Re: Lyx under WindowsXP

rgheck wrote: On 10/21/2009 12:10 PM, Olivier Ripoll wrote: XBOT wrote: The GUI of Lyx looks terrible! All fonts at the programs window are too bold and the fonts at the menues are too thin. You can use the program, but it isnt comfortable and most of the orders at the menues you cant read!

Re: Lyx under WindowsXP

XBOT wrote: Can you post a little screenshot ? Vincent Hi Vincent, sure...look here: http://www.bilderhosting.info/images/image170113.jpg Tomorrow I try to reinstall... Before you do that, what happens if you change the system-wise font settings for the menus (e.g. try another font)?

Re: Converting to doc format

On 22 Oct 2009, Anthony Campbell wrote: On 21 Oct 2009, Andrew Sullivan wrote: On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 06:50:56PM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: Thanks to all for replies. I went to the Wiki as suggested and found how to export files as rtf, which should be loadable into Openoffice -

The behaviour of menus

Dear list, There is a slightly annoying feature of the behaviour of my Lyx which, I have just realised, may be seen as a bug. When I open a drop-down menu -e. g., when choosing the language of a paragraph from the drop-down list of possibilities- even if I navigate to my preferred option

RE: The behaviour of menus

When I open a drop-down menu -e. g., when choosing the language of a paragraph from the drop-down list of possibilities- even if I navigate to my preferred option using the cursor keys, ... Can you more precisely describe what drop-down menu you mean ? The only way I know to select the

Re: The behaviour of menus

That's the one I mean, yes. It's not working fine for me, though for some reason I cannot seem to copy a screen snapshot while the menu is displayed, so I cannot show you. The way to replicate my problem is as follows. Open the text style dialog, press the language drop-down menu to unfold it

randomly rotated graphics

Hi there, I think this is more a LaTeX question than LyX, but... I have some LyX documents that include (via graphicx.sty) graphics files supplied in a variety of formats (png, jpg, PDF) that I output as PDFs using pdflatex. This works fine on Windows (XP, Vista using MiKTeX v2.7) and Linux

Re: input math macro file - incomplete instant preview

Axel Heim wrote: Hi there, the math macro is a great feature. However, when I input (or include) a file with math macros, the corresponding math symbols do not appear in the instant preview, while `hard-coded' symbols do. I assume you mean that if you view the child document (in a separate

Re: Converting to doc format

Anthony Campbell schrieb: I'm thinking of publishing in ebook form via Smashwords, who unfortunately demand Word format. I'm on Linux and as far as I can see after a fair amount of googling the only practical way of doing this is to produce a plain text (txt) version from Lyx, import it into the

Bibtex and child documents

Dear list, I'm using LyX and the Lyx port of André Miede's Classicthesis to write a thesis. I was wondering how to deal with child documents and bibtex. Basically I want to do this. 1. Have one master document with several child documents (i.e. one for each child documents. 2. Have one

Kluwer doc class: title and author not showing up

Dear LyX users, I am trying out the doc class article (Kluwer) and having a problem: a simple document with a title, author, and a single section and some standard text typesets without the title and the author. I looked at this manual (http://www.springer.com/?SGWID=4-102-45-124370-0), but I am

Re: Bibtex and child documents

On 10/22/2009 02:27 PM, Jan Piet Joris en Corneel wrote: Dear list, I'm using LyX and the Lyx port of André Miede's Classicthesis to write a thesis. I was wondering how to deal with child documents and bibtex. Basically I want to do this. 1. Have one master document with several child

Re: Documenting python code using LyX

On 2009-10-20, Wolfgang Keller wrote: Does anybody use LyX to document python code? Any hints? PyLit already allows to round-trip between Python code with embedded ReST comments and ReST documents with embedded Python code blocks. From ReST, you can then convert to LaTeX, which should be

Re: Tufte-book Layout File

On 2009-10-18, Jason Waskiewicz wrote: I recently made a .layout file for the Tufte-book class. http://code.google.com/p/tufte-latex/ I had good luck making it work with my materials, but I know nothing about LyX .layout files. I simply took the existing tufte-handout.layout file on the

Re: Epsilon ran off ...

On 2009-10-19, Paul A. Rubin wrote: ... and took varrho with it. This is some sort of screen font problem, but one I don't recall seeing reported before. I've got a copy of LyX 1.6.3 installed on Mint Gloria (a Linux distro built over Ubuntu -- Jaunty Jackalope, I think). Of the Greek

Re: Bibtex and child documents

On 23/10/2009, at 7:22 AM, rgheck wrote: On 10/22/2009 02:27 PM, Jan Piet Joris en Corneel wrote: Dear list, I'm using LyX and the Lyx port of André Miede's Classicthesis to write a thesis. I was wondering how to deal with child documents and bibtex. Basically I want to do this. 1.

Re: Tufte-book Layout File

Guenter Milde mi...@... writes: On 2009-10-18, Jason Waskiewicz wrote: I recently made a .layout file for the Tufte-book class. http://code.google.com/p/tufte-latex/ I had good luck making it work with my materials, but I know nothing about LyX .layout files. I simply took the

Re: Bibtex and child documents

On 10/22/2009 04:44 PM, Pete Crite wrote: On 23/10/2009, at 7:22 AM, rgheck wrote: On 10/22/2009 02:27 PM, Jan Piet Joris en Corneel wrote: Dear list, I'm using LyX and the Lyx port of André Miede's Classicthesis to write a thesis. I was wondering how to deal with child documents and

1.6.4, Article Class, and Headings

I don't recall seeing this behavior in prior versions so a hint on how to clean up the page is appreciated. Version 1.6.4 on linux, document class is article and the headings are fancy. When I look at the pdf output I see the page number both centered at the bottom of each page and adjacent

Re: lyx not finding a style file that latex finds !?

On 10/15/2009 08:36 PM, Ernesto Posse wrote: I have some very strange behaviour in LyX. I have a simple latex style file (mystyle.sty) which is located in a directory mylatexfiles. latex knows about this: I have export TEXINPUTS=mylatexfiles: in my bash login[...]. If it's exactly like

Re: Tufte-book Layout File

Jason Waskiewicz jason.waskiew...@... writes: Guenter Milde mi...@... writes: In order to be found even some weeks/months on, could you create a pointer (page or link on a related page) on the LyX wiki (wiki.lyx.org)? Günter Thank-you! The password was E-mailed to me and the file

Re: lyx not finding a style file that latex finds !?

On 10/22/2009 08:01 PM, Ernesto Posse wrote: On 10/15/2009 08:36 PM, Ernesto Posse wrote: I have some very strange behaviour in LyX. I have a simple latex style file (mystyle.sty) which is located in a directory mylatexfiles. latex knows about this: I have export TEXINPUTS=mylatexfiles:

Re: Problem

Steinar Graver schrieb: The first pages in my document, abstract, table of content, list of figure..ect has roman page numbering. Chapter 1 starts with Arabic cumbering. How can I get lyx to start the first appendix side with the next roman number in line, i.e my last roman page is v, and I

Image format in lyx.

Hi all, I have lyx 1.6.3 installed. I have to make a presentation and for that purpose I have used beamer class. I have include images which are in Jpeg, png and jpg. However, after a few times that I convert it into pdf ( i.e. I make changes and then run pdflatex ,and changes are quite

Re: Converting to doc format

On 23/10/2009, at 3:34 AM, Florian Rubach wrote: Anthony Campbell schrieb: I'm thinking of publishing in ebook form via Smashwords, who unfortunately demand Word format. I'm on Linux and as far as I can see after a fair amount of googling the only practical way of doing this is to produce

Re: Lyx under WindowsXP

rgheck wrote: On 10/21/2009 12:10 PM, Olivier Ripoll wrote: XBOT wrote: The GUI of Lyx looks terrible! All fonts at the programs window are too bold and the fonts at the menues are too thin. You can use the program, but it isnt comfortable and most of the orders at the menues you cant read!

Re: Lyx under WindowsXP

XBOT wrote: Can you post a little screenshot ? Vincent Hi Vincent, sure...look here: http://www.bilderhosting.info/images/image170113.jpg Tomorrow I try to reinstall... Before you do that, what happens if you change the system-wise font settings for the menus (e.g. try another font)?

Re: Converting to doc format

On 22 Oct 2009, Anthony Campbell wrote: On 21 Oct 2009, Andrew Sullivan wrote: On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 06:50:56PM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: Thanks to all for replies. I went to the Wiki as suggested and found how to export files as rtf, which should be loadable into Openoffice -

The behaviour of menus

Dear list, There is a slightly annoying feature of the behaviour of my Lyx which, I have just realised, may be seen as a bug. When I open a drop-down menu -e. g., when choosing the language of a paragraph from the drop-down list of possibilities- even if I navigate to my preferred option

RE: The behaviour of menus

When I open a drop-down menu -e. g., when choosing the language of a paragraph from the drop-down list of possibilities- even if I navigate to my preferred option using the cursor keys, ... Can you more precisely describe what drop-down menu you mean ? The only way I know to select the

Re: The behaviour of menus

That's the one I mean, yes. It's not working fine for me, though for some reason I cannot seem to copy a screen snapshot while the menu is displayed, so I cannot show you. The way to replicate my problem is as follows. Open the text style dialog, press the language drop-down menu to unfold it

randomly rotated graphics

Hi there, I think this is more a LaTeX question than LyX, but... I have some LyX documents that include (via graphicx.sty) graphics files supplied in a variety of formats (png, jpg, PDF) that I output as PDFs using pdflatex. This works fine on Windows (XP, Vista using MiKTeX v2.7) and Linux

Re: input math macro file - incomplete instant preview

Axel Heim wrote: Hi there, the math macro is a great feature. However, when I input (or include) a file with math macros, the corresponding math symbols do not appear in the instant preview, while `hard-coded' symbols do. I assume you mean that if you view the child document (in a separate

Re: Converting to doc format

Anthony Campbell schrieb: I'm thinking of publishing in ebook form via Smashwords, who unfortunately demand Word format. I'm on Linux and as far as I can see after a fair amount of googling the only practical way of doing this is to produce a plain text (txt) version from Lyx, import it into the

Bibtex and child documents

Dear list, I'm using LyX and the Lyx port of André Miede's Classicthesis to write a thesis. I was wondering how to deal with child documents and bibtex. Basically I want to do this. 1. Have one master document with several child documents (i.e. one for each child documents. 2. Have one

Kluwer doc class: title and author not showing up

Dear LyX users, I am trying out the doc class article (Kluwer) and having a problem: a simple document with a title, author, and a single section and some standard text typesets without the title and the author. I looked at this manual (http://www.springer.com/?SGWID=4-102-45-124370-0), but I am

Re: Bibtex and child documents

On 10/22/2009 02:27 PM, Jan Piet Joris en Corneel wrote: Dear list, I'm using LyX and the Lyx port of André Miede's Classicthesis to write a thesis. I was wondering how to deal with child documents and bibtex. Basically I want to do this. 1. Have one master document with several child

Re: Documenting python code using LyX

On 2009-10-20, Wolfgang Keller wrote: Does anybody use LyX to document python code? Any hints? PyLit already allows to round-trip between Python code with embedded ReST comments and ReST documents with embedded Python code blocks. From ReST, you can then convert to LaTeX, which should be

Re: Tufte-book Layout File

On 2009-10-18, Jason Waskiewicz wrote: I recently made a .layout file for the Tufte-book class. http://code.google.com/p/tufte-latex/ I had good luck making it work with my materials, but I know nothing about LyX .layout files. I simply took the existing tufte-handout.layout file on the

Re: Epsilon ran off ...

On 2009-10-19, Paul A. Rubin wrote: ... and took varrho with it. This is some sort of screen font problem, but one I don't recall seeing reported before. I've got a copy of LyX 1.6.3 installed on Mint Gloria (a Linux distro built over Ubuntu -- Jaunty Jackalope, I think). Of the Greek

Re: Bibtex and child documents

On 23/10/2009, at 7:22 AM, rgheck wrote: On 10/22/2009 02:27 PM, Jan Piet Joris en Corneel wrote: Dear list, I'm using LyX and the Lyx port of André Miede's Classicthesis to write a thesis. I was wondering how to deal with child documents and bibtex. Basically I want to do this. 1.

Re: Tufte-book Layout File

Guenter Milde mi...@... writes: On 2009-10-18, Jason Waskiewicz wrote: I recently made a .layout file for the Tufte-book class. http://code.google.com/p/tufte-latex/ I had good luck making it work with my materials, but I know nothing about LyX .layout files. I simply took the

Re: Bibtex and child documents

On 10/22/2009 04:44 PM, Pete Crite wrote: On 23/10/2009, at 7:22 AM, rgheck wrote: On 10/22/2009 02:27 PM, Jan Piet Joris en Corneel wrote: Dear list, I'm using LyX and the Lyx port of André Miede's Classicthesis to write a thesis. I was wondering how to deal with child documents and

1.6.4, Article Class, and Headings

I don't recall seeing this behavior in prior versions so a hint on how to clean up the page is appreciated. Version 1.6.4 on linux, document class is article and the headings are fancy. When I look at the pdf output I see the page number both centered at the bottom of each page and adjacent

Re: lyx not finding a style file that latex finds !?

On 10/15/2009 08:36 PM, Ernesto Posse wrote: I have some very strange behaviour in LyX. I have a simple latex style file (mystyle.sty) which is located in a directory mylatexfiles. latex knows about this: I have export TEXINPUTS=mylatexfiles: in my bash login[...]. If it's exactly like

Re: Tufte-book Layout File

Jason Waskiewicz jason.waskiew...@... writes: Guenter Milde mi...@... writes: In order to be found even some weeks/months on, could you create a pointer (page or link on a related page) on the LyX wiki (wiki.lyx.org)? Günter Thank-you! The password was E-mailed to me and the file

Re: lyx not finding a style file that latex finds !?

On 10/22/2009 08:01 PM, Ernesto Posse wrote: On 10/15/2009 08:36 PM, Ernesto Posse wrote: I have some very strange behaviour in LyX. I have a simple latex style file (mystyle.sty) which is located in a directory mylatexfiles. latex knows about this: I have export TEXINPUTS=mylatexfiles:

Re: Problem

Steinar Graver schrieb: The first pages in my document, abstract, table of content, list of figure..ect has roman page numbering. Chapter 1 starts with Arabic cumbering. How can I get lyx to start the first appendix side with the next roman number in line, i.e my last roman page is v, and I

Image format in lyx.

Hi all, I have lyx 1.6.3 installed. I have to make a presentation and for that purpose I have used beamer class. I have include images which are in Jpeg, png and jpg. However, after a few times that I convert it into pdf ( i.e. I make changes and then run pdflatex ,and changes are quite

Re: Converting to doc format

On 23/10/2009, at 3:34 AM, Florian Rubach wrote: Anthony Campbell schrieb: I'm thinking of publishing in ebook form via Smashwords, who unfortunately demand Word format. I'm on Linux and as far as I can see after a fair amount of googling the only practical way of doing this is to produce

Re: Lyx under WindowsXP

rgheck wrote: On 10/21/2009 12:10 PM, Olivier Ripoll wrote: XBOT wrote: The GUI of Lyx looks terrible! All fonts at the programs window are too bold and the fonts at the menues are too thin. You can use the program, but it isnt comfortable and most of the orders at the menues you cant read!

Re: Lyx under WindowsXP

XBOT wrote: Can you post a little screenshot ? Vincent Hi Vincent, sure...look here: http://www.bilderhosting.info/images/image170113.jpg Tomorrow I try to reinstall... Before you do that, what happens if you change the system-wise font settings for the menus (e.g. try another font)?

Re: Converting to doc format

On 22 Oct 2009, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 21 Oct 2009, Andrew Sullivan wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 06:50:56PM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > Thanks to all for replies. I went to the Wiki as suggested and found how > > > to export files as rtf, which should be loadable into

The behaviour of menus

Dear list, There is a slightly annoying feature of the behaviour of my Lyx which, I have just realised, may be seen as a bug. When I open a drop-down menu -e. g., when choosing the language of a paragraph from the drop-down list of possibilities- even if I navigate to my preferred option

RE: The behaviour of menus

> When I open a drop-down menu -e. g., when choosing the > language of a paragraph from the drop-down list of > possibilities- even if I navigate to my preferred option > using the cursor keys, ... Can you more precisely describe what drop-down menu you mean ? The only way I know to select the

Re: The behaviour of menus

That's the one I mean, yes. It's not working fine for me, though for some reason I cannot seem to copy a screen snapshot while the menu is displayed, so I cannot show you. The way to replicate my problem is as follows. Open the text style dialog, press the language drop-down menu to unfold it

randomly rotated graphics

Hi there, I think this is more a LaTeX question than LyX, but... I have some LyX documents that include (via graphicx.sty) graphics files supplied in a variety of formats (png, jpg, PDF) that I output as PDFs using pdflatex. This works fine on Windows (XP, Vista using MiKTeX v2.7) and Linux

Re: input math macro file -> incomplete instant preview

Axel Heim wrote: Hi there, the math macro is a great feature. However, when I input (or include) a file with math macros, the corresponding math symbols do not appear in the instant preview, while `hard-coded' symbols do. I assume you mean that if you view the child document (in a separate

Re: Converting to doc format

Anthony Campbell schrieb: I'm thinking of publishing in ebook form via Smashwords, who unfortunately demand Word format. I'm on Linux and as far as I can see after a fair amount of googling the only practical way of doing this is to produce a plain text (txt) version from Lyx, import it into the

Bibtex and child documents

Dear list, I'm using LyX and the Lyx port of André Miede's Classicthesis to write a thesis. I was wondering how to deal with child documents and bibtex. Basically I want to do this. 1. Have one master document with several child documents (i.e. one for each child documents. 2. Have one

Kluwer doc class: title and author not showing up

Dear LyX users, I am trying out the doc class "article (Kluwer)" and having a problem: a simple document with a title, author, and a single section and some standard text typesets without the title and the author. I looked at this manual (http://www.springer.com/?SGWID=4-102-45-124370-0), but I

Re: Bibtex and child documents

On 10/22/2009 02:27 PM, Jan Piet Joris en Corneel wrote: Dear list, I'm using LyX and the Lyx port of André Miede's Classicthesis to write a thesis. I was wondering how to deal with child documents and bibtex. Basically I want to do this. 1. Have one master document with several child

Re: Documenting python code using LyX

On 2009-10-20, Wolfgang Keller wrote: >> Does anybody use LyX to document python code? Any hints? > PyLit already allows to round-trip between Python code with embedded > ReST comments and ReST documents with embedded Python code blocks. From > ReST, you can then convert to LaTeX, which should be

Re: Tufte-book Layout File

On 2009-10-18, Jason Waskiewicz wrote: > I recently made a .layout file for the Tufte-book class. > http://code.google.com/p/tufte-latex/ > I had good luck making it work with my materials, but I know nothing > about LyX .layout files. I simply took the existing tufte-handout.layout > file on

Re: Epsilon ran off ...

On 2009-10-19, Paul A. Rubin wrote: > ... and took varrho with it. This is some sort of screen font problem, > but one I don't recall seeing reported before. > I've got a copy of LyX 1.6.3 installed on Mint Gloria (a Linux distro > built over Ubuntu -- Jaunty Jackalope, I think). Of the Greek

Re: Bibtex and child documents

On 23/10/2009, at 7:22 AM, rgheck wrote: On 10/22/2009 02:27 PM, Jan Piet Joris en Corneel wrote: Dear list, I'm using LyX and the Lyx port of André Miede's Classicthesis to write a thesis. I was wondering how to deal with child documents and bibtex. Basically I want to do this. 1.

Re: Tufte-book Layout File

Guenter Milde writes: > > On 2009-10-18, Jason Waskiewicz wrote: > > > I recently made a .layout file for the Tufte-book class. > > > http://code.google.com/p/tufte-latex/ > > > I had good luck making it work with my materials, but I know nothing > > about LyX .layout files. I

Re: Bibtex and child documents

On 10/22/2009 04:44 PM, Pete Crite wrote: On 23/10/2009, at 7:22 AM, rgheck wrote: On 10/22/2009 02:27 PM, Jan Piet Joris en Corneel wrote: Dear list, I'm using LyX and the Lyx port of André Miede's Classicthesis to write a thesis. I was wondering how to deal with child documents and

1.6.4, Article Class, and Headings

I don't recall seeing this behavior in prior versions so a hint on how to clean up the page is appreciated. Version 1.6.4 on linux, document class is article and the headings are fancy. When I look at the pdf output I see the page number both centered at the bottom of each page and adjacent

Re: lyx not finding a style file that latex finds !?

> On 10/15/2009 08:36 PM, Ernesto Posse wrote: > > I have some very strange behaviour in LyX. I have a simple latex style > > file (mystyle.sty) which is located in a directory "mylatexfiles". > > latex knows about this: I have "export TEXINPUTS=mylatexfiles:" in my > > bash login[...]. > > If

Re: Tufte-book Layout File

Jason Waskiewicz writes: > > Guenter Milde writes: > > In order to be found even some weeks/months on, could you create a pointer > > (page or link on a related page) on the LyX wiki (wiki.lyx.org)? > > > > Günter > > Thank-you! The password was E-mailed to

Re: lyx not finding a style file that latex finds !?

On 10/22/2009 08:01 PM, Ernesto Posse wrote: On 10/15/2009 08:36 PM, Ernesto Posse wrote: I have some very strange behaviour in LyX. I have a simple latex style file (mystyle.sty) which is located in a directory "mylatexfiles". latex knows about this: I have "export

Re: Problem

Steinar Graver schrieb: The first pages in my document, abstract, table of content, list of figure..ect has roman page numbering. Chapter 1 starts with Arabic cumbering. > How can I get lyx to start the first appendix side with the next roman number in line, i.e my last roman page is v, and

Image format in lyx.

Hi all, I have lyx 1.6.3 installed. I have to make a presentation and for that purpose I have used beamer class. I have include images which are in Jpeg, png and jpg. However, after a few times that I convert it into pdf ( i.e. I make changes and then run pdflatex ,and changes are quite

Re: Converting to doc format

On 23/10/2009, at 3:34 AM, Florian Rubach wrote: Anthony Campbell schrieb: I'm thinking of publishing in ebook form via Smashwords, who unfortunately demand Word format. I'm on Linux and as far as I can see after a fair amount of googling the only practical way of doing this is to produce