Re: Installing biblatex-dw-style (Wassenhoven) on OSX

2009-02-13 Thread jezZiFeR
Hello Dominik, hello listmembers I do still have the problem, that I can´t use biblatex-dw. That´s why I add a minimal lyx-file and I hope, someone could help. In the preamble I activated you biblatex-dw, so that now compiling does not work. but I also left the other biblatex-line, so that

Re: tables go out of the page

2009-02-13 Thread James C. Sutherland
On Feb 13, 2009, at 12:58 AM, Sindhu Sundar wrote: Hi! Am doing by final year project, we are required to submit erd diagrams and stuff. In lyx when I create tables, some of the go out of the page...please see http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/394046/Narration.pdf how do i make the tables come

elsevier natbib author-year problem

2009-02-13 Thread Roberto Carluccio
Hello lyx-users, I'm trying to use the elsevier-harv bibtex style for the preparation of in a elsevier journal article. The problem: I cannot have a reference style compliant to what requested by the journal IN THE TEXT instead of having citations like (author, year), I get things

page numbering

2009-02-13 Thread Sengottuvelavan t.p.
Hi all, I am preparing project report ...i want to number abstract and acknowledgment, acronyms, etc... in roman and normal numbers (arabic) for chapters ...How to do that From other threads i came to know abt \frontmatter \mainmatter \backmatter .. but i am not using koma-script..normal

Re: Installing biblatex-dw-style (Wassenhoven) on OSX

2009-02-13 Thread Dominik Waßenhoven
jezZiFeR wrote: Hello Dominik, hello listmembers I do still have the problem, that I can´t use biblatex-dw. That´s why I add a minimal lyx-file and I hope, someone could help. In the preamble I activated you biblatex-dw, so that now compiling does not work. but I also left the other

Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?

2009-02-13 Thread Helge Hafting
A B wrote: What is needed is the ability to let LyX users interact with other people. With good converters that enable LyX users to take a X-file, open, edit, and send back a X-file, (where X = word or html or rtf or openoffice or xml or even MP3 (with lillypond?) ) you can work with LyX in

Centring printing

2009-02-13 Thread Doug Laidlaw
Hi. I am putting together a family history. My publisher and I both like B5 size pages, but B5 paper is not available in small quantities to practise on. I find that if I write at system default (A4) then reduce it to B5 or A5, only the printing is reduced. I have a small printed area on A4

appendix tables with endfloat

2009-02-13 Thread Thomas DiPrete
Hi, I'm writing a paper that requires tables be placed at the end, and I do that using the endfloat package. My problem is that I also want to include a couple of tables labeled as Table A.1 and Table A. 2. I've tried creating an appendix at the end of the paper with \appendix followed

Re: How to implement batch convertion on equations style.

2009-02-13 Thread Richard Heck
Laser Yuan wrote: I have attached the sample file bellow. I have put many equations in arrays since I want to get multiline equation with single label and align them to the left. But it turned out that elements in the array are not in display style. Finally, I found using aligned AMS environment

Re: Centring printing

2009-02-13 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Doug Laidlaw wrote: Hi. I am putting together a family history. My publisher and I both like B5 size pages, but B5 paper is not available in small quantities to practise on. I find that if I write at system default (A4) then reduce it to B5 or A5, only the printing is reduced. I have a

Re: Centring printing

2009-02-13 Thread Konrad Hofbauer
Paul A. Rubin wrote: Why not set the paper to A4 and then set the margins to produce the same text area (centered on the A4 paper) that you would have with B5? (Assuming I'm understanding this correctly.) Or set up your toolchain to create the final B5 format (which might not be trivial -

exporting equations to openoffice/word?

2009-02-13 Thread Micha Feigin
I tried using export to open document today to try and convert a document to a format that I can produce a powerpoint presentation from it and it went mostly ok (formatting wasn't really good but I need the wording, not the formatting). The problem is that equations came out terrible and that is

Re: tables go out of the page

2009-02-13 Thread Yago
To reduce the font size is another solution - Original Message - From: James C. Sutherland james.sutherl...@utah.edu To: LyX User lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Friday, February 13, 2009 3:15 PM Subject: Re: tables go out of the page On Feb 13, 2009, at 12:58 AM, Sindhu Sundar

Re: Centring printing

2009-02-13 Thread Stefano Franchi
On Friday 13 February 2009 09:45:55 Doug Laidlaw wrote: Hi. I am putting together a family history. My publisher and I both like B5 size pages, but B5 paper is not available in small quantities to practise on. I find that if I write at system default (A4) then reduce it to B5 or A5, only

Re: exporting equations to openoffice/word?

2009-02-13 Thread Konrad Hofbauer
Micha Feigin wrote: The problem is that equations came out terrible and that is the main part (words I can copy from the pdf). I think that lyx uses tex4ht for that. Is there a better way to do this? Can you insert the equations as graphics? At least on Mac, you can select an area in the

discussion in lyx, or lyx for wikis

2009-02-13 Thread David Romano
I'm teaching a math class where the students use lyx to write down their ideas and proofs, and it would be nice to have a way to use lyx to post to a discussion or write in a wiki. Has anybody had any success in doing something along these lines? Do people have suggestions about

Re: page numbering

2009-02-13 Thread Dave Hewitt
I am preparing project report ...i want to number abstract and acknowledgment, acronyms, etc... in roman and normal numbers (arabic) for chapters ...How to do that From other threads i came to know abt \frontmatter \mainmatter \backmatter .. but i am not using koma-script..normal

Literature references end in a question mark some of the time.

2009-02-13 Thread Niko Schwarz
Ok, one strange thing that has happened to me a little bit too often lately was that when quoting some literature, instead of a reference like [1] (using natbib), i only get a question mark, like [? ]. This is really strange and I don't know why it happens. Deleting the reference and recreating it

Search and replace in equations

2009-02-13 Thread Anders Host-Madsen
Is there any way to search and replace in equations in LyX? Say I want to replace x with y in all my equations. Or \mathbf with \mathsf. If not, is there any plans to implement this? One of the advantages of using Latex is that it's plain text, so it's possible to search and replace in equations.

Re: page numbering

2009-02-13 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Sengottuvelavan t.p. schrieb: I am preparing project report ...i want to number abstract and acknowledgment, acronyms, etc... in roman and normal numbers (arabic) for chapters ...How to do that From other threads i came to know abt \frontmatter \mainmatter \backmatter .. but i am not

Re: tables go out of the page

2009-02-13 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Sindhu Sundar schrieb: how do i make the tables come within the page margin? please help. thanks :) Another user already replied. In case you want to have more infos about line breaking in tables or about rotating things, have a look at teh EmbeddedObjects manual that you find in LyX's Help

Re: discussion in lyx, or lyx for wikis

2009-02-13 Thread Uwe Stöhr
David Romano schrieb: I'm teaching a math class where the students use lyx to write down their ideas and proofs, and it would be nice to have a way to use lyx to post to a discussion or write in a wiki. This will be hard, because every Wiki has its own syntax. But for MediaWiki, the engine

Re: Literature references end in a question mark some of the time.

2009-02-13 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Niko Schwarz schrieb: Ok, one strange thing that has happened to me a little bit too often lately was that when quoting some literature, instead of a reference like [1] (using natbib), i only get a question mark, like [? ]. This happens when BibTeX is not able to load the citation from your

Re: discussion in lyx, or lyx for wikis

2009-02-13 Thread Nikos Alexandris
On Sat, 2009-02-14 at 00:20 +0100, Uwe Stöhr wrote: David Romano schrieb: I'm teaching a math class where the students use lyx to write down their ideas and proofs, and it would be nice to have a way to use lyx to post to a discussion or write in a wiki. This will be hard, because

Re: Search and replace in equations

2009-02-13 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Anders Host-Madsen schrieb: Is there any way to search and replace in equations in LyX? Say I want to replace x with y in all my equations. Or \mathbf with \mathsf. This is currently only possible by opening a LyX file with a text editor and then use find and replace. If not, is there any

Re: discussion in lyx, or lyx for wikis

2009-02-13 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Nikos Alexandris schrieb: Apologies for my ignorance and sort of off-topic question: is there any way to use LyX's documents (after some export) with the Plone CMS [1]? It seems not: http://plone.org/documentation/phc_search?SearchableText=LaTeXSearch=Search Any other CMS that uses LaTeX?

Re: discussion in lyx, or lyx for wikis

2009-02-13 Thread Nikos Alexandris
On Sat, 2009-02-14 at 00:42 +0100, Uwe Stöhr wrote: Nikos Alexandris schrieb: Apologies for my ignorance and sort of off-topic question: is there any way to use LyX's documents (after some export) with the Plone CMS [1]? It seems not:

Re: discussion in lyx, or lyx for wikis

2009-02-13 Thread Typhoon
On Sat, 14 Feb 2009 00:52:07 +0100 Nikos Alexandris nikos.alexand...@felis.uni-freiburg.de wrote: On Sat, 2009-02-14 at 00:42 +0100, Uwe Stöhr wrote: Nikos Alexandris schrieb: Apologies for my ignorance and sort of off-topic question: is there any way to use LyX's documents (after

Re: Search and replace in equations

2009-02-13 Thread Anders Host-Madsen
Uwe Stöhr uwesto...@... writes: This is currently only possible by opening a LyX file with a text editor and then use find and replace. Thanks, I didn't think about the fact that LyX files are text files. That seems a better solution than exporting to Latex and then re-importing to LyX. It

Re: elsevier natbib author-year problem

2009-02-13 Thread Anders Host-Madsen
Did you specify the elsart-harv.bst in the bibtex insert (as style file)? Otherwise, that would seem an obvious problem.

Re: Installing biblatex-dw-style (Wassenhoven) on OSX

2009-02-13 Thread jezZiFeR
Hello Dominik, hello listmembers I do still have the problem, that I can´t use biblatex-dw. That´s why I add a minimal lyx-file and I hope, someone could help. In the preamble I activated you biblatex-dw, so that now compiling does not work. but I also left the other biblatex-line, so that

Re: tables go out of the page

2009-02-13 Thread James C. Sutherland
On Feb 13, 2009, at 12:58 AM, Sindhu Sundar wrote: Hi! Am doing by final year project, we are required to submit erd diagrams and stuff. In lyx when I create tables, some of the go out of the page...please see http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/394046/Narration.pdf how do i make the tables come

elsevier natbib author-year problem

2009-02-13 Thread Roberto Carluccio
Hello lyx-users, I'm trying to use the elsevier-harv bibtex style for the preparation of in a elsevier journal article. The problem: I cannot have a reference style compliant to what requested by the journal IN THE TEXT instead of having citations like (author, year), I get things

page numbering

2009-02-13 Thread Sengottuvelavan t.p.
Hi all, I am preparing project report ...i want to number abstract and acknowledgment, acronyms, etc... in roman and normal numbers (arabic) for chapters ...How to do that From other threads i came to know abt \frontmatter \mainmatter \backmatter .. but i am not using koma-script..normal

Re: Installing biblatex-dw-style (Wassenhoven) on OSX

2009-02-13 Thread Dominik Waßenhoven
jezZiFeR wrote: Hello Dominik, hello listmembers I do still have the problem, that I can´t use biblatex-dw. That´s why I add a minimal lyx-file and I hope, someone could help. In the preamble I activated you biblatex-dw, so that now compiling does not work. but I also left the other

Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?

2009-02-13 Thread Helge Hafting
A B wrote: What is needed is the ability to let LyX users interact with other people. With good converters that enable LyX users to take a X-file, open, edit, and send back a X-file, (where X = word or html or rtf or openoffice or xml or even MP3 (with lillypond?) ) you can work with LyX in

Centring printing

2009-02-13 Thread Doug Laidlaw
Hi. I am putting together a family history. My publisher and I both like B5 size pages, but B5 paper is not available in small quantities to practise on. I find that if I write at system default (A4) then reduce it to B5 or A5, only the printing is reduced. I have a small printed area on A4

appendix tables with endfloat

2009-02-13 Thread Thomas DiPrete
Hi, I'm writing a paper that requires tables be placed at the end, and I do that using the endfloat package. My problem is that I also want to include a couple of tables labeled as Table A.1 and Table A. 2. I've tried creating an appendix at the end of the paper with \appendix followed

Re: How to implement batch convertion on equations style.

2009-02-13 Thread Richard Heck
Laser Yuan wrote: I have attached the sample file bellow. I have put many equations in arrays since I want to get multiline equation with single label and align them to the left. But it turned out that elements in the array are not in display style. Finally, I found using aligned AMS environment

Re: Centring printing

2009-02-13 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Doug Laidlaw wrote: Hi. I am putting together a family history. My publisher and I both like B5 size pages, but B5 paper is not available in small quantities to practise on. I find that if I write at system default (A4) then reduce it to B5 or A5, only the printing is reduced. I have a

Re: Centring printing

2009-02-13 Thread Konrad Hofbauer
Paul A. Rubin wrote: Why not set the paper to A4 and then set the margins to produce the same text area (centered on the A4 paper) that you would have with B5? (Assuming I'm understanding this correctly.) Or set up your toolchain to create the final B5 format (which might not be trivial -

exporting equations to openoffice/word?

2009-02-13 Thread Micha Feigin
I tried using export to open document today to try and convert a document to a format that I can produce a powerpoint presentation from it and it went mostly ok (formatting wasn't really good but I need the wording, not the formatting). The problem is that equations came out terrible and that is

Re: tables go out of the page

2009-02-13 Thread Yago
To reduce the font size is another solution - Original Message - From: James C. Sutherland james.sutherl...@utah.edu To: LyX User lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Friday, February 13, 2009 3:15 PM Subject: Re: tables go out of the page On Feb 13, 2009, at 12:58 AM, Sindhu Sundar

Re: Centring printing

2009-02-13 Thread Stefano Franchi
On Friday 13 February 2009 09:45:55 Doug Laidlaw wrote: Hi. I am putting together a family history. My publisher and I both like B5 size pages, but B5 paper is not available in small quantities to practise on. I find that if I write at system default (A4) then reduce it to B5 or A5, only

Re: exporting equations to openoffice/word?

2009-02-13 Thread Konrad Hofbauer
Micha Feigin wrote: The problem is that equations came out terrible and that is the main part (words I can copy from the pdf). I think that lyx uses tex4ht for that. Is there a better way to do this? Can you insert the equations as graphics? At least on Mac, you can select an area in the

discussion in lyx, or lyx for wikis

2009-02-13 Thread David Romano
I'm teaching a math class where the students use lyx to write down their ideas and proofs, and it would be nice to have a way to use lyx to post to a discussion or write in a wiki. Has anybody had any success in doing something along these lines? Do people have suggestions about

Re: page numbering

2009-02-13 Thread Dave Hewitt
I am preparing project report ...i want to number abstract and acknowledgment, acronyms, etc... in roman and normal numbers (arabic) for chapters ...How to do that From other threads i came to know abt \frontmatter \mainmatter \backmatter .. but i am not using koma-script..normal

Literature references end in a question mark some of the time.

2009-02-13 Thread Niko Schwarz
Ok, one strange thing that has happened to me a little bit too often lately was that when quoting some literature, instead of a reference like [1] (using natbib), i only get a question mark, like [? ]. This is really strange and I don't know why it happens. Deleting the reference and recreating it

Search and replace in equations

2009-02-13 Thread Anders Host-Madsen
Is there any way to search and replace in equations in LyX? Say I want to replace x with y in all my equations. Or \mathbf with \mathsf. If not, is there any plans to implement this? One of the advantages of using Latex is that it's plain text, so it's possible to search and replace in equations.

Re: page numbering

2009-02-13 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Sengottuvelavan t.p. schrieb: I am preparing project report ...i want to number abstract and acknowledgment, acronyms, etc... in roman and normal numbers (arabic) for chapters ...How to do that From other threads i came to know abt \frontmatter \mainmatter \backmatter .. but i am not

Re: tables go out of the page

2009-02-13 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Sindhu Sundar schrieb: how do i make the tables come within the page margin? please help. thanks :) Another user already replied. In case you want to have more infos about line breaking in tables or about rotating things, have a look at teh EmbeddedObjects manual that you find in LyX's Help

Re: discussion in lyx, or lyx for wikis

2009-02-13 Thread Uwe Stöhr
David Romano schrieb: I'm teaching a math class where the students use lyx to write down their ideas and proofs, and it would be nice to have a way to use lyx to post to a discussion or write in a wiki. This will be hard, because every Wiki has its own syntax. But for MediaWiki, the engine

Re: Literature references end in a question mark some of the time.

2009-02-13 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Niko Schwarz schrieb: Ok, one strange thing that has happened to me a little bit too often lately was that when quoting some literature, instead of a reference like [1] (using natbib), i only get a question mark, like [? ]. This happens when BibTeX is not able to load the citation from your

Re: discussion in lyx, or lyx for wikis

2009-02-13 Thread Nikos Alexandris
On Sat, 2009-02-14 at 00:20 +0100, Uwe Stöhr wrote: David Romano schrieb: I'm teaching a math class where the students use lyx to write down their ideas and proofs, and it would be nice to have a way to use lyx to post to a discussion or write in a wiki. This will be hard, because

Re: Search and replace in equations

2009-02-13 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Anders Host-Madsen schrieb: Is there any way to search and replace in equations in LyX? Say I want to replace x with y in all my equations. Or \mathbf with \mathsf. This is currently only possible by opening a LyX file with a text editor and then use find and replace. If not, is there any

Re: discussion in lyx, or lyx for wikis

2009-02-13 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Nikos Alexandris schrieb: Apologies for my ignorance and sort of off-topic question: is there any way to use LyX's documents (after some export) with the Plone CMS [1]? It seems not: http://plone.org/documentation/phc_search?SearchableText=LaTeXSearch=Search Any other CMS that uses LaTeX?

Re: discussion in lyx, or lyx for wikis

2009-02-13 Thread Nikos Alexandris
On Sat, 2009-02-14 at 00:42 +0100, Uwe Stöhr wrote: Nikos Alexandris schrieb: Apologies for my ignorance and sort of off-topic question: is there any way to use LyX's documents (after some export) with the Plone CMS [1]? It seems not:

Re: discussion in lyx, or lyx for wikis

2009-02-13 Thread Typhoon
On Sat, 14 Feb 2009 00:52:07 +0100 Nikos Alexandris nikos.alexand...@felis.uni-freiburg.de wrote: On Sat, 2009-02-14 at 00:42 +0100, Uwe Stöhr wrote: Nikos Alexandris schrieb: Apologies for my ignorance and sort of off-topic question: is there any way to use LyX's documents (after

Re: Search and replace in equations

2009-02-13 Thread Anders Host-Madsen
Uwe Stöhr uwesto...@... writes: This is currently only possible by opening a LyX file with a text editor and then use find and replace. Thanks, I didn't think about the fact that LyX files are text files. That seems a better solution than exporting to Latex and then re-importing to LyX. It

Re: elsevier natbib author-year problem

2009-02-13 Thread Anders Host-Madsen
Did you specify the elsart-harv.bst in the bibtex insert (as style file)? Otherwise, that would seem an obvious problem.

Re: Installing biblatex-dw-style (Wassenhoven) on OSX

2009-02-13 Thread jezZiFeR
Hello Dominik, hello listmembers I do still have the problem, that I can´t use biblatex-dw. That´s why I add a minimal lyx-file and I hope, someone could help. In the preamble I activated you biblatex-dw, so that now compiling does not work. but I also left the other biblatex-line, so that

Re: tables go out of the page

2009-02-13 Thread James C. Sutherland
On Feb 13, 2009, at 12:58 AM, Sindhu Sundar wrote: Hi! Am doing by final year project, we are required to submit erd diagrams and stuff. In lyx when I create tables, some of the go out of the page...please see http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/394046/Narration.pdf how do i make the tables come

elsevier natbib author-year problem

2009-02-13 Thread Roberto Carluccio
Hello lyx-users, I'm trying to use the elsevier-harv bibtex style for the preparation of in a elsevier journal article. The problem: I cannot have a reference style compliant to what requested by the journal IN THE TEXT instead of having citations like (author, year), I get things

page numbering

2009-02-13 Thread Sengottuvelavan t.p.
Hi all, I am preparing project report ...i want to number abstract and acknowledgment, acronyms, etc... in roman and normal numbers (arabic) for chapters ...How to do that >From other threads i came to know abt \frontmatter \mainmatter \backmatter .. but i am not using koma-script..normal

Re: Installing biblatex-dw-style (Wassenhoven) on OSX

2009-02-13 Thread Dominik Waßenhoven
jezZiFeR wrote: > Hello Dominik, hello listmembers > > I do still have the problem, that I can´t use biblatex-dw. That´s why > I add a minimal lyx-file and I hope, someone could help. In the > preamble I activated you biblatex-dw, so that now compiling does not > work. but I also left the

Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?

2009-02-13 Thread Helge Hafting
A B wrote: What is needed is the ability to let LyX users interact with other people. With good converters that enable LyX users to take a X-file, open, edit, and send back a X-file, (where X = word or html or rtf or openoffice or xml or even MP3 (with lillypond?) ) you can work with LyX in

Centring printing

2009-02-13 Thread Doug Laidlaw
Hi. I am putting together a family history. My publisher and I both like B5 size pages, but B5 paper is not available in small quantities to practise on. I find that if I write at system default (A4) then reduce it to B5 or A5, only the printing is reduced. I have a small printed area on A4

appendix tables with endfloat

2009-02-13 Thread Thomas DiPrete
Hi, I'm writing a paper that requires tables be placed at the end, and I do that using the endfloat package. My problem is that I also want to include a couple of tables labeled as Table A.1 and Table A. 2. I've tried creating an appendix at the end of the paper with \appendix followed

Re: How to implement batch convertion on equations style.

2009-02-13 Thread Richard Heck
Laser Yuan wrote: I have attached the sample file bellow. I have put many equations in arrays since I want to get multiline equation with single label and align them to the left. But it turned out that elements in the array are not in display style. Finally, I found using aligned AMS environment

Re: Centring printing

2009-02-13 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Doug Laidlaw wrote: Hi. I am putting together a family history. My publisher and I both like B5 size pages, but B5 paper is not available in small quantities to practise on. I find that if I write at system default (A4) then reduce it to B5 or A5, only the printing is reduced. I have a

Re: Centring printing

2009-02-13 Thread Konrad Hofbauer
Paul A. Rubin wrote: Why not set the paper to A4 and then set the margins to produce the same text area (centered on the A4 paper) that you would have with B5? (Assuming I'm understanding this correctly.) Or set up your toolchain to create the final B5 format (which might not be trivial -

exporting equations to openoffice/word?

2009-02-13 Thread Micha Feigin
I tried using export to open document today to try and convert a document to a format that I can produce a powerpoint presentation from it and it went mostly ok (formatting wasn't really good but I need the wording, not the formatting). The problem is that equations came out terrible and that is

Re: tables go out of the page

2009-02-13 Thread Yago
To reduce the font size is another solution - Original Message - From: "James C. Sutherland" To: "LyX User" Sent: Friday, February 13, 2009 3:15 PM Subject: Re: tables go out of the page On Feb 13, 2009, at 12:58 AM, Sindhu

Re: Centring printing

2009-02-13 Thread Stefano Franchi
On Friday 13 February 2009 09:45:55 Doug Laidlaw wrote: > Hi. I am putting together a family history. My publisher and I both like > B5 size pages, but B5 paper is not available in small quantities to > practise on. > > I find that if I write at system default (A4) then reduce it to B5 or A5, >

Re: exporting equations to openoffice/word?

2009-02-13 Thread Konrad Hofbauer
Micha Feigin wrote: The problem is that equations came out terrible and that is the main part (words I can copy from the pdf). I think that lyx uses tex4ht for that. Is there a better way to do this? Can you insert the equations as graphics? At least on Mac, you can select an area in the

discussion in lyx, or lyx for wikis

2009-02-13 Thread David Romano
I'm teaching a math class where the students use lyx to write down their ideas and proofs, and it would be nice to have a way to use lyx to post to a discussion or write in a wiki. Has anybody had any success in doing something along these lines? Do people have suggestions about

Re: page numbering

2009-02-13 Thread Dave Hewitt
> I am preparing project report ...i want to number abstract and > acknowledgment, acronyms, etc... in roman and normal numbers (arabic) for > chapters ...How to do that > > From other threads i came to know abt \frontmatter \mainmatter \backmatter > .. but i am not using

Literature references end in a question mark some of the time.

2009-02-13 Thread Niko Schwarz
Ok, one strange thing that has happened to me a little bit too often lately was that when quoting some literature, instead of a reference like [1] (using natbib), i only get a question mark, like [? ]. This is really strange and I don't know why it happens. Deleting the reference and recreating it

Search and replace in equations

2009-02-13 Thread Anders Host-Madsen
Is there any way to search and replace in equations in LyX? Say I want to replace x with y in all my equations. Or \mathbf with \mathsf. If not, is there any plans to implement this? One of the advantages of using Latex is that it's plain text, so it's possible to search and replace in equations.

Re: page numbering

2009-02-13 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Sengottuvelavan t.p. schrieb: I am preparing project report ...i want to number abstract and acknowledgment, acronyms, etc... in roman and normal numbers (arabic) for chapters ...How to do that From other threads i came to know abt \frontmatter \mainmatter \backmatter .. but i am not

Re: tables go out of the page

2009-02-13 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Sindhu Sundar schrieb: how do i make the tables come within the page margin? please help. thanks :) Another user already replied. In case you want to have more infos about line breaking in tables or about rotating things, have a look at teh EmbeddedObjects manual that you find in LyX's Help

Re: discussion in lyx, or lyx for wikis

2009-02-13 Thread Uwe Stöhr
David Romano schrieb: I'm teaching a math class where the students use lyx to write down their ideas and proofs, and it would be nice to have a way to use lyx to post to a discussion or write in a wiki. This will be hard, because every Wiki has its own syntax. But for MediaWiki, the engine

Re: Literature references end in a question mark some of the time.

2009-02-13 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Niko Schwarz schrieb: Ok, one strange thing that has happened to me a little bit too often lately was that when quoting some literature, instead of a reference like [1] (using natbib), i only get a question mark, like [? ]. This happens when BibTeX is not able to load the citation from your

Re: discussion in lyx, or lyx for wikis

2009-02-13 Thread Nikos Alexandris
On Sat, 2009-02-14 at 00:20 +0100, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > David Romano schrieb: > > > I'm teaching a math class where the students use lyx to write down their > > ideas and proofs, and it would be nice to have a way to use lyx to post > > to a discussion or write in a wiki. > > This will be hard,

Re: Search and replace in equations

2009-02-13 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Anders Host-Madsen schrieb: Is there any way to search and replace in equations in LyX? Say I want to replace x with y in all my equations. Or \mathbf with \mathsf. This is currently only possible by opening a LyX file with a text editor and then use find and replace. If not, is there any

Re: discussion in lyx, or lyx for wikis

2009-02-13 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Nikos Alexandris schrieb: Apologies for my ignorance and sort of off-topic question: is there any way to use LyX's documents (after some export) with the Plone CMS [1]? It seems not: http://plone.org/documentation/phc_search?SearchableText=LaTeX=Search Any other CMS that uses LaTeX? I

Re: discussion in lyx, or lyx for wikis

2009-02-13 Thread Nikos Alexandris
On Sat, 2009-02-14 at 00:42 +0100, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > Nikos Alexandris schrieb: > > > Apologies for my ignorance and sort of off-topic question: is there any > > way to use LyX's documents (after some export) with the Plone CMS [1]? > > It seems not: >

Re: discussion in lyx, or lyx for wikis

2009-02-13 Thread Typhoon
On Sat, 14 Feb 2009 00:52:07 +0100 Nikos Alexandris wrote: > On Sat, 2009-02-14 at 00:42 +0100, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > > Nikos Alexandris schrieb: > > > > > Apologies for my ignorance and sort of off-topic question: is > > > there any way to use LyX's

Re: Search and replace in equations

2009-02-13 Thread Anders Host-Madsen
Uwe Stöhr writes: > This is currently only possible by opening a LyX file with a > text editor and then use find and replace. Thanks, I didn't think about the fact that LyX files are text files. That seems a better solution than exporting to Latex and then re-importing to LyX. It

Re: elsevier natbib author-year problem

2009-02-13 Thread Anders Host-Madsen
Did you specify the elsart-harv.bst in the bibtex insert (as style file)? Otherwise, that would seem an obvious problem.