EndNote to LyX

2007-08-15 Thread Jannika Bock
I'm writing my thesis in LyX 1.5.1. on MAC OS X. I also use EndNote. How do I generate my bibliography from EndNote files in LyX? I tried to convert my EndNote files into BibTex, but did not suceed. I am a LyX newbie and not accustomed to programming and the like. I need an

Re: EndNote to LyX

2007-08-15 Thread Ride_Ride_Ride
Hi, Jannika I am using Lyx and bibtex on SUSE Linux. I know little about endnote, lyx, bibtex on MacOS, so I can't make any suggestions about them. You might use other bibtex tools on Mac. BibDesk http://bibdesk.sourceforge.net/ JabRef (work on JAVA, I'm not sure it can work on MacOS)

Re: Read only as default.

2007-08-15 Thread José Matos
On Friday 10 August 2007 19:38:57 Bernhard Roider wrote: Jean-Marc Lasgouttes schrieb: Emacs also have a open read only command. We could do something like that and bind it to C-S-o, but not put it in menu. afaics there is nothing to do in the source code: just add the following line to

Re: EndNote to LyX

2007-08-15 Thread Maria Gouskova
Hi, Jannika-- I would also recommend switching to JabRef from Endnote. A few years ago, I migrated from Endnote to JabRef/BibTeX and documented the steps here: http://homepages.nyu.edu/~mg152/downloads/bibtex.html This was the only method that worked for me; the others all screwed up one thing

Re: question about XeTex, ConTeXt and others

2007-08-15 Thread William Adams
On Aug 14, 2007, at 4:15 PM, Marcelo Acuña wrote: How I can get xelatex? I can´t see any package with this name in CTAN. It's not a package, but a binary format of the latex macros processed by XeTeX which is loaded by xetex. http://scripts.sil.org/xetex or

Re: EndNote to LyX

2007-08-15 Thread Fritz Bein
JabRef is quite powerful tool and provides an EndNote import function. It should work on Mac, too, as it is platform independent. Regards, Fritz Am 15.08.2007, 12:33 Uhr, schrieb Ride_Ride_Ride [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, Jannika I am using Lyx and bibtex on SUSE Linux. I know little about

Re: EndNote to LyX

2007-08-15 Thread Maria Gouskova
Follow the wiki guide for bibliographies in the humanities: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/HumanitiesLyX you'll need the MLA bibliography style, mla.bst, which is available from CTAN.org. Best, Maria On 8/15/07, Jannika Bock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Maria, thank you for your help. I downloaded

Re: EndNote to LyX

2007-08-15 Thread Gerard Ateshian
Jannika, Here is what I suggest for Mac OS X (I have used this successfully in the past). I got part of these instructions on the web but I don't recall where. So I am paraphrasing. 1) Convert your EndNote library to BibTex format. a. Within EndNote, Edit-Output Styles-Open Style

Re: [announce] completely revised LyX UserGuide - request for testing

2007-08-15 Thread John Kane
It seems okay now 09:08 Eastern Daylight Saving Time --- Typhoon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 15 Aug 2007 02:30:54 +0200 Uwe Stöhr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SNIP You can download the new UserGuide version and a PDF-version here:

Endnote to Jabref to LyX

2007-08-15 Thread Jannika Bock
Thanks for the prompt and helpful replies! I managed to transfer my endnote database to Jabref. Now I would like to generate a bibliography in Lyx; it has to be in MLA format. Does anybody know how to do that? Again, I need step-by-step introductions that are geared towards a newbie...

Re: Improving images for printing?

2007-08-15 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
I am replying to two different emails here... On Tue, 14 Aug 2007, Helge Hafting wrote: PNG is a lossless format, so it is OK even if it is compressed. (PNG compression does not cause any errors or blurring, quite unlike jpeg.) So feel free to use compressed png in order to get a smaller

Re: Endnote to Jabref to LyX

2007-08-15 Thread John Kane
A very nice start is Paul Johnson's article http://wiki.lyx.org/uploads/BibTeX/biblioexample.pdf It does not touch on MLA specifically though. --- Jannika Bock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the prompt and helpful replies! I managed to transfer my endnote database to Jabref. Now I

Re: Lyx, AGU, LaTeX export

2007-08-15 Thread David Simpson
Thanks for the reply. I am still puzzled. Checking AGU's web site (for J. Geophys. Res. at least), I see that they accept only LateX, Word or Wordperfect for accepted manuscripts. How can lyx be used to submit to AGU without converting to latex first? Dave Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: David

Re: Lyx, AGU, LaTeX export

2007-08-15 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
David Simpson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thanks for the reply. I am still puzzled. Checking AGU's web site (for J. Geophys. Res. at least), I see that they accept only LateX, Word or Wordperfect for accepted manuscripts. How can lyx be used to submit to AGU without converting to latex first?

Re: Computer algebra system

2007-08-15 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Tue, 14 Aug 2007, Rainer M. Krug wrote: Big AA! Helge Hafting wrote: SNIP I think LyX checks for this when trying to run them. All the computer algebra sw packages is available in that menu, even those I don't have. They are disabled only when the cursor isn't in a math region.

Re: Lyx, AGU, LaTeX export

2007-08-15 Thread Martin Vermeer
On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 04:26:48PM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: David Simpson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thanks for the reply. I am still puzzled. Checking AGU's web site (for J. Geophys. Res. at least), I see that they accept only LateX, Word or Wordperfect for accepted manuscripts.

Universal/Intel/PPC binaries

2007-08-15 Thread Maria Gouskova
Dear LyX users (actually, this is more a question for developers, or anyone who can clarify--) Since at least 1.5x, the download ftp directory has three .dmg files for LyX: a Universal, a PPC, and an Intel binary. Do all three get updated at the same time? Which of the three would you recommend?

Re: Extend picture over the whole page

2007-08-15 Thread Pavel Sanda
Helge Hafting wrote: In the float, use a \vspace command with a negative argument to get to the edge of paper. (i.e. you cancel the effect of the margin.) Then you insert a graphich big enough to cover the page. hmm, this seems to affect only text not picture. any other idea ? pavel

Re: question about XeTex, ConTeXt and others

2007-08-15 Thread Marcelo Acuña
How I can get xelatex? I can´t see any package with this name in CTAN. It's not a package, but a binary format of the latex macros processed by XeTeX which is loaded by xetex. http://scripts.sil.org/xetex This site give to me rpm´s for suse (I have opensuse 10.2) that no work at

Bib2wiki question

2007-08-15 Thread Myriam Abramson
I'm building a bibliography on a wiki (mediawiki) so that other people can collaborate their bibtex entries. I then cut-and-paste the bibtex entry page from the wiki into a file and then run a script that combines bibtex2thml and html2wiki. I then cut-and-paste the output to a wiki page. All this

Re: Universal/Intel/PPC binaries

2007-08-15 Thread Bennett Helm
On Aug 15, 2007, at 4:37 PM, Maria Gouskova wrote: Dear LyX users (actually, this is more a question for developers, or anyone who can clarify--) Since at least 1.5x, the download ftp directory has three .dmg files for LyX: a Universal, a PPC, and an Intel binary. Do all three get updated

footnotes using numbers and letters

2007-08-15 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
My content is organized by numbered verses. I want my footnotes to be numbered for the first footnote in the verse plus the letter a. And the superscript would just be a lowercase letter. Then subsequent footnotes within the same verse would be the next alphabetical letter. I guess I could

EndNote to LyX

2007-08-15 Thread Jannika Bock
I'm writing my thesis in LyX 1.5.1. on MAC OS X. I also use EndNote. How do I generate my bibliography from EndNote files in LyX? I tried to convert my EndNote files into BibTex, but did not suceed. I am a LyX newbie and not accustomed to programming and the like. I need an

Re: EndNote to LyX

2007-08-15 Thread Ride_Ride_Ride
Hi, Jannika I am using Lyx and bibtex on SUSE Linux. I know little about endnote, lyx, bibtex on MacOS, so I can't make any suggestions about them. You might use other bibtex tools on Mac. BibDesk http://bibdesk.sourceforge.net/ JabRef (work on JAVA, I'm not sure it can work on MacOS)

Re: Read only as default.

2007-08-15 Thread José Matos
On Friday 10 August 2007 19:38:57 Bernhard Roider wrote: Jean-Marc Lasgouttes schrieb: Emacs also have a open read only command. We could do something like that and bind it to C-S-o, but not put it in menu. afaics there is nothing to do in the source code: just add the following line to

Re: EndNote to LyX

2007-08-15 Thread Maria Gouskova
Hi, Jannika-- I would also recommend switching to JabRef from Endnote. A few years ago, I migrated from Endnote to JabRef/BibTeX and documented the steps here: http://homepages.nyu.edu/~mg152/downloads/bibtex.html This was the only method that worked for me; the others all screwed up one thing

Re: question about XeTex, ConTeXt and others

2007-08-15 Thread William Adams
On Aug 14, 2007, at 4:15 PM, Marcelo Acuña wrote: How I can get xelatex? I can´t see any package with this name in CTAN. It's not a package, but a binary format of the latex macros processed by XeTeX which is loaded by xetex. http://scripts.sil.org/xetex or

Re: EndNote to LyX

2007-08-15 Thread Fritz Bein
JabRef is quite powerful tool and provides an EndNote import function. It should work on Mac, too, as it is platform independent. Regards, Fritz Am 15.08.2007, 12:33 Uhr, schrieb Ride_Ride_Ride [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, Jannika I am using Lyx and bibtex on SUSE Linux. I know little about

Re: EndNote to LyX

2007-08-15 Thread Maria Gouskova
Follow the wiki guide for bibliographies in the humanities: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/HumanitiesLyX you'll need the MLA bibliography style, mla.bst, which is available from CTAN.org. Best, Maria On 8/15/07, Jannika Bock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Maria, thank you for your help. I downloaded

Re: EndNote to LyX

2007-08-15 Thread Gerard Ateshian
Jannika, Here is what I suggest for Mac OS X (I have used this successfully in the past). I got part of these instructions on the web but I don't recall where. So I am paraphrasing. 1) Convert your EndNote library to BibTex format. a. Within EndNote, Edit-Output Styles-Open Style

Re: [announce] completely revised LyX UserGuide - request for testing

2007-08-15 Thread John Kane
It seems okay now 09:08 Eastern Daylight Saving Time --- Typhoon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 15 Aug 2007 02:30:54 +0200 Uwe Stöhr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SNIP You can download the new UserGuide version and a PDF-version here:

Endnote to Jabref to LyX

2007-08-15 Thread Jannika Bock
Thanks for the prompt and helpful replies! I managed to transfer my endnote database to Jabref. Now I would like to generate a bibliography in Lyx; it has to be in MLA format. Does anybody know how to do that? Again, I need step-by-step introductions that are geared towards a newbie...

Re: Improving images for printing?

2007-08-15 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
I am replying to two different emails here... On Tue, 14 Aug 2007, Helge Hafting wrote: PNG is a lossless format, so it is OK even if it is compressed. (PNG compression does not cause any errors or blurring, quite unlike jpeg.) So feel free to use compressed png in order to get a smaller

Re: Endnote to Jabref to LyX

2007-08-15 Thread John Kane
A very nice start is Paul Johnson's article http://wiki.lyx.org/uploads/BibTeX/biblioexample.pdf It does not touch on MLA specifically though. --- Jannika Bock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the prompt and helpful replies! I managed to transfer my endnote database to Jabref. Now I

Re: Lyx, AGU, LaTeX export

2007-08-15 Thread David Simpson
Thanks for the reply. I am still puzzled. Checking AGU's web site (for J. Geophys. Res. at least), I see that they accept only LateX, Word or Wordperfect for accepted manuscripts. How can lyx be used to submit to AGU without converting to latex first? Dave Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: David

Re: Lyx, AGU, LaTeX export

2007-08-15 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
David Simpson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thanks for the reply. I am still puzzled. Checking AGU's web site (for J. Geophys. Res. at least), I see that they accept only LateX, Word or Wordperfect for accepted manuscripts. How can lyx be used to submit to AGU without converting to latex first?

Re: Computer algebra system

2007-08-15 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Tue, 14 Aug 2007, Rainer M. Krug wrote: Big AA! Helge Hafting wrote: SNIP I think LyX checks for this when trying to run them. All the computer algebra sw packages is available in that menu, even those I don't have. They are disabled only when the cursor isn't in a math region.

Re: Lyx, AGU, LaTeX export

2007-08-15 Thread Martin Vermeer
On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 04:26:48PM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: David Simpson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thanks for the reply. I am still puzzled. Checking AGU's web site (for J. Geophys. Res. at least), I see that they accept only LateX, Word or Wordperfect for accepted manuscripts.

Universal/Intel/PPC binaries

2007-08-15 Thread Maria Gouskova
Dear LyX users (actually, this is more a question for developers, or anyone who can clarify--) Since at least 1.5x, the download ftp directory has three .dmg files for LyX: a Universal, a PPC, and an Intel binary. Do all three get updated at the same time? Which of the three would you recommend?

Re: Extend picture over the whole page

2007-08-15 Thread Pavel Sanda
Helge Hafting wrote: In the float, use a \vspace command with a negative argument to get to the edge of paper. (i.e. you cancel the effect of the margin.) Then you insert a graphich big enough to cover the page. hmm, this seems to affect only text not picture. any other idea ? pavel

Re: question about XeTex, ConTeXt and others

2007-08-15 Thread Marcelo Acuña
How I can get xelatex? I can´t see any package with this name in CTAN. It's not a package, but a binary format of the latex macros processed by XeTeX which is loaded by xetex. http://scripts.sil.org/xetex This site give to me rpm´s for suse (I have opensuse 10.2) that no work at

Bib2wiki question

2007-08-15 Thread Myriam Abramson
I'm building a bibliography on a wiki (mediawiki) so that other people can collaborate their bibtex entries. I then cut-and-paste the bibtex entry page from the wiki into a file and then run a script that combines bibtex2thml and html2wiki. I then cut-and-paste the output to a wiki page. All this

Re: Universal/Intel/PPC binaries

2007-08-15 Thread Bennett Helm
On Aug 15, 2007, at 4:37 PM, Maria Gouskova wrote: Dear LyX users (actually, this is more a question for developers, or anyone who can clarify--) Since at least 1.5x, the download ftp directory has three .dmg files for LyX: a Universal, a PPC, and an Intel binary. Do all three get updated

footnotes using numbers and letters

2007-08-15 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
My content is organized by numbered verses. I want my footnotes to be numbered for the first footnote in the verse plus the letter a. And the superscript would just be a lowercase letter. Then subsequent footnotes within the same verse would be the next alphabetical letter. I guess I could

EndNote to LyX

2007-08-15 Thread Jannika Bock
I'm writing my thesis in LyX 1.5.1. on MAC OS X. I also use EndNote. How do I generate my bibliography from EndNote files in LyX? I tried to convert my EndNote files into BibTex, but did not suceed. I am a LyX newbie and not accustomed to programming and the like. I need an

Re: EndNote to LyX

2007-08-15 Thread Ride_Ride_Ride
Hi, Jannika I am using Lyx and bibtex on SUSE Linux. I know little about endnote, lyx, bibtex on MacOS, so I can't make any suggestions about them. You might use other bibtex tools on Mac. BibDesk http://bibdesk.sourceforge.net/ JabRef (work on JAVA, I'm not sure it can work on MacOS)

Re: Read only as default.

2007-08-15 Thread José Matos
On Friday 10 August 2007 19:38:57 Bernhard Roider wrote: > Jean-Marc Lasgouttes schrieb: > > Emacs also have a "open read only" command. We could do something like > > that and bind it to C-S-o, but not put it in menu. > > afaics there is nothing to do in the source code: just add the following >

Re: EndNote to LyX

2007-08-15 Thread Maria Gouskova
Hi, Jannika-- I would also recommend switching to JabRef from Endnote. A few years ago, I migrated from Endnote to JabRef/BibTeX and documented the steps here: http://homepages.nyu.edu/~mg152/downloads/bibtex.html This was the only method that worked for me; the others all screwed up one thing

Re: question about XeTex, ConTeXt and others

2007-08-15 Thread William Adams
On Aug 14, 2007, at 4:15 PM, Marcelo Acuña wrote: How I can get xelatex? I can´t see any package with this name in CTAN. It's not a package, but a binary format of the latex macros processed by XeTeX which is loaded by xetex. http://scripts.sil.org/xetex or

Re: EndNote to LyX

2007-08-15 Thread Fritz Bein
JabRef is quite powerful tool and provides an EndNote import function. It should work on Mac, too, as it is platform independent. Regards, Fritz Am 15.08.2007, 12:33 Uhr, schrieb Ride_Ride_Ride <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hi, Jannika I am using Lyx and bibtex on SUSE Linux. I know little about

Re: EndNote to LyX

2007-08-15 Thread Maria Gouskova
Follow the wiki guide for bibliographies in the humanities: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/HumanitiesLyX you'll need the MLA bibliography style, mla.bst, which is available from CTAN.org. Best, Maria On 8/15/07, Jannika Bock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Maria, > > thank you for your help. I

Re: EndNote to LyX

2007-08-15 Thread Gerard Ateshian
Jannika, Here is what I suggest for Mac OS X (I have used this successfully in the past). I got part of these instructions on the web but I don't recall where. So I am paraphrasing. 1) Convert your EndNote library to BibTex format. a. Within EndNote, Edit->Output Styles->Open Style

Re: [announce] completely revised LyX UserGuide - request for testing

2007-08-15 Thread John Kane
It seems okay now 09:08 Eastern Daylight Saving Time --- Typhoon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 15 Aug 2007 02:30:54 +0200 > Uwe Stöhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > You can download the new UserGuide version and a > PDF-version here: > > >

Endnote to Jabref to LyX

2007-08-15 Thread Jannika Bock
Thanks for the prompt and helpful replies! I managed to transfer my endnote database to Jabref. Now I would like to generate a bibliography in Lyx; it has to be in MLA format. Does anybody know how to do that? Again, I need step-by-step introductions that are geared towards a newbie...

Re: Improving images for printing?

2007-08-15 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
I am replying to two different emails here... On Tue, 14 Aug 2007, Helge Hafting wrote: > PNG is a lossless format, so it is OK even if it is compressed. > (PNG compression does not cause any errors or blurring, > quite unlike jpeg.) So feel free to use compressed png in > order to get a smaller

Re: Endnote to Jabref to LyX

2007-08-15 Thread John Kane
A very nice start is Paul Johnson's article http://wiki.lyx.org/uploads/BibTeX/biblioexample.pdf It does not touch on MLA specifically though. --- Jannika Bock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for the prompt and helpful replies! > > I managed to transfer my endnote database to Jabref. >

Re: Lyx, AGU, LaTeX export

2007-08-15 Thread David Simpson
Thanks for the reply. I am still puzzled. Checking AGU's web site (for J. Geophys. Res. at least), I see that they accept only LateX, Word or Wordperfect for accepted manuscripts. How can lyx be used to submit to AGU without converting to latex first? Dave Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: David

Re: Lyx, AGU, LaTeX export

2007-08-15 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
David Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thanks for the reply. I am still puzzled. Checking AGU's web site (for > J. Geophys. Res. at least), I see that they > accept only LateX, Word or Wordperfect for accepted manuscripts. How > can lyx be used to submit to > AGU without converting to latex

Re: Computer algebra system

2007-08-15 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Tue, 14 Aug 2007, Rainer M. Krug wrote: Big AA! Helge Hafting wrote: SNIP I think LyX checks for this when trying to run them. All the computer algebra sw packages is available in that menu, even those I don't have. They are disabled only when the cursor isn't in a math region.

Re: Lyx, AGU, LaTeX export

2007-08-15 Thread Martin Vermeer
On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 04:26:48PM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > David Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Thanks for the reply. I am still puzzled. Checking AGU's web site (for > > J. Geophys. Res. at least), I see that they > > accept only LateX, Word or Wordperfect for accepted

Universal/Intel/PPC binaries

2007-08-15 Thread Maria Gouskova
Dear LyX users (actually, this is more a question for developers, or anyone who can clarify--) Since at least 1.5x, the download ftp directory has three .dmg files for LyX: a Universal, a PPC, and an Intel binary. Do all three get updated at the same time? Which of the three would you recommend?

Re: Extend picture over the whole page

2007-08-15 Thread Pavel Sanda
> Helge Hafting wrote: > >>In the float, use a \vspace command with a negative argument > >>to get to the edge of paper. (i.e. you cancel the effect of the margin.) > >>Then you insert a graphich big enough to cover the page. > >> > > > >hmm, this seems to affect only text not picture. > >any

Re: question about XeTex, ConTeXt and others

2007-08-15 Thread Marcelo Acuña
> > How I can get xelatex? > > I can´t see any package with this name in CTAN. > > It's not a package, but a binary format of the latex > macros processed > by XeTeX which is loaded by xetex. > > http://scripts.sil.org/xetex This site give to me rpm´s for suse (I have opensuse 10.2) that

Bib2wiki question

2007-08-15 Thread Myriam Abramson
I'm building a bibliography on a wiki (mediawiki) so that other people can collaborate their bibtex entries. I then cut-and-paste the bibtex entry page from the wiki into a file and then run a script that combines bibtex2thml and html2wiki. I then cut-and-paste the output to a wiki page. All this

Re: Universal/Intel/PPC binaries

2007-08-15 Thread Bennett Helm
On Aug 15, 2007, at 4:37 PM, Maria Gouskova wrote: Dear LyX users (actually, this is more a question for developers, or anyone who can clarify--) Since at least 1.5x, the download ftp directory has three .dmg files for LyX: a Universal, a PPC, and an Intel binary. Do all three get updated

footnotes using numbers and letters

2007-08-15 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
My content is organized by numbered verses. I want my footnotes to be numbered for the first footnote in the verse plus the letter "a". And the superscript would just be a lowercase letter. Then subsequent footnotes within the same verse would be the next alphabetical letter. I guess I could