mwcls documentation help

2006-08-23 Thread Bob Lounsbury
Hi, This is my first post to this list. I'm trying to write a thesis and dread the thought of using Microsoft Word, this is where an internet search found LyX. I've been experimenting with it a have come to really appreciate the power of the program. I found a document class called 'book (mwbk)'

Re: mwcls documentation help

2006-08-25 Thread Bob Lounsbury
information would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Bob Lounsbury On Fri, 2006-08-25 at 12:00 +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Bob == Bob Lounsbury [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Bob Hi, This is my first post to this list. I'm trying to write a Bob thesis and dread the thought of using Microsoft Word

toc-dotted leaders

2006-08-28 Thread Bob Lounsbury
Hello, Does anyone know how to get dotted leaders on chapter entries in the toc? I'm using the memoir class and have been through the documentation but it seems to me that the latex commands are not working in LyX. Thanks, Bob

chapter spacing

2006-08-29 Thread Bob Lounsbury
Hello, Does anyone know how to modify the chapter vertical space above and below a chapter title for the koma-script book class? I've looked through the pdf, but I don't see any options. Also, is there a way to make the lists look better? I need my document to be double spaced and that

Re: chapter spacing

2006-08-30 Thread Bob Lounsbury
}} Thanks again, Bob On Wed, 2006-08-30 at 10:05 +0200, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: Bob Lounsbury wrote: Does anyone know how to modify the chapter vertical space above and below a chapter title for the koma-script book class? I've looked through the pdf, but I don't see any options

Re: How to make the TOC appear in the TOC

2006-09-06 Thread Bob Lounsbury
latex manuals, but I wasn't able to find a solution; do you have any hint? Bye and thanks Lorenzo, Put in your latex preamble, under DocumentSettingsLatex Preamble: \usepackage{tocbibind} This will include the toc, lof, and lot into your toc. Bob Lounsbury

Re: [Re: adding hollywood TeX class]

2006-09-07 Thread Bob Lounsbury
to /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base 3. Opened LyX and ran ToolsReconfigure Voila, all of the .cls document files were available in LyX. Bob Lounsbury

Re: How to make the TOC appear in the TOC

2006-09-08 Thread Bob Lounsbury
. For example, I will be trying to write my master's thesis in LyX and due to the formatting requirements of the University the TOC must be listed in the TOC. A simple way of including the TOC is the tocbibind package. Just my 2cents. Bob Lounsbury 2. An unnecessary entry in the TOC is best avoided

Re: MacOS X: GUI quirks

2006-09-18 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Sep 18, 2006, at 6:20 PM, Maria Gouskova wrote: On Sep 18, 2006, at 7:55 PM, Wolfgang Keller wrote: Hello, it seems that the 1.4.2 version of LyX for MacOS X (10.4.7, PPC) has certain GUI problems: - LyX - About does nothing - LyX - Preferences displays the About LyX dialog - LyX -

MSWord(html) or OpenOffice.Org

2006-09-22 Thread Bob Lounsbury
Hi, What do you have to do to export in these formats. Neither work for me on 1.4.3 with XP. Thanks, Bob Lounsbury

Re: MSWord(html) or OpenOffice.Org

2006-09-25 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Sep 24, 2006, at 9:15 PM, Russell Davie wrote: On Fri, 22 Sep 2006 13:50:59 -0600 Bob Lounsbury [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sep 22, 2006, at 1:14 PM, TechTonics wrote: Bob Lounsbury wrote: Hi, What do you have to do to export in these formats. Neither work for me on 1.4.3 with XP

Re: MSWord(html) or OpenOffice.Org

2006-09-25 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Sep 25, 2006, at 12:18 PM, Neal Becker wrote: Bob Lounsbury wrote: [...] What has worked best for me is to do as you said in step 5 and ensure that all the standard environments are on default settings and do an export to rtf from within LyX. Opening the rtf in Word there are a few

Re: lyx-143-2.exe for windows doesn´t work.

2006-09-25 Thread Bob Lounsbury
in LyX 6) Restarted 7) Ran LyX and did a Tools Reconfigure After that everything was working properly. This was on an Intel Pentium D 3GHz computer. --Bob Lounsbury

Re: Thesis Issues

2007-11-21 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Nov 18, 2007 8:01 AM, stuwelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, Ive written a thesis using Lyx using a report document class, but have a few issues, I'm hoping somoene may have the answers. I've spent this morning looking through the user guides and other files provided by Lyx but as

Re: Can't turn off numbering in TOC

2007-11-21 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Nov 21, 2007 2:53 AM, Anthony Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Set the page style to be empty in the document dialogue. Then, at the beginning of your main text, reset the pagestyle using an ERT box. Alan I'd already tried that. It ought to work but even when I set the page style

Re: List environment spacing

2007-11-29 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Nov 29, 2007 3:39 PM, Adrian Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I would like to know how change the default list environment spacing. I want to move the body of the text (on the right) further way from my labels on the left. I have attached an example lyx document. Right now

Re: Tables - gap in borders

2007-11-29 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Nov 29, 2007 3:09 PM, Paul A. Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Graham Griffiths wrote: Graham Griffiths [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I need to include math symbols in tables and when a superscript is present there is not enought clearance between the symbol and the cell top border.

Re: Koma-script report TOC and Figure numbering

2007-11-30 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Nov 30, 2007 12:29 PM, Dave Hewitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My uppermost level in the report is Section (Intro, Methods, Results, etc.), and I suppress numbering within the document. I can get the Section titles into the TOC with 'Addsec' environments, but I would also like to get

compile on pclinuxos needs moc uic

2007-12-23 Thread Bob Lounsbury
Hi, I've compiled lyx fine on debian and others however, with pclinuxos I continue to get: Configuration Host type:i686-pc-linux-gnu Special build flags: aiksaurus pch use-ispell C Compiler: gcc C Compiler LyX flags: C Compiler flags:

fun poll: your linux distro

2007-12-28 Thread Bob Lounsbury
Hi, I was just curious what everyone is using. If you'd like to respond that's fine, if not, just ignore the message. Also, could you include if you're running the latest LyX 1.5.3. Thanks in advance for anyones' input. Cheers and Happy New Year! Bob Lounsbury

Re: fun poll: your linux distro

2007-12-29 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Dec 28, 2007 3:18 PM, Bob Lounsbury [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I was just curious what everyone is using. If you'd like to respond that's fine, if not, just ignore the message. Also, could you include if you're running the latest LyX 1.5.3. Thanks in advance for anyones' input. Cheers

Re: [OT] Best KDE-centric Distribution?

2008-01-14 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Jan 14, 2008 10:18 AM, rgheck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been using Fedora ever since I started using Linux, but the second-rate status of KDE under Fedora is starting to get to me, so I'm thinking about switching. But then: to what? I don't think Kubuntu is for me. Gentoo would be an

Re: [OT] Best KDE-centric Distribution?

2008-01-15 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Jan 14, 2008 8:56 PM, rgheck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bob Lounsbury wrote: On Jan 14, 2008 10:18 AM, rgheck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been using Fedora ever since I started using Linux, but the second-rate status of KDE under Fedora is starting to get to me, so I'm thinking about

Re: all classes unavailable

2008-02-19 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Feb 14, 2008 6:12 PM, Mukhtar Ullah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear LyX users, Today I updated MiKTeX 2.7 packages on windows and reconfigured LyX after that. Now LyX shows all classes as unavailable. I have no idea what is going on. I would not expect this behavior because it was only a

Re: \varPhi and similar

2008-02-28 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 8:51 AM, G. Milde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear LyX users, the International Union for Pure and Applied Physics recommends italic symbols in formulas -- also for capital greek letters. This can be achieved with the \var* formes like \varPhi, however this will

Re: 1.5.4 very little problems

2008-02-28 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 2:36 PM, Joost Verburg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: Marcelo Acuña wrote: 1) lyx 1.5.4 not remember size of main window. 2) when I put a large doc to compile for a long time not appears a cursor that announce that latex/lyx is

Re: \varPhi and similar

2008-02-29 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 5:31 AM, G. Milde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 28.02.08, Bob Lounsbury wrote: On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 8:51 AM, G. Milde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the IUPAP recommends italic symbols in formulas also for capital greek letters. I think you just need to go

Re: \varPhi and similar

2008-02-29 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 8:48 AM, G. Milde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 29.02.08, Bob Lounsbury wrote: On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 5:31 AM, G. Milde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can enter \varPhi and the printout will have a nice italic Phi. However, in the LyX GUI, it is a red \varPhi

Re: \varPhi and similar

2008-02-29 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 11:24 AM, Bob Lounsbury [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 8:48 AM, G. Milde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 29.02.08, Bob Lounsbury wrote: On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 5:31 AM, G. Milde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can enter \varPhi

Re: How to have numbered equations using KOMA scripts.

2008-02-29 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 5:05 PM, assasukasse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone i found that lyx is an excellent tool for writing for academics papers, however, while i am pretty satisfied with the floating tables, and floating pictures, i still couldn't find a way to have all my

Re: turn off page numbers but still count page

2008-03-03 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 6:48 AM, Jennifer Brookes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, please does anybody know a way to turn off a page number in the middle of a document, but page number all the other pages, and still count the one without a number? Thanks Jenny Put in ERT

Re: Insert-minipage?

2008-03-03 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 4:12 PM, Steve Litt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I'm using LyX-1.5.3 on Mandriva 2007 Linux. I just tried to insert a minipage into my LyX document. I went to the Insert menu and couldn't see minipage anywhere. Didn't there used to be an Insert-minipage option

Re: LyX 1.5 crashes on startup

2008-03-04 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 11:22 AM, Jean-Marie Pacquet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the mean time I tried another version from Linuxpackages (Lyx 1.5.0 compiled with qt 4.3.0). It does exactly the same thing: SIGSEGV on startup. I also built an old version (Lyx 1.4.5.1) which is

Re: Latex template on 1.5.4

2008-03-06 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 8:30 AM, Phillip Ferguson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried that and yes I did see quite a few ERT. When I try to view it either as a dvi or pdf there are sections missing in comparison to the dvi file supplied. The tex file uses a latex style, spconf.sty, which in

Re: File Browser Customization?

2008-03-06 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 11:53 AM, Kenneth Berland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: List, In LyX 1.5.2, how can I customize the File-New From Template dialog to either: 1) add Look In locations; or Don't know. Someone else may. 2) change the default directory from /usr/share/lyx/templates to

Re: Can't create PDF

2008-03-07 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 11:16 AM, Keith Rogers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In Lyx 1.5, whenever I try to create a PDF, I get an error message saying Windows cannot find 'PDFViewWin'. Make sure you typed the name correctly, and then try again. Help! Thanks. --Keith Rogers Try setting the

Re: Adding space to end of sentence adds spaces inside character styles

2008-03-07 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 2:37 PM, Abdelrazak Younes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I believe this display bug has been fixed in 1.5.4. Abdel. Confirmed. I opened the spacebug.lyx put my cursor after the last period in the document pressed the spacebar and it only allowed one space and nothing moved.

Re: Adding space to end of sentence adds spaces inside character styles

2008-03-07 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 3:20 PM, Steve Litt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 07 March 2008 16:37, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, I just had a situation with two character style insets inside a sentence. When I add spaces or other characters at the end of

Re: Latex template on 1.5.4

2008-03-08 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Sat, Mar 8, 2008 at 8:50 AM, Phillip Ferguson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am using the altwindows installer. Ok, this means Windoz$ XP with MiKTeX I presume. It has now boiled down to a layout file. At this point in time there is a document class unavailable to use. I'm not

Re: Latex template on 1.5.4

2008-03-10 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 3:52 AM, Phillip Ferguson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I was trying to do previously was modify the article.layout file to use the spconf.sty and so creating a spconf.layout that is selectable in the document classes of lyx. Ok, why didn't you say so? :-} Copy

Re: Box around program listings?

2008-03-10 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 8:54 AM, Bo Peng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 10:41 AM, James Sutherland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know a way to get a box around a program listing? Putting it inside a box (minipage) environment doesn¹t seem to work... You want a

Re: How do you do an appendix the right way?

2008-03-10 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 10:26 AM, Steve Litt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, How does one do an appendix the right way. I want it to show up, at the same level as chapters, in the table of contents. But I want it to say Appendix A: SSH Example rather than Chapter 13: Appendix A: SSH

Re: LyX discussion boards?

2008-03-11 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 10:00 AM, Maximilian Wollner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everybody, Somehow, I find it difficult to use mailing lists, maybe I am a too young computer and internet user but I can not see a single advantage. So I tried to look around for LyX discussion boards but

Re: Eliminating the date

2008-03-12 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 9:26 AM, James Sutherland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know how to eliminate the display of the date from within LyX? James Put '\date{}' in the preamble. Bob

Re: Adding a document class to Mac LyX?

2008-03-12 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 5:25 PM, Yoav Felberbaum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hullo, I'm trying to add a document class to my mac LyX 1.5.3 install. However, I'm a bit puzzled as to how to make it show up. The package is exam.cls. I have it in my LyX app folder and in the / sw/... folder as

Re: LyX discussion boards?

2008-03-12 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 7:55 PM, Paul A. Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Frode Svindseth wrote: Den 11. mars. 2008 kl. 18.25 skrev Abdelrazak Younes: Maximilian Wollner wrote: Hello everybody, Somehow, I find it difficult to use mailing lists, maybe I am a too young

Re: [OT] Re: LyX discussion boards?

2008-03-13 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 11:50 AM, Andre Poenitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 08:25:17PM -0600, Bob Lounsbury wrote: Just wanted to put in another shameless plug for Gmail. Two or maybe three more reasons I love it: 1) Nearly unlimited storage at 6.5GB of 'free

Re: [OT] Re: LyX discussion boards?

2008-03-13 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 12:43 PM, Andre Poenitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 12:19:25PM -0600, Bob Lounsbury wrote: 3) Also, just to repeat myself. Gmail automatically threads emails by subject, so it is very nice to read as they say it's like having

Re: Layout and Class Files on Windows Distribution

2008-03-15 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 1:50 AM, William R. Buckley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have not been able to use the LNCS .cls and .sty files which are supplied by Springer-Verlag, in their downloadable .zip file having the name llncs2e.zip The zip file contains: The files in this directory

Re: Layout and Class Files on Windows Distribution

2008-03-15 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 12:49 PM, William R. Buckley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, the layout file shows up in the TeX Information but, in the Document Settings, the document class Springer LNCS shows up as unavailable. I wasn't sure if this would happen or not since I don't have llncs.cls

Re: List of Figures Enumeration subsectionwise

2008-03-15 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 10:31 AM, Kane Kano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hallo everbody, I have justed genarated my list of figures but I am not satisfied with the way of enumarating my figures. It counts every figure like 1, 2, 3... etc. Does anyone know how I could adjust the numbering of

Re: Layout and Class Files on Windows Distribution

2008-03-15 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 1:20 PM, rgheck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bob Lounsbury wrote: On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 12:49 PM, William R. Buckley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, the layout file shows up in the TeX Information but, in the Document Settings, the document class Springer

Re: Layout and Class Files on Windows Distribution

2008-03-15 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 1:20 PM, rgheck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bob Lounsbury wrote: On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 12:49 PM, William R. Buckley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, the layout file shows up in the TeX Information but, in the Document Settings, the document class Springer

Re: Please Help.

2008-03-15 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 4:18 PM, Paul A. Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peter M. 'Mike' Sanchez wrote: Hello Fellow LyX users! I need some help...please! Problem: When I try to use any of the view or export features (e.g., pdflatex, ps2pdf, etc.), the software seems to get in a loop

Re: Layout and Class Files on Windows Distribution

2008-03-15 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 4:28 PM, Paul A. Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: William R. Buckley wrote: I have searched, including by means of the automated tool applet supplied with Windows, and not been able to find any reference to LOCALTEXMF under any condition of case sensitivity.

Re: Layout and Class Files on Windows Distribution

2008-03-16 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 8:40 AM, Paul A. Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bob, Bob Lounsbury wrote: So selecting to install 'for all users' doesn't create the userconfig file structure in a user account, but 'for me only' does? Even in my 'all users' commonconfig folder

Re: Layout and Class Files on Windows Distribution

2008-03-16 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 3:31 PM, William R. Buckley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Respecting what follows, your corrections of my misunderstandings are solicited. OK. The digest goes like this: 1. It is the case that all installs to my single user computer are for use by all users. In this

Re: Layout and Class Files on Windows Distribution

2008-03-16 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 8:10 PM, William R. Buckley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One more comment. It seems that MiKTeX 2.7 may instead place the texmf directory in the root of the hard drive. On my C drive, I find a texmf directory so located. Hadn't noticed it previously. wrb Where

Re: Layout and Class Files on Windows Distribution

2008-03-17 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 10:32 PM, William R. Buckley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After I have come to understand these tools a little better, I will try to give a critique from the perspective of a WYSIWYG user. To the moment, I am encouraged with what I have found, though much of the

Re: WRB - Problems with LaTeX

2008-03-19 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 12:11 PM, William R. Buckley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the command I use is $\skew9\acute{s}\thinspace$ This command works just fine in math mode in LyX for me. Displaying an italic s with a prime symbol. See the attached file. Cheers, /Bob acute-s.lyx Description:

Re: Problems with program listings and captions/labels

2008-03-19 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 2:02 PM, Dominik Böhm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I would like to have a program listing's caption beneath the listing. Therefore I tried to add \lstset{captionpos=b} to the preamble, tried to put captionpos=b into the text layout area, tried to call

Re: Problems with program listings and captions/labels

2008-03-19 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 3:35 PM, Dominik Böhm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 10:23 PM, Bob Lounsbury [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 2:02 PM, Dominik Böhm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to have a program listing's caption beneath the listing

Re: final feedback

2008-03-20 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 4:00 PM, William B. King [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After struggling with LyX for two days, I can't even get it to print out its own documentation, which was prepared in LyX! How much more retarded could it possibly get? Good idea. Let me know when you get it

Re: 2 nomenclatures

2008-03-21 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 8:57 AM, diefettenjahre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone, I need in my Bachelor Thesis two nomenclatures: on for abbreviations and the other one for important keywords (as some kind of glossary). I created the first nomenclature and don't know how to add

Re: okay, can't resist one more bit of feedback

2008-03-21 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 11:42 AM, Bill King [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, it's me again, the same guy who couldn't get lyx to work in Ubuntu 7.10. Just downloaded and installed what is supposed to be a COMPLETE operative LyX/LaTeX/Tex system in windows (from your download page--vers. 1.5.4).

Re: disable tilde backup-on-save files

2008-03-27 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 9:35 AM, Dennis Nezic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Currently, whenever I save a document, it additionally saves a filename.lyx~ backup file (appended with a tilde). Is there a way to disable this? Tools-Preferences-Look and feel-User interface. Uncheck to backup

Re: Best approach to using lyx with a university provided style file?

2008-03-28 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 12:12 PM, B. Bogart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, I'm just starting to work on my thesis and thought I would take a closer look at getting the appropriate style to work. I have to warn you all I've only made simple use of latex, and have been using LyX for

Re: Best approach to using lyx with a university provided style file?

2008-03-29 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On 3/28/08, Bob Lounsbury [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 12:12 PM, B. Bogart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First I took the article.layout file, copied it into a new name, and added \usepackage{csthesis.sty} in the preamble section as such: Preamble

Re: Bibtex bibliography

2008-03-31 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 6:20 PM, Jean-Michel Bouffard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I am currently writing my Master thesis with Lyx. I have a simple problem with Lyx and my bibliography. I inserted a Bibtex bibliography in my document and it automatically creates a header with the title

Re: Bibtex bibliography

2008-03-31 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 9:20 AM, Dominik Waßenhoven [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bob Lounsbury schrieb: On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 6:20 PM, Jean-Michel Bouffard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am currently writing my Master thesis with Lyx. I have a simple problem with Lyx and my

Re: Bibtex bibliography

2008-03-31 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 10:10 AM, Dominik Waßenhoven [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, it's no technical issue. It just doesn't work the way you described it, and I don't know how you made it work, but surely not that way. As stated in my first post, Just put this in ERT somewhere before your

Re: Bibtex bibliography

2008-03-31 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 10:31 AM, Dominik Waßenhoven [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry, I didn't read thoroughly enough. But still, your suggested '\renewcommand\bibname{References}' will not work with an article class.[1] See the new example I attached. You're right. This must have been left

Re: Bibtex bibliography

2008-03-31 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 11:52 AM, Uwe Stöhr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dominik Waßenhoven schrieb: Sorry, I didn't read thoroughly enough. But still, your suggested '\renewcommand\bibname{References}' will not work with an article class.[1] See the new example I attached. I don't

Re: Bibtex bibliography

2008-03-31 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 12:21 PM, Julio Rojas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bob, Babel matters because the person asking the question seems to be french. Or at least he speaks french. -- - Julio Rojas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Good to know. Thanks.

Re: short title

2008-04-01 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 8:15 AM, zulu74 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can I activate short title in my menu? I cannot select it. By inserting something into the document that would use the short title. For instance a 'Figure Float' that has a caption but you would like a shorter caption in the

Re: MiKTeX Problem Report: Permission denied

2008-04-01 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 7:34 AM, Ed Sykes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, i'm new to LyX and am hoping someone can assist on a problem I'm having. On a fairly regular basis when I select the dvi button or the div update button Yap crashes and gives the message: MiKTeX Problem Report:

Re: layout file for .tex files

2008-04-02 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 7:33 PM, Charlse Darwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just installed LyX via MacPorts and now have a newbie question for you all: I get following error message: ``The layout file requested by this document, article.layout, is not usable. This is probably because a

Re: layout file for .tex files

2008-04-03 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 4:13 AM, Charlse Darwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, It seems that I have textlive already installed. $ port installed | grep texlive texlive_base @2007_1 (active) texlive_texmf-minimal @2007_0 (active) $ Before we try anything else. Open a shell as root

Re: how to center chapter title?

2008-04-03 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 7:18 AM, Maksi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snvv wrote: I'd like to center the chapter and bibliography titles of document class book (memoir) or book in general. In Memoir, you can do this by writing your own chapter style or choosing a chapter style that fits

Re: MiKTeX Problem Report: Permission denied

2008-04-03 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 8:28 PM, Ed Sykes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Bob, I appreciate you taking time for your suggestion. I've tried it but with no luck. I was wondering if someone could point me where to try to find the answer: is it a Windows thing? is it MiKTeX thing or is it a

Re: layout file for .tex files

2008-04-03 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 8:31 AM, Charlse Darwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Apr 3, 2008, at 8:40 AM, Bob Lounsbury wrote: On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 4:13 AM, Charlse Darwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, It seems that I have textlive already installed. $ port installed | grep

Re: layout file for .tex files

2008-04-03 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 9:23 AM, Charlse Darwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In Lyx-Preference-Paths-PATH prefix I have

Re: Best approach to using lyx with a university provided style file?

2008-04-03 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 10:58 AM, B. Bogart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm happy that I've been able to get something to work at all, but how can I use the proper style in LyX directly without having to manually edit the tex file after exporting? Why does the \maketitle command get added

Re: layout file for .tex files

2008-04-04 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 6:59 AM, Bennett Helm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 6:30 AM, Charlse Darwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: $ which latex no latex in ~/WebKit/WebKitTools/Scripts /usr/local/bin ~/Documents/scripts/ /opt/local/bin /opt/local/sbin /usr/bin /usr/sbin

Re: figure-number in list of figures

2008-04-04 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 9:50 AM, Wolfgang Engelmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, how can I increase the distance between the figure-number and the figure legend in the list of figures? example: 9.9 legend 1 is ok 9.10 legend is ok 10.10legend 2 here I would like a space Wolfgang

Re: layout file for .tex files

2008-04-04 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 9:37 AM, Charlse Darwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: $ port info lyx | grep Dep Library Dependencies: qt4-mac, texlive, ImageMagick, python25 Since texlive is listed here, I would 'assume' that you need to install the macports texlive package to complete the TeX install.

Re: Creating a personalised report template for furture use in Lyx

2008-04-04 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 11:49 AM, Stephen Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Everybody, Im a newbie to the Lyx.I had heard about Latex previously but hadnt been able to use one of that kind software before.I liked lyx and its mode of working.I decided to make my undergraduate

Re: Best approach to using lyx with a university provided style file?

2008-04-04 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 5:51 PM, B. Bogart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Bob! Indeed I've got my thesis formatting fine now just after a little more tweaking and adding flags from the latex file into LyX. I suppose these could be removed by making a template for the various parts? So

Re: Strange segfault of dvipost when compiling lyx file

2008-04-06 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 5:57 PM, Pavel Sanda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, i'm getting strange segfault when compiling one particular lyx document. after some time i came to quite small attached example which display the problem. for compilation one needs elsevier article classes

Re: Strange segfault of dvipost when compiling lyx file

2008-04-07 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 3:29 AM, Pavel Sanda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's my output from lyx while generating a .dvi of your example: i guess you must generate postscript. what happens if you run: dvipost a.dvi ? Sorry, I mis-read your post. I don't have dvipost installed and I tried

Re: multiplatform vector drawing program to use

2008-04-07 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 8:54 AM, Oscar Lopez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear lyxers I am starting a document project with a colleague using lyx. The goal is to obtain a big document of a technical course. My colleague uses the windows version of lyx and I use the linux version. At this

Re: Numbering of floats in appendices

2008-04-07 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 1:29 PM, David Hewitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do you change the numbering of table and figure floats to include the appendix letter. E.g., In Appendix A, I would like Table A1 rather than a continuous numbering system from the main text. I looked around at the

Re: installing memoir on lyx on vista/windows

2008-04-10 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 3:00 PM, Filippo Zangheri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry that was a poorly asked questions I read the some mail here and saw a suggesting to use the Mitek package manager to install the memori package, but it says it is already installed. So When I go under

Re: installing memoir on lyx on vista/windows

2008-04-10 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 3:18 PM, Bob Lounsbury [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 3:00 PM, Filippo Zangheri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry that was a poorly asked questions I read the some mail here and saw a suggesting to use the Mitek package manager to install

Re: installing memoir on lyx on vista/windows

2008-04-10 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 3:53 PM, gerardo arnaez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bob Lounsbury [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Go to Start-All Programs-MiKTeX version-Browse Packages and search for memoir in the Name field. Click on memoir and click the + sign to install. Then do a Tools

Re: Drawing graphs in lyx

2008-04-11 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 7:24 AM, Les Denham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 11 April 2008, Ola Vestad wrote: Hi, I'm preparing a presentation in lyx and want to draw a couple of (simple) graphs. I'm not a very advanced computer user so right now I'm making the presentation in

Re: delete label from equation

2008-04-11 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 11:24 AM, Neal Becker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to delete a label from an ams align. It was somehow applied to the first equation of the set instead of the entire set. I can't seem to figure out any way to select the label to delete it. If I ever do, how

Re: Numbering paragraphs

2008-04-11 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 2:33 PM, Micha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to write a research proposal for my uni and the instructions say that the paragraphs should be numbered where the first number is the section number. Any way to do it in lyx/latex? thanks I'm confused? Bob

Re: Numbering of floats in appendices

2008-04-11 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 3:42 PM, David Hewitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do you change the numbering of table and figure floats to include the appendix letter. E.g., In Appendix A, I would like Table A1 rather than a continuous numbering system from the main text. I

Re: LyX Make dynamic TOC on LyX using pdf

2008-04-16 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 7:47 AM, jucas_lo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm a newbie on LyX and also a little bit newbie on LateX, just one question when making pdfs with it: How do you make the Table of Contents dinamic with LyX, with dynamic I just mean that you can click over an item

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