Re: Help need with lyx installation

[Konrad Hofbauer]

Hello Fernando,

FERNANDO DIAZ wrote:

I ran into some troubles when trying to install lyx in my Macbook Pro.


As described on the Wiki, there are different ways to get LyX onto the 
Mac. Some ways are easier (because better supported), and some are more 
difficult ...



As suggested in the LyX/Mac wiki page, prior to installing lyx I installed
finx (Fink 0.9.0 Binary Installer (PowerPC) from the following webpage:


... and you ended up on a more difficult route.

Do you have a particular reason why you want to install LyX via Fink?


I am a new user to both Mac and
Latex, so you can image that I do not know what to do!!!


So I guess you don't.

I don´t know hot to run texhash manually. 


The immediate answer to your question would be:
Go to Terminal.app, and enter sudo texhash (without the quotes), 
followed by your password.


But I would recommend to you a different route:

1) Remove Fink again (Question 5 on 
http://www.finkproject.org/faq/usage-fink.php)


2) Install MacTex, a complete Latex distribution for the Mac. If you can 
still wait for a few days, install the fresh-from-the-oven MacTeX-2008 
from http://www.tug.org/mactex/, otherwise you can also use the older 
MacTeX-2007.


3) Install LyX from
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.5.6/LyX-1.5.6-2-Mac-Universal.dmg
(copy the included app to your Applications folder and then run the 
Installer).


This is the most common and most tested way to run LyX on the Mac.

Happy LyXing,
Konrad

Re: Reprinted material

[Julio Rojas]

Thanks a lot guys. I'll stick to the Note field then.
-
Julio Rojas
[EMAIL PROTECTED]



On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 10:34 PM,  [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Julio Rojas wrote:

 Thank you all for your answers, they have been of great help. Still,
 the main technical question, the how do I do it in BibTeX, remains
 unanswered. Is there a Note or Previously Published field in
 BibTeX? How do I solve this problem using the available fields?

 There are three different problems :

  - edition number. For example, B. Obama, Hope, hope, etc..., New York :
 Faber, 2008, 4th edition
 You use there the edition field in a bib entry with an integer, most
 European styles put the number in superscript after or before the year
 (German way). The edition field works with most bibtex styles

  - reprint (meaning a photomecanical reproduction of an old book)

 Avicenna, Liber canonis, Venice, 1507 (reprint Hildesheim : Olms Verlag,
 1964)

 Then you have to use Biblatex that adds to the bib file fields an origyear,
 origlocation, origtitle fields for reprint information or translation. The
 new chicago biblatex style uses them.

  - translation
 J. L. Borges, Histoire universelle de l'infamie, Paris : Christian
 Bourgeois, 1985 (orig. Historia universal de la infamia, Buenos Aires,
 1935)

 Possible with the Biblatex origyear, origlocation, origtitle with some macro
 magic.


 If the bibliographic style that you want to use does not mandate to put the
 reprint / translation information in the footnotes citation but you just
 want to add this information at the end of a bibliographic entry in the
 ending bibliography then use the note field.

Re: LyX 1.6 PDF output

[Julio Rojas]

But is there a way to embed used fonts in the PDF with pdflatex? If
so, shouldn't be an option in LyX to allow this feature?
-
Julio Rojas
[EMAIL PROTECTED]



On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 4:30 PM, Richard Heck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Julio Rojas wrote:

 Hi. I was doing some document in LyX 1.6 (Ubuntu) and when I printed
 it the text was blurry, even if it was looking good on XPDF. Also, I
 had an EPS plot (made in Inkscape) in the document and the font in the
 printed version was bold instead of plain. The formulas were printed
 alright.

 The weird thing is that if I exported the document to PDF and opened
 it with Adobe Reader, the printed version was perfect.



 Try using different fonts. This is usually because some program or other in
 the chain doesn't understand the fonts you're trying to use. In this case,
 it sounds like it might be ghostscript that is the culprit.

 rh

Re: LyX taking controls of the multimedia keys on my laptop

[Manveru]

2008/9/4 ganesh hegde [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
 Hi,
I installed LyX today, and noticed that the multimedia keys(above the
 keyboard) dont work with LyX window active. Is this a bug, is there a work
 around for this?
 Thanx in advance,
 --
 Regards,
 Ganesh Hegde


Could you tell us which operating system you are using?

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Re: LyX 1.6 PDF output

[Julio Rojas]

I just saw thru Adobe Reader that fonts are embedded in the document.
Almost all of them are Type 1, but there's one, called F15, which is
Type 3. Could it be the culprit? Is there any way I can replace this
font?
-
Julio Rojas
[EMAIL PROTECTED]



On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 9:33 AM, Julio Rojas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 But is there a way to embed used fonts in the PDF with pdflatex? If
 so, shouldn't be an option in LyX to allow this feature?
 -
 Julio Rojas
 [EMAIL PROTECTED]



 On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 4:30 PM, Richard Heck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Julio Rojas wrote:

 Hi. I was doing some document in LyX 1.6 (Ubuntu) and when I printed
 it the text was blurry, even if it was looking good on XPDF. Also, I
 had an EPS plot (made in Inkscape) in the document and the font in the
 printed version was bold instead of plain. The formulas were printed
 alright.

 The weird thing is that if I exported the document to PDF and opened
 it with Adobe Reader, the printed version was perfect.



 Try using different fonts. This is usually because some program or other in
 the chain doesn't understand the fonts you're trying to use. In this case,
 it sounds like it might be ghostscript that is the culprit.

 rh

lyx-users maillist daemon settings

[Manveru]

Hellou,

I do not remember who, but someone is keeping contact with
administrator of this maillist. I have question about missing
Reply-to:  header in messages coming from the list. This causes that
when I am using Google Mail, I have to always manually change
recipient address when I am replying to the list. I made faults a few
times replying directly to people asking something.

Could this be repaired?

Thanks for the answer.
-- 
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 gg: 1624001
   http://www.manveru.pl

Re: Ubuntu missing screen fonts for symbols: solution.

[G. Milde]

On  3.09.08, Paul Johnson wrote:
 I was asking about missing or incorrect symbols yesterday.  I found a
 solution.

I can only spead for Debian, but as Ubuntu uses the same package
format, things might be similar.

 In Lyx on Ubuntu 8.04, I noticed that SOME mathematical characters do
 not show properly on the screen. 
...
 So far, in Ubuntu, I've found 2 solutions.

 One approach is to install the font package
 http://movementarian.org/latex-xft-fonts-0.1.tar.gz; under ~/.fonts
 and run fc-cache -fv.
...
 the above workaround also works if one uses the supposedly better
 BaKoMa fonts, but I don't see much difference myself.
...

 After some googling, I learned that cmsy10.ttf is available as an
 optional Ubuntu package latex-xft-fonts.

The apt-file command (package apt-file) provides a convenient way to
find out which Debian (or Ubuntu?) package a given file is in.

Generally, if I have the choice between installing from a tar-archive
or a package for my system, I prefer the package. 
   Example: before downloading and installing the recommended
latex-xft-fonts tarball, I'll check in my install-manager (aptitude)
whether a package of same (or similar) name is available.

 So I suppose that many Ubuntu users have that installed automatically
 so they never fight the mystery of missing screen fonts. I'll suggest
 to Ubuntu's lyx packager that latex-xft-fonts should be a required
 package.

In Debian, latex-xft-fonts is suggested. I agree that the more
convincing recommended might be the better choice but there is no need
to require latex-xft-fonts. 

(Require means that the requiring package is completely broken without
the requirement, while recommended means that without the recommended
package the behaviour is impaired in some way.)

Günter

Re: lyx-users maillist daemon settings

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

Manveru [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
 I do not remember who, but someone is keeping contact with
 administrator of this maillist. I have question about missing
 Reply-to:  header in messages coming from the list. This causes that
 when I am using Google Mail, I have to always manually change
 recipient address when I am replying to the list. I made faults a few
 times replying directly to people asking something.

 Could this be repaired?

It is considered bad practice, see e.g. 
http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html

JMarc

toolbar customization

[Tariq Abdullah]

Hi,
Is there a way to customize Lyx toolbars? I want to add/remove buttons from
toolbar. How can I do that?

-- 
Regards,
Tariq Abdullah

splitting a cell in Lyx

[Tariq Abdullah]

Hi,
I want to split a cell in Lyx as shown below. How can I do that?
(Attached file pdf file contains the same table)














































-- 
Regards,
Tariq Abdullah


test.pdf
Description: Adobe PDF document

Re: lyx-users maillist daemon settings

[Manveru]

2008/9/4 Jean-Marc Lasgouttes [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
 Manveru [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
 I do not remember who, but someone is keeping contact with
 administrator of this maillist. I have question about missing
 Reply-to:  header in messages coming from the list. This causes that
 when I am using Google Mail, I have to always manually change
 recipient address when I am replying to the list. I made faults a few
 times replying directly to people asking something.

 Could this be repaired?

 It is considered bad practice, see e.g.
 http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html

 JMarc


You convinced me. But this mean that Google Mail has to detect
messages from mail lists, and ask whether I want reply to the list or
privately. There was such feature in The Bat. So I am convicted to
correct address every time I reply.

-- 
Manveru
jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 gg: 1624001
   http://www.manveru.pl

Re: Reprinted material

[Florin Oprina]

So is there any way in bibtex + natbib to get the Author 1976 [1600]
citation without messing with the year field in the bibtex database? I
thought the key field would do the job, but is seems that if you have an
author, it is ignored.

On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 4:30 PM, Julio Rojas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Thanks a lot guys. I'll stick to the Note field then.
 -
 Julio Rojas
 [EMAIL PROTECTED]



 On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 10:34 PM,  [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  Julio Rojas wrote:
 
  Thank you all for your answers, they have been of great help. Still,
  the main technical question, the how do I do it in BibTeX, remains
  unanswered. Is there a Note or Previously Published field in
  BibTeX? How do I solve this problem using the available fields?
 
  There are three different problems :
 
   - edition number. For example, B. Obama, Hope, hope, etc..., New York :
  Faber, 2008, 4th edition
  You use there the edition field in a bib entry with an integer, most
  European styles put the number in superscript after or before the year
  (German way). The edition field works with most bibtex styles
 
   - reprint (meaning a photomecanical reproduction of an old book)
 
  Avicenna, Liber canonis, Venice, 1507 (reprint Hildesheim : Olms Verlag,
  1964)
 
  Then you have to use Biblatex that adds to the bib file fields an
 origyear,
  origlocation, origtitle fields for reprint information or translation.
 The
  new chicago biblatex style uses them.
 
   - translation
  J. L. Borges, Histoire universelle de l'infamie, Paris : Christian
  Bourgeois, 1985 (orig. Historia universal de la infamia, Buenos Aires,
  1935)
 
  Possible with the Biblatex origyear, origlocation, origtitle with some
 macro
  magic.
 
 
  If the bibliographic style that you want to use does not mandate to put
 the
  reprint / translation information in the footnotes citation but you just
  want to add this information at the end of a bibliographic entry in the
  ending bibliography then use the note field.
 
 
 
 

Re: [announce] preview test release of LyX 1.6.0rc2 for Windows

[Jean-Pierre Chretien]

Hello,

Just compiled lyx on Solaris 10 with QT 4.4.1, I get this (C locale)

QIconvCodec::convertToUnicode: using ASCII for conversion, iconv_open failed

At the first call, I got le lot of
X Error: BadAtom (invalid Atom parameter) 5
  Major opcode: 17 (X_GetAtomName)
  Resource id:  0x70757368
X Error: BadAtom (invalid Atom parameter) 5
  Major opcode: 17 (X_GetAtomName)
  Resource id:  0x64202f75

messages.

All is OK on Solaris 8 Qt 4.3.4

Apparently harmless, but...

-- 
Jean-Pierre

Re: lyx-users maillist daemon settings

[Abdelrazak Younes]

Manveru wrote:

2008/9/4 Jean-Marc Lasgouttes[EMAIL PROTECTED]:

Manveru[EMAIL PROTECTED]  writes:

I do not remember who, but someone is keeping contact with
administrator of this maillist. I have question about missing
Reply-to:  header in messages coming from the list. This causes that
when I am using Google Mail, I have to always manually change
recipient address when I am replying to the list. I made faults a few
times replying directly to people asking something.

Could this be repaired?

It is considered bad practice, see e.g.
http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html

JMarc



You convinced me. But this mean that Google Mail has to detect
messages from mail lists, and ask whether I want reply to the list or
privately. There was such feature in The Bat. So I am convicted to
correct address every time I reply.


Google mail allows you to reply all and that's what you should always 
do when replying to a message in this list. You should hit reply only 
if you want to answer privately.


Abdel.

Qt error message at LyX startup

[Jean-Pierre Chretien]

Hello,

Just compiled lyx on Solaris 10 with QT 4.4.1, I get this (C locale)

QIconvCodec::convertToUnicode: using ASCII for conversion, iconv_open failed

At the first call, I got le lot of
X Error: BadAtom (invalid Atom parameter) 5
  Major opcode: 17 (X_GetAtomName)
  Resource id:  0x70757368
X Error: BadAtom (invalid Atom parameter) 5
  Major opcode: 17 (X_GetAtomName)
  Resource id:  0x64202f75

messages.

All is OK on Solaris 8 Qt 4.3.4

Apparently harmless, but...

Sorry for the wrong (and misleading) subject of my previous message

-- 
Jean-Pierre

Re: toolbar customization

[Abdelrazak Younes]

Tariq Abdullah wrote:

Hi,
Is there a way to customize Lyx toolbars? I want to add/remove buttons from
toolbar. How can I do that?


Look at lib/ui/stdtoolbars.inc, you can put a copy of that in your .lyx 
directory and modify it. If you are on Windows replace 'lib' with 
'Resource' and '.lyx' with 'AppData' or such.


Abdfel.

Re: splitting a cell in Lyx

[Abdelrazak Younes]

Tariq Abdullah wrote:

Hi,
I want to split a cell in Lyx as shown below. How can I do that?
(Attached file pdf file contains the same table)


In LyX, you cannot split cells, only fusion columns. So, AFAIK, you 
cannot do what you want within LyX, quite bad I admit. I guess you can 
do it using ERT of course.


Abdel.

Re: lyx-users maillist daemon settings

[Manveru]

2008/9/4 Abdelrazak Younes [EMAIL PROTECTED]:


 Manveru wrote:

 2008/9/4 Jean-Marc Lasgouttes[EMAIL PROTECTED]:

 Manveru[EMAIL PROTECTED]  writes:

 I do not remember who, but someone is keeping contact with
 administrator of this maillist. I have question about missing
 Reply-to:  header in messages coming from the list. This causes that
 when I am using Google Mail, I have to always manually change
 recipient address when I am replying to the list. I made faults a few
 times replying directly to people asking something.

 Could this be repaired?

 It is considered bad practice, see e.g.
 http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html

 JMarc


 You convinced me. But this mean that Google Mail has to detect
 messages from mail lists, and ask whether I want reply to the list or
 privately. There was such feature in The Bat. So I am convicted to
 correct address every time I reply.

 Google mail allows you to reply all and that's what you should always do
 when replying to a message in this list. You should hit reply only if you
 want to answer privately.

Google then put maillist address into CC: field which is completely
stupid. And leaves sender in To: field. Still needs manual operation.

-- 
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jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 gg: 1624001
   http://www.manveru.pl

Re: lyx-users maillist daemon settings

[Abdelrazak Younes]

Manveru wrote:

2008/9/4 Abdelrazak Younes[EMAIL PROTECTED]:


Manveru wrote:

2008/9/4 Jean-Marc Lasgouttes[EMAIL PROTECTED]:

Manveru[EMAIL PROTECTED]   writes:

I do not remember who, but someone is keeping contact with
administrator of this maillist. I have question about missing
Reply-to:  header in messages coming from the list. This causes that
when I am using Google Mail, I have to always manually change
recipient address when I am replying to the list. I made faults a few
times replying directly to people asking something.

Could this be repaired?

It is considered bad practice, see e.g.
http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html

JMarc


You convinced me. But this mean that Google Mail has to detect
messages from mail lists, and ask whether I want reply to the list or
privately. There was such feature in The Bat. So I am convicted to
correct address every time I reply.

Google mail allows you to reply all and that's what you should always do
when replying to a message in this list. You should hit reply only if you
want to answer privately.


Google then put maillist address into CC: field which is completely
stupid.


Why is that stupid? You are replying first and foremost to this person 
and you are kind enough to let the list be aware of what are replying.



And leaves sender in To: field. Still needs manual operation.


The end result is basically the same. If the original sender don't want 
to be replied directly he can set his own reply-to to the list before 
sending.


Abdel.

Re: splitting a cell in Lyx

[Waluyo Adi Siswanto]

On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 12:36 +0200, Abdelrazak Younes wrote:
 Tariq Abdullah wrote:
  Hi,
  I want to split a cell in Lyx as shown below. How can I do that?
  (Attached file pdf file contains the same table)
 
 In LyX, you cannot split cells, only fusion columns. So, AFAIK, you 
 cannot do what you want within LyX, quite bad I admit. I guess you can 
 do it using ERT of course.
 
 Abdel.
 

I think multi-column (merge cells) can be used to create that table.
Use two columns, then you merge two horizontal cells.

WAS

Re: splitting a cell in Lyx

[Abdelrazak Younes]

Waluyo Adi Siswanto wrote:

On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 12:36 +0200, Abdelrazak Younes wrote:

Tariq Abdullah wrote:

Hi,
I want to split a cell in Lyx as shown below. How can I do that?
(Attached file pdf file contains the same table)

In LyX, you cannot split cells, only fusion columns. So, AFAIK, you
cannot do what you want within LyX, quite bad I admit. I guess you can
do it using ERT of course.

Abdel.



I think multi-column (merge cells) can be used to create that table.
Use two columns, then you merge two horizontal cells.


You can only merge _vertical_ cells AFAICS (tested in 1.6).

Abdel.

Re: Ubuntu missing screen fonts for symbols: solution.

[Christian Ridderström]

On Wed, 3 Sep 2008, Paul Johnson wrote:


So far, in Ubuntu, I've found 2 solutions.


I had some issues, but the problem was that Ubunutu only included some 
stuff in the basic LaTeX package. Installation additional packages solved 
at lot of the headaches for me. Hava a look here:

http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LyXOnUbuntu

(The page isn't nicely formatted, but the info on packages is there)

HTH
/Christian

--
Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44http://www.md.kth.se/~chr

Re: Ubuntu missing screen fonts for symbols: solution.

[Christian Ridderström]

On Wed, 3 Sep 2008, Paul Johnson wrote:


So far, in Ubuntu, I've found 2 solutions.


I had some issues, but the problem was that Ubunutu only included some 
stuff in the basic LaTeX package. Installation of additional packages 
solved at lot of the headaches for me. Have a look here:

http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LyXOnUbuntu

(The page isn't nicely formatted, but the info on packages is there)

HTH
/Christian

--
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Change the background colour of a piece of text?

[Christian Ridderström]

Hi,

I can change the foreground colour of a piece of text using the dialog 
opened through the menu:

Edit-Test Style-Customized ...

However, how can I do the same for the background colour?

Note: It's not critical, and my use case really ought to use a character 
style, but I got curious.


regards
/Chriristan

--
Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44http://www.md.kth.se/~chr

Re: Reprinted material

[rgheck]

Florin Oprina wrote:

So is there any way in bibtex + natbib to get the Author 1976 [1600]
citation without messing with the year field in the bibtex database? I
thought the key field would do the job, but is seems that if you have an
author, it is ignored.

  
Yes, you can get that, but not without writing your own BibTeX or 
BibLaTeX style. The latter is easier than the former, but neither is for 
the meek.


Richard

Re: splitting a cell in Lyx

[Niklas Huldén]

Abdelrazak Younes wrote:

Waluyo Adi Siswanto wrote:

On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 12:36 +0200, Abdelrazak Younes wrote:

Tariq Abdullah wrote:

Hi,
I want to split a cell in Lyx as shown below. How can I do that?
(Attached file pdf file contains the same table)

In LyX, you cannot split cells, only fusion columns. So, AFAIK, you
cannot do what you want within LyX, quite bad I admit. I guess you can
do it using ERT of course.

Abdel.



I think multi-column (merge cells) can be used to create that table.
Use two columns, then you merge two horizontal cells.


You can only merge _vertical_ cells AFAICS (tested in 1.6).

Abdel.




This looks the same to me.

regards

Niklas H.


splitable.lyx
Description: application/lyx

Re: Change the background colour of a piece of text?

[Siegfried MEUNIER-GUTTIN-CLUZEL]

Hello,

You can try colored boxes (section 5.7 of the Embedded Objects manual ).

Siegfried.

Re: splitting a cell in Lyx

[Niklas Huldén]

Abdelrazak Younes wrote:

Waluyo Adi Siswanto wrote:

On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 12:36 +0200, Abdelrazak Younes wrote:

Tariq Abdullah wrote:

Hi,
I want to split a cell in Lyx as shown below. How can I do that?
(Attached file pdf file contains the same table)

In LyX, you cannot split cells, only fusion columns. So, AFAIK, you
cannot do what you want within LyX, quite bad I admit. I guess you can
do it using ERT of course.

Abdel.



I think multi-column (merge cells) can be used to create that table.
Use two columns, then you merge two horizontal cells.


You can only merge _vertical_ cells AFAICS (tested in 1.6).

Abdel.

Sorry, I didn't read this properly. You can make something similar with 
a table in a table but the borders will be different.


Ni

Re: Change the background colour of a piece of text?

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

Christian Ridderström wrote:
 However, how can I do the same for the background colour?

soul.sty provides the possibility to highlight text, which can (in contrast to 
colorboxes) break accross lines.

Jürgen

Re: splitting a cell in Lyx

[Rudi van der Linde]

Abdelrazak Younes wrote:

You can only merge _vertical_ cells AFAICS (tested in 1.6).

Abdel.

I can merge horizontal (i.e. columns) in my Lyx 1.5 for what its worth  
:-)  Vertical merging needs ERT.


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Re: splitting a cell in Lyx

[Abdelrazak Younes]

Niklas Huldén wrote:

Abdelrazak Younes wrote:

Waluyo Adi Siswanto wrote:

On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 12:36 +0200, Abdelrazak Younes wrote:

Tariq Abdullah wrote:

Hi,
I want to split a cell in Lyx as shown below. How can I do that?
(Attached file pdf file contains the same table)

In LyX, you cannot split cells, only fusion columns. So, AFAIK, you
cannot do what you want within LyX, quite bad I admit. I guess you can
do it using ERT of course.

Abdel.



I think multi-column (merge cells) can be used to create that table.
Use two columns, then you merge two horizontal cells.


You can only merge _vertical_ cells AFAICS (tested in 1.6).

Abdel.

Sorry, I didn't read this properly. You can make something similar 
with a table in a table


Excellent! Can you imagine that after 12 years using LyX and maybe 2 
years developing it I never knew that this was possible? One always 
learns :-)



but the borders will be different.


The borders can be adjusted I think.

Abdel.

Several problems with converters in lyx

[Nasir Amra]

So far I'm pleased with how lyx shortens the learning curve for using latex. 
However, I have several problems converting the document into either rtf or an 
openoffice document ( publisher's demanding .doc instead of latex or pdf).

1. Converting to .rtf : 
  When I use natbib , numerical option, with sortcompress option, citation 
format [#ID}, I get an rtf file which does not have any citations in the file.

2. When using the converter to an opendocument:
  Everything converts including the bibliography, however, the references 
are all running together instead of each reference starting a separate line ( 
e,g: 

1.
Vellios F, Bacz JM, Shumacker HB. Lipoblastomatosis: A tumor of fetal
fat different from hibernoma. Report of a case, with observations of
embryogenesis of human adipose tissue. Am J Pathol.
1958;34:1149–1159. 2. Chung EB, Enzinger FM. Benign
lipoblastomatosis. An analysis of 35 cases. Cancer. 1973
Aug;32(2):482–492. 3. Chen Z, Coffin CM, Scott S, Meloni-Ehrig A,
Shepard R, Issa B, et al. Evidence by spectral karyotyping that
8q11.2 is nonrandomly involved in lipoblastoma. J Mol Diagn. 2000
May;2(2):73–77. 

Are there any workarounds to these problems?




 
Lyx : 1.5.5.1 and Ubuntu linux 8.04


  

Re: Several problems with converters in lyx

[rgheck]

Nasir Amra wrote:

So far I'm pleased with how lyx shortens the learning curve for using latex. 
However, I have several problems converting the document into either rtf or an 
openoffice document ( publisher's demanding .doc instead of latex or pdf).

1. Converting to .rtf : 
  When I use natbib , numerical option, with sortcompress option, citation format [#ID}, I get an rtf file which does not have any citations in the file.


2. When using the converter to an opendocument:
  Everything converts including the bibliography, however, the references are all running together instead of each reference starting a separate line ( e,g: 

1.

Vellios F, Bacz JM, Shumacker HB. Lipoblastomatosis: A tumor of fetal
fat different from hibernoma. Report of a case, with observations of
embryogenesis of human adipose tissue. Am J Pathol.
1958;34:1149–1159. 2. Chung EB, Enzinger FM. Benign
lipoblastomatosis. An analysis of 35 cases. Cancer. 1973
Aug;32(2):482–492. 3. Chen Z, Coffin CM, Scott S, Meloni-Ehrig A,
Shepard R, Issa B, et al. Evidence by spectral karyotyping that
8q11.2 is nonrandomly involved in lipoblastoma. J Mol Diagn. 2000
May;2(2):73–77. 


Are there any workarounds to these problems?

  
LyX relies upon external programs to do these conversions, and they all 
have their quirks. The sad truth, I'm afraid, is that perfectly painless 
conversion to rtf and odt isn't possible, and you're always going to 
have to do some tweaking by hand.


Richard

Re: LyX 1.6 PDF output

[G. Milde]

On  4.09.08, Julio Rojas wrote:
 I just saw thru Adobe Reader that fonts are embedded in the document.
 Almost all of them are Type 1, but there's one, called F15, which is
 Type 3. Could it be the culprit? Is there any way I can replace this
 font?

You might search the latex log to see if F15 pops up there.

Maybe it comes from the included eps files, though.
(Try without included eps and check the embedded fonts again...)

GM

Re: Help need with lyx installation

[Konrad Hofbauer]

Fernando,

whenever you reply, please keep the mailing-list in CC as well (so that 
other people can participate).


FERNANDO DIAZ wrote:

Hi Konrad:

First of all, thank you very much for your time!

I have two questions. It is clear to me know how to uninstall Fink, 
but I am not sure how to uninstall lyx in order to install it again after installing mactex.


Uninstalling Fink will remove everything you have installed from fink 
(so also Lyx).


The only LyX remainder which you might want to remove is its 
User-directory called 'LyX' or 'LyX-1.5' in Home - Library - 
Application Support.



Also, can you tell me a where can I download Mactex 2007 from? I cannot find it 
on the web!!


Yes, they are hiding it since the new 2008 version is out already. ;)
It should be available on most CTAN-mirrors by now.

Just try:
http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/mac/mactex/MacTeX-20080831.mpkg.zip

Since this is a hefty 1 GB download you might want to go to 
http://ctan.org/mirrors and look for a speedy mirror close to you.


For example http://ftp.linux.ee/pub/tex-archive/systems/mac/mactex/ 
has the 2008-version already.


Hope that helps,
Konrad

Re: Ubuntu missing screen fonts for symbols: solution.

[Pavel Sanda]

 On  3.09.08, Paul Johnson wrote:
 
 In Debian, latex-xft-fonts is suggested. I agree that the more
 convincing recommended might be the better choice but there is no need
 to require latex-xft-fonts. 

i don't know how debian has handled this, but note, that lyx is shiped with
bakoma fonts already, so there is no need to even recommend latex-xft-fonts; the
only thing is that apt-get install those files correctly.

pavel

Graphic Packages with preview function in Lyx

[Literatur Hiwi]

Hello!

I would like to create graphics in Lyx and was wondering which the packages
are that can be previewed in lyx besides Xy-pic, because I find the Xy-Pic
Reference Manual to be written very poorly. Does anybody know an other
Manual?

Thanks in advance!

Best regards,

TJ

1.6.0 rc1 crash

[Marcelo Acuña]

hello,
 rc1 crash when I clicked Export  Plain text
regards
Marcelo

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Re: 1.6.0 rc1 crash

[Pavel Sanda]

 hello,
  rc1 crash when I clicked Export  Plain text

can you post the minimal example of file, where this happens?
there is one known case when  math macros are in use.
pavel

Re: Change the background colour of a piece of text?

[Christian Ridderström]

On Thu, 4 Sep 2008, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:


Christian Ridderström wrote:

However, how can I do the same for the background colour?


soul.sty provides the possibility to highlight text, which can (in 
contrast to colorboxes) break accross lines.


Ok, thanks.

/C

--
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Layout for specifications?

[Christian Ridderström]

Hi,

Are there any document classes or layouts for use with LyX that are 
suitable when writing a specification?  (It's a technical specification 
for a system, not pure software).


regards,
/Christian

--
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Re: 1.6.0 rc1 crash

[Marcelo Acuña]

no math used. no macros. only a text without any format.
no titles, no footnotes, nothing. I wrote a text aimed to be exported to txt 
and then send by mail without html.
Marcelo


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--- El jue 4-sep-08, Pavel Sanda [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió:

 De: Pavel Sanda [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Asunto: Re: 1.6.0 rc1 crash
 Para: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
 Fecha: jueves, 4 de septiembre de 2008, 12:53 pm
  hello,
   rc1 crash when I clicked Export  Plain text
 
 can you post the minimal example of file, where this
 happens?
 there is one known case when  math macros are in use.
 pavel


  

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Re: 1.6.0 rc1 crash

[Pavel Sanda]

 no math used. no macros. only a text without any format.
 no titles, no footnotes, nothing. I wrote a text aimed to be exported to txt 
 and then send by mail without html.

i was asking for some example file. your report is useless until there
is some way how to reproduce it.

pavel

Re: 1.6.0 rc1 crash

[charles reid]

Have you tried exporting the same document in rc2?  What platform are you
using?

On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 9:46 AM, Marcelo Acuña [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 hello,
  rc1 crash when I clicked Export  Plain text
 regards
 Marcelo

 Marcelo Acuña visitá mi sitio web http://www.aleph-uno.com.ar
 ==



  
 
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Re: 1.6.0 rc1 crash

[Marcelo Acuña]

 Have you tried exporting the same document in rc2?  What
 platform are you
 using?
 
 On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 9:46 AM, Marcelo Acuña
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
  hello,
   rc1 crash when I clicked Export  Plain text
  regards
  Marcelo
 

 In this moment I have not rc2 installed. May be tomorow.
 I have opensuse linux 11.0
 Regards
Marcelo


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Re: Help need with lyx installation

[Konrad Hofbauer]

Hello Fernando,

FERNANDO DIAZ wrote:

I ran into some troubles when trying to install lyx in my Macbook Pro.


As described on the Wiki, there are different ways to get LyX onto the 
Mac. Some ways are easier (because better supported), and some are more 
difficult ...



As suggested in the LyX/Mac wiki page, prior to installing lyx I installed
finx (Fink 0.9.0 Binary Installer (PowerPC) from the following webpage:


... and you ended up on a more difficult route.

Do you have a particular reason why you want to install LyX via Fink?


I am a new user to both Mac and
Latex, so you can image that I do not know what to do!!!


So I guess you don't.

I don´t know hot to run texhash manually. 


The immediate answer to your question would be:
Go to Terminal.app, and enter sudo texhash (without the quotes), 
followed by your password.


But I would recommend to you a different route:

1) Remove Fink again (Question 5 on 
http://www.finkproject.org/faq/usage-fink.php)


2) Install MacTex, a complete Latex distribution for the Mac. If you can 
still wait for a few days, install the fresh-from-the-oven MacTeX-2008 
from http://www.tug.org/mactex/, otherwise you can also use the older 
MacTeX-2007.


3) Install LyX from
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.5.6/LyX-1.5.6-2-Mac-Universal.dmg
(copy the included app to your Applications folder and then run the 
Installer).


This is the most common and most tested way to run LyX on the Mac.

Happy LyXing,
Konrad

Re: Reprinted material

[Julio Rojas]

Thanks a lot guys. I'll stick to the Note field then.
-
Julio Rojas
[EMAIL PROTECTED]



On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 10:34 PM,  [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Julio Rojas wrote:

 Thank you all for your answers, they have been of great help. Still,
 the main technical question, the how do I do it in BibTeX, remains
 unanswered. Is there a Note or Previously Published field in
 BibTeX? How do I solve this problem using the available fields?

 There are three different problems :

  - edition number. For example, B. Obama, Hope, hope, etc..., New York :
 Faber, 2008, 4th edition
 You use there the edition field in a bib entry with an integer, most
 European styles put the number in superscript after or before the year
 (German way). The edition field works with most bibtex styles

  - reprint (meaning a photomecanical reproduction of an old book)

 Avicenna, Liber canonis, Venice, 1507 (reprint Hildesheim : Olms Verlag,
 1964)

 Then you have to use Biblatex that adds to the bib file fields an origyear,
 origlocation, origtitle fields for reprint information or translation. The
 new chicago biblatex style uses them.

  - translation
 J. L. Borges, Histoire universelle de l'infamie, Paris : Christian
 Bourgeois, 1985 (orig. Historia universal de la infamia, Buenos Aires,
 1935)

 Possible with the Biblatex origyear, origlocation, origtitle with some macro
 magic.


 If the bibliographic style that you want to use does not mandate to put the
 reprint / translation information in the footnotes citation but you just
 want to add this information at the end of a bibliographic entry in the
 ending bibliography then use the note field.

Re: LyX 1.6 PDF output

[Julio Rojas]

But is there a way to embed used fonts in the PDF with pdflatex? If
so, shouldn't be an option in LyX to allow this feature?
-
Julio Rojas
[EMAIL PROTECTED]



On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 4:30 PM, Richard Heck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Julio Rojas wrote:

 Hi. I was doing some document in LyX 1.6 (Ubuntu) and when I printed
 it the text was blurry, even if it was looking good on XPDF. Also, I
 had an EPS plot (made in Inkscape) in the document and the font in the
 printed version was bold instead of plain. The formulas were printed
 alright.

 The weird thing is that if I exported the document to PDF and opened
 it with Adobe Reader, the printed version was perfect.



 Try using different fonts. This is usually because some program or other in
 the chain doesn't understand the fonts you're trying to use. In this case,
 it sounds like it might be ghostscript that is the culprit.

 rh

Re: LyX taking controls of the multimedia keys on my laptop

[Manveru]

2008/9/4 ganesh hegde [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
 Hi,
I installed LyX today, and noticed that the multimedia keys(above the
 keyboard) dont work with LyX window active. Is this a bug, is there a work
 around for this?
 Thanx in advance,
 --
 Regards,
 Ganesh Hegde


Could you tell us which operating system you are using?

-- 
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Re: LyX 1.6 PDF output

[Julio Rojas]

I just saw thru Adobe Reader that fonts are embedded in the document.
Almost all of them are Type 1, but there's one, called F15, which is
Type 3. Could it be the culprit? Is there any way I can replace this
font?
-
Julio Rojas
[EMAIL PROTECTED]



On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 9:33 AM, Julio Rojas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 But is there a way to embed used fonts in the PDF with pdflatex? If
 so, shouldn't be an option in LyX to allow this feature?
 -
 Julio Rojas
 [EMAIL PROTECTED]



 On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 4:30 PM, Richard Heck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Julio Rojas wrote:

 Hi. I was doing some document in LyX 1.6 (Ubuntu) and when I printed
 it the text was blurry, even if it was looking good on XPDF. Also, I
 had an EPS plot (made in Inkscape) in the document and the font in the
 printed version was bold instead of plain. The formulas were printed
 alright.

 The weird thing is that if I exported the document to PDF and opened
 it with Adobe Reader, the printed version was perfect.



 Try using different fonts. This is usually because some program or other in
 the chain doesn't understand the fonts you're trying to use. In this case,
 it sounds like it might be ghostscript that is the culprit.

 rh

lyx-users maillist daemon settings

[Manveru]

Hellou,

I do not remember who, but someone is keeping contact with
administrator of this maillist. I have question about missing
Reply-to:  header in messages coming from the list. This causes that
when I am using Google Mail, I have to always manually change
recipient address when I am replying to the list. I made faults a few
times replying directly to people asking something.

Could this be repaired?

Thanks for the answer.
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 gg: 1624001
   http://www.manveru.pl

Re: Ubuntu missing screen fonts for symbols: solution.

[G. Milde]

On  3.09.08, Paul Johnson wrote:
 I was asking about missing or incorrect symbols yesterday.  I found a
 solution.

I can only spead for Debian, but as Ubuntu uses the same package
format, things might be similar.

 In Lyx on Ubuntu 8.04, I noticed that SOME mathematical characters do
 not show properly on the screen. 
...
 So far, in Ubuntu, I've found 2 solutions.

 One approach is to install the font package
 http://movementarian.org/latex-xft-fonts-0.1.tar.gz; under ~/.fonts
 and run fc-cache -fv.
...
 the above workaround also works if one uses the supposedly better
 BaKoMa fonts, but I don't see much difference myself.
...

 After some googling, I learned that cmsy10.ttf is available as an
 optional Ubuntu package latex-xft-fonts.

The apt-file command (package apt-file) provides a convenient way to
find out which Debian (or Ubuntu?) package a given file is in.

Generally, if I have the choice between installing from a tar-archive
or a package for my system, I prefer the package. 
   Example: before downloading and installing the recommended
latex-xft-fonts tarball, I'll check in my install-manager (aptitude)
whether a package of same (or similar) name is available.

 So I suppose that many Ubuntu users have that installed automatically
 so they never fight the mystery of missing screen fonts. I'll suggest
 to Ubuntu's lyx packager that latex-xft-fonts should be a required
 package.

In Debian, latex-xft-fonts is suggested. I agree that the more
convincing recommended might be the better choice but there is no need
to require latex-xft-fonts. 

(Require means that the requiring package is completely broken without
the requirement, while recommended means that without the recommended
package the behaviour is impaired in some way.)

Günter

Re: lyx-users maillist daemon settings

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

Manveru [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
 I do not remember who, but someone is keeping contact with
 administrator of this maillist. I have question about missing
 Reply-to:  header in messages coming from the list. This causes that
 when I am using Google Mail, I have to always manually change
 recipient address when I am replying to the list. I made faults a few
 times replying directly to people asking something.

 Could this be repaired?

It is considered bad practice, see e.g. 
http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html

JMarc

toolbar customization

[Tariq Abdullah]

Hi,
Is there a way to customize Lyx toolbars? I want to add/remove buttons from
toolbar. How can I do that?

-- 
Regards,
Tariq Abdullah

splitting a cell in Lyx

[Tariq Abdullah]

Hi,
I want to split a cell in Lyx as shown below. How can I do that?
(Attached file pdf file contains the same table)














































-- 
Regards,
Tariq Abdullah


test.pdf
Description: Adobe PDF document

Re: lyx-users maillist daemon settings

[Manveru]

2008/9/4 Jean-Marc Lasgouttes [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
 Manveru [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
 I do not remember who, but someone is keeping contact with
 administrator of this maillist. I have question about missing
 Reply-to:  header in messages coming from the list. This causes that
 when I am using Google Mail, I have to always manually change
 recipient address when I am replying to the list. I made faults a few
 times replying directly to people asking something.

 Could this be repaired?

 It is considered bad practice, see e.g.
 http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html

 JMarc


You convinced me. But this mean that Google Mail has to detect
messages from mail lists, and ask whether I want reply to the list or
privately. There was such feature in The Bat. So I am convicted to
correct address every time I reply.

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Re: Reprinted material

[Florin Oprina]

So is there any way in bibtex + natbib to get the Author 1976 [1600]
citation without messing with the year field in the bibtex database? I
thought the key field would do the job, but is seems that if you have an
author, it is ignored.

On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 4:30 PM, Julio Rojas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Thanks a lot guys. I'll stick to the Note field then.
 -
 Julio Rojas
 [EMAIL PROTECTED]



 On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 10:34 PM,  [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  Julio Rojas wrote:
 
  Thank you all for your answers, they have been of great help. Still,
  the main technical question, the how do I do it in BibTeX, remains
  unanswered. Is there a Note or Previously Published field in
  BibTeX? How do I solve this problem using the available fields?
 
  There are three different problems :
 
   - edition number. For example, B. Obama, Hope, hope, etc..., New York :
  Faber, 2008, 4th edition
  You use there the edition field in a bib entry with an integer, most
  European styles put the number in superscript after or before the year
  (German way). The edition field works with most bibtex styles
 
   - reprint (meaning a photomecanical reproduction of an old book)
 
  Avicenna, Liber canonis, Venice, 1507 (reprint Hildesheim : Olms Verlag,
  1964)
 
  Then you have to use Biblatex that adds to the bib file fields an
 origyear,
  origlocation, origtitle fields for reprint information or translation.
 The
  new chicago biblatex style uses them.
 
   - translation
  J. L. Borges, Histoire universelle de l'infamie, Paris : Christian
  Bourgeois, 1985 (orig. Historia universal de la infamia, Buenos Aires,
  1935)
 
  Possible with the Biblatex origyear, origlocation, origtitle with some
 macro
  magic.
 
 
  If the bibliographic style that you want to use does not mandate to put
 the
  reprint / translation information in the footnotes citation but you just
  want to add this information at the end of a bibliographic entry in the
  ending bibliography then use the note field.
 
 
 
 

Re: [announce] preview test release of LyX 1.6.0rc2 for Windows

[Jean-Pierre Chretien]

Hello,

Just compiled lyx on Solaris 10 with QT 4.4.1, I get this (C locale)

QIconvCodec::convertToUnicode: using ASCII for conversion, iconv_open failed

At the first call, I got le lot of
X Error: BadAtom (invalid Atom parameter) 5
  Major opcode: 17 (X_GetAtomName)
  Resource id:  0x70757368
X Error: BadAtom (invalid Atom parameter) 5
  Major opcode: 17 (X_GetAtomName)
  Resource id:  0x64202f75

messages.

All is OK on Solaris 8 Qt 4.3.4

Apparently harmless, but...

-- 
Jean-Pierre

Re: lyx-users maillist daemon settings

[Abdelrazak Younes]

Manveru wrote:

2008/9/4 Jean-Marc Lasgouttes[EMAIL PROTECTED]:

Manveru[EMAIL PROTECTED]  writes:

I do not remember who, but someone is keeping contact with
administrator of this maillist. I have question about missing
Reply-to:  header in messages coming from the list. This causes that
when I am using Google Mail, I have to always manually change
recipient address when I am replying to the list. I made faults a few
times replying directly to people asking something.

Could this be repaired?

It is considered bad practice, see e.g.
http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html

JMarc



You convinced me. But this mean that Google Mail has to detect
messages from mail lists, and ask whether I want reply to the list or
privately. There was such feature in The Bat. So I am convicted to
correct address every time I reply.


Google mail allows you to reply all and that's what you should always 
do when replying to a message in this list. You should hit reply only 
if you want to answer privately.


Abdel.

Qt error message at LyX startup

[Jean-Pierre Chretien]

Hello,

Just compiled lyx on Solaris 10 with QT 4.4.1, I get this (C locale)

QIconvCodec::convertToUnicode: using ASCII for conversion, iconv_open failed

At the first call, I got le lot of
X Error: BadAtom (invalid Atom parameter) 5
  Major opcode: 17 (X_GetAtomName)
  Resource id:  0x70757368
X Error: BadAtom (invalid Atom parameter) 5
  Major opcode: 17 (X_GetAtomName)
  Resource id:  0x64202f75

messages.

All is OK on Solaris 8 Qt 4.3.4

Apparently harmless, but...

Sorry for the wrong (and misleading) subject of my previous message

-- 
Jean-Pierre

Re: toolbar customization

[Abdelrazak Younes]

Tariq Abdullah wrote:

Hi,
Is there a way to customize Lyx toolbars? I want to add/remove buttons from
toolbar. How can I do that?


Look at lib/ui/stdtoolbars.inc, you can put a copy of that in your .lyx 
directory and modify it. If you are on Windows replace 'lib' with 
'Resource' and '.lyx' with 'AppData' or such.


Abdfel.

Re: splitting a cell in Lyx

[Abdelrazak Younes]

Tariq Abdullah wrote:

Hi,
I want to split a cell in Lyx as shown below. How can I do that?
(Attached file pdf file contains the same table)


In LyX, you cannot split cells, only fusion columns. So, AFAIK, you 
cannot do what you want within LyX, quite bad I admit. I guess you can 
do it using ERT of course.


Abdel.

Re: lyx-users maillist daemon settings

[Manveru]

2008/9/4 Abdelrazak Younes [EMAIL PROTECTED]:


 Manveru wrote:

 2008/9/4 Jean-Marc Lasgouttes[EMAIL PROTECTED]:

 Manveru[EMAIL PROTECTED]  writes:

 I do not remember who, but someone is keeping contact with
 administrator of this maillist. I have question about missing
 Reply-to:  header in messages coming from the list. This causes that
 when I am using Google Mail, I have to always manually change
 recipient address when I am replying to the list. I made faults a few
 times replying directly to people asking something.

 Could this be repaired?

 It is considered bad practice, see e.g.
 http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html

 JMarc


 You convinced me. But this mean that Google Mail has to detect
 messages from mail lists, and ask whether I want reply to the list or
 privately. There was such feature in The Bat. So I am convicted to
 correct address every time I reply.

 Google mail allows you to reply all and that's what you should always do
 when replying to a message in this list. You should hit reply only if you
 want to answer privately.

Google then put maillist address into CC: field which is completely
stupid. And leaves sender in To: field. Still needs manual operation.

-- 
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 gg: 1624001
   http://www.manveru.pl

Re: lyx-users maillist daemon settings

[Abdelrazak Younes]

Manveru wrote:

2008/9/4 Abdelrazak Younes[EMAIL PROTECTED]:


Manveru wrote:

2008/9/4 Jean-Marc Lasgouttes[EMAIL PROTECTED]:

Manveru[EMAIL PROTECTED]   writes:

I do not remember who, but someone is keeping contact with
administrator of this maillist. I have question about missing
Reply-to:  header in messages coming from the list. This causes that
when I am using Google Mail, I have to always manually change
recipient address when I am replying to the list. I made faults a few
times replying directly to people asking something.

Could this be repaired?

It is considered bad practice, see e.g.
http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html

JMarc


You convinced me. But this mean that Google Mail has to detect
messages from mail lists, and ask whether I want reply to the list or
privately. There was such feature in The Bat. So I am convicted to
correct address every time I reply.

Google mail allows you to reply all and that's what you should always do
when replying to a message in this list. You should hit reply only if you
want to answer privately.


Google then put maillist address into CC: field which is completely
stupid.


Why is that stupid? You are replying first and foremost to this person 
and you are kind enough to let the list be aware of what are replying.



And leaves sender in To: field. Still needs manual operation.


The end result is basically the same. If the original sender don't want 
to be replied directly he can set his own reply-to to the list before 
sending.


Abdel.

Re: splitting a cell in Lyx

[Waluyo Adi Siswanto]

On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 12:36 +0200, Abdelrazak Younes wrote:
 Tariq Abdullah wrote:
  Hi,
  I want to split a cell in Lyx as shown below. How can I do that?
  (Attached file pdf file contains the same table)
 
 In LyX, you cannot split cells, only fusion columns. So, AFAIK, you 
 cannot do what you want within LyX, quite bad I admit. I guess you can 
 do it using ERT of course.
 
 Abdel.
 

I think multi-column (merge cells) can be used to create that table.
Use two columns, then you merge two horizontal cells.

WAS

Re: splitting a cell in Lyx

[Abdelrazak Younes]

Waluyo Adi Siswanto wrote:

On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 12:36 +0200, Abdelrazak Younes wrote:

Tariq Abdullah wrote:

Hi,
I want to split a cell in Lyx as shown below. How can I do that?
(Attached file pdf file contains the same table)

In LyX, you cannot split cells, only fusion columns. So, AFAIK, you
cannot do what you want within LyX, quite bad I admit. I guess you can
do it using ERT of course.

Abdel.



I think multi-column (merge cells) can be used to create that table.
Use two columns, then you merge two horizontal cells.


You can only merge _vertical_ cells AFAICS (tested in 1.6).

Abdel.

Re: Ubuntu missing screen fonts for symbols: solution.

[Christian Ridderström]

On Wed, 3 Sep 2008, Paul Johnson wrote:


So far, in Ubuntu, I've found 2 solutions.


I had some issues, but the problem was that Ubunutu only included some 
stuff in the basic LaTeX package. Installation additional packages solved 
at lot of the headaches for me. Hava a look here:

http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LyXOnUbuntu

(The page isn't nicely formatted, but the info on packages is there)

HTH
/Christian

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Re: Ubuntu missing screen fonts for symbols: solution.

[Christian Ridderström]

On Wed, 3 Sep 2008, Paul Johnson wrote:


So far, in Ubuntu, I've found 2 solutions.


I had some issues, but the problem was that Ubunutu only included some 
stuff in the basic LaTeX package. Installation of additional packages 
solved at lot of the headaches for me. Have a look here:

http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LyXOnUbuntu

(The page isn't nicely formatted, but the info on packages is there)

HTH
/Christian

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Change the background colour of a piece of text?

[Christian Ridderström]

Hi,

I can change the foreground colour of a piece of text using the dialog 
opened through the menu:

Edit-Test Style-Customized ...

However, how can I do the same for the background colour?

Note: It's not critical, and my use case really ought to use a character 
style, but I got curious.


regards
/Chriristan

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Re: Reprinted material

[rgheck]

Florin Oprina wrote:

So is there any way in bibtex + natbib to get the Author 1976 [1600]
citation without messing with the year field in the bibtex database? I
thought the key field would do the job, but is seems that if you have an
author, it is ignored.

  
Yes, you can get that, but not without writing your own BibTeX or 
BibLaTeX style. The latter is easier than the former, but neither is for 
the meek.


Richard

Re: splitting a cell in Lyx

[Niklas Huldén]

Abdelrazak Younes wrote:

Waluyo Adi Siswanto wrote:

On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 12:36 +0200, Abdelrazak Younes wrote:

Tariq Abdullah wrote:

Hi,
I want to split a cell in Lyx as shown below. How can I do that?
(Attached file pdf file contains the same table)

In LyX, you cannot split cells, only fusion columns. So, AFAIK, you
cannot do what you want within LyX, quite bad I admit. I guess you can
do it using ERT of course.

Abdel.



I think multi-column (merge cells) can be used to create that table.
Use two columns, then you merge two horizontal cells.


You can only merge _vertical_ cells AFAICS (tested in 1.6).

Abdel.




This looks the same to me.

regards

Niklas H.


splitable.lyx
Description: application/lyx

Re: Change the background colour of a piece of text?

[Siegfried MEUNIER-GUTTIN-CLUZEL]

Hello,

You can try colored boxes (section 5.7 of the Embedded Objects manual ).

Siegfried.

Re: splitting a cell in Lyx

[Niklas Huldén]

Abdelrazak Younes wrote:

Waluyo Adi Siswanto wrote:

On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 12:36 +0200, Abdelrazak Younes wrote:

Tariq Abdullah wrote:

Hi,
I want to split a cell in Lyx as shown below. How can I do that?
(Attached file pdf file contains the same table)

In LyX, you cannot split cells, only fusion columns. So, AFAIK, you
cannot do what you want within LyX, quite bad I admit. I guess you can
do it using ERT of course.

Abdel.



I think multi-column (merge cells) can be used to create that table.
Use two columns, then you merge two horizontal cells.


You can only merge _vertical_ cells AFAICS (tested in 1.6).

Abdel.

Sorry, I didn't read this properly. You can make something similar with 
a table in a table but the borders will be different.


Ni

Re: Change the background colour of a piece of text?

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

Christian Ridderström wrote:
 However, how can I do the same for the background colour?

soul.sty provides the possibility to highlight text, which can (in contrast to 
colorboxes) break accross lines.

Jürgen

Re: splitting a cell in Lyx

[Rudi van der Linde]

Abdelrazak Younes wrote:

You can only merge _vertical_ cells AFAICS (tested in 1.6).

Abdel.

I can merge horizontal (i.e. columns) in my Lyx 1.5 for what its worth  
:-)  Vertical merging needs ERT.


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Re: splitting a cell in Lyx

[Abdelrazak Younes]

Niklas Huldén wrote:

Abdelrazak Younes wrote:

Waluyo Adi Siswanto wrote:

On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 12:36 +0200, Abdelrazak Younes wrote:

Tariq Abdullah wrote:

Hi,
I want to split a cell in Lyx as shown below. How can I do that?
(Attached file pdf file contains the same table)

In LyX, you cannot split cells, only fusion columns. So, AFAIK, you
cannot do what you want within LyX, quite bad I admit. I guess you can
do it using ERT of course.

Abdel.



I think multi-column (merge cells) can be used to create that table.
Use two columns, then you merge two horizontal cells.


You can only merge _vertical_ cells AFAICS (tested in 1.6).

Abdel.

Sorry, I didn't read this properly. You can make something similar 
with a table in a table


Excellent! Can you imagine that after 12 years using LyX and maybe 2 
years developing it I never knew that this was possible? One always 
learns :-)



but the borders will be different.


The borders can be adjusted I think.

Abdel.

Several problems with converters in lyx

[Nasir Amra]

So far I'm pleased with how lyx shortens the learning curve for using latex. 
However, I have several problems converting the document into either rtf or an 
openoffice document ( publisher's demanding .doc instead of latex or pdf).

1. Converting to .rtf : 
  When I use natbib , numerical option, with sortcompress option, citation 
format [#ID}, I get an rtf file which does not have any citations in the file.

2. When using the converter to an opendocument:
  Everything converts including the bibliography, however, the references 
are all running together instead of each reference starting a separate line ( 
e,g: 

1.
Vellios F, Bacz JM, Shumacker HB. Lipoblastomatosis: A tumor of fetal
fat different from hibernoma. Report of a case, with observations of
embryogenesis of human adipose tissue. Am J Pathol.
1958;34:1149–1159. 2. Chung EB, Enzinger FM. Benign
lipoblastomatosis. An analysis of 35 cases. Cancer. 1973
Aug;32(2):482–492. 3. Chen Z, Coffin CM, Scott S, Meloni-Ehrig A,
Shepard R, Issa B, et al. Evidence by spectral karyotyping that
8q11.2 is nonrandomly involved in lipoblastoma. J Mol Diagn. 2000
May;2(2):73–77. 

Are there any workarounds to these problems?




 
Lyx : 1.5.5.1 and Ubuntu linux 8.04


  

Re: Several problems with converters in lyx

[rgheck]

Nasir Amra wrote:

So far I'm pleased with how lyx shortens the learning curve for using latex. 
However, I have several problems converting the document into either rtf or an 
openoffice document ( publisher's demanding .doc instead of latex or pdf).

1. Converting to .rtf : 
  When I use natbib , numerical option, with sortcompress option, citation format [#ID}, I get an rtf file which does not have any citations in the file.


2. When using the converter to an opendocument:
  Everything converts including the bibliography, however, the references are all running together instead of each reference starting a separate line ( e,g: 

1.

Vellios F, Bacz JM, Shumacker HB. Lipoblastomatosis: A tumor of fetal
fat different from hibernoma. Report of a case, with observations of
embryogenesis of human adipose tissue. Am J Pathol.
1958;34:1149–1159. 2. Chung EB, Enzinger FM. Benign
lipoblastomatosis. An analysis of 35 cases. Cancer. 1973
Aug;32(2):482–492. 3. Chen Z, Coffin CM, Scott S, Meloni-Ehrig A,
Shepard R, Issa B, et al. Evidence by spectral karyotyping that
8q11.2 is nonrandomly involved in lipoblastoma. J Mol Diagn. 2000
May;2(2):73–77. 


Are there any workarounds to these problems?

  
LyX relies upon external programs to do these conversions, and they all 
have their quirks. The sad truth, I'm afraid, is that perfectly painless 
conversion to rtf and odt isn't possible, and you're always going to 
have to do some tweaking by hand.


Richard

Re: LyX 1.6 PDF output

[G. Milde]

On  4.09.08, Julio Rojas wrote:
 I just saw thru Adobe Reader that fonts are embedded in the document.
 Almost all of them are Type 1, but there's one, called F15, which is
 Type 3. Could it be the culprit? Is there any way I can replace this
 font?

You might search the latex log to see if F15 pops up there.

Maybe it comes from the included eps files, though.
(Try without included eps and check the embedded fonts again...)

GM

Re: Help need with lyx installation

[Konrad Hofbauer]

Fernando,

whenever you reply, please keep the mailing-list in CC as well (so that 
other people can participate).


FERNANDO DIAZ wrote:

Hi Konrad:

First of all, thank you very much for your time!

I have two questions. It is clear to me know how to uninstall Fink, 
but I am not sure how to uninstall lyx in order to install it again after installing mactex.


Uninstalling Fink will remove everything you have installed from fink 
(so also Lyx).


The only LyX remainder which you might want to remove is its 
User-directory called 'LyX' or 'LyX-1.5' in Home - Library - 
Application Support.



Also, can you tell me a where can I download Mactex 2007 from? I cannot find it 
on the web!!


Yes, they are hiding it since the new 2008 version is out already. ;)
It should be available on most CTAN-mirrors by now.

Just try:
http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/mac/mactex/MacTeX-20080831.mpkg.zip

Since this is a hefty 1 GB download you might want to go to 
http://ctan.org/mirrors and look for a speedy mirror close to you.


For example http://ftp.linux.ee/pub/tex-archive/systems/mac/mactex/ 
has the 2008-version already.


Hope that helps,
Konrad

Re: Ubuntu missing screen fonts for symbols: solution.

[Pavel Sanda]

 On  3.09.08, Paul Johnson wrote:
 
 In Debian, latex-xft-fonts is suggested. I agree that the more
 convincing recommended might be the better choice but there is no need
 to require latex-xft-fonts. 

i don't know how debian has handled this, but note, that lyx is shiped with
bakoma fonts already, so there is no need to even recommend latex-xft-fonts; the
only thing is that apt-get install those files correctly.

pavel

Graphic Packages with preview function in Lyx

[Literatur Hiwi]

Hello!

I would like to create graphics in Lyx and was wondering which the packages
are that can be previewed in lyx besides Xy-pic, because I find the Xy-Pic
Reference Manual to be written very poorly. Does anybody know an other
Manual?

Thanks in advance!

Best regards,

TJ

1.6.0 rc1 crash

[Marcelo Acuña]

hello,
 rc1 crash when I clicked Export  Plain text
regards
Marcelo

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Re: 1.6.0 rc1 crash

[Pavel Sanda]

 hello,
  rc1 crash when I clicked Export  Plain text

can you post the minimal example of file, where this happens?
there is one known case when  math macros are in use.
pavel

Re: Change the background colour of a piece of text?

[Christian Ridderström]

On Thu, 4 Sep 2008, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:


Christian Ridderström wrote:

However, how can I do the same for the background colour?


soul.sty provides the possibility to highlight text, which can (in 
contrast to colorboxes) break accross lines.


Ok, thanks.

/C

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Layout for specifications?

[Christian Ridderström]

Hi,

Are there any document classes or layouts for use with LyX that are 
suitable when writing a specification?  (It's a technical specification 
for a system, not pure software).


regards,
/Christian

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Re: 1.6.0 rc1 crash

[Marcelo Acuña]

no math used. no macros. only a text without any format.
no titles, no footnotes, nothing. I wrote a text aimed to be exported to txt 
and then send by mail without html.
Marcelo


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 De: Pavel Sanda [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Asunto: Re: 1.6.0 rc1 crash
 Para: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
 Fecha: jueves, 4 de septiembre de 2008, 12:53 pm
  hello,
   rc1 crash when I clicked Export  Plain text
 
 can you post the minimal example of file, where this
 happens?
 there is one known case when  math macros are in use.
 pavel


  

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Re: 1.6.0 rc1 crash

[Pavel Sanda]

 no math used. no macros. only a text without any format.
 no titles, no footnotes, nothing. I wrote a text aimed to be exported to txt 
 and then send by mail without html.

i was asking for some example file. your report is useless until there
is some way how to reproduce it.

pavel

Re: 1.6.0 rc1 crash

[charles reid]

Have you tried exporting the same document in rc2?  What platform are you
using?

On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 9:46 AM, Marcelo Acuña [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 hello,
  rc1 crash when I clicked Export  Plain text
 regards
 Marcelo

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Re: 1.6.0 rc1 crash

[Marcelo Acuña]

 Have you tried exporting the same document in rc2?  What
 platform are you
 using?
 
 On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 9:46 AM, Marcelo Acuña
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
  hello,
   rc1 crash when I clicked Export  Plain text
  regards
  Marcelo
 

 In this moment I have not rc2 installed. May be tomorow.
 I have opensuse linux 11.0
 Regards
Marcelo


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Re: Help need with lyx installation

[Konrad Hofbauer]

Hello Fernando,

FERNANDO DIAZ wrote:

I ran into some troubles when trying to install lyx in my Macbook Pro.


As described on the Wiki, there are different ways to get LyX onto the 
Mac. Some ways are easier (because better supported), and some are more 
difficult ...



As suggested in the LyX/Mac wiki page, prior to installing lyx I installed
finx (Fink 0.9.0 Binary Installer (PowerPC) from the following webpage:


... and you ended up on a more difficult route.

Do you have a particular reason why you want to install LyX via Fink?


I am a new user to both Mac and
Latex, so you can image that I do not know what to do!!!


So I guess you don't.

I don´t know hot to run texhash manually. 


The immediate answer to your question would be:
Go to Terminal.app, and enter "sudo texhash" (without the quotes), 
followed by your password.


But I would recommend to you a different route:

1) Remove Fink again (Question 5 on 
)


2) Install MacTex, a complete Latex distribution for the Mac. If you can 
still wait for a few days, install the fresh-from-the-oven MacTeX-2008 
from , otherwise you can also use the older 
MacTeX-2007.


3) Install LyX from

(copy the included app to your Applications folder and then run the 
Installer).


This is the most common and most tested way to run LyX on the Mac.

Happy LyXing,
Konrad

Re: Reprinted material

[Julio Rojas]

Thanks a lot guys. I'll stick to the "Note" field then.
-
Julio Rojas
[EMAIL PROTECTED]



On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 10:34 PM,  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Julio Rojas wrote:
>
>> Thank you all for your answers, they have been of great help. Still,
>> the main technical question, the how do I do it in BibTeX, remains
>> unanswered. Is there a "Note" or "Previously Published" field in
>> BibTeX? How do I solve this problem using the available fields?
>>
> There are three different problems :
>
>  - edition number. For example, B. Obama, Hope, hope, etc..., New York :
> Faber, 2008, 4th edition
> You use there the edition field in a bib entry with an integer, most
> European styles put the number in superscript after or before the year
> (German way). The edition field works with most bibtex styles
>
>  - reprint (meaning a photomecanical reproduction of an old book)
>
> Avicenna, Liber canonis, Venice, 1507 (reprint Hildesheim : Olms Verlag,
> 1964)
>
> Then you have to use Biblatex that adds to the bib file fields an origyear,
> origlocation, origtitle fields for reprint information or translation. The
> new chicago biblatex style uses them.
>
>  - translation
> J. L. Borges, Histoire universelle de l'infamie, Paris : Christian
> Bourgeois, 1985 (orig. Historia universal de la infamia, Buenos Aires,
> 1935)
>
> Possible with the Biblatex origyear, origlocation, origtitle with some macro
> magic.
>
>
> If the bibliographic style that you want to use does not mandate to put the
> reprint / translation information in the footnotes citation but you just
> want to add this information at the end of a bibliographic entry in the
> ending bibliography then use the note field.
>
>
>
>

Re: LyX 1.6 PDF output

[Julio Rojas]

But is there a way to embed used fonts in the PDF with pdflatex? If
so, shouldn't be an option in LyX to allow this feature?
-
Julio Rojas
[EMAIL PROTECTED]



On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 4:30 PM, Richard Heck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Julio Rojas wrote:
>>
>> Hi. I was doing some document in LyX 1.6 (Ubuntu) and when I printed
>> it the text was blurry, even if it was looking good on XPDF. Also, I
>> had an EPS plot (made in Inkscape) in the document and the font in the
>> printed version was bold instead of plain. The formulas were printed
>> alright.
>>
>> The weird thing is that if I exported the document to PDF and opened
>> it with Adobe Reader, the printed version was perfect.
>>
>>
>
> Try using different fonts. This is usually because some program or other in
> the chain doesn't understand the fonts you're trying to use. In this case,
> it sounds like it might be ghostscript that is the culprit.
>
> rh
>
>

Re: LyX taking controls of the multimedia keys on my laptop

[Manveru]

2008/9/4 ganesh hegde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Hi,
>I installed LyX today, and noticed that the multimedia keys(above the
> keyboard) dont work with LyX window active. Is this a bug, is there a work
> around for this?
> Thanx in advance,
> --
> Regards,
> Ganesh Hegde
>

Could you tell us which operating system you are using?

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Re: LyX 1.6 PDF output

[Julio Rojas]

I just saw thru Adobe Reader that fonts are embedded in the document.
Almost all of them are Type 1, but there's one, called F15, which is
Type 3. Could it be the culprit? Is there any way I can replace this
font?
-
Julio Rojas
[EMAIL PROTECTED]



On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 9:33 AM, Julio Rojas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> But is there a way to embed used fonts in the PDF with pdflatex? If
> so, shouldn't be an option in LyX to allow this feature?
> -
> Julio Rojas
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 4:30 PM, Richard Heck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Julio Rojas wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi. I was doing some document in LyX 1.6 (Ubuntu) and when I printed
>>> it the text was blurry, even if it was looking good on XPDF. Also, I
>>> had an EPS plot (made in Inkscape) in the document and the font in the
>>> printed version was bold instead of plain. The formulas were printed
>>> alright.
>>>
>>> The weird thing is that if I exported the document to PDF and opened
>>> it with Adobe Reader, the printed version was perfect.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Try using different fonts. This is usually because some program or other in
>> the chain doesn't understand the fonts you're trying to use. In this case,
>> it sounds like it might be ghostscript that is the culprit.
>>
>> rh
>>
>>
>

lyx-users maillist daemon settings

[Manveru]

Hellou,

I do not remember who, but someone is keeping contact with
administrator of this maillist. I have question about missing
"Reply-to: " header in messages coming from the list. This causes that
when I am using Google Mail, I have to always manually change
recipient address when I am replying to the list. I made faults a few
times replying directly to people asking something.

Could this be repaired?

Thanks for the answer.
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Re: Ubuntu missing screen fonts for symbols: solution.

[G. Milde]

On  3.09.08, Paul Johnson wrote:
> I was asking about missing or incorrect symbols yesterday.  I found a
> solution.

I can only spead for Debian, but as Ubuntu uses the same package
format, things might be similar.

> In Lyx on Ubuntu 8.04, I noticed that SOME mathematical characters do
> not show properly on the screen. 
...
> So far, in Ubuntu, I've found 2 solutions.

> One approach is to install the font package
> "http://movementarian.org/latex-xft-fonts-0.1.tar.gz; under ~/.fonts
> and run "fc-cache -fv".
...
> the above workaround also works if one uses the supposedly better
> BaKoMa fonts, but I don't see much difference myself.
...

> After some googling, I learned that "cmsy10.ttf" is available as an
> optional Ubuntu package "latex-xft-fonts".

The apt-file command (package apt-file) provides a convenient way to
find out which Debian (or Ubuntu?) package a given file is in.

Generally, if I have the choice between installing from a tar-archive
or a package for my system, I prefer the package. 
   Example: before downloading and installing the recommended
latex-xft-fonts tarball, I'll check in my install-manager (aptitude)
whether a package of same (or similar) name is available.

> So I suppose that many Ubuntu users have that installed automatically
> so they never fight the mystery of missing screen fonts. I'll suggest
> to Ubuntu's lyx packager that latex-xft-fonts should be a required
> package.

In Debian, latex-xft-fonts is "suggested". I agree that the more
convincing "recommended" might be the better choice but there is no need
to "require" latex-xft-fonts. 

("Require" means that the requiring package is completely broken without
the requirement, while "recommended" means that without the recommended
package the behaviour is impaired in some way.)

Günter

Re: lyx-users maillist daemon settings

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

Manveru <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I do not remember who, but someone is keeping contact with
> administrator of this maillist. I have question about missing
> "Reply-to: " header in messages coming from the list. This causes that
> when I am using Google Mail, I have to always manually change
> recipient address when I am replying to the list. I made faults a few
> times replying directly to people asking something.
>
> Could this be repaired?

It is considered bad practice, see e.g. 
http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html

JMarc

toolbar customization

[Tariq Abdullah]

Hi,
Is there a way to customize Lyx toolbars? I want to add/remove buttons from
toolbar. How can I do that?

-- 
Regards,
Tariq Abdullah

splitting a cell in Lyx

[Tariq Abdullah]

Hi,
I want to split a cell in Lyx as shown below. How can I do that?
(Attached file pdf file contains the same table)














































-- 
Regards,
Tariq Abdullah


test.pdf
Description: Adobe PDF document