Re: install thesis class, Mac

2008-10-22 Thread Konrad Hofbauer
Mike Martell wrote: #python/library/applications/lyx.app/content/resources/configure.py What did you get? Richard wants to know what is the output of this. Please copy/paste. /Konrad

Re: paragraph indents -- document class book (Polish version by M. W.), MWBK

2008-10-22 Thread Manveru
You do not reply to the list. I am not able to help you, but there is much more people knowing koma-script and latex quite good. W dniu 21 października 2008 17:26 użytkownik Jonathan Kroner [EMAIL PROTECTED] napisał: I agree with you completely. The Koma does paragraph indents the way I would

Re: Mac Cursor and Math Mode problem

2008-10-22 Thread Konrad Hofbauer
Hi Antonio, Antonio Rieser wrote: Two problems. I'm using LyX on the Mac (OS X.3/4.?) Which Mac OS X and which LyX version? for the first time, and after I choose 'Section' and then type, the text on the line I'm typing jumps to the right, but the cursor stays where it is. It drives me

Re: install thesis class, Mac

2008-10-22 Thread Andreas K .
Mike Martell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi: I've been having a lot of trouble installing a new class for LyX with my mac. I am hoping to use LyX to write my doctoral dissertation. I am trying to install the thesis class for my university, authesis.cls. I have followed the directions, I

Re: Frustrated user

2008-10-22 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
On 22/10/2008 08:04, Jonathan Suit wrote: Hello, Hello Jonathan, I'm a new user of LyX. For the first couple of days, everything went well. But now I'm running into trouble. First thing first: this is the documentation development list. I put the correct list in copy. Second: which

Re: How to change pdf viewer?

2008-10-22 Thread Pierfranco Minsenti
Hi, I must confess that even in my case (LyX 1.5.4 on Mac Os X 10.3.9), if I want to change the default PDF viewer I have to put the whole path to the executable. For example, for using the pdf viewer Adobe Reader 7.1.0 for Mac it works only if I use: /Applications/Adobe\ Reader\ 7.1.0/Adobe\

Re: Unicode - IPA-Phonetic characters - Which packages, preambel?

2008-10-22 Thread =??B?SsO8cmdlbiBTcGl0em3DvGxsZXI=?=
Joachim Kreimer-de Fries wrote: BTW (2), I find the document class tufte-layout worth to be transformed into a LyX document class, style or template - for the time being I did not find a way to import the sample-handout into Lyx. Look here: http://wiki.lyx.org/Layouts/Tufte-handout J??rgen

affidavit

2008-10-22 Thread Matthias Coy
Hi, I'm currently writing my thesis using lyx, and now I want to insert a affidavit into my document (which is komascript-report). Does anyone know a good solution for that? Of course, I could use a chapter for that, but it's kind of awkward. Greetings Matthias Coy

Re: How to change pdf viewer?

2008-10-22 Thread muzzle
Hi, On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 4:17 PM, Konrad Hofbauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joachim Kreimer-de Fries wrote [on Mac]: How can one configure LyX to use another pdf viewer when clicking the view pdf (pdf-latex) button? By default, LyX uses the default viewer that is set in the operating

Re: Table of contents dialog problem

2008-10-22 Thread Uwe Stöhr
asm23 schrieb: My environment is Windows XP En. Lyx 1.6RC3. When I click the Table of contents in a lyx file. A Outline dialog will display in the left side. But nothing will show below. This bug has been fixed in the meantime. LyX 1.6.0RC4 i ncluding the fix comes out soon. When you still

Re: Bringing the footer higher...

2008-10-22 Thread Helge Hafting
M-L wrote: [...] As an aside to do with the footer: Setting my bottom margin: Document--Settings=Page Margins--Bottom to 6 Here is my footer preamble [you'll need to insert your own graphic file, in my case it's a .jpg file of a tawny frogmouth] on my footer experimental document:

Automagically reduce the spacing between ++ in the word C++

2008-10-22 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Hi, I am currently in the process of polishing the typesetting of my thesis. One of the things I would like to achieve is to reduce the spacing between ++ in the words C++ and AspectC++, as this looks somewhat strange with the font I am using. This question is somewhat related to the

Re: install thesis class, Mac

2008-10-22 Thread rgheck
Andreas K. wrote: Since it is a thesis class, are you sure that the article class should be used, and not the book class instead? Try the following layout file: #% Do not delete the line below; configure depends on this # \DeclareLaTeXClass[authesis]{book (authesis)} # Input general

Re: How to change pdf viewer?

2008-10-22 Thread Konrad Hofbauer
muzzle wrote: Btw, how do I change the xommand used to produce the preview pdf? The default is set to pdflatex but I have some problem with it and I would like to use dvipdfm. In the View-menu, you should have different PDF() options, one of them being PDF (dvipdfm), same in File-Export.

Re: Automagically reduce the spacing between ++ in the word C++

2008-10-22 Thread Konrad Hofbauer
Daniel Lohmann wrote: Any TeX gurus on this list who might help me? If you don't get any answer here, try in the comp.text.tex newsgroup. /Konrad

Re: install thesis class, Mac

2008-10-22 Thread rgheck
Mike Martell wrote: Thanks again. I took your advice. I located configure.py I opened terminal, typed: # cd /tmp/ then, #python/library/applications/lyx.app/content/resources/configure.py As Konrad said, I want to know what this does. LyX should write a configure.log file for you. You

Re: How to change pdf viewer?

2008-10-22 Thread muzzle
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 1:41 PM, Konrad Hofbauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: muzzle wrote: Btw, how do I change the xommand used to produce the preview pdf? The default is set to pdflatex but I have some problem with it and I would like to use dvipdfm. In the View-menu, you should have

Re: Automagically reduce the spacing between ++ in the word C++

2008-10-22 Thread Charles de Miramon
Daniel Lohmann wrote: Hi, I am currently in the process of polishing the typesetting of my thesis. One of the things I would like to achieve is to reduce the spacing between ++ in the words C++ and AspectC++, as this looks somewhat strange with the font I am using. This question is

Re: How to change pdf viewer?

2008-10-22 Thread Konrad Hofbauer
muzzle wrote: Well, I do have several options in the menu, but I would like to change the default for the toolbar button, is it possible? Not with the GUI, I believe. It should be possible by creating your own *.ui files. Look at what is in /Applications/LyX.app/Contents/Resources/ui/, create

Re: Automagically reduce the spacing between ++ in the word C++

2008-10-22 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 22.10.2008, at 14:12, Charles de Miramon wrote: Daniel Lohmann wrote: [...] occurrences with some ERT box is not an option, as this would cause too much hassle and would not work in external material, such as bibliographic entries. I am looking for a more elegant solution. The easiest way

Bibtex: limit the number of authors for \cite to three

2008-10-22 Thread Oliver Arnold
Hi, I use the style geralpha to layout my bibliographic references. When I create a pdf-file with lyx everything is fine, except the citation style. Now it looks like that: ...some text [NCTLH07]. There are five authors for the cited entry (the first character of every surname is used, plus the

Re: Automagically reduce the spacing between ++ in the word C++

2008-10-22 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 22.10.2008, at 14:07, Konrad Hofbauer wrote: Daniel Lohmann wrote: Any TeX gurus on this list who might help me? If you don't get any answer here, try in the comp.text.tex newsgroup. Thanks Konrad! Daniel, who is hoping nevertheless to find an expert here :-)

lyx 1.5.x under debian

2008-10-22 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
I try to get the latest 1.5 lyx under debian and entered in /etc/apt/sources.list # Testing deb http://download.tuxfamily.org/emiscabpo/lyx15-bpo/ but synaptic does not like this line. I also tried to update texlive et Co., but the latest version is 2005, which seems to me a bit antique. It

Re: install thesis class, Mac

2008-10-22 Thread Bennett Helm
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 8:10 AM, rgheck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mike Martell wrote: Thanks again. I took your advice. I located configure.py I opened terminal, typed: # cd /tmp/ then, #python/library/applications/lyx.app/content/resources/configure.py Just a few mostly Mac specific

Re: How to change pdf viewer?

2008-10-22 Thread Bennett Helm
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 4:17 AM, Pierfranco Minsenti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I must confess that even in my case (LyX 1.5.4 on Mac Os X 10.3.9), if I want to change the default PDF viewer I have to put the whole path to the executable. For example, for using the pdf viewer Adobe Reader

Re: install thesis class, Mac

2008-10-22 Thread Mike Martell
Thanks. Here is what terminal said after I typed in your suggested line. Is this the output you wanted me to post? I have no idea what it means. LyX still fails to reconfigure. Once again, thank you so much for your help. Also, I am using LyX 1.5.6 . I looked throught the authesis.cls file

Re: install thesis class, Mac

2008-10-22 Thread Richard Heck
Mike Martell wrote: Thanks. Here is what terminal said after I typed in your suggested line. Is this the output you wanted me to post? I have no idea what it means. LyX still fails to reconfigure. Once again, thank you so much for your help. Also, I am using LyX 1.5.6 . I looked throught

Re: install thesis class, Mac

2008-10-22 Thread Richard Heck
Mike Martell wrote: I looked throught the authesis.cls file and did not find a line that said /LoadClass line. I just had a look, too. Looks like it was hacked from ucthesis, which was a modification of report. So I'd try: Input report.layout and modify anything that needs modifying.

Re: install thesis class, Mac

2008-10-22 Thread Mike Martell
I changed the layout file. to read report instead of article, ran texhash, and still got the reconfigure error. You said: Hmm. That looks like a successful reconfigure to me. Try this again now from inside your LyX user directory. To verify where that is, go to ToolsPreferences, User

make lyx ignore left margin to center wide images

2008-10-22 Thread keeskooskaas
I have a figure placing problem which i cannot find a solution to. I need to include a figure in my text that is very detailed.Therefore I need the picture to be scaled wider then the text (via scaling 120% of textwidth or 95% of page width) This works,... but the image shifts to to RIGHT as soon

Re: install thesis class, Mac

2008-10-22 Thread Richard Heck
Mike Martell wrote: I changed the layout file. to read report instead of article, ran texhash, and still got the reconfigure error. You said: Hmm. That looks like a successful reconfigure to me. Try this again now from inside your LyX user directory. To verify where that is, go to

Re: make lyx ignore left margin to center wide images

2008-10-22 Thread ggszego
There are a few options to solve the issue. I personally prefer the most straight forward ones, which are: A) Rotate the Figure float: Right-click on the Float:Figure inset - Settings - check Rotate sideways Another option is to rotate the actual graphic inside the float: Right- click on the

Re: install thesis class, Mac

2008-10-22 Thread Bennett Helm
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 11:28 AM, Richard Heck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mike Martell wrote: I changed the layout file. to read report instead of article, ran texhash, and still got the reconfigure error. You said: Hmm. That looks like a successful reconfigure to me. Try this again now

Re: install thesis class, Mac

2008-10-22 Thread Mike Martell
I followed your directions. you said (thanks for being so explicit ): That is, in Terminal, type: cd ~/Library/Application\ Support/LyX-1.5/ to get to the user directory. Then type: python /Applications/LyX.app/Contents/Resources/configure.py to reconfigure. (Note that in this line there is

Re: install thesis class, Mac

2008-10-22 Thread Richard Heck
Mike Martell wrote: I followed your directions. you said (thanks for being so explicit ): That is, in Terminal, type: cd ~/Library/Application\ Support/LyX-1.5/ to get to the user directory. Then type: python /Applications/LyX.app/Contents/Resources/configure.py to reconfigure. (Note that

Re: install thesis class, Mac

2008-10-22 Thread Mike Martell
thanks. it looks like my layout file is in the correct place. And kpsewhich authesis.cls recognizes the file. here are the results of my running configure. I don't think it is working. dhcp-226-212:~ mikemartell$ cd ~/Library/Application\ Support/LyX-1.5/ dhcp-226-212:LyX-1.5 mikemartell$

Re: install thesis class, Mac

2008-10-22 Thread Richard Heck
Mike Martell wrote: thanks. it looks like my layout file is in the correct place. And kpsewhich authesis.cls recognizes the file. here are the results of my running configure. I don't think it is working. [snip] checking LaTeX configuration... auto Wrong input layout file with line

Re: install thesis class, Mac

2008-10-22 Thread Mike Martell
Thanks. I changed the layout file as you suggested: #% Do not delete the line below; configure depends on this # #\DeclareLaTeXClass{authesis} # Read the definitions from report.layout Input report.layout and here is the output from terminal. It looks like it worked (?). I open LyX and my

Re: Automagically reduce the spacing between ++ in the word C++

2008-10-22 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 01:51:34PM +0200, Daniel Lohmann wrote: Hi, I am currently in the process of polishing the typesetting of my thesis. One of the things I would like to achieve is to reduce the spacing between ++ in the words C++ and AspectC++, as this looks somewhat strange with

Re: Automagically reduce the spacing between ++ in the word C++

2008-10-22 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 09:22:35PM +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote: I think that I remember to have read about so-called catcodes (or whatever?) in TeX, which apparently make it possible to declare certain characters as active so that further processing is possible whenever the TeX scanner

Once forever on adding a document class in LyX

2008-10-22 Thread Giorgio Zavarise
Dear all, The addition of document classes in LyX is for sure one of the most debated topic. I also have had the problem in the past, and with evolving LyX (on OSX) the way to solve has become more and more easy. Just as an example, I have installed svmono from springer in this easy way

Re: Bringing the footer higher...

2008-10-22 Thread M-L
On Wed, 22 Oct 2008, Helge Hafting engaged keyboard and shared this with us all: large snip --} The tawny frogmouth graphic sits a bit high as you can see in the attached --} pic. Not a problem, just something I haven't as yet worked out how to fix. I --} don't like bothering the list. --}

figure caption gives errors when exporting as PDF

2008-10-22 Thread Jon Bendtsen
Hi I try to include a .eps in my lyx document. It shows fine, except that i can not get a caption :-( There appears to be 5 errors Undefined control sequence extra \else Undefined control sequence You cant you \relax after \advance extra \fi How do people get graphics with captions? and

Re: install thesis class, Mac

2008-10-22 Thread rgheck
Mike Martell wrote: Thanks. I changed the layout file as you suggested: #% Do not delete the line below; configure depends on this # #\DeclareLaTeXClass{authesis} # Read the definitions from report.layout Input report.layout and here is the output from terminal. It looks like it worked (?).

Re: Automagically reduce the spacing between ++ in the word C++

2008-10-22 Thread rgheck
Andre Poenitz wrote: On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 09:22:35PM +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote: I think that I remember to have read about so-called catcodes (or whatever?) in TeX, which apparently make it possible to declare certain characters as active so that further processing is possible

Re: figure caption gives errors when exporting as PDF

2008-10-22 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Jon Bendtsen schrieb: I try to include a .eps in my lyx document. It shows fine, except that i can not get a caption :-( The LyX UserGuide you find in the Help menu explains how this is done. Look there for the description of floats. regards Uwe

Re: Once forever on adding a document class in LyX

2008-10-22 Thread rgheck
Giorgio Zavarise wrote: Here is my proposal: Even if not tested, and then not included into the LyX distributions, why don't we start to collect them and put somewhere on the web site, may be with a WARNING-UNRELIABLE MATERIAL label? http://wiki.lyx.org/Layouts/Layouts Add yours. I'll send

Re: Automagically reduce the spacing between ++ in the word C++

2008-10-22 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 05:44:58PM -0400, rgheck wrote: Andre Poenitz wrote: On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 09:22:35PM +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote: I think that I remember to have read about so-called catcodes (or whatever?) in TeX, which apparently make it possible to declare certain

Re: install thesis class, Mac

2008-10-22 Thread Mike Martell
I deleted textclass.lst from username/ (was this the correct location?) I placed the layout file you mailed me in username/Library/Application Support/LyX-1.5/layouts/ When i open LyX, select new - go to documents, settings, class I can select authesis! It looks like I am set! (right?!) You

Re: install thesis class, Mac

2008-10-22 Thread Mike Martell
I'm sorry. I may have spoke too soon. Now, when I try to make a sample document, when i try to view pdflatex, I get five latex errors. all of them say undefined control sequence. do you know why i would get this? On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 6:04 PM, Mike Martell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I

Re: Installing a new class on Lyx

2008-10-22 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Uwe Stöhr schrieb: When you give me some days, I can also create a layout file as achemso would be of interest for other LyX users too. Here it is: http://wiki.lyx.org/Layouts/Achemso Please test it out. When it works correctly for you. I'll polish it it up to be included to LyX 1.6.1.

LyX like LaTeXiT?

2008-10-22 Thread Giorgio Zavarise
Is there any possibility to use LyX just as a tool to generate equations to be included in Keynote? I am using LaTeXiT for this scope, but there you have to type the LaTeX commands (and I am using LyX just to avoid it). Best regards Giorgio Zavarise

Re: install thesis class, Mac

2008-10-22 Thread rgheck
Mike Martell wrote: I'm sorry. I may have spoke too soon. Now, when I try to make a sample document, when i try to view pdflatex, I get five latex errors. all of them say undefined control sequence. do you know why i would get this? Apparently, the \degreeyear and so forth have to come

Re: Automagically reduce the spacing between ++ in the word C++

2008-10-22 Thread rgheck
Andre Poenitz wrote: Since I started to waste the evening with TeX, the final version: \def\plus{+} \def\gobble#1{} \catcode`\+=\active \def\checknextchar{% \ifx\nextchar+% \raisebox{0.6ex}{\tiny\plus\kern-.3ex\plus}% \let\next\gobble% \else%

Re: install thesis class, Mac

2008-10-22 Thread rgheck
rgheck wrote: Mike Martell wrote: I'm sorry. I may have spoke too soon. Now, when I try to make a sample document, when i try to view pdflatex, I get five latex errors. all of them say undefined control sequence. do you know why i would get this? Apparently, the \degreeyear and so forth

Re: LyX like LaTeXiT?

2008-10-22 Thread Stephen Buonopane
On Oct 22, 2008, at 8:09 PM, Giorgio Zavarise wrote: Is there any possibility to use LyX just as a tool to generate equations to be included in Keynote? I am using LaTeXiT for this scope, but there you have to type the LaTeX commands (and I am using LyX just to avoid it). You can copy

Re: Installing a new class on Lyx

2008-10-22 Thread Nikos Alexandris
On Thu, 2008-10-23 at 02:02 +0200, Uwe Stöhr wrote: Uwe Stöhr schrieb: When you give me some days, I can also create a layout file as achemso would be of interest for other LyX users too. Here it is: http://wiki.lyx.org/Layouts/Achemso Please test it out. When it works correctly for

Re: Installing a new class on Lyx

2008-10-22 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Nikos Alexandris schrieb: I copied the layout file under /usr/share/lyx/layouts and executed Reconfigure. I can't see the new class. Any hints? It is the document class article (ACS). Just open the example file I linked on the Wiki-page. When you don't get errors, everything is fine.

Re: Installing a new class on Lyx

2008-10-22 Thread Nikos Alexandris
On Thu, 2008-10-23 at 02:47 +0200, Uwe Stöhr wrote: Nikos Alexandris schrieb: I copied the layout file under /usr/share/lyx/layouts and executed Reconfigure. I can't see the new class. Any hints? It is the document class article (ACS). Just open the example file I linked on the

Re: Installing a new class on Lyx

2008-10-22 Thread Nikos Alexandris
On Thu, 2008-10-23 at 02:50 +0200, Nikos Alexandris wrote: I don't see any ACS class Well, I see it but it's marked as Unavailable to be precise.

Re: Installing a new class on Lyx

2008-10-22 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Nikos Alexandris schrieb: I copied the layout file under /usr/share/lyx/layouts and executed Reconfigure. I can't see the new class. Any hints? You will see in the console when LyX is reconfigured, if LyX could find the LaTeX-class achemso. I guess that you haven't correctly installed the

Re: Installing a new class on Lyx

2008-10-22 Thread Nikos Alexandris
On Thu, 2008-10-23 at 03:09 +0200, Uwe Stöhr wrote: Nikos Alexandris schrieb: I copied the layout file under /usr/share/lyx/layouts and executed Reconfigure. I can't see the new class. Any hints? You will see in the console when LyX is reconfigured, if LyX could find the LaTeX-class

Re: Installing a new class on Lyx

2008-10-22 Thread Nikos Alexandris
On Thu, 2008-10-23 at 03:14 +0200, Nikos Alexandris wrote: On Thu, 2008-10-23 at 03:09 +0200, Uwe Stöhr wrote: Nikos Alexandris schrieb: I copied the layout file under /usr/share/lyx/layouts and executed Reconfigure. I can't see the new class. Any hints? You will see in the

Re: Automagically reduce the spacing between ++ in the word C++

2008-10-22 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 23.10.2008, at 00:00, Andre Poenitz wrote: Since I started to waste the evening with TeX, the final version: \def\plus{+} \def\gobble#1{} \catcode`\+=\active \def\checknextchar{% \ifx\nextchar+% \raisebox{0.6ex}{\tiny\plus\kern-.3ex\plus}%

Re: install thesis class, Mac

2008-10-22 Thread Konrad Hofbauer
Mike Martell wrote: #python/library/applications/lyx.app/content/resources/configure.py What did you get? Richard wants to know what is the output of this. Please copy/paste. /Konrad

Re: paragraph indents -- document class book (Polish version by M. W.), MWBK

2008-10-22 Thread Manveru
You do not reply to the list. I am not able to help you, but there is much more people knowing koma-script and latex quite good. W dniu 21 października 2008 17:26 użytkownik Jonathan Kroner [EMAIL PROTECTED] napisał: I agree with you completely. The Koma does paragraph indents the way I would

Re: Mac Cursor and Math Mode problem

2008-10-22 Thread Konrad Hofbauer
Hi Antonio, Antonio Rieser wrote: Two problems. I'm using LyX on the Mac (OS X.3/4.?) Which Mac OS X and which LyX version? for the first time, and after I choose 'Section' and then type, the text on the line I'm typing jumps to the right, but the cursor stays where it is. It drives me

Re: install thesis class, Mac

2008-10-22 Thread Andreas K .
Mike Martell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi: I've been having a lot of trouble installing a new class for LyX with my mac. I am hoping to use LyX to write my doctoral dissertation. I am trying to install the thesis class for my university, authesis.cls. I have followed the directions, I

Re: Frustrated user

2008-10-22 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
On 22/10/2008 08:04, Jonathan Suit wrote: Hello, Hello Jonathan, I'm a new user of LyX. For the first couple of days, everything went well. But now I'm running into trouble. First thing first: this is the documentation development list. I put the correct list in copy. Second: which

Re: How to change pdf viewer?

2008-10-22 Thread Pierfranco Minsenti
Hi, I must confess that even in my case (LyX 1.5.4 on Mac Os X 10.3.9), if I want to change the default PDF viewer I have to put the whole path to the executable. For example, for using the pdf viewer Adobe Reader 7.1.0 for Mac it works only if I use: /Applications/Adobe\ Reader\ 7.1.0/Adobe\

Re: Unicode - IPA-Phonetic characters - Which packages, preambel?

2008-10-22 Thread =??B?SsO8cmdlbiBTcGl0em3DvGxsZXI=?=
Joachim Kreimer-de Fries wrote: BTW (2), I find the document class tufte-layout worth to be transformed into a LyX document class, style or template - for the time being I did not find a way to import the sample-handout into Lyx. Look here: http://wiki.lyx.org/Layouts/Tufte-handout J??rgen

affidavit

2008-10-22 Thread Matthias Coy
Hi, I'm currently writing my thesis using lyx, and now I want to insert a affidavit into my document (which is komascript-report). Does anyone know a good solution for that? Of course, I could use a chapter for that, but it's kind of awkward. Greetings Matthias Coy

Re: How to change pdf viewer?

2008-10-22 Thread muzzle
Hi, On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 4:17 PM, Konrad Hofbauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joachim Kreimer-de Fries wrote [on Mac]: How can one configure LyX to use another pdf viewer when clicking the view pdf (pdf-latex) button? By default, LyX uses the default viewer that is set in the operating

Re: Table of contents dialog problem

2008-10-22 Thread Uwe Stöhr
asm23 schrieb: My environment is Windows XP En. Lyx 1.6RC3. When I click the Table of contents in a lyx file. A Outline dialog will display in the left side. But nothing will show below. This bug has been fixed in the meantime. LyX 1.6.0RC4 i ncluding the fix comes out soon. When you still

Re: Bringing the footer higher...

2008-10-22 Thread Helge Hafting
M-L wrote: [...] As an aside to do with the footer: Setting my bottom margin: Document--Settings=Page Margins--Bottom to 6 Here is my footer preamble [you'll need to insert your own graphic file, in my case it's a .jpg file of a tawny frogmouth] on my footer experimental document:

Automagically reduce the spacing between ++ in the word C++

2008-10-22 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Hi, I am currently in the process of polishing the typesetting of my thesis. One of the things I would like to achieve is to reduce the spacing between ++ in the words C++ and AspectC++, as this looks somewhat strange with the font I am using. This question is somewhat related to the

Re: install thesis class, Mac

2008-10-22 Thread rgheck
Andreas K. wrote: Since it is a thesis class, are you sure that the article class should be used, and not the book class instead? Try the following layout file: #% Do not delete the line below; configure depends on this # \DeclareLaTeXClass[authesis]{book (authesis)} # Input general

Re: How to change pdf viewer?

2008-10-22 Thread Konrad Hofbauer
muzzle wrote: Btw, how do I change the xommand used to produce the preview pdf? The default is set to pdflatex but I have some problem with it and I would like to use dvipdfm. In the View-menu, you should have different PDF() options, one of them being PDF (dvipdfm), same in File-Export.

Re: Automagically reduce the spacing between ++ in the word C++

2008-10-22 Thread Konrad Hofbauer
Daniel Lohmann wrote: Any TeX gurus on this list who might help me? If you don't get any answer here, try in the comp.text.tex newsgroup. /Konrad

Re: install thesis class, Mac

2008-10-22 Thread rgheck
Mike Martell wrote: Thanks again. I took your advice. I located configure.py I opened terminal, typed: # cd /tmp/ then, #python/library/applications/lyx.app/content/resources/configure.py As Konrad said, I want to know what this does. LyX should write a configure.log file for you. You

Re: How to change pdf viewer?

2008-10-22 Thread muzzle
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 1:41 PM, Konrad Hofbauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: muzzle wrote: Btw, how do I change the xommand used to produce the preview pdf? The default is set to pdflatex but I have some problem with it and I would like to use dvipdfm. In the View-menu, you should have

Re: Automagically reduce the spacing between ++ in the word C++

2008-10-22 Thread Charles de Miramon
Daniel Lohmann wrote: Hi, I am currently in the process of polishing the typesetting of my thesis. One of the things I would like to achieve is to reduce the spacing between ++ in the words C++ and AspectC++, as this looks somewhat strange with the font I am using. This question is

Re: How to change pdf viewer?

2008-10-22 Thread Konrad Hofbauer
muzzle wrote: Well, I do have several options in the menu, but I would like to change the default for the toolbar button, is it possible? Not with the GUI, I believe. It should be possible by creating your own *.ui files. Look at what is in /Applications/LyX.app/Contents/Resources/ui/, create

Re: Automagically reduce the spacing between ++ in the word C++

2008-10-22 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 22.10.2008, at 14:12, Charles de Miramon wrote: Daniel Lohmann wrote: [...] occurrences with some ERT box is not an option, as this would cause too much hassle and would not work in external material, such as bibliographic entries. I am looking for a more elegant solution. The easiest way

Bibtex: limit the number of authors for \cite to three

2008-10-22 Thread Oliver Arnold
Hi, I use the style geralpha to layout my bibliographic references. When I create a pdf-file with lyx everything is fine, except the citation style. Now it looks like that: ...some text [NCTLH07]. There are five authors for the cited entry (the first character of every surname is used, plus the

Re: Automagically reduce the spacing between ++ in the word C++

2008-10-22 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 22.10.2008, at 14:07, Konrad Hofbauer wrote: Daniel Lohmann wrote: Any TeX gurus on this list who might help me? If you don't get any answer here, try in the comp.text.tex newsgroup. Thanks Konrad! Daniel, who is hoping nevertheless to find an expert here :-)

lyx 1.5.x under debian

2008-10-22 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
I try to get the latest 1.5 lyx under debian and entered in /etc/apt/sources.list # Testing deb http://download.tuxfamily.org/emiscabpo/lyx15-bpo/ but synaptic does not like this line. I also tried to update texlive et Co., but the latest version is 2005, which seems to me a bit antique. It

Re: install thesis class, Mac

2008-10-22 Thread Bennett Helm
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 8:10 AM, rgheck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mike Martell wrote: Thanks again. I took your advice. I located configure.py I opened terminal, typed: # cd /tmp/ then, #python/library/applications/lyx.app/content/resources/configure.py Just a few mostly Mac specific

Re: How to change pdf viewer?

2008-10-22 Thread Bennett Helm
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 4:17 AM, Pierfranco Minsenti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I must confess that even in my case (LyX 1.5.4 on Mac Os X 10.3.9), if I want to change the default PDF viewer I have to put the whole path to the executable. For example, for using the pdf viewer Adobe Reader

Re: install thesis class, Mac

2008-10-22 Thread Mike Martell
Thanks. Here is what terminal said after I typed in your suggested line. Is this the output you wanted me to post? I have no idea what it means. LyX still fails to reconfigure. Once again, thank you so much for your help. Also, I am using LyX 1.5.6 . I looked throught the authesis.cls file

Re: install thesis class, Mac

2008-10-22 Thread Richard Heck
Mike Martell wrote: Thanks. Here is what terminal said after I typed in your suggested line. Is this the output you wanted me to post? I have no idea what it means. LyX still fails to reconfigure. Once again, thank you so much for your help. Also, I am using LyX 1.5.6 . I looked throught

Re: install thesis class, Mac

2008-10-22 Thread Richard Heck
Mike Martell wrote: I looked throught the authesis.cls file and did not find a line that said /LoadClass line. I just had a look, too. Looks like it was hacked from ucthesis, which was a modification of report. So I'd try: Input report.layout and modify anything that needs modifying.

Re: install thesis class, Mac

2008-10-22 Thread Mike Martell
I changed the layout file. to read report instead of article, ran texhash, and still got the reconfigure error. You said: Hmm. That looks like a successful reconfigure to me. Try this again now from inside your LyX user directory. To verify where that is, go to ToolsPreferences, User

make lyx ignore left margin to center wide images

2008-10-22 Thread keeskooskaas
I have a figure placing problem which i cannot find a solution to. I need to include a figure in my text that is very detailed.Therefore I need the picture to be scaled wider then the text (via scaling 120% of textwidth or 95% of page width) This works,... but the image shifts to to RIGHT as soon

Re: install thesis class, Mac

2008-10-22 Thread Richard Heck
Mike Martell wrote: I changed the layout file. to read report instead of article, ran texhash, and still got the reconfigure error. You said: Hmm. That looks like a successful reconfigure to me. Try this again now from inside your LyX user directory. To verify where that is, go to

Re: make lyx ignore left margin to center wide images

2008-10-22 Thread ggszego
There are a few options to solve the issue. I personally prefer the most straight forward ones, which are: A) Rotate the Figure float: Right-click on the Float:Figure inset - Settings - check Rotate sideways Another option is to rotate the actual graphic inside the float: Right- click on the

Re: install thesis class, Mac

2008-10-22 Thread Bennett Helm
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 11:28 AM, Richard Heck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mike Martell wrote: I changed the layout file. to read report instead of article, ran texhash, and still got the reconfigure error. You said: Hmm. That looks like a successful reconfigure to me. Try this again now

Re: install thesis class, Mac

2008-10-22 Thread Mike Martell
I followed your directions. you said (thanks for being so explicit ): That is, in Terminal, type: cd ~/Library/Application\ Support/LyX-1.5/ to get to the user directory. Then type: python /Applications/LyX.app/Contents/Resources/configure.py to reconfigure. (Note that in this line there is

Re: install thesis class, Mac

2008-10-22 Thread Richard Heck
Mike Martell wrote: I followed your directions. you said (thanks for being so explicit ): That is, in Terminal, type: cd ~/Library/Application\ Support/LyX-1.5/ to get to the user directory. Then type: python /Applications/LyX.app/Contents/Resources/configure.py to reconfigure. (Note that

Re: install thesis class, Mac

2008-10-22 Thread Mike Martell
thanks. it looks like my layout file is in the correct place. And kpsewhich authesis.cls recognizes the file. here are the results of my running configure. I don't think it is working. dhcp-226-212:~ mikemartell$ cd ~/Library/Application\ Support/LyX-1.5/ dhcp-226-212:LyX-1.5 mikemartell$

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