Re: Inserting a complex, multiling equation

2004-01-19 Thread Nirmal Govind
and press ctrl-[Enter] I do not get a new line within a vertically-expanded left-brace, but a set of three, blue boxes on the next line. What have I missed here? Not much really but a very subtle positioning of the cursor... after you've typed the content in the second blue box of the cases en

LyX compile failure

2004-01-19 Thread Chris Menzel
My attempts to compile lyx 1.3.3 with gcc 3.2.3-r3 using qt 3.2.3-r1 under a 2.4.22 Linux kernel are getting clobbered. I'm configuring --with-frontend=qt and --with-x. Here's the failure msg: g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../../../../../src -I../../../../../src -I../../../../../src/frontends -

More multiline equation frustration

2004-01-19 Thread Rich Shepard
I'm trying to enter the following equation: / \mu_A(x) = < 1, if and only if x \in A \ 0, if and only if x \notin A. Looking at Herbert and Andre's responses to my previous request for guidance, I've use \cases and pressed ctrl-m, r

Re: Inserting a complex, multiling equation

2004-01-19 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, Herbert Voß wrote: > > While I'm becoming more familiar with LyX and LaTeX, I would like some > > help in entering equations such as the following: > > > > /0 if f(x) < sup f > > | R_i > >

Re: Customizing \itemize and \enumerate

2004-01-19 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Mon, 19 Jan 2004, Alon Altman wrote: > Also, how can I add a parameter to the \item command inside a an itemize > environment? See http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/FAQ/Unsorted#listItemWithArgument /Christian -- Christian Ridderström http://www.md.kth.se/~c

Re: bibtex confusion

2004-01-19 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Mon, 19 Jan 2004, Herbert Voss wrote: > Raphael Clifford wrote: > > I recently discovered the wonderful bibtex features of lyx and fell in > > love with them. Sadly, after only a day or two we are having our first > > "misunderstanding". I am not entirely sure what happened but now when I >

Re: Problem with figures side by side

2004-01-19 Thread Herbert Voss
Nirmal Govind wrote: Thank you Herbert and Paul for the file.. I used the last option with the minipages and captions within the minipages so that the two captions will show up beside one another. Also aligned the minipage to the bottom so the captions are on the same line. Now, only one problem

Re: Problem with figures side by side

2004-01-19 Thread Nirmal Govind
Thank you Herbert and Paul for the file.. I used the last option with the minipages and captions within the minipages so that the two captions will show up beside one another. Also aligned the minipage to the bottom so the captions are on the same line. Now, only one problem - the block of figu

Re: convert of old documents fails

2004-01-19 Thread Ingo Voss
> > > > Please can anyone help me ? > > Yes, sure. > I see from the private message you sent me that you tried the new (and > incomplete) support for 0.10 from the 1.4cvs. > > I am interested to improve the support for those older versions. > > What errors do you have and so on... > I'm g

Re: Problem with figures side by side

2004-01-19 Thread Paul Smith
Thanks Herbert... I think the one I was looking for was named FigSideBySide.lyx but assuming that it uses the same minipages-based solution as MultiImages.lyx, I am unable to vertically align the captions of the two figures that are side-by-side... I have two figures that do not have the same h

Re: Problem with figures side by side

2004-01-19 Thread Herbert Voss
Nirmal Govind wrote: Thanks Herbert... I think the one I was looking for was named FigSideBySide.lyx but assuming that it uses the same minipages-based attached the other demo file Herbert #LyX 1.3 created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/ \lyxformat 221 \textclass article \begin_

Re: Problem with figures side by side

2004-01-19 Thread Nirmal Govind
attached Herbert Thanks Herbert... I think the one I was looking for was named FigSideBySide.lyx but assuming that it uses the same minipages-based solution as MultiImages.lyx, I am unable to vertically align the captions of the two figures that are side-by-side... I have two figures that do n

Customizing \itemize and \enumerate

2004-01-19 Thread Alon Altman
Hi, How can I add LaTeX code between the \begin{enumerate} / \begin{itemize} and the first \item, while still using LyX's enumerate/itemize environments? Also, how can I add a parameter to the \item command inside a an itemize environment? Alon -- This message was sent by Alon Altman ([EMA

Re: Problem with figures side by side

2004-01-19 Thread Herbert Voss
Nirmal Govind wrote: Can you please resend the file that you attached with this post? I get an error while opening the file: "Maybe the document is truncated". attached Herbert #LyX 1.3 created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/ \lyxformat 221 \textclass report \begin_preamble \use

Re: Problem with figures side by side

2004-01-19 Thread Nirmal Govind
Herbert Voss wrote: it is not easy to understand that they are vertically centered. Attached a solution which I prepared long time ago. Replace the images with any other. Or let me know, then I sent you these demo images. Herbert Herbert, Can you please resend the file that you attached with this

Adjusting the width of a minipage

2004-01-19 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All I would like to create a minipage with a width as large as the length of the lengthiest text line inside the minipage. Could somebody here please help me? Thank you a lot in advance! Paul

Re: Converting from PostScript to LaTex

2004-01-19 Thread Daniel Tahin
Ok, big thanx for your help. Working to get the best result:-)) Daniel

Separation skips and minipages

2004-01-19 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All I have selected a separation skip in Layout-->Document-->Layout in a document. However, I would like that a minipage inside the document were not affected by that separation selection. Is that possible? Thank you a lot in advance! Paul

Re: bibtex confusion

2004-01-19 Thread Herbert Voss
Raphael Clifford wrote: I recently discovered the wonderful bibtex features of lyx and fell in love with them. Sadly, after only a day or two we are having our first "misunderstanding". I am not entirely sure what happened but now when I try to View->postscript my doc I get 2 errors. They are bo

Re: Converting from PostScript to LaTex

2004-01-19 Thread Georg Baum
Daniel Tahin wrote: > Thank you Raphael. > > But this would be the goal of it. Because originally I would like to > convert from Ms Word to Latex. I found some program that can do that, but Conversion word -> latex works quite well (far better than wvClaenLaTeX) if you use Staroffice/OpenOffice.

bibtex confusion

2004-01-19 Thread Raphael Clifford
I recently discovered the wonderful bibtex features of lyx and fell in love with them. Sadly, after only a day or two we are having our first "misunderstanding". I am not entirely sure what happened but now when I try to View->postscript my doc I get 2 errors. They are both the same and read as

Re: graphics placement...

2004-01-19 Thread Angus Leeming
Ben wrote: > I am having a terrible time trying to get LyX to handle .gif > placement sensibly. Wherever my images are wider than they are long, > LyX automatically rotates them so that they end up lengthways rather > than the original widthways. [snip remainder] What package are you using to co

Re: [Q] \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}

2004-01-19 Thread Herbert Voss
Johannes Behr wrote: What does T1 stand for? TrueType-1? Is there a "default" font encoding? TeX encoding 1, has nothing to do with Type 1 or TT. default is without any encoding package, but this does not make sense for european writers. Herbert

graphics placement...

2004-01-19 Thread Ben
I am having a terrible time trying to get LyX to handle .gif placement sensibly. Wherever my images are wider than they are long, LyX automatically rotates them so that they end up lengthways rather than the original widthways. OK says you... just use the Rotate option provided when you click on th

Re: [Q] \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}

2004-01-19 Thread Matej Cepl
On Monday 19 of January 2004 07:10, Johannes Behr wrote: > What does T1 stand for? TrueType-1? Is there a "default" > font encoding? Probably TeX1 -- it is also known as ``Cork'' encoding and covers all latin alphabets in Europe. The old encoding (7bit) is OT1. Neither of these has anything comm

Re: Ugly pdf fonts

2004-01-19 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 10:23:04AM +0100, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: ... > You'll find lots of information in the tug faq: > http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-binhttp://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?keyword=fonts/texfaq2html?keyword=fonts ... It seems that trimming the above to http://www.tex

AW: lyx windowsuse paper.cls

2004-01-19 Thread Milos Komarcevic
Ben, I use MikTeX under Windows with Ghostscript/ImageMagick/etc. I also found put the class paper.cls and it's layout in d:\programme\texmf\tex\latex\base as I did in Linux. Ater taht I turned to MikTeX Options and refreshed the file database AND I reconfiguered Lyx. the layout should go I think

Re: Converting from PostScript to LaTex

2004-01-19 Thread Nirmal Govind
But this would be the goal of it. Because originally I would like to convert from Ms Word to Latex. I found some program that can do that, but I lose some formatting. Now I tryed to print the Word document in a file. This was ok, Not sure which converter(s) you tried but did you check out wvCle

Re: Converting from PostScript to LaTex

2004-01-19 Thread Raphael Clifford
If you have the file in Word then don't go via postscript whatever you do. http://www.tug.org/utilities/texconv/pctotex.html has some more info that might help convert the file to latex. From there it is but a small step to lyx... sort of. Raphael Daniel Tahin wrote: Thank you Raphael. Bu

Re: Converting from PostScript to LaTex

2004-01-19 Thread hansel
On Mon, 19 Jan 2004, Daniel Tahin wrote: > > Also my question: is there a software that converts a PostScript or a pdf-file > to LaTex? This is going backwards, as others observed. Does word export to rtf? If I recall correctly, Ted, abiword and ooffice read rtf. One of them should export latex.

Re: Converting from PostScript to LaTex

2004-01-19 Thread Daniel Tahin
Thank you Raphael. But this would be the goal of it. Because originally I would like to convert from Ms Word to Latex. I found some program that can do that, but I lose some formatting. Now I tryed to print the Word document in a file. This was ok, and I get the correct formatting (this file i

Re: Converting from PostScript to LaTex

2004-01-19 Thread Raphael Clifford
Daniel Tahin wrote: Hello everybody! My question is not about Lyx, but I didn't find another list for my question. Sorry about this. Also my question: is there a software that converts a PostScript or a pdf-file to LaTex? Searched for on sourceforge.net and freshmeat.net but all of the progra

Converting from PostScript to LaTex

2004-01-19 Thread Daniel Tahin
Hello everybody! My question is not about Lyx, but I didn't find another list for my question. Sorry about this. Also my question: is there a software that converts a PostScript or a pdf-file to LaTex? Searched for on sourceforge.net and freshmeat.net but all of the programs convert from LaTe

Re: [Q] \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}

2004-01-19 Thread Johannes Behr
On Sun, 2004-01-18 at 16:49, Matej Cepl wrote: > On Sunday 18 of January 2004 10:42, Johannes Behr wrote: > > I tired to submit a paper but I hat > > to switch of the > > > > \usepackage[T1]{frontenc} > > fontenc > > Sets encoding of fonts used. > >

Re: convert of old documents fails

2004-01-19 Thread Jose' Matos
On Saturday 17 January 2004 5:42 pm, Ingo Voss wrote: > Hello, Hi, > I've a problem with former documents from lyx (1996/97/98 the versions > was I think 0.10 the documentversions are 2.10 and 2.15). > > In the lyx-package (rpm) from SuSE (9.0) is no converter for version > 2.10, but also the

Re: Real line...

2004-01-19 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 10:06:13AM -0500, David Obadia wrote: > On Sat, Jan 17 (14:48), Paul Smith wrote: > > > Eg, \renewcommand\Re{\mathbf{Re}} > > I think the one they are using in the textbooks in not mathbf but mathds > (with \usepackage{dsfont}). So if I put > > \usepackage{dsfont} > \newco