Re: Importing excel/gnumeric to LyX

2012-03-14 Thread Helge Hafting
On 26. jan. 2012 16:11, Fred wrote: Helge Haftinghelge.haftingat hist.no writes: On 10. sep. 2011 16:14, Christian Wilhelmsen wrote: Hi! When trying to import and .xls or .gnumeric to LyX 2.0 I get the error message: no information for converting gnumeric format files to latex. Define a

Re: is lyx really appropriate for my book.

2012-03-14 Thread Helge Hafting
On 14. feb. 2012 13:04, Eric Weir wrote: On Feb 14, 2012, at 2:01 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: [...] with TeX), or MS Word documents for journals and proceedings. I have experienced that some of these journals and proceedings were in fact produced with TeX in the end, but even then they have

Re: lyx and hypcap

2012-03-14 Thread mario chiari
Dear Julien, All, thanks for the reply. Nope, it does not work even with the \label within the \caption. I copyaste my entire file below. I tried to export and latex the .tex file. I get the same error, but the final .dvi file is fine. With pdflatex, the final .pdf file is fine too, but I get

LyX / Beamer bugs?

2012-03-14 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
Hi! I think I have managed to write myself into a corner that I'm unable to get out of, using LyX 2.0.3 and the Beamer document class. I have attached my LyX file, but I will explain the two issues first: 1) I don't understand how to insert an EndFrame at the bottom of the document, after

Re: program listing of child documents with accents

2012-03-14 Thread Helge Hafting
On 13. feb. 2012 20:33, Ricardo wrote: Following Richard advice, below posted source code of a small document. With the current lyx configuration I can insert a child document with the program listing input. The document is saved utf8. I can see accents on the pdf output, but the breaklines of

Re: LyX / Beamer bugs?

2012-03-14 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 10:27 AM, Torquil Macdonald Sørensen torq...@gmail.com wrote: Hi! I think I have managed to write myself into a corner that I'm unable to get out of, using LyX 2.0.3 and the Beamer document class. I have attached my LyX file, but I will explain the two issues first:

Re: LyX / Beamer bugs?

2012-03-14 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
On 14/03/12 11:09, Liviu Andronic wrote: On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 10:27 AM, Torquil Macdonald Sørensen torq...@gmail.com wrote: Hi! I think I have managed to write myself into a corner that I'm unable to get out of, using LyX 2.0.3 and the Beamer document class. I have attached my LyX file,

Re: LyX / Beamer bugs?

2012-03-14 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
On 14/03/12 11:09, Liviu Andronic wrote: If you have trouble with building a Beamer presentation from scratch, I would suggest starting with the beamer*.lyx template (File New from Template) and trimming it down till it fits your needs. At each step make sure that the document compiles. Liviu

Re: kerning and accented characters

2012-03-14 Thread Helge Hafting
On 06. mars 2012 16:12, Csikos Bela wrote: Hello: Certain character pairs look very ugly in lyx/latex output. For example if V is followed by Hungarian accented a or e (ie. á or é) it looks very ugly. See the attached lyx and pdf files. LyX follows the kerning in the font file. So the best

multiline equations cases

2012-03-14 Thread Bieniasz
Hi, I am trying to produce a multiline equation (with a number) by using the option cases. I want to have two lines of some expressions, with a single brace at the right-hand side, followed by the equation number. Is there any way to do this? The option cases offers a brace at the left- hand

Re: LyX / Beamer bugs?

2012-03-14 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 11:25 AM, Torquil Macdonald Sørensen torq...@gmail.com wrote: That's the thing, I did just that because that is what I normally do, but it didn't work in this situation. The vertical line corresponding to the Block environment expanded downwards, and when I inserted the

Re: LyX / Beamer bugs?

2012-03-14 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
On 14/03/12 12:30, Liviu Andronic wrote: On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 11:25 AM, Torquil Macdonald Sørensen torq...@gmail.com wrote: That's the thing, I did just that because that is what I normally do, but it didn't work in this situation. The vertical line corresponding to the Block environment

Re: Please confirm your message

2012-03-14 Thread Hwan C. Lin
Hello, I have a problem with Lyx 2.0.3 on mac os 10.6.8. I inserted the graph of a pdf file into Lyx. But the graph cannot display its full size within Lyx, although the full size will come after compiling. In contrast, If I insert a .png graph into Lyx, it can display its full size within Lyx.

Re: LyX / Beamer bugs?

2012-03-14 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 3:14 PM, Torquil Macdonald Sørensen torq...@gmail.com wrote: Unfortunately, that LyX doc doesn't compile here. I get an error message popup when trying to View (pdflatex). I really appreciate your helpful effort, though. IT doesn't compile here either, but it does have

Re: multiline equations cases

2012-03-14 Thread David L. Johnson
On 03/14/2012 07:27 AM, Bieniasz wrote: Hi, I am trying to produce a multiline equation (with a number) by using the option cases. I want to have two lines of some expressions, with a single brace at the right-hand side, followed by the equation number. Is there any way to do this? The option

Re: LyX / Beamer bugs?

2012-03-14 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
On 14/03/12 15:22, Liviu Andronic wrote: I have decided that there are several problems with the lyx+beamer combination that I cannot live As I suggested earlier, you should try to build from an existing _compilable_ example (such as the templates shipped by LyX) and remove/add elements as you

Re: is lyx really appropriate for my book.

2012-03-14 Thread Steve Litt
On Wed, 14 Mar 2012 10:00:09 +0100 Helge Hafting helge.haft...@hist.no wrote: On 14. feb. 2012 13:04, Eric Weir wrote: On Feb 14, 2012, at 2:01 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: [...] with TeX), or MS Word documents for journals and proceedings. I have experienced that some of these

Re: Problem compiling a memoir class document

2012-03-14 Thread Eric Weir
On Mar 13, 2012, at 2:30 PM, Julien Rioux wrote: On 16/02/2012 10:46 AM, Eric Weir wrote: At Stefano's suggestion I'm giving the memoir class a look--or trying to. Without any formatting my document compiles to pdflatex fine. When I apply the title environment to my title and attempt to

Labels

2012-03-14 Thread Merhebi, Bob
Hello, Just a simple question: Is there a way to keep figures, sections subsctionslabels separate? I am asking this since it is quite annoying to search for a label in the cross reference window!!! thanks -- Sincerely Yours, -Merhebi, Bob Thunderbird Signature signature.asc

Track changes - 'final' vs 'mark-up' view

2012-03-14 Thread Maggie Donovan
Hello Lyx users I'm very new to LyX (or any TeX-based system). Have recently installed it in order to edit a journal paper written in LyX. I have Windows 7 with MikTeX 2.9 and LyX 2.0.3. I've read the user guide, experimented and generally hunted around, but am still not sure of the

Re: Labels

2012-03-14 Thread Richard Heck
On 03/14/2012 05:02 PM, Merhebi, Bob wrote: Hello, Just a simple question: Is there a way to keep figures, sections subsctionslabels separate? By default, LyX uses different prefixes for these: fig, sec, sub. I am asking this since it is quite annoying to search for a label in the cross

Cannot get vertical alignment to work

2012-03-14 Thread John O'Gorman
Hi I'm trying to put a jpeg image on the left with a paragraph of text to its right. I've tried putting these items into a table. I've tried putting them into 2 lyx boxes (aka minipages) with an hfill between them. In both instances the left element (the graphics is top aligned) and right one

Re: Importing excel/gnumeric to LyX

2012-03-14 Thread Helge Hafting
On 26. jan. 2012 16:11, Fred wrote: Helge Haftinghelge.haftingat hist.no writes: On 10. sep. 2011 16:14, Christian Wilhelmsen wrote: Hi! When trying to import and .xls or .gnumeric to LyX 2.0 I get the error message: no information for converting gnumeric format files to latex. Define a

Re: is lyx really appropriate for my book.

2012-03-14 Thread Helge Hafting
On 14. feb. 2012 13:04, Eric Weir wrote: On Feb 14, 2012, at 2:01 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: [...] with TeX), or MS Word documents for journals and proceedings. I have experienced that some of these journals and proceedings were in fact produced with TeX in the end, but even then they have

Re: lyx and hypcap

2012-03-14 Thread mario chiari
Dear Julien, All, thanks for the reply. Nope, it does not work even with the \label within the \caption. I copyaste my entire file below. I tried to export and latex the .tex file. I get the same error, but the final .dvi file is fine. With pdflatex, the final .pdf file is fine too, but I get

LyX / Beamer bugs?

2012-03-14 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
Hi! I think I have managed to write myself into a corner that I'm unable to get out of, using LyX 2.0.3 and the Beamer document class. I have attached my LyX file, but I will explain the two issues first: 1) I don't understand how to insert an EndFrame at the bottom of the document, after

Re: program listing of child documents with accents

2012-03-14 Thread Helge Hafting
On 13. feb. 2012 20:33, Ricardo wrote: Following Richard advice, below posted source code of a small document. With the current lyx configuration I can insert a child document with the program listing input. The document is saved utf8. I can see accents on the pdf output, but the breaklines of

Re: LyX / Beamer bugs?

2012-03-14 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 10:27 AM, Torquil Macdonald Sørensen torq...@gmail.com wrote: Hi! I think I have managed to write myself into a corner that I'm unable to get out of, using LyX 2.0.3 and the Beamer document class. I have attached my LyX file, but I will explain the two issues first:

Re: LyX / Beamer bugs?

2012-03-14 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
On 14/03/12 11:09, Liviu Andronic wrote: On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 10:27 AM, Torquil Macdonald Sørensen torq...@gmail.com wrote: Hi! I think I have managed to write myself into a corner that I'm unable to get out of, using LyX 2.0.3 and the Beamer document class. I have attached my LyX file,

Re: LyX / Beamer bugs?

2012-03-14 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
On 14/03/12 11:09, Liviu Andronic wrote: If you have trouble with building a Beamer presentation from scratch, I would suggest starting with the beamer*.lyx template (File New from Template) and trimming it down till it fits your needs. At each step make sure that the document compiles. Liviu

Re: kerning and accented characters

2012-03-14 Thread Helge Hafting
On 06. mars 2012 16:12, Csikos Bela wrote: Hello: Certain character pairs look very ugly in lyx/latex output. For example if V is followed by Hungarian accented a or e (ie. á or é) it looks very ugly. See the attached lyx and pdf files. LyX follows the kerning in the font file. So the best

multiline equations cases

2012-03-14 Thread Bieniasz
Hi, I am trying to produce a multiline equation (with a number) by using the option cases. I want to have two lines of some expressions, with a single brace at the right-hand side, followed by the equation number. Is there any way to do this? The option cases offers a brace at the left- hand

Re: LyX / Beamer bugs?

2012-03-14 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 11:25 AM, Torquil Macdonald Sørensen torq...@gmail.com wrote: That's the thing, I did just that because that is what I normally do, but it didn't work in this situation. The vertical line corresponding to the Block environment expanded downwards, and when I inserted the

Re: LyX / Beamer bugs?

2012-03-14 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
On 14/03/12 12:30, Liviu Andronic wrote: On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 11:25 AM, Torquil Macdonald Sørensen torq...@gmail.com wrote: That's the thing, I did just that because that is what I normally do, but it didn't work in this situation. The vertical line corresponding to the Block environment

Re: Please confirm your message

2012-03-14 Thread Hwan C. Lin
Hello, I have a problem with Lyx 2.0.3 on mac os 10.6.8. I inserted the graph of a pdf file into Lyx. But the graph cannot display its full size within Lyx, although the full size will come after compiling. In contrast, If I insert a .png graph into Lyx, it can display its full size within Lyx.

Re: LyX / Beamer bugs?

2012-03-14 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 3:14 PM, Torquil Macdonald Sørensen torq...@gmail.com wrote: Unfortunately, that LyX doc doesn't compile here. I get an error message popup when trying to View (pdflatex). I really appreciate your helpful effort, though. IT doesn't compile here either, but it does have

Re: multiline equations cases

2012-03-14 Thread David L. Johnson
On 03/14/2012 07:27 AM, Bieniasz wrote: Hi, I am trying to produce a multiline equation (with a number) by using the option cases. I want to have two lines of some expressions, with a single brace at the right-hand side, followed by the equation number. Is there any way to do this? The option

Re: LyX / Beamer bugs?

2012-03-14 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
On 14/03/12 15:22, Liviu Andronic wrote: I have decided that there are several problems with the lyx+beamer combination that I cannot live As I suggested earlier, you should try to build from an existing _compilable_ example (such as the templates shipped by LyX) and remove/add elements as you

Re: is lyx really appropriate for my book.

2012-03-14 Thread Steve Litt
On Wed, 14 Mar 2012 10:00:09 +0100 Helge Hafting helge.haft...@hist.no wrote: On 14. feb. 2012 13:04, Eric Weir wrote: On Feb 14, 2012, at 2:01 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: [...] with TeX), or MS Word documents for journals and proceedings. I have experienced that some of these

Re: Problem compiling a memoir class document

2012-03-14 Thread Eric Weir
On Mar 13, 2012, at 2:30 PM, Julien Rioux wrote: On 16/02/2012 10:46 AM, Eric Weir wrote: At Stefano's suggestion I'm giving the memoir class a look--or trying to. Without any formatting my document compiles to pdflatex fine. When I apply the title environment to my title and attempt to

Labels

2012-03-14 Thread Merhebi, Bob
Hello, Just a simple question: Is there a way to keep figures, sections subsctionslabels separate? I am asking this since it is quite annoying to search for a label in the cross reference window!!! thanks -- Sincerely Yours, -Merhebi, Bob Thunderbird Signature signature.asc

Track changes - 'final' vs 'mark-up' view

2012-03-14 Thread Maggie Donovan
Hello Lyx users I'm very new to LyX (or any TeX-based system). Have recently installed it in order to edit a journal paper written in LyX. I have Windows 7 with MikTeX 2.9 and LyX 2.0.3. I've read the user guide, experimented and generally hunted around, but am still not sure of the

Re: Labels

2012-03-14 Thread Richard Heck
On 03/14/2012 05:02 PM, Merhebi, Bob wrote: Hello, Just a simple question: Is there a way to keep figures, sections subsctionslabels separate? By default, LyX uses different prefixes for these: fig, sec, sub. I am asking this since it is quite annoying to search for a label in the cross

Cannot get vertical alignment to work

2012-03-14 Thread John O'Gorman
Hi I'm trying to put a jpeg image on the left with a paragraph of text to its right. I've tried putting these items into a table. I've tried putting them into 2 lyx boxes (aka minipages) with an hfill between them. In both instances the left element (the graphics is top aligned) and right one

Re: Importing excel/gnumeric to LyX

2012-03-14 Thread Helge Hafting
On 26. jan. 2012 16:11, Fred wrote: Helge Hafting writes: On 10. sep. 2011 16:14, Christian Wilhelmsen wrote: Hi! When trying to import and .xls or .gnumeric to LyX 2.0 I get the error message: "no information for converting gnumeric format files to latex. Define a

Re: is lyx really appropriate for my book.

2012-03-14 Thread Helge Hafting
On 14. feb. 2012 13:04, Eric Weir wrote: On Feb 14, 2012, at 2:01 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: [...] with TeX), or MS Word documents for journals and proceedings. I have experienced that some of these journals and proceedings were in fact produced with TeX in the end, but even then they have

Re: lyx and hypcap

2012-03-14 Thread mario chiari
Dear Julien, All, thanks for the reply. Nope, it does not work even with the \label within the \caption. I copy my entire file below. I tried to export and latex the .tex file. I get the same error, but the final .dvi file is fine. With pdflatex, the final .pdf file is fine too, but I get more

LyX / Beamer bugs?

2012-03-14 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
Hi! I think I have managed to write myself into a corner that I'm unable to get out of, using LyX 2.0.3 and the Beamer document class. I have attached my LyX file, but I will explain the two issues first: 1) I don't understand how to insert an "EndFrame" at the bottom of the document, after

Re: program listing of child documents with accents

2012-03-14 Thread Helge Hafting
On 13. feb. 2012 20:33, Ricardo wrote: Following Richard advice, below posted source code of a small document. With the current lyx configuration I can insert a child document with the program listing input. The document is saved utf8. I can see accents on the pdf output, but the breaklines of

Re: LyX / Beamer bugs?

2012-03-14 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 10:27 AM, Torquil Macdonald Sørensen wrote: > Hi! > > I think I have managed to write myself into a corner that I'm unable to get > out of, using LyX 2.0.3 and the Beamer document class. > > I have attached my LyX file, but I will explain the two issues

Re: LyX / Beamer bugs?

2012-03-14 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
On 14/03/12 11:09, Liviu Andronic wrote: On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 10:27 AM, Torquil Macdonald Sørensen wrote: Hi! I think I have managed to write myself into a corner that I'm unable to get out of, using LyX 2.0.3 and the Beamer document class. I have attached my LyX file,

Re: LyX / Beamer bugs?

2012-03-14 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
On 14/03/12 11:09, Liviu Andronic wrote: If you have trouble with building a Beamer presentation from scratch, I would suggest starting with the beamer*.lyx template (File> New from Template) and trimming it down till it fits your needs. At each step make sure that the document compiles. Liviu

Re: kerning and accented characters

2012-03-14 Thread Helge Hafting
On 06. mars 2012 16:12, Csikos Bela wrote: Hello: Certain character pairs look very ugly in lyx/latex output. For example if V is followed by Hungarian accented a or e (ie. á or é) it looks very ugly. See the attached lyx and pdf files. LyX follows the kerning in the font file. So the best

multiline equations & "cases"

2012-03-14 Thread Bieniasz
Hi, I am trying to produce a multiline equation (with a number) by using the option "cases". I want to have two lines of some expressions, with a single brace at the right-hand side, followed by the equation number. Is there any way to do this? The option "cases" offers a brace at the left-

Re: LyX / Beamer bugs?

2012-03-14 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 11:25 AM, Torquil Macdonald Sørensen wrote: > That's the thing, I did just that because that is what I normally do, but it > didn't work in this situation. The vertical line corresponding to the Block > environment expanded downwards, and when I inserted

Re: LyX / Beamer bugs?

2012-03-14 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
On 14/03/12 12:30, Liviu Andronic wrote: On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 11:25 AM, Torquil Macdonald Sørensen wrote: That's the thing, I did just that because that is what I normally do, but it didn't work in this situation. The vertical line corresponding to the Block environment

Re: Please confirm your message

2012-03-14 Thread Hwan C. Lin
Hello, I have a problem with Lyx 2.0.3 on mac os 10.6.8. I inserted the graph of a pdf file into Lyx. But the graph cannot display its full size within Lyx, although the full size will come after compiling. In contrast, If I insert a .png graph into Lyx, it can display its full size within Lyx.

Re: LyX / Beamer bugs?

2012-03-14 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 3:14 PM, Torquil Macdonald Sørensen wrote: > Unfortunately, that LyX doc doesn't compile here. I get an error message > popup when trying to "View (pdflatex)". I really appreciate your helpful > effort, though. > IT doesn't compile here either, but it

Re: multiline equations & "cases"

2012-03-14 Thread David L. Johnson
On 03/14/2012 07:27 AM, Bieniasz wrote: Hi, I am trying to produce a multiline equation (with a number) by using the option "cases". I want to have two lines of some expressions, with a single brace at the right-hand side, followed by the equation number. Is there any way to do this? The

Re: LyX / Beamer bugs?

2012-03-14 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
On 14/03/12 15:22, Liviu Andronic wrote: I have decided that there are several problems with the lyx+beamer combination that I cannot live As I suggested earlier, you should try to build from an existing _compilable_ example (such as the templates shipped by LyX) and remove/add elements as you

Re: is lyx really appropriate for my book.

2012-03-14 Thread Steve Litt
On Wed, 14 Mar 2012 10:00:09 +0100 Helge Hafting wrote: > On 14. feb. 2012 13:04, Eric Weir wrote: > > > > On Feb 14, 2012, at 2:01 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > [...] > >> with TeX), or MS Word documents for journals and proceedings. I > >> have experienced that some of

Re: Problem compiling a memoir class document

2012-03-14 Thread Eric Weir
On Mar 13, 2012, at 2:30 PM, Julien Rioux wrote: > On 16/02/2012 10:46 AM, Eric Weir wrote: >> >> At Stefano's suggestion I'm giving the memoir class a look--or trying to. >> Without any formatting my document compiles to pdflatex fine. When I apply >> the title environment to my title and

Labels

2012-03-14 Thread Merhebi, Bob
Hello, Just a simple question: Is there a way to keep figures, sections & subsctions"labels" separate? I am asking this since it is quite annoying to search for a label in the cross reference window!!! thanks -- Sincerely Yours, -Merhebi, Bob Thunderbird Signature signature.asc

Track changes - 'final' vs 'mark-up' view

2012-03-14 Thread Maggie Donovan
Hello Lyx users I'm very new to LyX (or any TeX-based system). Have recently installed it in order to edit a journal paper written in LyX. I have Windows 7 with MikTeX 2.9 and LyX 2.0.3. I've read the user guide, experimented and generally hunted around, but am still not sure of the

Re: Labels

2012-03-14 Thread Richard Heck
On 03/14/2012 05:02 PM, Merhebi, Bob wrote: Hello, Just a simple question: Is there a way to keep figures, sections& subsctions"labels" separate? By default, LyX uses different prefixes for these: fig, sec, sub. I am asking this since it is quite annoying to search for a label in the

Cannot get vertical alignment to work

2012-03-14 Thread John O'Gorman
Hi I'm trying to put a jpeg image on the left with a paragraph of text to its right. I've tried putting these items into a table. I've tried putting them into 2 lyx boxes (aka minipages) with an hfill between them. In both instances the left element (the graphics is top aligned) and right one