Re: New splash screen (Was: LyX logo)

2008-03-27 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 06:49:50PM -0700, Rich Shepard wrote: On Thu, 27 Mar 2008, Uwe Stöhr wrote: We need more female users, ... So, having a platypus with a female name is going to attract more female users? Interesting thesis. :-) Do you know of more reliable ways to attract females?

Re: BibLaTeX blues

2008-03-27 Thread Maksi
On 2008-03-26 20:20:54 +0100, Julio Rojas [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Don't worry Max. I solved the problems and BibLaTeX is running. The last problem is the original one that got me looking into BibLaTeX. I need a citation style that fully suits BibLaTeX (ibid., ibidem, op.cit) but I need a

Name of the Mascot (Was: New splash screen (Was: LyX logo))

2008-03-27 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Thu, 27 Mar 2008, Uwe Stöhr wrote: We should call our mascot Lydia. I'm not against it, but I'm curious about the reasoning. We need more female users, as the developers are only male, we should at least have a femal mascot ;-). I simply like the name that was first proposed in bug

Contents of Preamble...EndPreamble in Layout not being output to tex file

2008-03-27 Thread Geevarghese Philip
Hi, I am trying to use the following layout file, which rgheck kindly provided me, to typeset my document. #% Do not delete the line below; configure depends on this # \DeclareLaTeXClass[report]{amsreport} Format 4 Input stdclass.inc Input amsdefs.inc Input

Spacing after definition/theorem/remark-environments

2008-03-27 Thread Dominik Böhm
Hello, I am writing my thesis with a line spread of 1.3. After the mathematical environments, LaTeX usually puts some spacing. When I change the general line spread from 1 to 1.3, the spacing after the mathemaical environments like definition/theorem/etc. doesn't get adjusted. How can I do this

Re: Contents of Preamble...EndPreamble in Layout not being output to tex file

2008-03-27 Thread rgheck
Geevarghese Philip wrote: Hi, I am trying to use the following layout file, which rgheck kindly provided me, to typeset my document. #% Do not delete the line below; configure depends on this # \DeclareLaTeXClass[report]{amsreport} Format 4 Input stdclass.inc

RE: WRB - More Observations

2008-03-27 Thread William R. Buckley
-Original Message- From: James Sutherland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 7:35 PM To: LyX User Subject: Re: WRB - More Observations I do not seem to be able to find means to cause a single overscore bar to span more than one character. For

Re: Name of the Mascot (Was: New splash screen (Was: LyX logo))

2008-03-27 Thread Marc J. Driftmeyer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 27 Mar 2008, Uwe Stöhr wrote: We should call our mascot Lydia. I'm not against it, but I'm curious about the reasoning. We need more female users, as the developers are only male, we should at least have a femal mascot ;-). I simply like the name that

Re: Need help re '(.sty' file problem

2008-03-27 Thread Siegfried MEUNIER-GUTTIN-CLUZEL
You don't have to alter the preamble of this document. If you can't visualize a PDF output of this manual, it's because you don't have the LaTeX hyperref package in your LaTeX installation. I don't know what's your configuration, but you must have a way to add a package. If you use windows and

Re: Contents of Preamble...EndPreamble in Layout not being output to tex file

2008-03-27 Thread Geevarghese Philip
rgheck wrote: This is a bug of sorts in the 1.5 layout system, I expect. The problem is that the preamble later gets redefined and your bit gets over-written. Try adding this at the end: Style Theorem Preamble \usepackage{amsthm} \theoremstyle{plain}

Re: WRB - More Observations

2008-03-27 Thread James Sutherland
A good LaTeX resource is helpful for a serious LyX user. For an under-bar, use \underline in math mode. \overline gives an over-bar. Looking for all such information. Can't really afford to buy the book by Knuth, and since he won't allow one to process the public source, I guess I have

RE: WRB - More Observations

2008-03-27 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 27 Mar 2008, William R. Buckley wrote: Looking for all such information. Can't really afford to buy the book by Knuth, and since he won't allow one to process the public source, I guess I have to find alternative means to acquire the *knowledge of minutia* that seems concomitant with

Re: Spacing after definition/theorem/remark-environments

2008-03-27 Thread Alan G Isaac
On Thu, 27 Mar 2008, Dominik Böhm apparently wrote: I am writing my thesis with a line spread of 1.3. After the mathematical environments, LaTeX usually puts some spacing. When I change the general line spread from 1 to 1.3, the spacing after the mathemaical environments like

Fwd: character encoding issue with pdf production..

2008-03-27 Thread Eitan Suez
oops. didn't realize reply didn't default to reply to list. see my reply below.. -- Forwarded message -- From: Eitan Suez [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 1:02 PM Subject: Re: character encoding issue with pdf production.. To: rgheck [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please post a

Fwd: character encoding issue with pdf production..

2008-03-27 Thread Eitan Suez
and another.. -- Forwarded message -- From: Eitan Suez [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 9:31 AM Subject: Re: character encoding issue with pdf production.. To: rgheck [EMAIL PROTECTED] so the package i have installed which supplies the beramono font is

Re: WRB - More Observations

2008-03-27 Thread rgheck
William R. Buckley wrote: A good LaTeX resource is helpful for a serious LyX user. For an under-bar, use \underline in math mode. \overline gives an over-bar. Looking for all such information. Can't really afford to buy the book by Knuth, and since he won't allow one to process the

Re: Contents of Preamble...EndPreamble in Layout not being output to tex file

2008-03-27 Thread rgheck
Geevarghese Philip wrote: rgheck wrote: This is a bug of sorts in the 1.5 layout system, I expect. The problem is that the preamble later gets redefined and your bit gets over-written. Try adding this at the end: Style Theorem Preamble \usepackage{amsthm}

Re: New splash screen (Was: LyX logo)

2008-03-27 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Andre Poenitz schrieb: On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 06:49:50PM -0700, Rich Shepard wrote: On Thu, 27 Mar 2008, Uwe Stöhr wrote: We need more female users, ... So, having a platypus with a female name is going to attract more female users? Interesting thesis. :-) Do you know of more reliable

Re: New splash screen (Was: LyX logo)

2008-03-27 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Joost Verburg schrieb: The version string can of course also be prefixed with the word version. Would be nice to have. regards Uwe

Re: WRB - More Observations

2008-03-27 Thread Uwe Stöhr
I do not seem to be able to find means to cause a single overscore bar to span more than one character. For instance, I would like to represent the regular expression 1(01)* in the form reminiscent of the mathematical mark of repetition. How this can be done is explained in the math manual

Re: New splash screen (Was: LyX logo)

2008-03-27 Thread José Matos
On Thursday 27 March 2008 01:49:50 Rich Shepard wrote:    Regardless, naming the mascot Lydia is a great idea: no other FOSS application has such a name. Perhaps we could mate Lydia and Tux, sell the off-spring to zoos (once they hatch, of course) and fund development that way. Oh, it would

disable tilde backup-on-save files

2008-03-27 Thread Dennis Nezic
Currently, whenever I save a document, it additionally saves a filename.lyx~ backup file (appended with a tilde). Is there a way to disable this?

Re: WRB - More Observations

2008-03-27 Thread Steve Litt
On Thursday 27 March 2008 05:00, William R. Buckley wrote: -Original Message- From: James Sutherland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] A good LaTeX resource is helpful for a serious LyX user. For an under-bar, use \underline in math mode. \overline gives an over-bar. Looking for all

Re: LyX logo

2008-03-27 Thread José Matos
On Wednesday 26 March 2008 20:06:49 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ah, and I guess it's no coincidence that there's a platypus in the users' guide?  Is there a story behind this particular animal, e.g. something like that it's a hybrid animal, like LyX? I am not sure, the platypus figure made its

Re: WRB - More Observations

2008-03-27 Thread Steve Litt
On Thursday 27 March 2008 09:26, Rich Shepard wrote: On Thu, 27 Mar 2008, William R. Buckley wrote: Looking for all such information. Can't really afford to buy the book by Knuth, and since he won't allow one to process the public source, I guess I have to find alternative means to acquire

Re: disable tilde backup-on-save files

2008-03-27 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 9:35 AM, Dennis Nezic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Currently, whenever I save a document, it additionally saves a filename.lyx~ backup file (appended with a tilde). Is there a way to disable this? Tools-Preferences-Look and feel-User interface. Uncheck to backup

Re: disable tilde backup-on-save files

2008-03-27 Thread Les Denham
On Thursday 27 March 2008, Dennis Nezic wrote: Currently, whenever I save a document, it additionally saves a filename.lyx~ backup file (appended with a tilde). Is there a way to disable this? Try Tools-Preferences-User interface and uncheck the Backup documents. -- Les

Re: WRB - More Observations

2008-03-27 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 27 Mar 2008, Steve Litt wrote: I think the above list costs a couple hundred bucks. Used from Amazon: about $125.00 plus shipping/handling. For someone like you or me, whose career depends on LaTeX, that's no big deal, but the person just getting his or her feet wet might not want

Beamer and columns problem (bug?)

2008-03-27 Thread Graeme
I am using LyX1.5.4-1 on WinXP, with the Beamer document class. When I select the style ColumnsTopAligned within a frame, Lyx inserts \begin{topcolumns}%{} \end{topcolumns}%{} as can easily be checked with the View Source window. However, it seems impossible to enter any text between these

WRB - No More Questions, For Now

2008-03-27 Thread William R. Buckley
To all of you, I must say that I get lots of good advice, even from you Uwe. Two problems I have in the short term. One is time, and the other is eyesight problems. I need the quick answers now in order to meet the submission deadline. Turn-around from journal rejection to conference acceptance

Need Urgent Help.

2008-03-27 Thread Ankur Verma
Hello. I just started working on Lyx and found it very helpful in making tex files. I am making a report which I have to submit very urgently. *The problem I am facing is*: There is no effect by clicking on View pdf or Update pdf (or either dvi and ps) buttons. Nothing opens up. When I delete

Need Urgent Help

2008-03-27 Thread Ankur Verma
Hello. I just started working on Lyx and found it very helpful in making tex files. I am making a report which I have to submit very urgently. The problem I am facing is: There is no effect by clicking on View pdf or Update pdf (or either dvi and ps) buttons. Nothing opens up. When I delete some

Re: Need Urgent Help.

2008-03-27 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 28 Mar 2008, Ankur Verma wrote: *The problem I am facing is*: There is no effect by clicking on View pdf or Update pdf (or either dvi and ps) buttons. Nothing opens up. When I delete some contents of .lyx file, and then click on these (e.g. View pdf), the pdf document opens up. By this

Re: Need Urgent Help.

2008-03-27 Thread Steve Litt
On Thursday 27 March 2008 16:40, Ankur Verma wrote: Hello. I just started working on Lyx and found it very helpful in making tex files. I am making a report which I have to submit very urgently. *The problem I am facing is*: There is no effect by clicking on View pdf or Update pdf (or

Re: Name of the Mascot (Was: New splash screen (Was: LyX logo))

2008-03-27 Thread Michael Thompson
I dont know what the name of the mascot critter is, but its species was identified by Donn Ingle http://article.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.general/45224/ It is an ERT-eater best, Michael T, ERT- and ERROR-maker

Re: BibLaTeX blues

2008-03-27 Thread Julio Rojas
Guys, BibLaTeX rules!!! I'm working my way thru the files and up until now, I have been able to mimic the format APA uses for the article records. It's hard, but not as hard as BibTeX. If someone is interested on an APAlike style in BibLaTeX, please, let me know. Best regards. On Thu, Mar 27,

Re: Need Urgent Help

2008-03-27 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 9:45 PM, Ankur Verma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just started working on Lyx and found it very helpful in making tex files. I am making a report which I have to submit very urgently. The problem I am facing is: There is no effect by clicking on View pdf or Update

Re: Problem with Lyx User List

2008-03-27 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Derek Ward schrieb: I have tried three times without success starting 23rd March to get a message onto the Lyx User list. Have you sent a subscription email according to http://www.lyx.org/mailing.php and also replied to the confirmation message yo got per Email? The standard doc class

Re: Name of the Mascot (Was: New splash screen (Was: LyX logo))

2008-03-27 Thread Maria Gouskova
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 6:43 PM, Michael Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I dont know what the name of the mascot critter is, but its species was identified by Donn Ingle http://article.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.general/45224/ It is an ERT-eater best, Michael T, ERT- and

Re: Name of the Mascot (Was: New splash screen (Was: LyX logo))

2008-03-27 Thread curtis osterhoudt
I don't see that LyXia engenders oral thoughts, though I'd be more strongly inclined to give the program a try if it did! Besides, would this mean that Word users suffer from dysLyXia? C.O. - Original Message From: Marc J. Driftmeyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

Banner, Splash Screen, Logo, Mascot, Name, oh my!

2008-03-27 Thread Rich Shepard
I think this whole thread started with Steve's provocative statement that LyX isn't WYSIWYG, and he wished that it was. And, WYSIWYM is too obtuse and confusing. So, I have a suggestion: Why not adapt Leslie Lamport's LaTeX description: A Document Preparation System? That removes all

Re: Name of the Mascot (Was: New splash screen (Was: LyX logo))

2008-03-27 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Maria Gouskova wrote: On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 6:43 PM, Michael Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I dont know what the name of the mascot critter is, but its species was identified by Donn Ingle http://article.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.general/45224/ It is an ERT-eater best, Michael T,

Re: Banner, Splash Screen, Logo, Mascot, Name, oh my!

2008-03-27 Thread Julio Rojas
Guys, don't you believe your investing way too much time in this line of problems? :) On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 9:16 PM, Rich Shepard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think this whole thread started with Steve's provocative statement that LyX isn't WYSIWYG, and he wished that it was. And, WYSIWYM

Re: Contents of Preamble...EndPreamble in Layout not being output to tex file

2008-03-27 Thread Geevarghese Philip
rgheck wrote: Well, I'm not sure what the problem is. The attached files work for me. There is no problem when including amsdefs.inc, as you have done in the layout file that you attached. The problem is when I replace this with Input amsmaths-seq.inc in the layout file, so that I may get

Re: Contents of Preamble...EndPreamble in Layout not being output to tex file

2008-03-27 Thread Geevarghese Philip
Geevarghese Philip wrote: rgheck wrote: Well, I'm not sure what the problem is. The attached files work for me. There is no problem when including amsdefs.inc, as you have done in the layout file that you attached. The problem is when I replace this with Input amsmaths-seq.inc in the

Re: Contents of Preamble...EndPreamble in Layout not being output to tex file

2008-03-27 Thread Geevarghese Philip
Geevarghese Philip wrote: Geevarghese Philip wrote: the layout file you attached solves my problem of getting sequential theorems, This works as intended for the dvi/ps/pdf versions. I guess I am being greedy, but if only I could make LyX display the theorems with a sequential numbering,

Re: New splash screen (Was: LyX logo)

2008-03-27 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 06:49:50PM -0700, Rich Shepard wrote: On Thu, 27 Mar 2008, Uwe Stöhr wrote: We need more female users, ... So, having a platypus with a female name is going to attract more female users? Interesting thesis. :-) Do you know of more reliable ways to attract females?

Re: BibLaTeX blues

2008-03-27 Thread Maksi
On 2008-03-26 20:20:54 +0100, Julio Rojas [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Don't worry Max. I solved the problems and BibLaTeX is running. The last problem is the original one that got me looking into BibLaTeX. I need a citation style that fully suits BibLaTeX (ibid., ibidem, op.cit) but I need a

Name of the Mascot (Was: New splash screen (Was: LyX logo))

2008-03-27 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Thu, 27 Mar 2008, Uwe Stöhr wrote: We should call our mascot Lydia. I'm not against it, but I'm curious about the reasoning. We need more female users, as the developers are only male, we should at least have a femal mascot ;-). I simply like the name that was first proposed in bug

Contents of Preamble...EndPreamble in Layout not being output to tex file

2008-03-27 Thread Geevarghese Philip
Hi, I am trying to use the following layout file, which rgheck kindly provided me, to typeset my document. #% Do not delete the line below; configure depends on this # \DeclareLaTeXClass[report]{amsreport} Format 4 Input stdclass.inc Input amsdefs.inc Input

Spacing after definition/theorem/remark-environments

2008-03-27 Thread Dominik Böhm
Hello, I am writing my thesis with a line spread of 1.3. After the mathematical environments, LaTeX usually puts some spacing. When I change the general line spread from 1 to 1.3, the spacing after the mathemaical environments like definition/theorem/etc. doesn't get adjusted. How can I do this

Re: Contents of Preamble...EndPreamble in Layout not being output to tex file

2008-03-27 Thread rgheck
Geevarghese Philip wrote: Hi, I am trying to use the following layout file, which rgheck kindly provided me, to typeset my document. #% Do not delete the line below; configure depends on this # \DeclareLaTeXClass[report]{amsreport} Format 4 Input stdclass.inc

RE: WRB - More Observations

2008-03-27 Thread William R. Buckley
-Original Message- From: James Sutherland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 7:35 PM To: LyX User Subject: Re: WRB - More Observations I do not seem to be able to find means to cause a single overscore bar to span more than one character. For

Re: Name of the Mascot (Was: New splash screen (Was: LyX logo))

2008-03-27 Thread Marc J. Driftmeyer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 27 Mar 2008, Uwe Stöhr wrote: We should call our mascot Lydia. I'm not against it, but I'm curious about the reasoning. We need more female users, as the developers are only male, we should at least have a femal mascot ;-). I simply like the name that

Re: Need help re '(.sty' file problem

2008-03-27 Thread Siegfried MEUNIER-GUTTIN-CLUZEL
You don't have to alter the preamble of this document. If you can't visualize a PDF output of this manual, it's because you don't have the LaTeX hyperref package in your LaTeX installation. I don't know what's your configuration, but you must have a way to add a package. If you use windows and

Re: Contents of Preamble...EndPreamble in Layout not being output to tex file

2008-03-27 Thread Geevarghese Philip
rgheck wrote: This is a bug of sorts in the 1.5 layout system, I expect. The problem is that the preamble later gets redefined and your bit gets over-written. Try adding this at the end: Style Theorem Preamble \usepackage{amsthm} \theoremstyle{plain}

Re: WRB - More Observations

2008-03-27 Thread James Sutherland
A good LaTeX resource is helpful for a serious LyX user. For an under-bar, use \underline in math mode. \overline gives an over-bar. Looking for all such information. Can't really afford to buy the book by Knuth, and since he won't allow one to process the public source, I guess I have

RE: WRB - More Observations

2008-03-27 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 27 Mar 2008, William R. Buckley wrote: Looking for all such information. Can't really afford to buy the book by Knuth, and since he won't allow one to process the public source, I guess I have to find alternative means to acquire the *knowledge of minutia* that seems concomitant with

Re: Spacing after definition/theorem/remark-environments

2008-03-27 Thread Alan G Isaac
On Thu, 27 Mar 2008, Dominik Böhm apparently wrote: I am writing my thesis with a line spread of 1.3. After the mathematical environments, LaTeX usually puts some spacing. When I change the general line spread from 1 to 1.3, the spacing after the mathemaical environments like

Fwd: character encoding issue with pdf production..

2008-03-27 Thread Eitan Suez
oops. didn't realize reply didn't default to reply to list. see my reply below.. -- Forwarded message -- From: Eitan Suez [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 1:02 PM Subject: Re: character encoding issue with pdf production.. To: rgheck [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please post a

Fwd: character encoding issue with pdf production..

2008-03-27 Thread Eitan Suez
and another.. -- Forwarded message -- From: Eitan Suez [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 9:31 AM Subject: Re: character encoding issue with pdf production.. To: rgheck [EMAIL PROTECTED] so the package i have installed which supplies the beramono font is

Re: WRB - More Observations

2008-03-27 Thread rgheck
William R. Buckley wrote: A good LaTeX resource is helpful for a serious LyX user. For an under-bar, use \underline in math mode. \overline gives an over-bar. Looking for all such information. Can't really afford to buy the book by Knuth, and since he won't allow one to process the

Re: Contents of Preamble...EndPreamble in Layout not being output to tex file

2008-03-27 Thread rgheck
Geevarghese Philip wrote: rgheck wrote: This is a bug of sorts in the 1.5 layout system, I expect. The problem is that the preamble later gets redefined and your bit gets over-written. Try adding this at the end: Style Theorem Preamble \usepackage{amsthm}

Re: New splash screen (Was: LyX logo)

2008-03-27 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Andre Poenitz schrieb: On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 06:49:50PM -0700, Rich Shepard wrote: On Thu, 27 Mar 2008, Uwe Stöhr wrote: We need more female users, ... So, having a platypus with a female name is going to attract more female users? Interesting thesis. :-) Do you know of more reliable

Re: New splash screen (Was: LyX logo)

2008-03-27 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Joost Verburg schrieb: The version string can of course also be prefixed with the word version. Would be nice to have. regards Uwe

Re: WRB - More Observations

2008-03-27 Thread Uwe Stöhr
I do not seem to be able to find means to cause a single overscore bar to span more than one character. For instance, I would like to represent the regular expression 1(01)* in the form reminiscent of the mathematical mark of repetition. How this can be done is explained in the math manual

Re: New splash screen (Was: LyX logo)

2008-03-27 Thread José Matos
On Thursday 27 March 2008 01:49:50 Rich Shepard wrote:    Regardless, naming the mascot Lydia is a great idea: no other FOSS application has such a name. Perhaps we could mate Lydia and Tux, sell the off-spring to zoos (once they hatch, of course) and fund development that way. Oh, it would

disable tilde backup-on-save files

2008-03-27 Thread Dennis Nezic
Currently, whenever I save a document, it additionally saves a filename.lyx~ backup file (appended with a tilde). Is there a way to disable this?

Re: WRB - More Observations

2008-03-27 Thread Steve Litt
On Thursday 27 March 2008 05:00, William R. Buckley wrote: -Original Message- From: James Sutherland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] A good LaTeX resource is helpful for a serious LyX user. For an under-bar, use \underline in math mode. \overline gives an over-bar. Looking for all

Re: LyX logo

2008-03-27 Thread José Matos
On Wednesday 26 March 2008 20:06:49 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ah, and I guess it's no coincidence that there's a platypus in the users' guide?  Is there a story behind this particular animal, e.g. something like that it's a hybrid animal, like LyX? I am not sure, the platypus figure made its

Re: WRB - More Observations

2008-03-27 Thread Steve Litt
On Thursday 27 March 2008 09:26, Rich Shepard wrote: On Thu, 27 Mar 2008, William R. Buckley wrote: Looking for all such information. Can't really afford to buy the book by Knuth, and since he won't allow one to process the public source, I guess I have to find alternative means to acquire

Re: disable tilde backup-on-save files

2008-03-27 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 9:35 AM, Dennis Nezic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Currently, whenever I save a document, it additionally saves a filename.lyx~ backup file (appended with a tilde). Is there a way to disable this? Tools-Preferences-Look and feel-User interface. Uncheck to backup

Re: disable tilde backup-on-save files

2008-03-27 Thread Les Denham
On Thursday 27 March 2008, Dennis Nezic wrote: Currently, whenever I save a document, it additionally saves a filename.lyx~ backup file (appended with a tilde). Is there a way to disable this? Try Tools-Preferences-User interface and uncheck the Backup documents. -- Les

Re: WRB - More Observations

2008-03-27 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 27 Mar 2008, Steve Litt wrote: I think the above list costs a couple hundred bucks. Used from Amazon: about $125.00 plus shipping/handling. For someone like you or me, whose career depends on LaTeX, that's no big deal, but the person just getting his or her feet wet might not want

Beamer and columns problem (bug?)

2008-03-27 Thread Graeme
I am using LyX1.5.4-1 on WinXP, with the Beamer document class. When I select the style ColumnsTopAligned within a frame, Lyx inserts \begin{topcolumns}%{} \end{topcolumns}%{} as can easily be checked with the View Source window. However, it seems impossible to enter any text between these

WRB - No More Questions, For Now

2008-03-27 Thread William R. Buckley
To all of you, I must say that I get lots of good advice, even from you Uwe. Two problems I have in the short term. One is time, and the other is eyesight problems. I need the quick answers now in order to meet the submission deadline. Turn-around from journal rejection to conference acceptance

Need Urgent Help.

2008-03-27 Thread Ankur Verma
Hello. I just started working on Lyx and found it very helpful in making tex files. I am making a report which I have to submit very urgently. *The problem I am facing is*: There is no effect by clicking on View pdf or Update pdf (or either dvi and ps) buttons. Nothing opens up. When I delete

Need Urgent Help

2008-03-27 Thread Ankur Verma
Hello. I just started working on Lyx and found it very helpful in making tex files. I am making a report which I have to submit very urgently. The problem I am facing is: There is no effect by clicking on View pdf or Update pdf (or either dvi and ps) buttons. Nothing opens up. When I delete some

Re: Need Urgent Help.

2008-03-27 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 28 Mar 2008, Ankur Verma wrote: *The problem I am facing is*: There is no effect by clicking on View pdf or Update pdf (or either dvi and ps) buttons. Nothing opens up. When I delete some contents of .lyx file, and then click on these (e.g. View pdf), the pdf document opens up. By this

Re: Need Urgent Help.

2008-03-27 Thread Steve Litt
On Thursday 27 March 2008 16:40, Ankur Verma wrote: Hello. I just started working on Lyx and found it very helpful in making tex files. I am making a report which I have to submit very urgently. *The problem I am facing is*: There is no effect by clicking on View pdf or Update pdf (or

Re: Name of the Mascot (Was: New splash screen (Was: LyX logo))

2008-03-27 Thread Michael Thompson
I dont know what the name of the mascot critter is, but its species was identified by Donn Ingle http://article.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.general/45224/ It is an ERT-eater best, Michael T, ERT- and ERROR-maker

Re: BibLaTeX blues

2008-03-27 Thread Julio Rojas
Guys, BibLaTeX rules!!! I'm working my way thru the files and up until now, I have been able to mimic the format APA uses for the article records. It's hard, but not as hard as BibTeX. If someone is interested on an APAlike style in BibLaTeX, please, let me know. Best regards. On Thu, Mar 27,

Re: Need Urgent Help

2008-03-27 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 9:45 PM, Ankur Verma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just started working on Lyx and found it very helpful in making tex files. I am making a report which I have to submit very urgently. The problem I am facing is: There is no effect by clicking on View pdf or Update

Re: Problem with Lyx User List

2008-03-27 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Derek Ward schrieb: I have tried three times without success starting 23rd March to get a message onto the Lyx User list. Have you sent a subscription email according to http://www.lyx.org/mailing.php and also replied to the confirmation message yo got per Email? The standard doc class

Re: Name of the Mascot (Was: New splash screen (Was: LyX logo))

2008-03-27 Thread Maria Gouskova
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 6:43 PM, Michael Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I dont know what the name of the mascot critter is, but its species was identified by Donn Ingle http://article.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.general/45224/ It is an ERT-eater best, Michael T, ERT- and

Re: Name of the Mascot (Was: New splash screen (Was: LyX logo))

2008-03-27 Thread curtis osterhoudt
I don't see that LyXia engenders oral thoughts, though I'd be more strongly inclined to give the program a try if it did! Besides, would this mean that Word users suffer from dysLyXia? C.O. - Original Message From: Marc J. Driftmeyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

Banner, Splash Screen, Logo, Mascot, Name, oh my!

2008-03-27 Thread Rich Shepard
I think this whole thread started with Steve's provocative statement that LyX isn't WYSIWYG, and he wished that it was. And, WYSIWYM is too obtuse and confusing. So, I have a suggestion: Why not adapt Leslie Lamport's LaTeX description: A Document Preparation System? That removes all

Re: Name of the Mascot (Was: New splash screen (Was: LyX logo))

2008-03-27 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Maria Gouskova wrote: On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 6:43 PM, Michael Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I dont know what the name of the mascot critter is, but its species was identified by Donn Ingle http://article.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.general/45224/ It is an ERT-eater best, Michael T,

Re: Banner, Splash Screen, Logo, Mascot, Name, oh my!

2008-03-27 Thread Julio Rojas
Guys, don't you believe your investing way too much time in this line of problems? :) On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 9:16 PM, Rich Shepard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think this whole thread started with Steve's provocative statement that LyX isn't WYSIWYG, and he wished that it was. And, WYSIWYM

Re: Contents of Preamble...EndPreamble in Layout not being output to tex file

2008-03-27 Thread Geevarghese Philip
rgheck wrote: Well, I'm not sure what the problem is. The attached files work for me. There is no problem when including amsdefs.inc, as you have done in the layout file that you attached. The problem is when I replace this with Input amsmaths-seq.inc in the layout file, so that I may get

Re: Contents of Preamble...EndPreamble in Layout not being output to tex file

2008-03-27 Thread Geevarghese Philip
Geevarghese Philip wrote: rgheck wrote: Well, I'm not sure what the problem is. The attached files work for me. There is no problem when including amsdefs.inc, as you have done in the layout file that you attached. The problem is when I replace this with Input amsmaths-seq.inc in the

Re: Contents of Preamble...EndPreamble in Layout not being output to tex file

2008-03-27 Thread Geevarghese Philip
Geevarghese Philip wrote: Geevarghese Philip wrote: the layout file you attached solves my problem of getting sequential theorems, This works as intended for the dvi/ps/pdf versions. I guess I am being greedy, but if only I could make LyX display the theorems with a sequential numbering,

Re: New splash screen (Was: LyX logo)

2008-03-27 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 06:49:50PM -0700, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Thu, 27 Mar 2008, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > >> We need more female users, ... > > So, having a platypus with a female name is going to attract more female > users? Interesting thesis. :-) Do you know of more reliable ways to attract

Re: BibLaTeX blues

2008-03-27 Thread Maksi
On 2008-03-26 20:20:54 +0100, "Julio Rojas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Don't worry Max. I solved the problems and BibLaTeX is running. The last problem is the original one that got me looking into BibLaTeX. I need a citation style that fully suits BibLaTeX (ibid., ibidem, op.cit) but I need a

Name of the Mascot (Was: New splash screen (Was: LyX logo))

2008-03-27 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Thu, 27 Mar 2008, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > We should call our mascot "Lydia". I'm not against it, but I'm curious about the reasoning. We need more female users, as the developers are only male, we should at least have a femal mascot ;-). I simply like the name that was first proposed in

Contents of Preamble...EndPreamble in Layout not being output to tex file

2008-03-27 Thread Geevarghese Philip
Hi, I am trying to use the following layout file, which rgheck kindly provided me, to typeset my document. #% Do not delete the line below; configure depends on this # \DeclareLaTeXClass[report]{amsreport} Format 4 Input stdclass.inc Input amsdefs.inc Input

Spacing after definition/theorem/remark-environments

2008-03-27 Thread Dominik Böhm
Hello, I am writing my thesis with a line spread of 1.3. After the mathematical environments, LaTeX usually puts some spacing. When I change the general line spread from 1 to 1.3, the spacing after the mathemaical environments like definition/theorem/etc. doesn't get adjusted. How can I do this

Re: Contents of Preamble...EndPreamble in Layout not being output to tex file

2008-03-27 Thread rgheck
Geevarghese Philip wrote: Hi, I am trying to use the following layout file, which rgheck kindly provided me, to typeset my document. #% Do not delete the line below; configure depends on this # \DeclareLaTeXClass[report]{amsreport} Format 4 Input stdclass.inc

RE: WRB - More Observations

2008-03-27 Thread William R. Buckley
> -Original Message- > From: James Sutherland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 7:35 PM > To: LyX User > Subject: Re: WRB - More Observations > > > I do not seem to be able to find means to cause a single > overscore bar > > to span more than one character.

Re: Name of the Mascot (Was: New splash screen (Was: LyX logo))

2008-03-27 Thread Marc J. Driftmeyer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 27 Mar 2008, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > We should call our mascot "Lydia". I'm not against it, but I'm curious about the reasoning. We need more female users, as the developers are only male, we should at least have a femal mascot ;-). I simply like the name that

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