Re: Automatic indexing?

2001-11-11 Thread Herbert Voss
Steve Litt wrote: > > I need to index my 117,000 word book, written in a slightly modified Book > document class. This thing's much too big to go through every page inserting > indexing entries. What I'd like to do is make a list of words and terms, and > have Lyx place the indexing entries and b

Re: Bibliographies for newbies?

2001-11-11 Thread Herbert Voss
Steve Litt wrote: > > I need some entry level documentation on bibliographies. My book's > bibliography will have less than 10 entries, and the format's not really > important. I'd like to have a method of creating cross references from > mentions of books in the text to the bibliography entries.

Re: Bibliographies for newbies?

2001-11-11 Thread Christopher M. Jones
btxhak and btxdoc should be somewhere in your TeX distribution. That's a good place to start. On Sunday 11 November 2001 05:50 pm, you wrote: > I need some entry level documentation on bibliographies. My book's > bibliography will have less than 10 entries, and the format's not really > importa

Re: Display formula problem

2001-11-11 Thread Nick Burgan
Remzi, I'm not sure exactly what is causing your problem. When I opened your LyX file I was not able to toggle the position of the limits either. I re-wrote the formular myself (see file attached) and it worked fine. It seems to be a problem with the sum symbol that you are using. When I defi

Re: newbie font problem

2001-11-11 Thread Matej Cepl
On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 09:54:55AM -0800, Will Robinson wrote: > Didn't try that... I managed to fix the problem by chown'ing my > /var/lib/texfm directory tree to be owned by my normal user account, > rather than root (it turned out that things were working fine when I ran > LyX as root, and tha

Re: Accented characters

2001-11-11 Thread Roberto Marabini
On Sat, 10 Nov 2001, Roberto Hernandez wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm writing a report in Spanish, which means lots of accented > characters. After exporting the file to TeX I realized that instead of > exporting these characters as \'{a} for example, they are exported as á > (hope you can see that

Bibliographies for newbies?

2001-11-11 Thread Steve Litt
I need some entry level documentation on bibliographies. My book's bibliography will have less than 10 entries, and the format's not really important. I'd like to have a method of creating cross references from mentions of books in the text to the bibliography entries. What's the best entry le

Automatic indexing?

2001-11-11 Thread Steve Litt
I need to index my 117,000 word book, written in a slightly modified Book document class. This thing's much too big to go through every page inserting indexing entries. What I'd like to do is make a list of words and terms, and have Lyx place the indexing entries and build the index. Worst cas

Re: Printing Notes

2001-11-11 Thread Jose Abilio Oliveira Matos
On Sun, Nov 11, 2001 at 02:52:25AM +, John Levon wrote: > On Sun, Nov 11, 2001 at 03:47:35AM +0100, Egbert J.W. Boers wrote: > > > Egbert (who still thinks this should be incorporated within LyX :-) ) > > I agree, possibly as part of a wider-ranging "draft" option. > > If we wait 10 minutes

Re: [Fwd: Lyx on HP-UX]

2001-11-11 Thread John Levon
On Sun, Nov 11, 2001 at 12:56:10PM +0100, Herbert Voss wrote: > Hi. Can someone direct me to Lyx compiled binaries for HP-UX 10.2 or > for AIX 4.3.3. I don't think such exist. > checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) works... no > configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C comp

Re: page numbering

2001-11-11 Thread Renaud MICHEL
Le Dimanche 11 Novembre 2001 10:37, vous avez écrit : > One more question. I got the page numbers to show both roman & arabic. > But when the arabic starts, the count continues where the roman left off > (ex. i, ii, iii, 4, 5, etc) can I get the arabic to start at 1? You must set the counter at 0

[Fwd: Lyx on HP-UX]

2001-11-11 Thread Herbert Voss
Hi. Can someone direct me to Lyx compiled binaries for HP-UX 10.2 or for AIX 4.3.3. I am having problems while trying to compile the source downloaded from lyx.org. The error I am getting is: checking for gcc... gcc checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) works... no configure: error: instal

Re: page numbering

2001-11-11 Thread Rodney Kanno
One more question. I got the page numbers to show both roman & arabic. But when the arabic starts, the count continues where the roman left off (ex. i, ii, iii, 4, 5, etc) can I get the arabic to start at 1? >p.s. this is the longest time difference I ever had: 10 hours >from Berlin to Hawaii .

Re: page numbering

2001-11-11 Thread Herbert Voss
Herbert Voss wrote: > > Rodney Kanno wrote: > > > > Yes, you are right..thank you..I found thatediting the preamble was > > easier to edit in a text editor rather than the lyx preamble. > > you can have an \include{preamble.txt} in the preamble ^^^ sorry, should be \input

Re: page numbering

2001-11-11 Thread Herbert Voss
Rodney Kanno wrote: > > Yes, you are right..thank you..I found thatediting the preamble was > easier to edit in a text editor rather than the lyx preamble. you can have an \include{preamble.txt} in the preamble and edit the preamble.txt externally. Herbert p.s. this is the longest time differe

Re: page numbering

2001-11-11 Thread Rodney Kanno
Yes, you are right..thank you..I found thatediting the preamble was easier to edit in a text editor rather than the lyx preamble. Thank you, Rodney

Re: page numbering

2001-11-11 Thread Herbert Voss
Rodney Kanno wrote: > > Question...I'm doing a paper using the report layout. I have a title > page, followed by a blank page, followed by the table of contents, then > the actual report, list of tables, list of figures, and bibliography. > how do I: > > 1. Have the blank page and table of conte

Re: Dotted lines between Title and Pagenumber

2001-11-11 Thread Herbert Voss
Rodney Kanno wrote: > > I am having trouble doing "Dotted lines between Title and Pagenumber". I > have followed (or so I thought) the instructions on Herbert Voss's > TOC-FAQ page, but it doesn't work. I get an error message for each > chapter I have saying: > > Undefined control sequence. > ..