Re: Borders in "multi-row" Table Elements

2011-10-19 Thread Francesco Menoncin
Dear Tim, I had the very same problem and I already notified it (it is now in the "to do" list for the next version of LyX). The only way to solve the problem is to use the command "multirow" in ERT environmente as you can see in the attached file (do not forget to call the package "multirow

British Pound symbol problem in Sweave PDF output

2011-10-19 Thread Graham Smith
I'm not exactly sure where the problem lies with this, but if I include a "£" symbol in an graph legend, I get "£" in the PDF. I am on Snow Leopard and Lyx 2.0.0. It doesn't happen when I generate graphs from R and save as PDF, so it seems to be a Lyx/Latex/Sweave thing. As so often is the case

Re: British Pound symbol problem in Sweave PDF output

2011-10-19 Thread Graham Smith
Ok, to reply to myself, I have just realised that the first time I compiled this file I got a dialog box asking about encoding, and I chose the default UTF -8 encoding. Could this be where the problem lies and, if it does, how do i now sort it. Which encoding should I have chosen, if that is the i

Re: British Pound symbol problem in Sweave PDF output

2011-10-19 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 11:45 AM, Graham Smith wrote: > I'm not exactly sure where the problem lies with this, but if I include a > "£" symbol in an graph legend, I get "£" in the PDF. > I am on Snow Leopard and Lyx 2.0.0. > It doesn't happen when I generate graphs from R and save as PDF, so it s

Re: Arial fonts LyX Windows

2011-10-19 Thread Olivier Ripoll
On 19.10.2011 07:31, Kenedy Torcatt wrote: Hello, first of all, I'm a windows user. I've installed LyX 2.0 recently and I saw that now we can use the windows fonts selecting them in a drop down menu after tick No tex typography. My problem is that when i do that I always get an LyX error saying:

Need LyX 1.6.10 Configuration file for Windows 32 bit

2011-10-19 Thread Keith Roberts
Greetings all. I have trashed my Lyx Converter preferences, and cannot View DVI or Postscript files now. Does anyone have a working LyX 1.6.10 windows config file I can use please? Or is there some way to restore the preferences to the originsl default values please? Kind Regards, Keith R

Paragraph spacing in Quote environment

2011-10-19 Thread Virgil Arrington
When using the Quote environment with several consecutive paragraphs, I notice that the paragraph spacing between the Quote paragraphs is narrower than the paragraph spacing between the Quote paragraphs and the surrounding Standard paragraphs. I’d like to widen the spacing between successive Qu

Re: Engineering student considering LyX for Thesis

2011-10-19 Thread Helge Hafting
On 18. okt. 2011 13:04, Hannu Vuolasaho wrote: Hi! I'm also writing my thesis with Lyx. My biggest problem is .doc template. If I open it on Libreoffice, OpenOffice or MS Office with different versions I get subtle changes in printout. If these programs produce some differences, then the s

Re: About the tikz/pgf in lyx

2011-10-19 Thread Helge Hafting
On 18. okt. 2011 18:39, Wei-Dong Lian wrote: hi everyone, I am adapting the tikz figures into lyx. I can generate tikz codes in a separated file, name with *.tikz. The idea is to generate tikz codes for drawing in each file but control their styles globally. The line width, font size, colors or

Re: Beamer and greyed-out items

2011-10-19 Thread Julio Rojas
Thanks Paul. It worked like a charm. Regards. - Julio Rojas jcredbe...@gmail.com On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 4:35 AM, Paul Rubin wrote: > Julio Rojas gmail.com> writes: > >> >> Dear all. In a beamer presentation I would like to have greyed-out >> ite

Removing Biblatex?

2011-10-19 Thread Lastalda Felina
I'm trying to find a citation style for my thesis that works for me. To do that, I've tried out various things, including Biblatex. The attempt showed me I would rather not use this. But now there seems no way back? I have included biblatex according to the guide here: http://wiki.lyx.org/BibTeX/B

Re: Removing Biblatex?

2011-10-19 Thread Julio Rojas
Dear Lastalda, check at the end of the document, because you might have a "\printbibliography" command that you haven't eliminated. Obviously, I guess you have already remove the \usepackage{biblatex} used to declare your intention on using biblatex. Regards. --

Re: Paragraph spacing in Quote environment

2011-10-19 Thread Richard Heck
On 10/19/2011 08:39 AM, Virgil Arrington wrote: When using the Quote environment with several consecutive paragraphs, I notice that the paragraph spacing between the Quote paragraphs is narrower than the paragraph spacing between the Quote paragraphs and the surrounding Standard paragraphs. I'd

Re: Borders in "multi-row" Table Elements

2011-10-19 Thread Tim Wescott
Thanks Francesco. It's not the worlds prettiest work-around, but at least its a work around. On Wed, 2011-10-19 at 11:26 +0200, Francesco Menoncin wrote: > Dear Tim, > > I had the very same problem and I already notified it (it is now in > the "to do" list for the next version of LyX). > > The

Re: Beginners introductory tutorials?

2011-10-19 Thread Keith Roberts
Hello Jens. Thanks for that link. I will check that out ASAP. Kind Regards, Keith Roberts On Mon, 17 Oct 2011, Jens Nöckel wrote: To: Keith Roberts From: Jens Nöckel Subject: Re: Beginners introductory tutorials? Here is one that I point people to - there may be newer ones I'm not aware o

Re: Beginners introductory tutorials?

2011-10-19 Thread Keith Roberts
Thanks Liviu. Will take a look at that soon. Keith On Tue, 18 Oct 2011, Liviu Andronic wrote: To: Keith Roberts From: Liviu Andronic Subject: Re: Beginners introductory tutorials? On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 11:13 PM, Keith Roberts wrote: Hi. Thanks for LyX which I think is an awesome piece

Re: Paragraph spacing in Quote environment

2011-10-19 Thread Virgil Arrington
Richard, Thanks for the tip. The line \parsep\parskip% didn’t work. It removed all spacing between my quote paragraphs. But, I combined your suggestion with some other things I’ve tried and came up with the following that worked: \renewenvironment{quote} {\list{}{% \rightmargin\leftma

Lyx crash OS X with Dragon Dictate

2011-10-19 Thread Steven Daniel
hello, Firstly, thank you for all the work done on Lyx I have been using from the beginning a great program. I am having continual issues with Lyx LyX-2.0.1+qt4 crashing. This most often occurs when utilizing Dragon Dictate to dictate into LYX. As I have broken one of my hands, this is bec

Re: Removing Biblatex?

2011-10-19 Thread Lastalda Felina
Huh. Ok, I just restarted it to check, and now it works. Weird. Thanks for your suggestion, though. :) 2011/10/19 Julio Rojas : > Dear Lastalda, check at the end of the document, because you might > have a "\printbibliography" command that you haven't eliminated. > Obviously, I guess you have alre

Re: Lyx crash OS X with Dragon Dictate

2011-10-19 Thread Stephan Witt
Am 19.10.2011 um 19:29 schrieb Steven Daniel: > hello, > Firstly, thank you for all the work done on Lyx I have been using > from the beginning a great program. > > I am having continual issues with Lyx LyX-2.0.1+qt4 crashing. > This most often occurs when utilizing > Dragon Dictate to dictat

Re: Paragraph spacing in Quote environment

2011-10-19 Thread Richard Heck
On 10/19/2011 01:14 PM, Virgil Arrington wrote: Richard, Thanks for the tip. The line \parsep\parskip% didn't work. It removed all spacing between my quote paragraphs. But, I combined your suggestion with some other things I've tried and came up with the following that worked: \renewenvironmen

Re: Lyx crash OS X with Dragon Dictate

2011-10-19 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
Dragon Dictate does not work very well with LyX. I had to dictate into AlphaX and import from there into LyX. el On 10/19/11 9:29 PM, Stephan Witt wrote: > Am 19.10.2011 um 19:29 schrieb Steven Daniel: > >> hello, >> Firstly, thank you for all the work done on Lyx I have been using >> from the b

Re: Paragraph spacing in Quote environment

2011-10-19 Thread Virgil Arrington
Thanks for the caution. I rarely use footnotes, and can’t imagine putting a quote in one, so I think I’m okay. Virgil From: Richard Heck Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2011 3:41 PM To: Virgil Arrington Cc: lyx-users-group Subject: Re: Paragraph spacing in Quote environment On 10/19/2011 01:14

Re: Need LyX 1.6.10 Configuration file for Windows 32 bit

2011-10-19 Thread Julien Rioux
On 19/10/2011 2:09 PM, Keith Roberts wrote: Greetings all. I have trashed my Lyx Converter preferences, and cannot View DVI or Postscript files now. Does anyone have a working LyX 1.6.10 windows config file I can use please? Or is there some way to restore the preferences to the originsl defaul

Re: mathdots.sty not found in Math-Help-file

2011-10-19 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2011-10-16, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > On Sunday 16 October 2011 06:06:02 Uwe Stöhr wrote: >> Am 14.10.2011 08:19, schrieb Wolfgang Engelmann: > mhchem.sty not found > and: > \usepackage > [unicode=true,^^M > *** (cannot \read from terminal in nonstop modes) > I searched for

Windows Binaries Wiki Page

2011-10-19 Thread Phil Fong
The Windows Binaries Wiki page linked from the main downloads page, http://www.lyx.org/Download, still shows 1.6.9 as the stable version for Windows. Is this intentional? I know that there is no official 2.0.1 Windows binary but I have been using the official 2.0.0 build. Phil