input preamble with biblatex?

2010-01-05 Thread Peter Baumgartner
I'm writing on a long document (book with various chapters) with LyX 1.6.5 on OS X 10.5.8. After trying to prepare a master file with a preamble valid for all files and to work on each file separately I noticed through different posts on this forum that the command \includeonly does not work. At

Re: input preamble with biblatex?

2010-01-05 Thread Pierfranco Minsenti
Hi, I too have observed that the \includeonly command doesn't work and I would be very interested in knowing if there is a way to use it in LyX. For now, a very simple suggestion for Peter consists in compiling from the master file but only after including in a LyX note the chapters he doesn't

Re: input preamble with biblatex?

2010-01-05 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Peter Baumgartner wrote: I'm writing on a long document (book with various chapters) with LyX 1.6.5 on OS X 10.5.8. After trying to prepare a master file with a preamble valid for all files and to work on each file separately I noticed through different posts on this forum that the command

Re: input preamble with biblatex?

2010-01-05 Thread Peter Baumgartner
Pierfranco: Thanks for the tip, very helpful Jürgen: Now it works! Problem was the filename preamble.tex :blush: Two more related questions: Is there a plan to solve the \includeonly problem? If not: How to change this misleading paragraph in the manual? -- View this message in context:

Re: input preamble with biblatex?

2010-01-05 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Peter Baumgartner wrote: Is there a plan to solve the \includeonly problem? In the long run, yes (there's a ticket on trac about the issue). The problem is: a proper includeonly support involves some work, since LyX will need to take care that the whole document is compiled at least once

Re: Snippets Functionality

2010-01-05 Thread rgheck
On 12/31/2009 05:15 PM, Karl Winterling wrote: Hi, Does anyone know of a way to use Textmate-style snippets in LyX? It would speed up entering complex math formulas. I guess the answer is no, since no-one has posted anything. BUT: If you're really entering a lot of complex math formulas

Re: calender

2010-01-05 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 29.12.2009, at 19:55, Paul Sutton wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Daniel Lohmann wrote: The PGF/TikZ package contains a quite decent calendar library. Within LyX you have to use ERT as it is a LaTeX package, but its relatively easy to use. Daniel Ok thanks I have

Re: getting the spell check to work on Windows Vista

2010-01-05 Thread Uwe Stöhr
R M schrieb: I have Vista. When I click on English on http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/Aspell6 I told it to install the dictionary in C:\ProgramData\Aspell\Dictionaries Is this the right place? On Win XP the location is C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Aspell Use the according

Re: rotated multirow cells with line wrapping

2010-01-05 Thread Uwe Stöhr
James C. Sutherland schrieb: I would like to create a table that has a multirow cell in it. However, I need to wrap the text and orient it vertically (rotated 90 degrees). I have attached a LyX file and its associated PDF output for an example of what I am trying to do. I cannot get the

Re: LyZ: Lyx plugin for Zotero

2010-01-05 Thread Peter Baumgartner
Hi Petr, I have (probably) finished the plugin, i.e. at least as far as new functionality goes. Sounds great! I was always looking to prevent this extra export of data into a .bib file from zotero. But I have some problems: 1. The plugin does not export special characters like German umlaute

Re: LyZ: Lyx plugin for Zotero

2010-01-05 Thread Petr Šimon
On 6.1.2010 6:30, Peter Baumgartner wrote: Hi Petr, I have (probably) finished the plugin, i.e. at least as far as new functionality goes. Sounds great! I was always looking to prevent this extra export of data into a .bib file from zotero. But I have some problems: 1. The plugin

Re: invisible dialog box text - OSX 10.6.2 Lyx 1.6.5

2010-01-05 Thread Mark Dransfield
Mark Dransfield mark@... writes: OK, I have made the problem go away by renaming Lyx.app as Lyx_165.app! Found by accident but I checked by renaming back to Lyx.app (dialog and menu text went invisible) and then to Lyx_165.app again (text re-appeared) and all now appears to work fine

Multiple files for book

2010-01-05 Thread Stephen George
Hi, I'm a new comer to Lyx, and reading some of the tute and skim reading topics of interest the rest. I'm still left with a question. (hope I didn't miss it) If creating a book with a couple hundred pages, do I put it all in one big lyx file, or do I split it across multiple files (say

Re: Multiple files for book

2010-01-05 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn
I'm a new comer to Lyx, and reading some of the tute and skim reading topics of interest the rest. I'm still left with a question. (hope I didn't miss it) If creating a book with a couple hundred pages, do I put it all in one big lyx file, or do I split it across multiple files (say one

Re: Multiple files for book

2010-01-05 Thread Petr Šimon
On 6.1.2010 10:08, Vincent van Ravesteijn wrote: I'm a new comer to Lyx, and reading some of the tute and skim reading topics of interest the rest. I'm still left with a question. (hope I didn't miss it) If creating a book with a couple hundred pages, do I put it all in one big lyx file,

Re: Multiple files for book

2010-01-05 Thread Typhoon
On Wed, 06 Jan 2010 13:04:20 +1100 Stephen George steve_...@optusnet.com.au wrote: Hi, I'm a new comer to Lyx, and reading some of the tute and skim reading topics of interest the rest. I'm still left with a question. (hope I didn't miss it) If creating a book with a couple hundred

Re: invisible dialog box text - OSX 10.6.2 Lyx 1.6.5

2010-01-05 Thread Sebastian Rockel
Am 06.01.2010 um 02:31 schrieb Mark Dransfield: Mark Dransfield mark@... writes: OK, I have made the problem go away by renaming Lyx.app as Lyx_165.app! Found Thx Mark, I had done this too without noticing that as reason for the problem disappearing;-) Sebastian by accident but

input preamble with biblatex?

2010-01-05 Thread Peter Baumgartner
I'm writing on a long document (book with various chapters) with LyX 1.6.5 on OS X 10.5.8. After trying to prepare a master file with a preamble valid for all files and to work on each file separately I noticed through different posts on this forum that the command \includeonly does not work. At

Re: input preamble with biblatex?

2010-01-05 Thread Pierfranco Minsenti
Hi, I too have observed that the \includeonly command doesn't work and I would be very interested in knowing if there is a way to use it in LyX. For now, a very simple suggestion for Peter consists in compiling from the master file but only after including in a LyX note the chapters he doesn't

Re: input preamble with biblatex?

2010-01-05 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Peter Baumgartner wrote: I'm writing on a long document (book with various chapters) with LyX 1.6.5 on OS X 10.5.8. After trying to prepare a master file with a preamble valid for all files and to work on each file separately I noticed through different posts on this forum that the command

Re: input preamble with biblatex?

2010-01-05 Thread Peter Baumgartner
Pierfranco: Thanks for the tip, very helpful Jürgen: Now it works! Problem was the filename preamble.tex :blush: Two more related questions: Is there a plan to solve the \includeonly problem? If not: How to change this misleading paragraph in the manual? -- View this message in context:

Re: input preamble with biblatex?

2010-01-05 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Peter Baumgartner wrote: Is there a plan to solve the \includeonly problem? In the long run, yes (there's a ticket on trac about the issue). The problem is: a proper includeonly support involves some work, since LyX will need to take care that the whole document is compiled at least once

Re: Snippets Functionality

2010-01-05 Thread rgheck
On 12/31/2009 05:15 PM, Karl Winterling wrote: Hi, Does anyone know of a way to use Textmate-style snippets in LyX? It would speed up entering complex math formulas. I guess the answer is no, since no-one has posted anything. BUT: If you're really entering a lot of complex math formulas

Re: calender

2010-01-05 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 29.12.2009, at 19:55, Paul Sutton wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Daniel Lohmann wrote: The PGF/TikZ package contains a quite decent calendar library. Within LyX you have to use ERT as it is a LaTeX package, but its relatively easy to use. Daniel Ok thanks I have

Re: getting the spell check to work on Windows Vista

2010-01-05 Thread Uwe Stöhr
R M schrieb: I have Vista. When I click on English on http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/Aspell6 I told it to install the dictionary in C:\ProgramData\Aspell\Dictionaries Is this the right place? On Win XP the location is C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Aspell Use the according

Re: rotated multirow cells with line wrapping

2010-01-05 Thread Uwe Stöhr
James C. Sutherland schrieb: I would like to create a table that has a multirow cell in it. However, I need to wrap the text and orient it vertically (rotated 90 degrees). I have attached a LyX file and its associated PDF output for an example of what I am trying to do. I cannot get the

Re: LyZ: Lyx plugin for Zotero

2010-01-05 Thread Peter Baumgartner
Hi Petr, I have (probably) finished the plugin, i.e. at least as far as new functionality goes. Sounds great! I was always looking to prevent this extra export of data into a .bib file from zotero. But I have some problems: 1. The plugin does not export special characters like German umlaute

Re: LyZ: Lyx plugin for Zotero

2010-01-05 Thread Petr Šimon
On 6.1.2010 6:30, Peter Baumgartner wrote: Hi Petr, I have (probably) finished the plugin, i.e. at least as far as new functionality goes. Sounds great! I was always looking to prevent this extra export of data into a .bib file from zotero. But I have some problems: 1. The plugin

Re: invisible dialog box text - OSX 10.6.2 Lyx 1.6.5

2010-01-05 Thread Mark Dransfield
Mark Dransfield mark@... writes: OK, I have made the problem go away by renaming Lyx.app as Lyx_165.app! Found by accident but I checked by renaming back to Lyx.app (dialog and menu text went invisible) and then to Lyx_165.app again (text re-appeared) and all now appears to work fine

Multiple files for book

2010-01-05 Thread Stephen George
Hi, I'm a new comer to Lyx, and reading some of the tute and skim reading topics of interest the rest. I'm still left with a question. (hope I didn't miss it) If creating a book with a couple hundred pages, do I put it all in one big lyx file, or do I split it across multiple files (say

Re: Multiple files for book

2010-01-05 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn
I'm a new comer to Lyx, and reading some of the tute and skim reading topics of interest the rest. I'm still left with a question. (hope I didn't miss it) If creating a book with a couple hundred pages, do I put it all in one big lyx file, or do I split it across multiple files (say one

Re: Multiple files for book

2010-01-05 Thread Petr Šimon
On 6.1.2010 10:08, Vincent van Ravesteijn wrote: I'm a new comer to Lyx, and reading some of the tute and skim reading topics of interest the rest. I'm still left with a question. (hope I didn't miss it) If creating a book with a couple hundred pages, do I put it all in one big lyx file,

Re: Multiple files for book

2010-01-05 Thread Typhoon
On Wed, 06 Jan 2010 13:04:20 +1100 Stephen George steve_...@optusnet.com.au wrote: Hi, I'm a new comer to Lyx, and reading some of the tute and skim reading topics of interest the rest. I'm still left with a question. (hope I didn't miss it) If creating a book with a couple hundred

Re: invisible dialog box text - OSX 10.6.2 Lyx 1.6.5

2010-01-05 Thread Sebastian Rockel
Am 06.01.2010 um 02:31 schrieb Mark Dransfield: Mark Dransfield mark@... writes: OK, I have made the problem go away by renaming Lyx.app as Lyx_165.app! Found Thx Mark, I had done this too without noticing that as reason for the problem disappearing;-) Sebastian by accident but

input preamble with biblatex?

2010-01-05 Thread Peter Baumgartner
I'm writing on a long document (book with various chapters) with LyX 1.6.5 on OS X 10.5.8. After trying to prepare a master file with a preamble valid for all files and to work on each file separately I noticed through different posts on this forum that the command \includeonly does not work. At

Re: input preamble with biblatex?

2010-01-05 Thread Pierfranco Minsenti
Hi, I too have observed that the \includeonly command doesn't work and I would be very interested in knowing if there is a way to use it in LyX. For now, a very simple suggestion for Peter consists in compiling from the master file but only after including in a LyX note the chapters he doesn't

Re: input preamble with biblatex?

2010-01-05 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Peter Baumgartner wrote: > I'm writing on a long document (book with various chapters) with LyX 1.6.5 > on OS X 10.5.8. After trying to prepare a master file with a preamble > valid for all files and to work on each file separately I noticed through > different posts on this forum that the

Re: input preamble with biblatex?

2010-01-05 Thread Peter Baumgartner
Pierfranco: Thanks for the tip, very helpful Jürgen: Now it works! Problem was the filename "preamble.tex" :blush: Two more related questions: Is there a plan to solve the \includeonly problem? If not: How to change this misleading paragraph in the manual? -- View this message in context:

Re: input preamble with biblatex?

2010-01-05 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Peter Baumgartner wrote: > Is there a plan to solve the \includeonly problem? In the long run, yes (there's a ticket on trac about the issue). The problem is: a proper includeonly support involves some work, since LyX will need to take care that the whole document is compiled at least once

Re: Snippets Functionality

2010-01-05 Thread rgheck
On 12/31/2009 05:15 PM, Karl Winterling wrote: Hi, Does anyone know of a way to use Textmate-style snippets in LyX? It would speed up entering complex math formulas. I guess the answer is "no", since no-one has posted anything. BUT: If you're really entering a lot of complex math formulas

Re: calender

2010-01-05 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 29.12.2009, at 19:55, Paul Sutton wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Daniel Lohmann wrote: The PGF/TikZ package contains a quite decent calendar library. Within LyX you have to use ERT as it is a LaTeX package, but its relatively easy to use. Daniel Ok thanks I have

Re: getting the spell check to work on Windows Vista

2010-01-05 Thread Uwe Stöhr
R M schrieb: I have Vista. When I click on English on http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/Aspell6 I told it to install the dictionary in C:\ProgramData\Aspell\Dictionaries Is this the right place? On Win XP the location is C:\Documents and Settings\\Application Data\Aspell Use the according

Re: rotated multirow cells with line wrapping

2010-01-05 Thread Uwe Stöhr
James C. Sutherland schrieb: I would like to create a table that has a multirow cell in it. However, I need to wrap the text and orient it vertically (rotated 90 degrees). I have attached a LyX file and its associated PDF output for an example of what I am trying to do. I cannot get the

Re: LyZ: Lyx plugin for Zotero

2010-01-05 Thread Peter Baumgartner
Hi Petr, > I have (probably) finished the plugin, i.e. at least as far as new > functionality goes. Sounds great! I was always looking to prevent this extra export of data into a .bib file from zotero. But I have some problems: 1. The plugin does not export special characters like German

Re: LyZ: Lyx plugin for Zotero

2010-01-05 Thread Petr Šimon
On 6.1.2010 6:30, Peter Baumgartner wrote: Hi Petr, I have (probably) finished the plugin, i.e. at least as far as new functionality goes. Sounds great! I was always looking to prevent this extra export of data into a .bib file from zotero. But I have some problems: 1. The plugin

Re: invisible dialog box text - OSX 10.6.2 Lyx 1.6.5

2010-01-05 Thread Mark Dransfield
Mark Dransfield writes: OK, I have made the problem go away by renaming Lyx.app as Lyx_165.app! Found by accident but I checked by renaming back to Lyx.app (dialog and menu text went invisible) and then to Lyx_165.app again (text re-appeared) and all now appears to work fine

Multiple files for book

2010-01-05 Thread Stephen George
Hi, I'm a new comer to Lyx, and reading some of the tute and skim reading topics of interest the rest. I'm still left with a question. (hope I didn't miss it) If creating a book with a couple hundred pages, do I put it all in one big lyx file, or do I split it across multiple files (say

Re: Multiple files for book

2010-01-05 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn
I'm a new comer to Lyx, and reading some of the tute and skim reading topics of interest the rest. I'm still left with a question. (hope I didn't miss it) If creating a book with a couple hundred pages, do I put it all in one big lyx file, or do I split it across multiple files (say one

Re: Multiple files for book

2010-01-05 Thread Petr Šimon
On 6.1.2010 10:08, Vincent van Ravesteijn wrote: I'm a new comer to Lyx, and reading some of the tute and skim reading topics of interest the rest. I'm still left with a question. (hope I didn't miss it) If creating a book with a couple hundred pages, do I put it all in one big lyx file,

Re: Multiple files for book

2010-01-05 Thread Typhoon
On Wed, 06 Jan 2010 13:04:20 +1100 Stephen George wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm a new comer to Lyx, and reading some of the tute and skim reading > topics of interest the rest. > > I'm still left with a question. (hope I didn't miss it) > > If creating a book with a

Re: invisible dialog box text - OSX 10.6.2 Lyx 1.6.5

2010-01-05 Thread Sebastian Rockel
Am 06.01.2010 um 02:31 schrieb Mark Dransfield: Mark Dransfield writes: OK, I have made the problem go away by renaming Lyx.app as Lyx_165.app! Found Thx Mark, I had done this too without noticing that as reason for the problem disappearing;-) Sebastian by accident