Problems setting up LyX

2008-06-01 Thread RyanC
Hello, I'm having a lot of general problems getting LyX set up Mepis 7 (binary compatible with Etch). I installed a 1.4 version via Synaptic, to resolve as many dependencies as possible. Then I uninstalled this version and installed 1.5.3 with Kpackage. I'm finding that I have lots of

Re: Justify the text

2008-06-01 Thread sarah84
Hello again, Acutally I used standard for this part of my memo, I used it to write the section. for exemple: MADCOW (the section title Section) (Multimedia Annotation of Digital Content Over the Web) est un système d’annotation pour les documents multimédias, créé par des chercheurs de

Re: Justify the text

2008-06-01 Thread sarah84
Hello again, Acutally I used standard for this part of my memo, I used it to write the section. for exemple: MADCOW (the section title Section) (Multimedia Annotation of Digital Content Over the Web) est un système d’annotation pour les documents multimédias, créé par des chercheurs de

Labels and parent-child documents

2008-06-01 Thread Humberto Castejon
Hi! I have just realized that when importing child documents, the labels of the different documents may overlap. That is, the same label may have been used, e.g., in two child documents. Does LyX take this into account and add any kind of prefix to the labels of the children documents? If not,

Re: Justify the text

2008-06-01 Thread Nicolás
Hi! I think rgheck was not talking about the Paragraph environment (or style?), but about changing the format of your paragraphs (Edit-Paragraph settings). From the Paragraph settings dialog you can select if you want your paragraph justified, centered, etc. Nicolás sarah84 wrote: Hello

Re: Labels and parent-child documents

2008-06-01 Thread rgheck
Humberto Castejon wrote: Hi! I have just realized that when importing child documents, the labels of the different documents may overlap. That is, the same label may have been used, e.g., in two child documents. Does LyX take this into account and add any kind of prefix to the labels of the

Re: Justify the text

2008-06-01 Thread sarah84
Hello again, Acutally I used standard for this part of my memo, I used it to write the section. for exemple: MADCOW (the section title Section) (Multimedia Annotation of Digital Content Over the Web) est un système d’annotation pour les documents multimédias, créé par des chercheurs de

Re: dvi no output

2008-06-01 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Ed Sykes wrote: Thanks for your help. Unfortunately, it makes no difference to change the font. Anything else I could try? Or should I start re-installing MikTeX? I'd leave messing with MikTeX for last. Your initial post said you'd made a few changes. Might be one of the edits had

Re: LyX Installer problem

2008-06-01 Thread Uwe Stöhr
David Hewitt schrieb: The main concern is that when it goes through checking for document class and then packages just before starting LyX, it hangs up. I kill the window, it eventually starts LyX, I go to MikTeX and update and install the packages I want... restart LyX, run Configure,

Re: importing spreadsheet rows and columns

2008-06-01 Thread Daniel Lohmann
A (late) follow-up on this: I have got some good experience with an open-source Excel-Plugin named Excel2LaTeX. This plugin provides a toolbar button to convert the selected parts of an Excel table into LaTeX source code that can then either be saved into a file or into the clipboard.

Re: Problems setting up LyX

2008-06-01 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 2:20 AM, RyanC [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm having a lot of general problems getting LyX set up Mepis 7 (binary compatible with Etch). I installed a 1.4 version via Synaptic, to resolve as many dependencies as possible. Then I uninstalled this version and

Problems with LyX 1.5.5 after MAC OS X update

2008-06-01 Thread George G. Szegö
Hi there, I'd just like to report that LyX version 1.5.5 repeatedly crashes after I updated the MAC OS X to the newly released version 10.5.3 of the operating system yesterday. LyX 1.5.5 doesn't even open properly showing only the top menu and an entirely blurred GUI. I got a bit desperate

Subfigure caption spacing

2008-06-01 Thread Adrian Peter
Hi, I am getting some weird spacing issues in my subfigure captions. The spacing after the identifiers (a), (b), (c), etc. all seem to vary. I have attached an example of the output as a pdf. How can I fix this issue? Thank you. Adrian subfigCapEx.pdf Description: Adobe PDF document

Re: Problems with LyX 1.5.5 after MAC OS X update

2008-06-01 Thread Bennett Helm
On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 2:38 PM, George G. Szegö [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, I'd just like to report that LyX version 1.5.5 repeatedly crashes after I updated the MAC OS X to the newly released version 10.5.3 of the operating system yesterday. LyX 1.5.5 doesn't even open properly

Re: Subfigure caption spacing

2008-06-01 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 1:42 PM, Adrian Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am getting some weird spacing issues in my subfigure captions. The spacing after the identifiers (a), (b), (c), etc. all seem to vary. I have attached an example of the output as a pdf. How can I fix this issue?

Re: Problems with LyX 1.5.5 after MAC OS X update

2008-06-01 Thread Bennett Helm
On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 6:26 PM, George G. Szegö [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 01/06/2008, at 4:44 PM, Bennett Helm wrote: I haven't experienced any problem with it, so I'll need more help figuring out what the problem might be. Do you have a PPC or Intel Mac? I have a 2.4GHz Intel Core 2

Re: How reduce number of hyphenation per page

2008-06-01 Thread D . Zorig
RH, thank you for your help. The language is Russian. There are quite a lot of long words. I have tried different numerical arguments and following seems to work well in my case. \hyphenpenalty=2000 \exhyphenpenalty=2000 \sloppy Do you know any way to mix different paper formats? My

Re: Subfigure caption spacing

2008-06-01 Thread Adrian Peter
On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 5:02 PM, Bob Lounsbury [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 1:42 PM, Adrian Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am getting some weird spacing issues in my subfigure captions. The spacing after the identifiers (a), (b), (c), etc. all seem to vary. I

Re: Sectioned bibliogaphy

2008-06-01 Thread gdmj100
Thank you. Biblatex seems to have all the right features. I am having a few problems implementing it, but I am reading through the full manual, so I am sure I will figure it out. Thanks for the info, I hope the LyX guys are looking at implementing this into 1.6, it seems to be a natural upgrade.

Changing the fonts of the Document

2008-06-01 Thread nobody
I'm new to LyX, and it looks like an exciting way to create documents. One problem I'm having is: How can I change the document's font? I understand WYSIWYM, and that I shouldn't hand edit fonts. But how can I say that, in this document, a particular style should be in a particular font? Or,

Problems setting up LyX

2008-06-01 Thread RyanC
Hello, I'm having a lot of general problems getting LyX set up Mepis 7 (binary compatible with Etch). I installed a 1.4 version via Synaptic, to resolve as many dependencies as possible. Then I uninstalled this version and installed 1.5.3 with Kpackage. I'm finding that I have lots of

Re: Justify the text

2008-06-01 Thread sarah84
Hello again, Acutally I used standard for this part of my memo, I used it to write the section. for exemple: MADCOW (the section title Section) (Multimedia Annotation of Digital Content Over the Web) est un système d’annotation pour les documents multimédias, créé par des chercheurs de

Re: Justify the text

2008-06-01 Thread sarah84
Hello again, Acutally I used standard for this part of my memo, I used it to write the section. for exemple: MADCOW (the section title Section) (Multimedia Annotation of Digital Content Over the Web) est un système d’annotation pour les documents multimédias, créé par des chercheurs de

Labels and parent-child documents

2008-06-01 Thread Humberto Castejon
Hi! I have just realized that when importing child documents, the labels of the different documents may overlap. That is, the same label may have been used, e.g., in two child documents. Does LyX take this into account and add any kind of prefix to the labels of the children documents? If not,

Re: Justify the text

2008-06-01 Thread Nicolás
Hi! I think rgheck was not talking about the Paragraph environment (or style?), but about changing the format of your paragraphs (Edit-Paragraph settings). From the Paragraph settings dialog you can select if you want your paragraph justified, centered, etc. Nicolás sarah84 wrote: Hello

Re: Labels and parent-child documents

2008-06-01 Thread rgheck
Humberto Castejon wrote: Hi! I have just realized that when importing child documents, the labels of the different documents may overlap. That is, the same label may have been used, e.g., in two child documents. Does LyX take this into account and add any kind of prefix to the labels of the

Re: Justify the text

2008-06-01 Thread sarah84
Hello again, Acutally I used standard for this part of my memo, I used it to write the section. for exemple: MADCOW (the section title Section) (Multimedia Annotation of Digital Content Over the Web) est un système d’annotation pour les documents multimédias, créé par des chercheurs de

Re: dvi no output

2008-06-01 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Ed Sykes wrote: Thanks for your help. Unfortunately, it makes no difference to change the font. Anything else I could try? Or should I start re-installing MikTeX? I'd leave messing with MikTeX for last. Your initial post said you'd made a few changes. Might be one of the edits had

Re: LyX Installer problem

2008-06-01 Thread Uwe Stöhr
David Hewitt schrieb: The main concern is that when it goes through checking for document class and then packages just before starting LyX, it hangs up. I kill the window, it eventually starts LyX, I go to MikTeX and update and install the packages I want... restart LyX, run Configure,

Re: importing spreadsheet rows and columns

2008-06-01 Thread Daniel Lohmann
A (late) follow-up on this: I have got some good experience with an open-source Excel-Plugin named Excel2LaTeX. This plugin provides a toolbar button to convert the selected parts of an Excel table into LaTeX source code that can then either be saved into a file or into the clipboard.

Re: Problems setting up LyX

2008-06-01 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 2:20 AM, RyanC [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm having a lot of general problems getting LyX set up Mepis 7 (binary compatible with Etch). I installed a 1.4 version via Synaptic, to resolve as many dependencies as possible. Then I uninstalled this version and

Problems with LyX 1.5.5 after MAC OS X update

2008-06-01 Thread George G. Szegö
Hi there, I'd just like to report that LyX version 1.5.5 repeatedly crashes after I updated the MAC OS X to the newly released version 10.5.3 of the operating system yesterday. LyX 1.5.5 doesn't even open properly showing only the top menu and an entirely blurred GUI. I got a bit desperate

Subfigure caption spacing

2008-06-01 Thread Adrian Peter
Hi, I am getting some weird spacing issues in my subfigure captions. The spacing after the identifiers (a), (b), (c), etc. all seem to vary. I have attached an example of the output as a pdf. How can I fix this issue? Thank you. Adrian subfigCapEx.pdf Description: Adobe PDF document

Re: Problems with LyX 1.5.5 after MAC OS X update

2008-06-01 Thread Bennett Helm
On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 2:38 PM, George G. Szegö [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, I'd just like to report that LyX version 1.5.5 repeatedly crashes after I updated the MAC OS X to the newly released version 10.5.3 of the operating system yesterday. LyX 1.5.5 doesn't even open properly

Re: Subfigure caption spacing

2008-06-01 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 1:42 PM, Adrian Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am getting some weird spacing issues in my subfigure captions. The spacing after the identifiers (a), (b), (c), etc. all seem to vary. I have attached an example of the output as a pdf. How can I fix this issue?

Re: Problems with LyX 1.5.5 after MAC OS X update

2008-06-01 Thread Bennett Helm
On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 6:26 PM, George G. Szegö [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 01/06/2008, at 4:44 PM, Bennett Helm wrote: I haven't experienced any problem with it, so I'll need more help figuring out what the problem might be. Do you have a PPC or Intel Mac? I have a 2.4GHz Intel Core 2

Re: How reduce number of hyphenation per page

2008-06-01 Thread D . Zorig
RH, thank you for your help. The language is Russian. There are quite a lot of long words. I have tried different numerical arguments and following seems to work well in my case. \hyphenpenalty=2000 \exhyphenpenalty=2000 \sloppy Do you know any way to mix different paper formats? My

Re: Subfigure caption spacing

2008-06-01 Thread Adrian Peter
On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 5:02 PM, Bob Lounsbury [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 1:42 PM, Adrian Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am getting some weird spacing issues in my subfigure captions. The spacing after the identifiers (a), (b), (c), etc. all seem to vary. I

Re: Sectioned bibliogaphy

2008-06-01 Thread gdmj100
Thank you. Biblatex seems to have all the right features. I am having a few problems implementing it, but I am reading through the full manual, so I am sure I will figure it out. Thanks for the info, I hope the LyX guys are looking at implementing this into 1.6, it seems to be a natural upgrade.

Changing the fonts of the Document

2008-06-01 Thread nobody
I'm new to LyX, and it looks like an exciting way to create documents. One problem I'm having is: How can I change the document's font? I understand WYSIWYM, and that I shouldn't hand edit fonts. But how can I say that, in this document, a particular style should be in a particular font? Or,

Problems setting up LyX

2008-06-01 Thread RyanC
Hello, I'm having a lot of general problems getting LyX set up Mepis 7 (binary compatible with Etch). I installed a 1.4 version via Synaptic, to resolve as many dependencies as possible. Then I uninstalled this version and installed 1.5.3 with Kpackage. I'm finding that I have lots of

Re: Justify the text

2008-06-01 Thread sarah84
Hello again, Acutally I used "standard" for this part of my memo, I used it to write the section. for exemple: MADCOW (the section title "Section") (Multimedia Annotation of Digital Content Over the Web) est un système d’annotation pour les documents multimédias, créé par des chercheurs de

Re: Justify the text

2008-06-01 Thread sarah84
Hello again, Acutally I used "standard" for this part of my memo, I used it to write the section. for exemple: MADCOW (the section title "Section") (Multimedia Annotation of Digital Content Over the Web) est un système d’annotation pour les documents multimédias, créé par des chercheurs de

Labels and parent-child documents

2008-06-01 Thread Humberto Castejon
Hi! I have just realized that when importing child documents, the labels of the different documents may overlap. That is, the same label may have been used, e.g., in two child documents. Does LyX take this into account and add any kind of prefix to the labels of the children documents? If not,

Re: Justify the text

2008-06-01 Thread Nicolás
Hi! I think rgheck was not talking about the Paragraph environment (or style?), but about changing the format of your paragraphs (Edit->Paragraph settings). From the Paragraph settings dialog you can select if you want your paragraph justified, centered, etc. Nicolás sarah84 wrote: Hello

Re: Labels and parent-child documents

2008-06-01 Thread rgheck
Humberto Castejon wrote: Hi! I have just realized that when importing child documents, the labels of the different documents may overlap. That is, the same label may have been used, e.g., in two child documents. Does LyX take this into account and add any kind of prefix to the labels of the

Re: Justify the text

2008-06-01 Thread sarah84
Hello again, Acutally I used "standard" for this part of my memo, I used it to write the section. for exemple: MADCOW (the section title "Section") (Multimedia Annotation of Digital Content Over the Web) est un système d’annotation pour les documents multimédias, créé par des chercheurs de

Re: dvi no output

2008-06-01 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Ed Sykes wrote: Thanks for your help. Unfortunately, it makes no difference to change the font. Anything else I could try? Or should I start re-installing MikTeX? I'd leave messing with MikTeX for last. Your initial post said you'd made a few changes. Might be one of the edits had

Re: LyX Installer problem

2008-06-01 Thread Uwe Stöhr
David Hewitt schrieb: The main concern is that when it goes through checking for document class and then packages just before starting LyX, it hangs up. I kill the window, it eventually starts LyX, I go to MikTeX and update and install the packages I want... restart LyX, run Configure,

Re: importing spreadsheet rows and columns

2008-06-01 Thread Daniel Lohmann
A (late) follow-up on this: I have got some good experience with an open-source Excel-Plugin named Excel2LaTeX. This plugin provides a toolbar button to convert the selected parts of an Excel table into LaTeX source code that can then either be saved into a file or into the clipboard.

Re: Problems setting up LyX

2008-06-01 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 2:20 AM, RyanC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm having a lot of general problems getting LyX set up Mepis 7 (binary > compatible with Etch). > > I installed a 1.4 version via Synaptic, to resolve as many dependencies as > possible. Then I uninstalled this version

Problems with LyX 1.5.5 after MAC OS X update

2008-06-01 Thread George G. Szegö
Hi there, I'd just like to report that LyX version 1.5.5 repeatedly crashes after I updated the MAC OS X to the newly released version 10.5.3 of the operating system yesterday. LyX 1.5.5 doesn't even open properly showing only the top menu and an entirely blurred GUI. I got a bit desperate

Subfigure caption spacing

2008-06-01 Thread Adrian Peter
Hi, I am getting some weird spacing issues in my subfigure captions. The spacing after the identifiers (a), (b), (c), etc. all seem to vary. I have attached an example of the output as a pdf. How can I fix this issue? Thank you. Adrian subfigCapEx.pdf Description: Adobe PDF document

Re: Problems with LyX 1.5.5 after MAC OS X update

2008-06-01 Thread Bennett Helm
On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 2:38 PM, "George G. Szegö" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi there, > I'd just like to report that LyX version 1.5.5 repeatedly crashes after I > updated the MAC OS X to the newly released version 10.5.3 of the > operating system yesterday. > > LyX 1.5.5 doesn't even open

Re: Subfigure caption spacing

2008-06-01 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 1:42 PM, Adrian Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am getting some weird spacing issues in my subfigure captions. The > spacing after the identifiers (a), (b), (c), etc. all seem to vary. I have > attached an example of the output as a pdf. How can I fix this

Re: Problems with LyX 1.5.5 after MAC OS X update

2008-06-01 Thread Bennett Helm
On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 6:26 PM, "George G. Szegö" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 01/06/2008, at 4:44 PM, Bennett Helm wrote: > > I haven't experienced any problem with it, so I'll need more help figuring >> out what the problem might be. Do you have a PPC or Intel Mac? >> > > I have a 2.4GHz

Re: How reduce number of hyphenation per page

2008-06-01 Thread D . Zorig
RH, thank you for your help. The language is Russian. There are quite a lot of long words. I have tried different numerical arguments and following seems to work well in my case. \hyphenpenalty=2000 \exhyphenpenalty=2000 \sloppy Do you know any way to mix different paper formats? My

Re: Subfigure caption spacing

2008-06-01 Thread Adrian Peter
On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 5:02 PM, Bob Lounsbury <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 1:42 PM, Adrian Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am getting some weird spacing issues in my subfigure captions. The > > spacing after the identifiers (a), (b), (c), etc. all seem

Re: Sectioned bibliogaphy

2008-06-01 Thread gdmj100
Thank you. Biblatex seems to have all the right features. I am having a few problems implementing it, but I am reading through the full manual, so I am sure I will figure it out. Thanks for the info, I hope the LyX guys are looking at implementing this into 1.6, it seems to be a natural upgrade.

Changing the fonts of the Document

2008-06-01 Thread nobody
I'm new to LyX, and it looks like an exciting way to create documents. One problem I'm having is: How can I change the document's font? I understand WYSIWYM, and that I shouldn't hand edit fonts. But how can I say that, in this document, a particular style should be in a particular font? Or,