Re: Simple (?) printer setup trouble ...

2003-11-13 Thread Alfredo Braunstein
Soren O'Neill wrote: No exporting (from lyx) to postscript fails: Cannot convert file. Error while executing dvi2ps -t a4 I'm not sure, but I think that message is consistent with inability to find (or open) the DVI file. Wasn't his program called dvips, *not* dvi2ps? Soren: you probably

Re: Working with LaTeX macros and copy editors

2003-11-13 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 01:12:51PM -0800, Rich Shepard wrote: On Wed, 12 Nov 2003, Rich Shepard wrote: A major publisher (Springer-Verlag New York) notified me yesterday that they want to publish my book. They have a bunch of LaTeX macros they want me to use in the preparation of the

Re: LyX .layout from LaTeX .cls

2003-11-13 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Rich Shepard wrote: I copied book.layout to svmono.layout. All 840 bytes worth. :-) I suppose that I can just add the Springer .cls file to it, but ... there's a lot there I cannot place in the very few categories I see in the .layout file. The most important part (apart from renaming

Re: LyX .layout from LaTeX .cls

2003-11-13 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: If you want to have native support for a special environment of svmono, don't hesitate and ask. Actually you can just copy some of them (especially the theorem like env) from svjour.inc (which is to be found in the layouts directory). Jürgen.

Protokoll 12.11.03

2003-11-13 Thread Samuel Hammer
Hallo Glacis, An/Ab: Michael ist ab 13.11 - 24.11 weg. Aber wahescheinlich über Mail und Tel.: +34 93 2472460 erreichbar. Julia: ist nächste Woche von Mi - Fr. weg. 19. - 21. 11 Dietmar ist ab Fr. wieder da.

Sorry wrong address

2003-11-13 Thread Samuel Hammer
Sorry wrong address

Re: hyperlink w/o URL

2003-11-13 Thread Nirmal Govind
Thanks Kayvan.. nirmal Kayvan A. Sylvan wrote: Use hyperref and then \href{http://the-url}{Click Here} I think there are examples at http://www.lyx.org/help Best regards, ---Kayvan

Re: Presentation on LyX/LaTeX

2003-11-13 Thread Jose' Matos
On Thursday 13 November 2003 10:23, Nirmal Govind wrote: Hi folks, I made a presentation on LyX/LaTeX to the LUG here at Penn State yesterday. Below is the link in case someone's interested in doing something similar... http://www.personal.psu.edu/nug107/lyx/LyX_PSU_LUG.pdf

rules

2003-11-13 Thread Todd O'Bryan
Am I missing the ability to add LaTeX rules of the form \rule{2.5in}{.1mm} somewhere? I mean, I can add them in a TeX red box, but they obviously don't show up as lines in my document. And, in case you're wondering, I teach, so they're an easy way to make blanks. Todd

Re: Presentation on LyX/LaTeX

2003-11-13 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 05:23:53AM -0500, Nirmal Govind wrote: Hi folks, I made a presentation on LyX/LaTeX to the LUG here at Penn State yesterday. Below is the link in case someone's interested in doing something similar... http://www.personal.psu.edu/nug107/lyx/LyX_PSU_LUG.pdf You

newspaper printing

2003-11-13 Thread Hartmut Haase
Hi, I want to print A4 pages on A3 in a newspaper fashion, i. e. the sequence should be: page 1 page n page n-1 page 2 page 3 page n-2 ... Is that with LyX or LaTeX possible? If yes, how? -- Regards Hartmut Haase Hungerhilfe: http://www.thehungersite.com Das heutige Motto: Macho does not prove

Re: newspaper printing

2003-11-13 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 12:58:13PM +0100, Hartmut Haase wrote: Hi, I want to print A4 pages on A3 in a newspaper fashion, i. e. the sequence should be: page 1 page n page n-1 page 2 page 3 page n-2 ... Is that with LyX or LaTeX possible? If yes, how? The program 'psbook' rearranges pages

Re: newspaper printing

2003-11-13 Thread Tuukka Toivonen
On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Hartmut Haase wrote: I want to print A4 pages on A3 in a newspaper fashion, i. e. the sequence I'm not quite sure what you mean, but with psutils and especially with pstops you can do many kind of tricks after exported the files as postscript. Read the manpages.

Re: Presentation on LyX/LaTeX

2003-11-13 Thread Nirmal Govind
Thanks Jose' and hi Andre' ... You managed to pick a code example showing quite a few sins ;-) Completely unintentional I assure you.. :-) (has to be - cos I haven't tried to understand the code anyways!) What document class did you use? I used pdfscreen ... nirmal

LyX Code after enumeration

2003-11-13 Thread Todd O'Bryan
I'm creating a multiple choice test, in which I'd like to put code examples right after an Enumeration letter, i.e. 1. Which of the following does foo? (a) This is code this is more code and should be lined up with the code above (b) more code code with (b) 2. Next

Re: Presentation on LyX/LaTeX

2003-11-13 Thread Angus Leeming
Nirmal Govind wrote: Thanks Jose' and hi Andre' ... You managed to pick a code example showing quite a few sins ;-) Completely unintentional I assure you.. :-) (has to be - cos I haven't tried to understand the code anyways!) What document class did you use? I used pdfscreen ...

Re: Presentation on LyX/LaTeX

2003-11-13 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 01:51:46PM +, Angus Leeming wrote: Could you post the lyx file too? I'm writing some presentations myself and am all in favour of ditching powerpoint ;-) And a German translation perhaps? I am supposed to give a talk on LyX on Dec 18... ;-) Andre'

Re: LyX Code after enumeration

2003-11-13 Thread Jose' Matos
On Thursday 13 November 2003 13:44, Todd O'Bryan wrote: I'm creating a multiple choice test, in which I'd like to put code examples right after an Enumeration letter, i.e. 1. Which of the following does foo? (a) This is code this is more code and should be lined up with

Re: LyX Code after enumeration

2003-11-13 Thread Luiz Eleno
I think the attached file here is what you want. Jose' Matos wrote: On Thursday 13 November 2003 13:44, Todd O'Bryan wrote: I'm creating a multiple choice test, in which I'd like to put code examples right after an Enumeration letter, i.e. 1. Which of the following does foo? (a) This is code

A Resume template

2003-11-13 Thread Chhabra, Paras
Hi all, I am newbie to lyx and find it powerful but sometimes difficult. I'll take some time to get to understand all its functionalities. My requirement at hand is to write a resume, and an already available template will be very helpful. Can anybody send me a lyx file of a resume or

Re: Presentation on LyX/LaTeX

2003-11-13 Thread Nirmal Govind
Could you post the lyx file too? I'm writing some presentations myself and am all in favour of ditching powerpoint ;-) Yes, I've posted the archive here: http://www.personal.psu.edu/nug107/lyx/LyX_PSU_LUG.tar.gz It has the pdfscreen2.sty file, pdfscreen.layout for lyx and of course the lyx

Re: A Resume template

2003-11-13 Thread Nirmal Govind
Hi... you'll find examples at: http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/ExampleCV/ExampleCV nirmal Can anybody send me a lyx file of a resume or its template. Hope this does'nt flood the mailbox. A standard template will be the best. Thanks, Paras

Re: Presentation on LyX/LaTeX

2003-11-13 Thread Angus Leeming
Nirmal Govind wrote: Could you post the lyx file too? I'm writing some presentations myself and am all in favour of ditching powerpoint ;-) Yes, I've posted the archive here: http://www.personal.psu.edu/nug107/lyx/LyX_PSU_LUG.tar.gz It has the pdfscreen2.sty file, pdfscreen.layout

Re: newspaper printing

2003-11-13 Thread Herbert Voß
Hartmut Haase schrieb: Hi, I want to print A4 pages on A3 in a newspaper fashion, i. e. the sequence should be: page 1 page n page n-1 page 2 page 3 page n-2 ... Is that with LyX or LaTeX possible? If yes, how? from within LyX create a new document, write in preamble: \usepackage{pdfpages}

Re: Presentation on LyX/LaTeX

2003-11-13 Thread M.B. Schiekel
Nirmal Govind wrote: And a German translation perhaps? I am supposed to give a talk on LyX on Dec 18... ;-) Aah I see.. German translation - sure, maybe in a few years.. :-) Hallo, if nirmal does agree, I can try a German translation of this nice presentation (but with his original

Re: LyX-1.3.3-qt on Fedora Core 1

2003-11-13 Thread Anand Rangarajan
I haven't seen a response from David Utidjian regarding Lyx-1.3.3-1_qt on Fedora Core 1. So, I took the src rpm file from ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.3.3/lyx-1.3.3-1_qt.src.rpm and built lyx-1.3.3-1_qt on a linux box running Fedora Core 1. The lyx rpm is available at

Re: LyX .layout from LaTeX .cls

2003-11-13 Thread Matej Cepl
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rich Shepard wrote: I copied book.layout to svmono.layout. All 840 bytes worth. :-) I suppose that I can just add the Springer .cls file to it, but ... there's a lot there I cannot place in the very few categories I see in the .layout file.

Re: Presentation on LyX/LaTeX

2003-11-13 Thread Kayvan A. Sylvan
On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 05:23:53AM -0500, Nirmal Govind wrote: Hi folks, I made a presentation on LyX/LaTeX to the LUG here at Penn State yesterday. Below is the link in case someone's interested in doing something similar... http://www.personal.psu.edu/nug107/lyx/LyX_PSU_LUG.pdf

Re: Presentation on LyX/LaTeX

2003-11-13 Thread Karsten Heymann
On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 05:23:53 -0500 Nirmal Govind [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks, I made a presentation on LyX/LaTeX to the LUG here at Penn State yesterday. Below is the link in case someone's interested in doing something similar...

Re: Presentation on LyX/LaTeX

2003-11-13 Thread Nirmal Govind
Hallo, if nirmal does agree, I can try a German translation of this nice presentation (but with his original English Lyx-version screeshots). Might be, that we can have it shorter than in a few years ;-) Oh sure... that would be great Bernhard... thanks! Let me know if I can help in any way

Re: Presentation on LyX/LaTeX

2003-11-13 Thread M.B. Schiekel
Nirmal Govind wrote: http://www.personal.psu.edu/nug107/lyx/LyX_PSU_LUG.tar.gz It has the pdfscreen2.sty file, pdfscreen.layout for lyx and of course the lyx and graphics files... well, I put the pdfscreen.layout in \usr\share\lyx\layouts and the pdfscreen2.sty in \usr\share\lyx\tex then

Re: Presentation on LyX/LaTeX

2003-11-13 Thread Nirmal Govind
and the pdfscreen2.sty in \usr\share\lyx\tex Is the above path defined in your texmf.cnf file? (you can find where this file is located by running kpsewhich texmf.cnf).. you probably want to put it in your localtexmf directory (say, for e.g. at /home/username/texmf/tex/latex/pdfscreen/ or so)..

Re: Presentation on LyX/LaTeX

2003-11-13 Thread Angus Leeming
M.B. Schiekel wrote: Nirmal Govind wrote: http://www.personal.psu.edu/nug107/lyx/LyX_PSU_LUG.tar.gz It has the pdfscreen2.sty file, pdfscreen.layout for lyx and of course the lyx and graphics files... well, I put the pdfscreen.layout in \usr\share\lyx\layouts and the pdfscreen2.sty

Installation directory

2003-11-13 Thread Rich Shepard
I seem to have version 1.3.3 installed in both /usr and /usr/local. When I locate *.layout I find the same files -- same file size, too -- in both /usr/share/lyx and /usr/local/share/lyx. I believe that /usr/local/ is where it should be. Which is the proper directory, please? I'll remove the

Re: Installation directory

2003-11-13 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 09:05:06AM -0800, Rich Shepard wrote: I seem to have version 1.3.3 installed in both /usr and /usr/local. When I locate *.layout I find the same files -- same file size, too -- in both /usr/share/lyx and /usr/local/share/lyx. I believe that /usr/local/ is where it

Re: Installation directory

2003-11-13 Thread Matej Cepl
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rich Shepard wrote: Which is the proper directory, please? I'll remove the duplicate. While John Levon answered correctly that there is no proper directory, I would add that what really matters is which LyX you use and probably the other one

Re: Simple (?) printer setup trouble ...

2003-11-13 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Alfredo Braunstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Soren O'Neill wrote: No exporting (from lyx) to postscript fails: Cannot convert file. Error while executing dvi2ps -t a4 I'm not sure, but I think that message is consistent with inability to find (or open) the DVI

Re: Simple (?) printer setup trouble ...

2003-11-13 Thread Paul A. Rubin
[posted and mailed] Soren O'Neill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Just tried to print the DVI from a DVI viewer, it complains that: The external program 'dvips', which was used to export the file, reported an error. You might wish to look at the document info dialog which

Re: Simple (?) printer setup trouble ...

2003-11-13 Thread Paul A. Rubin
[posted and mailed] Soren O'Neill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Paul A. Rubin wrote: Start LyX, open a document, either print it or try to export it to PS, then (without closing LyX or the document) check the temp directory LyX is using for that document. Is the DVI

Re: Simple (?) printer setup trouble ...

2003-11-13 Thread Alfredo Braunstein
Paul A. Rubin wrote: dvi2ps: FATAL-- can't find DVI file 6499i.dvi I interpret that to mean that dvi2ps was started by LyX (which in particular means that LyX was able to find dvi2ps), but that it was given an incorrect name for the DVI file (or else was not given the correct path to the

Re: Simple (?) printer setup trouble ...

2003-11-13 Thread Soren O'Neill
Paul A. Rubin wrote: [posted and mailed] Soren O'Neill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Paul A. Rubin wrote: Start LyX, open a document, either print it or try to export it to PS, then (without closing LyX or the document) check the temp directory LyX is using for

Re: Simple (?) printer setup trouble ...

2003-11-13 Thread Soren O'Neill
Alfredo Braunstein wrote: Paul A. Rubin wrote: dvi2ps: FATAL-- can't find DVI file 6499i.dvi I interpret that to mean that dvi2ps was started by LyX (which in particular means that LyX was able to find dvi2ps), but that it was given an incorrect name for the DVI file (or else was not

Re: LyX .layout from LaTeX .cls

2003-11-13 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: Judging from a quick glance at http://194.94.42.14/tex/latex/engigl/mono/refguide.pdf you should get a working layout if you just copy and rename the book layout for a start (as described in Customization). You`ll probably need some ERT if you

Re: Installation directory

2003-11-13 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, John Levon wrote: There is no proper directory as such, but if you installed an RPM or other package, it should be in /usr, but if you compiled from source, /usr/local. But this is really a good practice thing more than anything else. john, Thanks. I want it in

Re: Presentation on LyX/LaTeX

2003-11-13 Thread M.B. Schiekel
Nirmal Govind wrote: Is the above path defined in your texmf.cnf file? ... Hopefully this will do it.. well, I installed pdfscreen.layout global, so I had to change the file permission of your pdfscreen.layout from 600 - 644, now everything is fine - thank you very much, nirmal ()

How to change the label theorem?

2003-11-13 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All I am using AMS article document class and I would like to replace the label theorem (in the DVI file) by the French corresponding one. I tried to change it in amsmaths.inc, but I cannot find therein the proper place to operate the replacement. Could somebody here please help me? Thank

lyx to html ??

2003-11-13 Thread SARIN Supheakmungkol
Hello I am a newbie to Lyx I got a problem in converting a text that i write in French to the HTML format The problem is some characters such as é, è, à is badly converted to HTML Please help me ... Thanks...

Re: LyX .layout from LaTeX .cls

2003-11-13 Thread Matej Cepl
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rich Shepard wrote: Thanks to you, Ingar Pareliussen, Matej, Ronald and the others it's all working and I understand better what goes on behind the GUI in LyX. You're welcome! Happy LyXing! Matej - -- Matej Cepl, GPG

linuxdoc

2003-11-13 Thread John O'Gorman
Trying the article(linuxdoc) option, I get 2 distinct problems. Before delving deeper into them can anyone offer suggestions. 1. Runs OK as root but will not produce a .dvi file as a normal user. The problem seems to be missing .pk files. Presumably a permission problem or something wrong

Re: Simple (?) printer setup trouble ...

2003-11-13 Thread Alfredo Braunstein
Soren O'Neill wrote: No exporting (from lyx) to postscript fails: Cannot convert file. Error while executing dvi2ps -t a4 I'm not sure, but I think that message is consistent with inability to find (or open) the DVI file. Wasn't his program called dvips, *not* dvi2ps? Soren: you probably

Re: Working with LaTeX macros and copy editors

2003-11-13 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 01:12:51PM -0800, Rich Shepard wrote: On Wed, 12 Nov 2003, Rich Shepard wrote: A major publisher (Springer-Verlag New York) notified me yesterday that they want to publish my book. They have a bunch of LaTeX macros they want me to use in the preparation of the

Re: LyX .layout from LaTeX .cls

2003-11-13 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Rich Shepard wrote: I copied book.layout to svmono.layout. All 840 bytes worth. :-) I suppose that I can just add the Springer .cls file to it, but ... there's a lot there I cannot place in the very few categories I see in the .layout file. The most important part (apart from renaming

Re: LyX .layout from LaTeX .cls

2003-11-13 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: If you want to have native support for a special environment of svmono, don't hesitate and ask. Actually you can just copy some of them (especially the theorem like env) from svjour.inc (which is to be found in the layouts directory). Jürgen.

Protokoll 12.11.03

2003-11-13 Thread Samuel Hammer
Hallo Glacis, An/Ab: Michael ist ab 13.11 - 24.11 weg. Aber wahescheinlich über Mail und Tel.: +34 93 2472460 erreichbar. Julia: ist nächste Woche von Mi - Fr. weg. 19. - 21. 11 Dietmar ist ab Fr. wieder da.

Sorry wrong address

2003-11-13 Thread Samuel Hammer
Sorry wrong address

Re: hyperlink w/o URL

2003-11-13 Thread Nirmal Govind
Thanks Kayvan.. nirmal Kayvan A. Sylvan wrote: Use hyperref and then \href{http://the-url}{Click Here} I think there are examples at http://www.lyx.org/help Best regards, ---Kayvan

Re: Presentation on LyX/LaTeX

2003-11-13 Thread Jose' Matos
On Thursday 13 November 2003 10:23, Nirmal Govind wrote: Hi folks, I made a presentation on LyX/LaTeX to the LUG here at Penn State yesterday. Below is the link in case someone's interested in doing something similar... http://www.personal.psu.edu/nug107/lyx/LyX_PSU_LUG.pdf

rules

2003-11-13 Thread Todd O'Bryan
Am I missing the ability to add LaTeX rules of the form \rule{2.5in}{.1mm} somewhere? I mean, I can add them in a TeX red box, but they obviously don't show up as lines in my document. And, in case you're wondering, I teach, so they're an easy way to make blanks. Todd

Re: Presentation on LyX/LaTeX

2003-11-13 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 05:23:53AM -0500, Nirmal Govind wrote: Hi folks, I made a presentation on LyX/LaTeX to the LUG here at Penn State yesterday. Below is the link in case someone's interested in doing something similar... http://www.personal.psu.edu/nug107/lyx/LyX_PSU_LUG.pdf You

newspaper printing

2003-11-13 Thread Hartmut Haase
Hi, I want to print A4 pages on A3 in a newspaper fashion, i. e. the sequence should be: page 1 page n page n-1 page 2 page 3 page n-2 ... Is that with LyX or LaTeX possible? If yes, how? -- Regards Hartmut Haase Hungerhilfe: http://www.thehungersite.com Das heutige Motto: Macho does not prove

Re: newspaper printing

2003-11-13 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 12:58:13PM +0100, Hartmut Haase wrote: Hi, I want to print A4 pages on A3 in a newspaper fashion, i. e. the sequence should be: page 1 page n page n-1 page 2 page 3 page n-2 ... Is that with LyX or LaTeX possible? If yes, how? The program 'psbook' rearranges pages

Re: newspaper printing

2003-11-13 Thread Tuukka Toivonen
On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Hartmut Haase wrote: I want to print A4 pages on A3 in a newspaper fashion, i. e. the sequence I'm not quite sure what you mean, but with psutils and especially with pstops you can do many kind of tricks after exported the files as postscript. Read the manpages.

Re: Presentation on LyX/LaTeX

2003-11-13 Thread Nirmal Govind
Thanks Jose' and hi Andre' ... You managed to pick a code example showing quite a few sins ;-) Completely unintentional I assure you.. :-) (has to be - cos I haven't tried to understand the code anyways!) What document class did you use? I used pdfscreen ... nirmal

LyX Code after enumeration

2003-11-13 Thread Todd O'Bryan
I'm creating a multiple choice test, in which I'd like to put code examples right after an Enumeration letter, i.e. 1. Which of the following does foo? (a) This is code this is more code and should be lined up with the code above (b) more code code with (b) 2. Next

Re: Presentation on LyX/LaTeX

2003-11-13 Thread Angus Leeming
Nirmal Govind wrote: Thanks Jose' and hi Andre' ... You managed to pick a code example showing quite a few sins ;-) Completely unintentional I assure you.. :-) (has to be - cos I haven't tried to understand the code anyways!) What document class did you use? I used pdfscreen ...

Re: Presentation on LyX/LaTeX

2003-11-13 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 01:51:46PM +, Angus Leeming wrote: Could you post the lyx file too? I'm writing some presentations myself and am all in favour of ditching powerpoint ;-) And a German translation perhaps? I am supposed to give a talk on LyX on Dec 18... ;-) Andre'

Re: LyX Code after enumeration

2003-11-13 Thread Jose' Matos
On Thursday 13 November 2003 13:44, Todd O'Bryan wrote: I'm creating a multiple choice test, in which I'd like to put code examples right after an Enumeration letter, i.e. 1. Which of the following does foo? (a) This is code this is more code and should be lined up with

Re: LyX Code after enumeration

2003-11-13 Thread Luiz Eleno
I think the attached file here is what you want. Jose' Matos wrote: On Thursday 13 November 2003 13:44, Todd O'Bryan wrote: I'm creating a multiple choice test, in which I'd like to put code examples right after an Enumeration letter, i.e. 1. Which of the following does foo? (a) This is code

A Resume template

2003-11-13 Thread Chhabra, Paras
Hi all, I am newbie to lyx and find it powerful but sometimes difficult. I'll take some time to get to understand all its functionalities. My requirement at hand is to write a resume, and an already available template will be very helpful. Can anybody send me a lyx file of a resume or

Re: Presentation on LyX/LaTeX

2003-11-13 Thread Nirmal Govind
Could you post the lyx file too? I'm writing some presentations myself and am all in favour of ditching powerpoint ;-) Yes, I've posted the archive here: http://www.personal.psu.edu/nug107/lyx/LyX_PSU_LUG.tar.gz It has the pdfscreen2.sty file, pdfscreen.layout for lyx and of course the lyx

Re: A Resume template

2003-11-13 Thread Nirmal Govind
Hi... you'll find examples at: http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/ExampleCV/ExampleCV nirmal Can anybody send me a lyx file of a resume or its template. Hope this does'nt flood the mailbox. A standard template will be the best. Thanks, Paras

Re: Presentation on LyX/LaTeX

2003-11-13 Thread Angus Leeming
Nirmal Govind wrote: Could you post the lyx file too? I'm writing some presentations myself and am all in favour of ditching powerpoint ;-) Yes, I've posted the archive here: http://www.personal.psu.edu/nug107/lyx/LyX_PSU_LUG.tar.gz It has the pdfscreen2.sty file, pdfscreen.layout

Re: newspaper printing

2003-11-13 Thread Herbert Voß
Hartmut Haase schrieb: Hi, I want to print A4 pages on A3 in a newspaper fashion, i. e. the sequence should be: page 1 page n page n-1 page 2 page 3 page n-2 ... Is that with LyX or LaTeX possible? If yes, how? from within LyX create a new document, write in preamble: \usepackage{pdfpages}

Re: Presentation on LyX/LaTeX

2003-11-13 Thread M.B. Schiekel
Nirmal Govind wrote: And a German translation perhaps? I am supposed to give a talk on LyX on Dec 18... ;-) Aah I see.. German translation - sure, maybe in a few years.. :-) Hallo, if nirmal does agree, I can try a German translation of this nice presentation (but with his original

Re: LyX-1.3.3-qt on Fedora Core 1

2003-11-13 Thread Anand Rangarajan
I haven't seen a response from David Utidjian regarding Lyx-1.3.3-1_qt on Fedora Core 1. So, I took the src rpm file from ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.3.3/lyx-1.3.3-1_qt.src.rpm and built lyx-1.3.3-1_qt on a linux box running Fedora Core 1. The lyx rpm is available at

Re: LyX .layout from LaTeX .cls

2003-11-13 Thread Matej Cepl
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rich Shepard wrote: I copied book.layout to svmono.layout. All 840 bytes worth. :-) I suppose that I can just add the Springer .cls file to it, but ... there's a lot there I cannot place in the very few categories I see in the .layout file.

Re: Presentation on LyX/LaTeX

2003-11-13 Thread Kayvan A. Sylvan
On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 05:23:53AM -0500, Nirmal Govind wrote: Hi folks, I made a presentation on LyX/LaTeX to the LUG here at Penn State yesterday. Below is the link in case someone's interested in doing something similar... http://www.personal.psu.edu/nug107/lyx/LyX_PSU_LUG.pdf

Re: Presentation on LyX/LaTeX

2003-11-13 Thread Karsten Heymann
On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 05:23:53 -0500 Nirmal Govind [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks, I made a presentation on LyX/LaTeX to the LUG here at Penn State yesterday. Below is the link in case someone's interested in doing something similar...

Re: Presentation on LyX/LaTeX

2003-11-13 Thread Nirmal Govind
Hallo, if nirmal does agree, I can try a German translation of this nice presentation (but with his original English Lyx-version screeshots). Might be, that we can have it shorter than in a few years ;-) Oh sure... that would be great Bernhard... thanks! Let me know if I can help in any way

Re: Presentation on LyX/LaTeX

2003-11-13 Thread M.B. Schiekel
Nirmal Govind wrote: http://www.personal.psu.edu/nug107/lyx/LyX_PSU_LUG.tar.gz It has the pdfscreen2.sty file, pdfscreen.layout for lyx and of course the lyx and graphics files... well, I put the pdfscreen.layout in \usr\share\lyx\layouts and the pdfscreen2.sty in \usr\share\lyx\tex then

Re: Presentation on LyX/LaTeX

2003-11-13 Thread Nirmal Govind
and the pdfscreen2.sty in \usr\share\lyx\tex Is the above path defined in your texmf.cnf file? (you can find where this file is located by running kpsewhich texmf.cnf).. you probably want to put it in your localtexmf directory (say, for e.g. at /home/username/texmf/tex/latex/pdfscreen/ or so)..

Re: Presentation on LyX/LaTeX

2003-11-13 Thread Angus Leeming
M.B. Schiekel wrote: Nirmal Govind wrote: http://www.personal.psu.edu/nug107/lyx/LyX_PSU_LUG.tar.gz It has the pdfscreen2.sty file, pdfscreen.layout for lyx and of course the lyx and graphics files... well, I put the pdfscreen.layout in \usr\share\lyx\layouts and the pdfscreen2.sty

Installation directory

2003-11-13 Thread Rich Shepard
I seem to have version 1.3.3 installed in both /usr and /usr/local. When I locate *.layout I find the same files -- same file size, too -- in both /usr/share/lyx and /usr/local/share/lyx. I believe that /usr/local/ is where it should be. Which is the proper directory, please? I'll remove the

Re: Installation directory

2003-11-13 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 09:05:06AM -0800, Rich Shepard wrote: I seem to have version 1.3.3 installed in both /usr and /usr/local. When I locate *.layout I find the same files -- same file size, too -- in both /usr/share/lyx and /usr/local/share/lyx. I believe that /usr/local/ is where it

Re: Installation directory

2003-11-13 Thread Matej Cepl
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rich Shepard wrote: Which is the proper directory, please? I'll remove the duplicate. While John Levon answered correctly that there is no proper directory, I would add that what really matters is which LyX you use and probably the other one

Re: Simple (?) printer setup trouble ...

2003-11-13 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Alfredo Braunstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Soren O'Neill wrote: No exporting (from lyx) to postscript fails: Cannot convert file. Error while executing dvi2ps -t a4 I'm not sure, but I think that message is consistent with inability to find (or open) the DVI

Re: Simple (?) printer setup trouble ...

2003-11-13 Thread Paul A. Rubin
[posted and mailed] Soren O'Neill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Just tried to print the DVI from a DVI viewer, it complains that: The external program 'dvips', which was used to export the file, reported an error. You might wish to look at the document info dialog which

Re: Simple (?) printer setup trouble ...

2003-11-13 Thread Paul A. Rubin
[posted and mailed] Soren O'Neill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Paul A. Rubin wrote: Start LyX, open a document, either print it or try to export it to PS, then (without closing LyX or the document) check the temp directory LyX is using for that document. Is the DVI

Re: Simple (?) printer setup trouble ...

2003-11-13 Thread Alfredo Braunstein
Paul A. Rubin wrote: dvi2ps: FATAL-- can't find DVI file 6499i.dvi I interpret that to mean that dvi2ps was started by LyX (which in particular means that LyX was able to find dvi2ps), but that it was given an incorrect name for the DVI file (or else was not given the correct path to the

Re: Simple (?) printer setup trouble ...

2003-11-13 Thread Soren O'Neill
Paul A. Rubin wrote: [posted and mailed] Soren O'Neill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Paul A. Rubin wrote: Start LyX, open a document, either print it or try to export it to PS, then (without closing LyX or the document) check the temp directory LyX is using for

Re: Simple (?) printer setup trouble ...

2003-11-13 Thread Soren O'Neill
Alfredo Braunstein wrote: Paul A. Rubin wrote: dvi2ps: FATAL-- can't find DVI file 6499i.dvi I interpret that to mean that dvi2ps was started by LyX (which in particular means that LyX was able to find dvi2ps), but that it was given an incorrect name for the DVI file (or else was not

Re: LyX .layout from LaTeX .cls

2003-11-13 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: Judging from a quick glance at http://194.94.42.14/tex/latex/engigl/mono/refguide.pdf you should get a working layout if you just copy and rename the book layout for a start (as described in Customization). You`ll probably need some ERT if you

Re: Installation directory

2003-11-13 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, John Levon wrote: There is no proper directory as such, but if you installed an RPM or other package, it should be in /usr, but if you compiled from source, /usr/local. But this is really a good practice thing more than anything else. john, Thanks. I want it in

Re: Presentation on LyX/LaTeX

2003-11-13 Thread M.B. Schiekel
Nirmal Govind wrote: Is the above path defined in your texmf.cnf file? ... Hopefully this will do it.. well, I installed pdfscreen.layout global, so I had to change the file permission of your pdfscreen.layout from 600 - 644, now everything is fine - thank you very much, nirmal ()

How to change the label theorem?

2003-11-13 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All I am using AMS article document class and I would like to replace the label theorem (in the DVI file) by the French corresponding one. I tried to change it in amsmaths.inc, but I cannot find therein the proper place to operate the replacement. Could somebody here please help me? Thank

lyx to html ??

2003-11-13 Thread SARIN Supheakmungkol
Hello I am a newbie to Lyx I got a problem in converting a text that i write in French to the HTML format The problem is some characters such as é, è, à is badly converted to HTML Please help me ... Thanks...

Re: LyX .layout from LaTeX .cls

2003-11-13 Thread Matej Cepl
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rich Shepard wrote: Thanks to you, Ingar Pareliussen, Matej, Ronald and the others it's all working and I understand better what goes on behind the GUI in LyX. You're welcome! Happy LyXing! Matej - -- Matej Cepl, GPG

linuxdoc

2003-11-13 Thread John O'Gorman
Trying the article(linuxdoc) option, I get 2 distinct problems. Before delving deeper into them can anyone offer suggestions. 1. Runs OK as root but will not produce a .dvi file as a normal user. The problem seems to be missing .pk files. Presumably a permission problem or something wrong

Re: Simple (?) printer setup trouble ...

2003-11-13 Thread Alfredo Braunstein
Soren O'Neill wrote: >>> No exporting (from lyx) to postscript fails: Cannot convert file. >>> Error while executing dvi2ps -t a4 >> >> I'm not sure, but I think that message is consistent with inability to >> find (or open) the DVI file. Wasn't his program called dvips, *not* dvi2ps? Soren:

Re: Working with LaTeX macros and copy editors

2003-11-13 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 01:12:51PM -0800, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Wed, 12 Nov 2003, Rich Shepard wrote: > > > A major publisher (Springer-Verlag New York) notified me yesterday that > > they want to publish my book. They have a bunch of LaTeX macros they want me > > to use in the preparation

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