Windows LyX help

2000-07-05 Thread Stephen Harris
Hello, I became interested in TeX and managed to install MikTeX on Windows 98. It seemed like LyX was the logical choice for a word editor. So I downloaded LyX for Windows and the required X-window server X-win32. I have managed to install Linux in the past. However, I am lost in the

Re: poor quality of on-screen fonts in PDFs from Lyx

2000-07-05 Thread Rachel Greenham
Paul Borgermans wrote: Rachel, I had the same problem. There are two ways that work for me by changing settings in LyX (versions 1.1.4x, 1.1.5, 1.1.6cvs, probably earlier versions too): 1) put \usepackage{pslatex} in the latex preamble (see

Re: reducing Postscript file size

2000-07-05 Thread Rachel Greenham
Fred C wrote: Didn't find an EASY (I'm not a nerd) to use answer for that common question : How can i reduce the monstrous size of .eps pictures to be inserted in my thesis written with LyX 1,0,4 on Linux 2,2,13? A simple color picture of Linus in jpeg makes 17 kb, saved as grayscaled

Win32 corrections

2000-07-05 Thread Claus Hentschel
I have corrected both shell scripts /usr/local/lyx/bin/reLyX /usr/local/lyx/share/lyx/configure because Reconfiguration (called within LyX) and LaTeX import didn't work in some cases. Please -- as usual -- have a look at http://www.fh-hannover.de/mbau/tim/hentschel/lyx/index.htm to

Minipages and floats

2000-07-05 Thread M.Hendler
Hi all! I am getting frustrated. I am trying to place two eps graphics side by side on one line. Both must have an unique caption. What I know: - I don't want to use the subfigure mode. (not acceptable :) - I tried to use minipages, but LyX does something crap with it. I tried to define two

Re: reducing Postscript file size

2000-07-05 Thread Rod Pinna
For going from jpeg to ps, the best option is a program called jepg2ps. The embeds the bitmap into a postscript file, along with a small converter, written in postscript. Usually only adds a few k to the file size. Rod On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, Rachel Greenham wrote: Fred C wrote: Didn't find

RE: Minipages and floats

2000-07-05 Thread Juergen Vigna
On 05-Jul-2000 M.Hendler wrote: Hi all! I am getting frustrated. I am trying to place two eps graphics side by side on one line. Both must have an unique caption. What I know: - I don't want to use the subfigure mode. (not acceptable :) - I tried to use minipages, but LyX does

Re: Minipages and floats

2000-07-05 Thread Yann Collete
Hello, You can use a float to do that. 1 - Add an image float (Insert-Float-Picture float) 2 - Add the title 3 - Put the cursor on the beginning of the title and press Enter 4 - Add the first image (Insert-Figure) 5 - Press Enter and add the second image. If you want the two images side by side,

Re: Minipages and floats

2000-07-05 Thread Juergen Vigna
On 05-Jul-2000 M.Hendler wrote: What about to use a 1x2 table and put the pictures in the single cells? Jürgen - It is not possible to insert a float object in a table cell. :( No but probably you can enter the table inside the figure float :) Jürgen --

Q: how can I stop lyx form compiling

2000-07-05 Thread Laurent DUVAL
Bonsoir, Suppose I type Ctrl-D, aiming to delete a character, just like in Xemacs. LyX then starts a sometimes quite long compiling process. Now, suppose I would like to stop it, instead of waiting for minutes. What should I do? Laurent

Re: Q: how can I stop lyx form compiling

2000-07-05 Thread Phil Scordis
On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, Laurent DUVAL wrote: Suppose I type Ctrl-D, aiming to delete a character, just like in Xemacs. LyX then starts a sometimes quite long compiling process. Now, suppose I would like to stop it, instead of waiting for minutes. What should I do? Sorry, I don't know how to

Export as Ascii Text...

2000-07-05 Thread noyes
I've created a document that contains "Include File..."s. When I try to "Export as Ascii Text..." none of the include files are exported. Is there a way to get the include files to export? Export works for HTML, DVI, PostScript, and LaTeX. LyX is using this command to export to Ascii Text:

Re: Q: how can I stop lyx form compiling

2000-07-05 Thread Jose Abilio Oliveira Matos
On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 06:39:25PM +0100, Phil Scordis wrote: Sorry, I don't know how to stop it, but I did find recently that I was doing lots of emacs-like keypresses in lyx which generally did not have the effect that I desired, e.g. ctrl-e to move to the end of the line, which

sub/superscipts

2000-07-05 Thread Martijn Brouwer
Hello, Is there an other way to insert sub/superscipts than going into math mode? I would like to enter chemical formulas in plain text and text mode in math is quite cumbersome. Thanks, Martijn _ Martijn Brouwer [EMAIL PROTECTED]

help with emacs.bind

2000-07-05 Thread Ronald Florence
Anna H.Pryor writes: I have copied the file "emacs.bind" into my directory, ~/.lyx/bind/emacs.bin but when I restart lyx, the emacs bindings are not there. I think you want to copy the file as ~/.lyx/bind/emacs.bind and in your ~/.lyx/lyxrc, make sure the configuration is set as

write the following in lyx

2000-07-05 Thread Anna H.Pryor
Since I got such a speedy answer (which worked!) on my last question, I have another. I wish to write the following latex code in lyx: $$ y=f(y\_in)=\left\{ \begin{array}{ll} 1 \mathrm{if}\ y\_in \theta , \\ 0

Re: Windows LyX help

2000-07-05 Thread Stephen Harris
- Original Message - From: Claus Hentschel [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Stephen Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: LyX-Users [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2000 2:00 AM There are many users outside most of them starting without any problem as I can see/read in the mails that reached

Windows LyX help

2000-07-05 Thread Stephen Harris
Hello, I became interested in TeX and managed to install MikTeX on Windows 98. It seemed like LyX was the logical choice for a word editor. So I downloaded LyX for Windows and the required X-window server X-win32. I have managed to install Linux in the past. However, I am lost in the

Re: poor quality of on-screen fonts in PDFs from Lyx

2000-07-05 Thread Rachel Greenham
Paul Borgermans wrote: Rachel, I had the same problem. There are two ways that work for me by changing settings in LyX (versions 1.1.4x, 1.1.5, 1.1.6cvs, probably earlier versions too): 1) put \usepackage{pslatex} in the latex preamble (see

Re: reducing Postscript file size

2000-07-05 Thread Rachel Greenham
Fred C wrote: Didn't find an EASY (I'm not a nerd) to use answer for that common question : How can i reduce the monstrous size of .eps pictures to be inserted in my thesis written with LyX 1,0,4 on Linux 2,2,13? A simple color picture of Linus in jpeg makes 17 kb, saved as grayscaled

Win32 corrections

2000-07-05 Thread Claus Hentschel
I have corrected both shell scripts /usr/local/lyx/bin/reLyX /usr/local/lyx/share/lyx/configure because Reconfiguration (called within LyX) and LaTeX import didn't work in some cases. Please -- as usual -- have a look at http://www.fh-hannover.de/mbau/tim/hentschel/lyx/index.htm to

Minipages and floats

2000-07-05 Thread M.Hendler
Hi all! I am getting frustrated. I am trying to place two eps graphics side by side on one line. Both must have an unique caption. What I know: - I don't want to use the subfigure mode. (not acceptable :) - I tried to use minipages, but LyX does something crap with it. I tried to define two

Re: reducing Postscript file size

2000-07-05 Thread Rod Pinna
For going from jpeg to ps, the best option is a program called jepg2ps. The embeds the bitmap into a postscript file, along with a small converter, written in postscript. Usually only adds a few k to the file size. Rod On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, Rachel Greenham wrote: Fred C wrote: Didn't find

RE: Minipages and floats

2000-07-05 Thread Juergen Vigna
On 05-Jul-2000 M.Hendler wrote: Hi all! I am getting frustrated. I am trying to place two eps graphics side by side on one line. Both must have an unique caption. What I know: - I don't want to use the subfigure mode. (not acceptable :) - I tried to use minipages, but LyX does

Re: Minipages and floats

2000-07-05 Thread Yann Collete
Hello, You can use a float to do that. 1 - Add an image float (Insert-Float-Picture float) 2 - Add the title 3 - Put the cursor on the beginning of the title and press Enter 4 - Add the first image (Insert-Figure) 5 - Press Enter and add the second image. If you want the two images side by side,

Re: Minipages and floats

2000-07-05 Thread Juergen Vigna
On 05-Jul-2000 M.Hendler wrote: What about to use a 1x2 table and put the pictures in the single cells? Jürgen - It is not possible to insert a float object in a table cell. :( No but probably you can enter the table inside the figure float :) Jürgen --

Q: how can I stop lyx form compiling

2000-07-05 Thread Laurent DUVAL
Bonsoir, Suppose I type Ctrl-D, aiming to delete a character, just like in Xemacs. LyX then starts a sometimes quite long compiling process. Now, suppose I would like to stop it, instead of waiting for minutes. What should I do? Laurent

Re: Q: how can I stop lyx form compiling

2000-07-05 Thread Phil Scordis
On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, Laurent DUVAL wrote: Suppose I type Ctrl-D, aiming to delete a character, just like in Xemacs. LyX then starts a sometimes quite long compiling process. Now, suppose I would like to stop it, instead of waiting for minutes. What should I do? Sorry, I don't know how to

Export as Ascii Text...

2000-07-05 Thread noyes
I've created a document that contains "Include File..."s. When I try to "Export as Ascii Text..." none of the include files are exported. Is there a way to get the include files to export? Export works for HTML, DVI, PostScript, and LaTeX. LyX is using this command to export to Ascii Text:

Re: Q: how can I stop lyx form compiling

2000-07-05 Thread Jose Abilio Oliveira Matos
On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 06:39:25PM +0100, Phil Scordis wrote: Sorry, I don't know how to stop it, but I did find recently that I was doing lots of emacs-like keypresses in lyx which generally did not have the effect that I desired, e.g. ctrl-e to move to the end of the line, which

sub/superscipts

2000-07-05 Thread Martijn Brouwer
Hello, Is there an other way to insert sub/superscipts than going into math mode? I would like to enter chemical formulas in plain text and text mode in math is quite cumbersome. Thanks, Martijn _ Martijn Brouwer [EMAIL PROTECTED]

help with emacs.bind

2000-07-05 Thread Ronald Florence
Anna H.Pryor writes: I have copied the file "emacs.bind" into my directory, ~/.lyx/bind/emacs.bin but when I restart lyx, the emacs bindings are not there. I think you want to copy the file as ~/.lyx/bind/emacs.bind and in your ~/.lyx/lyxrc, make sure the configuration is set as

write the following in lyx

2000-07-05 Thread Anna H.Pryor
Since I got such a speedy answer (which worked!) on my last question, I have another. I wish to write the following latex code in lyx: $$ y=f(y\_in)=\left\{ \begin{array}{ll} 1 \mathrm{if}\ y\_in \theta , \\ 0

Re: Windows LyX help

2000-07-05 Thread Stephen Harris
- Original Message - From: Claus Hentschel [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Stephen Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: LyX-Users [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2000 2:00 AM There are many users outside most of them starting without any problem as I can see/read in the mails that reached

Windows LyX help

2000-07-05 Thread Stephen Harris
Hello,   I became interested in TeX and managed to install MikTeX on Windows 98. It seemed like LyX was the logical choice for a word editor.   So I downloaded LyX for Windows and the required X-window server X-win32. I have managed to install Linux in the past. However, I am lost in the

Re: poor quality of on-screen fonts in PDFs from Lyx

2000-07-05 Thread Rachel Greenham
Paul Borgermans wrote: > > Rachel, > > I had the same problem. There are two ways that work for me by changing > settings in LyX (versions 1.1.4x, 1.1.5, 1.1.6cvs, probably earlier > versions too): > > > 1) put > > \usepackage{pslatex} > > in the latex

Re: reducing Postscript file size

2000-07-05 Thread Rachel Greenham
Fred C wrote: > > Didn't find an EASY (I'm not a nerd) to use answer for that common > question : > How can i reduce the monstrous size of .eps pictures to be inserted in > my thesis written with LyX 1,0,4 on Linux 2,2,13? > A simple color picture of Linus in jpeg makes 17 kb, saved as

Win32 corrections

2000-07-05 Thread Claus Hentschel
I have corrected both shell scripts /usr/local/lyx/bin/reLyX /usr/local/lyx/share/lyx/configure because Reconfiguration (called within LyX) and LaTeX import didn't work in some cases. Please -- as usual -- have a look at http://www.fh-hannover.de/mbau/tim/hentschel/lyx/index.htm to

Minipages and floats

2000-07-05 Thread M.Hendler
Hi all! I am getting frustrated. I am trying to place two eps graphics side by side on one line. Both must have an unique caption. What I know: - I don't want to use the subfigure mode. (not acceptable :) - I tried to use minipages, but LyX does something crap with it. I tried to define two

Re: reducing Postscript file size

2000-07-05 Thread Rod Pinna
For going from jpeg to ps, the best option is a program called jepg2ps. The embeds the bitmap into a postscript file, along with a small converter, written in postscript. Usually only adds a few k to the file size. Rod On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, Rachel Greenham wrote: > Fred C wrote: > > > > Didn't

RE: Minipages and floats

2000-07-05 Thread Juergen Vigna
On 05-Jul-2000 M.Hendler wrote: > > Hi all! > > I am getting frustrated. > > I am trying to place two eps graphics side by side on one line. > Both must have an unique caption. > > What I know: > - I don't want to use the subfigure mode. (not acceptable :) > - I tried to use minipages, but

Re: Minipages and floats

2000-07-05 Thread Yann Collete
Hello, You can use a float to do that. 1 - Add an image float (Insert->Float->Picture float) 2 - Add the title 3 - Put the cursor on the beginning of the title and press Enter 4 - Add the first image (Insert->Figure) 5 - Press Enter and add the second image. If you want the two images side by

Re: Minipages and floats

2000-07-05 Thread Juergen Vigna
On 05-Jul-2000 M.Hendler wrote: >> >> What about to use a 1x2 table and put the pictures in the single cells? >> >> Jürgen >> - > > It is not possible to insert a float object in a table cell. :( No but probably you can enter the table inside the figure float :) Jürgen --

Q: how can I stop lyx form compiling

2000-07-05 Thread Laurent DUVAL
Bonsoir, Suppose I type Ctrl-D, aiming to delete a character, just like in Xemacs. LyX then starts a sometimes quite long compiling process. Now, suppose I would like to stop it, instead of waiting for minutes. What should I do? Laurent

Re: Q: how can I stop lyx form compiling

2000-07-05 Thread Phil Scordis
On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, Laurent DUVAL wrote: > Suppose I type Ctrl-D, aiming to delete a character, just like in Xemacs. > LyX then starts a sometimes quite long compiling process. > Now, suppose I would like to stop it, instead of waiting for minutes. > What should I do? Sorry, I don't know how

Export as Ascii Text...

2000-07-05 Thread noyes
I've created a document that contains "Include File..."s. When I try to "Export as Ascii Text..." none of the include files are exported. Is there a way to get the include files to export? Export works for HTML, DVI, PostScript, and LaTeX. LyX is using this command to export to Ascii Text:

Re: Q: how can I stop lyx form compiling

2000-07-05 Thread Jose Abilio Oliveira Matos
On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 06:39:25PM +0100, Phil Scordis wrote: > > Sorry, I don't know how to stop it, but I did find recently that I was > doing lots of emacs-like keypresses in lyx which generally did not have > the effect that I desired, e.g. ctrl-e to move to the end of the line, > which

sub/superscipts

2000-07-05 Thread Martijn Brouwer
Hello, Is there an other way to insert sub/superscipts than going into math mode? I would like to enter chemical formulas in plain text and text mode in math is quite cumbersome. Thanks, Martijn _ Martijn Brouwer [EMAIL PROTECTED]

help with emacs.bind

2000-07-05 Thread Ronald Florence
Anna H.Pryor writes: I have copied the file "emacs.bind" into my directory, ~/.lyx/bind/emacs.bin but when I restart lyx, the emacs bindings are not there. I think you want to copy the file as ~/.lyx/bind/emacs.bind and in your ~/.lyx/lyxrc, make sure the configuration is set as

write the following in lyx

2000-07-05 Thread Anna H.Pryor
Since I got such a speedy answer (which worked!) on my last question, I have another. I wish to write the following latex code in lyx: $$ y=f(y\_in)=\left\{ \begin{array}{ll} 1 & \mathrm{if}\ y\_in > \theta , \\ 0 &

Re: Windows LyX help

2000-07-05 Thread Stephen Harris
- Original Message - From: Claus Hentschel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Stephen Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: LyX-Users <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2000 2:00 AM > There are many users outside most of them starting without any problem as I > can see/read in the mails that