Re: Table question: what is column width?

2013-04-03 Thread Stephen
Hi, Thank you, .. I have been jumping though hoops to control my text width within a cell ( inserting boxes into cells - argh)... your question cause me to try your example out and with a little paying around I've learnt something. Anyway the way I see it (and I could be wrong), is that

Re: Table question: what is column width?

2013-04-03 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2013-04-03, Stephen wrote: Anyway the way I see it (and I could be wrong), is that width you changed to 25% possibly would read better being labelled text width - not column width The collumn width along with textwidth in a number of drop-down boxes denotes the width of a text column in

Re: Table question: what is column width?

2013-04-03 Thread Csikos Bela
Guenter Milde mi...@users.sf.net írta: On 2013-04-03, Stephen wrote: Anyway the way I see it (and I could be wrong), is that width you changed to 25% possibly would read better being labelled text width - not column width The collumn width along with textwidth in a number of drop-down boxes

Re: Table question: what is column width?

2013-04-03 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2013-04-03, Csikos Bela wrote: Guenter Milde mi...@users.sf.net írta: On 2013-04-03, Stephen wrote: Anyway the way I see it (and I could be wrong), is that width you changed to 25% possibly would read better being labelled text width - not column width The collumn width along with

How to put multiple lines in a table cell

2013-04-03 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, If you ever have a too-long line to put in a table cell and want to break it up, you can put in ERT \\ commands, and it will work. In the LyX environment, it looks like all one line and stretches the table. But in the finished PDF, it breaks at the newlines. There's a side effect. Some

Re: FW: Error LyX

2013-04-03 Thread Richard Heck
The picture by itself does not help very much, without seeing the file. Did you add something special to the preamble? Richard On 04/03/2013 03:40 AM, diego perini wrote: Diego Perini From: dieg...@hotmail.it To:

feature request: ribbon menus

2013-04-03 Thread Alex Vergara Gil
Hello developers! I have a feature request if this is not already requested to you: Ribbon Menus. The actual look of lyx makes duplicate functions in text menus and icon menus, besides there is a lot of space wasted by allocating the icon menus. This has nothing to do with intrinsic code but

Re: feature request: ribbon menus

2013-04-03 Thread Richard Heck
On 04/03/2013 12:20 PM, Alex Vergara Gil wrote: Hello developers! I have a feature request if this is not already requested to you: Ribbon Menus. If someone wanted to code these as an option, I'd have no objection, except for the fact that Microsoft appears to have patented this:

Re: feature request: ribbon menus

2013-04-03 Thread Jacob Bishop
Opinions are cheap, so I guess I'll offer mine. Patents are one thing I know next to nothing about, so that may be a game stopper to begin with, as Richard pointed out. I may be in the minority here, but in general I think the ribbon toolbar is a useful improvement for Microsoft products (at

Re: feature request: ribbon menus

2013-04-03 Thread Pavel Sanda
Alex Vergara Gil wrote: I don´t know if thi request can be made inside Qt (I think there should be some package for this in the nokia library!). No it isn't. Mr Google suggest that Qt team at one point stopped developing the control due to Microsoft licensing. This sounds funny given the fact

Re: Personalização para normas ABNT

2013-04-03 Thread Julio Rojas
Hi Henrique. Welcome to the Lyx/LaTeX world. First of all, the language of the list is English, so you should try using it to get more help. Secondly, I have never heard of the ABTN format, so I don' t know how it looks. Nevertheless, there is a long road from your first documents to the

Re: feature request: ribbon menus

2013-04-03 Thread Alex Vergara Gil
Alex Vergara Gil wrote: I don´t know if thi request can be made inside Qt (I think there should be some package for this in the nokia library!). Pavel Sanda wrote: No it isn't. Mr Google suggest that Qt team at one point stopped developing the control due to Microsoft licensing. This sounds

Re: lyx-users Digest 3 Apr 2013 07:40:52 -0000 Issue 817

2013-04-03 Thread Guy Rutenberg
Hi, On 3 April 2013 10:40, From: Cor Blom corne...@solcon.nl wrote:- If you mean the culmus-fonts package in opensuse, this is not a latex package, but just contains the fonts (can only be used in xelatex of luatex). For support of Hebrew, you can install texlive-collection-**langhebrew.

Re: feature request: ribbon menus

2013-04-03 Thread Steve Litt
On Wed, 3 Apr 2013 11:20:24 -0500 Alex Vergara Gil a...@cphr.edu.cu wrote: Hello developers! I have a feature request if this is not already requested to you: Ribbon Menus. The actual look of lyx makes duplicate functions in text menus and icon menus, besides there is a lot of space

Re: feature request: ribbon menus

2013-04-03 Thread Richard Heck
On 04/03/2013 04:41 PM, Alex Vergara Gil wrote: Alex Vergara Gil wrote: I don´t know if thi request can be made inside Qt (I think there should be some package for this in the nokia library!). Pavel Sanda wrote: No it isn't. Mr Google suggest that Qt team at one point stopped developing

Re: Table question: what is column width?

2013-04-03 Thread Stephen
Hi, Thank you, .. I have been jumping though hoops to control my text width within a cell ( inserting boxes into cells - argh)... your question cause me to try your example out and with a little paying around I've learnt something. Anyway the way I see it (and I could be wrong), is that

Re: Table question: what is column width?

2013-04-03 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2013-04-03, Stephen wrote: Anyway the way I see it (and I could be wrong), is that width you changed to 25% possibly would read better being labelled text width - not column width The collumn width along with textwidth in a number of drop-down boxes denotes the width of a text column in

Re: Table question: what is column width?

2013-04-03 Thread Csikos Bela
Guenter Milde mi...@users.sf.net írta: On 2013-04-03, Stephen wrote: Anyway the way I see it (and I could be wrong), is that width you changed to 25% possibly would read better being labelled text width - not column width The collumn width along with textwidth in a number of drop-down boxes

Re: Table question: what is column width?

2013-04-03 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2013-04-03, Csikos Bela wrote: Guenter Milde mi...@users.sf.net írta: On 2013-04-03, Stephen wrote: Anyway the way I see it (and I could be wrong), is that width you changed to 25% possibly would read better being labelled text width - not column width The collumn width along with

How to put multiple lines in a table cell

2013-04-03 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, If you ever have a too-long line to put in a table cell and want to break it up, you can put in ERT \\ commands, and it will work. In the LyX environment, it looks like all one line and stretches the table. But in the finished PDF, it breaks at the newlines. There's a side effect. Some

Re: FW: Error LyX

2013-04-03 Thread Richard Heck
The picture by itself does not help very much, without seeing the file. Did you add something special to the preamble? Richard On 04/03/2013 03:40 AM, diego perini wrote: Diego Perini From: dieg...@hotmail.it To:

feature request: ribbon menus

2013-04-03 Thread Alex Vergara Gil
Hello developers! I have a feature request if this is not already requested to you: Ribbon Menus. The actual look of lyx makes duplicate functions in text menus and icon menus, besides there is a lot of space wasted by allocating the icon menus. This has nothing to do with intrinsic code but

Re: feature request: ribbon menus

2013-04-03 Thread Richard Heck
On 04/03/2013 12:20 PM, Alex Vergara Gil wrote: Hello developers! I have a feature request if this is not already requested to you: Ribbon Menus. If someone wanted to code these as an option, I'd have no objection, except for the fact that Microsoft appears to have patented this:

Re: feature request: ribbon menus

2013-04-03 Thread Jacob Bishop
Opinions are cheap, so I guess I'll offer mine. Patents are one thing I know next to nothing about, so that may be a game stopper to begin with, as Richard pointed out. I may be in the minority here, but in general I think the ribbon toolbar is a useful improvement for Microsoft products (at

Re: feature request: ribbon menus

2013-04-03 Thread Pavel Sanda
Alex Vergara Gil wrote: I don´t know if thi request can be made inside Qt (I think there should be some package for this in the nokia library!). No it isn't. Mr Google suggest that Qt team at one point stopped developing the control due to Microsoft licensing. This sounds funny given the fact

Re: Personalização para normas ABNT

2013-04-03 Thread Julio Rojas
Hi Henrique. Welcome to the Lyx/LaTeX world. First of all, the language of the list is English, so you should try using it to get more help. Secondly, I have never heard of the ABTN format, so I don' t know how it looks. Nevertheless, there is a long road from your first documents to the

Re: feature request: ribbon menus

2013-04-03 Thread Alex Vergara Gil
Alex Vergara Gil wrote: I don´t know if thi request can be made inside Qt (I think there should be some package for this in the nokia library!). Pavel Sanda wrote: No it isn't. Mr Google suggest that Qt team at one point stopped developing the control due to Microsoft licensing. This sounds

Re: lyx-users Digest 3 Apr 2013 07:40:52 -0000 Issue 817

2013-04-03 Thread Guy Rutenberg
Hi, On 3 April 2013 10:40, From: Cor Blom corne...@solcon.nl wrote:- If you mean the culmus-fonts package in opensuse, this is not a latex package, but just contains the fonts (can only be used in xelatex of luatex). For support of Hebrew, you can install texlive-collection-**langhebrew.

Re: feature request: ribbon menus

2013-04-03 Thread Steve Litt
On Wed, 3 Apr 2013 11:20:24 -0500 Alex Vergara Gil a...@cphr.edu.cu wrote: Hello developers! I have a feature request if this is not already requested to you: Ribbon Menus. The actual look of lyx makes duplicate functions in text menus and icon menus, besides there is a lot of space

Re: feature request: ribbon menus

2013-04-03 Thread Richard Heck
On 04/03/2013 04:41 PM, Alex Vergara Gil wrote: Alex Vergara Gil wrote: I don´t know if thi request can be made inside Qt (I think there should be some package for this in the nokia library!). Pavel Sanda wrote: No it isn't. Mr Google suggest that Qt team at one point stopped developing

Re: Table question: what is column width?

2013-04-03 Thread Stephen
Hi, Thank you, .. I have been jumping though hoops to control my text width within a cell ( inserting boxes into cells - argh)... your question cause me to try your example out and with a little paying around I've learnt something. Anyway the way I see it (and I could be wrong), is that

Re: Table question: what is column width?

2013-04-03 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2013-04-03, Stephen wrote: > Anyway the way I see it (and I could be wrong), is that width you > changed to 25% possibly would read better being labelled "text width" - > not column width The "collumn width" along with "textwidth" in a number of drop-down boxes denotes the width of a text

Re: Table question: what is column width?

2013-04-03 Thread Csikos Bela
Guenter Milde írta: >>On 2013-04-03, Stephen wrote: >> >> >>Anyway the way I see it (and I could be wrong), is that width you >>changed to 25% possibly would read better being labelled "text width" - >> not column width > >The "collumn width" along with "textwidth" in a

Re: Table question: what is column width?

2013-04-03 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2013-04-03, Csikos Bela wrote: > Guenter Milde írta: >>>On 2013-04-03, Stephen wrote: >>>Anyway the way I see it (and I could be wrong), is that width you >>>changed to 25% possibly would read better being labelled "text width" - >>> not column width >>The "collumn

How to put multiple lines in a table cell

2013-04-03 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, If you ever have a too-long line to put in a table cell and want to break it up, you can put in ERT \\ commands, and it will work. In the LyX environment, it looks like all one line and stretches the table. But in the finished PDF, it breaks at the newlines. There's a side effect. Some

Re: FW: Error LyX

2013-04-03 Thread Richard Heck
The picture by itself does not help very much, without seeing the file. Did you add something special to the preamble? Richard On 04/03/2013 03:40 AM, diego perini wrote: Diego Perini From: dieg...@hotmail.it To:

feature request: ribbon menus

2013-04-03 Thread Alex Vergara Gil
Hello developers! I have a feature request if this is not already requested to you: Ribbon Menus. The actual look of lyx makes duplicate functions in text menus and icon menus, besides there is a lot of space wasted by allocating the icon menus. This has nothing to do with intrinsic code but

Re: feature request: ribbon menus

2013-04-03 Thread Richard Heck
On 04/03/2013 12:20 PM, Alex Vergara Gil wrote: Hello developers! I have a feature request if this is not already requested to you: Ribbon Menus. If someone wanted to code these as an option, I'd have no objection, except for the fact that Microsoft appears to have patented this:

Re: feature request: ribbon menus

2013-04-03 Thread Jacob Bishop
Opinions are cheap, so I guess I'll offer mine. Patents are one thing I know next to nothing about, so that may be a game stopper to begin with, as Richard pointed out. I may be in the minority here, but in general I think the ribbon toolbar is a useful improvement for Microsoft products (at

Re: feature request: ribbon menus

2013-04-03 Thread Pavel Sanda
Alex Vergara Gil wrote: > I don´t know if thi request can be made inside Qt (I think there should be > some package for this in the nokia library!). No it isn't. Mr Google suggest that "Qt team at one point stopped developing the control due to Microsoft licensing." This sounds funny given the

Re: Personalização para normas ABNT

2013-04-03 Thread Julio Rojas
Hi Henrique. Welcome to the Lyx/LaTeX world. First of all, the language of the list is English, so you should try using it to get more help. Secondly, I have never heard of the ABTN format, so I don' t know how it looks. Nevertheless, there is a long road from your first documents to the

Re: feature request: ribbon menus

2013-04-03 Thread Alex Vergara Gil
Alex Vergara Gil wrote: I don´t know if thi request can be made inside Qt (I think there should be some package for this in the nokia library!). Pavel Sanda wrote: No it isn't. Mr Google suggest that "Qt team at one point stopped developing the control due to Microsoft licensing." This

Re: lyx-users Digest 3 Apr 2013 07:40:52 -0000 Issue 817

2013-04-03 Thread Guy Rutenberg
Hi, On 3 April 2013 10:40, From: Cor Blom wrote:- > > > If you mean the "culmus-fonts" package in opensuse, this is not a latex > package, but just contains the fonts (can only be used in xelatex of > luatex). > > For support of Hebrew, you can install

Re: feature request: ribbon menus

2013-04-03 Thread Steve Litt
On Wed, 3 Apr 2013 11:20:24 -0500 "Alex Vergara Gil" wrote: > Hello developers! > > I have a feature request if this is not already requested to you: > Ribbon Menus. > > The actual look of lyx makes duplicate functions in text menus and > icon menus, besides there is a lot of

Re: feature request: ribbon menus

2013-04-03 Thread Richard Heck
On 04/03/2013 04:41 PM, Alex Vergara Gil wrote: Alex Vergara Gil wrote: I don´t know if thi request can be made inside Qt (I think there should be some package for this in the nokia library!). Pavel Sanda wrote: No it isn't. Mr Google suggest that "Qt team at one point stopped developing