Re: Quality of figures

2005-11-24 Thread Georg Baum
> [André] > > Just one more question about the background image. Here, and in the doc > you > sent, too, the picture looks like a badly compressed jpeg, although we > feed a > nice clean eps. I found no information about this, neither in the > graphicx nor > in the eso-pic documentation. Do you

Re: Quality of figures

2005-11-24 Thread Roy Schestowitz
_/ On Thu 24 Nov 2005 14:26:41 GMT, [Bonhôte, André] wrote : \_ Hi Uwe On Nov 24, 2005, at 1441, Uwe Stöhr wrote: The problem is not the pixelization, rather the bad quality. I have put up some examples here[1]. - Header.png is the png I am using The problem _is_ the pixelation. Yo

Any volunteer to test LyX 1.4 in French ?

2005-11-24 Thread Adrien Rebollo
The update of the French translation of the interface for LyX 1.4 has been completed recently. Anyone that could test LyX 1.4 in French and give remarks about the translation is very welcome. You can send your comments by answering to the list or privately. Note that the help files have not

user defined type-area

2005-11-24 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
In Koma it is not recommended, to change the type-area, But if the publisher requests it, how and where is the type-area in koma script user defined changable? Specifically: 17mm on top, 28 on bottom (that is, bottom NOT 2* top!) We tried (unsuccessfully) the workaround headinclude but would p

Re: Quality of figures

2005-11-24 Thread Johan Ingvast
Bonhôte, André wrote: This works fine as long as it is "eps". Now, I have converted the eps to a zip-compressed pdf (Photoshop), and replaced the filename. Tadaa! Not working. "LaTeX Error: Cannot determine size of graphic". I really hope to get this sorted soon, somehow. Can I ask pdflatex

Re: Quality of figures

2005-11-24 Thread Bonhôte, André
Hi Uwe On Nov 24, 2005, at 1441, Uwe Stöhr wrote: The problem is not the pixelization, rather the bad quality. I have put up some examples here[1]. - Header.png is the png I am using The problem _is_ the pixelation. You will always have bad results when you zoom into a jpg, gif, png etc

headings in koma script

2005-11-24 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
this is a follow-up of my previous inquiry. Where should option `smallheadings´ go? I tried this and get an error %% LyX 1.3 created this file. For more info, see http://www.lyx.org/. %% Do not edit unless you really know what you are doing. \documentclass[10pt,smallheadings,ngerman]{scrbook} .

headings in koma script

2005-11-24 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
I am trying in koma book to avoid headers (headings) in preface and introduction, but in all the following chapters headers should occur, and with `smallheadings.´ We have tried hard but no success. Could somebody tell us were to add what (in preample?) Wolfgang

Re: Quality of figures

2005-11-24 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Bonhôte, André schrieb: Why are you surprised? PNG is a bitmap format, so of course things look pixelated if you zoom in. The only real way to solve your problem is to create a vector graphics image. There are some really intuitive svg editors out there... The problem is not the pixelization

Re: creating tables with custom alignment of individual cells

2005-11-24 Thread Uwe Stöhr
David Soukal wrote: I am trying to report some data in tables and I have come across the following obstacles that I don't know how to solve:... > Thanks for any hints & pointer! I hope you'll find some useful informations here: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Tables regards Uwe

Re: Quality of figures

2005-11-24 Thread Bonhôte, André
Hi all On Nov 24, 2005, at 1143, Angus Leeming wrote: Why are you surprised? PNG is a bitmap format, so of course things look pixelated if you zoom in. The only real way to solve your problem is to create a vector graphics image. There are some really intuitive svg editors out there...

changebars and lineno -> minor bug

2005-11-24 Thread Martin A. Hansen
change bars colors line numbers when used together with the lineno package - it shouldnt imho. martin

Re: bug in "change bars" patch (lyx 1.3.6)

2005-11-24 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Martin A. Hansen: > it is possible to offset change bars in a very ugly way. > > 1) take a piece of text > 2) enable change bars > 3) delete one word > 4) insert a whitespace after the word before the deleted word > > now, the double whitespace is collapsed by lyx when moving the curser, but > at t

In which shell does LyX run latex ?

2005-11-24 Thread Jean-Pierre Chrétien
Hello, I have LyX installed on a Debian with two latex distributions: - teTeX-2.0 deb package - TeXLive-2004 I work under tcsh, and set the PATH so that TeXLive bin comes before teTeX binaries. LyX reconfigure finds TeXLive OK, and all worked fine. Recently it appeared that LyX runs teTeX in

Re: Quality of figures

2005-11-24 Thread Angus Leeming
Martin A. Hansen wrote: > INKSCAPE!!! > > www.inkscape.org > > i am totally in love with inkscape, which is the coolest application next > to lyx. inkscape needs to be mentioned in the wiki and in the lyx docs > (which endorses xfig - and xfig is crap compared to inkscape!). Oh, xfig is good for

Re: Quality of figures

2005-11-24 Thread Martin A. Hansen
INKSCAPE!!! www.inkscape.org i am totally in love with inkscape, which is the coolest application next to lyx. inkscape needs to be mentioned in the wiki and in the lyx docs (which endorses xfig - and xfig is crap compared to inkscape!). ;oP martin On 24/11/05, Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTEC

bug in "change bars" patch (lyx 1.3.6)

2005-11-24 Thread Martin A. Hansen
it is possible to offset change bars in a very ugly way. 1) take a piece of text 2) enable change bars 3) delete one word 4) insert a whitespace after the word before the deleted word now, the double whitespace is collapsed by lyx when moving the curser, but at the same time the change bar for th

Re: Quality of figures

2005-11-24 Thread Angus Leeming
Bonhôte, André wrote: > I have a PNG which I have converted to .eps using Photoshop (Mac). I > set it as background image using eso-pic and graphicx. Now, > everything looks fine, seen from far. But zooming in, the background > image looks like a badly compressed jpeg, like 60% quality. I have > te

Quality of figures

2005-11-24 Thread Bonhôte, André
Hi! Slowly, my old and rusty LaTeX knowledge is coming back. Unfortunately, I stumble over a problem I can't solve using Google. I have a PNG which I have converted to .eps using Photoshop (Mac). I set it as background image using eso-pic and graphicx. Now, everything looks fine, seen fro