lyx templates site?

2009-01-10 Thread Sindhu
hi i have never made lyx templates before, but am about to graduate and lately i have doing a lot of resumes, SRS (software requirement specifications) and other such documents. my question is, if i put the templates together for the above said documents, can i post it up here on lyx mailing list?

[announce] fix for LyX installtions on Windows

2009-01-10 Thread Uwe Stöhr
As reported on this list, some users had problems to open older LyX files with LyX 1.6.x. The problem was a corrupted file of the scripting language Python that is used by LyX for file conversions. When you are affected by this problem, replace the file "unicodedata.pyd" that you find in LyX's

Re: Fontsize of margins | report-class (KOMA-script) | Lyx 1.6.1

2009-01-10 Thread cmiramon
jezZiFeR wrote: > Hello, > > I would like to change the fontsize of margins and, if possible, also > other attributes in report-class (KOMA-script): > I would like to have them a little smaller, left adjusted, and without > serifs. > > Is the same also possible for citations, there I would like

XeTex again, and language encoding / mutated vowels / Lyx 1.6.1

2009-01-10 Thread jezZiFeR
Hello,here is another question I have on XeTex. In the wiki I found the following instruction:You need to select the encoding utf8-plain (in Document→Settings→Language→Encoding) for XeTeX. If you select utf8-plain…Did I do that right? I tried the following two encodings:In this case I get loads of

Re: Install LyX separately

2009-01-10 Thread Martin Görg
Christopher Menzel wrote: > But just how is it supposed to do that? Yeah, that's what I figured. > You should be able to do this quite easily. With Debian-based > distributions (as well as most (?) others) you can always use the > /usr/local hierarchy to install your own software, and my hunch

Re: Install LyX separately

2009-01-10 Thread Christopher Menzel
On Jan 10, 2009, at 2:19 PM, Martin Görg wrote: ... on my pursuit of happiness (install LyX) I bumped into something most inconvenient. When I try to install LyX using aptitude, apt- get, a .deb package, or the Synaptic Package Manager - just to name a few - the whatever manager does not rea

Re: How can I find out, if XeTex is installed on OSX?

2009-01-10 Thread jezZiFeR
I´ve tried several times now to use XeTex and followed the instructions from: http://wiki.lyx.org/Mac/XeTeX But I just get as far as "you should find a new item under the View menu", which never appears. What could that be, what is the problem? That´s why I thought that I would have to updat

Re: LyX Reference Dialog broken

2009-01-10 Thread Martin Görg
Pavel Sanda wrote: > this is known problem already solved in the forthcoming 1.6.2. > pavel Ah, now there's an answer! Thanks so much for this info. That's kind-of what I was expecting. Martin

Install LyX separately

2009-01-10 Thread Martin Görg
Hello again, on my pursuit of happiness (install LyX) I bumped into something most inconvenient. When I try to install LyX using aptitude, apt-get, a .deb package, or the Synaptic Package Manager - just to name a few - the whatever manager does not realize that I already have a pretty and working

Re: LyX Reference Dialog broken

2009-01-10 Thread Pavel Sanda
Martin Görg wrote: > I open the LyX User's Guide (or any other document) and klick on a > reference. The pop-up dialog is empty showing none of the existing > labels and when I click 'Update' LyX crashes with the message > "lyx: SIGSEGV signal caught". this is known problem already solved in the f

Re: How can I find out, if XeTex is installed on OSX?

2009-01-10 Thread Bennett Helm
On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 8:57 AM, jezZiFeR wrote: > Hello, > > thank you, Bennett. > > I´ve tried several times now to use XeTex and followed the instructions > from: > http://wiki.lyx.org/Mac/XeTeX > > But I just get as far as "you should find a new item under the View menu", > which never appears

Re: LyX Reference Dialog broken

2009-01-10 Thread Martin Görg
Martin Görg wrote: > Ah, that is interesting. I didn't know about backports before. Thanks > for that hint! I'll try it out. I managed to get up and running with LyX 1.6.1 from the backports, but the references are still messed up. Interestingly, only the provided help documents had the problem of

Re: LyX Reference Dialog broken

2009-01-10 Thread Martin Görg
Martin Görg wrote: > Ah, that is interesting. I didn't know about backports before. Thanks > for that hint! I'll try it out. I managed to get up and running with LyX 1.6.1 from the backports, but the references are still messed up. Interestingly, only the provided help documents had the problem of

Re: pixelated output

2009-01-10 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Tao Cumplido wrote: > One thing I noticed though, when I process a new file the letters are > somewhat pixelated if scaled to high resolutions whereas the pdf from files > like Tutorial.lyx for example looks perfect. > > Now my question is of course, what do I have to do so that the output from > f

pixelated output

2009-01-10 Thread Tao Cumplido
Hi, I am new to Lyx and still experimenting but it seems really good so far. One thing I noticed though, when I process a new file the letters are somewhat pixelated if scaled to high resolutions whereas the pdf from files like Tutorial.lyx for example looks perfect. Now my question is of cour

Fontsize of margins | report-class (KOMA-script) | Lyx 1.6.1

2009-01-10 Thread jezZiFeR
Hello, I would like to change the fontsize of margins and, if possible, also other attributes in report-class (KOMA-script): I would like to have them a little smaller, left adjusted, and without serifs. Is the same also possible for citations, there I would like to change the fontsize al

Re: LyX Reference Dialog broken

2009-01-10 Thread rgheck
Martin Görg wrote: rgheck wrote: Intending no offense whatsoever...if you're new to Linux, then it may be a good idea to stick with the official packages for your distro. I know that means foregoing the advantages of coolprog new.0, but it also means not running into weird problems. Yo

Re: Question on cross-reference dialog window

2009-01-10 Thread rgheck
Peter Baumgartner wrote: Hello, In my LyX installation 1.6.1 on Mac OSX I have a cross-reference window with an input field called "Name" which is always grayed out so that no input is possible. Maybe this should work for formatted references? But how to use it? This is only used with docb

Re: Errors using vref and hyperref package on Ubuntu

2009-01-10 Thread Pavel Sanda
> I just can tell that i have the same problem as you with lyx 1.6.1 on ubuntu > 8.04 i386. If i start on a blank document, everything is fine, just if i > want to turn my (allready written) document to a hyperref enabled document, > i get that a lot of errors like you! have you removed \usepackag

Re: using lyx with Texlive in windows.

2009-01-10 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Muhammad moosavy wrote: As a default, Lyx run on Miktex in windows. Can I run it on the texlive distribution. I love Texlive. It should. LyX just wants a working LaTeX distribution; it's agnostic as to which distribution. (Disclaimer: I've used it with TeXLive on Ubuntu, but only with Mi

Re: How can I find out, if XeTex is installed on OSX?

2009-01-10 Thread jezZiFeR
Hello, thank you, Bennett. I´ve tried several times now to use XeTex and followed the instructions from: http://wiki.lyx.org/Mac/XeTeX But I just get as far as "you should find a new item under the View menu", which never appears. What could that be, what is the problem? That´s why I thou

Re: Errors using vref and hyperref package on Ubuntu

2009-01-10 Thread karlrt
Shawn Willden-9 wrote: > > I have two machines, one running Debian unstable, the other running Ubuntu > 7.10. Both have the texlive-full package installed from their respective > repository. On the Debian box, pdflatex handles my document just fine, > but > on the Ubuntu box, I get errors

Re: LyX Reference Dialog broken

2009-01-10 Thread Martin Görg
rgheck wrote: > Intending no offense whatsoever...if you're new to Linux, then it may be > a good idea to stick with the official packages for your distro. I know > that means foregoing the advantages of coolprog new.0, but it also means > not running into weird problems. You have a point there. I

using lyx with Texlive in windows.

2009-01-10 Thread Muhammad moosavy
Hi As a default, Lyx run on Miktex in windows. Can I run it on the texlive distribution. I love Texlive. Thanks

Re: No Input after Ctrl-W

2009-01-10 Thread Martin Görg
rgheck wrote: > Martin Görg wrote: >> When I have two documents open and I close one of them using Ctrl-w, >> then I cannot input anything into the remaining document with the >> keyboard. There is no reaction to the keyboard in that document >> whatsoever. >> >> > Is that true even if you cli

Question on cross-reference dialog window

2009-01-10 Thread Peter Baumgartner
Hello, In my LyX installation 1.6.1 on Mac OSX I have a cross-reference window with an input field called "Name" which is always grayed out so that no input is possible. Maybe this should work for formatted references? But how to use it? BTW: IMHO there should be more explication in the User'sGu