Re: Wassenhoven ans lastchecked-option

2009-11-19 Thread Dominik Waßenhoven
jezZiFeR wrote: Could anybody tell me how to activate the URL-date and lastchecked option in Wassenhoven-style? I assume that you are talking of biblatex-dw with the style footnote-dw and that you want to have the url and urldate printed in the footnote, right? That should be working (see

Re: Wassenhoven ans lastchecked-option

2009-11-19 Thread Dominik Waßenhoven
Dominik Waßenhoven wrote: I assume that you are talking of biblatex-dw with the style footnote-dw and that you want to have the url and urldate printed in the footnote, right? That should be working (see example below), so you should tell us, why it is not working for you. You could do so by

Defining color .

2009-11-19 Thread nikunj .
Hi, I am using 'color' package. How do I define more colors ? All I know is that I can use \definecolor{name}{model}{color-spec} in the preamble. Can someone guide me with the color spec thing? Isn' t there a comprehensive list of such color-specs ? Nikunj.

Re: How do I apply the ISO 690 reference style to my bibliography listings? (Mac LyX user)

2009-11-19 Thread Daisuke Koya
Hello Uwe, Yes, I found it, thank you very much. Unfortunately the plainnat style isn't the one I need. I will have to figure out how to match or create a style closest to ISO 690. Many thanks, Daisuke On 19 Nov 2009, at 00:11, Uwe Stöhr wrote: Daisuke Koya schrieb: Hello all, I would

scaling preview formulas

2009-11-19 Thread Stefano Baroni
Hi! Is there any way of scaling the previewed formulas by the same factor as the ordinary text? Thanks - SB --- Stefano Baroni - SISSADEMOCRITOS National Simulation Center - Trieste http://stefano.baroni.me [+39] 040 3787 406 (tel) -528 (fax) / stefanobaroni (skype) La morale est une

Re: Defining color .

2009-11-19 Thread rgheck
On 11/19/2009 04:16 AM, nikunj . wrote: Hi, I am using 'color' package. How do I define more colors ? All I know is that I can use \definecolor{name}{model}{color-spec} in the preamble. Can someone guide me with the color spec thing? Isn' t there a comprehensive list of such color-specs ?

Re: How do I apply the ISO 690 reference style to my bibliography listings? (Mac LyX user)

2009-11-19 Thread rgheck
On 11/19/2009 04:45 AM, Daisuke Koya wrote: Hello Uwe, Yes, I found it, thank you very much. Unfortunately the plainnat style isn't the one I need. I will have to figure out how to match or create a style closest to ISO 690. You can try using makebst, for whose docs see here:

Re: Unknown graphics extension: eps

2009-11-19 Thread Helge Hafting
Luca Carlon wrote: Hi everyone! I have a document with many graphic files in eps format. When I try to generate the PDF using pdflatex, I get many occurrences of the following error: Latex error: unknown graphics extension: .eps. The PDF is created without errors with ps2pdf. I tried some of

Re: Unknown graphics extension: eps

2009-11-19 Thread Luca Carlon
On Thursday 19 November 2009 02:44:55 pm Helge Hafting wrote: It works on debian linux with lyx 1.6.4, so check if you have necessary software. Also check that the converter is found in the PATH, otherwise LyX won't find it. Checking in Tools-Preferences, I see that EPS is listed as a vector

Re: How do I apply the ISO 690 reference style to my bibliography listings? (Mac LyX user)

2009-11-19 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Daisuke Koya schrieb: Yes, I found it, thank you very much. Unfortunately the plainnat style isn't the one I need. But when you open the file plainnat.bst, it says that it follows the ISO 690. When this style is not suitable for you, google for another BibTeX style file that follows the ISO

Re: Defining color .

2009-11-19 Thread Uwe Stöhr
nikunj . schrieb: I am using 'color' package. How do I define more colors ? All I know is that I can use \definecolor{name}{model}{color-spec} in the preamble. Can someone guide me with the color spec thing? The EmbeddedObjects manual that you find in LyX's Help menu explains in sec. 2.11

Re: Cryptic Latex message

2009-11-19 Thread Stefano Franchi
On 11/18/09, lyx-de...@oak-tree.us wrote: Hi Stefano, I've been having very similar problems. They started when I updated from Ubuntu 9.04 to 9.10. I haven't been able to solve them yet. I've also had problems with LyX correctly creating a preview (they're usually weird looking and black and

Re: Wassenhoven ans lastchecked-option

2009-11-19 Thread Dominik Waßenhoven
Dear Jess, jezZiFeR wrote: thank you. As you said, it´s got to work under normal circumstances I tried out some things, and I recognized, that my two URL-entries are saved as webpage in BibDesk. When I have changed that to url things are changing: - It still does not display the

Re: scaling preview formulas

2009-11-19 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Stefano Baroni schrieb: Hi! Is there any way of scaling the previewed formulas by the same factor as the ordinary text? Not directly. But you can change the scaling factor of the previews independently of the text. In the next LyX release LyX 1.6.5 you can do this in the LyX preferences.

RE: XeLaTeX, fontenc, LyX and Stubborn Fonts

2009-11-19 Thread Rob Oakes
Hi Günter, Thank you for the thorough reply. Seems to be the default CM. Never call it ugly on a TeX-related list. I will remember that. I should probably apologize for the rather harsh language. It's amazing what happens when you are frustrated. By the time I had emailed the list, I had

Re: Wassenhoven ans lastchecked-option

2009-11-19 Thread jezZiFeR
Dear Dominik, thanks a lot. biblatex has no field 'lastchecked', but 'urldate' which is referring to the retrieval date of the address specified in the url field, as the biblatex documentation states. I see. - it now displays the date entered in urlfield, but I would like to have not

Re: How do I apply the ISO 690 reference style to my bibliography listings? (Mac LyX user)

2009-11-19 Thread Daisuke Koya
Thank you Uwe, I have found that some of the IEEE formatting is similar to what I need for ISO 690 that the Audio Engineering Society uses. What I also found was to use @INPROCEEDINGS instead of @PROCEEDINGS for the exported BibTeX entries from Bookends, as this somehow

Re: Wassenhoven ans lastchecked-option

2009-11-19 Thread Dominik Waßenhoven
jezZiFeR wrote: Option 'date=long'. I´ve entered that in the preamble in the following manner: \usepackage[natbib=true,style=authortitle-dw, style=footnote- dw,date=long]{biblatex} First, note that you should use /either/ authortitle-dw /or/ footnote-dw, not both styles! (It does no harm,

What's the difference between \RequirePackage and \usepackage?

2009-11-19 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, I crawled all over Google and CTAN and couldn't find an answer to this question: What's the difference between \RequirePackage and \usepackage? When would I use \RequirePackage? I've never used it before -- I've always used \usepackage. One thing my Google travels did uncover is that

Re: Defining color .

2009-11-19 Thread Yago
Search the document chroma.pdf in the CTAN. - Original Message - From: nikunj . nikunjk...@gmail.com To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2009 10:16 AM Subject: Defining color . Hi, I am using 'color' package. How do I define more colors ? All I know is that I

RE: XeLaTeX, fontenc, LyX and Stubborn Fonts

2009-11-19 Thread Rob Oakes
Dear Günter and other LyX users, Again thank you for the advice to check last week's and earlier discussions. While reading through the old emails, I was able to resolve the problem. To solve it, I went to Tools-Preferences-LaTeX and changed the TeX encoding to a null value (blank). I saw

greek characters in index?

2009-11-19 Thread tedc
My manuscript contains many strings that combine sequences of greek and roman characters. How can I get these to appear in the index? For example, the document source initially contains $\Delta$x which displays as upper case delta followed by x. If I select the displayed delta and x and click on

RE: greek characters in index?

2009-11-19 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW
For example, the document source initially contains $\Delta$x which displays as upper case delta followed by x. If I select the displayed delta and x and click on Lyx'x Insert index entry button, the document source changes to \index{\Deltax}$\Delta$x but when I try to generate an index I get an

Directory path to the document cannot contain spaces

2009-11-19 Thread Adam Hoffman
I recently installed LyX 1.6.4-1 on a Windows 7 system, and I'm having an issue that is not common to my previous LyX installs (1.6.?) on an XP SP3 and Vista 64 SP1 system. Whenever I try to generate a pdf/dvi/ps file from a file path that includes spaces, I get an error message indicating that

Package unitsdef does not work correctly

2009-11-19 Thread Marcus
I migrated a LaTex project into Lyx. (karmic, Lyx1.3) The document has many numbers with a unit like 2.5 µl or 280 nm² etc. In LaTex I used the http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/unitsdef.html unitsdef package . It makes sure that the actual unit is not separated from the

Re: greek characters in index?

2009-11-19 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Vincent van Ravesteijn writes: I think you've found a bug. Can you report it to http://www.lyx.org/trac/wiki/BugTrackerHome ? It's already reported: http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/2342

How do I pick a custom font?

2009-11-19 Thread Ash Lereth
Is there any way in Lyx to use a font that my OS has? I have windows vista and just downloaded a bunch of .ttf fonts and want to use them. I should be able to pick my font right? All I see is roman/serif/typewriter...I want to pick the font name, where can I do that? Thanks for your help. Kris

Re: How do I pick a custom font?

2009-11-19 Thread Rob Oakes
Hi Kris, You can indeed pick a custom font, but it's a little bit more complicated than just pointing and clicking. And while it might be hard to believe, this is by design. LyX and LaTeX are designed as a document processors for the production of professionally type set documents. As a

Re: Wassenhoven ans lastchecked-option

2009-11-19 Thread Dominik Waßenhoven
jezZiFeR wrote: Could anybody tell me how to activate the URL-date and lastchecked option in Wassenhoven-style? I assume that you are talking of biblatex-dw with the style footnote-dw and that you want to have the url and urldate printed in the footnote, right? That should be working (see

Re: Wassenhoven ans lastchecked-option

2009-11-19 Thread Dominik Waßenhoven
Dominik Waßenhoven wrote: I assume that you are talking of biblatex-dw with the style footnote-dw and that you want to have the url and urldate printed in the footnote, right? That should be working (see example below), so you should tell us, why it is not working for you. You could do so by

Defining color .

2009-11-19 Thread nikunj .
Hi, I am using 'color' package. How do I define more colors ? All I know is that I can use \definecolor{name}{model}{color-spec} in the preamble. Can someone guide me with the color spec thing? Isn' t there a comprehensive list of such color-specs ? Nikunj.

Re: How do I apply the ISO 690 reference style to my bibliography listings? (Mac LyX user)

2009-11-19 Thread Daisuke Koya
Hello Uwe, Yes, I found it, thank you very much. Unfortunately the plainnat style isn't the one I need. I will have to figure out how to match or create a style closest to ISO 690. Many thanks, Daisuke On 19 Nov 2009, at 00:11, Uwe Stöhr wrote: Daisuke Koya schrieb: Hello all, I would

scaling preview formulas

2009-11-19 Thread Stefano Baroni
Hi! Is there any way of scaling the previewed formulas by the same factor as the ordinary text? Thanks - SB --- Stefano Baroni - SISSADEMOCRITOS National Simulation Center - Trieste http://stefano.baroni.me [+39] 040 3787 406 (tel) -528 (fax) / stefanobaroni (skype) La morale est une

Re: Defining color .

2009-11-19 Thread rgheck
On 11/19/2009 04:16 AM, nikunj . wrote: Hi, I am using 'color' package. How do I define more colors ? All I know is that I can use \definecolor{name}{model}{color-spec} in the preamble. Can someone guide me with the color spec thing? Isn' t there a comprehensive list of such color-specs ?

Re: How do I apply the ISO 690 reference style to my bibliography listings? (Mac LyX user)

2009-11-19 Thread rgheck
On 11/19/2009 04:45 AM, Daisuke Koya wrote: Hello Uwe, Yes, I found it, thank you very much. Unfortunately the plainnat style isn't the one I need. I will have to figure out how to match or create a style closest to ISO 690. You can try using makebst, for whose docs see here:

Re: Unknown graphics extension: eps

2009-11-19 Thread Helge Hafting
Luca Carlon wrote: Hi everyone! I have a document with many graphic files in eps format. When I try to generate the PDF using pdflatex, I get many occurrences of the following error: Latex error: unknown graphics extension: .eps. The PDF is created without errors with ps2pdf. I tried some of

Re: Unknown graphics extension: eps

2009-11-19 Thread Luca Carlon
On Thursday 19 November 2009 02:44:55 pm Helge Hafting wrote: It works on debian linux with lyx 1.6.4, so check if you have necessary software. Also check that the converter is found in the PATH, otherwise LyX won't find it. Checking in Tools-Preferences, I see that EPS is listed as a vector

Re: How do I apply the ISO 690 reference style to my bibliography listings? (Mac LyX user)

2009-11-19 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Daisuke Koya schrieb: Yes, I found it, thank you very much. Unfortunately the plainnat style isn't the one I need. But when you open the file plainnat.bst, it says that it follows the ISO 690. When this style is not suitable for you, google for another BibTeX style file that follows the ISO

Re: Defining color .

2009-11-19 Thread Uwe Stöhr
nikunj . schrieb: I am using 'color' package. How do I define more colors ? All I know is that I can use \definecolor{name}{model}{color-spec} in the preamble. Can someone guide me with the color spec thing? The EmbeddedObjects manual that you find in LyX's Help menu explains in sec. 2.11

Re: Cryptic Latex message

2009-11-19 Thread Stefano Franchi
On 11/18/09, lyx-de...@oak-tree.us wrote: Hi Stefano, I've been having very similar problems. They started when I updated from Ubuntu 9.04 to 9.10. I haven't been able to solve them yet. I've also had problems with LyX correctly creating a preview (they're usually weird looking and black and

Re: Wassenhoven ans lastchecked-option

2009-11-19 Thread Dominik Waßenhoven
Dear Jess, jezZiFeR wrote: thank you. As you said, it´s got to work under normal circumstances I tried out some things, and I recognized, that my two URL-entries are saved as webpage in BibDesk. When I have changed that to url things are changing: - It still does not display the

Re: scaling preview formulas

2009-11-19 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Stefano Baroni schrieb: Hi! Is there any way of scaling the previewed formulas by the same factor as the ordinary text? Not directly. But you can change the scaling factor of the previews independently of the text. In the next LyX release LyX 1.6.5 you can do this in the LyX preferences.

RE: XeLaTeX, fontenc, LyX and Stubborn Fonts

2009-11-19 Thread Rob Oakes
Hi Günter, Thank you for the thorough reply. Seems to be the default CM. Never call it ugly on a TeX-related list. I will remember that. I should probably apologize for the rather harsh language. It's amazing what happens when you are frustrated. By the time I had emailed the list, I had

Re: Wassenhoven ans lastchecked-option

2009-11-19 Thread jezZiFeR
Dear Dominik, thanks a lot. biblatex has no field 'lastchecked', but 'urldate' which is referring to the retrieval date of the address specified in the url field, as the biblatex documentation states. I see. - it now displays the date entered in urlfield, but I would like to have not

Re: How do I apply the ISO 690 reference style to my bibliography listings? (Mac LyX user)

2009-11-19 Thread Daisuke Koya
Thank you Uwe, I have found that some of the IEEE formatting is similar to what I need for ISO 690 that the Audio Engineering Society uses. What I also found was to use @INPROCEEDINGS instead of @PROCEEDINGS for the exported BibTeX entries from Bookends, as this somehow

Re: Wassenhoven ans lastchecked-option

2009-11-19 Thread Dominik Waßenhoven
jezZiFeR wrote: Option 'date=long'. I´ve entered that in the preamble in the following manner: \usepackage[natbib=true,style=authortitle-dw, style=footnote- dw,date=long]{biblatex} First, note that you should use /either/ authortitle-dw /or/ footnote-dw, not both styles! (It does no harm,

What's the difference between \RequirePackage and \usepackage?

2009-11-19 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, I crawled all over Google and CTAN and couldn't find an answer to this question: What's the difference between \RequirePackage and \usepackage? When would I use \RequirePackage? I've never used it before -- I've always used \usepackage. One thing my Google travels did uncover is that

Re: Defining color .

2009-11-19 Thread Yago
Search the document chroma.pdf in the CTAN. - Original Message - From: nikunj . nikunjk...@gmail.com To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2009 10:16 AM Subject: Defining color . Hi, I am using 'color' package. How do I define more colors ? All I know is that I

RE: XeLaTeX, fontenc, LyX and Stubborn Fonts

2009-11-19 Thread Rob Oakes
Dear Günter and other LyX users, Again thank you for the advice to check last week's and earlier discussions. While reading through the old emails, I was able to resolve the problem. To solve it, I went to Tools-Preferences-LaTeX and changed the TeX encoding to a null value (blank). I saw

greek characters in index?

2009-11-19 Thread tedc
My manuscript contains many strings that combine sequences of greek and roman characters. How can I get these to appear in the index? For example, the document source initially contains $\Delta$x which displays as upper case delta followed by x. If I select the displayed delta and x and click on

RE: greek characters in index?

2009-11-19 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW
For example, the document source initially contains $\Delta$x which displays as upper case delta followed by x. If I select the displayed delta and x and click on Lyx'x Insert index entry button, the document source changes to \index{\Deltax}$\Delta$x but when I try to generate an index I get an

Directory path to the document cannot contain spaces

2009-11-19 Thread Adam Hoffman
I recently installed LyX 1.6.4-1 on a Windows 7 system, and I'm having an issue that is not common to my previous LyX installs (1.6.?) on an XP SP3 and Vista 64 SP1 system. Whenever I try to generate a pdf/dvi/ps file from a file path that includes spaces, I get an error message indicating that

Package unitsdef does not work correctly

2009-11-19 Thread Marcus
I migrated a LaTex project into Lyx. (karmic, Lyx1.3) The document has many numbers with a unit like 2.5 µl or 280 nm² etc. In LaTex I used the http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/unitsdef.html unitsdef package . It makes sure that the actual unit is not separated from the

Re: greek characters in index?

2009-11-19 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Vincent van Ravesteijn writes: I think you've found a bug. Can you report it to http://www.lyx.org/trac/wiki/BugTrackerHome ? It's already reported: http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/2342

How do I pick a custom font?

2009-11-19 Thread Ash Lereth
Is there any way in Lyx to use a font that my OS has? I have windows vista and just downloaded a bunch of .ttf fonts and want to use them. I should be able to pick my font right? All I see is roman/serif/typewriter...I want to pick the font name, where can I do that? Thanks for your help. Kris

Re: How do I pick a custom font?

2009-11-19 Thread Rob Oakes
Hi Kris, You can indeed pick a custom font, but it's a little bit more complicated than just pointing and clicking. And while it might be hard to believe, this is by design. LyX and LaTeX are designed as a document processors for the production of professionally type set documents. As a

Re: Wassenhoven ans lastchecked-option

2009-11-19 Thread Dominik Waßenhoven
jezZiFeR wrote: > Could anybody tell me how to activate the URL-date and lastchecked > option in Wassenhoven-style? I assume that you are talking of biblatex-dw with the style footnote-dw and that you want to have the url and urldate printed in the footnote, right? That should be working (see

Re: Wassenhoven ans lastchecked-option

2009-11-19 Thread Dominik Waßenhoven
Dominik Waßenhoven wrote: > I assume that you are talking of biblatex-dw with the style footnote-dw > and that you want to have the url and urldate printed in the footnote, > right? That should be working (see example below), so you should tell > us, why it is not working for you. You could do so

Defining color .

2009-11-19 Thread nikunj .
Hi, I am using 'color' package. How do I define more colors ? All I know is that I can use \definecolor{name}{model}{color-spec} in the preamble. Can someone guide me with the color spec thing? Isn' t there a comprehensive list of such color-specs ? Nikunj.

Re: How do I apply the ISO 690 reference style to my bibliography listings? (Mac LyX user)

2009-11-19 Thread Daisuke Koya
Hello Uwe, Yes, I found it, thank you very much. Unfortunately the "plainnat" style isn't the one I need. I will have to figure out how to match or create a style closest to ISO 690. Many thanks, Daisuke On 19 Nov 2009, at 00:11, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > Daisuke Koya schrieb: >> Hello all, >> I

scaling preview formulas

2009-11-19 Thread Stefano Baroni
Hi! Is there any way of scaling the previewed formulas by the same factor as the ordinary text? Thanks - SB --- Stefano Baroni - SISSA & DEMOCRITOS National Simulation Center - Trieste http://stefano.baroni.me [+39] 040 3787 406 (tel) -528 (fax) / stefanobaroni (skype) La morale est

Re: Defining color .

2009-11-19 Thread rgheck
On 11/19/2009 04:16 AM, nikunj . wrote: Hi, I am using 'color' package. How do I define more colors ? All I know is that I can use \definecolor{name}{model}{color-spec} in the preamble. Can someone guide me with the color spec thing? Isn' t there a comprehensive list of such color-specs ?

Re: How do I apply the ISO 690 reference style to my bibliography listings? (Mac LyX user)

2009-11-19 Thread rgheck
On 11/19/2009 04:45 AM, Daisuke Koya wrote: Hello Uwe, Yes, I found it, thank you very much. Unfortunately the "plainnat" style isn't the one I need. I will have to figure out how to match or create a style closest to ISO 690. You can try using makebst, for whose docs see here:

Re: Unknown graphics extension: eps

2009-11-19 Thread Helge Hafting
Luca Carlon wrote: Hi everyone! I have a document with many graphic files in eps format. When I try to generate the PDF using pdflatex, I get many occurrences of the following error: Latex error: unknown graphics extension: .eps. The PDF is created without errors with ps2pdf. I tried some of

Re: Unknown graphics extension: eps

2009-11-19 Thread Luca Carlon
On Thursday 19 November 2009 02:44:55 pm Helge Hafting wrote: > It works on debian linux with lyx 1.6.4, so check if you have necessary > software. Also check that the converter is found in the PATH, otherwise > LyX won't find it. > > Checking in Tools->Preferences, I see that EPS is listed as a

Re: How do I apply the ISO 690 reference style to my bibliography listings? (Mac LyX user)

2009-11-19 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Daisuke Koya schrieb: Yes, I found it, thank you very much. Unfortunately the "plainnat" style isn't the one I need. But when you open the file plainnat.bst, it says that it follows the ISO 690. When this style is not suitable for you, google for another BibTeX style file that follows the

Re: Defining color .

2009-11-19 Thread Uwe Stöhr
nikunj . schrieb: I am using 'color' package. How do I define more colors ? All I know is that I can use \definecolor{name}{model}{color-spec} in the preamble. Can someone guide me with the color spec thing? The EmbeddedObjects manual that you find in LyX's Help menu explains in sec. 2.11

Re: Cryptic Latex message

2009-11-19 Thread Stefano Franchi
On 11/18/09, lyx-de...@oak-tree.us wrote: >Hi Stefano, > >I've been having very similar problems. They started when I updated from > Ubuntu 9.04 to 9.10. I haven't been able to solve them yet. I've also had > problems with LyX correctly creating a preview (they're usually weird > looking and

Re: Wassenhoven ans lastchecked-option

2009-11-19 Thread Dominik Waßenhoven
Dear Jess, jezZiFeR wrote: > thank you. As you said, it´s got to work under normal circumstances I > tried out some things, and I recognized, that my two URL-entries are > saved as "webpage" in BibDesk. When I have changed that to "url" > things are changing: > - It still does not display

Re: scaling preview formulas

2009-11-19 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Stefano Baroni schrieb: Hi! Is there any way of scaling the previewed formulas by the same factor as the ordinary text? Not directly. But you can change the scaling factor of the previews independently of the text. In the next LyX release LyX 1.6.5 you can do this in the LyX preferences.

RE: XeLaTeX, fontenc, LyX and Stubborn Fonts

2009-11-19 Thread Rob Oakes
Hi Günter, Thank you for the thorough reply. "Seems to be the default CM. Never call it ugly on a TeX-related list." I will remember that. I should probably apologize for the rather harsh language. It's amazing what happens when you are frustrated. By the time I had emailed the list, I had

Re: Wassenhoven ans lastchecked-option

2009-11-19 Thread jezZiFeR
Dear Dominik, thanks a lot. biblatex has no field 'lastchecked', but 'urldate' which is "referring to the retrieval date of the address specified in the url field", as the biblatex documentation states. I see. - it now displays the date entered in "urlfield", but I would like to have

Re: How do I apply the ISO 690 reference style to my bibliography listings? (Mac LyX user)

2009-11-19 Thread Daisuke Koya
Thank you Uwe, I have found that some of the IEEE formatting is similar to what I need for ISO 690 that the Audio Engineering Society uses. What I also found was to use @INPROCEEDINGS instead of @PROCEEDINGS for the exported BibTeX entries from Bookends, as this somehow

Re: Wassenhoven ans lastchecked-option

2009-11-19 Thread Dominik Waßenhoven
jezZiFeR wrote: >> Option 'date=long'. > > I´ve entered that in the preamble in the following manner: > \usepackage[natbib=true,style=authortitle-dw, style=footnote- > dw,date=long]{biblatex} First, note that you should use /either/ authortitle-dw /or/ footnote-dw, not both styles! (It does no

What's the difference between \RequirePackage and \usepackage?

2009-11-19 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, I crawled all over Google and CTAN and couldn't find an answer to this question: What's the difference between \RequirePackage and \usepackage? When would I use \RequirePackage? I've never used it before -- I've always used \usepackage. One thing my Google travels did uncover is that

Re: Defining color .

2009-11-19 Thread Yago
Search the document chroma.pdf in the CTAN. - Original Message - From: "nikunj ." To: Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2009 10:16 AM Subject: Defining color . Hi, I am using 'color' package. How do I define more colors ? All I know is

RE: XeLaTeX, fontenc, LyX and Stubborn Fonts

2009-11-19 Thread Rob Oakes
Dear Günter and other LyX users, Again thank you for the advice to check last week's and earlier discussions. While reading through the old emails, I was able to resolve the problem. To solve it, I went to Tools->Preferences->LaTeX and changed the TeX encoding to a null value (blank). I saw

greek characters in index?

2009-11-19 Thread tedc
My manuscript contains many strings that combine sequences of greek and roman characters. How can I get these to appear in the index? For example, the document source initially contains $\Delta$x which displays as upper case delta followed by x. If I select the displayed delta and x and click on

RE: greek characters in index?

2009-11-19 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW
>For example, the document source initially contains >$\Delta$x which displays as upper case delta followed >by x. If I select the displayed delta and x and click >on Lyx'x "Insert index entry" button, the document source >changes to \index{\Deltax}$\Delta$x but when I try to >generate an index I

"Directory path to the document cannot contain spaces"

2009-11-19 Thread Adam Hoffman
I recently installed LyX 1.6.4-1 on a Windows 7 system, and I'm having an issue that is not common to my previous LyX installs (1.6.?) on an XP SP3 and Vista 64 SP1 system. Whenever I try to generate a pdf/dvi/ps file from a file path that includes spaces, I get an error message indicating that

Package unitsdef does not work correctly

2009-11-19 Thread Marcus
I migrated a LaTex project into Lyx. (karmic, Lyx1.3) The document has many numbers with a unit like 2.5 µl or 280 nm² etc. In LaTex I used the http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/unitsdef.html unitsdef package . It makes sure that the actual unit is not separated from the

Re: greek characters in index?

2009-11-19 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Vincent van Ravesteijn writes: > I think you've found a bug. Can you report it to > http://www.lyx.org/trac/wiki/BugTrackerHome ? It's already reported: http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/2342

How do I pick a custom font?

2009-11-19 Thread Ash Lereth
Is there any way in Lyx to use a font that my OS has? I have windows vista and just downloaded a bunch of .ttf fonts and want to use them. I should be able to pick my font right? All I see is roman/serif/typewriter...I want to pick the font name, where can I do that? Thanks for your help. Kris

Re: How do I pick a custom font?

2009-11-19 Thread Rob Oakes
Hi Kris, You can indeed pick a custom font, but it's a little bit more complicated than just pointing and clicking. And while it might be hard to believe, this is by design. LyX and LaTeX are designed as a "document processors" for the production of professionally type set documents. As a