Re: OT: tetex RPMs (was: Re: Problems installing 1.3.6-1 RPMs

2005-09-12 Thread Georg Baum
Peter Flynn wrote: All that's required is for the maintainer of the tetex RPMs to use up-to-date versions from CTAN, and for the author of the embedded install script in the LyX RPM to test for a working kpsewhich instead of assuming it's in the location the RH tetex RPMs install it. It does

Re: dia help

2005-09-12 Thread Vaclav Smidl
Hi myriam, I have used dia for illustrations and I found that the best way to use them in LyX/Latex is the following way: Dia - xfig - pdf/latex. A shell script for this conversion is attached. It produces two files: .pdf and .tex. To include your drawing in the document go for InsertInclude

Re: Problems installing 1.3.6-1 RPMs

2005-09-12 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Peter == Peter Flynn [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Peter Paul A. Rubin wrote: Sorry, my wording was fuzzy. I don't have a working Linux box handy these days, but I assume that LyX runs with the permissions of whatever user is logged in. So if you can run latex directly, presumably when you run

Re: Problems installing 1.3.6-1 RPMs

2005-09-12 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Peter == Peter Flynn [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Peter Even money says that the install script is hard-wired to look Peter in wherever RH's tetex puts the texhash (and doubtless Peter kpsewhich) binary, instead of relying on the path to pick up Peter the right one. No matter, all is now serene.

Lyx-code formatting

2005-09-12 Thread Dave Mills
Hi, I've got a document with some numbered chemical reaction equations formated as lyx-code. The problem is, when I generate a PDF the equations run over the edge of the page, they don't wrap around to the next line. Is it possible to make them wrap? Some ERT needed? Any other suggestion?

Re: Lyx-code formatting

2005-09-12 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Dave Mills wrote: Hi, I've got a document with some numbered chemical reaction equations formated as lyx-code. The problem is, when I generate a PDF the equations run over the edge of the page, they don't wrap around to the next line. Is it possible to make them wrap? Some ERT needed?

Re: dia help

2005-09-12 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Myriam Abramson wrote: Hi! Somebody on this list might be familiar with the dia editor tool for drawing diagrams on many Linux distributions. The text facility seems pretty basic and I urgently need to have subscripts and superscripts. Does anybody know how to do that in a nice way? Thanks

Re: Lyx-code formatting

2005-09-12 Thread Dave Mills
Paul A. Rubin wrote: I've got a document with some numbered chemical reaction equations formated as lyx-code. The problem is, when I generate a PDF the equations run over the edge of the page, they don't wrap around to the next line. Is it possible to make them wrap? Some ERT needed?

Re: tetex RPMs

2005-09-12 Thread Peter Flynn
Stephen P. Harris wrote: I read this description from an authoritative source (tug.org) and your opinion is quite incoherent and inexperienced when compared to it. I'm afraid we differ on various points from time to time. The TeX Collection is self-described as having progressed to the point

Re: tetex RPMs (was: Re: Problems installing 1.3.6-1 RPMs

2005-09-12 Thread Angus Leeming
Stephen P. Harris wrote: SH: You've certainly done a good job in establishing your unique qualifications for your sweeping pronouncements. Stephen, cool it please. -- Angus

Re: OT: tetex RPMs (was: Re: Problems installing 1.3.6-1 RPMs

2005-09-12 Thread Stephen P. Harris
- Original Message - From: Angus Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Monday, September 12, 2005 1:16 PM Subject: Re: tetex RPMs (was: Re: Problems installing 1.3.6-1 RPMs Stephen P. Harris wrote: SH: You've certainly done a good job in establishing your

Re: OT: tetex RPMs (was: Re: Problems installing 1.3.6-1 RPMs

2005-09-12 Thread Angus Leeming
Stephen P. Harris wrote: Peter Flynn is an arrogant, ignorant blowhard. I think my expression of dissatisfaction was rather moderate. I think your moral intervention was a day late and a dollar short and not directed at the instigator. My apologies. I hadn't realised I was expected to read all

Re: OT: tetex RPMs (was: Re: Problems installing 1.3.6-1 RPMs

2005-09-12 Thread Stephen P. Harris
- Original Message - From: Angus Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Monday, September 12, 2005 3:55 PM Subject: Re: OT: tetex RPMs (was: Re: Problems installing 1.3.6-1 RPMs Stephen P. Harris wrote: Peter Flynn is an arrogant, ignorant blowhard. I think my

Re: OT: tetex RPMs (was: Re: Problems installing 1.3.6-1 RPMs

2005-09-12 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Stephen == Stephen P Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My apologies. I hadn't realised I was expected to read all your mails as they arrived. Stephen You are not when you act as a contributor to the mailing Stephen list. However, Angus wrote: Stephen, cool it please. Stephen That statement

Re: OT: tetex RPMs (was: Re: Problems installing 1.3.6-1 RPMs

2005-09-12 Thread Georg Baum
Peter Flynn wrote: All that's required is for the maintainer of the tetex RPMs to use up-to-date versions from CTAN, and for the author of the embedded install script in the LyX RPM to test for a working kpsewhich instead of assuming it's in the location the RH tetex RPMs install it. It does

Re: dia help

2005-09-12 Thread Vaclav Smidl
Hi myriam, I have used dia for illustrations and I found that the best way to use them in LyX/Latex is the following way: Dia - xfig - pdf/latex. A shell script for this conversion is attached. It produces two files: .pdf and .tex. To include your drawing in the document go for InsertInclude

Re: Problems installing 1.3.6-1 RPMs

2005-09-12 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Peter == Peter Flynn [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Peter Paul A. Rubin wrote: Sorry, my wording was fuzzy. I don't have a working Linux box handy these days, but I assume that LyX runs with the permissions of whatever user is logged in. So if you can run latex directly, presumably when you run

Re: Problems installing 1.3.6-1 RPMs

2005-09-12 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Peter == Peter Flynn [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Peter Even money says that the install script is hard-wired to look Peter in wherever RH's tetex puts the texhash (and doubtless Peter kpsewhich) binary, instead of relying on the path to pick up Peter the right one. No matter, all is now serene.

Lyx-code formatting

2005-09-12 Thread Dave Mills
Hi, I've got a document with some numbered chemical reaction equations formated as lyx-code. The problem is, when I generate a PDF the equations run over the edge of the page, they don't wrap around to the next line. Is it possible to make them wrap? Some ERT needed? Any other suggestion?

Re: Lyx-code formatting

2005-09-12 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Dave Mills wrote: Hi, I've got a document with some numbered chemical reaction equations formated as lyx-code. The problem is, when I generate a PDF the equations run over the edge of the page, they don't wrap around to the next line. Is it possible to make them wrap? Some ERT needed?

Re: dia help

2005-09-12 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Myriam Abramson wrote: Hi! Somebody on this list might be familiar with the dia editor tool for drawing diagrams on many Linux distributions. The text facility seems pretty basic and I urgently need to have subscripts and superscripts. Does anybody know how to do that in a nice way? Thanks

Re: Lyx-code formatting

2005-09-12 Thread Dave Mills
Paul A. Rubin wrote: I've got a document with some numbered chemical reaction equations formated as lyx-code. The problem is, when I generate a PDF the equations run over the edge of the page, they don't wrap around to the next line. Is it possible to make them wrap? Some ERT needed?

Re: tetex RPMs

2005-09-12 Thread Peter Flynn
Stephen P. Harris wrote: I read this description from an authoritative source (tug.org) and your opinion is quite incoherent and inexperienced when compared to it. I'm afraid we differ on various points from time to time. The TeX Collection is self-described as having progressed to the point

Re: tetex RPMs (was: Re: Problems installing 1.3.6-1 RPMs

2005-09-12 Thread Angus Leeming
Stephen P. Harris wrote: SH: You've certainly done a good job in establishing your unique qualifications for your sweeping pronouncements. Stephen, cool it please. -- Angus

Re: OT: tetex RPMs (was: Re: Problems installing 1.3.6-1 RPMs

2005-09-12 Thread Stephen P. Harris
- Original Message - From: Angus Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Monday, September 12, 2005 1:16 PM Subject: Re: tetex RPMs (was: Re: Problems installing 1.3.6-1 RPMs Stephen P. Harris wrote: SH: You've certainly done a good job in establishing your

Re: OT: tetex RPMs (was: Re: Problems installing 1.3.6-1 RPMs

2005-09-12 Thread Angus Leeming
Stephen P. Harris wrote: Peter Flynn is an arrogant, ignorant blowhard. I think my expression of dissatisfaction was rather moderate. I think your moral intervention was a day late and a dollar short and not directed at the instigator. My apologies. I hadn't realised I was expected to read all

Re: OT: tetex RPMs (was: Re: Problems installing 1.3.6-1 RPMs

2005-09-12 Thread Stephen P. Harris
- Original Message - From: Angus Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Monday, September 12, 2005 3:55 PM Subject: Re: OT: tetex RPMs (was: Re: Problems installing 1.3.6-1 RPMs Stephen P. Harris wrote: Peter Flynn is an arrogant, ignorant blowhard. I think my

Re: OT: tetex RPMs (was: Re: Problems installing 1.3.6-1 RPMs

2005-09-12 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Stephen == Stephen P Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My apologies. I hadn't realised I was expected to read all your mails as they arrived. Stephen You are not when you act as a contributor to the mailing Stephen list. However, Angus wrote: Stephen, cool it please. Stephen That statement

Re: OT: tetex RPMs (was: Re: Problems installing 1.3.6-1 RPMs

2005-09-12 Thread Georg Baum
Peter Flynn wrote: > All that's required is for the maintainer of the tetex RPMs to use > up-to-date versions from CTAN, and for the author of the embedded > install script in the LyX RPM to test for a working kpsewhich instead > of assuming it's in the location the RH tetex RPMs install it. It

Re: dia help

2005-09-12 Thread Vaclav Smidl
Hi myriam, I have used dia for illustrations and I found that the best way to use them in LyX/Latex is the following way: Dia -> xfig -> pdf/latex. A shell script for this conversion is attached. It produces two files: .pdf and .tex. To include your drawing in the document go for Insert>Include

Re: Problems installing 1.3.6-1 RPMs

2005-09-12 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Peter" == Peter Flynn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Peter> Paul A. Rubin wrote: >> Sorry, my wording was fuzzy. I don't have a working Linux box handy >> these days, but I assume that LyX runs with the permissions of >> whatever user is logged in. So if you can run latex directly, >>

Re: Problems installing 1.3.6-1 RPMs

2005-09-12 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Peter" == Peter Flynn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Peter> Even money says that the install script is hard-wired to look Peter> in wherever RH's tetex puts the texhash (and doubtless Peter> kpsewhich) binary, instead of relying on the path to pick up Peter> the right one. No matter, all is

Lyx-code formatting

2005-09-12 Thread Dave Mills
Hi, I've got a document with some numbered chemical reaction equations formated as lyx-code. The problem is, when I generate a PDF the equations run over the edge of the page, they don't wrap around to the next line. Is it possible to make them wrap? Some ERT needed? Any other suggestion?

Re: Lyx-code formatting

2005-09-12 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Dave Mills wrote: Hi, I've got a document with some numbered chemical reaction equations formated as lyx-code. The problem is, when I generate a PDF the equations run over the edge of the page, they don't wrap around to the next line. Is it possible to make them wrap? Some ERT needed?

Re: dia help

2005-09-12 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Myriam Abramson wrote: Hi! Somebody on this list might be familiar with the dia editor tool for drawing diagrams on many Linux distributions. The text facility seems pretty basic and I urgently need to have subscripts and superscripts. Does anybody know how to do that in a nice way? Thanks

Re: Lyx-code formatting

2005-09-12 Thread Dave Mills
Paul A. Rubin wrote: I've got a document with some numbered chemical reaction equations formated as lyx-code. The problem is, when I generate a PDF the equations run over the edge of the page, they don't wrap around to the next line. Is it possible to make them wrap? Some ERT needed?

Re: tetex RPMs

2005-09-12 Thread Peter Flynn
Stephen P. Harris wrote: I read this description from an authoritative source (tug.org) and your opinion is quite incoherent and inexperienced when compared to it. I'm afraid we differ on various points from time to time. The TeX Collection is self-described as having progressed to the point

Re: tetex RPMs (was: Re: Problems installing 1.3.6-1 RPMs

2005-09-12 Thread Angus Leeming
Stephen P. Harris wrote: > SH: You've certainly done a good job in establishing your unique > qualifications for your sweeping pronouncements. Stephen, cool it please. -- Angus

Re: OT: tetex RPMs (was: Re: Problems installing 1.3.6-1 RPMs

2005-09-12 Thread Stephen P. Harris
- Original Message - From: "Angus Leeming" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, September 12, 2005 1:16 PM Subject: Re: tetex RPMs (was: Re: Problems installing 1.3.6-1 RPMs Stephen P. Harris wrote: SH: You've certainly done a good job in establishing

Re: OT: tetex RPMs (was: Re: Problems installing 1.3.6-1 RPMs

2005-09-12 Thread Angus Leeming
Stephen P. Harris wrote: > Peter Flynn is an arrogant, ignorant blowhard. I think my expression > of dissatisfaction was rather moderate. I think your moral intervention > was a day late and a dollar short and not directed at the instigator. My apologies. I hadn't realised I was expected to read

Re: OT: tetex RPMs (was: Re: Problems installing 1.3.6-1 RPMs

2005-09-12 Thread Stephen P. Harris
- Original Message - From: "Angus Leeming" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, September 12, 2005 3:55 PM Subject: Re: OT: tetex RPMs (was: Re: Problems installing 1.3.6-1 RPMs Stephen P. Harris wrote: Peter Flynn is an arrogant, ignorant blowhard. I

Re: OT: tetex RPMs (was: Re: Problems installing 1.3.6-1 RPMs

2005-09-12 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Stephen" == Stephen P Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> My apologies. I hadn't realised I was expected to read all your >> mails as they arrived. >> Stephen> You are not when you act as a contributor to the mailing Stephen> list. However, Angus wrote: > Stephen, cool it please.