Fwd: LyX on Live CD for Mac?

2004-10-24 Thread Nicholas
My sister is writing her Phd using Word on a Mac but is having some difficulties that I think LyX would solve. Unfortunately she has an early version of OS X and doesn't want to upgrade until her Phd is finished. Do you know of a good Live CD dist. for Mac, with LyX included? and do you have any

Error message truncation

2004-10-24 Thread Bruce E Weller
First time submission so apologies if this does not work as I imagine. I have searched the mailing list under "aspell/English", "dictionary fedora" (and some variations) and "error message truncation" without locating a reference to my my problem. I suspect that my personal filing process is aber

problems with lyx via fink

2004-10-24 Thread Emiliano Ricci
Hi there, I've been working for some months now with lyx, in my office, on a gentoo-gnome environment, and it's just so fun to work on it, that I decided to make also my school works on it. My problem is, that during the weekends I only have acces to an iBook with MacOsX version 10.3.5, and I tried

Re: doc import/export

2004-10-24 Thread Stefano Franchi
Since openoffice people already have an import/export filter for doc, is it not possible to use that for lyx? Indeed, in my experience the best way to convert from LyX to Word (.doc) is to use an external program called t4ht that can produce OpenOffice files from Latex files. Then load the file

Re: Nested enumerate in columns

2004-10-24 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 06:26:25PM +0100, Paul Smith wrote: > On Sun, 24 Oct 2004 08:51:50 -0700, Kenward Vaughan > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Use multicol package at the beginning of the first nested item, > > then the end of the last nested item. > > > > 1. A line of text. > >

Re: Nested enumerate in columns

2004-10-24 Thread Paul Smith
On Sun, 24 Oct 2004 08:51:50 -0700, Kenward Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Use multicol package at the beginning of the first nested item, then > the end of the last nested item. > > 1. A line of text. > (a) \begin{multicols}{2}First item > (b) 2nd item >

Re: Nested enumerate in columns

2004-10-24 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 07:31:25AM +0100, Paul Smith wrote: > Dear All > > Some time ago, Herbert provided here an example for me to achieve the > following enumerate environment in columns: > > (a) First item; (c) Third item; > (c) Second item; (d) Fourth item. > > Now, I am tr

Lyx and CVS

2004-10-24 Thread Roland Schmitz
Hi, while writing my master thesis, i started to use cvs to track changes in the text, pictures, measuremet results ... . Inside of my thesis i want to use the cvs version or revision tags (on the titlepage, or in the page headings/footer). Is/how it possibe to query cvs automaticly before prin

Re: doc import/export

2004-10-24 Thread José Abílio Oliveira Matos
On Sat, Oct 23, 2004 at 07:09:16PM -0700, christoff pale wrote: > Hi, > is there a way to import doc files into lyx? You should have the wv package installed. If you have, after Edit->Reconfigure lyx will show you the option to import word documents. That means the import is done using exte

Re: Nested enumerate in columns

2004-10-24 Thread delevaux eric
Hello See file attached, you'll need multicols package I got some trouble with this before I always put the "\begin {multicols}{2}" on an empty standart line wich is at the same level as the enumerate which is to be in multicols. (clear no ;)) Hope that helps Eric Paul Smith wrote: Dear All Some