Re: Reducing space after fullstops?

2015-08-10 Thread Bruce Pourciau
On Aug 10, 2015, at 7:14 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > Am Montag 10 August 2015, 16:20:56 schrieb Frederick FN Noronha फ्रेड्रिक > नोरोन्या > *فريدريك نورونيا: >> LyX tends to add spaces after fullstops. It looks a bit excessive >> sometimes. How do I reduce/avoid this pls? FN > > This is th

Re: Switching to Chicago NB Notes

2015-06-26 Thread Bruce Pourciau
ago&aqs=chrome..69i57.2245j0j7&sourceid=chrome&es_sm=119&ie=UTF-8 > > el > > On 2015-06-25 10:52 , Bruce Pourciau wrote: >> I should have mentioned that the volume will be using the Chicago Manual >> of Style 16th edition bibliography style, which suggests that

Fwd: Switching to Chicago NB Notes

2015-06-25 Thread Bruce Pourciau
I should have mentioned that the volume will be using the Chicago Manual of Style 16th edition bibliography style, which suggests that they may be using biblatex with the biblatex-chicago style files. Bruce Begin forwarded message: > From: Bruce Pourciau > Date: June 25, 2015 8:47:27

Switching to Chicago NB Notes

2015-06-25 Thread Bruce Pourciau
I have used LyX to produce a LaTeX file for a chapter I am contributing to a volume. My LaTeX file uses a common system for notes and bibliography: there is a bibliography at the end and the citations refer to entires in that bibliography. But the volume will be using what's called the Chicago

Re: String There But Not Found

2015-06-20 Thread Bruce Pourciau
On Jun 20, 2015, at 9:54 AM, Bruce Pourciau wrote: > Sorry to repeat my question, but the Subject was incorrectly labelled: > > > I need to replace the American style ," and ." with the British style ", and > ". The LyX Find and Replace is finding some but

String There But Not Found

2015-06-20 Thread Bruce Pourciau
Sorry to repeat my question, but the Subject was incorrectly labelled: I need to replace the American style ," and ." with the British style ", and ". The LyX Find and Replace is finding some but not all of the strings. I looked for the first ," it did not find, copied it, pasted it into the Fi

Re: Chicago 16 Bibliography Style

2015-06-20 Thread Bruce Pourciau
I need to replace the American style ," and ." with the British style ", and ". The LyX Find and Replace is finding some but not all of the strings. I looked for the first ," it did not find, copied it, pasted it into the Find box, placed the cursor just before it, clicked Find Next, and LyX st

Re: Chicago 16 Bibliography Style

2015-06-20 Thread Bruce Pourciau
On Jun 20, 2015, at 2:11 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > 2015-06-20 3:54 GMT+02:00 Bruce H. Pourciau: > I used LyX to write an article that will be appearing in an edited volume, > and the editors have requested that the LaTeX file I send them should use the > bibliographic style employed in th

Re: why people give up on open source software

2013-10-25 Thread Bruce Pourciau
On Oct 25, 2013, at 2:49 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > 25/10/2013 02:37, Ken Springer: >> Just a question, does viable equate something that will be successful in >> the long run? > > It is already successful. We have users, LyX continues to advance, although > at a frustratingly slow pace

Re: Formatting Marginal Notes

2013-07-04 Thread Bruce Pourciau
On Jul 4, 2013, at 10:03 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > Am Donnerstag 04 Juli 2013, 09:36:14 schrieb Bruce Pourciau: >> In the default format for marginal notes, for the standard article class, >> the note appears to have the same text size, line spacing, and justified >&g

Formatting Marginal Notes

2013-07-04 Thread Bruce Pourciau
In the default format for marginal notes, for the standard article class, the note appears to have the same text size, line spacing, and justified format of the body text. This seems odd to me. I would expect and prefer a standard marginal note to have a smaller text size, smaller line spacing,

Re: document statistics

2013-06-18 Thread Bruce Pourciau
On Jun 17, 2013, at 5:21 PM, stefano franchi wrote: > > > > On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 1:46 PM, Steve Litt wrote: > On Mon, 17 Jun 2013 12:07:57 -0400 > Maria Gouskova wrote: > > > On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 11:27 AM, Csikos Bela > > wrote: > > > > > stefano franchi írta: > > > >On Fri, Jun 14,

Restoring Window Size and Position

2013-06-13 Thread Bruce Pourciau
I have "Restore window layouts and geometries" checked in LyX 2.0.6 preferences, but when I open a file in the morning, the window is half the size and re-positioned from how it was when the file was saved the day before. LyX does remember window size and position during the day while LyX is up

Re: Generating a bbl File

2013-05-26 Thread Bruce Pourciau
> Ehud Kaplan > > > On 05/03/2013 03:23 PM, Richard Heck wrote: >> On 05/03/2013 02:37 PM, Bruce Pourciau wrote: >>> On May 3, 2013, at 1:04 PM, Richard Heck wrote: >>> >>>> On 05/03/2013 11:40 AM, Bruce Pourciau wrote: >>>>> On

Re: Generating a bbl File

2013-05-03 Thread Bruce Pourciau
On May 3, 2013, at 2:23 PM, Richard Heck wrote: > On 05/03/2013 02:37 PM, Bruce Pourciau wrote: >> On May 3, 2013, at 1:04 PM, Richard Heck wrote: >> >>> On 05/03/2013 11:40 AM, Bruce Pourciau wrote: >>>> Once a submitted paper has been accepted by a journa

Re: Generating a bbl File

2013-05-03 Thread Bruce Pourciau
On May 3, 2013, at 1:04 PM, Richard Heck wrote: > On 05/03/2013 11:40 AM, Bruce Pourciau wrote: >> Once a submitted paper has been accepted by a journal, one must replace the >> BibTeX bibliography with a bbl file. What's the easiest way to do this? I >> have instruct

Re: Generating a bbl File

2013-05-03 Thread Bruce Pourciau
On May 3, 2013, at 1:04 PM, Richard Heck wrote: > On 05/03/2013 11:40 AM, Bruce Pourciau wrote: >> Once a submitted paper has been accepted by a journal, one must replace the >> BibTeX bibliography with a bbl file. What's the easiest way to do this? I >> have instruct

Generating a bbl File

2013-05-03 Thread Bruce Pourciau
Once a submitted paper has been accepted by a journal, one must replace the BibTeX bibliography with a bbl file. What's the easiest way to do this? I have instructions around someplace, but has this replacement become more automatic (like PDF pdflatex with bbl, as an export option) in the newest

Re: Palatino linotype in Lyx

2013-03-05 Thread Bruce Pourciau
On Mar 5, 2013, at 9:20 AM, ehud.kap...@gmail.com wrote: > Since NIH now wants us to use Palatino Linotype (among several other, uglier > fonts), I tried to find it in the Lyx font list, but could only find > Palatino, which is apparently different from Palatino Linotype. Where can I > find P

BasicTeX and LyX

2012-11-05 Thread Bruce Pourciau
At home, in contrast to the office, I have used LyX in rather simple ways. Would it make sense to download BasicTeX onto our new computer at home, rather than the full version of MacTeX? Would this cause any problems for LyX? Bruce

Re: Getting rid of "You cannot type two spaces this way" message?

2012-04-12 Thread Bruce Pourciau
On Apr 11, 2012, at 2:46 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote: On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 7:50 PM, Bill Foote wrote: Is there an easy way for me to get rid of the "You cannot ... Please read the tutorial" message? I know that typing two spaces that way doesn't change the layout, and I'm more-or-less fin

Re: right align a block of text

2012-03-12 Thread Bruce Pourciau
On Mar 12, 2012, at 5:23 AM, Csikos Bela wrote: PhilipPirrip írta: Is this possible in lyx?> Everything that is possible in LaTeX is also possible in LyX. Therefore, > asking on a LaTeX group would be a better option for you, I guess. The > answer would be - yes, it is possible, but i

Re: Circumflex

2011-12-12 Thread Bruce Pourciau
On Dec 12, 2011, at 10:25 AM, Guenter Milde wrote: On 2011-12-12, Bruce Pourciau wrote: OK, I'm sure this must be a silly question, but why, when I enter in ERT \ˆ{e}, to get a circumflex over the e, does my document stop being viewable? If the character you used in LyX is the sa

Re: Circumflex

2011-12-12 Thread Bruce Pourciau
On Dec 12, 2011, at 9:13 AM, Manolo Martínez wrote: On 12/12/11 at 09:07am, Bruce Pourciau wrote: OK, I'm sure this must be a silly question, but why, when I enter in ERT \ˆ{e}, to get a circumflex over the e, does my document stop being viewable? Bruce Why don't you enter ê in

Circumflex

2011-12-12 Thread Bruce Pourciau
OK, I'm sure this must be a silly question, but why, when I enter in ERT \ˆ{e}, to get a circumflex over the e, does my document stop being viewable? Bruce

Re: LyX-Produced Book

2011-11-29 Thread Bruce Pourciau
On Nov 29, 2011, at 3:07 PM, Richard Heck wrote: My book, /Frege's Theorem/, which was both written with and typeset from LyX, has just recently been published by Oxford University Press. You can have a look at the pages, if you wish, from its page on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Freges

Re: Beginner Tutorials

2011-10-28 Thread Bruce Pourciau
Does anyone know why, in the LyX Essentials [1] https://sites.google.com/site/tsewiki/resources/latex TeXShop is called a "popular alternative [to LyX] for Mac users"? Bruce

Re: Capital letter

2011-10-21 Thread Bruce Pourciau
On Oct 21, 2011, at 6:58 AM, Helge Hafting wrote: LaTeX knows that there should be more space after a period, in some languages. (And no such thing in some other languages). Today, many (most?) typographers recommend just a single word space between sentences, except in languages where sen

Re: Comment on Part Page

2011-09-22 Thread Bruce Pourciau
On Sep 21, 2011, at 6:00 PM, Julien Rioux wrote: On 22/09/2011 12:50 AM, Richard Heck wrote: On 09/21/2011 02:11 PM, Bruce Pourciau wrote: I have a colleague using book class who wants to place a comment on the page labeled Part 1, but when he tries to do this, the comment appears on the

Comment on Part Page

2011-09-21 Thread Bruce Pourciau
I have a colleague using book class who wants to place a comment on the page labeled Part 1, but when he tries to do this, the comment appears on the first page after the page labelled Chapter 1 of Part 1. Does anyone have a suggestion? Bruce

Author-Year-Page Citation Style

2011-08-14 Thread Bruce Pourciau
I have a document in the Article (Elsevier) class, with Natbib Author- Year selected under Bibliography and \usepackage{natbib} in the preamble. I have a bibtex generated bibliography using the .bst style file of the journal which is in the folder with my document. The bibliography is coming

Re: Separating Paragraphs: Indentation vs Vertical Space

2011-06-15 Thread Bruce Pourciau
On Jun 15, 2011, at 2:09 AM, Guenter Milde wrote: On 2011-06-14, Bruce Pourciau wrote: ... This is just what I need. I've saved it as a LyX module. Thank you. How do I get the separation to show up in LyX? I'm assuming the ParSep 1 won't make the separation show up, b

Re: Separating Paragraphs: Indentation vs Vertical Space

2011-06-14 Thread Bruce Pourciau
On Jun 14, 2011, at 2:50 AM, Guenter Milde wrote: On 2011-06-13, Bruce Pourciau wrote: On Jun 10, 2011, at 3:42 PM, Guenter Milde wrote: On 2011-06-10, Bruce Pourciau wrote: At various spots within a document where paragraphs are separated with indentation, I often have claims

Re: Separating Paragraphs: Indentation vs Vertical Space

2011-06-13 Thread Bruce Pourciau
On Jun 10, 2011, at 3:42 PM, Guenter Milde wrote: On 2011-06-10, Bruce Pourciau wrote: At various spots within a document where paragraphs are separated with indentation, I often have claims, propositions, laws, etc, which I would like formatted flush left with some vertical space before

Sudden Single Spacing

2011-06-13 Thread Bruce Pourciau
I'm writing a paper in the Elsevier class, with the option "review," which produces extra space between lines, suitable for a manuscript submitted to a journal for review. But right in the middle of the document, the text suddenly becomes single spaced for a couple of paragraphs. In the sou

Re: Separating Paragraphs: Indentation vs Vertical Space

2011-06-13 Thread Bruce Pourciau
On Jun 10, 2011, at 3:42 PM, Guenter Milde wrote: On 2011-06-10, Bruce Pourciau wrote: At various spots within a document where paragraphs are separated with indentation, I often have claims, propositions, laws, etc, which I would like formatted flush left with some vertical space before

Separating Paragraphs: Indentation vs Vertical Space

2011-06-10 Thread Bruce Pourciau
At various spots within a document where paragraphs are separated with indentation, I often have claims, propositions, laws, etc, which I would like formatted flush left with some vertical space before and after. For various reasons, I wish to avoid using the AMS theorem, lemma, etc, enviro

Re: selecting fonts in xetex

2011-05-11 Thread Bruce Pourciau
On May 11, 2011, at 2:32 AM, Guenter Milde wrote: How are math fonts selected? By default, math fonts are not changed and still taken from the 8-bit encoded CM fonts. To configure math fonts, there are two options: You could also, within LyX, use the mathpazo package: In Document Setting

Re: Modifying the Elsevier Class

2011-04-18 Thread Bruce Pourciau
On Apr 15, 2011, at 2:59 PM, Richard Heck wrote: On 04/15/2011 01:47 PM, Bruce Pourciau wrote: The Elsevier document class prints "Preprint submitted to Elsevier" and the date as footers indents the first paragraph after a heading What, if anything, can I put in the preamble t

Modifying the Elsevier Class

2011-04-15 Thread Bruce Pourciau
The Elsevier document class prints "Preprint submitted to Elsevier" and the date as footers indents the first paragraph after a heading What, if anything, can I put in the preamble to make the footers go away and to stop the first paragraph after a heading from indenting? Bruce

Re: Zapf typefaces in LaTeX (was: 'Re: No ligatures in Palatino?')

2011-04-11 Thread Bruce Pourciau
On Apr 8, 2011, at 6:04 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote: Hey Bruce On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 9:14 PM, Bruce Pourciau wrote: Other faces designed by Herman Zapf would do as well -- such as Aldus or Renaissance As far as I understand, Aldus is a book weight version of Palatino, hence more readable

Re: No ligatures in Palatino?

2011-04-08 Thread Bruce Pourciau
On Apr 8, 2011, at 1:31 AM, Guenter Milde wrote: Because there are no ligatures in Palatino -- by design. This is one of the many, many reasons why the typographic world would be a prettier place if Word folks would use Palatino, rather than Times, as the default typeface. Not only then

Re: Editing Process

2011-04-02 Thread Bruce Pourciau
On Apr 2, 2011, at 4:05 PM, Guenter Milde wrote: On 2011-04-02, Bruce Pourciau wrote: Let me add this: The editors don't expect the author of a Word submission to conduct the revision process in an unfamiliar file format. I'm sure they go back and forth with Word files. But they

Re: Editing Process

2011-04-02 Thread Bruce Pourciau
On Apr 2, 2011, at 2:13 PM, Steve Litt wrote: On Saturday 02 April 2011 11:03:00 Julien Rioux wrote: On 02/04/2011 9:55 AM, Bruce Pourciau wrote: A journal has the tex file I exported from my lyx file. Their editing process goes like this: they mark places in that tex file where they want

Re: Editing Process

2011-04-02 Thread Bruce Pourciau
On Apr 2, 2011, at 8:55 AM, Bruce Pourciau wrote: A journal has the tex file I exported from my lyx file. Their editing process goes like this: they mark places in that tex file where they want revisions, attach it to an email to me, I make the revisions in that marked up tex file and

Editing Process

2011-04-02 Thread Bruce Pourciau
A journal has the tex file I exported from my lyx file. Their editing process goes like this: they mark places in that tex file where they want revisions, attach it to an email to me, I make the revisions in that marked up tex file and send it back to them. Now I'm comfortable working with

Re: Commenting Out Figures

2011-04-01 Thread Bruce Pourciau
On Apr 1, 2011, at 6:00 AM, Guenter Milde wrote: On 2011-03-31, Liviu Andronic wrote: On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 3:59 PM, Bruce Pourciau wrote: A journal wants me to send them a zipped up folder which contains the figure files, a pdf to tell them where the figures are to be placed, and the

Re: Commenting Out Figures

2011-03-31 Thread Bruce Pourciau
On Mar 31, 2011, at 10:09 AM, Liviu Andronic wrote: On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 3:59 PM, Bruce Pourciau wrote: A journal wants me to send them a zipped up folder which contains the figure files, a pdf to tell them where the figures are to be placed, and the tex file, with all LaTeX "inc

Commenting Out Figures

2011-03-31 Thread Bruce Pourciau
A journal wants me to send them a zipped up folder which contains the figure files, a pdf to tell them where the figures are to be placed, and the tex file, with all LaTeX "includes" commented out and the figure captions collected at the end. Is there something I can do from within LyX so m

Re: Poll for the default icon theme in LyX 2.0

2011-03-31 Thread Bruce Pourciau
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Re: REVTeX4 Again

2011-03-10 Thread Bruce Pourciau
On Mar 10, 2011, at 4:37 PM, Julien Rioux wrote: On 10/03/2011 11:05 AM, Bruce Pourciau wrote: I'm still having problems converting an Article class document (with footnotes and citations) to a REVTeX4 (\documentclass[12pt,aps,prb,preprint]{revtex4}) document, where there are no foot

REVTeX4 Again

2011-03-10 Thread Bruce Pourciau
I'm still having problems converting an Article class document (with footnotes and citations) to a REVTeX4 (\documentclass[12pt,aps,prb,preprint]{revtex4}) document, where there are no footnotes, but citations and comments appear together in endnotes. I selected REVTeX4 and put the options

Re: SV: RevTeX4 and prb

2011-03-08 Thread Bruce Pourciau
On Mar 8, 2011, at 2:39 PM, Ingar Pareliussen wrote: \documentclass[12pt,aps,prb,preprint]{revtex4} Presently the article is in the standard Article class with Plain style. If I can make this change from within LyX, exactly how would I do it? On LyX/Mac 1.6.5, TeXLive 2008. Go to the menu

RevTeX4 and prb

2011-03-08 Thread Bruce Pourciau
An article submitted to a physics journal has reached the stage where they are asking for a specific document class and style, namely \documentclass[12pt,aps,prb,preprint]{revtex4} Presently the article is in the standard Article class with Plain style. If I can make this change from within

Import LyX File

2011-02-13 Thread Bruce Pourciau
I attached a file created with LyX 1.5.7 at home to an email and sent it to my office, where it arrived with its LyX code displayed (with first line "#LyX 1.5.7 created this file" following five lines of Apple Mail content information). How do I open this file in LyX 1.6.5 at my office? B

Re: Figure Float Label

2011-01-04 Thread Bruce Pourciau
On Jan 4, 2011, at 9:08 AM, Paul A. Rubin wrote: On 1/4/2011 10:00 AM, Bruce Pourciau wrote: The "Number Figures by Section" was _not_ in the selected box, but when I put it there, saved, and then took it out, all was well. That's odd. Was this document written using an ear

Re: Figure Float Label

2011-01-04 Thread Bruce Pourciau
On Jan 3, 2011, at 5:25 PM, Paul A. Rubin wrote: On 01/03/2011 05:38 PM, Bruce Pourciau wrote: Thanks, Paul. You're welcome. The "Number Figures by Section" was _not_ in the selected box, but when I put it there, saved, and then took it out, all was well. That's odd

Copying From PDF

2011-01-04 Thread Bruce Pourciau
I have copied some passages from a pdf and pasted them into a LyX document. When I view this LyX document, the pasted in passages display some odd formatting: some lines extend beyond the margins and there seem to be extra spaces between some words. And the pasted in passages resist fixing.

Re: Figure Float Label

2011-01-03 Thread Bruce Pourciau
On Jan 2, 2011, at 10:49 AM, Paul A.Rubin wrote: Bruce Pourciau lawrence.edu> writes: When I cross reference a figure float called Figure 2, the cross reference yields 2.1 rather than 2. What am I doing wrong? Have a look at Document > Settings... > Modules, and if "Numbe

Figure Float Label

2011-01-01 Thread Bruce Pourciau
When I cross reference a figure float called Figure 2, the cross reference yields 2.1 rather than 2. What am I doing wrong? Bruce

Re: Block Quotations in Letter Class

2010-12-17 Thread Bruce Pourciau
On Dec 15, 2010, at 9:26 AM, Richard Heck wrote: On 12/15/2010 09:50 AM, Bruce Pourciau wrote: Is there a simple (read simple-minded Mac user) way to get the basic Letter class to allow the Quote environment? I wonder why we don't have that? I'll fix it. For now: Fin

Block Quotations in Letter Class

2010-12-15 Thread Bruce Pourciau
Is there a simple (read simple-minded Mac user) way to get the basic Letter class to allow the Quote environment? Bruce

Re: Figure Numbering

2010-10-20 Thread Bruce Pourciau
On Oct 19, 2010, at 3:55 PM, Paul Rubin wrote: Bruce Pourciau lawrence.edu> writes: I've looked at the manuals, but cannot find the answer to this question: Using the Article class with unnumbered headings and subheadings -- it's a relatively short paper, so there's no

Figure Numbering

2010-10-19 Thread Bruce Pourciau
I've looked at the manuals, but cannot find the answer to this question: Using the Article class with unnumbered headings and subheadings -- it's a relatively short paper, so there's no need to number the headings -- the figures come out numbered Figure 0.1, Figure 0.2, etc. Can I change t

Re: Side By Side Graphics But One Caption

2010-10-19 Thread Bruce Pourciau
On Oct 19, 2010, at 8:48 AM, Paul A. Rubin wrote: On 10/19/2010 9:36 AM, Bruce Pourciau wrote: How can I insert two figures (graphics) side by side, but with just one caption and figure number? I know from the Wiki how to have side by side figures with two separate captions, either Figure

Side By Side Graphics But One Caption

2010-10-19 Thread Bruce Pourciau
How can I insert two figures (graphics) side by side, but with just one caption and figure number? I know from the Wiki how to have side by side figures with two separate captions, either Figure 1 and 2 or Figures 1a and 1b, but I'd prefer a single caption and figure number underneath the t

Marginal Note Format

2010-10-14 Thread Bruce Pourciau
I forgot, I also want the line spacing to be smaller than it is in the body text. I guess I want the Marginal Note to have the format of a footnote, except it should be ragged right, rather than justified. Bruce Expecting the default format for a Marginal Note to be ragged right (when it's

Marginal Note Format

2010-10-14 Thread Bruce Pourciau
Expecting the default format for a Marginal Note to be ragged right (when it's in the right margin) and Small text size (like footnotes), I was surprised to see full justification, which produced huge spaces between words of course, and normal size text. How do I make my marginal notes ragg

Asterisk as Equation Label

2010-09-27 Thread Bruce Pourciau
This must be easy to do, but how can you label a displayed equation, not with a number, but with just an asterisk or star in parentheses? I don't need to be referring to my equations in general, but I do need to refer to one particular equation. Bruce

Spacing Around Quote Environment

2010-09-24 Thread Bruce Pourciau
In the article class, the quote environment puts some extra space above and below the quotation to help separate it from the body text. In the article (AMS) class, though, the quote environment inserts no extra space, which would seem in conflict with normal typographic practice. What would

Re: lyx: Font derail (with semi-related ranting)

2010-08-12 Thread Bruce Pourciau
On Aug 11, 2010, at 6:31 PM, Rob Oakes wrote: The letter forms of Palatino may be the most refined ever created. But, I've never really been able to find a sans-serif and mono-spaced font that matches well. (At least not per my aesthetic taste.) For that reason, I don't use it often. As

Side by Side Figures Not Aligned

2010-08-02 Thread Bruce Pourciau
I have two figures (eps files) inserted as side by side graphics (directly, not in floats). Each lies in its own Box (Minipage), the boxes separated by a couple of \qquads. But one figure prints higher than the other, I suppose because the amount of space around the figure that's included i

Re: Losing Lydia: A Simpler LyX Icon?

2010-08-02 Thread Bruce Pourciau
On Aug 1, 2010, at 7:06 PM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Le 19 juil. 10 à 19:49, Pavel Sanda a écrit : Bruce Pourciau wrote: Looking at the icons in the dock of my Mac, it's hard not to notice that the LyX icon -- with Lydia sitting on top of the letters LyX -- being relatively compli

Re: EPS Files Without Preview

2010-07-22 Thread Bruce Pourciau
On Jul 21, 2010, at 2:28 PM, Stephen Buonopane wrote: On Jul 21, 2010, at 3:16 PM, Bruce Pourciau wrote: In the past, inserting graphics in eps format has worked beautifully in LyX, as long as the files were saved with no preview attached to them. Eps files with a preview cause an error (&qu

Re: EPS Files Without Preview

2010-07-21 Thread Bruce Pourciau
On Jul 21, 2010, at 3:01 PM, Paul Rubin wrote: Bruce Pourciau lawrence.edu> writes: Any thoughts? Could there be some kind of preview still attached? EPS files are text files, so open one of the images in a text editor and look for a block of binary nonsense. I haven't done t

Re: EPS Files Without Preview

2010-07-21 Thread Bruce Pourciau
On Jul 21, 2010, at 2:28 PM, Stephen Buonopane wrote: On Jul 21, 2010, at 3:16 PM, Bruce Pourciau wrote: In the past, inserting graphics in eps format has worked beautifully in LyX, as long as the files were saved with no preview attached to them. Eps files with a preview cause an error (&qu

EPS Files Without Preview

2010-07-21 Thread Bruce Pourciau
In the past, inserting graphics in eps format has worked beautifully in LyX, as long as the files were saved with no preview attached to them. Eps files with a preview cause an error ("An error occurred whilst running epstopdf"), and the pdf compiles with an empty space where the figure sho

Spellchecking on LyX/Mac

2010-07-21 Thread Bruce Pourciau
After going without a spellchecker for years on LyX/Mac, I'm ready to take the plunge. Reading about installing cocoAspell on the LyX Wiki made me nervous, though: sounds like it often fails to work, and it's unclear how recent the instructions are. Anyone out there with good spellchecking

Re: Endnotes Only, No Bibliography

2010-07-19 Thread Bruce Pourciau
On Jul 19, 2010, at 2:10 PM, Richard Heck wrote: On 07/19/2010 02:31 PM, Bruce Pourciau wrote: What if you've written a paper in the usual style, with citations distinct from footnotes and a bibtex generated bibliography, but this paper will ultimately be appearing in a book where the

Endnotes Only, No Bibliography

2010-07-19 Thread Bruce Pourciau
What if you've written a paper in the usual style, with citations distinct from footnotes and a bibtex generated bibliography, but this paper will ultimately be appearing in a book where the house style is to have only endnotes and no bibliography: all bibliographic information is given in

Re: Losing Lydia: A Simpler LyX Icon?

2010-07-18 Thread Bruce Pourciau
On Jul 18, 2010, at 10:05 AM, Hellmut Weber wrote: On 18.07.2010 14:39, John Kane wrote: --- On Sat, 7/17/10, Richard Heck wrote: From: Richard Heck Subject: Re: Losing Lydia: A Simpler LyX Icon? To: "Bruce Pourciau" Cc: "LyXFolks" Received: Saturday, July 17, 201

Losing Lydia: A Simpler LyX Icon?

2010-07-17 Thread Bruce Pourciau
Looking at the icons in the dock of my Mac, it's hard not to notice that the LyX icon -- with Lydia sitting on top of the letters LyX -- being relatively complicated, is less readily identifiable and less "graphic" than other icons. Most icons are simpler, and more successful IMHO because o

Return to Previous Cursor Position

2010-07-07 Thread Bruce Pourciau
It would speed up my navigating, especially when I'm going back and forth in a long document, if I could return to the previous cursor position with a key combination. Is this possible? Bruce LyX/Mac 1.6.5

Re: Formatting numbered equations

2010-04-19 Thread Bruce Pourciau
On Apr 19, 2010, at 4:18 PM, Uwe Stöhr wrote: Am 19.04.2010 22:57, schrieb Marshall Feldman: (By the way in English there is no comma before the "and" if the part after the "and" is the last enumeration in a sentence; like in "A, B, C and D are letters.") The following comes from the /Chi

Footnote Symbol

2009-12-18 Thread Bruce Pourciau
A short document has just one footnote. Can I force the footnote symbol to be, say, a dagger? Bruce

Re: Trouble with View PDF (pdflatex)

2009-12-04 Thread Bruce Pourciau
On Dec 4, 2009, at 12:55 PM, rgheck wrote: On 12/04/2009 01:14 PM, Bruce Pourciau wrote: When I select View PDF (pdflatex) for a document just created (by making changes in an older document and doing Save As), I get this error message: File does not exist: /var/folders/fM/fMVJAuudF3mykCC

Trouble with View PDF (pdflatex)

2009-12-04 Thread Bruce Pourciau
When I select View PDF (pdflatex) for a document just created (by making changes in an older document and doing Save As), I get this error message: File does not exist: /var/folders/fM/fMVJAuudF3mykCC-YewvpGq6JHA/-Tmp-/lyx_tmpdir.JL1277/ lyx_tmpbuf0/O'HalloranJoe(PhDPhysics).pdf This does

Re: lyx and pdf fonts

2009-11-11 Thread Bruce Pourciau
On Nov 11, 2009, at 3:33 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote: On 11/11/09, Pavel Sanda wrote: Guenter Milde wrote: Suggestion: Would it be possible, to pre-select Latin Modern in the standard template? unfortunately this is much more complex thing than it looks on the first sight. http://www.ma

Re: LyX 1.6.4.1 and Snow Leopard

2009-10-29 Thread Bruce Pourciau
On Oct 29, 2009, at 9:01 AM, rgheck wrote: On 10/29/2009 09:03 AM, James C. Sutherland wrote: On Oct 29, 2009, at 5:38 AM, Luca Carlon wrote: Jan David Hauck writes: Referring to the recent discussion on LyX having problems on Snow Leopard, I can state, that the problem solved itself so

Re: free Palatino Sans?

2009-10-27 Thread Bruce Pourciau
On Oct 26, 2009, at 6:34 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote: On 10/26/09, Bruce Pourciau wrote: unserifed face like Futura. Now Palatino is based on Renaissance humanist forms -- it looks like its written with a broad-nibbed pen -- and it would not mix well with Futura, for example. But it might

Re: free Palatino Sans?

2009-10-26 Thread Bruce Pourciau
On Oct 26, 2009, at 2:08 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: On Mon, 26 Oct 2009, Liviu Andronic wrote: I am trying to figure which Sans and Typewritter fonts to use in combination with Palatino (or the TeX Gyre Pagella extension). Liviu, That's an interesting question. I use Palatino as my default

Re: Vertical spacing of matrices

2009-09-11 Thread Bruce Pourciau
On Sep 11, 2009, at 12:18 PM, Uwe Stöhr wrote: Yago schrieb: Respect to your second kindly comment, in the Spanish Navy Naval Military School (I am Commander in the Spanish Navy, Hydrographer) the brackets are omited in the notation to the half addition or difference of trigonometrical f

Re: Find All and Emphasize

2009-08-13 Thread Bruce Pourciau
On Aug 13, 2009, at 10:30 AM, Erez Yerushalmi wrote: Same idea as Richard's, Open your .lyx file in another editor such as notepad++ and find and replace the WORD with \emph on WORD \emph default I tried it and wit worked for me. erez On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 9:34 PM, Bruce Pou

Re: Find All and Emphasize

2009-08-13 Thread Bruce Pourciau
On Aug 12, 2009, at 5:38 PM, rgheck wrote: On 08/12/2009 04:34 PM, Bruce Pourciau wrote: Is there a simple way to go back through a document and italicize (emphasize) all occurrences of a certain word? Not within LyX itself. The best way to do it is to run a script of some sort on the

Find All and Emphasize

2009-08-12 Thread Bruce Pourciau
Is there a simple way to go back through a document and italicize (emphasize) all occurrences of a certain word? Bruce

Re: Go Away Drawer

2009-08-12 Thread Bruce Pourciau
On Aug 11, 2009, at 11:29 AM, Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW wrote: In LyX 1.6.3, how cam I make the Table of Contents drawer go away? By pressing the small 'x' ? Thanks, Vincent. Didn't see any small 'x', but unchecking Outline in the Document menu worked. I guess I was assuming that the

Go Away Drawer

2009-08-11 Thread Bruce Pourciau
In LyX 1.6.3, how cam I make the Table of Contents drawer go away? Also, after I set the window size and position for one file, LyX 1.5.6 would open all subsequent files in that window, but 1.6.3 opens some subsequent files (those it hasn't seen before) in a small window which I then have t

Re: Another Point to Consider in Your Writing

2009-07-17 Thread Bruce Pourciau
On Jul 17, 2009, at 11:47 AM, Eran Kaplinsky wrote: Nothing wrong with New Century Schoolbook, but take a look at Minion for book work. It is easy on the eyes, economical, and the LaTeX package support is excellent, with small caps and choice of oldstyle or lining figures, and more. It's alre

Re: Endnotes that Contains the References

2009-07-02 Thread Bruce Pourciau
On Jul 2, 2009, at 9:50 AM, BH wrote: On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 10:42 AM, Bruce Pourciau wrote: Fellow LyXers, In a volume to which I am contributing, each article ends with a set of "Notes" in numerical order. When a note cites a reference for the first time, it give

Endnotes that Contains the References

2009-07-02 Thread Bruce Pourciau
Fellow LyXers, In a volume to which I am contributing, each article ends with a set of "Notes" in numerical order. When a note cites a reference for the first time, it gives the full bibliographic information (what would normally be given in the list of references). Ibid and loc cit are t

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