Re: Mac installation problem

2004-10-13 Thread Chris Menzel
On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 04:39:05PM +0200, Henning Bobzin wrote: Hello again and thanks so far, the installer I got from http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/LyX/Mac is for Mac OS 10.2 or later, so that should not be the problem. In light of Jean-Marc's earlier remark that LyX/Mac is supposedly

Re: Microsoft Word to Lyx

2004-10-13 Thread Lars Risan
On tirsdag 12. oktober 2004, 08:27, Kelvin Ngo wrote: Is it possible to conver documents from Microsoft Word to Lyx? There is also the program unrtf that converts from RTF to LateX (or html or postscript). My version isn't very good, but there is a recent release. Have a look at:

Math font problem in Mac-LyX 1.3.5

2004-10-13 Thread Peter Ljunglöf
Hi all, I've just installed the new Mac-LyX 1.3.5, and it seems faster on my 120 page document than 1.3.4 was, so I guess the efficiency problem is partly solved (but it's still only about 1/2 as fast as LyX/Xforms). BUT: there's another problem now: Math symbols becomes garbage! I've tried

Re: Microsoft Word to Lyx

2004-10-13 Thread Kelvin Ngo
Hi, thanks to all the replies! Most of the methods described were really good and would worked with most of my documents. However, I have used this feature called autocorrect in this 100 page document which replaces characters such as ', - and many others with some characters which seem to

Bibtext for multipart documents

2004-10-13 Thread Kelvin Ngo
Hi again! I came across a thesis template which uses multipart lyx documents and then a main document that seems to include all the individual files. They have a separate file for the bibtex file. However, when I open the document from say Chapter one and do an insert reference, the bibtex

Re: Bibtext for multipart documents

2004-10-13 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Kelvin == Kelvin Ngo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Kelvin Hi again! I came across a thesis template which uses multipart Kelvin lyx documents and then a main document that seems to include Kelvin all the individual files. They have a separate file for the Kelvin bibtex file. However, when I open the

Re: Bibtext for multipart documents

2004-10-13 Thread Dominik Waßenhoven
Hi Kelvin, Kelvin Ngo schrieb: Hi again! I came across a thesis template which uses multipart lyx documents and then a main document that seems to include all the individual files. They have a separate file for the bibtex file. However, when I open the document from say Chapter one and do an

scrash when lyx is started

2004-10-13 Thread belahcene abdelkader
Hi every body, I just downloded the lyx-1.3.5-1fc2_qt.i386.rpm and install it on my debian sarge, there is no error at the installation step, however when I run the lyx , it gives an error and scrash with : +checking for wasy10... yes (pfb) removing packages.lst, which is identical to the

Re: Math font problem in Mac-LyX 1.3.5

2004-10-13 Thread Stephen Buonopane
BUT: there's another problem now: Math symbols becomes garbage! I've tried several fonts and sizes, and the result is the same. The old version (1.3.4) still works fine. (Note: it's just the LyX window that looks strange -- the LaTeX code and the dvi files are just fine). This is a problem

Re: scrash when lyx is started

2004-10-13 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
belahcene abdelkader [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | Hi every body, | I just downloded the lyx-1.3.5-1fc2_qt.i386.rpm and | install it on my debian sarge, there is no error at | the installation step, That package is for Fedora Core 2. So of you have Debian you should either get a rpm for that or

Re: Bibtext for multipart documents

2004-10-13 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Kelvin Ngo wrote: I tried searching the net and one of the solutions was to do an insert references on the main lyx file, switch to say chapter 1 and then do an insert reference. That seems to work for one citation. However, when I go to insert a second one, the library isnt ther again,

Re: Math font problem in Mac-LyX 1.3.5

2004-10-13 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Stephen == Stephen Buonopane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Stephen This is a problem that many have been experiencing on Stephen Lyx/Mac. In my case it happens in both 1.3.4 and 1.3.5. There Stephen are some workarounds that involve copying some font files Stephen from Lyx.app bundle to your

\oe

2004-10-13 Thread RENARD Francois 144138
Hi, Does somebody know how to write the \oe character (o and e attached) in a french text ? I tried to insert the TEX expression \oe and got the error message : undefined control sequence. Curiously, if I put a \ just after my ERT{oe}, I have no more error message, . but a \ that I don't

protected words

2004-10-13 Thread RENARD Francois 144138
Hi, Does somebody know how to protect words from being cut (for line break) ? For example, I don't want AAA-BBB to be cut, as LYX does : .AAA- BBB Thank you, François

Lyx and TeXmacs and Whizzytex

2004-10-13 Thread Beaubert François
Hi, What do you think about the implementation made in Texmacs and Whizzytex + emacs ? Do you think it will be a good choice for Lyx too ? Francois -- François BEAUBERT ENSIAME/LME Bureau A9 Université de Valenciennes - Le Mont Houy - 59313 Valenciennes Cedex 9 Téléphone: (0/33)3 27 51 19 72

Re: \oe

2004-10-13 Thread Dominik Waßenhoven
RENARD Francois 144138 schrieb: Hi, Does somebody know how to write the \oe character (o and e attached) in a french text ? I tried to insert the TEX expression \oe and got the error message : undefined control sequence. Curiously, if I put a \ just after my ERT{oe}, I have no more error message,

Re: \oe

2004-10-13 Thread Jean-Pierre Chretien
From: RENARD Francois 144138 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: \oe Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 15:53:15 +0200 Hi, Does somebody know how to write the \oe character (o and e attached) in a french text ? I tried to insert the TEX expression \oe and got the error

Re: Lyx and TeXmacs and Whizzytex

2004-10-13 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Beaubert == Beaubert François [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Beaubert Hi, What do you think about the implementation made in Beaubert Texmacs and Whizzytex + emacs ? Do you think it will be a Beaubert good choice for Lyx too ? The implementation of what? JMarc

Re: protected words

2004-10-13 Thread Herbert Voss
RENARD Francois 144138 wrote: Does somebody know how to protect words from being cut (for line break) ? For example, I don't want AAA-BBB to be cut, as LYX does : .AAA- BBB \mbox{AAA-BBB} better \mbox{AAA--BBB} nicer hyphen Herbert -- http://TeXnik.de/ http://PSTricks.de/

Re: Microsoft Word to Lyx

2004-10-13 Thread Charles de Miramon
Kelvin Ngo wrote: Hi, thanks to all the replies! Most of the methods described were really good and would worked with most of my documents. However, I have used this feature called autocorrect in this 100 page document which replaces characters such as ', - and many others with some

Re: Microsoft Word to Lyx

2004-10-13 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All When I was an user of MS Windows, there was an excellent program to convert MS Word documents to LaTeX: it was called Word2TeX and it was free of charge. I would recommend that program... but, nowadays, it costs money and probably the free of charge solutions indicated here should be

Re: scrash when lyx is started

2004-10-13 Thread belahcene abdelkader
--- Lars Gullik Bjønnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: belahcene abdelkader [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | Hi every body, | I just downloded the lyx-1.3.5-1fc2_qt.i386.rpm and | install it on my debian sarge, there is no error at | the installation step, That package is for Fedora Core 2.

Looking for tex2lyx

2004-10-13 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All I am looking for tex2lyx, but I cannot find it. Could someone here please tell me where from can I download it? Thanks in advance, Paul

Re: protected words

2004-10-13 Thread Dominik Waßenhoven
Juergen Spitzmueller schrieb: RENARD Francois wrote: Does somebody know how to protect words from being cut (for line break) ? For example, I don't want AAA-BBB to be cut, as LYX does : [...] If the word occurs frequently, write \usepackage{babel} \hyphenation{AAA-BBB} in the preamble. But then it

Re: Looking for tex2lyx

2004-10-13 Thread Dominik Waßenhoven
Hi Paul, Paul Smith schrieb: Dear All I am looking for tex2lyx, but I cannot find it. Could someone here please tell me where from can I download it? Thanks in advance, Paul It should be part of LyX, so just use File-Import-LaTeX. Dominik.-

Re: protected words

2004-10-13 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Dominik Waßenhoven wrote: \hyphenation{AAA-BBB} in the preamble. But then it breaks again, doesn't it? Yes, you're right. Jürgen

Re: protected words

2004-10-13 Thread Herbert Voss
Dominik Waßenhoven wrote: Juergen Spitzmueller schrieb: RENARD Francois wrote: Does somebody know how to protect words from being cut (for line break) ? For example, I don't want AAA-BBB to be cut, as LYX does : [...] If the word occurs frequently, write \usepackage{babel} \hyphenation{AAA-BBB}

Re: Looking for tex2lyx

2004-10-13 Thread Paul Smith
On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 19:51:57 +0200, Dominik Waßenhoven [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am looking for tex2lyx, but I cannot find it. Could someone here please tell me where from can I download it? Thanks in advance, It should be part of LyX, so just use File-Import-LaTeX. Dominik, Thanks,

Re: Looking for tex2lyx

2004-10-13 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Wed, 13 Oct 2004, Paul Smith wrote: I am looking for tex2lyx, but I cannot find it. Could someone here please tell me where from can I download it? It is available with the new lyx that is available via CVS. Jeremy C. Reed BSD News, BSD tutorials, BSD links

Re: Looking for tex2lyx

2004-10-13 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Wed, 13 Oct 2004, Paul Smith wrote: Are you meaning that I need the new LyX (the CVS one) to have tex2lyx in my machine? Or can I get it separately? I don't think it is available separately. It is available via the CVS for the latest-and-greatest LyX. You should use it with the latest LyX

Re: Looking for tex2lyx

2004-10-13 Thread Paul Smith
On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 11:58:04 -0700 (PDT), Jeremy C. Reed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are you meaning that I need the new LyX (the CVS one) to have tex2lyx in my machine? Or can I get it separately? I don't think it is available separately. It is available via the CVS for the

Re: Looking for tex2lyx

2004-10-13 Thread Angus Leeming
Jeremy C. Reed wrote: On Wed, 13 Oct 2004, Paul Smith wrote: Are you meaning that I need the new LyX (the CVS one) to have tex2lyx in my machine? Or can I get it separately? I don't think it is available separately. It is available via the CVS for the latest-and-greatest LyX. You

Re: Looking for tex2lyx

2004-10-13 Thread Angus Leeming
Paul Smith wrote: On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 11:58:04 -0700 (PDT), Jeremy C. Reed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are you meaning that I need the new LyX (the CVS one) to have tex2lyx in my machine? Or can I get it separately? I don't think it is available separately. It is available via the CVS for

Re: Looking for tex2lyx

2004-10-13 Thread Paul Smith
On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 20:19:15 +0100, Angus Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Given that 1.4.0 is month's away Angus, Are you meaning that the version 1.4 will be out there within one month? (I have already searched the CVS section of LyX site and it seems a bit labyrinthic to me... so, I could

Re: Looking for tex2lyx

2004-10-13 Thread Angus Leeming
Paul Smith wrote: On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 20:19:15 +0100, Angus Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Given that 1.4.0 is month's away Angus, Are you meaning that the version 1.4 will be out there within one month? No. I can't spell tonight. LyX 1.4.0 is *many* months away because nobody is

Re: Looking for tex2lyx

2004-10-13 Thread Herbert Voss
Paul Smith wrote: On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 20:19:15 +0100, Angus Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Given that 1.4.0 is month's away Angus, Are you meaning that the version 1.4 will be out there within one month? (I have already searched the CVS section of LyX site and it seems a bit labyrinthic to

Re: Looking for tex2lyx

2004-10-13 Thread Paul Smith
On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 21:10:12 +0100, Angus Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Given that 1.4.0 is month's away Are you meaning that the version 1.4 will be out there within one month? No. I can't spell tonight. LyX 1.4.0 is *many* months away because nobody is working hard to fix its

LyX to Word -- Success

2004-10-13 Thread Stefano Franchi
Thanks so much to everyone who helped me figure out how to go from LyX to Word. The key hint was to use htlatex to convert into OpenOffice and then export from OpenOffice to Microsoft word. Works beautifully and almost out of the box (after you spend a couple of days installing all the

Re: Looking for tex2lyx

2004-10-13 Thread chr
On Wed, 13 Oct 2004, Paul Smith wrote: On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 21:10:12 +0100, Angus Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Given that 1.4.0 is month's away Are you meaning that the version 1.4 will be out there within one month? No. I can't spell tonight. LyX 1.4.0 is *many* months away

Re: Looking for tex2lyx

2004-10-13 Thread José Abílio Oliveira Matos
On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 07:33:01PM +0100, Paul Smith wrote: Dominik, Thanks, but File-Import-LaTeX does not exist in my version of LyX (LyX 1.3.5). Don't you have perl on your system? The program that presently converts LaTeX to LyX is relyx, a perl script. Regards, Paul --

Re: New Converters in the Preferences dialogue?

2004-10-13 Thread Angus Leeming
Stefano Franchi wrote: Does anyone know if there is a way to add an item to the drop-down list of formats that your are presented with when trying to add a new converter in the Preference dialogue? Now that I've finally found out how to go from LyX (LaTex) to Open office, I'd like to insert

Re: Looking for tex2lyx

2004-10-13 Thread Paul Smith
On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 22:25:33 +0100, José Abílio Oliveira Matos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks, but File-Import-LaTeX does not exist in my version of LyX (LyX 1.3.5). Don't you have perl on your system? The program that presently converts LaTeX to LyX is relyx, a perl script. Jose',

Re: LyX to Word -- Success

2004-10-13 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Stefano Franchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | Thanks so much to everyone who helped me figure out how to go from LyX | to Word. The key hint was to use htlatex to convert into OpenOffice | and then export from OpenOffice to Microsoft word. Works beautifully | and almost out of the box (after you

Re: Looking for tex2lyx

2004-10-13 Thread José Abílio Oliveira Matos
On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 11:17:26PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would it make sense to make a wiki page for tex2lyx, and attach a copy of the script to that page so that people can download it from there? AFAIK, tex2lyx depends on some code from lyx. Also to use tex2lyx with lyx 1.3.5

Re: Looking for tex2lyx

2004-10-13 Thread José Abílio Oliveira Matos
On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 10:31:24PM +0100, Paul Smith wrote: The program that presently converts LaTeX to LyX is relyx, a perl script. Jose', I do have perl on my system, but locate relyx does not find relyx. That will happen if the cron job responsible to call updatedb has no yet

Re: Looking for tex2lyx

2004-10-13 Thread Paul Smith
On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 22:37:35 +0100, José Abílio Oliveira Matos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I do have perl on my system, but locate relyx does not find relyx. That will happen if the cron job responsible to call updatedb has no yet run. Usually it runs once a day. Until that time no new

Re: Changing text height and width?

2004-10-13 Thread Rudi Gaelzer
On Sunday 15 August 2004 11:19, Herbert Voss wrote: Uwe Stöhr wrote: e.g. insert to the preamble th line \setlength{\textwidth}{7.5in} never use this way of setting layout parameters. Do _everything_ with the geometry package or better via the LyX menues. Herbert In that case, how can

Re: Looking for tex2lyx

2004-10-13 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Wed, 13 Oct 2004, Paul Smith wrote: I do have perl on my system, but locate relyx does not find relyx. It is called reLyX -- notice the capital L and X. It could be installed under some share/lyx directory instead of in a bin/ directory. Jeremy C. Reed BSD

Re: Looking for tex2lyx

2004-10-13 Thread Paul Smith
On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 15:04:44 -0700 (PDT), Jeremy C. Reed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is called reLyX -- notice the capital L and X. Found! Paul

Re: Changing text height and width?

2004-10-13 Thread José Abílio Oliveira Matos
On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 04:49:48PM -0200, Rudi Gaelzer wrote: In that case, how can you save the desired page settings in a template or layout file, so that you can use them on any document you're writing? Taking advantage of the lyx templates. Lets us assume for simplicity a spheric

problem with XFig figures under PDF

2004-10-13 Thread Maciej Kalisiak
My LyX document contains a bunch of *.fig files. Under PS everything looks great. Under PDF (via pdflatex or dvipdfm) each figure gets its own page, and is rotated to be in landscape mode, and resized to take most of that full page. I'm using the latest LyX version that comes with Debian:

Re: LyX to Word -- Success

2004-10-13 Thread chr
On Thu, 14 Oct 2004, Stefano Franchi wrote: I think the solution should be definitely posted in some prominent place, in a FAQ, or in the documentation somewhere. It is one of the most pressing needs for everyone in the humanities wanting to use LyX. I'll be more than willing to contribute

Re: Mac installation problem

2004-10-13 Thread Chris Menzel
On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 04:39:05PM +0200, Henning Bobzin wrote: Hello again and thanks so far, the installer I got from http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/LyX/Mac is for Mac OS 10.2 or later, so that should not be the problem. In light of Jean-Marc's earlier remark that LyX/Mac is supposedly

Re: Microsoft Word to Lyx

2004-10-13 Thread Lars Risan
On tirsdag 12. oktober 2004, 08:27, Kelvin Ngo wrote: Is it possible to conver documents from Microsoft Word to Lyx? There is also the program unrtf that converts from RTF to LateX (or html or postscript). My version isn't very good, but there is a recent release. Have a look at:

Math font problem in Mac-LyX 1.3.5

2004-10-13 Thread Peter Ljunglöf
Hi all, I've just installed the new Mac-LyX 1.3.5, and it seems faster on my 120 page document than 1.3.4 was, so I guess the efficiency problem is partly solved (but it's still only about 1/2 as fast as LyX/Xforms). BUT: there's another problem now: Math symbols becomes garbage! I've tried

Re: Microsoft Word to Lyx

2004-10-13 Thread Kelvin Ngo
Hi, thanks to all the replies! Most of the methods described were really good and would worked with most of my documents. However, I have used this feature called autocorrect in this 100 page document which replaces characters such as ', - and many others with some characters which seem to

Bibtext for multipart documents

2004-10-13 Thread Kelvin Ngo
Hi again! I came across a thesis template which uses multipart lyx documents and then a main document that seems to include all the individual files. They have a separate file for the bibtex file. However, when I open the document from say Chapter one and do an insert reference, the bibtex

Re: Bibtext for multipart documents

2004-10-13 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Kelvin == Kelvin Ngo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Kelvin Hi again! I came across a thesis template which uses multipart Kelvin lyx documents and then a main document that seems to include Kelvin all the individual files. They have a separate file for the Kelvin bibtex file. However, when I open the

Re: Bibtext for multipart documents

2004-10-13 Thread Dominik Waßenhoven
Hi Kelvin, Kelvin Ngo schrieb: Hi again! I came across a thesis template which uses multipart lyx documents and then a main document that seems to include all the individual files. They have a separate file for the bibtex file. However, when I open the document from say Chapter one and do an

scrash when lyx is started

2004-10-13 Thread belahcene abdelkader
Hi every body, I just downloded the lyx-1.3.5-1fc2_qt.i386.rpm and install it on my debian sarge, there is no error at the installation step, however when I run the lyx , it gives an error and scrash with : +checking for wasy10... yes (pfb) removing packages.lst, which is identical to the

Re: Math font problem in Mac-LyX 1.3.5

2004-10-13 Thread Stephen Buonopane
BUT: there's another problem now: Math symbols becomes garbage! I've tried several fonts and sizes, and the result is the same. The old version (1.3.4) still works fine. (Note: it's just the LyX window that looks strange -- the LaTeX code and the dvi files are just fine). This is a problem

Re: scrash when lyx is started

2004-10-13 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
belahcene abdelkader [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | Hi every body, | I just downloded the lyx-1.3.5-1fc2_qt.i386.rpm and | install it on my debian sarge, there is no error at | the installation step, That package is for Fedora Core 2. So of you have Debian you should either get a rpm for that or

Re: Bibtext for multipart documents

2004-10-13 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Kelvin Ngo wrote: I tried searching the net and one of the solutions was to do an insert references on the main lyx file, switch to say chapter 1 and then do an insert reference. That seems to work for one citation. However, when I go to insert a second one, the library isnt ther again,

Re: Math font problem in Mac-LyX 1.3.5

2004-10-13 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Stephen == Stephen Buonopane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Stephen This is a problem that many have been experiencing on Stephen Lyx/Mac. In my case it happens in both 1.3.4 and 1.3.5. There Stephen are some workarounds that involve copying some font files Stephen from Lyx.app bundle to your

\oe

2004-10-13 Thread RENARD Francois 144138
Hi, Does somebody know how to write the \oe character (o and e attached) in a french text ? I tried to insert the TEX expression \oe and got the error message : undefined control sequence. Curiously, if I put a \ just after my ERT{oe}, I have no more error message, . but a \ that I don't

protected words

2004-10-13 Thread RENARD Francois 144138
Hi, Does somebody know how to protect words from being cut (for line break) ? For example, I don't want AAA-BBB to be cut, as LYX does : .AAA- BBB Thank you, François

Lyx and TeXmacs and Whizzytex

2004-10-13 Thread Beaubert François
Hi, What do you think about the implementation made in Texmacs and Whizzytex + emacs ? Do you think it will be a good choice for Lyx too ? Francois -- François BEAUBERT ENSIAME/LME Bureau A9 Université de Valenciennes - Le Mont Houy - 59313 Valenciennes Cedex 9 Téléphone: (0/33)3 27 51 19 72

Re: \oe

2004-10-13 Thread Dominik Waßenhoven
RENARD Francois 144138 schrieb: Hi, Does somebody know how to write the \oe character (o and e attached) in a french text ? I tried to insert the TEX expression \oe and got the error message : undefined control sequence. Curiously, if I put a \ just after my ERT{oe}, I have no more error message,

Re: \oe

2004-10-13 Thread Jean-Pierre Chretien
From: RENARD Francois 144138 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: \oe Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 15:53:15 +0200 Hi, Does somebody know how to write the \oe character (o and e attached) in a french text ? I tried to insert the TEX expression \oe and got the error

Re: Lyx and TeXmacs and Whizzytex

2004-10-13 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Beaubert == Beaubert François [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Beaubert Hi, What do you think about the implementation made in Beaubert Texmacs and Whizzytex + emacs ? Do you think it will be a Beaubert good choice for Lyx too ? The implementation of what? JMarc

Re: protected words

2004-10-13 Thread Herbert Voss
RENARD Francois 144138 wrote: Does somebody know how to protect words from being cut (for line break) ? For example, I don't want AAA-BBB to be cut, as LYX does : .AAA- BBB \mbox{AAA-BBB} better \mbox{AAA--BBB} nicer hyphen Herbert -- http://TeXnik.de/ http://PSTricks.de/

Re: Microsoft Word to Lyx

2004-10-13 Thread Charles de Miramon
Kelvin Ngo wrote: Hi, thanks to all the replies! Most of the methods described were really good and would worked with most of my documents. However, I have used this feature called autocorrect in this 100 page document which replaces characters such as ', - and many others with some

Re: Microsoft Word to Lyx

2004-10-13 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All When I was an user of MS Windows, there was an excellent program to convert MS Word documents to LaTeX: it was called Word2TeX and it was free of charge. I would recommend that program... but, nowadays, it costs money and probably the free of charge solutions indicated here should be

Re: scrash when lyx is started

2004-10-13 Thread belahcene abdelkader
--- Lars Gullik Bjønnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: belahcene abdelkader [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | Hi every body, | I just downloded the lyx-1.3.5-1fc2_qt.i386.rpm and | install it on my debian sarge, there is no error at | the installation step, That package is for Fedora Core 2.

Looking for tex2lyx

2004-10-13 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All I am looking for tex2lyx, but I cannot find it. Could someone here please tell me where from can I download it? Thanks in advance, Paul

Re: protected words

2004-10-13 Thread Dominik Waßenhoven
Juergen Spitzmueller schrieb: RENARD Francois wrote: Does somebody know how to protect words from being cut (for line break) ? For example, I don't want AAA-BBB to be cut, as LYX does : [...] If the word occurs frequently, write \usepackage{babel} \hyphenation{AAA-BBB} in the preamble. But then it

Re: Looking for tex2lyx

2004-10-13 Thread Dominik Waßenhoven
Hi Paul, Paul Smith schrieb: Dear All I am looking for tex2lyx, but I cannot find it. Could someone here please tell me where from can I download it? Thanks in advance, Paul It should be part of LyX, so just use File-Import-LaTeX. Dominik.-

Re: protected words

2004-10-13 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Dominik Waßenhoven wrote: \hyphenation{AAA-BBB} in the preamble. But then it breaks again, doesn't it? Yes, you're right. Jürgen

Re: protected words

2004-10-13 Thread Herbert Voss
Dominik Waßenhoven wrote: Juergen Spitzmueller schrieb: RENARD Francois wrote: Does somebody know how to protect words from being cut (for line break) ? For example, I don't want AAA-BBB to be cut, as LYX does : [...] If the word occurs frequently, write \usepackage{babel} \hyphenation{AAA-BBB}

Re: Looking for tex2lyx

2004-10-13 Thread Paul Smith
On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 19:51:57 +0200, Dominik Waßenhoven [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am looking for tex2lyx, but I cannot find it. Could someone here please tell me where from can I download it? Thanks in advance, It should be part of LyX, so just use File-Import-LaTeX. Dominik, Thanks,

Re: Looking for tex2lyx

2004-10-13 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Wed, 13 Oct 2004, Paul Smith wrote: I am looking for tex2lyx, but I cannot find it. Could someone here please tell me where from can I download it? It is available with the new lyx that is available via CVS. Jeremy C. Reed BSD News, BSD tutorials, BSD links

Re: Looking for tex2lyx

2004-10-13 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Wed, 13 Oct 2004, Paul Smith wrote: Are you meaning that I need the new LyX (the CVS one) to have tex2lyx in my machine? Or can I get it separately? I don't think it is available separately. It is available via the CVS for the latest-and-greatest LyX. You should use it with the latest LyX

Re: Looking for tex2lyx

2004-10-13 Thread Paul Smith
On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 11:58:04 -0700 (PDT), Jeremy C. Reed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are you meaning that I need the new LyX (the CVS one) to have tex2lyx in my machine? Or can I get it separately? I don't think it is available separately. It is available via the CVS for the

Re: Looking for tex2lyx

2004-10-13 Thread Angus Leeming
Jeremy C. Reed wrote: On Wed, 13 Oct 2004, Paul Smith wrote: Are you meaning that I need the new LyX (the CVS one) to have tex2lyx in my machine? Or can I get it separately? I don't think it is available separately. It is available via the CVS for the latest-and-greatest LyX. You

Re: Looking for tex2lyx

2004-10-13 Thread Angus Leeming
Paul Smith wrote: On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 11:58:04 -0700 (PDT), Jeremy C. Reed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are you meaning that I need the new LyX (the CVS one) to have tex2lyx in my machine? Or can I get it separately? I don't think it is available separately. It is available via the CVS for

Re: Looking for tex2lyx

2004-10-13 Thread Paul Smith
On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 20:19:15 +0100, Angus Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Given that 1.4.0 is month's away Angus, Are you meaning that the version 1.4 will be out there within one month? (I have already searched the CVS section of LyX site and it seems a bit labyrinthic to me... so, I could

Re: Looking for tex2lyx

2004-10-13 Thread Angus Leeming
Paul Smith wrote: On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 20:19:15 +0100, Angus Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Given that 1.4.0 is month's away Angus, Are you meaning that the version 1.4 will be out there within one month? No. I can't spell tonight. LyX 1.4.0 is *many* months away because nobody is

Re: Looking for tex2lyx

2004-10-13 Thread Herbert Voss
Paul Smith wrote: On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 20:19:15 +0100, Angus Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Given that 1.4.0 is month's away Angus, Are you meaning that the version 1.4 will be out there within one month? (I have already searched the CVS section of LyX site and it seems a bit labyrinthic to

Re: Looking for tex2lyx

2004-10-13 Thread Paul Smith
On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 21:10:12 +0100, Angus Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Given that 1.4.0 is month's away Are you meaning that the version 1.4 will be out there within one month? No. I can't spell tonight. LyX 1.4.0 is *many* months away because nobody is working hard to fix its

LyX to Word -- Success

2004-10-13 Thread Stefano Franchi
Thanks so much to everyone who helped me figure out how to go from LyX to Word. The key hint was to use htlatex to convert into OpenOffice and then export from OpenOffice to Microsoft word. Works beautifully and almost out of the box (after you spend a couple of days installing all the

Re: Looking for tex2lyx

2004-10-13 Thread chr
On Wed, 13 Oct 2004, Paul Smith wrote: On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 21:10:12 +0100, Angus Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Given that 1.4.0 is month's away Are you meaning that the version 1.4 will be out there within one month? No. I can't spell tonight. LyX 1.4.0 is *many* months away

Re: Looking for tex2lyx

2004-10-13 Thread José Abílio Oliveira Matos
On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 07:33:01PM +0100, Paul Smith wrote: Dominik, Thanks, but File-Import-LaTeX does not exist in my version of LyX (LyX 1.3.5). Don't you have perl on your system? The program that presently converts LaTeX to LyX is relyx, a perl script. Regards, Paul --

Re: New Converters in the Preferences dialogue?

2004-10-13 Thread Angus Leeming
Stefano Franchi wrote: Does anyone know if there is a way to add an item to the drop-down list of formats that your are presented with when trying to add a new converter in the Preference dialogue? Now that I've finally found out how to go from LyX (LaTex) to Open office, I'd like to insert

Re: Looking for tex2lyx

2004-10-13 Thread Paul Smith
On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 22:25:33 +0100, José Abílio Oliveira Matos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks, but File-Import-LaTeX does not exist in my version of LyX (LyX 1.3.5). Don't you have perl on your system? The program that presently converts LaTeX to LyX is relyx, a perl script. Jose',

Re: LyX to Word -- Success

2004-10-13 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Stefano Franchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | Thanks so much to everyone who helped me figure out how to go from LyX | to Word. The key hint was to use htlatex to convert into OpenOffice | and then export from OpenOffice to Microsoft word. Works beautifully | and almost out of the box (after you

Re: Looking for tex2lyx

2004-10-13 Thread José Abílio Oliveira Matos
On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 11:17:26PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would it make sense to make a wiki page for tex2lyx, and attach a copy of the script to that page so that people can download it from there? AFAIK, tex2lyx depends on some code from lyx. Also to use tex2lyx with lyx 1.3.5

Re: Looking for tex2lyx

2004-10-13 Thread José Abílio Oliveira Matos
On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 10:31:24PM +0100, Paul Smith wrote: The program that presently converts LaTeX to LyX is relyx, a perl script. Jose', I do have perl on my system, but locate relyx does not find relyx. That will happen if the cron job responsible to call updatedb has no yet

Re: Looking for tex2lyx

2004-10-13 Thread Paul Smith
On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 22:37:35 +0100, José Abílio Oliveira Matos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I do have perl on my system, but locate relyx does not find relyx. That will happen if the cron job responsible to call updatedb has no yet run. Usually it runs once a day. Until that time no new

Re: Changing text height and width?

2004-10-13 Thread Rudi Gaelzer
On Sunday 15 August 2004 11:19, Herbert Voss wrote: Uwe Stöhr wrote: e.g. insert to the preamble th line \setlength{\textwidth}{7.5in} never use this way of setting layout parameters. Do _everything_ with the geometry package or better via the LyX menues. Herbert In that case, how can

Re: Looking for tex2lyx

2004-10-13 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Wed, 13 Oct 2004, Paul Smith wrote: I do have perl on my system, but locate relyx does not find relyx. It is called reLyX -- notice the capital L and X. It could be installed under some share/lyx directory instead of in a bin/ directory. Jeremy C. Reed BSD

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