volume of rotation drawing

Hi. Not really lyx related but someone might perhaps know how to produce nice eps drawings of a volume of rotation. You know the kind of picture you usually find in your calculus textbook where the graph of f(x) rotates around the x-axis. Any ideas?

Bibliography Style with In: for chapters in books

Hi An urgent last minute question: I am looking for a bibliography style which has author-year citations in text and the bibliography is sorted by surname, initials and book chapters are referenced as: Chaptername. In:book information All the ones I have found so far use book. Ch. Chapternam

Re: Help with mis-converted accents

On 20 Dec, 2006, at 7:09 PM, Stephen Buonopane wrote: More and more frustrating...can anyone on a PowerPC Mac please give it a try? Try exporting to LaTeX the enclosed lyx file and reimporting into into LyX. Does it work? Perhaps the problems I am encountering have to do with my TeX setup

Re: Help with mis-converted accents

More and more frustrating...can anyone on a PowerPC Mac please give it a try? Try exporting to LaTeX the enclosed lyx file and reimporting into into LyX. Does it work? Perhaps the problems I am encountering have to do with my TeX setup. Although, I did try to open the .tex file in TeXShop

Re: altering document class

After reading the FAQ more carefully and adding the following to the cls file, it works. Many thanks! \AtBeginDocument{% \addto\captionsenglish{% \renewcommand{\bibname}{References}% }} On Wed, 20 Dec 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 19:23:36 + (GMT) From: [EMAIL

Re: altering document class

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi Charles, > > On Wed, 20 Dec 2006, Charles de Miramon w >> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >>> I need to make a minor change to the mwrep report class, so that > [...] >> >> http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/Unsorted >> n° 16 >> >> Cheers, >> Charles > > I'm not sure what the

Re: Help with mis-converted accents

On 20 Dec, 2006, at 3:59 PM, Bob Lounsbury wrote: On Dec 20, 2006, at 2:48 PM, Stefano Franchi wrote: On 20 Dec, 2006, at 1:26 PM, Bennett Helm wrote: On Dec 20, 2006, at 2:22 PM, Charles de Miramon wrote: Stefano Franchi wrote: Oops! here it is: It works here. It must eb a Mac spe

Re: Help with mis-converted accents

On Dec 20, 2006, at 2:48 PM, Stefano Franchi wrote: On 20 Dec, 2006, at 1:26 PM, Bennett Helm wrote: On Dec 20, 2006, at 2:22 PM, Charles de Miramon wrote: Stefano Franchi wrote: Oops! here it is: It works here. It must eb a Mac specific bug. Works fo

Re: Help with mis-converted accents

On Dec 20, 2006, at 4:48 PM, Stefano Franchi wrote: On 20 Dec, 2006, at 1:26 PM, Bennett Helm wrote: On Dec 20, 2006, at 2:22 PM, Charles de Miramon wrote: Stefano Franchi wrote: Oops! here it is: It works here. It must eb a Mac specific bug. Works fo

Re: Help with mis-converted accents

On 20 Dec, 2006, at 1:26 PM, Bennett Helm wrote: On Dec 20, 2006, at 2:22 PM, Charles de Miramon wrote: Stefano Franchi wrote: Oops! here it is: It works here. It must eb a Mac specific bug. Works for me, too (Intel Mac). More and more frustrating...c

Re: Update to: [announce] LyX150svn builds for Windows

[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: I fixed some bugs and changed a lot in the installer, here's the changelog: https://developer.berlios.de/project/shownotes.php?release_id=11890 have other people been successful with this installer ? I tried the previous version, and the current one. But - lyx.bat

Re: LyX on Debian or Ubuntu

On Tue, 19 Dec 2006 08:20:15 -0500 Richard Kleeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Russell Davie wrote: > > > > > Not yet. Ubuntu does have various levels, but it means to upgrade to > > something like Deb-unstable and comes with all the cutting edge flakiness > > as a bonus! No thanks, I sort o

lyx gtk

Hi everybody ! Does anyone know about a lyx-gtk version which would run (almost) bugfree ? I'm just trying to compile a "maemo-lyx" for nokia 770 (there's already a maemo-TeX) but I'd like to have a solid ground to begin the real work. The 1.4.3 I tried ( as "normal" gtk application, I mean i386) d

LyX and QPainter error messages...

Hello All, Running LyX for Windows Version 1.5.0svn (Thu Dec 14 01:49:58 2006) on XP-Pro. At start-up I get the following messages in the terminal window: lyx: Disabling LyX socket. QPainter::begin: Paint device returned engine == 0, type: 2 QPainter::end: Painter not active, aborted Can anyo

Re: Help with mis-converted accents

On Dec 20, 2006, at 2:22 PM, Charles de Miramon wrote: Stefano Franchi wrote: Oops! here it is: It works here. It must eb a Mac specific bug. Works for me, too (Intel Mac). Bennett

Re: altering document class

Hi Charles, On Wed, 20 Dec 2006, Charles de Miramon w [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need to make a minor change to the mwrep report class, so that [...] http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/Unsorted n° 16 Cheers, Charles I'm not sure what the FAQ means by the `preamble' that I should edit, but presume

Re: Help with mis-converted accents

Stefano Franchi wrote: > > Oops! here it is: It works here. It must eb a Mac specific bug. Cheers, Charles -- http://www.kde-france.org

Re: LyX/Mac-1.5 alpha available for download

Is there a way to (or someone who can) compile it for PPCs? I am sure that Stefano and I are not the only one's who would love to test the 1.5 release. Chris Dole I was quite eager to try out the new features, but unfortunately the app does not open: "You cannot open the application "LyX-150

Re: Help with mis-converted accents

On 20 Dec, 2006, at 9:54 AM, Charles de Miramon wrote: Stefano Franchi wrote: exported as LaTeX it cannot be reimported back into LyX (I enclose a one line file below as an example). The file compile correctly from within LyX, though. Where is the file ;-) Oops! here it is: test.lyx

Re: altering document class

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I need to make a minor change to the mwrep report class, so that > the Bibliography is labelled `References' instead. I am using lyx 1.4.2 > on ubuntu linux. I know nothing of latex but screwed my courage to > the sticking place and edited /usr/local/share/lyx/layouts/m

altering document class

I need to make a minor change to the mwrep report class, so that the Bibliography is labelled `References' instead. I am using lyx 1.4.2 on ubuntu linux. I know nothing of latex but screwed my courage to the sticking place and edited /usr/local/share/lyx/layouts/mwrep.layout and /usr/share/tex

Re: BibTeX styles

Thanks - I've moved the files to somewhere without spaces in the name and now it works perfectly! On 20/12/06, Vaclav Smidl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wednesday 20 December 2006 10:20 am, you wrote: > Thanks. The file says this: > > This is BibTeX, Version 0.99cThe top-level auxiliary file: n

Re: Help with mis-converted accents

Stefano Franchi wrote: > exported as LaTeX it cannot be reimported back into LyX (I enclose a > one line file below as an example). The file compile correctly from > within LyX, though. > Where is the file ;-) -- http://www.kde-france.org

Re: LyX/Mac-1.5 alpha available for download

On Dec 20, 2006, at 10:34 AM, Stefano Franchi wrote: On 20 Dec, 2006, at 9:24 AM, Bennett Helm wrote: LyX/Mac 1.5svn (20-12-2006) is available for testing here: . I was quite eager to try out the new features, but unfortunately the

Re: LyX/Mac-1.5 alpha available for download

On 20 Dec, 2006, at 9:24 AM, Bennett Helm wrote: LyX/Mac 1.5svn (20-12-2006) is available for testing here: . I was quite eager to try out the new features, but unfortunately the app does not open: "You cannot open the application "Ly

LyX/Mac-1.5 alpha available for download

LyX/Mac 1.5svn (20-12-2006) is available for testing here: . LyX-1.5 is currently in active development. There are currently many bugs and crashes which may destroy your data. This should not be used for real work. You should also note

Re: Help with mis-converted accents

On 20 Dec, 2006, at 8:28 AM, Stefano Franchi wrote: Thanks to Charles and José have been able to reconvert all the LaTexified accents into proper form. I am now facing a big problem, though: LyX refuses to read the LaTex files back in. The problem must have something to do with encodings, an

Re: Update to: [announce] LyX150svn builds for Windows

Hi, LyXers I fixed some bugs and changed a lot in the installer, here's the changelog: https://developer.berlios.de/project/shownotes.php?release_id=11890 have other people been successful with this installer ? I tried the previous version, and the current one. But - lyx.bat just opens a dos

Re: Help with mis-converted accents

Thanks to Charles and José have been able to reconvert all the LaTexified accents into proper form. I am now facing a big problem, though: LyX refuses to read the LaTex files back in. The problem must have something to do with encodings, and in particular with reLyX refusal to read correctly th

mixing languages, problem

Hi, I had some problems with multi-language documents; for example, marking a word as Spanish (in an otherwise English-language document), Lyx includes the command \deactivatetilden in the latex file, and latex throws an error. Is this known? What can one do? Help or pointers welcome. (this is th

Re: Special case of enumerate

On 12/19/06, Paul A. Rubin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Thanks to everybody who replied. With the package mdwlist, I am able >> to do interruptions of lists, but not with A1, A2, A3,...; only with >> 1, 2, 3,... Any further ideas? > > I was meanwhile able to produce a solution with enumitem, whi

Re: wiki export to LaTeX or LyX format?

Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > Anyone know of any wiki that can export to LaTeX or LyX format? > > Anyone use a wiki to generate LaTeX? Moinmoin can generate docbook. I never tried to see if you can import it into LyX I would be interested, if you can give some feedback on that. Another possibility is

Re: Help with mis-converted accents

José Matos wrote: > On Tuesday 19 December 2006 6:53 pm, Charles de Miramon wrote: >> You can also use a sed script like this one : > > Just to add to the fun, here it is my solution using python, it reads > from > the standard input and it writes to the standard output. > Why don't you use

Re: LyX 1.3.7 on Mac Intel?

Gerard A. Ateshian wrote: I have tried 1.4.3 on Mac PowerPC, Mac Intel, and Windows XP, and I have found it too slow for my needs. 1.3.7 is far better as far as I am concerned. I am writing a book with more than 200 pages so far, and I have found the scrolling problems in 1.4.3 to be a limit

Re: Help with mis-converted accents

> "Jens" == Jens Noeckel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jens> Hi Stefano, I don't have a solution, just wanted to confirm that Jens> I encountered exactly the same problem (first I wondered where Jens> the accents had gone, then I saw them in the line above...). Jens> Currently I'm just ignoring

Re: BibTeX styles

On Wednesday 20 December 2006 10:20 am, you wrote: > Thanks. The file says this: > > This is BibTeX, Version 0.99cThe top-level auxiliary file: newfile1.aux > White space in argument---line 3 of file newfile1.aux > > : \bibstyle{"C:/Documents > : and Settings/john/My > :

Re: BibTeX styles

Thanks. The file says this: This is BibTeX, Version 0.99cThe top-level auxiliary file: newfile1.aux White space in argument---line 3 of file newfile1.aux : \bibstyle{"C:/Documents : and Settings/john/My Documents/elsevier/elsart-harv"} I'm skipping whatever remains of this

Re: wiki export to LaTeX or LyX format?

On Wed, 20 Dec 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, a plugin to PmWiki (which is what wiki.lyx.org uses) can probably do this. Have a look at http://www.wikipublisher.org/wiki/ I forgot to say that I plan to install this plugin at wiki.lyx.org, I just haven't gotten around to it

Re: BibTeX styles

> Vaclav: I looked under Menu>Tools>Preferences>Paths, but I can't see > anything like lyx_tmpdir? or lyx_tmpbuf???. In, Menu>Tools>Preferences>Paths is an entry "Temporary directory". This directory is different in different systems, that is why I wanted you to see where is yours. On linux,

Re: wiki export to LaTeX or LyX format?

On Tue, 19 Dec 2006, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: Anyone know of any wiki that can export to LaTeX or LyX format? Anyone use a wiki to generate LaTeX? Actually, a plugin to PmWiki (which is what wiki.lyx.org uses) can probably do this. Have a look at http://www.wikipublisher.org/wiki/ Th

Re: BibTeX styles

Rudi: I'm using LyX and not LaTeX (although I had to use LaTeX when I was trying to make custom .bst files). Vaclav: I looked under Menu>Tools>Preferences>Paths, but I can't see anything like lyx_tmpdir? or lyx_tmpbuf???. I'm using Windows XP if that helps. John On 19/12/06, Vaclav Smidl <