Re: Non-WYSIWYM Editors

Quoting Rich Shepard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Mon, 18 Apr 2005, pano karambelas wrote: > > > Are there any good non-WYSIWYM editors for Linux or esp. MAC to run LaTex > > on. I use WinEdt (with Miktex) on my wintel box and just installed LyX. > >Emacs is what I use for LaTeX. Others use VIM,

Problem converting from LyX 1.1.x to 1.3.5

Dear All, I have a problem with an "old" LyX file (created with LyX 1.1.x; it says "\lyxformat 218") that generates lots of error messages. To reproduce: (1) Download and unpack . (2) Open doc/msgman21.lyx (it

Re: More than one appendix in IEEEtran

On 18.04.05, LB wrote: > Hello > I'm using article(IEEEtran) in LyX1.3.3. I see "APPENDIX" and "APPENDICES" > in the drop down list of possible environments. APPENDIX environment works > but it does not produce a number to be referenced for the appendix. It's > probably ok since there is only

Re: TOC headache

Rich Drewes wrote: I have a TOC that is two pages long. I must number my abstract, TOC, list of figures, and other frontmatter with roman numerals and that's working. Also, the TOC itself must appear as an entry in the TOC. Here's the problem: If I put my \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Table

Re: Image converter and temporary files.

LyX version: 1.3.5 OS: Fedora Linux core 2 Mandrake Linux 10.0 In both OSes, LyX was installed using the RPM package. Is there any log file I can attach, besides the usual TeX log? Thanks. On Friday 15 April 2005 10:38, Angus Leeming wrote: > Rudi Gaelzer wrote: > > The first time I want

Error "Resulting file is empty"

I am trying to compile a presentation file in lyx with beamer. It works great previously, but failed now. the error report is printed as: "Resulting file is empty. The operation resulted in an empty file". I am trying to search in the maillist, but cannot get what I want. Anyone could help

Re: Non-WYSIWYM Editors

On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 07:20:33PM -0400, pano karambelas wrote: > Are there any good non-WYSIWYM editors for Linux or esp. MAC to run > LaTex on. TeXShop (really terrific): http://www.uoregon.edu/~koch/texshop/texshop.html Carbon emacs: http://home.att.ne.jp/alpha/z123/emacs-mac-e.html For the

Re: Non-WYSIWYM Editors

On Mon, 18 Apr 2005, pano karambelas wrote: Are there any good non-WYSIWYM editors for Linux or esp. MAC to run LaTex on. I use WinEdt (with Miktex) on my wintel box and just installed LyX. Emacs is what I use for LaTeX. Others use VIM, joe or any text editor; there are dozens of 'em. Incidentall

Non-WYSIWYM Editors

Are there any good non-WYSIWYM editors for Linux or esp. MAC to run LaTex on. I use WinEdt (with Miktex) on my wintel box and just installed LyX. Incidentally, given that I just installed tex/latex on my MAC (using i-installer) to use w/LyX, is it correct to assume that this installation would

RE: "why lyx when there's word?"

Steve - Just to understand, do your comments apply to mathematical/technical documents that are < 10 K words as well ? thanks -Original Message- From: Steve Litt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 18, 2005 9:55 AM To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: Re: "why lyx when there'

RE: MAC OS X

Chris & everyone else - Thanks. The installations went smoothly. One thing that puzzles me is the dvi button. The various pdf buttons on my lyx installation produce pdf files, but the dvi button doesn't seem to do very much, haven't figured out what this means yet. Regarding Latex2e, I didn't

Re: \hyphenation

Hi. Sorry for comming baxk with this old topic... Well I just wanna ask for clarification. On Tuesday, 8. June 2004 12:24 you wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I do have a set of problems: first \"political corrected\" person- > > definitions: > > eg. instead of \"Probanden\" -> \"ProbandIn

Re: Lyx crash when I open the manual

ce dev wrote: > Hi all, > I've installed lyx1.3.5 and tetex3.0 with texmf. When > I'm trying to open the user's manual or FAQ Lyx crashs > and in my console I found this error message: > BadValue (integer parameter out of range for > operation) id: 27263169 > > Any idea? Have I to install another

Lyx crash when I open the manual

Hi all, I've installed lyx1.3.5 and tetex3.0 with texmf. When I'm trying to open the user's manual or FAQ Lyx crashs and in my console I found this error message: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation) id: 27263169 Any idea? Have I to install another tex package? Thanks Regards

Re: MAC OS X

On Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 01:20:59PM -0400, pano karambelas wrote: > Maybe I'm asking the question incorrectly but after the installation of > tex (via i-install as described) & lyx, will I be able to use Latex code Of course. I don't know of an installation of TeX that doesn't include the LaTeX en

Re: left-aligned paper

Giorgio Corani wrote: > Dear all, I need to left-align a paper. > > I'm using the paper class. > > So far, I could left-align each paragraph separately (layout->paragraph > etc.), but I want to find something smarter. > > If I put the instruction \flushleft in the preamble, but this does not >

More than one appendix in IEEEtran

Hello I'm using article(IEEEtran) in LyX1.3.3. I see "APPENDIX" and "APPENDICES" in the drop down list of possible environments. APPENDIX environment works but it does not produce a number to be referenced for the appendix. It's probably ok since there is only one. However I'd like to includ

left-aligned paper

Dear all, I need to left-align a paper. I'm using the paper class. So far, I could left-align each paragraph separately (layout->paragraph etc.), but I want to find something smarter. If I put the instruction \flushleft in the preamble, but this does not work: it conflicts with tables and figures w

Brackets around equation reference

Hello, I'm using LyX1.3.3 on Windows. I'm writing a paper using IEEEtran for an IEEE journal. Usually the equation cross-references are surrounded by brackets in the text portion of the paper. Is there a way of setting LyX to do this automatically? Or should I just type the brackets myself?

Re: "why lyx when there's word?"

On Mon, 18 Apr 2005, Alexander Blüm wrote: But I've also met a few very stubborn people, like most of my school. They say that you can solve any problem you're approaching with WORD2000... I'm running out of arguments.. They've not even tried LyX and knock it already. Any good arguments why one sh

Re: "why lyx when there's word?"

On Monday 18 April 2005 02:33 am, Alexander Blüm wrote: > hello, > > I am still a convinced LyX user and I've "infected" a few people around > me to use it aswell. My girlfriend uses it for all kinds of documents > now and gets good grades for homework (the professor likes the the > layout - hehe).

Re: Should this behavior be expected?

samar wrote: > > > Hmm! That does not seem to be the case on my linux lyx 1.3.4 where the > procedure I follow relatively routinely is as follows: > > 1. Go to the first text document and highlight the text to be copied by > highlighting and ctrl C. > 2. Click outside the highlighted text to ge

Re: Should this behavior be expected?

samar wrote: Hmm! That does not seem to be the case on my linux lyx 1.3.4 where the procedure I follow relatively routinely is as follows: 1. Go to the first text document and highlight the text to be copied by highlighting and ctrl C. 2. Click outside the highlighted text to get rid of the hig

Re: New password for editing wiki pages

On Mon, 18 Apr 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Someone had spammed a wiki page, so I've just changed the password. In > order to edit a wiki page, you will need to give the password > > LyXers > > This is the same password as for uploading files using the file manager. > You can give w

Re: Should this behavior be expected?

Hmm! That does not seem to be the case on my linux lyx 1.3.4 where the procedure I follow relatively routinely is as follows: 1. Go to the first text document and highlight the text to be copied by highlighting and ctrl C. 2. Click outside the highlighted text to get rid of the highlight. Thi

Re: Should this behavior be expected?

Paul Smith wrote: On 4/18/05, Michael Scottaline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: PS>When two LyX windows are open (after having run the command lyx PS>twice), copying from a document in a window to a document in the other PS>one is not possible. Is this behavior expected as normal? Or is this a PS>bu

New password for editing wiki pages

Hi Someone had spammed a wiki page, so I've just changed the password. In order to edit a wiki page, you will need to give the password LyXers This is the same password as for uploading files using the file manager. You can give whatever username you like (it isn't used). regards Ch

Re: "why lyx when there's word?"

G. Milde wrote: > I think, the days of "only LaTeX can have proper logical layout (with > \section instead of bold large text for section titles etc) are gone. > Proper used word will do this too. (And in many cases, using a publisher > provided style will be easier with word than with LyX.) Can I

Re: Should this behavior be expected?

Paul Smith wrote: > When two LyX windows are open (after having run the command lyx > twice), copying from a document in a window to a document in the other > one is not possible. Is this behavior expected as normal? Or is this a > bug? If you are running KDE, try to run klipper -- it may help. M

Re: Should this behavior be expected?

On Mon, 18 Apr 2005, Paul Smith wrote: (snip) > In spite of being few, LyX staff deserves a high commendation for > having greatly simplified, in an intelligent way, the task of battling > with LaTeX when writing our documents. Right: this is really why I switched to LyX from Word. You compare the

Re: "why lyx when there's word?"

Is Word good at positioning floats yet? It always used to annoy me because I'd have to shift figures and tables around by hand so that things would paginate agreeably, and then redo it if things changed. Having to approach positioning-for-good-pagination somewhat manually was dreadful because thing

Re: Should this behavior be expected?

On Mon, 18 Apr 2005, Paul Smith wrote: > When two LyX windows are open (after having run the command lyx > twice), copying from a document in a window to a document in the other > one is not possible. Is this behavior expected as normal? Or is this a > bug? FALSE! but it is a PITA. Assuming *NIX,

Re: "why lyx when there's word?"

Alexander Blüm wrote: hello, I am still a convinced LyX user and I've "infected" a few people around me to use it aswell. My girlfriend uses it for all kinds of documents now and gets good grades for homework (the professor likes the the layout - hehe). But I've also met a few very stubborn peopl

Re: Should this behavior be expected?

Charles de Miramon schrieb: > Yes it is normal, cut&paste is very primitive in LyX. Also, you cannot cut a > piece a LyX text with ctrl-C and paste it in another application like your > mailer with ctrl-V. I'm doing this with the help of klipper (in KDE). > Cut&paste is a sad example of the resu

Re: Should this behavior be expected?

Paul Smith wrote: On 4/18/05, Michael Scottaline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: PS>When two LyX windows are open (after having run the command lyx PS>twice), copying from a document in a window to a document in the other PS>one is not possible. Is this behavior expected as normal? Or is this a PS>bu

Re: "why lyx when there's word?"

Alexander Blüm wrote: hello, I am still a convinced LyX user and I've "infected" a few people around me to use it aswell. My girlfriend uses it for all kinds of documents now and gets good grades for homework (the professor likes the the layout - hehe). But I've also met a few very stubborn peopl

Re: Should this behavior be expected?

Charles de Miramon wrote: > Cut&paste is a sad example of the results of the over-engineered and > under-staffed toolkit independent LyX Sonderweg. Well, I'm running on my > hobby horse here ;-) I guess we just need to look at a kde app to see how they stuff the clipboard. Of course, help from a

Re: Should this behavior be expected?

On 4/18/05, Charles de Miramon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Cut&paste is a sad example of the results of the over-engineered and > under-staffed toolkit independent LyX Sonderweg. In spite of being few, LyX staff deserves a high commendation for having greatly simplified, in an intelligent way, t

Re: Should this behavior be expected?

Paul Smith wrote: > On 4/18/05, Michael Scottaline > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> PS>When two LyX windows are open (after having run the command lyx >> PS>twice), copying from a document in a window to a document in the other >> PS>one is not possible. Is this behavior expected as normal? Or is t

Re: Umlaut and accents problems in Bibliography

Måndag 18. april 2005 04:34 skreiv christiaan johannes pauw: > I use Lyx 1.3.4 on SuSE 9.1 with most packages updated. I use tkbibtex > to write my bibliography database and the apsrmp.bst bibliography style > > All the umlauts and other accented charachters come out wrong when I > export to DVI of

Re: "why lyx when there's word?"

Alexander Blüm wrote: > I'm running out of arguments.. They've not even tried LyX and knock it > already. Any good arguments why one should use LyX instead of word? > An argument is that when you have created your own set of favorite templates or classes, it is much faster to do it in LyX. Cheer

Re: Multiple References to the same footnote

Uwe Stöhr wrote: > Marc Barisch schrieb: > >> I want to refer to the same footnote multiple times. I have googled for >> some hints, but without success. > > Just insert a label in your footnote. Then you can use cross-references > to this label (footnote) as much as you like to. > > regards Uw

Re: Should this behavior be expected?

> "Paul" == Paul Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Paul> Dear All When two LyX windows are open (after having run the Paul> command lyx twice), copying from a document in a window to a Paul> document in the other one is not possible. Is this behavior Paul> expected as normal? Or is this a bug?

Re: "why lyx when there's word?"

On 18.04.05, Alexander Blüm wrote: > They say that you can solve any problem you're approaching with > WORD2000... > I'm running out of arguments.. They've not even tried LyX and knock it > already. Any good arguments why one should use LyX instead of word? I think, the days of "only LaTeX can ha

Re: Should this behavior be expected?

Hi I have less success with ctrl C ctrl V and more success with Ctrl C followed by pushing the middle button in the other lyx document instead of Ctrl V. Cant hurt to give it a try rgds samar - Original Message - From: "Paul Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, April 18, 2005

Re: Should this behavior be expected?

On 4/18/05, Michael Scottaline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > PS>When two LyX windows are open (after having run the command lyx > PS>twice), copying from a document in a window to a document in the other > PS>one is not possible. Is this behavior expected as normal? Or is this a > PS>bug? >

Re: Should this behavior be expected?

On Mon, 18 Apr 2005 08:34:37 +0100 Paul Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> insightfully noted: PS>Dear All PS> PS>When two LyX windows are open (after having run the command lyx PS>twice), copying from a document in a window to a document in the other PS>one is not possible. Is this behavior expected as no

Should this behavior be expected?

Dear All When two LyX windows are open (after having run the command lyx twice), copying from a document in a window to a document in the other one is not possible. Is this behavior expected as normal? Or is this a bug? (I am running LyX 1.3.5 on a Mandrake 10.1 machine.) Thanks in advance, Pau

Re: "why lyx when there's word?"

Quoting Alexander Blüm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > hello, > > I am still a convinced LyX user and I've "infected" a few people around > me to use it aswell. My girlfriend uses it for all kinds of documents > now and gets good grades for homework (the professor likes the the > layout - hehe). > But I've

Re: new document class

On 17.04.05, Trinh Pham wrote: > Does this mean I just need to write the Latex code directly > into the Lyx preamble? Unfortunately, the class used cannot be defined in the preamble, as this is the very first command of a latex document, preceding even the preamble. > I'm not familiar with how L