Re: bibtex bibliography insertions in lyx 1.62

2009-05-01 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
sensen wrote: I used IEEEtran template, if no bibtex bibliography, works well. but now i want to insert the reference using bibtex. after insert and citation, i checked the dvi, get error like bellow Please post an example file. Jürgen

Re: Fwd: Re: subdocuments

2009-05-01 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Am Thursday 30 April 2009 11:03:31 schrieb Guenter Milde: On 2009-04-30, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: Am Wednesday 29 April 2009 21:40:41 schrieb Guenter Milde: On 2009-04-29, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: continuing this I found out that the error was due to a reference. But it can't be the

Re: Beamer Class: allowframebreaks

2009-05-01 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Rich Shepard wrote: Using LyX-1.6.2 and beamer-3.07, how do I now specify the frame option, allowframebreaks? ERT [allowframebreaks] at the very beginning of a frame title. I see a menu option of AgainFrame but no explanation of what that does, where to put the command, or other

Re: Sporatic 1.6.2 Crash

2009-05-01 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Rich Shepard wrote: Running 1.6.2 on Slackware-12.2 here. Most of the time when I press the [Home] key, the cursor is moved to the top of the buffer. However, three times now (on two different documents), pressing [Home] causes instant shutdown of the application without an .emergency save.

Re: Sporatic 1.6.2 Crash

2009-05-01 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn
Jürgen Spitzmüller schreef: Rich Shepard wrote: Running 1.6.2 on Slackware-12.2 here. Most of the time when I press the [Home] key, the cursor is moved to the top of the buffer. However, three times now (on two different documents), pressing [Home] causes instant shutdown of the application

Re: Beamer Class: allowframebreaks

2009-05-01 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 1 May 2009, J?rgen Spitzm?ller wrote: ERT [allowframebreaks] at the very beginning of a frame title. Thank you, Juergen. You can use it to repeat a previous frame (or selected slides of it). The frame to be repeated is labelled with [label=foo], again in ERT at the very beginning

Re: Sporatic 1.6.2 Crash

2009-05-01 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 1 May 2009, J?rgen Spitzm?ller wrote: Does this happen if you have an empty paragraph or two subsequent blanks before pressing Home? Juergen, No. Usually I'm typing in a paragraph or an item in a beamer slide and accidently press the [Home] key instead of the backspace key next to

Re: Table in 2 (odd-even) pages

2009-05-01 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Piero Faustini wrote: How can I have a table span across 2 pages (an odd page and the opposite one) just as it was one page? http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=dpfloat Jürgen

Table in 2 (odd-even) pages

2009-05-01 Thread Piero Faustini
I couldn't find a discussion on this topic. How can I have a table span across 2 pages (an odd page and the opposite one) just as it was one page? (I don't want a Longtable. Just a table which use 2 pages as they were one). Another similar question on tables which could partially solve question

Re: How to update to 1.6.2?

2009-05-01 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Piero Faustini wrote: You have ti download LyX 1.6.2 I don't know if it will uninstall 1.6.1 automagically Perhaps you want to uninstall it before. I think it doesn't delete yuour settings, but you may want to have a backup of the settings folder. The uninstaller will ask if you want to

Re: Automatic upper case for citation? (using BibLaTeX)

2009-05-01 Thread Piero Faustini
Dominik Waßenhoven domw...@... writes: Regarding upper case after dots in strings like 'ibid.' etc.: You have to use the optional argument to the cite command for this, e.g. \cite[cfr.][]{FaustiniBraga}, then 'ibid.' or 'id.' don't get capitalized. You can also achieve this from within LyX.

Re: Using LyX for writing a very long manual

2009-05-01 Thread Thomas Løcke
2009/4/29 Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com: Hi Thomas, In my opinion, LyX is exactly the right tool for what you're doing. With its WYSIAWYG (What You See Is Almost What You Get) environment, you can pound out content as fast as your fingers can type, and never have to spend time

Re: Using LyX for writing a very long manual

2009-05-01 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 1 May 2009, Thomas L?cke wrote: I'm currently working my way through the tutorial and the user's guide, and already I'm impressed at how nice output looks. I can't quite put my finger on what it is, but there's definitely something slick about it. Word processors work with each line

Re: Table in 2 (odd-even) pages

2009-05-01 Thread Piero Faustini
Jürgen Spitzmüller sp...@... writes: Piero Faustini wrote: How can I have a table span across 2 pages (an odd page and the opposite one) just as it was one page? http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=dpfloat Jürgen thanks J. that's useful, but not for my case: the tables

Trying to use some Chinese characters in Lyx 1.6.2 for Mac

2009-05-01 Thread Kleanthes Koniaris
Hello Everybody, I just installed MacTeX and Lyx 1.6.2 on my Mac, and then I typed in some English, along with a few Chinese characters. Everything displays very nicely in LyX. For each group of Chinese characters I used the menu setting Edit/Text Style/Customized.../ and set the

Re: Using LyX for writing a very long manual

2009-05-01 Thread Marcelo Acuña
Many like to use one file per chapter. Lyx can handle a single 150-page document, but you may get tired of scrolling around in it. I am not tired with a book of 726 pages. I always have outlook screen open. When I need go to any section, go by a click in TOC of outlook. Regards Marcelo

Re: Using LyX for writing a very long manual

2009-05-01 Thread Bruce Pourciau
On May 1, 2009, at 1:42 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: I'm not quite sure I understand what you mean: If I don't use any of the styles of a document class, why use the class in the first place? Or am I missing something? When you select a document class it provides all the typographic styles

Re: Using LyX for writing a very long manual

2009-05-01 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 1 May 2009, Bruce Pourciau wrote: When you select a document class it provides all the typographic styles you need ... unless there's something specific and non-standard. The layout of an article is different from that of a report, and both are different from that of a book. Rich

Re: Using LyX for writing a very long manual

2009-05-01 Thread Typhoon
On Fri, 1 May 2009 16:33:37 -0700 (PDT) Rich Shepard rshep...@appl-ecosys.com wrote: On Fri, 1 May 2009, Bruce Pourciau wrote: When you select a document class it provides all the typographic styles you need ... unless there's something specific and non-standard. The layout of an article

Typewriter, Bold is indistinguishable from plain Typewriter

2009-05-01 Thread tedc
I'm writing an instruction document and want to use Typewriter family for stuff that appears in an xterm--bold to indicate what the user should enter via the keyboard, and plain (medium) Typewriter for stuff printed by the computer. These look different on screen in LyX, but the dvi previewer

Re: bibtex bibliography insertions in lyx 1.62

2009-05-01 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
sensen wrote: I used IEEEtran template, if no bibtex bibliography, works well. but now i want to insert the reference using bibtex. after insert and citation, i checked the dvi, get error like bellow Please post an example file. Jürgen

Re: Fwd: Re: subdocuments

2009-05-01 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Am Thursday 30 April 2009 11:03:31 schrieb Guenter Milde: On 2009-04-30, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: Am Wednesday 29 April 2009 21:40:41 schrieb Guenter Milde: On 2009-04-29, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: continuing this I found out that the error was due to a reference. But it can't be the

Re: Beamer Class: allowframebreaks

2009-05-01 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Rich Shepard wrote: Using LyX-1.6.2 and beamer-3.07, how do I now specify the frame option, allowframebreaks? ERT [allowframebreaks] at the very beginning of a frame title. I see a menu option of AgainFrame but no explanation of what that does, where to put the command, or other

Re: Sporatic 1.6.2 Crash

2009-05-01 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Rich Shepard wrote: Running 1.6.2 on Slackware-12.2 here. Most of the time when I press the [Home] key, the cursor is moved to the top of the buffer. However, three times now (on two different documents), pressing [Home] causes instant shutdown of the application without an .emergency save.

Re: Sporatic 1.6.2 Crash

2009-05-01 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn
Jürgen Spitzmüller schreef: Rich Shepard wrote: Running 1.6.2 on Slackware-12.2 here. Most of the time when I press the [Home] key, the cursor is moved to the top of the buffer. However, three times now (on two different documents), pressing [Home] causes instant shutdown of the application

Re: Beamer Class: allowframebreaks

2009-05-01 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 1 May 2009, J?rgen Spitzm?ller wrote: ERT [allowframebreaks] at the very beginning of a frame title. Thank you, Juergen. You can use it to repeat a previous frame (or selected slides of it). The frame to be repeated is labelled with [label=foo], again in ERT at the very beginning

Re: Sporatic 1.6.2 Crash

2009-05-01 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 1 May 2009, J?rgen Spitzm?ller wrote: Does this happen if you have an empty paragraph or two subsequent blanks before pressing Home? Juergen, No. Usually I'm typing in a paragraph or an item in a beamer slide and accidently press the [Home] key instead of the backspace key next to

Re: Table in 2 (odd-even) pages

2009-05-01 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Piero Faustini wrote: How can I have a table span across 2 pages (an odd page and the opposite one) just as it was one page? http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=dpfloat Jürgen

Table in 2 (odd-even) pages

2009-05-01 Thread Piero Faustini
I couldn't find a discussion on this topic. How can I have a table span across 2 pages (an odd page and the opposite one) just as it was one page? (I don't want a Longtable. Just a table which use 2 pages as they were one). Another similar question on tables which could partially solve question

Re: How to update to 1.6.2?

2009-05-01 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Piero Faustini wrote: You have ti download LyX 1.6.2 I don't know if it will uninstall 1.6.1 automagically Perhaps you want to uninstall it before. I think it doesn't delete yuour settings, but you may want to have a backup of the settings folder. The uninstaller will ask if you want to

Re: Automatic upper case for citation? (using BibLaTeX)

2009-05-01 Thread Piero Faustini
Dominik Waßenhoven domw...@... writes: Regarding upper case after dots in strings like 'ibid.' etc.: You have to use the optional argument to the cite command for this, e.g. \cite[cfr.][]{FaustiniBraga}, then 'ibid.' or 'id.' don't get capitalized. You can also achieve this from within LyX.

Re: Using LyX for writing a very long manual

2009-05-01 Thread Thomas Løcke
2009/4/29 Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com: Hi Thomas, In my opinion, LyX is exactly the right tool for what you're doing. With its WYSIAWYG (What You See Is Almost What You Get) environment, you can pound out content as fast as your fingers can type, and never have to spend time

Re: Using LyX for writing a very long manual

2009-05-01 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 1 May 2009, Thomas L?cke wrote: I'm currently working my way through the tutorial and the user's guide, and already I'm impressed at how nice output looks. I can't quite put my finger on what it is, but there's definitely something slick about it. Word processors work with each line

Re: Table in 2 (odd-even) pages

2009-05-01 Thread Piero Faustini
Jürgen Spitzmüller sp...@... writes: Piero Faustini wrote: How can I have a table span across 2 pages (an odd page and the opposite one) just as it was one page? http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=dpfloat Jürgen thanks J. that's useful, but not for my case: the tables

Trying to use some Chinese characters in Lyx 1.6.2 for Mac

2009-05-01 Thread Kleanthes Koniaris
Hello Everybody, I just installed MacTeX and Lyx 1.6.2 on my Mac, and then I typed in some English, along with a few Chinese characters. Everything displays very nicely in LyX. For each group of Chinese characters I used the menu setting Edit/Text Style/Customized.../ and set the

Re: Using LyX for writing a very long manual

2009-05-01 Thread Marcelo Acuña
Many like to use one file per chapter. Lyx can handle a single 150-page document, but you may get tired of scrolling around in it. I am not tired with a book of 726 pages. I always have outlook screen open. When I need go to any section, go by a click in TOC of outlook. Regards Marcelo

Re: Using LyX for writing a very long manual

2009-05-01 Thread Bruce Pourciau
On May 1, 2009, at 1:42 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: I'm not quite sure I understand what you mean: If I don't use any of the styles of a document class, why use the class in the first place? Or am I missing something? When you select a document class it provides all the typographic styles

Re: Using LyX for writing a very long manual

2009-05-01 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 1 May 2009, Bruce Pourciau wrote: When you select a document class it provides all the typographic styles you need ... unless there's something specific and non-standard. The layout of an article is different from that of a report, and both are different from that of a book. Rich

Re: Using LyX for writing a very long manual

2009-05-01 Thread Typhoon
On Fri, 1 May 2009 16:33:37 -0700 (PDT) Rich Shepard rshep...@appl-ecosys.com wrote: On Fri, 1 May 2009, Bruce Pourciau wrote: When you select a document class it provides all the typographic styles you need ... unless there's something specific and non-standard. The layout of an article

Typewriter, Bold is indistinguishable from plain Typewriter

2009-05-01 Thread tedc
I'm writing an instruction document and want to use Typewriter family for stuff that appears in an xterm--bold to indicate what the user should enter via the keyboard, and plain (medium) Typewriter for stuff printed by the computer. These look different on screen in LyX, but the dvi previewer

Re: bibtex bibliography insertions in lyx 1.62

2009-05-01 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
sensen wrote: > I used IEEEtran template, if no bibtex bibliography, works well. > but now i want to insert the reference using bibtex. > after insert and citation, i checked the dvi, get error like bellow Please post an example file. Jürgen

Re: Fwd: Re: subdocuments

2009-05-01 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Am Thursday 30 April 2009 11:03:31 schrieb Guenter Milde: > On 2009-04-30, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > > Am Wednesday 29 April 2009 21:40:41 schrieb Guenter Milde: > >> On 2009-04-29, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > > > > continuing this I found out that the error was due to a reference. But it > >

Re: Beamer Class: allowframebreaks

2009-05-01 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Rich Shepard wrote: > Using LyX-1.6.2 and beamer-3.07, how do I now specify the frame option, > allowframebreaks? ERT [allowframebreaks] at the very beginning of a frame title. >I see a menu option of "AgainFrame" but no explanation of what that > does, where to put the command, or other

Re: Sporatic 1.6.2 Crash

2009-05-01 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Rich Shepard wrote: > Running 1.6.2 on Slackware-12.2 here. Most of the time when I press the > [Home] key, the cursor is moved to the top of the buffer. However, three > times now (on two different documents), pressing [Home] causes instant > shutdown of the application without an .emergency

Re: Sporatic 1.6.2 Crash

2009-05-01 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn
Jürgen Spitzmüller schreef: Rich Shepard wrote: Running 1.6.2 on Slackware-12.2 here. Most of the time when I press the [Home] key, the cursor is moved to the top of the buffer. However, three times now (on two different documents), pressing [Home] causes instant shutdown of the application

Re: Beamer Class: allowframebreaks

2009-05-01 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 1 May 2009, J?rgen Spitzm?ller wrote: ERT [allowframebreaks] at the very beginning of a frame title. Thank you, Juergen. You can use it to repeat a previous frame (or selected slides of it). The frame to be repeated is labelled with [label=foo], again in ERT at the very beginning

Re: Sporatic 1.6.2 Crash

2009-05-01 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 1 May 2009, J?rgen Spitzm?ller wrote: Does this happen if you have an empty paragraph or two subsequent blanks before pressing Home? Juergen, No. Usually I'm typing in a paragraph or an item in a beamer slide and accidently press the [Home] key instead of the backspace key next to

Re: Table in 2 (odd-even) pages

2009-05-01 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Piero Faustini wrote: > How can I have a table span across 2 pages (an odd page and the opposite > one) just as it was one page? http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=dpfloat Jürgen

Table in 2 (odd-even) pages

2009-05-01 Thread Piero Faustini
I couldn't find a discussion on this topic. How can I have a table span across 2 pages (an odd page and the opposite one) just as it was one page? (I don't want a Longtable. Just a table which use 2 pages as they were one). Another similar question on tables which could partially solve question

Re: How to update to 1.6.2?

2009-05-01 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Piero Faustini wrote: You have ti download LyX 1.6.2 I don't know if it will uninstall 1.6.1 automagically Perhaps you want to uninstall it before. I think it doesn't delete yuour settings, but you may want to have a backup of the settings folder. The uninstaller will ask if you want to

Re: Automatic upper case for citation? (using BibLaTeX)

2009-05-01 Thread Piero Faustini
Dominik Waßenhoven writes: > Regarding upper case after dots in strings like 'ibid.' etc.: You have > to use the optional argument to the cite command for this, e.g. > \cite[cfr.][]{FaustiniBraga}, then 'ibid.' or 'id.' don't get > capitalized. You can also achieve this from within

Re: Using LyX for writing a very long manual

2009-05-01 Thread Thomas Løcke
2009/4/29 Steve Litt : > Hi Thomas, > > In my opinion, LyX is exactly the right tool for what you're doing. With its > WYSIAWYG (What You See Is Almost What You Get) environment, you can pound out > content as fast as your fingers can type, and never have to spend time >

Re: Using LyX for writing a very long manual

2009-05-01 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 1 May 2009, Thomas L?cke wrote: I'm currently working my way through the tutorial and the user's guide, and already I'm impressed at how nice output looks. I can't quite put my finger on what it is, but there's definitely something slick about it. Word processors work with each line

Re: Table in 2 (odd-even) pages

2009-05-01 Thread Piero Faustini
Jürgen Spitzmüller writes: > > Piero Faustini wrote: > > How can I have a table span across 2 pages (an odd page and the opposite > > one) just as it was one page? > > http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=dpfloat > > Jürgen > > thanks J. that's useful, but not for my

Trying to use some Chinese characters in Lyx 1.6.2 for Mac

2009-05-01 Thread Kleanthes Koniaris
Hello Everybody, I just installed MacTeX and Lyx 1.6.2 on my Mac, and then I typed in some English, along with a few Chinese characters. Everything displays very nicely in LyX. For each group of Chinese characters I used the menu setting Edit/Text Style/Customized.../ and set the

Re: Using LyX for writing a very long manual

2009-05-01 Thread Marcelo Acuña
>> Many like to use one file per chapter. Lyx can handle a >> single 150-page document, but you may get tired of scrolling >> around in it. >> >I am not tired with a book of 726 pages. I always have outlook screen >open. >When I need go to any section, go by a click in TOC of outlook.

Re: Using LyX for writing a very long manual

2009-05-01 Thread Bruce Pourciau
On May 1, 2009, at 1:42 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: I'm not quite sure I understand what you mean: If I don't use any of the styles of a document class, why use the class in the first place? Or am I missing something? When you select a document class it provides all the typographic styles

Re: Using LyX for writing a very long manual

2009-05-01 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 1 May 2009, Bruce Pourciau wrote: When you select a document class it provides all the typographic styles you need ... unless there's something specific and non-standard. The layout of an article is different from that of a report, and both are different from that of a book. Rich

Re: Using LyX for writing a very long manual

2009-05-01 Thread Typhoon
On Fri, 1 May 2009 16:33:37 -0700 (PDT) Rich Shepard wrote: > On Fri, 1 May 2009, Bruce Pourciau wrote: > > >> When you select a document class it provides all the typographic > >> styles you need ... unless there's something specific and > >> non-standard. The layout

Typewriter, Bold is indistinguishable from plain Typewriter

2009-05-01 Thread tedc
I'm writing an instruction document and want to use Typewriter family for stuff that appears in an xterm--bold to indicate what the user should enter via the keyboard, and plain ("medium") Typewriter for stuff printed by the computer. These look different on screen in LyX, but the dvi previewer