Re: changing justification of caption

2009-08-21 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Am Friday 21 August 2009 04:23:06 schrieb Jonatan R. Catai: Dear All, I added a float picture on my report and Lyx adds the caption automatically - so far so good. However, the caption stays on the center of the page. I tryed clicking with the right button of the mouse outside the caption

Re: help - some questions

2009-08-21 Thread Sam Liddicott
* Ricardo Perrone wrote, On 21/08/09 04:05: Hi, I need a little help with some questions: I've thought of such things from time to time, and concluded that the style authors have more knowledge of typesetting than I do, and that my opinion of more appropriate space probably enjoys less

Captions

2009-08-21 Thread solvi . natland
Hi! Does anybody know, how can get rid of the indentations in my float caption texts (for both figures and tables)? Figure 1: Now my text looks like this, here begins the 2nd line of the caption. Figure 2: And I would like to have something like this, where there

Re: help - some questions

2009-08-21 Thread Olivier Ripoll
Sam Liddicott wrote: * Ricardo Perrone wrote, On 21/08/09 04:05: Hi, [...] You can mess with tie \fontsize{}{} command; insert this in your pre-amble: \newcommand\sizetf[1]{\begingroup\fontsize{10.5}{12}\selectfont{#1}\endgroup} then you can use the command \sizetf{I'm in 10.5pt} in ERT

Re: help - some questions

2009-08-21 Thread Sam Liddicott
* Olivier Ripoll wrote, On 21/08/09 10:29: Sam Liddicott wrote: * Ricardo Perrone wrote, On 21/08/09 04:05: Hi, [...] You can mess with tie \fontsize{}{} command; insert this in your pre-amble: \newcommand\sizetf[1]{\begingroup\fontsize{10.5}{12}\selectfont{#1}\endgroup} then you can

Re: help - some questions

2009-08-21 Thread Olivier Ripoll
Sam Liddicott wrote: * Olivier Ripoll wrote, On 21/08/09 10:29: Sam Liddicott wrote: * Ricardo Perrone wrote, On 21/08/09 04:05: Hi, [...] You can mess with tie \fontsize{}{} command; insert this in your pre-amble:

Re: Captions

2009-08-21 Thread Pierfranco Minsenti
Hi, the most effective way (as far as I know) to customise float capions is to use the package caption which provides several options. I use it in connection withLyX and the KOMA script report class and I obtain what I want. If it is not included in your LaTeX distribution you can download it

Re: Captions

2009-08-21 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Am Friday 21 August 2009 11:28:40 schrieb solvi.natl...@uis.no: Hi! Does anybody know, how can get rid of the indentations in my float caption texts (for both figures and tables)? Figure 1: Now my text looks like this, here begins the 2nd line of the caption. Figure

Re: How to embed a spreadsheet in LyX or LaTeX?

2009-08-21 Thread Pavel Sanda
Helge Hafting wrote: Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, How can I embed a spreadsheet (MS Excel I assume) into a LyX or LaTeX document? I wrote an external inset for spreadsheets some time ago. You can find it here: http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-de...@lists.lyx.org/msg132049.html put it in

Re: help - some questions

2009-08-21 Thread Steve Litt
On Thursday 20 August 2009 23:05:20 Ricardo Perrone wrote: Hi, 2- I am using enumerate environment, but it adds a large space between the paragraph and the first item of environment. Is there a way to change it to a more appropriated space? I am using book.cls template. Hi Ricardo, The

index entry see also ?

2009-08-21 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
LaTeX has see for an index entry, but docbook has see and see also. Any suggestions on how to get LyX or LaTeX to support a see also style index entry? I believe that \seename can be redefined, but I may want both. Something like: \index{BSD|seealso{Berkeley Unix}}

Re: index entry see also ?

2009-08-21 Thread Ian S. Worthington
FWIW I hate index entries that redirect me. There may be an occasional justified use (redirect me to a concept with many sub-entries) but most redirect me to another entry to give me a page or two. Surely this is archaic? i -- Original Message -- Received: 10:10 AM COT, 08/21/2009

Re: Fancy TOC and headers question

2009-08-21 Thread L Duperval
On Thu, 20 Aug 2009 16:29:22 -0400, rgheck wrote: Well, here are a few. It seems to me that what you're doing, more or less, is using what would ordinarily be called sections but renaming them as tips. I'm not sure about this, because you list a section before the first chapter. You are

\index expressions

2009-08-21 Thread Sam Liddicott
I'm trying to extend the indexing of newfangle literate code chunks. I'm: \usepackage{index} so that I can have multiple indexes; but the \index{} command seems to literally interpret the first parameter, so that \index{\chunkname} indexes \chunkname instead of the name. I've tried all kinds of

Re: help - some questions

2009-08-21 Thread rgheck
On 08/21/2009 06:08 AM, Sam Liddicott wrote: * Olivier Ripoll wrote, On 21/08/09 10:29: Sam Liddicott wrote: (I wish Lyx supported adding per-document layouts and elements in the same way that it supports adding Latex commands in the preamble) Isn't that what layout modules

Re: Find All and Emphasize

2009-08-21 Thread Tommaso Cucinotta
Pavel Sanda ha scritto: Tommaso Cucinotta wrote: Hi all, I'd like to mention that, with the patch I committed right now on the SVN, the current version of LyX from trunk implements correctly this kind of feature, i.e., you can search for a plain word and replace it with its emphasized or

Re: \index expressions

2009-08-21 Thread Sam Liddicott
The Texbook says: The \write command is somewhht special, because its token list is first read without expansion; expansion occurs later, when the tokens are actually being written to a file. As \index writes to a file, this may be the problem! I'll see if I can

Re: Maximum Font Size

2009-08-21 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 05:01:20PM -0500, Les Denham wrote: On Thursday 20 August 2009 02:38:08 pm José Matos wrote: On Thursday 20 August 2009 16:09:21 Steve Litt wrote: Unless of course you have a 64 bit computer. And the data type used is long. For most of the 64-bit linux the memory

Re: help - some questions

2009-08-21 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-08-21, Sam Liddicott wrote: * Ricardo Perrone wrote, On 21/08/09 04:05: 2- I am using enumerate environment, but it adds a large space between the paragraph and the first item of environment. Is there a way to change it to a more appropriated space? I am using book.cls template. You

Re: changing justification of caption

2009-08-21 Thread Jonatan R. Catai
Unfortunetly, it did not work. Only the picture goes to the left, but not the caption. Some other idea? Jonatan On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 4:27 AM, Wolfgang Engelmann engelm...@uni-tuebingen.de wrote: Am Friday 21 August 2009 04:23:06 schrieb Jonatan R. Catai: Dear All, I added a float

Re: Find All and Emphasize

2009-08-21 Thread Pavel Sanda
Tommaso Cucinotta wrote: I've committed right now the original manual I wrote at the times the feature was not yet in trunk (probably Abdel forgot to consider this file when he ported the patch to trunk). I'll extend it with further details, such as the use-case under discussion, or the

A feature you really need

2009-08-21 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, Thank you so much for the outline view on LyX 1.6.x. You need two or three more buttons to make the outline view fully functional: * Insert * Delete * Maybe Insert Subservient The Insert function inserts a new heading, at the level of the current heading, directly above either the

Re: A feature you really need

2009-08-21 Thread rgheck
On 08/21/2009 07:00 PM, Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, Thank you so much for the outline view on LyX 1.6.x. You need two or three more buttons to make the outline view fully functional: * Insert * Delete * Maybe Insert Subservient Add this to trac, Steve. It's a good idea, and I'm sure someone

Re: changing justification of caption

2009-08-21 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Am Friday 21 August 2009 04:23:06 schrieb Jonatan R. Catai: Dear All, I added a float picture on my report and Lyx adds the caption automatically - so far so good. However, the caption stays on the center of the page. I tryed clicking with the right button of the mouse outside the caption

Re: help - some questions

2009-08-21 Thread Sam Liddicott
* Ricardo Perrone wrote, On 21/08/09 04:05: Hi, I need a little help with some questions: I've thought of such things from time to time, and concluded that the style authors have more knowledge of typesetting than I do, and that my opinion of more appropriate space probably enjoys less

Captions

2009-08-21 Thread solvi . natland
Hi! Does anybody know, how can get rid of the indentations in my float caption texts (for both figures and tables)? Figure 1: Now my text looks like this, here begins the 2nd line of the caption. Figure 2: And I would like to have something like this, where there

Re: help - some questions

2009-08-21 Thread Olivier Ripoll
Sam Liddicott wrote: * Ricardo Perrone wrote, On 21/08/09 04:05: Hi, [...] You can mess with tie \fontsize{}{} command; insert this in your pre-amble: \newcommand\sizetf[1]{\begingroup\fontsize{10.5}{12}\selectfont{#1}\endgroup} then you can use the command \sizetf{I'm in 10.5pt} in ERT

Re: help - some questions

2009-08-21 Thread Sam Liddicott
* Olivier Ripoll wrote, On 21/08/09 10:29: Sam Liddicott wrote: * Ricardo Perrone wrote, On 21/08/09 04:05: Hi, [...] You can mess with tie \fontsize{}{} command; insert this in your pre-amble: \newcommand\sizetf[1]{\begingroup\fontsize{10.5}{12}\selectfont{#1}\endgroup} then you can

Re: help - some questions

2009-08-21 Thread Olivier Ripoll
Sam Liddicott wrote: * Olivier Ripoll wrote, On 21/08/09 10:29: Sam Liddicott wrote: * Ricardo Perrone wrote, On 21/08/09 04:05: Hi, [...] You can mess with tie \fontsize{}{} command; insert this in your pre-amble:

Re: Captions

2009-08-21 Thread Pierfranco Minsenti
Hi, the most effective way (as far as I know) to customise float capions is to use the package caption which provides several options. I use it in connection withLyX and the KOMA script report class and I obtain what I want. If it is not included in your LaTeX distribution you can download it

Re: Captions

2009-08-21 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Am Friday 21 August 2009 11:28:40 schrieb solvi.natl...@uis.no: Hi! Does anybody know, how can get rid of the indentations in my float caption texts (for both figures and tables)? Figure 1: Now my text looks like this, here begins the 2nd line of the caption. Figure

Re: How to embed a spreadsheet in LyX or LaTeX?

2009-08-21 Thread Pavel Sanda
Helge Hafting wrote: Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, How can I embed a spreadsheet (MS Excel I assume) into a LyX or LaTeX document? I wrote an external inset for spreadsheets some time ago. You can find it here: http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-de...@lists.lyx.org/msg132049.html put it in

Re: help - some questions

2009-08-21 Thread Steve Litt
On Thursday 20 August 2009 23:05:20 Ricardo Perrone wrote: Hi, 2- I am using enumerate environment, but it adds a large space between the paragraph and the first item of environment. Is there a way to change it to a more appropriated space? I am using book.cls template. Hi Ricardo, The

index entry see also ?

2009-08-21 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
LaTeX has see for an index entry, but docbook has see and see also. Any suggestions on how to get LyX or LaTeX to support a see also style index entry? I believe that \seename can be redefined, but I may want both. Something like: \index{BSD|seealso{Berkeley Unix}}

Re: index entry see also ?

2009-08-21 Thread Ian S. Worthington
FWIW I hate index entries that redirect me. There may be an occasional justified use (redirect me to a concept with many sub-entries) but most redirect me to another entry to give me a page or two. Surely this is archaic? i -- Original Message -- Received: 10:10 AM COT, 08/21/2009

Re: Fancy TOC and headers question

2009-08-21 Thread L Duperval
On Thu, 20 Aug 2009 16:29:22 -0400, rgheck wrote: Well, here are a few. It seems to me that what you're doing, more or less, is using what would ordinarily be called sections but renaming them as tips. I'm not sure about this, because you list a section before the first chapter. You are

\index expressions

2009-08-21 Thread Sam Liddicott
I'm trying to extend the indexing of newfangle literate code chunks. I'm: \usepackage{index} so that I can have multiple indexes; but the \index{} command seems to literally interpret the first parameter, so that \index{\chunkname} indexes \chunkname instead of the name. I've tried all kinds of

Re: help - some questions

2009-08-21 Thread rgheck
On 08/21/2009 06:08 AM, Sam Liddicott wrote: * Olivier Ripoll wrote, On 21/08/09 10:29: Sam Liddicott wrote: (I wish Lyx supported adding per-document layouts and elements in the same way that it supports adding Latex commands in the preamble) Isn't that what layout modules

Re: Find All and Emphasize

2009-08-21 Thread Tommaso Cucinotta
Pavel Sanda ha scritto: Tommaso Cucinotta wrote: Hi all, I'd like to mention that, with the patch I committed right now on the SVN, the current version of LyX from trunk implements correctly this kind of feature, i.e., you can search for a plain word and replace it with its emphasized or

Re: \index expressions

2009-08-21 Thread Sam Liddicott
The Texbook says: The \write command is somewhht special, because its token list is first read without expansion; expansion occurs later, when the tokens are actually being written to a file. As \index writes to a file, this may be the problem! I'll see if I can

Re: Maximum Font Size

2009-08-21 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 05:01:20PM -0500, Les Denham wrote: On Thursday 20 August 2009 02:38:08 pm José Matos wrote: On Thursday 20 August 2009 16:09:21 Steve Litt wrote: Unless of course you have a 64 bit computer. And the data type used is long. For most of the 64-bit linux the memory

Re: help - some questions

2009-08-21 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-08-21, Sam Liddicott wrote: * Ricardo Perrone wrote, On 21/08/09 04:05: 2- I am using enumerate environment, but it adds a large space between the paragraph and the first item of environment. Is there a way to change it to a more appropriated space? I am using book.cls template. You

Re: changing justification of caption

2009-08-21 Thread Jonatan R. Catai
Unfortunetly, it did not work. Only the picture goes to the left, but not the caption. Some other idea? Jonatan On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 4:27 AM, Wolfgang Engelmann engelm...@uni-tuebingen.de wrote: Am Friday 21 August 2009 04:23:06 schrieb Jonatan R. Catai: Dear All, I added a float

Re: Find All and Emphasize

2009-08-21 Thread Pavel Sanda
Tommaso Cucinotta wrote: I've committed right now the original manual I wrote at the times the feature was not yet in trunk (probably Abdel forgot to consider this file when he ported the patch to trunk). I'll extend it with further details, such as the use-case under discussion, or the

A feature you really need

2009-08-21 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, Thank you so much for the outline view on LyX 1.6.x. You need two or three more buttons to make the outline view fully functional: * Insert * Delete * Maybe Insert Subservient The Insert function inserts a new heading, at the level of the current heading, directly above either the

Re: A feature you really need

2009-08-21 Thread rgheck
On 08/21/2009 07:00 PM, Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, Thank you so much for the outline view on LyX 1.6.x. You need two or three more buttons to make the outline view fully functional: * Insert * Delete * Maybe Insert Subservient Add this to trac, Steve. It's a good idea, and I'm sure someone

Re: changing justification of caption

2009-08-21 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Am Friday 21 August 2009 04:23:06 schrieb Jonatan R. Catai: > Dear All, > > I added a float picture on my report and Lyx adds the caption automatically > - so far so good. However, the caption stays on the center of the page. I > tryed clicking with the right button of the mouse outside the

Re: help - some questions

2009-08-21 Thread Sam Liddicott
* Ricardo Perrone wrote, On 21/08/09 04:05: > Hi, > > I need a little help with some questions: I've thought of such things from time to time, and concluded that the style authors have more knowledge of typesetting than I do, and that my opinion of "more appropriate space" probably enjoys less

Captions

2009-08-21 Thread solvi . natland
Hi! Does anybody know, how can get rid of the indentations in my float caption texts (for both figures and tables)? Figure 1: Now my text looks like this, here begins the 2nd line of the caption. Figure 2: And I would like to have something like this, where there

Re: help - some questions

2009-08-21 Thread Olivier Ripoll
Sam Liddicott wrote: * Ricardo Perrone wrote, On 21/08/09 04:05: Hi, [...] You can mess with tie \fontsize{}{} command; insert this in your pre-amble: \newcommand\sizetf[1]{\begingroup\fontsize{10.5}{12}\selectfont{#1}\endgroup} then you can use the command \sizetf{I'm in 10.5pt} in ERT

Re: help - some questions

2009-08-21 Thread Sam Liddicott
* Olivier Ripoll wrote, On 21/08/09 10:29: > Sam Liddicott wrote: >> * Ricardo Perrone wrote, On 21/08/09 04:05: >>> Hi, >>> > [...] > >> You can mess with tie \fontsize{}{} command; insert this in your >> pre-amble: >> >>

Re: help - some questions

2009-08-21 Thread Olivier Ripoll
Sam Liddicott wrote: * Olivier Ripoll wrote, On 21/08/09 10:29: Sam Liddicott wrote: * Ricardo Perrone wrote, On 21/08/09 04:05: Hi, [...] You can mess with tie \fontsize{}{} command; insert this in your pre-amble:

Re: Captions

2009-08-21 Thread Pierfranco Minsenti
Hi, the most effective way (as far as I know) to customise float capions is to use the package caption which provides several options. I use it in connection withLyX and the KOMA script report class and I obtain what I want. If it is not included in your LaTeX distribution you can download it

Re: Captions

2009-08-21 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Am Friday 21 August 2009 11:28:40 schrieb solvi.natl...@uis.no: > Hi! > > Does anybody know, how can get rid of the indentations in my float caption > texts (for both figures and tables)? > > Figure 1: Now my text looks like this, > here begins the 2nd line of the caption. >

Re: How to embed a spreadsheet in LyX or LaTeX?

2009-08-21 Thread Pavel Sanda
Helge Hafting wrote: > Steve Litt wrote: >> Hi all, >> How can I embed a spreadsheet (MS Excel I assume) into a LyX or LaTeX >> document? > > I wrote an external inset for spreadsheets some time ago. > You can find it here: > http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-de...@lists.lyx.org/msg132049.html put

Re: help - some questions

2009-08-21 Thread Steve Litt
On Thursday 20 August 2009 23:05:20 Ricardo Perrone wrote: > Hi, > > 2- I am using enumerate environment, but > it adds a large space between the paragraph and the first item of > environment. Is there a way to change it to a more appropriated space? I am > using book.cls template. Hi Ricardo,

index entry "see also" ?

2009-08-21 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
LaTeX has "see" for an index entry, but docbook has "see" and "see also". Any suggestions on how to get LyX or LaTeX to support a "see also" style index entry? I believe that \seename can be redefined, but I may want both. Something like: \index{BSD|seealso{Berkeley Unix}}

Re: index entry "see also" ?

2009-08-21 Thread Ian S. Worthington
FWIW I hate index entries that redirect me. There may be an occasional justified use (redirect me to a concept with many sub-entries) but most redirect me to another entry to give me a page or two. Surely this is archaic? i -- Original Message -- Received: 10:10 AM COT, 08/21/2009

Re: Fancy TOC and headers question

2009-08-21 Thread L Duperval
On Thu, 20 Aug 2009 16:29:22 -0400, rgheck wrote: > Well, here are a few. It seems to me that what you're doing, more or > less, is using what would ordinarily be called "sections" but renaming > them as "tips". I'm not sure about this, because you list a section > before the first chapter. You

\index expressions

2009-08-21 Thread Sam Liddicott
I'm trying to extend the indexing of newfangle literate code chunks. I'm: \usepackage{index} so that I can have multiple indexes; but the \index{} command seems to literally interpret the first parameter, so that \index{\chunkname} indexes "\chunkname" instead of the name. I've tried all kinds

Re: help - some questions

2009-08-21 Thread rgheck
On 08/21/2009 06:08 AM, Sam Liddicott wrote: * Olivier Ripoll wrote, On 21/08/09 10:29: Sam Liddicott wrote: (I wish Lyx supported adding per-document layouts and elements in the same way that it supports adding Latex commands in the preamble) Isn't that what layout modules

Re: Find All and Emphasize

2009-08-21 Thread Tommaso Cucinotta
Pavel Sanda ha scritto: Tommaso Cucinotta wrote: Hi all, I'd like to mention that, with the patch I committed right now on the SVN, the current version of LyX from trunk implements correctly this kind of feature, i.e., you can search for a plain word and replace it with its emphasized or

Re: \index expressions

2009-08-21 Thread Sam Liddicott
The Texbook says: The \write command is somewhht special, because its token list is first read without expansion; expansion occurs later, when the tokens are actually being written to a file. As \index writes to a file, this may be the problem! I'll see if I can

Re: Maximum Font Size

2009-08-21 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 05:01:20PM -0500, Les Denham wrote: > On Thursday 20 August 2009 02:38:08 pm José Matos wrote: > > On Thursday 20 August 2009 16:09:21 Steve Litt wrote: > > > Unless of course you have a 64 bit computer. > > > > And the data type used is long. For most of the 64-bit linux

Re: help - some questions

2009-08-21 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-08-21, Sam Liddicott wrote: > * Ricardo Perrone wrote, On 21/08/09 04:05: >> 2- I am using enumerate environment, but it adds a large space between >> the paragraph and the first item of environment. Is there a way to >> change it to a more appropriated space? I am using book.cls

Re: changing justification of caption

2009-08-21 Thread Jonatan R. Catai
Unfortunetly, it did not work. Only the picture goes to the left, but not the caption. Some other idea? Jonatan On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 4:27 AM, Wolfgang Engelmann < engelm...@uni-tuebingen.de> wrote: > Am Friday 21 August 2009 04:23:06 schrieb Jonatan R. Catai: > > Dear All, > > > > I added

Re: Find All and Emphasize

2009-08-21 Thread Pavel Sanda
Tommaso Cucinotta wrote: > I've committed right now the original manual I wrote at the times the > feature was not yet in trunk (probably Abdel forgot to consider this > file when he ported the patch to trunk). I'll extend it with further > details, such as the use-case under discussion, or the

A feature you really need

2009-08-21 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, Thank you so much for the outline view on LyX 1.6.x. You need two or three more buttons to make the outline view fully functional: * Insert * Delete * Maybe "Insert Subservient" The Insert function inserts a new heading, at the level of the current heading, directly above either the

Re: A feature you really need

2009-08-21 Thread rgheck
On 08/21/2009 07:00 PM, Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, Thank you so much for the outline view on LyX 1.6.x. You need two or three more buttons to make the outline view fully functional: * Insert * Delete * Maybe "Insert Subservient" Add this to trac, Steve. It's a good idea, and I'm sure