Re: ACM

2008-10-15 Thread Julio Rojas
Sorry Uwe, I never meant to point the problem towards tex2lyx. As a matter of fact, I had a bad problem with my texlive installation, due to some files left over the /etc/texmf/updmap.d folder that didn't let me make the upgrades needed to render the PDF. I have solved the problem of the fonts and

Re: tex2lyx problem

2008-10-15 Thread Julio Rojas
Reported as bug 5364. - Julio Rojas [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 2:11 PM, Uwe Stöhr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Julio Rojas schrieb: I discovered the problem. I had folder names with spaces and accented letters. I renamed the folders

Hyperlinked cross-references inside PDF documents?

2008-10-15 Thread Keith Roberts
I'm working my way through the first 3 documents under the help menu in LyX 1.5.6 In the meantime, can someone please tell me if it's possible to create hyper-linked cross-references that can be clicked on in a PDF file? Here is an example of what I would like to do in a PDF document

Picture's background

2008-10-15 Thread Ralt
Hi, I'm quite new to LyX, and I have so searched a lot in documentation. But it hasn't helped me to know how to have a specific picture as background (JPEG, PNG, w/e). So it's maybe very easy, if so I'm sorry, but I haven't found. Can you please explain? Regards, Ralt. -- View this message in

a problem with preamble and header / footer

2008-10-15 Thread Erez Yerushalmi
Dear all, I am using lyx 1.5.5 (still) , windows xp, document class article I want to add some simple headers into the heading with the command such as: \rhead{Erez} but I get an error such as : undefined control sequence LaTeX Error: Missing \begin{document}. Can anyone tell me why??

Re: Hyperlinked cross-references inside PDF documents?

2008-10-15 Thread Richard Heck
Keith Roberts wrote: I'm working my way through the first 3 documents under the help menu in LyX 1.5.6 In the meantime, can someone please tell me if it's possible to create hyper-linked cross-references that can be clicked on in a PDF file? Yes, you just have to use the hyperref package.

Re: a problem with preamble and header / footer

2008-10-15 Thread Richard Heck
Erez Yerushalmi wrote: Dear all, I am using lyx 1.5.5 (still) , windows xp, document class article I want to add some simple headers into the heading with the command such as: \rhead{Erez} but I get an error such as : undefined control sequence LaTeX Error: Missing \begin{document}. Can

Re: [Bug] LyX 1.5.6 ignores amsmath settings when adding \iint

2008-10-15 Thread Manveru
2008/10/15 Abdelrazak Younes [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 14/10/2008 13:15, Manveru wrote: The whole problem leads me to the question why LyX cannot have two tabs in preamble setting window, one for user preamble entries _BEFORE_ LyX generated and second for these _AFTER_ LyX generated? This could

Re: Hyperlinked cross-references inside PDF documents?

2008-10-15 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Keith Roberts schrieb: In the meantime, can someone please tell me if it's possible to create hyper-linked cross-references that can be clicked on in a PDF file? You have to use the LateX-package hyperref in the document preamble. For an example, have a look at the preamble of LyX's

Re: ACM

2008-10-15 Thread Julio Rojas
I have moved from my Ubuntu PC where everything was alright to my Vista PC. I installed the class file and the LyX layout. Reconfigured LyX, reconfigured MikTeX and when I try to open my file a message appears telling me: The document class sigplanconf could not be loaded. If I try to manually

Different page margins in one document

2008-10-15 Thread Daniel Klein
Hi everybody, I would like to have different page margins in the table section of my document that in the rest of the documtent. I added this before the Table section in ERT \setlength{\evensidemargin}{-1cm} \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-1cm} \addtolength{\textwidth}{2cm} Unfortunately only

Can you suggest a good way to draw pictures with latex code?

2008-10-15 Thread Erez Yerushalmi
Hi All, I'm an intermediate lyx user (1.5.5, windows). So far, I draw various pictures on MS PowerPoint, convert to jpg, and finally import to my LyX document. For example, see jpg drawing I've attached. However, this is bad since Power Point is not good for math. It would also be much easier

Re: Can you suggest a good way to draw pictures with latex code?

2008-10-15 Thread Julio Rojas
Inkscape. Not direct latex code, but very very good. - Julio Rojas [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 5:55 PM, Erez Yerushalmi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I'm an intermediate lyx user (1.5.5, windows). So far, I draw various

Re: LaTeX Error with Curriculum Vitae (European)

2008-10-15 Thread Max Nabble
Jeby wrote: \usepackage {geometry} The package inputenc has already been loaded with options: [utf8x] There has now been an attempt to load it with options [latin9] Adding the global options: utf8x,latin9 to your \documentclass declaration may fix this. Try typing

Re: Can you suggest a good way to draw pictures with latex code?

2008-10-15 Thread Joost Verburg
Erez Yerushalmi wrote: I'm an intermediate lyx user (1.5.5, windows). So far, I draw various pictures on MS PowerPoint, convert to jpg, and finally import to my LyX document. For vector images you'll get much better quality when you export to emf instead of jpg. Joost

Re: ACM

2008-10-15 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Julio Rojas schrieb: I have moved from my Ubuntu PC where everything was alright to my Vista PC. I installed the class file and the LyX layout. Reconfigured LyX, reconfigured MikTeX You need to do the opposite: First refresh MiKTeX's file name databasse, then reconfigure LyX. Any ideas?

Re: Can you suggest a good way to draw pictures with latex code?

2008-10-15 Thread Ernesto Posse
Another possibility is to use Dia. In Dia, you can write latex formulas in text boxes, and then you export them as Metapost macros (mp). You then use metapost (mpost) to generate eps files (metapost saves them with extensions .1, .2, etc, but then you simply rename them to .eps and import them in

Re: ACM

2008-10-15 Thread Julio Rojas
BTW, while using this layout I could see that inserting a Keywords environment inserts a Topics environment instead. - Julio Rojas [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 10:00 AM, Julio Rojas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry Uwe, I never meant

Re: Can you suggest a good way to draw pictures with latex code?

2008-10-15 Thread Robert Orr
LaTeXDraw is something else you could try --- On Wed, 10/15/08, Julio Rojas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Julio Rojas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Can you suggest a good way to draw pictures with latex code? To: LyX User lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Date: Wednesday, October 15, 2008, 12:08

Re: Can you suggest a good way to draw pictures with latex code?

2008-10-15 Thread A. Scottedward Hodel
Under Mac OS X and Linux I've used xfig for many years. fig2dev allows direct translation to LaTeX code as either picture, epic, or eepic. On Oct 15, 2008, at 12:47 PM, Robert Orr wrote: LaTeXDraw is something else you could try --- On Wed, 10/15/08, Julio Rojas [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: tex2lyx problem

2008-10-15 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Julio Rojas schrieb: I discovered the problem. I had folder names with spaces and accented letters. I renamed the folders and everything was alright. Seems that filenames don't have relative paths, but absolute ones, making tex2lyx crash in the process when the path has spaces. Is this a bug?

Re: tex2lyx problem

2008-10-15 Thread Julio Rojas
I discovered the problem. I had folder names with spaces and accented letters. I renamed the folders and everything was alright. Seems that filenames don't have relative paths, but absolute ones, making tex2lyx crash in the process when the path has spaces. Is this a bug?

.wmf graphics cannot be seen in lyx

2008-10-15 Thread Erez Yerushalmi
Dear All, I'm using Lyx 1.5.5, windows xp. At the moment, i'm saving MS powerpoint slides as .wmf and importing to LyX. (Thanks to those giving me suggestions for other drawing programs. I've been playing with a few of them, and will write later which one I feel is best) *Here is my question:*

Lyx 1.5.6 Strange error message using wrong format by href

2008-10-15 Thread Yegor Yefremov
Hello, if I try to view PDF (pdflatex) from this lyx-file I get the following message: Lyx: Cannot view file File does not exist: ..latex_error.pdf I had the same problem in my document. At first I couldn't figure out what is the reason for that error, till I examined the Document-LaTeX

Re: ACM

2008-10-15 Thread Julio Rojas
Done and still the same problem. Removed files, reconfigures, added the files and reconfigured in the correct secuence and still the same problem. - Julio Rojas [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 6:56 PM, Uwe Stöhr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: Can you suggest a good way to draw pictures with latex code?

2008-10-15 Thread cmiramon
Erez Yerushalmi wrote: Can anyone suggest a good drawing program? Can Beamer do this?? I haven't used it yet (I admit). If you want to draw / code technical drawings and plots try tikz / pgf. It will work well with beamer because both packages are done by the same author, Till Tantau.

Re: ACM

2008-10-15 Thread Julio Rojas
This is the ouput generated by LyX: Unable to convert C:/Program Files/LyX 1.6.0rc3/bin/../Resources/layouts/sigplanconf.layout to format 8 Error reading `[layouts/sigplanconf.layout]' (Check `sigplanconf') Check your installation and try Options/Reconfigure... Error: Could not load class

Re: .wmf graphics cannot be seen in lyx

2008-10-15 Thread Julio Rojas
I guess WMF is not a supported file type. Try using PDF or EPS plots. - Julio Rojas [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 8:56 PM, Erez Yerushalmi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear All, I'm using Lyx 1.5.5, windows xp. At the moment, i'm

Setting two character styles at once

2008-10-15 Thread Michael Brown
Greetings, I'm currently writing up a document and I'm trying to do something relatively simple (considering what else I've done :). I'd like to write text that is both in the typewriter face and bolded. Using LyX, what I end up with is: \texttt{\textbf{0x2E}}: Constant

Re: Hyperlinked cross-references inside PDF documents?

2008-10-15 Thread Keith Roberts
On Wed, 15 Oct 2008, Uwe Stöhr wrote: To: Keith Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Uwe Stöhr [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Hyperlinked cross-references inside PDF documents? Keith Roberts schrieb: In the meantime, can someone please tell me if it's possible to create hyper-linked

Re: Can you suggest a good way to draw pictures with latex code?

2008-10-15 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
On 15/10/2008 17:55, Erez Yerushalmi wrote: Can anyone suggest a good drawing program? jfig is nice (clone of xfig written in Java). And LyX has direct support for fig format... Abdel.

Re: Picture's background

2008-10-15 Thread Yago
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Re: Can you suggest a good way to draw pictures with latex code?

2008-10-15 Thread wangyq
Someone suggests me to use asymptote. Their graphs are really wonderful! Moreover, asymptote supports 3d-drawing. http://asymptote.sourceforge.net/ 2008-10-16 wangyq 发件人: Erez Yerushalmi 发送时间: 2008-10-15 23:55:53 收件人: LyX User 抄送: 主题: Can you suggest a good way to draw

Re: Setting two character styles at once

2008-10-15 Thread cmiramon
Michael Brown wrote: Greetings, I'm currently writing up a document and I'm trying to do something relatively simple (considering what else I've done :). I'd like to write text that is both in the typewriter face and bolded. Using LyX, what I end up with is:

Re: ACM

2008-10-15 Thread Julio Rojas
Sorry Uwe, I never meant to point the problem towards tex2lyx. As a matter of fact, I had a bad problem with my texlive installation, due to some files left over the /etc/texmf/updmap.d folder that didn't let me make the upgrades needed to render the PDF. I have solved the problem of the fonts and

Re: tex2lyx problem

2008-10-15 Thread Julio Rojas
Reported as bug 5364. - Julio Rojas [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 2:11 PM, Uwe Stöhr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Julio Rojas schrieb: I discovered the problem. I had folder names with spaces and accented letters. I renamed the folders

Hyperlinked cross-references inside PDF documents?

2008-10-15 Thread Keith Roberts
I'm working my way through the first 3 documents under the help menu in LyX 1.5.6 In the meantime, can someone please tell me if it's possible to create hyper-linked cross-references that can be clicked on in a PDF file? Here is an example of what I would like to do in a PDF document

Picture's background

2008-10-15 Thread Ralt
Hi, I'm quite new to LyX, and I have so searched a lot in documentation. But it hasn't helped me to know how to have a specific picture as background (JPEG, PNG, w/e). So it's maybe very easy, if so I'm sorry, but I haven't found. Can you please explain? Regards, Ralt. -- View this message in

a problem with preamble and header / footer

2008-10-15 Thread Erez Yerushalmi
Dear all, I am using lyx 1.5.5 (still) , windows xp, document class article I want to add some simple headers into the heading with the command such as: \rhead{Erez} but I get an error such as : undefined control sequence LaTeX Error: Missing \begin{document}. Can anyone tell me why??

Re: Hyperlinked cross-references inside PDF documents?

2008-10-15 Thread Richard Heck
Keith Roberts wrote: I'm working my way through the first 3 documents under the help menu in LyX 1.5.6 In the meantime, can someone please tell me if it's possible to create hyper-linked cross-references that can be clicked on in a PDF file? Yes, you just have to use the hyperref package.

Re: a problem with preamble and header / footer

2008-10-15 Thread Richard Heck
Erez Yerushalmi wrote: Dear all, I am using lyx 1.5.5 (still) , windows xp, document class article I want to add some simple headers into the heading with the command such as: \rhead{Erez} but I get an error such as : undefined control sequence LaTeX Error: Missing \begin{document}. Can

Re: [Bug] LyX 1.5.6 ignores amsmath settings when adding \iint

2008-10-15 Thread Manveru
2008/10/15 Abdelrazak Younes [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 14/10/2008 13:15, Manveru wrote: The whole problem leads me to the question why LyX cannot have two tabs in preamble setting window, one for user preamble entries _BEFORE_ LyX generated and second for these _AFTER_ LyX generated? This could

Re: Hyperlinked cross-references inside PDF documents?

2008-10-15 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Keith Roberts schrieb: In the meantime, can someone please tell me if it's possible to create hyper-linked cross-references that can be clicked on in a PDF file? You have to use the LateX-package hyperref in the document preamble. For an example, have a look at the preamble of LyX's

Re: ACM

2008-10-15 Thread Julio Rojas
I have moved from my Ubuntu PC where everything was alright to my Vista PC. I installed the class file and the LyX layout. Reconfigured LyX, reconfigured MikTeX and when I try to open my file a message appears telling me: The document class sigplanconf could not be loaded. If I try to manually

Different page margins in one document

2008-10-15 Thread Daniel Klein
Hi everybody, I would like to have different page margins in the table section of my document that in the rest of the documtent. I added this before the Table section in ERT \setlength{\evensidemargin}{-1cm} \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-1cm} \addtolength{\textwidth}{2cm} Unfortunately only

Can you suggest a good way to draw pictures with latex code?

2008-10-15 Thread Erez Yerushalmi
Hi All, I'm an intermediate lyx user (1.5.5, windows). So far, I draw various pictures on MS PowerPoint, convert to jpg, and finally import to my LyX document. For example, see jpg drawing I've attached. However, this is bad since Power Point is not good for math. It would also be much easier

Re: Can you suggest a good way to draw pictures with latex code?

2008-10-15 Thread Julio Rojas
Inkscape. Not direct latex code, but very very good. - Julio Rojas [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 5:55 PM, Erez Yerushalmi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I'm an intermediate lyx user (1.5.5, windows). So far, I draw various

Re: LaTeX Error with Curriculum Vitae (European)

2008-10-15 Thread Max Nabble
Jeby wrote: \usepackage {geometry} The package inputenc has already been loaded with options: [utf8x] There has now been an attempt to load it with options [latin9] Adding the global options: utf8x,latin9 to your \documentclass declaration may fix this. Try typing

Re: Can you suggest a good way to draw pictures with latex code?

2008-10-15 Thread Joost Verburg
Erez Yerushalmi wrote: I'm an intermediate lyx user (1.5.5, windows). So far, I draw various pictures on MS PowerPoint, convert to jpg, and finally import to my LyX document. For vector images you'll get much better quality when you export to emf instead of jpg. Joost

Re: ACM

2008-10-15 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Julio Rojas schrieb: I have moved from my Ubuntu PC where everything was alright to my Vista PC. I installed the class file and the LyX layout. Reconfigured LyX, reconfigured MikTeX You need to do the opposite: First refresh MiKTeX's file name databasse, then reconfigure LyX. Any ideas?

Re: Can you suggest a good way to draw pictures with latex code?

2008-10-15 Thread Ernesto Posse
Another possibility is to use Dia. In Dia, you can write latex formulas in text boxes, and then you export them as Metapost macros (mp). You then use metapost (mpost) to generate eps files (metapost saves them with extensions .1, .2, etc, but then you simply rename them to .eps and import them in

Re: ACM

2008-10-15 Thread Julio Rojas
BTW, while using this layout I could see that inserting a Keywords environment inserts a Topics environment instead. - Julio Rojas [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 10:00 AM, Julio Rojas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry Uwe, I never meant

Re: Can you suggest a good way to draw pictures with latex code?

2008-10-15 Thread Robert Orr
LaTeXDraw is something else you could try --- On Wed, 10/15/08, Julio Rojas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Julio Rojas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Can you suggest a good way to draw pictures with latex code? To: LyX User lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Date: Wednesday, October 15, 2008, 12:08

Re: Can you suggest a good way to draw pictures with latex code?

2008-10-15 Thread A. Scottedward Hodel
Under Mac OS X and Linux I've used xfig for many years. fig2dev allows direct translation to LaTeX code as either picture, epic, or eepic. On Oct 15, 2008, at 12:47 PM, Robert Orr wrote: LaTeXDraw is something else you could try --- On Wed, 10/15/08, Julio Rojas [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: tex2lyx problem

2008-10-15 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Julio Rojas schrieb: I discovered the problem. I had folder names with spaces and accented letters. I renamed the folders and everything was alright. Seems that filenames don't have relative paths, but absolute ones, making tex2lyx crash in the process when the path has spaces. Is this a bug?

Re: tex2lyx problem

2008-10-15 Thread Julio Rojas
I discovered the problem. I had folder names with spaces and accented letters. I renamed the folders and everything was alright. Seems that filenames don't have relative paths, but absolute ones, making tex2lyx crash in the process when the path has spaces. Is this a bug?

.wmf graphics cannot be seen in lyx

2008-10-15 Thread Erez Yerushalmi
Dear All, I'm using Lyx 1.5.5, windows xp. At the moment, i'm saving MS powerpoint slides as .wmf and importing to LyX. (Thanks to those giving me suggestions for other drawing programs. I've been playing with a few of them, and will write later which one I feel is best) *Here is my question:*

Lyx 1.5.6 Strange error message using wrong format by href

2008-10-15 Thread Yegor Yefremov
Hello, if I try to view PDF (pdflatex) from this lyx-file I get the following message: Lyx: Cannot view file File does not exist: ..latex_error.pdf I had the same problem in my document. At first I couldn't figure out what is the reason for that error, till I examined the Document-LaTeX

Re: ACM

2008-10-15 Thread Julio Rojas
Done and still the same problem. Removed files, reconfigures, added the files and reconfigured in the correct secuence and still the same problem. - Julio Rojas [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 6:56 PM, Uwe Stöhr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: Can you suggest a good way to draw pictures with latex code?

2008-10-15 Thread cmiramon
Erez Yerushalmi wrote: Can anyone suggest a good drawing program? Can Beamer do this?? I haven't used it yet (I admit). If you want to draw / code technical drawings and plots try tikz / pgf. It will work well with beamer because both packages are done by the same author, Till Tantau.

Re: ACM

2008-10-15 Thread Julio Rojas
This is the ouput generated by LyX: Unable to convert C:/Program Files/LyX 1.6.0rc3/bin/../Resources/layouts/sigplanconf.layout to format 8 Error reading `[layouts/sigplanconf.layout]' (Check `sigplanconf') Check your installation and try Options/Reconfigure... Error: Could not load class

Re: .wmf graphics cannot be seen in lyx

2008-10-15 Thread Julio Rojas
I guess WMF is not a supported file type. Try using PDF or EPS plots. - Julio Rojas [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 8:56 PM, Erez Yerushalmi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear All, I'm using Lyx 1.5.5, windows xp. At the moment, i'm

Setting two character styles at once

2008-10-15 Thread Michael Brown
Greetings, I'm currently writing up a document and I'm trying to do something relatively simple (considering what else I've done :). I'd like to write text that is both in the typewriter face and bolded. Using LyX, what I end up with is: \texttt{\textbf{0x2E}}: Constant

Re: Hyperlinked cross-references inside PDF documents?

2008-10-15 Thread Keith Roberts
On Wed, 15 Oct 2008, Uwe Stöhr wrote: To: Keith Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Uwe Stöhr [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Hyperlinked cross-references inside PDF documents? Keith Roberts schrieb: In the meantime, can someone please tell me if it's possible to create hyper-linked

Re: Can you suggest a good way to draw pictures with latex code?

2008-10-15 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
On 15/10/2008 17:55, Erez Yerushalmi wrote: Can anyone suggest a good drawing program? jfig is nice (clone of xfig written in Java). And LyX has direct support for fig format... Abdel.

Re: Picture's background

2008-10-15 Thread Yago
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Re: Can you suggest a good way to draw pictures with latex code?

2008-10-15 Thread wangyq
Someone suggests me to use asymptote. Their graphs are really wonderful! Moreover, asymptote supports 3d-drawing. http://asymptote.sourceforge.net/ 2008-10-16 wangyq 发件人: Erez Yerushalmi 发送时间: 2008-10-15 23:55:53 收件人: LyX User 抄送: 主题: Can you suggest a good way to draw

Re: Setting two character styles at once

2008-10-15 Thread cmiramon
Michael Brown wrote: Greetings, I'm currently writing up a document and I'm trying to do something relatively simple (considering what else I've done :). I'd like to write text that is both in the typewriter face and bolded. Using LyX, what I end up with is:

Re: ACM

2008-10-15 Thread Julio Rojas
Sorry Uwe, I never meant to point the problem towards tex2lyx. As a matter of fact, I had a bad problem with my texlive installation, due to some files left over the /etc/texmf/updmap.d folder that didn't let me make the upgrades needed to render the PDF. I have solved the problem of the fonts and

Re: tex2lyx problem

2008-10-15 Thread Julio Rojas
Reported as bug 5364. - Julio Rojas [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 2:11 PM, Uwe Stöhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Julio Rojas schrieb: > >> I discovered the problem. I had folder names with spaces and accented >> letters. I renamed the

Hyperlinked cross-references inside PDF documents?

2008-10-15 Thread Keith Roberts
I'm working my way through the first 3 documents under the help menu in LyX 1.5.6 In the meantime, can someone please tell me if it's possible to create hyper-linked cross-references that can be clicked on in a PDF file? Here is an example of what I would like to do in a PDF document

Picture's background

2008-10-15 Thread Ralt
Hi, I'm quite new to LyX, and I have so searched a lot in documentation. But it hasn't helped me to know how to have a specific picture as background (JPEG, PNG, w/e). So it's maybe very easy, if so I'm sorry, but I haven't found. Can you please explain? Regards, Ralt. -- View this message in

a problem with preamble and header / footer

2008-10-15 Thread Erez Yerushalmi
Dear all, I am using lyx 1.5.5 (still) , windows xp, document class "article" I want to add some simple headers into the heading with the command such as: \rhead{Erez} but I get an error such as : undefined control sequence LaTeX Error: Missing \begin{document}. Can anyone tell me why??

Re: Hyperlinked cross-references inside PDF documents?

2008-10-15 Thread Richard Heck
Keith Roberts wrote: I'm working my way through the first 3 documents under the help menu in LyX 1.5.6 In the meantime, can someone please tell me if it's possible to create hyper-linked cross-references that can be clicked on in a PDF file? Yes, you just have to use the hyperref package.

Re: a problem with preamble and header / footer

2008-10-15 Thread Richard Heck
Erez Yerushalmi wrote: Dear all, I am using lyx 1.5.5 (still) , windows xp, document class "article" I want to add some simple headers into the heading with the command such as: \rhead{Erez} but I get an error such as : undefined control sequence LaTeX Error: Missing \begin{document}. Can

Re: [Bug] LyX 1.5.6 ignores amsmath settings when adding \iint

2008-10-15 Thread Manveru
2008/10/15 Abdelrazak Younes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > On 14/10/2008 13:15, Manveru wrote: >> The whole problem leads me to the question why LyX cannot have two >> tabs in preamble setting window, one for user preamble entries >> _BEFORE_ LyX generated and second for these _AFTER_ LyX generated?

Re: Hyperlinked cross-references inside PDF documents?

2008-10-15 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Keith Roberts schrieb: In the meantime, can someone please tell me if it's possible to create hyper-linked cross-references that can be clicked on in a PDF file? You have to use the LateX-package "hyperref" in the document preamble. For an example, have a look at the preamble of LyX's

Re: ACM

2008-10-15 Thread Julio Rojas
I have moved from my Ubuntu PC where everything was alright to my Vista PC. I installed the class file and the LyX layout. Reconfigured LyX, reconfigured MikTeX and when I try to open my file a message appears telling me: The document class sigplanconf could not be loaded. If I try to manually

Different page margins in one document

2008-10-15 Thread Daniel Klein
Hi everybody, I would like to have different page margins in the table section of my document that in the rest of the documtent. I added this before the Table section in ERT \setlength{\evensidemargin}{-1cm} \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-1cm} \addtolength{\textwidth}{2cm} Unfortunately only

Can you suggest a good way to draw pictures with latex code?

2008-10-15 Thread Erez Yerushalmi
Hi All, I'm an intermediate lyx user (1.5.5, windows). So far, I draw various pictures on MS PowerPoint, convert to jpg, and finally import to my LyX document. For example, see jpg drawing I've attached. However, this is bad since Power Point is not good for math. It would also be much easier

Re: Can you suggest a good way to draw pictures with latex code?

2008-10-15 Thread Julio Rojas
Inkscape. Not direct latex code, but very very good. - Julio Rojas [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 5:55 PM, Erez Yerushalmi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm an intermediate lyx user (1.5.5, windows). > So far, I draw various

Re: LaTeX Error with Curriculum Vitae (European)

2008-10-15 Thread Max Nabble
Jeby wrote: > "\usepackage >{geometry} > The package inputenc has already been loaded with options: > [utf8x] > There has now been an attempt to load it with options > [latin9] > Adding the global options: > utf8x,latin9 > to your \documentclass declaration may fix this. >

Re: Can you suggest a good way to draw pictures with latex code?

2008-10-15 Thread Joost Verburg
Erez Yerushalmi wrote: I'm an intermediate lyx user (1.5.5, windows). So far, I draw various pictures on MS PowerPoint, convert to jpg, and finally import to my LyX document. For vector images you'll get much better quality when you export to emf instead of jpg. Joost

Re: ACM

2008-10-15 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Julio Rojas schrieb: I have moved from my Ubuntu PC where everything was alright to my Vista PC. I installed the class file and the LyX layout. Reconfigured LyX, reconfigured MikTeX You need to do the opposite: First refresh MiKTeX's file name databasse, then reconfigure LyX. Any ideas?

Re: Can you suggest a good way to draw pictures with latex code?

2008-10-15 Thread Ernesto Posse
Another possibility is to use Dia. In Dia, you can write latex formulas in text boxes, and then you export them as Metapost macros (mp). You then use metapost (mpost) to generate eps files (metapost saves them with extensions .1, .2, etc, but then you simply rename them to .eps and import them in

Re: ACM

2008-10-15 Thread Julio Rojas
BTW, while using this layout I could see that inserting a Keywords environment inserts a Topics environment instead. - Julio Rojas [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 10:00 AM, Julio Rojas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry Uwe, I never

Re: Can you suggest a good way to draw pictures with latex code?

2008-10-15 Thread Robert Orr
LaTeXDraw is something else you could try --- On Wed, 10/15/08, Julio Rojas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Julio Rojas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Can you suggest a good way to draw pictures with latex code? > To: "LyX User" > Date: Wednesday, October 15,

Re: Can you suggest a good way to draw pictures with latex code?

2008-10-15 Thread A. Scottedward Hodel
Under Mac OS X and Linux I've used xfig for many years. fig2dev allows direct translation to LaTeX code as either picture, epic, or eepic. On Oct 15, 2008, at 12:47 PM, Robert Orr wrote: LaTeXDraw is something else you could try --- On Wed, 10/15/08, Julio Rojas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: tex2lyx problem

2008-10-15 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Julio Rojas schrieb: I discovered the problem. I had folder names with spaces and accented letters. I renamed the folders and everything was alright. Seems that filenames don't have relative paths, but absolute ones, making tex2lyx crash in the process when the path has spaces. Is this a bug?

Re: tex2lyx problem

2008-10-15 Thread Julio Rojas
I discovered the problem. I had folder names with spaces and accented letters. I renamed the folders and everything was alright. Seems that filenames don't have relative paths, but absolute ones, making tex2lyx crash in the process when the path has spaces. Is this a bug?

.wmf graphics cannot be seen in lyx

2008-10-15 Thread Erez Yerushalmi
Dear All, I'm using Lyx 1.5.5, windows xp. At the moment, i'm saving MS powerpoint slides as .wmf and importing to LyX. (Thanks to those giving me suggestions for other drawing programs. I've been playing with a few of them, and will write later which one I feel is best) *Here is my question:*

Lyx 1.5.6 Strange error message using wrong format by href

2008-10-15 Thread Yegor Yefremov
Hello, if I try to view PDF (pdflatex) from this lyx-file I get the following message: Lyx: Cannot view file File does not exist: ..latex_error.pdf I had the same problem in my document. At first I couldn't figure out what is the reason for that error, till I examined the Document->LaTeX

Re: ACM

2008-10-15 Thread Julio Rojas
Done and still the same problem. Removed files, reconfigures, added the files and reconfigured in the correct secuence and still the same problem. - Julio Rojas [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 6:56 PM, Uwe Stöhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Can you suggest a good way to draw pictures with latex code?

2008-10-15 Thread cmiramon
Erez Yerushalmi wrote: > > Can anyone suggest a good drawing program? > Can Beamer do this?? I haven't used it yet (I admit). > If you want to draw / code technical drawings and plots try tikz / pgf. It will work well with beamer because both packages are done by the same author, Till Tantau.

Re: ACM

2008-10-15 Thread Julio Rojas
This is the ouput generated by LyX: Unable to convert C:/Program Files/LyX 1.6.0rc3/bin/../Resources/layouts/sigplanconf.layout to format 8 Error reading `[layouts/sigplanconf.layout]' (Check `sigplanconf') Check your installation and try Options/Reconfigure... Error: Could not load class

Re: .wmf graphics cannot be seen in lyx

2008-10-15 Thread Julio Rojas
I guess WMF is not a supported file type. Try using PDF or EPS plots. - Julio Rojas [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 8:56 PM, Erez Yerushalmi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear All, > > I'm using Lyx 1.5.5, windows xp. > > At the moment,

Setting two character styles at once

2008-10-15 Thread Michael Brown
Greetings, I'm currently writing up a document and I'm trying to do something relatively simple (considering what else I've done :). I'd like to write text that is both in the typewriter face and bolded. Using LyX, what I end up with is: \texttt{\textbf{0x2E}}: Constant

Re: Hyperlinked cross-references inside PDF documents?

2008-10-15 Thread Keith Roberts
On Wed, 15 Oct 2008, Uwe Stöhr wrote: To: Keith Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: Uwe Stöhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Hyperlinked cross-references inside PDF documents? Keith Roberts schrieb: In the meantime, can someone please tell me if it's possible to create hyper-linked

Re: Can you suggest a good way to draw pictures with latex code?

2008-10-15 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
On 15/10/2008 17:55, Erez Yerushalmi wrote: Can anyone suggest a good drawing program? jfig is nice (clone of xfig written in Java). And LyX has direct support for fig format... Abdel.

Re: Picture's background

2008-10-15 Thread Yago
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