Re: export to pdflatex

2009-05-02 Thread kgilbert
JanR, A friend of mine who is a computer whiz wrote a "script" for reformatting the Latex file. I haven't tried it yet, but I expect it will work fine. I use a Mac, and I think the script works using the underlying Unix. I am pretty sure the same can be done on a pc since the Latex fil

Problem Indonesian spell checker

2009-05-02 Thread Waluyo Adi Siswanto
I use 1.6.3svn (id UI menu) in Ubuntu 8.10 The preference settings and document setting have been set in Indonesian language. I was going to try using Indonesian Spell Checker but it did not work and a message appeared "Error: The file "/usr/lib/aspell/bahasa" can not be opened for reading." I c

LyX, biblatex and refsections; or latexmk

2009-05-02 Thread Jonas Zimmermann
Hi, I'm relatively new to LyX, so please excuse me if this is trivial; I haven't found a solution to this: I've used biblatex with LaTeX and used the possibility to create reference lists per section via the refsection environment. Doing this in LyX causes some trouble as biblatex creates m

Logo Not Displaying ... Still

2009-05-02 Thread Rich Shepard
Last Wednesday I posted a message to the beamer-linux-users mail list on sourceforge.net and have not seen a response to it, or any other post to that mail list. I'm back in the grove using the beamer class but still cannot get the logo to display on each slide. (It doesn't display on the tit

Re: OT: Pointers on how to create symbols

2009-05-02 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 2 May 2009, rgheck wrote: That said, my sense is that MetaFont is a bit of a black art. There are excellent chapters on MetaFont and MetaPost (that produces PS output directly; an extended version of MF) in The LaTeX Graphics Companion, 2nd Edition. Rich -- Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D

Re: Query about formatting reverse-line text

2009-05-02 Thread cmiramon
Frederick Noronha [??? ???] wrote: > Dear all on this very helpful Lyx list: > > I'm trying to format some information with alternative lines reverse, > as follows: > http://www.flickr.com/photos/fn-goa/3495151790/sizes/o/ > > The above was done in Inkscape, since I couldn't get the desi

Re: OT: Pointers on how to create symbols

2009-05-02 Thread rgheck
Stefano Franchi wrote: Dear Lyxers, I realize this is way off-topic, but there is so much expertise on this list, I thought I could ask anyway. I need to create a few idiosyncratic symbols (three, to be exact) and my efforts to produce them by superimposing existing glyphs with TeX low level

Re: Chapter styles...

2009-05-02 Thread rgheck
Frederick Noronha [फ़रेदरिक नोरोनया] wrote: Could someone point me to any Latex chapter styles, like the ones below, which I find vey useful in creating books: http://zoonek.free.fr/LaTeX/LaTeX_samples_chapter/0.html Try the koma-script classes, which make it very easy to configure the ch

Re: Source code highlighting and indentation

2009-05-02 Thread rgheck
Thomas Løcke wrote: This works a charm. The syntax highlighting is very good, and it supports Ada 2005. It doesn't do proper indentation though, but it's very easy for me to do that manually. Check all the listings options: http://www.ctan.org/get/macros/latex/contrib/listings/listings.p

Re: Source code highlighting and indentation

2009-05-02 Thread Thomas Løcke
On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 9:31 PM, rgheck wrote: > Jeremy C. Reed wrote: >> >> I have used the "listings" package. It probably knows ada. (I haven't used >> it with lyx though, just with latex.) >> > > There is support for listings in LyX. Use the Insert>Program Listing > environment. Ada is availabl

OT: Pointers on how to create symbols

2009-05-02 Thread Stefano Franchi
Dear Lyxers, I realize this is way off-topic, but there is so much expertise on this list, I thought I could ask anyway. I need to create a few idiosyncratic symbols (three, to be exact) and my efforts to produce them by superimposing existing glyphs with TeX low level commands have produced

Chapter styles...

2009-05-02 Thread Frederick Noronha [फ़रेदरिक नोरो नया]
Could someone point me to any Latex chapter styles, like the ones below, which I find vey useful in creating books: http://zoonek.free.fr/LaTeX/LaTeX_samples_chapter/0.html Thanks in advance! FN -- FN * http://fredericknoronha.wordpress.com http://twitter.com/fn M +91-9822122436 P +91-832-2409

Query about formatting reverse-line text

2009-05-02 Thread Frederick Noronha [फ़रेदरिक नोरो नया]
Dear all on this very helpful Lyx list: I'm trying to format some information with alternative lines reverse, as follows: http://www.flickr.com/photos/fn-goa/3495151790/sizes/o/ The above was done in Inkscape, since I couldn't get the desired result in Lyx (don't know coding). Could anyone help i

Re: Source code highlighting and indentation

2009-05-02 Thread rgheck
Jeremy C. Reed wrote: I have used the "listings" package. It probably knows ada. (I haven't used it with lyx though, just with latex.) There is support for listings in LyX. Use the Insert>Program Listing environment. Ada is available. rh

Re: inputenc error

2009-05-02 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Wolfgang Engelmann schrieb: a reference in my document gives me Package inputenc Error: Keyboard character used is undefined and describes it as ...Physiol.Plantarum}, 112:\penalty0 119 does it mean, I am missing the inputenc software or is there an undefined keyboard character? inputenc is pa

Re: Source code highlighting and indentation

2009-05-02 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
I have used the "listings" package. It probably knows ada. (I haven't used it with lyx though, just with latex.)

Re: Source code highlighting and indentation

2009-05-02 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 2 May 2009, Thomas L?cke wrote: Now that I've decided on using LyX for my manual, I've started wondering how to go about getting the source code examples highlighted and indented. Most of the code examples will be in Ada, with a little bit of C here and there. Thomas, There is a 'co

Re: export to pdflatex

2009-05-02 Thread JanR
I have the same problem. Text and equations (displayed, starting with \begin) are running together in line within one paragraph, sometimes several such equations. This makes the export file very difficult to read by my 'Latex' coauthors, so I have to insert new lines by hand to have equations prop

Source code highlighting and indentation

2009-05-02 Thread Thomas Løcke
Hey again, Now that I've decided on using LyX for my manual, I've started wondering how to go about getting the source code examples highlighted and indented. Most of the code examples will be in Ada, with a little bit of C here and there. Is there a way to "automate" this, or should I just do it

inputenc error

2009-05-02 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
a reference in my document gives me Package inputenc Error: Keyboard character used is undefined and describes it as ...Physiol.Plantarum}, 112:\penalty0 119 does it mean, I am missing the inputenc software or is there an undefined keyboard character? And what should I do in either case? I tried to

Re: references and coding

2009-05-02 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Kosta Welke wrote: > I asked about this on the XeTeX mailing list[0] and they think biber[1] > should do it right. Sure, but biber is beta software, and it only works with biblatex. Jürgen

Re: references and coding

2009-05-02 Thread Kosta Welke
On Tue, 28 Apr 2009 17:03:51 +0200 Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: [unicode characters, bibtex and sorting] > Bibtex8 does this specific case right, because the latin1 glyphs have > the same code points in unicode. However, bibtex8 will scream and > bail out at the first multibyte character it finds. I

Re: Trying to use some Chinese characters in Lyx 1.6.2 for Mac

2009-05-02 Thread Kosta Welke
On Fri, 1 May 2009 13:10:08 -0700 Kleanthes Koniaris wrote: > I just installed MacTeX and Lyx 1.6.2 on my Mac, and then I typed in > some English, along with a few Chinese characters. Everything > displays very nicely in LyX. Yeah, well, that can be confusing. Always remember: Just becaus

Re: Typewriter, Bold is indistinguishable from plain Typewriter

2009-05-02 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
tedc wrote: > I'm writing an instruction document and want to use Typewriter family for > stuff that appears in an xterm--bold to indicate what the user should enter > via the keyboard, and plain ("medium") Typewriter for stuff printed by the > computer. These look different on screen in LyX, but t

Re: Using LyX for writing a very long manual

2009-05-02 Thread Steve Litt
On Friday 01 May 2009 02:23:04 pm Thomas Løcke wrote: > 2009/4/29 Steve Litt : > > Now I'm going to give you some very controversial advice, and many will > > argue with it. DO NOT use the facilities of your document class for your > > frontmatter -- instead use custom styles and ERT (inserted LaT