Re: \vspace in multicols{}

2001-04-13 Thread Herbert Voss
Jim Osborn wrote: > > Can someone help explain how to put some extra blank vertical > space in a column in a multicols environment? For example, > in a 3-column page, I can put \vspace*{10in} or whatever, and > push the subsequent text to the bottom of the first column. > But I can't seem to pus

stupid newbie question...

2001-04-13 Thread Todd L. Miller
I do a 'M_c t', type '\circumflex a' and get an error from LaTeX: 'Undefined control sequence. \circumflex o' When I 'C_m' into Math mode, and type '\hat a', everything works find; LyX even recognizes what I'm trying to do and display the (emphasized) a wit

Re: cjk-lyx

2001-04-13 Thread Curtis Brune
Curtis Brune wrote: > > Hi, > > For my Chinese class I'm most interested in writing short > documents and printing using big5 (traditional) -- cjk-lyx sounds > perfect. > > cjk-lyx fails to run, however, saying "Sorry, This subroutine requires > the scalable hangul fonts". I can't seem to find

Re: \vspace in multicols{}

2001-04-13 Thread Christopher Jones
Couple of things: in the paragraph dialogue, you can set vfill above and below, and you can "keep" it. Try playing around with this. Also, the multicol package tries to adjust stuff to fill the whole column. If you specify \raggedcolumns then you can override this behavior and specify your own pu

\vspace in multicols{}

2001-04-13 Thread Jim Osborn
Can someone help explain how to put some extra blank vertical space in a column in a multicols environment? For example, in a 3-column page, I can put \vspace*{10in} or whatever, and push the subsequent text to the bottom of the first column. But I can't seem to push it to the top of the second c

Re: Quality problems with PDF windows

2001-04-13 Thread EagleIce
On Wednesday 11 April 2001 15:36, Matej Cepl wrote: > http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/ > > On Wednesday 11 April 2001 12:40, EagleIce wrote: > > > Is there a free Win98 & W2k software available for this purpose? Thank's...:-) ei -- @ EagleIce [EMAIL PROTECTED] Running SuSE Linux 7.1

I am still having problems to install - Solaris

2001-04-13 Thread leo ber
Hi I am still trying to install Lyx on Solaris 8. I was having problems when I was running make, so somebody suggest me to use gmake. I got gmake and installed it...fi... and then when I use gmake on the lyx installation , I got a little bit farther but gmake crashes too reporting this: (Sorr

Re: DocBook

2001-04-13 Thread ben
Robin Turner a écrit : > Is there a way to import DocBook .xml files into LyX? > > Robin Good question :-) I've started writing a set of XSL stylesheets to translate a DocBook XML document to LyX (DB2LyX). You can first read the install & use file at: http://perso.libertysurf.fr/bgu/db2lyx/manu

Re: unofficial deb package

2001-04-13 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Andre" == Andre Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Andre> * Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andre> 2001-04-13 14:00 +0200: >> > "Paolo" == Paolo M Pumilia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Paolo> I have just packaged, for personal use, the latest lyx release Paolo> 1.1.6fix1, o

Re: Importing text as line

2001-04-13 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "kaio" == kaio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: kaio> Hello lyx-users, i'm importing file .txt to lyx. It seem fine, kaio> but when i preview it, there are typed {|quote|} or something kaio> similiar... kaio> i think it's because lyx don't know to handle the " it's not kaio> translated to form

Re: unofficial deb package

2001-04-13 Thread Andre Berger
* Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 2001-04-13 14:00 +0200: > > "Paolo" == Paolo M Pumilia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Paolo> I have just packaged, for personal use, the latest lyx release > Paolo> 1.1.6fix1, on i686 hardware platform and debian/sid system > Paolo> (libc6 >= 2.2.1

Meta Key

2001-04-13 Thread Yann Collete
Hello, Finally, I solved the problem. Under Exceed, the Alt key is defined as a system key. When you press the Alt key a first time, the focus swap from X to windows and when you press the Alt key for the second time, the focus swap from windows to X. In the configuration menu, you can change thi

Re: Two latex questions

2001-04-13 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 11:45:26AM +0200, Stefano Ghirlanda wrote: > Brett Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > First, I cite a reference in a figure caption, but don't like that > > it shows up in the TOF. Is there a way to show the reference in the > > figure caption, but not in the TOF? >

Re: formatting tables

2001-04-13 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 10:17:29AM +0200, Herbert Voss wrote: > Kevin Gross wrote: > > 1. Is there any way to merge cells across rows? I know it can be done across > > columns using special cell/multicolumn but apparently there is no > > corresponding way to merge rows. Is there a latex workaround

Re: unofficial deb package

2001-04-13 Thread Paolo M. Pumilia
>From Jean-Marc Lasgouttes, Fri Apr 13, at 11:50: .Please tell me if you want it uploaded to ftp.lyx.org. I'm sure such a .package would be useful. sure you are welcome! -- Paolo Pumilia email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] visit our (under construction) web site: www.linfe.it

Re: Writing formulas in russian and ukrainian languages

2001-04-13 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 12:18:29AM +0300, Alexander Dymo wrote: > Can I write formulas in russian language within LyX? > When I type a russian letter, formula editor just do nothing. > OS: Linux (glibc 2.2, pgcc 2.95.2) > LyX: 1.1.6fix1 > XFree: 4.0.3, localization thought xkb > all locale setting

Re: Meta Key

2001-04-13 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Yann" == Yann Collete <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Yann> Hello again, How can I bind the right control, left control or Yann> alt key to the Meta key in a bind file. I've tried: \bind "Alt" Yann> "Meta-prefix" but lyx doesn't recognize the Alt symbol. You can't. What you have to do is play

Meta Key

2001-04-13 Thread Yann Collete
Hello again, How can I bind the right control, left control or alt key to the Meta key in a bind file. I've tried: \bind "Alt""Meta-prefix" but lyx doesn't recognize the Alt symbol. YC

Re: Meta Key

2001-04-13 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 11:32:55AM +0200, Yann Collete wrote: > Hello, > > I've a problem with the Meta key. > I use an Unix Emulator (Exceed) and a french keyboard. > For this keyboard, the meta key is binded to the escape key > (it works fine under xemacs). > Under Lyx, I use the emacs binding

Re: slides/foils?

2001-04-13 Thread Herbert Voss
"Anna H. Pryor" wrote: > > \fancyhead[L]{ \includegraphics [width=.5cm]{Meatball.eps} > > (I put in all of the comments to just get what I thought was the necessary > stuff.) > > When I click on postscript the first time, it claims that the document is > empty, when I click on it a second time

Re: Meta Key

2001-04-13 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Yann" == Yann Collete <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Yann> Ok, thank you. Do you plan to correct this for the fix2 release Yann> ? No :) I do not know what the right fix is in this case... What I propose is just a stopgap. I'd be interested to know whether it helps in your case. JMarc

Re: RTF: changing linespacing for a single paragraph

2001-04-13 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Christopher" == Christopher Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Christopher> I have two inputted files in my document, I need their Christopher> contents to be doublespaced rather than single spaced, Christopher> which is the document default. You can change the spacing of a particular para

Re: Meta Key

2001-04-13 Thread Yann Collete
Ok, thank you. Do you plan to correct this for the fix2 release ? YC > Mailing-List: contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]; run by ezmlm > X-No-Archive: yes > List-Post: > List-Help: > List-Unsubscribe: > Delivered-To: mailing

Re: unofficial deb package

2001-04-13 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Paolo" == Paolo M Pumilia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Paolo> I have just packaged, for personal use, the latest lyx release Paolo> 1.1.6fix1, on i686 hardware platform and debian/sid system Paolo> (libc6 >= 2.2.1-2 required) Paolo> It can be retrieved at the url Paolo> http://www.linfe.i

Re: Meta Key

2001-04-13 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Yann" == Yann Collete <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Yann> Hello, I've a problem with the Meta key. I use an Unix Emulator Yann> (Exceed) and a french keyboard. For this keyboard, the meta key Yann> is binded to the escape key (it works fine under xemacs). Under Yann> Lyx, I use the emacs bin

Meta Key

2001-04-13 Thread Yann Collete
Hello, I've a problem with the Meta key. I use an Unix Emulator (Exceed) and a french keyboard. For this keyboard, the meta key is binded to the escape key (it works fine under xemacs). Under Lyx, I use the emacs binding (which redefine the meta key as the escape key). It works fine (I can insert

DocBook

2001-04-13 Thread Robin Turner
Is there a way to import DocBook .xml files into LyX? Robin

Re: part of a document in 1 column?

2001-04-13 Thread Herbert Voss
Aaron Macks wrote: > > I have a 2 column document, part of which I want to make one column, > is that possible? use package multicol, part of your local texinstallation or available at ctan. in .lyx/examples is a lyx example file Herbert -- http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: formatting tables

2001-04-13 Thread Herbert Voss
Kevin Gross wrote: > > Hi all, > > Two quick questions: > > 1. Is there any way to merge cells across rows? I know it can be done across > columns using special cell/multicolumn but apparently there is no > corresponding way to merge rows. Is there a latex workaround? Will merging > rows be a f