Re: LyXWin not working on XP

2005-06-18 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Rob S wrote: Quick Windows tip: rather than mapping a local network drive, try subst, which is faster (operates directly at the filesystem level - no SMB generation and parsing, no transfers through the loopback interface), cleaner, and safer (no unnecessarily-shared directory). You can mak

Re: PSTricks Example: Errors in LyX

2005-06-18 Thread Paul Smith
On 6/18/05, Rich Shepard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think it is a problem of LyX: it separates the ERT lines with a blank > > line, when it internally converts to LaTeX. Your way works too, as long as > > you use control-enter instead of enter to change to the next line (inside > > ERT). > >

Re: PSTricks Example: Errors in LyX

2005-06-18 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 18 Jun 2005, Paul Smith wrote: I think it is a problem of LyX: it separates the ERT lines with a blank line, when it internally converts to LaTeX. Your way works too, as long as you use control-enter instead of enter to change to the next line (inside ERT). Paul, Aha! Knowing what L

Re: PSTricks Example: Errors in LyX

2005-06-18 Thread Paul Smith
On 6/18/05, Rich Shepard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Why? > >I'd really like to understand how splitting a line using the comment > character as a continuation mark breaks the document. Is this one of the > differences between lyx and latex? Rich, I think it is a problem of LyX: it separ

Re: PSTricks Example: Errors in LyX

2005-06-18 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 18 Jun 2005, Paul Smith wrote: Rich: use a single line for \psgrid[gridlabels=0pt,subgriddiv=2,gridcolor=lightgray,subgridcolor=lightgray] Paul, Sonofagun! Why? I'd really like to understand how splitting a line using the comment character as a continuation mark breaks the doc

Re: PSTricks Example: Errors in LyX

2005-06-18 Thread Paul Smith
On 6/18/05, Rich Shepard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Paragraph ended before \pst@@object was complete. Rich: use a single line for \psgrid[gridlabels=0pt,subgriddiv=2,gridcolor=lightgray,subgridcolor=lightgray] This should solve your problem. You should use ps4pdf. To configure LyX to work toge

PSTricks Example: Errors in LyX

2005-06-18 Thread Rich Shepard
I've once again missed the obvious someplace and need to be hit with a clue stick. Now that Herbert's fixed the link on the PSTricks page to simple examples for simple users, I downloaded the set and tried to get example1.tex working in LyX. I keep getting an error message when I press "ctrl-

Re: My versions won't control

2005-06-18 Thread Matej Cepl
Richard Brown wrote: > Thanks to everyone for their comments, which I have found illuminating. > It seems to me that RCS would probably be sufficient for me now, as I am > a single user but that CVS would cope with future developments if my > colleagues also adopt Lyx. So I'd go for RCS now, if I

Re: Words containing Umlaute not found by find and replace

2005-06-18 Thread Angus Leeming
On Friday 17 June 2005 21:07, Andre Poenitz wrote: > On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 11:20:05AM +0100, Angus Leeming wrote: > > Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > > > Do I understand you correctly, that I should use at least under > > > SuSe 9.2 (and 9.3?) LyX xforms instead of QT? Or switch to > > > another dist

Still have problems with version control

2005-06-18 Thread Richard Brown
Thanks to everyone for their suggestions about version control. I still can't seem to get it to work. I am working with winXP. I have the RCS files from Purdue, have unzipped them and have put them in a directory (C:\lyx\RCS) which I have also added to the PATH variable. (There is no install, start

Re: PStricks figures -> Beamer Presentation

2005-06-18 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 18 Jun 2005, Paul Smith wrote: Consult the following discussion: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=lyx-users&m=110842268802554&w=2 Thanks, Paul. I guess the caffine did not fully propagate this morning because I missed that when I looked at my collection of lyx mail list messages. Ric

Re: PStricks figures -> Beamer Presentation

2005-06-18 Thread Paul Smith
On 6/18/05, Rich Shepard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I don't have a reference in my saved e-mail messages about this. > >What is the recommended protocol for adding figures drawn with PStricks in > LyX to a beamer presentation, also in LyX? I recall threads about pstricks > not playing nic

Re: My versions won't control

2005-06-18 Thread Nicolás
Richard Brown wrote: if I could find any information on how to install it! I haven't try, but I guess you should do someting like: 1)Download the 3 zip files that you can find here: http://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/trinkle/RCS/ 2)Unzip them into a directory of your choice 3)It may happen that: -

Re: My versions won't control

2005-06-18 Thread Richard Brown
Thanks to everyone for their comments, which I have found illuminating. It seems to me that RCS would probably be sufficient for me now, as I am a single user but that CVS would cope with future developments if my colleagues also adopt Lyx. So I'd go for RCS now, if I could find any information on

Re: My versions won't control

2005-06-18 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 08:11:04PM -0400, Matej Cepl wrote: > Andre Poenitz 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,

Re: Words containing Umlaute not found by find and replace

2005-06-18 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 11:20:05AM +0100, Angus Leeming wrote: > Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > > Do I understand you correctly, that I should use at least under SuSe 9.2 > > (and 9.3?) LyX xforms instead of QT? Or switch to another distribution? > > Nope. It's sufficient to follow Georg's suggestion