Corrupted TOC.lyx in 1.3.1

2003-03-22 Thread faunt
Odd thing I've run into is that TOC.lyx in documentation will not display. I get a message (on repeated attempts) about the file being truncated and it crashes LyX. I compared the installed file with the one in the original tarball and it matches. Has anyone else noticed this? thanks, jamie

interface to computer algebra systemts

2003-03-22 Thread Serge Winitzki
Hi, in 1.3.1 I noticed a new menu item use computer algebra system. I have some questions: - this feature is so far undocumented? - how to add new computer algebra systems, particularly free ones (gap, pari/gp, yacas, ...?) Can a user do this by putting something in .lyx directory? - I am

Re: Corrupted TOC.lyx in 1.3.1

2003-03-22 Thread John Levon
On Sat, Mar 22, 2003 at 04:35:42AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Odd thing I've run into is that TOC.lyx in documentation will not display. This is fixed now thanks john

Install error for LyX 1.3.1 ?!

2003-03-22 Thread Randy Burgess
I'm a Linux newbie, trying w/a great deal of frustration to install LyX 1.3.1. I'm using the Xforms front end, have already installed Xforms 1.0 and Xpm. My LyX configure went OK according to the messages. The C compiler (this is on a SuSE 8.1 distro) is gcc 3.2. When I went to install, things

Re: Install error for LyX 1.3.1 ?!

2003-03-22 Thread John Levon
On Sat, Mar 22, 2003 at 11:00:13PM +0800, Randy Burgess wrote: I'm a Linux newbie, trying w/a great deal of frustration to install LyX 1.3.1. I'm using the Xforms front end, have already installed Xforms 1.0 and Xpm. My LyX configure went OK according to the messages. The C compiler (this is

Re: Writing a Novel with LyX?

2003-03-22 Thread Randy Burgess
Alas, I end up submitting manuscripts either in hardcopy or in PDF so they can see what it looks like, and in ascii for their publishing process. Trade publishers always reset whatever an author submits, so the formatting is lost in any case. What about converting the ascii output to

Re: Adding Classes

2003-03-22 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Sat, 22 Mar 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Will LyX accept other properly defined doc classes? And, if so, how do I get LyX reconfigure to find and add them? Yes, I think that what you need to do is simply make sure that your second line in the layout file declares what latex class the

Re: Lyx and Latex Input and Output

2003-03-22 Thread John Levon
On Sat, Mar 22, 2003 at 01:32:03PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I current use LaTeX and love it, but WYSIWYG would be nice to have. I am confussed about LaTeX input/output. (1) The lyx main web site sayes Andre Ponitz is currently working to give lyx round-trip

Re: Q: How to import short source code extracts

2003-03-22 Thread Guido Ostkamp
On Sat, 22 Mar 2003, Dekel Tsur wrote: On Sat, Mar 22, 2003 at 12:31:26AM +0100, Guido Ostkamp wrote: However, I haven't found a comfortable way to import sourcecode from an existing ASCII-file without loosing all the formatting - i.e. the indentation with blanks and/or tabs in front of

Re: Adding Classes

2003-03-22 Thread faunt
On Sat, 22 Mar 2003, [ISO-8859-1] Christian Ridderström wrote: Thanks for the reply. I'm not finding any .layout files in any of the classes I've added successfully or unsuccessfully -- after compiling of course. I've had .sty or .sty and .cls files only on the ones that have worked so far. ??

Re: Corrupted TOC.lyx in 1.3.1

2003-03-22 Thread faunt
On Sat, 22 Mar 2003, John Levon wrote: On Sat, Mar 22, 2003 at 04:35:42AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Odd thing I've run into is that TOC.lyx in documentation will not display. This is fixed now Great -- thanks. I just checked ftp.lyx.org and can't find any update since the 19th. Can I

Re: Writing a Novel with LyX? (now off topic)

2003-03-22 Thread Todd Flaming
On 22 Mar 2003, Ronald Florence wrote: Todd Flaming [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The trade publishers frequently do a very nice job of editing and typesetting a book. But if you can hire a good editor and do the typesetting youself, you probably will do just as well self-publishing. Big

Re: Adding Classes

2003-03-22 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Sat, 22 Mar 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 22 Mar 2003, [ISO-8859-1] Christian Ridderström wrote: Thanks for the reply. I'm not finding any .layout files in any of the classes I've added successfully or unsuccessfully -- after compiling of course. I've had .sty or .sty and .cls

Re: page number location

2003-03-22 Thread Myriam Abramson
No. Whatever I do, I can't get the page number outside of the margins specified. What to do? Dekel Tsur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 06:14:48AM -0500, Myriam Abramson wrote: In the book document class, how do I change the page number location? It seems right now to

Re: Corrupted TOC.lyx in 1.3.1

2003-03-22 Thread John Levon
On Sat, Mar 22, 2003 at 01:12:27PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Great -- thanks. I just checked ftp.lyx.org and can't find any update since the 19th. Can I pull just that one file from somewhere?... or is there an updated 1.3.1 tarball? You either need to grab lyxdoc from CVS, or wait

Re: page number location

2003-03-22 Thread Myriam Abramson
Well, okay. I ended up changing the top margin and fixing headsep (in the lyx gui) and headwidth in preamble. Please note that maybe headwidth should be added to the document-paper interface thingie. Please let me know if there is a better solution. \renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}

compiling 1.3.1 qt on Debian Sid fails. Which qt libs?

2003-03-22 Thread Kenward Vaughan
I have the same problem mentioned by a fellow in an earlier thread, but I don't have a clue where my problem is. The qt packages I have installed are: -- 11:01:11 daddy:~# dpkg -l qt*|grep ^i ii qt2-dev-tools 2.3.2-12 Qt2 development tools 11:01:40 daddy:~# dpkg -l

Re: math editor problems - 1.3.1

2003-03-22 Thread Amir Seginer
Hello, Hi.. I'm having trouble with some simple math in the math editor.. I'm getting errors saying there are missing $, } etc.. I'm attaching a sample file here which has 2 lines of math text that gives me 15 errors. Please let me know what needs to be done to correct this (if it can be

Corrupted TOC.lyx in 1.3.1

2003-03-22 Thread faunt
Odd thing I've run into is that TOC.lyx in documentation will not display. I get a message (on repeated attempts) about the file being truncated and it crashes LyX. I compared the installed file with the one in the original tarball and it matches. Has anyone else noticed this? thanks, jamie

interface to computer algebra systemts

2003-03-22 Thread Serge Winitzki
Hi, in 1.3.1 I noticed a new menu item use computer algebra system. I have some questions: - this feature is so far undocumented? - how to add new computer algebra systems, particularly free ones (gap, pari/gp, yacas, ...?) Can a user do this by putting something in .lyx directory? - I am

Re: Corrupted TOC.lyx in 1.3.1

2003-03-22 Thread John Levon
On Sat, Mar 22, 2003 at 04:35:42AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Odd thing I've run into is that TOC.lyx in documentation will not display. This is fixed now thanks john

Install error for LyX 1.3.1 ?!

2003-03-22 Thread Randy Burgess
I'm a Linux newbie, trying w/a great deal of frustration to install LyX 1.3.1. I'm using the Xforms front end, have already installed Xforms 1.0 and Xpm. My LyX configure went OK according to the messages. The C compiler (this is on a SuSE 8.1 distro) is gcc 3.2. When I went to install, things

Re: Install error for LyX 1.3.1 ?!

2003-03-22 Thread John Levon
On Sat, Mar 22, 2003 at 11:00:13PM +0800, Randy Burgess wrote: I'm a Linux newbie, trying w/a great deal of frustration to install LyX 1.3.1. I'm using the Xforms front end, have already installed Xforms 1.0 and Xpm. My LyX configure went OK according to the messages. The C compiler (this is

Re: Writing a Novel with LyX?

2003-03-22 Thread Randy Burgess
Alas, I end up submitting manuscripts either in hardcopy or in PDF so they can see what it looks like, and in ascii for their publishing process. Trade publishers always reset whatever an author submits, so the formatting is lost in any case. What about converting the ascii output to

Re: Adding Classes

2003-03-22 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Sat, 22 Mar 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Will LyX accept other properly defined doc classes? And, if so, how do I get LyX reconfigure to find and add them? Yes, I think that what you need to do is simply make sure that your second line in the layout file declares what latex class the

Re: Lyx and Latex Input and Output

2003-03-22 Thread John Levon
On Sat, Mar 22, 2003 at 01:32:03PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I current use LaTeX and love it, but WYSIWYG would be nice to have. I am confussed about LaTeX input/output. (1) The lyx main web site sayes Andre Ponitz is currently working to give lyx round-trip

Re: Q: How to import short source code extracts

2003-03-22 Thread Guido Ostkamp
On Sat, 22 Mar 2003, Dekel Tsur wrote: On Sat, Mar 22, 2003 at 12:31:26AM +0100, Guido Ostkamp wrote: However, I haven't found a comfortable way to import sourcecode from an existing ASCII-file without loosing all the formatting - i.e. the indentation with blanks and/or tabs in front of

Re: Adding Classes

2003-03-22 Thread faunt
On Sat, 22 Mar 2003, [ISO-8859-1] Christian Ridderström wrote: Thanks for the reply. I'm not finding any .layout files in any of the classes I've added successfully or unsuccessfully -- after compiling of course. I've had .sty or .sty and .cls files only on the ones that have worked so far. ??

Re: Corrupted TOC.lyx in 1.3.1

2003-03-22 Thread faunt
On Sat, 22 Mar 2003, John Levon wrote: On Sat, Mar 22, 2003 at 04:35:42AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Odd thing I've run into is that TOC.lyx in documentation will not display. This is fixed now Great -- thanks. I just checked ftp.lyx.org and can't find any update since the 19th. Can I

Re: Writing a Novel with LyX? (now off topic)

2003-03-22 Thread Todd Flaming
On 22 Mar 2003, Ronald Florence wrote: Todd Flaming [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The trade publishers frequently do a very nice job of editing and typesetting a book. But if you can hire a good editor and do the typesetting youself, you probably will do just as well self-publishing. Big

Re: Adding Classes

2003-03-22 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Sat, 22 Mar 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 22 Mar 2003, [ISO-8859-1] Christian Ridderström wrote: Thanks for the reply. I'm not finding any .layout files in any of the classes I've added successfully or unsuccessfully -- after compiling of course. I've had .sty or .sty and .cls

Re: page number location

2003-03-22 Thread Myriam Abramson
No. Whatever I do, I can't get the page number outside of the margins specified. What to do? Dekel Tsur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 06:14:48AM -0500, Myriam Abramson wrote: In the book document class, how do I change the page number location? It seems right now to

Re: Corrupted TOC.lyx in 1.3.1

2003-03-22 Thread John Levon
On Sat, Mar 22, 2003 at 01:12:27PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Great -- thanks. I just checked ftp.lyx.org and can't find any update since the 19th. Can I pull just that one file from somewhere?... or is there an updated 1.3.1 tarball? You either need to grab lyxdoc from CVS, or wait

Re: page number location

2003-03-22 Thread Myriam Abramson
Well, okay. I ended up changing the top margin and fixing headsep (in the lyx gui) and headwidth in preamble. Please note that maybe headwidth should be added to the document-paper interface thingie. Please let me know if there is a better solution. \renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}

compiling 1.3.1 qt on Debian Sid fails. Which qt libs?

2003-03-22 Thread Kenward Vaughan
I have the same problem mentioned by a fellow in an earlier thread, but I don't have a clue where my problem is. The qt packages I have installed are: -- 11:01:11 daddy:~# dpkg -l qt*|grep ^i ii qt2-dev-tools 2.3.2-12 Qt2 development tools 11:01:40 daddy:~# dpkg -l

Re: math editor problems - 1.3.1

2003-03-22 Thread Amir Seginer
Hello, Hi.. I'm having trouble with some simple math in the math editor.. I'm getting errors saying there are missing $, } etc.. I'm attaching a sample file here which has 2 lines of math text that gives me 15 errors. Please let me know what needs to be done to correct this (if it can be

Corrupted TOC.lyx in 1.3.1

2003-03-22 Thread faunt
Odd thing I've run into is that TOC.lyx in documentation will not display. I get a message (on repeated attempts) about the file being truncated and it crashes LyX. I compared the installed file with the one in the original tarball and it matches. Has anyone else noticed this? thanks, jamie

interface to computer algebra systemts

2003-03-22 Thread Serge Winitzki
Hi, in 1.3.1 I noticed a new menu item "use computer algebra system". I have some questions: - this feature is so far undocumented? - how to add new computer algebra systems, particularly free ones (gap, pari/gp, yacas, ...?) Can a user do this by putting something in .lyx directory? - I am

Re: Corrupted TOC.lyx in 1.3.1

2003-03-22 Thread John Levon
On Sat, Mar 22, 2003 at 04:35:42AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Odd thing I've run into is that TOC.lyx in documentation will not display. This is fixed now thanks john

Install error for LyX 1.3.1 ?!

2003-03-22 Thread Randy Burgess
I'm a Linux newbie, trying w/a great deal of frustration to install LyX 1.3.1. I'm using the Xforms front end, have already installed Xforms 1.0 and Xpm. My LyX configure went OK according to the messages. The C compiler (this is on a SuSE 8.1 distro) is gcc 3.2. When I went to install, things

Re: Install error for LyX 1.3.1 ?!

2003-03-22 Thread John Levon
On Sat, Mar 22, 2003 at 11:00:13PM +0800, Randy Burgess wrote: > I'm a Linux newbie, trying w/a great deal of frustration to install > LyX 1.3.1. I'm using the Xforms front end, have already installed > Xforms 1.0 and Xpm. My LyX configure went OK according to the > messages. The C compiler

Re: Writing a Novel with LyX?

2003-03-22 Thread Randy Burgess
> Alas, I end up submitting manuscripts either in > hardcopy or in PDF so they can see what it looks > like, and in ascii for their publishing > process. Trade publishers always reset whatever > an author submits, so the formatting is lost in > any case. What about converting the ascii

Re: Adding Classes

2003-03-22 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Sat, 22 Mar 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Will LyX accept other properly defined doc classes? And, if so, how do I > get LyX reconfigure to find and add them? > Yes, I think that what you need to do is simply make sure that your second line in the layout file declares what latex class the

Re: Lyx and Latex Input and Output

2003-03-22 Thread John Levon
On Sat, Mar 22, 2003 at 01:32:03PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I current use LaTeX and love it, but WYSIWYG would be nice to have. >I am confussed about LaTeX input/output. >(1) The lyx main web site sayes Andre Ponitz is currently working to > give lyx round-trip

Re: Q: How to import short source code extracts

2003-03-22 Thread Guido Ostkamp
On Sat, 22 Mar 2003, Dekel Tsur wrote: > On Sat, Mar 22, 2003 at 12:31:26AM +0100, Guido Ostkamp wrote: > > However, I haven't found a comfortable way to import sourcecode from > > an existing ASCII-file without loosing all the formatting - i.e. the > > indentation with blanks and/or tabs in

Re: Adding Classes

2003-03-22 Thread faunt
On Sat, 22 Mar 2003, [ISO-8859-1] Christian Ridderström wrote: Thanks for the reply. I'm not finding any .layout files in any of the classes I've added successfully or unsuccessfully -- after compiling of course. I've had .sty or .sty and .cls files only on the ones that have worked so far.

Re: Corrupted TOC.lyx in 1.3.1

2003-03-22 Thread faunt
On Sat, 22 Mar 2003, John Levon wrote: > On Sat, Mar 22, 2003 at 04:35:42AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Odd thing I've run into is that TOC.lyx in documentation will not display. > > This is fixed now Great -- thanks. I just checked ftp.lyx.org and can't find any update since the 19th.

Re: Writing a Novel with LyX? (now off topic)

2003-03-22 Thread Todd Flaming
On 22 Mar 2003, Ronald Florence wrote: > Todd Flaming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > The trade publishers frequently > > do a very nice job of editing and typesetting a book. But if you can hire > > a good editor and do the typesetting youself, you probably will do just as > > well

Re: Adding Classes

2003-03-22 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Sat, 22 Mar 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sat, 22 Mar 2003, [ISO-8859-1] Christian Ridderström wrote: > > Thanks for the reply. > > I'm not finding any .layout files in any of the classes I've added > successfully or unsuccessfully -- after compiling of course. I've had .sty > or .sty

Re: page number location

2003-03-22 Thread Myriam Abramson
No. Whatever I do, I can't get the page number outside of the margins specified. What to do? > Dekel Tsur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 06:14:48AM -0500, Myriam Abramson wrote: > > > > In the book document class, how do I change the page number location? > > It seems

Re: Corrupted TOC.lyx in 1.3.1

2003-03-22 Thread John Levon
On Sat, Mar 22, 2003 at 01:12:27PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Great -- thanks. I just checked ftp.lyx.org and can't find any update > since the 19th. Can I pull just that one file from somewhere?... or is > there an updated 1.3.1 tarball? You either need to grab lyxdoc from CVS, or wait

Re: page number location

2003-03-22 Thread Myriam Abramson
Well, okay. I ended up changing the top margin and fixing headsep (in the lyx gui) and headwidth in preamble. Please note that maybe headwidth should be added to the document->paper interface thingie. Please let me know if there is a better solution. \renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}

compiling 1.3.1 qt on Debian Sid fails. Which qt libs?

2003-03-22 Thread Kenward Vaughan
I have the same problem mentioned by a fellow in an earlier thread, but I don't have a clue where my problem is. The qt packages I have installed are: -- 11:01:11 daddy:~# dpkg -l "qt*"|grep ^i ii qt2-dev-tools 2.3.2-12 Qt2 development tools 11:01:40 daddy:~# dpkg -l

Re: math editor problems - 1.3.1

2003-03-22 Thread Amir Seginer
Hello, Hi.. I'm having trouble with some simple math in the math editor.. I'm getting errors saying there are missing $, } etc.. I'm attaching a sample file here which has 2 lines of math text that gives me 15 errors. Please let me know what needs to be done to correct this (if it can be