ACM SIGs vs SIGPLAN

2009-02-02 Thread Alexy Khrabrov
Greetings -- I'm typesetting a paper for ACM SIGKDD, and found ACM SIGPLAN style by George Fairbanks, now in the latest LyX 1.6.1, described on the wiki at http://wiki.lyx.org/Examples/AcmSigplan -- which refers to the ACM SIGPLAN's own http://www.sigplan.org/authorInformation.htm However

Re: Puzzled

2009-02-02 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 2 Feb 2009, E.Kaplan wrote: By the way, which libraries were you referring to? Ehud, I don't do windows so I've no idea where they'd be in the LaTeX port. The LyX interface calls the tool or library to do the work. Those who are familiar with Microsoft products and applications port

Re: Puzzled

2009-02-02 Thread E.Kaplan
Thanks. I did suspect a converter, but the lists of converters under /tools/preferences/file-handling/converters seem identical. In addition, both Windows machines are running the same version of Lyx, installed a couple of days apart. It is unclear why they should differ, and why there would

Re: Lyx won't open on OS 10.3.9

2009-02-02 Thread Bennett Helm
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 2:23 PM, Theo Yale wrote: > Re: Double click LyX on Mac doesn't open LyX > > On 2/2/09, Theo Yale wrote: >> Hi there: >> I'm trying to install LyX and having some trouble. The disk mounts >> just fine: I can run the intaller, read the readme, and drag >> application to

Re: Puzzled

2009-02-02 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 2 Feb 2009, Ehud Kaplan wrote: This must be simple for the experts, but it puzzles me: I have a file with some figures. It compiles without any problem on both a WINDOWS (with Miktex 2.7) machine and on a Kubuntu 8.10 machine, both running Lyx 16.1. But on another WINDOWS machine (Mikt

Puzzled

2009-02-02 Thread Ehud Kaplan
This must be simple for the experts, but it puzzles me: I have a file with some figures. It compiles without any problem on both a WINDOWS (with Miktex 2.7) machine and on a Kubuntu 8.10 machine, both running Lyx 16.1. But on another WINDOWS machine (Miktex 2.7, Lyx 1.6.1) it fails to compile

Re: A question regarding List of figures

2009-02-02 Thread Yago
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Re: A question regarding List of figures

2009-02-02 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn
Carina Gaviglio schreef: Hello, I have a question. I am writting a thesis in spanish (Argentinien spanish) in Lyx, the document class is BOOK. And I have inserted a List of figures. But I have a problem with the translation into spanish of: List of figures, Lyx translates as Indice de cuadros,

A question regarding List of figures

2009-02-02 Thread Carina Gaviglio
Hello, I have a question. I am writting a thesis in spanish (Argentinien spanish) in Lyx, the document class is BOOK. And I have inserted a List of figures. But I have a problem with the translation into spanish of: List of figures, Lyx translates as Indice de cuadros, but is not the right transl

Re: Big document

2009-02-02 Thread Piero Faustini
Paul Johnson writes: > When there are things to go wrong, it seems like I can usually find > them. Hope that helps. > Thanks Paul, it has been very interesting. But you pointed out exactly my fears (not the most terrible anyway) so I think I'll try to keep the whole document, perhaps... thi

Re: Lyx won't open on OS 10.3.9

2009-02-02 Thread Adam Treverrow
On 03/02/2009, at 6:23 AM, Theo Yale wrote: Does this mean LyX will not work on my OS Will a previous edition work, and if so which is the last one certified to work on 10.3.9? Thanks so much, Thoedore Yale I'm also stuck in the OS X 10.3.9 universe, happily using LyX 1.3.7. I did try the

adding hebrew breaks table of contents???

2009-02-02 Thread Eitan Suez
hello, i maintain a document that i wrote using lyx. recently i added some content that uses a mix of two alphabets: english (primary language of the document) and hebrew. now when i export the document to pdf (with lyx --export pdf2 guide.lyx) i notice that the table of contents i

Re: Lyx won't open on OS 10.3.9

2009-02-02 Thread Theo Yale
Re: Double click LyX on Mac doesn't open LyX On 2/2/09, Theo Yale wrote: > Hi there: > I'm trying to install LyX and having some trouble. The disk mounts > just fine: I can run the intaller, read the readme, and drag > application to my applications folder. However, when I go to open > LyX,

Lyx won't open on OS 10.3.9

2009-02-02 Thread Theo Yale
Hi there: I'm trying to install LyX and having some trouble. The disk mounts just fine: I can run the intaller, read the readme, and drag application to my applications folder. However, when I go to open LyX, it simply doesnt work. No error message, no crash, it just starts bouncing on the dock

Re: Big document

2009-02-02 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 5:29 AM, Piero Faustini wrote: > Hello fellow LyX users, > I have to take a decision: wether to split my doctoral thesis in different > files or not. Some people told me a thesis is HUGE and I should split the file > into chapters or parts, but I'm afraid that something goe

Re: Lyx/ Biblatex import Problems

2009-02-02 Thread Paul Johnson
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 4:55 AM, Christofer Zwanzig wrote: > Hello, > > trying to import a tex-file with the biblatex-command \Cite (with capitals) > into lyx file occures the following problem: > > For example the command \Cite[Vgl. z.B.][52]{Holzfurtner:1984} is imported > as \Cite{[}Vgl. z.B.{]

Re: Export to Open document

2009-02-02 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Piero Faustini wrote: Hesham Kamel writes: My system is Windows I also use windows, XP sp3, Lyx 1.6.1 installed with the alt installer I've never been able to export (with the menu tools) to a open document, and I use Lyx since the 1.5.4 version. The problem has always been more or less the

Re: Plain Text that is not Plain

2009-02-02 Thread Les Denham
On Monday 02 February 2009, Helge Hafting wrote: > If quotes is the only problem, take a look at the dialog for selecting > quote styles. There are many options there. Perhaps a "ascii-only" style > could be added there, and solve this particular problem.  It could have > "double" and 'single' quot

Re: Export to Open document

2009-02-02 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Hesham Kamel wrote: My system is Windows On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 9:07 PM, Typhoon wrote: On Thu, 29 Jan 2009 18:43:57 -0500 Hesham Kamel wrote: Hi, I am trying to export a lyx document into an open document, I press export, but then no files are created. Can someone help? The reason is I a

Re: Problem showing graphics

2009-02-02 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Anders Host-Madsen wrote: Sorry, this is actually I follow up to my previous posting. I did not figure out how to post replies. So Thanks to Konrad Hofbauer I found out how to use the IEEEtran class. Now I know how to install new classes (run sudo texhash and reconfigure LyX). But graphics is s

Re: Big document

2009-02-02 Thread Helge Hafting
Piero Faustini wrote: > And remember that you can always split the document if you feel that one > big document is not suitable anymore. > ...and is the reverse operation always possible? Yes, you can always merge two documents back to one: 1. Open one of the document. 2. Place the cursor

Re: Plain Text that is not Plain

2009-02-02 Thread Helge Hafting
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Les Denham wrote: > Is there a way of making the quotes strictly ASCII? I'm getting into > trouble with a mailing list which insists on plain ASCII text. Not without hacking the source, I'm afraid. Question to lyx-devel: is "plain text" supposed to produce ASCII? If

Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?

2009-02-02 Thread Helge Hafting
Steve Litt wrote: On Monday 26 January 2009 10:52:49 am Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > Steve Litt wrote: > > Have you ever supplied your colleagues with a layout file containing all > > the environments and character styles they'll need for their document? I > > think even the most non-technic

Lyx/ Biblatex import Problems

2009-02-02 Thread Christofer Zwanzig
Hello, trying to import a tex-file with the biblatex-command \Cite (with capitals) into lyx file occures the following problem: For example the command \Cite[Vgl. z.B.][52]{Holzfurtner:1984} is imported as \Cite{[}Vgl. z.B.{]}{[}52{]}{Holzfurtner:1984}. As it seems, Lyx doesn´t know this th

Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?

2009-02-02 Thread Piero Faustini
Peter Baumgartner writes: > > It seems to me that there are several co-operations scenarios which may > require different solutions: Good work, Peter: my ideas on the subject are clearer now. Inmediate actions we can take in respect to these scenarios are of two different kinds: 1. Effort in

Re: nicer matrix delimiters?

2009-02-02 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-01-31, Pol wrote: > Any suggestions to change matrix delimiters, other than square or standard > round brackets? I would like straight round brackets. I do not have a clear idea what "straight round brackets" are, do you mean this kind? ⎛ ⎞ ⎜ ⎟ ⎝ ⎠ In this case, it's rather an issue of