problems opening a lyx 1.5.6 file with lyx 1.6.3

2009-08-11 Thread Niall Robinson
Hello, I'm trying to open a report I wrote with Lyx 1.5.6 in 1.6.3 and am getting LOTS of different errors. It seems odd that the old version of lyx doesn't complain though. I don't know weather I'm doing something stupid with the setup of the new version of lyx. The errors mostly consist of

Re: problems opening a lyx 1.5.6 file with lyx 1.6.3

2009-08-11 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Niall Robinson wrote: I'm trying to open a report I wrote with Lyx 1.5.6 in 1.6.3 and am getting LOTS of different errors. It seems odd that the old version of lyx doesn't complain though. I don't know weather I'm doing something stupid with the setup of the new version of lyx. The errors

RE: problems opening a lyx 1.5.6 file with lyx 1.6.3

2009-08-11 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW
I'm trying to open a report I wrote with Lyx 1.5.6 in 1.6.3 and am getting LOTS of different errors. We really need some more information and, preferably, a minimal example or else the document itself. Vincent

Re: How to get a preview for custom graphics format?

2009-08-11 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 09.08.2009, at 17:31, Pavel Sanda wrote: Daniel Lohmann wrote: Your help is highly appreciated! try to mimic http://www.lyx.org/trac/changeset/27914 and ask for inclusion if you succeed. you may also want to comment on bug 4882. Hi Pavel, Thanks for your answer! However, I have to

Re: How to get a preview for custom graphics format?

2009-08-11 Thread Pavel Sanda
Daniel Lohmann wrote: that mean that it is *not possible* to achieve goal (1) (the preview in LyX, everything else works) via file formats and converters only? unless imagemagick convert utility knows how to deal with it (i think it doesn't) i'm not aware of such a plain route. pavel

New literate programming with Lyx

2009-08-11 Thread Sam Liddicott
I've posted on http://www.lyx.org/trac/attachment/ticket/6137/ my alternative literate programming style with Lyx. I put this together because literate programming with noweb and Lyx has been absolutely awful in so many ways - if I wasn't a sed wizard I'd have given up. I encourage people to try

Go Away Drawer

2009-08-11 Thread Bruce Pourciau
In LyX 1.6.3, how cam I make the Table of Contents drawer go away? Also, after I set the window size and position for one file, LyX 1.5.6 would open all subsequent files in that window, but 1.6.3 opens some subsequent files (those it hasn't seen before) in a small window which I then have

RE: Go Away Drawer

2009-08-11 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW
In LyX 1.6.3, how cam I make the Table of Contents drawer go away? By pressing the small 'x' ? Also, after I set the window size and position for one file, LyX 1.5.6 would open all subsequent files in that window, but 1.6.3 opens some subsequent files (those it hasn't seen before) in a

Re: Problems with indentation and linguistics module (covington)

2009-08-11 Thread Johannes Knaus
Hello again, After some days of playing around I still haven't found a solution to the problem. Indeed it seems a very tricky business. It seems that \leftmargin is completely ignored: \setlength{\leftmargin}{2pt} or \setlength{\leftmargin}{92pt} do not change anything in the pdf-output.

Re: hi friends of lyx

2009-08-11 Thread rgheck
On 08/11/2009 12:53 PM, Adrian Diaz wrote: Hi rgheck I am writing my thesis with lyx 1.6.3, and i have set up the Document Class: book (more font sizes) and in Page Layout - Headings Style: headings. I would like to watch all numbers of pages at the botton of center on each page. However

changing margins in article class when using Beamer

2009-08-11 Thread Graham M Smith
I'm using Beamer, and producing a presentation handout by switching to the beamer article class, which defaults to wide margins. If I change the margins in documents settings, this then prevents the beamer slides being produced (I get a compile error). I assume I can put something in the

How to embed a spreadsheet in LyX or LaTeX?

2009-08-11 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, How can I embed a spreadsheet (MS Excel I assume) into a LyX or LaTeX document? Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt

Re: changing margins in article class when using Beamer

2009-08-11 Thread rgheck
On 08/11/2009 03:27 PM, Graham M Smith wrote: I'm using Beamer, and producing a presentation handout by switching to the beamer article class, which defaults to wide margins. If I change the margins in documents settings, this then prevents the beamer slides being produced (I get a compile

Re: How to embed a spreadsheet in LyX or LaTeX?

2009-08-11 Thread rgheck
On 08/11/2009 03:31 PM, Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, How can I embed a spreadsheet (MS Excel I assume) into a LyX or LaTeX document? What do you want them to look like? Do you want them to be editable? If not, then export to csv and you can use the import filter. If you do want it to be

Re: How to embed a spreadsheet in LyX or LaTeX?

2009-08-11 Thread Hellmut Weber
Steve Litt schrieb: Hi all, How can I embed a spreadsheet (MS Excel I assume) into a LyX or LaTeX document? Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt Hi Steve, in Excel * mark the cells you wnat

Re: changing margins in article class when using Beamer

2009-08-11 Thread Graham M Smith
rh If you can find some macro that is defined in this case, but not in the other case, then all you need is: \ifx\thatmacro\undefined\relax\else your stuff here \fi I don't know what \thatmacro might be, though. Thanks, but unfortunately, this doesn't mean very much to

Chapter styles...

2009-08-11 Thread Frederick Noronha [फ़रेदरिक नोरो नया]
Could someone tell me where I could find more chapter styles for a book? I mean something like http://zoonek.free.fr/LaTeX/LaTeX_samples_chapter/0.html Many thanks in advance. FN -- FN +91-9822122436 P +91-832-2409490 Konkani adages http://konkani-adages.notlong.com/ Medieval Goa

Re: How to embed a spreadsheet in LyX or LaTeX?

2009-08-11 Thread Phil
You might also try excel2latex

Re: Lyx 1.6.3 Can I ditch the pointNclick list of open files below the toolbars???

2009-08-11 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
It would appear that on Aug 7, Vincent van Ravesteijn did say: Magically, the dropdownbox is also shown when the toolbar is hidden (after Alt-P space) Well Vincent, I'm glad to hear that it's supposed to work like that. But it doesn't work that way for me... I'm using LyX 1.6.3 as emerged

Re: Lyx 1.6.3 Can I ditch the pointNclick list of open files below the toolbars???

2009-08-11 Thread rgheck
On 08/11/2009 07:41 PM, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote: It would appear that on Aug 7, Vincent van Ravesteijn did say: Magically, the dropdownbox is also shown when the toolbar is hidden (after Alt-Pspace) Well Vincent, I'm glad to hear that it's supposed to work like that. But it

problems opening a lyx 1.5.6 file with lyx 1.6.3

2009-08-11 Thread Niall Robinson
Hello, I'm trying to open a report I wrote with Lyx 1.5.6 in 1.6.3 and am getting LOTS of different errors. It seems odd that the old version of lyx doesn't complain though. I don't know weather I'm doing something stupid with the setup of the new version of lyx. The errors mostly consist of

Re: problems opening a lyx 1.5.6 file with lyx 1.6.3

2009-08-11 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Niall Robinson wrote: I'm trying to open a report I wrote with Lyx 1.5.6 in 1.6.3 and am getting LOTS of different errors. It seems odd that the old version of lyx doesn't complain though. I don't know weather I'm doing something stupid with the setup of the new version of lyx. The errors

RE: problems opening a lyx 1.5.6 file with lyx 1.6.3

2009-08-11 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW
I'm trying to open a report I wrote with Lyx 1.5.6 in 1.6.3 and am getting LOTS of different errors. We really need some more information and, preferably, a minimal example or else the document itself. Vincent

Re: How to get a preview for custom graphics format?

2009-08-11 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 09.08.2009, at 17:31, Pavel Sanda wrote: Daniel Lohmann wrote: Your help is highly appreciated! try to mimic http://www.lyx.org/trac/changeset/27914 and ask for inclusion if you succeed. you may also want to comment on bug 4882. Hi Pavel, Thanks for your answer! However, I have to

Re: How to get a preview for custom graphics format?

2009-08-11 Thread Pavel Sanda
Daniel Lohmann wrote: that mean that it is *not possible* to achieve goal (1) (the preview in LyX, everything else works) via file formats and converters only? unless imagemagick convert utility knows how to deal with it (i think it doesn't) i'm not aware of such a plain route. pavel

New literate programming with Lyx

2009-08-11 Thread Sam Liddicott
I've posted on http://www.lyx.org/trac/attachment/ticket/6137/ my alternative literate programming style with Lyx. I put this together because literate programming with noweb and Lyx has been absolutely awful in so many ways - if I wasn't a sed wizard I'd have given up. I encourage people to try

Go Away Drawer

2009-08-11 Thread Bruce Pourciau
In LyX 1.6.3, how cam I make the Table of Contents drawer go away? Also, after I set the window size and position for one file, LyX 1.5.6 would open all subsequent files in that window, but 1.6.3 opens some subsequent files (those it hasn't seen before) in a small window which I then have

RE: Go Away Drawer

2009-08-11 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW
In LyX 1.6.3, how cam I make the Table of Contents drawer go away? By pressing the small 'x' ? Also, after I set the window size and position for one file, LyX 1.5.6 would open all subsequent files in that window, but 1.6.3 opens some subsequent files (those it hasn't seen before) in a

Re: Problems with indentation and linguistics module (covington)

2009-08-11 Thread Johannes Knaus
Hello again, After some days of playing around I still haven't found a solution to the problem. Indeed it seems a very tricky business. It seems that \leftmargin is completely ignored: \setlength{\leftmargin}{2pt} or \setlength{\leftmargin}{92pt} do not change anything in the pdf-output.

Re: hi friends of lyx

2009-08-11 Thread rgheck
On 08/11/2009 12:53 PM, Adrian Diaz wrote: Hi rgheck I am writing my thesis with lyx 1.6.3, and i have set up the Document Class: book (more font sizes) and in Page Layout - Headings Style: headings. I would like to watch all numbers of pages at the botton of center on each page. However

changing margins in article class when using Beamer

2009-08-11 Thread Graham M Smith
I'm using Beamer, and producing a presentation handout by switching to the beamer article class, which defaults to wide margins. If I change the margins in documents settings, this then prevents the beamer slides being produced (I get a compile error). I assume I can put something in the

How to embed a spreadsheet in LyX or LaTeX?

2009-08-11 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, How can I embed a spreadsheet (MS Excel I assume) into a LyX or LaTeX document? Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt

Re: changing margins in article class when using Beamer

2009-08-11 Thread rgheck
On 08/11/2009 03:27 PM, Graham M Smith wrote: I'm using Beamer, and producing a presentation handout by switching to the beamer article class, which defaults to wide margins. If I change the margins in documents settings, this then prevents the beamer slides being produced (I get a compile

Re: How to embed a spreadsheet in LyX or LaTeX?

2009-08-11 Thread rgheck
On 08/11/2009 03:31 PM, Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, How can I embed a spreadsheet (MS Excel I assume) into a LyX or LaTeX document? What do you want them to look like? Do you want them to be editable? If not, then export to csv and you can use the import filter. If you do want it to be

Re: How to embed a spreadsheet in LyX or LaTeX?

2009-08-11 Thread Hellmut Weber
Steve Litt schrieb: Hi all, How can I embed a spreadsheet (MS Excel I assume) into a LyX or LaTeX document? Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt Hi Steve, in Excel * mark the cells you wnat

Re: changing margins in article class when using Beamer

2009-08-11 Thread Graham M Smith
rh If you can find some macro that is defined in this case, but not in the other case, then all you need is: \ifx\thatmacro\undefined\relax\else your stuff here \fi I don't know what \thatmacro might be, though. Thanks, but unfortunately, this doesn't mean very much to

Chapter styles...

2009-08-11 Thread Frederick Noronha [फ़रेदरिक नोरो नया]
Could someone tell me where I could find more chapter styles for a book? I mean something like http://zoonek.free.fr/LaTeX/LaTeX_samples_chapter/0.html Many thanks in advance. FN -- FN +91-9822122436 P +91-832-2409490 Konkani adages http://konkani-adages.notlong.com/ Medieval Goa

Re: How to embed a spreadsheet in LyX or LaTeX?

2009-08-11 Thread Phil
You might also try excel2latex

Re: Lyx 1.6.3 Can I ditch the pointNclick list of open files below the toolbars???

2009-08-11 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
It would appear that on Aug 7, Vincent van Ravesteijn did say: Magically, the dropdownbox is also shown when the toolbar is hidden (after Alt-P space) Well Vincent, I'm glad to hear that it's supposed to work like that. But it doesn't work that way for me... I'm using LyX 1.6.3 as emerged

Re: Lyx 1.6.3 Can I ditch the pointNclick list of open files below the toolbars???

2009-08-11 Thread rgheck
On 08/11/2009 07:41 PM, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote: It would appear that on Aug 7, Vincent van Ravesteijn did say: Magically, the dropdownbox is also shown when the toolbar is hidden (after Alt-Pspace) Well Vincent, I'm glad to hear that it's supposed to work like that. But it

problems opening a lyx 1.5.6 file with lyx 1.6.3

2009-08-11 Thread Niall Robinson
Hello, I'm trying to open a report I wrote with Lyx 1.5.6 in 1.6.3 and am getting LOTS of different errors. It seems odd that the old version of lyx doesn't complain though. I don't know weather I'm doing something stupid with the setup of the new version of lyx. The errors mostly consist of

Re: problems opening a lyx 1.5.6 file with lyx 1.6.3

2009-08-11 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Niall Robinson wrote: > I'm trying to open a report I wrote with Lyx 1.5.6 in 1.6.3 and am > getting LOTS of different errors. It seems odd that the old version of > lyx doesn't complain though. I don't know weather I'm doing something > stupid with the setup of the new version of lyx. The errors

RE: problems opening a lyx 1.5.6 file with lyx 1.6.3

2009-08-11 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW
>I'm trying to open a report I wrote with Lyx 1.5.6 in >1.6.3 and am getting LOTS of different errors. We really need some more information and, preferably, a minimal example or else the document itself. Vincent

Re: How to get a preview for "custom" graphics format?

2009-08-11 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 09.08.2009, at 17:31, Pavel Sanda wrote: Daniel Lohmann wrote: Your help is highly appreciated! try to mimic http://www.lyx.org/trac/changeset/27914 and ask for inclusion if you succeed. you may also want to comment on bug 4882. Hi Pavel, Thanks for your answer! However, I have to

Re: How to get a preview for "custom" graphics format?

2009-08-11 Thread Pavel Sanda
Daniel Lohmann wrote: > that mean that it is *not possible* to achieve goal (1) (the preview in > LyX, everything else works) via file formats and converters only? unless imagemagick convert utility knows how to deal with it (i think it doesn't) i'm not aware of such a plain route. pavel

New literate programming with Lyx

2009-08-11 Thread Sam Liddicott
I've posted on http://www.lyx.org/trac/attachment/ticket/6137/ my alternative literate programming style with Lyx. I put this together because literate programming with noweb and Lyx has been absolutely awful in so many ways - if I wasn't a sed wizard I'd have given up. I encourage people to try

Go Away Drawer

2009-08-11 Thread Bruce Pourciau
In LyX 1.6.3, how cam I make the Table of Contents drawer go away? Also, after I set the window size and position for one file, LyX 1.5.6 would open all subsequent files in that window, but 1.6.3 opens some subsequent files (those it hasn't seen before) in a small window which I then have

RE: Go Away Drawer

2009-08-11 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW
>In LyX 1.6.3, how cam I make the Table of Contents drawer go away? By pressing the small 'x' ? >Also, after I set the window size and position for >one file, LyX 1.5.6 would open all subsequent files >in that window, but 1.6.3 opens some subsequent files >(those it hasn't seen before) in a

Re: Problems with indentation and linguistics module (covington)

2009-08-11 Thread Johannes Knaus
Hello again, After some days of playing around I still haven't found a solution to the problem. Indeed it seems a very tricky business. It seems that \leftmargin is completely ignored: \setlength{\leftmargin}{2pt} or \setlength{\leftmargin}{92pt} do not change anything in the pdf-output.

Re: hi friends of lyx

2009-08-11 Thread rgheck
On 08/11/2009 12:53 PM, Adrian Diaz wrote: Hi rgheck I am writing my thesis with lyx 1.6.3, and i have set up the Document Class: book (more font sizes) and in Page Layout -> Headings Style: headings. I would like to watch all numbers of pages at the botton of center on each page. However

changing margins in article class when using Beamer

2009-08-11 Thread Graham M Smith
I'm using Beamer, and producing a presentation handout by switching to the beamer article class, which defaults to wide margins. If I change the margins in documents settings, this then prevents the beamer slides being produced (I get a compile error). I assume I can put something in the

How to embed a spreadsheet in LyX or LaTeX?

2009-08-11 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, How can I embed a spreadsheet (MS Excel I assume) into a LyX or LaTeX document? Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt

Re: changing margins in article class when using Beamer

2009-08-11 Thread rgheck
On 08/11/2009 03:27 PM, Graham M Smith wrote: I'm using Beamer, and producing a presentation handout by switching to the beamer article class, which defaults to wide margins. If I change the margins in documents settings, this then prevents the beamer slides being produced (I get a compile

Re: How to embed a spreadsheet in LyX or LaTeX?

2009-08-11 Thread rgheck
On 08/11/2009 03:31 PM, Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, How can I embed a spreadsheet (MS Excel I assume) into a LyX or LaTeX document? What do you want them to look like? Do you want them to be editable? If not, then export to csv and you can use the import filter. If you do want it to be

Re: How to embed a spreadsheet in LyX or LaTeX?

2009-08-11 Thread Hellmut Weber
Steve Litt schrieb: Hi all, How can I embed a spreadsheet (MS Excel I assume) into a LyX or LaTeX document? Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt Hi Steve, in Excel * mark the cells you wnat

Re: changing margins in article class when using Beamer

2009-08-11 Thread Graham M Smith
rh If you can find some macro that is defined in this case, but not in the other case, then all you need is: \ifx\thatmacro\undefined\relax\else your stuff here \fi I don't know what \thatmacro might be, though. Thanks, but unfortunately, this doesn't mean very much to

Chapter styles...

2009-08-11 Thread Frederick Noronha [फ़रेदरिक नोरो नया]
Could someone tell me where I could find more chapter styles for a book? I mean something like http://zoonek.free.fr/LaTeX/LaTeX_samples_chapter/0.html Many thanks in advance. FN -- FN +91-9822122436 P +91-832-2409490 Konkani adages http://konkani-adages.notlong.com/ Medieval Goa

Re: How to embed a spreadsheet in LyX or LaTeX?

2009-08-11 Thread Phil
You might also try excel2latex

Re: Lyx 1.6.3 Can I ditch the pointNclick list of open files below the toolbars???

2009-08-11 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
It would appear that on Aug 7, Vincent van Ravesteijn did say: > Magically, the dropdownbox is also shown when the toolbar is hidden (after > Alt-P ) Well Vincent, I'm glad to hear that it's supposed to work like that. But it doesn't work that way for me... I'm using LyX 1.6.3 as emerged for

Re: Lyx 1.6.3 Can I ditch the pointNclick list of open files below the toolbars???

2009-08-11 Thread rgheck
On 08/11/2009 07:41 PM, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote: It would appear that on Aug 7, Vincent van Ravesteijn did say: Magically, the dropdownbox is also shown when the toolbar is hidden (after Alt-P) Well Vincent, I'm glad to hear that it's supposed to work like that. But it doesn't