Re: xfig converter rotates image

2008-07-03 Thread Allen L. Barker
Allen L. Barker wrote: I recently updated to lyx-1.5.5 from lyx-1.5.3 at the same time time that I updated my Fedora from core 5 to fc8. I am including xfig images as graphics. Before, the converter would automatically take care of the conversion to EPS, so that psfrag worked on the resulting

Re: xfig converter rotates image

2008-07-03 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Allen L. Barker wrote: Allen L. Barker wrote: I recently updated to lyx-1.5.5 from lyx-1.5.3 at the same time time that I updated my Fedora from core 5 to fc8. I am including xfig images as graphics. Before, the converter would automatically take care of the conversion to EPS, so that psfrag

Re: xfig converter rotates image

2008-07-03 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Allen L. Barker wrote: Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Allen L. Barker wrote: Allen L. Barker wrote: I recently updated to lyx-1.5.5 from lyx-1.5.3 at the same time time that I updated my Fedora from core 5 to fc8. I am including xfig images as graphics. Before, the converter would

Re: left-align paragraphs in GUI

2008-07-03 Thread G. Milde
On 7.04.08, G. Milde wrote: Dear LyX-Users, Attach: /home/milde/.lyx/layouts/leftalign.inc As LyX's linebreaking algorithm does not include hyphenation of longer words, some very large inter-word spaces frequently occure (especially in languages with many long words as e.g. German).

experiences with lyx 1.6.beta3

2008-07-03 Thread G. Milde
Dear LyX users, with help from Sven (http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-lyx-devel/2008-June/002729.html). I was able to install a test build or LyX 1.6.beta3 on my Debian/testing system. In order to be able to use 1.5.5 and 1.6.beta3 in parallel, I * copied the files from the

LyX and SVN

2008-07-03 Thread bigblop
I have some .lyx files under version control with SVN. But when I get a conflict I cannot open the conflicted .lyx file I get an error that the file is not a lyx document. How do I solve conflicted lyx files? It seems that LyX is not very compatible with SVN will this compability issue be solved

Re: LyX and SVN

2008-07-03 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
bigblop wrote: I have some .lyx files under version control with SVN. But when I get a conflict I cannot open the conflicted .lyx file I get an error that the file is not a lyx document. How do I solve conflicted lyx files? By hand-editing the .lyx file in a text editor. SVN adds tags when

Re: experiences with lyx 1.6.beta3

2008-07-03 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
G. Milde wrote: I wonder whether it is save enaugh to use 1.6.beta3 for my phd thesis (no imminent deadline). I wouldn't strongly discourage using a devel version for such an important project. I fact, I was myself rather over-careful and waited for *.1 or *.2 version before I used a new

Re: experiences with lyx 1.6.beta3

2008-07-03 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Am Donnerstag, 3. Juli 2008 schrieb Jürgen Spitzmüller: I wouldn't strongly discourage using a devel version Oops: I *would* strongly discourage this, actually. Jürgen

Re: experiences with lyx 1.6.beta3

2008-07-03 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: G. Milde wrote: I wonder whether it is save enaugh to use 1.6.beta3 for my phd thesis (no imminent deadline). I wouldn't strongly discourage using a devel version for such an important project. I fact, I was myself rather over-careful and waited for *.1 or *.2

where to find scientific journal layout-files

2008-07-03 Thread Maarten van Iterson
Hello LyX-user, LyX is very handy in writing scientific documents. But now I have to submit an article to e.g. BioMed Central or another Bioinformatics Journal. Although most journal have LaTeX documentclass layout files are not provided. Does anyone know of a layout repository, besides the one

Re: experiences with lyx 1.6.beta3

2008-07-03 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
G. Milde wrote: + Startup is faster. Glad you feel the difference :-) Some problems remain - Word deletion (Bug #3580) is not fixed in beta3. Bugzilla shows it is fixed in trunk and branch. Could a beta4 be released soon? You'll have to wake up José... DDDRNNGG, time has come

Re: experiences with lyx 1.6.beta3

2008-07-03 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
G. Milde [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In order to be able to use 1.5.5 and 1.6.beta3 in parallel, I * copied the files from the package to /usr/local/ * renamed /usr/local/bin/lyx to lyx-1.6 * copied my personal lyx dir to ~/.lyx16 * wrote a small script /usr/local/bin/lyx16:: #!/bin/sh

Re: LyX and SVN

2008-07-03 Thread G. Milde
On 3.07.08, bigblop wrote: I have some .lyx files under version control with SVN. But when I get a conflict I cannot open the conflicted .lyx file I get an error that the file is not a lyx document. The conflict markers break the structure of the .lyx file (generally, it might be ok in some

Re: experiences with lyx 1.6.beta3

2008-07-03 Thread G. Milde
On 3.07.08, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: G. Milde wrote: - Export to 1.5.x format creates a file with extension .lyx15 which OTOH is not found by LyX (if the default *.lyx filter is on). There is no way to specify the name of exported files (this is a generic problem, also in earlier

Re: experiences with lyx 1.6.beta3

2008-07-03 Thread G. Milde
On 3.07.08, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: G. Milde [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In order to be able to use 1.5.5 and 1.6.beta3 in parallel ... Did you try: ./configure --with-version-suffix=16 [...other flags] It allows to use several versions in parallel (and create the binary 'lyx16'). I

Re: experiences with lyx 1.6.beta3

2008-07-03 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
G. Milde [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I tried to compile lyx, but after trashing for some hours my computer crashed due to missing memory. So I installed a binary package. Compile with --enable-build-type=release, or simply with --disable-debug. The fix got in two days ago... It's just that

Re: where to find scientific journal layout-files

2008-07-03 Thread cmiramon
Maarten van Iterson wrote: Hello LyX-user, LyX is very handy in writing scientific documents. But now I have to submit an article to e.g. BioMed Central or another Bioinformatics Journal. Although most journal have LaTeX documentclass layout files are not provided. Does anyone know of a

Re: Xfig and LyX

2008-07-03 Thread A. Scottedward Hodel
On Jun 25, 2008, at 9:21 AM, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: Could somebody kindly point me to an understandable explanation of how to use xfig produced figures in LyX? Help file Userguide tells me to check for detailed explanation under ImbeddedObjects but there I can´t find any detailed

Re: xfig converter rotates image

2008-07-03 Thread Allen L. Barker
Allen L. Barker wrote: I recently updated to lyx-1.5.5 from lyx-1.5.3 at the same time time that I updated my Fedora from core 5 to fc8. I am including xfig images as graphics. Before, the converter would automatically take care of the conversion to EPS, so that psfrag worked on the resulting

Re: xfig converter rotates image

2008-07-03 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Allen L. Barker wrote: Allen L. Barker wrote: I recently updated to lyx-1.5.5 from lyx-1.5.3 at the same time time that I updated my Fedora from core 5 to fc8. I am including xfig images as graphics. Before, the converter would automatically take care of the conversion to EPS, so that psfrag

Re: xfig converter rotates image

2008-07-03 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Allen L. Barker wrote: Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Allen L. Barker wrote: Allen L. Barker wrote: I recently updated to lyx-1.5.5 from lyx-1.5.3 at the same time time that I updated my Fedora from core 5 to fc8. I am including xfig images as graphics. Before, the converter would

Re: left-align paragraphs in GUI

2008-07-03 Thread G. Milde
On 7.04.08, G. Milde wrote: Dear LyX-Users, Attach: /home/milde/.lyx/layouts/leftalign.inc As LyX's linebreaking algorithm does not include hyphenation of longer words, some very large inter-word spaces frequently occure (especially in languages with many long words as e.g. German).

experiences with lyx 1.6.beta3

2008-07-03 Thread G. Milde
Dear LyX users, with help from Sven (http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-lyx-devel/2008-June/002729.html). I was able to install a test build or LyX 1.6.beta3 on my Debian/testing system. In order to be able to use 1.5.5 and 1.6.beta3 in parallel, I * copied the files from the

LyX and SVN

2008-07-03 Thread bigblop
I have some .lyx files under version control with SVN. But when I get a conflict I cannot open the conflicted .lyx file I get an error that the file is not a lyx document. How do I solve conflicted lyx files? It seems that LyX is not very compatible with SVN will this compability issue be solved

Re: LyX and SVN

2008-07-03 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
bigblop wrote: I have some .lyx files under version control with SVN. But when I get a conflict I cannot open the conflicted .lyx file I get an error that the file is not a lyx document. How do I solve conflicted lyx files? By hand-editing the .lyx file in a text editor. SVN adds tags when

Re: experiences with lyx 1.6.beta3

2008-07-03 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
G. Milde wrote: I wonder whether it is save enaugh to use 1.6.beta3 for my phd thesis (no imminent deadline). I wouldn't strongly discourage using a devel version for such an important project. I fact, I was myself rather over-careful and waited for *.1 or *.2 version before I used a new

Re: experiences with lyx 1.6.beta3

2008-07-03 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Am Donnerstag, 3. Juli 2008 schrieb Jürgen Spitzmüller: I wouldn't strongly discourage using a devel version Oops: I *would* strongly discourage this, actually. Jürgen

Re: experiences with lyx 1.6.beta3

2008-07-03 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: G. Milde wrote: I wonder whether it is save enaugh to use 1.6.beta3 for my phd thesis (no imminent deadline). I wouldn't strongly discourage using a devel version for such an important project. I fact, I was myself rather over-careful and waited for *.1 or *.2

where to find scientific journal layout-files

2008-07-03 Thread Maarten van Iterson
Hello LyX-user, LyX is very handy in writing scientific documents. But now I have to submit an article to e.g. BioMed Central or another Bioinformatics Journal. Although most journal have LaTeX documentclass layout files are not provided. Does anyone know of a layout repository, besides the one

Re: experiences with lyx 1.6.beta3

2008-07-03 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
G. Milde wrote: + Startup is faster. Glad you feel the difference :-) Some problems remain - Word deletion (Bug #3580) is not fixed in beta3. Bugzilla shows it is fixed in trunk and branch. Could a beta4 be released soon? You'll have to wake up José... DDDRNNGG, time has come

Re: experiences with lyx 1.6.beta3

2008-07-03 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
G. Milde [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In order to be able to use 1.5.5 and 1.6.beta3 in parallel, I * copied the files from the package to /usr/local/ * renamed /usr/local/bin/lyx to lyx-1.6 * copied my personal lyx dir to ~/.lyx16 * wrote a small script /usr/local/bin/lyx16:: #!/bin/sh

Re: LyX and SVN

2008-07-03 Thread G. Milde
On 3.07.08, bigblop wrote: I have some .lyx files under version control with SVN. But when I get a conflict I cannot open the conflicted .lyx file I get an error that the file is not a lyx document. The conflict markers break the structure of the .lyx file (generally, it might be ok in some

Re: experiences with lyx 1.6.beta3

2008-07-03 Thread G. Milde
On 3.07.08, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: G. Milde wrote: - Export to 1.5.x format creates a file with extension .lyx15 which OTOH is not found by LyX (if the default *.lyx filter is on). There is no way to specify the name of exported files (this is a generic problem, also in earlier

Re: experiences with lyx 1.6.beta3

2008-07-03 Thread G. Milde
On 3.07.08, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: G. Milde [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In order to be able to use 1.5.5 and 1.6.beta3 in parallel ... Did you try: ./configure --with-version-suffix=16 [...other flags] It allows to use several versions in parallel (and create the binary 'lyx16'). I

Re: experiences with lyx 1.6.beta3

2008-07-03 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
G. Milde [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I tried to compile lyx, but after trashing for some hours my computer crashed due to missing memory. So I installed a binary package. Compile with --enable-build-type=release, or simply with --disable-debug. The fix got in two days ago... It's just that

Re: where to find scientific journal layout-files

2008-07-03 Thread cmiramon
Maarten van Iterson wrote: Hello LyX-user, LyX is very handy in writing scientific documents. But now I have to submit an article to e.g. BioMed Central or another Bioinformatics Journal. Although most journal have LaTeX documentclass layout files are not provided. Does anyone know of a

Re: Xfig and LyX

2008-07-03 Thread A. Scottedward Hodel
On Jun 25, 2008, at 9:21 AM, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: Could somebody kindly point me to an understandable explanation of how to use xfig produced figures in LyX? Help file Userguide tells me to check for detailed explanation under ImbeddedObjects but there I can´t find any detailed

Re: xfig converter rotates image

2008-07-03 Thread Allen L. Barker
Allen L. Barker wrote: I recently updated to lyx-1.5.5 from lyx-1.5.3 at the same time time that I updated my Fedora from core 5 to fc8. I am including xfig images as graphics. Before, the converter would automatically take care of the conversion to EPS, so that psfrag worked on the resulting

Re: xfig converter rotates image

2008-07-03 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Allen L. Barker wrote: Allen L. Barker wrote: I recently updated to lyx-1.5.5 from lyx-1.5.3 at the same time time that I updated my Fedora from core 5 to fc8. I am including xfig images as graphics. Before, the converter would automatically take care of the conversion to EPS, so that psfrag

Re: xfig converter rotates image

2008-07-03 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Allen L. Barker wrote: Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Allen L. Barker wrote: Allen L. Barker wrote: I recently updated to lyx-1.5.5 from lyx-1.5.3 at the same time time that I updated my Fedora from core 5 to fc8. I am including xfig images as graphics. Before, the converter would

Re: left-align paragraphs in GUI

2008-07-03 Thread G. Milde
On 7.04.08, G. Milde wrote: > Dear LyX-Users, > Attach: /home/milde/.lyx/layouts/leftalign.inc > As LyX's linebreaking algorithm does not include hyphenation of longer > words, some very large inter-word spaces frequently occure (especially in > languages with many long words as e.g. German). >

experiences with lyx 1.6.beta3

2008-07-03 Thread G. Milde
Dear LyX users, with help from Sven (http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-lyx-devel/2008-June/002729.html). I was able to install a test build or LyX 1.6.beta3 on my Debian/testing system. In order to be able to use 1.5.5 and 1.6.beta3 in parallel, I * copied the files from the

LyX and SVN

2008-07-03 Thread bigblop
I have some .lyx files under version control with SVN. But when I get a conflict I cannot open the conflicted .lyx file I get an error that the file is not a lyx document. How do I solve conflicted lyx files? It seems that LyX is not very compatible with SVN will this compability issue be solved

Re: LyX and SVN

2008-07-03 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
bigblop wrote: I have some .lyx files under version control with SVN. But when I get a conflict I cannot open the conflicted .lyx file I get an error that the file is not a lyx document. How do I solve conflicted lyx files? By hand-editing the .lyx file in a text editor. SVN adds tags when

Re: experiences with lyx 1.6.beta3

2008-07-03 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
G. Milde wrote: > I wonder whether it is save enaugh to use 1.6.beta3 for my phd thesis (no > imminent deadline). I wouldn't strongly discourage using a devel version for such an important project. I fact, I was myself rather over-careful and waited for *.1 or *.2 version before I used a new

Re: experiences with lyx 1.6.beta3

2008-07-03 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Am Donnerstag, 3. Juli 2008 schrieb Jürgen Spitzmüller: > I wouldn't strongly discourage using a devel version Oops: I *would* strongly discourage this, actually. Jürgen

Re: experiences with lyx 1.6.beta3

2008-07-03 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: G. Milde wrote: I wonder whether it is save enaugh to use 1.6.beta3 for my phd thesis (no imminent deadline). I wouldn't strongly discourage using a devel version for such an important project. I fact, I was myself rather over-careful and waited for *.1 or *.2

where to find scientific journal layout-files

2008-07-03 Thread Maarten van Iterson
Hello LyX-user, LyX is very handy in writing scientific documents. But now I have to submit an article to e.g. BioMed Central or another Bioinformatics Journal. Although most journal have LaTeX documentclass layout files are not provided. Does anyone know of a layout repository, besides the one

Re: experiences with lyx 1.6.beta3

2008-07-03 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
G. Milde wrote: + Startup is faster. Glad you feel the difference :-) Some problems remain - Word deletion (Bug #3580) is not fixed in beta3. Bugzilla shows it is "fixed in trunk and branch". Could a beta4 be released soon? You'll have to wake up José... DDDRNNGG, time has

Re: experiences with lyx 1.6.beta3

2008-07-03 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
"G. Milde" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In order to be able to use 1.5.5 and 1.6.beta3 in parallel, I > > * copied the files from the package to /usr/local/ > * renamed /usr/local/bin/lyx to lyx-1.6 > * copied my personal lyx dir to ~/.lyx16 > * wrote a small script /usr/local/bin/lyx16:: > >

Re: LyX and SVN

2008-07-03 Thread G. Milde
On 3.07.08, bigblop wrote: > I have some .lyx files under version control with SVN. But when I get a > conflict I cannot open the conflicted .lyx file I get an error that the > file is not a lyx document. The conflict markers break the structure of the .lyx file (generally, it might be ok in

Re: experiences with lyx 1.6.beta3

2008-07-03 Thread G. Milde
On 3.07.08, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > G. Milde wrote: >> - Export to 1.5.x format creates a file with extension .lyx15 which >> OTOH is not found by LyX (if the default *.lyx filter is on). >> There is no way to specify the name of exported files (this is a >> generic problem, also in

Re: experiences with lyx 1.6.beta3

2008-07-03 Thread G. Milde
On 3.07.08, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > "G. Milde" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > In order to be able to use 1.5.5 and 1.6.beta3 in parallel ... > Did you try: > ./configure --with-version-suffix=16 [...other flags] > It allows to use several versions in parallel (and create the binary >

Re: experiences with lyx 1.6.beta3

2008-07-03 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
"G. Milde" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I tried to compile lyx, but after trashing for some hours my computer > crashed due to missing memory. So I installed a binary package. Compile with --enable-build-type=release, or simply with --disable-debug. >> The fix got in two days ago... > > It's

Re: where to find scientific journal layout-files

2008-07-03 Thread cmiramon
Maarten van Iterson wrote: > Hello LyX-user, > > LyX is very handy in writing scientific documents. > But now I have to submit an article to e.g. BioMed Central or another > Bioinformatics Journal. Although most journal have LaTeX documentclass > layout files are not provided. Does anyone know

Re: Xfig and LyX

2008-07-03 Thread A. Scottedward Hodel
On Jun 25, 2008, at 9:21 AM, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: Could somebody kindly point me to an understandable explanation of how to use xfig produced figures in LyX? Help file Userguide tells me to check for detailed explanation under ImbeddedObjects but there I can´t find any detailed