Re: single spacing does not work

2006-09-13 Thread Urijah Kaplan
Thank you for the reply; alas I am still not fully operational. I didn't have setspace.sty on my system (I did a full system search) so I went to the MikTeX package manager to download it. I downloaded it (after a few of the listed repositories bounced me for some reason) but when I went to the La

Fwd: Re: Historical question

2006-09-13 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Subject: Fwd: Re: Historical question Date: Donnerstag, 14. September 2006 08:27 From: Wolfgang Engelmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org sorry for a miss-directed letter Wolfgang

Re: Historical question

2006-09-13 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
> Oh, no, I don't still use that version. But I got more involved after I > found the program (who here remembers when Matthias called it "LyriX"?) I think he called it first Lynx - which was already used... Wolfgang > The name was changed because someone contacted Matthias threatening to sue,

Fwd: Re: Historical question

2006-09-13 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Dear Anders, this might interest you (history of Lyx) Wolfgang -- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -- Subject: Re: Historical question Date: Mittwoch, 13. September 2006 22:50 From: Alex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Dear Wolfgang, Thanks. I

Re: single spacing does not work

2006-09-13 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Urijah Kaplan wrote: Hello, I just installed LyX for the first time yesterday. Whenever I select a paragraph to be single-spaced (I highlighted the paragraph, pressed the "paragraph settings" button, and changed spacing from default to single) it gives an error message and does not work. The fir

Re: External Xfig inset conversion fails

2006-09-13 Thread Paul Smith
On 9/13/06, Jean-Pierre Chretien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: External insets conversions works well for me and not for colleagues (LyX complained about the pstex_t file not found in the document dir). It seems that this comes from the fact that I launch LyX from a command shell while others launc

Re: Historical question

2006-09-13 Thread David L. Johnson
On Wed, 13 Sep 2006 21:05:43 +0100 José Matos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 13 September 2006 20:37, Alex wrote: > > Hi! > > > > I would like to know when was the development of LyX started? > > This is what I have been able to dig. If you have details to add I am all > hears. :-)

Re: Historical question

2006-09-13 Thread Alex
Dear Wolfgang, Thanks. I can understand most of the text. I started to study german ;) I will contact him. It is very strange for me, that I could not find info how old is this wonderful tool! I prefer to put it onto the website, when it is known. Alex Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > Am Mittwoch

Re: Historical question

2006-09-13 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Am Mittwoch, 13. September 2006 21:37 schrieb Alex: > Hi! > > I would like to know when was the development of LyX started? > > I could find 0.8.0 dated to 21st of dec, 1995. > > But when was it first announced or released to the public? > > Alex you might like to contact Matthias Ettrich who is c

Re: Historical question

2006-09-13 Thread José Matos
On Wednesday 13 September 2006 20:37, Alex wrote: > Hi! > > I would like to know when was the development of LyX started? This is what I have been able to dig. If you have details to add I am all hears. :-) > I could find 0.8.0 dated to 21st of dec, 1995. > > But when was it first announced or

Historical question

2006-09-13 Thread Alex
Hi! I would like to know when was the development of LyX started? I could find 0.8.0 dated to 21st of dec, 1995. But when was it first announced or released to the public? Alex

single spacing does not work

2006-09-13 Thread Urijah Kaplan
Hello, I just installed LyX for the first time yesterday. Whenever I select a paragraph to be single-spaced (I highlighted the paragraph, pressed the "paragraph settings" button, and changed spacing from default to single) it gives an error message and does not work. The first time I did this and

External Xfig inset conversion fails

2006-09-13 Thread Jean-Pierre Chretien
Hello, External insets conversions works well for me and not for colleagues (LyX complained about the pstex_t file not found in the document dir). It seems that this comes from the fact that I launch LyX from a command shell while others launch from the file manager (I created an association bet

Re: What lyx commands are available?

2006-09-13 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Wed, 13 Sep 2006, Guy Hindell wrote: > Hi there - it's been a long time since I last posted anything here. > > How can I get a list of lyx commands which can be called from macros or passed > via the -x flag? I'm using LyX1.4.2 on windows and linux. The commands are most likely the so called

What lyx commands are available?

2006-09-13 Thread Guy Hindell
Hi there - it's been a long time since I last posted anything here. How can I get a list of lyx commands which can be called from macros or passed via the -x flag? I'm using LyX1.4.2 on windows and linux. thanks guy

Re: table-editing a mess

2006-09-13 Thread Helge Hafting
Sven Schreiber wrote: (oops, Helge and I forgot to cc the list..., but here's the fix:) Helge Hafting schrieb: Please file this at bugzilla.lyx.org. Tables are not supposed to be slow, and with a bug report you show that people really care about tables wider than the screen.

Re: LyX and aspell

2006-09-13 Thread Bennett Helm
On Sep 13, 2006, at 1:12 AM, Tristan Krautz wrote: Hey All, I have recently installed LyX for Mac OS X and cocoAspell. I am not able to get aspell to work correctly. At first I got an error message saying the specified dictionary could not be found. I addressed this by pasting the path to

Re: Word counting

2006-09-13 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Önder" == Önder Gürcan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Önder> Hi, Could anyone tell me how words are counted in LyX? The menu entry is Tools>count Words, which counts either the current selection or the whole document. Currently, all the words are taken in account, even in ERT or notes. Did I

Word counting

2006-09-13 Thread Önder Gürcan
Hi, Could anyone tell me how words are counted in LyX? Thanks a lot. Onder Gurcan

Re: table-editing a mess

2006-09-13 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Sven" == Sven Schreiber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Sven> About the slowness (only part of the problems, of course...): Sven> When the table float inset is open, even typing in a paragraph Sven> next to, but *outside* the table float is difficult, lyx not Sven> keeping up with my speed. CPU