Re: Installing biblatex-dw-style (Wassenhoven) on OSX

2009-02-05 Thread Dominik Waßenhoven
jezZiFeR wrote: I´ve had biblatex-dw installed in that folder before, and did it again now – with the same results. But I tried to get a minimal-sample now, and there it seems, that biblatex-dw is not able to find my bibliography. I entered this line, which worked fine without biblatex-

Using example to promote (Was: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?)

2009-02-05 Thread Christian Ridderström
Hi, Here's an ide for those wishing to promote LyX within their particular field or organisation: Create one or more simple example documents that use reasonable formatting and layout for your area. I think that if the starting threshold to actually being productive is

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

2009-02-05 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Pavel Sanda wrote: Piero Faustini wrote: want. No converters, no LaTeX. no converters - no pictures Not quite true. Most (if not all) of the image formats typically used by Windows user are natively supported by LyX. Abdel.

Re: How to edit

2009-02-05 Thread Iain Mac Donald
On Thu, 5 Feb 2009 01:43:30 + (UTC) Joachim K. Rennstich rennst...@gmail.com wrote: I don't really know how to locate (and thus edit) the file in question. Assuming the information in the wiki is correct, for your system, the file has been located already. /usr/local/etc/aspell.conf I

Re: Anyone using LyX on FreeBSD?

2009-02-05 Thread Julian Stacey
Steve Litt wrote: Anyone using LyX on FreeBSD? How do you like it? I tried lyx-1.4.5.1_1 On FreeBSD-7.1 with /usr/ports/print/lyx I wanted to generate 3 column stuff, asked for help here Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2008 18:50:35 +0100 Subject: 3 column 2 page leaflet in lyx - How to

Re: How to edit

2009-02-05 Thread Niklas Huldén
Joachim K. Rennstich wrote: Thanks, Ian, for the fast reply Configuration files should handled with a text editor. I don't know what that would be for your system but something like Vim, Gedit, Kate etc. You will probably need to edit this file as root. I am using Lyx 1.6.1 on Mac OS X

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

2009-02-05 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-02-04, David Mertens wrote: 3. (optional, and not so inmediate) A light-weight full-view (and idiot-proof as well) LyX version, (I have the name: LyteX or LyghtX!) Why not Ly-X (for lyx without TeX)? but this is a minor point. is able to edit text (and structure) of conventional LyX

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

2009-02-05 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Thu, 5 Feb 2009, Guenter Milde wrote: idiot-proof as well) LyX version, (I have the name: LyteX or LyghtX!) Why not Ly-X (for lyx without TeX)? but this is a minor point. Maybe it's _too_ close to LyX? Thus easily mistaken. Also, it may be that some settings are blocked if the

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

2009-02-05 Thread Helge Hafting
Ken wrote: harder to export them to SWP even though they are both LaTeX editors. At the university, SWP is available as a standard install on machines but not LyX. Have you tried getting the university to offer LyX as part of the standard install as well? Being free means they don't need a

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

2009-02-05 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Thu, 5 Feb 2009, Helge Hafting wrote: Isn't this going to be a big problem? LyX objects rather strongly when it thinks you don't have the corresponding LaTeX class installed. Of course, this behaviour could be changed. Isn't this decision made based on what the configure script

Re: some questions on page numbering (pages BEFORE chapter 1)

2009-02-05 Thread Helge Hafting
Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote: [...] Well that and how to get Lyx to position the by authorname copyright information at the bottom of an otherwise blank page instead of at the top of one??? (there has to be a better way than inserting a bunch of hard returns. I mean that method would have to be

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

2009-02-05 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-02-05, Rainer M Krug wrote: the options of editing via PDFs and conversion from and to rtf, should be explored further as they really would solve the problem. The problem here is, that PDF and rtf do not provide semantic markup so most of the document structure and other vital

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

2009-02-05 Thread Ken
Helge, Thanks for your message. Yes, I wrote to the IT folks a few weeks ago with the suggestion and will try to follow it up in a few weeks time. While there is no licensing costs they may have to worry about the installation and support cost/effort. But again, I think that LyX is far and

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

2009-02-05 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-02-04, Pavel Sanda wrote: Piero Faustini wrote: want. No converters, no LaTeX. no converters - no pictures Well, pictures in formats supported directly by QT will still be visible (which are a lot). Günter

Typing in Hebrew

2009-02-05 Thread Theo Yale
Hello there: I am somewhat new to LaTeX (downloaded through MacTeX) and almost totally nex to LyX. I am currently using 1.5.7 (operating on Mac OS 10.3.9). I have gone through the user's guides and tutorials, so I'm able to make LyX pretty much do what I want in English. However, I am also

Re: Error message after Installation with current lyx-webinstaller (windows)

2009-02-05 Thread Tiago Rinck Caveden
Hello everybody, I'm new to the list, I fount this thread on Nabble via Google and I'm having the same problem. My Lyx user directory is a network path that CMD doesn't allow me to go to execute the program suggested. Is there a way I can change this user directory, or pass a parameter to the

Creating macros in Lyx

2009-02-05 Thread Pascal Francq
Hi, Does anybody know if it is possible to create macro in Lyx and how to do it ? In practice, I want to add some shortcuts to action such as putting the text in red or the text is in English. Thanks. -- Pascal Francq signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: Puzzled

2009-02-05 Thread Helge Hafting
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 (Miktex 2.7, Lyx

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

2009-02-05 Thread Helge Hafting
Christian Ridderström wrote: On Thu, 5 Feb 2009, Guenter Milde wrote: idiot-proof as well) LyX version, (I have the name: LyteX or LyghtX!) Why not Ly-X (for lyx without TeX)? but this is a minor point. Maybe it's _too_ close to LyX? Thus easily mistaken. lyxlight? minilyx? microlyx?

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

2009-02-05 Thread Pavel Sanda
Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Pavel Sanda wrote: Piero Faustini wrote: want. No converters, no LaTeX. no converters - no pictures Not quite true. Most (if not all) of the image formats typically used by Windows user are natively supported by LyX. interesting; i would expect postscript to be

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

2009-02-05 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Guenter Milde wrote: In my view, to use LaTeX as exchange format, LyX development should a) concentrate on an improved LyX - LaTeX - LyX cycle (with the aim to get this round-trip lossless) and b) encourage development/improvement of LaTeX converters (to/from OOffice, HTML,

Re: Typing in Hebrew

2009-02-05 Thread E. Kaplan
Follow http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/Hebrew Ehud Kaplan Theo Yale wrote: Hello there: I am somewhat new to LaTeX (downloaded through MacTeX) and almost totally nex to LyX. I am currently using 1.5.7 (operating on Mac

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

2009-02-05 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Guenter Milde wrote: Editing yes, output would need LaTeX even for text (AFAIK). No, unless this has changed recently, LateX is not needed for text export in the 1.5 and 1.6 series. Abdel.

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

2009-02-05 Thread Ken
I like the idea of LyX-Lite too. Perhaps one way to deal with the images problem is for LyX to export a LyX-Lite version with images in jpg/png format to a sub-directory along with the lyxlite.lyx file. Would this make sharing the images within a document easier and more light-weight? -Ken

Re: Puzzled

2009-02-05 Thread E. Kaplan
1. I certainly chose view/pdflatex when the failure occurred. 2. The pdflatext command is recognized by the failing Windows machine: I get a pdf file if I do not include pdf graphics in the Lyx file. It is only the pdf figures that cause it to produce a damaged file.

Re: Spell checking

2009-02-05 Thread Anders Host-Madsen
OK, I can see that there is an answer to my question on the LyX wiki. Didn't realize that before asking here.

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

2009-02-05 Thread Steve Litt
On Thursday 05 February 2009 05:51:38 am Guenter Milde wrote: Why not Ly-X (for lyx without TeX)? but this is a minor point. That doesn't roll smoothly off the tongue and sounds a little too much like liar. SteveT

Re: Anyone using LyX on FreeBSD?

2009-02-05 Thread Steve Litt
On Thursday 05 February 2009 05:00:47 am Julian Stacey wrote: Steve Litt wrote: Anyone using LyX on FreeBSD? How do you like it? I tried lyx-1.4.5.1_1 On FreeBSD-7.1 with /usr/ports/print/lyx I wanted to generate 3 column stuff, asked for help here Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2008 18:50:35

Re: Spell checking

2009-02-05 Thread Anders Host-Madsen
Installing cocoAspell worked. Great.

Spell checking

2009-02-05 Thread Anders Host-Madsen
I badly need spell checking for my typing. LyX relies on aspell, which I don't have. I went to the aspell web page and downloaded, but I find no installation instructions. I'm lost. I use LyX on a Mac, and it seems aspell is some kind of unix thing. I can see that cocoAspell is a Mac version

Re: some questions on page numbering (pages BEFORE chapter 1)

2009-02-05 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
It would appear that on Feb 4, David Mertens did say: Oops. I only sent this to Joe. Resending to LyX list. I had wondered about that extra copy... Probably my fault. I keep forgetting which mailing lists need me to NOT include me on the Reply-To: and which ones rewrite it to point at

Re: How to edit

2009-02-05 Thread Stefano Franchi
On Thursday 05 February 2009 04:01:47 Niklas Huldén wrote: Joachim K. Rennstich wrote: Thanks, Ian, for the fast reply Configuration files should handled with a text editor. I don't know what that would be for your system but something like Vim, Gedit, Kate etc. You will probably need

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

2009-02-05 Thread Piero Faustini
Helge Hafting helge.haft...@... writes: Or in the case of a serious cooperation setup - use the same config file as the guy who has the full lyx setup and does the printing. That's smart. LyghtLyX (got the word-pun?) should know that with that document, he is working on a project, for

Re: Creating macros in Lyx

2009-02-05 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-02-05, Pascal Francq wrote: Does anybody know if it is possible to create macro in Lyx No. But a key-binding. In practice, I want to add some shortcuts to action such as putting the te= xt=20 in red or the text is in English. After selecting an action from the menu/toolbars, LyX

Re: Creating macros in Lyx

2009-02-05 Thread rgheck
Pascal Francq wrote: Hi, Does anybody know if it is possible to create macro in Lyx and how to do it ? In practice, I want to add some shortcuts to action such as putting the text in red or the text is in English. Thanks. Anything you can do in LyX---any sequence of actions---can be

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

2009-02-05 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-02-05, Pavel Sanda wrote: Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Pavel Sanda wrote: Piero Faustini wrote: want. No converters, no LaTeX. no converters - no pictures Not quite true. Most (if not all) of the image formats typically used by Windows user are natively supported by LyX.

Re: How to edit

2009-02-05 Thread Joachim K . Rennstich
Niklas Huldén nhul...@... writes: In your program folder you have a program called Textedit. Use that program to open the file /usr/local/etc/aspell.conf. And as your earlier post said: Remove the line home-dir $HOME/Library/Preferences/aspell (line 38 including blanks), or disable it by

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

2009-02-05 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-02-05, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Guenter Milde wrote: Editing yes, output would need LaTeX even for text (AFAIK). No, unless this has changed recently, LateX is not needed for text export in the 1.5 and 1.6 series. This was about citation support. But I see it works without LaTeX

Re: (coco) Aspell and Lyx - how to add a Personal Dictionary file?

2009-02-05 Thread Joachim K . Rennstich
Thanks for all your help! None of these suggestions did the trick for me, however :-( I got a number or emails asking me to post a solution if I should ever find one, well, here goes: This solution assumes, that you got the aspell installation to work. The easiest way to do this is to use

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

2009-02-05 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn
Piero Faustini schreef: Helge Hafting helge.haft...@... writes: Or in the case of a serious cooperation setup - use the same config file as the guy who has the full lyx setup and does the printing. That's smart. LyghtLyX (got the word-pun?) should know that with that document, he is

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

2009-02-05 Thread A B
Not quite true. Most (if not all) of the image formats typically used by Windows user are natively supported by LyX. interesting; i would expect postscript to be used as the most common format for scientific papers... For the images? Rather EPS or PDF. PDF is supported. As the conversion

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

2009-02-05 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn
A B schreef: Not quite true. Most (if not all) of the image formats typically used by Windows user are natively supported by LyX. interesting; i would expect postscript to be used as the most common format for scientific papers... For the images? Rather EPS or PDF. PDF is

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

2009-02-05 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-02-05, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Guenter Milde wrote: In my view, to use LaTeX as exchange format, LyX development should a) concentrate on an improved LyX - LaTeX - LyX cycle (with the aim to get this round-trip lossless) and b) encourage development/improvement of

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

2009-02-05 Thread rgheck
Guenter Milde wrote: On 2009-02-05, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Guenter Milde wrote: In my view, to use LaTeX as exchange format, LyX development should a) concentrate on an improved LyX - LaTeX - LyX cycle (with the aim to get this round-trip lossless) and

Re: Typing in Hebrew

2009-02-05 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Theo Yale schrieb: However, I am also trying to type in Hebrew, and I don't know how to set up LyX for that. We've set up a Wiki page for this purpose: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/Hebrew Most of the steps there should also work on other OSes like Mac. There's also a special Linux page:

Re: Error message after Installation with current lyx-webinstaller (windows)

2009-02-05 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Tiago Rinck Caveden schrieb: My Lyx user directory is a network path that CMD doesn't allow me to go to execute the program suggested. I haven't understand the problem. When you install LyX with admin permissions, LyX is usable for all users on a PC, no matter what permissions they have.

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

2009-02-05 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Guenter Milde wrote: On 2009-02-05, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Guenter Milde wrote: In my view, to use LaTeX as exchange format, LyX development should a) concentrate on an improved LyX - LaTeX - LyX cycle (with the aim to get this round-trip lossless) and b) encourage

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

2009-02-05 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Guenter Milde wrote: On 2009-02-05, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Guenter Milde wrote: Editing yes, output would need LaTeX even for text (AFAIK). No, unless this has changed recently, LateX is not needed for text export in the 1.5 and 1.6 series. This was about citation support. But I see

Re: How to edit

2009-02-05 Thread Christopher Menzel
On Feb 5, 2009, at 9:04 AM, Stefano Franchi wrote: On Thursday 05 February 2009 04:01:47 Niklas Huldén wrote: Joachim K. Rennstich wrote: Thanks, Ian, for the fast reply Configuration files should handled with a text editor. I don't know what that would be for your system but something like

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

2009-02-05 Thread Helge Hafting
A B wrote: Not quite true. Most (if not all) of the image formats typically used by Windows user are natively supported by LyX. interesting; i would expect postscript to be used as the most common format for scientific papers... For the images? Rather EPS or PDF. PDF is supported. As the

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

2009-02-05 Thread Helge Hafting
Vincent van Ravesteijn wrote: I think this should hold for FullyLyX too. You should be able to use LyX without any Latex and/or Image conversion applications. Of course some export functions don't work and some images can't be converted, but plain text, etc. should work. I believe LyX

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

2009-02-05 Thread Helge Hafting
Ken wrote: Helge, Thanks for your message. Yes, I wrote to the IT folks a few weeks ago with the suggestion and will try to follow it up in a few weeks time. While there is no licensing costs they may have to worry about the installation and support cost/effort. But again, I think that

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

2009-02-05 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn
Helge Hafting schreef: Vincent van Ravesteijn wrote: I think this should hold for FullyLyX too. You should be able to use LyX without any Latex and/or Image conversion applications. Of course some export functions don't work and some images can't be converted, but plain text, etc. should

spell checking in Dutch (or perhaps other languages than English)

2009-02-05 Thread Hubert Christiaen
I installed the Dutch package for ispell, but Lyx complained Could not find dutch.hash. In looking in the ispell directory, I found a nederlands.hash and nederlands.aff . I added symbolic links dutch.hash and dutch.aff and now everything works fine! Sincerely, Hubert -- Hubert Christiaen

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

2009-02-05 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Thu, 5 Feb 2009, Helge Hafting wrote: It'd be a simple piece of software, self-contained and easy to install on someone's pc for cooperative writing. Is there a reason it has to be installed? Maybe it'd be interesting with a version that can be run without having first been installed?

Re: Big document

2009-02-05 Thread Helge Hafting
Paul Johnson wrote: [...] There are no show-stopping problems for me, but a few little problems. Even though each chapter setup indicates that it has a master document, and I *thought* Lyx would get a pre-amble from that master document, it appears to have no effect when I look at chapters. I

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

2009-02-05 Thread David Mertens
(Forgot to reply to the full list again. My apologies Helge.) @ Vincent - The installer would be different, and LyX would have to not give error messages for messed-up layout files. See my notes below. @all - Regarding MicroLyX (tested on Windows) - I recalled that LyX could be run without a

Re: problem with tables and lyx 1.6

2009-02-05 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Maria José Garcia Soldado schrieb: Here is the table I found the following issues: - you defined two rows as header row for the longtable You can define as much as you want, but only the last defined one is used. - Your table is broken: There is a gap between the 5th and the 6th row that I

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

2009-02-05 Thread rgheck
David Mertens wrote: 3. After installing most of what I needed, it downloaded the aspell software and installed it. I thought that Python was required for LyX (it used to be required), but this apparently is no longer the case, which is nice. I'm a bit puzzled about this, because python

Re: problem with tables and lyx 1.6

2009-02-05 Thread NinaNutz
Uwe Stöhr uwesto...@... writes: I found the following issues: - you defined two rows as header row for the longtable You can define as much as you want, but only the last defined one is used. The rows appears when I mark the option legend. Every time I mark this option the table brokes...

Re: Anyone using LyX on FreeBSD?

2009-02-05 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
Well I don't often use LyX on FreeBSD, but when I did it behaved just the same as when I use it on Ubuntu or other Linux systems. I primarily use LyX on NetBSD. (I help maintain the pkgsrc package for LyX. And I use NetBSD for my primary desktop for many years.)

Re: Use in US government agencies

2009-02-05 Thread Dave Hewitt
Can anyone tell me is LyX is currently being used in any US Government agency? I am particularly interested to know if it is used in the USEPA. I doubt it very much. The federal government -- and almost all lower levels, too -- are still stuck with Word. Can't even get them to use OO.o

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

2009-02-05 Thread Bruce Pourciau
On Feb 5, 2009, at 9:31 AM, Vincent van Ravesteijn wrote: I think this should hold for FullyLyX too. You should be able to use LyX without any Latex and/or Image conversion applications. Of course some export functions don't work and some images can't be converted, but plain text, etc.

Re: some questions on page numbering (pages BEFORE chapter 1)

2009-02-05 Thread Dave Hewitt
I could compose something of the kind as a reply to this thread. If I kept it all in plain text, it wouldn't take that much band width... What do you think? Why not the Wiki -- wiki.lyx.org ? Easy to use.

Page numbers in beamer presentation

2009-02-05 Thread Neal Becker
How do I get page numbers in my beamer presentation? (lyx-1.6.1)

Re: Installing biblatex-dw-style (Wassenhoven) on OSX

2009-02-05 Thread jezZiFeR
Dear Anders, thank you! From a few weeks of usage of LyX I find that the error messages I get from LyX is rather meaningless. It appears to my that LyX cuts away exactly the important parts. I would suggest you look at the LaTeX log, That´s what I did now. I do add the relevant part of the

Re: Installing biblatex-dw-style (Wassenhoven) on OSX

2009-02-05 Thread jezZiFeR
Dear Dominik, thank you for your reply. I´ve had biblatex-dw installed in that folder before, and did it again now – with the same results. But I tried to get a minimal-sample now, and there it seems, that biblatex-dw is not able to find my bibliography. I entered this line, which worked

Re: problem with tables and lyx 1.6

2009-02-05 Thread Uwe Stöhr
NinaNutz schrieb: - you defined two rows as header row for the longtable You can define as much as you want, but only the last defined one is used. The rows appears when I mark the option legend. Every time I mark this option the table brokes... I cannot reproduce this. Your first row

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

2009-02-05 Thread David Mertens
I'm a bit puzzled about this, because python is needed to run the configure.py script that checks for installed programs and the like. Are you sure the installer didn't install python? rh I looked a bit closer and you are correct. Python was installed in my LyX program folder, not in

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

2009-02-05 Thread rgheck
David Mertens wrote: I'm a bit puzzled about this, because python is needed to run the configure.py script that checks for installed programs and the like. Are you sure the installer didn't install python? rh I looked a bit closer and you are correct. Python was installed in my LyX

Re: How to edit

2009-02-05 Thread Anders Host-Madsen
I ran into the same problem. I just started using spellcheck. There is a more direct solution. In Finder you can select GoGo To Folder (or shift-command-G). Then you can type /usr/local/etc (or just /usr and then navigate from there). You can then change the access privileges for aspell.conf.

Re: some questions on page numbering (pages BEFORE chapter 1)

2009-02-05 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 09:54:40AM -0500, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote: It would appear that on Feb 4, David Mertens did say: Oops. I only sent this to Joe. Resending to LyX list. I had wondered about that extra copy... Probably my fault. I keep forgetting which mailing lists need me to

Re: problem with tables and lyx 1.6

2009-02-05 Thread Maria José Garcia Soldado
Anyway, I can solve the problem importing the table to lyx 1.5.6, then copy and paste in lyx 1.5.6 et voilá :) thank you Uwe :)

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

2009-02-05 Thread Pavel Sanda
Vincent van Ravesteijn wrote: Reading your other post: It may also be useful on computers too small for latex Lyx-light will be much easier to install because latex and other large packages of supporting software is omitted. The only difference I see is an installer that does not ask

Typesetting verse

2009-02-05 Thread Frederick Noronha [फ़रेदरिक नोरो नया]
What's the best way to typeset a poem or two? And how does one attain the spacing needed between lines? Thanks so much, FN -- FN * http://fredericknoronha.wordpress.com M +91-9822122436 P +91-832-2409490 http://twitter.com/fn

Re: Typesetting verse

2009-02-05 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn
Frederick Noronha [फ़रेदरिक नोरोनया] schreef: What's the best way to typeset a poem or two? And how does one attain the spacing needed between lines? Thanks so much, FN February 14th approaching ?

Re: Typesetting verse

2009-02-05 Thread rgheck
Vincent van Ravesteijn wrote: Frederick Noronha [फ़रेदरिक नोरोनया] schreef: What's the best way to typeset a poem or two? And how does one attain the spacing needed between lines? Thanks so much, FN February 14th approaching ? There is a verse environment in some of the standard classes

Re: problem with tables and lyx 1.6

2009-02-05 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Maria José Garcia Soldado schrieb: I export the same table I sent to lyx 1.5.6 and when I open it, it appears like figure lyx_161.PNG in lyx 1.6.1 and appears like lyx_156.PNG in lyx 1.5.6... The problem is that your table is already broken in LyX 1.6.1 and therefore will also be broken in

Re: problem with tables and lyx 1.6

2009-02-05 Thread NinaNutz
then you set the cursor into it and then set it to be the legend, right? yep. When I read that it should not be a multi-column, what I did it was exactly the opposite :S Please add there comments or add you to the CC list when you like. Ok, thanks :) Set the cursor into a cell of the first

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

2009-02-05 Thread Piero Faustini
Vincent van Ravesteijn v.f.vanraveste...@... writes: As you understand by now, I only see improvements to LyX without the need for having a different application. And improvements are of course always worth implementing. When I'm talking about LyXght I don't think it should a *different*

Re: Typesetting verse

2009-02-05 Thread killermike
Frederick Noronha [फ़रेदरिक नोरोनया] wrote: What's the best way to typeset a poem or two? And how does one attain the spacing needed between lines? Thanks so much, FN Most of the classes have quote and quotation styles. Quotation is the style for verse. -- http://www.unmusic.co.uk/ Michael

Strange LaTex /bibtex error prevents successful compilation

2009-02-05 Thread Stefano Franchi
Hi all, I find myself suddenly unable to compile a LyX file into pdf (through pdfLateX). The 'view pdf' command produces a list of errors of this kind: Undefined control sequence } some text from my file so it looks like there is an unmatched brace somewhere that's causing the errors.

Re: Strange LaTex /bibtex error prevents successful compilation

2009-02-05 Thread Erez Yerushalmi
Hi, Could it be that you've changed your bibtex file lately, and somewhere in your document, this messes up your citation? This happened to me once. The bibtex file was changed, and three citations inside the documents couldn't connect with the bibtex file. Also, if it compiles on the first

Re: Strange LaTex /bibtex error prevents successful compilation

2009-02-05 Thread rgheck
Stefano Franchi wrote: This is a reference that has been in my document for quite a while and never gave me any troubles. Perhaps the offending text is farther up, but how can I find it? Delete parts until you get something that compiles, then put bits back until you get something that

Re: Use in US government agencies

2009-02-05 Thread Marcelo Acuña
Hello: Can anyone tell me is LyX is currently being used in any US Government agency? I am particularly interested to know if it is used in the USEPA. Haynes Goddard NASA? Yahoo! Cocina Recetas prácticas y comida saludable http://ar.mujer.yahoo.com/cocina/

svmult.cls

2009-02-05 Thread Myriam Abramson
Hello, I am using svmult.cls for a paper. I think it's from IEEE. I have those requirements: (1) There are no page number in the header/footer area. Help! (2) Paper title should appear on the odd page header. It seems that svmult.cls does put the title in the odd page header so I'm fine

Re: Creating macros in Lyx

2009-02-05 Thread Pascal Francq
Thanks. In fact, when I using the dialog box to modify the character type, it does not show any function in the status bar. Moreover, when I use textstyle- update color 3, the color is set to red, but other attributes are reset (such as an italic text becomes regular). I think I have to play

Re: Installing biblatex-dw-style (Wassenhoven) on OSX

2009-02-05 Thread Dominik Waßenhoven
jezZiFeR wrote: I´ve had biblatex-dw installed in that folder before, and did it again now – with the same results. But I tried to get a minimal-sample now, and there it seems, that biblatex-dw is not able to find my bibliography. I entered this line, which worked fine without biblatex-

Using example to promote (Was: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?)

2009-02-05 Thread Christian Ridderström
Hi, Here's an ide for those wishing to promote LyX within their particular field or organisation: Create one or more simple example documents that use reasonable formatting and layout for your area. I think that if the starting threshold to actually being productive is

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

2009-02-05 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Pavel Sanda wrote: Piero Faustini wrote: want. No converters, no LaTeX. no converters - no pictures Not quite true. Most (if not all) of the image formats typically used by Windows user are natively supported by LyX. Abdel.

Re: How to edit

2009-02-05 Thread Iain Mac Donald
On Thu, 5 Feb 2009 01:43:30 + (UTC) Joachim K. Rennstich rennst...@gmail.com wrote: I don't really know how to locate (and thus edit) the file in question. Assuming the information in the wiki is correct, for your system, the file has been located already. /usr/local/etc/aspell.conf I

Re: Anyone using LyX on FreeBSD?

2009-02-05 Thread Julian Stacey
Steve Litt wrote: Anyone using LyX on FreeBSD? How do you like it? I tried lyx-1.4.5.1_1 On FreeBSD-7.1 with /usr/ports/print/lyx I wanted to generate 3 column stuff, asked for help here Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2008 18:50:35 +0100 Subject: 3 column 2 page leaflet in lyx - How to

Re: How to edit

2009-02-05 Thread Niklas Huldén
Joachim K. Rennstich wrote: Thanks, Ian, for the fast reply Configuration files should handled with a text editor. I don't know what that would be for your system but something like Vim, Gedit, Kate etc. You will probably need to edit this file as root. I am using Lyx 1.6.1 on Mac OS X

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

2009-02-05 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-02-04, David Mertens wrote: 3. (optional, and not so inmediate) A light-weight full-view (and idiot-proof as well) LyX version, (I have the name: LyteX or LyghtX!) Why not Ly-X (for lyx without TeX)? but this is a minor point. is able to edit text (and structure) of conventional LyX

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

2009-02-05 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Thu, 5 Feb 2009, Guenter Milde wrote: idiot-proof as well) LyX version, (I have the name: LyteX or LyghtX!) Why not Ly-X (for lyx without TeX)? but this is a minor point. Maybe it's _too_ close to LyX? Thus easily mistaken. Also, it may be that some settings are blocked if the

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

2009-02-05 Thread Helge Hafting
Ken wrote: harder to export them to SWP even though they are both LaTeX editors. At the university, SWP is available as a standard install on machines but not LyX. Have you tried getting the university to offer LyX as part of the standard install as well? Being free means they don't need a

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

2009-02-05 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Thu, 5 Feb 2009, Helge Hafting wrote: Isn't this going to be a big problem? LyX objects rather strongly when it thinks you don't have the corresponding LaTeX class installed. Of course, this behaviour could be changed. Isn't this decision made based on what the configure script

Re: some questions on page numbering (pages BEFORE chapter 1)

2009-02-05 Thread Helge Hafting
Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote: [...] Well that and how to get Lyx to position the by authorname copyright information at the bottom of an otherwise blank page instead of at the top of one??? (there has to be a better way than inserting a bunch of hard returns. I mean that method would have to be

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

2009-02-05 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-02-05, Rainer M Krug wrote: the options of editing via PDFs and conversion from and to rtf, should be explored further as they really would solve the problem. The problem here is, that PDF and rtf do not provide semantic markup so most of the document structure and other vital

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

2009-02-05 Thread Ken
Helge, Thanks for your message. Yes, I wrote to the IT folks a few weeks ago with the suggestion and will try to follow it up in a few weeks time. While there is no licensing costs they may have to worry about the installation and support cost/effort. But again, I think that LyX is far and

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