Re: Font size

2006-06-13 Thread Paul Smith
On 6/13/06, Larry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I increase print font size in lyx? Everything I print is really small, although in LyX gui they are quite large? Change the size of the font of your document; in LyX 1.4.1: Document - Settings - Text layout - Document font. Paul

Re: Font size

2006-06-13 Thread Ingo Klöcker
Am Dienstag, 13. Juni 2006 10:47 schrieb Paul Smith: On 6/13/06, Larry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I increase print font size in lyx? Everything I print is really small, although in LyX gui they are quite large? Change the size of the font of your document; in LyX 1.4.1: Document -

lost border with v-space insite table

2006-06-13 Thread christiaan pauw
Hi all In lyx 1.4.1. (win) the side border gets lost if one inserts vspace in a table. I attach an example. Regards Christiaan vspaceexample.pdf Description: Adobe PDF document vspaceexample.lyx Description: application/lyx

OT: Eliminating all pixels around a figure

2006-06-13 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All I have taken a screen-shot of a certain window containing an intricate figure. Around the figure everything is white. Then I thought that changing the white to transparent, I would get a picture with a smaller size, which would lead to a pdf document with a smaller size too. Can this be

Re: OT: Eliminating all pixels around a figure

2006-06-13 Thread Georg Baum
Paul Smith wrote: Dear All I have taken a screen-shot of a certain window containing an intricate figure. Around the figure everything is white. Then I thought that changing the white to transparent, I would get a picture with a smaller size, which would lead to a pdf document with a

Re: lost border with v-space insite table

2006-06-13 Thread Sara Stymne
christiaan pauw wrote: Hi all In lyx 1.4.1. (win) the side border gets lost if one inserts vspace in a table. I attach an example. Regards Christiaan One way to solve this would be to use a strut instead of vspace. A strut is a rectangular box of zero width, and thus invisible, which can

Re: OT: Eliminating all pixels around a figure

2006-06-13 Thread David Neeley
Transparent layers are only supported on a few file formats, of course. That said, there are a number of programs available that allow you to optimize your images, often *greatly* reducing file size. For example, if you use Windows you might look at the freeware selections at

EPS and Lyx

2006-06-13 Thread Jordi Tritlla i Cambra
Dear LyXers, While working with the 1.4.0pre2 mac versions, I cold manage to introduce EPS figures into the text. It worked perfectly, and I was able to see the images in the screen without problems. Now, I changed to 1.4.1 and catch up the same document (a report) in order to continue

Re: Exporting to DVI in Windows

2006-06-13 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Adrian M. Peter wrote: I am trying to export my Lyx file to DVI on Windows. However, the figures are not appearing in the file. The YAP complains that the figure is supposed to located in some Lyx temp directory under my local settings folder. Is there a way to fix this? Why doesn't it just

1-minute wiki tag tutorial (Was: Layout copyright)

2006-06-13 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Mon, 12 Jun 2006, Steve Litt wrote: In my case it's 100% the former. I have no problem with revealing my mistakes worldwide, but don't have a lot of time to learn the ins and outs of Wikis. In that case, let me give you the 30-second tutorial... You'll find the result of the tutorial

Re: Exporting to DVI in Windows

2006-06-13 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Paul A. Rubin wrote: Adrian M. Peter wrote: I am trying to export my Lyx file to DVI on Windows. However, the figures are not appearing in the file. The YAP complains that the figure is supposed to located in some Lyx temp directory under my local settings folder. Is there a way to fix

Subtitles

2006-06-13 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, If you notice, most modern books have two lines to their title, as in: === Guide to LaTeX Tools and Techniques for Computer Typesetting === or === The Cathedral the Bazaar Musings on Linux and Open

Re: Subtitles

2006-06-13 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 13 Jun 2006, Steve Litt wrote: Typically, the subtitle is longer than the title and therefore is printed in a smaller font. What I'd like to do is have them both on the title page. I'm using my own derivative of the Book environment for this project. SteveT, Consider deriving

Box environment with variable label

2006-06-13 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, I've created a breakout box environment so that the box title is passed to the LaTeX environment. However, I don't know how to make it so that I can specify the box title to the LyX environment. As a temporary (or maybe not so temporary) kludge, I have the LyX environment call the

Re: OT: Eliminating all pixels around a figure

2006-06-13 Thread Paul Smith
On 6/13/06, David Neeley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Transparent layers are only supported on a few file formats, of course. That said, there are a number of programs available that allow you to optimize your images, often *greatly* reducing file size. For example, if you use Windows you might

Re: Subtitles

2006-06-13 Thread Steve Litt
On Tuesday 13 June 2006 05:40 pm, Rich Shepard wrote: On Tue, 13 Jun 2006, Steve Litt wrote: Typically, the subtitle is longer than the title and therefore is printed in a smaller font. What I'd like to do is have them both on the title page. I'm using my own derivative of the Book

Re: Subtitles

2006-06-13 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 13 Jun 2006, Steve Litt wrote: I could revisit that decision, but I've already got a layout that's a derivative of Book, so I'd like to have a lot more reasons to go Koma than just the title page. If the only benefit is just the title page, I'd rather fine tune the title page with

Re: OT: Eliminating all pixels around a figure

2006-06-13 Thread David Neeley
Ah, Linux is another relatively simple problem. Here are some options: 1. Perhaps the best method for image compression today comes from a technique and package known as SPIHT, which uses wavelet compression. Packages are available for various operating systems, including Linux. See

create man/info pages using lyx?

2006-06-13 Thread Paul Elliott
Does anyone have any examples of using lyx with sgmltools to create man pages and/or info pages? Are there any examples out there? thank You. -- Paul Elliott 1(512)837-1096 [EMAIL PROTECTED]PMB 181, 11900 Metric Blvd Suite J

Re: OT: Eliminating all pixels around a figure

2006-06-13 Thread Stephen Harris
Paul Smith wrote: Thanks, David and Georg. In particular, I am trying to find a tool to work on Linux. Gimp is a Linux application, but maybe there is already a Linux equivalent of StripFile: http://www.nuetools.co.uk/stripfile.html I will ask for it on the Fedora mailing list. Paul

embedding bitmaps/png and generating pdf

2006-06-13 Thread Andrew Harrington
The users guide talks about xfig at length for figures. What if you have a bitmap of a computer screen for instance. I can embed it as a png file and display it in html via htlatex, but what if I want to be able to generate a pdf file version, too? I am running 1.3.7 on Windows XP. Thanks

Re: Font size

2006-06-13 Thread Paul Smith
On 6/13/06, Larry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I increase print font size in lyx? Everything I print is really small, although in LyX gui they are quite large? Change the size of the font of your document; in LyX 1.4.1: Document - Settings - Text layout - Document font. Paul

Re: Font size

2006-06-13 Thread Ingo Klöcker
Am Dienstag, 13. Juni 2006 10:47 schrieb Paul Smith: On 6/13/06, Larry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I increase print font size in lyx? Everything I print is really small, although in LyX gui they are quite large? Change the size of the font of your document; in LyX 1.4.1: Document -

lost border with v-space insite table

2006-06-13 Thread christiaan pauw
Hi all In lyx 1.4.1. (win) the side border gets lost if one inserts vspace in a table. I attach an example. Regards Christiaan vspaceexample.pdf Description: Adobe PDF document vspaceexample.lyx Description: application/lyx

OT: Eliminating all pixels around a figure

2006-06-13 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All I have taken a screen-shot of a certain window containing an intricate figure. Around the figure everything is white. Then I thought that changing the white to transparent, I would get a picture with a smaller size, which would lead to a pdf document with a smaller size too. Can this be

Re: OT: Eliminating all pixels around a figure

2006-06-13 Thread Georg Baum
Paul Smith wrote: Dear All I have taken a screen-shot of a certain window containing an intricate figure. Around the figure everything is white. Then I thought that changing the white to transparent, I would get a picture with a smaller size, which would lead to a pdf document with a

Re: lost border with v-space insite table

2006-06-13 Thread Sara Stymne
christiaan pauw wrote: Hi all In lyx 1.4.1. (win) the side border gets lost if one inserts vspace in a table. I attach an example. Regards Christiaan One way to solve this would be to use a strut instead of vspace. A strut is a rectangular box of zero width, and thus invisible, which can

Re: OT: Eliminating all pixels around a figure

2006-06-13 Thread David Neeley
Transparent layers are only supported on a few file formats, of course. That said, there are a number of programs available that allow you to optimize your images, often *greatly* reducing file size. For example, if you use Windows you might look at the freeware selections at

EPS and Lyx

2006-06-13 Thread Jordi Tritlla i Cambra
Dear LyXers, While working with the 1.4.0pre2 mac versions, I cold manage to introduce EPS figures into the text. It worked perfectly, and I was able to see the images in the screen without problems. Now, I changed to 1.4.1 and catch up the same document (a report) in order to continue

Re: Exporting to DVI in Windows

2006-06-13 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Adrian M. Peter wrote: I am trying to export my Lyx file to DVI on Windows. However, the figures are not appearing in the file. The YAP complains that the figure is supposed to located in some Lyx temp directory under my local settings folder. Is there a way to fix this? Why doesn't it just

1-minute wiki tag tutorial (Was: Layout copyright)

2006-06-13 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Mon, 12 Jun 2006, Steve Litt wrote: In my case it's 100% the former. I have no problem with revealing my mistakes worldwide, but don't have a lot of time to learn the ins and outs of Wikis. In that case, let me give you the 30-second tutorial... You'll find the result of the tutorial

Re: Exporting to DVI in Windows

2006-06-13 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Paul A. Rubin wrote: Adrian M. Peter wrote: I am trying to export my Lyx file to DVI on Windows. However, the figures are not appearing in the file. The YAP complains that the figure is supposed to located in some Lyx temp directory under my local settings folder. Is there a way to fix

Subtitles

2006-06-13 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, If you notice, most modern books have two lines to their title, as in: === Guide to LaTeX Tools and Techniques for Computer Typesetting === or === The Cathedral the Bazaar Musings on Linux and Open

Re: Subtitles

2006-06-13 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 13 Jun 2006, Steve Litt wrote: Typically, the subtitle is longer than the title and therefore is printed in a smaller font. What I'd like to do is have them both on the title page. I'm using my own derivative of the Book environment for this project. SteveT, Consider deriving

Box environment with variable label

2006-06-13 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, I've created a breakout box environment so that the box title is passed to the LaTeX environment. However, I don't know how to make it so that I can specify the box title to the LyX environment. As a temporary (or maybe not so temporary) kludge, I have the LyX environment call the

Re: OT: Eliminating all pixels around a figure

2006-06-13 Thread Paul Smith
On 6/13/06, David Neeley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Transparent layers are only supported on a few file formats, of course. That said, there are a number of programs available that allow you to optimize your images, often *greatly* reducing file size. For example, if you use Windows you might

Re: Subtitles

2006-06-13 Thread Steve Litt
On Tuesday 13 June 2006 05:40 pm, Rich Shepard wrote: On Tue, 13 Jun 2006, Steve Litt wrote: Typically, the subtitle is longer than the title and therefore is printed in a smaller font. What I'd like to do is have them both on the title page. I'm using my own derivative of the Book

Re: Subtitles

2006-06-13 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 13 Jun 2006, Steve Litt wrote: I could revisit that decision, but I've already got a layout that's a derivative of Book, so I'd like to have a lot more reasons to go Koma than just the title page. If the only benefit is just the title page, I'd rather fine tune the title page with

Re: OT: Eliminating all pixels around a figure

2006-06-13 Thread David Neeley
Ah, Linux is another relatively simple problem. Here are some options: 1. Perhaps the best method for image compression today comes from a technique and package known as SPIHT, which uses wavelet compression. Packages are available for various operating systems, including Linux. See

create man/info pages using lyx?

2006-06-13 Thread Paul Elliott
Does anyone have any examples of using lyx with sgmltools to create man pages and/or info pages? Are there any examples out there? thank You. -- Paul Elliott 1(512)837-1096 [EMAIL PROTECTED]PMB 181, 11900 Metric Blvd Suite J

Re: OT: Eliminating all pixels around a figure

2006-06-13 Thread Stephen Harris
Paul Smith wrote: Thanks, David and Georg. In particular, I am trying to find a tool to work on Linux. Gimp is a Linux application, but maybe there is already a Linux equivalent of StripFile: http://www.nuetools.co.uk/stripfile.html I will ask for it on the Fedora mailing list. Paul

embedding bitmaps/png and generating pdf

2006-06-13 Thread Andrew Harrington
The users guide talks about xfig at length for figures. What if you have a bitmap of a computer screen for instance. I can embed it as a png file and display it in html via htlatex, but what if I want to be able to generate a pdf file version, too? I am running 1.3.7 on Windows XP. Thanks

Re: Font size

2006-06-13 Thread Paul Smith
On 6/13/06, Larry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: How do I increase print font size in lyx? Everything I print is really small, although in LyX gui they are quite large? Change the size of the font of your document; in LyX 1.4.1: Document -> Settings -> Text layout -> Document font. Paul

Re: Font size

2006-06-13 Thread Ingo Klöcker
Am Dienstag, 13. Juni 2006 10:47 schrieb Paul Smith: > On 6/13/06, Larry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > How do I increase print font size in lyx? Everything I print is > > really small, although in LyX gui they are quite large? > > Change the size of the font of your document; in LyX 1.4.1: > >

lost border with v-space insite table

2006-06-13 Thread christiaan pauw
Hi all In lyx 1.4.1. (win) the side border gets lost if one inserts vspace in a table. I attach an example. Regards Christiaan vspaceexample.pdf Description: Adobe PDF document vspaceexample.lyx Description: application/lyx

OT: Eliminating all pixels around a figure

2006-06-13 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All I have taken a screen-shot of a certain window containing an intricate figure. Around the figure everything is white. Then I thought that changing the white to transparent, I would get a picture with a smaller size, which would lead to a pdf document with a smaller size too. Can this be

Re: OT: Eliminating all pixels around a figure

2006-06-13 Thread Georg Baum
Paul Smith wrote: > Dear All > > I have taken a screen-shot of a certain window containing an intricate > figure. Around the figure everything is white. Then I thought that > changing the white to transparent, I would get a picture with a > smaller size, which would lead to a pdf document with a

Re: lost border with v-space insite table

2006-06-13 Thread Sara Stymne
christiaan pauw wrote: > Hi all > > In lyx 1.4.1. (win) the side border gets lost if one inserts vspace in > a table. I attach an example. > > Regards > Christiaan > One way to solve this would be to use a "strut" instead of vspace. A strut is a rectangular box of zero width, and thus invisible,

Re: OT: Eliminating all pixels around a figure

2006-06-13 Thread David Neeley
Transparent layers are only supported on a few file formats, of course. That said, there are a number of programs available that allow you to optimize your images, often *greatly* reducing file size. For example, if you use Windows you might look at the freeware selections at

EPS and Lyx

2006-06-13 Thread Jordi Tritlla i Cambra
Dear LyXers, While working with the 1.4.0pre2 mac versions, I cold manage to introduce EPS figures into the text. It worked perfectly, and I was able to see the images in the screen without problems. Now, I changed to 1.4.1 and catch up the same document (a report) in order to continue

Re: Exporting to DVI in Windows

2006-06-13 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Adrian M. Peter wrote: I am trying to export my Lyx file to DVI on Windows. However, the figures are not appearing in the file. The YAP complains that the figure is supposed to located in some Lyx temp directory under my local settings folder. Is there a way to fix this? Why doesn't it just

1-minute wiki tag tutorial (Was: Layout copyright)

2006-06-13 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Mon, 12 Jun 2006, Steve Litt wrote: In my case it's 100% the former. I have no problem with revealing my mistakes worldwide, but don't have a lot of time to learn the ins and outs of Wikis. In that case, let me give you the 30-second tutorial... You'll find the result of the tutorial

Re: Exporting to DVI in Windows

2006-06-13 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Paul A. Rubin wrote: Adrian M. Peter wrote: I am trying to export my Lyx file to DVI on Windows. However, the figures are not appearing in the file. The YAP complains that the figure is supposed to located in some Lyx temp directory under my local settings folder. Is there a way to fix

Subtitles

2006-06-13 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, If you notice, most modern books have two lines to their title, as in: === Guide to LaTeX Tools and Techniques for Computer Typesetting === or === The Cathedral & the Bazaar Musings on Linux and Open

Re: Subtitles

2006-06-13 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 13 Jun 2006, Steve Litt wrote: Typically, the subtitle is longer than the title and therefore is printed in a smaller font. What I'd like to do is have them both on the title page. I'm using my own derivative of the Book environment for this project. SteveT, Consider deriving

Box environment with variable label

2006-06-13 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, I've created a breakout box environment so that the box title is passed to the LaTeX environment. However, I don't know how to make it so that I can specify the box title to the LyX environment. As a temporary (or maybe not so temporary) kludge, I have the LyX environment call the

Re: OT: Eliminating all pixels around a figure

2006-06-13 Thread Paul Smith
On 6/13/06, David Neeley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Transparent layers are only supported on a few file formats, of course. That said, there are a number of programs available that allow you to optimize your images, often *greatly* reducing file size. For example, if you use Windows you might

Re: Subtitles

2006-06-13 Thread Steve Litt
On Tuesday 13 June 2006 05:40 pm, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Tue, 13 Jun 2006, Steve Litt wrote: > > Typically, the subtitle is longer than the title and therefore is printed > > in a smaller font. What I'd like to do is have them both on the title > > page. > > > > I'm using my own derivative of

Re: Subtitles

2006-06-13 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 13 Jun 2006, Steve Litt wrote: I could revisit that decision, but I've already got a layout that's a derivative of Book, so I'd like to have a lot more reasons to go Koma than just the title page. If the only benefit is just the title page, I'd rather fine tune the title page with

Re: OT: Eliminating all pixels around a figure

2006-06-13 Thread David Neeley
Ah, Linux is another relatively simple problem. Here are some options: 1. Perhaps the best method for image compression today comes from a technique and package known as SPIHT, which uses wavelet compression. Packages are available for various operating systems, including Linux. See

create man/info pages using lyx?

2006-06-13 Thread Paul Elliott
Does anyone have any examples of using lyx with sgmltools to create man pages and/or info pages? Are there any examples out there? thank You. -- Paul Elliott 1(512)837-1096 [EMAIL PROTECTED]PMB 181, 11900 Metric Blvd Suite J

Re: OT: Eliminating all pixels around a figure

2006-06-13 Thread Stephen Harris
Paul Smith wrote: Thanks, David and Georg. In particular, I am trying to find a tool to work on Linux. Gimp is a Linux application, but maybe there is already a Linux equivalent of StripFile: http://www.nuetools.co.uk/stripfile.html I will ask for it on the Fedora mailing list. Paul

embedding bitmaps/png and generating pdf

2006-06-13 Thread Andrew Harrington
The users guide talks about xfig at length for figures. What if you have a bitmap of a computer screen for instance. I can embed it as a png file and display it in html via htlatex, but what if I want to be able to generate a pdf file version, too? I am running 1.3.7 on Windows XP. Thanks