(a+b)(a+b) with arrows

2005-01-23 Thread Gunnar
In many textbooks you show that (a+b)(a+b)=a^2+2ab+b^2 by drawing arrows like in the attached image. How can I do that in LyX? attachment: arrows.png

Re: Shading for all floats in a LyX document, and caption styles

2005-01-23 Thread Joerg Hau
Hi Uwe et al., I'm currently writing a long document with a number of table floats (actually they contain code snippets). I would like to put a frame around those, and/or use a shaded background. With the LaTeX-package float, you can define your own float or redefine an existing one. But

Re: Shading for all floats in a LyX document, and caption styles

2005-01-23 Thread =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Uwe_St=F6hr?=
Joerg Hau wrote: That's already more than I got, but the caption is still outside the box :-( You should also try out the ruled option instead of boxed. \usepackage[labelfont=sf]{caption} leads to an error here (LyX 1.3.5 on a SuSE 9.0)., but with \usepackage[sf]{caption}, it works as

Re: (a+b)(a+b) with arrows

2005-01-23 Thread =?UTF-8?B?VXdlIFN0w7Zocg==?=
Gunnar wrote: In many textbooks you show that (a+b)(a+b)=a^2+2ab+b^2 by drawing arrows like in the attached image. How can I do that in LyX? The LaTeX-package pstricks provides commands to draw these arrows, have a look at its manual. You can use all LaTeX-commands within LyX as ERT. regards

Re: (a+b)(a+b) with arrows

2005-01-23 Thread Paul Smith
On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 15:27:33 +0100, Uwe Stöhr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In many textbooks you show that (a+b)(a+b)=a^2+2ab+b^2 by drawing arrows like in the attached image. How can I do that in LyX? The LaTeX-package pstricks provides commands to draw these arrows, have a look at its

Re: disabling fonts on mac os x

2005-01-23 Thread Stefano Baroni
i Bennet! Thanks for the kind and prompt reply: On Jan 22, 2005, at 8:46 PM, Bennett Helm wrote: On Jan 22, 2005, at 1:33 PM, Stefano Baroni wrote: Hi! I am an occasional user of LyX on a mac running osx 10.3.7. Opening a file that was written a while ago, I notice that all the math formulas are

Re: (a+b)(a+b) with arrows

2005-01-23 Thread Herbert Voss
Gunnar wrote: In many textbooks you show that (a+b)(a+b)=a^2+2ab+b^2 by drawing arrows like in the attached image. How can I do that in LyX? with LaTeX (ERT), on p. 120 you'll find an example http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/math/voss/Voss-Mathmode.pdf Herbert -- http://TeXnik.de/

Re: accents no work

2005-01-23 Thread martin . vermeer
Do you use qt-3.3.3? There is a bug in this Qt version: the dead keys are, well, dead. So if you tyÃpoe an accent, say, ^, it doesn't wait for the character to be typed that it will be an accent of. Very irritating. It also disables the use of ^ for superscript in math. - Martin

Re: When to use quote and quotation

2005-01-23 Thread G. Milde
On 21.01.05, Michael Wojcik wrote: Rich Shepard wrote: On Fri, 21 Jan 2005, G. Milde wrote: quote formats with space delimited paragraphs, quotation uses indented paragraphs. Personally, I'd like a quoting environment where all paragraphs except the first were indented, and without

(a+b)(a+b) with arrows

2005-01-23 Thread Gunnar
In many textbooks you show that (a+b)(a+b)=a^2+2ab+b^2 by drawing arrows like in the attached image. How can I do that in LyX? attachment: arrows.png

Re: Shading for all floats in a LyX document, and caption styles

2005-01-23 Thread Joerg Hau
Hi Uwe et al., I'm currently writing a long document with a number of table floats (actually they contain code snippets). I would like to put a frame around those, and/or use a shaded background. With the LaTeX-package float, you can define your own float or redefine an existing one. But

Re: Shading for all floats in a LyX document, and caption styles

2005-01-23 Thread =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Uwe_St=F6hr?=
Joerg Hau wrote: That's already more than I got, but the caption is still outside the box :-( You should also try out the ruled option instead of boxed. \usepackage[labelfont=sf]{caption} leads to an error here (LyX 1.3.5 on a SuSE 9.0)., but with \usepackage[sf]{caption}, it works as

Re: (a+b)(a+b) with arrows

2005-01-23 Thread =?UTF-8?B?VXdlIFN0w7Zocg==?=
Gunnar wrote: In many textbooks you show that (a+b)(a+b)=a^2+2ab+b^2 by drawing arrows like in the attached image. How can I do that in LyX? The LaTeX-package pstricks provides commands to draw these arrows, have a look at its manual. You can use all LaTeX-commands within LyX as ERT. regards

Re: (a+b)(a+b) with arrows

2005-01-23 Thread Paul Smith
On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 15:27:33 +0100, Uwe Stöhr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In many textbooks you show that (a+b)(a+b)=a^2+2ab+b^2 by drawing arrows like in the attached image. How can I do that in LyX? The LaTeX-package pstricks provides commands to draw these arrows, have a look at its

Re: disabling fonts on mac os x

2005-01-23 Thread Stefano Baroni
i Bennet! Thanks for the kind and prompt reply: On Jan 22, 2005, at 8:46 PM, Bennett Helm wrote: On Jan 22, 2005, at 1:33 PM, Stefano Baroni wrote: Hi! I am an occasional user of LyX on a mac running osx 10.3.7. Opening a file that was written a while ago, I notice that all the math formulas are

Re: (a+b)(a+b) with arrows

2005-01-23 Thread Herbert Voss
Gunnar wrote: In many textbooks you show that (a+b)(a+b)=a^2+2ab+b^2 by drawing arrows like in the attached image. How can I do that in LyX? with LaTeX (ERT), on p. 120 you'll find an example http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/math/voss/Voss-Mathmode.pdf Herbert -- http://TeXnik.de/

Re: accents no work

2005-01-23 Thread martin . vermeer
Do you use qt-3.3.3? There is a bug in this Qt version: the dead keys are, well, dead. So if you tyÃpoe an accent, say, ^, it doesn't wait for the character to be typed that it will be an accent of. Very irritating. It also disables the use of ^ for superscript in math. - Martin

Re: When to use quote and quotation

2005-01-23 Thread G. Milde
On 21.01.05, Michael Wojcik wrote: Rich Shepard wrote: On Fri, 21 Jan 2005, G. Milde wrote: quote formats with space delimited paragraphs, quotation uses indented paragraphs. Personally, I'd like a quoting environment where all paragraphs except the first were indented, and without

(a+b)(a+b) with arrows

2005-01-23 Thread Gunnar
In many textbooks you "show" that (a+b)(a+b)=a^2+2ab+b^2 by drawing arrows like in the attached image. How can I do that in LyX? <>

Re: Shading for all floats in a LyX document, and caption styles

2005-01-23 Thread Joerg Hau
Hi Uwe et al., > > I'm currently writing a long document with a number of table > > floats (actually they contain code snippets). I would like to put > > a frame around those, and/or use a shaded background. > > With the LaTeX-package "float", you can define your own float or > redefine an

Re: Shading for all floats in a LyX document, and caption styles

2005-01-23 Thread =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Uwe_St=F6hr?=
Joerg Hau wrote: > That's already more than I got, but the caption is still outside the > box :-( You should also try out the "ruled" option instead of "boxed". "\usepackage[labelfont=sf]{caption}" leads to an error here (LyX 1.3.5 on a SuSE 9.0)., but with "\usepackage[sf]{caption}", it works

Re: (a+b)(a+b) with arrows

2005-01-23 Thread =?UTF-8?B?VXdlIFN0w7Zocg==?=
Gunnar wrote: In many textbooks you "show" that (a+b)(a+b)=a^2+2ab+b^2 by drawing arrows like in the attached image. How can I do that in LyX? The LaTeX-package "pstricks" provides commands to draw these arrows, have a look at its manual. You can use all LaTeX-commands within LyX as ERT.

Re: (a+b)(a+b) with arrows

2005-01-23 Thread Paul Smith
On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 15:27:33 +0100, Uwe Stöhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In many textbooks you "show" that (a+b)(a+b)=a^2+2ab+b^2 by drawing arrows > > like in the attached image. > > How can I do that in LyX? > > The LaTeX-package "pstricks" provides commands to draw these arrows, > have a

Re: disabling fonts on mac os x

2005-01-23 Thread Stefano Baroni
i Bennet! Thanks for the kind and prompt reply: On Jan 22, 2005, at 8:46 PM, Bennett Helm wrote: On Jan 22, 2005, at 1:33 PM, Stefano Baroni wrote: Hi! I am an occasional user of LyX on a mac running osx 10.3.7. Opening a file that was written a while ago, I notice that all the math formulas are

Re: (a+b)(a+b) with arrows

2005-01-23 Thread Herbert Voss
Gunnar wrote: In many textbooks you "show" that (a+b)(a+b)=a^2+2ab+b^2 by drawing arrows like in the attached image. How can I do that in LyX? with LaTeX (ERT), on p. 120 you'll find an example http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/math/voss/Voss-Mathmode.pdf Herbert -- http://TeXnik.de/

Re: accents no work

2005-01-23 Thread martin . vermeer
Do you use qt-3.3.3? There is a bug in this Qt version: the dead keys are, well, dead. So if you tyÃpoe an accent, say, ^, it doesn't wait for the character to be typed that it will be an accent of. Very irritating. It also disables the use of ^ for superscript in math. - Martin

Re: When to use quote and quotation

2005-01-23 Thread G. Milde
On 21.01.05, Michael Wojcik wrote: > Rich Shepard wrote: > >On Fri, 21 Jan 2005, G. Milde wrote: > > > > > "quote" formats with space delimited paragraphs, "quotation" uses > > > indented paragraphs. > Personally, I'd like a quoting environment where all paragraphs except > the first were