Re: Lyx for Win32, troubleshooting, Results

2003-10-28 Thread Frédéric Wullens
When I try to see eps picture in the Lyx window, Lyx uses convert.exe (I chose to do so) in order to convert the picture as either png, or bmp etc... formats. Having used the Lyx -dbg graphics function and having used by hand 'convert test.eps test', I could see that convert uses Ghostscript,

Re: Scientific Word files

2003-10-28 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 05:55:28PM +, Angus Leeming wrote: Andre Poenitz wrote: I would like to give it a try. Can it be obtained separately from the lyx source? I could send you a SuSE 8.3 binary for 32 bit Intel. 380k stripped... H. $ ldd tex2lyx libz.so.1 =

Re: Column alignment in a table (LyX-1.3.3)

2003-10-28 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 11:15:06AM -0800, Rich Shepard wrote: I checked the archives and found a thread from 2001 that asks how to change the default alignment in a table column from centered to left-aligned. Dekel Tsur's response doesn't seem to apply to the current version. I can change

Re: trouble with 1.3.3

2003-10-28 Thread Jose' Matos
On Tuesday 28 October 2003 07:03, Konrad Blum wrote: Hi, I am using lyx regularly to prepare slides and materials for classes. With 1.3.3 I am working quite happily under SuSE 8.2. since it was available. There was some problem with the rpm for SUSE 8.2. Jürgen, that made the package

Re: strange bug in RH9 qt lyx1.3.3

2003-10-28 Thread Jose' Matos
On Monday 27 October 2003 18:47, Jerome Schretter wrote: I don't have any solution to your specific problem. All I can say is that I had a similar problem with klipper on a RH7.3 system distribution and with lyx1.3.1 running under KDE. Me too. That is one of the reasons why I have klipper

Re: Lyx for Win32, troubleshooting, Results

2003-10-28 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 10:16:53PM +, Angus Leeming wrote: Yes, I have come to this conclusion myself and have changed the script appropriately. The relevant line is now FILE=`echo $arg2 | sed 's,^[^:]*:,,'` which cuts off anything up to and including the first ':'. In the long run

Re: Enterind a matrix

2003-10-28 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 04:03:20PM -0800, Rich Shepard wrote: On Mon, 27 Oct 2003, Christian Ridderström wrote: Hi, I'm not sure what your problem is, but I put an example here: http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/Examples/InsertMatrix Christian, Thank you. As I wrote in response

Re: Entering a matrix

2003-10-28 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 05:36:51PM -0800, Rich Shepard wrote: Perhaps it's just my installation. I don't know why I had so much trouble, but I just could not get a single, large highlight for all matrix elements. Try to put the cursor in the leftmost position of the first cell. Type Left,

Re: Lyx for Win32, troubleshooting, Results

2003-10-28 Thread Angus Leeming
Frédéric Wullens wrote: When I try to see eps picture in the Lyx window, Lyx uses convert.exe (I chose to do so) in order to convert the picture as either png, or bmp etc... formats. Having used the Lyx -dbg graphics function and having used by hand 'convert test.eps test', I could see

Re: trouble with 1.3.3

2003-10-28 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Konrad == Konrad Blum [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Konrad Hi, I am using lyx regularly to prepare slides and materials Konrad for classes. With 1.3.3 I am working quite happily under SuSE Konrad 8.2. since it was available. Konrad Since a few days something goes wrong - any time I try to save

Math-Font problem

2003-10-28 Thread Christoph Cattarius
Hello List, I have used lyx 1.3.0 under SuSE 8.2 with installed latex-ttf-fonts. With this version, the mathematical symbols were displayed correct in the math mode. Since I have updated to SuSE 9.0 and lyx 1.3.2, there is no correct math mode. Of course, I have re-installed the

Re: Math-Font problem

2003-10-28 Thread Angus Leeming
Christoph Cattarius wrote: Hello List, I have used lyx 1.3.0 under SuSE 8.2 with installed latex-ttf-fonts. With this version, the mathematical symbols were displayed correct in the math mode. Since I have updated to SuSE 9.0 and lyx 1.3.2, there is no correct math mode. Of course, I

Re: Math-Font problem

2003-10-28 Thread Christoph Cattarius
2. These fonts are deprecated. Use latex-xft-fonts instead. I have tried. With no success. That aside, you should ascertain what method your system uses to display fonts. If ldd reports something including: $ ldd qt-lyx libfontconfig.so.1 = /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1

Re: Math-Font problem

2003-10-28 Thread Angus Leeming
Christoph Cattarius wrote: 2. These fonts are deprecated. Use latex-xft-fonts instead. I have tried. With no success. Have you tried to ascertain why? Meanwhile, I have compiled lyx-1.3.3 myself. Under this version the math-mode works correct. Do you have a 'vanilla' suse 8.2 system? I

Re: Enterind a matrix

2003-10-28 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, Andre Poenitz wrote: There are may diferent ways. You get an 1x1 matrix e.g. by simply typing \arrayspace in math and can add rows and colums with either the menus or M-m w i / M-m c i Just out of curiosity, is that what you get using on the matrix button in the math

Re: Column alignment in a table (LyX-1.3.3)

2003-10-28 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, Jeannette Meyer wrote: Change the title cell to a multicolumn cell (in table settings). Then you can set the horizontal alignment individually. Jeannette, Thank you. Perhaps this should be in the Users Guide. Rich Dr. Richard B. Shepard, President

Re: Label placement for table reference

2003-10-28 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, Jeannette Meyer wrote: Place it at the beginning of the caption (right before your caption text). That should work, at least it works for me. The same goes for figures. You can rename the 'cap:' to 'fig:' or 'table:' if you want. Jeannette, Thank you again. It was the

lyx-1.3.3: make failed

2003-10-28 Thread Ulrich Hiller
Hi, I did configure of lyx-1.3.3 with the following: Configuration Host type: sparc-sun-solaris2.7 Special build flags: C Compiler: g++ C Compiler flags: -g -O2 C++ Compiler: g++ (3.2.1) C++ Compiler

Re: Entering a matrixy

2003-10-28 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, Andre Poenitz wrote: Try to put the cursor in the leftmost position of the first cell. Type Left, type Shift-Right. This should select the whole array as unit. Andre', Thank you again. As I do not need to revisit these two matrices I'll save this trick for the next one

Re: Column alignment in a table (LyX-1.3.3)

2003-10-28 Thread Angus Leeming
Rich Shepard wrote: Thank  you. Perhaps  this  should  be  in  the  Users Guide. Care to write a paragraph or two? A User Guide is perhaps best written by users... -- Angus

Re: lyx-1.3.3: make failed

2003-10-28 Thread Angus Leeming
Ulrich Hiller wrote: Hi, I did configure of lyx-1.3.3 with the following: Configuration C Compiler: g++ Configuration of LyX was successful. Type 'make' to compile the program, Now I did make: g++ -c -DLOCALEDIR=\/disk-b/hiller/lyx-1.3.3/share/locale\

Independent columns?

2003-10-28 Thread Biggles
Hello all, I'm in the process of converting a piece of text written in word format to Lyx. The author of the text however has written the text completely in a two columned table. The left column of the table is normal text, the right column are examples accompanying the text. The author insists

Re: Math-Font problem

2003-10-28 Thread Christoph Cattarius
2. These fonts are deprecated. Use latex-xft-fonts instead. I have tried. With no success. Have you tried to ascertain why? Sorry, I have no idea. My lyx-1.3.3. is now working fine. So I will give it up to ascertain the reasons why there are no math-fonts in lyx-1.3.2 under SuSE 9.0. I

Re: Independent columns?

2003-10-28 Thread Jose' Matos
On Tuesday 28 October 2003 13:56, Biggles wrote: Hello all, So, now my question: Is there any good method in Lyx that makes this possible? I have tried putting minipages into tables, but that was getting too complicated. A normal two column layout wouldn't work either I think, unless there

Re: Enterind a matrix

2003-10-28 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 01:49:55PM +0100, Christian Ridderström wrote: On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, Andre Poenitz wrote: There are may diferent ways. You get an 1x1 matrix e.g. by simply typing \arrayspace in math and can add rows and colums with either the menus or M-m w i / M-m c i Just out

Re: Independent columns?

2003-10-28 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 02:56:23PM +0100, Biggles wrote: So, now my question: Is there any good method in Lyx that makes this possible? I have tried putting minipages into tables, but that was getting too complicated. A normal two column layout wouldn't work either I think, unless there is

Re: Math-Font problem

2003-10-28 Thread Angus Leeming
Christoph Cattarius wrote: Perhaps you might consider uploading your binary to the lyx ftp site. Do you mean to build a .rpm packages of lyx-1.3.3 (qt) for SuSE 9.0? If one doesn't exist on the ftp site, then YES. make rpmdist should be all you need to do. -- Angus

Re: Independent columns?

2003-10-28 Thread Herbert Voß
Biggles schrieb: So, now my question: Is there any good method in Lyx that makes this possible? I have tried putting minipages into tables, but that was getting too complicated. A normal two column layout wouldn't work either I think, unless there is some command like columnbreak, which still

Re: Independent columns?

2003-10-28 Thread William Adams
[This was sent to me but I think it was destined to the list - José Matos] From: William Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] (ATLIS Graphics Design) Parallel.sty achieves something of this. You'd be best served I suspect gathering together a group of people w/ similar needs and paying David Kastrup to

A latex question --- why doesn't mathed work here?

2003-10-28 Thread Angus Leeming
How do I do this without ERT? I have the following in the author environment: A. Alpha[$^1$] and B. Beta[$^2$] Department of ABC, University of XYZ [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] where [$^1$] is an ERT inset containing $^1$, and it works fine (see attached lyx file). But if I replace

Re: Scientific Word files

2003-10-28 Thread Matej Cepl
Andre Poenitz wrote: Probably. I don't believe it is needed. Isn't it possible to include gzipped pictures into LyX? Matej -- Matej Cepl, GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC 138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617) 623-1488

Re: A latex question --- why doesn't mathed work here?

2003-10-28 Thread Angus Leeming
Angus Leeming wrote: How do I do this without ERT? Forget it, Display mode math. Doh! -- Angus

Re: Scientific Word files

2003-10-28 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 11:00:48AM -0500, Matej Cepl wrote: Andre Poenitz wrote: Probably. I don't believe it is needed. Isn't it possible to include gzipped pictures into LyX? Don't know. In any case, this does not affect tex2lyx, does it? Andre'

Re: Scientific Word files

2003-10-28 Thread Angus Leeming
Matej Cepl wrote: Andre Poenitz wrote: Probably. I don't believe it is needed. Isn't it possible to include gzipped pictures into LyX? Yes, but we are talking about translating the latex file into lyx file format, not processing the latex file into a dvi etc. -- Angus

Some questions for the LaTeX gurus...

2003-10-28 Thread Angus Leeming
I have the following definition in my preamble. %% Set the sections to be bold but otherewise the same size %% as normal text [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] {\parskip}% {\parskip}%

Re: Some questions for the LaTeX gurus...

2003-10-28 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 04:40:58PM +, Angus Leeming wrote: I have the following definition in my preamble. %% Set the sections to be bold but otherewise the same size %% as normal text [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] {\parskip}%

Re: Some questions for the LaTeX gurus...

2003-10-28 Thread Herbert Voß
Andre Poenitz schrieb: On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 04:40:58PM +, Angus Leeming wrote: I have the following definition in my preamble. %% Set the sections to be bold but otherewise the same size %% as normal text [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] {\parskip}%

What package to use to get a list of symbols?

2003-10-28 Thread Ananda Murthy R S
Hello: I am writing a technical book. In this I want to include list of symbols used to indicate different quantities. Is there any package which can be used for this? Please help. Thanks for your help. Ananda Murthy R S

How to get a black box with white text in it?

2003-10-28 Thread Ananda Murthy R S
Hello: I want a box filled with black and with white letters in it? How to do this? Thanks for your help. Ananda Murthy R S

Re: Column alignment in a table (LyX-1.3.3)

2003-10-28 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, Angus Leeming wrote: Rich Shepard wrote: Thank  you. Perhaps  this  should  be  in  the  Users Guide. Care to write a paragraph or two? A User Guide is perhaps best written by users... Sure. Rich Dr. Richard B. Shepard, President Applied

Re: Independent columns?

2003-10-28 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, Jose' Matos wrote: Maybe can help: http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/LaTeX/multicols/multicols.phtml I have a long table in my book that I set up using \being{multicols}{2} and \end{multicols}. It results in 'newspaper' style columns where text flows from the bottom

Re: What package to use to get a list of symbols?

2003-10-28 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, Ananda Murthy R S wrote: I am writing a technical book. In this I want to include list of symbols used to indicate different quantities. Is there any package which can be used for this? I found a 75-page pdf document that contains every symbol LaTeX can produce;

Re: Some questions for the LaTeX gurus...

2003-10-28 Thread Angus Leeming
Herbert Voß wrote: Question 2: what would I need to have the 'author' field otherwise as defined by the article class but with normal size text? http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/LaTeX/layouts/examples.phtml http://www.math.jussieu.fr/~zoonek/LaTeX/LaTeX_samples_title/0.html you have to

Re: What package to use to get a list of symbols?

2003-10-28 Thread Stefaan Himpe
Look in the comprehensive latex symbol list: http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/symbols/comprehensive/ Stefaan. Ananda Murthy R S wrote: Hello: I am writing a technical book. In this I want to include list of symbols used to indicate different quantities. Is there any package which can

Re: What package to use to get a list of symbols?

2003-10-28 Thread Angus Leeming
Rich Shepard wrote: On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, Ananda Murthy R S wrote: I am writing a technical book. In this I want to include list of symbols used to indicate different quantities. Is there any package which can be used for this? I found a 75-page pdf document that contains every symbol

Re: What package to use to get a list of symbols?

2003-10-28 Thread Andres Becerra Sandoval
Where? Andres. I found a 75-page pdf document that contains every symbol LaTeX can produce; probably every symbol in every language. :-) It was formatted for A4 page size so I converted it to letter size and printed it out. Extremely handy! Frequently there are more than one way of

Three questions

2003-10-28 Thread Vladimir Smagley
Hello, I'm writing dissertation using Lyx. So far Lyx seems to be a pleasant thing to work with. I have a few problems although, they are not complete showstoppers, there is always a way to get around, but still, they are quite annoying, I wonder if somebody would know any fix. 1) When I use

Re: Some questions for the LaTeX gurus...

2003-10-28 Thread Angus Leeming
Angus Leeming wrote: Herbert Voß wrote: Question 2: what would I need to have the 'author' field otherwise as defined by the article class but with normal size text? http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/LaTeX/layouts/examples.phtml

Re: What package to use to get a list of symbols?

2003-10-28 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, Andres Becerra Sandoval wrote: Where? Andres, I was afraid someone would ask that and I'd have to go find it again. :-) It is the fourth reference on a google search for 'latex symbols': http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/symbols/comprehensive/ There are now

Re: What package to use to get a list of symbols?

2003-10-28 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Rich Shepard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | I was afraid someone would ask that and I'd have to go find it again. :-) | It is the fourth reference on a google search for 'latex symbols': | http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/symbols/comprehensive/ Great document. The goal for us should

Re: Some questions for the LaTeX gurus...

2003-10-28 Thread Herbert Voß
Angus Leeming schrieb: Ok, Herbert. How do I make this: \def\maketitle{% {\LARGE [EMAIL PROTECTED] {\Large [EMAIL PROTECTED] } span both columns in two column mode? this should all be possible from within LyX.There mus also be a layout for the twoculumn abstract, have a look at the mail

Re: What package to use to get a list of symbols?

2003-10-28 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: The goal for us should of course be to be able to produce all these symbols in lyx without the use of ERT. Whoa! Can you imagine the size of the menu that would require? Writing only for myself, I don't mind at all entering LaTeX code and I

newbie q: Lyx error early in tutorial

2003-10-28 Thread tarvydas
I'm trying lyx for the first time and am walking through the tutorial. Version 1.3.2 Under Mandrake 9.2. When I get to tutorial step View DVI, I see only View PDF (pdflatex). I select it and get an error Cannot view file, No information for viewing PDF (pdflatex). Anybody know what's

Re: newbie q: Lyx error early in tutorial

2003-10-28 Thread Paul A. Rubin
[posted and mailed] tarvydas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm trying lyx for the first time and am walking through the tutorial. Version 1.3.2 Under Mandrake 9.2. When I get to tutorial step View DVI, I see only View PDF (pdflatex). I select it and get an error

Re: three questions

2003-10-28 Thread Vladimir Smagley
Sorry, I've forgot to mention all the specs... lyx-1.3.3-1rh9_qt eMachine Intel Celeron 633 Mhz, 256Mb Ram RedHat 9.0 John Sheahan wrote: Its probably including the version of lyx you are using and the platform its running on would help people answer your questions. regards, john On Wed,

Re: three questions

2003-10-28 Thread Kayvan A. Sylvan
On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 02:58:35PM -0700, Vladimir Smagley wrote: 1) When I use mouse to highlight large chunks of text (bigger than the size of open Lyx window), scrolling goes too fast, by the time I stop highlighting, I usually go far far away from the place where I intended to stop. Is

Re: Lyx for Win32, troubleshooting, Results

2003-10-28 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Frédéric Wullens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: When I try to see eps picture in the Lyx window, Lyx uses convert.exe (I chose to do so) in order to convert the picture as either png, or bmp etc... formats. Having used the Lyx -dbg graphics function and having used by

Re: Some questions for the LaTeX gurus...

2003-10-28 Thread Angus Leeming
Herbert Voß wrote: this should all be possible from within LyX.There mus also be a layout for the twoculumn abstract, have a look at the mail archive. Thanks Herbert. I'll try and digest this ;-) -- Angus

Re: Scientific Word files

2003-10-28 Thread Martijn Brouwer
Thanks for sending tex2lyx. When I run it on my revtex4 latex file it comlains: LyX: Unknown TextClass tag `MaxCounter' [around line 15 of file /usr/local/share/lyx/layouts/revtex4.layout] Error: Textclass '' is missing a defaultstyle. Assertion triggered in const LyXLayout_ptr

Re: How to get a black box with white text in it?

2003-10-28 Thread Peter Harkins
On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 10:57:19PM +0530, Ananda Murthy R S wrote: I want a box filled with black and with white letters in it? How to do this? See http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/LaTeX/color/color.phtml#frame for how to make a black box. Select the text in it and go Layout - Character -

Re: Lyx for Win32, troubleshooting, Results

2003-10-28 Thread Frédéric Wullens
When I try to see eps picture in the Lyx window, Lyx uses convert.exe (I chose to do so) in order to convert the picture as either png, or bmp etc... formats. Having used the Lyx -dbg graphics function and having used by hand 'convert test.eps test', I could see that convert uses Ghostscript,

Re: Scientific Word files

2003-10-28 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 05:55:28PM +, Angus Leeming wrote: Andre Poenitz wrote: I would like to give it a try. Can it be obtained separately from the lyx source? I could send you a SuSE 8.3 binary for 32 bit Intel. 380k stripped... H. $ ldd tex2lyx libz.so.1 =

Re: Column alignment in a table (LyX-1.3.3)

2003-10-28 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 11:15:06AM -0800, Rich Shepard wrote: I checked the archives and found a thread from 2001 that asks how to change the default alignment in a table column from centered to left-aligned. Dekel Tsur's response doesn't seem to apply to the current version. I can change

Re: trouble with 1.3.3

2003-10-28 Thread Jose' Matos
On Tuesday 28 October 2003 07:03, Konrad Blum wrote: Hi, I am using lyx regularly to prepare slides and materials for classes. With 1.3.3 I am working quite happily under SuSE 8.2. since it was available. There was some problem with the rpm for SUSE 8.2. Jürgen, that made the package

Re: strange bug in RH9 qt lyx1.3.3

2003-10-28 Thread Jose' Matos
On Monday 27 October 2003 18:47, Jerome Schretter wrote: I don't have any solution to your specific problem. All I can say is that I had a similar problem with klipper on a RH7.3 system distribution and with lyx1.3.1 running under KDE. Me too. That is one of the reasons why I have klipper

Re: Lyx for Win32, troubleshooting, Results

2003-10-28 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 10:16:53PM +, Angus Leeming wrote: Yes, I have come to this conclusion myself and have changed the script appropriately. The relevant line is now FILE=`echo $arg2 | sed 's,^[^:]*:,,'` which cuts off anything up to and including the first ':'. In the long run

Re: Enterind a matrix

2003-10-28 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 04:03:20PM -0800, Rich Shepard wrote: On Mon, 27 Oct 2003, Christian Ridderström wrote: Hi, I'm not sure what your problem is, but I put an example here: http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/Examples/InsertMatrix Christian, Thank you. As I wrote in response

Re: Entering a matrix

2003-10-28 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 05:36:51PM -0800, Rich Shepard wrote: Perhaps it's just my installation. I don't know why I had so much trouble, but I just could not get a single, large highlight for all matrix elements. Try to put the cursor in the leftmost position of the first cell. Type Left,

Re: Lyx for Win32, troubleshooting, Results

2003-10-28 Thread Angus Leeming
Frédéric Wullens wrote: When I try to see eps picture in the Lyx window, Lyx uses convert.exe (I chose to do so) in order to convert the picture as either png, or bmp etc... formats. Having used the Lyx -dbg graphics function and having used by hand 'convert test.eps test', I could see

Re: trouble with 1.3.3

2003-10-28 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Konrad == Konrad Blum [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Konrad Hi, I am using lyx regularly to prepare slides and materials Konrad for classes. With 1.3.3 I am working quite happily under SuSE Konrad 8.2. since it was available. Konrad Since a few days something goes wrong - any time I try to save

Math-Font problem

2003-10-28 Thread Christoph Cattarius
Hello List, I have used lyx 1.3.0 under SuSE 8.2 with installed latex-ttf-fonts. With this version, the mathematical symbols were displayed correct in the math mode. Since I have updated to SuSE 9.0 and lyx 1.3.2, there is no correct math mode. Of course, I have re-installed the

Re: Math-Font problem

2003-10-28 Thread Angus Leeming
Christoph Cattarius wrote: Hello List, I have used lyx 1.3.0 under SuSE 8.2 with installed latex-ttf-fonts. With this version, the mathematical symbols were displayed correct in the math mode. Since I have updated to SuSE 9.0 and lyx 1.3.2, there is no correct math mode. Of course, I

Re: Math-Font problem

2003-10-28 Thread Christoph Cattarius
2. These fonts are deprecated. Use latex-xft-fonts instead. I have tried. With no success. That aside, you should ascertain what method your system uses to display fonts. If ldd reports something including: $ ldd qt-lyx libfontconfig.so.1 = /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1

Re: Math-Font problem

2003-10-28 Thread Angus Leeming
Christoph Cattarius wrote: 2. These fonts are deprecated. Use latex-xft-fonts instead. I have tried. With no success. Have you tried to ascertain why? Meanwhile, I have compiled lyx-1.3.3 myself. Under this version the math-mode works correct. Do you have a 'vanilla' suse 8.2 system? I

Re: Enterind a matrix

2003-10-28 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, Andre Poenitz wrote: There are may diferent ways. You get an 1x1 matrix e.g. by simply typing \arrayspace in math and can add rows and colums with either the menus or M-m w i / M-m c i Just out of curiosity, is that what you get using on the matrix button in the math

Re: Column alignment in a table (LyX-1.3.3)

2003-10-28 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, Jeannette Meyer wrote: Change the title cell to a multicolumn cell (in table settings). Then you can set the horizontal alignment individually. Jeannette, Thank you. Perhaps this should be in the Users Guide. Rich Dr. Richard B. Shepard, President

Re: Label placement for table reference

2003-10-28 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, Jeannette Meyer wrote: Place it at the beginning of the caption (right before your caption text). That should work, at least it works for me. The same goes for figures. You can rename the 'cap:' to 'fig:' or 'table:' if you want. Jeannette, Thank you again. It was the

lyx-1.3.3: make failed

2003-10-28 Thread Ulrich Hiller
Hi, I did configure of lyx-1.3.3 with the following: Configuration Host type: sparc-sun-solaris2.7 Special build flags: C Compiler: g++ C Compiler flags: -g -O2 C++ Compiler: g++ (3.2.1) C++ Compiler

Re: Entering a matrixy

2003-10-28 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, Andre Poenitz wrote: Try to put the cursor in the leftmost position of the first cell. Type Left, type Shift-Right. This should select the whole array as unit. Andre', Thank you again. As I do not need to revisit these two matrices I'll save this trick for the next one

Re: Column alignment in a table (LyX-1.3.3)

2003-10-28 Thread Angus Leeming
Rich Shepard wrote: Thank  you. Perhaps  this  should  be  in  the  Users Guide. Care to write a paragraph or two? A User Guide is perhaps best written by users... -- Angus

Re: lyx-1.3.3: make failed

2003-10-28 Thread Angus Leeming
Ulrich Hiller wrote: Hi, I did configure of lyx-1.3.3 with the following: Configuration C Compiler: g++ Configuration of LyX was successful. Type 'make' to compile the program, Now I did make: g++ -c -DLOCALEDIR=\/disk-b/hiller/lyx-1.3.3/share/locale\

Independent columns?

2003-10-28 Thread Biggles
Hello all, I'm in the process of converting a piece of text written in word format to Lyx. The author of the text however has written the text completely in a two columned table. The left column of the table is normal text, the right column are examples accompanying the text. The author insists

Re: Math-Font problem

2003-10-28 Thread Christoph Cattarius
2. These fonts are deprecated. Use latex-xft-fonts instead. I have tried. With no success. Have you tried to ascertain why? Sorry, I have no idea. My lyx-1.3.3. is now working fine. So I will give it up to ascertain the reasons why there are no math-fonts in lyx-1.3.2 under SuSE 9.0. I

Re: Independent columns?

2003-10-28 Thread Jose' Matos
On Tuesday 28 October 2003 13:56, Biggles wrote: Hello all, So, now my question: Is there any good method in Lyx that makes this possible? I have tried putting minipages into tables, but that was getting too complicated. A normal two column layout wouldn't work either I think, unless there

Re: Enterind a matrix

2003-10-28 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 01:49:55PM +0100, Christian Ridderström wrote: On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, Andre Poenitz wrote: There are may diferent ways. You get an 1x1 matrix e.g. by simply typing \arrayspace in math and can add rows and colums with either the menus or M-m w i / M-m c i Just out

Re: Independent columns?

2003-10-28 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 02:56:23PM +0100, Biggles wrote: So, now my question: Is there any good method in Lyx that makes this possible? I have tried putting minipages into tables, but that was getting too complicated. A normal two column layout wouldn't work either I think, unless there is

Re: Math-Font problem

2003-10-28 Thread Angus Leeming
Christoph Cattarius wrote: Perhaps you might consider uploading your binary to the lyx ftp site. Do you mean to build a .rpm packages of lyx-1.3.3 (qt) for SuSE 9.0? If one doesn't exist on the ftp site, then YES. make rpmdist should be all you need to do. -- Angus

Re: Independent columns?

2003-10-28 Thread Herbert Voß
Biggles schrieb: So, now my question: Is there any good method in Lyx that makes this possible? I have tried putting minipages into tables, but that was getting too complicated. A normal two column layout wouldn't work either I think, unless there is some command like columnbreak, which still

Re: Independent columns?

2003-10-28 Thread William Adams
[This was sent to me but I think it was destined to the list - José Matos] From: William Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] (ATLIS Graphics Design) Parallel.sty achieves something of this. You'd be best served I suspect gathering together a group of people w/ similar needs and paying David Kastrup to

A latex question --- why doesn't mathed work here?

2003-10-28 Thread Angus Leeming
How do I do this without ERT? I have the following in the author environment: A. Alpha[$^1$] and B. Beta[$^2$] Department of ABC, University of XYZ [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] where [$^1$] is an ERT inset containing $^1$, and it works fine (see attached lyx file). But if I replace

Re: Scientific Word files

2003-10-28 Thread Matej Cepl
Andre Poenitz wrote: Probably. I don't believe it is needed. Isn't it possible to include gzipped pictures into LyX? Matej -- Matej Cepl, GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC 138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617) 623-1488

Re: A latex question --- why doesn't mathed work here?

2003-10-28 Thread Angus Leeming
Angus Leeming wrote: How do I do this without ERT? Forget it, Display mode math. Doh! -- Angus

Re: Scientific Word files

2003-10-28 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 11:00:48AM -0500, Matej Cepl wrote: Andre Poenitz wrote: Probably. I don't believe it is needed. Isn't it possible to include gzipped pictures into LyX? Don't know. In any case, this does not affect tex2lyx, does it? Andre'

Re: Scientific Word files

2003-10-28 Thread Angus Leeming
Matej Cepl wrote: Andre Poenitz wrote: Probably. I don't believe it is needed. Isn't it possible to include gzipped pictures into LyX? Yes, but we are talking about translating the latex file into lyx file format, not processing the latex file into a dvi etc. -- Angus

Some questions for the LaTeX gurus...

2003-10-28 Thread Angus Leeming
I have the following definition in my preamble. %% Set the sections to be bold but otherewise the same size %% as normal text [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] {\parskip}% {\parskip}%

Re: Some questions for the LaTeX gurus...

2003-10-28 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 04:40:58PM +, Angus Leeming wrote: I have the following definition in my preamble. %% Set the sections to be bold but otherewise the same size %% as normal text [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] {\parskip}%

Re: Some questions for the LaTeX gurus...

2003-10-28 Thread Herbert Voß
Andre Poenitz schrieb: On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 04:40:58PM +, Angus Leeming wrote: I have the following definition in my preamble. %% Set the sections to be bold but otherewise the same size %% as normal text [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] {\parskip}%

What package to use to get a list of symbols?

2003-10-28 Thread Ananda Murthy R S
Hello: I am writing a technical book. In this I want to include list of symbols used to indicate different quantities. Is there any package which can be used for this? Please help. Thanks for your help. Ananda Murthy R S

How to get a black box with white text in it?

2003-10-28 Thread Ananda Murthy R S
Hello: I want a box filled with black and with white letters in it? How to do this? Thanks for your help. Ananda Murthy R S

Re: Column alignment in a table (LyX-1.3.3)

2003-10-28 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, Angus Leeming wrote: Rich Shepard wrote: Thank  you. Perhaps  this  should  be  in  the  Users Guide. Care to write a paragraph or two? A User Guide is perhaps best written by users... Sure. Rich Dr. Richard B. Shepard, President Applied

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