Re: Vector Fonts for Russian-English LyX document

2013-03-13 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 7:06 AM, leonid baranov wrote: > 4. > Given (1,2,3), what would be a compelling reason to prefer > the Tex-fonts + pdfLatex over XeTeX/LuaTeX? > Several thoughts: - XeTeX typesetting is in my experience inferior to pdflatex typesetting - For multilingual documents, TeX font

Re: Vector Fonts for Russian-English LyX document

2013-03-13 Thread leonid baranov
> No you don't. Leave all fonts at default setting. cm-super will select the right glyphs > automatically for you. (The default are the different shapes of the Computer modern fonts and > CM-super is their vector replacement.) ... > > If you really want to use another font than Computer modern,

Re: Bug mhchem-Czech

2013-03-13 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Am 13.03.2013 03:11, schrieb Jürgen Lange: have you seen the attached lyx and pdf file? The bug is, that mhchem in lyx does not format the symbolic arrow -> to a chemical reaction arrow. The latex code in lyx is \ce{->} as shown in lyx file. In attachment an example of a correct formatted arrow

Re: How to customize an IEEE-tran bibtex-style?

2013-03-13 Thread Paul A . Rubin
Clemens Eisserer gmail.com> writes: > Please forgive me this slightly off-topic question, but is it possible > to modify a bibtext style? Yes - if you know what you're doing. A BST file is basically source code for a program written in its own little language (a stack-oriented language). Learn t

Re: editing math in lyx

2013-03-13 Thread Paul A . Rubin
1. Position the cursor just inside the numerator (you should see 'Font: textrm' in the status line). 2. Hit backspace (removing the font selection and reverting the numerator to normal math font). 3. Select the contents of the numerator. 4. Type '\textsf' and hit the space bar. It will appear to

Re: Vector Fonts for Russian-English LyX document

2013-03-13 Thread leonid baranov
Maria, Very kind of you to share with others. The font is a treasure trove. Rich expressive capabilities. Especially, in multilingual environment. My 2 cents to using it. Platform: LyX/MiKTeX/Windows 7. I did as instructed at http://www.linuxlibertine.org/index.php?id=91&L=1 Downloaded the

Re: editing a matrix

2013-03-13 Thread Jacob Bishop
On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 11:26 AM, Bob Alvarez wrote: > Section 4 of the Lyx Detailed Math manual describes how to set a Matrix > characteristics when I create it. > > What if I change my mind? Is there any way to edit the Matrix? > > In particular, how do I change the horizontal alignment? For exa

Re: sponsoring horizontal scrollbar for tables and math (was: Re: [off-topic] LyX as a LaTeX table editor (and other selling advice))

2013-03-13 Thread stefano franchi
On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 1:35 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote: > On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 7:17 PM, David L. Johnson wrote: > > On 03/13/2013 02:07 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote: > >> > > Of course, this does not mean I want the text spread out over a very long > > line like that, only the math block (or a tabl

Re: editing math in lyx

2013-03-13 Thread Richard Heck
On 03/13/2013 09:29 AM, Csikos Bela wrote: Hello: How can I edit text written in math mode in lyx? An example: I write a fraction using \textrm for both the numerator and the denominator. Then I decide to change these to sans serif (textsf). How can I apply the change to the fraction's numerator

sponsoring horizontal scrollbar for tables and math (was: Re: [off-topic] LyX as a LaTeX table editor (and other selling advice))

2013-03-13 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 7:17 PM, David L. Johnson wrote: > On 03/13/2013 02:07 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote: >> >> LyX doesn't even show a horizontal scrollbar when the table is wider >> than the display. Which can result in the cursor being outside the >> display. >> >> Yes, that would be nice to fix

Re: [off-topic] LyX as a LaTeX table editor (and other selling advice)

2013-03-13 Thread David L. Johnson
On 03/13/2013 02:07 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote: LyX doesn't even show a horizontal scrollbar when the table is wider than the display. Which can result in the cursor being outside the display. Yes, that would be nice to fix. But there are workarounds, such as decreasing the size of the font in LyX

Re: [off-topic] LyX as a LaTeX table editor (and other selling advice)

2013-03-13 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 5:37 PM, Wolfgang Keller wrote: >> The selling point to adopting LyX, at least for some tasks, was the >> table editing. > > *cough* > > This is one of the issues where LyX still needs quite a bit of work > imho. > There definitely are rough edges, but for someone accustome

editing math in lyx

2013-03-13 Thread Csikos Bela
Hello: How can I edit text written in math mode in lyx? An example: I write a fraction using \textrm for both the numerator and the denominator. Then I decide to change these to sans serif (textsf). How can I apply the change to the fraction's numerator and denominator? (ie. change the code \textr

Re: [off-topic] LyX as a LaTeX table editor (and other selling advice)

2013-03-13 Thread Wolfgang Keller
> The selling point to adopting LyX, at least for some tasks, was the > table editing. *cough* This is one of the issues where LyX still needs quite a bit of work imho. As it is now, it's pretty unusable, unless you hard-code column (or table) widths in your document. LyX doesn't even show a ho

Re: Vector Fonts for Russian-English LyX document

2013-03-13 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2013-03-12, leonid baranov wrote: ... > And then there is no headache anymore to decide > a latex font encoding. There is no need for manually setting the font encoding, as this is done by LyX. This may explain the problems with XeTeX/LuaTeX, as even these TeX engines use "TeX fonts" if you

Re: Linux Libertine install; was:Re: Vector Fonts for Russian-English LyX document

2013-03-13 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2013-03-13, Liviu Andronic wrote: > On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 1:41 PM, Wolfgang Engelmann > wrote: >> Am Mittwoch, 13. März 2013, 12:37:03 schrieb Liviu Andronic: >>> On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 11:37 AM, Wolfgang Engelmann >>> wrote: ... >>> > could you give some more advice for using linuxlibertin

Re: [off-topic] LyX as a LaTeX table editor (and other selling advice)

2013-03-13 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 2:45 PM, stefano franchi wrote: > Continuous spell-checking is a fairly common editor's feature nowadays. > Linux's Kile (a Latex editor) has it, for instance, and it is based on > standard KDE components. As much as I love Lyx's spellchecker (and I > wouldn't be able to wo

How to customize an IEEE-tran bibtex-style?

2013-03-13 Thread Clemens Eisserer
Hello, Please forgive me this slightly off-topic question, but is it possible to modify a bibtext style? I am using IEEEtran, and I am a bit unsatisfied with some of its conventions, like: - IEEEtran prints "vol." whereas I would prefer "Volume". - IEEEtran has a weird style of concatenating many

Re: [off-topic] LyX as a LaTeX table editor (and other selling advice)

2013-03-13 Thread stefano franchi
On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 2:29 AM, Liviu Andronic wrote: > The other selling point was the continuous spellchecking function. In > pure LaTeX they were used to making a lot of unnecessary orthographic > mistakes, while in 2.0 many of those can be avoided. However it turns > out that this functionali

Re: Linux Libertine install; was:Re: Vector Fonts for Russian-English LyX document

2013-03-13 Thread Maria Gouskova
On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 9:11 AM, Liviu Andronic wrote: > On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 1:41 PM, Wolfgang Engelmann > wrote: > > Am Mittwoch, 13. März 2013, 12:37:03 schrieb Liviu Andronic: > >> On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 11:37 AM, Wolfgang Engelmann > >> > >> wrote: > >> > Am Mittwoch, 13. März 2013, 01:

Re: Linux Libertine install; was:Re: Vector Fonts for Russian-English LyX document

2013-03-13 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 1:41 PM, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 13. März 2013, 12:37:03 schrieb Liviu Andronic: >> On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 11:37 AM, Wolfgang Engelmann >> >> wrote: >> > Am Mittwoch, 13. März 2013, 01:39:45 schrieb Maria Gouskova: >> >> Leonid, >> >> >> >> This isn't goi

Linux Libertine install; was:Re: Vector Fonts for Russian-English LyX document

2013-03-13 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Am Mittwoch, 13. März 2013, 12:37:03 schrieb Liviu Andronic: > On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 11:37 AM, Wolfgang Engelmann > > wrote: > > Am Mittwoch, 13. März 2013, 01:39:45 schrieb Maria Gouskova: > >> Leonid, > >> > >> This isn't going to fix your other issues, but let me recommend a > >> good Unico

Re: Vector Fonts for Russian-English LyX document

2013-03-13 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 11:37 AM, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 13. März 2013, 01:39:45 schrieb Maria Gouskova: >> Leonid, >> >> This isn't going to fix your other issues, but let me recommend a good >> Unicode font that's free/open source and works well with Cyrillic: Linux >> Libertin

Re: Vector Fonts for Russian-English LyX document

2013-03-13 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Am Mittwoch, 13. März 2013, 01:39:45 schrieb Maria Gouskova: > Leonid, > > This isn't going to fix your other issues, but let me recommend a good > Unicode font that's free/open source and works well with Cyrillic: Linux > Libertine. There is a recent-ish patch that addresses some Cyrillic > issue

Re: Two hopefully simple lyx questions

2013-03-13 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Am Dienstag, 12. März 2013, 23:49:03 schrieb Csikos Bela: snip > >2. Is there any way to use footnotes in the caption > >of figure floats? Lyx automatically disables the Insert->Footnote menu > >>item in this case. > > I don't know about this one. in preamble: \usepackage{footnote} % Ermöglicht Fu