Re: LyX Forum?

2009/4/2 Paul A. Rubin ru...@msu.edu Rich Shepard wrote: More to the point, with a forum you have to go to it and pull then information to your machine; with a mail list, the information is pushed to your machine and all you need do is handle it as you wish. Not necessarily. I'm

Re: Underlining of copied text

On woensdag 1 april 2009, john wrote: In my case, the problem was Language. My document was british, the insert was english. That's really the language which divides! The problem seemed harmless (I don't use spellcheck on technical documents). I fixed it by dashing off a sed command to

Re: Underlining of copied text

On 2009-04-01, Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW wrote: ... All this copied text is underlined in blue in the final file. How do I get rid of that underlining? ... The pasted text has probably a different language than the language of your target document. This might for example happen when you

Position of tilde

Hello all! I apologise if this has been asked to death, but is there any way to get a normal looking tilde? Like this -- ~? I want to use it instead of saying approximately but when I use the keyboard tilde (\textasciitilde) it appears at the top of the line in the pdf output instead of the

Re: Position of tilde

On Thursday 02 April 2009, rettie wrote: Hello all! I apologise if this has been asked to death, but is there any way to get a normal looking tilde? Like this -- ~? I want to use it instead of saying approximately but when I use the keyboard tilde (\textasciitilde) it appears at the top of the

3 columns

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi having now sorted out my table problem, thank you again for the help on that, I now want to put everything in to a nice 3 column document, looking at lyx it gives me an option for 2 column, i would guess that a 3 column would be an option

Re: 3 columns

looking at lyx it gives me an option for 2 column, i would guess that a 3 column would be an option somewhere, either that or i need to put it in a pre amble somewhere. Take a look at the description of using multicol in the help manual: Help - Specific Manuals - Multicol

Re: LyX Branch, self-compiled [was: lyx 1.6.2 for debian using rpm and alien]

Am Tuesday 24 March 2009 15:29:12 schrieb Guenter Milde: I would like to install LyX1.6.2 - if I try svn co svn://svn.lyx.org/lyx/lyx-devel/branches/BRANCH_1_6_X it says the URL does not exist. Is the site down? When will it be up again? Wolfgang

Re: LyX Branch, self-compiled [was: lyx 1.6.2 for debian using rpm and alien]

Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: Am Tuesday 24 March 2009 15:29:12 schrieb Guenter Milde: I would like to install LyX1.6.2 - if I try svn co svn://svn.lyx.org/lyx/lyx-devel/branches/BRANCH_1_6_X it says the URL does not exist. Is the site down? When will it be up again? I just did

Re: 1.6.2 handling of graphics paths changed from 1.6.1.

Paul A. Rubin schrieb: Shooting from the hip... We found the problem, it was my fault that I accidentally forgot two third-party executables in the current installer release. I'll provide a new installer this weekend. regards Uwe

LyX vs. wordprocessors

Hi all, Last night, at Greater Orlando Linux User Group (GoLUG), I a gave a presentation on using TeX for simple tasks like printing shipping labels. As you can imagine, this was mostly an anti-Microsoft crowd. Interestingly, several were already TeX or LaTeX users, and several criticized MS

Re: LyX vs. wordprocessors

Hi Steve, I still find myself tweaking LyX formatting a bit at stages closer to finishing of the project writing, but it's just maybe I am not proficient enough with it yet. On Thu, 02 Apr 2009 20:37:56 +0100, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: Hi all, Last night, at Greater

Where is the autosave in LyX 1.6.1 (Windows)?

Today, for the second time, I was working on something in LyX and managed to crash it, losing my document. I had not yet saved the file (so the name in the title bar was newfile1.lyx). Both LyX itself and the documentation say that there is an auto-save feature to create emergency backups.

Re: Where is the autosave in LyX 1.6.1 (Windows)?

TJ McLaughlin schreef: Today, for the second time, I was working on something in LyX and managed to crash it, losing my document. I had not yet saved the file (so the name in the title bar was newfile1.lyx). Both LyX itself and the documentation say that there is an auto-save feature to

Re: LyX vs. wordprocessors

There's two types of tweaking: With environments and character styles, which I wholeheartedly endorse, and with inline ERT, which I caution against except in the \frontmatter. SteveT On Thursday 02 April 2009 03:51:12 pm Yury Davidouski wrote: Hi Steve, I still find myself tweaking LyX

Greek and latin accented characters in a TOX BibTex bibliography

For quite a long time I am trying to use my bibtex (bib) bibliography in LyX. My bibliography contains references in many different languages, e.g. greek, english, german, french and other north european languages. When I import it in Lyx through Insert - List/TOK - BibTex Bibliography only

Re: Lyx 1.6.2 debian binaries (LyX Branch, self-compiled [was: lyx 1.6.2 for debian using rpm and alien])

Nina Lafayette wrote: Am 24.03.2009, 15:29 Uhr, schrieb Guenter Milde milde-96fysp9jrkaatytw5x5...@public.gmane.org: Hi folks, isn't there anybody who can put the debian binaries for Lyx 1.6.2 on a Web server? This would be great! FWIW, I just uploaded lyx 1.6.2 to Debian unstable.

Re: LyX Forum?

2009/4/2 Paul A. Rubin ru...@msu.edu Rich Shepard wrote: More to the point, with a forum you have to go to it and pull then information to your machine; with a mail list, the information is pushed to your machine and all you need do is handle it as you wish. Not necessarily. I'm

Re: Underlining of copied text

On woensdag 1 april 2009, john wrote: In my case, the problem was Language. My document was british, the insert was english. That's really the language which divides! The problem seemed harmless (I don't use spellcheck on technical documents). I fixed it by dashing off a sed command to

Re: Underlining of copied text

On 2009-04-01, Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW wrote: ... All this copied text is underlined in blue in the final file. How do I get rid of that underlining? ... The pasted text has probably a different language than the language of your target document. This might for example happen when you

Position of tilde

Hello all! I apologise if this has been asked to death, but is there any way to get a normal looking tilde? Like this -- ~? I want to use it instead of saying approximately but when I use the keyboard tilde (\textasciitilde) it appears at the top of the line in the pdf output instead of the

Re: Position of tilde

On Thursday 02 April 2009, rettie wrote: Hello all! I apologise if this has been asked to death, but is there any way to get a normal looking tilde? Like this -- ~? I want to use it instead of saying approximately but when I use the keyboard tilde (\textasciitilde) it appears at the top of the

3 columns

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi having now sorted out my table problem, thank you again for the help on that, I now want to put everything in to a nice 3 column document, looking at lyx it gives me an option for 2 column, i would guess that a 3 column would be an option

Re: 3 columns

looking at lyx it gives me an option for 2 column, i would guess that a 3 column would be an option somewhere, either that or i need to put it in a pre amble somewhere. Take a look at the description of using multicol in the help manual: Help - Specific Manuals - Multicol

Re: LyX Branch, self-compiled [was: lyx 1.6.2 for debian using rpm and alien]

Am Tuesday 24 March 2009 15:29:12 schrieb Guenter Milde: I would like to install LyX1.6.2 - if I try svn co svn://svn.lyx.org/lyx/lyx-devel/branches/BRANCH_1_6_X it says the URL does not exist. Is the site down? When will it be up again? Wolfgang

Re: LyX Branch, self-compiled [was: lyx 1.6.2 for debian using rpm and alien]

Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: Am Tuesday 24 March 2009 15:29:12 schrieb Guenter Milde: I would like to install LyX1.6.2 - if I try svn co svn://svn.lyx.org/lyx/lyx-devel/branches/BRANCH_1_6_X it says the URL does not exist. Is the site down? When will it be up again? I just did

Re: 1.6.2 handling of graphics paths changed from 1.6.1.

Paul A. Rubin schrieb: Shooting from the hip... We found the problem, it was my fault that I accidentally forgot two third-party executables in the current installer release. I'll provide a new installer this weekend. regards Uwe

LyX vs. wordprocessors

Hi all, Last night, at Greater Orlando Linux User Group (GoLUG), I a gave a presentation on using TeX for simple tasks like printing shipping labels. As you can imagine, this was mostly an anti-Microsoft crowd. Interestingly, several were already TeX or LaTeX users, and several criticized MS

Re: LyX vs. wordprocessors

Hi Steve, I still find myself tweaking LyX formatting a bit at stages closer to finishing of the project writing, but it's just maybe I am not proficient enough with it yet. On Thu, 02 Apr 2009 20:37:56 +0100, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: Hi all, Last night, at Greater

Where is the autosave in LyX 1.6.1 (Windows)?

Today, for the second time, I was working on something in LyX and managed to crash it, losing my document. I had not yet saved the file (so the name in the title bar was newfile1.lyx). Both LyX itself and the documentation say that there is an auto-save feature to create emergency backups.

Re: Where is the autosave in LyX 1.6.1 (Windows)?

TJ McLaughlin schreef: Today, for the second time, I was working on something in LyX and managed to crash it, losing my document. I had not yet saved the file (so the name in the title bar was newfile1.lyx). Both LyX itself and the documentation say that there is an auto-save feature to

Re: LyX vs. wordprocessors

There's two types of tweaking: With environments and character styles, which I wholeheartedly endorse, and with inline ERT, which I caution against except in the \frontmatter. SteveT On Thursday 02 April 2009 03:51:12 pm Yury Davidouski wrote: Hi Steve, I still find myself tweaking LyX

Greek and latin accented characters in a TOX BibTex bibliography

For quite a long time I am trying to use my bibtex (bib) bibliography in LyX. My bibliography contains references in many different languages, e.g. greek, english, german, french and other north european languages. When I import it in Lyx through Insert - List/TOK - BibTex Bibliography only

Re: Lyx 1.6.2 debian binaries (LyX Branch, self-compiled [was: lyx 1.6.2 for debian using rpm and alien])

Nina Lafayette wrote: Am 24.03.2009, 15:29 Uhr, schrieb Guenter Milde milde-96fysp9jrkaatytw5x5...@public.gmane.org: Hi folks, isn't there anybody who can put the debian binaries for Lyx 1.6.2 on a Web server? This would be great! FWIW, I just uploaded lyx 1.6.2 to Debian unstable.

Re: LyX Forum?

2009/4/2 Paul A. Rubin > Rich Shepard wrote: > > >> More to the point, with a forum you have to go to it and pull then >> information to your machine; with a mail list, the information is pushed >> to >> your machine and all you need do is handle it as you wish. >> >> > Not

Re: Underlining of copied text

On woensdag 1 april 2009, john wrote: > In my case, the problem was Language. > My document was british, the insert was english. That's really the language which divides! > The problem seemed harmless (I don't use spellcheck on technical > documents). > > I fixed it by dashing off a sed command to

Re: Underlining of copied text

On 2009-04-01, Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW wrote: >>... All this copied text is underlined in blue in the final file. How >>do I get rid of that underlining? ... > The pasted text has probably a different language than the language of > your target document. This might for example happen when

Position of tilde

Hello all! I apologise if this has been asked to death, but is there any way to get a normal looking tilde? Like this --> ~? I want to use it instead of saying "approximately" but when I use the keyboard tilde (\textasciitilde) it appears at the top of the line in the pdf output instead of the

Re: Position of tilde

On Thursday 02 April 2009, rettie wrote: > Hello all! I apologise if this has been asked to death, but is there any > way to get a normal looking tilde? Like this --> ~? I want to use it > instead of saying "approximately" but when I use the keyboard tilde > (\textasciitilde) it appears at the top

3 columns

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi having now sorted out my table problem, thank you again for the help on that, I now want to put everything in to a nice 3 column document, looking at lyx it gives me an option for 2 column, i would guess that a 3 column would be an option

Re: 3 columns

looking at lyx it gives me an option for 2 column, i would guess that a 3 column would be an option somewhere, either that or i need to put it in a pre amble somewhere. Take a look at the description of using "multicol" in the help manual: Help -> Specific Manuals -> Multicol

Re: LyX Branch, self-compiled [was: lyx 1.6.2 for debian using rpm and alien]

Am Tuesday 24 March 2009 15:29:12 schrieb Guenter Milde: I would like to install LyX1.6.2 - if I try > svn co svn://svn.lyx.org/lyx/lyx-devel/branches/BRANCH_1_6_X it says the URL does not exist. Is the site down? When will it be up again? Wolfgang

Re: LyX Branch, self-compiled [was: lyx 1.6.2 for debian using rpm and alien]

Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: Am Tuesday 24 March 2009 15:29:12 schrieb Guenter Milde: I would like to install LyX1.6.2 - if I try svn co svn://svn.lyx.org/lyx/lyx-devel/branches/BRANCH_1_6_X it says the URL does not exist. Is the site down? When will it be up again? I just did

Re: 1.6.2 handling of graphics paths changed from 1.6.1.

Paul A. Rubin schrieb: Shooting from the hip... We found the problem, it was my fault that I accidentally forgot two third-party executables in the current installer release. I'll provide a new installer this weekend. regards Uwe

LyX vs. wordprocessors

Hi all, Last night, at Greater Orlando Linux User Group (GoLUG), I a gave a presentation on using TeX for simple tasks like printing shipping labels. As you can imagine, this was mostly an anti-Microsoft crowd. Interestingly, several were already TeX or LaTeX users, and several criticized MS

Re: LyX vs. wordprocessors

Hi Steve, I still find myself tweaking LyX formatting a bit at stages closer to finishing of the project writing, but it's just maybe I am not proficient enough with it yet. On Thu, 02 Apr 2009 20:37:56 +0100, Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, Last night, at

Where is the autosave in LyX 1.6.1 (Windows)?

Today, for the second time, I was working on something in LyX and managed to crash it, losing my document. I had not yet saved the file (so the name in the title bar was "newfile1.lyx"). Both LyX itself and the documentation say that there is an "auto-save" feature to create emergency

Re: Where is the autosave in LyX 1.6.1 (Windows)?

TJ McLaughlin schreef: Today, for the second time, I was working on something in LyX and managed to crash it, losing my document. I had not yet saved the file (so the name in the title bar was "newfile1.lyx"). Both LyX itself and the documentation say that there is an "auto-save" feature to

Re: LyX vs. wordprocessors

There's two types of tweaking: With environments and character styles, which I wholeheartedly endorse, and with inline ERT, which I caution against except in the \frontmatter. SteveT On Thursday 02 April 2009 03:51:12 pm Yury Davidouski wrote: > Hi Steve, > > I still find myself tweaking LyX

Greek and latin accented characters in a TOX BibTex bibliography

For quite a long time I am trying to use my bibtex (bib) bibliography in LyX. My bibliography contains references in many different languages, e.g. greek, english, german, french and other north european languages. When I import it in Lyx through Insert - List/TOK - BibTex Bibliography only

Re: Lyx 1.6.2 debian binaries (LyX Branch, self-compiled [was: lyx 1.6.2 for debian using rpm and alien])

Nina Lafayette wrote: > Am 24.03.2009, 15:29 Uhr, schrieb Guenter Milde > : > > Hi folks, > > isn't there anybody who can put the debian binaries for Lyx 1.6.2 on a Web > server? This would be great! FWIW, I just uploaded lyx 1.6.2 to Debian