Re: Spellchecker and ú

Am 02.11.2010 um 03:28 schrieb Christopher Menzel: On 10/30/2010 02:53 AM, Stephan Witt wrote: Am 29.10.2010 um 22:01 schrieb Christopher Menzel: Greetings LyX users, The aspell-based spellchecker in LyX does not appear to be happy checking a document containing a Spanish name that

Re: LyX and LuaTeX

Rob Oakes wrote: I am currently slogging my way through a book chapter on advanced methods in LyX/LaTeX and just had a quick question. Does anyone know if there is documentation on how to use LyX with luaTeX? I know that it isn't officially supported, and things would probably break

♥ The Alvareses ... heart shaped symbols

Dear all: I need to use glyphs like the heart symbol (below) from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_(symbol) in my text: ♥ The Alvareses: Question: what encoding should I use? Unicode (UTF 8) doesn't seem to work. FN Frederick Noronha :: +91-9822122436 :: +91-832-2409490

Re: ♥ The Alvareses ... heart shaped symbols

Frederick Noronha wrote: Dear all: I need to use glyphs like the heart symbol (below) from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_(symbol) in my text: ♥ The Alvareses: On possibility: \usepackage{pxfonts} in preamble and $\varheartsuit$ The Alvareses: in Text (with $\varheartsuit$ in TeX

Re: ♥ The Alvareses ... heart shaped symbols

Thanks a lot. Works perfectly! FN Frederick Noronha :: +91-9822122436 :: +91-832-2409490 On 2 November 2010 15:42, Jürgen Spitzmüller sp...@lyx.org wrote: $\varheartsuit$  The Alvareses:

Re: box alignment

Hi! Uwe Stöhr wrote: Am 01.11.2010 23:50, schrieb [Ricardo Rodriguez] eBioTIC.: As far as I see, the paragraph keeps the same in the last alpha6 release. Could I be of any help to clarify this text? I removed now the second sentence since 90% of the LyX users won't understand the

Re: ♥ The Alvareses ... heart shaped symbols

Les Denham wrote: I know one solution has already been given, but the following works perfectly for me: Insert-Special Character-Symbols and select the ♥ from Miscellaneous Symbols. Yes, the character is supported by LyX's unicode symbol table. I suppose Frederick does not have the

Re: box alignment

Am 02.11.2010 11:41, schrieb [Ricardo Rodriguez] eBioTIC.: In your example the box has a width of only 95% not 100%. However, I defined a command for your box in the preamble of the attached document. You can insert then your custom box by inserting the TeX-code command \mybox as I have shown

Understanding Lyx

Dear all: this is a note I sent to our Free Software Users' Group in Goa, India [http://groups.yahoo.com/group/fsug-goa] but would like to share with you too. Thanks in advance for any tips. FN Frederick Noronha, Managing Trustee http://goa1556.goa-india.org [An alternative book publishing

Re: Understanding Lyx

Hi Frederick, This is a very large question. To narrow the scope (and provide better references), what specifically are you looking to do? When you say, sharable templates, what do you mean by that (templates are just LyX documents)? What do you mean, convert a design from the drawingboard

Re: LyX and LuaTeX

Thanks for the link. I was able to get LuaTeX working with normal pdfTeX documents via following the instructions on the wiki (using the MacTeX 2010 distribution and LyX 2.0). I'm running into problems using fontspec, though. I think that is due to the lack of a fontspec database.

XeTeX Updates in TeX Live 2010/MacTeX

Dear LyX Users, Not sure if this is of interest to many LyX users, but I think I'll post it anyway. TeX Live 2010/MacTeX were released a few weeks ago (maybe months ago, I haven't really been paying attention). Anyway, I updated this morning and wanted to send a general report for Mac users.

Sharing documents among different versions of Lyx

Is there some tool that makes the sharing of documents among different versions of Lyx a little easier? FN Frederick Noronha :: +91-9822122436 :: +91-832-2409490

Re: Understanding Lyx

Hi Frederick, My apologies for not explaining myself adequately -- I'm a content person, not technical and hence the handicap. Please don't apologize. It would probably be a better world if content people forced technical people to explain themselves. I know what I want the first pages of

Re: Understanding Lyx

As Rob noted, this is a very large question. With regard to the question: * How to bring two comps (using different distros) in tandem with Lyx I do this with my computers, some running Windows, others running Linux. There are several parts to making this work. The first is to get some sort of

Re: Sharing documents among different versions of Lyx

On 11/02/2010 04:16 PM, Frederick Noronha wrote: Is there some tool that makes the sharing of documents among different versions of Lyx a little easier? FN LyX 1.5.7 includes the same version of the lyx2lyx conversion tool that was released with 1.6.0, so that version of LyX should be able

Re: Understanding Lyx

On 2 November 2010 23:15, Rob Oakes lyx-de...@oak-tree.us wrote: When you say, sharable templates, what do you mean by that (templates are just LyX documents)? Dear Rob and Jacob, My apologies for not explaining myself adequately -- I'm a content person, not technical and hence the handicap.

Re: Understanding Lyx

On 11/02/2010 04:43 PM, Jacob Bishop wrote: The second part is to make sure that you always use relative paths when inserting external references. This applies when inserting an image, a bibtex bibliography, or any other external material. Even better, put these things into a place LaTeX

Re: Spellchecker and ú

Am 02.11.2010 um 03:28 schrieb Christopher Menzel: On 10/30/2010 02:53 AM, Stephan Witt wrote: Am 29.10.2010 um 22:01 schrieb Christopher Menzel: Greetings LyX users, The aspell-based spellchecker in LyX does not appear to be happy checking a document containing a Spanish name that

Re: LyX and LuaTeX

Rob Oakes wrote: I am currently slogging my way through a book chapter on advanced methods in LyX/LaTeX and just had a quick question. Does anyone know if there is documentation on how to use LyX with luaTeX? I know that it isn't officially supported, and things would probably break

♥ The Alvareses ... heart shaped symbols

Dear all: I need to use glyphs like the heart symbol (below) from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_(symbol) in my text: ♥ The Alvareses: Question: what encoding should I use? Unicode (UTF 8) doesn't seem to work. FN Frederick Noronha :: +91-9822122436 :: +91-832-2409490

Re: ♥ The Alvareses ... heart shaped symbols

Frederick Noronha wrote: Dear all: I need to use glyphs like the heart symbol (below) from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_(symbol) in my text: ♥ The Alvareses: On possibility: \usepackage{pxfonts} in preamble and $\varheartsuit$ The Alvareses: in Text (with $\varheartsuit$ in TeX

Re: ♥ The Alvareses ... heart shaped symbols

Thanks a lot. Works perfectly! FN Frederick Noronha :: +91-9822122436 :: +91-832-2409490 On 2 November 2010 15:42, Jürgen Spitzmüller sp...@lyx.org wrote: $\varheartsuit$  The Alvareses:

Re: box alignment

Hi! Uwe Stöhr wrote: Am 01.11.2010 23:50, schrieb [Ricardo Rodriguez] eBioTIC.: As far as I see, the paragraph keeps the same in the last alpha6 release. Could I be of any help to clarify this text? I removed now the second sentence since 90% of the LyX users won't understand the

Re: ♥ The Alvareses ... heart shaped symbols

Les Denham wrote: I know one solution has already been given, but the following works perfectly for me: Insert-Special Character-Symbols and select the ♥ from Miscellaneous Symbols. Yes, the character is supported by LyX's unicode symbol table. I suppose Frederick does not have the

Re: box alignment

Am 02.11.2010 11:41, schrieb [Ricardo Rodriguez] eBioTIC.: In your example the box has a width of only 95% not 100%. However, I defined a command for your box in the preamble of the attached document. You can insert then your custom box by inserting the TeX-code command \mybox as I have shown

Understanding Lyx

Dear all: this is a note I sent to our Free Software Users' Group in Goa, India [http://groups.yahoo.com/group/fsug-goa] but would like to share with you too. Thanks in advance for any tips. FN Frederick Noronha, Managing Trustee http://goa1556.goa-india.org [An alternative book publishing

Re: Understanding Lyx

Hi Frederick, This is a very large question. To narrow the scope (and provide better references), what specifically are you looking to do? When you say, sharable templates, what do you mean by that (templates are just LyX documents)? What do you mean, convert a design from the drawingboard

Re: LyX and LuaTeX

Thanks for the link. I was able to get LuaTeX working with normal pdfTeX documents via following the instructions on the wiki (using the MacTeX 2010 distribution and LyX 2.0). I'm running into problems using fontspec, though. I think that is due to the lack of a fontspec database.

XeTeX Updates in TeX Live 2010/MacTeX

Dear LyX Users, Not sure if this is of interest to many LyX users, but I think I'll post it anyway. TeX Live 2010/MacTeX were released a few weeks ago (maybe months ago, I haven't really been paying attention). Anyway, I updated this morning and wanted to send a general report for Mac users.

Sharing documents among different versions of Lyx

Is there some tool that makes the sharing of documents among different versions of Lyx a little easier? FN Frederick Noronha :: +91-9822122436 :: +91-832-2409490

Re: Understanding Lyx

Hi Frederick, My apologies for not explaining myself adequately -- I'm a content person, not technical and hence the handicap. Please don't apologize. It would probably be a better world if content people forced technical people to explain themselves. I know what I want the first pages of

Re: Understanding Lyx

As Rob noted, this is a very large question. With regard to the question: * How to bring two comps (using different distros) in tandem with Lyx I do this with my computers, some running Windows, others running Linux. There are several parts to making this work. The first is to get some sort of

Re: Sharing documents among different versions of Lyx

On 11/02/2010 04:16 PM, Frederick Noronha wrote: Is there some tool that makes the sharing of documents among different versions of Lyx a little easier? FN LyX 1.5.7 includes the same version of the lyx2lyx conversion tool that was released with 1.6.0, so that version of LyX should be able

Re: Understanding Lyx

On 2 November 2010 23:15, Rob Oakes lyx-de...@oak-tree.us wrote: When you say, sharable templates, what do you mean by that (templates are just LyX documents)? Dear Rob and Jacob, My apologies for not explaining myself adequately -- I'm a content person, not technical and hence the handicap.

Re: Understanding Lyx

On 11/02/2010 04:43 PM, Jacob Bishop wrote: The second part is to make sure that you always use relative paths when inserting external references. This applies when inserting an image, a bibtex bibliography, or any other external material. Even better, put these things into a place LaTeX

Re: Spellchecker and ú

Am 02.11.2010 um 03:28 schrieb Christopher Menzel: > On 10/30/2010 02:53 AM, Stephan Witt wrote: >> Am 29.10.2010 um 22:01 schrieb Christopher Menzel: >> >>> Greetings LyX users, >>> >>> The aspell-based spellchecker in LyX does not appear to be happy checking a >>> document containing a

Re: LyX and LuaTeX

Rob Oakes wrote: > I am currently slogging my way through a book chapter on advanced methods > in LyX/LaTeX and just had a quick question. Does anyone know if there is > documentation on how to use LyX with luaTeX? > > I know that it isn't officially supported, and things would probably break

♥ The Alvareses ... heart shaped symbols

Dear all: I need to use glyphs like the heart symbol (below) from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_(symbol) in my text: ♥ The Alvareses: Question: what encoding should I use? Unicode (UTF 8) doesn't seem to work. FN Frederick Noronha :: +91-9822122436 :: +91-832-2409490

Re: ♥ The Alvareses ... heart shaped symbols

Frederick Noronha wrote: > Dear all: I need to use glyphs like the heart symbol (below) from > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_(symbol) in my text: > > ♥ The Alvareses: On possibility: \usepackage{pxfonts} in preamble and $\varheartsuit$ The Alvareses: in Text (with $\varheartsuit$ in

Re: ♥ The Alvareses ... heart shaped symbols

Thanks a lot. Works perfectly! FN Frederick Noronha :: +91-9822122436 :: +91-832-2409490 On 2 November 2010 15:42, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > $\varheartsuit$  The Alvareses:

Re: box alignment

Hi! Uwe Stöhr wrote: Am 01.11.2010 23:50, schrieb [Ricardo Rodriguez] eBioTIC.: As far as I see, the paragraph keeps the same in the last alpha6 release. Could I be of any help to clarify this text? I removed now the second sentence since 90% of the LyX users won't understand the

Re: ♥ The Alvareses ... heart shaped symbols

Les Denham wrote: > I know one solution has already been given, but the following works > perfectly for me: > > Insert->Special Character->Symbols and select the ♥ from Miscellaneous > Symbols. Yes, the character is supported by LyX's unicode symbol table. I suppose Frederick does not have

Re: box alignment

Am 02.11.2010 11:41, schrieb [Ricardo Rodriguez] eBioTIC.: In your example the box has a width of only 95% not 100%. However, I defined a command for your box in the preamble of the attached document. You can insert then your custom box by inserting the TeX-code command \mybox as I have shown

Understanding Lyx

Dear all: this is a note I sent to our Free Software Users' Group in Goa, India [http://groups.yahoo.com/group/fsug-goa] but would like to share with you too. Thanks in advance for any tips. FN Frederick Noronha, Managing Trustee http://goa1556.goa-india.org [An alternative book publishing

Re: Understanding Lyx

Hi Frederick, This is a very large question. To narrow the scope (and provide better references), what specifically are you looking to do? When you say, sharable templates, what do you mean by that (templates are just LyX documents)? What do you mean, "convert a design from the

Re: LyX and LuaTeX

Thanks for the link. I was able to get LuaTeX working with normal pdfTeX documents via following the instructions on the wiki (using the MacTeX 2010 distribution and LyX 2.0). I'm running into problems using fontspec, though. I think that is due to the lack of a fontspec database.

XeTeX Updates in TeX Live 2010/MacTeX

Dear LyX Users, Not sure if this is of interest to many LyX users, but I think I'll post it anyway. TeX Live 2010/MacTeX were released a few weeks ago (maybe months ago, I haven't really been paying attention). Anyway, I updated this morning and wanted to send a general report for Mac users.

Sharing documents among different versions of Lyx

Is there some tool that makes the sharing of documents among different versions of Lyx a little easier? FN Frederick Noronha :: +91-9822122436 :: +91-832-2409490

Re: Understanding Lyx

Hi Frederick, > My apologies for not explaining myself adequately -- I'm a content > person, not technical and hence the handicap. Please don't apologize. It would probably be a better world if content people forced technical people to explain themselves. > I know what I want the first pages

Re: Understanding Lyx

As Rob noted, this is a very large question. With regard to the question: * How to bring two comps (using different distros) in tandem with Lyx I do this with my computers, some running Windows, others running Linux. There are several parts to making this work. The first is to get some sort of

Re: Sharing documents among different versions of Lyx

On 11/02/2010 04:16 PM, Frederick Noronha wrote: Is there some tool that makes the sharing of documents among different versions of Lyx a little easier? FN LyX 1.5.7 includes the same version of the lyx2lyx conversion tool that was released with 1.6.0, so that version of LyX should be able

Re: Understanding Lyx

On 2 November 2010 23:15, Rob Oakes wrote: > When you say, sharable templates, what do you > mean by that (templates are just LyX documents)? Dear Rob and Jacob, My apologies for not explaining myself adequately -- I'm a content person, not technical and hence the

Re: Understanding Lyx

On 11/02/2010 04:43 PM, Jacob Bishop wrote: The second part is to make sure that you always use relative paths when inserting external references. This applies when inserting an image, a bibtex bibliography, or any other external material. Even better, put these things into a place LaTeX