Re: Elementary BibTeX/Lyx introduction available

2005-09-27 Thread chr
On Mon, 26 Sep 2005, Paul Johnson wrote: When I started using LyX, I had never heard of BiBTeX and was distressed that most documentation about bibliographies in LyX assumed I knew about LaTeX and BibTeX. After a while, I found a workable way and wrote up an introductory explanation for

Re: How to avoid \url already defined?

2005-09-27 Thread Georg Baum
Bo Peng wrote: Dear list, I have been annoyed by two problems recently, both related to lyx-added latex code conflicting with customized document classes. For example, I am using manual.cls from python to produce a manual. However, manual.cls defines \url so it will conflict with the

cmap: searchable and copyable PDFs with pdftex

2005-09-27 Thread Andrei Popov
Hello All. Maybe this is more a LaTeX-related question, but on the other hand I think the answer would be useful to many LyX users as well. I've recently came across CMAP which I though was a perfect solution to make searchable and copyable PDFs (with \usepackage{cmap})

Re: Menu and menubar fonts -- for lyx-qt

2005-09-27 Thread Angus Leeming
David L. Johnson wrote: Getting LyX to run justifies, for me, switching to OZ on the Zaurus. I can't live without it. Of course, LyX/Win might or might not run on Windows CE. I'm having fun and games trying to get the export bit of it working on Win95. Looks like the GUI is hopeless for now.

rotated tables doesn't show in dvi

2005-09-27 Thread christiaan johannes pauw
Hi I'm using Lux 1.3.4 on SuSE 9.1 with KDE 3.2.1 and kdvi 1.1. If I rotate a table sideways its displays correctly in .ps but not in .dvi. Is it a bug in kdvi? Kghostview is ok but i can't search the text in it. Is it a bug in kdvi? Regards Christiaan

Re: non-LyX question: Beamer enumerate

2005-09-27 Thread Paul A. Rubin
David Soukal wrote: Without knowing what Beamer theme you're using, it's hard to know what the enumerations should look like. Can you post a LyX file containing a minimal example? There it is! The reason why I want this configuration is that the three properties are proved on previous

Dates

2005-09-27 Thread alain . didierjean
I use a personal letter template based on koma-letter2.lyx. It prints to-day's date in the document allright. The problem comes when I display or print an old letter: the date that shows up is to-day's, when I wish I had saved the date I wrote it. Any way to achieve that ? - get to-day's date at

Re: rotated tables doesn't show in dvi

2005-09-27 Thread Angus Leeming
christiaan johannes pauw wrote: I'm using Lux 1.3.4 on SuSE 9.1 with KDE 3.2.1 and kdvi 1.1. If I rotate a table sideways its displays correctly in .ps but not in .dvi. Is it a bug in kdvi? http://developer.kde.org/~kdvi/features.html -- Angus

Re: Dates

2005-09-27 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 27 Sep 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use a personal letter template based on koma-letter2.lyx. It prints to-day's date in the document allright. The problem comes when I display or print an old letter: the date that shows up is to-day's, when I wish I had saved the date I wrote it.

Re: Dates

2005-09-27 Thread Kayvan A. Sylvan
Write in the date manually rather than using a macro that grabs the system date. The same thing happens in OpenOffice.org, because the insert-date macro uses the current date rather than a fixed date. Very annoying when I need to reprint a letter I did not anticipate needing to reprint.

Re: non-LyX question: Beamer enumerate

2005-09-27 Thread David Soukal
I've attached a modified version of the test file. Is this what you want? There may be a better way to do this via Beamer customizations. I just located the code Beamer uses to typeset the enumeration numbers and made an ugly kludge that does two numbers. Note the new command added to

Re: Dates

2005-09-27 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Rich Shepard wrote: - save this date in the document and keep it there so it appears unmodified whenever I reprint the document    Write in the date manually rather than using a macro that grabs the system date. Or use Alt-x date-insert, if you're lazy. Jürgen

Export setup

2005-09-27 Thread David Soukal
Hello, a most peculiar thing happened to me: I have always been creating PDF versions of my documents by clicking the first Export/PDF option in the File menu. But now, this does not work as it used to. Well, I do get the PDF but its content is different, namely, PSFrag replacements do not

Re: Dates

2005-09-27 Thread Paul Smith
On 9/27/05, Juergen Spitzmueller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - save this date in the document and keep it there so it appears unmodified whenever I reprint the document Write in the date manually rather than using a macro that grabs the system date. Or use Alt-x date-insert, if you're

Re: Dates

2005-09-27 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Paul Smith wrote: It does not work well, because it inserts the date in English in documents whose language is different from English. Actually, it uses your LC language settings (German in my case). There's certainly room for improvement. Jürgen

Re: Dates

2005-09-27 Thread Paul Smith
On 9/27/05, Juergen Spitzmueller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It does not work well, because it inserts the date in English in documents whose language is different from English. Actually, it uses your LC language settings (German in my case). There's certainly room for improvement. You mean

Re: Dates

2005-09-27 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Paul Smith wrote: You mean the system language settings? Or the language settings of the document? The system language settings (the string is generated by means of strftime). I agree the the latter would be more sensible, although more difficult. Jürgen

Re: Export setup

2005-09-27 Thread Angus Leeming
David Soukal wrote: Hello, a most peculiar thing happened to me: I have always been creating PDF versions of my documents by clicking the first Export/PDF option in the File menu. But now, this does not work as it used to. Well, I do get the PDF but its content is different, namely, PSFrag

Re: Export setup

2005-09-27 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 27 Sep 2005, David Soukal wrote: I never actually paid attention as to which PDF exporter I'm using; I simply clicked the first one (the it works approach). :) The first in the menu now is: dvipdfm. The third is ps2pdf, which works as expected. David, I cannot address the

Trouble with ispell

2005-09-27 Thread Luis Angel Fernández Cuadrado
Hi, I'm using SuSE 9.3 on an AMD64 machine. Normally, I compile LyX from source but last time I was a bit lazy and downloded and installed the 1.3.6 binary in the LyX ftp site (bin) compiled for SuSE 9.2. Almost everything works allright with the exception of spell checking. My normal language

Re: Export setup

2005-09-27 Thread David Soukal
I cannot address the configurability issue, but I've always used pdflatex and it's worked flawlessly. If I have PSTricks images in the document, then I use PDF4 instead of pdflatex. Try these and see if you like the results. Rich What do you mean by PDF4? Do you mean ps2pdf14? Thanks,

Re: Dates

2005-09-27 Thread Michael-E. Voges
Hey list, Am Dienstag, 27. September 2005 17:39 schrieb Juergen Spitzmueller: Rich Shepard wrote:    Write in the date manually rather than using a macro that grabs the system date. Or use Alt-x date-insert, if you're lazy. great!! I didn't know that, yet. But: it gives me Dienstag, 27

Re: Export setup

2005-09-27 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 27 Sep 2005, David Soukal wrote: What do you mean by PDF4? Do you mean ps2pdf14? David, No, it's ps4pdf. From http://www.perce.de/LaTeX/ps4pdf/: ps4pdf.sty PostScript into PDF A package to integrate PostScript code into a PDF output. It's analogous to ps2pdf, but it works

Re: Trouble with ispell

2005-09-27 Thread Paul Smith
On 9/27/05, Luis Angel Fernández Cuadrado [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm using SuSE 9.3 on an AMD64 machine. Normally, I compile LyX from source but last time I was a bit lazy and downloded and installed the 1.3.6 binary in the LyX ftp site (bin) compiled for SuSE 9.2. Almost everything works

Re: How to avoid \url already defined?

2005-09-27 Thread Bo Peng
Set ProvidesUrl 1 ProvidesNatbib 1 in the layout file. Thanks. These work like magic. Bo

Newbie questions

2005-09-27 Thread lewisa
I am new to lyx, and have been hooked by the concept and potential power of the application. I principally would like to use it for (surgical) journal article preparation. I have three questions that will ease the transation away from OpenOffice. 1) How do I get rid of the date that follows the

Re: Newbie questions

2005-09-27 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am new to lyx, and have been hooked by the concept and potential power of the application. I principally would like to use it for (surgical) journal article preparation. I have three questions that will ease the transation away from OpenOffice.

Re: Newbie questions

2005-09-27 Thread Daniel Watkins
On Tue, 2005-09-27 at 23:30 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 3) Biblographies. I have used pybliographic to create .bib databases. However, changing the order citations in the text upsets the citation numbering within the text. I can't find a simple HOWTO on getting the whole bibtext thing

\line and justification

2005-09-27 Thread Christopher M. Jones
Hi, all. This is a reiteration of my previous question. Someone responded off-list that I should try \newline. Problem with this is that what I really want is -inline- 'blanks' that don't break justification. If I'm asking this question in the wrong place, then please, someone let me know where I

Slow Display on 1.4cvs

2005-09-27 Thread Daniel Watkins
I'm using 1.4cvs (downloaded and compiled a few hours ago) with the Qt front-end. ATM, I'm noticing that LyX is barely keeping up with my typing, which is something I hadn't noticed on 1.3.6. Is this just my imagination, my computer, or are other people experiencing the same thing? It's not

Re: Installing LyX from CVS

2005-09-27 Thread Daniel Watkins
On Mon, 2005-09-26 at 23:57 +0100, Angus Leeming wrote: How recent is your copy of the cvs sources? I discovered that the problem was basically this. I had used Cervisia to try and download the sources (because CLI cvs scares me :p). I must have chosen the wrong branch (or just generally

article AMS and fancy headers

2005-09-27 Thread Guillaume Marcais
When using article AMS layout and fancy headers, the word english is printed in the header before the title and my name. Like this: englishHOME WORK englishGUILLAUME MARCAIS Now looking for the word english in the Latex export I get: $ grep -i english HomeWork.tex

Re: Dates

2005-09-27 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Michael-E. Voges wrote: great!! I didn't know that, yet. But: it gives me Dienstag, 27 September 2005 without any dot after the day-number 27 Go to Preferences-Output-Date Format and change the string to %A, %e. %B %Y (i.e., add a dot after the %e parameter). For more configuration

Re: Elementary BibTeX/Lyx introduction available

2005-09-27 Thread chr
On Mon, 26 Sep 2005, Paul Johnson wrote: When I started using LyX, I had never heard of BiBTeX and was distressed that most documentation about bibliographies in LyX assumed I knew about LaTeX and BibTeX. After a while, I found a workable way and wrote up an introductory explanation for

Re: How to avoid \url already defined?

2005-09-27 Thread Georg Baum
Bo Peng wrote: Dear list, I have been annoyed by two problems recently, both related to lyx-added latex code conflicting with customized document classes. For example, I am using manual.cls from python to produce a manual. However, manual.cls defines \url so it will conflict with the

cmap: searchable and copyable PDFs with pdftex

2005-09-27 Thread Andrei Popov
Hello All. Maybe this is more a LaTeX-related question, but on the other hand I think the answer would be useful to many LyX users as well. I've recently came across CMAP which I though was a perfect solution to make searchable and copyable PDFs (with \usepackage{cmap})

Re: Menu and menubar fonts -- for lyx-qt

2005-09-27 Thread Angus Leeming
David L. Johnson wrote: Getting LyX to run justifies, for me, switching to OZ on the Zaurus. I can't live without it. Of course, LyX/Win might or might not run on Windows CE. I'm having fun and games trying to get the export bit of it working on Win95. Looks like the GUI is hopeless for now.

rotated tables doesn't show in dvi

2005-09-27 Thread christiaan johannes pauw
Hi I'm using Lux 1.3.4 on SuSE 9.1 with KDE 3.2.1 and kdvi 1.1. If I rotate a table sideways its displays correctly in .ps but not in .dvi. Is it a bug in kdvi? Kghostview is ok but i can't search the text in it. Is it a bug in kdvi? Regards Christiaan

Re: non-LyX question: Beamer enumerate

2005-09-27 Thread Paul A. Rubin
David Soukal wrote: Without knowing what Beamer theme you're using, it's hard to know what the enumerations should look like. Can you post a LyX file containing a minimal example? There it is! The reason why I want this configuration is that the three properties are proved on previous

Dates

2005-09-27 Thread alain . didierjean
I use a personal letter template based on koma-letter2.lyx. It prints to-day's date in the document allright. The problem comes when I display or print an old letter: the date that shows up is to-day's, when I wish I had saved the date I wrote it. Any way to achieve that ? - get to-day's date at

Re: rotated tables doesn't show in dvi

2005-09-27 Thread Angus Leeming
christiaan johannes pauw wrote: I'm using Lux 1.3.4 on SuSE 9.1 with KDE 3.2.1 and kdvi 1.1. If I rotate a table sideways its displays correctly in .ps but not in .dvi. Is it a bug in kdvi? http://developer.kde.org/~kdvi/features.html -- Angus

Re: Dates

2005-09-27 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 27 Sep 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use a personal letter template based on koma-letter2.lyx. It prints to-day's date in the document allright. The problem comes when I display or print an old letter: the date that shows up is to-day's, when I wish I had saved the date I wrote it.

Re: Dates

2005-09-27 Thread Kayvan A. Sylvan
Write in the date manually rather than using a macro that grabs the system date. The same thing happens in OpenOffice.org, because the insert-date macro uses the current date rather than a fixed date. Very annoying when I need to reprint a letter I did not anticipate needing to reprint.

Re: non-LyX question: Beamer enumerate

2005-09-27 Thread David Soukal
I've attached a modified version of the test file. Is this what you want? There may be a better way to do this via Beamer customizations. I just located the code Beamer uses to typeset the enumeration numbers and made an ugly kludge that does two numbers. Note the new command added to

Re: Dates

2005-09-27 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Rich Shepard wrote: - save this date in the document and keep it there so it appears unmodified whenever I reprint the document    Write in the date manually rather than using a macro that grabs the system date. Or use Alt-x date-insert, if you're lazy. Jürgen

Export setup

2005-09-27 Thread David Soukal
Hello, a most peculiar thing happened to me: I have always been creating PDF versions of my documents by clicking the first Export/PDF option in the File menu. But now, this does not work as it used to. Well, I do get the PDF but its content is different, namely, PSFrag replacements do not

Re: Dates

2005-09-27 Thread Paul Smith
On 9/27/05, Juergen Spitzmueller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - save this date in the document and keep it there so it appears unmodified whenever I reprint the document Write in the date manually rather than using a macro that grabs the system date. Or use Alt-x date-insert, if you're

Re: Dates

2005-09-27 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Paul Smith wrote: It does not work well, because it inserts the date in English in documents whose language is different from English. Actually, it uses your LC language settings (German in my case). There's certainly room for improvement. Jürgen

Re: Dates

2005-09-27 Thread Paul Smith
On 9/27/05, Juergen Spitzmueller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It does not work well, because it inserts the date in English in documents whose language is different from English. Actually, it uses your LC language settings (German in my case). There's certainly room for improvement. You mean

Re: Dates

2005-09-27 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Paul Smith wrote: You mean the system language settings? Or the language settings of the document? The system language settings (the string is generated by means of strftime). I agree the the latter would be more sensible, although more difficult. Jürgen

Re: Export setup

2005-09-27 Thread Angus Leeming
David Soukal wrote: Hello, a most peculiar thing happened to me: I have always been creating PDF versions of my documents by clicking the first Export/PDF option in the File menu. But now, this does not work as it used to. Well, I do get the PDF but its content is different, namely, PSFrag

Re: Export setup

2005-09-27 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 27 Sep 2005, David Soukal wrote: I never actually paid attention as to which PDF exporter I'm using; I simply clicked the first one (the it works approach). :) The first in the menu now is: dvipdfm. The third is ps2pdf, which works as expected. David, I cannot address the

Trouble with ispell

2005-09-27 Thread Luis Angel Fernández Cuadrado
Hi, I'm using SuSE 9.3 on an AMD64 machine. Normally, I compile LyX from source but last time I was a bit lazy and downloded and installed the 1.3.6 binary in the LyX ftp site (bin) compiled for SuSE 9.2. Almost everything works allright with the exception of spell checking. My normal language

Re: Export setup

2005-09-27 Thread David Soukal
I cannot address the configurability issue, but I've always used pdflatex and it's worked flawlessly. If I have PSTricks images in the document, then I use PDF4 instead of pdflatex. Try these and see if you like the results. Rich What do you mean by PDF4? Do you mean ps2pdf14? Thanks,

Re: Dates

2005-09-27 Thread Michael-E. Voges
Hey list, Am Dienstag, 27. September 2005 17:39 schrieb Juergen Spitzmueller: Rich Shepard wrote:    Write in the date manually rather than using a macro that grabs the system date. Or use Alt-x date-insert, if you're lazy. great!! I didn't know that, yet. But: it gives me Dienstag, 27

Re: Export setup

2005-09-27 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 27 Sep 2005, David Soukal wrote: What do you mean by PDF4? Do you mean ps2pdf14? David, No, it's ps4pdf. From http://www.perce.de/LaTeX/ps4pdf/: ps4pdf.sty PostScript into PDF A package to integrate PostScript code into a PDF output. It's analogous to ps2pdf, but it works

Re: Trouble with ispell

2005-09-27 Thread Paul Smith
On 9/27/05, Luis Angel Fernández Cuadrado [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm using SuSE 9.3 on an AMD64 machine. Normally, I compile LyX from source but last time I was a bit lazy and downloded and installed the 1.3.6 binary in the LyX ftp site (bin) compiled for SuSE 9.2. Almost everything works

Re: How to avoid \url already defined?

2005-09-27 Thread Bo Peng
Set ProvidesUrl 1 ProvidesNatbib 1 in the layout file. Thanks. These work like magic. Bo

Newbie questions

2005-09-27 Thread lewisa
I am new to lyx, and have been hooked by the concept and potential power of the application. I principally would like to use it for (surgical) journal article preparation. I have three questions that will ease the transation away from OpenOffice. 1) How do I get rid of the date that follows the

Re: Newbie questions

2005-09-27 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am new to lyx, and have been hooked by the concept and potential power of the application. I principally would like to use it for (surgical) journal article preparation. I have three questions that will ease the transation away from OpenOffice.

Re: Newbie questions

2005-09-27 Thread Daniel Watkins
On Tue, 2005-09-27 at 23:30 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 3) Biblographies. I have used pybliographic to create .bib databases. However, changing the order citations in the text upsets the citation numbering within the text. I can't find a simple HOWTO on getting the whole bibtext thing

\line and justification

2005-09-27 Thread Christopher M. Jones
Hi, all. This is a reiteration of my previous question. Someone responded off-list that I should try \newline. Problem with this is that what I really want is -inline- 'blanks' that don't break justification. If I'm asking this question in the wrong place, then please, someone let me know where I

Slow Display on 1.4cvs

2005-09-27 Thread Daniel Watkins
I'm using 1.4cvs (downloaded and compiled a few hours ago) with the Qt front-end. ATM, I'm noticing that LyX is barely keeping up with my typing, which is something I hadn't noticed on 1.3.6. Is this just my imagination, my computer, or are other people experiencing the same thing? It's not

Re: Installing LyX from CVS

2005-09-27 Thread Daniel Watkins
On Mon, 2005-09-26 at 23:57 +0100, Angus Leeming wrote: How recent is your copy of the cvs sources? I discovered that the problem was basically this. I had used Cervisia to try and download the sources (because CLI cvs scares me :p). I must have chosen the wrong branch (or just generally

article AMS and fancy headers

2005-09-27 Thread Guillaume Marcais
When using article AMS layout and fancy headers, the word english is printed in the header before the title and my name. Like this: englishHOME WORK englishGUILLAUME MARCAIS Now looking for the word english in the Latex export I get: $ grep -i english HomeWork.tex

Re: Dates

2005-09-27 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Michael-E. Voges wrote: great!! I didn't know that, yet. But: it gives me Dienstag, 27 September 2005 without any dot after the day-number 27 Go to Preferences-Output-Date Format and change the string to %A, %e. %B %Y (i.e., add a dot after the %e parameter). For more configuration

Re: Elementary BibTeX/Lyx introduction available

2005-09-27 Thread chr
On Mon, 26 Sep 2005, Paul Johnson wrote: > When I started using LyX, I had never heard of BiBTeX and was distressed > that most documentation about bibliographies in LyX assumed I knew about > LaTeX and BibTeX. After a while, I found a workable way and wrote up an > introductory explanation

Re: How to avoid "\url already defined"?

2005-09-27 Thread Georg Baum
Bo Peng wrote: > Dear list, > > I have been annoyed by two problems recently, both related to > lyx-added latex code conflicting with customized document classes. > For example, I am using manual.cls from python to produce a manual. > However, manual.cls defines \url so it will conflict with

cmap: searchable and copyable PDFs with pdftex

2005-09-27 Thread Andrei Popov
Hello All. Maybe this is more a LaTeX-related question, but on the other hand I think the answer would be useful to many LyX users as well. I've recently came across CMAP which I though was a perfect solution to make searchable and copyable PDFs (with \usepackage{cmap})

Re: Menu and menubar fonts -- for lyx-qt

2005-09-27 Thread Angus Leeming
David L. Johnson wrote: > Getting LyX to run justifies, for me, switching to OZ on the Zaurus. I > can't live without it. Of course, LyX/Win might or might not run on Windows CE. I'm having fun and games trying to get the export bit of it working on Win95. Looks like the GUI is hopeless for now.

rotated tables doesn't show in dvi

2005-09-27 Thread christiaan johannes pauw
Hi I'm using Lux 1.3.4 on SuSE 9.1 with KDE 3.2.1 and kdvi 1.1. If I rotate a table sideways its displays correctly in .ps but not in .dvi. Is it a bug in kdvi? Kghostview is ok but i can't search the text in it. Is it a bug in kdvi? Regards Christiaan

Re: non-LyX question: Beamer enumerate

2005-09-27 Thread Paul A. Rubin
David Soukal wrote: Without knowing what Beamer theme you're using, it's hard to know what the enumerations should look like. Can you post a LyX file containing a minimal example? > There it is! The reason why I want this "configuration" is that the three properties are proved on

Dates

2005-09-27 Thread alain . didierjean
I use a personal letter template based on koma-letter2.lyx. It prints to-day's date in the document allright. The problem comes when I display or print an old letter: the date that shows up is to-day's, when I wish I had saved the date I wrote it. Any way to achieve that ? - get to-day's date at

Re: rotated tables doesn't show in dvi

2005-09-27 Thread Angus Leeming
christiaan johannes pauw wrote: > I'm using Lux 1.3.4 on SuSE 9.1 with KDE 3.2.1 and kdvi 1.1. If I rotate > a table sideways its displays correctly in .ps but not in .dvi. Is it a > bug in kdvi? http://developer.kde.org/~kdvi/features.html -- Angus

Re: Dates

2005-09-27 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 27 Sep 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use a personal letter template based on koma-letter2.lyx. It prints to-day's date in the document allright. The problem comes when I display or print an old letter: the date that shows up is to-day's, when I wish I had saved the date I wrote it.

Re: Dates

2005-09-27 Thread Kayvan A. Sylvan
> Write in the date manually rather than using a macro that grabs the system > date. > > The same thing happens in OpenOffice.org, because the insert->date macro > uses the current date rather than a fixed date. Very annoying when I need to > reprint a letter I did not anticipate needing to

Re: non-LyX question: Beamer enumerate

2005-09-27 Thread David Soukal
I've attached a modified version of the test file. Is this what you want? There may be a better way to do this via Beamer customizations. I just located the code Beamer uses to typeset the enumeration numbers and made an ugly kludge that does two numbers. Note the new command added to

Re: Dates

2005-09-27 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Rich Shepard wrote: > > - save this date in the document and keep it there so it appears > > unmodified whenever I reprint the document > >    Write in the date manually rather than using a macro that grabs the > system date. Or use "Alt-x date-insert", if you're lazy. Jürgen

Export setup

2005-09-27 Thread David Soukal
Hello, a most peculiar thing happened to me: I have always been creating PDF versions of my documents by clicking the first Export/PDF option in the File menu. But now, this does not work as it used to. Well, I do get the PDF but its content is different, namely, PSFrag replacements do not

Re: Dates

2005-09-27 Thread Paul Smith
On 9/27/05, Juergen Spitzmueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > - save this date in the document and keep it there so it appears > > > unmodified whenever I reprint the document > > > > Write in the date manually rather than using a macro that grabs the > > system date. > > Or use "Alt-x

Re: Dates

2005-09-27 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Paul Smith wrote: > It does not work well, because it inserts the date in English in > documents whose language is different from English. Actually, it uses your LC language settings (German in my case). There's certainly room for improvement. Jürgen

Re: Dates

2005-09-27 Thread Paul Smith
On 9/27/05, Juergen Spitzmueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It does not work well, because it inserts the date in English in > > documents whose language is different from English. > > Actually, it uses your LC language settings (German in my case). There's > certainly room for improvement.

Re: Dates

2005-09-27 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Paul Smith wrote: > You mean the system language settings? Or the language settings of the > document? The system language settings (the string is generated by means of strftime). I agree the the latter would be more sensible, although more difficult. Jürgen

Re: Export setup

2005-09-27 Thread Angus Leeming
David Soukal wrote: > Hello, > > a most peculiar thing happened to me: I have always been creating PDF > versions of my documents by clicking the first Export/PDF option in the > File menu. But now, this does not work as it used to. Well, I do get the > PDF but its content is different, namely,

Re: Export setup

2005-09-27 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 27 Sep 2005, David Soukal wrote: I never actually paid attention as to which PDF exporter I'm using; I simply clicked the first one (the "it works" approach). :) The first in the menu now is: dvipdfm. The third is ps2pdf, which works as expected. David, I cannot address the

Trouble with ispell

2005-09-27 Thread Luis Angel Fernández Cuadrado
Hi, I'm using SuSE 9.3 on an AMD64 machine. Normally, I compile LyX from source but last time I was a bit lazy and downloded and installed the 1.3.6 binary in the LyX ftp site (bin) compiled for SuSE 9.2. Almost everything works allright with the exception of spell checking. My normal language

Re: Export setup

2005-09-27 Thread David Soukal
I cannot address the configurability issue, but I've always used pdflatex and it's worked flawlessly. If I have PSTricks images in the document, then I use PDF4 instead of pdflatex. Try these and see if you like the results. Rich What do you mean by PDF4? Do you mean ps2pdf14? Thanks,

Re: Dates

2005-09-27 Thread Michael-E. Voges
Hey list, Am Dienstag, 27. September 2005 17:39 schrieb Juergen Spitzmueller: > Rich Shepard wrote: > >    Write in the date manually rather than using a macro that grabs the > > system date. > > Or use "Alt-x date-insert", if you're lazy. great!! I didn't know that, yet. But: it gives me

Re: Export setup

2005-09-27 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 27 Sep 2005, David Soukal wrote: What do you mean by PDF4? Do you mean ps2pdf14? David, No, it's ps4pdf. From : ps4pdf.sty PostScript into PDF A package to integrate PostScript code into a PDF output. It's analogous to ps2pdf, but it works

Re: Trouble with ispell

2005-09-27 Thread Paul Smith
On 9/27/05, Luis Angel Fernández Cuadrado <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm using SuSE 9.3 on an AMD64 machine. Normally, I compile LyX from source > but last time I was a bit lazy and downloded and installed the 1.3.6 binary > in the LyX ftp site (bin) compiled for SuSE 9.2. Almost everything

Re: How to avoid "\url already defined"?

2005-09-27 Thread Bo Peng
> Set > > ProvidesUrl 1 > ProvidesNatbib 1 > > in the layout file. Thanks. These work like magic. Bo

Newbie questions

2005-09-27 Thread lewisa
I am new to lyx, and have been hooked by the concept and potential power of the application. I principally would like to use it for (surgical) journal article preparation. I have three questions that will ease the transation away from OpenOffice. 1) How do I get rid of the date that follows the

Re: Newbie questions

2005-09-27 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am new to lyx, and have been hooked by the concept and potential power of the application. I principally would like to use it for (surgical) journal article preparation. I have three questions that will ease the transation away from OpenOffice.

Re: Newbie questions

2005-09-27 Thread Daniel Watkins
On Tue, 2005-09-27 at 23:30 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 3) Biblographies. I have used pybliographic to create .bib databases. > However, changing the order citations in the text upsets the citation > numbering within the text. I can't find a simple HOWTO on getting the > whole bibtext thing

\line and justification

2005-09-27 Thread Christopher M. Jones
Hi, all. This is a reiteration of my previous question. Someone responded off-list that I should try \newline. Problem with this is that what I really want is -inline- 'blanks' that don't break justification. If I'm asking this question in the wrong place, then please, someone let me know where I

Slow Display on 1.4cvs

2005-09-27 Thread Daniel Watkins
I'm using 1.4cvs (downloaded and compiled a few hours ago) with the Qt front-end. ATM, I'm noticing that LyX is barely keeping up with my typing, which is something I hadn't noticed on 1.3.6. Is this just my imagination, my computer, or are other people experiencing the same thing? It's not

Re: Installing LyX from CVS

2005-09-27 Thread Daniel Watkins
On Mon, 2005-09-26 at 23:57 +0100, Angus Leeming wrote: > How recent is your copy of the cvs sources? I discovered that the problem was basically this. I had used Cervisia to try and download the sources (because CLI cvs scares me :p). I must have chosen the wrong branch (or just generally

article AMS and fancy headers

2005-09-27 Thread Guillaume Marcais
When using article AMS layout and fancy headers, the word "english" is printed in the header before the title and my name. Like this: englishHOME WORK englishGUILLAUME MARCAIS Now looking for the word english in the Latex export I get: $ grep -i english HomeWork.tex

Re: Dates

2005-09-27 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Michael-E. Voges wrote: > great!! I didn't know that, yet. > But: it gives me "Dienstag, 27 September 2005" > without any dot after the day-number 27 Go to Preferences->Output->Date Format and change the string to %A, %e. %B %Y (i.e., add a dot after the %e parameter). For more configuration