Re: Converting msword to LyX is ugly!

2008-07-18 Thread Typhoon
On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:08:19 -0400 Steve Litt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 18 July 2008 15:43, Andre Poenitz wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 03:28:55PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > I tried it. > > Unfortunately, unrtf discards all styles, converting them to > fine-tu

Re: Converting msword to LyX is ugly!

2008-07-18 Thread Steve Litt
On Friday 18 July 2008 15:43, Andre Poenitz wrote: > On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 03:28:55PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > > Hi all, > > Hi Steve. > > > If anyone has a better idea for converting a 300 page MS Word document > > to LyX, style for style and word for word, please let me know. > > I'd try > >

Re: Converting msword to LyX is ugly!

2008-07-18 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Fri, 18 Jul 2008, Steve Litt wrote: I had styles for everything -- almost no appearance was fine tuned. You would, wouldn't you! :-D So heres what my plan, unless someone else has a better idea. First, I'll export to RTF. Now the rtf file will have lines that are somewhat recognizeabl

Re: Converting msword to LyX is ugly!

2008-07-18 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 03:28:55PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > Hi all, Hi Steve. > If anyone has a better idea for converting a 300 page MS Word document > to LyX, style for style and word for word, please let me know. I'd try unrtf -t tex foo.rtf and check whether that's easier to manage i

How to stop lyx

2008-07-18 Thread f wonghc
I unscribe but it still send to me account.   Can anyone help?  thnkas.

Converting msword to LyX is ugly!

2008-07-18 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, I have a 300 page book written in MS Word version 97, and I have to convert it to LyX in order to make the second edition. I'll accept all condolences now :-) Believe it or not, the MS Word version was written very much what you guys would call WYSIWYM. I had styles for everything -- a

Re: Table Alignment

2008-07-18 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Paulina Restrepo wrote: Hi, I'm using Lyx 1.5.3 on a Mac, with Mac OS X version 10.4.11. I have a table inside a float, and the word "Measure" on the table looks aligned in Lyx, but when I compile into pdf it moves up. I haven't been able to fix its alignment. Here is the Lyx file. Any ideas

Subtitle in Koma-script

2008-07-18 Thread Guillaume Larocque
Hi, I must be missing something pretty obvious but I can't seem to find how to add a Subtitle to my book(Koma-Script) document. I have found information on the \subtitle command in the Koma-script documentation, but I can't find the equivalent option in the Lyx drop-down environment menu. Thanks f

Re: How to make a clone of the Enumerate environment?

2008-07-18 Thread rgheck
Steve Litt wrote: Gunter -- your solution is exactly right. I confirmed it, and even changed the font of the Question environment without affecting Enumerate, which is why I wanted a clone in the first place. Like you said, I have no idea why the TeX based idiom (using \let) didn't work, but

Re: How to make a clone of the Enumerate environment?

2008-07-18 Thread Steve Litt
Gunter -- your solution is exactly right. I confirmed it, and even changed the font of the Question environment without affecting Enumerate, which is why I wanted a clone in the first place. Like you said, I have no idea why the TeX based idiom (using \let) didn't work, but it didn't. Your LaTe

Re: Table Alignment

2008-07-18 Thread Les Denham
On Friday 18 July 2008, Paulina Restrepo wrote: > I'm using Lyx 1.5.3 on a Mac, with Mac OS X version 10.4.11. > > I have a table inside a float, and the word "Measure" on the table > looks aligned in Lyx, > but when I compile into pdf it moves up. I haven't been able to fix > its alignment. Here i

Re: latest MikTex beraks my Lyx documents of the letter (g-brief, German) class (latex error)

2008-07-18 Thread Dominik Waßenhoven
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > As I have recently updated MikTex, I blame this update to cause the > problem, but I have no idea what to do. Did you rebuild the format files? MikTeX Settings -> Update Formats There were some language specific updates that need rebuilding the format files, which is n

More on 1.6 beta4 crashing on Ubuntu

2008-07-18 Thread ashinpan
Hi Michael and all list members I posted the following question to the list: "I have just compiled Lyx 1.6 beta4 on Ubuntu (8.04) and installed it. When I tried to open my Lyx documents, one document is constantly crashing when I click on the title in the document (very strange). Can someone tel

[Fwd: Re: 1.6 beta4 crashing on Ubuntu]

2008-07-18 Thread Michael Beckmann
I'm not sure what this actually means, maybe somebody else has an idea. Can you provide the document as Pavel suggested? Does the error occur only with this document or with every (even newly created) file? Please remember to reply to all recipients (i.e lyx-users@lists.lyx.org) when answerin

Re: amssymb and amsfonts defaults

2008-07-18 Thread lasgouttes
Ivan Werning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'd like to try it. How can I change this parameter? Or are you > talking about development options, not a current workaround? This Provides mypackage 1 syntax exists in 1.5.x and is documented in the Customization manual. However, the definition of a

Re: amssymb and amsfonts defaults

2008-07-18 Thread Ivan Werning
On Jul 18, 2008, at 6:03 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: The syntax is now "Provides foo" for package foo, so it may already work. JMarc I'd like to try it. How can I change this parameter? Or are you talking about development options, not a current workaround? -Ivan

Re: *.po conflicts after updating SVN

2008-07-18 Thread Pavel Sanda
> On 18.07.08, Pavel Sanda wrote: > > nothing, this happens when po directory is rebuilt. > > this usually happens only if lyx.pot is missing, > > otherwise plain "make" command shouldn't trigger it. > > As I did not delete lyx.pot by hand, I wonder if this was done by > `make clean` or `make dist

Re: *.po conflicts after updating SVN

2008-07-18 Thread G. Milde
On 18.07.08, Pavel Sanda wrote: > > What did I wrong? > nothing, this happens when po directory is rebuilt. > this usually happens only if lyx.pot is missing, > otherwise plain "make" command shouldn't trigger it. As I did not delete lyx.pot by hand, I wonder if this was done by `make clean` or

latest MikTex beraks my Lyx documents of the letter (g-brief, German) class (latex error)

2008-07-18 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello, I just tried to write a letter with Lyx. For this I always use the letter (g-brief, German) class. When I hit the button for PDF (or DVI, it doesn't matter) export, I get the following latex errors: """ 1. Undefined control sequence. [EMAIL PROTECTED] The control sequence at the end

Re: amssymb and amsfonts defaults

2008-07-18 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
"G. Milde" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Maybe we need ProvidesAmsSymbols and ProvidesAmsFonts layout parameters > alongside the already existing ProvidesAmsmath. The syntax is now "Provides foo" for package foo, so it may already work. JMarc

Re: *.po conflicts after updating SVN

2008-07-18 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
G. Milde wrote: > How could I most easily change all these files to the latest SVN version? delete them and svn up again. Jürgen

Re: *.po conflicts after updating SVN

2008-07-18 Thread Pavel Sanda
> What did I wrong? nothing, this happens when po directory is rebuilt. this usually happens only if lyx.pot is missing, otherwise plain "make" command shouldn't trigger it. > How could I most easily change all these files to the latest SVN version? go to the po directory, then "svn revert -R *

Re: 1.6 beta4 crashing on Ubuntu

2008-07-18 Thread Pavel Sanda
> Hi there, > > on my computer runs lyx beta 4 from svn in Ubuntu Hardy. I could not find > the error you described. Could you run lyx in the terminal and post the > crash/error output? even better would be to show us that document... pavel

*.po conflicts after updating SVN

2008-07-18 Thread G. Milde
Dear LyXers, after updating my working directory from the LyX SVN with /usr/local/src/lyx-devel> svn update I got a whole bunch of conflicts in the lyx-devel/po/ directory, e.g. ca.gmo ca.po ca.po.mine ca.po.r25470 ca.po.r25661 ca.po~ (and similar for de, es, fr, gl, he, ..

Re: 1.6 beta4 crashing on Ubuntu

2008-07-18 Thread Michael Beckmann
Hi there, on my computer runs lyx beta 4 from svn in Ubuntu Hardy. I could not find the error you described. Could you run lyx in the terminal and post the crash/error output? cheers Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! I have just compiled Lyx 1.6 beta4 on Ubuntu (8.04) and installed it.

Re: amssymb and amsfonts defaults

2008-07-18 Thread G. Milde
On 18.07.08, Manveru wrote: > Or adding optional support for lucimatx package, if more people use this > font package. Selecting this autommatically should automatically disable > amsymb. But I am speculating now. I do not think that it is necessary to have a lucimatx checkbox in the Math dialogue

Re: Inconsistent indentation behaviour after LyX-Code and Program Listing Inset

2008-07-18 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Paul A. Rubin wrote: > The listings package does not require or force the \begingroup + > \inputencoding{latin1} + \endgroup commands, nor the two blank lines. > The blank lines are purely LyX.   These mark a new paragraph. They are not inserted if you ommit a paragraph break after the listings i

Re: amssymb and amsfonts defaults

2008-07-18 Thread Manveru
Or adding optional support for lucimatx package, if more people use this font package. Selecting this autommatically should automatically disable amsymb. But I am speculating now. M. 2008/7/17 Paul A. Rubin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Paul A. Rubin wrote: > >> Ivan Werning wrote: >> >>> I would like

Re: converters

2008-07-18 Thread G. Milde
On 17.07.08, Matthias E wrote: > Whenever I try to view the file as a .pdf, the following screen pops > up: > > Keine Information vorhanden, um Dateien im -Format nach png zu > konvertieren. > Definieren Sie einen Konverter in den Einstellungen. I wonder about the "-Format". Did you specify the