Re: lyx 1.60cr2 issues

2008-09-09 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Hello Matthew, Matthew wrote: I've been trying to use the candidate release for 1.6. While there are some nice new features, like the ability to cut and paste graphics there are some changes and perhaps bugs which negatively impact lyx. My first pet peeve is that the export document command

Re: reverse-DVI support for documents with Children?

2008-09-09 Thread Charles de Miramon
Cameron Stone wrote: However, it doesn't work completely for documents containing child documents as Includes. Does anyone know if/how this can be made to work? I don't think it works with child documents. The new synctex synchronization framework between pdf and latex supports child

Re: Harvard Style Redux

2008-09-09 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Paul A. Rubin wrote: I think you're mixing apples and oranges here.  Natbib is designed to work with BibTeX, which means your references have to be in a BibTeX database file (.bib) and you have to use Insert - List - BibTeX bibliography to select the .bib file, rather than using the

Re: Change the Floatname only for some Floats

2008-09-09 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have only some additional questions: 1.) In the Lyx view of the document the numbering for the newly aux? Sorry, this is slightly too elliptic for my parser. If you mean that Tableaux should be numbered in the LyX view: they are here. 2.) The document I'm writing

Re: OT: post-process postscript or PDF document to add page numbering and footer

2008-09-09 Thread G. Milde
On 6.09.08, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: I am looking for a solution to add running page numbering to a postscript or PDF document and maybe add a footer or header (maybe with a horizontal rule). I suppose scribus (www.scribus.net) is able to do this (in a WYSIWYG manner). It is a page layout

Re: Koma-script chapterentry font option

2008-09-09 Thread G. Milde
On 6.09.08, Guillaume Larocque wrote: Jean-Marie Pacquet a écrit : Is there any way I can change that font?? chapterentry does not belong to the list of elements whose type style can be changed with these commands. Maybe this is a new feature. Do the versions of the documentation and the

Re: lyx 1.60cr2 issues

2008-09-09 Thread G. Milde
On 8.09.08, Matthew wrote: ... the export document command doesn't appear to generate any output, ... In particular I'm trying to convert a lyx 1.6 file back into a 1.5.3 file so that I can run a more 'stable' version. Besides the bug mentionend in another reply: The default settings will

Re: lyx 1.60cr2 issues

2008-09-09 Thread Konrad Hofbauer
G. Milde wrote: Besides the bug mentionend in another reply: The default settings will use the extension .lyx15 for the exported file and the file-open dialogue in LyX-1.5 will not show it, as it expects a .lyx extension. At least here on the Mac LyX-1.5.6 DOES show the .lyx15-files. /Konrad

Re: lyx 1.60cr2 issues

2008-09-09 Thread G. Milde
On 9.09.08, Konrad Hofbauer wrote: G. Milde wrote: Besides the bug mentionend in another reply: The default settings will use the extension .lyx15 for the exported file and the file-open dialogue in LyX-1.5 will not show it, as it expects a .lyx extension. At least here on the Mac LyX-1.5.6

Defining a color for the rectangular box around a minipage

2008-09-09 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All, How can one define a color for the rectangular box around a minipage? Thanks in advance, Paul

Re: lyx 1.60cr2 issues

2008-09-09 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 09.09.2008, at 11:25, G. Milde wrote: On 9.09.08, Konrad Hofbauer wrote: G. Milde wrote: Besides the bug mentionend in another reply: The default settings will use the extension .lyx15 for the exported file and the file-open dialogue in LyX-1.5 will not show it, as it expects a .lyx

Re: lyx 1.60cr2 issues

2008-09-09 Thread rgheck
James Sutherland wrote: My next peeve that I've found is that tab no longer navigates through the cells in an eqnarray. I haven't tried it with tables yet, but if it has the same behavior there, that would also be bad. I agree with this. The tab key has been taken over by the (VERY NICE)

Re: lyx 1.60cr2 issues

2008-09-09 Thread rgheck
Daniel Lohmann wrote: On 09.09.2008, at 11:25, G. Milde wrote: On 9.09.08, Konrad Hofbauer wrote: G. Milde wrote: Besides the bug mentionend in another reply: The default settings will use the extension .lyx15 for the exported file and the file-open dialogue in LyX-1.5 will not show it, as

pictures into the lyx file

2008-09-09 Thread Pol
posted mailed Is there a way to include pictures, I mean simple geometric pictures, into a lyx file? Metapost or something like that could be used? Thank you -- Pol

Re: Defining a color for the rectangular box around a minipage

2008-09-09 Thread Siegfried MEUNIER-GUTTIN-CLUZEL
You can use \fcolorbox{border color}{ inside color}{ content } in ERT with the package color See the Embedded Objects manual section 5.7.1 Siegfried.

Re: Koma-script chapterentry font option

2008-09-09 Thread Guillaume Larocque
G. Milde wrote: so you could try configuring sectioning instead of chapterentry. That works, thanks! I just added \addtokomafont{sectioning}{\rmfamily} to my preamble and everything works. I guess chapterentry must be a new option. Thanks again, Guillaume

Re: Change the Floatname only for some Floats

2008-09-09 Thread Johannes Knaus
Am 09.09.2008 um 10:02 schrieb Jürgen Spitzmüller: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have only some additional questions: 1.) In the Lyx view of the document the numbering for the newly aux? Sorry, this is slightly too elliptic for my parser. If you mean that Tableaux should be numbered in the

Re: Change the Floatname only for some Floats

2008-09-09 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Johannes Knaus wrote: I indeed intended to write tableaux. The thing is: They are there but   numbering in Lyx starts with a 0 while it's a 1 in the output. Is it possible to make an equal numbering in both views (preferably   starting with 1)? But that's a minor issue. Strange. I have

Re: Defining a color for the rectangular box around a minipage

2008-09-09 Thread Paul Smith
On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 1:35 PM, Siegfried MEUNIER-GUTTIN-CLUZEL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can use \fcolorbox{border color}{ inside color}{ content } in ERT with the package color See the Embedded Objects manual section 5.7.1 Thanks, Siegfried. The problem with your approach is that for

Re: Defining a color for the rectangular box around a minipage

2008-09-09 Thread Paul Smith
On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 3:00 PM, Paul Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can use \fcolorbox{border color}{ inside color}{ content } in ERT with the package color See the Embedded Objects manual section 5.7.1 Thanks, Siegfried. The problem with your approach is that

Re: OT: post-process postscript or PDF document to add page numbering and footer

2008-09-09 Thread Zan
Maybe a clumsy work around but couldn't one do this in LyX? Splitting up the original pdf into single pages (I use CombinePDF) and setting those pages as background images in your LyX document? Could you then add header, footer, pagenumbers on top of the page images? Z On 6.09.08, Jeremy

AVG free report threat after installing lyx 1.5.6 and 1.6.0 RC2

2008-09-09 Thread Ja Ma
Hello, The system is vista. After installing lyx, a temporary folder was generated in X:\Users\xxx\AppData\Temp\. I don't remember the exact filename. It is like nxxxaxx.tmp. I tried intalling 1.6.0 RC2, the temporary folder was generated again, only the filename was different. However in both

Re: pictures into the lyx file

2008-09-09 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Pol wrote: posted mailed Is there a way to include pictures, I mean simple geometric pictures, into a lyx file? Metapost or something like that could be used? Would either tikz or xy-pic do what you have in mind? /Paul

Re: OT: post-process postscript or PDF document to add page numbering and footer

2008-09-09 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Tue, 9 Sep 2008, Zan wrote: Maybe a clumsy work around but couldn't one do this in LyX? Splitting up the original pdf into single pages (I use CombinePDF) and setting those pages as background images in your LyX document? Could you then add header, footer, pagenumbers on top of the

Screen Magnification

2008-09-09 Thread Bruce Pourciau
Having just updated to LyX 1.5.6, I seem to have lost the screen magnification setting. The default setting is a bit hard to read on my monitor. What am I missing? Bruce

Re: OT: post-process postscript or PDF document to add page numbering and footer

2008-09-09 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
This may not be the slickest way, but I think you can do it all right in Lyx (or just latex) with pdfpages in the preamble... \usepackage{pdfpages} \includepdfset{pagecommand={\thispagestyle{fancy}}} in the document... define what you want in the headers in ERT with \lhead{} etc.

Generating PDF/A from LyX/LaTeX

2008-09-09 Thread Ernesto Posse
This question is not a LyX-only question, but I thought maybe someone here could have an idea on this issue. Has anyone succeeded in producing a PDF/A file (PDF for archival) from LyX/LaTeX? I've tried tools that claim to generate PDF/A from PostScript files or PDF files (both for Windows and

Re: lyx 1.60cr2 issues

2008-09-09 Thread Matthew Bromberg
I do like the new features and would love to continue working with 1.60cr2 if there are some workarounds. If there is a way to map ctrl-B back to \mathbf{} instead of \boldsymbol{} it would do it for me. As for the export files bug, so far I have discovered that the export function sends

Re: lyx 1.60cr2 issues

2008-09-09 Thread rgheck
Matthew Bromberg wrote: I do like the new features and would love to continue working with 1.60cr2 if there are some workarounds. If there is a way to map ctrl-B back to \mathbf{} instead of \boldsymbol{} it would do it for me. There seems motivation to do this. But we have to figure out

Re: Generating PDF/A from LyX/LaTeX

2008-09-09 Thread Steve Litt
On Tuesday 09 September 2008 12:54:38 pm Ernesto Posse wrote: This question is not a LyX-only question, but I thought maybe someone here could have an idea on this issue. Has anyone succeeded in producing a PDF/A file (PDF for archival) from LyX/LaTeX? I've tried tools that claim to generate

Re: Generating PDF/A from LyX/LaTeX

2008-09-09 Thread Ernesto Posse
Hi. I do not have a particular preference for PDF/A, but unfortunately my university requires electronic thesis submissions to be in PDF/A. After seeing that even a minimalistic latex document seems to be impossible to convert to PDF/A, and realizing that there is no consistency among PDF/A

Re: Screen Magnification

2008-09-09 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Bruce Pourciau wrote: Having just updated to LyX 1.5.6, I seem to have lost the screen magnification setting. The default setting is a bit hard to read on my monitor. What am I missing? Young eyes (same here). Does Tools - Preferences... - Look and feel - Screen fonts - Zoom % not blow

Re: pictures into the lyx file

2008-09-09 Thread Pol
Paul A. Rubin wrote: Pol wrote: posted mailed Is there a way to include pictures, I mean simple geometric pictures, into a lyx file? Metapost or something like that could be used? Would either tikz or xy-pic do what you have in mind? I have never tried those format. Can they be

Re: Generating PDF/A from LyX/LaTeX

2008-09-09 Thread William Adams
On Sep 9, 2008, at 12:54 PM, Ernesto Posse wrote: Has anyone succeeded in producing a PDF/A file (PDF for archival) from LyX/LaTeX? I've tried tools that claim to generate PDF/A from PostScript files or PDF files (both for Windows and Linux) but I haven't been successful in generating a file

Re: Generating PDF/A from LyX/LaTeX

2008-09-09 Thread Ernesto Posse
On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 4:02 PM, William Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sep 9, 2008, at 12:54 PM, Ernesto Posse wrote: Has anyone succeeded in producing a PDF/A file (PDF for archival) from LyX/LaTeX? I've tried tools that claim to generate PDF/A from PostScript files or PDF files (both for

Re: Generating PDF/A from LyX/LaTeX

2008-09-09 Thread Steve Litt
What a nightmare! What does the university say about validators -- any validator, all validators, Adobe's validator? The PDF/A Wikipedia page makes it look pretty straightforward -- all fonts embedded, all fonts legal everywhere, no video, audio or javascript, device independent color. Makes

Re: Generating PDF/A from LyX/LaTeX

2008-09-09 Thread Ernesto Posse
On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 5:56 PM, Steve Litt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What a nightmare! Indeed. What does the university say about validators -- any validator, all validators, Adobe's validator? They use Acrobat's. It seems that Adobe's Distiller has its own validator which is different than

Re: Generating PDF/A from LyX/LaTeX

2008-09-09 Thread Steve Litt
On Tuesday 09 September 2008 06:25:54 pm Ernesto Posse wrote: On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 5:56 PM, Steve Litt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What a nightmare! Indeed. What does the university say about validators -- any validator, all validators, Adobe's validator? They use Acrobat's. It seems

Re: pictures into the lyx file

2008-09-09 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Pol wrote: Paul A. Rubin wrote: Pol wrote: posted mailed Is there a way to include pictures, I mean simple geometric pictures, into a lyx file? Metapost or something like that could be used? Would either tikz or xy-pic do what you have in mind? I have never tried those format. Can

Re: lyx 1.60cr2 issues

2008-09-09 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Hello Matthew, Matthew wrote: I've been trying to use the candidate release for 1.6. While there are some nice new features, like the ability to cut and paste graphics there are some changes and perhaps bugs which negatively impact lyx. My first pet peeve is that the export document command

Re: reverse-DVI support for documents with Children?

2008-09-09 Thread Charles de Miramon
Cameron Stone wrote: However, it doesn't work completely for documents containing child documents as Includes. Does anyone know if/how this can be made to work? I don't think it works with child documents. The new synctex synchronization framework between pdf and latex supports child

Re: Harvard Style Redux

2008-09-09 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Paul A. Rubin wrote: I think you're mixing apples and oranges here.  Natbib is designed to work with BibTeX, which means your references have to be in a BibTeX database file (.bib) and you have to use Insert - List - BibTeX bibliography to select the .bib file, rather than using the

Re: Change the Floatname only for some Floats

2008-09-09 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have only some additional questions: 1.) In the Lyx view of the document the numbering for the newly aux? Sorry, this is slightly too elliptic for my parser. If you mean that Tableaux should be numbered in the LyX view: they are here. 2.) The document I'm writing

Re: OT: post-process postscript or PDF document to add page numbering and footer

2008-09-09 Thread G. Milde
On 6.09.08, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: I am looking for a solution to add running page numbering to a postscript or PDF document and maybe add a footer or header (maybe with a horizontal rule). I suppose scribus (www.scribus.net) is able to do this (in a WYSIWYG manner). It is a page layout

Re: Koma-script chapterentry font option

2008-09-09 Thread G. Milde
On 6.09.08, Guillaume Larocque wrote: Jean-Marie Pacquet a écrit : Is there any way I can change that font?? chapterentry does not belong to the list of elements whose type style can be changed with these commands. Maybe this is a new feature. Do the versions of the documentation and the

Re: lyx 1.60cr2 issues

2008-09-09 Thread G. Milde
On 8.09.08, Matthew wrote: ... the export document command doesn't appear to generate any output, ... In particular I'm trying to convert a lyx 1.6 file back into a 1.5.3 file so that I can run a more 'stable' version. Besides the bug mentionend in another reply: The default settings will

Re: lyx 1.60cr2 issues

2008-09-09 Thread Konrad Hofbauer
G. Milde wrote: Besides the bug mentionend in another reply: The default settings will use the extension .lyx15 for the exported file and the file-open dialogue in LyX-1.5 will not show it, as it expects a .lyx extension. At least here on the Mac LyX-1.5.6 DOES show the .lyx15-files. /Konrad

Re: lyx 1.60cr2 issues

2008-09-09 Thread G. Milde
On 9.09.08, Konrad Hofbauer wrote: G. Milde wrote: Besides the bug mentionend in another reply: The default settings will use the extension .lyx15 for the exported file and the file-open dialogue in LyX-1.5 will not show it, as it expects a .lyx extension. At least here on the Mac LyX-1.5.6

Defining a color for the rectangular box around a minipage

2008-09-09 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All, How can one define a color for the rectangular box around a minipage? Thanks in advance, Paul

Re: lyx 1.60cr2 issues

2008-09-09 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 09.09.2008, at 11:25, G. Milde wrote: On 9.09.08, Konrad Hofbauer wrote: G. Milde wrote: Besides the bug mentionend in another reply: The default settings will use the extension .lyx15 for the exported file and the file-open dialogue in LyX-1.5 will not show it, as it expects a .lyx

Re: lyx 1.60cr2 issues

2008-09-09 Thread rgheck
James Sutherland wrote: My next peeve that I've found is that tab no longer navigates through the cells in an eqnarray. I haven't tried it with tables yet, but if it has the same behavior there, that would also be bad. I agree with this. The tab key has been taken over by the (VERY NICE)

Re: lyx 1.60cr2 issues

2008-09-09 Thread rgheck
Daniel Lohmann wrote: On 09.09.2008, at 11:25, G. Milde wrote: On 9.09.08, Konrad Hofbauer wrote: G. Milde wrote: Besides the bug mentionend in another reply: The default settings will use the extension .lyx15 for the exported file and the file-open dialogue in LyX-1.5 will not show it, as

pictures into the lyx file

2008-09-09 Thread Pol
posted mailed Is there a way to include pictures, I mean simple geometric pictures, into a lyx file? Metapost or something like that could be used? Thank you -- Pol

Re: Defining a color for the rectangular box around a minipage

2008-09-09 Thread Siegfried MEUNIER-GUTTIN-CLUZEL
You can use \fcolorbox{border color}{ inside color}{ content } in ERT with the package color See the Embedded Objects manual section 5.7.1 Siegfried.

Re: Koma-script chapterentry font option

2008-09-09 Thread Guillaume Larocque
G. Milde wrote: so you could try configuring sectioning instead of chapterentry. That works, thanks! I just added \addtokomafont{sectioning}{\rmfamily} to my preamble and everything works. I guess chapterentry must be a new option. Thanks again, Guillaume

Re: Change the Floatname only for some Floats

2008-09-09 Thread Johannes Knaus
Am 09.09.2008 um 10:02 schrieb Jürgen Spitzmüller: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have only some additional questions: 1.) In the Lyx view of the document the numbering for the newly aux? Sorry, this is slightly too elliptic for my parser. If you mean that Tableaux should be numbered in the

Re: Change the Floatname only for some Floats

2008-09-09 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Johannes Knaus wrote: I indeed intended to write tableaux. The thing is: They are there but   numbering in Lyx starts with a 0 while it's a 1 in the output. Is it possible to make an equal numbering in both views (preferably   starting with 1)? But that's a minor issue. Strange. I have

Re: Defining a color for the rectangular box around a minipage

2008-09-09 Thread Paul Smith
On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 1:35 PM, Siegfried MEUNIER-GUTTIN-CLUZEL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can use \fcolorbox{border color}{ inside color}{ content } in ERT with the package color See the Embedded Objects manual section 5.7.1 Thanks, Siegfried. The problem with your approach is that for

Re: Defining a color for the rectangular box around a minipage

2008-09-09 Thread Paul Smith
On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 3:00 PM, Paul Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can use \fcolorbox{border color}{ inside color}{ content } in ERT with the package color See the Embedded Objects manual section 5.7.1 Thanks, Siegfried. The problem with your approach is that

Re: OT: post-process postscript or PDF document to add page numbering and footer

2008-09-09 Thread Zan
Maybe a clumsy work around but couldn't one do this in LyX? Splitting up the original pdf into single pages (I use CombinePDF) and setting those pages as background images in your LyX document? Could you then add header, footer, pagenumbers on top of the page images? Z On 6.09.08, Jeremy

AVG free report threat after installing lyx 1.5.6 and 1.6.0 RC2

2008-09-09 Thread Ja Ma
Hello, The system is vista. After installing lyx, a temporary folder was generated in X:\Users\xxx\AppData\Temp\. I don't remember the exact filename. It is like nxxxaxx.tmp. I tried intalling 1.6.0 RC2, the temporary folder was generated again, only the filename was different. However in both

Re: pictures into the lyx file

2008-09-09 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Pol wrote: posted mailed Is there a way to include pictures, I mean simple geometric pictures, into a lyx file? Metapost or something like that could be used? Would either tikz or xy-pic do what you have in mind? /Paul

Re: OT: post-process postscript or PDF document to add page numbering and footer

2008-09-09 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Tue, 9 Sep 2008, Zan wrote: Maybe a clumsy work around but couldn't one do this in LyX? Splitting up the original pdf into single pages (I use CombinePDF) and setting those pages as background images in your LyX document? Could you then add header, footer, pagenumbers on top of the

Screen Magnification

2008-09-09 Thread Bruce Pourciau
Having just updated to LyX 1.5.6, I seem to have lost the screen magnification setting. The default setting is a bit hard to read on my monitor. What am I missing? Bruce

Re: OT: post-process postscript or PDF document to add page numbering and footer

2008-09-09 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
This may not be the slickest way, but I think you can do it all right in Lyx (or just latex) with pdfpages in the preamble... \usepackage{pdfpages} \includepdfset{pagecommand={\thispagestyle{fancy}}} in the document... define what you want in the headers in ERT with \lhead{} etc.

Generating PDF/A from LyX/LaTeX

2008-09-09 Thread Ernesto Posse
This question is not a LyX-only question, but I thought maybe someone here could have an idea on this issue. Has anyone succeeded in producing a PDF/A file (PDF for archival) from LyX/LaTeX? I've tried tools that claim to generate PDF/A from PostScript files or PDF files (both for Windows and

Re: lyx 1.60cr2 issues

2008-09-09 Thread Matthew Bromberg
I do like the new features and would love to continue working with 1.60cr2 if there are some workarounds. If there is a way to map ctrl-B back to \mathbf{} instead of \boldsymbol{} it would do it for me. As for the export files bug, so far I have discovered that the export function sends

Re: lyx 1.60cr2 issues

2008-09-09 Thread rgheck
Matthew Bromberg wrote: I do like the new features and would love to continue working with 1.60cr2 if there are some workarounds. If there is a way to map ctrl-B back to \mathbf{} instead of \boldsymbol{} it would do it for me. There seems motivation to do this. But we have to figure out

Re: Generating PDF/A from LyX/LaTeX

2008-09-09 Thread Steve Litt
On Tuesday 09 September 2008 12:54:38 pm Ernesto Posse wrote: This question is not a LyX-only question, but I thought maybe someone here could have an idea on this issue. Has anyone succeeded in producing a PDF/A file (PDF for archival) from LyX/LaTeX? I've tried tools that claim to generate

Re: Generating PDF/A from LyX/LaTeX

2008-09-09 Thread Ernesto Posse
Hi. I do not have a particular preference for PDF/A, but unfortunately my university requires electronic thesis submissions to be in PDF/A. After seeing that even a minimalistic latex document seems to be impossible to convert to PDF/A, and realizing that there is no consistency among PDF/A

Re: Screen Magnification

2008-09-09 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Bruce Pourciau wrote: Having just updated to LyX 1.5.6, I seem to have lost the screen magnification setting. The default setting is a bit hard to read on my monitor. What am I missing? Young eyes (same here). Does Tools - Preferences... - Look and feel - Screen fonts - Zoom % not blow

Re: pictures into the lyx file

2008-09-09 Thread Pol
Paul A. Rubin wrote: Pol wrote: posted mailed Is there a way to include pictures, I mean simple geometric pictures, into a lyx file? Metapost or something like that could be used? Would either tikz or xy-pic do what you have in mind? I have never tried those format. Can they be

Re: Generating PDF/A from LyX/LaTeX

2008-09-09 Thread William Adams
On Sep 9, 2008, at 12:54 PM, Ernesto Posse wrote: Has anyone succeeded in producing a PDF/A file (PDF for archival) from LyX/LaTeX? I've tried tools that claim to generate PDF/A from PostScript files or PDF files (both for Windows and Linux) but I haven't been successful in generating a file

Re: Generating PDF/A from LyX/LaTeX

2008-09-09 Thread Ernesto Posse
On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 4:02 PM, William Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sep 9, 2008, at 12:54 PM, Ernesto Posse wrote: Has anyone succeeded in producing a PDF/A file (PDF for archival) from LyX/LaTeX? I've tried tools that claim to generate PDF/A from PostScript files or PDF files (both for

Re: Generating PDF/A from LyX/LaTeX

2008-09-09 Thread Steve Litt
What a nightmare! What does the university say about validators -- any validator, all validators, Adobe's validator? The PDF/A Wikipedia page makes it look pretty straightforward -- all fonts embedded, all fonts legal everywhere, no video, audio or javascript, device independent color. Makes

Re: Generating PDF/A from LyX/LaTeX

2008-09-09 Thread Ernesto Posse
On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 5:56 PM, Steve Litt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What a nightmare! Indeed. What does the university say about validators -- any validator, all validators, Adobe's validator? They use Acrobat's. It seems that Adobe's Distiller has its own validator which is different than

Re: Generating PDF/A from LyX/LaTeX

2008-09-09 Thread Steve Litt
On Tuesday 09 September 2008 06:25:54 pm Ernesto Posse wrote: On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 5:56 PM, Steve Litt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What a nightmare! Indeed. What does the university say about validators -- any validator, all validators, Adobe's validator? They use Acrobat's. It seems

Re: pictures into the lyx file

2008-09-09 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Pol wrote: Paul A. Rubin wrote: Pol wrote: posted mailed Is there a way to include pictures, I mean simple geometric pictures, into a lyx file? Metapost or something like that could be used? Would either tikz or xy-pic do what you have in mind? I have never tried those format. Can

Re: lyx 1.60cr2 issues

2008-09-09 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Hello Matthew, Matthew wrote: I've been trying to use the candidate release for 1.6. While there are some nice new features, like the ability to cut and paste graphics there are some changes and perhaps bugs which negatively impact lyx. My first pet peeve is that the export document command

Re: reverse-DVI support for documents with Children?

2008-09-09 Thread Charles de Miramon
Cameron Stone wrote: > However, it doesn't work completely for documents containing child > documents as Includes. Does anyone know if/how this can be made to work? > I don't think it works with child documents. The new synctex synchronization framework between pdf and latex supports child

Re: Harvard Style Redux

2008-09-09 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Paul A. Rubin wrote: > I think you're mixing apples and oranges here.  Natbib is designed to > work with BibTeX, which means your references have to be in a BibTeX > "database" file (.bib) and you have to use Insert -> List -> BibTeX > bibliography to select the .bib file, rather than using the

Re: Change the Floatname only for some Floats

2008-09-09 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have only some additional questions: > 1.) In the Lyx view of the document the numbering for the newly aux? Sorry, this is slightly too elliptic for my parser. If you mean that Tableaux should be numbered in the LyX view: they are here. > 2.) The document I'm

Re: OT: post-process postscript or PDF document to add page numbering and footer

2008-09-09 Thread G. Milde
On 6.09.08, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > I am looking for a solution to add running page numbering to a postscript > or PDF document and maybe add a footer or header (maybe with a horizontal > rule). I suppose scribus (www.scribus.net) is able to do this (in a WYSIWYG manner). It is a page layout

Re: Koma-script chapterentry font option

2008-09-09 Thread G. Milde
On 6.09.08, Guillaume Larocque wrote: > Jean-Marie Pacquet a écrit : >>> Is there any way I can change that font?? >> "chapterentry" does not belong to the list of elements whose type >> style can be changed with these commands. Maybe this is a new feature. Do the versions of the

Re: lyx 1.60cr2 issues

2008-09-09 Thread G. Milde
On 8.09.08, Matthew wrote: > ... the export document command doesn't appear to generate any output, > ... In particular I'm trying to convert a lyx 1.6 file back into a > 1.5.3 file so that I can run a more 'stable' version. Besides the bug mentionend in another reply: The default settings will

Re: lyx 1.60cr2 issues

2008-09-09 Thread Konrad Hofbauer
G. Milde wrote: Besides the bug mentionend in another reply: The default settings will use the extension ".lyx15" for the exported file and the file-open dialogue in LyX-1.5 will not show it, as it expects a ".lyx" extension. At least here on the Mac LyX-1.5.6 DOES show the .lyx15-files.

Re: lyx 1.60cr2 issues

2008-09-09 Thread G. Milde
On 9.09.08, Konrad Hofbauer wrote: > G. Milde wrote: >> Besides the bug mentionend in another reply: The default settings will >> use the extension ".lyx15" for the exported file and the file-open >> dialogue in LyX-1.5 will not show it, as it expects a ".lyx" extension. > At least here on the

Defining a color for the rectangular box around a minipage

2008-09-09 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All, How can one define a color for the rectangular box around a minipage? Thanks in advance, Paul

Re: lyx 1.60cr2 issues

2008-09-09 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 09.09.2008, at 11:25, G. Milde wrote: On 9.09.08, Konrad Hofbauer wrote: G. Milde wrote: Besides the bug mentionend in another reply: The default settings will use the extension ".lyx15" for the exported file and the file-open dialogue in LyX-1.5 will not show it, as it expects a

Re: lyx 1.60cr2 issues

2008-09-09 Thread rgheck
James Sutherland wrote: My next peeve that I've found is that tab no longer navigates through the cells in an eqnarray. I haven't tried it with tables yet, but if it has the same behavior there, that would also be bad. I agree with this. The tab key has been taken over by the (VERY NICE)

Re: lyx 1.60cr2 issues

2008-09-09 Thread rgheck
Daniel Lohmann wrote: On 09.09.2008, at 11:25, G. Milde wrote: On 9.09.08, Konrad Hofbauer wrote: G. Milde wrote: Besides the bug mentionend in another reply: The default settings will use the extension ".lyx15" for the exported file and the file-open dialogue in LyX-1.5 will not show it,

pictures into the lyx file

2008-09-09 Thread Pol
Is there a way to include pictures, I mean simple geometric pictures, into a lyx file? Metapost or something like that could be used? Thank you -- Pol

Re: Defining a color for the rectangular box around a minipage

2008-09-09 Thread Siegfried MEUNIER-GUTTIN-CLUZEL
You can use \fcolorbox{border color}{ inside color}{ content } in ERT with the package color See the Embedded Objects manual section 5.7.1 Siegfried.

Re: Koma-script chapterentry font option

2008-09-09 Thread Guillaume Larocque
G. Milde wrote: >> so you could try configuring "sectioning" instead of "chapterentry". That works, thanks! I just added \addtokomafont{sectioning}{\rmfamily} to my preamble and everything works. I guess chapterentry must be a new option. Thanks again, Guillaume

Re: Change the Floatname only for some Floats

2008-09-09 Thread Johannes Knaus
Am 09.09.2008 um 10:02 schrieb Jürgen Spitzmüller: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have only some additional questions: 1.) In the Lyx view of the document the numbering for the newly aux? Sorry, this is slightly too elliptic for my parser. If you mean that Tableaux should be numbered in the

Re: Change the Floatname only for some Floats

2008-09-09 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Johannes Knaus wrote: > I indeed intended to write tableaux. The thing is: They are there but   > numbering in Lyx starts with a 0 while it's a 1 in the output. > Is it possible to make an equal numbering in both views (preferably   > starting with 1)? > But that's a minor issue. Strange. I have

Re: Defining a color for the rectangular box around a minipage

2008-09-09 Thread Paul Smith
On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 1:35 PM, Siegfried MEUNIER-GUTTIN-CLUZEL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You can use \fcolorbox{border color}{ inside color}{ content } > in ERT with the package color > > See the Embedded Objects manual section 5.7.1 Thanks, Siegfried. The problem with your approach is that

Re: Defining a color for the rectangular box around a minipage

2008-09-09 Thread Paul Smith
On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 3:00 PM, Paul Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> You can use \fcolorbox{border color}{ inside color}{ content } >> in ERT with the package color >> >> See the Embedded Objects manual section 5.7.1 > > Thanks, Siegfried. The problem with your

Re: OT: post-process postscript or PDF document to add page numbering and footer

2008-09-09 Thread Zan
Maybe a clumsy work around but couldn't one do this in LyX? Splitting up the original pdf into single pages (I use CombinePDF) and setting those pages as background images in your LyX document? Could you then add header, footer, pagenumbers on top of the page images? Z >On 6.09.08, Jeremy

AVG free report threat after installing lyx 1.5.6 and 1.6.0 RC2

2008-09-09 Thread Ja Ma
Hello, The system is vista. After installing lyx, a temporary folder was generated in X:\Users\xxx\AppData\Temp\. I don't remember the exact filename. It is like "nxxxaxx.tmp". I tried intalling 1.6.0 RC2, the temporary folder was generated again, only the filename was different. However in

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