Re: Lyx-Hilfe Formatierungen

On 2011-03-21, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > Anna Katharina Aichroth wrote: >> - Breite von 16cm sollte der Text etwa eine Länge von 25cm haben >> (inklusive Seitenzahl/ Kopfzeile) > In Dokument > Einstellungen > LaTeX-Vorspann, insert: >

Re: Lyx-Hilfe Formatierungen

Guenter Milde wrote: > > In Dokument > Einstellungen > LaTeX-Vorspann, insert: > > > > \usepackage[includehead,includefoot,height=25mm,width=16mm]{geometry} > > The same can be achieved via the page layout tab in Document>Settings > (Dokument > Einstellungen > Seitenlayout). Yes, but in this

Re: ANNOUNCE: Windows installer for RC1

> Note that this installer is based on fresh new code different from > 1.6 series and needs some testing from you. This doesn't work with SumatraPDF(portable). It simply won't open the viewer window when I hit the "view" button. With 1.6.9, it did. So with 2.0, I can only use Adobe Reader X-(

Re: Changing native dictionary language

Thanks to you both. It worked. I had not thought to check in the document settings as I assumed it was a global setting, but now I think about it, it makes sense to be in the document settings. Because the default is a global preference perhaps it would make sense for one to be able to change the

Re: LyX + arrows +beamer?

2011/2/22 Paul A. Rubin : > On 02/21/2011 06:19 PM, i...@virginia.edu wrote: > > I just created a .lyx file with the code in your email an it works! > Thanks! > Another cool thing that I would like to be able to do with LyX is this >

LyX Promotion

Dear Users and Developers, Thank you to both Pavel and Stefano for ollowing up with Google about why the GSoC application was turned down. Is there any way that I could help in that review? Stefano, will you be attending the IRC meeting to be held later today? I think it's very important that

Re: LyX Promotion

On Tue, 22 Mar 2011, Rob Oakes wrote: When I talk to people about LyX, they seem to think of it as a specialized academic writing tool. Basically, a program which helps professors and students write a thesis or articles. (To be even more narrow, it seems like many think it is for math and

Re: ANNOUNCE: Windows installer for RC1

"Wolfgang Keller" wrote in message news:20110322160249.b3332054.felip...@gmx.net... This doesn't work with SumatraPDF(portable). It simply won't open the viewer window when I hit the "view" button. The PDF code should be identical to 1.6.9. I'll have a look. Joost

Re: LyX Promotion

There is something that might help: wouldn't it be possible to add a "made with LyX" tag alongside TeX and pdfTeX in the properties of the resulting pdf? It'd be an easy way to communicate that a nice document -that gets you looking into its properties- was made with LyX. M

Re: Changing native dictionary language

Christopher Reeve wrote: > Thanks to you both. It worked. I had not thought to check in the document > settings as I assumed it was a global setting, but now I think about it, it > makes sense to be in the document settings. Because the default is a global > preference perhaps it would make sense

Re: LyX Promotion

On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 5:04 PM, Manolo Martínez wrote: > There is something that might help: wouldn't it be possible to add a > "made with LyX" tag alongside TeX and pdfTeX in the properties of the > resulting pdf? > Yes, I always thought that LyX should tag PDFs by

tutorials / slides for seminars or workshops (was: 'Re: LyX Promotion')

Dear all I think this is a very good idea. On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 4:51 PM, Rob Oakes wrote: > 4.) It seems that there are people willing to help promote/evangelize LyX, > but I'm not sure we offer much in the way of promotional materials to help. > Would it be

Re: LyX Promotion

On Tuesday 22 March 2011 11:58:22 Rich Shepard wrote: > On Tue, 22 Mar 2011, Rob Oakes wrote: > > When I talk to people about LyX, they seem to think of it as a > > specialized academic writing tool. Basically, a program which helps > > professors and students write a thesis or articles. (To be

Re: LyX Promotion - use outside academia

On 22/03/11 15:51, Rob Oakes wrote: > Dear Users and Developers, > > Thank you to both Pavel and Stefano for ollowing up with Google about why the > GSoC application was turned down. Is there any way that I could help in that > review? Stefano, will you be attending the IRC meeting to be held

Re: LyX Promotion

> The next major revision of my courseware will be All-Beamer-All-The-Time (no > LyX, just Beamer LaTeX). It's 1000 times easier to maintain and personalize > than OOImpress viewed on MS Powerpoint. > > Nowadays, all my letters are LyX letter template. Yeah, it's a PITA, and I > think it's a

Re: LyX Promotion

Op 22-3-2011 17:59, Steve Litt schreef: The next major revision of my courseware will be All-Beamer-All-The-Time (no LyX, just Beamer LaTeX). It's 1000 times easier to maintain and personalize than OOImpress viewed on MS Powerpoint. You would have loved the new "LyX Presentation Mode":

Re: tutorials / slides for seminars or workshops (was: 'Re: LyX Promotion')

On 22/03/11 16:38, Liviu Andronic wrote: > Dear all > I think this is a very good idea. > > > On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 4:51 PM, Rob Oakes wrote: >> 4.) It seems that there are people willing to help promote/evangelize LyX, >> but I'm not sure we offer much in the way of

SV: Help me out of .doc

Hi >I made small edition to my final thesis in Word and now it looks terrible >again. >I want to get rid of it. I have more important things to do than keep >document's >layout in looking good. I feel your pain. It was a similar experience with word that made me change to LyX in 1999.

Re: tutorials / slides for seminars or workshops (was: 'Re: LyX Promotion')

How long should it be? A year ago I had one hour workshop on LyX in my department, and I started with very short into on LaTeX and "in what scene LyX is different from word", and then about 40 minutes of demonstration of what can I do and how can I do that. If there is nothing better, I can

Re: Help me out of .doc

Hi Hannu, I'm afraid I don't know enough about LyX to help.  However I had a quick look at it in OpenOffice.org and assuming it imported correctly, which it seems to have, it seems like a typically badly laid-out Word document.  I can see why any little thing could mess it up. I think

Problem integrating a bibtex-style

Hi guys I want to implement a new cite style into LyX 1.6.9 on my Mac OS X 10.6.6. It's the ¨Historische Zeitschrift¨ style, which I have downloaded here http://biblatex.dominik-wassenhoven.de/historische-zeitschrift.shtml. The README file, distributed on the page doesn't help me much, so I

Re: tutorials / slides for seminars or workshops (was: 'Re: LyX Promotion')

On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 10:23 PM, Ronen Abravanel wrote: > How long should it be? A year ago I had one hour workshop on LyX in my > I highly doubt that it would exceed an hour. > department, and I started with very short into on LaTeX and "in what scene > LyX is different from

Default label???

Hi all, I'm now labelling all 57 chapters of my new book, and what a PITA! First of all, there's no hotkey -- I have to do Insert->Label on every one. But even worse, the label defaults to the first three words, and often the first word is "The". Is there a way to have the label default to the

Re: Default label???

On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 11:26 PM, Steve Litt wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm now labelling all 57 chapters of my new book, and what a PITA! > > First of all, there's no hotkey -- I have to do Insert->Label on every one. > At least for this you can easily define a custom

Re: LyX Promotion

On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 11:51 PM, Rob Oakes wrote: > While I have some ideas about why it may have happened, I think that Pavel > hit the nail on the head. When I talk to people about LyX, they seem to think > of it as a specialized academic writing tool. Basically, a

Okular inverse search - automatically activate LyX

Hi,It seems the inverse search from Okular only moves the cursor to the corresponding position in LyX, but it does not activate the LyX window. So I made the following script:lyxclient -g $1 $2wmctrl -a LyXsave it (here "/home/yourname/okular_inverse_search" for example), and in Configure Okular

Re: LyX Promotion

On 03/22/2011 10:58 PM, John McCabe-Dansted wrote: 1) Compile Errors. Normal users aren't used to dealing with compile errors and shouldn't be expected to fix them. Even I don't like dealing with compile errors all that much. With LyX you should not get compile errors unless you are doing

Re: Lyx-Hilfe Formatierungen

On 2011-03-21, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Anna Katharina Aichroth wrote: - Breite von 16cm sollte der Text etwa eine Länge von 25cm haben (inklusive Seitenzahl/ Kopfzeile) In Dokument Einstellungen LaTeX-Vorspann, insert:

Re: Lyx-Hilfe Formatierungen

Guenter Milde wrote: In Dokument Einstellungen LaTeX-Vorspann, insert: \usepackage[includehead,includefoot,height=25mm,width=16mm]{geometry} The same can be achieved via the page layout tab in DocumentSettings (Dokument Einstellungen Seitenlayout). Yes, but in this case, the

Re: ANNOUNCE: Windows installer for RC1

Note that this installer is based on fresh new code different from 1.6 series and needs some testing from you. This doesn't work with SumatraPDF(portable). It simply won't open the viewer window when I hit the view button. With 1.6.9, it did. So with 2.0, I can only use Adobe Reader X-( -- if

Re: Changing native dictionary language

Thanks to you both. It worked. I had not thought to check in the document settings as I assumed it was a global setting, but now I think about it, it makes sense to be in the document settings. Because the default is a global preference perhaps it would make sense for one to be able to change the

Re: LyX + arrows +beamer?

2011/2/22 Paul A. Rubin ru...@msu.edu: On 02/21/2011 06:19 PM, i...@virginia.edu wrote: I just created a .lyx file with the code in your email an it works! Thanks! Another cool thing that I would like to be able to do with LyX is this http://www.texample.net/tikz/examples/gnuplot-basics/ Is

LyX Promotion

Dear Users and Developers, Thank you to both Pavel and Stefano for ollowing up with Google about why the GSoC application was turned down. Is there any way that I could help in that review? Stefano, will you be attending the IRC meeting to be held later today? I think it's very important that

Re: LyX Promotion

On Tue, 22 Mar 2011, Rob Oakes wrote: When I talk to people about LyX, they seem to think of it as a specialized academic writing tool. Basically, a program which helps professors and students write a thesis or articles. (To be even more narrow, it seems like many think it is for math and

Re: ANNOUNCE: Windows installer for RC1

Wolfgang Keller felip...@gmx.net wrote in message news:20110322160249.b3332054.felip...@gmx.net... This doesn't work with SumatraPDF(portable). It simply won't open the viewer window when I hit the view button. The PDF code should be identical to 1.6.9. I'll have a look. Joost

Re: LyX Promotion

There is something that might help: wouldn't it be possible to add a made with LyX tag alongside TeX and pdfTeX in the properties of the resulting pdf? It'd be an easy way to communicate that a nice document -that gets you looking into its properties- was made with LyX. M

Re: Changing native dictionary language

Christopher Reeve wrote: Thanks to you both. It worked. I had not thought to check in the document settings as I assumed it was a global setting, but now I think about it, it makes sense to be in the document settings. Because the default is a global preference perhaps it would make sense for

Re: LyX Promotion

On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 5:04 PM, Manolo Martínez man...@austrohungaro.com wrote: There is something that might help: wouldn't it be possible to add a made with LyX tag alongside TeX and pdfTeX in the properties of the resulting pdf? Yes, I always thought that LyX should tag PDFs by 'Created

tutorials / slides for seminars or workshops (was: 'Re: LyX Promotion')

Dear all I think this is a very good idea. On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 4:51 PM, Rob Oakes lyx-de...@oak-tree.us wrote: 4.) It seems that there are people willing to help promote/evangelize LyX, but I'm not sure we offer much in the way of promotional materials to help. Would it be worthwhile to

Re: LyX Promotion

On Tuesday 22 March 2011 11:58:22 Rich Shepard wrote: On Tue, 22 Mar 2011, Rob Oakes wrote: When I talk to people about LyX, they seem to think of it as a specialized academic writing tool. Basically, a program which helps professors and students write a thesis or articles. (To be even more

Re: LyX Promotion - use outside academia

On 22/03/11 15:51, Rob Oakes wrote: Dear Users and Developers, Thank you to both Pavel and Stefano for ollowing up with Google about why the GSoC application was turned down. Is there any way that I could help in that review? Stefano, will you be attending the IRC meeting to be held later

Re: LyX Promotion

The next major revision of my courseware will be All-Beamer-All-The-Time (no LyX, just Beamer LaTeX). It's 1000 times easier to maintain and personalize than OOImpress viewed on MS Powerpoint. Nowadays, all my letters are LyX letter template. Yeah, it's a PITA, and I think it's a silly

Re: LyX Promotion

Op 22-3-2011 17:59, Steve Litt schreef: The next major revision of my courseware will be All-Beamer-All-The-Time (no LyX, just Beamer LaTeX). It's 1000 times easier to maintain and personalize than OOImpress viewed on MS Powerpoint. You would have loved the new LyX Presentation Mode:

Re: tutorials / slides for seminars or workshops (was: 'Re: LyX Promotion')

On 22/03/11 16:38, Liviu Andronic wrote: Dear all I think this is a very good idea. On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 4:51 PM, Rob Oakes lyx-de...@oak-tree.us wrote: 4.) It seems that there are people willing to help promote/evangelize LyX, but I'm not sure we offer much in the way of promotional

SV: Help me out of .doc

Hi I made small edition to my final thesis in Word and now it looks terrible again. I want to get rid of it. I have more important things to do than keep document's layout in looking good. I feel your pain. It was a similar experience with word that made me change to LyX in 1999. However,

Re: tutorials / slides for seminars or workshops (was: 'Re: LyX Promotion')

How long should it be? A year ago I had one hour workshop on LyX in my department, and I started with very short into on LaTeX and in what scene LyX is different from word, and then about 40 minutes of demonstration of what can I do and how can I do that. If there is nothing better, I can

Re: Help me out of .doc

Hi Hannu, I'm afraid I don't know enough about LyX to help.  However I had a quick look at it in OpenOffice.org and assuming it imported correctly, which it seems to have, it seems like a typically badly laid-out Word document.  I can see why any little thing could mess it up. I think

Problem integrating a bibtex-style

Hi guys I want to implement a new cite style into LyX 1.6.9 on my Mac OS X 10.6.6. It's the ¨Historische Zeitschrift¨ style, which I have downloaded here http://biblatex.dominik-wassenhoven.de/historische-zeitschrift.shtml. The README file, distributed on the page doesn't help me much, so I

Re: tutorials / slides for seminars or workshops (was: 'Re: LyX Promotion')

On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 10:23 PM, Ronen Abravanel ron...@gmail.com wrote: How long should it be? A year ago I had one hour workshop on LyX in my I highly doubt that it would exceed an hour. department, and I started with very short into on LaTeX and in what scene LyX is different from word,

Default label???

Hi all, I'm now labelling all 57 chapters of my new book, and what a PITA! First of all, there's no hotkey -- I have to do Insert-Label on every one. But even worse, the label defaults to the first three words, and often the first word is The. Is there a way to have the label default to the

Re: Default label???

On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 11:26 PM, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: Hi all, I'm now labelling all 57 chapters of my new book, and what a PITA! First of all, there's no hotkey -- I have to do Insert-Label on every one. At least for this you can easily define a custom shortcut. See

Re: LyX Promotion

On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 11:51 PM, Rob Oakes lyx-de...@oak-tree.us wrote: While I have some ideas about why it may have happened, I think that Pavel hit the nail on the head. When I talk to people about LyX, they seem to think of it as a specialized academic writing tool. Basically, a program

Okular inverse search - automatically activate LyX

Hi,It seems the inverse search from Okular only moves the cursor to the corresponding position in LyX, but it does not activate the LyX window. So I made the following script:lyxclient -g $1 $2wmctrl -a LyXsave it (here "/home/yourname/okular_inverse_search" for example), and in Configure Okular -

Re: LyX Promotion

On 03/22/2011 10:58 PM, John McCabe-Dansted wrote: 1) Compile Errors. Normal users aren't used to dealing with compile errors and shouldn't be expected to fix them. Even I don't like dealing with compile errors all that much. With LyX you should not get compile errors unless you are doing

Re: Lyx-Hilfe Formatierungen

On 2011-03-21, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Anna Katharina Aichroth wrote: - Breite von 16cm sollte der Text etwa eine Länge von 25cm haben (inklusive Seitenzahl/ Kopfzeile) In Dokument Einstellungen LaTeX-Vorspann, insert:

Re: Lyx-Hilfe Formatierungen

Guenter Milde wrote: In Dokument Einstellungen LaTeX-Vorspann, insert: \usepackage[includehead,includefoot,height=25mm,width=16mm]{geometry} The same can be achieved via the page layout tab in DocumentSettings (Dokument Einstellungen Seitenlayout). Yes, but in this case, the

Re: ANNOUNCE: Windows installer for RC1

Note that this installer is based on fresh new code different from 1.6 series and needs some testing from you. This doesn't work with SumatraPDF(portable). It simply won't open the viewer window when I hit the view button. With 1.6.9, it did. So with 2.0, I can only use Adobe Reader X-( -- if

Re: Changing native dictionary language

Thanks to you both. It worked. I had not thought to check in the document settings as I assumed it was a global setting, but now I think about it, it makes sense to be in the document settings. Because the default is a global preference perhaps it would make sense for one to be able to change the

Re: LyX + arrows +beamer?

2011/2/22 Paul A. Rubin ru...@msu.edu: On 02/21/2011 06:19 PM, i...@virginia.edu wrote: I just created a .lyx file with the code in your email an it works! Thanks! Another cool thing that I would like to be able to do with LyX is this http://www.texample.net/tikz/examples/gnuplot-basics/ Is

LyX Promotion

Dear Users and Developers, Thank you to both Pavel and Stefano for ollowing up with Google about why the GSoC application was turned down. Is there any way that I could help in that review? Stefano, will you be attending the IRC meeting to be held later today? I think it's very important that

Re: LyX Promotion

On Tue, 22 Mar 2011, Rob Oakes wrote: When I talk to people about LyX, they seem to think of it as a specialized academic writing tool. Basically, a program which helps professors and students write a thesis or articles. (To be even more narrow, it seems like many think it is for math and

Re: ANNOUNCE: Windows installer for RC1

Wolfgang Keller felip...@gmx.net wrote in message news:20110322160249.b3332054.felip...@gmx.net... This doesn't work with SumatraPDF(portable). It simply won't open the viewer window when I hit the view button. The PDF code should be identical to 1.6.9. I'll have a look. Joost

Re: LyX Promotion

There is something that might help: wouldn't it be possible to add a made with LyX tag alongside TeX and pdfTeX in the properties of the resulting pdf? It'd be an easy way to communicate that a nice document -that gets you looking into its properties- was made with LyX. M

Re: Changing native dictionary language

Christopher Reeve wrote: Thanks to you both. It worked. I had not thought to check in the document settings as I assumed it was a global setting, but now I think about it, it makes sense to be in the document settings. Because the default is a global preference perhaps it would make sense for

Re: LyX Promotion

On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 5:04 PM, Manolo Martínez man...@austrohungaro.com wrote: There is something that might help: wouldn't it be possible to add a made with LyX tag alongside TeX and pdfTeX in the properties of the resulting pdf? Yes, I always thought that LyX should tag PDFs by 'Created

tutorials / slides for seminars or workshops (was: 'Re: LyX Promotion')

Dear all I think this is a very good idea. On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 4:51 PM, Rob Oakes lyx-de...@oak-tree.us wrote: 4.) It seems that there are people willing to help promote/evangelize LyX, but I'm not sure we offer much in the way of promotional materials to help. Would it be worthwhile to

Re: LyX Promotion

On Tuesday 22 March 2011 11:58:22 Rich Shepard wrote: On Tue, 22 Mar 2011, Rob Oakes wrote: When I talk to people about LyX, they seem to think of it as a specialized academic writing tool. Basically, a program which helps professors and students write a thesis or articles. (To be even more

Re: LyX Promotion - use outside academia

On 22/03/11 15:51, Rob Oakes wrote: Dear Users and Developers, Thank you to both Pavel and Stefano for ollowing up with Google about why the GSoC application was turned down. Is there any way that I could help in that review? Stefano, will you be attending the IRC meeting to be held later

Re: LyX Promotion

The next major revision of my courseware will be All-Beamer-All-The-Time (no LyX, just Beamer LaTeX). It's 1000 times easier to maintain and personalize than OOImpress viewed on MS Powerpoint. Nowadays, all my letters are LyX letter template. Yeah, it's a PITA, and I think it's a silly

Re: LyX Promotion

Op 22-3-2011 17:59, Steve Litt schreef: The next major revision of my courseware will be All-Beamer-All-The-Time (no LyX, just Beamer LaTeX). It's 1000 times easier to maintain and personalize than OOImpress viewed on MS Powerpoint. You would have loved the new LyX Presentation Mode:

Re: tutorials / slides for seminars or workshops (was: 'Re: LyX Promotion')

On 22/03/11 16:38, Liviu Andronic wrote: Dear all I think this is a very good idea. On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 4:51 PM, Rob Oakes lyx-de...@oak-tree.us wrote: 4.) It seems that there are people willing to help promote/evangelize LyX, but I'm not sure we offer much in the way of promotional

SV: Help me out of .doc

Hi I made small edition to my final thesis in Word and now it looks terrible again. I want to get rid of it. I have more important things to do than keep document's layout in looking good. I feel your pain. It was a similar experience with word that made me change to LyX in 1999. However,

Re: tutorials / slides for seminars or workshops (was: 'Re: LyX Promotion')

How long should it be? A year ago I had one hour workshop on LyX in my department, and I started with very short into on LaTeX and in what scene LyX is different from word, and then about 40 minutes of demonstration of what can I do and how can I do that. If there is nothing better, I can

Re: Help me out of .doc

Hi Hannu, I'm afraid I don't know enough about LyX to help.  However I had a quick look at it in OpenOffice.org and assuming it imported correctly, which it seems to have, it seems like a typically badly laid-out Word document.  I can see why any little thing could mess it up. I think

Problem integrating a bibtex-style

Hi guys I want to implement a new cite style into LyX 1.6.9 on my Mac OS X 10.6.6. It's the ¨Historische Zeitschrift¨ style, which I have downloaded here http://biblatex.dominik-wassenhoven.de/historische-zeitschrift.shtml. The README file, distributed on the page doesn't help me much, so I

Re: tutorials / slides for seminars or workshops (was: 'Re: LyX Promotion')

On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 10:23 PM, Ronen Abravanel ron...@gmail.com wrote: How long should it be? A year ago I had one hour workshop on LyX in my I highly doubt that it would exceed an hour. department, and I started with very short into on LaTeX and in what scene LyX is different from word,

Default label???

Hi all, I'm now labelling all 57 chapters of my new book, and what a PITA! First of all, there's no hotkey -- I have to do Insert-Label on every one. But even worse, the label defaults to the first three words, and often the first word is The. Is there a way to have the label default to the

Re: Default label???

On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 11:26 PM, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: Hi all, I'm now labelling all 57 chapters of my new book, and what a PITA! First of all, there's no hotkey -- I have to do Insert-Label on every one. At least for this you can easily define a custom shortcut. See

Re: LyX Promotion

On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 11:51 PM, Rob Oakes lyx-de...@oak-tree.us wrote: While I have some ideas about why it may have happened, I think that Pavel hit the nail on the head. When I talk to people about LyX, they seem to think of it as a specialized academic writing tool. Basically, a program

Okular inverse search - automatically activate LyX

Hi,It seems the inverse search from Okular only moves the cursor to the corresponding position in LyX, but it does not activate the LyX window. So I made the following script:lyxclient -g $1 $2wmctrl -a LyXsave it (here "/home/yourname/okular_inverse_search" for example), and in Configure Okular -

Re: LyX Promotion

On 03/22/2011 10:58 PM, John McCabe-Dansted wrote: 1) Compile Errors. Normal users aren't used to dealing with compile errors and shouldn't be expected to fix them. Even I don't like dealing with compile errors all that much. With LyX you should not get compile errors unless you are doing