Re: Problems in Using - SGML ( LinuxDoc manpage) Document Style

2004-09-29 Thread udayan singh
Hi , I am using lyx with the document class ? ?SGML (LinuxDoc manpage)?. Now I really tried to find some docs related to this class specifically, but couldn?t find anything really specific to it. I am facing some probs in documenting using the above-mentioned class: There was

Re: Problems in Using - SGML ( LinuxDoc manpage) Document Style

2004-09-29 Thread udayan singh
Would you like me to put the file here, that I got in .sgml format? Its the example linuxdoc_manpage.sgml that we get from the linuxdoc_manpage.lyx, which comes with lyx. Regards, Udayan _ Life on the fast tracks!

AMSBOOK in french

2004-09-29 Thread NOEL Yvonnick
Hello, I am playing around with the AMSBOOK class under Lyx, and have selected French as the document language. All the main entries (title, part,section, chapter..) are properly translated, but not some AMS-specific items such as exercise and example (which should appear as exercice and

Mac-LyX is slow

2004-09-29 Thread Peter Ljunglöf
Hi all, this mail concerns the different LyX's for Mac. I'm writing my thesis in LyX on my 1GHz Powerbook G4 (1GB of memory), and have reached about 120 pages so far. The thesis is about computational linguistics, meaning that I have some mathematical formulae (say 5 per page or so), but most

Change styles

2004-09-29 Thread Lars Olesen
Hi, I want to make changes in the text classes used in Latex. Where do I find these classes or what are their extensions? -- Lars Olesen E-mail-etikette http://www.larsolesen.dk/artikler/20/

LaTex study recommendations?

2004-09-29 Thread Jack Gill
I'm new to LyX and LaTeX. I searched Amazon.com for books on both subjects, and found none listed for LyX. For LaTeX, however, Amazon.com shows a list of several books available. Do you have a recommendation for a first book on LaTeX? Jack

Re: How can I reduce the width of the document inside the editor.

2004-09-29 Thread Ronny Klein
complaining about what the proper display font sizes I don't see your point. One is already able to change the preferred font size in the editor, which is btw a great thing. An option to narrow the width of the document inside the editor would not alter this behavior. screen resolution To

Re: LaTex study recommendations?

2004-09-29 Thread Martijn Brouwer
For the basics, read the online documentation that is online available, after that, The LaTeX companion is a good one. Martijn Brouwer On Wed, 2004-09-29 at 05:13 -0500, Jack Gill wrote: I'm new to LyX and LaTeX. I searched Amazon.com for books on both subjects, and found none listed for

Re: Problems in Using - SGML ( LinuxDoc manpage) Document Style

2004-09-29 Thread José Abílio Oliveira Matos
On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 06:33:00AM +, udayan singh wrote: Well I think if its playing some role in formatting ( or some other thing ) of this doc class, then it should have been mentioned ( my views) . I agree. But my priority is not linuxdoc, linuxdoc is a dead end. It works well

Re: Problems in Using - SGML ( LinuxDoc manpage) Document Style

2004-09-29 Thread José Abílio Oliveira Matos
On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 06:42:29AM +, udayan singh wrote: Would you like me to put the file here, that I got in .sgml format? Its the example linuxdoc_manpage.sgml that we get from the linuxdoc_manpage.lyx, which comes with lyx. No need to, at least for now. Regards, Udayan --

Re: AMSBOOK in french

2004-09-29 Thread Jean-Pierre Chretien
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 10:13:00 +0200 From: NOEL Yvonnick [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: AMSBOOK in french Hello, I am playing around with the AMSBOOK class under Lyx, and have selected French as the document language. All the main entries (title, part,section, chapter..)

Re: Problems in Using - SGML ( LinuxDoc manpage) Document Style

2004-09-29 Thread udayan singh
Well I think if its playing some role in formatting ( or some other thing ) of this doc class, then it should have been mentioned ( my views) . I agree. But my priority is not linuxdoc, linuxdoc is a dead end. It works well for simple things. The problem was that it started as a hack and

Re: aspell is not working - help

2004-09-29 Thread Jean-Pierre Chretien
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Angus Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: aspell is not working - help Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 21:26:16 +0100 X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: host81-155-148-141.range81-155.btcentralplus.com ./configure --with-pspell (pspell is a compatibility interface standing for

Re: aspell is not working - help

2004-09-29 Thread Angus Leeming
Jean-Pierre Chretien wrote: Thanks a lot for the hint, Angus. I cursed a lot aspell after upgrading to 0.50 (pspell was apparently not needed anymore since this version). I did not understand that pspell lib was still needed... Shifted back to ispell, but French dictionaries do not include

Re: LaTex study recommendations?

2004-09-29 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 29 Sep 2004, Jack Gill wrote: I'm new to LyX and LaTeX. I searched Amazon.com for books on both subjects, and found none listed for LyX. For LaTeX, however, Amazon.com shows a list of several books available. Do you have a recommendation for a first book on LaTeX? Jack, There used to

Re: How can I reduce the width of the document inside the editor.

2004-09-29 Thread Helge Hafting
Ronny Klein wrote: You wrote: but, then I've got distracted by the underlying desktop. How about setting the desktop to the same color as the lyx window background? Don't use a distracting desktop look if it bothers you. Or open a full screen image with solid color, maximized underneath

Re: LaTex study recommendations?

2004-09-29 Thread Gour
Rich Shepard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Do you have a recommendation for a first book on LaTeX? Several years ago I read almost all the main books on LaTeX. The two that I have left are LaTeX for Linux by Beatrice Sachs Lipkin and The LaTeX Companion, 2nd Edition by Mittlebach and Goossens.

Re: LaTex study recommendations?

2004-09-29 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 29 Sep 2004, Gour wrote: I don't know about TLC 2dn-ed (probably is very good), but the book which I always recommend is Kopka Daly's A Guide to LaTeX (now in 4th ed.). Gour, Which makes an important point: there are a lot of good books out there. Each has a different style and approach

Re: Mac-LyX is slow

2004-09-29 Thread Bennett Helm
On Sep 29, 2004, at 4:59 AM, Peter Ljunglöf wrote: 1) The native LyX/Mac port has become terribly slow -- it takes several seconds just to open a math-macro (with arguments), and writing inside a math formula can be as slow as 1 character per second. Editing the main text is also slow, but not

Re: Problems in Using - SGML ( LinuxDoc manpage) Document Style

2004-09-29 Thread José Abílio Oliveira Matos
On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 12:26:46PM +, udayan singh wrote: Because then you are using different tools. If using linxudoc manpage the path to pdf is: lyx - linuxdoc - latex - pdf while with LaTeX (book) is: lyx - latex - pdf Exactly, but why is it that I get the pdf while

Re: How can I reduce the width of the document inside the editor.

2004-09-29 Thread chr
On Wed, 29 Sep 2004, Helge Hafting wrote: How about setting the desktop to the same color as the lyx window background? Don't use a distracting desktop look if it bothers you. I usually use a separate desktop to focus on the writing. On this desktop, I place a LyX window and a DVI-window side

Re: LaTex study recommendations?

2004-09-29 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Gour wrote: I don't know about TLC 2dn-ed (probably is very good), but the book which I always recommend is Kopka Daly's A Guide to LaTeX (now in 4th ed.). I use Kopka and Daly as a reference and like it quite a lot. -- Paul

Re: AMSBOOK in french

2004-09-29 Thread Eric Delevaux
On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 10:13:00 +0200 NOEL Yvonnick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I am playing around with the AMSBOOK class under Lyx, and have selected French as the document language. All the main entries (title, part,section, chapter..) are properly translated, but not some

Re: AMSBOOK in french

2004-09-29 Thread José Abílio Oliveira Matos
On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 10:13:00AM +0200, NOEL Yvonnick wrote: Hello, I am playing around with the AMSBOOK class under Lyx, and have selected French as the document language. All the main entries (title, part,section, chapter..) are properly translated, but not some AMS-specific items

Re: Problems in Using - SGML ( LinuxDoc manpage) Document Style

2004-09-29 Thread udayan singh
Thanks, for your views, cleared up a lot of stuff. Will post any updates if I get. Regards, Udayan From: José Abílio Oliveira Matos [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Problems in Using - SGML ( LinuxDoc manpage) Document Style Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 15:28:50 +0100 On Wed, Sep

lyx menu too big

2004-09-29 Thread Aymeric Nys
Hi people. I just finish to compile lyx 1.3.4 with qt 3.3.3 and I have a ugly result (see picture at http://w3.uqo.ca/nysa01/Capture.png) The text for the menu (File, Edit, ...) are too big, and dialog screen too (preferences window do not fit on the screen), watch also the drop down menu. Is

lyx-qt + russian locale + math symbols display

2004-09-29 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
Hello. The known problem with lyx-qt + russian locale + math symbols display (that causes no math symbols to be displayed if Qt uses fontconfig) may be workarounded by starting lyx-qt as LC_TIME=C lyx-qt

convert html table to Lyx

2004-09-29 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
I made a table in Lyx (cvs version). It starts with: \begin_inset Tabular lyxtabular version=3 rows=9 columns=3 features column alignment=center valignment=top leftline=true width=0 column alignment=center valignment=top leftline=true width=0 column alignment=center valignment=top leftline=true

Re: convert html table to Lyx

2004-09-29 Thread José Abílio Oliveira Matos
On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 01:22:16PM -0700, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: I made a table in Lyx (cvs version). Is there any way in lyx to have tables without defining how many rows or columns ahead of time? No. Maybe I should use latex table or tabular? I see two: - make a script (in

Re: convert html table to Lyx

2004-09-29 Thread Angus Leeming
Jeremy C. Reed wrote: I made a table in Lyx (cvs version). It starts with: \begin_inset Tabular lyxtabular version=3 rows=9 columns=3 features column alignment=center valignment=top leftline=true width=0 column alignment=center valignment=top leftline=true width=0 column

[Fwd: Itemize Enumerate]

2004-09-29 Thread Jaime Diaz-Deus Fernández
-- ---BeginMessage--- Why in the environments menu don't appear this two items?. I use LyX 1.3.4 with MDK 10.0. Thanks. ---End Message---

Itemize Enumerate

2004-09-29 Thread Jaime Diaz-Deus Fernández
Why in the environments menu don't appear this two items?. I use LyX 1.3.4 with MDK 10.0. Thanks.

Itemize Enumerate

2004-09-29 Thread Jaime Diaz-Deus Fernández
Why in the environments menu don't appear this two items?. I use LyX 1.3.4 with MDK 10.0. Thanks.

Re: [Bug 1404] A misorder problem in the .tex output if an Arabic text is doublespaced

2004-09-29 Thread Munzir Taha
On Yaum al-Ithnain 12 Sha`ban 1425 16:32, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Munzir == bugzilla-daemon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Munzir Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2004-09-24 Munzir 23:39 --- Thanks a lot JMarc. It takes me near infinity to Munzir download from cvs because of a

Re: Problems in Using - SGML ( LinuxDoc manpage) Document Style

2004-09-29 Thread udayan singh
Hi , I am using lyx with the document class ? ?SGML (LinuxDoc manpage)?. Now I really tried to find some docs related to this class specifically, but couldn?t find anything really specific to it. I am facing some probs in documenting using the above-mentioned class: There was

Re: Problems in Using - SGML ( LinuxDoc manpage) Document Style

2004-09-29 Thread udayan singh
Would you like me to put the file here, that I got in .sgml format? Its the example linuxdoc_manpage.sgml that we get from the linuxdoc_manpage.lyx, which comes with lyx. Regards, Udayan _ Life on the fast tracks!

AMSBOOK in french

2004-09-29 Thread NOEL Yvonnick
Hello, I am playing around with the AMSBOOK class under Lyx, and have selected French as the document language. All the main entries (title, part,section, chapter..) are properly translated, but not some AMS-specific items such as exercise and example (which should appear as exercice and

Mac-LyX is slow

2004-09-29 Thread Peter Ljunglöf
Hi all, this mail concerns the different LyX's for Mac. I'm writing my thesis in LyX on my 1GHz Powerbook G4 (1GB of memory), and have reached about 120 pages so far. The thesis is about computational linguistics, meaning that I have some mathematical formulae (say 5 per page or so), but most

Change styles

2004-09-29 Thread Lars Olesen
Hi, I want to make changes in the text classes used in Latex. Where do I find these classes or what are their extensions? -- Lars Olesen E-mail-etikette http://www.larsolesen.dk/artikler/20/

LaTex study recommendations?

2004-09-29 Thread Jack Gill
I'm new to LyX and LaTeX. I searched Amazon.com for books on both subjects, and found none listed for LyX. For LaTeX, however, Amazon.com shows a list of several books available. Do you have a recommendation for a first book on LaTeX? Jack

Re: How can I reduce the width of the document inside the editor.

2004-09-29 Thread Ronny Klein
complaining about what the proper display font sizes I don't see your point. One is already able to change the preferred font size in the editor, which is btw a great thing. An option to narrow the width of the document inside the editor would not alter this behavior. screen resolution To

Re: LaTex study recommendations?

2004-09-29 Thread Martijn Brouwer
For the basics, read the online documentation that is online available, after that, The LaTeX companion is a good one. Martijn Brouwer On Wed, 2004-09-29 at 05:13 -0500, Jack Gill wrote: I'm new to LyX and LaTeX. I searched Amazon.com for books on both subjects, and found none listed for

Re: Problems in Using - SGML ( LinuxDoc manpage) Document Style

2004-09-29 Thread José Abílio Oliveira Matos
On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 06:33:00AM +, udayan singh wrote: Well I think if its playing some role in formatting ( or some other thing ) of this doc class, then it should have been mentioned ( my views) . I agree. But my priority is not linuxdoc, linuxdoc is a dead end. It works well

Re: Problems in Using - SGML ( LinuxDoc manpage) Document Style

2004-09-29 Thread José Abílio Oliveira Matos
On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 06:42:29AM +, udayan singh wrote: Would you like me to put the file here, that I got in .sgml format? Its the example linuxdoc_manpage.sgml that we get from the linuxdoc_manpage.lyx, which comes with lyx. No need to, at least for now. Regards, Udayan --

Re: AMSBOOK in french

2004-09-29 Thread Jean-Pierre Chretien
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 10:13:00 +0200 From: NOEL Yvonnick [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: AMSBOOK in french Hello, I am playing around with the AMSBOOK class under Lyx, and have selected French as the document language. All the main entries (title, part,section, chapter..)

Re: Problems in Using - SGML ( LinuxDoc manpage) Document Style

2004-09-29 Thread udayan singh
Well I think if its playing some role in formatting ( or some other thing ) of this doc class, then it should have been mentioned ( my views) . I agree. But my priority is not linuxdoc, linuxdoc is a dead end. It works well for simple things. The problem was that it started as a hack and

Re: aspell is not working - help

2004-09-29 Thread Jean-Pierre Chretien
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Angus Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: aspell is not working - help Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 21:26:16 +0100 X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: host81-155-148-141.range81-155.btcentralplus.com ./configure --with-pspell (pspell is a compatibility interface standing for

Re: aspell is not working - help

2004-09-29 Thread Angus Leeming
Jean-Pierre Chretien wrote: Thanks a lot for the hint, Angus. I cursed a lot aspell after upgrading to 0.50 (pspell was apparently not needed anymore since this version). I did not understand that pspell lib was still needed... Shifted back to ispell, but French dictionaries do not include

Re: LaTex study recommendations?

2004-09-29 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 29 Sep 2004, Jack Gill wrote: I'm new to LyX and LaTeX. I searched Amazon.com for books on both subjects, and found none listed for LyX. For LaTeX, however, Amazon.com shows a list of several books available. Do you have a recommendation for a first book on LaTeX? Jack, There used to

Re: How can I reduce the width of the document inside the editor.

2004-09-29 Thread Helge Hafting
Ronny Klein wrote: You wrote: but, then I've got distracted by the underlying desktop. How about setting the desktop to the same color as the lyx window background? Don't use a distracting desktop look if it bothers you. Or open a full screen image with solid color, maximized underneath

Re: LaTex study recommendations?

2004-09-29 Thread Gour
Rich Shepard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Do you have a recommendation for a first book on LaTeX? Several years ago I read almost all the main books on LaTeX. The two that I have left are LaTeX for Linux by Beatrice Sachs Lipkin and The LaTeX Companion, 2nd Edition by Mittlebach and Goossens.

Re: LaTex study recommendations?

2004-09-29 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 29 Sep 2004, Gour wrote: I don't know about TLC 2dn-ed (probably is very good), but the book which I always recommend is Kopka Daly's A Guide to LaTeX (now in 4th ed.). Gour, Which makes an important point: there are a lot of good books out there. Each has a different style and approach

Re: Mac-LyX is slow

2004-09-29 Thread Bennett Helm
On Sep 29, 2004, at 4:59 AM, Peter Ljunglöf wrote: 1) The native LyX/Mac port has become terribly slow -- it takes several seconds just to open a math-macro (with arguments), and writing inside a math formula can be as slow as 1 character per second. Editing the main text is also slow, but not

Re: Problems in Using - SGML ( LinuxDoc manpage) Document Style

2004-09-29 Thread José Abílio Oliveira Matos
On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 12:26:46PM +, udayan singh wrote: Because then you are using different tools. If using linxudoc manpage the path to pdf is: lyx - linuxdoc - latex - pdf while with LaTeX (book) is: lyx - latex - pdf Exactly, but why is it that I get the pdf while

Re: How can I reduce the width of the document inside the editor.

2004-09-29 Thread chr
On Wed, 29 Sep 2004, Helge Hafting wrote: How about setting the desktop to the same color as the lyx window background? Don't use a distracting desktop look if it bothers you. I usually use a separate desktop to focus on the writing. On this desktop, I place a LyX window and a DVI-window side

Re: LaTex study recommendations?

2004-09-29 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Gour wrote: I don't know about TLC 2dn-ed (probably is very good), but the book which I always recommend is Kopka Daly's A Guide to LaTeX (now in 4th ed.). I use Kopka and Daly as a reference and like it quite a lot. -- Paul

Re: AMSBOOK in french

2004-09-29 Thread Eric Delevaux
On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 10:13:00 +0200 NOEL Yvonnick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I am playing around with the AMSBOOK class under Lyx, and have selected French as the document language. All the main entries (title, part,section, chapter..) are properly translated, but not some

Re: AMSBOOK in french

2004-09-29 Thread José Abílio Oliveira Matos
On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 10:13:00AM +0200, NOEL Yvonnick wrote: Hello, I am playing around with the AMSBOOK class under Lyx, and have selected French as the document language. All the main entries (title, part,section, chapter..) are properly translated, but not some AMS-specific items

Re: Problems in Using - SGML ( LinuxDoc manpage) Document Style

2004-09-29 Thread udayan singh
Thanks, for your views, cleared up a lot of stuff. Will post any updates if I get. Regards, Udayan From: José Abílio Oliveira Matos [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Problems in Using - SGML ( LinuxDoc manpage) Document Style Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 15:28:50 +0100 On Wed, Sep

lyx menu too big

2004-09-29 Thread Aymeric Nys
Hi people. I just finish to compile lyx 1.3.4 with qt 3.3.3 and I have a ugly result (see picture at http://w3.uqo.ca/nysa01/Capture.png) The text for the menu (File, Edit, ...) are too big, and dialog screen too (preferences window do not fit on the screen), watch also the drop down menu. Is

lyx-qt + russian locale + math symbols display

2004-09-29 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
Hello. The known problem with lyx-qt + russian locale + math symbols display (that causes no math symbols to be displayed if Qt uses fontconfig) may be workarounded by starting lyx-qt as LC_TIME=C lyx-qt

convert html table to Lyx

2004-09-29 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
I made a table in Lyx (cvs version). It starts with: \begin_inset Tabular lyxtabular version=3 rows=9 columns=3 features column alignment=center valignment=top leftline=true width=0 column alignment=center valignment=top leftline=true width=0 column alignment=center valignment=top leftline=true

Re: convert html table to Lyx

2004-09-29 Thread José Abílio Oliveira Matos
On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 01:22:16PM -0700, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: I made a table in Lyx (cvs version). Is there any way in lyx to have tables without defining how many rows or columns ahead of time? No. Maybe I should use latex table or tabular? I see two: - make a script (in

Re: convert html table to Lyx

2004-09-29 Thread Angus Leeming
Jeremy C. Reed wrote: I made a table in Lyx (cvs version). It starts with: \begin_inset Tabular lyxtabular version=3 rows=9 columns=3 features column alignment=center valignment=top leftline=true width=0 column alignment=center valignment=top leftline=true width=0 column

[Fwd: Itemize Enumerate]

2004-09-29 Thread Jaime Diaz-Deus Fernández
-- ---BeginMessage--- Why in the environments menu don't appear this two items?. I use LyX 1.3.4 with MDK 10.0. Thanks. ---End Message---

Itemize Enumerate

2004-09-29 Thread Jaime Diaz-Deus Fernández
Why in the environments menu don't appear this two items?. I use LyX 1.3.4 with MDK 10.0. Thanks.

Itemize Enumerate

2004-09-29 Thread Jaime Diaz-Deus Fernández
Why in the environments menu don't appear this two items?. I use LyX 1.3.4 with MDK 10.0. Thanks.

Re: [Bug 1404] A misorder problem in the .tex output if an Arabic text is doublespaced

2004-09-29 Thread Munzir Taha
On Yaum al-Ithnain 12 Sha`ban 1425 16:32, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Munzir == bugzilla-daemon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Munzir Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2004-09-24 Munzir 23:39 --- Thanks a lot JMarc. It takes me near infinity to Munzir download from cvs because of a

Re: Problems in Using - SGML ( LinuxDoc manpage) Document Style

2004-09-29 Thread udayan singh
> >> Hi , > >> > >> I am using lyx with the document class ? ?SGML (LinuxDoc manpage)?. Now > >I > >> really tried to find some docs related to this class specifically, but > >> couldn?t find anything really specific to it. I am facing some probs in > >> documenting using the above-mentioned

Re: Problems in Using - SGML ( LinuxDoc manpage) Document Style

2004-09-29 Thread udayan singh
Would you like me to put the file here, that I got in .sgml format? Its the example linuxdoc_manpage.sgml that we get from the linuxdoc_manpage.lyx, which comes with lyx. Regards, Udayan _ Life on the fast tracks!

AMSBOOK in french

2004-09-29 Thread NOEL Yvonnick
Hello, I am playing around with the AMSBOOK class under Lyx, and have selected "French" as the document language. All the main entries (title, part,section, chapter..) are properly translated, but not some AMS-specific items such as "exercise" and "example" (which should appear as "exercice"

Mac-LyX is slow

2004-09-29 Thread Peter Ljunglöf
Hi all, this mail concerns the different LyX's for Mac. I'm writing my thesis in LyX on my 1GHz Powerbook G4 (1GB of memory), and have reached about 120 pages so far. The thesis is about computational linguistics, meaning that I have some mathematical formulae (say 5 per page or so), but most

Change styles

2004-09-29 Thread Lars Olesen
Hi, I want to make changes in the text classes used in Latex. Where do I find these classes or what are their extensions? -- Lars Olesen E-mail-etikette

LaTex study recommendations?

2004-09-29 Thread Jack Gill
I'm new to LyX and LaTeX. I searched Amazon.com for books on both subjects, and found none listed for LyX. For LaTeX, however, Amazon.com shows a list of several books available. Do you have a recommendation for a first book on LaTeX? Jack

Re: How can I reduce the width of the document inside the editor.

2004-09-29 Thread Ronny Klein
> complaining about what the proper display font sizes I don't see your point. One is already able to change the preferred font size in the editor, which is btw a great thing. An option to narrow the width of the document inside the editor would not alter this behavior. > screen resolution

Re: LaTex study recommendations?

2004-09-29 Thread Martijn Brouwer
For the basics, read the online documentation that is online available, after that, The LaTeX companion is a good one. Martijn Brouwer On Wed, 2004-09-29 at 05:13 -0500, Jack Gill wrote: > I'm new to LyX and LaTeX. I searched Amazon.com for books on both > subjects, and found none listed for

Re: Problems in Using - SGML ( LinuxDoc manpage) Document Style

2004-09-29 Thread José Abílio Oliveira Matos
On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 06:33:00AM +, udayan singh wrote: > > Well I think if its playing some role in formatting ( or some other thing ) > of this doc class, then it should have been mentioned ( my views) . I agree. But my priority is not linuxdoc, linuxdoc is a dead end. It works well

Re: Problems in Using - SGML ( LinuxDoc manpage) Document Style

2004-09-29 Thread José Abílio Oliveira Matos
On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 06:42:29AM +, udayan singh wrote: > Would you like me to put the file here, that I got in .sgml format? Its the > example linuxdoc_manpage.sgml that we get from the linuxdoc_manpage.lyx, > which comes with lyx. No need to, at least for now. > Regards, > Udayan

Re: AMSBOOK in french

2004-09-29 Thread Jean-Pierre Chretien
>>Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 10:13:00 +0200 >>From: NOEL Yvonnick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Subject: AMSBOOK in french >> >>Hello, >> >>I am playing around with the AMSBOOK class under Lyx, and have selected >>"French" as the document language. All the main entries (title,

Re: Problems in Using - SGML ( LinuxDoc manpage) Document Style

2004-09-29 Thread udayan singh
> > Well I think if its playing some role in formatting ( or some other thing ) > of this doc class, then it should have been mentioned ( my views) . I agree. But my priority is not linuxdoc, linuxdoc is a dead end. It works well for simple things. The problem was that it started as a hack

Re: aspell is not working - help

2004-09-29 Thread Jean-Pierre Chretien
>>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>From: Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Subject: Re: aspell is not working - help >>Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 21:26:16 +0100 >>X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: host81-155-148-141.range81-155.btcentralplus.com >> >>./configure --with-pspell >> >>(pspell is a compatibility

Re: aspell is not working - help

2004-09-29 Thread Angus Leeming
Jean-Pierre Chretien wrote: > Thanks a lot for the hint, Angus. > > I cursed a lot aspell after upgrading to 0.50 > (pspell was apparently not needed anymore since this version). > I did not understand that pspell lib was still needed... > Shifted back to ispell, but French dictionaries do not

Re: LaTex study recommendations?

2004-09-29 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 29 Sep 2004, Jack Gill wrote: I'm new to LyX and LaTeX. I searched Amazon.com for books on both subjects, and found none listed for LyX. For LaTeX, however, Amazon.com shows a list of several books available. Do you have a recommendation for a first book on LaTeX? Jack, There used to

Re: How can I reduce the width of the document inside the editor.

2004-09-29 Thread Helge Hafting
Ronny Klein wrote: You wrote: but, then I've got distracted by the underlying desktop. How about setting the desktop to the same color as the lyx window background? Don't use a distracting desktop look if it bothers you. Or open a full screen image with solid color, maximized underneath

Re: LaTex study recommendations?

2004-09-29 Thread Gour
Rich Shepard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >Do you have a recommendation for a first book on LaTeX? > Several years ago I read almost all the main books on LaTeX. The two that > I have left are "LaTeX for Linux" by Beatrice Sachs Lipkin and "The LaTeX > Companion, 2nd Edition" by Mittlebach and

Re: LaTex study recommendations?

2004-09-29 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 29 Sep 2004, Gour wrote: I don't know about TLC 2dn-ed (probably is very good), but the book which I always recommend is Kopka & Daly's A Guide to LaTeX (now in 4th ed.). Gour, Which makes an important point: there are a lot of good books out there. Each has a different style and

Re: Mac-LyX is slow

2004-09-29 Thread Bennett Helm
On Sep 29, 2004, at 4:59 AM, Peter Ljunglöf wrote: 1) The native LyX/Mac port has become terribly slow -- it takes several seconds just to open a math-macro (with arguments), and writing inside a math formula can be as slow as 1 character per second. Editing the main text is also slow, but not

Re: Problems in Using - SGML ( LinuxDoc manpage) Document Style

2004-09-29 Thread José Abílio Oliveira Matos
On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 12:26:46PM +, udayan singh wrote: > > > > > Because then you are using different tools. > > If using linxudoc manpage the path to pdf is: > >lyx -> linuxdoc -> latex -> pdf > > > > while with "LaTeX (book)" is: > >lyx -> latex -> pdf > > > > Exactly, but why is it

Re: How can I reduce the width of the document inside the editor.

2004-09-29 Thread chr
On Wed, 29 Sep 2004, Helge Hafting wrote: > >>How about setting the desktop to the same color as the lyx window > >>background? Don't use a distracting desktop look if it bothers you. I usually use a separate desktop to focus on the writing. On this desktop, I place a LyX window and a

Re: LaTex study recommendations?

2004-09-29 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Gour wrote: I don't know about TLC 2dn-ed (probably is very good), but the book which I always recommend is Kopka & Daly's A Guide to LaTeX (now in 4th ed.). I use Kopka and Daly as a reference and like it quite a lot. -- Paul

Re: AMSBOOK in french

2004-09-29 Thread Eric Delevaux
On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 10:13:00 +0200 NOEL Yvonnick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I am playing around with the AMSBOOK class under Lyx, and have selected > "French" as the document language. All the main entries (title, > part,section, chapter..) are properly translated, but not some >

Re: AMSBOOK in french

2004-09-29 Thread José Abílio Oliveira Matos
On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 10:13:00AM +0200, NOEL Yvonnick wrote: > Hello, > > I am playing around with the AMSBOOK class under Lyx, and have selected > "French" as the document language. All the main entries (title, > part,section, chapter..) are properly translated, but not some > AMS-specific

Re: Problems in Using - SGML ( LinuxDoc manpage) Document Style

2004-09-29 Thread udayan singh
Thanks, for your views, cleared up a lot of stuff. Will post any updates if I get. Regards, Udayan From: José Abílio Oliveira Matos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Problems in Using - SGML ( LinuxDoc manpage) Document Style Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 15:28:50 +0100 On Wed,

lyx menu too big

2004-09-29 Thread Aymeric Nys
Hi people. I just finish to compile lyx 1.3.4 with qt 3.3.3 and I have a ugly result (see picture at http://w3.uqo.ca/nysa01/Capture.png) The text for the menu (File, Edit, ...) are too big, and dialog screen too (preferences window do not fit on the screen), watch also the drop down menu. Is

lyx-qt + russian locale + math symbols display

2004-09-29 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
Hello. The known problem with lyx-qt + russian locale + math symbols display (that causes no math symbols to be displayed if Qt uses fontconfig) may be workarounded by starting lyx-qt as LC_TIME=C lyx-qt

convert html table to Lyx

2004-09-29 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
I made a table in Lyx (cvs version). It starts with: \begin_inset Tabular \begin_inset Text My problem is that HTML tables (by default) do not know how many columns or rows they may have. For example, I may have some: data data data data Is there any way in lyx to have

Re: convert html table to Lyx

2004-09-29 Thread José Abílio Oliveira Matos
On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 01:22:16PM -0700, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > I made a table in Lyx (cvs version). > > > Is there any way in lyx to have tables without defining how many rows or > columns ahead of time? No. > Maybe I should use latex table or tabular? I see two: - make a script

Re: convert html table to Lyx

2004-09-29 Thread Angus Leeming
Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > I made a table in Lyx (cvs version). > > It starts with: > > \begin_inset Tabular > > > > > rightline="true" wid > th="0"> > > usebox= > "none"> > \begin_inset Text > > > My problem is that HTML tables (by default) do not know how many columns > or rows they may

[Fwd: Itemize & Enumerate]

2004-09-29 Thread Jaime Diaz-Deus Fernández
-- --- Begin Message --- Why in the environments menu don't appear this two items?. I use LyX 1.3.4 with MDK 10.0. Thanks. --- End Message ---

Itemize & Enumerate

2004-09-29 Thread Jaime Diaz-Deus Fernández
Why in the environments menu don't appear this two items?. I use LyX 1.3.4 with MDK 10.0. Thanks.

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