Re: Spacing around floats with centered figures - a suggestion

2009-02-23 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Dave Hewitt wrote: So is it true that the float widgets must remain left-aligned in the LyX view in order not to cause problems? No, it's not true. Jürgen

Problem reading (import) Mathcad html file

2009-02-23 Thread Waluyo Adi Siswanto
Dear LyX Users I have a document written in Mathcad. From Mathcad there is a facility to save as *.html file. When I import this *.html using LyX , an message appears An error occurred whilst running java -jar htmltolatex.jar -input 'try.html' -output ( note: try.html is the name of the file)

Exporting to DOC or RTF

2009-02-23 Thread Dotan Cohen
I need to export a document for a MS Office user. I do not see an option to export as DOC or RTF in Lyx 1.6, and PDF will not do because he needs to annotate the document. The best info online that I could find is this tedious document: http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=2755091postcount=2 Is

Re: Problem reading (import) Mathcad html file

2009-02-23 Thread Richard Heck
Waluyo Adi Siswanto wrote: Dear LyX Users I have a document written in Mathcad. From Mathcad there is a facility to save as *.html file. When I import this *.html using LyX , an message appears An error occurred whilst running java -jar htmltolatex.jar -input 'try.html' -output ( note:

Re: How can I get rid the headings out of some pages?

2009-02-23 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Nikos Alexandris schrieb: You can use the ERT command \pagestyle{plain} before the list of figures command. It works :-). But it works for the whole document :D. Because you used \pagestyle and not \thispagestyle wich affects only the current page. To get back to your original definition

About Tables in LyX?

2009-02-23 Thread Hesham Kamel
Hi, Please, I want to know if there is a way to merge two cells in a column under each others? In LyX, you can only merge two cells in a row but not in a column. I am using xls2latex but it does not work for merged cells. Thank you, H

Re: Dimensions of figure wrap float

2009-02-23 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Hubert Christiaen schrieb: I find Lyx a very sophisticated program, but I am deceived by the way it handles figure wrap floats. Without correction, I have between 50 to 100% excess white space below the figure. Can you please post a _small_ example LyX file? (Btw. have you read the section

Re: How can I get rid the headings out of some pages?

2009-02-23 Thread Waluyo Adi Siswanto
I think the easiest way to make it automatically in every transition page is by adding the following command in the preamble. The result is very accurate to get a blank but counted in every transitional page. This is discussed in fancyhdr.pdf (documentation of LaTeX packages fancyhdr) chapter 15.

Re: Problems importing Tex file

2009-02-23 Thread Dotan Cohen
The Fine Manual. It is a common TLA in many mailing lists. OK, and what is a TLA? Three Letter Acronym! I suppose that _that_ is the detail that was not clear to me. I did not know that I need to have LaTeX packages installed in my LaTeX distribution. I'm still not sure what that _means_,

htlatex exported html footnotes

2009-02-23 Thread jf7
In Preferences File Handling Converters LaTeX - HTML I've been successfully using htlatex to export html files. And it works great except for one thing: My original problem was that footnotes were all placed in separately-linked html files. I didn't like that. So I found an

Re: discussion in lyx, or lyx for wikis

2009-02-23 Thread Helge Hafting
David Romano wrote: 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

Re: How can I get rid the headings out of some pages?

2009-02-23 Thread Nikos Alexandris
On Mon, 2009-02-23 at 10:04 +0800, Waluyo Adi Siswanto wrote: I think the easiest way to make it automatically in every transition page is by adding the following command in the preamble. The result is very accurate to get a blank but counted in every transitional page. This is discussed in

conversion of vector images to PDF was: Re: Dimensions of figure wrap float

2009-02-23 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Hubert Christiaen schrieb: I recently discoverd the tips at the end of the math manual. Ther are several things which are not completely wright according to those instrauctions, but it's hard to change it all now. No problem, my annotations are only tips. Typography is only important when

Printing is weird... funny hash lines

2009-02-23 Thread Kenward Vaughan
Sorry, I don't know whether this is LyX or LaTeX. When I print out documents generated by LyX, I see weird marks on the paper not seen in the screen copy. They are horizontal, very small, and seem to mark the heights of (some of) the characters on the page. Those capitals which have it are most

Re: Generating lindex entries

2009-02-23 Thread Helge Hafting
BcBob wrote: I am looking for open source tools to help generating index entries. I know Lyx has an interface to the Latex makeindex utility but I am looking for utilities to generate a list of the words, phrases etc to use in the index. Something as simple as a utility to find all unique words

Re: About Tables in LyX?

2009-02-23 Thread James C. Sutherland
On Feb 23, 2009, at 7:48 AM, Hesham Kamel wrote: Hi, Please, I want to know if there is a way to merge two cells in a column under each others? In LyX, you can only merge two cells in a row but not in a column. I am using xls2latex but it does not work for merged cells. Thank you, H The

Re: Problem reading (import) Mathcad html file

2009-02-23 Thread Waluyo Adi Siswanto
I guess the first question is whether you have htmltolatex correctly installed and whether it will translate simpler HTML files. Richard Yes you are correct, after installing html2latex from my Ubuntu synaptic package manager (I found gnuhtml2latex), it works now. But i still don't know

Re: Howto downgrade LyX 1.6.1 documents to LyX 1.5.5 documents?

2009-02-23 Thread Helge Hafting
Lance Simmons wrote: On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 11:36 AM, Richard Heck rgh...@bobjweil.com wrote: Better yet, upgrade to 1.5.7 (I think that's the number...last 1.5.x anyway), which can read 1.6. docs. The reason the issue about 1.5.5 came up is my switching from Debian unstable to Debian stable

Re: Exporting to DOC or RTF

2009-02-23 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 07:30:51PM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: I need to export a document for a MS Office user. I do not see an option to export as DOC or RTF in Lyx 1.6, and PDF will not do because he needs to annotate the document. The best info online that I could find is this tedious

search and replace within latex-environment

2009-02-23 Thread Leo Gürtler
Dear lyx list, is it possible to search and replace within a latex environments? See example attached to this mail. e.g. I want to change the a in the latex-environment to A. Trying so shows me that I can not do this with searchreplace in Lyx, because the replace-button is not available within

Re: Cross-reference + name of chapter/section

2009-02-23 Thread rgheck
Monthadar Al Jaberi wrote: Hi! Thank you for your replies. I still can't see the name of the section when I make a cross-reference. I have LyX 1.6.1 on Windows 2000 Document class: book I made a label on section 2 in chapter 2. The formats that I have available = result: reference = 2.2

Re: Exporting to DOC or RTF

2009-02-23 Thread Dotan Cohen
I didn't read that URL, but the best way I find is to export to OpenDocument, open it in OpenOffice.org, fix the right-hand border (at least, I always have to), and save it as a Word .doc file. Thanks. I do not seem to have an option to export to ODT. Must I add something? -- Dotan Cohen

Re: English appearing backwards

2009-02-23 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-02-20, Dotan Cohen wrote: ... I have several different keyboard layouts defined. I activate the different keyboard layout and just start typing. The application handles directionality. Many applications have directionality issues, but I've never come across one in Linux that

Re: English appearing backwards

2009-02-23 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-02-20, Dotan Cohen wrote: According to Wikipedia, Lyx has substantial support for bidirectional writing. So the problem is most likely with me, not with Lyx. Not really. It's a problem of both of you. Like the Greek support, bidi support in LaTeX predates the advent of Unicode and

xy-pic oddities

2009-02-23 Thread Pol
While the single arrow in command \xymatrix{A \ar[r] B} is displayed by lyx, three arrow graph in command \xymatrix{ p,a \\ p \ar[r] \ar[ur] \ar[dr] p,n \\ p,e } is undisplayed (yet correctly printed out) Any ideas? Any matrix or array specifications needed in the preamble? thank you

Re: why doesn't \numberwithin{equation}{section} work?

2009-02-23 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-02-21, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Erez Yerushalmi wrote: I've been using \numberwithin{equation}{section} in the preamble for quite some time. Every time I open a new template, it takes me some time until the PDF output doesn't get jammed with a crash. In Document Settings...

Re: listings package problem

2009-02-23 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-02-22, Nikos Alexandris wrote: I guess it's a font-specific issue. Too bad because Bera looks great. Any other recommendation? Kind regards, Nikos Txtt: Set the typewriter font to Default in the GUI and write in the preamble \renewcommand{\ttdefault}{txtt} Günter

Re: Problems importing Tex file

2009-02-23 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-02-23, Uwe Stöhr wrote: Dotan Cohen schrieb: I suppose that _that_ is the detail that was not clear to me. I did not know that I need to have LaTeX packages installed in my LaTeX distribution. I'm still not sure what that _means_, but I have enough keywords to google on! A LaTeX

Re: Removing languages

2009-02-23 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-02-22, Uwe Stöhr wrote: Dotan Cohen schrieb: When I write mixed Hebrew-English documents, I have to select the language for each span of text. There are tens of languages installed, how can I remove the unused languages from the dropdown list? This is not possible. Why not?

Re: missing fonts on ubuntu?

2009-02-23 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-02-20, Travis wrote: First, be aware that though I use lyx interactively to edit the document, I want to be able to generate the PDF and HTML versions from a script. Basically I don't want to have to remember to export twice every time I make an update. #! usb/bin/sh lyx --export

wiki upload password

2009-02-23 Thread Guenter Milde
could someone please mail me (in privat) the password for uploading content to the lyx wiki? (Does this work for approving URLs too?) Thanks, Günter

Re: Problems importing Tex file

2009-02-23 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Dotan Cohen schrieb: What is TFM? Why are you unsure? The Fine Manual. It is a common TLA in many mailing lists. OK, and what is a TLA? http://www.acronymfinder.com/TLA.html Pickup your definition ;-) Abdel.

Re: Exporting to DOC or RTF

2009-02-23 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 05:41:27PM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: Thanks. I do not seem to have an option to export to ODT. Must I add something? I think it's dependent on the version of LyX and LaTeX you have installed. It Just Works for me on the latest Debian stable. I don't know what's

Re: Removing languages

2009-02-23 Thread Nikos Alexandris
On Mon, 2009-02-23 at 07:27 +, Guenter Milde wrote: On 2009-02-22, Uwe Stöhr wrote: Dotan Cohen schrieb: When I write mixed Hebrew-English documents, I have to select the language for each span of text. There are tens of languages installed, how can I remove the unused languages

Re: Problems importing Tex file

2009-02-23 Thread Dotan Cohen
2009/2/23 Guenter Milde mi...@users.berlios.de: On 2009-02-23, Uwe Stöhr wrote: Dotan Cohen schrieb: I suppose that _that_ is the detail that was not clear to me. I did not know that I need to have LaTeX packages installed in my LaTeX distribution. I'm still not sure what that _means_, but I

Re: wiki upload password

2009-02-23 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Mon, 23 Feb 2009, Guenter Milde wrote: could someone please mail me (in privat) the password for uploading content to the lyx wiki? (Does this work for approving URLs too?) I've sent him the passwords off-list. /Christian -- Christian Ridderström Mobile: +46-70

Re: Exporting to DOC or RTF

2009-02-23 Thread Nikos Alexandris
Dotan: Thanks. I do not seem to have an option to export to ODT. Must I add something? Andrew: I think it's dependent on the version of LyX and LaTeX you have installed. It Just Works for me on the latest Debian stable. I don't know what's underpinning other releases (like Ubuntu). I

Re: Exporting to DOC or RTF

2009-02-23 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 05:28:14PM +0100, Nikos Alexandris wrote: You mean you just hit the export to ODT and voila... you open the ODT and see the file you prepared with LyX (even if it needs corrctions concerning appearance/structure etc.) ?? Yep. A -- Andrew Sullivan a...@shinkuro.com

Re: Removing languages

2009-02-23 Thread Dotan Cohen
How about a separate toggle-language button? In most cases, a document switches between at most 2 languages (native language and English, say). ++votes -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת

Re: Exporting to DOC or RTF

2009-02-23 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 06:30:04PM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: Thanks, I am on Lyx 1.6.x on Kubuntu 8.04. I will install tex2ht and see how it goes. I have 1.6.1 on my Mac, and while I have the menu item I have never managed to get the export to work directly. As I say, however, I think it has

Re: why doesn't \numberwithin{equation}{section} work?

2009-02-23 Thread Erez Yerushalmi
Thanks, that is useful! I prefer keeping it organized in the preamble. Erez On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 7:34 AM, Guenter Milde mi...@users.berlios.dewrote: On 2009-02-21, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Erez Yerushalmi wrote: I've been using \numberwithin{equation}{section} in the preamble for

Re: listings package problem

2009-02-23 Thread Manveru
2009/2/22 Nikos Alexandris nikos.alexand...@felis.uni-freiburg.de: [ I am posting a listing-related problem here instead of starting a new thread. ] I now realise how powerful is the listing package. I used some R code and setting the fonts to BeraMono gives a very nice and highlighted code

Re: search and replace within latex-environment

2009-02-23 Thread Richard Heck
Leo Gürtler wrote: Dear lyx list, is it possible to search and replace within a latex environments? See example attached to this mail. e.g. I want to change the a in the latex-environment to A. Trying so shows me that I can not do this with searchreplace in Lyx, because the replace-button is

Re: Exporting to DOC or RTF

2009-02-23 Thread Nikos Alexandris
Nikos: You mean you just hit the export to ODT and voila... you open the ODT and see the file you prepared with LyX (even if it needs corrctions concerning appearance/structure etc.) ?? Andrew: Yep. A I have tex4ht installed under Ubuntu II / 64-bit. But no way to get it working. Do

Re: English appearing backwards

2009-02-23 Thread Dotan Cohen
For LyX (or LaTeX) it is important to know in what language you are writing. Not only the directionality, but also font encoding (while LyX uses Unicode by now, LaTeX does not) and hyphenation depend on this. I see, I did not realize that LaTeX does not support unicode. I suppose that it

Re: Spacing around floats with centered figures - a suggestion

2009-02-23 Thread David Hewitt
So is it true that the float widgets must remain left-aligned in the LyX view in order not to cause problems? No, it's not true. Jürgen So how can we center those widgets without creating a space in the document where they are located (when the float moves in the output)?

Re: Spacing around floats with centered figures - a suggestion

2009-02-23 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
David Hewitt wrote: So how can we center those widgets without creating a space in the document where they are located (when the float moves in the output)? Reading your question again, it appears to me that I misread ot the first time. The float itself should not be aligned, that's correct.

Re: Exporting to DOC or RTF

2009-02-23 Thread Richard Heck
Nikos Alexandris wrote: Nikos: You mean you just hit the export to ODT and voila... you open the ODT and see the file you prepared with LyX (even if it needs corrctions concerning appearance/structure etc.) ?? Andrew: Yep. A I have tex4ht installed under Ubuntu II /

Re: Exporting to DOC or RTF

2009-02-23 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 05:57:38PM +0100, Nikos Alexandris wrote: I have tex4ht installed under Ubuntu II / 64-bit. But no way to get it working. Do you mind sharing you preferences (under File Handling)? I presume you mean Preferences/Converters (which is all I have here). The

Re: Exporting to DOC or RTF

2009-02-23 Thread Nikos Alexandris
On Mon, 2009-02-23 at 12:23 -0500, Richard Heck wrote: Nikos Alexandris wrote: Nikos: You mean you just hit the export to ODT and voila... you open the ODT and see the file you prepared with LyX (even if it needs corrctions concerning appearance/structure etc.) ??

Re: listings package problem

2009-02-23 Thread Nikos Alexandris
On Mon, 2009-02-23 at 08:12 +, Guenter Milde wrote: On 2009-02-22, Nikos Alexandris wrote: I guess it's a font-specific issue. Too bad because Bera looks great. Any other recommendation? Kind regards, Nikos Txtt: Set the typewriter font to Default in the GUI and write in the

Re: Exporting to DOC or RTF

2009-02-23 Thread Nikos Alexandris
On Mon, 2009-02-23 at 12:28 -0500, Andrew Sullivan wrote: On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 05:57:38PM +0100, Nikos Alexandris wrote: I have tex4ht installed under Ubuntu II / 64-bit. But no way to get it working. Do you mind sharing you preferences (under File Handling)? I presume you mean

Re: Exporting to DOC or RTF

2009-02-23 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 06:52:32PM +0100, Nikos Alexandris wrote: Thank you for your time Andrew. Unfortunately it does not work for me. Cheers, Nikos Hrm. I wonder what's different about the environments, then. Maybe someone can suggest to us how to tell whether the same bits are

Caption for Algorithm?

2009-02-23 Thread bigblop
When I insert and algorithm float the text in the caption appears as the title (in the top) of the algorithm. I like having this title but would also like to have a caption. Is it possible to get both the title at the top and a caption in the bottom? -- View this message in context:

Apostrophe vs. Single quotation mark

2009-02-23 Thread mario m
Hi, I am trying to type some PHP code (within a listing command). On a pdflatex output, I get a Single quotation mark when I type an Apostrophe. Where should I look at to fix it? Thanks Regards mario ps (bad cutpaste) http://unicode.org/charts/PDF/U.pdf 0027APOSTROPHE

Re: Exporting to DOC or RTF

2009-02-23 Thread Typhoon
On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 12:59:23 -0500 Andrew Sullivan a...@shinkuro.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 06:52:32PM +0100, Nikos Alexandris wrote: Thank you for your time Andrew. Unfortunately it does not work for me. Cheers, Nikos Hrm. I wonder what's different about the environments,

Re: xy-pic oddities

2009-02-23 Thread Pavel Sanda
Pol wrote: While the single arrow in command \xymatrix{A \ar[r] B} is displayed by lyx, three arrow graph in command \xymatrix{ p,a \\ p \ar[r] \ar[ur] \ar[dr] p,n \\ p,e } is undisplayed (yet correctly printed out) i just tried to put your example into mathed and it works without

Re: Apostrophe vs. Single quotation mark

2009-02-23 Thread Doug Laidlaw
On a keyboard, they are the same character. If the code is HTML within your PHP, perhaps you should be using a ***; symbol. Otherwise, I have never known it to matter. Doug. On Tuesday 24 February 2009 9:23:16 am mario m wrote: Hi, I am trying to type some PHP code (within a listing

Re: Problem reading (import) Mathcad html file

2009-02-23 Thread Waluyo Adi Siswanto
Is there no possibility of exporting the Mathcad files to Tex? or to the syntax of some algebraic package which is close to Tex and could be easily converted? It's not so interesting to have all formulas as PNG pictures in Lyx. Sincerely, Hubert As far as I know i could not see to

Re: Apostrophe vs. Single quotation mark

2009-02-23 Thread Doug Laidlaw
Alternatively to what I just wrote (which is still going through the system): There is a distinction between typewriter characters (what you type) and typographical characters (what you see.) On my US keyboard, I have only one key for both opening and closing quotes. Lyx, OpenOffice and

Re: Caption for Algorithm?

2009-02-23 Thread Uwe Stöhr
bigblop schrieb: When I insert and algorithm float the text in the caption appears as the title (in the top) of the algorithm. I like having this title but would also like to have a caption. Is it possible to get both the title at the top and a caption in the bottom? The thing you call title

Re: search and replace within latex-environment

2009-02-23 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Leo Gürtler schrieb: is it possible to search and replace within a latex environments? Not yet, but in the next major LyX version, see http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX20 For now you can open your LyX file with a text editor and then replace. regards Uwe

Re: Exporting to DOC or RTF

2009-02-23 Thread Waluyo Adi Siswanto
Yes, I have installed the tex4ht package long ago. And never had luck nor for odt export neither for html export. Nikos I am in Ubuntu 8.04, I just know from this forum that LyX can export to OpenDocument, with the help of LaTeX package tex4ht. I then installed text4ht from Synaptic and it

Re: Exporting to DOC or RTF

2009-02-23 Thread Nikos Alexandris
On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 09:10 +0800, Waluyo Adi Siswanto wrote: Yes, I have installed the tex4ht package long ago. And never had luck nor for odt export neither for html export. Nikos I am in Ubuntu 8.04, I just know from this forum that LyX can export to OpenDocument, with the help

Re: Exporting to DOC or RTF

2009-02-23 Thread rgheck
Typhoon wrote: On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 12:59:23 -0500 Andrew Sullivan a...@shinkuro.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 06:52:32PM +0100, Nikos Alexandris wrote: Thank you for your time Andrew. Unfortunately it does not work for me. Cheers, Nikos Hrm. I wonder what's different

Re: Exporting to DOC or RTF

2009-02-23 Thread rgheck
Nikos Alexandris wrote: On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 09:10 +0800, Waluyo Adi Siswanto wrote: Yes, I have installed the tex4ht package long ago. And never had luck nor for odt export neither for html export. Nikos I am in Ubuntu 8.04, I just know from this forum that LyX can export to

How to get a modified Enumerate style?

2009-02-23 Thread Laser Yuan
Hi, I need to write an description for an algorithm in my paper, which includes several steps . Basically the Enumerate style will fit my purpose. Except that I want a sequence like this: Step 1 ... ... Step 2 ... instead of 1. . ... 2. . ... Any

Re: How to get a modified Enumerate style?

2009-02-23 Thread Florian Rubach
Laser Yuan schrieb: Hi, I need to write an description for an algorithm in my paper, which includes several steps . Basically the Enumerate style will fit my purpose. Except that I want a sequence like this: Step 1 ... ... Step 2 ... instead of 1. . ... 2.

Re: Spacing around floats with centered figures - a suggestion

2009-02-23 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Dave Hewitt wrote: So is it true that the float widgets must remain left-aligned in the LyX view in order not to cause problems? No, it's not true. Jürgen

Problem reading (import) Mathcad html file

2009-02-23 Thread Waluyo Adi Siswanto
Dear LyX Users I have a document written in Mathcad. From Mathcad there is a facility to save as *.html file. When I import this *.html using LyX , an message appears An error occurred whilst running java -jar htmltolatex.jar -input 'try.html' -output ( note: try.html is the name of the file)

Exporting to DOC or RTF

2009-02-23 Thread Dotan Cohen
I need to export a document for a MS Office user. I do not see an option to export as DOC or RTF in Lyx 1.6, and PDF will not do because he needs to annotate the document. The best info online that I could find is this tedious document: http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=2755091postcount=2 Is

Re: Problem reading (import) Mathcad html file

2009-02-23 Thread Richard Heck
Waluyo Adi Siswanto wrote: Dear LyX Users I have a document written in Mathcad. From Mathcad there is a facility to save as *.html file. When I import this *.html using LyX , an message appears An error occurred whilst running java -jar htmltolatex.jar -input 'try.html' -output ( note:

Re: How can I get rid the headings out of some pages?

2009-02-23 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Nikos Alexandris schrieb: You can use the ERT command \pagestyle{plain} before the list of figures command. It works :-). But it works for the whole document :D. Because you used \pagestyle and not \thispagestyle wich affects only the current page. To get back to your original definition

About Tables in LyX?

2009-02-23 Thread Hesham Kamel
Hi, Please, I want to know if there is a way to merge two cells in a column under each others? In LyX, you can only merge two cells in a row but not in a column. I am using xls2latex but it does not work for merged cells. Thank you, H

Re: Dimensions of figure wrap float

2009-02-23 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Hubert Christiaen schrieb: I find Lyx a very sophisticated program, but I am deceived by the way it handles figure wrap floats. Without correction, I have between 50 to 100% excess white space below the figure. Can you please post a _small_ example LyX file? (Btw. have you read the section

Re: How can I get rid the headings out of some pages?

2009-02-23 Thread Waluyo Adi Siswanto
I think the easiest way to make it automatically in every transition page is by adding the following command in the preamble. The result is very accurate to get a blank but counted in every transitional page. This is discussed in fancyhdr.pdf (documentation of LaTeX packages fancyhdr) chapter 15.

Re: Problems importing Tex file

2009-02-23 Thread Dotan Cohen
The Fine Manual. It is a common TLA in many mailing lists. OK, and what is a TLA? Three Letter Acronym! I suppose that _that_ is the detail that was not clear to me. I did not know that I need to have LaTeX packages installed in my LaTeX distribution. I'm still not sure what that _means_,

htlatex exported html footnotes

2009-02-23 Thread jf7
In Preferences File Handling Converters LaTeX - HTML I've been successfully using htlatex to export html files. And it works great except for one thing: My original problem was that footnotes were all placed in separately-linked html files. I didn't like that. So I found an

Re: discussion in lyx, or lyx for wikis

2009-02-23 Thread Helge Hafting
David Romano wrote: 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

Re: How can I get rid the headings out of some pages?

2009-02-23 Thread Nikos Alexandris
On Mon, 2009-02-23 at 10:04 +0800, Waluyo Adi Siswanto wrote: I think the easiest way to make it automatically in every transition page is by adding the following command in the preamble. The result is very accurate to get a blank but counted in every transitional page. This is discussed in

conversion of vector images to PDF was: Re: Dimensions of figure wrap float

2009-02-23 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Hubert Christiaen schrieb: I recently discoverd the tips at the end of the math manual. Ther are several things which are not completely wright according to those instrauctions, but it's hard to change it all now. No problem, my annotations are only tips. Typography is only important when

Printing is weird... funny hash lines

2009-02-23 Thread Kenward Vaughan
Sorry, I don't know whether this is LyX or LaTeX. When I print out documents generated by LyX, I see weird marks on the paper not seen in the screen copy. They are horizontal, very small, and seem to mark the heights of (some of) the characters on the page. Those capitals which have it are most

Re: Generating lindex entries

2009-02-23 Thread Helge Hafting
BcBob wrote: I am looking for open source tools to help generating index entries. I know Lyx has an interface to the Latex makeindex utility but I am looking for utilities to generate a list of the words, phrases etc to use in the index. Something as simple as a utility to find all unique words

Re: About Tables in LyX?

2009-02-23 Thread James C. Sutherland
On Feb 23, 2009, at 7:48 AM, Hesham Kamel wrote: Hi, Please, I want to know if there is a way to merge two cells in a column under each others? In LyX, you can only merge two cells in a row but not in a column. I am using xls2latex but it does not work for merged cells. Thank you, H The

Re: Problem reading (import) Mathcad html file

2009-02-23 Thread Waluyo Adi Siswanto
I guess the first question is whether you have htmltolatex correctly installed and whether it will translate simpler HTML files. Richard Yes you are correct, after installing html2latex from my Ubuntu synaptic package manager (I found gnuhtml2latex), it works now. But i still don't know

Re: Howto downgrade LyX 1.6.1 documents to LyX 1.5.5 documents?

2009-02-23 Thread Helge Hafting
Lance Simmons wrote: On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 11:36 AM, Richard Heck rgh...@bobjweil.com wrote: Better yet, upgrade to 1.5.7 (I think that's the number...last 1.5.x anyway), which can read 1.6. docs. The reason the issue about 1.5.5 came up is my switching from Debian unstable to Debian stable

Re: Exporting to DOC or RTF

2009-02-23 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 07:30:51PM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: I need to export a document for a MS Office user. I do not see an option to export as DOC or RTF in Lyx 1.6, and PDF will not do because he needs to annotate the document. The best info online that I could find is this tedious

search and replace within latex-environment

2009-02-23 Thread Leo Gürtler
Dear lyx list, is it possible to search and replace within a latex environments? See example attached to this mail. e.g. I want to change the a in the latex-environment to A. Trying so shows me that I can not do this with searchreplace in Lyx, because the replace-button is not available within

Re: Cross-reference + name of chapter/section

2009-02-23 Thread rgheck
Monthadar Al Jaberi wrote: Hi! Thank you for your replies. I still can't see the name of the section when I make a cross-reference. I have LyX 1.6.1 on Windows 2000 Document class: book I made a label on section 2 in chapter 2. The formats that I have available = result: reference = 2.2

Re: Exporting to DOC or RTF

2009-02-23 Thread Dotan Cohen
I didn't read that URL, but the best way I find is to export to OpenDocument, open it in OpenOffice.org, fix the right-hand border (at least, I always have to), and save it as a Word .doc file. Thanks. I do not seem to have an option to export to ODT. Must I add something? -- Dotan Cohen

Re: English appearing backwards

2009-02-23 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-02-20, Dotan Cohen wrote: ... I have several different keyboard layouts defined. I activate the different keyboard layout and just start typing. The application handles directionality. Many applications have directionality issues, but I've never come across one in Linux that

Re: English appearing backwards

2009-02-23 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-02-20, Dotan Cohen wrote: According to Wikipedia, Lyx has substantial support for bidirectional writing. So the problem is most likely with me, not with Lyx. Not really. It's a problem of both of you. Like the Greek support, bidi support in LaTeX predates the advent of Unicode and

xy-pic oddities

2009-02-23 Thread Pol
While the single arrow in command \xymatrix{A \ar[r] B} is displayed by lyx, three arrow graph in command \xymatrix{ p,a \\ p \ar[r] \ar[ur] \ar[dr] p,n \\ p,e } is undisplayed (yet correctly printed out) Any ideas? Any matrix or array specifications needed in the preamble? thank you

Re: why doesn't \numberwithin{equation}{section} work?

2009-02-23 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-02-21, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Erez Yerushalmi wrote: I've been using \numberwithin{equation}{section} in the preamble for quite some time. Every time I open a new template, it takes me some time until the PDF output doesn't get jammed with a crash. In Document Settings...

Re: listings package problem

2009-02-23 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-02-22, Nikos Alexandris wrote: I guess it's a font-specific issue. Too bad because Bera looks great. Any other recommendation? Kind regards, Nikos Txtt: Set the typewriter font to Default in the GUI and write in the preamble \renewcommand{\ttdefault}{txtt} Günter

Re: Problems importing Tex file

2009-02-23 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-02-23, Uwe Stöhr wrote: Dotan Cohen schrieb: I suppose that _that_ is the detail that was not clear to me. I did not know that I need to have LaTeX packages installed in my LaTeX distribution. I'm still not sure what that _means_, but I have enough keywords to google on! A LaTeX

Re: Removing languages

2009-02-23 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-02-22, Uwe Stöhr wrote: Dotan Cohen schrieb: When I write mixed Hebrew-English documents, I have to select the language for each span of text. There are tens of languages installed, how can I remove the unused languages from the dropdown list? This is not possible. Why not?

Re: missing fonts on ubuntu?

2009-02-23 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-02-20, Travis wrote: First, be aware that though I use lyx interactively to edit the document, I want to be able to generate the PDF and HTML versions from a script. Basically I don't want to have to remember to export twice every time I make an update. #! usb/bin/sh lyx --export

wiki upload password

2009-02-23 Thread Guenter Milde
could someone please mail me (in privat) the password for uploading content to the lyx wiki? (Does this work for approving URLs too?) Thanks, Günter

Re: Problems importing Tex file

2009-02-23 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Dotan Cohen schrieb: What is TFM? Why are you unsure? The Fine Manual. It is a common TLA in many mailing lists. OK, and what is a TLA? http://www.acronymfinder.com/TLA.html Pickup your definition ;-) Abdel.

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