Re: Terminology Change Request for Next Release

2009-04-13 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Except for DocBook classes. It is impossible to make it right for all cases. I don't think so. Embedded Raw Text matches pretty much all cases. DocBook is rarely used compared to (La)(Xe)(pdfla)TeX. This doesn't matter. LyX is not a LaTeX frontend (only). The naming

UI in french

2009-04-13 Thread alain . didierjean
Recently installed LyX 1.62 has UI and doc in english, when it used to be in french in previous version. How to go back to frenh ? Setting Tools/Preferences/Language/User Interface Language to french doesn't make any difference... -- ~adj~

Re: Lyx install fails in MiKTex install

2009-04-13 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Ian S. Worthington schrieb: That seems to fix the problem with scrbook.layout, but if I create NewFrom Template and select docbook_article.lyx, it then fails to find docbook.layout, even though this again is present in the layouts directory. Not every package we provide a layout for is

Re: UI in french

2009-04-13 Thread Uwe Stöhr
alain.didierj...@free.fr schrieb: Recently installed LyX 1.62 has UI and doc in english, when it used to be in french in previous version. How to go back to frenh ? What OS are you using? On Windows, you can change the lyx.bat file when you have installed LyX with the alternative installer,

LyX for bill drafting

2009-04-13 Thread Dan Fitch
I have some general questions about using LyX for a somewhat different type of publication than it is currently built for. (As an aside, kudos to whoever coded the nested equation editing stuff. WOW.) I'm curious if anyone else is trying to do this with LyX: I work at the Wisconsin Legislature,

Re: UI in french

2009-04-13 Thread alain . didierjean
Selon Uwe Stöhr uwesto...@web.de: alain.didierj...@free.fr schrieb: Recently installed LyX 1.62 has UI and doc in english, when it used to be in french in previous version. How to go back to frenh ? What OS are you using? On Windows, you can change the lyx.bat file when you have

[Figure embedding] An easy way to share lyx documents

2009-04-13 Thread Etienne lepercq
I am new to LyX, but not as new to LaTeX : I used Kile for quiet a few time now. I would like to use LyX to work with several people on an article. As LyX is much more user-friendly than Kile, a pure LaTeX editor, I convinced my collaborators to give a try to LyX. There is te least one thing in

Re: UI in french

2009-04-13 Thread Kornel Benko
Am Montag 13 April 2009 schrieb alain.didierj...@free.fr: Selon Uwe Stöhr uwesto...@web.de: alain.didierj...@free.fr schrieb: Recently installed LyX 1.62 has UI and doc in english, when it used to be in french in previous version. How to go back to frenh ? What OS are you using? On

Re: [Figure embedding] An easy way to share lyx documents

2009-04-13 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Etienne lepercq wrote: I am new to LyX, but not as new to LaTeX : I used Kile for quiet a few time now. I would like to use LyX to work with several people on an article. As LyX is much more user-friendly than Kile, a pure LaTeX editor, I convinced my collaborators to give a try to LyX. There

Re: agutex layout?

2009-04-13 Thread Gwen Barnes
If it is really different, we need a new layout, yes. Does it replace the older one(s)? It does replace the older ones in that it seems to be the only one they are offering now. It's supposed to work for all the different AGU journals. I'm not sure how different the final output is, but (I

Re: LyX for bill drafting

2009-04-13 Thread Richard Heck
Dan Fitch wrote: 1. The new hyperref stuff in 1.6 is very slick. Is there any way to make a cross reference to a section or subsection, without adding a label? So the user might say As defined in s. 10.91 without having to go to section 10.91 and adding a label? Not at present, though this

Re: [Figure embedding] An easy way to share lyx documents

2009-04-13 Thread Richard Heck
Paul A. Rubin wrote: Etienne lepercq wrote: I am new to LyX, but not as new to LaTeX : I used Kile for quiet a few time now. I would like to use LyX to work with several people on an article. As LyX is much more user-friendly than Kile, a pure LaTeX editor, I convinced my collaborators to

Re: [Figure embedding] An easy way to share lyx documents

2009-04-13 Thread Richard Heck
Etienne lepercq wrote: I am new to LyX, but not as new to LaTeX : I used Kile for quiet a few time now. I would like to use LyX to work with several people on an article. As LyX is much more user-friendly than Kile, a pure LaTeX editor, I convinced my collaborators to give a try to LyX. There

Re: [Figure embedding] An easy way to share lyx documents

2009-04-13 Thread Philippe Grosjean
OpenOffice does that with the Open Document format (.odx). Java does that with JARs, Mozilla does that with plugins, ... Everytime it is the same: a zipped directory tree. Perhaps, such a format (kind of .zlyx) could be purely optional? It shouldn't replace the original format. That way,

Re: [Figure embedding] An easy way to share lyx documents

2009-04-13 Thread Etienne lepercq
2009/4/13, Richard Heck rgh...@bobjweil.com: Etienne lepercq wrote: I am new to LyX, but not as new to LaTeX : I used Kile for quiet a few time now. I would like to use LyX to work with several people on an article. As LyX is much more user-friendly than Kile, a pure LaTeX editor, I

Re: [Figure embedding] An easy way to share lyx documents

2009-04-13 Thread Etienne lepercq
2009/4/13, Richard Heck rgh...@bobjweil.com: Etienne lepercq wrote: I am new to LyX, but not as new to LaTeX : I used Kile for quiet a few time now. I would like to use LyX to work with several people on an article. As LyX is much more user-friendly than Kile, a pure LaTeX editor, I

Re: [Figure embedding] An easy way to share lyx documents

2009-04-13 Thread Richard Heck
Philippe Grosjean wrote: OpenOffice does that with the Open Document format (.odx). Java does that with JARs, Mozilla does that with plugins, ... Everytime it is the same: a zipped directory tree. Perhaps, such a format (kind of .zlyx) could be purely optional? It shouldn't replace the

Re: [Figure embedding] An easy way to share lyx documents

2009-04-13 Thread Richard Heck
Etienne lepercq wrote: 2009/4/13, Richard Heck rgh...@bobjweil.com mailto:rgh...@bobjweil.com: Etienne lepercq wrote: I am new to LyX, but not as new to LaTeX : I used Kile for quiet a few time now. I would like to use LyX to work with several people on an

Re: [Figure embedding] An easy way to share lyx documents

2009-04-13 Thread Etienne lepercq
I _really_ think this is a must have: I know someone else that is willing to work with LyX and propose it to her teacher, but having to tar/untar ... will make it _very_ difficult to accept. Of course, you are right about the problem of where to untar temporary files (as with this

Re: [Figure embedding] An easy way to share lyx documents

2009-04-13 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn
On the other hand, I think Vincent was working on this problem a while ago. I don't know how far he got. Actually, I have an implementation of something that allows you to export a zipped archive with all figures, bibtex files, child documents, etc.etc. Richard Vincent

Re: LyX for bill drafting

2009-04-13 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn
Richard Heck schreef: Dan Fitch wrote: 1. The new hyperref stuff in 1.6 is very slick. Is there any way to make a cross reference to a section or subsection, without adding a label? So the user might say As defined in s. 10.91 without having to go to section 10.91 and adding a label? Not at

Re: [Figure embedding] An easy way to share lyx documents

2009-04-13 Thread Richard Heck
Etienne lepercq wrote: I _really_ think this is a must have: I know someone else that is willing to work with LyX and propose it to her teacher, but having to tar/untar ... will make it _very_ difficult to accept. Of course, you are right about the problem of

Re: [Figure embedding] An easy way to share lyx documents

2009-04-13 Thread Richard Heck
Vincent van Ravesteijn wrote: On the other hand, I think Vincent was working on this problem a while ago. I don't know how far he got. Actually, I have an implementation of something that allows you to export a zipped archive with all figures, bibtex files, child documents, etc.etc.

Re: LyX for bill drafting

2009-04-13 Thread Charles de Miramon
Richard Heck wrote: Dan Fitch wrote: 1. The new hyperref stuff in 1.6 is very slick. Is there any way to make a cross reference to a section or subsection, without adding a label? So the user might say As defined in s. 10.91 without having to go to section 10.91 and adding a label? Not

Re: LyX for bill drafting

2009-04-13 Thread Dan Fitch
Thanks to the list denizens for being incredibly helpful on this thread, already, within the space of a single day. You folks rock, and you obviously have a fierce love of your project! On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 2:35 PM, Charles de Miramon cmira...@kde-france.org wrote: Richard Heck wrote: Dan

Re: LyX for bill drafting

2009-04-13 Thread Yury Davidouski
That has been some interesting insight at the workings of modern legislature:)

list of figures

2009-04-13 Thread Niko Schwarz
Hello! in my list of figures, the numbers of the figures are standing much too close to the captions of the figures! what can i do? niko

Re: [Figure embedding] An easy way to share lyx documents

2009-04-13 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Mon, 13 Apr 2009, Richard Heck wrote: Yes, that's a major drawback ! But the .zlyx could be used as an export file format to share with others, then one could just merge back the .lyx embedded into the .zlyx : I see this as a way one can use this feature, but some may want to use it

Re: Lyx install fails in MiKTex install

2009-04-13 Thread Ian S. Worthington
Uwe, Richard -- Many thanks. I do need Docbook (I think), but the information of the wiki seems to be rather out of date and/or confusing. I'll start another thread for this I think and consolidate my thoughts. Thanks again. i -- Original Message -- Received: 08:50 AM COT, 04/13/2009

Re: [Figure embedding] An easy way to share lyx documents

2009-04-13 Thread Niko Schwarz
to help sharing files, dropbox is excellent. On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 5:13 PM, Etienne lepercq e.gu...@gmail.com wrote: I am new to LyX, but not as new to LaTeX : I used Kile for quiet a few time now. I would like to use LyX to work with several people on an article. As LyX is much more

Re: Lyx install fails in MiKTex install

2009-04-13 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Ian S. Worthington schrieb: I do need Docbook (I think), but the information of the wiki seems to be rather out of date and/or confusing. I don't know anything about DocBook and therefroe ask you to improve the Wiki pages when you found out how it works. thanks and regards Uwe

Re: [Figure embedding] An easy way to share lyx documents

2009-04-13 Thread Murat Yildizoglu
Just my two cents: Scientific Word was used to come with a utility called Document Manager. It was able to pack everything in a .msg file. The utility has a GUI that gives you options for choosing the elements to include for the packing and other options during unpacking. I think that we were

Re: list of figures

2009-04-13 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Niko Schwarz schrieb: in my list of figures, the numbers of the figures are standing much too close to the captions of the figures! what can i do? Add this command to your document preamble: \newcommand...@figure{\@dottedtocline{1}{1.5em}{2.3em}}

Re: [Figure embedding] An easy way to share lyx documents

2009-04-13 Thread rgheck
Christian Ridderström wrote: On Mon, 13 Apr 2009, Richard Heck wrote: Yes, that's a major drawback ! But the .zlyx could be used as an export file format to share with others, then one could just merge back the .lyx embedded into the .zlyx : I see this as a way one can use this feature,

Re: [Figure embedding] An easy way to share lyx documents

2009-04-13 Thread rgheck
Murat Yildizoglu wrote: Just my two cents: Scientific Word was used to come with a utility called Document Manager. It was able to pack everything in a .msg file. The utility has a GUI that gives you options for choosing the elements to include for the packing and other options during unpacking.

Lyx and DocBook

2009-04-13 Thread Ian S. Worthington
I'm trying to find a content markup system (authoring and processing) that can output to various formats. Something which can be both viewed and printed, such as PDF, is probably a must, and something easily accessed online, such as HTML is close behind. If I could also produce CHM (or similar)

Re: Lyx and DocBook

2009-04-13 Thread Richard Talley
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 4:13 PM, Ian S. Worthington ianworthing...@usa.net wrote: It also lists Lyx which seems a mature and usable tool for Latex, and produces highly attractive PDF documents. I read though that getting attractive HTML out of it is difficult. I''m getting good results out

Re: [Figure embedding] An easy way to share lyx documents

2009-04-13 Thread Etienne lepercq
2009/4/13, Niko Schwarz niko.schw...@googlemail.com: to help sharing files, dropbox is excellent. Hmm interesting idea : I'll try, even if it imply using a third-party tool. I'll give it a try. -- Sincerily

Re: Lyx and DocBook

2009-04-13 Thread rgheck
Ian S. Worthington wrote: If I understand correctly I have to choose a target language for Lyx from the start: I can't start off with Latex and then later decide to I want to target DocBook, for example. No, you can switch the documents. There may be some issues about how different bits of

Re: list of figures

2009-04-13 Thread Niko Schwarz
hmm. then i get this error message: @figur...@dottedtocline{1}{1.5em}{2.3em}} Your command was ignored. Type I command return to replace it with another command, or return to continue without it. niko On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 11:45 PM, Uwe Stöhr uwesto...@web.de wrote: Niko Schwarz

Re: Terminology Change Request for Next Release

2009-04-13 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Except for DocBook classes. It is impossible to make it right for all cases. I don't think so. Embedded Raw Text matches pretty much all cases. DocBook is rarely used compared to (La)(Xe)(pdfla)TeX. This doesn't matter. LyX is not a LaTeX frontend (only). The naming

UI in french

2009-04-13 Thread alain . didierjean
Recently installed LyX 1.62 has UI and doc in english, when it used to be in french in previous version. How to go back to frenh ? Setting Tools/Preferences/Language/User Interface Language to french doesn't make any difference... -- ~adj~

Re: Lyx install fails in MiKTex install

2009-04-13 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Ian S. Worthington schrieb: That seems to fix the problem with scrbook.layout, but if I create NewFrom Template and select docbook_article.lyx, it then fails to find docbook.layout, even though this again is present in the layouts directory. Not every package we provide a layout for is

Re: UI in french

2009-04-13 Thread Uwe Stöhr
alain.didierj...@free.fr schrieb: Recently installed LyX 1.62 has UI and doc in english, when it used to be in french in previous version. How to go back to frenh ? What OS are you using? On Windows, you can change the lyx.bat file when you have installed LyX with the alternative installer,

LyX for bill drafting

2009-04-13 Thread Dan Fitch
I have some general questions about using LyX for a somewhat different type of publication than it is currently built for. (As an aside, kudos to whoever coded the nested equation editing stuff. WOW.) I'm curious if anyone else is trying to do this with LyX: I work at the Wisconsin Legislature,

Re: UI in french

2009-04-13 Thread alain . didierjean
Selon Uwe Stöhr uwesto...@web.de: alain.didierj...@free.fr schrieb: Recently installed LyX 1.62 has UI and doc in english, when it used to be in french in previous version. How to go back to frenh ? What OS are you using? On Windows, you can change the lyx.bat file when you have

[Figure embedding] An easy way to share lyx documents

2009-04-13 Thread Etienne lepercq
I am new to LyX, but not as new to LaTeX : I used Kile for quiet a few time now. I would like to use LyX to work with several people on an article. As LyX is much more user-friendly than Kile, a pure LaTeX editor, I convinced my collaborators to give a try to LyX. There is te least one thing in

Re: UI in french

2009-04-13 Thread Kornel Benko
Am Montag 13 April 2009 schrieb alain.didierj...@free.fr: Selon Uwe Stöhr uwesto...@web.de: alain.didierj...@free.fr schrieb: Recently installed LyX 1.62 has UI and doc in english, when it used to be in french in previous version. How to go back to frenh ? What OS are you using? On

Re: [Figure embedding] An easy way to share lyx documents

2009-04-13 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Etienne lepercq wrote: I am new to LyX, but not as new to LaTeX : I used Kile for quiet a few time now. I would like to use LyX to work with several people on an article. As LyX is much more user-friendly than Kile, a pure LaTeX editor, I convinced my collaborators to give a try to LyX. There

Re: agutex layout?

2009-04-13 Thread Gwen Barnes
If it is really different, we need a new layout, yes. Does it replace the older one(s)? It does replace the older ones in that it seems to be the only one they are offering now. It's supposed to work for all the different AGU journals. I'm not sure how different the final output is, but (I

Re: LyX for bill drafting

2009-04-13 Thread Richard Heck
Dan Fitch wrote: 1. The new hyperref stuff in 1.6 is very slick. Is there any way to make a cross reference to a section or subsection, without adding a label? So the user might say As defined in s. 10.91 without having to go to section 10.91 and adding a label? Not at present, though this

Re: [Figure embedding] An easy way to share lyx documents

2009-04-13 Thread Richard Heck
Paul A. Rubin wrote: Etienne lepercq wrote: I am new to LyX, but not as new to LaTeX : I used Kile for quiet a few time now. I would like to use LyX to work with several people on an article. As LyX is much more user-friendly than Kile, a pure LaTeX editor, I convinced my collaborators to

Re: [Figure embedding] An easy way to share lyx documents

2009-04-13 Thread Richard Heck
Etienne lepercq wrote: I am new to LyX, but not as new to LaTeX : I used Kile for quiet a few time now. I would like to use LyX to work with several people on an article. As LyX is much more user-friendly than Kile, a pure LaTeX editor, I convinced my collaborators to give a try to LyX. There

Re: [Figure embedding] An easy way to share lyx documents

2009-04-13 Thread Philippe Grosjean
OpenOffice does that with the Open Document format (.odx). Java does that with JARs, Mozilla does that with plugins, ... Everytime it is the same: a zipped directory tree. Perhaps, such a format (kind of .zlyx) could be purely optional? It shouldn't replace the original format. That way,

Re: [Figure embedding] An easy way to share lyx documents

2009-04-13 Thread Etienne lepercq
2009/4/13, Richard Heck rgh...@bobjweil.com: Etienne lepercq wrote: I am new to LyX, but not as new to LaTeX : I used Kile for quiet a few time now. I would like to use LyX to work with several people on an article. As LyX is much more user-friendly than Kile, a pure LaTeX editor, I

Re: [Figure embedding] An easy way to share lyx documents

2009-04-13 Thread Etienne lepercq
2009/4/13, Richard Heck rgh...@bobjweil.com: Etienne lepercq wrote: I am new to LyX, but not as new to LaTeX : I used Kile for quiet a few time now. I would like to use LyX to work with several people on an article. As LyX is much more user-friendly than Kile, a pure LaTeX editor, I

Re: [Figure embedding] An easy way to share lyx documents

2009-04-13 Thread Richard Heck
Philippe Grosjean wrote: OpenOffice does that with the Open Document format (.odx). Java does that with JARs, Mozilla does that with plugins, ... Everytime it is the same: a zipped directory tree. Perhaps, such a format (kind of .zlyx) could be purely optional? It shouldn't replace the

Re: [Figure embedding] An easy way to share lyx documents

2009-04-13 Thread Richard Heck
Etienne lepercq wrote: 2009/4/13, Richard Heck rgh...@bobjweil.com mailto:rgh...@bobjweil.com: Etienne lepercq wrote: I am new to LyX, but not as new to LaTeX : I used Kile for quiet a few time now. I would like to use LyX to work with several people on an

Re: [Figure embedding] An easy way to share lyx documents

2009-04-13 Thread Etienne lepercq
I _really_ think this is a must have: I know someone else that is willing to work with LyX and propose it to her teacher, but having to tar/untar ... will make it _very_ difficult to accept. Of course, you are right about the problem of where to untar temporary files (as with this

Re: [Figure embedding] An easy way to share lyx documents

2009-04-13 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn
On the other hand, I think Vincent was working on this problem a while ago. I don't know how far he got. Actually, I have an implementation of something that allows you to export a zipped archive with all figures, bibtex files, child documents, etc.etc. Richard Vincent

Re: LyX for bill drafting

2009-04-13 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn
Richard Heck schreef: Dan Fitch wrote: 1. The new hyperref stuff in 1.6 is very slick. Is there any way to make a cross reference to a section or subsection, without adding a label? So the user might say As defined in s. 10.91 without having to go to section 10.91 and adding a label? Not at

Re: [Figure embedding] An easy way to share lyx documents

2009-04-13 Thread Richard Heck
Etienne lepercq wrote: I _really_ think this is a must have: I know someone else that is willing to work with LyX and propose it to her teacher, but having to tar/untar ... will make it _very_ difficult to accept. Of course, you are right about the problem of

Re: [Figure embedding] An easy way to share lyx documents

2009-04-13 Thread Richard Heck
Vincent van Ravesteijn wrote: On the other hand, I think Vincent was working on this problem a while ago. I don't know how far he got. Actually, I have an implementation of something that allows you to export a zipped archive with all figures, bibtex files, child documents, etc.etc.

Re: LyX for bill drafting

2009-04-13 Thread Charles de Miramon
Richard Heck wrote: Dan Fitch wrote: 1. The new hyperref stuff in 1.6 is very slick. Is there any way to make a cross reference to a section or subsection, without adding a label? So the user might say As defined in s. 10.91 without having to go to section 10.91 and adding a label? Not

Re: LyX for bill drafting

2009-04-13 Thread Dan Fitch
Thanks to the list denizens for being incredibly helpful on this thread, already, within the space of a single day. You folks rock, and you obviously have a fierce love of your project! On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 2:35 PM, Charles de Miramon cmira...@kde-france.org wrote: Richard Heck wrote: Dan

Re: LyX for bill drafting

2009-04-13 Thread Yury Davidouski
That has been some interesting insight at the workings of modern legislature:)

list of figures

2009-04-13 Thread Niko Schwarz
Hello! in my list of figures, the numbers of the figures are standing much too close to the captions of the figures! what can i do? niko

Re: [Figure embedding] An easy way to share lyx documents

2009-04-13 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Mon, 13 Apr 2009, Richard Heck wrote: Yes, that's a major drawback ! But the .zlyx could be used as an export file format to share with others, then one could just merge back the .lyx embedded into the .zlyx : I see this as a way one can use this feature, but some may want to use it

Re: Lyx install fails in MiKTex install

2009-04-13 Thread Ian S. Worthington
Uwe, Richard -- Many thanks. I do need Docbook (I think), but the information of the wiki seems to be rather out of date and/or confusing. I'll start another thread for this I think and consolidate my thoughts. Thanks again. i -- Original Message -- Received: 08:50 AM COT, 04/13/2009

Re: [Figure embedding] An easy way to share lyx documents

2009-04-13 Thread Niko Schwarz
to help sharing files, dropbox is excellent. On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 5:13 PM, Etienne lepercq e.gu...@gmail.com wrote: I am new to LyX, but not as new to LaTeX : I used Kile for quiet a few time now. I would like to use LyX to work with several people on an article. As LyX is much more

Re: Lyx install fails in MiKTex install

2009-04-13 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Ian S. Worthington schrieb: I do need Docbook (I think), but the information of the wiki seems to be rather out of date and/or confusing. I don't know anything about DocBook and therefroe ask you to improve the Wiki pages when you found out how it works. thanks and regards Uwe

Re: [Figure embedding] An easy way to share lyx documents

2009-04-13 Thread Murat Yildizoglu
Just my two cents: Scientific Word was used to come with a utility called Document Manager. It was able to pack everything in a .msg file. The utility has a GUI that gives you options for choosing the elements to include for the packing and other options during unpacking. I think that we were

Re: list of figures

2009-04-13 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Niko Schwarz schrieb: in my list of figures, the numbers of the figures are standing much too close to the captions of the figures! what can i do? Add this command to your document preamble: \newcommand...@figure{\@dottedtocline{1}{1.5em}{2.3em}}

Re: [Figure embedding] An easy way to share lyx documents

2009-04-13 Thread rgheck
Christian Ridderström wrote: On Mon, 13 Apr 2009, Richard Heck wrote: Yes, that's a major drawback ! But the .zlyx could be used as an export file format to share with others, then one could just merge back the .lyx embedded into the .zlyx : I see this as a way one can use this feature,

Re: [Figure embedding] An easy way to share lyx documents

2009-04-13 Thread rgheck
Murat Yildizoglu wrote: Just my two cents: Scientific Word was used to come with a utility called Document Manager. It was able to pack everything in a .msg file. The utility has a GUI that gives you options for choosing the elements to include for the packing and other options during unpacking.

Lyx and DocBook

2009-04-13 Thread Ian S. Worthington
I'm trying to find a content markup system (authoring and processing) that can output to various formats. Something which can be both viewed and printed, such as PDF, is probably a must, and something easily accessed online, such as HTML is close behind. If I could also produce CHM (or similar)

Re: Lyx and DocBook

2009-04-13 Thread Richard Talley
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 4:13 PM, Ian S. Worthington ianworthing...@usa.net wrote: It also lists Lyx which seems a mature and usable tool for Latex, and produces highly attractive PDF documents. I read though that getting attractive HTML out of it is difficult. I''m getting good results out

Re: [Figure embedding] An easy way to share lyx documents

2009-04-13 Thread Etienne lepercq
2009/4/13, Niko Schwarz niko.schw...@googlemail.com: to help sharing files, dropbox is excellent. Hmm interesting idea : I'll try, even if it imply using a third-party tool. I'll give it a try. -- Sincerily

Re: Lyx and DocBook

2009-04-13 Thread rgheck
Ian S. Worthington wrote: If I understand correctly I have to choose a target language for Lyx from the start: I can't start off with Latex and then later decide to I want to target DocBook, for example. No, you can switch the documents. There may be some issues about how different bits of

Re: list of figures

2009-04-13 Thread Niko Schwarz
hmm. then i get this error message: @figur...@dottedtocline{1}{1.5em}{2.3em}} Your command was ignored. Type I command return to replace it with another command, or return to continue without it. niko On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 11:45 PM, Uwe Stöhr uwesto...@web.de wrote: Niko Schwarz

Re: Terminology Change Request for Next Release

2009-04-13 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Uwe Stöhr wrote: > > Except for DocBook classes. > > It is impossible to make it right for all cases. I don't think so. "Embedded Raw Text" matches pretty much all cases. > DocBook is rarely used compared to (La)(Xe)(pdfla)TeX. This doesn't matter. LyX is not a LaTeX frontend (only). > The

UI in french

2009-04-13 Thread alain . didierjean
Recently installed LyX 1.62 has UI and doc in english, when it used to be in french in previous version. How to go back to frenh ? Setting Tools/Preferences/Language/User Interface Language to french doesn't make any difference... -- ~adj~

Re: Lyx install fails in MiKTex install

2009-04-13 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Ian S. Worthington schrieb: That seems to fix the problem with scrbook.layout, but if I create New>From Template and select docbook_article.lyx, it then fails to find docbook.layout, even though this again is present in the layouts directory. Not every package we provide a layout for is

Re: UI in french

2009-04-13 Thread Uwe Stöhr
alain.didierj...@free.fr schrieb: Recently installed LyX 1.62 has UI and doc in english, when it used to be in french in previous version. How to go back to frenh ? What OS are you using? On Windows, you can change the lyx.bat file when you have installed LyX with the alternative installer,

LyX for bill drafting

2009-04-13 Thread Dan Fitch
I have some general questions about using LyX for a somewhat different type of publication than it is currently built for. (As an aside, kudos to whoever coded the nested equation editing stuff. WOW.) I'm curious if anyone else is trying to do this with LyX: I work at the Wisconsin Legislature,

Re: UI in french

2009-04-13 Thread alain . didierjean
Selon Uwe Stöhr : > alain.didierj...@free.fr schrieb: > > > Recently installed LyX 1.62 has UI and doc in english, when it used to be > > in french in previous version. How to go back to frenh ? > > What OS are you using? On Windows, you can change the lyx.bat file when you >

[Figure embedding] An easy way to share lyx documents

2009-04-13 Thread Etienne lepercq
I am new to LyX, but not as new to LaTeX : I used Kile for quiet a few time now. I would like to use LyX to work with several people on an article. As LyX is much more user-friendly than Kile, a pure LaTeX editor, I convinced my collaborators to give a try to LyX. There is te least one thing in

Re: UI in french

2009-04-13 Thread Kornel Benko
Am Montag 13 April 2009 schrieb alain.didierj...@free.fr: > Selon Uwe Stöhr : > > alain.didierj...@free.fr schrieb: > > > Recently installed LyX 1.62 has UI and doc in english, when it used to > > > be in french in previous version. How to go back to frenh ? > > > > What OS are

Re: [Figure embedding] An easy way to share lyx documents

2009-04-13 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Etienne lepercq wrote: I am new to LyX, but not as new to LaTeX : I used Kile for quiet a few time now. I would like to use LyX to work with several people on an article. As LyX is much more user-friendly than Kile, a pure LaTeX editor, I convinced my collaborators to give a try to LyX. There

Re: agutex layout?

2009-04-13 Thread Gwen Barnes
> If it is really different, we need a new layout, yes. Does it replace the > older one(s)? > It does replace the older ones in that it seems to be the only one they are offering now. It's supposed to work for all the different AGU journals. I'm not sure how different the final output is, but

Re: LyX for bill drafting

2009-04-13 Thread Richard Heck
Dan Fitch wrote: 1. The new hyperref stuff in 1.6 is very slick. Is there any way to make a "cross reference" to a section or subsection, without adding a label? So the user might say "As defined in s. 10.91" without having to go to section 10.91 and adding a label? Not at present, though

Re: [Figure embedding] An easy way to share lyx documents

2009-04-13 Thread Richard Heck
Paul A. Rubin wrote: Etienne lepercq wrote: I am new to LyX, but not as new to LaTeX : I used Kile for quiet a few time now. I would like to use LyX to work with several people on an article. As LyX is much more user-friendly than Kile, a pure LaTeX editor, I convinced my collaborators to

Re: [Figure embedding] An easy way to share lyx documents

2009-04-13 Thread Richard Heck
Etienne lepercq wrote: I am new to LyX, but not as new to LaTeX : I used Kile for quiet a few time now. I would like to use LyX to work with several people on an article. As LyX is much more user-friendly than Kile, a pure LaTeX editor, I convinced my collaborators to give a try to LyX. There

Re: [Figure embedding] An easy way to share lyx documents

2009-04-13 Thread Philippe Grosjean
OpenOffice does that with the Open Document format (.odx). Java does that with JARs, Mozilla does that with plugins, ... Everytime it is the same: a zipped directory tree. Perhaps, such a format (kind of .zlyx) could be purely optional? It shouldn't replace the original format. That way,

Re: [Figure embedding] An easy way to share lyx documents

2009-04-13 Thread Etienne lepercq
2009/4/13, Richard Heck : > > Etienne lepercq wrote: > >> I am new to LyX, but not as new to LaTeX : I used Kile for quiet a few >> time >> now. I would like to use LyX to work with several people on an article. As >> LyX is >> much more user-friendly than Kile, a pure LaTeX

Re: [Figure embedding] An easy way to share lyx documents

2009-04-13 Thread Etienne lepercq
2009/4/13, Richard Heck : > > Etienne lepercq wrote: > >> I am new to LyX, but not as new to LaTeX : I used Kile for quiet a few >> time >> now. I would like to use LyX to work with several people on an article. As >> LyX is >> much more user-friendly than Kile, a pure LaTeX

Re: [Figure embedding] An easy way to share lyx documents

2009-04-13 Thread Richard Heck
Philippe Grosjean wrote: OpenOffice does that with the Open Document format (.odx). Java does that with JARs, Mozilla does that with plugins, ... Everytime it is the same: a zipped directory tree. Perhaps, such a format (kind of .zlyx) could be purely optional? It shouldn't replace the

Re: [Figure embedding] An easy way to share lyx documents

2009-04-13 Thread Richard Heck
Etienne lepercq wrote: 2009/4/13, Richard Heck >: Etienne lepercq wrote: I am new to LyX, but not as new to LaTeX : I used Kile for quiet a few time now. I would like to use LyX to work with several people on an

Re: [Figure embedding] An easy way to share lyx documents

2009-04-13 Thread Etienne lepercq
> > >> >> I _really_ think this is a must have: I know someone else that is willing >> to work with LyX and propose it to her teacher, but having to tar/untar ... >> will make it _very_ difficult to accept. >> Of course, you are right about the problem of where to untar temporary >> files (as with

Re: [Figure embedding] An easy way to share lyx documents

2009-04-13 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn
On the other hand, I think Vincent was working on this problem a while ago. I don't know how far he got. Actually, I have an implementation of something that allows you to export a zipped archive with all figures, bibtex files, child documents, etc.etc. Richard Vincent

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