Re: Question About Custom Layouts and Styles

2009-11-04 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-11-03, Rob Oakes wrote: > Counter subsection > LabelString "\Alph{section}.\{subsection}" > End > Since this is one of those "Write it down or forget it" type of things, > I also put together a blog post that describes the whole process. ... > If interested, you can find it at: > htt

Re: Professional and Scientific Writing Book

2009-11-04 Thread Liviu Andronic
Hello On 11/3/09, Rob Oakes wrote: > I'm currently working on a book which shows how professional and > scientific writing can be done using purely open source tools. Any book > [..] > But are there other things that you would like to see? The standard LyX > For a professional look, the choi

Re: Professional and Scientific Writing Book

2009-11-04 Thread Manveru
2009/11/3 Rob Oakes : > Dear LyX Users, > > I'm currently working on a book which shows how professional and > scientific writing can be done using purely open source tools.  Any book > about Scientific/Technical/Professional writing on Linux has to include > one (if not more) chapters on LyX.  Oth

Re: Professional and Scientific Writing Book

2009-11-04 Thread Rainer M Krug
On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 8:18 PM, Graham M Smith wrote: > Rob > > But are there other things that you would like to see? The standard LyX >> documentation is so good that I've found myself struggling to find other >> topics that need to be covered, other than a tremendously quick overview >> of th

Re: howto copy external material to lyx working directory

2009-11-04 Thread Rainer M Krug
On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 4:46 PM, Manveru wrote: > 2009/11/1 Egon Alter : > > Hi, > > > > I like to use the pdfx package which needs some external files (icc > profile, > > xmpdata file) in the lyx_tmpbuf folder. The filenames are hardcoded. How > can > > tell lyx to copy these files to the tmpbuf

URL wraping - someone got it working?

2009-11-04 Thread Sven Hoexter
Hi, did someone succeed in getting wraped and formated URLs in any document? Background is that I tried to reproduce Debian bug #531992 [1]. The "Break links over lines" checkbox in the document settings is activated and the 'breaklinks' setting is set in the tex export. So I suspect some problems

Re: LyX 1.6.4.1 and Snow Leopard

2009-11-04 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > rgheck writes: >> A fix has been committed: disabling fork() on OSX. We don't know why >> it suddenly stopped working, but it is a limitation of OSX itself. > > The workaround has been committed to trunk only, but since I got nobody to > build a binary for testing no

Re: howto copy external material to lyx working directory

2009-11-04 Thread Manveru
2009/11/4 Rainer M Krug : > > > On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 4:46 PM, Manveru wrote: >> >> 2009/11/1 Egon Alter : >> > Hi, >> > >> > I like to use the pdfx package which needs some external files (icc >> > profile, >> > xmpdata file) in the lyx_tmpbuf folder. The filenames are hardcoded. How >> > can >>

Re: howto copy external material to lyx working directory

2009-11-04 Thread Egon Alter
> On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 4:46 PM, Manveru wrote: > > 2009/11/1 Egon Alter : > > > Hi, > > > > > > I like to use the pdfx package which needs some external files (icc > > > profile, xmpdata file) in the lyx_tmpbuf folder. The filenames are > > > hardcoded. > > > How can I tell lyx to copy these fi

Re: howto copy external material to lyx working directory

2009-11-04 Thread Rainer M Krug
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 1:29 PM, Egon Alter wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 4:46 PM, Manveru wrote: > > > 2009/11/1 Egon Alter : > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > I like to use the pdfx package which needs some external files (icc > > > > profile, xmpdata file) in the lyx_tmpbuf folder. The filenames

Re: howto copy external material to lyx working directory

2009-11-04 Thread Rainer M Krug
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 12:42 PM, Manveru wrote: > 2009/11/4 Rainer M Krug : > > > > > > On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 4:46 PM, Manveru wrote: > >> > >> 2009/11/1 Egon Alter : > >> > Hi, > >> > > >> > I like to use the pdfx package which needs some external files (icc > >> > profile, > >> > xmpdata file

Re: Professional and Scientific Writing Book

2009-11-04 Thread Piero Faustini
> Dealing with Word is a very common question on list, and in > professional and academic circumstances discussing it -- at exhaustive > length, since all of the options are well less than perfect -- would > likely be very helpful. Yep. More in general, and I would never stop repeating it, LyX

Re: Problems including a document

2009-11-04 Thread Helge Hafting
Manolo Martí­nez wrote: Dear list, I am working right now with a long document that has chapters as separate files, included in a master document. I'm having the following problem: chapter 5 exports to pdf perfectly on its own but, when included in the master document, this latter document do

command syntax

2009-11-04 Thread rafalo
Hello I am trying to define shortcuts in lyx, and the only command i know is "math-insert ...". What are the other possibilities? How can i for example combine two commands, like "math-insert \{\]" and then go backward one character, ? Thank you very much -- View this message in context: htt

RE: command syntax

2009-11-04 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW
>I am trying to define shortcuts in lyx, and the only >command i know is "math-insert ...". What are the other >possibilities? How can i for example combine two commands, >like "math-insert \{\]" and then go backward one character, >? >Thank you very much Have a look at the "Help->LyX Function

http:// renderings in lyx

2009-11-04 Thread Frederick Noronha [फ़रेदरिक नोरो नया] فريدريك نورونيا
Guys, could you tell me if I'm doing something wrong, the http://whatever.com doesn't render when in lyx. In particuarly the // looks too far from the text. Should I use some other way of doing this? Thanks! FN -- FN +91-9822122436 P +91-832-2409490 Updated: http://goabooks.wordpress.com

Re: http:// renderings in lyx

2009-11-04 Thread Mike Meredith
On Wed, 4 Nov 2009 20:43:19 +0530, Frederick Noronha [फ़रेदरिक नोरोनया] فريدريك نورونيا wrote: > Guys, could you tell me if I'm doing something wrong, the > http://whatever.com doesn't render when in lyx. In particuarly the // > looks too far from the text. Should I use some other way of doing > thi

Paragraph Indent Alignment in .layout file

2009-11-04 Thread Rob
Hi, I changed the alignment of the standard environment in my layout file. I did it by simply adding these lines to my .layout file: Style Standard Align Left End This is now ragged right in my layout, as I desire, but I lost the paragraph indents in the process. When I

Snow Leopard, Auto-save, Etc: Binary for Testing

2009-11-04 Thread rgheck
Just reposting this with a more informative title. The binary is here: Original Message Subject:Re: LyX 1.6.4.1 and Snow Leopard Date: Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:29:05 +0100 From: Jürgen Spitzmüller To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Followup-To:gmane.editors.lyx.general

Re: Paragraph Indent Alignment in .layout file

2009-11-04 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Rob schrieb: This is now ragged right in my layout, as I desire, but I lost the paragraph indents in the process. When I changed the above to this: Style Standard ParIndent 30pt Align Left End I still didn't get the paragraph indents. I definitely

Re: http:// renderings in lyx

2009-11-04 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Frederick Noronha [फ़रेदरिक नोरोनया] فريدريك نورونيا schrieb: Guys, could you tell me if I'm doing something wrong, the http://whatever.com doesn't render when in lyx. In particuarly the // looks too far from the text. Should I use some other way of doing this? Menu Insert-> Hyperlink (or the c

Re: Paragraph Indent Alignment in .layout file

2009-11-04 Thread rgheck
On 11/04/2009 10:57 AM, Rob wrote: Hi, I changed the alignment of the standard environment in my layout file. I did it by simply adding these lines to my .layout file: Style Standard Align Left End This is now ragged right in my layout, as I desire, but I lost the parag

Re: URL wraping - someone got it working?

2009-11-04 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Sven Hoexter schrieb: did someone succeed in getting wraped and formated URLs in any document? Background is that I tried to reproduce Debian bug #531992 [1]. The "Break links over lines" checkbox in the document settings is activated and the 'breaklinks' setting is set in the tex export. Wit

Re: Paragraph Indent Alignment in .layout file

2009-11-04 Thread rgheck
On 11/04/2009 11:18 AM, Uwe Stöhr wrote: Rob schrieb: This is now ragged right in my layout, as I desire, but I lost the paragraph indents in the process. When I changed the above to this: Style Standard ParIndent 30pt Align Left End I still didn't get th

Re: Paragraph Indent Alignment in .layout file

2009-11-04 Thread Rob
Thanks Uwe, But when I specify Style Standard Align Left ParIndent MMM End the problems persists. In fact, no matter the string entry for ParIndent, the problem persists. I've looked closely at the customization manual, but cannot find my solution there. thanks.

Re: Paragraph Indent Alignment in .layout file

2009-11-04 Thread rgheck
On 11/04/2009 11:36 AM, Rob wrote: Thanks Uwe, But when I specify Style Standard Align Left ParIndent MMM End the problems persists. In fact, no matter the string entry for ParIndent, the problem persists. I've looked closely at the customization manual, but cannot find my

Re: Paragraph Indent Alignment in .layout file

2009-11-04 Thread Rob
> > #\DeclareLyXModule{Test} > #DescriptionBegin > #Test Module > #DescriptionEnd > > Format 11 > > Style Standard > Align Left > ParIndent M > End > > Hi RG, Thanks for your help with this. I copied your text to make a module and am able to change the margins, alignmen

Re: Paragraph Indent Alignment in .layout file

2009-11-04 Thread rgheck
On 11/04/2009 12:07 PM, Rob wrote: #\DeclareLyXModule{Test} #DescriptionBegin #Test Module #DescriptionEnd Format 11 Style Standard Align Left ParIndent M End Hi RG, Thanks for your help with this. I copied your text to make a module and am able to change the mar

using of aspell libraries on windows

2009-11-04 Thread Sergey
Hi i just noticed lyx team maintains up-to-date aspell windows port. I tried to use with Psi. so i got aspell-mingw tarball (ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/contrib/lyx-windows-deps-mingw.zip), compiled Psi with it, put 2 dlls from tarball (aspell-15.dll and libintl-3.dll) into directory with Psi.exe, i

layout files & document frontmatter

2009-11-04 Thread 2450help
I am defining a layout where I need to have a few LaTeX definitions made. In LaTeX, these would be: \ICSEnum{12345} This is not displayed - it is required for the class (.cls) file I am using. In the LyX layout file, I tried the following: InsetLayout "ReportNumber" LyxType

Re: layout files & document frontmatter

2009-11-04 Thread James C. Sutherland
On Nov 4, 2009, at 11:40 AM, <2450h...@gmail.com> <2450h...@gmail.com> wrote: I am defining a layout where I need to have a few LaTeX definitions made. In LaTeX, these would be: \ICSEnum{12345} This is not displayed - it is required for the class (.cls) file I am using. In the LyX la

Re: Paragraph Indent Alignment in .layout file

2009-11-04 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-11-04, rgheck wrote: >> I changed the alignment of the standard environment in my layout file. ... >> What should I do to keep my ragged right appearance >> and the conventional paragraph indents in my layout? > Second, I would suggest putting this kind of thing into a simple module, Se

Re: Snow Leopard, Auto-save, Etc: Binary for Testing

2009-11-04 Thread Dennis Hohmann
Thank you for the binary! I did a small test and had no autosave pseudo-crashes. Sometimes I imagine that my overall system runs slower.

Re: Professional and Scientific Writing Book

2009-11-04 Thread Christian Ridderström
I would suggest putting in some discussion on how to choose Document Class -- This is a very good idea IMHO. I've used LyX since a long time ago, and choosing a suitable class isn't the easiest. In addition, I'd really like some instructions/examples on how to create "business" like document

Re: Professional and Scientific Writing Book

2009-11-04 Thread Graham M Smith
>In addition, I'd really like some instructions/examples on how to create "business" like >documents. When I've tried, I've found it difficult and annoying to try to get the appearance the >way the company wants it. (With logos, lines and legaleese..). So tips and instructions on that >would

Re: layout files & document frontmatter

2009-11-04 Thread Paul A. Rubin
James C. Sutherland wrote: On Nov 4, 2009, at 11:40 AM, <2450h...@gmail.com> <2450h...@gmail.com> wrote: I am defining a layout where I need to have a few LaTeX definitions made. In LaTeX, these would be: \ICSEnum{12345} This is not displayed - it is required for the class (.cls) file I

Re: Professional and Scientific Writing Book

2009-11-04 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 4 Nov 2009, Graham M Smith wrote: In addition, I'd really like some instructions/examples on how to create "business" like >documents. When I've tried, I've found it difficult and annoying to try to get the appearance the >way the company wants it. (With logos, lines and legaleese..). So

Re: layout files & document frontmatter

2009-11-04 Thread James C. Sutherland
On Nov 4, 2009, at 3:35 PM, Paul A. Rubin wrote: James C. Sutherland wrote: On Nov 4, 2009, at 11:40 AM, <2450h...@gmail.com> <2450h...@gmail.com> wrote: I am defining a layout where I need to have a few LaTeX definitions made. In LaTeX, these would be: \ICSEnum{12345} This is not displa

Re: using of aspell libraries on windows

2009-11-04 Thread Joost Verburg
Sergey wrote: (ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/contrib/lyx-windows-deps-mingw.zip), compiled Psi This is an old file which is no longer maintained, we currently use the msvc version. Joost

Re: Professional and Scientific Writing Book

2009-11-04 Thread Ralf
Rob Oakes writes: > I'm currently working on a book which shows how professional and > scientific writing can be done using purely open source tools. > > [snip] > > But are there other things that you would like to see? Since nobody has mentioned it ... scientific works mostly include a l

Re: layout files & document frontmatter

2009-11-04 Thread rgheck
On 11/04/2009 07:11 PM, James C. Sutherland wrote: This results in the \ICSEnum{...} being put in the preamble AND the body of the document. How can I make it go ONLY in the preamble? Try: InTitle 1 This indicates that this is like \title{} and \author{} and should go before the body.

Re: compiling LyX for maemo (arm architecture)

2009-11-04 Thread Stacia Hartleben
Sorry about the late reply. I was using the included library. When I try the --without-included-boost flag, it says it can't find it, even though it's installed. Do I need to put something in my path so it sees the native version? On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 12:42 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > S