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

2005-04-20 Thread Gerasimos Grammatikopoulos
On Tuesday 19 April 2005 19:44, Rich Drewes wrote: > Serious Word users would point to EndNote and say that tools like > BibTex/Pybliographic are toys in comparison. (EndNote supports importing > BibTex, BTW.) For certain things they are right--BibTex+Pybliographic > handles the basics well, but

Re: More than one appendix in IEEEtran

2005-04-20 Thread G. Milde
On 20.04.05, LB wrote: > I'm not very experienced with this: How do I apply a patch in Windows XP? This patch adds just one line (the one with the + before it), so the easisest way is: copy IEEEtran.layout to your local LyX directory and insert the line with a simple text editor. the numbers in t

Re: Case equations

2005-04-20 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Angus Leeming wrote: Kayvan A. Sylvan wrote: On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 08:37:14PM -0400, Myriam Abramson wrote: Hi! How do you write a case equation in LyX? I mean an equation like B = { 1 if x > 0; 0 if x = 0 so that the brace covers multiple lines? I think that you can use the math panel and

Re: Problem converting from LyX 1.1.x to 1.3.5

2005-04-20 Thread Angus Leeming
Joerg Hau wrote: > That was my point ... the "old" LyX version did not have the scaling > option (upper part of the graphics dialogue); the on-screen display was > just adapted to the desired output size (lower part). > > The new "scaling" option does the job; I was just confused that this > refer

Re: Should this behavior be expected?

2005-04-20 Thread Micha Feigin
On Mon, 18 Apr 2005 12:10:20 +0200 Charles de Miramon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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

Re: Problem converting from LyX 1.1.x to 1.3.5

2005-04-20 Thread Joerg Hau
Hi All, > You can't insert a graphic in a list item. Looking at the original, you > had that wrong there too, so you just got lucky. All that has happened > is that LyX has got better at spotting errors in the LaTeX log file. > > To fix your document, I changed all those list items containing > gr

Re: Tip for viewing pdf-files

2005-04-20 Thread Paul Smith
On 4/20/05, samar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I find that if you do update as opposed to view, the page stays at the same > place but you have to "redraw" the screen. > This you can do by a quick page up/down. I dont know if that fits your bill. Thanks, Samar. It would be perfect if it redrew aut

Re: Problem converting from LyX 1.1.x to 1.3.5

2005-04-20 Thread Joerg Hau
Hi, > > Another, related question: The LyX file mentioned above includes > > numerous symbols of mouse buttons, which I formatted as small "inline" > > graphics in the original document (2.5 mm width). In the LyX 1.3.5 > > editing screen, these are _huge_; is this intended behaviour? > > However,

Re: Underlining URL environment

2005-04-20 Thread Steve Litt
On Wednesday 20 April 2005 12:35 pm, Herbert Voss wrote: > Steve Litt wrote: > > Using the above code, I still have the problem that when I put it into an > > environment, it only underlines the first character of the paragraph. > > where is the sense to have an environment here??? > > \newenvironm

Re: Case equations

2005-04-20 Thread Angus Leeming
Kayvan A. Sylvan wrote: > Cool! Thanks. I did not ask the question, but I am sure I will have > occasion to use stuff like this... Is there any documentation that goes > over all the mysterious math stuff (like "\cases")? I believe that André's goal was to support the whole of AMSLaTeX. He didn't

Re: Case equations

2005-04-20 Thread Herbert Voss
Angus Leeming wrote: Create a math inset: Insert->Math->Display formula Type: B=\cases1\textrmif Math->Inline only the "if" should be text, then you do not need this "math inside text inside math" ... Herbert -- http://TeXnik.de/ http://PSTricks.de/ ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/info/math/vos

Re: Case equations

2005-04-20 Thread Kayvan A. Sylvan
Cool! Thanks. I did not ask the question, but I am sure I will have occasion to use stuff like this... Is there any documentation that goes over all the mysterious math stuff (like "\cases")? ---Kayvan On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 09:49:13AM +0100, Angus Leeming wrote: > Kayvan

Re: Underlining URL environment

2005-04-20 Thread Herbert Voss
Steve Litt wrote: Using the above code, I still have the problem that when I put it into an environment, it only underlines the first character of the paragraph. where is the sense to have an environment here??? \newenvironment{UUrl}{% [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ttfamily% [EMAIL PROTECTED] Herbert

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

2005-04-20 Thread Michael Wojcik
Steve Litt wrote: I think a person should use Word (or in my case OpenOffice) for most stuff. Oh, goody. Now we start the Battle of Improperly-Generalized Anecdotes. Here's mine: > If it's under 10,000 words, LyX is a hassle unless you're willing to accept ALL LyX's defaults. Here's why... In

Re: Underlining URL environment

2005-04-20 Thread Steve Litt
On Wednesday 20 April 2005 11:37 am, Herbert Voss wrote: > Steve Litt wrote: > > I have a special LyX URL environment that references LaTeX URLL > > environment that redefines quote, but no matter how hard I try, I can't > > get it to underline more than the first character of the URL. I already >

Re: Tip for viewing pdf-files

2005-04-20 Thread samar
Hi Paul I find that if you do update as opposed to view, the page stays at the same place but you have to "redraw" the screen. This you can do by a quick page up/down. I dont know if that fits your bill. samar - Original Message - From: "Paul Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesd

Re: Underlining URL environment

2005-04-20 Thread Herbert Voss
Steve Litt wrote: I have a special LyX URL environment that references LaTeX URLL environment that redefines quote, but no matter how hard I try, I can't get it to underline more than the first character of the URL. I already have the ulem package loaded, not that it's helped me. Here's one of

Re: Tip for viewing pdf-files

2005-04-20 Thread Paul Smith
On 4/14/05, Johan Ingvast <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The standard viewer for pdf files is acrobat but, there seem to be no way > of making it update the view automatically. Here is a way of viewing > pdf-files using xpdf. Put this as your viewer for pdf (instead of acroread) > > xpdf -remote $$i

Re: Underlining URL environment

2005-04-20 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Steve Litt wrote: I have a special LyX URL environment that references LaTeX URLL environment that redefines quote, but no matter how hard I try, I can't get it to underline more than the first character of the URL. I already have the ulem package loaded, not that it's helped me. Attached a poss

Re: More than one appendix in IEEEtran

2005-04-20 Thread LB
I'm not very experienced with this: How do I apply a patch in Windows XP? Leo Yes. LyX automatically closes empty paragraphs if not told otherwise by the KeepEmpty keyword in the layout file. A fast workaround is to fool LyX by putting something invisible into the APPENDICES paragraph, e.g. "{}"

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

2005-04-20 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 08:33:56AM +0200, 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.

Re: Should this behavior be expected?

2005-04-20 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 11:51:21AM +0100, Angus Leeming wrote: > I guess we just need to look at a kde app to see how they stuff the > clipboard. Plain Qt should be sufficient as far as I can tell.. Andre'

Re: Should this behavior be expected?

2005-04-20 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 11:43:41AM +0100, Paul Smith wrote: > 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 hig

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

2005-04-20 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 10:44:08AM -0700, Rich Drewes wrote: > There are good equation packages (third party) for Word as well, I am > told. I've seen a couple of them. I would even admit that most of them look better than LyX _on screen_. But when the criteria are either quality of print output o

Re: \hyphenation

2005-04-20 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Tim Michelsen wrote: I am currently encountering numerous problems in my document. I wrote the hints from http://www.texnik.de/language/hyphen.phtml#sloppy in my preamble but still get some ugly things like: [I write in German...] Un- instead ofUnter- ternehmen

Installing class documents

2005-04-20 Thread Tim Hughes
I know this has been asked before, that there are answers in the mailing list archive and some info on this in the tutorials but I can't get it to work for me. So you could someone give me a recap on what I need to do when I get a myfile.cls and myfile.tex (template) and I want to make them ava

Re: Case equations

2005-04-20 Thread Angus Leeming
Kayvan A. Sylvan wrote: > On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 08:37:14PM -0400, Myriam Abramson wrote: >> >> Hi! >> >> How do you write a case equation in LyX? I mean an equation like >> >> B = { 1 if x > 0; >> 0 if x = 0 >> >> so that the brace covers multiple lines? > > I think that you can use t

Re: More than one appendix in IEEEtran

2005-04-20 Thread G. Milde
On 19.04.05, LB wrote: > Hi > > Thank you for the help. I can get \appendices to work using ERT. If I > inserted the environment APPENDICES using LyX drop down menu the word > APPENDICES appears in the document, but it disappears as soon as I move the > cursor to any other line. Is it a bug

Re: Should this behavior be expected?

2005-04-20 Thread G. Milde
On 18.04.05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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. > > Assuming *NIX, and X, open xclipboard, "copy"

Re: Case equations

2005-04-20 Thread Hannan Sadar
Hi Myriam, You could also write in math-mode \cases and a space. With the use of Control + Enter you could control the number of lines in the case. Hope its helps. Hannan On 4/20/05, Myriam Abramson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi! > > How do you write a case equation in LyX? I mean an equa

Thesis example (was: "why lyx when there's word?")

2005-04-20 Thread chr
On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, Rich Drewes wrote: > For my thesis I chose to go with Lyx and Pybliographic ... > It has been quite a bit of work getting Lyx to conform to my > University's formatting conventions but I managed it all, finally, with > appropriate ERT in the Lyx doc. Perhaps it'd be a good i