Re: eLyxer and (web) typography

2009-06-16 Thread Olivier Ripoll
Alex Fernandez wrote: Hi, On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 12:19 AM, Tim Michelsen wrote: As example, by modifying line 5 of lyx.css from font: x-small serif; to font: small sans-serif; and then adding the line font-family: serif; to ".formula", the text is more web-styled (i.e. it uses sans-s

Re: eLyxer and (web) typography

2009-06-16 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-06-17, Alex Fernandez wrote: > I have updated the CSS file in version 0.27 following Olivier's suggestions: > http://www.nongnu.org/elyxer/ > Please let me know if you like the changes: > http://www.nongnu.org/elyxer/math.html I like the changes. But there are problems with the mat

Re: lmodern pdfs not sharp on-screen

2009-06-16 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-06-17, Barankay, Iwan wrote: > I am using the latest Lyx and chose lmodern (Latin Modern) as my default fo= > nt. When I generate pdfs the font looks just not sharp on screen. It prints= > fine but I want it to look sharp on screen. I hunted through the mailing l= > ist but could not find

lmodern pdfs not sharp on-screen

2009-06-16 Thread Barankay, Iwan
Hi, I am using the latest Lyx and chose lmodern (Latin Modern) as my default font. When I generate pdfs the font looks just not sharp on screen. It prints fine but I want it to look sharp on screen. I hunted through the mailing list but could not find a solution (e.g. adding lmodern to the pream

Re: eLyxer and (web) typography

2009-06-16 Thread Alex Fernandez
Hi, On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 12:19 AM, Tim Michelsen wrote: >> As example, by modifying line 5 of lyx.css from >>    font: x-small serif; >> to >>    font: small sans-serif; >> >> and then adding the line >>    font-family: serif; >> to ".formula", the text is more web-styled (i.e. it uses sans-ser

Re: Sweave+Linux+Ubuntu 9.04 setting up

2009-06-16 Thread Graham Smith
Thanks, The irony is that I have just gone through those instructions setting Sweave up on my Mac. I will have a relook at these and maybe undo what I have done. Graham Liviu Andronic wrote: Hello Graham, On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 8:26 PM, Graham Smith wrote: Having got Sweave working o

Re: eLyxer and (web) typography

2009-06-16 Thread Tim Michelsen
It seems my previous post got lost, so I am reposting (with little changes), but without attaching the CSS file. As example, by modifying line 5 of lyx.css from font: x-small serif; to font: small sans-serif; and then adding the line font-family: serif; to ".formula", the text is mo

Re: Sweave+Linux+Ubuntu 9.04 setting up

2009-06-16 Thread Liviu Andronic
Hello Graham, On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 8:26 PM, Graham Smith wrote: > Having got Sweave working on my Mac, I am now trying to get to work on > Ubuntu. > > I have followed the instructions on the Lyx Wiki, but... > I would tend to believe that nowadays the preferred approach to get LyX working with

Re: eLyxer and (web) typography

2009-06-16 Thread Alex Fernandez
Hi again, On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 11:57 AM, Tim Michelsen wrote: > Dear all and especially Alex! > I deeply appologize for my strong words. They were not intended to offence. No need to apologize, they were taken in good sport. You are obviously not trying to offend anyone but to improve eLyXer.

RE: Need Verdana font for the PDF generated from Lyx

2009-06-16 Thread Ingar Pareliussen
Hi Sorry, I have not used Xetex yet, so I do not know. But maybe you can use http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk/ to fix your attachments in a post process? However, I haven't used that either, so how good a fit it is I do not know. Ingar

Re: Sweave+Linux+Ubuntu 9.04 setting up

2009-06-16 Thread Graham Smith
To reply to myself. I copied the Rweave file into usr/bin and all is well. If this wasn't the right thing to do, I will still appreciate some advice. Also the PDF compile doesn't work, it does on the Mac. Should I set up a converter for noweb->pdflatex as well, or will that not work. Thanks,

Sweave+Linux+Ubuntu 9.04 setting up

2009-06-16 Thread Graham Smith
Having got Sweave working on my Mac, I am now trying to get to work on Ubuntu. I have followed the instructions on the Lyx Wiki, but... I am getting an error "An error occurred whilst running Rweave 'newfile1.nw' So this leads me to a couple of questions: The instructions from the Wiki says t

Re: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org

2009-06-16 Thread Pavel Sanda
Matthias Bußjäger wrote: > characters after stop typing). During this time Lyx needs 99% of the cpu > time, so I don't wonder about this fact! it is exactly the lyx.exe process right? > My system is a Thinkpad X41 with 1,5Gb Ram and 1,6GHz Pentium M CPU, this > should be enough... i think 1.6g

Re: lyx-us...@...

2009-06-16 Thread Jworkerbee
Matthias Bußjäger writes: > Perhaps I should write it in Word and import the text at home on Linux... Not sure this discovery of mine is relevant, but this note might be useful to those that do not have access to a good working lyx on *all* machines...Perhaps use any plain text editor with

Re: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org

2009-06-16 Thread Matthias Bußjäger
Florian Rubach wrote: Matthias Bußjäger schrieb: Hello, I have a question to Lyx 1.6.2 / 1.6.3 used on Windows XP. If I type a text in Lyx there's a delay of approximately half a second to one second between typing a character and the illustration in the display. This is really annoying when

Re: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org

2009-06-16 Thread Florian Rubach
Matthias Bußjäger schrieb: Hello, I have a question to Lyx 1.6.2 / 1.6.3 used on Windows XP. If I type a text in Lyx there's a delay of approximately half a second to one second between typing a character and the illustration in the display. This is really annoying when writing a text speedy. I

Re: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org

2009-06-16 Thread Matthias Bußjäger
Pavel Sanda schrieb: Matthias Bußjäger wrote: Hello, I have a question to Lyx 1.6.2 / 1.6.3 used on Windows XP. If I type a text in Lyx there's a delay of approximately half a second to one second between typing a character and the illustration in the display. This is really annoying when wr

Re: eLyxer and (web) typography

2009-06-16 Thread rgheck
Olivier Ripoll wrote: Tim Michelsen wrote: Hello, I have see recten posts about eLyxer and become curious. I would like to suggest to edit the standard stylesheet provided by http://www.nongnu.org/elyxer/lyx.css The text from the example is very difficult to read. "very difficult to read": y

Re: Bibliography format

2009-06-16 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn
Hesham Kamel schreef: Hello, Please, I am writing my thesis and I want to have the word "pages" either to appear in the journal paper or to disappear in the conferences because what happens right now is: Conferences paper: --- R. Happee, A. Janssen, E. Fraterman, J.

Re: decreasing size of figure (.eps)

2009-06-16 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Am Tuesday 16 June 2009 16:00:05 schrieb Olivier Ripoll: Thanks, Oliver, for clarifying this Wolfgang > Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > > Am Tuesday 16 June 2009 14:08:43 schrieben Sie: > > > > Thanks Uwe, > > > > but do you know why the 575kb sized jpg becomes after > > convertion to .png 2.8MB? >

Re: decreasing size of figure (.eps)

2009-06-16 Thread Olivier Ripoll
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: Am Tuesday 16 June 2009 14:08:43 schrieben Sie: Thanks Uwe, but do you know why the 575kb sized jpg becomes after convertion to .png 2.8MB? (i used convert) Hi, jpeg is more aggressive than png: It compresses more, but destroys the image a little. png does not prod

Re: decreasing size of figure (.eps)

2009-06-16 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Am Tuesday 16 June 2009 14:08:43 schrieben Sie: Thanks Uwe, but do you know why the 575kb sized jpg becomes after convertion to .png 2.8MB? (i used convert) Wolfgang > Wolfgang Engelmann schrieb: > > slightly off topic: > > I have an eps formatted figure which is too large (45MB) which should

Re: Need Verdana font for the PDF generated from Lyx

2009-06-16 Thread Parul Bali
Hi Ingar, Guenter, Thanks very much for your inputs. I finally used Xelatex to generate the PDF with Verdana font. It works very well, except that it does not support the `attachfile' package that I use to attach files to the PDF document. Do you know of any other packages that Xelatex supports,

Re: Bibliography format

2009-06-16 Thread K. Elo
Hi! Hesham Kamel wrote: > Hello, > > Please, I am writing my thesis and > I want to have the word "pages" either to appear in the journal paper or > to disappear in the conferences Two suggestions: 1) Use another BibTex-style suitable for Your needs (e.g. Harvard). 2) Modify the existing BibTe

Bibliography format

2009-06-16 Thread Hesham Kamel
Hello, Please, I am writing my thesis and I want to have the word "pages" either to appear in the journal paper or to disappear in the conferences because what happens right now is: Conferences paper: --- R. Happee, A. Janssen, E. Fraterman, J. Monster, and R. Happee.

Re: decreasing size of figure (.eps)

2009-06-16 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Wolfgang Engelmann schrieb: slightly off topic: I have an eps formatted figure which is too large (45MB) which should go in a lyx document. Then you have a bitmap image that has only a header to be an EPS. Therefore I fear that a conversion to PDF wouldn't help. I tried to reduce the size

Re: Problem with Bibliography author-year style in document class

2009-06-16 Thread Tim Michelsen
> I do not know why the name of the author (Aiginger) is repeated so remove that particular entry from the bib file. Does it work then? > I tried different encodings when I exported my references from citavi > to bibtex (UTF-8, US-ASCII, Western European (ISO), ...) but nothing > changed. Is ther

Re: eLyxer and (web) typography

2009-06-16 Thread Olivier Ripoll
Guenter Milde wrote: On 2009-06-15, Alex Fernandez wrote: ... ... let us see if we can get constructive and get something out of this discussion. What we can actually do is: you, or someone else who has taken the trouble to make the output look good on their favorite platform, can send me you

decreasing size of figure (.eps)

2009-06-16 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
slightly off topic: I have an eps formatted figure which is too large (45MB) which should go in a lyx document. Viewing it with kghostview shows it in the center of an about 10 times larger field. I tried to reduce the size of the figure by exporting it in gimp to a .jpg format. However, this s

Re: How to make table/figure not to span columns?

2009-06-16 Thread Uwe Stöhr
李猛 schrieb: If I don't set the option "span colums", I get the pdf without any table/figure(using xelatex). Do your need the tex or output pdf file? I need the LyX file. regards Uwe

Re: eLyxer and (web) typography

2009-06-16 Thread Tim Michelsen
Dear all and especially Alex! > > "very difficult to read": you are exaggerating, which is not a good way > > to start a sane discussion. > > Agreed. I deeply appologize for my strong words. They were not intended to offence. You surely put a considerable amount of time into this. Sorry. I may

Re: eLyxer and (web) typography

2009-06-16 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-06-16, Olivier Ripoll wrote: > "very difficult to read": you are exaggerating, which is not a good way > to start a sane discussion. Agreed. >> http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/03/18/10-principles-for-readable-web-typography/ > This one is a good reference. ... >> * http://www.cs

Re: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org

2009-06-16 Thread Pavel Sanda
Matthias Bußjäger wrote: > Hello, > I have a question to Lyx 1.6.2 / 1.6.3 used on Windows XP. > > If I type a text in Lyx there's a delay of approximately half a second to > one second between typing a character and the illustration in the display. > This is really annoying when writing a text sp

lyx-users@lists.lyx.org

2009-06-16 Thread Matthias Bußjäger
Hello, I have a question to Lyx 1.6.2 / 1.6.3 used on Windows XP. If I type a text in Lyx there's a delay of approximately half a second to one second between typing a character and the illustration in the display. This is really annoying when writing a text speedy. I also use Lyx on Debian. There

Re: eLyxer and (web) typography

2009-06-16 Thread Olivier Ripoll
Tim Michelsen wrote: Hello, I have see recten posts about eLyxer and become curious. I would like to suggest to edit the standard stylesheet provided by http://www.nongnu.org/elyxer/lyx.css The text from the example is very difficult to read. "very difficult to read": you are exaggerating, wh

Re: IEEEtrans.sty different outputs for LyX 1.5 and 1.6

2009-06-16 Thread Hauser Helmut
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Hauser Helmut schrieb: Thanks for your response. I have attached the two lyx files and the two resulting pdf files. ThePDFs are absolute identical here. Another user sees the same as he reported you. Yes you are right - strange. I have a printed copy in front of me with

Re: eLyxer and (web) typography

2009-06-16 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-06-15, Alex Fernandez wrote: ... > ... let us see if we can get constructive and get > something out of this discussion. > What we can actually do is: you, or someone else who has taken the > trouble to make the output look good on their favorite platform, can > send me your CSS files (or