3-D boxes.

Hi all, Is there a way to insert a 3-D box in lyx ? Nikunj

Charater formatting in the Index

I am writing a document about a programming environment that uses multiple character styles. 0. Plain roman is used for ordinary index entries 1. Italicized roman characters are used for names of mathematical variables and parameters 2. Typewriter is used for source code keywords 3. Sans serif is

Footnotes Formatting: Font Size and Double-Spacing

Dear LyX Users: Would you please let me know if there is anyway to make the footnotes to be 12-font-size and double-spaced? Thanks a lot. Sunny

Re: Getting Started with LyX in the social sciences for a substantial project

Marshall Feldman wrote: > Hi, > > I'm starting a project for which LyX appears to be the best choice, but > I have a few questions related to getting started. I'd prefer to ask > them now and start doing things the right way rather than find out six > months from now that I have to go back and ch

Re: Importing Lyx files in SWP

On 11/23/2009 02:05 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote: Hello On 11/23/09, Ken wrote: i disagree. swp is better than lyx in many respects. for istance > (1) it has a mupad kernel which makes possible to carry out symbolic >calculations with the equations one has ty

Create Macro with Math delimiter

Hello, I would like to make a macro that would allow me to write limits in math mode like it happens with the integral and the sigma - below the symbol. In the view-> sourse mode I can see that for the integral, for example, the following happens "\int\limits..." does anyone know how to create, fo

RE: Getting Started with LyX in the social sciences for a substantial project

Hi Marshall, I went through a similar dilemma when I started working with LyX. You appear to have a much better handle on your needs than I need. That will probably make your transition a great deal less painful than mine was. 1.) "My usual wrk flow is to draft a paper, circulate it as a work

Re: Importing Lyx files in SWP

Hello On 11/23/09, Ken wrote: > >i disagree. swp is better than lyx in many respects. for istance > > (1) it has a mupad kernel which makes possible to carry out symbolic > > calculations with the equations one has typeset. > If I am not mistaking, symbolic calculations can b

Getting Started with LyX in the social sciences for a substantial project

Hi, I'm starting a project for which LyX appears to be the best choice, but I have a few questions related to getting started. I'd prefer to ask them now and start doing things the right way rather than find out six months from now that I have to go back and change things or, worse, that I ca

Coloring footnote mark

Hi, Is there a way of applying color to a footnote mark while keeping the footnote itself black? That is, the superscript number in white with colored background (inside a longtable) and the footnote (outside the table) in black. I've tried with footmisc, but I either don't know how to use it or

Re: Importing Lyx files in SWP

Hi Gyorgy, Thanks so much for your comments. I have not used mupad and tend to create all my charts in Matlab so I was unaware of those features. Maybe I was too harsh on SWP...but I do vastly prefer LyX. And maybe your comments might spark some work within LyX on the unimplemented features you

Re: Making TOC page 1

On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 8:56 AM, Christian Hemmer wrote: > > hey stephen, > > I am using Report (Koma script) - do you think it's gonna work there too? > > Just to know whether I got it all right: > 1. I will insert \frontmatter at the beginning of my document (After the > titlepage) > 2. After th

Re: Importing Lyx files in SWP

Giulio Morello writes: > > Hi all, > > I am working with Lyx and my co-author is using SWP. The problem we have is that he is not able to open > Lyx-exported tex files (plain latex) into SWP. > There's no tables, figures, or strange things inside my tex files, just text and equations. > > I se