Re: changing margins in article class when using Beamer

2009-08-13 Thread Graham M Smith
Pau lI thank you for bringing the beamer(article) to my attention. That is very handy for me as well. I can see that if I insert some branches, then I can really customize which material is included in the article output. Nice! Yes, its a superb capability, I was also hoping to use the

Re: changing margins in article class when using Beamer

2009-08-13 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Graham M Smith wrote: After changing to Beamer(article) class. I used the Document Settings|Page Margins tab I unticked the default and changed the margin sizes. I was hoping that Lyx would magically remember this was just the default for the Beamer (article) bit, but it also took this as the

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

2009-08-13 Thread Pavel Sanda
Paul Johnson wrote: I am sorry if I am telling you something you already know, but... thanks for info (i know basically nothing about tikz) It seems to me you are throwing away the value of TikZ by doing this. Recall that one of the strengths of TikZ/pgf is that the fonts and such in the

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

2009-08-13 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Pavel Sanda wrote: i see three possibilities: - one possibility would be to make external template which tries to the instant preview from the included file only. it will work 100% for typeset output, preview will work for figures and somewhat unreliably for the documents i guess.

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

2009-08-13 Thread Pavel Sanda
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: IMHO the only way to go is an external inset that * outputs \input{myfigure.tiks} to LaTeX and * uses the graphics approach for the preview. I think this should be possible with the current external templates approach. and the parent preamble? pavel

Re: unable to run lyx 1.6.2 and 1.6.3 due to undefined symbol: _Z13qFlagLocationPKc

2009-08-13 Thread Pavel Sanda
zweetsmoel wrote: for your information, when i compile lyx (either 1.6.1/2/3), i get this info when finished: as a last resort you can try to compile qt's locally and install them into eg ~/tree/. then configure lyx for qt's having in ~/tree/ , probably also with install prefix to ~/tree/.

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

2009-08-13 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Pavel Sanda wrote: and the parent preamble? I guess the tikz file would need its own preamble. Jürgen

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

2009-08-13 Thread Pavel Sanda
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Pavel Sanda wrote: and the parent preamble? I guess the tikz file would need its own preamble. well, i have written my ideas with taking into account Paul's concerns: Recall that one of the strengths of TikZ/pgf is that the fonts and such in the figure will

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

2009-08-13 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Pavel Sanda wrote: I guess the tikz file would need its own preamble. well, i have written my ideas with taking into account Paul's concerns: Recall that one of the strengths of TikZ/pgf is that the fonts and such in the figure will match the document. If you persist in keeping the TikZ

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

2009-08-13 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Pavel Sanda wrote: - to make a python script which would take the parent document dumps the preamble, then inputs tikz, latex it and returns figure for both preview and output. Here is such a python script (although it is a bit too UNIX-centric):

Re: unable to run lyx 1.6.2 and 1.6.3 due to undefined symbol: _Z13qFlagLocationPKc

2009-08-13 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 4:17 AM, zweetsmoelzweetsm...@gmail.com wrote: only another error message... src/lyx: symbol lookup error: src/lyx: undefined symbol: _ZN8QPainter10drawPixmapERK7QPointFRK7QPixmap ok, this is definitely a qt error. even qtconfig won't launch, it gotta be qt related.

Re: unable to run lyx 1.6.2 and 1.6.3 due to undefined symbol: _Z13qFlagLocationPKc

2009-08-13 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 5:13 PM, John McCabe-Danstedgma...@gmail.com wrote: you get other wise similar results, a  sudo apt-get install libqt4 May help. By which I mean sudo apt-get install libqt4-assistant libqt4-core libqt4-dbg libqt4-dbus libqt4-designer libqt4-dev libqt4-gui libqt4-help

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

2009-08-13 Thread Pavel Sanda
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Pavel Sanda wrote: - to make a python script which would take the parent document dumps the preamble, then inputs tikz, latex it and returns figure for both preview and output. Here is such a python script (although it is a bit too UNIX-centric):

Re: lyx 1.6.2 + Ubuntu 9.04 = slow typing

2009-08-13 Thread Alex M
This is worth posting to the wiki, if you're so inclined. Well, I can do this. Which wiki section should I post to? Intel drivers for the older chips are currently broken and in most cases unusable. So all in all I doubt this is somehow relevant for LyX it's more of a general issue. Yes,

Re: Find All and Emphasize

2009-08-13 Thread Bruce Pourciau
On Aug 12, 2009, at 5:38 PM, rgheck wrote: On 08/12/2009 04:34 PM, Bruce Pourciau wrote: Is there a simple way to go back through a document and italicize (emphasize) all occurrences of a certain word? Not within LyX itself. The best way to do it is to run a script of some sort on the

Re: changing margins in article class when using Beamer

2009-08-13 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Graham M Smith wrote: To answer your margin question, I wonder how you changed the margins? In all of the beamer examples I find, the margin options are grayed out and I can't change them. After changing to Beamer(article) class. I used the Document Settings|Page Margins tab I unticked

Re: Find All and Emphasize

2009-08-13 Thread Erez Yerushalmi
Same idea as Richard's, Open your .lyx file in another editor such as notepad++ and find and replace the WORD with \emph on WORD \emph default I tried it and wit worked for me. erez On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 9:34 PM, Bruce Pourciau bruce.h.pourc...@lawrence.edu wrote: Is there a simple way

Re: unable to run lyx 1.6.2 and 1.6.3 due to undefined symbol: _Z13qFlagLocationPKc

2009-08-13 Thread zweetsmoel
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 11:13 AM, John McCabe-Danstedgma...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 4:17 AM, zweetsmoelzweetsm...@gmail.com wrote: only another error message... src/lyx: symbol lookup error: src/lyx: undefined symbol: _ZN8QPainter10drawPixmapERK7QPointFRK7QPixmap ok, this is

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

2009-08-13 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 11.08.2009, at 23:48, Phil wrote: You might also try excel2latex I can also recommend excel2latex. I used it quite a lot when I was writing my thesis. The nice thing about it is that it also preserves a sensible part of the formattings (e.g., bold headlines, right aligned data,

Re: changing margins in article class when using Beamer

2009-08-13 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Graham M Smith wrote: Paul That's ok, I understood what you meant -- just not why you did it. I don't use article (Beamer), but my impression is that it's purpose is to facilitate turning a slideshow into a paper (either after the fact or in parallel development). I don't think it's

biblatex installation

2009-08-13 Thread Ehud Kaplan
Paul Johnson wrote: You did not make a complete install of biblatex. It is much more than just that one style file. In linux, these are the installed files from biblatex: usr/share/texmf /usr/share/texmf/bibtex /usr/share/texmf/bibtex/csf /usr/share/texmf/bibtex/csf/biblatex

Re: unable to run lyx 1.6.2 and 1.6.3 due to undefined symbol: _Z13qFlagLocationPKc

2009-08-13 Thread Steve Litt
On Thursday 13 August 2009 11:34:54 zweetsmoel wrote: issue has been resolved! by running: ldd `which lyx` in a shell, i was able to see that libQtCore.so.4 was loaded from /usr/local/lib instead of /usr/lib, which suggests duplicate and wrong usage of libs. deleting two qt-lib files residing

Re: Find All and Emphasize

2009-08-13 Thread Bruce Pourciau
On Aug 13, 2009, at 10:30 AM, Erez Yerushalmi wrote: Same idea as Richard's, Open your .lyx file in another editor such as notepad++ and find and replace the WORD with \emph on WORD \emph default I tried it and wit worked for me. erez On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 9:34 PM, Bruce Pourciau

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

2009-08-13 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 13.08.2009, at 06:47, Paul Johnson wrote: On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 9:52 AM, Daniel Lohmanndaniel.lohm...@informatik.uni-erlangen.de wrote: Hi, So here is what I want to achieve: I have some TikZ figures (which are actually stand-alone LaTeX- documents with the extension .tikz) that I

About the position of footnotes and page numbers

2009-08-13 Thread Antonio Díaz
I'm writing and designing a text. The style is *Book Koma-script* First question: the text have a lot of footnotes, and I want it to appear on the side of the body of the text, as same as the margin notes. Is it possible? Second question: Is possible to change the position of the page numbers?

Re: Find All and Emphasize

2009-08-13 Thread rgheck
On 08/13/2009 11:30 AM, Erez Yerushalmi wrote: Same idea as Richard's, Open your .lyx file in another editor such as notepad++ and find and replace the WORD with \emph on WORD \emph default I tried it and wit worked for me. Then you got lucky...unless you had the newlines in there, too.

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

2009-08-13 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 12.08.2009, at 09:53, Guenter Milde wrote: On 2009-08-11, Pavel Sanda wrote: 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

Re: About the position of footnotes and page numbers

2009-08-13 Thread rgheck
On 08/13/2009 12:39 PM, Antonio Díaz wrote: I'm writing and designing a text. The style is *Book Koma-script* First question: the text have a lot of footnotes, and I want it to appear on the side of the body of the text, as same as the margin notes. Is it possible? Yes, but I don't really

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

2009-08-13 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 13.08.2009, at 11:22, Pavel Sanda wrote: Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Pavel Sanda wrote: - to make a python script which would take the parent document dumps the preamble, then inputs tikz, latex it and returns figure for both preview and output. Here is such a python script (although

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

2009-08-13 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Daniel Lohmann wrote: The real problem is to get the preamble right. Because TikZ is a huge package that has a noticeable impact on LaTeX compilation times (and memory consumption), it is pretty well modularized into multiple libraries. A typical preamble for a TikZ figure looks as

Spellchecker problem

2009-08-13 Thread Christian Bustamante
Hi all, I'm using LyX on Windows XP and I'm trying to set up the spellchecker, so I downloaded the spanish Open Office dictionary. This file is a plain text one, so I changed the extension to pws (the requiered one for LyX). Then I went to Tools - Prefeernces - Language - Spellchecker and browse

Re: Find All and Emphasize

2009-08-13 Thread Erez Yerushalmi
Yes, you are right!!! On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 5:43 PM, rgheck rgh...@bobjweil.com wrote: On 08/13/2009 11:30 AM, Erez Yerushalmi wrote: Same idea as Richard's, Open your .lyx file in another editor such as notepad++ and find and replace the WORD with \emph on WORD \emph default I

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

2009-08-13 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
It would appear that on Aug 11, rgheck did say: On 08/11/2009 07:41 PM, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote: Well Vincent, I'm glad to hear that it's supposed to work like that. But it doesn't work that way for me... --- snip --- Perhaps this automagic behavior is dependent on the

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

2009-08-13 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
It would appear that on Aug 12, Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW did say: Perhaps this automagic behavior is dependent on the windowmanager? Then you'd really have to try the Windows windowmanager :) Now I'm feeling nauseous... -- | ~^~ ~^~ | o oJoe (theWordy) Philbrook |

Problem with pdfview/pdfopen/pdfclose in LyX 1.6.3 + Acrobat 8.1.x + Win 7

2009-08-13 Thread Thomas Winkler
Hi all, I have a small problem with my still almost clean setup of LyX 1.6.3 (installed with LyXWinInstaller) on Windows 7 Pro (x64) and Acrobat 8.1.x. If I click the View PDF button, the PDF file is generated in the temp folder, but nothing much happens. Well, nothing visible at least -

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

2009-08-13 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn
Yes, I tried to guess what would open a chapter and found out that alt+P[c] = lyx code... Sorry, I have to tell you: alt+P[0] = Part, [1] = Chapter, [2] = Section, [3] = SubSection, etc. alt+P*[0] = Part*, [1] = Chapter*, [2] = Section*, [3] = SubSection*, etc. Now I'm feeling

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

2009-08-13 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
It would appear that on Aug 12, BH did say: On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 12:46 PM, Vincent van Ravesteijnv.f.vanraveste...@tudelft.nl wrote: Magically, the dropdownbox is also shown when the toolbar is hidden (after Alt-P space) From what I can tell, this is true only if the standard

Re: changing margins in article class when using Beamer

2009-08-13 Thread Graham M Smith
Paul Well, I have something to propose. I still have no idea how you managed to change margins before (it should have been grayed out), unless maybe you're on an older version of LyX. Since I could not change margins, I could not reproduce your results. If you are using 1.6.x, though, I

Re: changing margins in article class when using Beamer

2009-08-13 Thread Graham M Smith
Jürgen Graham M Smith wrote: After changing to Beamer(article) class. I used the Document Settings|Page Margins tab I unticked the default and changed the margin sizes. I was hoping that Lyx would magically remember this was just the default for the Beamer (article) bit, but it also took

Re: changing margins in article class when using Beamer

2009-08-13 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Graham M Smith wrote: Paul Well, I have something to propose. I still have no idea how you managed to change margins before (it should have been grayed out), unless maybe you're on an older version of LyX. Since I could not change margins, I could not reproduce your results. If you are

Re: changing margins in article class when using Beamer

2009-08-13 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Paul A. Rubin wrote: Graham M Smith wrote: Paul Well, I have something to propose. I still have no idea how you managed to change margins before (it should have been grayed out), unless maybe you're on an older version of LyX. Since I could not change margins, I could not reproduce your

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

2009-08-13 Thread rgheck
On 08/13/2009 02:05 PM, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote: Yup I used the .ui file to dump the undesirable toolbars... But I'm curious, How else can I get rid of them? I wouldn't have discovered the existence of the .ui files if I could have found a pulldown menu choice to deactivate them...

I need HELP!

2009-08-13 Thread M . Kocinski
I am trying hard to use LyX instead of Scientific Workplace but I have an irriatating problem. After a short time of writing (Title, author, abstract, and so on) the dvi, pdf buttons don't work. I just click and nothing happens. What the heck is going on!! best regards, Marek Kociński

Re: I need HELP!

2009-08-13 Thread rgheck
On 08/13/2009 03:25 PM, m.kocin...@mini.pw.edu.pl wrote: I am trying hard to use LyX instead of Scientific Workplace but I have an irriatating problem. After a short time of writing (Title, author, abstract, and so on) the dvi, pdf buttons don't work. I just click and nothing happens. What the

Re: I need HELP!

2009-08-13 Thread Paul Smith
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 8:25 PM, m.kocin...@mini.pw.edu.pl wrote: I am trying hard to use LyX instead of Scientific Workplace but I have an irriatating problem. After a short time of writing (Title, author, abstract, and so on) the dvi, pdf buttons don't work. I just click and nothing happens.

Re: changing margins in article class when using Beamer

2009-08-13 Thread Graham M Smith
Paul I'm using 1.6.2, on Ubuntu 9.04 and none of the margin/page controls are greyed out, so I can already adjust paper type/size and margins in article (beamer) as in any article. It was just that these then needed set back to default when switching back t Beamer. Strange isn't it.

Re: Problem with pdfview/pdfopen/pdfclose in LyX 1.6.3 + Acrobat 8.1.x + Win 7

2009-08-13 Thread Thomas Winkler
Hi all, the topic posted right after this (http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg75792.html) just got me checking my file format associations, and voilà, there I see that not pdfview, but acrobat is set as the PDF viewer. I don't know why the installer set this wrong, but now

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

2009-08-13 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
On 13/08/2009 20:05, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote: It would appear that on Aug 12, BH did say: On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 12:46 PM, Vincent van Ravesteijnv.f.vanraveste...@tudelft.nl wrote: Magically, the dropdownbox is also shown when the toolbar is hidden (after Alt-Pspace) From what I can

Re: Spellchecker problem

2009-08-13 Thread M-L
Christian Bustamante wrote: Hi all, I'm using LyX on Windows XP and I'm trying to set up the spellchecker, so I downloaded the spanish Open Office dictionary. This file is a plain text one, so I changed the extension to pws (the requiered one for LyX). Then I went to Tools - Prefeernces -

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

2009-08-13 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
It would appear that on Aug 13, rgheck did say: ViewToolbars? I remember it used to be there in ver 1.5.6... But I can't find it in ver 1.6.3 But thanks... -- | ~^~ ~^~ | * * Joe (theWordy) Philbrook | ^ J(tWdy)P | \___/ jtw...@ttlc.net

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

2009-08-13 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
It would appear that on Aug 13, Abdelrazak Younes did say: What about F11 to switch to full screen view? Thanks for the idea Abdel. And I almost like it. But I keep my LyX window only almost maximized because I keep track of the time with a clock gadget that full screen view would hide...

Re: changing margins in article class when using Beamer

2009-08-13 Thread Graham M Smith
Pau lI thank you for bringing the beamer(article) to my attention. That is very handy for me as well. I can see that if I insert some branches, then I can really customize which material is included in the article output. Nice! Yes, its a superb capability, I was also hoping to use the

Re: changing margins in article class when using Beamer

2009-08-13 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Graham M Smith wrote: After changing to Beamer(article) class. I used the Document Settings|Page Margins tab I unticked the default and changed the margin sizes. I was hoping that Lyx would magically remember this was just the default for the Beamer (article) bit, but it also took this as the

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

2009-08-13 Thread Pavel Sanda
Paul Johnson wrote: I am sorry if I am telling you something you already know, but... thanks for info (i know basically nothing about tikz) It seems to me you are throwing away the value of TikZ by doing this. Recall that one of the strengths of TikZ/pgf is that the fonts and such in the

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

2009-08-13 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Pavel Sanda wrote: i see three possibilities: - one possibility would be to make external template which tries to the instant preview from the included file only. it will work 100% for typeset output, preview will work for figures and somewhat unreliably for the documents i guess.

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

2009-08-13 Thread Pavel Sanda
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: IMHO the only way to go is an external inset that * outputs \input{myfigure.tiks} to LaTeX and * uses the graphics approach for the preview. I think this should be possible with the current external templates approach. and the parent preamble? pavel

Re: unable to run lyx 1.6.2 and 1.6.3 due to undefined symbol: _Z13qFlagLocationPKc

2009-08-13 Thread Pavel Sanda
zweetsmoel wrote: for your information, when i compile lyx (either 1.6.1/2/3), i get this info when finished: as a last resort you can try to compile qt's locally and install them into eg ~/tree/. then configure lyx for qt's having in ~/tree/ , probably also with install prefix to ~/tree/.

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

2009-08-13 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Pavel Sanda wrote: and the parent preamble? I guess the tikz file would need its own preamble. Jürgen

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

2009-08-13 Thread Pavel Sanda
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Pavel Sanda wrote: and the parent preamble? I guess the tikz file would need its own preamble. well, i have written my ideas with taking into account Paul's concerns: Recall that one of the strengths of TikZ/pgf is that the fonts and such in the figure will

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

2009-08-13 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Pavel Sanda wrote: I guess the tikz file would need its own preamble. well, i have written my ideas with taking into account Paul's concerns: Recall that one of the strengths of TikZ/pgf is that the fonts and such in the figure will match the document. If you persist in keeping the TikZ

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

2009-08-13 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Pavel Sanda wrote: - to make a python script which would take the parent document dumps the preamble, then inputs tikz, latex it and returns figure for both preview and output. Here is such a python script (although it is a bit too UNIX-centric):

Re: unable to run lyx 1.6.2 and 1.6.3 due to undefined symbol: _Z13qFlagLocationPKc

2009-08-13 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 4:17 AM, zweetsmoelzweetsm...@gmail.com wrote: only another error message... src/lyx: symbol lookup error: src/lyx: undefined symbol: _ZN8QPainter10drawPixmapERK7QPointFRK7QPixmap ok, this is definitely a qt error. even qtconfig won't launch, it gotta be qt related.

Re: unable to run lyx 1.6.2 and 1.6.3 due to undefined symbol: _Z13qFlagLocationPKc

2009-08-13 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 5:13 PM, John McCabe-Danstedgma...@gmail.com wrote: you get other wise similar results, a  sudo apt-get install libqt4 May help. By which I mean sudo apt-get install libqt4-assistant libqt4-core libqt4-dbg libqt4-dbus libqt4-designer libqt4-dev libqt4-gui libqt4-help

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

2009-08-13 Thread Pavel Sanda
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Pavel Sanda wrote: - to make a python script which would take the parent document dumps the preamble, then inputs tikz, latex it and returns figure for both preview and output. Here is such a python script (although it is a bit too UNIX-centric):

Re: lyx 1.6.2 + Ubuntu 9.04 = slow typing

2009-08-13 Thread Alex M
This is worth posting to the wiki, if you're so inclined. Well, I can do this. Which wiki section should I post to? Intel drivers for the older chips are currently broken and in most cases unusable. So all in all I doubt this is somehow relevant for LyX it's more of a general issue. Yes,

Re: Find All and Emphasize

2009-08-13 Thread Bruce Pourciau
On Aug 12, 2009, at 5:38 PM, rgheck wrote: On 08/12/2009 04:34 PM, Bruce Pourciau wrote: Is there a simple way to go back through a document and italicize (emphasize) all occurrences of a certain word? Not within LyX itself. The best way to do it is to run a script of some sort on the

Re: changing margins in article class when using Beamer

2009-08-13 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Graham M Smith wrote: To answer your margin question, I wonder how you changed the margins? In all of the beamer examples I find, the margin options are grayed out and I can't change them. After changing to Beamer(article) class. I used the Document Settings|Page Margins tab I unticked

Re: Find All and Emphasize

2009-08-13 Thread Erez Yerushalmi
Same idea as Richard's, Open your .lyx file in another editor such as notepad++ and find and replace the WORD with \emph on WORD \emph default I tried it and wit worked for me. erez On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 9:34 PM, Bruce Pourciau bruce.h.pourc...@lawrence.edu wrote: Is there a simple way

Re: unable to run lyx 1.6.2 and 1.6.3 due to undefined symbol: _Z13qFlagLocationPKc

2009-08-13 Thread zweetsmoel
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 11:13 AM, John McCabe-Danstedgma...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 4:17 AM, zweetsmoelzweetsm...@gmail.com wrote: only another error message... src/lyx: symbol lookup error: src/lyx: undefined symbol: _ZN8QPainter10drawPixmapERK7QPointFRK7QPixmap ok, this is

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

2009-08-13 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 11.08.2009, at 23:48, Phil wrote: You might also try excel2latex I can also recommend excel2latex. I used it quite a lot when I was writing my thesis. The nice thing about it is that it also preserves a sensible part of the formattings (e.g., bold headlines, right aligned data,

Re: changing margins in article class when using Beamer

2009-08-13 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Graham M Smith wrote: Paul That's ok, I understood what you meant -- just not why you did it. I don't use article (Beamer), but my impression is that it's purpose is to facilitate turning a slideshow into a paper (either after the fact or in parallel development). I don't think it's

biblatex installation

2009-08-13 Thread Ehud Kaplan
Paul Johnson wrote: You did not make a complete install of biblatex. It is much more than just that one style file. In linux, these are the installed files from biblatex: usr/share/texmf /usr/share/texmf/bibtex /usr/share/texmf/bibtex/csf /usr/share/texmf/bibtex/csf/biblatex

Re: unable to run lyx 1.6.2 and 1.6.3 due to undefined symbol: _Z13qFlagLocationPKc

2009-08-13 Thread Steve Litt
On Thursday 13 August 2009 11:34:54 zweetsmoel wrote: issue has been resolved! by running: ldd `which lyx` in a shell, i was able to see that libQtCore.so.4 was loaded from /usr/local/lib instead of /usr/lib, which suggests duplicate and wrong usage of libs. deleting two qt-lib files residing

Re: Find All and Emphasize

2009-08-13 Thread Bruce Pourciau
On Aug 13, 2009, at 10:30 AM, Erez Yerushalmi wrote: Same idea as Richard's, Open your .lyx file in another editor such as notepad++ and find and replace the WORD with \emph on WORD \emph default I tried it and wit worked for me. erez On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 9:34 PM, Bruce Pourciau

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

2009-08-13 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 13.08.2009, at 06:47, Paul Johnson wrote: On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 9:52 AM, Daniel Lohmanndaniel.lohm...@informatik.uni-erlangen.de wrote: Hi, So here is what I want to achieve: I have some TikZ figures (which are actually stand-alone LaTeX- documents with the extension .tikz) that I

About the position of footnotes and page numbers

2009-08-13 Thread Antonio Díaz
I'm writing and designing a text. The style is *Book Koma-script* First question: the text have a lot of footnotes, and I want it to appear on the side of the body of the text, as same as the margin notes. Is it possible? Second question: Is possible to change the position of the page numbers?

Re: Find All and Emphasize

2009-08-13 Thread rgheck
On 08/13/2009 11:30 AM, Erez Yerushalmi wrote: Same idea as Richard's, Open your .lyx file in another editor such as notepad++ and find and replace the WORD with \emph on WORD \emph default I tried it and wit worked for me. Then you got lucky...unless you had the newlines in there, too.

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

2009-08-13 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 12.08.2009, at 09:53, Guenter Milde wrote: On 2009-08-11, Pavel Sanda wrote: 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

Re: About the position of footnotes and page numbers

2009-08-13 Thread rgheck
On 08/13/2009 12:39 PM, Antonio Díaz wrote: I'm writing and designing a text. The style is *Book Koma-script* First question: the text have a lot of footnotes, and I want it to appear on the side of the body of the text, as same as the margin notes. Is it possible? Yes, but I don't really

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

2009-08-13 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 13.08.2009, at 11:22, Pavel Sanda wrote: Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Pavel Sanda wrote: - to make a python script which would take the parent document dumps the preamble, then inputs tikz, latex it and returns figure for both preview and output. Here is such a python script (although

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

2009-08-13 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Daniel Lohmann wrote: The real problem is to get the preamble right. Because TikZ is a huge package that has a noticeable impact on LaTeX compilation times (and memory consumption), it is pretty well modularized into multiple libraries. A typical preamble for a TikZ figure looks as

Spellchecker problem

2009-08-13 Thread Christian Bustamante
Hi all, I'm using LyX on Windows XP and I'm trying to set up the spellchecker, so I downloaded the spanish Open Office dictionary. This file is a plain text one, so I changed the extension to pws (the requiered one for LyX). Then I went to Tools - Prefeernces - Language - Spellchecker and browse

Re: Find All and Emphasize

2009-08-13 Thread Erez Yerushalmi
Yes, you are right!!! On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 5:43 PM, rgheck rgh...@bobjweil.com wrote: On 08/13/2009 11:30 AM, Erez Yerushalmi wrote: Same idea as Richard's, Open your .lyx file in another editor such as notepad++ and find and replace the WORD with \emph on WORD \emph default I

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

2009-08-13 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
It would appear that on Aug 11, rgheck did say: On 08/11/2009 07:41 PM, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote: Well Vincent, I'm glad to hear that it's supposed to work like that. But it doesn't work that way for me... --- snip --- Perhaps this automagic behavior is dependent on the

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

2009-08-13 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
It would appear that on Aug 12, Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW did say: Perhaps this automagic behavior is dependent on the windowmanager? Then you'd really have to try the Windows windowmanager :) Now I'm feeling nauseous... -- | ~^~ ~^~ | o oJoe (theWordy) Philbrook |

Problem with pdfview/pdfopen/pdfclose in LyX 1.6.3 + Acrobat 8.1.x + Win 7

2009-08-13 Thread Thomas Winkler
Hi all, I have a small problem with my still almost clean setup of LyX 1.6.3 (installed with LyXWinInstaller) on Windows 7 Pro (x64) and Acrobat 8.1.x. If I click the View PDF button, the PDF file is generated in the temp folder, but nothing much happens. Well, nothing visible at least -

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

2009-08-13 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn
Yes, I tried to guess what would open a chapter and found out that alt+P[c] = lyx code... Sorry, I have to tell you: alt+P[0] = Part, [1] = Chapter, [2] = Section, [3] = SubSection, etc. alt+P*[0] = Part*, [1] = Chapter*, [2] = Section*, [3] = SubSection*, etc. Now I'm feeling

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

2009-08-13 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
It would appear that on Aug 12, BH did say: On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 12:46 PM, Vincent van Ravesteijnv.f.vanraveste...@tudelft.nl wrote: Magically, the dropdownbox is also shown when the toolbar is hidden (after Alt-P space) From what I can tell, this is true only if the standard

Re: changing margins in article class when using Beamer

2009-08-13 Thread Graham M Smith
Paul Well, I have something to propose. I still have no idea how you managed to change margins before (it should have been grayed out), unless maybe you're on an older version of LyX. Since I could not change margins, I could not reproduce your results. If you are using 1.6.x, though, I

Re: changing margins in article class when using Beamer

2009-08-13 Thread Graham M Smith
Jürgen Graham M Smith wrote: After changing to Beamer(article) class. I used the Document Settings|Page Margins tab I unticked the default and changed the margin sizes. I was hoping that Lyx would magically remember this was just the default for the Beamer (article) bit, but it also took

Re: changing margins in article class when using Beamer

2009-08-13 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Graham M Smith wrote: Paul Well, I have something to propose. I still have no idea how you managed to change margins before (it should have been grayed out), unless maybe you're on an older version of LyX. Since I could not change margins, I could not reproduce your results. If you are

Re: changing margins in article class when using Beamer

2009-08-13 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Paul A. Rubin wrote: Graham M Smith wrote: Paul Well, I have something to propose. I still have no idea how you managed to change margins before (it should have been grayed out), unless maybe you're on an older version of LyX. Since I could not change margins, I could not reproduce your

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

2009-08-13 Thread rgheck
On 08/13/2009 02:05 PM, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote: Yup I used the .ui file to dump the undesirable toolbars... But I'm curious, How else can I get rid of them? I wouldn't have discovered the existence of the .ui files if I could have found a pulldown menu choice to deactivate them...

I need HELP!

2009-08-13 Thread M . Kocinski
I am trying hard to use LyX instead of Scientific Workplace but I have an irriatating problem. After a short time of writing (Title, author, abstract, and so on) the dvi, pdf buttons don't work. I just click and nothing happens. What the heck is going on!! best regards, Marek Kociński

Re: I need HELP!

2009-08-13 Thread rgheck
On 08/13/2009 03:25 PM, m.kocin...@mini.pw.edu.pl wrote: I am trying hard to use LyX instead of Scientific Workplace but I have an irriatating problem. After a short time of writing (Title, author, abstract, and so on) the dvi, pdf buttons don't work. I just click and nothing happens. What the

Re: I need HELP!

2009-08-13 Thread Paul Smith
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 8:25 PM, m.kocin...@mini.pw.edu.pl wrote: I am trying hard to use LyX instead of Scientific Workplace but I have an irriatating problem. After a short time of writing (Title, author, abstract, and so on) the dvi, pdf buttons don't work. I just click and nothing happens.

Re: changing margins in article class when using Beamer

2009-08-13 Thread Graham M Smith
Paul I'm using 1.6.2, on Ubuntu 9.04 and none of the margin/page controls are greyed out, so I can already adjust paper type/size and margins in article (beamer) as in any article. It was just that these then needed set back to default when switching back t Beamer. Strange isn't it.

Re: Problem with pdfview/pdfopen/pdfclose in LyX 1.6.3 + Acrobat 8.1.x + Win 7

2009-08-13 Thread Thomas Winkler
Hi all, the topic posted right after this (http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg75792.html) just got me checking my file format associations, and voilà, there I see that not pdfview, but acrobat is set as the PDF viewer. I don't know why the installer set this wrong, but now

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

2009-08-13 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
On 13/08/2009 20:05, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote: It would appear that on Aug 12, BH did say: On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 12:46 PM, Vincent van Ravesteijnv.f.vanraveste...@tudelft.nl wrote: Magically, the dropdownbox is also shown when the toolbar is hidden (after Alt-Pspace) From what I can

Re: Spellchecker problem

2009-08-13 Thread M-L
Christian Bustamante wrote: Hi all, I'm using LyX on Windows XP and I'm trying to set up the spellchecker, so I downloaded the spanish Open Office dictionary. This file is a plain text one, so I changed the extension to pws (the requiered one for LyX). Then I went to Tools - Prefeernces -

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