LYX with pstex

2006-11-09 Thread Jens Nellesen
Hi, in order to test lyx I imported a tex-file including an input-statement for a pstex_t/pstex-file which I exported from xfig. If I try to generate a dvi-file the following error messages occur: a) Illegal parameter number in definition of \SetFigFont ... You meant to type ##

Re: LYX with pstex

2006-11-09 Thread Georg Baum
Jens Nellesen wrote: Hi, in order to test lyx I imported a tex-file including an input-statement for a pstex_t/pstex-file which I exported from xfig. If I try to generate a dvi-file the following error messages occur: a) Illegal parameter number in definition of \SetFigFont ... You

Document classes unavailable on new windows install

2006-11-09 Thread james . burton
I have just installed lyx 1.4.3-5 from the windows binary bundle and have a question re missing Document Classes - I need to use report (mwrep) - the layout file is there in Resources/layouts and I gather from this list that it also needs to be available to Latex, ie that a mwrep.cls file needs

Re: Document classes unavailable on new windows install

2006-11-09 Thread Pavel Iosad
Hello, seems to have placed it in C:\texmf as I have letter.cls etc in C:\texmf\tex\latex\base. Not really expecting it to work, I found mwrep.cls at http://paulbeard.org/share/texmf/tex/latex/mwcls/mwrep.cls and saved a copy in C:\texmf\tex\latex\base, ran reconfigure and restarted Lyx, but

Re: Document classes unavailable on new windows install

2006-11-09 Thread james . burton
Pavel Iosad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 09/11/2006 10:33:44: Hello, seems to have placed it in C:\texmf as I have letter.cls etc in C:\texmf\tex\latex\base. Not really expecting it to work, I found mwrep.cls at http://paulbeard.org/share/texmf/tex/latex/mwcls/mwrep.cls and saved a copy

Re: Boxes in LyX

2006-11-09 Thread Helge Hafting
Mohan V. Chunkath wrote: Dear Uwe, Thanks for the prompt guidance. Am still a bit confused. I am attempting to create a minipage with a centred graphic and below it a few paragraphs which are justified. When I attempt to do this I am unable to create new paragraphs within the minipage and my

LYX with pstex under linux

2006-11-09 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Am Donnerstag, 9. November 2006 11:03 schrieb Georg Baum: Jens Nellesen wrote: Hi, in order to test lyx I imported a tex-file including an input-statement for a pstex_t/pstex-file which I exported from xfig. Could somebody kindly point out how the steps are to export from fig to latex

Re: LYX with pstex under linux

2006-11-09 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Am Donnerstag, 9. November 2006 13:51 schrieb Wolfgang Engelmann: Could somebody kindly point out how the steps are to export from fig to latex UNDER LINUX? p.s. I get the same error if I include the complete path to the line in the pstex_t file: \begin{picture}(0,0)%

Re: LYX with pstex under linux

2006-11-09 Thread Jean-Pierre Chretien
From: Wolfgang Engelmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: LYX with pstex under linux Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2006 13:51:45 +0100 Am Donnerstag, 9. November 2006 11:03 schrieb Georg Baum: Jens Nellesen wrote: Hi, in order to test lyx I imported a tex-file including an

Re: LYX with pstex under linux

2006-11-09 Thread Georg Baum
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: Could somebody kindly point out how the steps are to export from fig to latex UNDER LINUX? Why do you want to do that? Why don't you let LyX export the file whenever it is needed? xfig export menu language combined PS/LaTeX (both parts)? That depends what you

Re: LYX with pstex under linux

2006-11-09 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Am Donnerstag, 9. November 2006 14:15 schrieb Georg Baum: Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: Could somebody kindly point out how the steps are to export from fig to latex UNDER LINUX? LyX automatically adjusts these paths for you if you use the external inset. Believe me, you don't want to know

Re: LYX with pstex under linux

2006-11-09 Thread Jean-Pierre Chretien
From: Wolfgang Engelmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: Re: LYX with pstex under linux Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2006 15:50:46 +0100 Am Donnerstag, 9. November 2006 14:15 schrieb Georg Baum: Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: Could somebody kindly point out how the steps are to export

Re: LYX with pstex under linux

2006-11-09 Thread Georg Baum
Am Donnerstag, 9. November 2006 15:50 schrieb Wolfgang Engelmann: Am Donnerstag, 9. November 2006 14:15 schrieb Georg Baum: Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: Could somebody kindly point out how the steps are to export from fig to latex UNDER LINUX? LyX automatically adjusts these paths for

Re: lyx to word conversion

2006-11-09 Thread Charles de Miramon
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The pretty-good solutions I think of require error-inviting fix-ups. The best I find is latex2rtf, and rtf import to openoffice, then cut and past the bibliography as text and hand fix. However, this leaves documentation as bibtex index terms. Is there a postscript to

Re: lyx to word conversion

2006-11-09 Thread hansel
Not so fast! IT does work. I tried latex2rtf with partial success before my original post. Jean-Pierre Chretien responded (apparently off list) that the latest version worked correctly. It does and I had used it improperly. One must run latex at least once, then bibtex and finally latex2rtf

Re: Document classes unavailable on new windows install

2006-11-09 Thread Paul A. Rubin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes and Yes! Thankyou. BTW, where is the right place/places for me to find the classes for which I have layouts but not the cls file? In LyX, if you look at sections 3 and 4 of Help-LaTeX Configuration, you will see a list of the classes that LyX checks for during

Re: lyx to word conversion

2006-11-09 Thread Richard Heck
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is still a PITA! Word is not a standard, but it is what most people in my field use. Now that I have a set of tools that work very well, and obviously, with the creative and bright people working on latex and lyx, I always will have. The documentation may be a bit

Windows install succeeds, but lyx unable to start

2006-11-09 Thread Matt Greenwood
LyX: reconfiguring user directory '\\fsgbl1\mig$\Application Data\lyx1.4.x' CMD.EXE was started with the above path as the current directory. UNC paths are not supported. Defaulting to Windows directory. checking for DVI to DTL converter... +checking for dv2dt... yes Snipped lots of

Re: Boxes in LyX

2006-11-09 Thread Mohan V. Chunkath
Dear Helge, Thanks for your kind input. What you suggested was indeed the problem. It seems to be working as it should now. Thanks once again. Mohan Chunkath On 11/9/06, Helge Hafting [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mohan V. Chunkath wrote: Dear Uwe, Thanks for the prompt guidance. Am still a bit

LYX with pstex

2006-11-09 Thread Jens Nellesen
Hi, in order to test lyx I imported a tex-file including an input-statement for a pstex_t/pstex-file which I exported from xfig. If I try to generate a dvi-file the following error messages occur: a) Illegal parameter number in definition of \SetFigFont ... You meant to type ##

Re: LYX with pstex

2006-11-09 Thread Georg Baum
Jens Nellesen wrote: Hi, in order to test lyx I imported a tex-file including an input-statement for a pstex_t/pstex-file which I exported from xfig. If I try to generate a dvi-file the following error messages occur: a) Illegal parameter number in definition of \SetFigFont ... You

Document classes unavailable on new windows install

2006-11-09 Thread james . burton
I have just installed lyx 1.4.3-5 from the windows binary bundle and have a question re missing Document Classes - I need to use report (mwrep) - the layout file is there in Resources/layouts and I gather from this list that it also needs to be available to Latex, ie that a mwrep.cls file needs

Re: Document classes unavailable on new windows install

2006-11-09 Thread Pavel Iosad
Hello, seems to have placed it in C:\texmf as I have letter.cls etc in C:\texmf\tex\latex\base. Not really expecting it to work, I found mwrep.cls at http://paulbeard.org/share/texmf/tex/latex/mwcls/mwrep.cls and saved a copy in C:\texmf\tex\latex\base, ran reconfigure and restarted Lyx, but

Re: Document classes unavailable on new windows install

2006-11-09 Thread james . burton
Pavel Iosad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 09/11/2006 10:33:44: Hello, seems to have placed it in C:\texmf as I have letter.cls etc in C:\texmf\tex\latex\base. Not really expecting it to work, I found mwrep.cls at http://paulbeard.org/share/texmf/tex/latex/mwcls/mwrep.cls and saved a copy

Re: Boxes in LyX

2006-11-09 Thread Helge Hafting
Mohan V. Chunkath wrote: Dear Uwe, Thanks for the prompt guidance. Am still a bit confused. I am attempting to create a minipage with a centred graphic and below it a few paragraphs which are justified. When I attempt to do this I am unable to create new paragraphs within the minipage and my

LYX with pstex under linux

2006-11-09 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Am Donnerstag, 9. November 2006 11:03 schrieb Georg Baum: Jens Nellesen wrote: Hi, in order to test lyx I imported a tex-file including an input-statement for a pstex_t/pstex-file which I exported from xfig. Could somebody kindly point out how the steps are to export from fig to latex

Re: LYX with pstex under linux

2006-11-09 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Am Donnerstag, 9. November 2006 13:51 schrieb Wolfgang Engelmann: Could somebody kindly point out how the steps are to export from fig to latex UNDER LINUX? p.s. I get the same error if I include the complete path to the line in the pstex_t file: \begin{picture}(0,0)%

Re: LYX with pstex under linux

2006-11-09 Thread Jean-Pierre Chretien
From: Wolfgang Engelmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: LYX with pstex under linux Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2006 13:51:45 +0100 Am Donnerstag, 9. November 2006 11:03 schrieb Georg Baum: Jens Nellesen wrote: Hi, in order to test lyx I imported a tex-file including an

Re: LYX with pstex under linux

2006-11-09 Thread Georg Baum
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: Could somebody kindly point out how the steps are to export from fig to latex UNDER LINUX? Why do you want to do that? Why don't you let LyX export the file whenever it is needed? xfig export menu language combined PS/LaTeX (both parts)? That depends what you

Re: LYX with pstex under linux

2006-11-09 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Am Donnerstag, 9. November 2006 14:15 schrieb Georg Baum: Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: Could somebody kindly point out how the steps are to export from fig to latex UNDER LINUX? LyX automatically adjusts these paths for you if you use the external inset. Believe me, you don't want to know

Re: LYX with pstex under linux

2006-11-09 Thread Jean-Pierre Chretien
From: Wolfgang Engelmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: Re: LYX with pstex under linux Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2006 15:50:46 +0100 Am Donnerstag, 9. November 2006 14:15 schrieb Georg Baum: Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: Could somebody kindly point out how the steps are to export

Re: LYX with pstex under linux

2006-11-09 Thread Georg Baum
Am Donnerstag, 9. November 2006 15:50 schrieb Wolfgang Engelmann: Am Donnerstag, 9. November 2006 14:15 schrieb Georg Baum: Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: Could somebody kindly point out how the steps are to export from fig to latex UNDER LINUX? LyX automatically adjusts these paths for

Re: lyx to word conversion

2006-11-09 Thread Charles de Miramon
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The pretty-good solutions I think of require error-inviting fix-ups. The best I find is latex2rtf, and rtf import to openoffice, then cut and past the bibliography as text and hand fix. However, this leaves documentation as bibtex index terms. Is there a postscript to

Re: lyx to word conversion

2006-11-09 Thread hansel
Not so fast! IT does work. I tried latex2rtf with partial success before my original post. Jean-Pierre Chretien responded (apparently off list) that the latest version worked correctly. It does and I had used it improperly. One must run latex at least once, then bibtex and finally latex2rtf

Re: Document classes unavailable on new windows install

2006-11-09 Thread Paul A. Rubin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes and Yes! Thankyou. BTW, where is the right place/places for me to find the classes for which I have layouts but not the cls file? In LyX, if you look at sections 3 and 4 of Help-LaTeX Configuration, you will see a list of the classes that LyX checks for during

Re: lyx to word conversion

2006-11-09 Thread Richard Heck
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is still a PITA! Word is not a standard, but it is what most people in my field use. Now that I have a set of tools that work very well, and obviously, with the creative and bright people working on latex and lyx, I always will have. The documentation may be a bit

Windows install succeeds, but lyx unable to start

2006-11-09 Thread Matt Greenwood
LyX: reconfiguring user directory '\\fsgbl1\mig$\Application Data\lyx1.4.x' CMD.EXE was started with the above path as the current directory. UNC paths are not supported. Defaulting to Windows directory. checking for DVI to DTL converter... +checking for dv2dt... yes Snipped lots of

Re: Boxes in LyX

2006-11-09 Thread Mohan V. Chunkath
Dear Helge, Thanks for your kind input. What you suggested was indeed the problem. It seems to be working as it should now. Thanks once again. Mohan Chunkath On 11/9/06, Helge Hafting [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mohan V. Chunkath wrote: Dear Uwe, Thanks for the prompt guidance. Am still a bit

LYX with pstex

2006-11-09 Thread Jens Nellesen
Hi, in order to test lyx I imported a tex-file including an input-statement for a pstex_t/pstex-file which I exported from xfig. If I try to generate a dvi-file the following error messages occur: a) Illegal parameter number in definition of \SetFigFont ... You meant to type ##

Re: LYX with pstex

2006-11-09 Thread Georg Baum
Jens Nellesen wrote: > Hi, > > in order to test lyx I imported a tex-file including an input-statement > for a pstex_t/pstex-file which I exported from xfig. > > If I try to generate a dvi-file the following error messages occur: > > a) > Illegal parameter number in definition of \SetFigFont >

Document classes unavailable on new windows install

2006-11-09 Thread james . burton
I have just installed lyx 1.4.3-5 from the windows binary bundle and have a question re missing Document Classes - I need to use report (mwrep) - the layout file is there in Resources/layouts and I gather from this list that it also needs to be available to Latex, ie that a mwrep.cls file needs

Re: Document classes unavailable on new windows install

2006-11-09 Thread Pavel Iosad
Hello, seems to have placed it in C:\texmf as I have letter.cls etc in C:\texmf\tex\latex\base. Not really expecting it to work, I found mwrep.cls at http://paulbeard.org/share/texmf/tex/latex/mwcls/mwrep.cls and saved a copy in C:\texmf\tex\latex\base, ran reconfigure and restarted Lyx, but

Re: Document classes unavailable on new windows install

2006-11-09 Thread james . burton
"Pavel Iosad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 09/11/2006 10:33:44: > Hello, > > > seems to have placed it in C:\texmf as I have letter.cls etc in > > C:\texmf\tex\latex\base. Not really expecting it to work, I found mwrep.cls > > at http://paulbeard.org/share/texmf/tex/latex/mwcls/mwrep.cls and

Re: Boxes in LyX

2006-11-09 Thread Helge Hafting
Mohan V. Chunkath wrote: Dear Uwe, Thanks for the prompt guidance. Am still a bit confused. I am attempting to create a minipage with a centred graphic and below it a few paragraphs which are justified. When I attempt to do this I am unable to create new paragraphs within the minipage and my

LYX with pstex under linux

2006-11-09 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Am Donnerstag, 9. November 2006 11:03 schrieb Georg Baum: > Jens Nellesen wrote: > > Hi, > > > > in order to test lyx I imported a tex-file including an input-statement > > for a pstex_t/pstex-file which I exported from xfig. > > Could somebody kindly point out how the steps are to export from

Re: LYX with pstex under linux

2006-11-09 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Am Donnerstag, 9. November 2006 13:51 schrieb Wolfgang Engelmann: > Could somebody kindly point out how the steps are to export from fig to > latex UNDER LINUX? p.s. I get the same error if I include the complete path to the line in the pstex_t file: \begin{picture}(0,0)%

Re: LYX with pstex under linux

2006-11-09 Thread Jean-Pierre Chretien
>>From: Wolfgang Engelmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org >>Subject: LYX with pstex under linux >>Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2006 13:51:45 +0100 >> >>Am Donnerstag, 9. November 2006 11:03 schrieb Georg Baum: >>> Jens Nellesen wrote: >>> > Hi, >>> > >>> > in order to test lyx I imported a

Re: LYX with pstex under linux

2006-11-09 Thread Georg Baum
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > Could somebody kindly point out how the steps are to export from fig to > latex UNDER LINUX? Why do you want to do that? Why don't you let LyX export the file whenever it is needed? > xfig export menu > language > combined PS/LaTeX (both parts)? That depends what

Re: LYX with pstex under linux

2006-11-09 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Am Donnerstag, 9. November 2006 14:15 schrieb Georg Baum: > Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > > Could somebody kindly point out how the steps are to export from fig to > > latex UNDER LINUX? > > LyX automatically adjusts these paths for you if you use the external > inset. Believe me, you don't want to

Re: LYX with pstex under linux

2006-11-09 Thread Jean-Pierre Chretien
>>From: Wolfgang Engelmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org >>Subject: Re: LYX with pstex under linux >>Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2006 15:50:46 +0100 >> >>Am Donnerstag, 9. November 2006 14:15 schrieb Georg Baum: >>> Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: >>> > Could somebody kindly point out how the

Re: LYX with pstex under linux

2006-11-09 Thread Georg Baum
Am Donnerstag, 9. November 2006 15:50 schrieb Wolfgang Engelmann: > Am Donnerstag, 9. November 2006 14:15 schrieb Georg Baum: > > Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > > > Could somebody kindly point out how the steps are to export from fig to > > > latex UNDER LINUX? > > > > > LyX automatically adjusts

Re: lyx to word conversion

2006-11-09 Thread Charles de Miramon
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The pretty-good solutions I think of require error-inviting fix-ups. The > best I find is latex2rtf, and rtf import to openoffice, then cut and past > the bibliography as text and hand fix. However, this leaves documentation > as bibtex index terms. Is there a

Re: lyx to word conversion

2006-11-09 Thread hansel
Not so fast! IT does work. I tried latex2rtf with partial success before my original post. Jean-Pierre Chretien responded (apparently off list) that the latest version worked correctly. It does and I had used it improperly. One must run latex at least once, then bibtex and finally latex2rtf

Re: Document classes unavailable on new windows install

2006-11-09 Thread Paul A. Rubin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes and Yes! Thankyou. BTW, where is the right place/places for me to find the classes for which I have layouts but not the cls file? In LyX, if you look at sections 3 and 4 of Help->LaTeX Configuration, you will see a list of the classes that LyX checks for during

Re: lyx to word conversion

2006-11-09 Thread Richard Heck
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is still a PITA! Word is not a standard, but it is what most people in my field use. Now that I have a set of tools that work very well, and obviously, with the creative and bright people working on latex and lyx, I always will have. The documentation may be a bit

Windows install succeeds, but lyx unable to start

2006-11-09 Thread Matt Greenwood
LyX: reconfiguring user directory '\\fsgbl1\mig$\Application Data\lyx1.4.x' CMD.EXE was started with the above path as the current directory. UNC paths are not supported. Defaulting to Windows directory. checking for DVI to DTL converter... +checking for "dv2dt"... yes Snipped lots of

Re: Boxes in LyX

2006-11-09 Thread Mohan V. Chunkath
Dear Helge, Thanks for your kind input. What you suggested was indeed the problem. It seems to be working as it should now. Thanks once again. Mohan Chunkath On 11/9/06, Helge Hafting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Mohan V. Chunkath wrote: > Dear Uwe, > Thanks for the prompt guidance. Am still a