Re: can anyone help me get moving with LyX?

2010-06-18 Thread Steve Litt
On Thursday 17 June 2010 14:59:36 Gary Kline wrote: On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 05:42:53AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: On Thursday 17 June 2010 02:46:53 Gary Kline wrote: People, Appended is a greatly abbreviated sample of the novel that I want to get typeset via the TeX/LaTex/LyX program

Re: Spell check on 1.6.6.1

2010-06-18 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
2010/6/17 Olivier Ripoll: Today, I have noticed that when spell-checking is done on a file without spelling mistakes, the window with word count will pop-up twice, the second time with the double of words (e.g. if the text has 158 words, the first pop-up will say 158 words checked, the second

Re: No page number on page starting new chapter

2010-06-18 Thread stephen's mailinglist account
On 17 June 2010 18:45, Frederick Noronha wrote: Dear all: Is it possible to give a command that would ensure that no page numbers appeare on the starting page of every chapter (of a book)? Thanks! FN -- - Journalism, editing,

Re: lyx chokes on documents with many subsections?

2010-06-18 Thread Jose Quesada
Hi Jean-Marc, Do you have a version of lyx with debugging symbols? If you do you could try to run sysprof on it and see where the time is spent. No, where do I get it? Best, -Jose Jose Quesada, PhD. Max Planck Institute, Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition, Berlin

Re: lyx chokes on documents with many subsections?

2010-06-18 Thread Jean-Marc LASGOUTTES
Jose Quesada ques...@gmail.com writes: Hi Jean-Marc, Do you have a version of lyx with debugging symbols? If you do you could try to run sysprof on it and see where the time is spent. No, where do I get it? Excellent question. Where did you get your LyX version? JMarc

Re: lyx chokes on documents with many subsections?

2010-06-18 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 9:19 AM, Jose Quesada ques...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Jean-Marc, Do you have a version of lyx with debugging symbols? If you do you could try to run sysprof on it and see where the time is spent. No, where do I get it? It seems that you use Ubuntu. Since there seems to be no

Re: lyx chokes on documents with many subsections?

2010-06-18 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 12:30 PM, stephen's mailinglist account stephen4mailingli...@googlemail.com wrote: Is this with ./configure --enable-build-type=pre I am not sure how this works for LyX. From my experience whenever debug symbols are needed, either install *-dbg package or build from

TOC Chapter description

2010-06-18 Thread Morten Juhl-Johansen Zölde-Fejér
Is it possible to generate a Table of Contents where I write a description below the chapter names? Like: 1. Project description . 5 On the scope and progress of the project 2. Challenges . 20 On the challenges encountered in the course of the research I could probably

Re: TOC Chapter description

2010-06-18 Thread Richard Heck
On 06/18/2010 08:13 AM, Morten Juhl-Johansen Zölde-Fejér wrote: Is it possible to generate a Table of Contents where I write a description below the chapter names? Like: 1. Project description . 5 On the scope and progress of the project 2. Challenges . 20 On the

Re: lyx chokes on documents with many subsections?

2010-06-18 Thread Marcelo Acuña
Hi again, I have to say, I still find slowness overall. On both sabayon and ubuntu. Everybody I know describes LyX as lighting fast. And it has the most useful outliner I know (and getting better). It'd be a pity we cannot have both things at the same time. Several months ago,

Re: No page number on page starting new chapter

2010-06-18 Thread Marcelo Acuña
Dear all: Is it possible to give a command that would ensure that no page numbers appeare on the starting page of every chapter (of a book)? Thanks! FN If you use koma-script, this style have specific commands for that. Marcelo

Re: lyx chokes on documents with many subsections?

2010-06-18 Thread Jean-Marc LASGOUTTES
Liviu Andronic landronim...@gmail.com writes: On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 12:30 PM, stephen's mailinglist account stephen4mailingli...@googlemail.com wrote: Is this with ./configure --enable-build-type=pre I am not sure how this works for LyX. From my experience whenever debug symbols are

Re: lyx chokes on documents with many subsections?

2010-06-18 Thread Jose Quesada
I'm using both sabayon (laptop) and ubuntu (2 desktops). Will try to compile it with debug symbols, but now I'm under deadline pressure. Maybe 1st Jul or so, I'll report back... Thanks! Best, -Jose Jose Quesada, PhD. Max Planck Institute, Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition, Berlin

Re: No page number on page starting new chapter

2010-06-18 Thread stephen's mailinglist account
2010/6/18 Marcelo Acuña mv...@yahoo.com.ar: Dear all: Is it possible to give a command that would ensure that no page numbers appeare on the starting page of every chapter (of a book)? Thanks! FN  If you use koma-script, this style have specific commands for that. Marcelo

Problems with Lyx 2.0 alpha4 - XFig files

2010-06-18 Thread Pascal Francq
Hi, I have download and compile the alpha version of the next 2.0 release, and I have small problem concerning files created with xfig when I create, from LyX, a PDF file (the same LyX file works fro 1.6.x series). LyX (or LaTeX to be more precise) says that it cannot determine the size of the

Computer algebra systems (CAS) in LYX

2010-06-18 Thread Kristian Mølhave
Hi On the lyx.org features page it says Basic support for various Computer Algebra Systems (CAS) - Maple, Maxima, Octave, Mathematica However on my windows XP mathematica does not work with Lyx 1.6.6.1 that i just installed. But it did seem to work with octave on a linux system I have been

Re: can anyone help me get moving with LyX?

2010-06-18 Thread Steve Litt
On Thursday 17 June 2010 14:59:36 Gary Kline wrote: On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 05:42:53AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: On Thursday 17 June 2010 02:46:53 Gary Kline wrote: People, Appended is a greatly abbreviated sample of the novel that I want to get typeset via the TeX/LaTex/LyX program

Re: Spell check on 1.6.6.1

2010-06-18 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
2010/6/17 Olivier Ripoll: Today, I have noticed that when spell-checking is done on a file without spelling mistakes, the window with word count will pop-up twice, the second time with the double of words (e.g. if the text has 158 words, the first pop-up will say 158 words checked, the second

Re: No page number on page starting new chapter

2010-06-18 Thread stephen's mailinglist account
On 17 June 2010 18:45, Frederick Noronha wrote: Dear all: Is it possible to give a command that would ensure that no page numbers appeare on the starting page of every chapter (of a book)? Thanks! FN -- - Journalism, editing,

Re: lyx chokes on documents with many subsections?

2010-06-18 Thread Jose Quesada
Hi Jean-Marc, Do you have a version of lyx with debugging symbols? If you do you could try to run sysprof on it and see where the time is spent. No, where do I get it? Best, -Jose Jose Quesada, PhD. Max Planck Institute, Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition, Berlin

Re: lyx chokes on documents with many subsections?

2010-06-18 Thread Jean-Marc LASGOUTTES
Jose Quesada ques...@gmail.com writes: Hi Jean-Marc, Do you have a version of lyx with debugging symbols? If you do you could try to run sysprof on it and see where the time is spent. No, where do I get it? Excellent question. Where did you get your LyX version? JMarc

Re: lyx chokes on documents with many subsections?

2010-06-18 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 9:19 AM, Jose Quesada ques...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Jean-Marc, Do you have a version of lyx with debugging symbols? If you do you could try to run sysprof on it and see where the time is spent. No, where do I get it? It seems that you use Ubuntu. Since there seems to be no

Re: lyx chokes on documents with many subsections?

2010-06-18 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 12:30 PM, stephen's mailinglist account stephen4mailingli...@googlemail.com wrote: Is this with ./configure --enable-build-type=pre I am not sure how this works for LyX. From my experience whenever debug symbols are needed, either install *-dbg package or build from

TOC Chapter description

2010-06-18 Thread Morten Juhl-Johansen Zölde-Fejér
Is it possible to generate a Table of Contents where I write a description below the chapter names? Like: 1. Project description . 5 On the scope and progress of the project 2. Challenges . 20 On the challenges encountered in the course of the research I could probably

Re: TOC Chapter description

2010-06-18 Thread Richard Heck
On 06/18/2010 08:13 AM, Morten Juhl-Johansen Zölde-Fejér wrote: Is it possible to generate a Table of Contents where I write a description below the chapter names? Like: 1. Project description . 5 On the scope and progress of the project 2. Challenges . 20 On the

Re: lyx chokes on documents with many subsections?

2010-06-18 Thread Marcelo Acuña
Hi again, I have to say, I still find slowness overall. On both sabayon and ubuntu. Everybody I know describes LyX as lighting fast. And it has the most useful outliner I know (and getting better). It'd be a pity we cannot have both things at the same time. Several months ago,

Re: No page number on page starting new chapter

2010-06-18 Thread Marcelo Acuña
Dear all: Is it possible to give a command that would ensure that no page numbers appeare on the starting page of every chapter (of a book)? Thanks! FN If you use koma-script, this style have specific commands for that. Marcelo

Re: lyx chokes on documents with many subsections?

2010-06-18 Thread Jean-Marc LASGOUTTES
Liviu Andronic landronim...@gmail.com writes: On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 12:30 PM, stephen's mailinglist account stephen4mailingli...@googlemail.com wrote: Is this with ./configure --enable-build-type=pre I am not sure how this works for LyX. From my experience whenever debug symbols are

Re: lyx chokes on documents with many subsections?

2010-06-18 Thread Jose Quesada
I'm using both sabayon (laptop) and ubuntu (2 desktops). Will try to compile it with debug symbols, but now I'm under deadline pressure. Maybe 1st Jul or so, I'll report back... Thanks! Best, -Jose Jose Quesada, PhD. Max Planck Institute, Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition, Berlin

Re: No page number on page starting new chapter

2010-06-18 Thread stephen's mailinglist account
2010/6/18 Marcelo Acuña mv...@yahoo.com.ar: Dear all: Is it possible to give a command that would ensure that no page numbers appeare on the starting page of every chapter (of a book)? Thanks! FN  If you use koma-script, this style have specific commands for that. Marcelo

Problems with Lyx 2.0 alpha4 - XFig files

2010-06-18 Thread Pascal Francq
Hi, I have download and compile the alpha version of the next 2.0 release, and I have small problem concerning files created with xfig when I create, from LyX, a PDF file (the same LyX file works fro 1.6.x series). LyX (or LaTeX to be more precise) says that it cannot determine the size of the

Computer algebra systems (CAS) in LYX

2010-06-18 Thread Kristian Mølhave
Hi On the lyx.org features page it says Basic support for various Computer Algebra Systems (CAS) - Maple, Maxima, Octave, Mathematica However on my windows XP mathematica does not work with Lyx 1.6.6.1 that i just installed. But it did seem to work with octave on a linux system I have been

Re: can anyone help me get moving with LyX?

2010-06-18 Thread Steve Litt
On Thursday 17 June 2010 14:59:36 Gary Kline wrote: > On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 05:42:53AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > > On Thursday 17 June 2010 02:46:53 Gary Kline wrote: > > > People, > > > > > > Appended is a greatly abbreviated sample of the novel that I want > > > to get typeset via the

Re: Spell check on 1.6.6.1

2010-06-18 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
2010/6/17 Olivier Ripoll: > Today, I have noticed that when spell-checking is done on a file without > spelling mistakes, the window with word count will pop-up twice, the second > time with the double of words (e.g. if the text has 158 words, the first > pop-up will say 158 words checked, the

Re: No page number on page starting new chapter

2010-06-18 Thread stephen's mailinglist account
On 17 June 2010 18:45, Frederick Noronha wrote: > Dear all: Is it possible to give a command that would ensure that no page > numbers appeare on the starting page of every chapter (of a book)? Thanks! > FN > -- > - > Journalism,

Re: lyx chokes on documents with many subsections?

2010-06-18 Thread Jose Quesada
Hi Jean-Marc, >Do you have a version of lyx with debugging symbols? If you do you could >try to run sysprof on it and see where the time is spent. No, where do I get it? Best, -Jose Jose Quesada, PhD. Max Planck Institute, Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition, Berlin

Re: lyx chokes on documents with many subsections?

2010-06-18 Thread Jean-Marc LASGOUTTES
Jose Quesada writes: > Hi Jean-Marc, > >>Do you have a version of lyx with debugging symbols? If you do you could >>try to run sysprof on it and see where the time is spent. > No, where do I get it? Excellent question. Where did you get your LyX version? JMarc

Re: lyx chokes on documents with many subsections?

2010-06-18 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 9:19 AM, Jose Quesada wrote: > Hi Jean-Marc, >>Do you have a version of lyx with debugging symbols? If you do you could >>try to run sysprof on it and see where the time is spent. > No, where do I get it? > It seems that you use Ubuntu. Since there seems

Re: lyx chokes on documents with many subsections?

2010-06-18 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 12:30 PM, stephen's mailinglist account wrote: > Is this with ./configure --enable-build-type=pre > I am not sure how this works for LyX. From my experience whenever debug symbols are needed, either install *-dbg package or build from

TOC Chapter description

2010-06-18 Thread Morten Juhl-Johansen Zölde-Fejér
Is it possible to generate a Table of Contents where I write a description below the chapter names? Like: 1. Project description . 5 On the scope and progress of the project 2. Challenges . 20 On the challenges encountered in the course of the research I could probably

Re: TOC Chapter description

2010-06-18 Thread Richard Heck
On 06/18/2010 08:13 AM, Morten Juhl-Johansen Zölde-Fejér wrote: Is it possible to generate a Table of Contents where I write a description below the chapter names? Like: 1. Project description . 5 On the scope and progress of the project 2. Challenges . 20 On the

Re: lyx chokes on documents with many subsections?

2010-06-18 Thread Marcelo Acuña
> > Hi again, > > > > I have to say, I still find slowness overall. On both > sabayon and ubuntu. > > Everybody I know describes LyX as lighting fast. And > it has the most useful > > outliner I know (and getting better). It'd be a pity > we cannot have both > > things at the same time. Several

Re: No page number on page starting new chapter

2010-06-18 Thread Marcelo Acuña
> Dear all: Is it possible to give a > command that would ensure that no page numbers appeare on > the starting page of every chapter (of a book)? Thanks! FN If you use koma-script, this style have specific commands for that. Marcelo

Re: lyx chokes on documents with many subsections?

2010-06-18 Thread Jean-Marc LASGOUTTES
Liviu Andronic writes: > On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 12:30 PM, stephen's mailinglist account > wrote: >> Is this with ./configure --enable-build-type=pre >> > I am not sure how this works for LyX. From my experience whenever > debug

Re: lyx chokes on documents with many subsections?

2010-06-18 Thread Jose Quesada
I'm using both sabayon (laptop) and ubuntu (2 desktops). Will try to compile it with debug symbols, but now I'm under deadline pressure. Maybe 1st Jul or so, I'll report back... Thanks! Best, -Jose Jose Quesada, PhD. Max Planck Institute, Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition, Berlin

Re: No page number on page starting new chapter

2010-06-18 Thread stephen's mailinglist account
2010/6/18 Marcelo Acuña : >> Dear all: Is it possible to give a >> command that would ensure that no page numbers appeare on >> the starting page of every chapter (of a book)? Thanks! FN > >  If you use koma-script, this style have specific commands for that. > Marcelo >

Problems with Lyx 2.0 alpha4 - XFig files

2010-06-18 Thread Pascal Francq
Hi, I have download and compile the alpha version of the next 2.0 release, and I have small problem concerning files created with xfig when I create, from LyX, a PDF file (the same LyX file works fro 1.6.x series). LyX (or LaTeX to be more precise) says that it cannot determine the size of the

Computer algebra systems (CAS) in LYX

2010-06-18 Thread Kristian Mølhave
Hi On the lyx.org features page it says "Basic support for various Computer Algebra Systems (CAS) - Maple, Maxima, Octave, Mathematica " However on my windows XP mathematica does not work with Lyx 1.6.6.1 that i just installed. But it did seem to work with octave on a linux system I have been