Re: RC1 -- more remarks 2

2007-06-05 Thread Hellmut Weber
Hi Marc, That's the effect i have to me quite often. Hellmut It happens to me regularly that the first line (which contains the cursor) is half hidden. JMarc -- Dr. Hellmut Weber [EMAIL PROTECTED] Degenfeldstraße 2 tel +49-89-3081172 D-80803 München-Schwabing mobil

Re: RC1 -- more remarks 2

2007-06-05 Thread Georg Baum
Hellmut Weber wrote: Hi Marc, I guess you meant Jean-Marc here :-) That's the effect i have to me quite often. Known problem (but not scheduled to fix): http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3427 Basically, if you want to make sure that a line does _not_ appear on screen when you reload

Re: Too big math preview in 1.5.0 orc1, solution

2007-06-05 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Bennett == Bennett Helm [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Bennett On Jun 4, 2007, at 5:09 PM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Bennett == Bennett Helm [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Could you try to see what is the dpi setting detected by 1.4 and 1.5? Bennett With nothing set in the preferences files, 1.4

Charstyles question - prefix/suffix

2007-06-05 Thread Trevor Nicholls
Hi I have defined a character style to be used for keynames (e.g. ctrl-X, ESC). The value entered by the user should be displayed encapsulated in angle brackets, as in the given examples. The style definition achieves this in LaTeX but not in the LyX display. CharStyle HCKeyname LatexType

Re: pdflatex postscript handling

2007-06-05 Thread Urtzi Jauregi
On Monday 04 June 2007 21:38:59 LB wrote: When pdflatex converts *.eps files to pdf I get errors that these figures can't be converted and are not shown in the final pdf.  When  .ps files get converted, their boundingboxes are ignored so figures are not displayed properly. Leo,

Comments on RC1

2007-06-05 Thread Urtzi Jauregi
Greetings, I am very pleased with the new features in LyX 1.5, and I want to thank the developers for doing such a fantastic work! I've come across a few issues when testing RC1: 1. The program seems slow to respond sometimes (but not always); if you keep a

Captions

2007-06-05 Thread Trevor Nicholls
Why does the caption style in stdlayouts.inc display Senseless! I've got a section which includes some text, a table, and some more text. The table has to appear in a specific location between certain paragraphs so it is a fixed table not a floating one, and it could certainly use a caption, so

Re: Captions

2007-06-05 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Trevor == Trevor Nicholls [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Trevor Why does the caption style in stdlayouts.inc display Trevor Senseless! I've got a section which includes some text, a Trevor table, and some more text. The table has to appear in a Trevor specific location between certain paragraphs so

Re: Too big math preview in 1.5.0 orc1, solution

2007-06-05 Thread Jean Kaplan
Empirically, I do not think that using the number suggested by Jean- Marc is relevant for two reasons: 1) My screen (powerbook G4, 15 inches) has 1440 pixels for 12.6 inches, which gives a DPI of ~ 114, whereas the value which gives correct results is 80. 2) Changing the DPI value in Lyx

Re: Too big math preview in 1.5.0 orc1, solution

2007-06-05 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Jean == Jean Kaplan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jean Empirically, I do not think that using the number suggested by Jean Jean- Marc is relevant for two reasons: 1) My screen (powerbook Jean G4, 15 inches) has 1440 pixels for 12.6 inches, which gives a Jean DPI of ~ 114, whereas the value which

new Toolbutton in Toolbar

2007-06-05 Thread Tino Langer
Hello, I'm using lyx 1.5.0 rc1 (windows) - it is realy great! Now I have one question - is it possible to add one new action to toolbar for showing compiled lyx-files? In the moment there are actions for dvi, pdflatex and ps - I need an action for ps2pdf (like in the menu) - but how to do

Re: Explanations with equations?

2007-06-05 Thread Julio Rojas
I still believe the table is the easier way. I'm attaching an example. Please, check it. On 6/5/07, Steve Litt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 04 June 2007 21:48, Steve Litt wrote: On Monday 04 June 2007 04:47, you wrote: To put text in equations, I use \mbox Jean Thanks Jean, I

Re: Too big math preview in 1.5.0 orc1, solution

2007-06-05 Thread Jean Kaplan
Of course you are right. If I erase dpi_size in the preferences file Lyx returns 112, which must be the true dpi of my screen (I grossly evaluated 114) Jean Le 5 juin 07 à 12:30, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes a écrit : Jean == Jean Kaplan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jean Empirically, I do not think

Re: 1.5.0rc1 Mac PPC G3 typing lag

2007-06-05 Thread Johannes Knaus
Johannes Knaus Mon, 04 Jun 2007 10:18:33 -0700 Hello, I'm just testing the 1.5.0rc1 binary on my PPC G3 (iBook 700Mhz, 384MB RAM, 10.4.9). It is significantly slower than all 1.5betas released earlier. When I'm typing some characters there is always a lag of some seconds before it

Re: How to modify amsbook document class? partial answer

2007-06-05 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, If I put this: Input amsdefs.inc into the layout file, the environment dropdown now shows theorem, lemma, etc. However, after looking through /usr/share/lyx/layouts/amsbook.layout, I wonder what else I need in order to incorporate all the capabilities of the amsbook document class.

Re: RC1 -- more remarks 2

2007-06-05 Thread Helge Hafting
Georg Baum wrote: Hellmut Weber wrote: Hi Marc, I guess you meant Jean-Marc here :-) That's the effect i have to me quite often. Known problem (but not scheduled to fix): http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3427 Basically, if you want to make sure that a line does

Comments on RC1

2007-06-05 Thread Urtzi Jauregi
Greetings, I am very pleased with the new features in LyX 1.5, and I want to thank the developers for doing such a fantastic work! I've come across a few issues when testing RC1: 1. The program seems slow to respond sometimes (but not always); if you keep a

Re: Coloured separators, Romanic/Arabic sections

2007-06-05 Thread Helge Hafting
Auto Didakt wrote: Hi, I'm quite new to LyX and wanted to add a coloured foot notes/header separator to the 'book' layout (koma-script). Anyone has an idea how to do that? Select a page style that has the line. (fancy) This will get you a black line. To color the line, put something like

Re: Too big math preview in 1.5.0 orc1, solution

2007-06-05 Thread Helge Hafting
Bennett Helm wrote: [...] I don't know whether fiddling with Screen DPI is the right thing to do. You can control the size of math previews by adding the following line: \preview_scale_factor 0.9 to either the user preferences or the global lyxrc.dist file. There is no gui for this, so you

Re: Too big math preview in 1.5.0 orc1, solution

2007-06-05 Thread Jean Kaplan
No, the screen_zoom affects text and math previews in the same way (although you have to close and reopen your document to see this). Jean Le 5 juin 07 à 13:30, Helge Hafting a écrit : Looks like the math is shown 1/.65 = 1.5x too big. Could this be the screen_zoom setting Enrico mentioned? I

Re: Captions

2007-06-05 Thread Helge Hafting
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Trevor == Trevor Nicholls [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Trevor Why does the caption style in stdlayouts.inc display Trevor Senseless! I've got a section which includes some text, a Trevor table, and some more text. The table has to appear in a Trevor

Re: Linus on GIT and SCM

2007-06-05 Thread Helge Hafting
Dov Feldstern wrote: Dov Feldstern wrote: http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/03/004214 Sorry about this --- sent to the wrong address. ;) Some of you may still find it interesting, though --- it sounds like he trashes SVN... He don't really trash SVN - but he find it

Re: Too big math preview in 1.5.0 orc1, solution

2007-06-05 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Jean == Jean Kaplan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jean Of course you are right. If I erase dpi_size in the preferences Jean file Lyx returns 112, which must be the true dpi of my screen (I Jean grossly evaluated 114) With 1.4 or q.5? JMarc

Re: RC1 -- more remarks 2

2007-06-05 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Georg == Georg Baum [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Georg Hellmut Weber wrote: Hi Marc, Georg I guess you meant Jean-Marc here :-) That's the effect i have to me quite often. Georg Known problem (but not scheduled to fix): Georg http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3427 Thanks for the

WANTED: users of Right-To-Left languages who want proper support in LyX 1.5

2007-06-05 Thread Stefan Schimanski
Hi! Myself and Dov Feldstern are working on the support for Right-To-Left languages in LyX. In the latest RC1 there are many things which are not the way they should be. As we are not using Right-To-Left ourself we lack a bit the experience how it should look like and what is most

Re: Captions

2007-06-05 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Helge == Helge Hafting [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Helge From a user perspective, there is nothing strange about Helge inserting a caption in the text. It seems natural that the Helge caption is a property of the table/figure, not the float. Is it Helge a figure or a table? Insert a table caption

The close button on macos X windows

2007-06-05 Thread Jean Kaplan
By clicking the top left red button present on all macos x windows one usually closes the corresponding window, but not the program. In lyx, by clicking this button one leaves lyX altogether. This was already somewhat frustrating in formers versions of lyx, but in version 1.5, where one can

Re: [SPAM] Re: subfiles

2007-06-05 Thread Rudi Gaelzer
On Monday 04 June 2007 09:02, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Trevor == Trevor Nicholls [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Trevor * The documentation refers to a means of including external Trevor material, although the available types of external material Trevor do not appear to include other LyX files.

Re: The close button on macos X windows

2007-06-05 Thread Stefan Schimanski
That's only true for the last window. In fact there are quite a lot of other Mac apps which behave this way (although I agree that even without a window the application should keep running). As long as you have more than one window the red button will only close that one. Stefan Am

Re: The close button on macos X windows

2007-06-05 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Stefan == Stefan Schimanski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Stefan That's only true for the last window. In fact there are quite Stefan a lot of other Mac apps which behave this way (although I Stefan agree that even without a window the application should keep Stefan running). As long as you have

Re: [SPAM] Re: subfiles

2007-06-05 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Rudi == Rudi Gaelzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Rudi It would be nice if lyx were able to perform cross-reference Rudi among unrelated documents, so that the user only has to point to Rudi the lyx files and all cross-reference task is automagically Rudi performed by lyx. Yes, this would be very

Re: Too big math preview in 1.5.0 orc1, solution

2007-06-05 Thread Jean Kaplan
in 1.5 in 1.4, I never changed this because I did not need it and it is 80. I checked that there is no dpi_size setting in my 1.4 preferences file. Le 5 juin 07 à 14:31, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes a écrit : Jean == Jean Kaplan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jean Of course you are right. If I erase

Help: Table

2007-06-05 Thread Valter Filipe Silva
Hello, How do i make a table that the first collum have the titles instead of the first row?? Or, both have titles, ex: Bits0 1 2 BitRate 5012 15 20 100 24 30 40 150 36 45 60 200 48 60

Re: The close button on macos X windows

2007-06-05 Thread Jean Kaplan
Yes you are right, then this change is not of high priority Jean Le 5 juin 07 à 14:54, Stefan Schimanski a écrit : That's only true for the last window. In fact there are quite a lot of other Mac apps which behave this way (although I agree that even without a window the application should

Re: Explanations with equations?

2007-06-05 Thread Steve Litt
Thanks Julio, I compiled and examined your LyX file, and for me, the equal signs didn't line up. The explanations lined up beautifully, but not the equal signs or for that matter the things to the left and right of the equal signs. For the purposes of my book, I think it's pretty important

Re: RC1 -- more remarks 2

2007-06-05 Thread Georg Baum
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Georg == Georg Baum [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Georg Hellmut Weber wrote: Hi Marc, Georg I guess you meant Jean-Marc here :-) That's the effect i have to me quite often. Georg Known problem (but not scheduled to fix): Georg

Re[2]: Explanations with equations?

2007-06-05 Thread Alan G Isaac
See section 8.2.7 of The LaTeX Companion 2nd edition, an indispensible aid to mathbook writing projects (and otherwise excellent). Cheers, Alan Isaac

Re: Help: Table

2007-06-05 Thread Christian Liesen
... ahem ... simply create a table and put the headings in the first column? You can then format the column as desired. Or what specifically are you looking for? -- Christian Valter Filipe Silva wrote: Hello, How do i make a table that the first collum have the titles instead of the

Re: Explanations with equations?

2007-06-05 Thread Julio Rojas
I don't really follow what you mean by aligned equal signs. So, attached is a new LyX document and the resulting PDF. Check the four cases, because I believe there lies the solution. On 6/5/07, Steve Litt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Julio, I compiled and examined your LyX file, and for

Re: Explanations with equations?

2007-06-05 Thread Steve Litt
On Tuesday 05 June 2007 09:45, Alan G Isaac wrote: See section 8.2.7 of The LaTeX Companion 2nd edition, an indispensible aid to mathbook writing projects (and otherwise excellent). Cheers, Alan Isaac Thanks Alan, I don't have that book -- I have Guide to LaTeX by Kopka and Daly. Could you

Explanations with equations: First try failed

2007-06-05 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, My first try at explanations with equations failed: Preamble \newlength{\expsize} \setlength{\expsize}{2in} \newcommand{\mathexp}[1]{\qquad\qquad \makebox[\expsize][c]{#1}} \newcommand{\boldd}[1]{\textbf{#1}} EndPreamble CharStyle mathexp LatexType Command LatexName mathexp Font

Re: Explanations with equations?

2007-06-05 Thread Steve Litt
On Tuesday 05 June 2007 09:58, Julio Rojas wrote: I don't really follow what you mean by aligned equal signs. So, attached is a new LyX document and the resulting PDF. Check the four cases, because I believe there lies the solution. Thanks Julio, What version of LyX is this in? I got an

Re[2]: Explanations with equations?

2007-06-05 Thread Alan G Isaac
On Tuesday 05 June 2007 09:45, Alan G Isaac wrote: See section 8.2.7 of The LaTeX Companion 2nd edition, an indispensible aid to mathbook writing projects (and otherwise excellent). On Tue, 5 Jun 2007, Steve Litt apparently wrote: I don't have that book -- I have Guide to LaTeX by Kopka

Re: Explanations with equations?

2007-06-05 Thread Todd Denniston
Steve Litt wrote: On Tuesday 05 June 2007 09:45, Alan G Isaac wrote: See section 8.2.7 of The LaTeX Companion 2nd edition, an indispensible aid to mathbook writing projects (and otherwise excellent). Cheers, Alan Isaac Thanks Alan, I don't have that book -- I have Guide to LaTeX by Kopka

Re: Explanations with equations?

2007-06-05 Thread Steve Litt
On Tuesday 05 June 2007 10:16, Steve Litt wrote: On Tuesday 05 June 2007 09:58, Julio Rojas wrote: I don't really follow what you mean by aligned equal signs. So, attached is a new LyX document and the resulting PDF. Check the four cases, because I believe there lies the solution. Thanks

Re: Help: Table

2007-06-05 Thread Valter Filipe Silva
Between the first row of the table and the second there are two \hline This sparate the title row from the rest of the table. What i'm lookink for is the same effect for the first collum. Best regards Valter Christian Liesen wrote: ... ahem ... simply create a table and put the headings

Re: Explanations with equations?

2007-06-05 Thread Julio Rojas
Sorry Steve, my mistake. Attached is the 1.4.x version. Hope it works. On 6/5/07, Steve Litt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 05 June 2007 10:16, Steve Litt wrote: On Tuesday 05 June 2007 09:58, Julio Rojas wrote: I don't really follow what you mean by aligned equal signs. So, attached

Re: Help: Table

2007-06-05 Thread Julio Rojas
Add the right line to the 1st column and the left line to the 2nd column. That'll do the trick. On 6/5/07, Valter Filipe Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Between the first row of the table and the second there are two \hline This sparate the title row from the rest of the table. What i'm

Re: Help: Table

2007-06-05 Thread Julio Rojas
Oh, you're right. But I believe that's LaTeX and not LyX. Can anyone help? On 6/5/07, Valter Filipe Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, That i tried already, but the effect is not the same. There is no a effective separations, linke in the case of \hline. Thanks for the help Regards

Re: Comments on RC1

2007-06-05 Thread Richard Heck
Urtzi Jauregi wrote: Greetings, I am very pleased with the new features in LyX 1.5, and I want to thank the developers for doing such a fantastic work! I've come across a few issues when testing RC1: 1. The program seems slow to respond sometimes (but not always); if you

Re: new Toolbutton in Toolbar

2007-06-05 Thread Richard Heck
Tino Langer wrote: Now I have one question - is it possible to add one new action to toolbar for showing compiled lyx-files? In the moment there are actions for dvi, pdflatex and ps - I need an action for ps2pdf (like in the menu) - but how to do this? The toolbars are completely configurable,

Re: Charstyles question - prefix/suffix

2007-06-05 Thread Richard Heck
Trevor Nicholls wrote: Hi I have defined a character style to be used for keynames (e.g. ctrl-X, ESC). The value entered by the user should be displayed encapsulated in angle brackets, as in the given examples. The style definition achieves this in LaTeX but not in the LyX display. CharStyle

Re: How to modify amsbook document class?

2007-06-05 Thread Richard Heck
Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, I created a test document. If I set its document class as amsbook (book (AMS)), I get environments like theorem, fact and the like. Then I set its document class to algone, where algone is a derivative of amsbook, and I don't get those environments. Here is

Re: WANTED: users of Right-To-Left languages who want proper support in LyX 1.5

2007-06-05 Thread Miki Dovrat
Hi, I am having trouble following your examples, but my opinion is that no MAGIC should happen. Spaces jumping from side to side or characters at the end of a RTL jumping to the beginning and such are so annoying!!! The user can never tell where he/she is as far as LTR or RTL is concerned. My

Re: WANTED: users of Right-To-Left languages who want proper support in LyX 1.5

2007-06-05 Thread Georg Baum
Stefan Schimanski wrote: There are several possibilities now to interpret the underlined spaces (short RTL spaces): * The LyX 1.3 magic way: the RTL spaces behave in fact like LTR spaces, i.e. they are put where non-underlined spaces would be. See this example: This magic has been

Re: WANTED: users of Right-To-Left languages who want proper support in LyX 1.5

2007-06-05 Thread Miki Dovrat
Definitely the non-magic solution: If you enter a space it gets the direction (RTL or LTR) of the current font, and is drawn on screen according to that direction (place and underlining), and cursor navigation follows that direction. It should not be possible to enter two consecutive spaces

Re: 1.5.0rc1 Mac PPC G3 typing lag

2007-06-05 Thread Anders Ekberg
Johannes Knaus Mon, 04 Jun 2007 10:18:33 -0700 Hello, I'm just testing the 1.5.0rc1 binary on my PPC G3 (iBook 700Mhz, 384MB RAM, 10.4.9). It is significantly slower than all 1.5betas released earlier. When I'm typing some characters there is always a lag of some seconds before it appears

Re: Explanations with equations?

2007-06-05 Thread Steve Litt
Thanks Julio, Your example was beautiful, but when I modified the equations a little bit, the equal signs no longer lined up. See the attached modification of your file to see the problem. Too bad -- it would have been much easier than anything else I can think of. Now I'm considering

Re: [SPAM] Re: Help: Table

2007-06-05 Thread Rudi Gaelzer
On Tuesday 05 June 2007 11:36, Julio Rojas wrote: Oh, you're right. But I believe that's LaTeX and not LyX. Can anyone help? LyX can do it, as well. Have you tried this? Insert - Table... (choose number of rows and columns). position cursor in any row of the first column and right click -

Re: [SPAM] Re: Help: Table

2007-06-05 Thread Rudi Gaelzer
On Tuesday 05 June 2007 11:36, Julio Rojas wrote: Oh, you're right. But I believe that's LaTeX and not LyX. Can anyone help? Complementing on what I was suggesting, you can completely separate the first column by creating a single-column table and then inserting a thin space (Insert - Special

Re: WANTED: users of Right-To-Left languages who want proper support in LyX 1.5

2007-06-05 Thread Georg Baum
Miki Dovrat wrote: The users (at least me) don't know whether the space is RTL or LTR because they don't mark RTL code since it is annoying to look at when writing a document in RTL. I don't understand what you mean here. When you write a mixed hebrew/english document you have to explicitly

Re: WANTED: users of Right-To-Left languages who want proper support in LyX 1.5

2007-06-05 Thread Stefan Schimanski
Definitely the non-magic solution: If you enter a space it gets the direction (RTL or LTR) of the current font, and is drawn on screen according to that direction (place and underlining), and cursor navigation follows that direction. It should not be possible to enter two consecutive spaces

Re: WANTED: users of Right-To-Left languages who want proper support in LyX 1.5

2007-06-05 Thread Stefan Schimanski
Another open question (at least to me): how common and convenient is this logical cursor movement? For me it is rather strange and confusing. But maybe one just needs some years of working with it to get used to it intuitively. I ask because I don't think it's very complicated to add

Re: Explanations with equations: First try failed

2007-06-05 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, My first try at explanations with equations failed: Preamble \newlength{\expsize} \setlength{\expsize}{2in} \newcommand{\mathexp}[1]{\qquad\qquad \makebox[\expsize][c]{#1}} \newcommand{\boldd}[1]{\textbf{#1}} EndPreamble CharStyle mathexp LatexType Command LatexName

keyboard issue with 1.5rc1

2007-06-05 Thread warzin . warzin
Hi everyone, This new version sure is really nice! I only have a little discomfort regarding key strokes. With 1.4 when I was in text mode and, for instance, typed Altm[ a math inset would automatically open with a full pair of brakets, the same for greek letters and so forth with all math

Re: Explanations with equations?

2007-06-05 Thread Steve Litt
On Tuesday 05 June 2007 10:17, Todd Denniston wrote: Out of curiosity I looked in my TLC2 and noticed the title of the section is Multiple alignments: align and flalign A quick google http://www.google.com/search?hl=enq=align+flalignbtnG=Google+Search on those keys gets the following page

Re: Comments on RC1

2007-06-05 Thread Urtzi Jauregi
On Tuesday 05 June 2007 18:47:20 you wrote:   The issue is that the labels listed in the second document are those that belong to the first document; in other words, the dialg box doesn't get refreshed when you switch documents.   I can't reproduce this. I get this behavior

Re: Comments on RC1

2007-06-05 Thread Richard Heck
Urtzi Jauregi wrote: On Tuesday 05 June 2007 18:47:20 you wrote: The issue is that the labels listed in the second document are those that belong to the first document; in other words, the dialg box doesn't get refreshed when you switch documents. I can't reproduce this.

Re: Comments on RC1

2007-06-05 Thread Urtzi Jauregi
On Tuesday 05 June 2007 19:21:39 Richard Heck wrote: I get this behavior consistently in 1.5 RC1 the following way: 1. Create a new file; 2. Write a displayed formula and give it a label; 3. Insert a cross-reference of that label; 4. open an existing document with

Re: Comments on RC1

2007-06-05 Thread Richard Heck
Urtzi Jauregi wrote: On Tuesday 05 June 2007 19:21:39 Richard Heck wrote: I get this behavior consistently in 1.5 RC1 the following way: 1. Create a new file; 2. Write a displayed formula and give it a label; 3. Insert a cross-reference of that label;

Re: WANTED: users of Right-To-Left languages who want proper support in LyX 1.5

2007-06-05 Thread Miki Dovrat
Lyx has an option of underlining the foreign text. What I meant was that I always turn that off, so I can't tell which direction the spaces belong to. I don't mind that each space should have a definitive direction, I think the best way would be that the border spaces will always have the

Re: WANTED: users of Right-To-Left languages who want proper support in LyX 1.5

2007-06-05 Thread Miki Dovrat
Hi, I already replied Stefan off list, but I will post this again so anyone can comment. The brain (at least mine) does not like movement to the opposite side. When you press the left arrow, you expect the cursor to move to the left. Try riding a bike with the hands crossed, wear a helmet!!!

Re: WANTED: users of Right-To-Left languages who want proper support in LyX 1.5

2007-06-05 Thread Georg Baum
Am Dienstag, 5. Juni 2007 21:06 schrieb Miki Dovrat: Lyx has an option of underlining the foreign text. What I meant was that I always turn that off, so I can't tell which direction the spaces belong to. Now I understand. I did not know that you can turn it off :-) Georg

Re: [SPAM] Re: Help: Table

2007-06-05 Thread Valter Filipe Silva
Many Thanks! It's exacly what i need! Regards Valter Rudi Gaelzer wrote: On Tuesday 05 June 2007 11:36, Julio Rojas wrote: Oh, you're right. But I believe that's LaTeX and not LyX. Can anyone help? Complementing on what I was suggesting, you can completely separate the first

Re: Explanations with equations?

2007-06-05 Thread Julio Rojas
Steve, I believe it is solved. Check the attached files. On 6/5/07, Steve Litt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Julio, Your example was beautiful, but when I modified the equations a little bit, the equal signs no longer lined up. See the attached modification of your file to see the problem.

Re: 1.5.0rc1 Mac PPC G3 typing lag

2007-06-05 Thread Patrick De Visschere
Also on a PPC G4 (iMac, 800MHz, 1GB) typing becomes very slow once an inline equation is entered in a paragraph. Starting a new line (temporarely) just after the equation speeds things up again. On a G5 (1.8GHz, 1GB) this is not so much of a problem but I also see a slowdown due to formulas.

Re: Comments on RC1

2007-06-05 Thread Pavel Sanda
I get this behavior consistently in 1.5 RC1 the following way: 1. Create a new file; 2. Write a displayed formula and give it a label; 3. Insert a cross-reference of that label; 4. open an existing document with its own labels; 5. Insert- cross-reference . . . showh the

Re: Explanations with equations?

2007-06-05 Thread Steve Litt
Yep, that did it. Thanks Julio. It's not exactly how I want, but I'm pretty sure I can fix it so it lines up exactly how I want. I like the method I showed earlier, *if I were using pure LaTeX*. But your method is much easier and less complex from within LyX. The one thing I still need to

Re: pdflatex postscript handling

2007-06-05 Thread LB
When pdflatex converts *.eps files to pdf I get errors that these figures can't be converted and are not shown in the final pdf. When .ps files get converted, their boundingboxes are ignored so figures are not displayed properly. I think, although I am not sure, that pdflatex can't read (e)ps

Re: WANTED: users of Right-To-Left languages who want proper support in LyX 1.5

2007-06-05 Thread Dov Feldstern
Miki Dovrat wrote: Hi, I already replied Stefan off list, but I will post this again so anyone can comment. The brain (at least mine) does not like movement to the opposite side. When you press the left arrow, you expect the cursor to move to the left. Try riding a bike with the hands

Re: Explanations with equations?

2007-06-05 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Steve Litt writes: = \documentclass[12pt]{amsbook} \newcommand{\cn}[1]{\texttt{\char92 #1}} \begin{document} \begin{align*} x=5y+3z+221a+43621\qquad\text{hellox}\\ 436x+227y+488z+221 = a\qquad\text{Steve was here}\\ a=b\qquad\text{boingo}

Merging lyx documents (can version tracking be abbused for this)

2007-06-05 Thread michf
I have an imported tex-lyx document that I changed and now the original (tex) was also changed by the original author What is the best (or easiest) way to merge these changes? AFAIK gui diff programs are sensitive to line breaks and will probably get things wrong. Is it possible to abbuse the lyx

1.5.0rc1 spellchecker (Windoze)

2007-06-05 Thread Jim Rockford
I have installed the 1.5 release candidate 1 on two Windows XP machines (one 32 bit and the other 64 bit). Each time, the installation gave me a message that it couldn't download the English spellchecker. Otherwise, the installation went smoothly. What's the deal though with the spellchecker

Re: 1.5.0rc1 spellchecker (Windoze)

2007-06-05 Thread Bo Peng
On 6/5/07, Jim Rockford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have installed the 1.5 release candidate 1 on two Windows XP machines (one 32 bit and the other 64 bit). Each time, the installation gave me a message that it couldn't download the English spellchecker. Otherwise, the installation went

Re:1.5.0rc1 Mac PPC G3 typing lag

2007-06-05 Thread Gerard Ateshian
I also found that the universal binary for 1.5rc1 runs slowly on Mac OS X PPC (I have a PowerBook G4, 1.67 GHz, 2 GB memory), so I compiled my own version and it runs just fine. If you want it, you can download it from http://bio7.mech.columbia.edu/~gerard/ Gerard Ateshian

Re: RC1 -- more remarks 2

2007-06-05 Thread Hellmut Weber
Hi Marc, That's the effect i have to me quite often. Hellmut It happens to me regularly that the first line (which contains the cursor) is half hidden. JMarc -- Dr. Hellmut Weber [EMAIL PROTECTED] Degenfeldstraße 2 tel +49-89-3081172 D-80803 München-Schwabing mobil

Re: RC1 -- more remarks 2

2007-06-05 Thread Georg Baum
Hellmut Weber wrote: Hi Marc, I guess you meant Jean-Marc here :-) That's the effect i have to me quite often. Known problem (but not scheduled to fix): http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3427 Basically, if you want to make sure that a line does _not_ appear on screen when you reload

Re: Too big math preview in 1.5.0 orc1, solution

2007-06-05 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Bennett == Bennett Helm [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Bennett On Jun 4, 2007, at 5:09 PM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Bennett == Bennett Helm [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Could you try to see what is the dpi setting detected by 1.4 and 1.5? Bennett With nothing set in the preferences files, 1.4

Charstyles question - prefix/suffix

2007-06-05 Thread Trevor Nicholls
Hi I have defined a character style to be used for keynames (e.g. ctrl-X, ESC). The value entered by the user should be displayed encapsulated in angle brackets, as in the given examples. The style definition achieves this in LaTeX but not in the LyX display. CharStyle HCKeyname LatexType

Re: pdflatex postscript handling

2007-06-05 Thread Urtzi Jauregi
On Monday 04 June 2007 21:38:59 LB wrote: When pdflatex converts *.eps files to pdf I get errors that these figures can't be converted and are not shown in the final pdf.  When  .ps files get converted, their boundingboxes are ignored so figures are not displayed properly. Leo,

Comments on RC1

2007-06-05 Thread Urtzi Jauregi
Greetings, I am very pleased with the new features in LyX 1.5, and I want to thank the developers for doing such a fantastic work! I've come across a few issues when testing RC1: 1. The program seems slow to respond sometimes (but not always); if you keep a

Captions

2007-06-05 Thread Trevor Nicholls
Why does the caption style in stdlayouts.inc display Senseless! I've got a section which includes some text, a table, and some more text. The table has to appear in a specific location between certain paragraphs so it is a fixed table not a floating one, and it could certainly use a caption, so

Re: Captions

2007-06-05 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Trevor == Trevor Nicholls [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Trevor Why does the caption style in stdlayouts.inc display Trevor Senseless! I've got a section which includes some text, a Trevor table, and some more text. The table has to appear in a Trevor specific location between certain paragraphs so

Re: Too big math preview in 1.5.0 orc1, solution

2007-06-05 Thread Jean Kaplan
Empirically, I do not think that using the number suggested by Jean- Marc is relevant for two reasons: 1) My screen (powerbook G4, 15 inches) has 1440 pixels for 12.6 inches, which gives a DPI of ~ 114, whereas the value which gives correct results is 80. 2) Changing the DPI value in Lyx

Re: Too big math preview in 1.5.0 orc1, solution

2007-06-05 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Jean == Jean Kaplan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jean Empirically, I do not think that using the number suggested by Jean Jean- Marc is relevant for two reasons: 1) My screen (powerbook Jean G4, 15 inches) has 1440 pixels for 12.6 inches, which gives a Jean DPI of ~ 114, whereas the value which

new Toolbutton in Toolbar

2007-06-05 Thread Tino Langer
Hello, I'm using lyx 1.5.0 rc1 (windows) - it is realy great! Now I have one question - is it possible to add one new action to toolbar for showing compiled lyx-files? In the moment there are actions for dvi, pdflatex and ps - I need an action for ps2pdf (like in the menu) - but how to do

Re: Explanations with equations?

2007-06-05 Thread Julio Rojas
I still believe the table is the easier way. I'm attaching an example. Please, check it. On 6/5/07, Steve Litt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 04 June 2007 21:48, Steve Litt wrote: On Monday 04 June 2007 04:47, you wrote: To put text in equations, I use \mbox Jean Thanks Jean, I

Re: Too big math preview in 1.5.0 orc1, solution

2007-06-05 Thread Jean Kaplan
Of course you are right. If I erase dpi_size in the preferences file Lyx returns 112, which must be the true dpi of my screen (I grossly evaluated 114) Jean Le 5 juin 07 à 12:30, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes a écrit : Jean == Jean Kaplan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jean Empirically, I do not think

Re: 1.5.0rc1 Mac PPC G3 typing lag

2007-06-05 Thread Johannes Knaus
Johannes Knaus Mon, 04 Jun 2007 10:18:33 -0700 Hello, I'm just testing the 1.5.0rc1 binary on my PPC G3 (iBook 700Mhz, 384MB RAM, 10.4.9). It is significantly slower than all 1.5betas released earlier. When I'm typing some characters there is always a lag of some seconds before it

Re: How to modify amsbook document class? partial answer

2007-06-05 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, If I put this: Input amsdefs.inc into the layout file, the environment dropdown now shows theorem, lemma, etc. However, after looking through /usr/share/lyx/layouts/amsbook.layout, I wonder what else I need in order to incorporate all the capabilities of the amsbook document class.

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