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2001-10-14 Thread Paul Benham
On Thu, 11 Oct 2001, Herbert Voss wrote: Paul Benham wrote: I have been using Lyx since version 1.0. I am now on the latest 1.1.6fix3. When I try to insert an index, the index button in the document is flat looking. When I preview the document the index is not there. What am I doing

Re: header help needed

2001-10-14 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 11:05:54PM +0200, Renaud MICHEL wrote: Le Jeudi 11 Octobre 2001 16:47, vous avez écrit : I am using the plain book layout for my document and I need to use the standard publishing-industry header: Lastname-PageNumber ie, Harris-1. Is this possible in LyX? If

header with name and number

2001-10-14 Thread Richard Harris
Thanks for the help. The answer to the question of how to get a header: Harris - 1 Set document to fancy page style In preamble: \rhead{Harris - \thepage} -- Richard Harris Editor, Words on a Wire http://woaw-poetry.org -- I want my place, my own place, my true place in

page numbers and date in book layout

2001-10-14 Thread Richard Harris
Dear LyX users: Two questions: Can I turn off the date that is printed on the first page of the book layout? Is there a way to select which page the page-numbering will start on? (ie I would like it to skip a few pages before it starts with page 1.) Thanks to Dekel and Renaud for the header

Re: page numbers and date in book layout

2001-10-14 Thread Herbert Voss
Richard Harris wrote: Dear LyX users: Two questions: Can I turn off the date that is printed on the first page of the book layout? http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/titlepage/titlepage.html#date Is there a way to select which page the page-numbering will start on? (ie I would

Re: page numbers and date in book layout

2001-10-14 Thread Renaud MICHEL
Le Dimanche 14 Octobre 2001 14:30, vous avez écrit : Dear LyX users: Two questions: Can I turn off the date that is printed on the first page of the book layout? Yes, just put an empty date, select the date style and put in just an unbreakable space, so there will be a date, but wich

Re: MathPanel-Main window shortcut?

2001-10-14 Thread Matej Cepl
On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 12:10:02AM -0700, Lars Jensen wrote: Is there a keyboard shortcut that will toggle between the Math Panel and the main lyx text window? Switching between the windows by your favorite window manager should do the trick -- LyX seems to be disinterested, whether the Math

bug in 1.1.6.10 for mandrake

2001-10-14 Thread Gosse Michel
I have tried the latest version of lyx ( 1.1.6.10-mdk ) for mandrake 8, and i have a segmentation fault, with a core dump. The 1.1.6.3 is working well Any idea ? -- Michel Gosse [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: bug in 1.1.6.10 for mandrake

2001-10-14 Thread Jose Abilio Oliveira Matos
On Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 07:03:56PM -0400, Gosse Michel wrote: I have tried the latest version of lyx ( 1.1.6.10-mdk ) for mandrake 8, and i have a segmentation fault, with a core dump. I notice last week that Mandrake has an updated version for 8.0 since the version that comes with it

Re: ispell doesn't work

2001-10-14 Thread Matej Cepl
Sorry, one thing I have forgot to write here: LyX writes on stderr this: ispell: unrecognized formatter type 'latin1' Ispell read timed out, what now? Got pid = 972 Checking pid in pidwait normal exit from childhandler That's all what I know. Matej

thanks for help with pagenumbers and date

2001-10-14 Thread Richard Harris
LyX-kinder: Putting date{} in the preamble turned off the date in my book. With fancy headers turned on, I set \rhead{} in Tex on the first page and put \rhead{Harris - \thepage} on the page I wanted numbering to begin on. Thanks to Herbert Voss for the help! Sincerely, -- Richard Harris

Weird PDF results

2001-10-14 Thread Kent Kostuk
This isn't really a Lyx problem but I am just wondering if anyone has observed this behaviour before. I created a PDF of a chapter of my thesis for my supervisor. I had used the View-pdflatex and then saved the file. I mailed it to my win95 machine and viewed it in Adobe Acrobat to verify that

Re: Weird PDF results

2001-10-14 Thread Kent Kostuk
Only via pdflatex - Original Message - From: Herbert Voss [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Kent Kostuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: LyxUsers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 14, 2001 3:38 PM Subject: Re: Weird PDF results Kent Kostuk wrote: So, I guess the questions I have are: 1) Has

Paper style book class

2001-10-14 Thread Jeff Hornsberger
Hi, I'm looking for a document class that is somewhere between the paper class and the book class. I really like the paper class, but I want the title to go on a different page, new sections go on a new page, etc. I don't like the fact that the top level section in a book is the chapter, I want

line spacing

2001-10-14 Thread Myriam Abramson
Hi! I have my document double space but when I have a series of display formula, it seems that I have more than a double space between formulas. Can I revert to single-spacing only on some parts of the document? I recall that you may have to put an \itemsep somewhere but I don't know latex

Re: Paper style book class

2001-10-14 Thread Jeff Hornsberger
Hi. I'm just playing with this a little more and wondering if there is a way that I can change the max sectioning level of a document class, like in the extra options to the document class. Any help is much appreciated. Thanks. -Jeff On Sun, 2001-10-14 at 16:47, Jeff Hornsberger wrote: Hi, I'm

Re: Paper style book class

2001-10-14 Thread Jeff Hornsberger
Hmm, I don't see any options there for the max sectioning level. I only see options for changing the min sectioning level. What I want to do is make it so that Section is the top level rather than Chapter in the Report class. Is there an option I can pass to Extra Options or Preamble or

Re: Paper style book class

2001-10-14 Thread Remzi Seker
Here is a part of my preamble. This should work for you (You won't get the chapter number nor section number.) This was required by our school's Thesis and Dissertation Guideline. \AtBeginDocument{\renewcommand\chaptername{}} \def\@makechapterhead#1{% \vspace*{50\p@}%

Re: ispell doesn't work

2001-10-14 Thread Matej Cepl
On Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 10:03:03PM -0400, James Lindenschmidt wrote: Edit--Preferences--Lang Ops--Spell Checker select 'use alternative language' specify your language (you used 'american' in your example below) I found, that new version of ispell does not support -T option, so that when I

Formatting in Arabic

2001-10-14 Thread Hesham Hassan
I have been using recent CVS versions of LyX, and the largest obstacle for my using it full time, is the inability to use any formatting options with it (except for changing the font size). For example, I can't center or bold any text. I found out that ArabTeX uses instructions different from

Index

2001-10-14 Thread Paul Benham
On Thu, 11 Oct 2001, Herbert Voss wrote: Paul Benham wrote: I have been using Lyx since version 1.0. I am now on the latest 1.1.6fix3. When I try to insert an index, the index button in the document is flat looking. When I preview the document the index is not there. What am I doing

Re: header help needed

2001-10-14 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 11:05:54PM +0200, Renaud MICHEL wrote: Le Jeudi 11 Octobre 2001 16:47, vous avez écrit : I am using the plain book layout for my document and I need to use the standard publishing-industry header: Lastname-PageNumber ie, Harris-1. Is this possible in LyX? If

header with name and number

2001-10-14 Thread Richard Harris
Thanks for the help. The answer to the question of how to get a header: Harris - 1 Set document to fancy page style In preamble: \rhead{Harris - \thepage} -- Richard Harris Editor, Words on a Wire http://woaw-poetry.org -- I want my place, my own place, my true place in

page numbers and date in book layout

2001-10-14 Thread Richard Harris
Dear LyX users: Two questions: Can I turn off the date that is printed on the first page of the book layout? Is there a way to select which page the page-numbering will start on? (ie I would like it to skip a few pages before it starts with page 1.) Thanks to Dekel and Renaud for the header

Re: page numbers and date in book layout

2001-10-14 Thread Herbert Voss
Richard Harris wrote: Dear LyX users: Two questions: Can I turn off the date that is printed on the first page of the book layout? http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/titlepage/titlepage.html#date Is there a way to select which page the page-numbering will start on? (ie I would

Re: page numbers and date in book layout

2001-10-14 Thread Renaud MICHEL
Le Dimanche 14 Octobre 2001 14:30, vous avez écrit : Dear LyX users: Two questions: Can I turn off the date that is printed on the first page of the book layout? Yes, just put an empty date, select the date style and put in just an unbreakable space, so there will be a date, but wich

Re: MathPanel-Main window shortcut?

2001-10-14 Thread Matej Cepl
On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 12:10:02AM -0700, Lars Jensen wrote: Is there a keyboard shortcut that will toggle between the Math Panel and the main lyx text window? Switching between the windows by your favorite window manager should do the trick -- LyX seems to be disinterested, whether the Math

bug in 1.1.6.10 for mandrake

2001-10-14 Thread Gosse Michel
I have tried the latest version of lyx ( 1.1.6.10-mdk ) for mandrake 8, and i have a segmentation fault, with a core dump. The 1.1.6.3 is working well Any idea ? -- Michel Gosse [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: bug in 1.1.6.10 for mandrake

2001-10-14 Thread Jose Abilio Oliveira Matos
On Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 07:03:56PM -0400, Gosse Michel wrote: I have tried the latest version of lyx ( 1.1.6.10-mdk ) for mandrake 8, and i have a segmentation fault, with a core dump. I notice last week that Mandrake has an updated version for 8.0 since the version that comes with it

Re: ispell doesn't work

2001-10-14 Thread Matej Cepl
Sorry, one thing I have forgot to write here: LyX writes on stderr this: ispell: unrecognized formatter type 'latin1' Ispell read timed out, what now? Got pid = 972 Checking pid in pidwait normal exit from childhandler That's all what I know. Matej

thanks for help with pagenumbers and date

2001-10-14 Thread Richard Harris
LyX-kinder: Putting date{} in the preamble turned off the date in my book. With fancy headers turned on, I set \rhead{} in Tex on the first page and put \rhead{Harris - \thepage} on the page I wanted numbering to begin on. Thanks to Herbert Voss for the help! Sincerely, -- Richard Harris

Weird PDF results

2001-10-14 Thread Kent Kostuk
This isn't really a Lyx problem but I am just wondering if anyone has observed this behaviour before. I created a PDF of a chapter of my thesis for my supervisor. I had used the View-pdflatex and then saved the file. I mailed it to my win95 machine and viewed it in Adobe Acrobat to verify that

Re: Weird PDF results

2001-10-14 Thread Kent Kostuk
Only via pdflatex - Original Message - From: Herbert Voss [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Kent Kostuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: LyxUsers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 14, 2001 3:38 PM Subject: Re: Weird PDF results Kent Kostuk wrote: So, I guess the questions I have are: 1) Has

Paper style book class

2001-10-14 Thread Jeff Hornsberger
Hi, I'm looking for a document class that is somewhere between the paper class and the book class. I really like the paper class, but I want the title to go on a different page, new sections go on a new page, etc. I don't like the fact that the top level section in a book is the chapter, I want

line spacing

2001-10-14 Thread Myriam Abramson
Hi! I have my document double space but when I have a series of display formula, it seems that I have more than a double space between formulas. Can I revert to single-spacing only on some parts of the document? I recall that you may have to put an \itemsep somewhere but I don't know latex

Re: Paper style book class

2001-10-14 Thread Jeff Hornsberger
Hi. I'm just playing with this a little more and wondering if there is a way that I can change the max sectioning level of a document class, like in the extra options to the document class. Any help is much appreciated. Thanks. -Jeff On Sun, 2001-10-14 at 16:47, Jeff Hornsberger wrote: Hi, I'm

Re: Paper style book class

2001-10-14 Thread Jeff Hornsberger
Hmm, I don't see any options there for the max sectioning level. I only see options for changing the min sectioning level. What I want to do is make it so that Section is the top level rather than Chapter in the Report class. Is there an option I can pass to Extra Options or Preamble or

Re: Paper style book class

2001-10-14 Thread Remzi Seker
Here is a part of my preamble. This should work for you (You won't get the chapter number nor section number.) This was required by our school's Thesis and Dissertation Guideline. \AtBeginDocument{\renewcommand\chaptername{}} \def\@makechapterhead#1{% \vspace*{50\p@}%

Re: ispell doesn't work

2001-10-14 Thread Matej Cepl
On Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 10:03:03PM -0400, James Lindenschmidt wrote: Edit--Preferences--Lang Ops--Spell Checker select 'use alternative language' specify your language (you used 'american' in your example below) I found, that new version of ispell does not support -T option, so that when I

Formatting in Arabic

2001-10-14 Thread Hesham Hassan
I have been using recent CVS versions of LyX, and the largest obstacle for my using it full time, is the inability to use any formatting options with it (except for changing the font size). For example, I can't center or bold any text. I found out that ArabTeX uses instructions different from

Index

2001-10-14 Thread Paul Benham
On Thu, 11 Oct 2001, Herbert Voss wrote: >Paul Benham wrote: > > > > I have been using Lyx since version 1.0. I am now on the latest >1.1.6fix3. > > When I try to insert an index, the index button in the document is flat > > looking. When I preview the document the index is not there. What am I

Re: header help needed

2001-10-14 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 11:05:54PM +0200, Renaud MICHEL wrote: > Le Jeudi 11 Octobre 2001 16:47, vous avez écrit : > > I am using the plain book layout for my document and > > I need to use the standard publishing-industry header: > > > > Lastname-PageNumber ie, Harris-1. > > > > Is this

header with name and number

2001-10-14 Thread Richard Harris
Thanks for the help. The answer to the question of how to get a header: Harris - 1 Set document to fancy page style In preamble: \rhead{Harris - \thepage} -- Richard Harris Editor, Words on a Wire http://woaw-poetry.org -- I want my place, my own place, my true place in

page numbers and date in book layout

2001-10-14 Thread Richard Harris
Dear LyX users: Two questions: Can I turn off the date that is printed on the first page of the book layout? Is there a way to select which page the page-numbering will start on? (ie I would like it to skip a few pages before it starts with page 1.) Thanks to Dekel and Renaud for the header

Re: page numbers and date in book layout

2001-10-14 Thread Herbert Voss
Richard Harris wrote: > > Dear LyX users: > > Two questions: > Can I turn off the date that is printed on the first > page of the book layout? http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/titlepage/titlepage.html#date > > Is there a way to select which page the page-numbering > will start on?

Re: page numbers and date in book layout

2001-10-14 Thread Renaud MICHEL
Le Dimanche 14 Octobre 2001 14:30, vous avez écrit : > Dear LyX users: > > Two questions: > Can I turn off the date that is printed on the first > page of the book layout? Yes, just put an empty date, select the date style and put in just an unbreakable space, so there will be a date, but wich

Re: MathPanel->Main window shortcut?

2001-10-14 Thread Matej Cepl
On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 12:10:02AM -0700, Lars Jensen wrote: > Is there a keyboard shortcut that will toggle between the Math Panel and > the main lyx text window? Switching between the windows by your favorite window manager should do the trick -- LyX seems to be disinterested, whether the Math

bug in 1.1.6.10 for mandrake

2001-10-14 Thread Gosse Michel
I have tried the latest version of lyx ( 1.1.6.10-mdk ) for mandrake 8, and i have a segmentation fault, with a core dump. The 1.1.6.3 is working well Any idea ? -- Michel Gosse [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: bug in 1.1.6.10 for mandrake

2001-10-14 Thread Jose Abilio Oliveira Matos
On Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 07:03:56PM -0400, Gosse Michel wrote: > I have tried the latest version of lyx ( 1.1.6.10-mdk ) for mandrake 8, > and i have a segmentation fault, with a core dump. I notice last week that Mandrake has an updated version for 8.0 since the version that comes with it

Re: ispell doesn't work

2001-10-14 Thread Matej Cepl
Sorry, one thing I have forgot to write here: LyX writes on stderr this: ispell: unrecognized formatter type 'latin1' Ispell read timed out, what now? Got pid = 972 Checking pid in pidwait normal exit from childhandler That's all what I know. Matej

thanks for help with pagenumbers and date

2001-10-14 Thread Richard Harris
LyX-kinder: Putting date{} in the preamble turned off the date in my book. With fancy headers turned on, I set \rhead{} in Tex on the first page and put \rhead{Harris - \thepage} on the page I wanted numbering to begin on. Thanks to Herbert Voss for the help! Sincerely, -- Richard Harris

Weird PDF results

2001-10-14 Thread Kent Kostuk
This isn't really a Lyx problem but I am just wondering if anyone has observed this behaviour before. I created a PDF of a chapter of my thesis for my supervisor. I had used the View-pdflatex and then saved the file. I mailed it to my win95 machine and viewed it in Adobe Acrobat to verify that

Re: Weird PDF results

2001-10-14 Thread Kent Kostuk
Only via pdflatex - Original Message - From: "Herbert Voss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Kent Kostuk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "LyxUsers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, October 14, 2001 3:38 PM Subject: Re: Weird PDF results > Kent Kostuk wrote: > > > > > > So, I guess the questions I

Paper style book class

2001-10-14 Thread Jeff Hornsberger
Hi, I'm looking for a document class that is somewhere between the paper class and the book class. I really like the paper class, but I want the title to go on a different page, new sections go on a new page, etc. I don't like the fact that the top level section in a book is the chapter, I want

line spacing

2001-10-14 Thread Myriam Abramson
Hi! I have my document double space but when I have a series of "display formula", it seems that I have more than a double space between formulas. Can I revert to single-spacing only on some parts of the document? I recall that you may have to put an \itemsep somewhere but I don't know latex

Re: Paper style book class

2001-10-14 Thread Jeff Hornsberger
Hi. I'm just playing with this a little more and wondering if there is a way that I can change the max sectioning level of a document class, like in the extra options to the document class. Any help is much appreciated. Thanks. -Jeff On Sun, 2001-10-14 at 16:47, Jeff Hornsberger wrote: > Hi, I'm

Re: Paper style book class

2001-10-14 Thread Jeff Hornsberger
Hmm, I don't see any options there for the max sectioning level. I only see options for changing the min sectioning level. What I want to do is make it so that Section is the top level rather than Chapter in the Report class. Is there an option I can pass to Extra Options or Preamble or

Re: Paper style book class

2001-10-14 Thread Remzi Seker
Here is a part of my preamble. This should work for you (You won't get the chapter number nor section number.) This was required by our school's Thesis and Dissertation Guideline. \AtBeginDocument{\renewcommand\chaptername{}} \def\@makechapterhead#1{% \vspace*{50\p@}%

Re: ispell doesn't work

2001-10-14 Thread Matej Cepl
On Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 10:03:03PM -0400, James Lindenschmidt wrote: > Edit-->Preferences-->Lang Ops-->Spell Checker > select 'use alternative language' > specify your language (you used 'american' in your example below) I found, that new version of ispell does not support -T option, so that

Formatting in Arabic

2001-10-14 Thread Hesham Hassan
I have been using recent CVS versions of LyX, and the largest obstacle for my using it full time, is the inability to use any formatting options with it (except for changing the font size). For example, I can't center or bold any text. I found out that ArabTeX uses instructions different from