Re: helping Windows-user: document with lots of invalid characters

2012-04-09 Thread AJR
Hi, I might have a simple work around. Once the text has been copied from the pdf/ word doc into a lyx document export the lyx document as plain text. Open the plain text document in the simplest text editor you can find. Copy and paste the text back into a new lyx document and export to pdf in

Re: lyx 2.0.0 URL error unable to open external file on Ubuntu 11.10 . File path is correct!! Solved

2012-04-09 Thread AJR
I solved it, the solution was really simple, but not at all obvious to me given how careful one must usually be with file paths in any *nix application.Most apps do not fill in anything for you. Knocking the leading / off the file path solved the problem. Instead of putting /home/foo/bar.xls in

char-right via LyX server and math insets

2012-04-09 Thread Allen Barker
This occurs on a Fedora 15 system with LyX 2.0.3. Create a new file with some random text and a math inset with some random math in it. Position the cursor somewhere before the math inset. Using the right-arrow key the cursor can be moved into and then past the math inset. Using char-right

Re: lyx 2.0.0 URL error unable to open external file on Ubuntu 11.10 . File path is correct!! Solved

2012-04-09 Thread Paul A . Rubin
AJR alasdair at iprimus.com.au writes: Do you knock off the leading forward slash off the file path when you use that feature? Just seems counter intuitive to me. No, I don't; I include the initial slash. In fact, I just tested this with a new document (LyX 2.0.1 on Linux Mint 11), and it

PDF appendix header and footer

2012-04-09 Thread Hannu Vuolasaho
Hi! I'm adding PDF appendix to one article without success. What I have been able to do so far: a) I have minipage and one pdf page as graphic. Headers and footers OK. b) I have all PDF pages nicely put each page on its own page No header or footers. I tried to scale pdf down, but no headers.

Re: helping Windows-user: document with lots of invalid characters

2012-04-09 Thread AJR
Hi, I might have a simple work around. Once the text has been copied from the pdf/ word doc into a lyx document export the lyx document as plain text. Open the plain text document in the simplest text editor you can find. Copy and paste the text back into a new lyx document and export to pdf in

Re: lyx 2.0.0 URL error unable to open external file on Ubuntu 11.10 . File path is correct!! Solved

2012-04-09 Thread AJR
I solved it, the solution was really simple, but not at all obvious to me given how careful one must usually be with file paths in any *nix application.Most apps do not fill in anything for you. Knocking the leading / off the file path solved the problem. Instead of putting /home/foo/bar.xls in

char-right via LyX server and math insets

2012-04-09 Thread Allen Barker
This occurs on a Fedora 15 system with LyX 2.0.3. Create a new file with some random text and a math inset with some random math in it. Position the cursor somewhere before the math inset. Using the right-arrow key the cursor can be moved into and then past the math inset. Using char-right

Re: lyx 2.0.0 URL error unable to open external file on Ubuntu 11.10 . File path is correct!! Solved

2012-04-09 Thread Paul A . Rubin
AJR alasdair at iprimus.com.au writes: Do you knock off the leading forward slash off the file path when you use that feature? Just seems counter intuitive to me. No, I don't; I include the initial slash. In fact, I just tested this with a new document (LyX 2.0.1 on Linux Mint 11), and it

PDF appendix header and footer

2012-04-09 Thread Hannu Vuolasaho
Hi! I'm adding PDF appendix to one article without success. What I have been able to do so far: a) I have minipage and one pdf page as graphic. Headers and footers OK. b) I have all PDF pages nicely put each page on its own page No header or footers. I tried to scale pdf down, but no headers.

Re: helping Windows-user: document with lots of invalid characters

2012-04-09 Thread AJR
Hi, I might have a simple work around. Once the text has been copied from the pdf/ word doc into a lyx document export the lyx document as plain text. Open the plain text document in the simplest text editor you can find. Copy and paste the text back into a new lyx document and export to pdf in

Re: lyx 2.0.0 URL error "unable to open external file" on Ubuntu 11.10 . File path is correct!! Solved

2012-04-09 Thread AJR
I solved it, the solution was really simple, but not at all obvious to me given how careful one must usually be with file paths in any *nix application.Most apps do not fill in anything for you. Knocking the leading / off the file path solved the problem. Instead of putting /home/foo/bar.xls in

char-right via LyX server and math insets

2012-04-09 Thread Allen Barker
This occurs on a Fedora 15 system with LyX 2.0.3. Create a new file with some random text and a math inset with some random math in it. Position the cursor somewhere before the math inset. Using the right-arrow key the cursor can be moved into and then past the math inset. Using char-right

Re: lyx 2.0.0 URL error "unable to open external file" on Ubuntu 11.10 . File path is correct!! Solved

2012-04-09 Thread Paul A . Rubin
AJR iprimus.com.au> writes: > Do you > knock off the leading forward slash off the file path when you use that > feature? Just seems counter intuitive to me. No, I don't; I include the initial slash. In fact, I just tested this with a new document (LyX 2.0.1 on Linux Mint 11), and it worked

PDF appendix header and footer

2012-04-09 Thread Hannu Vuolasaho
Hi! I'm adding PDF appendix to one article without success. What I have been able to do so far: a) I have minipage and one pdf page as graphic. Headers and footers OK. b) I have all PDF pages nicely put each page on its own page No header or footers. I tried to scale pdf down, but no headers.