Re: LyX is wonderful -- thank you!

2007-05-17 Thread Gunnar Lindholm
> Hi Steve, I took your praise and placed a copy on the relevant page on the > wiki: > > http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Praise > > /Christian > > PS. I'm forwarding this to the developers' list, it's good to remember now > and then that LyX is really appreciated :-) While on the subject of praising

Re: Powerdot unavailable

2007-05-17 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Uwe Stöhr schrieb: For now, attached it the powerdot.layout; copy it to LyX's layouts directory and the reconfigure LyX. Now really attached. Uwe #% Do not delete the line below; configure depends on this # \DeclareLaTeXClass[powerdot.cls,enumitem.sty,genmisc.sty,listings.sty,xkeyval.sty]{p

Re: Powerdot unavailable

2007-05-17 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Eran Kaplinsky schrieb: I can't make Powerdot available in the latest LyX 1.5 SVN with Uwe's installer and Miktex 2.6. Thanks for the report, will be fixed in the next version. For now, attached it the powerdot.layout; copy it to LyX#y layouts directory and the reconfigure LyX. regards Uwe

Re: LyX is wonderful -- thank you!

2007-05-17 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Thu, 17 May 2007, Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, Hi Steve, I took your praise and placed a copy on the relevant page on the wiki: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Praise /Christian PS. I'm forwarding this to the developers' list, it's good to remember now and then that LyX is really appreci

Re: LyX is wonderful -- thank you!

2007-05-17 Thread Chuming Chen
I am using lyx 1.4.3-5 and looking forward to the final release of lyx 1.5. I did a little bit customization to fit my needs. i.e. installed some layouts and document classes. Do I need to do it again when I switch to 1.5? Thanks, Chuming Then believe me, 1.5 will do much more than you could

Re: LyX is wonderful -- thank you!

2007-05-17 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 01:16:55PM -0500, Christopher Menzel wrote: > On May 17, 2007, at 1:07 PM, Steve Litt wrote: > >Hi all, > > > >LyX is truly wonderful. While slamming out content it's as fast as any > >wordprocessor I've used (WP51, MS Word, OO, Vim ... > > Vim, a word processor?? Better d

Re: LyX is wonderful -- thank you!

2007-05-17 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Steve Litt wrote: But more ontopic, LyX does everything I could dream of. Then believe me, 1.5 will do much more than you could dream of ;-) Abdel.

Re: LyX is wonderful -- thank you!

2007-05-17 Thread Steve Litt
On Thursday 17 May 2007 14:16, Christopher Menzel wrote: > On May 17, 2007, at 1:07 PM, Steve Litt wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > LyX is truly wonderful. While slamming out content it's as fast as any > > wordprocessor I've used (WP51, MS Word, OO, Vim ... > > Vim, a word processor?? Better don yer fl

Re: LyX is wonderful -- thank you!

2007-05-17 Thread Christopher Menzel
On May 17, 2007, at 1:07 PM, Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, LyX is truly wonderful. While slamming out content it's as fast as any wordprocessor I've used (WP51, MS Word, OO, Vim ... Vim, a word processor?? Better don yer flame-retardant suit in case this post gets out into the wild! :-)

LyX is wonderful -- thank you!

2007-05-17 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, LyX is truly wonderful. While slamming out content it's as fast as any wordprocessor I've used (WP51, MS Word, OO, Vim and Mozilla Composer). The finished product is much better than the finished product of any of those wordprocessors -- in fact, it's almost as good as what you get in p

Powerdot unavailable

2007-05-17 Thread Eran Kaplinsky
I can't make Powerdot available in the latest LyX 1.5 SVN with Uwe's installer and Miktex 2.6. any ideas? Eran Kaplinsky

Re: How to put title and text in a box?

2007-05-17 Thread Richard Heck
This works, but clearly the best solution would be an Environment layout type that allows arguments. Steve Litt wrote: > On Thursday 17 May 2007 12:03, you wrote: > >> There has been work towards creating legitimate environments, but it >> doesn't exist yet. As a hack, you actually can create

Re: How to put title and text in a box?

2007-05-17 Thread Steve Litt
Oh never mind, I already solved this problem and forgot I'd solved it. I made the title LyX environment with a LatexType of command, and had that command set a variable, and then the box text environment used that variable. SteveT On Thursday 17 May 2007 11:47, Steve Litt wrote: > Hi all, > > A

Re: How to put title and text in a box?

2007-05-17 Thread Steve Litt
On Thursday 17 May 2007 12:03, you wrote: > There has been work towards creating legitimate environments, but it > doesn't exist yet. As a hack, you actually can create an environment > with an argument, but you have to put the argument in ERT, in braces, at > the very beginning of the text in LyX.

Re: How to put title and text in a box?

2007-05-17 Thread Richard Heck
There has been work towards creating legitimate environments, but it doesn't exist yet. As a hack, you actually can create an environment with an argument, but you have to put the argument in ERT, in braces, at the very beginning of the text in LyX. LyX will then output something like: \begin{myen

How to put title and text in a box?

2007-05-17 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, All my books contain, interspersed throughout regular text, boxes breaking out special stuff. The boxes are centered and have slightly narrower margins than the rest of the text. Each box has a large box title on the top line, and the text of the message to the reader in the rest of the

Re: from Latex style file to lyx

2007-05-17 Thread Richard Heck
To do this, you need to define a LyX layout. These are covered in chapter 5 of the Customization manual. This is not a simple task, though if you are lucky your style file is based upon (say) book.cls, and the changes are minimal. There are a lot of people here who have had experience doing this,

pdf file quality

2007-05-17 Thread xinlei sun
hi, all when I convert the lyx file to pdf using pdflatex, I found that the quality of the pdf file is really really poor, especially the figure quality. But previously when I used the old version (1.4.3) in my old computer, it was much better for the same file. Any one knows where I can change t

from Latex style file to lyx

2007-05-17 Thread Chuming Chen
Dear List, Our University provides Thesis and Dissertation LaTeX Style File in terms of .tex, .sty and .bib. Is there a documentation showing how to convert those files into lyx? Thanks, Chuming Chen

Re: Help needed in getting the English Dictionary to work with LyX1.4.4-4

2007-05-17 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Ralph schrieb: I read in the article archive that someone suggested reinstalling Aspell. I went to http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/Aspell6 and downloaded the latest version of the english dictionary and installed in C:\Aspell. That did not work either, I have LyX installed in . Installing a d

Re: Creating a document class

2007-05-17 Thread Daniel Lohmann
NicoWinger schrieb: Ok, this is to create one special cover, but I can't use it for the document class to create individual covers with different names, studytopics, professors etc., can I? If I understood Jean-Pierre correctly, the idea is to write LaTeX macros (/covertitle, /covertopic ...)