Variables showing top-of-page values?

2010-10-01 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, I'm using a document class derived from the Book class, and that can't change. I created a character style that in LyX shows the text, but in the PDF doesn't show the text and simply sets a variable, which I then put in the header. So far so good. But there's trouble in paradise. These

How to have headers and footers print on the chapter intro pages?

2010-10-01 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, I'm using a document class derived from the Book class, and that can't change. Given that, how can I get headers and footers to show up on the chapter intro pages as well as the other pages? Every page that starts a chapter currently has no header or footers, and magically prints its pa

Re: Beamer and Bibtex

2010-10-01 Thread Julio Rojas
Sorry Jurgen, but I just compiled a 142-slide beamer presentation with biblatex footcites (verbose-ibid style) everywhere. It was a 1.2 MB monster, that looked very beautiful using MinionPro. Everything on LyX. It was a completely straightforward process. I will try this sunday to upload it to the

Plot dates in footer?

2010-10-01 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, My new business novel has a timeline, and I don't want the reader confused about what day it is. Part of that is a writing task, but I was thinking of having the day and date of the action in the footer. I figure I can do this by having a null character style that doesn't print anythin

Re: lyx/mac cursor off by 1 character

2010-10-01 Thread Derek Lamb
On Sep 30, 2010, at 3:52 PM, Derek Lamb wrote: > Hi, > > I've been using LyX on Linux for a long time (wrote several papers and my > thesis with it), but this is the first time I've tried to use it on a Mac. > I'm running OS X 10.6.4, and installed LyX 1.6.7 via MacPorts (I'm regretting > no

program listing justification

2010-10-01 Thread Jack Tanner
Is there perchance a global setting (or at least a per-document) to make all program listing insets be left-justified?

Re: LyX (LaTeX) vs. ConTeXt

2010-10-01 Thread Gour D.
On Fri, 1 Oct 2010 09:37:16 +0200 >> "Jürgen" == Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Jürgen> Support is defitely on the agenda, though probably not for LyX Jürgen> 2.0 (rather for 2.1 or later). As Günter wrote, the Jürgen> implementation should not be too hard, since the difference to Jürgen> XeTeX is

Re: Beamer and Bibtex

2010-10-01 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Paul A. Rubin wrote: > > If I ignores this error, the document compiles perfectly. I think LyX > > is not capable of overcoming this error and the biblatex part of the > > compilation fails. Any idea on how can I solve it? > > I don't know about biblatex, but beamer and BibTeX don't play nicely.

Re: Beamer and Bibtex

2010-10-01 Thread Paul A. Rubin
On 9/30/2010 9:14 AM, Julio Rojas wrote: Dear all, I guess this is a recurrent topic, but I couldn't find a solution googling around. I have to include some references from my bibtex file into my beamer presentation, but after the document is compiled, a "?" appears in place of the reference. I t

Re: lyx/mac cursor off by 1 character

2010-10-01 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 1 oct. 10 à 10:40, Niklas Hulden a écrit : I have seen this on Windows 7 also. Very annoying. Is it related to having ligatures in the text (fi, ffi, fl, ffl...) ? JMarc

Re: lyx/mac cursor off by 1 character

2010-10-01 Thread Niklas Hulden
BH skrev 1.10.2010 01:24: On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 6:07 PM, Richard Heck wrote: On 9/30/10 5:52 PM, Derek Lamb wrote: Hi, I've been using LyX on Linux for a long time (wrote several papers and my thesis with it), but this is the first time I've tried to use it on a Mac. I'm running OS X 10.

Re: LyX (LaTeX) vs. ConTeXt

2010-10-01 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Gour D. wrote: > The obvious advantage of the former is that is it quite stable, LyX > has, if i see properly, several developers, while, otoh, ConTeXt is > mostly one-man-show, documentation is not organized well or dispersed > in several parts etc. > > otoh, LuaTeX is heading towards MK IV (aka