Re: input preamble with biblatex?

2010-01-06 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-01-05, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Peter Baumgartner wrote: ... the command \includeonly does not work. At least that was the discussion on an older lyx version ... Yes. It does not work since LyX uses specific filenames for the compilation of the document in the temporary directory.

Re: input preamble with biblatex?

2010-01-06 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Guenter Milde wrote: In older LyX versions, you could choose to compile without temporary directory. Is this still supported? I don't think so. Jürgen

Re: Unknown graphics extension: eps

2010-01-06 Thread Helge Hafting
Luca Carlon wrote: Anyway, this is a problem related to this specific file, i.e. my thesis, as if I create a new file and I insert in there an eps file, pdflatex correctly produces the PDF. This is happening under both Linux and MacOSX. Any idea why? I see. your LyX works with .eps files,

Re: Unknown graphics extension: eps

2010-01-06 Thread Luca Carlon
Thank you for your answer, but I already discovered what was going on: eps files cannot be included in the preamble. On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 11:29 AM, Helge Hafting helge.haft...@hist.nowrote: Luca Carlon wrote: Anyway, this is a problem related to this specific file, i.e. my thesis, as if I

Re: Directory path to the document cannot contain spaces

2010-01-06 Thread Helge Hafting
Adam Hoffman wrote: 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

Re: Fwd: CAS exposure in LyX (was Re: Importing Lyx files in SWP)

2010-01-06 Thread Helge Hafting
Murat Yildizoglu wrote: Thanks a lot Olivier, this works perfectly for Maxima. I can ask it to compute \frac{\partial x^{2}}{\partial x}=2\, x and it works as it is shown by the = sign but how to ask more indirect tasks? Question: How to pass commands to Maxima? Should we write full Maxima

Re: Wrapping text REALLY around a picture

2010-01-06 Thread Helge Hafting
Luca De Marini wrote: Hallo list, I'd like to understand a fast thing I never considered but am considering now: is it possible in Lyx or Latex to wrap text around a picture for real? I mean, in lyx I can do something like that to wrap text around a picture but, in reality, I wrap it around a

Re: Wrapping text REALLY around a picture

2010-01-06 Thread Luca De Marini
2010/1/6 Helge Hafting helge.haft...@hist.no Luca De Marini wrote: Hallo list, I'd like to understand a fast thing I never considered but am considering now: is it possible in Lyx or Latex to wrap text around a picture for real? I mean, in lyx I can do something like that to wrap text

Re: For the Wish list

2010-01-06 Thread Helge Hafting
Ehud Kaplan wrote: In working with colleagues on a paper, there are times when I do not have the figures needed for producing the entire document, but it would be nice to see it even without the figures. You can insert figure floats, and simply not insert any graphics files into them.

Re: Multiple files for book

2010-01-06 Thread Helge Hafting
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 couple hundred pages, do I put it all in one big lyx file, or do I split it across

lyx module

2010-01-06 Thread Marco Correia
Hi, I have created a lyx module with some stuff I need for my thesis. Probably I have made a mistake somewhere, since lyx says error reading module when I load it, even if the module works as expected. The message is not very informative, and does not help me finding where the bug is. Is

Re: Fwd: CAS exposure in LyX (was Re: Importing Lyx files in SWP)

2010-01-06 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-01-06, Helge Hafting wrote: Murat Yildizoglu wrote: Thanks a lot Olivier, this works perfectly for Maxima. I can ask it to compute \frac{\partial x^{2}}{\partial x}=2\, x and it works as it is shown by the = sign but how to ask more indirect tasks? Question: How to pass commands to

Numbering figures' problem

2010-01-06 Thread Matteo A.
Hello everybody I have a problem with lyx. when i draw a numbered figure or table, lyx works and gives it a correct number. the same for the next figure/table. But when i view the lyx file as PDF file and take a look to the figure and table's numbers i notice that all the figures and tables, of a

Lyx in Fedora 12

2010-01-06 Thread Dr. Gyorgy Pota
Dear Users, Lyx did not show any eps figures in a freshly installed Fedora 12 system. Running Lyx in a terminal revealed that convert was unsuccesful. Finally it turned out that ImageMagick was not installed for Lyx although I installed Lyx via yum, which, in principle, installs everything

I surely do wish I could use aspell directly on a *.lyx file...

2010-01-06 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
Don't get me wrong, LyX's internal spellchecker does a good job of implementing aspell. Except for two little things that make me wish I could invoke aspell from the command line on a *.lyx file and have it skip all the embedded lyx commands. I've looked at the docs for aspell and it looks like

Re: I surely do wish I could use aspell directly on a *.lyx file...

2010-01-06 Thread Manveru
2010/1/6 Joe(theWordy)Philbrook jtw...@ttlc.net: [...] The first (And most obvious)issue is the way the pop-up spellchecker dialog box often obscures the word in the text of the lyx document. I mean if it simply determined where the word was displayed and opened the dialog box in a different

RE: I surely do wish I could use aspell directly on a *.lyx file...

2010-01-06 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW
I suggested many months ago that spell checking should be available not in dialog window, but in floating pane on probably right side. But there was no response about that. The spellchecking is already in a floating pane. http://www.lyx.org/trac/changeset/29322 (for 9 months now) I do not

Copying from LyX and pasting to Word with $...$ and \[...\] delimiters

2010-01-06 Thread Gerard Ateshian
Hi, Recently I discovered that PubMed Central (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/ ) does not accept TeX/LaTeX submissions, so I have to convert some of my LyX documents to Microsoft Word (a common headache). My manuscripts have lots of equations, so I need to use MathType to convert the

RE: I surely do wish I could use aspell directly on a *.lyx file...

2010-01-06 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW
The spellchecking is already in a floating pane. http://www.lyx.org/trac/changeset/29322 (for 9 months now) I do not have time to try modifying code myself. We don't have time either. This is in trunk as I understand... any plan to merge into 1.6.x line? No. Vincent

Re: I surely do wish I could use aspell directly on a *.lyx file...

2010-01-06 Thread Manveru
2010/1/6 Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW v.f.vanraveste...@tudelft.nl: I suggested many months ago that spell checking should be available not in dialog window, but in floating pane on probably right side. But there was no response about that. The spellchecking is already in a floating pane.

Re: Lyx in Fedora 12

2010-01-06 Thread Neal Becker
Dr. Gyorgy Pota wrote: Dear Users, Lyx did not show any eps figures in a freshly installed Fedora 12 system. Running Lyx in a terminal revealed that convert was unsuccesful. Finally it turned out that ImageMagick was not installed for Lyx although I installed Lyx via yum, which, in

Re: Lyx in Fedora 12

2010-01-06 Thread Manoj Rajagopalan
This is probably a packaging error on Fedora 12. Have you tried to discover and contact the maintainer for this package? -- Manoj On Wednesday 06 January 2010 08:05:39 am Dr. Gyorgy Pota wrote: Dear Users, Lyx did not show any eps figures in a freshly installed Fedora 12 system. Running

Re: Numbering figures' problem

2010-01-06 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Am 06.01.2010 13:34, schrieb Matteo A.: I mean that when i write in lyx chapter 4-section 3(for example) and put 2 tables or figures that are numbered in lyx automatically as table or figure 6 and table or figure 7, then when i update the PDF, i notice that the 2 tables or figures get the same

Re: input preamble with biblatex?

2010-01-06 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 06.01.2010, at 10:58, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Guenter Milde wrote: In older LyX versions, you could choose to compile without temporary directory. Is this still supported? I don't think so. Which is a pity, IMHO. Not only this would be an easy workaround for all problems related to

Re: Multiple files for book

2010-01-06 Thread Steve Litt
On Tuesday 05 January 2010 21:04:20 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 couple hundred pages, do I put it all in one

Re: Numbering figures' problem

2010-01-06 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Am 06.01.2010 18:44, schrieb Matteo A.: When i get the lyx file as pdf file with the buttons updated pdf and view pdf i notice a problem. Each figure in chapter one comes out as figure 1.1, each figure in chapter 2 comes out as figure 2.1. so i can't distinguish them by number. Then you have

Re: Numbering figures' problem

2010-01-06 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Am 07.01.2010 00:15, schrieb Matteo A.: this is all i have in my preable: \renewcommand{\thesubsection}{\thesection.\arabic{subsection}} \renewcommand{\thetable}{\thechapter.\arabic{subsection}} That's the bug. You redefined the table number to be the number of the subsection. So you

Re: Numbering figures' problem

2010-01-06 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Am 07.01.2010 00:53, schrieb Matteo A.: so i just need to delete this line \renewcommand{\thetable}{\thechapter.\arabic{subsection}} You also need to remove the other lines where you redefine the counters, like for figures. When you don't like the numbering scheme of the AMS book class, use

2 examples in series

2010-01-06 Thread iustifico
Hallo, sorry for this simple question, but I can't figure our how to make 2 different examples in LyX without nesting them or putting something between them. If I do something like this: Definition 1 Some Text Example 2 Some Text Proposition 3 Some Text Some New text outside the last

Re: 2 examples in series

2010-01-06 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Am 07.01.2010 02:22, schrieb iustifico: But if I want to do something like this: Example 1 First Text Example 2 Second Text It don't seem to work. Lyx refuses to begin an new environment for Example 2. At the end of Example 1 press RETURN, then choose --Separator-- in the drop-down box where

Re: 2 examples in series

2010-01-06 Thread rgheck
On 01/06/2010 08:37 PM, Uwe Stöhr wrote: Am 07.01.2010 02:22, schrieb iustifico: But if I want to do something like this: Example 1 First Text Example 2 Second Text It don't seem to work. Lyx refuses to begin an new environment for Example 2. At the end of Example 1 press RETURN, then

Re: input preamble with biblatex?

2010-01-06 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-01-05, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Peter Baumgartner wrote: ... the command \includeonly does not work. At least that was the discussion on an older lyx version ... Yes. It does not work since LyX uses specific filenames for the compilation of the document in the temporary directory.

Re: input preamble with biblatex?

2010-01-06 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Guenter Milde wrote: In older LyX versions, you could choose to compile without temporary directory. Is this still supported? I don't think so. Jürgen

Re: Unknown graphics extension: eps

2010-01-06 Thread Helge Hafting
Luca Carlon wrote: Anyway, this is a problem related to this specific file, i.e. my thesis, as if I create a new file and I insert in there an eps file, pdflatex correctly produces the PDF. This is happening under both Linux and MacOSX. Any idea why? I see. your LyX works with .eps files,

Re: Unknown graphics extension: eps

2010-01-06 Thread Luca Carlon
Thank you for your answer, but I already discovered what was going on: eps files cannot be included in the preamble. On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 11:29 AM, Helge Hafting helge.haft...@hist.nowrote: Luca Carlon wrote: Anyway, this is a problem related to this specific file, i.e. my thesis, as if I

Re: Directory path to the document cannot contain spaces

2010-01-06 Thread Helge Hafting
Adam Hoffman wrote: 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

Re: Fwd: CAS exposure in LyX (was Re: Importing Lyx files in SWP)

2010-01-06 Thread Helge Hafting
Murat Yildizoglu wrote: Thanks a lot Olivier, this works perfectly for Maxima. I can ask it to compute \frac{\partial x^{2}}{\partial x}=2\, x and it works as it is shown by the = sign but how to ask more indirect tasks? Question: How to pass commands to Maxima? Should we write full Maxima

Re: Wrapping text REALLY around a picture

2010-01-06 Thread Helge Hafting
Luca De Marini wrote: Hallo list, I'd like to understand a fast thing I never considered but am considering now: is it possible in Lyx or Latex to wrap text around a picture for real? I mean, in lyx I can do something like that to wrap text around a picture but, in reality, I wrap it around a

Re: Wrapping text REALLY around a picture

2010-01-06 Thread Luca De Marini
2010/1/6 Helge Hafting helge.haft...@hist.no Luca De Marini wrote: Hallo list, I'd like to understand a fast thing I never considered but am considering now: is it possible in Lyx or Latex to wrap text around a picture for real? I mean, in lyx I can do something like that to wrap text

Re: For the Wish list

2010-01-06 Thread Helge Hafting
Ehud Kaplan wrote: In working with colleagues on a paper, there are times when I do not have the figures needed for producing the entire document, but it would be nice to see it even without the figures. You can insert figure floats, and simply not insert any graphics files into them.

Re: Multiple files for book

2010-01-06 Thread Helge Hafting
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 couple hundred pages, do I put it all in one big lyx file, or do I split it across

lyx module

2010-01-06 Thread Marco Correia
Hi, I have created a lyx module with some stuff I need for my thesis. Probably I have made a mistake somewhere, since lyx says error reading module when I load it, even if the module works as expected. The message is not very informative, and does not help me finding where the bug is. Is

Re: Fwd: CAS exposure in LyX (was Re: Importing Lyx files in SWP)

2010-01-06 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-01-06, Helge Hafting wrote: Murat Yildizoglu wrote: Thanks a lot Olivier, this works perfectly for Maxima. I can ask it to compute \frac{\partial x^{2}}{\partial x}=2\, x and it works as it is shown by the = sign but how to ask more indirect tasks? Question: How to pass commands to

Numbering figures' problem

2010-01-06 Thread Matteo A.
Hello everybody I have a problem with lyx. when i draw a numbered figure or table, lyx works and gives it a correct number. the same for the next figure/table. But when i view the lyx file as PDF file and take a look to the figure and table's numbers i notice that all the figures and tables, of a

Lyx in Fedora 12

2010-01-06 Thread Dr. Gyorgy Pota
Dear Users, Lyx did not show any eps figures in a freshly installed Fedora 12 system. Running Lyx in a terminal revealed that convert was unsuccesful. Finally it turned out that ImageMagick was not installed for Lyx although I installed Lyx via yum, which, in principle, installs everything

I surely do wish I could use aspell directly on a *.lyx file...

2010-01-06 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
Don't get me wrong, LyX's internal spellchecker does a good job of implementing aspell. Except for two little things that make me wish I could invoke aspell from the command line on a *.lyx file and have it skip all the embedded lyx commands. I've looked at the docs for aspell and it looks like

Re: I surely do wish I could use aspell directly on a *.lyx file...

2010-01-06 Thread Manveru
2010/1/6 Joe(theWordy)Philbrook jtw...@ttlc.net: [...] The first (And most obvious)issue is the way the pop-up spellchecker dialog box often obscures the word in the text of the lyx document. I mean if it simply determined where the word was displayed and opened the dialog box in a different

RE: I surely do wish I could use aspell directly on a *.lyx file...

2010-01-06 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW
I suggested many months ago that spell checking should be available not in dialog window, but in floating pane on probably right side. But there was no response about that. The spellchecking is already in a floating pane. http://www.lyx.org/trac/changeset/29322 (for 9 months now) I do not

Copying from LyX and pasting to Word with $...$ and \[...\] delimiters

2010-01-06 Thread Gerard Ateshian
Hi, Recently I discovered that PubMed Central (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/ ) does not accept TeX/LaTeX submissions, so I have to convert some of my LyX documents to Microsoft Word (a common headache). My manuscripts have lots of equations, so I need to use MathType to convert the

RE: I surely do wish I could use aspell directly on a *.lyx file...

2010-01-06 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW
The spellchecking is already in a floating pane. http://www.lyx.org/trac/changeset/29322 (for 9 months now) I do not have time to try modifying code myself. We don't have time either. This is in trunk as I understand... any plan to merge into 1.6.x line? No. Vincent

Re: I surely do wish I could use aspell directly on a *.lyx file...

2010-01-06 Thread Manveru
2010/1/6 Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW v.f.vanraveste...@tudelft.nl: I suggested many months ago that spell checking should be available not in dialog window, but in floating pane on probably right side. But there was no response about that. The spellchecking is already in a floating pane.

Re: Lyx in Fedora 12

2010-01-06 Thread Neal Becker
Dr. Gyorgy Pota wrote: Dear Users, Lyx did not show any eps figures in a freshly installed Fedora 12 system. Running Lyx in a terminal revealed that convert was unsuccesful. Finally it turned out that ImageMagick was not installed for Lyx although I installed Lyx via yum, which, in

Re: Lyx in Fedora 12

2010-01-06 Thread Manoj Rajagopalan
This is probably a packaging error on Fedora 12. Have you tried to discover and contact the maintainer for this package? -- Manoj On Wednesday 06 January 2010 08:05:39 am Dr. Gyorgy Pota wrote: Dear Users, Lyx did not show any eps figures in a freshly installed Fedora 12 system. Running

Re: Numbering figures' problem

2010-01-06 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Am 06.01.2010 13:34, schrieb Matteo A.: I mean that when i write in lyx chapter 4-section 3(for example) and put 2 tables or figures that are numbered in lyx automatically as table or figure 6 and table or figure 7, then when i update the PDF, i notice that the 2 tables or figures get the same

Re: input preamble with biblatex?

2010-01-06 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 06.01.2010, at 10:58, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Guenter Milde wrote: In older LyX versions, you could choose to compile without temporary directory. Is this still supported? I don't think so. Which is a pity, IMHO. Not only this would be an easy workaround for all problems related to

Re: Multiple files for book

2010-01-06 Thread Steve Litt
On Tuesday 05 January 2010 21:04:20 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 couple hundred pages, do I put it all in one

Re: Numbering figures' problem

2010-01-06 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Am 06.01.2010 18:44, schrieb Matteo A.: When i get the lyx file as pdf file with the buttons updated pdf and view pdf i notice a problem. Each figure in chapter one comes out as figure 1.1, each figure in chapter 2 comes out as figure 2.1. so i can't distinguish them by number. Then you have

Re: Numbering figures' problem

2010-01-06 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Am 07.01.2010 00:15, schrieb Matteo A.: this is all i have in my preable: \renewcommand{\thesubsection}{\thesection.\arabic{subsection}} \renewcommand{\thetable}{\thechapter.\arabic{subsection}} That's the bug. You redefined the table number to be the number of the subsection. So you

Re: Numbering figures' problem

2010-01-06 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Am 07.01.2010 00:53, schrieb Matteo A.: so i just need to delete this line \renewcommand{\thetable}{\thechapter.\arabic{subsection}} You also need to remove the other lines where you redefine the counters, like for figures. When you don't like the numbering scheme of the AMS book class, use

2 examples in series

2010-01-06 Thread iustifico
Hallo, sorry for this simple question, but I can't figure our how to make 2 different examples in LyX without nesting them or putting something between them. If I do something like this: Definition 1 Some Text Example 2 Some Text Proposition 3 Some Text Some New text outside the last

Re: 2 examples in series

2010-01-06 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Am 07.01.2010 02:22, schrieb iustifico: But if I want to do something like this: Example 1 First Text Example 2 Second Text It don't seem to work. Lyx refuses to begin an new environment for Example 2. At the end of Example 1 press RETURN, then choose --Separator-- in the drop-down box where

Re: 2 examples in series

2010-01-06 Thread rgheck
On 01/06/2010 08:37 PM, Uwe Stöhr wrote: Am 07.01.2010 02:22, schrieb iustifico: But if I want to do something like this: Example 1 First Text Example 2 Second Text It don't seem to work. Lyx refuses to begin an new environment for Example 2. At the end of Example 1 press RETURN, then

Re: input preamble with biblatex?

2010-01-06 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-01-05, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > Peter Baumgartner wrote: >> ... the command \includeonly does not work. >> At least that was the discussion on an older lyx version ... > Yes. It does not work since LyX uses specific filenames for the > compilation of the document in the temporary

Re: input preamble with biblatex?

2010-01-06 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Guenter Milde wrote: > In older LyX versions, you could choose to compile without temporary > directory. Is this still supported? I don't think so. Jürgen

Re: Unknown graphics extension: eps

2010-01-06 Thread Helge Hafting
Luca Carlon wrote: Anyway, this is a problem related to this specific file, i.e. my thesis, as if I create a new file and I insert in there an eps file, pdflatex correctly produces the PDF. This is happening under both Linux and MacOSX. Any idea why? I see. your LyX works with .eps files,

Re: Unknown graphics extension: eps

2010-01-06 Thread Luca Carlon
Thank you for your answer, but I already discovered what was going on: eps files cannot be included in the preamble. On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 11:29 AM, Helge Hafting wrote: > Luca Carlon wrote: > > Anyway, this is a problem related to this specific file, i.e. my thesis, >>

Re: "Directory path to the document cannot contain spaces"

2010-01-06 Thread Helge Hafting
Adam Hoffman wrote: 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

Re: Fwd: CAS exposure in LyX (was Re: Importing Lyx files in SWP)

2010-01-06 Thread Helge Hafting
Murat Yildizoglu wrote: Thanks a lot Olivier, this works perfectly for Maxima. I can ask it to compute \frac{\partial x^{2}}{\partial x}=2\, x and it works as it is shown by the = sign but how to ask more indirect tasks? Question: How to pass commands to Maxima? Should we write full Maxima

Re: Wrapping text REALLY around a picture

2010-01-06 Thread Helge Hafting
Luca De Marini wrote: Hallo list, I'd like to understand a fast thing I never considered but am considering now: is it possible in Lyx or Latex to wrap text around a picture for real? I mean, in lyx I can do something like that to wrap text around a picture but, in reality, I wrap it around a

Re: Wrapping text REALLY around a picture

2010-01-06 Thread Luca De Marini
2010/1/6 Helge Hafting > Luca De Marini wrote: > >> Hallo list, I'd like to understand a fast thing I never considered but am >> considering now: is it possible in Lyx or Latex to wrap text around a >> picture for real? I mean, in lyx I can do something like that to wrap

Re: For the Wish list

2010-01-06 Thread Helge Hafting
Ehud Kaplan wrote: In working with colleagues on a paper, there are times when I do not have the figures needed for producing the entire document, but it would be nice to see it even without the figures. You can insert figure floats, and simply not insert any graphics files into them.

Re: Multiple files for book

2010-01-06 Thread Helge Hafting
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 couple hundred pages, do I put it all in one big lyx file, or do I split it across

lyx module

2010-01-06 Thread Marco Correia
Hi, I have created a lyx module with some stuff I need for my thesis. Probably I have made a mistake somewhere, since lyx says "error reading module" when I load it, even if the module works as expected. The message is not very informative, and does not help me finding where the bug is. Is

Re: Fwd: CAS exposure in LyX (was Re: Importing Lyx files in SWP)

2010-01-06 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-01-06, Helge Hafting wrote: > Murat Yildizoglu wrote: >> Thanks a lot Olivier, this works perfectly for Maxima. >> I can ask it to compute \frac{\partial x^{2}}{\partial x}=2\, x and >> it works as it is shown by the = sign but how to ask more indirect >> tasks? >> Question: How to pass

Numbering figures' problem

2010-01-06 Thread Matteo A.
Hello everybody I have a problem with lyx. when i draw a numbered figure or table, lyx works and gives it a correct number. the same for the next figure/table. But when i view the lyx file as PDF file and take a look to the figure and table's numbers i notice that all the figures and tables, of a

Lyx in Fedora 12

2010-01-06 Thread Dr. Gyorgy Pota
Dear Users, Lyx did not show any eps figures in a freshly installed Fedora 12 system. Running Lyx in a terminal revealed that "convert" was unsuccesful. Finally it turned out that ImageMagick was not installed for Lyx although I installed Lyx via yum, which, in principle, installs

I surely do wish I could use aspell directly on a *.lyx file...

2010-01-06 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
Don't get me wrong, LyX's internal spellchecker does a good job of implementing aspell. Except for two little things that make me wish I could invoke aspell from the command line on a *.lyx file and have it skip all the embedded lyx commands. I've looked at the docs for aspell and it looks like

Re: I surely do wish I could use aspell directly on a *.lyx file...

2010-01-06 Thread Manveru
2010/1/6 Joe(theWordy)Philbrook : [...] > The first (And most obvious)issue is the way the pop-up spellchecker dialog > box often obscures the word in the text of the lyx document. I mean if it > simply determined where the word was displayed and opened the dialog box in > a

RE: I surely do wish I could use aspell directly on a *.lyx file...

2010-01-06 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW
>I suggested many months ago that spell checking should >be available not in dialog window, but in floating pane >on probably right side. But there was no response about >that. The spellchecking is already in a floating pane. http://www.lyx.org/trac/changeset/29322 (for 9 months now) >I do

Copying from LyX and pasting to Word with $...$ and \[...\] delimiters

2010-01-06 Thread Gerard Ateshian
Hi, Recently I discovered that PubMed Central (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/ ) does not accept TeX/LaTeX submissions, so I have to convert some of my LyX documents to Microsoft Word (a common headache). My manuscripts have lots of equations, so I need to use MathType to convert the

RE: I surely do wish I could use aspell directly on a *.lyx file...

2010-01-06 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW
> > The spellchecking is already in a floating pane. > http://www.lyx.org/trac/changeset/29322 > > (for 9 months now) > >>I do not have time to try modifying code myself. > > We don't have time either. > >This is in trunk as I understand... any plan to merge >into 1.6.x line? No. Vincent

Re: I surely do wish I could use aspell directly on a *.lyx file...

2010-01-06 Thread Manveru
2010/1/6 Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW : > >>I suggested many months ago that spell checking should >>be available not in dialog window, but in floating pane >>on probably right side. But there was no response about >>that. > > The spellchecking is already in a

Re: Lyx in Fedora 12

2010-01-06 Thread Neal Becker
Dr. Gyorgy Pota wrote: > Dear Users, > > Lyx did not show any eps figures in a freshly installed Fedora 12 > system. Running Lyx in a terminal revealed that "convert" was > unsuccesful. Finally it turned out that ImageMagick was not installed > for Lyx although I installed Lyx via yum, which,

Re: Lyx in Fedora 12

2010-01-06 Thread Manoj Rajagopalan
This is probably a packaging error on Fedora 12. Have you tried to discover and contact the maintainer for this package? -- Manoj On Wednesday 06 January 2010 08:05:39 am Dr. Gyorgy Pota wrote: > Dear Users, > > Lyx did not show any eps figures in a freshly installed Fedora 12 > system.

Re: Numbering figures' problem

2010-01-06 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Am 06.01.2010 13:34, schrieb Matteo A.: I mean that when i write in lyx chapter 4-section 3(for example) and put 2 tables or figures that are numbered in lyx automatically as "table or figure 6" and "table or figure 7", then when i update the PDF, i notice that the 2 tables or figures get the

Re: input preamble with biblatex?

2010-01-06 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 06.01.2010, at 10:58, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Guenter Milde wrote: In older LyX versions, you could choose to compile without temporary directory. Is this still supported? I don't think so. Which is a pity, IMHO. Not only this would be an easy workaround for all problems related to

Re: Multiple files for book

2010-01-06 Thread Steve Litt
On Tuesday 05 January 2010 21:04:20 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 couple hundred pages, do I put it

Re: Numbering figures' problem

2010-01-06 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Am 06.01.2010 18:44, schrieb Matteo A.: When i get the lyx file as pdf file with the buttons "updated pdf" and "view pdf" i notice a problem. Each figure in chapter one comes out as "figure 1.1", each figure in chapter 2 comes out as "figure 2.1". so i can't distinguish them by number. Then

Re: Numbering figures' problem

2010-01-06 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Am 07.01.2010 00:15, schrieb Matteo A.: this is all i have in my preable: \renewcommand{\thesubsection}{\thesection.\arabic{subsection}} \renewcommand{\thetable}{\thechapter.\arabic{subsection}} That's the bug. You redefined the table number to be the number of the subsection. So you

Re: Numbering figures' problem

2010-01-06 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Am 07.01.2010 00:53, schrieb Matteo A.: so i just need to delete this line \renewcommand{\thetable}{\thechapter.\arabic{subsection}} You also need to remove the other lines where you redefine the counters, like for figures. When you don't like the numbering scheme of the AMS book class, use

2 examples in series

2010-01-06 Thread iustifico
Hallo, sorry for this simple question, but I can't figure our how to make 2 different examples in LyX without nesting them or putting something between them. If I do something like this: Definition 1 Some Text Example 2 Some Text Proposition 3 Some Text "Some New text outside the last

Re: 2 examples in series

2010-01-06 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Am 07.01.2010 02:22, schrieb iustifico: But if I want to do something like this: Example 1 First Text Example 2 Second Text It don't seem to work. Lyx refuses to begin an new environment for Example 2. At the end of Example 1 press RETURN, then choose "--Separator--" in the drop-down box

Re: 2 examples in series

2010-01-06 Thread rgheck
On 01/06/2010 08:37 PM, Uwe Stöhr wrote: Am 07.01.2010 02:22, schrieb iustifico: But if I want to do something like this: Example 1 First Text Example 2 Second Text It don't seem to work. Lyx refuses to begin an new environment for Example 2. At the end of Example 1 press RETURN, then