Re: Installing new doc types?

2006-10-09 Thread José Matos
On Monday 09 October 2006 02:05, Timothy Reaves wrote: I'd like to use the DocBook Book document class, but it is listed as unavailable. I have all the DocBook tools installed (as that's what I've used the last several years). What do I need to do to make the classes available to LyX?

Options for external templates

2006-10-09 Thread Gunnar
I'm looking for documentation for how to give options to external templates. I wish to give two values ( and of course the filename), and produce a LaTeX code like this {\hangindent=8cm\hangafter=-6\relax \noindent \raisebox{-\height}[0pt][0pt]{

Re: Multiple Choice Tests

2006-10-09 Thread Helge Hafting
Christian von Lani-Fischer wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi everybody, i was just wondering if there is some document class that provides support to create multiple choice tests or if there is a trick to create some

Re: pdf metadata

2006-10-09 Thread Pavel Sanda
Some classes (I know this from the Springer LNCS article class) don't like the hyperref redefinitions for implicit hyperlinks. However, in such cases hyperref can still be used to tag the PDF metadata, just pass it an implicit = false as option. The following is an example snipped from my

config and comments

2006-10-09 Thread Guy Hindell
Hi there - a couple of questions. First, I have lyx integrated into our build environment so that it exports to latex (lyx -export pdflatex) and runs pdflatex as part of a software build. This means I have users (developers) who run lyx without being aware of it as part of their build in

LyX slow in Windows XP

2006-10-09 Thread kmailuk
Hi. This is my first message to a mailing list (I hope I am doing this right and emailing a friendly audience). I recently started using LyX and am finding that LyX can be very slow when I have a moderate sized document (eight pages or so) with lots and lots of mathematics equations. I am

Re: LyX slow in Windows XP

2006-10-09 Thread Paul A. Rubin
kmailuk wrote: Hi. This is my first message to a mailing list (I hope I am doing this right and emailing a friendly audience). I recently started using LyX and am finding that LyX can be very slow when I have a moderate sized document (eight pages or so) with lots and lots of mathematics

Re: Multi-paragraph description

2006-10-09 Thread Daniel Lohmann
As we are already on the topic... I have always been wondering how to end a nested environment *without* starting a new item in the previous level: 1) This is item 1. It contains a list of sub-items, which are in fact a) one sub-item b) and another one However, there are definitely

Re: LyX slow in Windows XP

2006-10-09 Thread kmailuk
Paul, Thanks for your reply. I already had instant preview turned off. I tried turning off virus scan but I still had the same problem with LyX displaying what I type very slowly. When I looked at the Task Manager after typing a sentence (which would take several seconds to finally appear) it

Re: LyX slow in Windows XP

2006-10-09 Thread Sven Schreiber
kmailuk schrieb: Paul, Thanks for your reply. I already had instant preview turned off. I tried turning off virus scan but I still had the same problem with LyX displaying what I type very slowly. When I looked at the Task Manager after typing a sentence (which would take several seconds to

Re: Multi-paragraph description

2006-10-09 Thread Bennett Helm
On Oct 9, 2006, at 2:47 PM, Daniel Lohmann wrote: As we are already on the topic... I have always been wondering how to end a nested environment *without* starting a new item in the previous level: 1) This is item 1. It contains a list of sub-items, which are in fact a) one sub-item b)

Re: Multi-paragraph description

2006-10-09 Thread Daniel Lohmann
As Paul described below, you need to indent the sub-items *and* the standard paragraph in between. (See the attached.) Bennett Cool - exactly what I was looking for :-) I never tried to achieve it by intending a standard paragraph - an approach that seems a bit counter-intuitive at first

Re: LyX slow in Windows XP

2006-10-09 Thread Paul A. Rubin
kmailuk wrote: Paul, Thanks for your reply. I already had instant preview turned off. I tried turning off virus scan but I still had the same problem with LyX displaying what I type very slowly. When I looked at the Task Manager after typing a sentence (which would take several seconds to

Re: config and comments

2006-10-09 Thread José Matos
On Monday 09 October 2006 14:32, Guy Hindell wrote: Hi there - a couple of questions. First, I have lyx integrated into our build environment so that it exports to latex (lyx -export pdflatex) and runs pdflatex as part of a software build. This means I have users (developers) who run lyx

Re: LyX slow in Windows XP

2006-10-09 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Paul A. Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: kmailuk wrote: Hi. This is my first message to a mailing list (I hope I am doing this right and emailing a friendly audience). I recently started using LyX and am finding that LyX can be very slow when I have a moderate sized document

Re: Installing new doc types?

2006-10-09 Thread Timothy Reaves
José Matos wrote: On Monday 09 October 2006 02:05, Timothy Reaves wrote: I'd like to use the DocBook Book document class, but it is listed as unavailable. I have all the DocBook tools installed (as that's what I've used the last several years). What do I need to do to make the classes

Page Breaks in Lyx

2006-10-09 Thread antonio . bsousa
can anyone tell me a very basic thing, i suppose. How can i do in order to display that blue line with the words Page Break in my document. Thanks for your help Antonio Botelho de Sousa Portugal

Re: LyX slow in Windows XP

2006-10-09 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Enrico == Enrico Forestieri [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Enrico This is funny... actually it is faster for me when I turn on Enrico instant preview. See Enrico http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2452 Enrico I find that when there are *lots* of equations and/or macros Enrico LyX becomes

Re: Installing new doc types?

2006-10-09 Thread José Matos
On Monday 09 October 2006 02:05, Timothy Reaves wrote: I'd like to use the DocBook Book document class, but it is listed as unavailable. I have all the DocBook tools installed (as that's what I've used the last several years). What do I need to do to make the classes available to LyX?

Options for external templates

2006-10-09 Thread Gunnar
I'm looking for documentation for how to give options to external templates. I wish to give two values ( and of course the filename), and produce a LaTeX code like this {\hangindent=8cm\hangafter=-6\relax \noindent \raisebox{-\height}[0pt][0pt]{

Re: Multiple Choice Tests

2006-10-09 Thread Helge Hafting
Christian von Lani-Fischer wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi everybody, i was just wondering if there is some document class that provides support to create multiple choice tests or if there is a trick to create some

Re: pdf metadata

2006-10-09 Thread Pavel Sanda
Some classes (I know this from the Springer LNCS article class) don't like the hyperref redefinitions for implicit hyperlinks. However, in such cases hyperref can still be used to tag the PDF metadata, just pass it an implicit = false as option. The following is an example snipped from my

config and comments

2006-10-09 Thread Guy Hindell
Hi there - a couple of questions. First, I have lyx integrated into our build environment so that it exports to latex (lyx -export pdflatex) and runs pdflatex as part of a software build. This means I have users (developers) who run lyx without being aware of it as part of their build in

LyX slow in Windows XP

2006-10-09 Thread kmailuk
Hi. This is my first message to a mailing list (I hope I am doing this right and emailing a friendly audience). I recently started using LyX and am finding that LyX can be very slow when I have a moderate sized document (eight pages or so) with lots and lots of mathematics equations. I am

Re: LyX slow in Windows XP

2006-10-09 Thread Paul A. Rubin
kmailuk wrote: Hi. This is my first message to a mailing list (I hope I am doing this right and emailing a friendly audience). I recently started using LyX and am finding that LyX can be very slow when I have a moderate sized document (eight pages or so) with lots and lots of mathematics

Re: Multi-paragraph description

2006-10-09 Thread Daniel Lohmann
As we are already on the topic... I have always been wondering how to end a nested environment *without* starting a new item in the previous level: 1) This is item 1. It contains a list of sub-items, which are in fact a) one sub-item b) and another one However, there are definitely

Re: LyX slow in Windows XP

2006-10-09 Thread kmailuk
Paul, Thanks for your reply. I already had instant preview turned off. I tried turning off virus scan but I still had the same problem with LyX displaying what I type very slowly. When I looked at the Task Manager after typing a sentence (which would take several seconds to finally appear) it

Re: LyX slow in Windows XP

2006-10-09 Thread Sven Schreiber
kmailuk schrieb: Paul, Thanks for your reply. I already had instant preview turned off. I tried turning off virus scan but I still had the same problem with LyX displaying what I type very slowly. When I looked at the Task Manager after typing a sentence (which would take several seconds to

Re: Multi-paragraph description

2006-10-09 Thread Bennett Helm
On Oct 9, 2006, at 2:47 PM, Daniel Lohmann wrote: As we are already on the topic... I have always been wondering how to end a nested environment *without* starting a new item in the previous level: 1) This is item 1. It contains a list of sub-items, which are in fact a) one sub-item b)

Re: Multi-paragraph description

2006-10-09 Thread Daniel Lohmann
As Paul described below, you need to indent the sub-items *and* the standard paragraph in between. (See the attached.) Bennett Cool - exactly what I was looking for :-) I never tried to achieve it by intending a standard paragraph - an approach that seems a bit counter-intuitive at first

Re: LyX slow in Windows XP

2006-10-09 Thread Paul A. Rubin
kmailuk wrote: Paul, Thanks for your reply. I already had instant preview turned off. I tried turning off virus scan but I still had the same problem with LyX displaying what I type very slowly. When I looked at the Task Manager after typing a sentence (which would take several seconds to

Re: config and comments

2006-10-09 Thread José Matos
On Monday 09 October 2006 14:32, Guy Hindell wrote: Hi there - a couple of questions. First, I have lyx integrated into our build environment so that it exports to latex (lyx -export pdflatex) and runs pdflatex as part of a software build. This means I have users (developers) who run lyx

Re: LyX slow in Windows XP

2006-10-09 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Paul A. Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: kmailuk wrote: Hi. This is my first message to a mailing list (I hope I am doing this right and emailing a friendly audience). I recently started using LyX and am finding that LyX can be very slow when I have a moderate sized document

Re: Installing new doc types?

2006-10-09 Thread Timothy Reaves
José Matos wrote: On Monday 09 October 2006 02:05, Timothy Reaves wrote: I'd like to use the DocBook Book document class, but it is listed as unavailable. I have all the DocBook tools installed (as that's what I've used the last several years). What do I need to do to make the classes

Page Breaks in Lyx

2006-10-09 Thread antonio . bsousa
can anyone tell me a very basic thing, i suppose. How can i do in order to display that blue line with the words Page Break in my document. Thanks for your help Antonio Botelho de Sousa Portugal

Re: LyX slow in Windows XP

2006-10-09 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Enrico == Enrico Forestieri [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Enrico This is funny... actually it is faster for me when I turn on Enrico instant preview. See Enrico http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2452 Enrico I find that when there are *lots* of equations and/or macros Enrico LyX becomes

Re: Installing new doc types?

2006-10-09 Thread José Matos
On Monday 09 October 2006 02:05, Timothy Reaves wrote: > I'd like to use the DocBook Book document class, but it is listed as > unavailable. I have all the DocBook tools installed (as that's what > I've used the last several years). What do I need to do to make the > classes available to

Options for external templates

2006-10-09 Thread Gunnar
I'm looking for documentation for how to give options to external templates. I wish to give two values ( and of course the filename), and produce a LaTeX code like this {\hangindent=8cm\hangafter=-6\relax \noindent \raisebox{-\height}[0pt][0pt]{

Re: Multiple Choice Tests

2006-10-09 Thread Helge Hafting
Christian von Lani-Fischer wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi everybody, i was just wondering if there is some document class that provides support to create multiple choice tests or if there is a trick to create some

Re: pdf metadata

2006-10-09 Thread Pavel Sanda
> Some classes (I know this from the Springer LNCS article class) don't > like the hyperref redefinitions for implicit hyperlinks. However, in > such cases hyperref can still be used to tag the PDF metadata, just > pass it an implicit = false as option. > > The following is an example snipped

config and comments

2006-10-09 Thread Guy Hindell
Hi there - a couple of questions. First, I have lyx integrated into our build environment so that it exports to latex (lyx -export pdflatex) and runs pdflatex as part of a software build. This means I have users (developers) who run lyx without being aware of it as part of their build in

LyX slow in Windows XP

2006-10-09 Thread kmailuk
Hi. This is my first message to a mailing list (I hope I am doing this right and emailing a friendly audience). I recently started using LyX and am finding that LyX can be very slow when I have a moderate sized document (eight pages or so) with lots and lots of mathematics equations. I am

Re: LyX slow in Windows XP

2006-10-09 Thread Paul A. Rubin
kmailuk wrote: Hi. This is my first message to a mailing list (I hope I am doing this right and emailing a friendly audience). I recently started using LyX and am finding that LyX can be very slow when I have a moderate sized document (eight pages or so) with lots and lots of mathematics

Re: Multi-paragraph description

2006-10-09 Thread Daniel Lohmann
As we are already on the topic... I have always been wondering how to end a nested environment *without* starting a new item in the previous level: 1) This is item 1. It contains a list of sub-items, which are in fact a) one sub-item b) and another one However, there are definitely

Re: LyX slow in Windows XP

2006-10-09 Thread kmailuk
Paul, Thanks for your reply. I already had instant preview turned off. I tried turning off virus scan but I still had the same problem with LyX displaying what I type very slowly. When I looked at the Task Manager after typing a sentence (which would take several seconds to finally appear) it

Re: LyX slow in Windows XP

2006-10-09 Thread Sven Schreiber
kmailuk schrieb: > Paul, > Thanks for your reply. I already had instant preview turned off. I tried > turning off virus scan but I still had the same problem with LyX displaying > what I type very slowly. When I looked at the Task Manager after typing a > sentence (which would take several

Re: Multi-paragraph description

2006-10-09 Thread Bennett Helm
On Oct 9, 2006, at 2:47 PM, Daniel Lohmann wrote: As we are already on the topic... I have always been wondering how to end a nested environment *without* starting a new item in the previous level: 1) This is item 1. It contains a list of sub-items, which are in fact a) one sub-item b)

Re: Multi-paragraph description

2006-10-09 Thread Daniel Lohmann
As Paul described below, you need to indent the sub-items *and* the standard paragraph in between. (See the attached.) Bennett Cool - exactly what I was looking for :-) I never tried to achieve it by intending a standard paragraph - an approach that seems a bit counter-intuitive at first

Re: LyX slow in Windows XP

2006-10-09 Thread Paul A. Rubin
kmailuk wrote: Paul, Thanks for your reply. I already had instant preview turned off. I tried turning off virus scan but I still had the same problem with LyX displaying what I type very slowly. When I looked at the Task Manager after typing a sentence (which would take several seconds to

Re: config and comments

2006-10-09 Thread José Matos
On Monday 09 October 2006 14:32, Guy Hindell wrote: > Hi there - a couple of questions. > > First, I have lyx integrated into our build environment so that it > exports to latex (lyx -export pdflatex) and runs pdflatex as part of a > software build. This means I have users (developers) who run

Re: LyX slow in Windows XP

2006-10-09 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Paul A. Rubin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > kmailuk wrote: > > Hi. This is my first message to a mailing list (I hope I am doing this > > right and emailing a friendly audience). > > > > I recently started using LyX and am finding that LyX can be very slow > > when I > > have a moderate

Re: Installing new doc types?

2006-10-09 Thread Timothy Reaves
José Matos wrote: On Monday 09 October 2006 02:05, Timothy Reaves wrote: I'd like to use the DocBook Book document class, but it is listed as unavailable. I have all the DocBook tools installed (as that's what I've used the last several years). What do I need to do to make the classes

Page Breaks in Lyx

2006-10-09 Thread antonio . bsousa
can anyone tell me a very basic thing, i suppose. How can i do in order to display that blue line with the words Page Break in my document. Thanks for your help Antonio Botelho de Sousa Portugal

Re: LyX slow in Windows XP

2006-10-09 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Enrico" == Enrico Forestieri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Enrico> This is funny... actually it is faster for me when I turn on Enrico> instant preview. See Enrico> http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2452 Enrico> I find that when there are *lots* of equations and/or macros Enrico> LyX