Re: A Newbie's Experience with LyX

2006-01-31 Thread Helge Hafting
John Pye wrote: Hellmut Weber wrote: For business reasons I'm obliged to produce some documents in Word-Format. The copy/paste-comfort offered by Windows is to be considered THE reference for any system which wants to compete. I think that the 'rich' copy/paste technology clearly

Re: Lyx 1.37 for WindowsXP

2006-01-31 Thread Helge Hafting
Uwe Stöhr wrote: [...] In the case of LyX, yes. The installer takes also care of third party programs, like Imagemagick, Ghostscript etc. To assure that everything works smoothly, deinstall LyX first before you install a new LyX-version. I tried installing lyx on windows xp yesterday. The

Lyx 1.4.0pre3 + SVG + pdflatex

2006-01-31 Thread Alfonso Gazo
Hi, My question is related to using SVG graphics inside LyX. I'm trying to use a SVG graphic inside a LyX document. This document is going to be exported to PDF with pdflatex. The default installation of LyX doesn't seem to handle SVG file format, so I created a SVG entry in the File Formats

Re: Lyx 1.4.0pre3 + SVG + pdflatex

2006-01-31 Thread Georg Baum
Alfonso Gazo wrote: After, when generating the PDF file, it produces a messy graphic just in the place the SVG graphic should be. I've found that LyX is somewhat converting from SVG to EPS and then to PNG. Finally, PNG image is included in PDF file. Correct. This is unfortunately hardcoded

Re: Lyx 1.4.0pre3 + SVG + pdflatex

2006-01-31 Thread Martin A. Hansen
SVG-EPS rendering by inkscape, which this script uses, is crappy. i strongly suggest that it is not used. http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/PrintingConsensusPoll scribus should be way better outputting EPS, however, scribus misinterprets SVG images drawn in inkscape (and in general afaik).

Re: Debian Packages for LyX 1.3.7

2006-01-31 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
christian == christian ridderstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: christian Well, maybe we should look for some alternative then? At christian least something temporary for the release of 1.4. We still have a few days left, don't we? That adds excitement to the release process ;) JMarc

Re: Lyx 1.37 for WindowsXP

2006-01-31 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Helge Hafting wrote: I tried installing lyx on windows xp yesterday. The installer looked up the websites for imagemagick, ghostscript, python and so on, but didn't actually download anything. Could that have something to do with security settings in windows? You used Angus' installer. Use

translation templete for lyx - an idea?

2006-01-31 Thread Martin A. Hansen
hello would it be possible and worthwhile to make a lyx template for the translation of the lyx text strings? it would be nice to have the original english version shown, perhaps with further explanation of context and screenshots, and then have any code removed from sight so one can

list of abbreviations

2006-01-31 Thread Martin A. Hansen
hello i need to make an appendix with a list of abbreviations used in my thesis. ideas to layout is most welcome :o) - and can sorting be done automagically ? - and picking abbreviations (ala word index) ? martin

Re: list of abbreviations

2006-01-31 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Martin A. Hansen wrote: i need to make an appendix with a list of abbreviations used in my thesis. ideas to layout is most welcome :o) You can have a look at my diploma thesis: http://fkurth.de/uwest/usti/Diplom/ See the glossary. regards Uwe

Re: list of abbreviations

2006-01-31 Thread Martin A. Hansen
uwe, excellent - since i already have your stuff on my box :o) how do you the TOC displayed in the sidebar of the resulting pdf? martin On 31/01/06, Uwe Stöhr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Martin A. Hansen wrote: i need to make an appendix with a list of abbreviations used in my thesis.

Re: translation templete for lyx - an idea?

2006-01-31 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Tue, 31 Jan 2006, Martin A. Hansen wrote: hello Hi Martin I'm cross-posting this to the development list. would it be possible and worthwhile to make a lyx template for the translation of the lyx text strings? Hmm.. I'm not quite sure what you mean by this. Are you suggesting that the

Reverse DVI on Macdvix problem with calleditor

2006-01-31 Thread jerome666
Hi mates, 1. Situation yesterday I had a question about macdvix and finally andre and bennett managed to help me. In conclusion, macdvix is now running on my machine. Now : the reason why I installed macdvix is linked to the fact that I want to use the reverse dvi function. I have include the

Re: translation templete for lyx - an idea?

2006-01-31 Thread Martin A. Hansen
yes - i am wondering if it could be done in a .lyx file. elaboration - hiding code ala (from the uwe-installer - or is that uwe's win-installer? :o) : LangString MissProgHeader ${LYX_LANG} Tjek for nødvendige programmer LangString MissProgCap ${LYX_LANG} Følgende nødvendige program(mer) vil

fileformat keyword in bugzilla

2006-01-31 Thread Georg Baum
It would be nice to have a fileformat keyword in bugzilla. There are some bugs that require a file format change, and if we could flag them it would be easier to serach for them when file format changes are allowed again. Could somebody with the required permissions add it, please? Georg

lyx and pstricks

2006-01-31 Thread Eric Germaneau
Hello, I'm a Phd student and I wish to right my thesis with lyx. I've already download examples explaining how to make a thesis with lyx. I'm wondering how to use pstricks with lyx. Also when I try to include a bibtex file (generaye by jbibtexmanager) nothing happend. I use pdflatex and the

Re: translation templete for lyx - an idea?

2006-01-31 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Martin A. Hansen wrote: yes - i am wondering if it could be done in a .lyx file. elaboration - hiding code ala (from the uwe-installer - or is that uwe's win-installer? :o) : LangString MissProgHeader ${LYX_LANG} Tjek for nødvendige programmer Note that translating of the Win-installer is

Re: list of abbreviations

2006-01-31 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Martin A. Hansen wrote: how do you the TOC displayed in the sidebar of the resulting pdf? This is done by the LaTeX-package hyperref, have a look in the preamble of my document. regards Uwe

Re: list of abbreviations

2006-01-31 Thread Martin A. Hansen
gotit. very neat! martin On 31/01/06, Uwe Stöhr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Martin A. Hansen wrote: how do you the TOC displayed in the sidebar of the resulting pdf? This is done by the LaTeX-package hyperref, have a look in the preamble of my document. regards Uwe

Re: A Newbie's Experience with LyX (rambling)

2006-01-31 Thread Yaron Y. Goland
I don't think you were aware, when writing your review, that the strength of LyX is generating mathematical equations as LyX is a front-end to (La)TeX. Actually my example article did use a mathematical equation to illustrate the power of LyX, in fact, that was the very first example I gave

Re: lyx and pstricks

2006-01-31 Thread Nicolás
Regarding pstricks I cannot help you (although you may look at http://wiki.lyx.org/Examples/PSTricks ). Regarding references, they do not appear in the document until you insert citations in the text. Nicolás Eric Germaneau wrote: Hello, I'm a Phd student and I wish to right my thesis

Re: lyx and pstricks

2006-01-31 Thread Paul Smith
On 1/31/06, Nicolás [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Regarding pstricks I cannot help you (although you may look at http://wiki.lyx.org/Examples/PSTricks ). Regarding references, they do not appear in the document until you insert citations in the text. The discussion at:

Re: lyx and pstricks

2006-01-31 Thread Herbert Voss
Eric Germaneau wrote: I'm a Phd student and I wish to right my thesis with lyx. I've already download examples explaining how to make a thesis with lyx. I'm wondering how to use pstricks with lyx. http://tug.org/PSTricks/main.cgi?file=LyX/lyx

Re: A Newbie's Experience with LyX (rambling)

2006-01-31 Thread Stephen Harris
- Original Message - From: Yaron Y. Goland [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Stephen Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2006 8:28 AM Subject: Re: A Newbie's Experience with LyX (rambling) I don't think you were aware, when writing your review, that

Re: A Newbie's Experience with LyX

2006-01-31 Thread Helge Hafting
John Pye wrote: Hellmut Weber wrote: For business reasons I'm obliged to produce some documents in Word-Format. The copy/paste-comfort offered by Windows is to be considered THE reference for any system which wants to compete. I think that the 'rich' copy/paste technology clearly

Re: Lyx 1.37 for WindowsXP

2006-01-31 Thread Helge Hafting
Uwe Stöhr wrote: [...] In the case of LyX, yes. The installer takes also care of third party programs, like Imagemagick, Ghostscript etc. To assure that everything works smoothly, deinstall LyX first before you install a new LyX-version. I tried installing lyx on windows xp yesterday. The

Lyx 1.4.0pre3 + SVG + pdflatex

2006-01-31 Thread Alfonso Gazo
Hi, My question is related to using SVG graphics inside LyX. I'm trying to use a SVG graphic inside a LyX document. This document is going to be exported to PDF with pdflatex. The default installation of LyX doesn't seem to handle SVG file format, so I created a SVG entry in the File Formats

Re: Lyx 1.4.0pre3 + SVG + pdflatex

2006-01-31 Thread Georg Baum
Alfonso Gazo wrote: After, when generating the PDF file, it produces a messy graphic just in the place the SVG graphic should be. I've found that LyX is somewhat converting from SVG to EPS and then to PNG. Finally, PNG image is included in PDF file. Correct. This is unfortunately hardcoded

Re: Lyx 1.4.0pre3 + SVG + pdflatex

2006-01-31 Thread Martin A. Hansen
SVG-EPS rendering by inkscape, which this script uses, is crappy. i strongly suggest that it is not used. http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/PrintingConsensusPoll scribus should be way better outputting EPS, however, scribus misinterprets SVG images drawn in inkscape (and in general afaik).

Re: Debian Packages for LyX 1.3.7

2006-01-31 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
christian == christian ridderstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: christian Well, maybe we should look for some alternative then? At christian least something temporary for the release of 1.4. We still have a few days left, don't we? That adds excitement to the release process ;) JMarc

Re: Lyx 1.37 for WindowsXP

2006-01-31 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Helge Hafting wrote: I tried installing lyx on windows xp yesterday. The installer looked up the websites for imagemagick, ghostscript, python and so on, but didn't actually download anything. Could that have something to do with security settings in windows? You used Angus' installer. Use

translation templete for lyx - an idea?

2006-01-31 Thread Martin A. Hansen
hello would it be possible and worthwhile to make a lyx template for the translation of the lyx text strings? it would be nice to have the original english version shown, perhaps with further explanation of context and screenshots, and then have any code removed from sight so one can

list of abbreviations

2006-01-31 Thread Martin A. Hansen
hello i need to make an appendix with a list of abbreviations used in my thesis. ideas to layout is most welcome :o) - and can sorting be done automagically ? - and picking abbreviations (ala word index) ? martin

Re: list of abbreviations

2006-01-31 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Martin A. Hansen wrote: i need to make an appendix with a list of abbreviations used in my thesis. ideas to layout is most welcome :o) You can have a look at my diploma thesis: http://fkurth.de/uwest/usti/Diplom/ See the glossary. regards Uwe

Re: list of abbreviations

2006-01-31 Thread Martin A. Hansen
uwe, excellent - since i already have your stuff on my box :o) how do you the TOC displayed in the sidebar of the resulting pdf? martin On 31/01/06, Uwe Stöhr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Martin A. Hansen wrote: i need to make an appendix with a list of abbreviations used in my thesis.

Re: translation templete for lyx - an idea?

2006-01-31 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Tue, 31 Jan 2006, Martin A. Hansen wrote: hello Hi Martin I'm cross-posting this to the development list. would it be possible and worthwhile to make a lyx template for the translation of the lyx text strings? Hmm.. I'm not quite sure what you mean by this. Are you suggesting that the

Reverse DVI on Macdvix problem with calleditor

2006-01-31 Thread jerome666
Hi mates, 1. Situation yesterday I had a question about macdvix and finally andre and bennett managed to help me. In conclusion, macdvix is now running on my machine. Now : the reason why I installed macdvix is linked to the fact that I want to use the reverse dvi function. I have include the

Re: translation templete for lyx - an idea?

2006-01-31 Thread Martin A. Hansen
yes - i am wondering if it could be done in a .lyx file. elaboration - hiding code ala (from the uwe-installer - or is that uwe's win-installer? :o) : LangString MissProgHeader ${LYX_LANG} Tjek for nødvendige programmer LangString MissProgCap ${LYX_LANG} Følgende nødvendige program(mer) vil

fileformat keyword in bugzilla

2006-01-31 Thread Georg Baum
It would be nice to have a fileformat keyword in bugzilla. There are some bugs that require a file format change, and if we could flag them it would be easier to serach for them when file format changes are allowed again. Could somebody with the required permissions add it, please? Georg

lyx and pstricks

2006-01-31 Thread Eric Germaneau
Hello, I'm a Phd student and I wish to right my thesis with lyx. I've already download examples explaining how to make a thesis with lyx. I'm wondering how to use pstricks with lyx. Also when I try to include a bibtex file (generaye by jbibtexmanager) nothing happend. I use pdflatex and the

Re: translation templete for lyx - an idea?

2006-01-31 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Martin A. Hansen wrote: yes - i am wondering if it could be done in a .lyx file. elaboration - hiding code ala (from the uwe-installer - or is that uwe's win-installer? :o) : LangString MissProgHeader ${LYX_LANG} Tjek for nødvendige programmer Note that translating of the Win-installer is

Re: list of abbreviations

2006-01-31 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Martin A. Hansen wrote: how do you the TOC displayed in the sidebar of the resulting pdf? This is done by the LaTeX-package hyperref, have a look in the preamble of my document. regards Uwe

Re: list of abbreviations

2006-01-31 Thread Martin A. Hansen
gotit. very neat! martin On 31/01/06, Uwe Stöhr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Martin A. Hansen wrote: how do you the TOC displayed in the sidebar of the resulting pdf? This is done by the LaTeX-package hyperref, have a look in the preamble of my document. regards Uwe

Re: A Newbie's Experience with LyX (rambling)

2006-01-31 Thread Yaron Y. Goland
I don't think you were aware, when writing your review, that the strength of LyX is generating mathematical equations as LyX is a front-end to (La)TeX. Actually my example article did use a mathematical equation to illustrate the power of LyX, in fact, that was the very first example I gave

Re: lyx and pstricks

2006-01-31 Thread Nicolás
Regarding pstricks I cannot help you (although you may look at http://wiki.lyx.org/Examples/PSTricks ). Regarding references, they do not appear in the document until you insert citations in the text. Nicolás Eric Germaneau wrote: Hello, I'm a Phd student and I wish to right my thesis

Re: lyx and pstricks

2006-01-31 Thread Paul Smith
On 1/31/06, Nicolás [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Regarding pstricks I cannot help you (although you may look at http://wiki.lyx.org/Examples/PSTricks ). Regarding references, they do not appear in the document until you insert citations in the text. The discussion at:

Re: lyx and pstricks

2006-01-31 Thread Herbert Voss
Eric Germaneau wrote: I'm a Phd student and I wish to right my thesis with lyx. I've already download examples explaining how to make a thesis with lyx. I'm wondering how to use pstricks with lyx. http://tug.org/PSTricks/main.cgi?file=LyX/lyx

Re: A Newbie's Experience with LyX (rambling)

2006-01-31 Thread Stephen Harris
- Original Message - From: Yaron Y. Goland [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Stephen Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2006 8:28 AM Subject: Re: A Newbie's Experience with LyX (rambling) I don't think you were aware, when writing your review, that

Re: A Newbie's Experience with LyX

2006-01-31 Thread Helge Hafting
John Pye wrote: Hellmut Weber wrote: For business reasons I'm obliged to produce some documents in Word-Format. The copy/paste-comfort offered by Windows is to be considered THE reference for any system which wants to compete. I think that the 'rich' copy/paste technology clearly

Re: Lyx 1.37 for WindowsXP

2006-01-31 Thread Helge Hafting
Uwe Stöhr wrote: [...] In the case of LyX, yes. The installer takes also care of third party programs, like Imagemagick, Ghostscript etc. To assure that everything works smoothly, deinstall LyX first before you install a new LyX-version. I tried installing lyx on windows xp yesterday. The

Lyx 1.4.0pre3 + SVG + pdflatex

2006-01-31 Thread Alfonso Gazo
Hi, My question is related to using SVG graphics inside LyX. I'm trying to use a SVG graphic inside a LyX document. This document is going to be exported to PDF with pdflatex. The default installation of LyX doesn't seem to handle SVG file format, so I created a "SVG" entry in the "File Formats"

Re: Lyx 1.4.0pre3 + SVG + pdflatex

2006-01-31 Thread Georg Baum
Alfonso Gazo wrote: > After, when generating the PDF file, it produces a messy graphic just in > the place the SVG graphic should be. I've found that LyX is somewhat > converting from SVG to EPS and then to PNG. Finally, PNG image is > included in PDF file. Correct. This is unfortunately

Re: Lyx 1.4.0pre3 + SVG + pdflatex

2006-01-31 Thread Martin A. Hansen
SVG->EPS rendering by inkscape, which this script uses, is crappy. i strongly suggest that it is not used. http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/PrintingConsensusPoll scribus should be way better outputting EPS, however, scribus misinterprets SVG images drawn in inkscape (and in general

Re: Debian Packages for LyX 1.3.7

2006-01-31 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "christian" == christian ridderstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: christian> Well, maybe we should look for some alternative then? At christian> least something temporary for the release of 1.4. We still have a few days left, don't we? That adds excitement to the release process ;) JMarc

Re: Lyx 1.37 for WindowsXP

2006-01-31 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Helge Hafting wrote: I tried installing lyx on windows xp yesterday. The installer looked up the websites for imagemagick, ghostscript, python and so on, but didn't actually download anything. Could that have something to do with security settings in windows? You used Angus' installer. Use

translation templete for lyx - an idea?

2006-01-31 Thread Martin A. Hansen
hello would it be possible and worthwhile to make a lyx template for the translation of the lyx text strings? it would be nice to have the original english version shown, perhaps with further explanation of context and screenshots, and then have any code removed from sight so one can

list of abbreviations

2006-01-31 Thread Martin A. Hansen
hello i need to make an appendix with a list of abbreviations used in my thesis. ideas to layout is most welcome :o) - and can sorting be done automagically ? - and picking abbreviations (ala word index) ? martin

Re: list of abbreviations

2006-01-31 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Martin A. Hansen wrote: i need to make an appendix with a list of abbreviations used in my thesis. ideas to layout is most welcome :o) You can have a look at my diploma thesis: http://fkurth.de/uwest/usti/Diplom/ See the glossary. regards Uwe

Re: list of abbreviations

2006-01-31 Thread Martin A. Hansen
uwe, excellent - since i already have your stuff on my box :o) how do you the TOC displayed in the sidebar of the resulting pdf? martin On 31/01/06, Uwe Stöhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Martin A. Hansen wrote: > > > i need to make an appendix with a list of abbreviations used in my >

Re: translation templete for lyx - an idea?

2006-01-31 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Tue, 31 Jan 2006, Martin A. Hansen wrote: > hello Hi Martin I'm cross-posting this to the development list. > would it be possible and worthwhile to make a lyx template for the > translation of the lyx text strings? Hmm.. I'm not quite sure what you mean by this. Are you suggesting that

Reverse DVI on Macdvix problem with calleditor

2006-01-31 Thread jerome666
Hi mates, 1. Situation yesterday I had a question about macdvix and finally andre and bennett managed to help me. In conclusion, macdvix is now running on my machine. Now : the reason why I installed macdvix is linked to the fact that I want to use the reverse dvi function. I have include the

Re: translation templete for lyx - an idea?

2006-01-31 Thread Martin A. Hansen
yes - i am wondering if it could be done in a .lyx file. elaboration - > hiding code ala (from the uwe-installer - or is that uwe's win-installer? :o) : LangString MissProgHeader "${LYX_LANG}" "Tjek for nødvendige programmer" LangString MissProgCap "${LYX_LANG}" "Følgende nødvendige program(mer)

fileformat keyword in bugzilla

2006-01-31 Thread Georg Baum
It would be nice to have a fileformat keyword in bugzilla. There are some bugs that require a file format change, and if we could flag them it would be easier to serach for them when file format changes are allowed again. Could somebody with the required permissions add it, please? Georg

lyx and pstricks

2006-01-31 Thread Eric Germaneau
Hello, I'm a Phd student and I wish to right my thesis with lyx. I've already download examples explaining how to make a thesis with lyx. I'm wondering how to use pstricks with lyx. Also when I try to include a bibtex file (generaye by jbibtexmanager) nothing happend. I use pdflatex and the

Re: translation templete for lyx - an idea?

2006-01-31 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Martin A. Hansen wrote: yes - i am wondering if it could be done in a .lyx file. elaboration - > hiding code ala (from the uwe-installer - or is that uwe's win-installer? :o) : LangString MissProgHeader "${LYX_LANG}" "Tjek for nødvendige programmer" Note that translating of the

Re: list of abbreviations

2006-01-31 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Martin A. Hansen wrote: how do you the TOC displayed in the sidebar of the resulting pdf? This is done by the LaTeX-package "hyperref", have a look in the preamble of my document. regards Uwe

Re: list of abbreviations

2006-01-31 Thread Martin A. Hansen
gotit. very neat! martin On 31/01/06, Uwe Stöhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Martin A. Hansen wrote: > > > how do you the TOC displayed in the sidebar of the resulting pdf? > > This is done by the LaTeX-package "hyperref", have a look in the > preamble of my document. > > regards Uwe >

Re: A Newbie's Experience with LyX (rambling)

2006-01-31 Thread Yaron Y. Goland
I don't think you were aware, when writing your review, that the strength of LyX is generating mathematical equations as LyX is a front-end to (La)TeX. Actually my example article did use a mathematical equation to illustrate the power of LyX, in fact, that was the very first example I gave

Re: lyx and pstricks

2006-01-31 Thread Nicolás
Regarding pstricks I cannot help you (although you may look at http://wiki.lyx.org/Examples/PSTricks ). Regarding references, they do not appear in the document until you insert citations in the text. Nicolás Eric Germaneau wrote: Hello, I'm a Phd student and I wish to right my thesis

Re: lyx and pstricks

2006-01-31 Thread Paul Smith
On 1/31/06, Nicolás <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Regarding pstricks I cannot help you (although you may look at > http://wiki.lyx.org/Examples/PSTricks ). > > Regarding references, they do not appear in the document until you > insert citations in the text. The discussion at:

Re: lyx and pstricks

2006-01-31 Thread Herbert Voss
Eric Germaneau wrote: I'm a Phd student and I wish to right my thesis with lyx. I've already download examples explaining how to make a thesis with lyx. I'm wondering how to use pstricks with lyx. http://tug.org/PSTricks/main.cgi?file=LyX/lyx

Re: A Newbie's Experience with LyX (rambling)

2006-01-31 Thread Stephen Harris
- Original Message - From: "Yaron Y. Goland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Stephen Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2006 8:28 AM Subject: Re: A Newbie's Experience with LyX (rambling) I don't think you were aware, when writing your