Re: insert vertical line - keyboard issue

2008-04-29 Thread Robert Neumann
Hello Andre 'unicode-insert hex-value'. So 'M-x unicode-insert 0x41' I did as described and entered unicode-insert 0x41 in the mini-buffer followed by Enter, the result was undescribed function Regards Robert

Re: insert vertical line - keyboard issue

2008-04-29 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Robert Neumann wrote: 'unicode-insert hex-value'. So  'M-x unicode-insert 0x41' I did as described and entered unicode-insert 0x41 in the mini-buffer followed by Enter, the result was undescribed function You need LyX = 1.5.0 for this. Jürgen

Undefined Control Sequence Error for /LRH

2008-04-29 Thread Jeff Sese
Hi, I'm getting multiple Undefined Control Sequence Error on an imported LaTex document and the errors point to the following control sequences: \LRH \RRH \VOL \authorA \affA etc. All are some sort of metadata information about the article. If I open it in TeXnicCenter, it doesn't report

Re: insert vertical line - keyboard issue

2008-04-29 Thread Robert Neumann
ok, at least I don't have to look why it doesn't work Regards Robert

Texlive for lyx

2008-04-29 Thread alain . didierjean
I use lyx 1.5.4 with tetex on a Gentoo computer. It works fine; I'm thinking about switching to texlive, as tetex seems on a deadend. Has anyone done it yet ? Got any problem ? How does LyX work with it ? Please let me know

Re: Texlive for lyx

2008-04-29 Thread José Matos
On Tuesday 29 April 2008 08:35:45 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use lyx 1.5.4 with tetex on a Gentoo computer. It works fine; I'm thinking about switching to texlive, as tetex seems on a deadend. Has anyone done it yet ? Got any problem ? How does LyX work with it ? Please let me know I have

Re: Texlive for lyx

2008-04-29 Thread Liviu Andronic
On 4/29/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use lyx 1.5.4 with tetex on a Gentoo computer. It works fine; I'm thinking about switching to texlive, as tetex seems on a deadend. Has anyone done it yet ? Got any problem ? How does LyX work with it ? Please let me know In my

Re: why are the table too wide?

2008-04-29 Thread Jon Bendtsen
On 23/04/2008, at 12.39, Helge Hafting wrote: Jon Bendtsen wrote: Hi Why are the table too wide? Because you wrote too much text inside. I dont want to spent time fixing the table width. I suggest 2 possible options if the table is too wide. 1) scale font so all text can be there in one

Re: why are the table too wide?

2008-04-29 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Jon Bendtsen wrote: I want 100% to be the width of the page minus the margins. thats textwidth or columnwidth, not pagewidth. Jürgen

Inconvenience: Loss of custom styles during document class reversion

2008-04-29 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, I'm not going to call this a bug. I suppose the explanation is rooted in a mistake I made, followed by ignoring a warning. However, I think this represents a MAJOR useability problem and should be addressed, if only to protect the user from himself. This is the second time I lost all

Re: why are the table too wide?

2008-04-29 Thread Helge Hafting
Jon Bendtsen wrote: On 23/04/2008, at 12.39, Helge Hafting wrote: Jon Bendtsen wrote: Hi Why are the table too wide? Because you wrote too much text inside. I dont want to spent time fixing the table width. I suggest 2 possible options if the table is too wide. 1) scale font so all text

Re: Undefined Control Sequence Error for /LRH

2008-04-29 Thread rgheck
Jeff Sese wrote: Hi, I'm getting multiple Undefined Control Sequence Error on an imported LaTex document and the errors point to the following control sequences: \LRH \RRH \VOL \authorA \affA etc. All are some sort of metadata information about the article. Probably these are being

Re: Texlive for lyx

2008-04-29 Thread Les Denham
On Tuesday 29 April 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use lyx 1.5.4 with tetex on a Gentoo computer. It works fine; I'm thinking about switching to texlive, as tetex seems on a deadend. Has anyone done it yet ? Got any problem ? How does LyX work with it ? Please let me know Alain, I have

Re: Inconvenience: Loss of custom styles during document class reversion

2008-04-29 Thread rgheck
Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, I'm not going to call this a bug. Sounds like it is a bug to me. I suppose the explanation is rooted in a mistake I made, followed by ignoring a warning. However, I think this represents a MAJOR useability problem and should be addressed, if only to protect

Lyx:downgrade from debian lenny to etch

2008-04-29 Thread jerome moliere
Hi all, I'm using documents made under Lyx with the version from debian lenny, but I've downgraded from Lenny to Etch (stable one) and documents fail to open (french translation says that I'm trying to open documents made with an old version but it sounds that 's the opposite).. Any solution ?

Re: pstricks pst-pdf

2008-04-29 Thread Robert Orr
Alternatively, I have attached my simple example... does anyone know how to make it work? I use LyX 1.5.3 on Windows w/ MikTeX 2.6 I took your example and commented out the %\usepackage{pst-pdf} from the preamble. Then I used ps2pdf from the view menu.It displayed properly. with the

Re: Inconvenience: Loss of custom styles during document class reversion

2008-04-29 Thread Steve Litt
On Tuesday 29 April 2008 09:00, you wrote: Steve Litt wrote: My LyX file keeps reverting to a blank document class. I have a feeling it's something in my \frontmatter, but can't be sure. Basically, any time I do anything involving Document-settings, my custom document class goes away.

Re: Inconvenience: Loss of custom styles during document class reversion

2008-04-29 Thread Steve Litt
On Tuesday 29 April 2008 09:00, rgheck wrote: Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, I'm not going to call this a bug. Sounds like it is a bug to me. Whatever it is, the last time I brought this up someone came up with an idea: Throw up a clear error message that your doc has changed, and not for

Re: pstricks pst-pdf

2008-04-29 Thread snvv
Hello and thank you for the information. For simple graphs or when everything else fails) it is worth to try it. Please find attached a script to create eps files (graphs) from this program. To run it, in a command line give ./myeps file name without the tex or lyx. In fact I tried it with tex

bibtex: BIBINPUTS

2008-04-29 Thread Maka Mohu
Hi! I use LyX 1.5.3. I have in my .bashrc the following: export TEXMFLOCAL=/home/maka/me/database/documents/texmf #bibtex, add to default setup. export BIBINPUTS=$TEXMFLOCAL/bibtex/bib: I can add the test.bib which comes with the installation and my bib file say bibfile.bib but when I go to

Re: bibtex: BIBINPUTS

2008-04-29 Thread rgheck
Maka Mohu wrote: Hi! I use LyX 1.5.3. I have in my .bashrc the following: export TEXMFLOCAL=/home/maka/me/database/documents/texmf #bibtex, add to default setup. export BIBINPUTS=$TEXMFLOCAL/bibtex/bib: I can add the test.bib which comes with the installation and my bib file say

LyX + bibtex Advice

2008-04-29 Thread Ed Sykes_Guelph
hi ! I am running LyX on Windows XP and would like advice on which Bibliography reference manager people would recommend I have previously used MS Word and Endnote as my Bib reference manager (So, I'd like to export it from Endnote and put into LyX) Any suggestions? Thanks, Ed Sykes

Re: Inconvenience: Loss of custom styles during document class reversion

2008-04-29 Thread rgheck
Steve Litt wrote: On Tuesday 29 April 2008 09:00, you wrote: But I've done a little experimenting, and here's one way this can happen. First, you have to be using a local layout file, that is, a layout file that is not in your LyX user directory but instead in the directory with the source

Re: Inconvenience: Loss of custom styles during document class reversion

2008-04-29 Thread Steve Litt
On Tuesday 29 April 2008 13:11, rgheck wrote: Steve Litt wrote: On Tuesday 29 April 2008 09:00, you wrote: But I've done a little experimenting, and here's one way this can happen. First, you have to be using a local layout file, that is, a layout file that is not in your LyX user

Re: LyX + bibtex Advice

2008-04-29 Thread rgheck
Ed Sykes_Guelph wrote: hi ! I am running LyX on Windows XP and would like advice on which Bibliography reference manager people would recommend I have previously used MS Word and Endnote as my Bib reference manager (So, I'd like to export it from Endnote and put into LyX) Any

Linespread one and a half

2008-04-29 Thread NicoWinger
Hello, I'm writing my thesis and recognized that the settings for linespread one and a half (german: eineinhalb) in document--settings--textformat don't conform to the linespread 1.5 but to the linespread 1.25!!! Can s.o. explain that? It's really dangerous if s.o. notices that not until he has

Re: URGENT: Please help! -- Undefined control sequence

2008-04-29 Thread Peter Kämpf
Hi Alain, I had the same problem with 1.5.4. Turned out I was using the wrong LaTeX implementation. To solve the problem, I edited the document settings and reduced the options from openany,liststotoc,xetex to just openany,liststotoc. I had used Xetex in the past, but now have GWTex, so

Re: Linespread one and a half

2008-04-29 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
NicoWinger wrote: I'm writing my thesis and recognized that the settings for linespread one and a half (german: eineinhalb) in document--settings--textformat don't conform to the linespread 1.5 but to the linespread 1.25!!! Can s.o. explain that? It's really dangerous if s.o. notices that not

second table of contents or handling Excursus

2008-04-29 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
Any suggestions or pointers to examples of how to handle excursus in table of contents? I currently have each of five Excursus as unnumbered chapters (\chapter*) and then use \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter} to add back to my contents. I have them unnunmbered as I want a large chapter header but

Re: LyX + bibtex Advice

2008-04-29 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
rgheck wrote: JabRef is very good, and it'll import Endnote stuff. Apart from that, you can find a list of applications here: http://wiki.lyx.org/BibTeX/Programs#toc2 Jürgen

feature requests

2008-04-29 Thread B. Bogart
Hello all, I've been using LyX for about a year now and wanted to share a couple ideas of things that have irritated me that could be improved. 1. Is there a trick to match quotes in a search-replace operation? I've tried both and ``'' The latter of which is the result of copying the quotes

Re: feature requests

2008-04-29 Thread rgheck
B. Bogart wrote: Hello all, I've been using LyX for about a year now and wanted to share a couple ideas of things that have irritated me that could be improved. 1. Is there a trick to match quotes in a search-replace operation? I've tried both and ``'' The latter of which is the result of

Re: Undefined Control Sequence Error for /LRH

2008-04-29 Thread Jeff Sese
Thanks for the reply. I'm looking at the packaged tex file and it includes an article.cls file. I'm not familiar with LaTex tags but it seems that the article.cls file included in package declares the control sequences that I'm referring. Now the problem is, how can I make LyX use that

Re: Undefined Control Sequence Error for /LRH

2008-04-29 Thread Jeff Sese
Here 's the original preamble of the imported tex file: %%% \documentclass{article} %%% \usepackage{natbib} \def\newblock{\hskip .11em plus .33em minus .07em} % %%\usepackage(natbib} %\usepackage{amssymb} %\usepackage{amsbsy,natbib} %\usepackage{amsthm}

Re: bibtex: BIBINPUTS

2008-04-29 Thread Maka Mohu
I ran texhash, configure, ToolsTex informationrescan and restarted lyx. Still I can add the bibtex database since it is seen automatically but when using cite the references of only the default bibtex test is shown. If I add the data base manually through the browse button then the references show

Re: insert vertical line - keyboard issue

2008-04-29 Thread Robert Neumann
Hello Andre 'unicode-insert hex-value'. So 'M-x unicode-insert 0x41' I did as described and entered unicode-insert 0x41 in the mini-buffer followed by Enter, the result was undescribed function Regards Robert

Re: insert vertical line - keyboard issue

2008-04-29 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Robert Neumann wrote: 'unicode-insert hex-value'. So  'M-x unicode-insert 0x41' I did as described and entered unicode-insert 0x41 in the mini-buffer followed by Enter, the result was undescribed function You need LyX = 1.5.0 for this. Jürgen

Undefined Control Sequence Error for /LRH

2008-04-29 Thread Jeff Sese
Hi, I'm getting multiple Undefined Control Sequence Error on an imported LaTex document and the errors point to the following control sequences: \LRH \RRH \VOL \authorA \affA etc. All are some sort of metadata information about the article. If I open it in TeXnicCenter, it doesn't report

Re: insert vertical line - keyboard issue

2008-04-29 Thread Robert Neumann
ok, at least I don't have to look why it doesn't work Regards Robert

Texlive for lyx

2008-04-29 Thread alain . didierjean
I use lyx 1.5.4 with tetex on a Gentoo computer. It works fine; I'm thinking about switching to texlive, as tetex seems on a deadend. Has anyone done it yet ? Got any problem ? How does LyX work with it ? Please let me know

Re: Texlive for lyx

2008-04-29 Thread José Matos
On Tuesday 29 April 2008 08:35:45 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use lyx 1.5.4 with tetex on a Gentoo computer. It works fine; I'm thinking about switching to texlive, as tetex seems on a deadend. Has anyone done it yet ? Got any problem ? How does LyX work with it ? Please let me know I have

Re: Texlive for lyx

2008-04-29 Thread Liviu Andronic
On 4/29/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use lyx 1.5.4 with tetex on a Gentoo computer. It works fine; I'm thinking about switching to texlive, as tetex seems on a deadend. Has anyone done it yet ? Got any problem ? How does LyX work with it ? Please let me know In my

Re: why are the table too wide?

2008-04-29 Thread Jon Bendtsen
On 23/04/2008, at 12.39, Helge Hafting wrote: Jon Bendtsen wrote: Hi Why are the table too wide? Because you wrote too much text inside. I dont want to spent time fixing the table width. I suggest 2 possible options if the table is too wide. 1) scale font so all text can be there in one

Re: why are the table too wide?

2008-04-29 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Jon Bendtsen wrote: I want 100% to be the width of the page minus the margins. thats textwidth or columnwidth, not pagewidth. Jürgen

Inconvenience: Loss of custom styles during document class reversion

2008-04-29 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, I'm not going to call this a bug. I suppose the explanation is rooted in a mistake I made, followed by ignoring a warning. However, I think this represents a MAJOR useability problem and should be addressed, if only to protect the user from himself. This is the second time I lost all

Re: why are the table too wide?

2008-04-29 Thread Helge Hafting
Jon Bendtsen wrote: On 23/04/2008, at 12.39, Helge Hafting wrote: Jon Bendtsen wrote: Hi Why are the table too wide? Because you wrote too much text inside. I dont want to spent time fixing the table width. I suggest 2 possible options if the table is too wide. 1) scale font so all text

Re: Undefined Control Sequence Error for /LRH

2008-04-29 Thread rgheck
Jeff Sese wrote: Hi, I'm getting multiple Undefined Control Sequence Error on an imported LaTex document and the errors point to the following control sequences: \LRH \RRH \VOL \authorA \affA etc. All are some sort of metadata information about the article. Probably these are being

Re: Texlive for lyx

2008-04-29 Thread Les Denham
On Tuesday 29 April 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use lyx 1.5.4 with tetex on a Gentoo computer. It works fine; I'm thinking about switching to texlive, as tetex seems on a deadend. Has anyone done it yet ? Got any problem ? How does LyX work with it ? Please let me know Alain, I have

Re: Inconvenience: Loss of custom styles during document class reversion

2008-04-29 Thread rgheck
Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, I'm not going to call this a bug. Sounds like it is a bug to me. I suppose the explanation is rooted in a mistake I made, followed by ignoring a warning. However, I think this represents a MAJOR useability problem and should be addressed, if only to protect

Lyx:downgrade from debian lenny to etch

2008-04-29 Thread jerome moliere
Hi all, I'm using documents made under Lyx with the version from debian lenny, but I've downgraded from Lenny to Etch (stable one) and documents fail to open (french translation says that I'm trying to open documents made with an old version but it sounds that 's the opposite).. Any solution ?

Re: pstricks pst-pdf

2008-04-29 Thread Robert Orr
Alternatively, I have attached my simple example... does anyone know how to make it work? I use LyX 1.5.3 on Windows w/ MikTeX 2.6 I took your example and commented out the %\usepackage{pst-pdf} from the preamble. Then I used ps2pdf from the view menu.It displayed properly. with the

Re: Inconvenience: Loss of custom styles during document class reversion

2008-04-29 Thread Steve Litt
On Tuesday 29 April 2008 09:00, you wrote: Steve Litt wrote: My LyX file keeps reverting to a blank document class. I have a feeling it's something in my \frontmatter, but can't be sure. Basically, any time I do anything involving Document-settings, my custom document class goes away.

Re: Inconvenience: Loss of custom styles during document class reversion

2008-04-29 Thread Steve Litt
On Tuesday 29 April 2008 09:00, rgheck wrote: Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, I'm not going to call this a bug. Sounds like it is a bug to me. Whatever it is, the last time I brought this up someone came up with an idea: Throw up a clear error message that your doc has changed, and not for

Re: pstricks pst-pdf

2008-04-29 Thread snvv
Hello and thank you for the information. For simple graphs or when everything else fails) it is worth to try it. Please find attached a script to create eps files (graphs) from this program. To run it, in a command line give ./myeps file name without the tex or lyx. In fact I tried it with tex

bibtex: BIBINPUTS

2008-04-29 Thread Maka Mohu
Hi! I use LyX 1.5.3. I have in my .bashrc the following: export TEXMFLOCAL=/home/maka/me/database/documents/texmf #bibtex, add to default setup. export BIBINPUTS=$TEXMFLOCAL/bibtex/bib: I can add the test.bib which comes with the installation and my bib file say bibfile.bib but when I go to

Re: bibtex: BIBINPUTS

2008-04-29 Thread rgheck
Maka Mohu wrote: Hi! I use LyX 1.5.3. I have in my .bashrc the following: export TEXMFLOCAL=/home/maka/me/database/documents/texmf #bibtex, add to default setup. export BIBINPUTS=$TEXMFLOCAL/bibtex/bib: I can add the test.bib which comes with the installation and my bib file say

LyX + bibtex Advice

2008-04-29 Thread Ed Sykes_Guelph
hi ! I am running LyX on Windows XP and would like advice on which Bibliography reference manager people would recommend I have previously used MS Word and Endnote as my Bib reference manager (So, I'd like to export it from Endnote and put into LyX) Any suggestions? Thanks, Ed Sykes

Re: Inconvenience: Loss of custom styles during document class reversion

2008-04-29 Thread rgheck
Steve Litt wrote: On Tuesday 29 April 2008 09:00, you wrote: But I've done a little experimenting, and here's one way this can happen. First, you have to be using a local layout file, that is, a layout file that is not in your LyX user directory but instead in the directory with the source

Re: Inconvenience: Loss of custom styles during document class reversion

2008-04-29 Thread Steve Litt
On Tuesday 29 April 2008 13:11, rgheck wrote: Steve Litt wrote: On Tuesday 29 April 2008 09:00, you wrote: But I've done a little experimenting, and here's one way this can happen. First, you have to be using a local layout file, that is, a layout file that is not in your LyX user

Re: LyX + bibtex Advice

2008-04-29 Thread rgheck
Ed Sykes_Guelph wrote: hi ! I am running LyX on Windows XP and would like advice on which Bibliography reference manager people would recommend I have previously used MS Word and Endnote as my Bib reference manager (So, I'd like to export it from Endnote and put into LyX) Any

Linespread one and a half

2008-04-29 Thread NicoWinger
Hello, I'm writing my thesis and recognized that the settings for linespread one and a half (german: eineinhalb) in document--settings--textformat don't conform to the linespread 1.5 but to the linespread 1.25!!! Can s.o. explain that? It's really dangerous if s.o. notices that not until he has

Re: URGENT: Please help! -- Undefined control sequence

2008-04-29 Thread Peter Kämpf
Hi Alain, I had the same problem with 1.5.4. Turned out I was using the wrong LaTeX implementation. To solve the problem, I edited the document settings and reduced the options from openany,liststotoc,xetex to just openany,liststotoc. I had used Xetex in the past, but now have GWTex, so

Re: Linespread one and a half

2008-04-29 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
NicoWinger wrote: I'm writing my thesis and recognized that the settings for linespread one and a half (german: eineinhalb) in document--settings--textformat don't conform to the linespread 1.5 but to the linespread 1.25!!! Can s.o. explain that? It's really dangerous if s.o. notices that not

second table of contents or handling Excursus

2008-04-29 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
Any suggestions or pointers to examples of how to handle excursus in table of contents? I currently have each of five Excursus as unnumbered chapters (\chapter*) and then use \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter} to add back to my contents. I have them unnunmbered as I want a large chapter header but

Re: LyX + bibtex Advice

2008-04-29 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
rgheck wrote: JabRef is very good, and it'll import Endnote stuff. Apart from that, you can find a list of applications here: http://wiki.lyx.org/BibTeX/Programs#toc2 Jürgen

feature requests

2008-04-29 Thread B. Bogart
Hello all, I've been using LyX for about a year now and wanted to share a couple ideas of things that have irritated me that could be improved. 1. Is there a trick to match quotes in a search-replace operation? I've tried both and ``'' The latter of which is the result of copying the quotes

Re: feature requests

2008-04-29 Thread rgheck
B. Bogart wrote: Hello all, I've been using LyX for about a year now and wanted to share a couple ideas of things that have irritated me that could be improved. 1. Is there a trick to match quotes in a search-replace operation? I've tried both and ``'' The latter of which is the result of

Re: Undefined Control Sequence Error for /LRH

2008-04-29 Thread Jeff Sese
Thanks for the reply. I'm looking at the packaged tex file and it includes an article.cls file. I'm not familiar with LaTex tags but it seems that the article.cls file included in package declares the control sequences that I'm referring. Now the problem is, how can I make LyX use that

Re: Undefined Control Sequence Error for /LRH

2008-04-29 Thread Jeff Sese
Here 's the original preamble of the imported tex file: %%% \documentclass{article} %%% \usepackage{natbib} \def\newblock{\hskip .11em plus .33em minus .07em} % %%\usepackage(natbib} %\usepackage{amssymb} %\usepackage{amsbsy,natbib} %\usepackage{amsthm}

Re: bibtex: BIBINPUTS

2008-04-29 Thread Maka Mohu
I ran texhash, configure, ToolsTex informationrescan and restarted lyx. Still I can add the bibtex database since it is seen automatically but when using cite the references of only the default bibtex test is shown. If I add the data base manually through the browse button then the references show

Re: insert vertical line - keyboard issue

2008-04-29 Thread Robert Neumann
Hello Andre 'unicode-insert '. So 'M-x unicode-insert 0x41' I did as described and entered unicode-insert 0x41 in the mini-buffer followed by Enter, the result was "undescribed function" Regards Robert

Re: insert vertical line - keyboard issue

2008-04-29 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Robert Neumann wrote: > 'unicode-insert '. So  'M-x unicode-insert 0x41' > I did as described and entered unicode-insert 0x41 in the mini-buffer > followed by Enter, the result was "undescribed function" You need LyX >= 1.5.0 for this. Jürgen

Undefined Control Sequence Error for /LRH

2008-04-29 Thread Jeff Sese
Hi, I'm getting multiple Undefined Control Sequence Error on an imported LaTex document and the errors point to the following control sequences: \LRH \RRH \VOL \authorA \affA etc. All are some sort of metadata information about the article. If I open it in TeXnicCenter, it doesn't report

Re: insert vertical line - keyboard issue

2008-04-29 Thread Robert Neumann
ok, at least I don't have to look why it doesn't work Regards Robert

Texlive for lyx

2008-04-29 Thread alain . didierjean
I use lyx 1.5.4 with tetex on a Gentoo computer. It works fine; I'm thinking about switching to texlive, as tetex seems on a deadend. Has anyone done it yet ? Got any problem ? How does LyX work with it ? Please let me know

Re: Texlive for lyx

2008-04-29 Thread José Matos
On Tuesday 29 April 2008 08:35:45 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I use lyx 1.5.4 with tetex on a Gentoo computer. It works fine; > I'm thinking about switching to texlive, as tetex seems on a deadend. Has > anyone done it yet ? Got any problem ? How does LyX work with it ? > Please let me know I have

Re: Texlive for lyx

2008-04-29 Thread Liviu Andronic
On 4/29/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I use lyx 1.5.4 with tetex on a Gentoo computer. It works fine; > I'm thinking about switching to texlive, as tetex seems on a deadend. Has > anyone > done it yet ? Got any problem ? How does LyX work with it ? > Please let me know >

Re: why are the table too wide?

2008-04-29 Thread Jon Bendtsen
On 23/04/2008, at 12.39, Helge Hafting wrote: Jon Bendtsen wrote: Hi Why are the table too wide? Because you wrote too much text inside. I dont want to spent time fixing the table width. I suggest 2 possible options if the table is too wide. 1) scale font so all text can be there in one

Re: why are the table too wide?

2008-04-29 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Jon Bendtsen wrote: > I want 100% to be the width of the page minus the margins. thats textwidth or columnwidth, not pagewidth. Jürgen

Inconvenience: Loss of custom styles during document class reversion

2008-04-29 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, I'm not going to call this a bug. I suppose the explanation is rooted in a mistake I made, followed by ignoring a warning. However, I think this represents a MAJOR useability problem and should be addressed, if only to protect the user from himself. This is the second time I lost all

Re: why are the table too wide?

2008-04-29 Thread Helge Hafting
Jon Bendtsen wrote: On 23/04/2008, at 12.39, Helge Hafting wrote: Jon Bendtsen wrote: Hi Why are the table too wide? Because you wrote too much text inside. I dont want to spent time fixing the table width. I suggest 2 possible options if the table is too wide. 1) scale font so all text

Re: Undefined Control Sequence Error for /LRH

2008-04-29 Thread rgheck
Jeff Sese wrote: Hi, I'm getting multiple Undefined Control Sequence Error on an imported LaTex document and the errors point to the following control sequences: \LRH \RRH \VOL \authorA \affA etc. All are some sort of metadata information about the article. Probably these are being

Re: Texlive for lyx

2008-04-29 Thread Les Denham
On Tuesday 29 April 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I use lyx 1.5.4 with tetex on a Gentoo computer. It works fine; > I'm thinking about switching to texlive, as tetex seems on a deadend. Has > anyone done it yet ? Got any problem ? How does LyX work with it ? > Please let me know Alain, I have

Re: Inconvenience: Loss of custom styles during document class reversion

2008-04-29 Thread rgheck
Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, I'm not going to call this a bug. Sounds like it is a bug to me. I suppose the explanation is rooted in a mistake I made, followed by ignoring a warning. However, I think this represents a MAJOR useability problem and should be addressed, if only to protect

Lyx:downgrade from debian lenny to etch

2008-04-29 Thread jerome moliere
Hi all, I'm using documents made under Lyx with the version from debian lenny, but I've downgraded from Lenny to Etch (stable one) and documents fail to open (french translation says that I'm trying to open documents made with an old version but it sounds that 's the opposite).. Any solution ?

Re: pstricks pst-pdf

2008-04-29 Thread Robert Orr
> Alternatively, I have > attached my simple > > example... does anyone know how to make it work? I use LyX 1.5.3 on Windows w/ MikTeX 2.6 I took your example and commented out the %\usepackage{pst-pdf} from the preamble. Then I used ps2pdf from the view menu.It displayed properly. with

Re: Inconvenience: Loss of custom styles during document class reversion

2008-04-29 Thread Steve Litt
On Tuesday 29 April 2008 09:00, you wrote: > Steve Litt wrote: > > My LyX file keeps reverting to a blank document class. I have a feeling > > it's something in my \frontmatter, but can't be sure. Basically, any time > > I do anything involving Document->settings, my custom document class goes >

Re: Inconvenience: Loss of custom styles during document class reversion

2008-04-29 Thread Steve Litt
On Tuesday 29 April 2008 09:00, rgheck wrote: > Steve Litt wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I'm not going to call this a bug. > > Sounds like it is a bug to me. Whatever it is, the last time I brought this up someone came up with an idea: Throw up a clear error message that your doc has changed, and

Re: pstricks pst-pdf

2008-04-29 Thread snvv
Hello and thank you for the information. For simple graphs or when everything else fails) it is worth to try it. Please find attached a script to create eps files (graphs) from this program. To run it, in a command line give ./myeps without the tex or lyx. In fact I tried it with tex and

bibtex: BIBINPUTS

2008-04-29 Thread Maka Mohu
Hi! I use LyX 1.5.3. I have in my .bashrc the following: export TEXMFLOCAL=/home/maka/me/database/documents/texmf #bibtex, add to default setup. export BIBINPUTS=$TEXMFLOCAL/bibtex/bib: I can add the "test.bib" which comes with the installation and my bib file say bibfile.bib but when I go

Re: bibtex: BIBINPUTS

2008-04-29 Thread rgheck
Maka Mohu wrote: Hi! I use LyX 1.5.3. I have in my .bashrc the following: export TEXMFLOCAL=/home/maka/me/database/documents/texmf #bibtex, add to default setup. export BIBINPUTS=$TEXMFLOCAL/bibtex/bib: I can add the "test.bib" which comes with the installation and my bib file say

LyX + bibtex Advice

2008-04-29 Thread Ed Sykes_Guelph
hi ! I am running LyX on Windows XP and would like advice on which Bibliography reference manager people would recommend I have previously used MS Word and Endnote as my Bib reference manager (So, I'd like to export it from Endnote and put into LyX) Any suggestions? Thanks, Ed Sykes

Re: Inconvenience: Loss of custom styles during document class reversion

2008-04-29 Thread rgheck
Steve Litt wrote: On Tuesday 29 April 2008 09:00, you wrote: But I've done a little experimenting, and here's one way this can happen. First, you have to be using a "local" layout file, that is, a layout file that is not in your LyX user directory but instead in the directory with the source

Re: Inconvenience: Loss of custom styles during document class reversion

2008-04-29 Thread Steve Litt
On Tuesday 29 April 2008 13:11, rgheck wrote: > Steve Litt wrote: > > On Tuesday 29 April 2008 09:00, you wrote: > >> But I've done a little experimenting, and here's one way this can > >> happen. First, you have to be using a "local" layout file, that is, a > >> layout file that is not in your

Re: LyX + bibtex Advice

2008-04-29 Thread rgheck
Ed Sykes_Guelph wrote: hi ! I am running LyX on Windows XP and would like advice on which Bibliography reference manager people would recommend I have previously used MS Word and Endnote as my Bib reference manager (So, I'd like to export it from Endnote and put into LyX) Any

Linespread "one and a half"

2008-04-29 Thread NicoWinger
Hello, I'm writing my thesis and recognized that the settings for linespread "one and a half" (german: "eineinhalb") in document-->settings-->textformat don't conform to the linespread 1.5 but to the linespread 1.25!!! Can s.o. explain that? It's really dangerous if s.o. notices that not until

Re: URGENT: Please help! -- Undefined control sequence

2008-04-29 Thread Peter Kämpf
Hi Alain, I had the same problem with 1.5.4. Turned out I was using the wrong LaTeX implementation. To solve the problem, I edited the document settings and reduced the options from "openany,liststotoc,xetex" to just "openany,liststotoc". I had used Xetex in the past, but now have

Re: Linespread "one and a half"

2008-04-29 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
NicoWinger wrote: > I'm writing my thesis and recognized that the settings for linespread "one > and a half" (german: "eineinhalb") in document-->settings-->textformat > don't conform to the linespread 1.5 but to the linespread 1.25!!! Can s.o. > explain that? It's really dangerous if s.o.

second table of contents or handling "Excursus"

2008-04-29 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
Any suggestions or pointers to examples of how to handle excursus in table of contents? I currently have each of five Excursus as unnumbered chapters (\chapter*) and then use \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter} to add back to my contents. I have them unnunmbered as I want a large "chapter header"

Re: LyX + bibtex Advice

2008-04-29 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
rgheck wrote: > JabRef is very good, and it'll import Endnote stuff. Apart from that, you can find a list of applications here: http://wiki.lyx.org/BibTeX/Programs#toc2 Jürgen

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