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Juha, as you have LyX 1.6svn installed. You could easily test if it works when simply copying the attached file msvcp80.dll to the folder of LyX 1.6svn's lyx.exe. This way, you can keep LyX 1.5 untouched and help me finding the problem. If this doesn't help, als copy the

Re: Why do Inkscape drawing pixellate in LyX?

2008-03-18 Thread G. Milde
On 17.03.08, Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, I have three Inkscape drawings. They pixellate very badly when I export them to .png and then include them in my LyX written book. Because PNG is a Pixel format. Maybe you can set the resolution somewhere in the Inkscape settings to improve things a

Re: Why do Inkscape drawing pixellate in LyX?

2008-03-18 Thread Max
On 2008-03-18 01:18:50 +0100, Steve Litt [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Monday 17 March 2008 19:26, Dominik Böhm wrote: I sometimes also have problems with fonts, but figured out, that everything looks exactly like in Inkscape if I change all the text elements to a font like Arial. When I pick

Re: Problems installing LyX - better method

2008-03-18 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Juha Meriluoto schrieb: I tested as requested, and 1.60svn started OK when both the .dll and manifest files were copied into LyX binary directory. And does it work when you only copy the DLL and not the manifest file? This is important for me to know. regards Uwe

Re: Problems installing LyX - better method

2008-03-18 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Juha Meriluoto schrieb: No, it works only when both files are copied. Not with the DLL alone. Many thanks. I'll provide a new installer this evening. 1.6svn does not seem to be able to read 1.5.x documents, says that they are from a different version of LyX but lyx2lyx can't convert them.

Problem with Lyx 1.5 in Ubuntu Gutsy

2008-03-18 Thread hansi
Hello, I started to write a paper in Lyx 1.4.x. I used eps-graphics mostly. I used the pdflatex-converter and it worked fine. Eps-files were scaled as I wanted. Now I upgraded my Ubuntu from Feisty to Gutsy and also the Lyx version to 1.5.1. When I use the pdflatex-converter now, the output

Problem with eps in Lyx 1.5/Ubuntu Gutsy

2008-03-18 Thread hansi
Hello, I started to write a paper in Lyx 1.4.x. I used eps-graphics mostly. I used the pdflatex-converter and it worked fine. Eps-files were scaled as I wanted. Now I upgraded my Ubuntu from Feisty to Gutsy and also the Lyx version to 1.5.1. When I use the pdflatex-converter now, the output

Re: Problems installing LyX - better method

2008-03-18 Thread Juha Meriluoto
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Juha Meriluoto schrieb: I tested as requested, and 1.60svn started OK when both the .dll and manifest files were copied into LyX binary directory. And does it work when you only copy the DLL and not the manifest file? This is important for me to know. regards Uwe No, it

Re: OT: back up and revision control

2008-03-18 Thread Dominik Böhm
On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 3:20 PM, Alan G Isaac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 17 Mar 2008, Dominik Böhm apparently wrote: I use an SVN-server for my thesis and upload my work to the server twice a day. I find this a great way to work on research papers, especially if they are

Why cant i get the citations in the format i want?

2008-03-18 Thread Jon Bendtsen
Hi I have some trouble getting my citations to look proper. I use LyX 1.4.1 and BibDesk 1.3.14 on mac osx 10.5.2. LyX only seem to show these fields, and in this order: Author Title HowPublished Month Year Note Further more LyX seems to change the letters and remove some chars like , in

Re: Why do Inkscape drawing pixellate in LyX?

2008-03-18 Thread Steve Litt
On Tuesday 18 March 2008 04:23, Max wrote: By the way, just for typographic reasons, you know of the typographic criticism of Arial, do you :)? Max No. What's the typographic criticism of Arial? SteveT Steve Litt Books written in LyX: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful

Re: Why do Inkscape drawing pixellate in LyX?

2008-03-18 Thread Donn
No. What's the typographic criticism of Arial? I believe that from a pure typographer's pov, it's better to write with a cigarette butt than to use Arial. There is quite a bit about it online, google away. \d

Re: Why cant i get the citations in the format i want?

2008-03-18 Thread Julio Rojas
It basically, the bibliographic style you're using. Some styles use all the fields, some not. Also, you have to surround between curly brackets whatever you want to appear as is, like names. I had that same problem and that's they way you solve it. Hope this helps... On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 8:09

Re[2]: OT: back up and revision control

2008-03-18 Thread Alan G Isaac
On Tue, 18 Mar 2008, Dominik Böhm apparently wrote: I asked my tutor if she could provide an svn server for me. A day later someone of the support staff sent me an email with the connection data for my svn server. Maybe you can ask the persons in charge at your university as well. Our

Re: Why cant i get the citations in the format i want?

2008-03-18 Thread Jon Bendtsen
On 18/03/2008, at 14.04, Julio Rojas wrote: It basically, the bibliographic style you're using. Some styles use all the fields, some not. Also, you have to surround between curly brackets whatever you want to appear as is, like names. I had that same problem and that's they way you solve

Re: Why cant i get the citations in the format i want?

2008-03-18 Thread Julio Rojas
{ } On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 10:51 AM, Jon Bendtsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 18/03/2008, at 14.04, Julio Rojas wrote: It basically, the bibliographic style you're using. Some styles use all the fields, some not. Also, you have to surround between curly brackets whatever you want to

Re: Why cant i get the citations in the format i want?

2008-03-18 Thread Jon Bendtsen
Thanks, but thats not working :-( LyX complains Misplaced alignment tab character JonB On 18/03/2008, at 16.22, Julio Rojas wrote: { } On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 10:51 AM, Jon Bendtsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 18/03/2008, at 14.04, Julio Rojas wrote: It basically, the bibliographic

Re: Why cant i get the citations in the format i want?

2008-03-18 Thread Julio Rojas
Let me paste one record for you: @INPROCEEDINGS{Rojas-MoraGil-Lafuente2007, author = {Rojas-Mora, Julio and Gil-Lafuente, Jaime}, title = {La contratación de un atleta profesional a través de la hemimétrica media ponderada de {Tran} y {Duckstein}}, booktitle = {Actas del V Congreso

Re: Why cant i get the citations in the format i want?

2008-03-18 Thread Julio Rojas
Try using the URL package: http://www.kronto.org/thesis/tips/url-formatting.html On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 11:04 AM, Jon Bendtsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Apparently it does work for some chars, i tried another citation, and it works there, but LyX does not like putting an url like

Re: Why cant i get the citations in the format i want?

2008-03-18 Thread Jon Bendtsen
Thanks, that helped JonB On 18/03/2008, at 16.45, Julio Rojas wrote: Try using the URL package: http://www.kronto.org/thesis/tips/url-formatting.html On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 11:04 AM, Jon Bendtsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Apparently it does work for some chars, i tried another citation,

Re: Why cant i get the citations in the format i want?

2008-03-18 Thread Julio Rojas
Be aware that every time your are going to use that database, you have to use the URL package in your document. On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 11:28 AM, Jon Bendtsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks, that helped JonB On 18/03/2008, at 16.45, Julio Rojas wrote: Try using the URL package:

Re: Latex - LyX - Latex (trouble with accents)

2008-03-18 Thread Rudi Gaelzer
On Monday 17 March 2008 20:09:56 Enrico Forestieri wrote: Rudi Gaelzer writes: Hi. I'm importing a Latex file that has accented letters written in the old encoding scheme (OT1) way: \'{a} \'{e} \'{\i} \c{c} \~{a}, etc. I want to import this file into LyX, make the necessary changes and

Bachelor Thesis template from thesis-template.com

2008-03-18 Thread diefettenjahre
Hello everyone, I'm pretty new to Lyx and I would like to use it in order to write my Bachelor Thesis within the next few months. As the newbie I am - I've got some questions about different aspects, mostly about a template I found online. Starting with the template: It has been published as a

Literal monofont underscores?

2008-03-18 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, In my latest book I have a screenshot of UMENU, whose license screen has a poor man's box comprised of underscores on top and bottom, and pipe symbols on the side. In the book, it's in LyX-Code style, which should be a monospaced font, and in fact is on everything but underscores.

Re: Using a network printer

2008-03-18 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 05:02:54PM +, Dave Wood wrote: How do I set up Lyx to use a network printer? At the moment I can print by viewing as pdf in kpdf which sees my printer. I would like to be able to print direct from Lyx though, as I sometimes want to print old files and not have to

marginal notes not formatting correctly

2008-03-18 Thread Brian Guenter
From: Brian Guenter Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 10:57 AM To: 'lyx-users@lists.lyx.org' Subject: marginal notes not formatting correctly I am using Lyx version 1.5.4 on windows XP with pdflatex for output. When I insert marginal notes into my document they do not format properly - the text

Why no numbers in bibliography?

2008-03-18 Thread Kane Kano
I just generated my bibliography list and doesnt look like it should. Every source should be represented by a number for instance [1] Physics. [2] Paper Instead the name of the authors are displayed in alphabetical order. I checked alreadey the Lyx settings (document, preferences,

Re: Bachelor Thesis template from thesis-template.com

2008-03-18 Thread Maksi
On 2008-03-18 17:34:51 +0100, diefettenjahre [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Hello everyone, I'm pretty new to Lyx and I would like to use it in order to write my Bachelor Thesis within the next few months. As the newbie I am - I've got some questions about different aspects, mostly about a template

Re: OT: back up and revision control

2008-03-18 Thread Filippo Zangheri
Dominik Böhm ha scritto: On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 3:20 PM, Alan G Isaac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 17 Mar 2008, Dominik Böhm apparently wrote: I use an SVN-server for my thesis and upload my work to the server twice a day. I find this a great way to work on research papers,

Re: Bachelor Thesis template from thesis-template.com

2008-03-18 Thread diefettenjahre
Hi Maksi, thanks for your reply. you might as well make your own template, based of preferrable KOMA-Book or Memoir (rather than the standard classes). Well, this is why I've chosen Lyx and this template. Basically I hoped that I don't have to learn all these LaTeX commands. But I'll try my

Re: Problems installing LyX - better method

2008-03-18 Thread Siegfried MEUNIER-GUTTIN-CLUZEL
I reported this bug (4633) 1.6svn seems to be incapable to read 1.5.x files (on my Win XP Pro system). Siegfried.

Re: Problems installing LyX - better method

2008-03-18 Thread José Matos
On Tuesday 18 March 2008 18:50:20 Siegfried MEUNIER-GUTTIN-CLUZEL wrote: I reported this bug (4633) 1.6svn seems to be incapable to read 1.5.x files (on my Win XP Pro system). And I replied there that I suspect from your python installation. :-) We need a better debugging info for this kind

Re: Problem with eps in Lyx 1.5/Ubuntu Gutsy

2008-03-18 Thread Ignacio García
hansi wrote I started to write a paper in Lyx 1.4.x. I used eps-graphics mostly. I used the pdflatex-converter and it worked fine. Eps-files were scaled as I wanted. Now I upgraded my Ubuntu from Feisty to Gutsy and also the Lyx version to 1.5.1. When I use the pdflatex-converter now, the

pdf file size

2008-03-18 Thread Miki Dovrat
Hi, Can I give lyx (or imagemagick convert through lyx) or some other latex package an option to resample all graphics in a certain resolution to reduce the pdf file size? convert has a -resample option. I would love to do it on the fly without actually producing lower resolution images on

Re: pdf file size

2008-03-18 Thread Steve Litt
On Tuesday 18 March 2008 17:03, Miki Dovrat wrote: Hi, Can I give lyx (or imagemagick convert through lyx) or some other latex package an option to resample all graphics in a certain resolution to reduce the pdf file size? convert has a -resample option. I would love to do it on the fly

Re: Problems installing LyX 1.5.4 - fixed installer available

2008-03-18 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Juha Meriluoto schrieb: No, it works only when both files are copied. Not with the DLL alone. I uploaded a new installer version where this is fixed. The new installer version also fixes some language setting issues: Version 3.23 - new Romanian translation of the installer (thanks to

Re: Literal monofont underscores?

2008-03-18 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, In my latest book I have a screenshot of UMENU, whose license screen has a poor man's box comprised of underscores on top and bottom, and pipe symbols on the side. In the book, it's in LyX-Code style, which should be a monospaced font, and in fact is on everything

Re: Literal monofont underscores?

2008-03-18 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Doh! And here's why it worked for me and not you: I typed in the underscores, and LyX cleverly escaped them as \_\_ (ad nauseum). I'm guessing you pasted them in or imported them as text, and got just underscores, no escapes. /Paul

Re: Authors in preamble using \twoauthors

2008-03-18 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Phillip Ferguson wrote: Hey all, Yet again I am having some issues with the spconf.sty. This time it's the authors. In spconf.sty the comments for \twoauthors are: - use \twoauthors{author1}{address1}{author2}{address2} % for two (or more) authors with two separate

Re: pdf file size

2008-03-18 Thread Miki Dovrat
I wonder if you could do something with pdftk. SteveTTroubleshooting: Just the Facts Not that I have seen. You may compress the streams, but not specifically reduce resolution of an image. However it is a command line and I could do it with a script working on the pdf output - take apart

Re: Problems installing LyX - better method

2008-03-18 Thread Juha Meriluoto
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Juha, as you have LyX 1.6svn installed. You could easily test if it works when simply copying the attached file msvcp80.dll to the folder of LyX 1.6svn's lyx.exe. This way, you can keep LyX 1.5 untouched and help me finding the problem. If this doesn't help, als copy the

Re: Why do Inkscape drawing pixellate in LyX?

2008-03-18 Thread G. Milde
On 17.03.08, Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, I have three Inkscape drawings. They pixellate very badly when I export them to .png and then include them in my LyX written book. Because PNG is a Pixel format. Maybe you can set the resolution somewhere in the Inkscape settings to improve things a

Re: Why do Inkscape drawing pixellate in LyX?

2008-03-18 Thread Max
On 2008-03-18 01:18:50 +0100, Steve Litt [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Monday 17 March 2008 19:26, Dominik Böhm wrote: I sometimes also have problems with fonts, but figured out, that everything looks exactly like in Inkscape if I change all the text elements to a font like Arial. When I pick

Re: Problems installing LyX - better method

2008-03-18 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Juha Meriluoto schrieb: I tested as requested, and 1.60svn started OK when both the .dll and manifest files were copied into LyX binary directory. And does it work when you only copy the DLL and not the manifest file? This is important for me to know. regards Uwe

Re: Problems installing LyX - better method

2008-03-18 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Juha Meriluoto schrieb: No, it works only when both files are copied. Not with the DLL alone. Many thanks. I'll provide a new installer this evening. 1.6svn does not seem to be able to read 1.5.x documents, says that they are from a different version of LyX but lyx2lyx can't convert them.

Problem with Lyx 1.5 in Ubuntu Gutsy

2008-03-18 Thread hansi
Hello, I started to write a paper in Lyx 1.4.x. I used eps-graphics mostly. I used the pdflatex-converter and it worked fine. Eps-files were scaled as I wanted. Now I upgraded my Ubuntu from Feisty to Gutsy and also the Lyx version to 1.5.1. When I use the pdflatex-converter now, the output

Problem with eps in Lyx 1.5/Ubuntu Gutsy

2008-03-18 Thread hansi
Hello, I started to write a paper in Lyx 1.4.x. I used eps-graphics mostly. I used the pdflatex-converter and it worked fine. Eps-files were scaled as I wanted. Now I upgraded my Ubuntu from Feisty to Gutsy and also the Lyx version to 1.5.1. When I use the pdflatex-converter now, the output

Re: Problems installing LyX - better method

2008-03-18 Thread Juha Meriluoto
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Juha Meriluoto schrieb: I tested as requested, and 1.60svn started OK when both the .dll and manifest files were copied into LyX binary directory. And does it work when you only copy the DLL and not the manifest file? This is important for me to know. regards Uwe No, it

Re: OT: back up and revision control

2008-03-18 Thread Dominik Böhm
On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 3:20 PM, Alan G Isaac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 17 Mar 2008, Dominik Böhm apparently wrote: I use an SVN-server for my thesis and upload my work to the server twice a day. I find this a great way to work on research papers, especially if they are

Why cant i get the citations in the format i want?

2008-03-18 Thread Jon Bendtsen
Hi I have some trouble getting my citations to look proper. I use LyX 1.4.1 and BibDesk 1.3.14 on mac osx 10.5.2. LyX only seem to show these fields, and in this order: Author Title HowPublished Month Year Note Further more LyX seems to change the letters and remove some chars like , in

Re: Why do Inkscape drawing pixellate in LyX?

2008-03-18 Thread Steve Litt
On Tuesday 18 March 2008 04:23, Max wrote: By the way, just for typographic reasons, you know of the typographic criticism of Arial, do you :)? Max No. What's the typographic criticism of Arial? SteveT Steve Litt Books written in LyX: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful

Re: Why do Inkscape drawing pixellate in LyX?

2008-03-18 Thread Donn
No. What's the typographic criticism of Arial? I believe that from a pure typographer's pov, it's better to write with a cigarette butt than to use Arial. There is quite a bit about it online, google away. \d

Re: Why cant i get the citations in the format i want?

2008-03-18 Thread Julio Rojas
It basically, the bibliographic style you're using. Some styles use all the fields, some not. Also, you have to surround between curly brackets whatever you want to appear as is, like names. I had that same problem and that's they way you solve it. Hope this helps... On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 8:09

Re[2]: OT: back up and revision control

2008-03-18 Thread Alan G Isaac
On Tue, 18 Mar 2008, Dominik Böhm apparently wrote: I asked my tutor if she could provide an svn server for me. A day later someone of the support staff sent me an email with the connection data for my svn server. Maybe you can ask the persons in charge at your university as well. Our

Re: Why cant i get the citations in the format i want?

2008-03-18 Thread Jon Bendtsen
On 18/03/2008, at 14.04, Julio Rojas wrote: It basically, the bibliographic style you're using. Some styles use all the fields, some not. Also, you have to surround between curly brackets whatever you want to appear as is, like names. I had that same problem and that's they way you solve

Re: Why cant i get the citations in the format i want?

2008-03-18 Thread Julio Rojas
{ } On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 10:51 AM, Jon Bendtsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 18/03/2008, at 14.04, Julio Rojas wrote: It basically, the bibliographic style you're using. Some styles use all the fields, some not. Also, you have to surround between curly brackets whatever you want to

Re: Why cant i get the citations in the format i want?

2008-03-18 Thread Jon Bendtsen
Thanks, but thats not working :-( LyX complains Misplaced alignment tab character JonB On 18/03/2008, at 16.22, Julio Rojas wrote: { } On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 10:51 AM, Jon Bendtsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 18/03/2008, at 14.04, Julio Rojas wrote: It basically, the bibliographic

Re: Why cant i get the citations in the format i want?

2008-03-18 Thread Julio Rojas
Let me paste one record for you: @INPROCEEDINGS{Rojas-MoraGil-Lafuente2007, author = {Rojas-Mora, Julio and Gil-Lafuente, Jaime}, title = {La contratación de un atleta profesional a través de la hemimétrica media ponderada de {Tran} y {Duckstein}}, booktitle = {Actas del V Congreso

Re: Why cant i get the citations in the format i want?

2008-03-18 Thread Julio Rojas
Try using the URL package: http://www.kronto.org/thesis/tips/url-formatting.html On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 11:04 AM, Jon Bendtsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Apparently it does work for some chars, i tried another citation, and it works there, but LyX does not like putting an url like

Re: Why cant i get the citations in the format i want?

2008-03-18 Thread Jon Bendtsen
Thanks, that helped JonB On 18/03/2008, at 16.45, Julio Rojas wrote: Try using the URL package: http://www.kronto.org/thesis/tips/url-formatting.html On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 11:04 AM, Jon Bendtsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Apparently it does work for some chars, i tried another citation,

Re: Why cant i get the citations in the format i want?

2008-03-18 Thread Julio Rojas
Be aware that every time your are going to use that database, you have to use the URL package in your document. On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 11:28 AM, Jon Bendtsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks, that helped JonB On 18/03/2008, at 16.45, Julio Rojas wrote: Try using the URL package:

Re: Latex - LyX - Latex (trouble with accents)

2008-03-18 Thread Rudi Gaelzer
On Monday 17 March 2008 20:09:56 Enrico Forestieri wrote: Rudi Gaelzer writes: Hi. I'm importing a Latex file that has accented letters written in the old encoding scheme (OT1) way: \'{a} \'{e} \'{\i} \c{c} \~{a}, etc. I want to import this file into LyX, make the necessary changes and

Bachelor Thesis template from thesis-template.com

2008-03-18 Thread diefettenjahre
Hello everyone, I'm pretty new to Lyx and I would like to use it in order to write my Bachelor Thesis within the next few months. As the newbie I am - I've got some questions about different aspects, mostly about a template I found online. Starting with the template: It has been published as a

Literal monofont underscores?

2008-03-18 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, In my latest book I have a screenshot of UMENU, whose license screen has a poor man's box comprised of underscores on top and bottom, and pipe symbols on the side. In the book, it's in LyX-Code style, which should be a monospaced font, and in fact is on everything but underscores.

Re: Using a network printer

2008-03-18 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 05:02:54PM +, Dave Wood wrote: How do I set up Lyx to use a network printer? At the moment I can print by viewing as pdf in kpdf which sees my printer. I would like to be able to print direct from Lyx though, as I sometimes want to print old files and not have to

marginal notes not formatting correctly

2008-03-18 Thread Brian Guenter
From: Brian Guenter Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 10:57 AM To: 'lyx-users@lists.lyx.org' Subject: marginal notes not formatting correctly I am using Lyx version 1.5.4 on windows XP with pdflatex for output. When I insert marginal notes into my document they do not format properly - the text

Why no numbers in bibliography?

2008-03-18 Thread Kane Kano
I just generated my bibliography list and doesnt look like it should. Every source should be represented by a number for instance [1] Physics. [2] Paper Instead the name of the authors are displayed in alphabetical order. I checked alreadey the Lyx settings (document, preferences,

Re: Bachelor Thesis template from thesis-template.com

2008-03-18 Thread Maksi
On 2008-03-18 17:34:51 +0100, diefettenjahre [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Hello everyone, I'm pretty new to Lyx and I would like to use it in order to write my Bachelor Thesis within the next few months. As the newbie I am - I've got some questions about different aspects, mostly about a template

Re: OT: back up and revision control

2008-03-18 Thread Filippo Zangheri
Dominik Böhm ha scritto: On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 3:20 PM, Alan G Isaac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 17 Mar 2008, Dominik Böhm apparently wrote: I use an SVN-server for my thesis and upload my work to the server twice a day. I find this a great way to work on research papers,

Re: Bachelor Thesis template from thesis-template.com

2008-03-18 Thread diefettenjahre
Hi Maksi, thanks for your reply. you might as well make your own template, based of preferrable KOMA-Book or Memoir (rather than the standard classes). Well, this is why I've chosen Lyx and this template. Basically I hoped that I don't have to learn all these LaTeX commands. But I'll try my

Re: Problems installing LyX - better method

2008-03-18 Thread Siegfried MEUNIER-GUTTIN-CLUZEL
I reported this bug (4633) 1.6svn seems to be incapable to read 1.5.x files (on my Win XP Pro system). Siegfried.

Re: Problems installing LyX - better method

2008-03-18 Thread José Matos
On Tuesday 18 March 2008 18:50:20 Siegfried MEUNIER-GUTTIN-CLUZEL wrote: I reported this bug (4633) 1.6svn seems to be incapable to read 1.5.x files (on my Win XP Pro system). And I replied there that I suspect from your python installation. :-) We need a better debugging info for this kind

Re: Problem with eps in Lyx 1.5/Ubuntu Gutsy

2008-03-18 Thread Ignacio García
hansi wrote I started to write a paper in Lyx 1.4.x. I used eps-graphics mostly. I used the pdflatex-converter and it worked fine. Eps-files were scaled as I wanted. Now I upgraded my Ubuntu from Feisty to Gutsy and also the Lyx version to 1.5.1. When I use the pdflatex-converter now, the

pdf file size

2008-03-18 Thread Miki Dovrat
Hi, Can I give lyx (or imagemagick convert through lyx) or some other latex package an option to resample all graphics in a certain resolution to reduce the pdf file size? convert has a -resample option. I would love to do it on the fly without actually producing lower resolution images on

Re: pdf file size

2008-03-18 Thread Steve Litt
On Tuesday 18 March 2008 17:03, Miki Dovrat wrote: Hi, Can I give lyx (or imagemagick convert through lyx) or some other latex package an option to resample all graphics in a certain resolution to reduce the pdf file size? convert has a -resample option. I would love to do it on the fly

Re: Problems installing LyX 1.5.4 - fixed installer available

2008-03-18 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Juha Meriluoto schrieb: No, it works only when both files are copied. Not with the DLL alone. I uploaded a new installer version where this is fixed. The new installer version also fixes some language setting issues: Version 3.23 - new Romanian translation of the installer (thanks to

Re: Literal monofont underscores?

2008-03-18 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, In my latest book I have a screenshot of UMENU, whose license screen has a poor man's box comprised of underscores on top and bottom, and pipe symbols on the side. In the book, it's in LyX-Code style, which should be a monospaced font, and in fact is on everything

Re: Literal monofont underscores?

2008-03-18 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Doh! And here's why it worked for me and not you: I typed in the underscores, and LyX cleverly escaped them as \_\_ (ad nauseum). I'm guessing you pasted them in or imported them as text, and got just underscores, no escapes. /Paul

Re: Authors in preamble using \twoauthors

2008-03-18 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Phillip Ferguson wrote: Hey all, Yet again I am having some issues with the spconf.sty. This time it's the authors. In spconf.sty the comments for \twoauthors are: - use \twoauthors{author1}{address1}{author2}{address2} % for two (or more) authors with two separate

Re: pdf file size

2008-03-18 Thread Miki Dovrat
I wonder if you could do something with pdftk. SteveTTroubleshooting: Just the Facts Not that I have seen. You may compress the streams, but not specifically reduce resolution of an image. However it is a command line and I could do it with a script working on the pdf output - take apart

Re: Problems installing LyX - better method

2008-03-18 Thread Juha Meriluoto
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Juha, as you have LyX 1.6svn installed. You could easily test if it works when simply copying the attached file "msvcp80.dll" to the folder of LyX 1.6svn's lyx.exe. This way, you can keep LyX 1.5 untouched and help me finding the problem. If this doesn't help, als copy the

Re: Why do Inkscape drawing pixellate in LyX?

2008-03-18 Thread G. Milde
On 17.03.08, Steve Litt wrote: > Hi all, > I have three Inkscape drawings. They pixellate very badly when I export them > to .png and then include them in my LyX written book. Because PNG is a Pixel format. Maybe you can set the resolution somewhere in the Inkscape settings to improve things

Re: Why do Inkscape drawing pixellate in LyX?

2008-03-18 Thread Max
On 2008-03-18 01:18:50 +0100, Steve Litt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: On Monday 17 March 2008 19:26, Dominik Böhm wrote: I sometimes also have problems with fonts, but figured out, that everything looks exactly like in Inkscape if I change all the text elements to a font like "Arial". When I

Re: Problems installing LyX - better method

2008-03-18 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Juha Meriluoto schrieb: I tested as requested, and 1.60svn started OK when both the .dll and manifest files were copied into LyX binary directory. And does it work when you only copy the DLL and not the manifest file? This is important for me to know. regards Uwe

Re: Problems installing LyX - better method

2008-03-18 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Juha Meriluoto schrieb: No, it works only when both files are copied. Not with the DLL alone. Many thanks. I'll provide a new installer this evening. 1.6svn does not seem to be able to read 1.5.x documents, says that they are from a different version of LyX but lyx2lyx can't convert them.

Problem with Lyx 1.5 in Ubuntu Gutsy

2008-03-18 Thread hansi
Hello, I started to write a paper in Lyx 1.4.x. I used eps-graphics mostly. I used the pdflatex-converter and it worked fine. Eps-files were scaled as I wanted. Now I upgraded my Ubuntu from Feisty to Gutsy and also the Lyx version to 1.5.1. When I use the pdflatex-converter now, the output

Problem with eps in Lyx 1.5/Ubuntu Gutsy

2008-03-18 Thread hansi
Hello, I started to write a paper in Lyx 1.4.x. I used eps-graphics mostly. I used the pdflatex-converter and it worked fine. Eps-files were scaled as I wanted. Now I upgraded my Ubuntu from Feisty to Gutsy and also the Lyx version to 1.5.1. When I use the pdflatex-converter now, the output

Re: Problems installing LyX - better method

2008-03-18 Thread Juha Meriluoto
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Juha Meriluoto schrieb: I tested as requested, and 1.60svn started OK when both the .dll and manifest files were copied into LyX binary directory. And does it work when you only copy the DLL and not the manifest file? This is important for me to know. regards Uwe No, it

Re: OT: back up and revision control

2008-03-18 Thread Dominik Böhm
On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 3:20 PM, Alan G Isaac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 17 Mar 2008, Dominik Böhm apparently wrote: > > I use an SVN-server for my thesis and upload my work to > > the server twice a day. > > I find this a great way to work on research papers, > especially if they

Why cant i get the citations in the format i want?

2008-03-18 Thread Jon Bendtsen
Hi I have some trouble getting my citations to look proper. I use LyX 1.4.1 and BibDesk 1.3.14 on mac osx 10.5.2. LyX only seem to show these fields, and in this order: Author Title HowPublished Month Year Note Further more LyX seems to change the letters and remove some chars like , in

Re: Why do Inkscape drawing pixellate in LyX?

2008-03-18 Thread Steve Litt
On Tuesday 18 March 2008 04:23, Max wrote: > By the way, just for typographic reasons, you know of the typographic > criticism of Arial, do you :)? > > Max No. What's the typographic criticism of Arial? SteveT Steve Litt Books written in LyX: Troubleshooting Techniques of the

Re: Why do Inkscape drawing pixellate in LyX?

2008-03-18 Thread Donn
> No. What's the typographic criticism of Arial? I believe that from a pure typographer's pov, it's better to write with a cigarette butt than to use Arial. There is quite a bit about it online, google away. \d

Re: Why cant i get the citations in the format i want?

2008-03-18 Thread Julio Rojas
It basically, the bibliographic style you're using. Some styles use all the fields, some not. Also, you have to surround between curly brackets whatever you want to appear as is, like names. I had that same problem and that's they way you solve it. Hope this helps... On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 8:09

Re[2]: OT: back up and revision control

2008-03-18 Thread Alan G Isaac
On Tue, 18 Mar 2008, Dominik Böhm apparently wrote: > I asked my tutor if she could provide an svn server for > me. A day later someone of the support staff sent me an > email with the connection data for "my" svn server. Maybe > you can ask the persons in charge at your university as > well.

Re: Why cant i get the citations in the format i want?

2008-03-18 Thread Jon Bendtsen
On 18/03/2008, at 14.04, Julio Rojas wrote: It basically, the bibliographic style you're using. Some styles use all the fields, some not. Also, you have to surround between curly brackets whatever you want to appear as is, like names. I had that same problem and that's they way you solve

Re: Why cant i get the citations in the format i want?

2008-03-18 Thread Julio Rojas
{ } On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 10:51 AM, Jon Bendtsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 18/03/2008, at 14.04, Julio Rojas wrote: > > > It basically, the bibliographic style you're using. Some styles use > > all the > > fields, some not. Also, you have to surround between curly brackets > > whatever >

Re: Why cant i get the citations in the format i want?

2008-03-18 Thread Jon Bendtsen
Thanks, but thats not working :-( LyX complains "Misplaced alignment tab character &" JonB On 18/03/2008, at 16.22, Julio Rojas wrote: { } On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 10:51 AM, Jon Bendtsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 18/03/2008, at 14.04, Julio Rojas wrote: > It basically, the

Re: Why cant i get the citations in the format i want?

2008-03-18 Thread Julio Rojas
Let me paste one record for you: @INPROCEEDINGS{Rojas-MoraGil-Lafuente2007, author = {Rojas-Mora, Julio and Gil-Lafuente, Jaime}, title = {La contratación de un atleta profesional a través de la hemimétrica media ponderada de {Tran} y {Duckstein}}, booktitle = {Actas del V Congreso

Re: Why cant i get the citations in the format i want?

2008-03-18 Thread Julio Rojas
Try using the "URL" package: http://www.kronto.org/thesis/tips/url-formatting.html On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 11:04 AM, Jon Bendtsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Apparently it does work for some chars, i tried another citation, and > it works there, but > LyX does not like putting an url like > >

Re: Why cant i get the citations in the format i want?

2008-03-18 Thread Jon Bendtsen
Thanks, that helped JonB On 18/03/2008, at 16.45, Julio Rojas wrote: Try using the "URL" package: http://www.kronto.org/thesis/tips/url-formatting.html On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 11:04 AM, Jon Bendtsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Apparently it does work for some chars, i tried another

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