Re: Old font style names found in doc

2024-01-02 Thread Herbert Voss
Am 03.01.24 um 00:18 schrieb Rich Shepard: Revising a 5-year old document (KOMA-Script report class) pdflatex compilation fails because deprecated font styles (\sc, \bf) are found in bibliography entries (see attached.) Looking at the jabrefbib.bib file I do not find any \sc or \bf strings.

Re: Old font style names found in doc

2024-01-02 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 2 Jan 2024, Rich Shepard wrote: ... bibliography entries (see attached.) Now it is. Rich-- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users

Old font style names found in doc

2024-01-02 Thread Rich Shepard
Revising a 5-year old document (KOMA-Script report class) pdflatex compilation fails because deprecated font styles (\sc, \bf) are found in bibliography entries (see attached.) Looking at the jabrefbib.bib file I do not find any \sc or \bf strings. In LyX settings I find nothing pertinent in

Re: Replacing long static table as floating

2024-01-02 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 2 Jan 2024, Rich Shepard wrote: I've a document from 5 years ago that I'm revising. There is an 85 row long table in it that I would like to float (as a long table) rather than re-writing the whole table. Is there a way to do this? Oops! The Wiki tells me that long tables do not

Replacing long static table as floating

2024-01-02 Thread Rich Shepard
I've a document from 5 years ago that I'm revising. There is an 85 row long table in it that I would like to float (as a long table) rather than re-writing the whole table. Is there a way to do this? TIA, Rich -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org

Re: Adding accented character in JabRef [RESOLVED]

2024-01-02 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 1 Jan 2024, Rich Shepard wrote: An authors' name is Antao with the second 'a' accented with a tilde. I'm not finding the proper syntax to produce that in the BibTeX source. Found the solution that works here with Slackware and Xfce4. In ~/.Xmodmap I added the line keycode 133

Re: Adding accented character in JabRef

2024-01-02 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 2 Jan 2024, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: I'm seeing odd results with this as well. If I use the attached bib file, then \~A shows up just fine, but \~a does not. In the bbl file, it appears as: \begin{thebibliography}{1} \bibitem{Ant:Test} Ant\ {a}o \~Antonia. \newblock Whatever.

Re: Adding accented character in JabRef

2024-01-02 Thread Richard Kimberly Heck
On 1/2/24 11:51, Rich Shepard wrote: On Tue, 2 Jan 2024, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: Is JabRef saving them that way? I've had problems with it saving such things as Unicode. Riki, Nope. It tells me there's an unexpected '(' in the string. I'm seeing odd results with this as well. If I

Re: iCloud Drive and LyX Backup Files

2024-01-02 Thread Richard Kimberly Heck
On 1/2/24 11:43, Jeremy via lyx-users wrote: LyX saves backup files by appending a tilde, ~, to the file name. Apple's iCloud Drive does not upload files ending in tildes to the cloud. Is there a way to get these two pieces of software to coexist, so that LyX backups can themselves be backed

Re: Trying to get a straight single quote

2024-01-02 Thread Richard Kimberly Heck
On 1/2/24 08:41, Daniel via lyx-users wrote: On 2023-12-31 21:59, Paul Rubin wrote: On 12/31/23 13:08, Blake McBride wrote: Greetings, I am using LyX 2.3.7 on a Linux box.  I have some text in which I'd like to use the straight, type-writer-like single quote instead of a curved one.  I

Re: String including \rightarrow works unless with other text

2024-01-02 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 2 Jan 2024, Kornel Benko wrote: Alternatively you could use symbols from Insert->Special Character->Symbols...->Category: Arrows or use unicode direct with M-x unicode-insert 2192 Kornel, Thank you. I'm used to using the unfortuately-named ERT so I added the $ where

Re: String including \rightarrow works unless with other text [RESOLVED]

2024-01-02 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 2 Jan 2024, Herbert Voss wrote: $\rightarrow$  It must be in mathmode. However, insert it with the LyX mathmode and you can insert the arrow as symbol. Herbert, Mea culpa! You and Paul pointed out that totally spaced using mathmode. Adding the '$' was easier than inline math. Thanks

Re: String including \rightarrow works unless with other text

2024-01-02 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 2 Jan 2024, Paul Rubin wrote: Neither displays correctly for me. The issue is that you are inserting the arrow as LaTeX without invoking math mode (at least in mwe2; in mwe it's not even LaTeX). So the compiler guesses where to begin and end math mode, and it does not guess correctly.

Re: String including \rightarrow works unless with other text

2024-01-02 Thread Kornel Benko
Am Tue, 2 Jan 2024 18:35:50 +0100 schrieb Herbert Voss : > Am 02.01.24 um 18:15 schrieb Rich Shepard: > > I'm puzzled. In a document I display a series using \rightarrow to > > separate > > the components. When I compile the document it displays as in the > > attached > > mwe2.lyx file. When

Re: String including \rightarrow works unless with other text

2024-01-02 Thread Herbert Voss
Am 02.01.24 um 18:15 schrieb Rich Shepard: I'm puzzled. In a document I display a series using \rightarrow to separate the components. When I compile the document it displays as in the attached mwe2.lyx file. When the string is by itself (mwe.lyx) it displays properly. I suspect it's a

Re: String including \rightarrow works unless with other text

2024-01-02 Thread Paul Rubin
On 1/2/24 12:15, Rich Shepard wrote: I'm puzzled. In a document I display a series using \rightarrow to separate the components. When I compile the document it displays as in the attached mwe2.lyx file. When the string is by itself (mwe.lyx) it displays properly. I suspect it's a matter of

String including \rightarrow works unless with other text

2024-01-02 Thread Rich Shepard
I'm puzzled. In a document I display a series using \rightarrow to separate the components. When I compile the document it displays as in the attached mwe2.lyx file. When the string is by itself (mwe.lyx) it displays properly. I suspect it's a matter of spacing but I haven't figured out where.

Re: Adding accented character in JabRef

2024-01-02 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 2 Jan 2024, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: Is JabRef saving them that way? I've had problems with it saving such things as Unicode. Riki, Nope. It tells me there's an unexpected '(' in the string. I'll ask on the slackware mail list how to set a compose key using the right-side alt

Re: Adding accented character in JabRef

2024-01-02 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 2 Jan 2024, Paul Rubin wrote: I forget which Linux distro you use, but you might want to check whether there is a keyboard layout option for the compose key. There is on Mint. I set it to the right alt key, so I can just type right-alt, " and a letter (three separate key strokes, not a

iCloud Drive and LyX Backup Files

2024-01-02 Thread Jeremy via lyx-users
LyX saves backup files by appending a tilde, ~, to the file name. Apple's iCloud Drive does not upload files ending in tildes to the cloud. Is there a way to get these two pieces of software to coexist, so that LyX backups can themselves be backed up into Apple's cloud? I suppose this could

Re: Adding accented character in JabRef

2024-01-02 Thread Paul Rubin
On 1/2/24 09:16, Rich Shepard wrote: On Tue, 2 Jan 2024, Herbert Voss wrote: \~a   or \~{a} However, you should be able to insert directly ã Herbert, It didn't like the first two. I need to learn how to enter it directly in using /usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose. Thanks, Rich

Re: Adding accented character in JabRef

2024-01-02 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 2 Jan 2024, José Matos wrote: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AltGr_key José, That explains it: there's not an alt-graph key on US keyboards. Thanks, Rich -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users

Re: Adding accented character in JabRef

2024-01-02 Thread José Matos
On Tue, 2024-01-02 at 06:17 -0800, Rich Shepard wrote: > Herbert, > > What's the AltGr chord? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AltGr_key -- José Abílio -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users

Re: Trying to get a straight single quote

2024-01-02 Thread Udicoudco
On Tue, Jan 2, 2024 at 3:42 PM Daniel via lyx-users wrote: > > On 2023-12-31 21:59, Paul Rubin wrote: > > > > On 12/31/23 13:08, Blake McBride wrote: > >> Greetings, > >> > >> I am using LyX 2.3.7 on a Linux box. I have some text in which I'd > >> like to use the straight, type-writer-like

Re: Adding accented character in JabRef

2024-01-02 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 2 Jan 2024, Herbert Voss wrote: sure ... but also Linux: AltGr+a Herbert, What's the AltGr chord? Rich -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users

Re: Adding accented character in JabRef

2024-01-02 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 2 Jan 2024, Herbert Voss wrote: \~a   or \~{a} However, you should be able to insert directly ã Herbert, It didn't like the first two. I need to learn how to enter it directly in using /usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose. Thanks, Rich -- lyx-users mailing list

Re: Trying to get a straight single quote

2024-01-02 Thread Daniel via lyx-users
On 2023-12-31 21:59, Paul Rubin wrote: On 12/31/23 13:08, Blake McBride wrote: Greetings, I am using LyX 2.3.7 on a Linux box.  I have some text in which I'd like to use the straight, type-writer-like single quote instead of a curved one.  I tried adding the TeX code \texttt{'} but that

Re: Adding accented character in JabRef

2024-01-02 Thread Neal Becker
On Tue, Jan 2, 2024 at 5:29 AM Herbert Voss wrote: > > > Am 02.01.24 um 11:20 schrieb Kees Zeelenberg: > > Herbert Voss wrote: > >> However, you should be able to insert directly ã > > Isn't this only possible with either a keyboard that has the symbol > directly or a keyboard with dead keys? >

Re: Adding accented character in JabRef

2024-01-02 Thread Herbert Voss
Am 02.01.24 um 11:20 schrieb Kees Zeelenberg: Herbert Voss wrote: However, you should be able to insert directly ã Isn't this only possible with either a keyboard that has the symbol directly or a keyboard with dead keys? sure ... but also Win: Alt+0227 macOS: Alt+n a Linux: AltGr+a

RE: Adding accented character in JabRef

2024-01-02 Thread Kees Zeelenberg
Herbert Voss wrote: > However, you should be able to insert directly ã Isn't this only possible with either a keyboard that has the symbol directly or a keyboard with dead keys? -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users