Problem with special characters

2005-06-15 Thread Kimmo Elo
Hi, since the KDE 3.4->3.4.1 update I have a problem with special characters with Lyx 1.3.5 in SuSE 9.2. Before that I could easily write e.g. ü or é in Lyx, now there appear "u and 'e instead. I have to use Lyx-code (\"{u}) to get this chars straight. In all other programs (OO, Konsole etc.)

Re: Beamer troubles

2005-06-15 Thread samar
Hi I also had problems using Lyx with Beamer. Eventually I went for a mix of ERT and Lyx. Some things are just done much more easily in ERT. I have put a sample file on the wiki under the beamer window. If that works for you, you may care to use it as a template. Looking at Beamers document

Beamer troubles

2005-06-15 Thread John O'Gorman
I really like beamer but Even when I run the supplied example: The Complexity of Finding Paths in Tournaments, I get the following error messages: The new counter already exists (this repeated 5 times) step: Counter does not exist: lyxframend{}\subsection (repeated 10 times). Sumilarly

Re: Beamer Presentation: Damaged pdf File -- SOLVED!

2005-06-15 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 15 Jun 2005, Rich Shepard wrote: Two questions: what might have caused this, and how do I fix it? Answer to #1: I don't know. Answer to #2: do not put an ERT with \alert{} within an \example block. Something there gives pdflatex indigestion. It now works again. Rich -- Dr. R

Re: PDF from LyX

2005-06-15 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Carlos Knauer wrote: Hi. How do I creat a PDF file from LyX ? First, look at the File | Export menu. You should see some or all of the options PDF, PDF (dvipdfm), or PDF (pdflatex). If you do, you can use any of them to export the document as a PDF file. (There are relative merits to each,

Re: PDF from LyX

2005-06-15 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 15 Jun 2005, Carlos Knauer wrote: How do I creat a PDF file from LyX ? You can press [ctrl-h], use the menus (File -> Export -> pdflatex), or create a PostScript file which you then run through ps2pdf. HTH, Rich -- Dr. Richard B. Shepard, President Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc.

PDF from LyX

2005-06-15 Thread Carlos Knauer
Hi. How do I creat a PDF file from LyX ? -- Carlos Fernando Knauer

Beamer Presentation: Damaged pdf File

2005-06-15 Thread Rich Shepard
I was working on my presentation and tried View -> pdflatex to see the appearance after making some additions to a slide. Acroread pops up and tells me there are problems with the file; it's broken and cannot be fixed. When I export the file via pdflatex and try to view it with xpdf I see: E

Re: Beamer Presentation: Getting Blocks Properly Displayed

2005-06-15 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 15 Jun 2005, Paul A. Rubin wrote: You're talking about the frame where the second block unveils the truth that e^{\pi i}=-1? The catch is that they're not both blocks. The first block is a block. The second "block" is an ExampleBlock (which you'll find in the environment drop-down list).

Re: Beamer Presentation: Getting Blocks Properly Displayed

2005-06-15 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Rich Shepard wrote: On Wed, 15 Jun 2005, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Not entirely sure what's going on here, but let's say you want something akin to the following: Box 1 title * Item 1 in box 1 * Item 2 in box 1 Box 2 title * Item 3 in box 2 * Item 4 in box 2 Paul, I'm using the block e

Re: Printing

2005-06-15 Thread Paul Smith
On 6/15/05, Paul A. Rubin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: > > The post on fonts and printing problems has got me thinking. What is the > > best way to print a Lyx formatted document. > > > > At present I convert to .pdf and print it through Acrobat (I am using > > winxp). Is

Re: Beamer Presentation: Getting Blocks Properly Displayed

2005-06-15 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 15 Jun 2005, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Not entirely sure what's going on here, but let's say you want something akin to the following: Box 1 title * Item 1 in box 1 * Item 2 in box 1 Box 2 title * Item 3 in box 2 * Item 4 in box 2 Paul, I'm using the block environment, not the bo

Re: Beamer Presentation: Getting Blocks Properly Displayed

2005-06-15 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Rich Shepard wrote: I've fussed and futzed with this and cannot get it right. I've looked at the beamerpresentation.lyx, too, but cannot see what I'm doing wrong with the attached file fragment. My goal is to have each title/itemized list as a separate block. If I do not indent the itemize

Re: My versions won't control

2005-06-15 Thread Paul Johnson
I use CVS to track LyX files. It works fine. It does not use the LyX version control features, I just use the ordinary cvs commands to create, check out, and check in the changes. The best thing about this approach is that the document CVS repository sits on a server, separate from my compute

Re: Printing

2005-06-15 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: The post on fonts and printing problems has got me thinking. What is the best way to print a Lyx formatted document. At present I convert to .pdf and print it through Acrobat (I am using winxp). Is this the best way or am I likely to come across problems? I guess the

Beamer Presentation: Getting Blocks Properly Displayed

2005-06-15 Thread Rich Shepard
I've fussed and futzed with this and cannot get it right. I've looked at the beamerpresentation.lyx, too, but cannot see what I'm doing wrong with the attached file fragment. My goal is to have each title/itemized list as a separate block. If I do not indent the itemized lines, both "chunks"

Words containing Umlaute not found by find and replace

2005-06-15 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Words containing Umlaute and sz are not found by find and replace (Lyx 1.3.5-1 qt). What do I have to change in the settings? Wolfgang

my-aspell dictionary

2005-06-15 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
I am trying out 1.3.5.1 Lyx, qt taken from SuSe9.3 choosing my own spellchecker file brings up a box where I should enter the file name for my personal dictionary. I enter it and klick on ok, but nothing happens. only klicking on cancel brings me out of the box. Do I so something wrong? Wolfg

Re: Printing

2005-06-15 Thread Paul Smith
On 6/15/05, Geoffrey Lloyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The post on fonts and printing problems has got me thinking. What is the > best way to print a Lyx formatted document. > > At present I convert to .pdf and print it through Acrobat (I am using winxp). > Is this the best way or am I likely

Printing

2005-06-15 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd
The post on fonts and printing problems has got me thinking. What is the best way to print a Lyx formatted document. At present I convert to .pdf and print it through Acrobat (I am using winxp). Is this the best way or am I likely to come across problems? I guess the question really is what

lmodern, ae and missing fonts

2005-06-15 Thread Martijn Brouwer
Hi, I have finished my PhD thesis (Many thanks to all contributers to LyX). When I went with my postscript file to the printer we found that the resolution of the fonts was too small. It turned out that I had the standard EC bitmap fonts with a resolution of 600dpi. After a day playing with latex

Re: Lyx Aqua on Mac OS X Tiger 10.4.1

2005-06-15 Thread Chris Menzel
On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 09:15:49AM +0200, carnack wrote: > Hi All, > I used Lyx Aqua 1.3.5 for Mac OS X on Panther with fink and > everything was fine. I created my own environment.plist with the PATH > and language for Lyx to use. Now I installed a fresh Mac OS X Tiger > (10.4.1) but have pr

Re: Tables too wide

2005-06-15 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Jean-Claude Christnach wrote: Hello, How can I scale tables? I imported a table from Excel (with help of a macro which exports TEX code) as ERT. Now the table is to wide to fit in th columns of the document, which looks ugly. Is there a way to prevent this, e.g. making fonts a little smaller for

Re: My versions won't control

2005-06-15 Thread Todd Denniston
Nicolás wrote: > > > As a sidenote: RCS has been (sort of) superseded by CVS a dozen years > > ago which in turn is in the process of being superseded by SVN as far > > as I can tell. Things might be bearable on a single-user system, though. > > > > Andre' > > > > Yes, but... can CVS or SVN be us

Re: Tables too wide

2005-06-15 Thread Rob S
I imported a table from Excel (with help of a macro which exports TEX code) as ERT. Now the table is to wide to fit in th columns of the document, which looks ugly. You can set column widths within Lyx. Is there a way to prevent this, e.g. making fonts a little smaller for the table to fit o

Re: Missing commands?

2005-06-15 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Bennett" == Bennett Helm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Bennett> (b) is not, I believe, now possible nor in the works. I Bennett> agree, though, that it would be a useful addition. (An aside Bennett> to those more in the know than I: what do the lfuns Bennett> "word-find-backward" and "word-fi

making superscript reference non-superscript temporarily.

2005-06-15 Thread jorgen johansson
Dear lyxers, I writing a paper for a conference that uses superscripted references. (I got some help on how to solve that problem some time ago on this list). in preamble put: \usepackage[nosort]{overcite} [EMAIL PROTECTED](\textnormal{#1})}$ Now, sometimes I would like to refer to some resul

Tables too wide

2005-06-15 Thread Jean-Claude Christnach
Hello, How can I scale tables? I imported a table from Excel (with help of a macro which exports TEX code) as ERT. Now the table is to wide to fit in th columns of the document, which looks ugly. Is there a way to prevent this, e.g. making fonts a little smaller for the table to fit on the page?

Re: 6.3 Short titles

2005-06-15 Thread Bruce Ernest Weller
Class is (for the time being as I know you advised otherwise) . I have noted to experiment with memoir :-) On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 12:38 +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > "Bruce" == Bruce Ernest Weller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Bruce> For neatness' sake I note that the scrip below

minor bug

2005-06-15 Thread Martin A. Hansen
after manipulating borders in a table, the menu option says "cancel". i should say "close" was more correct. http://130.226.106.174/~paste/cgi-bin/2005-06-15-095658_1280x1024_scrot.png best regards martin

Re: Missing commands?

2005-06-15 Thread Yan Wong
On 15 Jun 2005, at 04:56, Bennett Helm wrote: (a) will be a feature of LyX 1.3.6 (which is not yet released). Thanks, that's good news. Do you know when it will be released? I'm assuming that it will allow Mac as well as Windows users to use file paths with spaces, so I'm looking forward to

Lyx Aqua on Mac OS X Tiger 10.4.1

2005-06-15 Thread carnack
Hi All, I used Lyx Aqua 1.3.5 for Mac OS X on Panther with fink and everything was fine. I created my own environment.plist with the PATH and language for Lyx to use. Now I installed a fresh Mac OS X Tiger (10.4.1) but have problems. Lyx does not find epstopdf for converting pictures even