Re: Preventing hyphenation with justified text?

2005-08-18 Thread Charles de Miramon
Joshua Street wrote: > Hi all, > > Is it possible to prevent justified paragraphs from having words broken > across two lines? I want to apply this on a document-wide level, not > just to one or two paragraphs > Preventing hyphenation will confuse the TeX paragraph algorithm and produce ugly res

Re: Preventing hyphenation with justified text?

2005-08-18 Thread Charles de Miramon
Herbert Voss wrote: > huh?? TeX will never be confused ... and there is absolutely no need > for OO or MS > Well with my and your solution, I get at some lines, the last word protruding in the right margin and in the log several Overfull \hbox warnings. Which is quite ugly. In the LaTeX compani

Re: footnotes and remarks

2005-08-19 Thread Charles de Miramon
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > How would one use footnotes AND remarks in a koma bookstyle document. > The footnotes should, as usual, be numbered in the text. The remarks > should be marked with a, b, c etc (or any other way) in the text and refer > to a list of remarks at the end of the document. >

Re: install lyx under kanotix

2005-08-19 Thread Charles de Miramon
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > has anybody installed lyx under kanotix-debian and could give me advice > how to do it? > > Wolfgang In my experience going from kanotix to plain debian hosed my system. Better start with plain debian. It takes much more time at the start but then it is much easier to

Re: How to make a unique cover (first page)

2005-08-21 Thread Charles de Miramon
Leon Chen wrote: > Hi all, > > I joined the mail list just now and send the question. > I am writing my Master dissertation, and choose lyx because it is great. > > Have a question: > > How can I make a unique cover page? For example, I have to make it > according to the specification our colle

Re: Page numbering

2005-08-22 Thread Charles de Miramon
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi! > > I need help. > > I have a problem with page numbering. > There is a collection of articles in one document. > It is necessary that in every page there are > pagination within the limits of article and throught the whole document. > > > Best regards, > Michail

Re: Problems importing tex into lyx

2005-08-22 Thread Charles de Miramon
Mike Reeks wrote: > I've recently installed lyx. Windows or Linux ? > Everything seesm to wotk OK except > importing a tex document - always get the message > Error while executing reLyx -f "filename.tex". Can anyone help or advise > apoor beginner? > Many thanks > Mike Reeks Try converting fr

Re: Portability to Neo/Open/Star Office?

2005-09-19 Thread Charles de Miramon
Mike Meyer wrote: > I think I've spent enough time on this today. Suggestions on where to > look for clues would be appreciated. > You could try also latex2rtf a commandline latex to rtf converter. It works quite well. It is less powerful than tex4ht but faster. But I doubt that revision marks

Re: Compiling LyX 1.3.6 with qt: SegFault

2005-09-22 Thread Charles de Miramon
Jim Osborn wrote: > > Just a followup: I tried building LyX 1.3.5 with KDE 3.4.2 and it > fails at exactly the same point as LyX 1.3.6, so, fwiw, it seems to > be either a KDE or a QT/KDE problem, not just a problem with the new > LyX. > I've compiled yesterday for Sid debian packages (i386 and

Sid packages of Lyx 1.3.6

2005-09-22 Thread Charles de Miramon
Following the g++ ABI transition on Debian unstable (sid), LyX cannot be installed and the Debian Lyx packagers don't seem to be very reactive. Therefore, I've uploaded homemade packages for i386 and Amd64 in ftp://ftp.lyx.org/incoming/sid They work for me, but I've not tested them very much. Ca

Re: BibTeX and newspaper articles

2005-09-26 Thread Charles de Miramon
K. Elo wrote: > > AFAIK, BibTeX seeems not to support newspaper articles as an entry type. > This kind of a material does not very well fit into the existing > standard entries either, e.g. there is no field the date of the article > could be stoder in. > You can enter the full date in the year

Re: tables with split cells: formatting tables for joint distribution

2005-10-07 Thread Charles de Miramon
David Soukal wrote: > > Thank you! The example you gave didn't work but I'll have a look at > PSTricks closely. > Beware that pstricks don't show in the DVI only in the PS > I've read here, on this list, that PSTricks doesn't work with pdfLaTeX, > right? > You can also use the slashbox packa

Re: Sorting the Bibliography

2005-10-13 Thread Charles de Miramon
Walid Maalej wrote: > Dear all, > > I ve just added my references using the Lyx features. Now I would like to > have theses references alphabetically sorted in the final document. > Can I do it with Lyx? If No, do you know which LaTeX commands will solve > my problem? The way your bibliography i

Re: lyx-code - date-insert

2005-10-14 Thread Charles de Miramon
David Wolfson wrote: > My first response was 'really! the date gets put in anyway?' Then I tried > the ERT you suggested and suddenly I get two dates... For now that's > perfect, but I have a horrible feeling I'll be trawling the archives to > find out how to get rid of it soon! > > Thanks for

Re: Defining paragraph styles

2005-10-15 Thread Charles de Miramon
Paul wrote: > Is there an easy way to redefine paragraph styles in Lyx? No > > I'm new to LyX and TeX, and I'm just trying to use it to typeset a book. > It's going well, I'm using the "book" document class, I get a nice > output, but now I want to change the chapter headings to a different > s

Re: Predefined styles

2005-10-17 Thread Charles de Miramon
Jon Haynes wrote: > I'm new to Lyx and I was wondering whether there was a way to set the > styles globally across an entire document. > > e.g. > Title: 22pt Helvetica > Paragraph: 12pt Georgia > > At the moment I can only see how to set this information inline, e.g. each > paragraph. Am I missi

Faulty Latex generated by LyX ?

2005-11-03 Thread Charles de Miramon
Hello, Trying to debug exportation from LyX to MsWord through Tex4ht, I've found this bug (?) in the LaTeX generated by LyX. I'll paste a very simple example below. The LaTeX below compiles but the 'First Paragraph' is not correctly indented. The solution is to insert an empty line between \end{

Re: Faulty Latex generated by LyX ?

2005-11-03 Thread Charles de Miramon
Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: > > Yes, especially since it is bad typography in some countries to indent the > paragraph following a quotation. Therefor we should be careful that the > change does not change the layout of given documents. > Adding an option is maybe an overkill. I think it could

Re: latex2rft / tex2rtf problems

2005-11-21 Thread Charles de Miramon
K. Elo wrote: > Hi, > > I have to convert a long article with a bibtex bibliography into the > rtf-format. I have installed both latex2rtf and tex2rtf, but I just > cannot get it working. The problems are: > Did you use latex2rtf like that : latex2rtf -a myauxiliaryfile.aux -b mybibliographyfi

Re: Footnotes problem

2005-12-10 Thread Charles de Miramon
K. Elo wrote: > Hi, > > Axel Dessecker, 9.12.2005 19:50: >> Kimmo, >> >> Am Freitag, 09. Dezember 2005 15:27 schrieb K. Elo: >> > 1) The title should be followed by a footnote marked with *, i.e. >> > bla bla bla* >> > 2) All other footnotes should be marked with numbers (1,2,...). >> > Actually,

Re: Superscript

2005-12-10 Thread Charles de Miramon
Steve Litt wrote: > Hi all, > > I just went to write O2, as in two oxygen atoms stuck together, and saw no > provision for superscripting the 2, at least not on the Format->Character > dialog box. There was also no subscript. I know this can't be true -- how > do I do it? > > I'm using LyX 1.3.3

Re: International characters in file names - Lyx 1.4pre3, MacOSX

2006-01-14 Thread Charles de Miramon
Georg Baum wrote: > Anders Ekberg wrote: > >> I know that spaces and international characters have been discussed >> as issues before. Are these problems supposed to be solved in version >> 1.4? If I'm not mistaken, latex2e does not work with a filename with international letters. This problem i

Re: LyX 1.4 test

2006-01-17 Thread Charles de Miramon
Georg Baum wrote: > and it will install as lyx-1.4 and not mix up the support files either. > > Beware that if you have LyX 1.3 and LyX 1.4 on your computer, they will both interacts with the same .lyx directory. I've created a new user for 1.4 to isolate the two .lyx directories. Cheers, Ch

Re: two abstracts in two languages

2006-02-07 Thread Charles de Miramon
Martin A. Hansen wrote: > i tried using this hint > http://tug.org/TeXnik/mainFAQ.cgi?file=layouts/abstract > > however, this complains that babel for language danish is not loaded. If there is some blasphemy in your document, it won't work ;-) > > so i tried to put \usepackage[danish]{babel}

Re: two abstracts in two languages

2006-02-07 Thread Charles de Miramon
Martin A. Hansen wrote: > > but this doesnt seem to work - the result is a all-danish document ... ? > > Strange, here it works. See attached file. Maybe, you have a done a slight error (like putting return and not ctrl-return in the ERT box). Cheers, Charles -- http://www.kde-france.org D

Re: LyX Export ASCII - Bibliography

2006-02-10 Thread Charles de Miramon
Georg Baum wrote: > Konrad Hofbauer wrote: > >> Hi! >> >> I want to export a LyX document to ASCII-text (so that somebody else can >> import and reformat it in Word and finally InDesign - so it is not >> really about having a good looking ASCII file, but something that one >> can continue workin

Re: True type 1 fonts in pdf

2006-02-11 Thread Charles de Miramon
Myriam Abramson wrote: > > Hi! > > Sorry if that's well known already but I am getting confused by > different answers I read on this issue. > What kind of information are you looking for ? Using a truetype font in pdflatex (and therefore in LyX) is possible but is not trivial [but easier than

Re: Left Title

2006-02-13 Thread Charles de Miramon
Torsten Hahn wrote: > Hi, > > is there a way to let the title and author of a koma script article > be left justified instead of centered ? > You will have to do your title page 'by hand'. Look at \begin{titlepage} in the KOMA-Script documentation Cheers, Charles -- http://www.kde-france.org

Re: Zitat-Stil ändern

2006-02-13 Thread Charles de Miramon
Matthias Schmidt wrote: > Wie kann ich den Zitat-Stil ändern? > > Die Verweise auf das Literaturverzeichnis stehen in der Fußnote. Nach > der Lyx-Vorgabe bestehen sie aus der Nummer der Literatur im > Literaturverzeichnis in eckigen Klammern: [12]. > > Ich möchte dort aber den Autor mit Jahresza

Re: Marginal Note in Enumerate

2006-02-20 Thread Charles de Miramon
Bruce Pourciau wrote: > Using the enumerate environment to number problems on an exam, I would > like to place [20] just to the left of the number of the problem to > tell the students that this is a 20 point problem. I tried in ERT > \marginpar[text] and \reversemarginpar{text}, with the text bei

Re: lyx compatibility to MsWord etc

2006-02-22 Thread Charles de Miramon
Tom Tom wrote: > Hi all, > > I am about to begin to write up my Phd-thesis and > would like to do this in lyx. > One thing that worries me is that the Profs who will > correct it are working in MsWord! > The easiest way is to give pdf files to your supervisors. They print it, mark it and gave th

Re: selecting special fonts

2006-02-22 Thread Charles de Miramon
Stacia Hartleben wrote: > Is there a better way to select special special fonts other than doing > ERT? I know under character I can change it to san serif or whatever > but for a special font I installed I have to do something like this: > > \usefont{T1}{stacish}{m}{n} \selectfont myword \usefon

Re: selecting special fonts

2006-02-22 Thread Charles de Miramon
Herbert Voss wrote: > Charles de Miramon wrote: > \newcommand\stacia[1]{% > bgroup > \usefont{T1}{stacish}{m}{n}\selectfont#1% > \egroup} > I guess it is \bgroup Herbert, can you explain what is the purpose of \begingroup \endgroup ? The TLC2 (my Bible) is not v

Re: Still: citation reference is wrong

2006-02-22 Thread Charles de Miramon
Matthias Schmidt wrote: > > well, I checked it: latex is running 3 times, and the bibliography is > inserted within Lyx. So, the problem continues to exist! I don't > understand, why I can see the citation reference in Lyx correct, but > in the dvi-preview and pdf-print it is wrong > Give a min

Re: lyx compatibility to MsWord etc

2006-02-23 Thread Charles de Miramon
Stephen Harris wrote: > Currently I think tex4ht will convert latex to html. Then the > html can be imported by Word. This doesn't work great. > Wrong. Tex4ht converts well to Oowriter. I've done it for a 54 pages article with footnotes, a jurabib bibliography, tables and some custom macros. With

Re: Still: citation reference is wrong

2006-02-23 Thread Charles de Miramon
Charles de Miramon wrote: > Matthias Schmidt wrote: > >> >> well, I checked it: latex is running 3 times, and the bibliography is >> inserted within Lyx. So, the problem continues to exist! I don't >> understand, why I can see the citation reference in Lyx cor

Re: lyx compatibility to MsWord etc

2006-02-23 Thread Charles de Miramon
Stephen Harris wrote: > By "massaging" don't you mean proofreading and editing. Also > I once posted that Fabrice Popineau stated that tex4ht was the > best method (better than png) available for conversion from > Latex to Word. It is, but that still falls short of "great" when > compared to LyX

LyX 1.4 packages for Debian Unstable Amd64

2006-03-10 Thread Charles de Miramon
Hello, I've put packages here : http://mvdlugt.nerim.net/LyX/ and also on ftp://devel.lyx.org Charles -- http://www.kde-france.org

Re: LyX 1.4 packages for Debian Unstable Amd64

2006-03-11 Thread Charles de Miramon
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: >>>>>> "Charles" == Charles de Miramon >>>>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Charles> Hello, I've put packages here : http://mvdlugt.nerim.net/LyX/ > > Charles> and also on ftp://dev

Re: How to export in rtf?

2006-03-12 Thread Charles de Miramon
Nagy Gabor wrote: > Hi, I am writing my thesis in LyX, but the reviewer would like to review > and comment it using ms word. > There has been several threads on this topic lately. If your reviewer wants to use the different reviewing options in MsWord you will have the utmost difficulties to get

Re: Importing a text file with German accented characters

2006-03-12 Thread Charles de Miramon
BEJ wrote: > Nicholas Allen wrote: > >> I hope someone can help me. I am trying to import a text file that >> contains German accented characters. The file is saved in UTF-8 format. >> How do I do this? If I use the import ASCII the accented characters >> appear as two junk characters. > Under

Does Forward DVI works in LyX 1.4

2006-03-12 Thread Charles de Miramon
Hello, I've seen a mention of a patch on lyx-devel implementing forward DVI, but I cannot see it working in LyX 1.4. Cheers, Charles -- http://www.kde-france.org

Re: Changing fonts

2006-03-12 Thread Charles de Miramon
Jonathan Vogt wrote: > Hi there, > > I'm currently doing some stuff for my wedding in lyx (program, menucard, > etc.) I've been looking around for a way to change the font in lyx to some > nicer and more suitable one. I would prefer URW Chancery L, but I have no > clue how to get that combined wi

Re: Importing a text file with German accented characters

2006-03-12 Thread Charles de Miramon
Jon Riding wrote: > I have a related problem with UTF-8 characters which judging from this > discussion may not be achievable in LyX. I need to include text in my > documents taken from data in Bantu and Nilotic group languages. Some of > these include accented vowels and other characters that ar

Re: Debian testing packages of LyX 1.4.0

2006-03-14 Thread Charles de Miramon
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > We already have debian-unstable debs, don't we? > There are little problems with my packages. Applied on an old lyx 1.3 .lyx directory, LyX will complain to be unable to find the book, article, etc. layouts. Moving .lyx to .lyxold, resolve the problem Cheers, Char

Problematic custom layout file

2006-03-14 Thread Charles de Miramon
t.inc Input lyxmacros.inc # Remove some unwanted styles. #NoStyleRight_Address #NoStyleAddress # Lettre textclass definition file. # Adapté de stdletter.inc par N. Hathout (2 février 2001) # Modifié par Yann Morère (13 fev 2001) Charles de Miramon (20/11/2003) # Author

Re: Problematic custom layout file

2006-03-14 Thread Charles de Miramon
Georg Baum wrote: > Maybe you have a customized book layout file there that also needs one of > the numxxx includes? > Yes. You are right. I had in my .lyx/layouts an old stdclasse.inc from 1.3 that was loaded by LyX 1.4 in preference to the nex stdclasse.inc and created errors. Removing it solv

Re: writer/odt to tex/lyx

2006-03-14 Thread Charles de Miramon
Matthias Schmidt wrote: > Hello, > > I converted an openoffice odt-document with writer2latex to a > tex-document. The results were not good. > Is there an other converter to import odt-documents to tex/lyx with > better results? > Strange. I had quite good results with writer2latex. What was no

Formatting character dialog

2006-03-15 Thread Charles de Miramon
Hello, I'm slowly discovering LyX 1.4. I found that if you put your cursor in the middle of a word and select the Edit --> Text style dialog. Changes are applied to the whole word (that you have not selected). Is it a feature or a bug ? Cheers, Charles -- http://www.kde-france.org

Re: Formatting character dialog

2006-03-16 Thread Charles de Miramon
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > We could do a poll of how other apps (ooo, word, kword, abiword...) > and decide how to change this behaviour. > OpenOffice follows the same behaviour than LyX. Kword, Abiword and if I remember right MsWord are in the opposite group. I think LyX actual behaviour is

Re: tex4ht, tex2rtf - all fails

2006-03-17 Thread Charles de Miramon
Axel Dessecker wrote: > You definitely need them, and you have to adjust the .env file to your > system. Please read the documentation at > http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~gurari/TeX4ht/ TeX4ht is a bit difficult to set up. The Debian package never worked for me but installing from scratch worke

Re: Outlining documents for LyX

2006-03-20 Thread Charles de Miramon
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: >> "Peter" == Peter Bowyer >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Peter> Hi, Failing to find a view in LyX similar to Microsoft Word's > Peter> Outline view, how do you plan and structure your large > Peter> documents with LyX? Is there an external tool that will w

Printing grom though Kprinter

2006-03-21 Thread Charles de Miramon
Hello, With LyX 1.3.7, you could change the spool command in the Printer preferences dialog to kprinter to funnel printing through kprinter. I'm unable to make it work with 1.4.0 and 1.4.1svn Am I alone ? Cheers, Charles -- http://www.kde-france.org

Re: Printing grom though Kprinter

2006-03-21 Thread Charles de Miramon
Charles de Miramon wrote: > Am I alone ? > Yes, bad cups configuration -- http://www.kde-france.org

Re: Question about Bibtex - which is the best GUI?

2006-03-30 Thread Charles de Miramon
Tim Vaughan wrote: > Hi, > > I plan on using Bibtex to handle the citations needed for a series of > essays I am writing. I have come across two Java GUIs, JabRef and > Bib-it and an OS X one, BibDesk. > I'm happy to try them all out but I was wondering if people had > experience with these prog

Re: Question about Bibtex - which is the best GUI?

2006-03-30 Thread Charles de Miramon
Maria Gouskova wrote: > I use JabRef on Mac OS X, which I chose initially because it > interfaces with LyX. I am mostly happy with it. My two complaints are > the same as Charles de Miramon's: JabRef is a little slow and you > have to get rid of ASCII characters with diacritics in your > bibliogra

Re: bookstab package and lyx

2006-04-04 Thread Charles de Miramon
Marcelo Acuña wrote: > Hello, > I want to use bookstab package for nices tables, > doc of this package came with example, this example > work in kile but in lyx I only get errors and errors > like: > > You haven?t defined [EMAIL PROTECTED] yet It is a bug when you cut and paste from LaTeX inset

Re: Help on compiling Lyx 1.4.0 for teTex3

2006-04-05 Thread Charles de Miramon
Patton, Eric wrote: > Hi, > > I see that the latest teTex is version 3, so I was wondering if it is > possible to compile Lyx for support of teTex3? I'm using Ubuntu 5.10 on a > PC. > Why don't you install official ubuntu tetex3 packages ? According to http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/m

Re: Easy way to get the page number top right

2006-04-05 Thread Charles de Miramon
c. Can I change this? > > > You sound like a user who knows fancy. This is a little bit OT for > this thread but maybe you can give me a hint. How can I make a line > under the header to visual separate him from the text? > http://tug.org/TeXnik/mainFAQ.cgi?file=fancy/header -- http://www.kde-

LyX 1.4.1 binaries for Debian unstable

2006-04-20 Thread Charles de Miramon
Hello, The Debian maintainers of LyX are not very active. I have therefore created unofficial i386 binaries of LyX 1.4.1 for Debian unstable (sid). You should add in your /etc/apt/sources.list the following line : deb http://lyxondebian.free.fr/ sid main contrib non-free then apt-get update and

Re: LyX 1.4.1 binaries for Debian unstable

2006-04-20 Thread Charles de Miramon
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Maybe you could add this information to this page: > > http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LyXOnDebian Done -- http://www.kde-france.org

Re: Problems with 1.4.1, from Re: LyX 1.4.1 binaries for Debian unstable

2006-04-23 Thread Charles de Miramon
Micha Feigin wrote: >> Kenward > > The menu structure changed, so what you need is probably elsewhere. > > Also the structure of the setup files changed somewhat. Try moving your > .lyx directory from your home directory, it may solve some of the problem. Yes, it is a good idea. The upgrading

Re: Enumeration/conversion issues of 1.4.1 - 1.3.x files (important exams)

2006-04-23 Thread Charles de Miramon
Kenward Vaughan wrote: > After some kind help from Micha and Charles, I have 1.4.1 running > apparently smoothly (the screen still appears a bit sluggish, which I > recall seeing in other posts about 1.4.1--but that's not an issue for > me yet... ;-). An important problem I immediately encountere

[Announce] Update of LyX 1.4.1 Debian packages

2006-05-11 Thread Charles de Miramon
Hello, I've just uploaded on http://lyxondebian.free.fr : - Untested i386 sarge packages for LyX 1.4.1 (qt frontend) that should also work for other Debian derivatives like Xandros - amd64 sid packages for LyX 1.4.1 (qt frontend) - Matej Cepl Dvipost package for sid i386 - updated i386

Re: Let's get the Lyx Debian pkg back in sync with upstream

2006-05-12 Thread Charles de Miramon
Georg Baum wrote : > > I'll upload an updated diff for 1.4.2svn to the wiki tonight. > I've got 1.4.1 packages for sid (amd64, i386) and for sarge (i386) for the qt frontend apt-gettable from http://lyxondebian.free.fr I can try to upload the source package tonight. I've started from Georg Bau

Re: Let's get the Lyx Debian pkg back in sync with upstream

2006-05-12 Thread Charles de Miramon
Sven Hoexter wrote: > On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 11:29:15AM +0200, Charles de Miramon wrote: > > Hi, > >> I've started from Georg Baum's version but I made an ugly hack in >> debian/rules to force it to compile with gcc 4.1. I don't know how you >> shou

Re: [Pkg-lyx-devel] Let's get the Lyx Debian pkg back in sync with upstream

2006-05-12 Thread Charles de Miramon
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, 12 May 2006, Per Olofsson wrote: > >> > - Is there a DD out in the wild internet willing to sponsor a new Lyx >> > package? >> >> Yes, I'd be willing to sponsor the package. > > What is a DD? > Debian Developper. Debian has a full American-oriented lingo,

Re: Managing Large, Disparate Bibliographic Databases

2006-05-12 Thread Charles de Miramon
Look Tellico. -- http://www.kde-france.org

Re: LyX and jurabib

2006-05-25 Thread Charles de Miramon
Anders Dahnielson wrote: > Ooops, sorry for not CCing the list, thought it will be sent a copy when > hittng reply. > > :) > I have just created http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/HumanitiesLyX Please add the information of this thread there. I will add my own tricks with jurabib when I find a little tim

Re: Giving options to Jurabib [Lyx1.4.1]

2006-05-25 Thread Charles de Miramon
Arne Kjell Vikhagen wrote: > Hi, > > I just wondered, how do i give jurabib options to Lyx now that I have > activated Jurabib in the Document Settings instead of in the preamble? If > I put my usual line in the preamble, it complains that Jurabib has been > called twice. > Bennett gave the ans

Re: Giving options to Jurabib [Lyx1.4.1]

2006-05-25 Thread Charles de Miramon
Arne Kjell Vikhagen wrote: > Thanks, I just saw in the mailing list archives today that the same topic > came up. Thanks for replying though. Great that there now is a wiki-page > on Lyx-Jurabib-Humanities, since I think more and more people have > discovered the beauty of it. Maybe include koma-

Re: Weird LyX 1.4.1 behavior in Debian (compared to 1.3.8)

2006-05-25 Thread Charles de Miramon
Jerome Tuncer wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I've been enjoying the use of LyX 1.3.8 during the last few weeks: > simple and plain editor that perfectly suits my needs. > > However, I had to switch to 1.4.1 because someone modified one of my > files with it and 1.3.8 wouldn't open it anymore. I fo

Re: Suppressing URLs in jurabib

2006-05-28 Thread Charles de Miramon
Anders Dahnielson wrote: > Anyone who know some way to suppress printing of URLs in citations when > using jurabib? > > I put the following in the LaTeX preamble: > > \renewcommand{\biburlprefix}{} > \renewcommand{\biburlsuffix}{} > \renewcommand{\jburldef}{} > > However, it leaves an extra com

Re: Help regarding lyx

2006-06-07 Thread Charles de Miramon
pramod salunkhe wrote: > 3.Suppose I have started to write a report in lyx. On the first page of > lyx I want the page No. of 23. How can I do this? > The page number is kept in a counter called page. You have to set it to the correct number. Put in ERT at the top of your document \setcounter{

Re: upper case letter with accentuation

2006-06-08 Thread Charles de Miramon
paul saumane wrote: > 1) Looking at the help, I cannot find the way to type accentuated upper > case letters (capital letters with accent). > I just found capital A with grave accent typing Alt, ctrl, 7 then shift a. > Any clue to guide me. > Alt-x to get the minibuffer. In the minibuffer type a

Re: footnote ends up below tables

2006-06-09 Thread Charles de Miramon
Curtis Osterhoudt wrote: > Hi, all. I'm using LyX 1.4.1 on Debian, and writing in the koma-script > book class. > I'm having a problem with footnotes and table floats (it happens with > figure floats, too). In the text, I have a footnote, which I *think* > should go at the very bottom of the pag

Re: footnote ends up below tables

2006-06-10 Thread Charles de Miramon
> Hello, Charles. > >Thanks for the reply. > > I may not understand what you propose (I realize that I probably > wasn't > too clear in my original message, either: I'm not putting a footnote IN > the > table (nor in a figure caption, etc.), but just somewhere else on the page > so that b

Re: lyx 1.4.1

2006-06-11 Thread Charles de Miramon
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I just installed lyx 1.4.1 and started playing with it. Once you get used > to the new interface, waoo ! It feels great. > I was told in the past that the size of the opening window was > configurable now. Did I dream? I couldn't find where I can do it from. > Also, I

Re: frenchb problem

2006-06-12 Thread Charles de Miramon
jouke hijlkema wrote: > Hi all, > > How do I tell lyx 1.4.1 to use the frenchb language option. The only > thing I can find is french and that's incompatible with the rest of my > options > What LaTeX distribution are you using. With teTeX 3.0, french option works well. Frenchb is something obs

Re: Bibliography/citation formatting issues

2006-06-15 Thread Charles de Miramon
Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: > Jeremy Wells wrote: >> To properly adhere to this style, there is a need for shortened forms of >> subsequent citations and/or the use of "ibid" for repeated citations, >> none of which are supported by any Bibtex style file. > > Not true. Jurabib supports all of thi

Re: jurabib question

2006-06-17 Thread Charles de Miramon
John Ward wrote: > I'm having a difficult time getting jurabib set-up the way that I want. I > have it close, but there are still a couple of issues. > > First, I have the 'titleformat=italic" command in the preamble, but am > still not getting my titles italicized (in either the original referen

Re: jurabib question

2006-06-18 Thread Charles de Miramon
John Ward wrote: > > > I would like to have the dash in the bibliography. I looked over the > documentation again and still have no idea what I'm missing. > Cf. p. 16 of the English documentation : add bibformat=ibidem, in your jurabibsetup and in your preamble : \renewcommand{\bibauthormulti

Re: Jurabib and Lyx: Bibliography problem

2006-06-20 Thread Charles de Miramon
Julio Rojas wrote: > Hi, this is a minor problem, but an annoying one. In Jurabib documentation > the format of each bibliographic reference shows: > > Brox, Hans: Allgemeiner Teil des Bürgerlichen Gesetzbuches. 20th edition. > Köln, Berlin, Bonn, München, 1996 > > But in my document all referen

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

2006-06-20 Thread Charles de Miramon
Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: > For instance: jurabib (since this is mentioned by the OP). I implemented > that to Lyx 1.4 because I need it for my own work. I admit that the > jurabib support still can be enhanced in many ways. But hey, it's a brand > new feature, jurabib itself is very feature-ri

Re: Removing first page number on bibtex generated bibliography

2007-07-17 Thread Charles de Miramon
Lyx Physicst wrote: > Hi all, I am writing my thesis in Lyx 1.44(OS X). I need to have all the > page numbering for the first pages of a new section(ie Table of Figures, > first page in chapter, etc) removed. I have managed to remove them all, > except the first page of my bibliography. I am us

Re: create PDF of selected pages (using texexec)?

2007-07-19 Thread Charles de Miramon
Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > I have a 650+ page book of 535.68 x 696.959 pts pages. This is for a > 7.44in x 9.68in book (printer calls it Crown Quarto). > > I need to just have some selected pages sent to printer to do some > testing. > > I used texexec like: > > texexec --pdfselect --selection=6,

Re: parentheses round location publisher and date in footnotes

2007-07-20 Thread Charles de Miramon
Richard McIntosh wrote: > Hi All, > > I would like to be able to put parentheses in first footnote around > location, publisher and date, e.g. (London: Continuum, 1987). I have found > on google someone asking to get rid of them but can't find how to add > them! > Where do you place the series

Re: parentheses round location publisher and date in footnotes

2007-07-20 Thread Charles de Miramon
Richard McIntosh wrote: > Dear all, > > Thanks again Charles! > > Is there anyway that I could not have the parentheses in the > references/bibliography at the end yet keep them in the footnotes? > \addto\jbonlyforbib{% \DeclareRobustCommand{\bibapyldelim}{\unskip\unskip\space}% \D

Re: TOC font changes, adding dots between heading and page

2007-07-20 Thread Charles de Miramon
Lyx Physicst wrote: > Hi all, Im trying to tweak a few things in my Table of contents. 1) I need > to change how Lyx makes all new sections(ie chapter, list of tables, list > of > figures, etc) in bold font and the corresponding listed page number is in > bold as well. I need to make the whole t

Re: Thesaurus

2007-07-23 Thread Charles de Miramon
Hellmut Weber - CORPHIS Service and More wrote: > Hi, > I'm actually working on a document in french for which I use the > language setting french. > Spellchecking is working well. > > By curiosity I have activated the thesaurus, it came up with english > words. Do I have to set something specifi

Re: Chinese in 1.5.0rc2 howto?

2007-07-25 Thread Charles de Miramon
Johan W. Klüwer wrote: > > Font C70/song/m/n/10/4f=cyberb4f at 10.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) > file no Font C70/song/m/n/10/59=cyberb59 at 10.0pt not loadable: Metric > (TFM) file no > It is a font problem. LaTeX does not find the font for Chinese. I guess that you have to install a s

Re: long 's' in Lyx

2007-07-25 Thread Charles de Miramon
Sebastian wrote: > Hello everybody! > > Is it possible to display the 'long s' (?) (Wikipedia: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_s) in Lyx? I'm (unfortunatly) a complete > Latex noob, so I wonder if there is a 'quick and dirty' solution for this. > > Regards, > Sebastian There is package, yfo

Re: Bibtex to Wiki

2007-07-26 Thread Charles de Miramon
Myriam Abramson wrote: > Since there is a way to have latex formula in a wiki, I was wondering > if there is something for bibtex entries too? If not, what's your > solution for transferring bibtex entries to a wiki? Maybe : http://www.lri.fr/~filliatr/bibtex2html/ Cheers, Charles -- http://www

Re: Menu fonts

2007-08-01 Thread Charles de Miramon
Jean-Pierre Chrétien wrote: > Hello Lyx users > > After installing 1.5.0 on Solaris, I get fonts in the LyX window as simple > serif fonts, which are ugly. > > I can easily turn these in my usual screen fonts using Tools->Preferences. > > But the menu fonts are also ugly. How can I change them

Re: Improving images for printing?

2007-08-02 Thread Charles de Miramon
Tim Michelsen wrote: >> Possibly there is a better/automatic way to do this using Latex or LyX >> configuration options. Someone else may be able to advise on that. >> Normally, with photos and the like, this blurry kind of resizing is >> probably more likely to be what you want. > Although I am n

Re: LyX for Literary Studies

2007-09-05 Thread Charles de Miramon
Richard Heck wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> For Ledmac, you don't insert a footnote at the end of a sentence but >> apply it to a range of the text. I doubt it is possible to do it in LyX >> with insets. Or only in a clumsy way. >> What would be needed is the possibility to open and edit

Re: dead keys

2007-09-24 Thread Charles de Miramon
François Patte wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Bonjour, > > I am facing a problem with dead keys of French keyboard ^ and ". Usualy, > to get French circumflex we use dead key ^ followed by o, a whatever... > In lyx, the dead get is alive and the result is ^o instead

Re: use of various latex classes in 1.6 [was AMS users: vote your preferences!]

2007-09-24 Thread Charles de Miramon
Dave Hewitt wrote: > I for one would be glad to tackle writing some layouts, but the hang up > for me is what Paul points out here - that the syntax and rules aren't > laid out in simple form anywhere. I realize it takes trial and error, but > a few hours with the User's Guide (Customization) and

Re: [OT] keymaps (was: Re: dead keys)

2007-09-25 Thread Charles de Miramon
Dov Feldstern wrote: > > If we're talking about keymaps, then yes, I find them very useful. I > posted my reasons on the developers list a while back, and I hope to > eventually do some work on improving them, too. See > http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.devel/88939 . > If LyX was ca

Re: Current state of OpenDocument Export?

2007-10-09 Thread Charles de Miramon
Vinnie Boston wrote: > On 10/6/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> The latest version of oolatex uses java at the end of the process. It is >> very picky with the java version, it needs a 1.5 version. Look the log to >> see if there is any problem with that. >> >> > Thanks --

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