Re: Docked windows or independent windows?

On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 08:41:57AM +0200, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > Enrico Forestieri wrote: > >On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 03:23:46PM +0200, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > > > >>Hope you'll like it... if not I'll revert everything. > > > >Yes, please. Revert it. > > But if I make session handling rememb

Re: Docked windows or independent windows?

On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 08:41:57AM +0200, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > Enrico Forestieri wrote: > >On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 03:23:46PM +0200, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > > > >>Hope you'll like it... if not I'll revert everything. > > > >Yes, please. Revert it. > > But if I make session handling rememb

Re: [LyX 1.5.1 Mac] AddToShipoutPicture fails (worked with 1.3)

On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 03:21:46PM +0200, Bonhôte André wrote: > Any ideas? :-/ No response so far. > > Cheers > > André > > On 14.09.2007, at 14:59, Bonhôte André wrote: > > >Hi! > > > >I have just switched from my old beloved 1.3 to the bleeding edge > >1.5.1. My configuration: > > > > - Ly

Re: math in lyx (making a wee square)

On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 11:24:19PM +0100, Donald MacKinnon wrote: > Helge Hafting wrote: > >Tomek wrote: > >>>type in a formula the command > >>>\Box > >>>or > >>>\square > >>> > >> > >>Thanks. This square is nice, although I need one > >>of half of the size of it. Tomek > >> > >How about set

Re: LyX 1.5.1 crashes on SUSE 10.2: resolved

On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 04:13:11PM +0200, Lorenzo Paulatto wrote: > Hi lyx users, > I have solved this one on my own, I write you in case someone else has > the same problem. > > After updating to lyx 1.5.1 the program was crashing with this message: > terminate called after throwing an instance o

Re: a way of building macros?

On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 06:24:29PM +0100, Roberto Gorjão wrote: > Hi, > > Is there any way of building macros in LyX? As we do in Open Office, > macros that ease the process of inserting frequent strings of data, for > instance. Ideally, I would like to be able to build a new toolbar with > but

Re: Backspace immediately after math box

On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 09:46:11PM -0400, David Pokorny wrote: > Thanks for the lively discussion :) > > This is actually a somewhat common problem for me, and I understand > the value of asking that new users acclimate to a new interface, but > in this particular instance, I have to disagree: >

Re: Page Numbering

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Re: Backspace immediately after math box

On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 10:56:56AM +0200, Helge Hafting wrote: > >This is easily remedied by typing undo, > >but it is a minor nuisance. The behavior my "automatic brain" expects > >is either > > > >A) what you would get by typing a left arrow followed by a backspace > > > You mean left arrow + d

Re: A source for document class layouts?

On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 12:32:39PM -0400, Paul A. Rubin wrote: > Richard Heck wrote: > >Paul A. Rubin wrote: > >>>This is a huge issue, and we will have bugs here. One of the biggest > >>>changes with 1.5.x is the switch to unicode. ALL layout files need to > >>>be changed to unicode. See the rel

Re: qt4 dir?

On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 08:32:13PM +1000, Martin A. Hansen wrote: > As far as I can tell the compilation and installation of QT4 should be ok. > moc and uic is located at ~/lib/bin And .h files are there, too? Andre'

Re: Self-publishing with LyX

On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 08:45:55AM +1000, Typhoon wrote: > On Wed, 29 Aug 2007 23:36:17 +0100 > "Paul Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 8/29/07, Typhoon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I have recompiled it with \usepackage{lmodern} as suggested earlier. > > > Could you, and others with p

Re: Self-publishing with LyX

On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 08:30:08AM +1000, Typhoon wrote: > On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 00:00:09 +0200 > Walter van Holst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Typhoon wrote: > > > > > Hmmm. I guess so. If that offends, you can download from > > > > > > http://web.aanet.com.au/sage/lyx.pdf > > > > Thanks fo

Re: Self-publishing with LyX

On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 07:52:55AM +1000, Typhoon wrote: > > Unrelated 'problem': Do I really have to sign up there? > > Hmmm. I guess so. If that offends, you can download from > > http://web.aanet.com.au/sage/lyx.pdf Thanks ;-) Andre'

Re: Self-publishing with LyX

On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 07:04:03AM +1000, Typhoon wrote: > On Wed, 29 Aug 2007 08:33:28 -0400 > Neal Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Helge Hafting wrote: > > > > > Typhoon wrote: > > >> "Self-publishing with LyX" is now available as a free download or > > >> as a USD9.95 printed book from

Re: Help for a new user

On Sun, Aug 26, 2007 at 10:48:18PM +0200, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > Andre Poenitz schrieb: > > >Since the installer fight showed his ugly head recently I think I might > >mention my opinion on such behaviour: Waiting 25 minutes for something > >that I don't need is a bit be

Re: Help for a new user

On Sat, Aug 25, 2007 at 09:53:47PM +0200, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > Dave Hewitt schrieb: > > > The LyX pop-up instructions for the GSView installer indicate that > > you'll need to choose a language, but I was not offered a language > > choice in GSView. > > I cannot reproduce. The attached image "GSvie

Re: problems with ./configure

On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 12:08:05PM +0200, Gunnar Lindholm wrote: > > Then I tried to install it again. Nevertheless, when I run the command > > ./configure I receive the following error messages > Exactly what ./configure? What directory? Are you trying to compile LyX? > > > ** moc 4 binary not fo

Re: [ANNOUNCE] LyX 1.5.1 is released

On Sat, Aug 04, 2007 at 04:23:19PM +0200, Saalar wrote: > Hi could you remove my email from the mailing list please You can do that yourself by using the information you get with each of the mails sent to you. In the header there is (in my case) List-Unsubscribe: so if

Re: LyX Compiling Issues

On Sat, Aug 04, 2007 at 03:19:03PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > >> I am unable to successfully compile LyX v1.4.5.1 using the configure > >> script. > >> > >> Although the configure completes, the last line says "qt library not > >> found". The qt library is ind

Re: Compress file corrupted

On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 12:21:39PM -0500, Bo Peng wrote: > > > > So this is the second report on corrupted compressed .lyx files within > > a week. Maybe it's time to revert the boost zipping stuff. > > I have to say that, if this is indeed boost::iostreams' fault, I would > be really disappointe

Re: Compress file corrupted

On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 10:01:30AM +0200, Manveru wrote: > Hi Group, > > I would like to ask about any tools or tricks which may allows to recover > data from compressed LyX file?? I've accidentaly switched on this option in > Document menu and then something wrong happened and now I could not ope

Re: Position of the Preferences menu entry (lyx v. 1.5)

On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 12:29:22AM +0200, Mickaël Leduque wrote: > > The location of the preferences changed some time ago. The old > location was > > a relic of usability of the past. Actual place corresponds to custom > > usability. See openoffice or KDE, Gnome applications. > > The more i read

Re: LyX 1.5.0rc2: Can someone check this?

On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 03:24:01PM -0400, Paul A. Rubin wrote: > Nicolás wrote: > >Hi! > > > >In my machine, when I write \overset{def}{=} in math mode, the preview > >is not the expected one: the upper bar of the '=' symbol overlaps with > >the word 'def' 8see attached picture). Uwe does not hav

Re: Lyx 1.5.0rc2: \overset math command

On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 02:02:47PM +0200, Nicolás wrote: > If I write \overset{def}{=} I get the preview shown in the attached > picture, that is 'def' does not appear above '=', but they both overlap. Right. Patch attached. Ok to commit? Andre' Index: InsetMathOverset.cpp

Re: help on keyboard shortcut

On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 09:34:57PM -0400, Paul A. Rubin wrote: > Richard Heck wrote: > > >>2. insert a space in the text after the ERT. > >This seems tricky, as I can't see how just to insert a space. > > Indeed. I crabbed once about the fact that trailing spaces are > eliminated when an LFUN i

Re: moving to linux...part3: preferred bibtex editor

On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 07:21:46AM +1000, Typhoon wrote: > On Thu, 14 Jun 2007 17:50:08 +0200 > Ares <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Here I am back with a new, silly question: what is the most favourite > > bibtex editor under GNU/linux? I have been using JabRef under Windows, > > but I realised

Re: Explanations with equations?

On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 02:33:31PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > LyX math is so new to me that I don't know exactly what I want, yet I need to > have it pretty much nailed down before I begin the book. Yet you decided already that typing in LaTeX and hitting C-m is easier. Quite interesting. Andre

Re: numbering problem using appendix with koma-script

On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 04:17:31PM +0200, Dominik Waßenhoven wrote: > Tim Michelsen schrieb am 31.05.2007: > > >Hello, > >I am writing a text with the class "report (koma-script)". > > >I am having the following problem: > > >When I add an appendix all > >numerations will have a ending point add

Re: Internet clickable PDF links?

On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 05:03:44PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > Hi all, > > On a different mailing list, someone wanted to know of a PDF authoring tool > that could contain clickable links to the Internet, so of course I > recommended LyX. > > Now that I've opened my big mouth, can LyX be configu

Re: LyX is wonderful -- thank you!

On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 01:16:55PM -0500, Christopher Menzel wrote: > On May 17, 2007, at 1:07 PM, Steve Litt wrote: > >Hi all, > > > >LyX is truly wonderful. While slamming out content it's as fast as any > >wordprocessor I've used (WP51, MS Word, OO, Vim ... > > Vim, a word processor?? Better d

Re: Why Lyx->Word?

On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 12:24:31PM -0500, Bo Peng wrote: > >Personally, I'd recommend everyone on this list read "TeX for the > >Impatient",available here: > > > >http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/impatient/book.pdf > > A 391 page long book for 'the impatient'? :-) You found one of the propbl

Re: How to Spot a Word Processed Book

On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 08:48:07PM -0400, Alan G Isaac wrote: > As other comments have highlighted, even though WYSIWYG word > processors are generally cumbersome for writing, they can be > subsequently useful for editing and for interoperability. > > Some people need to get from LyX to Word. Th

Re: How to Spot a Word Processed Book

On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 09:53:10AM +1200, Stefano Franchi wrote: > Yes. In my field---Humanities---this is the almost universal rule. The > "academically serious publishers" (i.e. those you need to publish with > to get tenure ;-) ) want complete control and use MS Word as an editing > format wh

Re: How to write an algebra textbook?

On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 08:05:19AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > Hi all, > > If I were to write an algebra textbook, on non-division equations, am > I better off using math mode (which seems very slow to author, if U > ask me), or should I use Lyx-Code and write the equations like you'd > write them

Re: [patch] parbox with only width setting, automatic height gets height 0pt (lyx 1.5)

On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 10:14:04PM +0300, Micha Feigin wrote: > Ok, I made a patch, hope that it is the correct solution, if so then it's a > one > liner > Didn't know where to send it to > > Index: src/insets/InsetBox.cpp > === > --

Re: How to change the number of rows and columns on a table?

On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 01:40:23PM -0400, Paul A. Rubin wrote: > If you right-click someplace open in the main menu bar (to the right of > Help), I think you'll get a check-list of toolbars. Select Table. Now > when you're in a table you'll have a table-specific toolbar, including > buttons to

Re: Mailing list configuration [was: Re: List usage - messages from the wiki]

On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 12:21:01PM +0200, Tim Michelsen wrote: > Hi, Hi. > I'd like to ask if it is would be possible to add a > reply-to "Lyx Users " > to the headers of the mails sent via the maling lists. The question has been asked several times already. The answers so far have been: No, we

Re: Is there any way to make "JabRef push to LyX" work in Windows XP?

On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 09:07:31PM +0200, Enrico Forestieri wrote: > > There's QFileSystemWatcher. > > That's for Qt 4.2 or higher, I think. I wonder how do they accomplish > that on *nix as, if I remember correctly, select() doesn't work on > plain files. Maybe they use something similar to fam o

Re: Lyx 144 on Intel Mac: problems with large documents

On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 09:31:35AM -0400, Bennett Helm wrote: > On Apr 10, 2007, at 4:28 PM, Robert Neumann wrote: > > >Hello, I just installed lyx 144 sucessfully on a macbook core duo. > >Opening and working on a document with 40 pages was no problem (well > >scrolling up and down was a bit slu

Re: Is there any way to make "JabRef push to LyX" work in Windows XP?

On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 03:08:12PM +, Enrico Forestieri wrote: > Yu, James writes: > > Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > > > The solution is "just" to replace our handmade socket (or pipe) layer > > > with a portable one. > > > > > > It should not be very hard to implement even for a newcomer in the

Re: a little help with enumerate

On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 05:11:57AM +0100, Stacia Hartleben wrote: > Awesome! Quick and easy and not too hackish! Any chance we'll get this > without the hack in LyX 1.5.0? No. > Doesn't seem like it would be that hard to implement. I'd be surprised if it was easy. Andre'

Re: question about math commands in LyX1.5

On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 06:18:34PM -0700, Brian Kidd wrote: > I am trying out the beta version of 1.5 for a Mac Intel machine and > it seems that the opt-m g *, where * is a lowercase character, > command is disabled. this command previously created the greek letter > that corresponds to the

Re: trouble adding figures (latex style breaks them)

On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 01:57:00PM -0300, Bruno Schneider wrote: > Updated, simplified version of the problem: > > Start a new LyX file. Add a floating figure. Edit the LaTeX preamble > and add "\input{mz.sty}" (mz.sty is attached in previous post). Now > the figure no longer works. > > However,

Re: Combination symbol

On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 08:23:50AM -0400, Myriam Abramson wrote: > Could somebody please tell me what they use for the combination > symbol? I've used plain C(n,r) but a reviewer said they did not know > what C was. Is there something specific? Not really. Just define it somewhere and be done. A

Re: lyx 1.4.4 and lyx 1.5.0beta

On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 01:32:07PM +0100, Daniel Lohmann wrote: > Uwe Stöhr wrote: > > Tino Langer schrieb: > > > >> is it possible to install both versions at the same time on one > >> computer? What I have to look for to have no trouble. > > > > Yes you can. I have both version installed side b

Re: Lyx's Site down?

On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 06:19:18PM +0100, Gunnar wrote: > > We should really set up some kind of fallback mechanism that works > > (a) when Lars is not available (which seems to be rather common > > lately) and (b) without the help of "Third Parties". > Some thoughts, > > It can't be that hard to

Re: Lyx's Site down?

On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 10:08:17AM +, killermike wrote: > On Monday 12 March 2007 09:58, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > gullik.net. > > A whois on the domain reveals his address and a contact phone number. > > http://www.networksolutions.com/whois/index.jsp We should really set up some kind of

Re: bounding box

On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 06:32:44PM +0100, Georg Baum wrote: > Andre Poenitz wrote: > > >> If you simply used greek letters of the symbol font, then you don't need > >> fig2eps. > > > > And still get the same font as in the main document? > > No. Bu

Re: bounding box

On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 02:24:50PM +0100, Georg Baum wrote: > Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > > >> Do you really need fig2eps (i.e. dou you have special text in the > >> figures)? > > > > you mean greek letters and the like? yes in some > > No, I mean LaTeX code, such as $\frac{a/b}$. If you set the

Re: LyX is getting... very annoying.

On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 09:27:01AM +0100, Georg Baum wrote: > All what you write distills down to a single problem: text in math, like > \mbox or \textrm contents is not implemented correctly. See e.g. > http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1435, > http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1527 an

Re: bibliography styles

On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 01:17:54AM +0100, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > Sophie Vandenbussche schrieb: > >When I try to install this new release, I get an error message which I > >don't understand at all. The message is in french, I try to translate it: > > > >sub-system MS-DOS 16 bits > >(... = filename) > >

Re: math-macro and inline editing

On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 01:54:06PM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > It used to do that, but this was changed in 1.3.x (I think). 1.2 with the math rewrite (I think) > One particular problem (which could be avoided) was to know what to do > when for example #1 is used twice. This did not work

Re: math-macro and inline editing

On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 11:24:23AM +, Stefan Schimanski wrote: > Everything looks great until I try to edit the arguments of the > macro: LyX jumps into a third representation with several line > prefixed with #1, #2 to enter the arguments. Is it supposed to work > like that? Sort of,

Re: Help with mis-converted accents

On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 11:52:51AM +, José Matos wrote: > On Thursday 21 December 2006 8:39 pm, Andre Poenitz wrote: > > > > Just for the record: Can you run both of them through 'time'? > > I could but most of the time that is not a problem. Notice also th

Re: Help with mis-converted accents

On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 12:02:13AM +, José Matos wrote: > On Tuesday 19 December 2006 6:53 pm, Charles de Miramon wrote: > > You can also use a sed script like this one : > > Just to add to the fun, here it is my solution using python, it reads from > the standard input and it writes to the

Re: How to get --- instead of ---

On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 10:24:29AM +0200, Rainer M Krug wrote: > Hi > > I would like to have "---" in a table, i.e. three minuses after each > other, but LyX is always changing it to a long dash. LyX isn't changing anything. LaTeX interprets '---'. > How can I prevent this? > > I tried \{---}

Re: mini-buffer's showing and hding

On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 10:04:21AM -0600, Stefano Franchi wrote: > Closing the minibuffer automatically is (would be) best for those of us > with limited screen real estate. I only use LyX on a 12" powerbook, and > every pixel is precious. Next to best would be changing the behavior of > Alt-x t

Re: tensind package incompatible with LyX?

On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 03:09:29PM +0100, Nils Becker wrote: > Hi all, > > I am trying to use the package "tensind.sty" for typesetting tensors > with multiple upper and lower indices in LyX. > > In LaTeX this works great: after defining a special "tensor delimiter" > in the preamble (here I use

Re: Lyx 143 on kubuntu dapper much slower than on Suse 9.1

On Sun, Nov 12, 2006 at 08:42:03PM +0100, Georg Baum wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 8. November 2006 19:26 schrieb Andre Poenitz: > > On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 07:30:22PM +0100, Georg Baum wrote: > > > Am Montag, 30. Oktober 2006 14:11 schrieb Sven Schreiber: > > > > > >

Re: Can LyX handle large files ?

On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 12:14:46PM +0100, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > I've tested again this document and the good news is that the > performance will soon be a bit better in 1.5 with my forthcoming > painting performance patch. But the problem I think Georg is right in > that the problem lies in

Re: Can LyX handle large files ?

On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 04:43:07PM +0100, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > As my painting investigation continue, it seems that this problem has > _nothing_ to do with painting on screen at all. Modifying a text line > between two huge formula exhibits the slow behaviour even if only the > text line i

Re: Import of large latex table into Lyx does not work

On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 03:26:44PM +0200, Rainer M Krug wrote: > Rainer M Krug wrote: > >Hi > > > >I have a large table (longtable over 10 pages at least), exported from R > >as a .tex file. I would like to import the table into LyX 1.4.3 but the > >importer has problems as soon as the table gets t

Re: Lyx 143 on kubuntu dapper much slower than on Suse 9.1

On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 07:30:22PM +0100, Georg Baum wrote: > Am Montag, 30. Oktober 2006 14:11 schrieb Sven Schreiber: > > > Robert, if experimentation causes too much effort I would just forget > > it. AFAIK it is quite possible that the switch from 1.3 to 1.4 caused > > the slowdown, so there w

Re: Multi-paragraph description

On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 01:02:28PM -0700, Daniel Lohmann wrote: > >As Paul described below, you need to indent the sub-items *and* the > >standard paragraph in between. (See the attached.) > > > >Bennett > > Cool - exactly what I was looking for :-) > > I never tried to achieve it by intending a

Re: Enumerate with Figure

On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 07:37:58AM -0500, Bruce Pourciau wrote: > Sounds like what I need, but when I tried to open your file I saw > this message: "This file is from an earlier version of LyX, but the > lyx2lyx script failed to convert it." That' what I kept getting until I manually copied so

Re: how to type #1 for math-macro in 1.4.x?

On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 06:59:23PM +0800, John McCabe-Dansted wrote: > I recall that in 1.3.x you could type #1 in a math macro to represent > argument 1. In 1.4.x this seems to just give you the text string "#1". > How do we do this for 1.4.x? \#1 Sorry for the inconvienience. The Don't-lemme-s

Re: Inkscape SVG and LyX

On Fri, Sep 15, 2006 at 02:23:28PM +0300, Micha Feigin wrote: > An interesting approach may be (not only for inkscape) to allow lyx to > function as a formula editor for other programs using the pipe > mechanism. > > I don't know how difficult that would be to implement. Stand-alone mathed? Some

Re: disable removing empty lines when cursor is navigated away

On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 04:06:01PM -0400, Andrew Corrigan wrote: > Thank you for the suggestion Sue. Although, unless I misunderstand, > that solution isn't really sufficient for me. The specific problem I > have with this behavior is that I'll often make a new line, choose its > type (Lemma,

Re: How to reset a character style

On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 09:51:51AM +0200, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > How do I reset the character style to no formatting ? > > ATM it is a bit painful (undo or copy/paste), but we'll introduce a new > method > for "dissolving" insets (footnotes, character styles,

Re: Prouncing "LyX" - help with sound file

On Sat, Jul 15, 2006 at 05:16:12PM -0700, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Sun, 16 Jul 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >The pronounciation bit is pretty interesting though... > > >It is also interesting how you Americans usually can't hear the difference > >between the vowel sound Swedes/Norwegians ma

Re: minipage question

On Thu, Jun 22, 2006 at 05:18:13PM +0200, jouke hijlkema wrote: > Hello all > > Is there a lyx way to have a minipage spanning multiple pages ?? There isn't even a LaTeX way. _mini_pages fit onto one page. Andre'

Re: Confused about Lyx's goals -- isn't this supposed to increase productivity?

On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 09:21:44AM -0400, Jeremy Wells wrote: > I suppose what I'm hoping for is someone to say 1) "no, you're wrong, > because..."; 2) "wait x number of years and we'll be there"; or 3) "if you > don't like coding, use a different tool." It's not 1). Could be 2) for sufficientl

Re: Copyrights of material contributed to the wiki (Was: Layout..)

On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 10:29:00AM +0200, Georg Baum wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Do we choose BSD or GPL for the default? Out of habit I'd lean towards > > GPL, and also because that is what I'd expect if I never bothered to read > > the Copyrights page. > > I'd say GPL. I did not fol

Re: Layout copyright; was: Re: Sharing layout files

On Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 01:57:26PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > On Friday 16 June 2006 11:50 am, you wrote: > > The real first question is whether a layout file can be covered by > > copyright to begin with. > > > > As I pointed out before, one good example is fonts. While their names > > can be copy

Re: Layout copyright; was: Re: Sharing layout files

On Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 08:36:09AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > In a related thread somebody mentioned GPL wouldn't be good because > some people use LyX for commercial purposes. I'd imagine the only > thing being sold are the pdf or paper output (please let me know if > you think I'm wrong), and I'

Re: Some interesting comments from a TeX veteran

On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 07:35:21PM -0500, David Neeley wrote: > I had an interesting note from a gentleman who has been using TeX for > about twenty years. He edits and packages books and creates indexes > for them as well as part of his publication services, using TeX every > day in his work. > >

Re: equation arrays

On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 10:04:20PM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > >>>>> "Andre" == Andre Poenitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Andre> As I said: The current behaviour was implemented explicitly as > Andre> response to a very detailed user-r

Re: equation arrays

On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 11:23:03AM +0200, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > Ilya Soifer wrote: > > >I want it to be a 3x3 array (so that A's are aligned '=''s are aligned > >and B+C's are aligned. > >In Lyx 1.3 it was sufficient to write A=B+C and then to Ctrl-ENTER > >somewhere in the middle of the formula to g

Re: Error: Could not read configuration file

On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 11:59:51AM -0400, Paul A. Rubin wrote: > Sebastian Schetter wrote: > >Hello Paul! > >Great, it worked. Problem was in fact the not installed path variable. > >(C:\Programme\LyX141\bin on my system) Maybe it wasn't installed, > >because my Wind2k is configured in German?! >

Re: Good Morning

On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 02:59:43PM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > >>>>> "Andre" == Andre Poenitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Andre> Which is a pretty stupid thing to do. > > Andre> If I just want some minor changes to cut&pas

Re: Good Morning

On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 02:51:22PM +0200, Georg Baum wrote: > Sarah Gray wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > I have recently been given a laptop that runs Windows XP with Service Pack > > 2. I just downloaded LYX but I have a problem. When I attempt to open my > > documents from my CD, I get only a read

Re: Presenting LyX in a local TV

On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 09:32:44AM +0200, Helge Hafting wrote: > Some ideas: > Tell about LyX strengths: > [...] > * LyX is also snappy to work with, and doesn't crash. I wouldn't stress that point too much... Andre'

Re: Simple question - howto enter macro w/args

On Fri, Apr 14, 2006 at 11:24:36AM -0400, Richard Heck wrote: > > In Lyx 1.3.x, you can do this by typing "\[" and then "\{". Oddly > enough, escaping them yourself makes Lyx not escape them! We had a full iteration of this going back and forth between 'do waht LaTeX does' and 'do what the naive

Re: some problems with 1.4.1 for windows

On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 09:40:04AM +0200, Olivier Ripoll wrote: > I have entered the path within double quotes. spaces in > filenames and paths are 100% legitimate in linux and windows and very > common on Windows. They are 100% pain in the ***, on both Linux and Windows, because some programs c

Re: subject

On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 01:42:10PM +0900, Ride_Ride_Ride wrote: > I'm sorry that my question(s) is not associated with Lyx itself, but I > have another question about this Lyx ML. > > Why this ML doesn't use "Reply-to"? Because this is generally a bad idea. Therer are pointers in the archives ex

Re: Possible feature enhancement?

On Sun, Mar 12, 2006 at 02:17:20PM +0100, Nicholas Allen wrote: > I am surprised that Lyx can generate invalid latex output. I would have > thought that it could make sure the user did not create invalid > documents. For example, if I am in a section header and I insert a table > then this makes

Re: lyx compatibility to MsWord etc

On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 11:09:48AM -0800, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Wed, 22 Feb 2006, Andre Poenitz wrote: > > >However, as your professors aren't supposed to mess around with your > >thesis, producing a .pdf should be completely sufficient. > > Andre',

Re: lyx compatibility to MsWord etc

On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 08:50:45AM -0800, Tom Tom wrote: > I have read something about lyx->latex->rtf->doc . > This sounds not really promising, I guess all the > layout will be lost?! > > Any ideas / experience with something like that? Yes. It basically does not work properly. However, as you

Re: Automatic formatting of a particular word?

On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 10:58:38PM +0100, Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: > Joerg Hau writes: > > Inserting ERT in the text is exactly the opposite of what I want to > > do. > > > > An example of what I am looking for: Open a document in LyX, write > > e.g. "LyX is a kind of LaTeX frontend" (upper/lowercase!

Re: Automatic formatting of a particular word?

On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 02:36:01PM -0800, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Mon, 20 Feb 2006, Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: > > >>... how can I get this behavior with "any" word? > > > >Good question. Maybe Herbert or someone else can help. > > That's like the user calling the help desk because she cannot find

Re: How to convert letter to math symbol/font in 1.3+?

On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 03:45:16PM +1300, John McCabe-Dansted wrote: > I recall that in 1.2 we could convert a ordinary letter to math font > simply by selecting it and pressing cntl-M. In 1.3 it converts it into > math mode, but leaves it in the original font. > > Is there an easy way to convert

Re: Using XY packages

On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 07:35:14PM -0600, Stacia Hartleben wrote: > Wow, I actually did get it to work, which is sad since the support is > going away in 1.4! It will come back. If I had known that only a single person was actively using that thing I would not have removed it. Andre'

Re: LyX is getting... very annoying.

On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 09:09:40AM +0100, Helge Hafting wrote: > Marc D. wrote: > > >I have created a rather large lyx file (all my course notes). In one > >section, I can't get it to work. I have reduced the problem to a > >minimum. There are 3 characters on my screen, in two lines. > > > >I get

Re: OT: Converter matrix to picture

On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 12:35:14PM +, Paul Smith wrote: > Dear All > > This may be a bit out of topic. I have a matrix of ones and zeros with > which I would like to produce a picture in such a way that the ones > would be represented in black, say, and the zeros in yellow. Does > somebody kno

Re: [OT] Re: kerning of letters with hyphen not so great

On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 09:43:30PM +0100, Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: > Andre Poenitz writes: > > On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 08:55:27PM +0100, Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: > > > Andre Poenitz writes: > > > > I'd guess it's almost impossible to get kerning right in all >

Re: right-click vs. double-click

On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 11:44:15AM +0100, Helge Hafting wrote: > Be aware that lyx runs on other platforms than windows, > where double-clicks aren't used much. Not having double- > clicks is a good thing, because they are bad user interface. > Double-clicks fail too easily, is a lost cause for th

Re: kerning of letters with hyphen not so great

On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 08:55:27PM +0100, Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: > Andre Poenitz writes: > > I'd guess it's almost impossible to get kerning right in all > > circumstances. > > That sounds like a NASA (space shuttle) answer. ;-) Now, if they'd paid me like a

Re: word-wrap and itemize

On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 01:46:42PM -0800, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > Thank you Todd and Johan for the further ideas. > > I think in my case, I don't want hyphenation, but I want latex to > automatically wrap the word going into the margin to the next line AND > justify the line to make up for the m

Re: find equation labels in a lyx document

On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 01:50:13PM -0600, David Halpern wrote: > Andre, Thanks, but I was hoping that lyx was an editor with this > relatively simple capability. You are welcome to implement this relatively simple capability. This is about the way LyX got all the other simple capabilities... Andr

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