Re: LyX Forum?

2009-03-30 Thread Manveru
2009/3/30 Piero Faustini pierofaust...@hotmail.com Hello once again. I can't reply to all. [...] Of course about children, I was pointing out that forums are VERY simple. And it's exactly what I was trying to explain: the list concept is VERY old (whatever this means). Yes, also e-mail

Re: Where is the standard installerfür Lyx 1.6.2-1?

2009-03-30 Thread Kornel Benko
Am 2009-03-30 schrieb Uwe Stöhr: Matthias Schmidt schrieb: plaese where can I find the standard installer für Lyx 1.6.2-1 (LyX-1.6.2-1-Installer.exe, 20 MB). Have a look at ftp.lyx.org alternatively you can use the alternative Windows installer. Both installers set up LyX

Re: Where is the standard installerfür Lyx 1.6.2-1?

2009-03-30 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Matthias Schmidt wrote: plaese where can I find the standard installer für Lyx 1.6.2-1 (LyX-1.6.2-1-Installer.exe, 20 MB). I tried it with the link in the lyx-wiki on http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/Windows. There I get an error message 550 LyX-1.6.2-1-Installer.exe: No such file or

Re: How to use German capital sharp s (U+1E9E)?

2009-03-30 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-03-27, Tao Cumplido wrote: When I try to print the German capital sharp s I get this error: 'Some characters of your document are probably not representable in the chosen encoding. Changing the document encoding to utf8 could help.' Actually, LyX's Unicode symbols translation is more

Error converting to loadable format for EPS

2009-03-30 Thread Anthony D Kendall
I recently installed 1.6.2 in Windows XP and Mac OSX.4, and have been receiving the same error when inserting EPS format graphics: Error converting to loadable format As far as I can tell this only applies to EPS, and PNG/JPG work fine. On both systems, for 1.5.6, the EPS preview worked well.

Re: LyX Forum?

2009-03-30 Thread Michael Wojcik
Piero Faustini wrote: How many people use mailing lists? How many use forums? Say 1 lister every 20 forumers? Say 1 to 10 (and I'm fair)? Fairness doesn't enter into it. Either you have data, or you don't. It's not me who says lists are difficoult, it's people. I never used lists before

Re: Where is the standard installerfür Lyx 1.6.2-1?

2009-03-30 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Jürgen Spitzmüller schrieb: There are (again) some problems with the server. The installer is ready and should appear on the server sometimes today. I changed the download section of www.lyx.org so that we now only refer to the ftp site and not to special filenames. This prevents further

Re: Where is the standard installerfür Lyx 1.6.2-1?

2009-03-30 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn
I changed the download section of www.lyx.org so that we now only refer to the ftp site and not to special filenames. This prevents further problems when an installer is not available or a bug was fixed in the installer so that there is a new filename for it. OK with you Jürgen? I

Re: Where is the standard installerfür Lyx 1.6.2-1?

2009-03-30 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Mon, 30 Mar 2009, Vincent van Ravesteijn wrote: I changed the download section of www.lyx.org so that we now only refer to the ftp site and not to special filenames. This prevents further problems when an installer is not available or a bug was fixed in the installer so that there is

Re: LyX Forum?

2009-03-30 Thread Paul A. Rubin
FWIW ... I subscribe to both lists and forums, although I prefer to view lists as newsgroups where that's an option (such as this list, which I access via the GMANE group). A forum that supplies RSS feeds is not too different in many respects from a newsgroup. One advantage that I think a

new user

2009-03-30 Thread Paul Sutton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi I am fairly new to lyx and latex, so far its pretty good I have figured out how to do citations and chemical formulas etc, which is much easier than using a word processor for such tasks. I have been trying to work on a nicely formatted

Re: Error converting to loadable format for EPS

2009-03-30 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Anthony D Kendall wrote: I recently installed 1.6.2 in Windows XP and Mac OSX.4, and have been receiving the same error when inserting EPS format graphics: Error converting to loadable format As far as I can tell this only applies to EPS, and PNG/JPG work fine. On both systems, for 1.5.6, the

Re: Where is the standard installerfür Lyx 1.6.2-1?

2009-03-30 Thread Joost Verburg
Christian Ridderström wrote: I changed the download section of www.lyx.org so that we now only refer to the ftp site and not to special filenames. This prevents further problems when an installer is not available or a bug was fixed in the installer so that there is a new filename for it.

Search for Environment?

2009-03-30 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, For years, Microsoft Word has had something that would be cool in LyX --- search for environment (or charstyle). I just found myself wondering if I had redundant copies of a story in my book, and so wanted to search for all text in Story environment, but there's no way to do it as far

How to remove date from the title in a LyX article

2009-03-30 Thread Brett Randall
Hey all I'm using LyX to write an article for uni but don't want it to display the date I exported it to a PDF as part of the title. Is there any way to stop this from happening? Thanks! Brett The material contained in

Re: How to remove date from the title in a LyX article

2009-03-30 Thread Murat Yildizoglu
Hi Brett, There is probably a more elegant way of doing this but putting just an empty space in the date field should do what you want. Latex only fills the date field if it is totally empty Murat 2009/3/30 Brett Randall br...@hillsong.com: Hey all I'm using LyX to write an article for uni

Re: How to remove date from the title in a LyX article

2009-03-30 Thread Waluyo Adi Siswanto
On Tue, 2009-03-31 at 08:34 +1100, Brett Randall wrote: Hey all I'm using LyX to write an article for uni but don't want it to display the date I exported it to a PDF as part of the title. Is there any way to stop this from happening? In LaTeX preamble (Document Settings LaTeX Preamble)

Re: How to remove date from the title in a LyX article

2009-03-30 Thread Brett Randall
Thanks! Worked a treat. Brett. Waluyo == Waluyo Adi Siswanto was.u...@gmail.com writes: On Tue, 2009-03-31 at 08:34 +1100, Brett Randall wrote: Hey all I'm using LyX to write an article for uni but don't want it to display the date I exported it to a PDF as part of the title. Is there

Re: LyX Forum?

2009-03-30 Thread Nikos Alexandris
Just my view upon this: I find mailing lists (ML) very convenient and I don't follow forums in general except of the ubuntuforums.org. But MLs have several drawbacks. One thing that is not that good in MLs are LONG threads as the current one. It's hard to follow sometimes and people tend to post

Re: Error converting to loadable format for EPS

2009-03-30 Thread Anders Host-Madsen
I have the same problem. However, only with SOME eps files. In my case EPS files generated by Matlab just don't show in LyX, but those from some other sources do show in LyX (for example those in the user guide). My only workaround has been to convert the EPS into PDF manually (in OS X just use

Re: LyX Forum?

2009-03-30 Thread Steve Litt
On Monday 30 March 2009 08:38:21 pm Nikos Alexandris wrote: when it's not required. In addition, it's not possible to mark ML-threads as SOLVED. The latter is, in my humble opinion, a big drawback. When I ask a question and then either am giving an answer or figure one out, I reply one more

Re: Search for Environment?

2009-03-30 Thread Florian Rubach
Steve Litt schrieb: Hi all, For years, Microsoft Word has had something that would be cool in LyX --- search for environment (or charstyle). I just found myself wondering if I had redundant copies of a story in my book, and so wanted to search for all text in Story environment, but there's

Re: LyX Forum?

2009-03-30 Thread Nikos Alexandris
On Mon, 2009-03-30 at 23:05 -0400, Steve Litt wrote: On Monday 30 March 2009 08:38:21 pm Nikos Alexandris wrote: when it's not required. In addition, it's not possible to mark ML-threads as SOLVED. The latter is, in my humble opinion, a big drawback. When I ask a question and then

Re: LyX Forum?

2009-03-30 Thread Manveru
2009/3/30 Piero Faustini pierofaust...@hotmail.com Hello once again. I can't reply to all. [...] Of course about children, I was pointing out that forums are VERY simple. And it's exactly what I was trying to explain: the list concept is VERY old (whatever this means). Yes, also e-mail

Re: Where is the standard installerfür Lyx 1.6.2-1?

2009-03-30 Thread Kornel Benko
Am 2009-03-30 schrieb Uwe Stöhr: Matthias Schmidt schrieb: plaese where can I find the standard installer für Lyx 1.6.2-1 (LyX-1.6.2-1-Installer.exe, 20 MB). Have a look at ftp.lyx.org alternatively you can use the alternative Windows installer. Both installers set up LyX

Re: Where is the standard installerfür Lyx 1.6.2-1?

2009-03-30 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Matthias Schmidt wrote: plaese where can I find the standard installer für Lyx 1.6.2-1 (LyX-1.6.2-1-Installer.exe, 20 MB). I tried it with the link in the lyx-wiki on http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/Windows. There I get an error message 550 LyX-1.6.2-1-Installer.exe: No such file or

Re: How to use German capital sharp s (U+1E9E)?

2009-03-30 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-03-27, Tao Cumplido wrote: When I try to print the German capital sharp s I get this error: 'Some characters of your document are probably not representable in the chosen encoding. Changing the document encoding to utf8 could help.' Actually, LyX's Unicode symbols translation is more

Error converting to loadable format for EPS

2009-03-30 Thread Anthony D Kendall
I recently installed 1.6.2 in Windows XP and Mac OSX.4, and have been receiving the same error when inserting EPS format graphics: Error converting to loadable format As far as I can tell this only applies to EPS, and PNG/JPG work fine. On both systems, for 1.5.6, the EPS preview worked well.

Re: LyX Forum?

2009-03-30 Thread Michael Wojcik
Piero Faustini wrote: How many people use mailing lists? How many use forums? Say 1 lister every 20 forumers? Say 1 to 10 (and I'm fair)? Fairness doesn't enter into it. Either you have data, or you don't. It's not me who says lists are difficoult, it's people. I never used lists before

Re: Where is the standard installerfür Lyx 1.6.2-1?

2009-03-30 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Jürgen Spitzmüller schrieb: There are (again) some problems with the server. The installer is ready and should appear on the server sometimes today. I changed the download section of www.lyx.org so that we now only refer to the ftp site and not to special filenames. This prevents further

Re: Where is the standard installerfür Lyx 1.6.2-1?

2009-03-30 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn
I changed the download section of www.lyx.org so that we now only refer to the ftp site and not to special filenames. This prevents further problems when an installer is not available or a bug was fixed in the installer so that there is a new filename for it. OK with you Jürgen? I

Re: Where is the standard installerfür Lyx 1.6.2-1?

2009-03-30 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Mon, 30 Mar 2009, Vincent van Ravesteijn wrote: I changed the download section of www.lyx.org so that we now only refer to the ftp site and not to special filenames. This prevents further problems when an installer is not available or a bug was fixed in the installer so that there is

Re: LyX Forum?

2009-03-30 Thread Paul A. Rubin
FWIW ... I subscribe to both lists and forums, although I prefer to view lists as newsgroups where that's an option (such as this list, which I access via the GMANE group). A forum that supplies RSS feeds is not too different in many respects from a newsgroup. One advantage that I think a

new user

2009-03-30 Thread Paul Sutton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi I am fairly new to lyx and latex, so far its pretty good I have figured out how to do citations and chemical formulas etc, which is much easier than using a word processor for such tasks. I have been trying to work on a nicely formatted

Re: Error converting to loadable format for EPS

2009-03-30 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Anthony D Kendall wrote: I recently installed 1.6.2 in Windows XP and Mac OSX.4, and have been receiving the same error when inserting EPS format graphics: Error converting to loadable format As far as I can tell this only applies to EPS, and PNG/JPG work fine. On both systems, for 1.5.6, the

Re: Where is the standard installerfür Lyx 1.6.2-1?

2009-03-30 Thread Joost Verburg
Christian Ridderström wrote: I changed the download section of www.lyx.org so that we now only refer to the ftp site and not to special filenames. This prevents further problems when an installer is not available or a bug was fixed in the installer so that there is a new filename for it.

Search for Environment?

2009-03-30 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, For years, Microsoft Word has had something that would be cool in LyX --- search for environment (or charstyle). I just found myself wondering if I had redundant copies of a story in my book, and so wanted to search for all text in Story environment, but there's no way to do it as far

How to remove date from the title in a LyX article

2009-03-30 Thread Brett Randall
Hey all I'm using LyX to write an article for uni but don't want it to display the date I exported it to a PDF as part of the title. Is there any way to stop this from happening? Thanks! Brett The material contained in

Re: How to remove date from the title in a LyX article

2009-03-30 Thread Murat Yildizoglu
Hi Brett, There is probably a more elegant way of doing this but putting just an empty space in the date field should do what you want. Latex only fills the date field if it is totally empty Murat 2009/3/30 Brett Randall br...@hillsong.com: Hey all I'm using LyX to write an article for uni

Re: How to remove date from the title in a LyX article

2009-03-30 Thread Waluyo Adi Siswanto
On Tue, 2009-03-31 at 08:34 +1100, Brett Randall wrote: Hey all I'm using LyX to write an article for uni but don't want it to display the date I exported it to a PDF as part of the title. Is there any way to stop this from happening? In LaTeX preamble (Document Settings LaTeX Preamble)

Re: How to remove date from the title in a LyX article

2009-03-30 Thread Brett Randall
Thanks! Worked a treat. Brett. Waluyo == Waluyo Adi Siswanto was.u...@gmail.com writes: On Tue, 2009-03-31 at 08:34 +1100, Brett Randall wrote: Hey all I'm using LyX to write an article for uni but don't want it to display the date I exported it to a PDF as part of the title. Is there

Re: LyX Forum?

2009-03-30 Thread Nikos Alexandris
Just my view upon this: I find mailing lists (ML) very convenient and I don't follow forums in general except of the ubuntuforums.org. But MLs have several drawbacks. One thing that is not that good in MLs are LONG threads as the current one. It's hard to follow sometimes and people tend to post

Re: Error converting to loadable format for EPS

2009-03-30 Thread Anders Host-Madsen
I have the same problem. However, only with SOME eps files. In my case EPS files generated by Matlab just don't show in LyX, but those from some other sources do show in LyX (for example those in the user guide). My only workaround has been to convert the EPS into PDF manually (in OS X just use

Re: LyX Forum?

2009-03-30 Thread Steve Litt
On Monday 30 March 2009 08:38:21 pm Nikos Alexandris wrote: when it's not required. In addition, it's not possible to mark ML-threads as SOLVED. The latter is, in my humble opinion, a big drawback. When I ask a question and then either am giving an answer or figure one out, I reply one more

Re: Search for Environment?

2009-03-30 Thread Florian Rubach
Steve Litt schrieb: Hi all, For years, Microsoft Word has had something that would be cool in LyX --- search for environment (or charstyle). I just found myself wondering if I had redundant copies of a story in my book, and so wanted to search for all text in Story environment, but there's

Re: LyX Forum?

2009-03-30 Thread Nikos Alexandris
On Mon, 2009-03-30 at 23:05 -0400, Steve Litt wrote: On Monday 30 March 2009 08:38:21 pm Nikos Alexandris wrote: when it's not required. In addition, it's not possible to mark ML-threads as SOLVED. The latter is, in my humble opinion, a big drawback. When I ask a question and then

Re: LyX Forum?

2009-03-30 Thread Manveru
2009/3/30 Piero Faustini > > > > Hello once again. > > I can't reply to all. > [...] Of course about children, I was pointing out that forums are VERY simple. > And > it's exactly what I was trying to explain: the list concept is VERY old > (whatever this means). Yes,

Re: Where is the standard installerfür Lyx 1.6.2-1?

2009-03-30 Thread Kornel Benko
Am 2009-03-30 schrieb Uwe Stöhr: > Matthias Schmidt schrieb: > > > plaese where can I find the standard installer für Lyx 1.6.2-1 > > (LyX-1.6.2-1-Installer.exe, 20 MB). > > Have a look at ftp.lyx.org alternatively you can use the alternative Windows > installer. Both > installers

Re: Where is the standard installerfür Lyx 1.6.2-1?

2009-03-30 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Matthias Schmidt wrote: > plaese where can I find the standard installer für Lyx 1.6.2-1 > (LyX-1.6.2-1-Installer.exe, 20 MB). I tried it with the link in the > lyx-wiki on http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/Windows. There I get an error > message "550 LyX-1.6.2-1-Installer.exe: No such file

Re: How to use German capital sharp s (U+1E9E)?

2009-03-30 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-03-27, Tao Cumplido wrote: > When I try to print the German capital sharp s I get this error: 'Some > characters of your document are probably not representable in the > chosen encoding. Changing the document encoding to utf8 could help.' Actually, LyX's Unicode symbols translation is

Error converting to loadable format for EPS

2009-03-30 Thread Anthony D Kendall
I recently installed 1.6.2 in Windows XP and Mac OSX.4, and have been receiving the same error when inserting EPS format graphics: "Error converting to loadable format" As far as I can tell this only applies to EPS, and PNG/JPG work fine. On both systems, for 1.5.6, the EPS preview worked

Re: LyX Forum?

2009-03-30 Thread Michael Wojcik
Piero Faustini wrote: > > How many people use mailing lists? How many use forums? Say 1 lister every 20 > forumers? Say 1 to 10 (and I'm fair)? Fairness doesn't enter into it. Either you have data, or you don't. > It's not me who says lists are > difficoult, it's people. I never used lists

Re: Where is the standard installerfür Lyx 1.6.2-1?

2009-03-30 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Jürgen Spitzmüller schrieb: There are (again) some problems with the server. The installer is ready and should appear on the server sometimes today. I changed the download section of www.lyx.org so that we now only refer to the ftp site and not to special filenames. This prevents further

Re: Where is the standard installerfür Lyx 1.6.2-1?

2009-03-30 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn
I changed the download section of www.lyx.org so that we now only refer to the ftp site and not to special filenames. This prevents further problems when an installer is not available or a bug was fixed in the installer so that there is a new filename for it. OK with you Jürgen? I

Re: Where is the standard installerfür Lyx 1.6.2-1?

2009-03-30 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Mon, 30 Mar 2009, Vincent van Ravesteijn wrote: I changed the download section of www.lyx.org so that we now only refer to the ftp site and not to special filenames. This prevents further problems when an installer is not available or a bug was fixed in the installer so that there is

Re: LyX Forum?

2009-03-30 Thread Paul A. Rubin
FWIW ... I subscribe to both lists and forums, although I prefer to view lists as newsgroups where that's an option (such as this list, which I access via the GMANE group). A forum that supplies RSS feeds is not too different in many respects from a newsgroup. One advantage that I think a

new user

2009-03-30 Thread Paul Sutton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi I am fairly new to lyx and latex, so far its pretty good I have figured out how to do citations and chemical formulas etc, which is much easier than using a word processor for such tasks. I have been trying to work on a nicely formatted

Re: Error converting to loadable format for EPS

2009-03-30 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Anthony D Kendall wrote: I recently installed 1.6.2 in Windows XP and Mac OSX.4, and have been receiving the same error when inserting EPS format graphics: "Error converting to loadable format" As far as I can tell this only applies to EPS, and PNG/JPG work fine. On both systems, for 1.5.6,

Re: Where is the standard installerfür Lyx 1.6.2-1?

2009-03-30 Thread Joost Verburg
Christian Ridderström wrote: I changed the download section of www.lyx.org so that we now only refer to the ftp site and not to special filenames. This prevents further problems when an installer is not available or a bug was fixed in the installer so that there is a new filename for it.

Search for Environment?

2009-03-30 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, For years, Microsoft Word has had something that would be cool in LyX --- search for environment (or charstyle). I just found myself wondering if I had redundant copies of a story in my book, and so wanted to search for all text in Story environment, but there's no way to do it as far

How to remove date from the "title" in a LyX article

2009-03-30 Thread Brett Randall
Hey all I'm using LyX to write an article for uni but don't want it to display the date I exported it to a PDF as part of the title. Is there any way to stop this from happening? Thanks! Brett The material contained in

Re: How to remove date from the "title" in a LyX article

2009-03-30 Thread Murat Yildizoglu
Hi Brett, There is probably a more elegant way of doing this but putting just an empty space in the date field should do what you want. Latex only fills the date field if it is totally empty Murat 2009/3/30 Brett Randall : > Hey all > > I'm using LyX to write an article for

Re: How to remove date from the "title" in a LyX article

2009-03-30 Thread Waluyo Adi Siswanto
On Tue, 2009-03-31 at 08:34 +1100, Brett Randall wrote: > Hey all > > I'm using LyX to write an article for uni but don't want it to display > the date I exported it to a PDF as part of the title. Is there any way > to stop this from happening? > In LaTeX preamble (Document > Settings > LaTeX

Re: How to remove date from the "title" in a LyX article

2009-03-30 Thread Brett Randall
Thanks! Worked a treat. Brett. > "Waluyo" == Waluyo Adi Siswanto writes: > On Tue, 2009-03-31 at 08:34 +1100, Brett Randall wrote: >> Hey all >> >> I'm using LyX to write an article for uni but don't want it to >> display the date I exported it to a PDF as part of the

Re: LyX Forum?

2009-03-30 Thread Nikos Alexandris
Just my view upon this: I find mailing lists (ML) very convenient and I don't follow forums in general except of the "ubuntuforums.org". But MLs have several drawbacks. One thing that is not that good in MLs are LONG threads as the current one. It's hard to follow sometimes and people tend to

Re: Error converting to loadable format for EPS

2009-03-30 Thread Anders Host-Madsen
I have the same problem. However, only with SOME eps files. In my case EPS files generated by Matlab just don't show in LyX, but those from some other sources do show in LyX (for example those in the user guide). My only workaround has been to convert the EPS into PDF manually (in OS X just use

Re: LyX Forum?

2009-03-30 Thread Steve Litt
On Monday 30 March 2009 08:38:21 pm Nikos Alexandris wrote: > when it's not required. In addition, it's not possible to mark > ML-threads as SOLVED. The latter is, in my humble opinion, a big > drawback. When I ask a question and then either am giving an answer or figure one out, I reply one

Re: Search for Environment?

2009-03-30 Thread Florian Rubach
Steve Litt schrieb: Hi all, For years, Microsoft Word has had something that would be cool in LyX --- search for environment (or charstyle). I just found myself wondering if I had redundant copies of a story in my book, and so wanted to search for all text in Story environment, but there's

Re: LyX Forum?

2009-03-30 Thread Nikos Alexandris
On Mon, 2009-03-30 at 23:05 -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > On Monday 30 March 2009 08:38:21 pm Nikos Alexandris wrote: > > > when it's not required. In addition, it's not possible to mark > > ML-threads as SOLVED. The latter is, in my humble opinion, a big > > drawback. > > When I ask a question and