Re: help - some questions

2009-08-23 Thread Olivier Ripoll
rgheck wrote: On 08/21/2009 06:08 AM, Sam Liddicott wrote: * Olivier Ripoll wrote, On 21/08/09 10:29: Sam Liddicott wrote: (I wish Lyx supported adding per-document layouts and elements in the same way that it supports adding Latex commands in the preamble) Isn't that what

abntcite

2009-08-23 Thread Beny Spira
Hi I am using abntcite to format my bibliography, but it does not really comply with the citing rules used at my university. For example, it shows the URL and date of publication. I would like to eliminate these fields, but don't know how. Any help would be appreciated. Cheers, Beny

Re: help - some questions

2009-08-23 Thread rgheck
On 08/23/2009 05:49 AM, Olivier Ripoll wrote: rgheck wrote: On 08/21/2009 06:08 AM, Sam Liddicott wrote: * Olivier Ripoll wrote, On 21/08/09 10:29: Sam Liddicott wrote: (I wish Lyx supported adding per-document layouts and elements in the same way that it supports adding Latex commands in

Re: abntcite

2009-08-23 Thread rgheck
On 08/23/2009 07:57 AM, Beny Spira wrote: Hi I am using abntcite to format my bibliography, but it does not really comply with the citing rules used at my university. For example, it shows the URL and date of publication. I would like to eliminate these fields, but don't know how. Any help would

Re: format conversion

2009-08-23 Thread Pol
Vincent van Ravesteijn wrote: lyx -e lyx14x file.lyx Thank you. That allowed me to write down a zsh script to convert files into *.lyx14 then to move them into a special directory, after having been renamed *.lyx again. ---P - enc #!/bin/zsh (lyx-e lyx14x *lyx

Re: Best fonts for printed material (booklet, book)?

2009-08-23 Thread Marcelo Acuña
Hi, What are the best fonts fdor readability. I'm not too fond of the CM fonts. However, if they are really the best I may stick to them. I've heard that Palatino is good too. I think I also heard Luxi mentioned (lucida?) but I'm not sure. Garamond Condensed, but I can´t get for

Re: A feature you really need

2009-08-23 Thread Steve Litt
On Friday 21 August 2009 20:28:30 rgheck wrote: On 08/21/2009 07:00 PM, Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, Thank you so much for the outline view on LyX 1.6.x. You need two or three more buttons to make the outline view fully functional: * Insert * Delete * Maybe Insert Subservient Add

Re: A feature you really need

2009-08-23 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 11:30 PM, Steve Littsl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: On Friday 21 August 2009 20:28:30 rgheck wrote: Add this to trac, Steve. It's a good idea, and I'm sure someone will implement it. :-)   What is a trac, and how do I add it? http://www.lyx.org/trac/wiki To add it,

Re: Best fonts for printed material (booklet, book)?

2009-08-23 Thread Wolfgang Keller
Hello, What are the best fonts fdor readability. It depends. ;- On the output medium, the output process, the specific application... If you can afford it, Sabon (Next) has an excellent reputation as book font. And Syntax (Next) is generally considered the sans-serif counterpart to Sabon.

Re: Best fonts for printed material (booklet, book)?

2009-08-23 Thread Dominik Waßenhoven
Wolfgang Keller wrote: Hello, What are the best fonts fdor readability. [...] If you can afford it, Sabon (Next) has an excellent reputation as book font. There is also a free clone called Bitstream Classical Garamond which can be found on old Corel-Draw-CDs (4 and 8, AFAIK; I have

Installing LyX 1.6.4

2009-08-23 Thread Hal Kierstead
When I install LyX 1.6.4 on my Mac LyXAbout LyX and LyXPreferences.. are greyed out. How do I fix this? In particular, how do I use Preferences? Hal

Re: Installing LyX 1.6.4

2009-08-23 Thread Murat Yildizoglu
Is this new version official? Have I missed the annoucement of its release? In the FTP site there are only two binaries. Murat 2009/8/23 Hal Kierstead kierst...@asu.edu: When I install LyX 1.6.4 on my Mac LyXAbout LyX and LyXPreferences.. are greyed out.  How do I fix this?  In particular, how

Re: Installing LyX 1.6.4

2009-08-23 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn
Hal Kierstead schreef: When I install LyX 1.6.4 on my Mac LyXAbout LyX and LyXPreferences.. are greyed out. How do I fix this? In particular, how do I use Preferences? Hal We know about this problem and it has our full attention. Luckily, the shortcut still works, which is the Cmd key I

Re: Installing LyX 1.6.4

2009-08-23 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn
Murat Yildizoglu schreef: Is this new version official? Have I missed the annoucement of its release? In the FTP site there are only two binaries. No, you have missed nothing. Let's say we're in the midst of the release process (which might get delayed due to this problem for Mac).

Babel and hyphenation in Spanish

2009-08-23 Thread Julio Rojas
Dear @ll. I'm working on a book(Memoir) document in Spanish and the hyphenation seems to be broken (bad hyphenation points in fairly simple cases are used). When I check the LaTeX log I can see the following messages related to Babel: Babel v3.8l and hyphenation patterns for english, dumylang,

Re: Babel and hyphenation in Spanish

2009-08-23 Thread Julio Rojas
Seems that this is the solution: http://osdir.com/ml/tex.miktex/2004-11/msg00096.html RTFM :P - Julio Rojas jcredbe...@gmail.com On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 8:53 PM, Julio Rojasjcredbe...@gmail.com wrote: C:\Program Files\MiKTeX

how tell which installer?

2009-08-23 Thread Murray Eisenberg
When I'm ready to upgrade (to LyX 1.6.4, say), how do I tell which installer I used -- the standard one or the alternate one? I'm working in Windows XP, and I see in the main LyX directory the file LyXWinUninstall.exe. Does that help to answer the question? -- Murray Eisenberg

Re: Best fonts for printed material (booklet, book)?

2009-08-23 Thread Steve Litt
On Sunday 23 August 2009 14:08:26 Wolfgang Keller wrote: Hello, What are the best fonts fdor readability. It depends. ;- On the output medium, the output process, the specific application... If you can afford it, Sabon (Next) has an excellent reputation as book font. And Syntax (Next)

Re: A feature you really need

2009-08-23 Thread Steve Litt
On Sunday 23 August 2009 11:39:17 John McCabe-Dansted wrote: On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 11:30 PM, Steve Littsl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: On Friday 21 August 2009 20:28:30 rgheck wrote: Add this to trac, Steve. It's a good idea, and I'm sure someone will implement it. :-) What is a

shifting a table outside margins?

2009-08-23 Thread Kenward Vaughan
Is there any way to force a table to move to the left outside the normal margins? I have a table in a document that really won't fit into a size any smaller than about 7 inches across, but I don't want margins to be that wide on letter paper. The other way I see attacking this would be to rotate

Document title in Footer

2009-08-23 Thread bart
Hi, I would like to have the document title appear in the footer on every page. I have set the headings style to fancy but i can't find a command to put the document title in the footer. Would it be possible also to have a frame around the footer? Thanks Bart

how to see what LyX is thinking?

2009-08-23 Thread G. Jay Kerns
Dear LyX-Users, I am on Ubuntu Linux. If I run lyx from a terminal, then along with the LyX window I get a terminal where I can see what LyX is thinking when it generates PDFs, etc. This is a very useful debugging tool, but I only need it a relatively small fraction of the time I am using LyX.

Re: shifting a table outside margins?

2009-08-23 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 02:54:21PM -0700, Kenward Vaughan wrote: Is there any way to force a table to move to the left outside the normal margins? I have a table in a document that really won't fit into a size any smaller than about 7 inches across, but I don't want margins to be that wide on

Re: shifting a table outside margins?

2009-08-23 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Sun, 2009-08-23 at 22:54 -0400, Andrew Sullivan wrote: On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 02:54:21PM -0700, Kenward Vaughan wrote: Is there any way to force a table to move to the left outside the normal margins? I have a table in a document that really won't fit into a size any smaller than about

Re: shifting a table outside margins?

2009-08-23 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 08:01:32PM -0700, Kenward Vaughan wrote: OK, but I don't know where this goes. There is no setting under the table settings which addresses this. In my LyX (1.6.2 on Mac OX X 10.5.x) I can C-click a table, and get a menu. It has Settings… at the bottom. The option is

Re: Document title in Footer

2009-08-23 Thread rgheck
On 08/23/2009 06:32 PM, bart wrote: Hi, I would like to have the document title appear in the footer on every page. I have set the headings style to fancy but i can't find a command to put the document title in the footer. Would it be possible also to have a frame around the footer? You can

Re: how to see what LyX is thinking?

2009-08-23 Thread rgheck
On 08/23/2009 08:48 PM, G. Jay Kerns wrote: Dear LyX-Users, I am on Ubuntu Linux. If I run lyx from a terminal, then along with the LyX window I get a terminal where I can see what LyX is thinking when it generates PDFs, etc. This is a very useful debugging tool, but I only need it a

Re: shifting a table outside margins?

2009-08-23 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Sun, 2009-08-23 at 23:13 -0400, Andrew Sullivan wrote: On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 08:01:32PM -0700, Kenward Vaughan wrote: OK, but I don't know where this goes. There is no setting under the table settings which addresses this. In my LyX (1.6.2 on Mac OX X 10.5.x) I can C-click a table,

Re: help - some questions

2009-08-23 Thread Olivier Ripoll
rgheck wrote: On 08/21/2009 06:08 AM, Sam Liddicott wrote: * Olivier Ripoll wrote, On 21/08/09 10:29: Sam Liddicott wrote: (I wish Lyx supported adding per-document layouts and elements in the same way that it supports adding Latex commands in the preamble) Isn't that what

abntcite

2009-08-23 Thread Beny Spira
Hi I am using abntcite to format my bibliography, but it does not really comply with the citing rules used at my university. For example, it shows the URL and date of publication. I would like to eliminate these fields, but don't know how. Any help would be appreciated. Cheers, Beny

Re: help - some questions

2009-08-23 Thread rgheck
On 08/23/2009 05:49 AM, Olivier Ripoll wrote: rgheck wrote: On 08/21/2009 06:08 AM, Sam Liddicott wrote: * Olivier Ripoll wrote, On 21/08/09 10:29: Sam Liddicott wrote: (I wish Lyx supported adding per-document layouts and elements in the same way that it supports adding Latex commands in

Re: abntcite

2009-08-23 Thread rgheck
On 08/23/2009 07:57 AM, Beny Spira wrote: Hi I am using abntcite to format my bibliography, but it does not really comply with the citing rules used at my university. For example, it shows the URL and date of publication. I would like to eliminate these fields, but don't know how. Any help would

Re: format conversion

2009-08-23 Thread Pol
Vincent van Ravesteijn wrote: lyx -e lyx14x file.lyx Thank you. That allowed me to write down a zsh script to convert files into *.lyx14 then to move them into a special directory, after having been renamed *.lyx again. ---P - enc #!/bin/zsh (lyx-e lyx14x *lyx

Re: Best fonts for printed material (booklet, book)?

2009-08-23 Thread Marcelo Acuña
Hi, What are the best fonts fdor readability. I'm not too fond of the CM fonts. However, if they are really the best I may stick to them. I've heard that Palatino is good too. I think I also heard Luxi mentioned (lucida?) but I'm not sure. Garamond Condensed, but I can´t get for

Re: A feature you really need

2009-08-23 Thread Steve Litt
On Friday 21 August 2009 20:28:30 rgheck wrote: On 08/21/2009 07:00 PM, Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, Thank you so much for the outline view on LyX 1.6.x. You need two or three more buttons to make the outline view fully functional: * Insert * Delete * Maybe Insert Subservient Add

Re: A feature you really need

2009-08-23 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 11:30 PM, Steve Littsl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: On Friday 21 August 2009 20:28:30 rgheck wrote: Add this to trac, Steve. It's a good idea, and I'm sure someone will implement it. :-)   What is a trac, and how do I add it? http://www.lyx.org/trac/wiki To add it,

Re: Best fonts for printed material (booklet, book)?

2009-08-23 Thread Wolfgang Keller
Hello, What are the best fonts fdor readability. It depends. ;- On the output medium, the output process, the specific application... If you can afford it, Sabon (Next) has an excellent reputation as book font. And Syntax (Next) is generally considered the sans-serif counterpart to Sabon.

Re: Best fonts for printed material (booklet, book)?

2009-08-23 Thread Dominik Waßenhoven
Wolfgang Keller wrote: Hello, What are the best fonts fdor readability. [...] If you can afford it, Sabon (Next) has an excellent reputation as book font. There is also a free clone called Bitstream Classical Garamond which can be found on old Corel-Draw-CDs (4 and 8, AFAIK; I have

Installing LyX 1.6.4

2009-08-23 Thread Hal Kierstead
When I install LyX 1.6.4 on my Mac LyXAbout LyX and LyXPreferences.. are greyed out. How do I fix this? In particular, how do I use Preferences? Hal

Re: Installing LyX 1.6.4

2009-08-23 Thread Murat Yildizoglu
Is this new version official? Have I missed the annoucement of its release? In the FTP site there are only two binaries. Murat 2009/8/23 Hal Kierstead kierst...@asu.edu: When I install LyX 1.6.4 on my Mac LyXAbout LyX and LyXPreferences.. are greyed out.  How do I fix this?  In particular, how

Re: Installing LyX 1.6.4

2009-08-23 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn
Hal Kierstead schreef: When I install LyX 1.6.4 on my Mac LyXAbout LyX and LyXPreferences.. are greyed out. How do I fix this? In particular, how do I use Preferences? Hal We know about this problem and it has our full attention. Luckily, the shortcut still works, which is the Cmd key I

Re: Installing LyX 1.6.4

2009-08-23 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn
Murat Yildizoglu schreef: Is this new version official? Have I missed the annoucement of its release? In the FTP site there are only two binaries. No, you have missed nothing. Let's say we're in the midst of the release process (which might get delayed due to this problem for Mac).

Babel and hyphenation in Spanish

2009-08-23 Thread Julio Rojas
Dear @ll. I'm working on a book(Memoir) document in Spanish and the hyphenation seems to be broken (bad hyphenation points in fairly simple cases are used). When I check the LaTeX log I can see the following messages related to Babel: Babel v3.8l and hyphenation patterns for english, dumylang,

Re: Babel and hyphenation in Spanish

2009-08-23 Thread Julio Rojas
Seems that this is the solution: http://osdir.com/ml/tex.miktex/2004-11/msg00096.html RTFM :P - Julio Rojas jcredbe...@gmail.com On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 8:53 PM, Julio Rojasjcredbe...@gmail.com wrote: C:\Program Files\MiKTeX

how tell which installer?

2009-08-23 Thread Murray Eisenberg
When I'm ready to upgrade (to LyX 1.6.4, say), how do I tell which installer I used -- the standard one or the alternate one? I'm working in Windows XP, and I see in the main LyX directory the file LyXWinUninstall.exe. Does that help to answer the question? -- Murray Eisenberg

Re: Best fonts for printed material (booklet, book)?

2009-08-23 Thread Steve Litt
On Sunday 23 August 2009 14:08:26 Wolfgang Keller wrote: Hello, What are the best fonts fdor readability. It depends. ;- On the output medium, the output process, the specific application... If you can afford it, Sabon (Next) has an excellent reputation as book font. And Syntax (Next)

Re: A feature you really need

2009-08-23 Thread Steve Litt
On Sunday 23 August 2009 11:39:17 John McCabe-Dansted wrote: On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 11:30 PM, Steve Littsl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: On Friday 21 August 2009 20:28:30 rgheck wrote: Add this to trac, Steve. It's a good idea, and I'm sure someone will implement it. :-) What is a

shifting a table outside margins?

2009-08-23 Thread Kenward Vaughan
Is there any way to force a table to move to the left outside the normal margins? I have a table in a document that really won't fit into a size any smaller than about 7 inches across, but I don't want margins to be that wide on letter paper. The other way I see attacking this would be to rotate

Document title in Footer

2009-08-23 Thread bart
Hi, I would like to have the document title appear in the footer on every page. I have set the headings style to fancy but i can't find a command to put the document title in the footer. Would it be possible also to have a frame around the footer? Thanks Bart

how to see what LyX is thinking?

2009-08-23 Thread G. Jay Kerns
Dear LyX-Users, I am on Ubuntu Linux. If I run lyx from a terminal, then along with the LyX window I get a terminal where I can see what LyX is thinking when it generates PDFs, etc. This is a very useful debugging tool, but I only need it a relatively small fraction of the time I am using LyX.

Re: shifting a table outside margins?

2009-08-23 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 02:54:21PM -0700, Kenward Vaughan wrote: Is there any way to force a table to move to the left outside the normal margins? I have a table in a document that really won't fit into a size any smaller than about 7 inches across, but I don't want margins to be that wide on

Re: shifting a table outside margins?

2009-08-23 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Sun, 2009-08-23 at 22:54 -0400, Andrew Sullivan wrote: On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 02:54:21PM -0700, Kenward Vaughan wrote: Is there any way to force a table to move to the left outside the normal margins? I have a table in a document that really won't fit into a size any smaller than about

Re: shifting a table outside margins?

2009-08-23 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 08:01:32PM -0700, Kenward Vaughan wrote: OK, but I don't know where this goes. There is no setting under the table settings which addresses this. In my LyX (1.6.2 on Mac OX X 10.5.x) I can C-click a table, and get a menu. It has Settings… at the bottom. The option is

Re: Document title in Footer

2009-08-23 Thread rgheck
On 08/23/2009 06:32 PM, bart wrote: Hi, I would like to have the document title appear in the footer on every page. I have set the headings style to fancy but i can't find a command to put the document title in the footer. Would it be possible also to have a frame around the footer? You can

Re: how to see what LyX is thinking?

2009-08-23 Thread rgheck
On 08/23/2009 08:48 PM, G. Jay Kerns wrote: Dear LyX-Users, I am on Ubuntu Linux. If I run lyx from a terminal, then along with the LyX window I get a terminal where I can see what LyX is thinking when it generates PDFs, etc. This is a very useful debugging tool, but I only need it a

Re: shifting a table outside margins?

2009-08-23 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Sun, 2009-08-23 at 23:13 -0400, Andrew Sullivan wrote: On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 08:01:32PM -0700, Kenward Vaughan wrote: OK, but I don't know where this goes. There is no setting under the table settings which addresses this. In my LyX (1.6.2 on Mac OX X 10.5.x) I can C-click a table,

Re: help - some questions

2009-08-23 Thread Olivier Ripoll
rgheck wrote: On 08/21/2009 06:08 AM, Sam Liddicott wrote: * Olivier Ripoll wrote, On 21/08/09 10:29: Sam Liddicott wrote: (I wish Lyx supported adding per-document layouts and elements in the same way that it supports adding Latex commands in the preamble) Isn't that what

abntcite

2009-08-23 Thread Beny Spira
Hi I am using abntcite to format my bibliography, but it does not really comply with the citing rules used at my university. For example, it shows the URL and date of publication. I would like to eliminate these fields, but don't know how. Any help would be appreciated. Cheers, Beny

Re: help - some questions

2009-08-23 Thread rgheck
On 08/23/2009 05:49 AM, Olivier Ripoll wrote: rgheck wrote: On 08/21/2009 06:08 AM, Sam Liddicott wrote: * Olivier Ripoll wrote, On 21/08/09 10:29: Sam Liddicott wrote: (I wish Lyx supported adding per-document layouts and elements in the same way that it supports adding Latex commands in

Re: abntcite

2009-08-23 Thread rgheck
On 08/23/2009 07:57 AM, Beny Spira wrote: Hi I am using abntcite to format my bibliography, but it does not really comply with the citing rules used at my university. For example, it shows the URL and date of publication. I would like to eliminate these fields, but don't know how. Any help would

Re: format conversion

2009-08-23 Thread Pol
Vincent van Ravesteijn wrote: > lyx -e lyx14x file.lyx > Thank you. That allowed me to write down a zsh script to convert files into *.lyx14 then to move them into a special directory, after having been renamed *.lyx again. ---P - enc #!/bin/zsh (lyx-e lyx14x *lyx &&

Re: Best fonts for printed material (booklet, book)?

2009-08-23 Thread Marcelo Acuña
> Hi, > > What are the best fonts fdor readability. I'm not too fond > of the CM > fonts. However, if they are really the best I may stick to > them. I've > heard that Palatino is good too. I think I also heard Luxi > mentioned > (lucida?) but I'm not sure. Garamond Condensed, but I can´t

Re: A feature you really need

2009-08-23 Thread Steve Litt
On Friday 21 August 2009 20:28:30 rgheck wrote: > On 08/21/2009 07:00 PM, Steve Litt wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Thank you so much for the outline view on LyX 1.6.x. You need two or > > three more buttons to make the outline view fully functional: > > > > * Insert > > * Delete > > * Maybe "Insert

Re: A feature you really need

2009-08-23 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 11:30 PM, Steve Litt wrote: > On Friday 21 August 2009 20:28:30 rgheck wrote: >> Add this to trac, Steve. It's a good idea, and I'm sure someone will >> implement it. > > :-)   What is a trac, and how do I add it? http://www.lyx.org/trac/wiki To

Re: Best fonts for printed material (booklet, book)?

2009-08-23 Thread Wolfgang Keller
Hello, > What are the best fonts fdor readability. It depends. >;-> On the output medium, the output process, the specific application... If you can afford it, Sabon (Next) has an excellent reputation as book font. And Syntax (Next) is generally considered the sans-serif counterpart to Sabon.

Re: Best fonts for printed material (booklet, book)?

2009-08-23 Thread Dominik Waßenhoven
Wolfgang Keller wrote: > Hello, > >> What are the best fonts fdor readability. > > [...] > If you can afford it, Sabon (Next) has an excellent reputation as > book font. There is also a free clone called Bitstream Classical Garamond which can be found on old Corel-Draw-CDs (4 and 8, AFAIK; I

Installing LyX 1.6.4

2009-08-23 Thread Hal Kierstead
When I install LyX 1.6.4 on my Mac LyX>About LyX and LyX>Preferences.. are greyed out. How do I fix this? In particular, how do I use Preferences? Hal

Re: Installing LyX 1.6.4

2009-08-23 Thread Murat Yildizoglu
Is this new version official? Have I missed the annoucement of its release? In the FTP site there are only two binaries. Murat 2009/8/23 Hal Kierstead : > When I install LyX 1.6.4 on my Mac LyX>About LyX and LyX>Preferences.. are > greyed out.  How do I fix this?  In

Re: Installing LyX 1.6.4

2009-08-23 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn
Hal Kierstead schreef: When I install LyX 1.6.4 on my Mac LyX>About LyX and LyX>Preferences.. are greyed out. How do I fix this? In particular, how do I use Preferences? Hal We know about this problem and it has our full attention. Luckily, the shortcut still works, which is the Cmd key

Re: Installing LyX 1.6.4

2009-08-23 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn
Murat Yildizoglu schreef: Is this new version official? Have I missed the annoucement of its release? In the FTP site there are only two binaries. No, you have missed nothing. Let's say we're in the midst of the release process (which might get delayed due to this problem for Mac).

Babel and hyphenation in Spanish

2009-08-23 Thread Julio Rojas
Dear @ll. I'm working on a book(Memoir) document in Spanish and the hyphenation seems to be broken (bad hyphenation points in fairly simple cases are used). When I check the LaTeX log I can see the following messages related to Babel: Babel and hyphenation patterns for english, dumylang,

Re: Babel and hyphenation in Spanish

2009-08-23 Thread Julio Rojas
Seems that this is the solution: http://osdir.com/ml/tex.miktex/2004-11/msg00096.html RTFM :P - Julio Rojas jcredbe...@gmail.com On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 8:53 PM, Julio Rojas wrote: > C:\Program Files\MiKTeX

how tell which installer?

2009-08-23 Thread Murray Eisenberg
When I'm ready to upgrade (to LyX 1.6.4, say), how do I tell which installer I used -- the standard one or the alternate one? I'm working in Windows XP, and I see in the main LyX directory the file LyXWinUninstall.exe. Does that help to answer the question? -- Murray Eisenberg

Re: Best fonts for printed material (booklet, book)?

2009-08-23 Thread Steve Litt
On Sunday 23 August 2009 14:08:26 Wolfgang Keller wrote: > Hello, > > > What are the best fonts fdor readability. > > It depends. >;-> > > On the output medium, the output process, the specific application... > > If you can afford it, Sabon (Next) has an excellent reputation as book > font. And

Re: A feature you really need

2009-08-23 Thread Steve Litt
On Sunday 23 August 2009 11:39:17 John McCabe-Dansted wrote: > On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 11:30 PM, Steve Litt wrote: > > On Friday 21 August 2009 20:28:30 rgheck wrote: > >> Add this to trac, Steve. It's a good idea, and I'm sure someone will > >> implement it. > >> > >

shifting a table outside margins?

2009-08-23 Thread Kenward Vaughan
Is there any way to force a table to move to the left outside the normal margins? I have a table in a document that really won't fit into a size any smaller than about 7 inches across, but I don't want margins to be that wide on letter paper. The other way I see attacking this would be to rotate

Document title in Footer

2009-08-23 Thread bart
Hi, I would like to have the document title appear in the footer on every page. I have set the headings style to fancy but i can't find a command to put the document title in the footer. Would it be possible also to have a frame around the footer? Thanks Bart

how to see what LyX is thinking?

2009-08-23 Thread G. Jay Kerns
Dear LyX-Users, I am on Ubuntu Linux. If I run lyx from a terminal, then along with the LyX window I get a terminal where I can see what LyX is thinking when it generates PDFs, etc. This is a very useful debugging tool, but I only need it a relatively small fraction of the time I am using LyX.

Re: shifting a table outside margins?

2009-08-23 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 02:54:21PM -0700, Kenward Vaughan wrote: > Is there any way to force a table to move to the left outside the normal > margins? I have a table in a document that really won't fit into a size > any smaller than about 7 inches across, but I don't want margins to be > that wide

Re: shifting a table outside margins?

2009-08-23 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Sun, 2009-08-23 at 22:54 -0400, Andrew Sullivan wrote: > On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 02:54:21PM -0700, Kenward Vaughan wrote: > > Is there any way to force a table to move to the left outside the normal > > margins? I have a table in a document that really won't fit into a size > > any smaller than

Re: shifting a table outside margins?

2009-08-23 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 08:01:32PM -0700, Kenward Vaughan wrote: > > OK, but I don't know where this goes. There is no setting under the > table settings which addresses this. In my LyX (1.6.2 on Mac OX X 10.5.x) I can C-click a table, and get a menu. It has "Settings…" at the bottom. The

Re: Document title in Footer

2009-08-23 Thread rgheck
On 08/23/2009 06:32 PM, bart wrote: Hi, I would like to have the document title appear in the footer on every page. I have set the headings style to fancy but i can't find a command to put the document title in the footer. Would it be possible also to have a frame around the footer? You can

Re: how to see what LyX is thinking?

2009-08-23 Thread rgheck
On 08/23/2009 08:48 PM, G. Jay Kerns wrote: Dear LyX-Users, I am on Ubuntu Linux. If I run lyx from a terminal, then along with the LyX window I get a terminal where I can see what LyX is thinking when it generates PDFs, etc. This is a very useful debugging tool, but I only need it a

Re: shifting a table outside margins?

2009-08-23 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Sun, 2009-08-23 at 23:13 -0400, Andrew Sullivan wrote: > On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 08:01:32PM -0700, Kenward Vaughan wrote: > > > > OK, but I don't know where this goes. There is no setting under the > > table settings which addresses this. > > In my LyX (1.6.2 on Mac OX X 10.5.x) I can C-click