Re: lyx 1.20pre5 bugs and misses

2002-05-13 Thread Robin Turner
On Monday 13 May 2002 07:45, Fernando Perez wrote: And it must be easy to change, something like call unselect() after the paste() function (I don't know the code, but I can't imagine this being hard). You would be surprised :) Selection code is particularly crufty ... but Jug

lyx-1.2.0pre5 (or pre4) problem

2002-05-13 Thread Koen Martens
Hello, Is it mandatory to remove my old 1.1.6-4 before testing 1.2.0pre5 (or pre4)?? +Right now it just exits with the message 'Aborted' if I run it from +src/lyx-1.2.0pre5/lyx. I checked the requirements, I have xforms-0.89.5 (the +doc says 0.89.6 will work best, but older versions will

Re: How do you get into math panel?

2002-05-13 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 12:45:10AM +0100, John Levon wrote: Same for the math menu. There's no such thing on my LyX. Exactly what keystrokes or mouse clicks do I use to get into the math menu? I'm not sure what this is. Are you reading the right version of the docs ? 1.2.0 has an

Re: How do you make the therefore symbol?

2002-05-13 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 09:48:46PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: The therefore symbol is used in mathematical proofs and the like. It's three dots -- two on the bottom and one on top, forming an equilateral triangle. Here's a text art representation: . . . Anyone know how to make

math formula in tables

2002-05-13 Thread Yann Collete
Hello, I have a problem with lyx-1.1.6fix4. When I had a display style formula in a cell of a table and when I tried to render my lyx file as a ps file, latex complains about some missing }. Is there any solution to overcome this problem (I know latex does not understand this construction but,

Re: 1.2.0pre5 install problems

2002-05-13 Thread faunt
On Mon, 13 May 2002, Herbert Voss wrote: what happens after edit-reconfigure and restart of LyX? There's no reconfigure on the edit menu! Only cut, copy, paste, and emphasize. When the program opens there is only a file menu. When I open a new or old doc, then only edit and document menus

Re: The TeX button on 1.20pre5

2002-05-13 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 09:13:30AM -0400, Max Bian wrote: Would it be better to make it work like this: insert an ERT box when there is no selection; create an ERT box with the selected text when there is selection; warn when the selection contains illegal elements. This would be better,

Re: math formula in tables

2002-05-13 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 09:31:37AM +0200, Yann Collete wrote: I have a problem with lyx-1.1.6fix4. When I had a display style formula in a cell of a table and when I tried to render my lyx file as a ps file, latex complains about some missing }. Is there any solution to overcome this problem

Re: 1.2.0pre5 install problems

2002-05-13 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | On Mon, 13 May 2002, Herbert Voss wrote: what happens after edit-reconfigure and restart of LyX? | There's no reconfigure on the edit menu! Only cut, copy, paste, and | emphasize. | When the program opens there is only a file menu. When I open a new or old | doc,

Displaying Figures

2002-05-13 Thread Cormac Driver
Hi, I'm new to LyX and running Windows 2000. I'm having some problems displaying figures. When I insert a .eps or .ps graphic and try to export to pdf i get the following error message: Error: Unknown graphics extension: .eps. When I try to export to ps I get this message: Error:

Re: 1.2.0pre5 install problems

2002-05-13 Thread Robin Turner
On Monday 13 May 2002 11:02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 13 May 2002, Herbert Voss wrote: what happens after edit-reconfigure and restart of LyX? There's no reconfigure on the edit menu! Only cut, copy, paste, and emphasize. When the program opens there is only a file menu. When I

Re: lyx-1.2.0pre5 (or pre4) problem

2002-05-13 Thread Angus Leeming
On Monday 13 May 2002 7:57 am, Koen Martens wrote: Hello, Is it mandatory to remove my old 1.1.6-4 before testing 1.2.0pre5 (or pre4)?? +Right now it just exits with the message 'Aborted' if I run it from +src/lyx-1.2.0pre5/lyx. I checked the requirements, I have xforms-0.89.5 (the +doc

Re: math formula in tables

2002-05-13 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 12:04:43PM +0200, Yann Collete wrote: And what can I do if I want indexes to be displayed in displaystyle ? As you would do in LaTeX? Add a \displaystyle to your formula? Andre' -- Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security, will not have, nor do

Re: 1.2.0pre5 install problems

2002-05-13 Thread faunt
On Mon, 13 May 2002, Robin Turner wrote: Yes! That was it! Thank you Robin! :-) I knew it was just too simple and so close to my face I couldn't see it! cheers, jamie On Monday 13 May 2002 11:02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 13 May 2002, Herbert Voss wrote: what happens after

Re: 1.2.0pre5 install problems

2002-05-13 Thread Max Bian
That's the problem I had. It is caused by the old UI file. Look into the preferences file. Find the line that says: \ui_file /usr/share/lyx/ui/default And change it accordingly. Max --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 13 May 2002, Robin Turner wrote: Yes! That was it! Thank you Robin!

pdflatex and type 3

2002-05-13 Thread Christopher M. Jones
My pdflatex generates a file using type 3 fonts. I don't have any type 3 fonts, and so the resulting file is not right. I have looked through the documentation for pdftex, but the answer is not immediately obvious to me, and this is not something I have time to figure out. Does anybody know

Re: [test]

2002-05-13 Thread Angus Leeming
On Wednesday 08 May 2002 11:07 am, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lars Gullik Bjønnes) writes: | Does this work both ways? Yes it does. (cool) Thanks to whoever set this up. Ok, there is a newserver up and running with a gateway to the lyx mailing lists now.

Re: [test]

2002-05-13 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Angus Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | On Wednesday 08 May 2002 11:07 am, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lars Gullik Bjønnes) writes: | Does this work both ways? Yes it does. (cool) Thanks to whoever set this up. Ok, there is a newserver up and running with a gateway

Re: The TeX button on 1.20pre5

2002-05-13 Thread Renaud MICHEL
Le Lundi 13 Mai 2002 10:02, vous avez écrit : On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 09:13:30AM -0400, Max Bian wrote: Would it be better to make it work like this: insert an ERT box when there is no selection; create an ERT box with the selected text when there is selection; warn when the selection

Re: The TeX button on 1.20pre5

2002-05-13 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 05:02:15PM +0200, Renaud MICHEL wrote: Could you file an enhancement request for the 1.3 series on bugzilla.lyx.org? Can't this be done in the 1.2 series? I suppose there won't be any other change in 1.2.0 than bugfixes, but can't this be in 1.2.1? I suppose it

Re: Displaying Figures

2002-05-13 Thread Herbert Voss
Cormac Driver wrote: Hi, I'm new to LyX and running Windows 2000. I'm having some problems displaying figures. When I insert a .eps or .ps graphic and try to export to pdf i get the following error message: you need the pdf-format for the images. convert by hand with convert figure.eps

Re: lyx-1.2.0pre5 (or pre4) problem

2002-05-13 Thread Koen Martens
On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 10:47:16AM +0100, Angus Leeming wrote: On Monday 13 May 2002 7:57 am, Koen Martens wrote: Is it mandatory to remove my old 1.1.6-4 before testing 1.2.0pre5 (or pre4)?? +Right now it just exits with the message 'Aborted' if I run it from +src/lyx-1.2.0pre5/lyx. I

Re: 1.2.0pre5 possible bug at edit-reconfigure ?

2002-05-13 Thread Herbert Voss
Paco Cruz wrote: When I do Edit-Reconfigure after changing xdvi-kdvi, acroread-kghostview and so on, the following happens: - my ./lyx/lyxrc.defaults is erased - a new preferences file is created in that directory overwriting the old one, *and* - I lost all my preferences (kdvi and

test

2002-05-13 Thread Rodney Kanno
got a warning message about the messages from the list to me were being bounced. -- You can't leave footprints in the sands of time if you're sitting on your butt. And who wants to leave butt prints in the sands of time? -Bob Moawad Rodney Kanno Webpage: http://home.hawaii.rr.com/kanno65

Search Path for dvips

2002-05-13 Thread Dave Tweten
I use a modified version of the FoilTeX layout file (~/.lyx/layouts/foils.layout). Among other things, it uses a Preamble/EndPreamble block to put two Encapsulated PostScript logos into my slides' left and right headers. \leftheader{\resizebox{!}{\headheight}{\includegraphics{CodeI.eps}}}

Re: upper case subscript, vertical spacing within a matrix

2002-05-13 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Sun, May 12, 2002 at 01:19:52PM -0400, Nirmal Govind wrote: Hi, Two issues: 1. When I write an upper case subscript for a bold letter within the math mode, my subscript isn't low enough and thus the top of the subscript is very close to the top of the bold letter. LyX displays it

Re: Search Path for dvips

2002-05-13 Thread Dave Tweten
Initially quoting me, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: What can I do to make dvips find the .eps files on some LyX search path that contains ~/.lyx/clipart/? man kpsepath I tried that. It produced No manual entry for kpsepath I then used locate to find the two kpse* man pages that do exist,

Re: upper case subscript, vertical spacing within a matrix

2002-05-13 Thread Nirmal Govind
Put the following line in the preamble \newcommand{\sub}[1]{\raisebox{-1pt}{$\scriptstyle #1$}} and when you write the subscript, (for example, suppose it is 'A'), write \subspace{A (on screen you will see sub{A}). Thanks Dekel... I tried it.. and it seems the braces {} shouldn't be there.. so

can't undo math panel edit

2002-05-13 Thread Nirmal Govind
Hi, I'm having a problem with undoing an edit that I made with the math panel. I used the underscore feature in the math panel which looks like a dotted box with a line below it in the math panel (1.1.6fix4). So that puts a line below whatever math character I have. But if I select this

Re: Search Path for dvips

2002-05-13 Thread Matej Cepl
On 13 May, Dave Tweten wrote: Initially quoting me, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: What can I do to make dvips find the .eps files on some LyX search path that contains ~/.lyx/clipart/? man kpsepath I tried that. It produced No manual entry for kpsepath OK, it is my mistake, dvips does

Re: Search Path for dvips

2002-05-13 Thread Matej Cepl
On 13 May, To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 13 May, Dave Tweten wrote: Initially quoting me, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: What can I do to make dvips find the .eps files on some LyX search path that contains ~/.lyx/clipart/? man kpsepath I tried that. It produced No manual entry for

why amsmath as default ?

2002-05-13 Thread cghan
Hello, In the book layout style, lyx seems to use amsmath (via, i.e., \usepackage{amsmath}) whenever document contains equations(in-line, or display style equations). Is this feature intended, or a bug ? I use lyx-1.2.0cvs. The reason why I ask this queation is that I cannot break

Re: lyx 1.20pre5 bugs and misses

2002-05-13 Thread Robin Turner
On Monday 13 May 2002 07:45, Fernando Perez wrote: And it must be easy to change, something like call unselect() after the paste() function (I don't know the code, but I can't imagine this being hard). You would be surprised :) Selection code is particularly crufty ... but Jug

lyx-1.2.0pre5 (or pre4) problem

2002-05-13 Thread Koen Martens
Hello, Is it mandatory to remove my old 1.1.6-4 before testing 1.2.0pre5 (or pre4)?? +Right now it just exits with the message 'Aborted' if I run it from +src/lyx-1.2.0pre5/lyx. I checked the requirements, I have xforms-0.89.5 (the +doc says 0.89.6 will work best, but older versions will

Re: How do you get into math panel?

2002-05-13 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 12:45:10AM +0100, John Levon wrote: Same for the math menu. There's no such thing on my LyX. Exactly what keystrokes or mouse clicks do I use to get into the math menu? I'm not sure what this is. Are you reading the right version of the docs ? 1.2.0 has an

Re: How do you make the therefore symbol?

2002-05-13 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 09:48:46PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: The therefore symbol is used in mathematical proofs and the like. It's three dots -- two on the bottom and one on top, forming an equilateral triangle. Here's a text art representation: . . . Anyone know how to make

math formula in tables

2002-05-13 Thread Yann Collete
Hello, I have a problem with lyx-1.1.6fix4. When I had a display style formula in a cell of a table and when I tried to render my lyx file as a ps file, latex complains about some missing }. Is there any solution to overcome this problem (I know latex does not understand this construction but,

Re: 1.2.0pre5 install problems

2002-05-13 Thread faunt
On Mon, 13 May 2002, Herbert Voss wrote: what happens after edit-reconfigure and restart of LyX? There's no reconfigure on the edit menu! Only cut, copy, paste, and emphasize. When the program opens there is only a file menu. When I open a new or old doc, then only edit and document menus

Re: The TeX button on 1.20pre5

2002-05-13 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 09:13:30AM -0400, Max Bian wrote: Would it be better to make it work like this: insert an ERT box when there is no selection; create an ERT box with the selected text when there is selection; warn when the selection contains illegal elements. This would be better,

Re: math formula in tables

2002-05-13 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 09:31:37AM +0200, Yann Collete wrote: I have a problem with lyx-1.1.6fix4. When I had a display style formula in a cell of a table and when I tried to render my lyx file as a ps file, latex complains about some missing }. Is there any solution to overcome this problem

Re: 1.2.0pre5 install problems

2002-05-13 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | On Mon, 13 May 2002, Herbert Voss wrote: what happens after edit-reconfigure and restart of LyX? | There's no reconfigure on the edit menu! Only cut, copy, paste, and | emphasize. | When the program opens there is only a file menu. When I open a new or old | doc,

Displaying Figures

2002-05-13 Thread Cormac Driver
Hi, I'm new to LyX and running Windows 2000. I'm having some problems displaying figures. When I insert a .eps or .ps graphic and try to export to pdf i get the following error message: Error: Unknown graphics extension: .eps. When I try to export to ps I get this message: Error:

Re: 1.2.0pre5 install problems

2002-05-13 Thread Robin Turner
On Monday 13 May 2002 11:02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 13 May 2002, Herbert Voss wrote: what happens after edit-reconfigure and restart of LyX? There's no reconfigure on the edit menu! Only cut, copy, paste, and emphasize. When the program opens there is only a file menu. When I

Re: lyx-1.2.0pre5 (or pre4) problem

2002-05-13 Thread Angus Leeming
On Monday 13 May 2002 7:57 am, Koen Martens wrote: Hello, Is it mandatory to remove my old 1.1.6-4 before testing 1.2.0pre5 (or pre4)?? +Right now it just exits with the message 'Aborted' if I run it from +src/lyx-1.2.0pre5/lyx. I checked the requirements, I have xforms-0.89.5 (the +doc

Re: math formula in tables

2002-05-13 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 12:04:43PM +0200, Yann Collete wrote: And what can I do if I want indexes to be displayed in displaystyle ? As you would do in LaTeX? Add a \displaystyle to your formula? Andre' -- Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security, will not have, nor do

Re: 1.2.0pre5 install problems

2002-05-13 Thread faunt
On Mon, 13 May 2002, Robin Turner wrote: Yes! That was it! Thank you Robin! :-) I knew it was just too simple and so close to my face I couldn't see it! cheers, jamie On Monday 13 May 2002 11:02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 13 May 2002, Herbert Voss wrote: what happens after

Re: 1.2.0pre5 install problems

2002-05-13 Thread Max Bian
That's the problem I had. It is caused by the old UI file. Look into the preferences file. Find the line that says: \ui_file /usr/share/lyx/ui/default And change it accordingly. Max --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 13 May 2002, Robin Turner wrote: Yes! That was it! Thank you Robin!

pdflatex and type 3

2002-05-13 Thread Christopher M. Jones
My pdflatex generates a file using type 3 fonts. I don't have any type 3 fonts, and so the resulting file is not right. I have looked through the documentation for pdftex, but the answer is not immediately obvious to me, and this is not something I have time to figure out. Does anybody know

Re: [test]

2002-05-13 Thread Angus Leeming
On Wednesday 08 May 2002 11:07 am, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lars Gullik Bjønnes) writes: | Does this work both ways? Yes it does. (cool) Thanks to whoever set this up. Ok, there is a newserver up and running with a gateway to the lyx mailing lists now.

Re: [test]

2002-05-13 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Angus Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | On Wednesday 08 May 2002 11:07 am, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lars Gullik Bjønnes) writes: | Does this work both ways? Yes it does. (cool) Thanks to whoever set this up. Ok, there is a newserver up and running with a gateway

Re: The TeX button on 1.20pre5

2002-05-13 Thread Renaud MICHEL
Le Lundi 13 Mai 2002 10:02, vous avez écrit : On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 09:13:30AM -0400, Max Bian wrote: Would it be better to make it work like this: insert an ERT box when there is no selection; create an ERT box with the selected text when there is selection; warn when the selection

Re: The TeX button on 1.20pre5

2002-05-13 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 05:02:15PM +0200, Renaud MICHEL wrote: Could you file an enhancement request for the 1.3 series on bugzilla.lyx.org? Can't this be done in the 1.2 series? I suppose there won't be any other change in 1.2.0 than bugfixes, but can't this be in 1.2.1? I suppose it

Re: Displaying Figures

2002-05-13 Thread Herbert Voss
Cormac Driver wrote: Hi, I'm new to LyX and running Windows 2000. I'm having some problems displaying figures. When I insert a .eps or .ps graphic and try to export to pdf i get the following error message: you need the pdf-format for the images. convert by hand with convert figure.eps

Re: lyx-1.2.0pre5 (or pre4) problem

2002-05-13 Thread Koen Martens
On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 10:47:16AM +0100, Angus Leeming wrote: On Monday 13 May 2002 7:57 am, Koen Martens wrote: Is it mandatory to remove my old 1.1.6-4 before testing 1.2.0pre5 (or pre4)?? +Right now it just exits with the message 'Aborted' if I run it from +src/lyx-1.2.0pre5/lyx. I

Re: 1.2.0pre5 possible bug at edit-reconfigure ?

2002-05-13 Thread Herbert Voss
Paco Cruz wrote: When I do Edit-Reconfigure after changing xdvi-kdvi, acroread-kghostview and so on, the following happens: - my ./lyx/lyxrc.defaults is erased - a new preferences file is created in that directory overwriting the old one, *and* - I lost all my preferences (kdvi and

test

2002-05-13 Thread Rodney Kanno
got a warning message about the messages from the list to me were being bounced. -- You can't leave footprints in the sands of time if you're sitting on your butt. And who wants to leave butt prints in the sands of time? -Bob Moawad Rodney Kanno Webpage: http://home.hawaii.rr.com/kanno65

Search Path for dvips

2002-05-13 Thread Dave Tweten
I use a modified version of the FoilTeX layout file (~/.lyx/layouts/foils.layout). Among other things, it uses a Preamble/EndPreamble block to put two Encapsulated PostScript logos into my slides' left and right headers. \leftheader{\resizebox{!}{\headheight}{\includegraphics{CodeI.eps}}}

Re: upper case subscript, vertical spacing within a matrix

2002-05-13 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Sun, May 12, 2002 at 01:19:52PM -0400, Nirmal Govind wrote: Hi, Two issues: 1. When I write an upper case subscript for a bold letter within the math mode, my subscript isn't low enough and thus the top of the subscript is very close to the top of the bold letter. LyX displays it

Re: Search Path for dvips

2002-05-13 Thread Dave Tweten
Initially quoting me, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: What can I do to make dvips find the .eps files on some LyX search path that contains ~/.lyx/clipart/? man kpsepath I tried that. It produced No manual entry for kpsepath I then used locate to find the two kpse* man pages that do exist,

Re: upper case subscript, vertical spacing within a matrix

2002-05-13 Thread Nirmal Govind
Put the following line in the preamble \newcommand{\sub}[1]{\raisebox{-1pt}{$\scriptstyle #1$}} and when you write the subscript, (for example, suppose it is 'A'), write \subspace{A (on screen you will see sub{A}). Thanks Dekel... I tried it.. and it seems the braces {} shouldn't be there.. so

can't undo math panel edit

2002-05-13 Thread Nirmal Govind
Hi, I'm having a problem with undoing an edit that I made with the math panel. I used the underscore feature in the math panel which looks like a dotted box with a line below it in the math panel (1.1.6fix4). So that puts a line below whatever math character I have. But if I select this

Re: Search Path for dvips

2002-05-13 Thread Matej Cepl
On 13 May, Dave Tweten wrote: Initially quoting me, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: What can I do to make dvips find the .eps files on some LyX search path that contains ~/.lyx/clipart/? man kpsepath I tried that. It produced No manual entry for kpsepath OK, it is my mistake, dvips does

Re: Search Path for dvips

2002-05-13 Thread Matej Cepl
On 13 May, To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 13 May, Dave Tweten wrote: Initially quoting me, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: What can I do to make dvips find the .eps files on some LyX search path that contains ~/.lyx/clipart/? man kpsepath I tried that. It produced No manual entry for

why amsmath as default ?

2002-05-13 Thread cghan
Hello, In the book layout style, lyx seems to use amsmath (via, i.e., \usepackage{amsmath}) whenever document contains equations(in-line, or display style equations). Is this feature intended, or a bug ? I use lyx-1.2.0cvs. The reason why I ask this queation is that I cannot break

Re: lyx 1.20pre5 bugs and misses

2002-05-13 Thread Robin Turner
On Monday 13 May 2002 07:45, Fernando Perez wrote: > > > And it must be easy to change, something like call unselect() > > > after the paste() function (I don't know the code, but I can't > > > imagine this being hard). > > > > You would be surprised :) > > > > Selection code is particularly

lyx-1.2.0pre5 (or pre4) problem

2002-05-13 Thread Koen Martens
Hello, Is it mandatory to remove my old 1.1.6-4 before testing 1.2.0pre5 (or pre4)?? +Right now it just exits with the message 'Aborted' if I run it from +src/lyx-1.2.0pre5/lyx. I checked the requirements, I have xforms-0.89.5 (the +doc says 0.89.6 will work best, but older versions will

Re: How do you get into math panel?

2002-05-13 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 12:45:10AM +0100, John Levon wrote: > > Same for the "math menu". There's no such thing on my LyX. Exactly what > > keystrokes or mouse clicks do I use to get into the math menu? > > I'm not sure what this is. Are you reading the right version of the docs > ? 1.2.0 has

Re: How do you make the "therefore" symbol?

2002-05-13 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 09:48:46PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > The "therefore" symbol is used in mathematical proofs and the like. It's > three dots -- two on the bottom and one on top, forming an equilateral > triangle. Here's a text art representation: > >. > . . > > Anyone know how

math formula in tables

2002-05-13 Thread Yann Collete
Hello, I have a problem with lyx-1.1.6fix4. When I had a display style formula in a cell of a table and when I tried to render my lyx file as a ps file, latex complains about some missing }. Is there any solution to overcome this problem (I know latex does not understand this construction but,

Re: 1.2.0pre5 install problems

2002-05-13 Thread faunt
On Mon, 13 May 2002, Herbert Voss wrote: > what happens after edit->reconfigure and restart of LyX? There's no reconfigure on the edit menu! Only cut, copy, paste, and emphasize. When the program opens there is only a file menu. When I open a new or old doc, then only edit and document menus

Re: The "TeX" button on 1.20pre5

2002-05-13 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 09:13:30AM -0400, Max Bian wrote: > Would it be better to make it work like this: insert an ERT box when > there is no selection; create an ERT box with the selected text when > there is selection; warn when the selection contains illegal elements. This would be better,

Re: math formula in tables

2002-05-13 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 09:31:37AM +0200, Yann Collete wrote: > I have a problem with lyx-1.1.6fix4. > When I had a display style formula in a cell of a table and > when I tried to render my lyx file as a ps file, latex complains > about some missing }. > Is there any solution to overcome this

Re: 1.2.0pre5 install problems

2002-05-13 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | On Mon, 13 May 2002, Herbert Voss wrote: > >> what happens after edit->reconfigure and restart of LyX? > | There's no reconfigure on the edit menu! Only cut, copy, paste, and | emphasize. > | When the program opens there is only a file menu. When I open a new or old |

Displaying Figures

2002-05-13 Thread Cormac Driver
Hi, I'm new to LyX and running Windows 2000. I'm having some problems displaying figures. When I insert a .eps or .ps graphic and try to export to pdf i get the following error message: Error: Unknown graphics extension: .eps. When I try to export to ps I get this message: Error:

Re: 1.2.0pre5 install problems

2002-05-13 Thread Robin Turner
On Monday 13 May 2002 11:02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mon, 13 May 2002, Herbert Voss wrote: > > what happens after edit->reconfigure and restart of LyX? > > There's no reconfigure on the edit menu! Only cut, copy, paste, and > emphasize. > > When the program opens there is only a file menu.

Re: lyx-1.2.0pre5 (or pre4) problem

2002-05-13 Thread Angus Leeming
On Monday 13 May 2002 7:57 am, Koen Martens wrote: > Hello, > > > Is it mandatory to remove my old 1.1.6-4 before testing 1.2.0pre5 (or > pre4)?? +Right now it just exits with the message 'Aborted' if I run it > from +src/lyx-1.2.0pre5/lyx. I checked the requirements, I have > xforms-0.89.5 (the

Re: math formula in tables

2002-05-13 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 12:04:43PM +0200, Yann Collete wrote: > And what can I do if I want indexes to be displayed in displaystyle ? As you would do in LaTeX? Add a \displaystyle to your formula? Andre' -- Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security, will not have, nor do

Re: 1.2.0pre5 install problems

2002-05-13 Thread faunt
On Mon, 13 May 2002, Robin Turner wrote: Yes! That was it! Thank you Robin! :-) I knew it was just too simple and so close to my face I couldn't see it! cheers, jamie > On Monday 13 May 2002 11:02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Mon, 13 May 2002, Herbert Voss wrote: > > > what happens after

Re: 1.2.0pre5 install problems

2002-05-13 Thread Max Bian
That's the problem I had. It is caused by the old UI file. Look into the preferences file. Find the line that says: \ui_file "/usr/share/lyx/ui/default" And change it accordingly. Max --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mon, 13 May 2002, Robin Turner wrote: > > Yes! That was it! Thank you

pdflatex and type 3

2002-05-13 Thread Christopher M. Jones
My pdflatex generates a file using type 3 fonts. I don't have any type 3 fonts, and so the resulting file is not right. I have looked through the documentation for pdftex, but the answer is not immediately obvious to me, and this is not something I have time to figure out. Does anybody know

Re: [test]

2002-05-13 Thread Angus Leeming
On Wednesday 08 May 2002 11:07 am, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lars Gullik Bjønnes) writes: > | Does this work both ways? > > Yes it does. (cool) > > Thanks to whoever set this up. > > Ok, there is a newserver up and running with a gateway to the lyx > mailing lists now. > >

Re: [test]

2002-05-13 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | On Wednesday 08 May 2002 11:07 am, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lars Gullik Bjønnes) writes: >> | Does this work both ways? >> >> Yes it does. (cool) >> >> Thanks to whoever set this up. >> >> Ok, there is a newserver up and

Re: The "TeX" button on 1.20pre5

2002-05-13 Thread Renaud MICHEL
Le Lundi 13 Mai 2002 10:02, vous avez écrit : > On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 09:13:30AM -0400, Max Bian wrote: > > Would it be better to make it work like this: insert an ERT box when > > there is no selection; create an ERT box with the selected text when > > there is selection; warn when the

Re: The "TeX" button on 1.20pre5

2002-05-13 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 05:02:15PM +0200, Renaud MICHEL wrote: > > Could you file an "enhancement request" for the 1.3 series on > > bugzilla.lyx.org? > > Can't this be done in the 1.2 series? > I suppose there won't be any other change in 1.2.0 than bugfixes, but can't > this be in 1.2.1? I

Re: Displaying Figures

2002-05-13 Thread Herbert Voss
Cormac Driver wrote: > Hi, > > I'm new to LyX and running Windows 2000. I'm having some problems displaying >figures. When I insert a .eps or .ps graphic and try to export to pdf i get the >following error message: > you need the pdf-format for the images. convert by hand with "convert

Re: lyx-1.2.0pre5 (or pre4) problem

2002-05-13 Thread Koen Martens
On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 10:47:16AM +0100, Angus Leeming wrote: > On Monday 13 May 2002 7:57 am, Koen Martens wrote: > > Is it mandatory to remove my old 1.1.6-4 before testing 1.2.0pre5 (or > > pre4)?? +Right now it just exits with the message 'Aborted' if I run it > > from

Re: 1.2.0pre5 possible bug at edit->reconfigure ?

2002-05-13 Thread Herbert Voss
Paco Cruz wrote: > When I do Edit->Reconfigure after changing xdvi->kdvi, > acroread->kghostview and so on, the following happens: > > - my ./lyx/lyxrc.defaults is erased > > - a new "preferences" file is created in that directory overwriting the > old one, *and* > > - I lost all my

test

2002-05-13 Thread Rodney Kanno
got a warning message about the messages from the list to me were being bounced. -- You can't leave footprints in the sands of time if you're sitting on your butt. And who wants to leave butt prints in the sands of time? -Bob Moawad Rodney Kanno Webpage: http://home.hawaii.rr.com/kanno65

Search Path for dvips

2002-05-13 Thread Dave Tweten
I use a modified version of the FoilTeX layout file (~/.lyx/layouts/foils.layout). Among other things, it uses a Preamble/EndPreamble block to put two Encapsulated PostScript logos into my slides' left and right headers. \leftheader{\resizebox{!}{\headheight}{\includegraphics{CodeI.eps}}}

Re: upper case subscript, vertical spacing within a matrix

2002-05-13 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Sun, May 12, 2002 at 01:19:52PM -0400, Nirmal Govind wrote: > Hi, > > Two issues: > > 1. When I write an upper case subscript for a bold letter within the math > mode, my subscript isn't low enough and thus the top of the subscript is > very close to the top of the bold letter. LyX

Re: Search Path for dvips

2002-05-13 Thread Dave Tweten
Initially quoting me, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >>What can I do to make dvips find the .eps files on some LyX search >>path that contains ~/.lyx/clipart/? >man kpsepath I tried that. It produced No manual entry for kpsepath I then used locate to find the two kpse* man pages that do

Re: upper case subscript, vertical spacing within a matrix

2002-05-13 Thread Nirmal Govind
>Put the following line in the preamble >\newcommand{\sub}[1]{\raisebox{-1pt}{$\scriptstyle #1$}} >and when you write the subscript, (for example, suppose it is 'A'), >write \sub{A (on screen you will see sub{A}). Thanks Dekel... I tried it.. and it seems the braces {} shouldn't be there.. so

can't undo math panel edit

2002-05-13 Thread Nirmal Govind
Hi, I'm having a problem with undoing an edit that I made with the math panel. I used the "underscore" feature in the math panel which looks like a dotted box with a line below it in the math panel (1.1.6fix4). So that puts a line below whatever math character I have. But if I select this

Re: Search Path for dvips

2002-05-13 Thread Matej Cepl
On 13 May, Dave Tweten wrote: > Initially quoting me, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >>>What can I do to make dvips find the .eps files on some LyX >>>search path that contains ~/.lyx/clipart/? > >>man kpsepath > > I tried that. It produced > > No manual entry for kpsepath OK, it is my

Re: Search Path for dvips

2002-05-13 Thread Matej Cepl
On 13 May, To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 13 May, Dave Tweten wrote: >> Initially quoting me, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: What can I do to make dvips find the .eps files on some LyX search path that contains ~/.lyx/clipart/? >> >>>man kpsepath >> >> I tried that. It produced >> >>

why amsmath as default ?

2002-05-13 Thread cghan
Hello, In the book layout style, lyx seems to use amsmath (via, i.e., \usepackage{amsmath}) whenever document contains equations(in-line, or display style equations). Is this feature intended, or a bug ? I use lyx-1.2.0cvs. The reason why I ask this queation is that I cannot break