Re: Xfig question

2003-09-22 Thread Jean-Pierre.Chretien
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 16:11:51 -0700 (PDT) From: James Frye [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Jean-Pierre.Chretien [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Xfig question On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Jean-Pierre.Chretien wrote: I too would like to know if there's some source of

Re: IBM Selectric

2003-09-22 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Andrew Criswell wrote: Does anyone know of a style file that mimics IBM selectric completely or how I can convert my LyX file to that style? I don't know how that looked, but the memoir class has an option ms which emulates typewriter. There is no memoir layout yet in the distribution, but I

Re: Clue needed: installing new package

2003-09-22 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 07:39:03PM +0200, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: Please pass me a clue here. #% Do not delete the line below; configure depends on this # \DeclareLaTeXClass{memoir} # Memoir textclass definition file (poor man's version). # Author: Jürgen Spitzmüller [EMAIL

Re: PDF Encryption for LyX Request

2003-09-22 Thread Angus Leeming
Marc Jeffrey Driftmeyer wrote: I am writing several works, from a couple novels to technical documents and would really love the ability to have an Inspector View (ala OS X Cocoa) to set PDF encryption for final output. Is this a subproject being considered yet? A search of CTAN suggests

Re: Clue needed: installing new package

2003-09-22 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Andre Poenitz wrote: Should this be added to lib/layouts? IMO yes. I have sent an enhanced version to the devel list. Jürgen.

Re: button tools

2003-09-22 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 12:31:58PM -0400, William O. Bray wrote: find that I often use this as well as the insert matrix dialog and it would be convenient to reach these without going through the math panel. It is easy to add buttons for \sum or \int. Apart from what John said: You can add

Re: Clue needed: installing new package

2003-09-22 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 09:58:47AM +0200, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: Andre Poenitz wrote: Should this be added to lib/layouts? IMO yes. I have sent an enhanced version to the devel list. Done for the lyx-devel part. Try to stick to LyX's indentation rules (tab for indentation, spaces for

Re: Clue needed: installing new package

2003-09-22 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Andre Poenitz wrote: Done for the lyx-devel part. Try to stick to LyX's indentation rules (tab for indentation, spaces for in-line-adjustments) and provide a ChangeLog entry next time. Thanks. I would have written a ChangeLog entry before applying (myself). Thanks for doing it anyway. I

Re: Clue needed: installing new package

2003-09-22 Thread Herbert Voß
Andre Poenitz schrieb: On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 07:39:03PM +0200, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: Please pass me a clue here. #% Do not delete the line below; configure depends on this # \DeclareLaTeXClass{memoir} # Memoir textclass definition file (poor man's version). # Author: Jürgen

Re: Clue needed: installing new package

2003-09-22 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Angus Leeming wrote: What makes you think that? I was just gessing (wrong, obviously). http://www.lyx.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/lyxdoc/?only_with_tag=lyx-1_3_2 I see. What is the difference between lyxdoc-1_3_2 and lyxdoc -BRANCH_1_3_X? The latter is the current stable branch while the former

Re: Clue needed: installing new package

2003-09-22 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Herbert Voß wrote: how would you control the different styles of memoir? book - article - ... If you write the layout file in this way, then you have chapters with the article option, too. And so the counting of the sections is wrong. from meman.tex: \item[\Lopt{article}] typesetting

Re: PDF Encryption for LyX Request

2003-09-22 Thread Herbert Voß
Angus Leeming schrieb: Marc Jeffrey Driftmeyer wrote: I am writing several works, from a couple novels to technical documents and would really love the ability to have an Inspector View (ala OS X Cocoa) to set PDF encryption for final output. Is this a subproject being considered yet? A search

Re: Clue needed: installing new package

2003-09-22 Thread Herbert Voß
Juergen Spitzmueller schrieb: Herbert Voß wrote: how would you control the different styles of memoir? book - article - ... If you write the layout file in this way, then you have chapters with the article option, too. And so the counting of the sections is wrong. from meman.tex:

Re: Clue needed: installing new package

2003-09-22 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Herbert Voß wrote: sure, I never said, that there are no chapters. I meant, that it is not a good way to have different counting of section titles in LyX gui and output. You lost me. If I have a memoir document with article option, an I use section without a chapter, I get 0.1 first section

Re: Clue needed: installing new package

2003-09-22 Thread Angus Leeming
Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: Angus Leeming wrote: What makes you think that? I was just gessing (wrong, obviously). http://www.lyx.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/lyxdoc/?only_with_tag=lyx-1_3_2 I see. What is the difference between lyxdoc-1_3_2 and lyxdoc -BRANCH_1_3_X? The latter is the

Re: Clue needed: installing new package

2003-09-22 Thread Herbert Voß
Juergen Spitzmueller schrieb: Herbert Voß wrote: sure, I never said, that there are no chapters. I meant, that it is not a good way to have different counting of section titles in LyX gui and output. You lost me. If I have a memoir document with article option, an I use section without a

Re: Clue needed: installing new package

2003-09-22 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Angus Leeming wrote: That is my understanding. lyxdoc-BRANCH_1_3_X is a true branch from the cvs tree. Its position evolves as bugs are fixed. The lyxdoc-1_3_2 specifies a point on this branch. Its position is immutable. Thanks for clarification, Angus. Jürgen.

xfig + lyx

2003-09-22 Thread Grant Goodyear
My apologies if this mail gets posted twice, but I sent the original yesterday and I haven't seen it arrive yet, so here's trying again. I seem to be having a rather difficult time getting xfig and lyx to play nicely together when exporting pstex/pstex_t files from xfig. I'm sure I'm doing

Re: xfig + lyx

2003-09-22 Thread Angus Leeming
Grant Goodyear wrote: My apologies if this mail gets posted twice, but I sent the original yesterday and I haven't seen it arrive yet, so here's trying again. I seem to be having a rather difficult time getting xfig and lyx to play nicely together when exporting pstex/pstex_t files from

Re: xfig + lyx

2003-09-22 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 09:01:36AM -0400, Grant Goodyear wrote: My apologies if this mail gets posted twice, but I sent the original yesterday and I haven't seen it arrive yet, so here's trying again. I seem to be having a rather difficult time getting xfig and lyx to play nicely together

Re: xfig + lyx

2003-09-22 Thread Herbert Vo
Grant Goodyear schrieb: The error I get is: Undefined control sequence. The control sequence at the end of the top line of your error message was never \def'ed. If you have misspelled it (e.g., `\hobx'), type `I' and the correct spelling (e.g., `I\hbox'). Otherwise just continue,

Shortcut-key expansion

2003-09-22 Thread Rich Shepard
Is it possible within LyX to define hot keys (e.g., alt-e) which will, when invoked, enter a string of text into the document? For example, in my book I write the string, environmental impact assessment many, many times. It would be nice to press a couple of keys and get the same result in the

Re: Shortcut-key expansion

2003-09-22 Thread Alfredo Braunstein
Rich Shepard wrote: Is it possible within LyX to define hot keys (e.g., alt-e) which will, when invoked, enter a string of text into the document? For example, in my book I write the string, environmental impact assessment many, many times. It would be nice to press a couple of keys and get

Re: Path to the lyx file cannot contain spaces

2003-09-22 Thread Paul A. Rubin
James Frye [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Bruce wrote: I get this message when try to preview a file that (suprise) is in a directory that has spaces in its name. Not that this is a huge deal, I'm just curious... why is this? There's an obvious

Re: Shortcut-key expansion

2003-09-22 Thread Alfredo Braunstein
Alfredo Braunstein wrote: \bind M-i e self-insert environmental impact assessment Of course, if you want it to be bound to alt-e, replace M-i e above by M-e. Alfredo

Index creation fails

2003-09-22 Thread Nick DeClario
Hi, I just recently started having a problem generating an index using LyX. This was working just fine at one point, however now it refuses to produce an index. I was using LyX 1.1.6fix3. Once the problem started occuring I decided to finally upgrade to the latest version, 1.3.2 which

Re: Path to the lyx file cannot contain spaces

2003-09-22 Thread Les Denham
On Monday 22 September 2003 13:40, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Sounds right for *nix, but spaces in paths are a way of life in the Windoze world (not sure about Macs, but I think they're legal there, too). Any software which allows commands with arguments has to have some way of separating commands

Re: Shortcut-key expansion

2003-09-22 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Alfredo Braunstein wrote: \bind M-i e self-insert environmental impact assessment Of course, if you want it to be bound to alt-e, replace M-i e above by M-e. Alfredo, Thanks very much. I must have missed a step because it's not working as intended. First, I

Re: Shortcut-key expansion

2003-09-22 Thread Alfredo Braunstein
Rich Shepard wrote: Still, when I press alt-e I get the edit menu. What have I missed? Unfortunately, you cannot use any key which is already taken by a menu shortcut (the underlined letters in the menus). So you'll have to choose another key. Alfredo

Re: Shortcut-key expansion

2003-09-22 Thread John Levon
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 09:36:22PM +0200, Alfredo Braunstein wrote: Still, when I press alt-e I get the edit menu. Unfortunately, you cannot use any key which is already taken by a menu shortcut (the underlined letters in the menus). So you'll have to choose another key. Or edit the

Re: Shortcut-key expansion

2003-09-22 Thread Ronald Florence
Alfredo Braunstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Rich Shepard wrote: Still, when I press alt-e I get the edit menu. What have I missed? Unfortunately, you cannot use any key which is already taken by a menu shortcut (the underlined letters in the menus). If you want to use a key

Re: Path to the lyx file cannot contain spaces

2003-09-22 Thread Angus Leeming
Paul A. Rubin wrote: Sounds right for *nix, but spaces in paths are a way of life in the Windoze world (not sure about Macs, but I think they're legal there, too). And your point is? LyX could happily support spaces in paths. However, it farms out all the 'hard' work to other utilities.

Re: Shortcut-key expansion

2003-09-22 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Alfredo Braunstein wrote: Unfortunately, you cannot use any key which is already taken by a menu shortcut (the underlined letters in the menus). So you'll have to choose another key. Of course! Rich Dr. Richard B. Shepard, President Applied

Re: Path to the lyx file cannot contain spaces

2003-09-22 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Angus Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Paul A. Rubin wrote: Sounds right for *nix, but spaces in paths are a way of life in the Windoze world (not sure about Macs, but I think they're legal there, too). And your point is? That those of us using Windows (not all

Re: Path to the lyx file cannot contain spaces

2003-09-22 Thread James Frye
On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Angus Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in That those of us using Windows (not all voluntarily, I might add) do have to make accommodations (such as renaming directories, or adding symbolic links) to use LyX (and, for that matter, most any software

\sectionmark

2003-09-22 Thread Kai Johannes Keller
Hello LyX-List, In a document I use fancy pagestyle and I want the chapters and sectiontitles to be printed in short form in the header, so some of the older E-mails tell that the command needed is: \sectionmark{abc} and it works for all the pages where no new section is started. But on this

Re: Path to the lyx file cannot contain spaces

2003-09-22 Thread John Levon
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 04:18:38PM -0700, James Frye wrote: Which I suppose was really my point: The universe in which I think most Lyx users spend most of their time is one in which simple, sensible software is a desirable goal. The rule about filenames not containing spaces is there for a

Re: Shortcut-key expansion

2003-09-22 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Rich Shepard wrote: On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Alfredo Braunstein wrote: Unfortunately, you cannot use any key which is already taken by a menu shortcut (the underlined letters in the menus). So you'll have to choose another key. See this URI for tips on creating

Re: Path to the lyx file cannot contain spaces

2003-09-22 Thread Matej Cepl
On 2003-09-22, 23:18 GMT, James Frye wrote: For that matter, even in Windows the real filenames don't contain spaces. Rather, each file has a name which follows the 8.3 rule, and a text label that can be used instead. That label may contain spaces (and be quite long), but the filename

Re: One for the LaTeX masters

2003-09-22 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Angus == Angus Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Angus Guys, the attached file works well enough, but it's rather Angus inelegant. I have defined a macro, so: Angus, I am not sure what was the concusion of this thread, but let me propose a \DoOrWarn variant: %% Do command #1 if file #2 exists,

Re: Path to the lyx file cannot contain spaces

2003-09-22 Thread Kayvan A. Sylvan
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 07:35:55PM -0400, Matej Cepl wrote: On 2003-09-22, 23:18 GMT, James Frye wrote: For that matter, even in Windows the real filenames don't contain spaces. Rather, each file has a name which follows the 8.3 rule, and a text label that can be used instead. That label

Re: Xfig question

2003-09-22 Thread Jean-Pierre.Chretien
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 16:11:51 -0700 (PDT) From: James Frye [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Jean-Pierre.Chretien [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Xfig question On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Jean-Pierre.Chretien wrote: I too would like to know if there's some source of

Re: IBM Selectric

2003-09-22 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Andrew Criswell wrote: Does anyone know of a style file that mimics IBM selectric completely or how I can convert my LyX file to that style? I don't know how that looked, but the memoir class has an option ms which emulates typewriter. There is no memoir layout yet in the distribution, but I

Re: Clue needed: installing new package

2003-09-22 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 07:39:03PM +0200, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: Please pass me a clue here. #% Do not delete the line below; configure depends on this # \DeclareLaTeXClass{memoir} # Memoir textclass definition file (poor man's version). # Author: Jürgen Spitzmüller [EMAIL

Re: PDF Encryption for LyX Request

2003-09-22 Thread Angus Leeming
Marc Jeffrey Driftmeyer wrote: I am writing several works, from a couple novels to technical documents and would really love the ability to have an Inspector View (ala OS X Cocoa) to set PDF encryption for final output. Is this a subproject being considered yet? A search of CTAN suggests

Re: Clue needed: installing new package

2003-09-22 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Andre Poenitz wrote: Should this be added to lib/layouts? IMO yes. I have sent an enhanced version to the devel list. Jürgen.

Re: button tools

2003-09-22 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 12:31:58PM -0400, William O. Bray wrote: find that I often use this as well as the insert matrix dialog and it would be convenient to reach these without going through the math panel. It is easy to add buttons for \sum or \int. Apart from what John said: You can add

Re: Clue needed: installing new package

2003-09-22 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 09:58:47AM +0200, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: Andre Poenitz wrote: Should this be added to lib/layouts? IMO yes. I have sent an enhanced version to the devel list. Done for the lyx-devel part. Try to stick to LyX's indentation rules (tab for indentation, spaces for

Re: Clue needed: installing new package

2003-09-22 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Andre Poenitz wrote: Done for the lyx-devel part. Try to stick to LyX's indentation rules (tab for indentation, spaces for in-line-adjustments) and provide a ChangeLog entry next time. Thanks. I would have written a ChangeLog entry before applying (myself). Thanks for doing it anyway. I

Re: Clue needed: installing new package

2003-09-22 Thread Herbert Voß
Andre Poenitz schrieb: On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 07:39:03PM +0200, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: Please pass me a clue here. #% Do not delete the line below; configure depends on this # \DeclareLaTeXClass{memoir} # Memoir textclass definition file (poor man's version). # Author: Jürgen

Re: Clue needed: installing new package

2003-09-22 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Angus Leeming wrote: What makes you think that? I was just gessing (wrong, obviously). http://www.lyx.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/lyxdoc/?only_with_tag=lyx-1_3_2 I see. What is the difference between lyxdoc-1_3_2 and lyxdoc -BRANCH_1_3_X? The latter is the current stable branch while the former

Re: Clue needed: installing new package

2003-09-22 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Herbert Voß wrote: how would you control the different styles of memoir? book - article - ... If you write the layout file in this way, then you have chapters with the article option, too. And so the counting of the sections is wrong. from meman.tex: \item[\Lopt{article}] typesetting

Re: PDF Encryption for LyX Request

2003-09-22 Thread Herbert Voß
Angus Leeming schrieb: Marc Jeffrey Driftmeyer wrote: I am writing several works, from a couple novels to technical documents and would really love the ability to have an Inspector View (ala OS X Cocoa) to set PDF encryption for final output. Is this a subproject being considered yet? A search

Re: Clue needed: installing new package

2003-09-22 Thread Herbert Voß
Juergen Spitzmueller schrieb: Herbert Voß wrote: how would you control the different styles of memoir? book - article - ... If you write the layout file in this way, then you have chapters with the article option, too. And so the counting of the sections is wrong. from meman.tex:

Re: Clue needed: installing new package

2003-09-22 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Herbert Voß wrote: sure, I never said, that there are no chapters. I meant, that it is not a good way to have different counting of section titles in LyX gui and output. You lost me. If I have a memoir document with article option, an I use section without a chapter, I get 0.1 first section

Re: Clue needed: installing new package

2003-09-22 Thread Angus Leeming
Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: Angus Leeming wrote: What makes you think that? I was just gessing (wrong, obviously). http://www.lyx.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/lyxdoc/?only_with_tag=lyx-1_3_2 I see. What is the difference between lyxdoc-1_3_2 and lyxdoc -BRANCH_1_3_X? The latter is the

Re: Clue needed: installing new package

2003-09-22 Thread Herbert Voß
Juergen Spitzmueller schrieb: Herbert Voß wrote: sure, I never said, that there are no chapters. I meant, that it is not a good way to have different counting of section titles in LyX gui and output. You lost me. If I have a memoir document with article option, an I use section without a

Re: Clue needed: installing new package

2003-09-22 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Angus Leeming wrote: That is my understanding. lyxdoc-BRANCH_1_3_X is a true branch from the cvs tree. Its position evolves as bugs are fixed. The lyxdoc-1_3_2 specifies a point on this branch. Its position is immutable. Thanks for clarification, Angus. Jürgen.

xfig + lyx

2003-09-22 Thread Grant Goodyear
My apologies if this mail gets posted twice, but I sent the original yesterday and I haven't seen it arrive yet, so here's trying again. I seem to be having a rather difficult time getting xfig and lyx to play nicely together when exporting pstex/pstex_t files from xfig. I'm sure I'm doing

Re: xfig + lyx

2003-09-22 Thread Angus Leeming
Grant Goodyear wrote: My apologies if this mail gets posted twice, but I sent the original yesterday and I haven't seen it arrive yet, so here's trying again. I seem to be having a rather difficult time getting xfig and lyx to play nicely together when exporting pstex/pstex_t files from

Re: xfig + lyx

2003-09-22 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 09:01:36AM -0400, Grant Goodyear wrote: My apologies if this mail gets posted twice, but I sent the original yesterday and I haven't seen it arrive yet, so here's trying again. I seem to be having a rather difficult time getting xfig and lyx to play nicely together

Re: xfig + lyx

2003-09-22 Thread Herbert Vo
Grant Goodyear schrieb: The error I get is: Undefined control sequence. The control sequence at the end of the top line of your error message was never \def'ed. If you have misspelled it (e.g., `\hobx'), type `I' and the correct spelling (e.g., `I\hbox'). Otherwise just continue,

Shortcut-key expansion

2003-09-22 Thread Rich Shepard
Is it possible within LyX to define hot keys (e.g., alt-e) which will, when invoked, enter a string of text into the document? For example, in my book I write the string, environmental impact assessment many, many times. It would be nice to press a couple of keys and get the same result in the

Re: Shortcut-key expansion

2003-09-22 Thread Alfredo Braunstein
Rich Shepard wrote: Is it possible within LyX to define hot keys (e.g., alt-e) which will, when invoked, enter a string of text into the document? For example, in my book I write the string, environmental impact assessment many, many times. It would be nice to press a couple of keys and get

Re: Path to the lyx file cannot contain spaces

2003-09-22 Thread Paul A. Rubin
James Frye [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Bruce wrote: I get this message when try to preview a file that (suprise) is in a directory that has spaces in its name. Not that this is a huge deal, I'm just curious... why is this? There's an obvious

Re: Shortcut-key expansion

2003-09-22 Thread Alfredo Braunstein
Alfredo Braunstein wrote: \bind M-i e self-insert environmental impact assessment Of course, if you want it to be bound to alt-e, replace M-i e above by M-e. Alfredo

Index creation fails

2003-09-22 Thread Nick DeClario
Hi, I just recently started having a problem generating an index using LyX. This was working just fine at one point, however now it refuses to produce an index. I was using LyX 1.1.6fix3. Once the problem started occuring I decided to finally upgrade to the latest version, 1.3.2 which

Re: Path to the lyx file cannot contain spaces

2003-09-22 Thread Les Denham
On Monday 22 September 2003 13:40, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Sounds right for *nix, but spaces in paths are a way of life in the Windoze world (not sure about Macs, but I think they're legal there, too). Any software which allows commands with arguments has to have some way of separating commands

Re: Shortcut-key expansion

2003-09-22 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Alfredo Braunstein wrote: \bind M-i e self-insert environmental impact assessment Of course, if you want it to be bound to alt-e, replace M-i e above by M-e. Alfredo, Thanks very much. I must have missed a step because it's not working as intended. First, I

Re: Shortcut-key expansion

2003-09-22 Thread Alfredo Braunstein
Rich Shepard wrote: Still, when I press alt-e I get the edit menu. What have I missed? Unfortunately, you cannot use any key which is already taken by a menu shortcut (the underlined letters in the menus). So you'll have to choose another key. Alfredo

Re: Shortcut-key expansion

2003-09-22 Thread John Levon
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 09:36:22PM +0200, Alfredo Braunstein wrote: Still, when I press alt-e I get the edit menu. Unfortunately, you cannot use any key which is already taken by a menu shortcut (the underlined letters in the menus). So you'll have to choose another key. Or edit the

Re: Shortcut-key expansion

2003-09-22 Thread Ronald Florence
Alfredo Braunstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Rich Shepard wrote: Still, when I press alt-e I get the edit menu. What have I missed? Unfortunately, you cannot use any key which is already taken by a menu shortcut (the underlined letters in the menus). If you want to use a key

Re: Path to the lyx file cannot contain spaces

2003-09-22 Thread Angus Leeming
Paul A. Rubin wrote: Sounds right for *nix, but spaces in paths are a way of life in the Windoze world (not sure about Macs, but I think they're legal there, too). And your point is? LyX could happily support spaces in paths. However, it farms out all the 'hard' work to other utilities.

Re: Shortcut-key expansion

2003-09-22 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Alfredo Braunstein wrote: Unfortunately, you cannot use any key which is already taken by a menu shortcut (the underlined letters in the menus). So you'll have to choose another key. Of course! Rich Dr. Richard B. Shepard, President Applied

Re: Path to the lyx file cannot contain spaces

2003-09-22 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Angus Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Paul A. Rubin wrote: Sounds right for *nix, but spaces in paths are a way of life in the Windoze world (not sure about Macs, but I think they're legal there, too). And your point is? That those of us using Windows (not all

Re: Path to the lyx file cannot contain spaces

2003-09-22 Thread James Frye
On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Angus Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in That those of us using Windows (not all voluntarily, I might add) do have to make accommodations (such as renaming directories, or adding symbolic links) to use LyX (and, for that matter, most any software

\sectionmark

2003-09-22 Thread Kai Johannes Keller
Hello LyX-List, In a document I use fancy pagestyle and I want the chapters and sectiontitles to be printed in short form in the header, so some of the older E-mails tell that the command needed is: \sectionmark{abc} and it works for all the pages where no new section is started. But on this

Re: Path to the lyx file cannot contain spaces

2003-09-22 Thread John Levon
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 04:18:38PM -0700, James Frye wrote: Which I suppose was really my point: The universe in which I think most Lyx users spend most of their time is one in which simple, sensible software is a desirable goal. The rule about filenames not containing spaces is there for a

Re: Shortcut-key expansion

2003-09-22 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Rich Shepard wrote: On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Alfredo Braunstein wrote: Unfortunately, you cannot use any key which is already taken by a menu shortcut (the underlined letters in the menus). So you'll have to choose another key. See this URI for tips on creating

Re: Path to the lyx file cannot contain spaces

2003-09-22 Thread Matej Cepl
On 2003-09-22, 23:18 GMT, James Frye wrote: For that matter, even in Windows the real filenames don't contain spaces. Rather, each file has a name which follows the 8.3 rule, and a text label that can be used instead. That label may contain spaces (and be quite long), but the filename

Re: One for the LaTeX masters

2003-09-22 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Angus == Angus Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Angus Guys, the attached file works well enough, but it's rather Angus inelegant. I have defined a macro, so: Angus, I am not sure what was the concusion of this thread, but let me propose a \DoOrWarn variant: %% Do command #1 if file #2 exists,

Re: Path to the lyx file cannot contain spaces

2003-09-22 Thread Kayvan A. Sylvan
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 07:35:55PM -0400, Matej Cepl wrote: On 2003-09-22, 23:18 GMT, James Frye wrote: For that matter, even in Windows the real filenames don't contain spaces. Rather, each file has a name which follows the 8.3 rule, and a text label that can be used instead. That label

Re: Xfig question

2003-09-22 Thread Jean-Pierre.Chretien
>>Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 16:11:51 -0700 (PDT) >>From: James Frye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>To: "Jean-Pierre.Chretien" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Subject: Re: Xfig question >> >>On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Jean-Pierre.Chretien wrote: >> >>> >>I too would like to know if

Re: IBM Selectric

2003-09-22 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Andrew Criswell wrote: > Does anyone know of a style file that mimics IBM selectric completely or > how I can convert my LyX file to that style? I don't know how that looked, but the memoir class has an option "ms" which emulates typewriter. There is no memoir layout yet in the distribution, but

Re: Clue needed: installing new package

2003-09-22 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 07:39:03PM +0200, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: > > Please pass me a clue here. > #% Do not delete the line below; configure depends on this > # \DeclareLaTeXClass{memoir} > # Memoir textclass definition file (poor man's version). > # Author: Jürgen Spitzmüller <[EMAIL

Re: PDF Encryption for LyX Request

2003-09-22 Thread Angus Leeming
Marc Jeffrey Driftmeyer wrote: > I am writing several works, from a couple novels to technical documents > and would really love the ability to have an Inspector View (ala OS X > Cocoa) to set PDF encryption for final output. > > Is this a subproject being considered yet? A search of CTAN

Re: Clue needed: installing new package

2003-09-22 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Andre Poenitz wrote: > Should this be added to lib/layouts? IMO yes. I have sent an enhanced version to the devel list. Jürgen.

Re: button tools

2003-09-22 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 12:31:58PM -0400, William O. Bray wrote: > find that I often use this as well as the insert matrix dialog and it would > be convenient to reach these without going through the math panel. > It is easy to add buttons for \sum or \int. Apart from what John said: You can

Re: Clue needed: installing new package

2003-09-22 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 09:58:47AM +0200, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: > Andre Poenitz wrote: > > Should this be added to lib/layouts? > > IMO yes. I have sent an enhanced version to the devel list. Done for the lyx-devel part. Try to stick to LyX's indentation rules (tab for indentation, spaces

Re: Clue needed: installing new package

2003-09-22 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Andre Poenitz wrote: > Done for the lyx-devel part. Try to stick to LyX's indentation rules > (tab for indentation, spaces for in-line-adjustments) and provide a > ChangeLog entry next time. Thanks. I would have written a ChangeLog entry before applying (myself). Thanks for doing it anyway. > I

Re: Clue needed: installing new package

2003-09-22 Thread Herbert Voß
Andre Poenitz schrieb: On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 07:39:03PM +0200, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: Please pass me a clue here. #% Do not delete the line below; configure depends on this # \DeclareLaTeXClass{memoir} # Memoir textclass definition file (poor man's version). # Author: Jürgen

Re: Clue needed: installing new package

2003-09-22 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Angus Leeming wrote: > What makes you think that? I was just gessing (wrong, obviously). > http://www.lyx.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/lyxdoc/?only_with_tag=lyx-1_3_2 I see. What is the difference between lyxdoc-1_3_2 and lyxdoc -BRANCH_1_3_X? The latter is the current stable branch while the

Re: Clue needed: installing new package

2003-09-22 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Herbert Voß wrote: > how would you control the different styles of memoir? > book - article - ... > If you write the layout file in this way, then you have > chapters with the article option, too. And so the > counting of the sections is wrong. from meman.tex: \item[\Lopt{article}] typesetting

Re: PDF Encryption for LyX Request

2003-09-22 Thread Herbert Voß
Angus Leeming schrieb: Marc Jeffrey Driftmeyer wrote: I am writing several works, from a couple novels to technical documents and would really love the ability to have an Inspector View (ala OS X Cocoa) to set PDF encryption for final output. Is this a subproject being considered yet? A search

Re: Clue needed: installing new package

2003-09-22 Thread Herbert Voß
Juergen Spitzmueller schrieb: Herbert Voß wrote: how would you control the different styles of memoir? book - article - ... If you write the layout file in this way, then you have chapters with the article option, too. And so the counting of the sections is wrong. from meman.tex:

Re: Clue needed: installing new package

2003-09-22 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Herbert Voß wrote: > sure, I never said, that there are no chapters. > I meant, that it is not a good way to have different > counting of section titles in LyX gui and output. You lost me. If I have a memoir document with article option, an I use section without a chapter, I get 0.1 first

Re: Clue needed: installing new package

2003-09-22 Thread Angus Leeming
Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: > Angus Leeming wrote: >> What makes you think that? > > I was just gessing (wrong, obviously). > >> http://www.lyx.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/lyxdoc/?only_with_tag=lyx-1_3_2 > > I see. What is the difference between lyxdoc-1_3_2 and lyxdoc > -BRANCH_1_3_X? The latter

Re: Clue needed: installing new package

2003-09-22 Thread Herbert Voß
Juergen Spitzmueller schrieb: Herbert Voß wrote: sure, I never said, that there are no chapters. I meant, that it is not a good way to have different counting of section titles in LyX gui and output. You lost me. If I have a memoir document with article option, an I use section without a

Re: Clue needed: installing new package

2003-09-22 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Angus Leeming wrote: > That is my understanding. lyxdoc-BRANCH_1_3_X is a true branch from the cvs > tree. Its position evolves as bugs are fixed. The lyxdoc-1_3_2 specifies a > point on this branch. Its position is immutable. Thanks for clarification, Angus. Jürgen.

xfig + lyx

2003-09-22 Thread Grant Goodyear
My apologies if this mail gets posted twice, but I sent the original yesterday and I haven't seen it arrive yet, so here's trying again. I seem to be having a rather difficult time getting xfig and lyx to play nicely together when exporting pstex/pstex_t files from xfig. I'm sure I'm doing

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