Lines longer than page width

2005-02-25 Thread Roland Schmitz
Hi, i just noticed that some long lines (paragraphs) wich uses the LyX-Code style didn't break at when they are longer than the page width. This dont looks very nice. Also if i got cross-references or references to my bibliography in a paragraph, the lines are often (not always) longer than

Re: Lines longer than page width

2005-02-25 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Roland Schmitz wrote: Hi, i just noticed that some long lines (paragraphs) wich uses the LyX-Code style didn't break at when they are longer than the page width. This dont looks very nice. I guess you have to insert manual line breaks (or use listings.sty instead of lyxcode, for that

Re: Lines longer than page width

2005-02-25 Thread Herbert Voss
Roland Schmitz wrote: i just noticed that some long lines (paragraphs) wich uses the LyX-Code style didn't break at when they are longer than the page width. This dont looks very nice. do not use this environment Also if i got cross-references or references to my bibliography in a paragraph,

What to teach first: LyX or LaTeX ?

2005-02-25 Thread Nicolas Ferré
Hi, Some years ago, as a PhD student, I decided to learn LaTeX to be able to write scientific stuff directly on my workstation. A few time later, I found LyX and I am using it now for the last 5 years. Now that I am on the other side (the teaching one), I decided to share my enthusiasm with

Re: What to teach first: LyX or LaTeX ?

2005-02-25 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 25 Feb 2005, Nicolas Ferré wrote: Now that I am on the other side (the teaching one), I decided to share my enthusiasm with students. Like I know some of the LyX users have very little knowledge of LaTeX, I am confused: shall I start teach LaTeX or LyX ? LyX. Your students can be

Re: What to teach first: LyX or LaTeX ?

2005-02-25 Thread samar j. singh
Hi Interesting question. Just throwing in an opinion and I am sure there will be many. For graduate students, I would favour starting with tightly controlled lyx templates for specific tasks e..g providing a lyxfile with all sections already written out, and explanatory details inserted as

Re: What to teach first: LyX or LaTeX ?

2005-02-25 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Nicolas Ferré wrote: Hi, Some years ago, as a PhD student, I decided to learn LaTeX to be able to write scientific stuff directly on my workstation. A few time later, I found LyX and I am using it now for the last 5 years. Now that I am on the other side (the teaching one), I decided to share

Re: What to teach first: LyX or LaTeX ?

2005-02-25 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 06:25:42PM +0100, Nicolas Ferré wrote: Hi, Some years ago, as a PhD student, I decided to learn LaTeX to be able to write scientific stuff directly on my workstation. A few time later, I found LyX and I am using it now for the last 5 years. Now that I am on the

Re: Graphic Displays in LyX But Not in .dvi or .pdf

2005-02-25 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Rich Shepard wrote: This may have been covered before, but I have no record of this. At the top of the title page of a report class document I placed an .eps graphic (company logo). Using the advice I was given here, I clipped it to the bounding box. It displays very well on the .lyx file, but

Re: What to teach first: LyX or LaTeX ?

2005-02-25 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Nicolas Ferr schrieb: Now that I am on the other side (the teaching one), I decided to share my enthusiasm with students. Like I know some of the LyX users have very little knowledge of LaTeX, I am confused: shall I start teach LaTeX or LyX ? LyX is designed to create texts in LaTeX without the

Re: What to teach first: LyX or LaTeX ?

2005-02-25 Thread Herbert Voss
Uwe Sthr wrote: Nicolas Ferr schrieb: Now that I am on the other side (the teaching one), I decided to share my enthusiasm with students. Like I know some of the LyX users have very little knowledge of LaTeX, I am confused: shall I start teach LaTeX or LyX ? LyX is designed to create texts in

Re: What to teach first: LyX or LaTeX ?

2005-02-25 Thread Bo Peng
Now that I am on the other side (the teaching one), I decided to share my enthusiasm with students. Like I know some of the LyX users have very little knowledge of LaTeX, I am confused: shall I start teach LaTeX or LyX ? I have been taching lyx for years. My approach is to first introduce

Re: What to teach first: LyX or LaTeX ?

2005-02-25 Thread Michael Scottaline
On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 10:10:58 -0800 Kenward Vaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] insightfully noted: KVOn Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 06:25:42PM +0100, Nicolas Ferré wrote: KV Hi, KV KV Some years ago, as a PhD student, I decided to learn LaTeX to be able KVto write scientific stuff directly on my workstation. A

Re: Graphic Displays in LyX But Not in .dvi or .pdf

2005-02-25 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 25 Feb 2005, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Can't reproduce the problem, so I'm guessing here, but maybe you inserted someplace where LaTeX won't allow (more specifically, ignores) graphics? If you look at the LaTeX code, where does the graphic show up? It might help to post a relevant chuck of

Re: Lines longer than page width

2005-02-25 Thread Roland Schmitz
Hi Jürgen, hi List, I guess you have to insert manual line breaks (or use listings.sty instead of lyxcode, for that matter). How to use this? Cf. http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=overfull That's it -- Thanx Roland

Lines longer than page width

2005-02-25 Thread Roland Schmitz
Hi, i just noticed that some long lines (paragraphs) wich uses the LyX-Code style didn't break at when they are longer than the page width. This dont looks very nice. Also if i got cross-references or references to my bibliography in a paragraph, the lines are often (not always) longer than

Re: Lines longer than page width

2005-02-25 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Roland Schmitz wrote: Hi, i just noticed that some long lines (paragraphs) wich uses the LyX-Code style didn't break at when they are longer than the page width. This dont looks very nice. I guess you have to insert manual line breaks (or use listings.sty instead of lyxcode, for that

Re: Lines longer than page width

2005-02-25 Thread Herbert Voss
Roland Schmitz wrote: i just noticed that some long lines (paragraphs) wich uses the LyX-Code style didn't break at when they are longer than the page width. This dont looks very nice. do not use this environment Also if i got cross-references or references to my bibliography in a paragraph,

What to teach first: LyX or LaTeX ?

2005-02-25 Thread Nicolas Ferré
Hi, Some years ago, as a PhD student, I decided to learn LaTeX to be able to write scientific stuff directly on my workstation. A few time later, I found LyX and I am using it now for the last 5 years. Now that I am on the other side (the teaching one), I decided to share my enthusiasm with

Re: What to teach first: LyX or LaTeX ?

2005-02-25 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 25 Feb 2005, Nicolas Ferré wrote: Now that I am on the other side (the teaching one), I decided to share my enthusiasm with students. Like I know some of the LyX users have very little knowledge of LaTeX, I am confused: shall I start teach LaTeX or LyX ? LyX. Your students can be

Re: What to teach first: LyX or LaTeX ?

2005-02-25 Thread samar j. singh
Hi Interesting question. Just throwing in an opinion and I am sure there will be many. For graduate students, I would favour starting with tightly controlled lyx templates for specific tasks e..g providing a lyxfile with all sections already written out, and explanatory details inserted as

Re: What to teach first: LyX or LaTeX ?

2005-02-25 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Nicolas Ferré wrote: Hi, Some years ago, as a PhD student, I decided to learn LaTeX to be able to write scientific stuff directly on my workstation. A few time later, I found LyX and I am using it now for the last 5 years. Now that I am on the other side (the teaching one), I decided to share

Re: What to teach first: LyX or LaTeX ?

2005-02-25 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 06:25:42PM +0100, Nicolas Ferré wrote: Hi, Some years ago, as a PhD student, I decided to learn LaTeX to be able to write scientific stuff directly on my workstation. A few time later, I found LyX and I am using it now for the last 5 years. Now that I am on the

Re: Graphic Displays in LyX But Not in .dvi or .pdf

2005-02-25 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Rich Shepard wrote: This may have been covered before, but I have no record of this. At the top of the title page of a report class document I placed an .eps graphic (company logo). Using the advice I was given here, I clipped it to the bounding box. It displays very well on the .lyx file, but

Re: What to teach first: LyX or LaTeX ?

2005-02-25 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Nicolas Ferr schrieb: Now that I am on the other side (the teaching one), I decided to share my enthusiasm with students. Like I know some of the LyX users have very little knowledge of LaTeX, I am confused: shall I start teach LaTeX or LyX ? LyX is designed to create texts in LaTeX without the

Re: What to teach first: LyX or LaTeX ?

2005-02-25 Thread Herbert Voss
Uwe Sthr wrote: Nicolas Ferr schrieb: Now that I am on the other side (the teaching one), I decided to share my enthusiasm with students. Like I know some of the LyX users have very little knowledge of LaTeX, I am confused: shall I start teach LaTeX or LyX ? LyX is designed to create texts in

Re: What to teach first: LyX or LaTeX ?

2005-02-25 Thread Bo Peng
Now that I am on the other side (the teaching one), I decided to share my enthusiasm with students. Like I know some of the LyX users have very little knowledge of LaTeX, I am confused: shall I start teach LaTeX or LyX ? I have been taching lyx for years. My approach is to first introduce

Re: What to teach first: LyX or LaTeX ?

2005-02-25 Thread Michael Scottaline
On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 10:10:58 -0800 Kenward Vaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] insightfully noted: KVOn Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 06:25:42PM +0100, Nicolas Ferré wrote: KV Hi, KV KV Some years ago, as a PhD student, I decided to learn LaTeX to be able KVto write scientific stuff directly on my workstation. A

Re: Graphic Displays in LyX But Not in .dvi or .pdf

2005-02-25 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 25 Feb 2005, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Can't reproduce the problem, so I'm guessing here, but maybe you inserted someplace where LaTeX won't allow (more specifically, ignores) graphics? If you look at the LaTeX code, where does the graphic show up? It might help to post a relevant chuck of

Re: Lines longer than page width

2005-02-25 Thread Roland Schmitz
Hi Jürgen, hi List, I guess you have to insert manual line breaks (or use listings.sty instead of lyxcode, for that matter). How to use this? Cf. http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=overfull That's it -- Thanx Roland

Lines longer than page width

2005-02-25 Thread Roland Schmitz
Hi, i just noticed that some long lines (paragraphs) wich uses the "LyX-Code" style didn't break at when they are longer than the page width. This dont looks very nice. Also if i got cross-references or references to my bibliography in a paragraph, the lines are often (not always) longer than

Re: Lines longer than page width

2005-02-25 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Roland Schmitz wrote: > Hi, > > i just noticed that some long lines (paragraphs) wich uses the "LyX-Code" > style didn't break at when they are longer than the page width. This dont > looks very nice. I guess you have to insert manual line breaks (or use listings.sty instead of lyxcode, for that

Re: Lines longer than page width

2005-02-25 Thread Herbert Voss
Roland Schmitz wrote: i just noticed that some long lines (paragraphs) wich uses the "LyX-Code" style didn't break at when they are longer than the page width. This dont looks very nice. do not use this environment Also if i got cross-references or references to my bibliography in a paragraph,

What to teach first: LyX or LaTeX ?

2005-02-25 Thread Nicolas Ferré
Hi, Some years ago, as a PhD student, I decided to learn LaTeX to be able to write scientific stuff directly on my workstation. A few time later, I found LyX and I am using it now for the last 5 years. Now that I am on the other side (the teaching one), I decided to share my enthusiasm with

Re: What to teach first: LyX or LaTeX ?

2005-02-25 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 25 Feb 2005, Nicolas Ferré wrote: Now that I am on the other side (the teaching one), I decided to share my enthusiasm with students. Like I know some of the LyX users have very little knowledge of LaTeX, I am confused: shall I start teach LaTeX or LyX ? LyX. Your students can be

Re: What to teach first: LyX or LaTeX ?

2005-02-25 Thread samar j. singh
Hi Interesting question. Just throwing in an opinion and I am sure there will be many. For graduate students, I would favour starting with tightly controlled lyx templates for specific tasks e..g providing a lyxfile with all sections already written out, and explanatory details inserted as

Re: What to teach first: LyX or LaTeX ?

2005-02-25 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Nicolas Ferré wrote: Hi, Some years ago, as a PhD student, I decided to learn LaTeX to be able to write scientific stuff directly on my workstation. A few time later, I found LyX and I am using it now for the last 5 years. Now that I am on the other side (the teaching one), I decided to share

Re: What to teach first: LyX or LaTeX ?

2005-02-25 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 06:25:42PM +0100, Nicolas Ferré wrote: > Hi, > > Some years ago, as a PhD student, I decided to learn LaTeX to be able to > write scientific stuff directly on my workstation. A few time later, I > found LyX and I am using it now for the last 5 years. > > Now that I am

Re: Graphic Displays in LyX But Not in .dvi or .pdf

2005-02-25 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Rich Shepard wrote: This may have been covered before, but I have no record of this. At the top of the title page of a report class document I placed an .eps graphic (company logo). Using the advice I was given here, I clipped it to the bounding box. It displays very well on the .lyx file, but

Re: What to teach first: LyX or LaTeX ?

2005-02-25 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Nicolas Ferrà schrieb: Now that I am on the other side (the teaching one), I decided to share my enthusiasm with students. Like I know some of the LyX users have very little knowledge of LaTeX, I am confused: shall I start teach LaTeX or LyX ? LyX is designed to create texts in LaTeX without

Re: What to teach first: LyX or LaTeX ?

2005-02-25 Thread Herbert Voss
Uwe StÃhr wrote: Nicolas Ferrà schrieb: Now that I am on the other side (the teaching one), I decided to share my enthusiasm with students. Like I know some of the LyX users have very little knowledge of LaTeX, I am confused: shall I start teach LaTeX or LyX ? LyX is designed to create texts

Re: What to teach first: LyX or LaTeX ?

2005-02-25 Thread Bo Peng
> >> Now that I am on the other side (the teaching one), I decided to share > >> my enthusiasm with students. Like I know some of the LyX users have > >> very little knowledge of LaTeX, I am confused: shall I start teach > >> LaTeX or LyX ? I have been taching lyx for years. My approach is to

Re: What to teach first: LyX or LaTeX ?

2005-02-25 Thread Michael Scottaline
On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 10:10:58 -0800 Kenward Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> insightfully noted: KV>On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 06:25:42PM +0100, Nicolas Ferré wrote: KV>> Hi, KV>> KV>> Some years ago, as a PhD student, I decided to learn LaTeX to be able KV>to > write scientific stuff directly on my

Re: Graphic Displays in LyX But Not in .dvi or .pdf

2005-02-25 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 25 Feb 2005, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Can't reproduce the problem, so I'm guessing here, but maybe you inserted someplace where LaTeX won't allow (more specifically, ignores) graphics? If you look at the LaTeX code, where does the graphic show up? It might help to post a relevant chuck of

Re: Lines longer than page width

2005-02-25 Thread Roland Schmitz
Hi Jürgen, hi List, > I guess you have to insert manual line breaks (or use listings.sty instead > of lyxcode, for that matter). How to use this? > Cf. > http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=overfull That's it -- Thanx Roland