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

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 this

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 references

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 :

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 references

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-rich,

Re: Converting in rtf or openoffice for windows

2006-06-26 Thread Charles de Miramon
Sebastian wrote: Dear Listusers, I'm writing an article for a journal and the redaction is only taking rtf Format. Is there a way to export my lyx document into rtf or OpenOffice for windows. Unfortunatly works the export script for openoffice only for linux, but I'm working on windows. Is

Re: Italics in bibtex record

2006-06-26 Thread Charles de Miramon
Declan O'Byrne wrote: I'm using pybliographic to manage bibliography. Some titles I have quote book titles, and those words should be italicised. Is there any way to italicise these words either manually, or to mark those words as a book title (in such a way that jurabib might be coaxed to

Re: Converting in rtf or openoffice for windows

2006-06-26 Thread Charles de Miramon
Stephen Harris wrote: htaltex which comes with the tex4ht package converts to html. from the command line: htlatex something.tex makes something.html, Conversion quality varies and outputs need to be proofread. No, use the oolatex macro in tex4ht. It will convert your file to the

Re: What's on YOUR BibTeX Wish List?

2006-06-27 Thread Charles de Miramon
Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: Note that there have been attempts to add a kind of makebst support to jurabib (which never has been finished IMHO). I think that a combination of jurabib and makebst would be very much the thing most humanists need. So if you intend to do something like that

Re: Table with fixed width columns

2006-07-08 Thread Charles de Miramon
Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: Did you hit the return key after that to apply the changes? Having an 'apply' button in the Table Parameters dialog would be a nice usability enhancement. The table interface is indeed quite confusing. I think it should be split between a dialog for the general

Re: Wiki idea

2006-07-10 Thread Charles de Miramon
LB wrote: I agree. That's a great idea. http://jo.irisson.free.fr/bstdatabase/index.php Cheers, Charles -- http://www.kde-france.org

Re: How to reset a character style

2006-09-04 Thread Charles de Miramon
Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I reset the character style to no formatting ? ATM it is a bit painful (undo or copy/paste), but we'll introduce a new method for dissolving insets (footnotes, character styles, comments etc.) by hitting DEL in the first position

Re: footnote inside table

2006-09-11 Thread Charles de Miramon
Paul Schwartz wrote: thanks. ok with my case (documents with specific notes for each of them) i will put it like a note inserting it manually just below the table. Paul Or put your table in a minipage. Then you should be able to see the footnote. Cheers, Charles --

Re: edit lyx file in text editor

2007-11-22 Thread Charles de Miramon
e-letter wrote: I use lyx at home but unable to do so at a public computer. I would like to be able to edit a lyx file in a text editor save the amended lyx file and then when at home continue using the edited lyx file in lyx. The file is stored on a network accessible via internet. LyX

Re: Hebrew on Mac OS X

2007-12-19 Thread Charles de Miramon
Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Alexander Maryanovsky wrote: On 12/19/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It means that the jesus font (an hebraic font) is unavailable on your system. I guess that you have to install the hebrew package on your latex distribution to get a set of hebrew

Re: Hebrew on Mac OS X

2007-12-20 Thread Charles de Miramon
Abdelrazak Younes wrote: On a related note, don't you guys think that an application should work out of the box, without having to go hunt around the internet for packages and such? Sure and you are welcome to help us toward this goal ;-) I guess that for Hebrew and Arabic we could

Re: Header problem !

2007-12-24 Thread Charles de Miramon
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I really don't know which one could be the problem, so no idea where to l= ook for.. any suggestion? Look the LaTeX log. Maybe you will have a clue. It looks like LaTeX cannot find the file. Buon natale, Charles -- http://www.kde-france.org

Re: how to change some attributes of textclasses/environments?

2008-01-11 Thread Charles de Miramon
Richard Heck wrote: So to change this, you have to get your hands dirty with LaTeX. It /may/ be that koma-book itself provides a way to configure the font size: It's very configurable. Look at the koma-script documentation to see. You'll find it in scrguide.pdf, which ought to have come with

Re: [OT] Best KDE-centric Distribution?

2008-01-15 Thread Charles de Miramon
rgheck wrote: Debian Etch. [snip] Thanks for the suggestion. I've thought about Debian, and it has a great reputation for stability. That said, while I don't want to be absolutely bleeding edge, I do like to be near it, and Debian at least has a reputation for being, well, stable. Just

Re: LyX Qt under Gnome environment

2008-01-16 Thread Charles de Miramon
Raymond Ouellette wrote: I compiled LyX 1.5.3 for my Linux distro Ubuntu 7.10. I'm a long time user of LyX. But since QT4 version of LyX, it is impossible for me to select anything using my mouse in LyX. Even selecting with the cursor, holding shift, etc, has erratic behavior. The mouse

Re: [OT] Best KDE-centric Distribution?

2008-01-16 Thread Charles de Miramon
José Matos wrote: A frontend of lyx better integrated with kde seems a nice idea. :-) The Semantic framework Nepomuk is quite interesting (but very new). You can store and search all kind of relations, like a) This paragraph used this webpage as a source b) this graphic comes this file

Re: I'm new to LyX

2008-01-30 Thread Charles de Miramon
Rich Shepard wrote: On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Elswood wrote: And have tried to install the memoir template. On the configuration screen it says yes for it being but is nowhere to be found in my Templates folder nor can I find it anywhere else. I have re-configured after every download and I

Re: Numbering inside tabless

2008-02-29 Thread Charles de Miramon
Kane Kano wrote: Hello everybody, i would like to create a table with two colums and lets say 25 lines. In the first column starting from the secon cell I would like to number consecutively the following cells down to the bottom. like: headerheader 1. a

Re: LyX won't compile my document any more

2008-02-29 Thread Charles de Miramon
Maximilian Wollner wrote: Any suggestions? Many thanks for your help! It looks like you have an encoding problem... Cheers, Charles -- http://www.kde-france.org

Re: Export to plain text garbled

2008-03-10 Thread Charles de Miramon
All is discovered--flee at once! wrote: Hi, I'm using LyX 1.5.3 on Ubuntu 6.06. (I've never used LaTeX or LyX before.) I'm trying to export a LyX document to plain text and it's coming out garbled. I've also tried using all three PDF export options (dvipdfm, pdflatex, ps2pdf), opening the

Re: Languages British vs English

2008-03-10 Thread Charles de Miramon
Liviu Andronic wrote: On 3/10/08, Phillip Ferguson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why is there an English language option and British language option? What is the difference? Is this an American vs English English? Hyphenation rules are different in British English and in American English and

Re: Spellchecker for LyX doesn't work as well as expected

2008-03-12 Thread Charles de Miramon
G. Milde wrote: On 12.03.08, Dominik Böhm wrote: I just installed aspell German to use it with LyX. ... In German you cannot compound arbitrary words to new words. ... So, for German this compound setting seems to be pretty useless. hunspell seems to work better for German :

Re: Bibliography

2008-03-13 Thread Charles de Miramon
Andréas LYBERIS wrote: Hi, I will try to explain clearly my problem. I am writting a scientific report and I added the bibliography via Bibdesk (Bibtex for mac). The default organisation of the bibliography is alphabetical: all my references are classified in the alphabetical order of

Re: Google Docs to LaTeX

2008-04-21 Thread Charles de Miramon
Michael Thompson wrote: are too kind to what Charles calls the 'wysiwyg cruft'. If you find a solution to the problem with em-dashes that doesn't involve a find-and-replace in the .tex file, tell me. I paste my w2lclean script that I run on files converted by writer2latex before importing

Re: Bibtex question

2008-05-14 Thread Charles de Miramon
Daniel Miles wrote: Hi. Using lyx 1.5.4 on ubuntu, and I cannot for the life of me figure out how to reference according to my Uni guidelines - which I believe are Chicago Manual of Style. What I need as output that can be seen by the Chicago Manual of Style section on this webpage:

Re: Lyx for business

2008-06-22 Thread Charles de Miramon
Graham Smith wrote: A rather vague question, but would anyone like to share their experiences of using Lyx in a small business situation, or point me towards some web links, with maybe example templates. Headed notepaper, business (technical) You can insert an image (for example the logo

Re: We could really use search-for-environment and search-for-charstyle

2008-07-24 Thread Charles de Miramon
Abdelrazak Younes wrote: As for character style naigation, we could have something similar in 1.6.x. I was wondering yesterday if this could be used : http://doc.trolltech.com/4.4/qtxmlpatterns.html It works on non-xml data and you can mash-up in one structure the LyX format and the

Re: reverse-DVI support for documents with Children?

2008-09-09 Thread Charles de Miramon
Cameron Stone wrote: However, it doesn't work completely for documents containing child documents as Includes. Does anyone know if/how this can be made to work? I don't think it works with child documents. The new synctex synchronization framework between pdf and latex supports child

Re: Bibliography format problem, Please help !!!!!!!!!!

2008-09-30 Thread Charles de Miramon
rohitthakkar wrote: Kindly suggest the Change at the earliest. You will have to change the unsrt.bst. You must create a macro that insert a carriage return (\\) after outputting author. Bibtex files are not easy to hack, the best guide is Tame the Beast from Nicolas Markey

Re: Experience using XeTeX with XeTeX?

2008-10-08 Thread Charles de Miramon
Christian Ridderström wrote: users? Hi, I was asked if it's possible to use LyX with XeTeX, is this possible and does it work reasonably well? I'm monitoring the XeTeX mailing list and there is a fair amount of total LaTeX newbies that are interested in XeTeX because they need to type

Re: Experience using XeTeX with XeTeX?

2008-10-08 Thread Charles de Miramon
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Charles de Miramon schrieb: I was asked if it's possible to use LyX with XeTeX, is this possible and does it work reasonably well? Not yet. The final XeTeX 1.0 has not yet bee released. MiKTeX updates the XeTeX version evey month, while TeXLive will only do this once

Re: Experience using XeTeX with XeTeX?

2008-10-09 Thread Charles de Miramon
=??B?SsO8cmdlbiBTcGl0em3DvGxsZXI=?= wrote: are not installed. I would not talk of moving. We should provide support for XeTeX, but not at the price of dropping support for other LaTeX variants. There will always be enough reasons to not use XeTeX (as long as it misses support for micro

Re: Installing a truetype font in LyX

2008-10-17 Thread Charles de Miramon
Jacob Hunt wrote: supposed to just download it and use it anyways? Just didn't know if there was a newer/better way to do this. Yes. Use Xetex. See the wiki. But for Liberation fonts which are just copies with a nicer licence of very common fonts already accessible in LyX, it is a bit

Re: Lyx pdf Booksurge Self publishing

2008-10-20 Thread Charles de Miramon
Jonathan Kroner wrote: Does Booksurge accept a Lyx generated pdf, or must it be further processed through acrobat? 1. If you have self published through Booksurge, please answer whether Booksurge accepts LyX generated pdfs. I will soon be self-publishing a book, preferably through

Re: Automagically reduce the spacing between ++ in the word C++

2008-10-22 Thread Charles de Miramon
Daniel Lohmann wrote: Hi, I am currently in the process of polishing the typesetting of my thesis. One of the things I would like to achieve is to reduce the spacing between ++ in the words C++ and AspectC++, as this looks somewhat strange with the font I am using. This question is

Diffpdf

2008-10-23 Thread Charles de Miramon
Hello, I've just discovered and compiled this little program (http://www.qtrac.eu/diffpdf.html) that let you do a graphical diff between two pdf files. Useful tool for LyXers. Cheers, Charles -- http://www.kde-france.org

Re: Finding arbitrary text with given style

2008-11-04 Thread Charles de Miramon
Great stuff. I was hoping for a better search and replace in LyX since many yeard. I hope it could be merged in trunk for 1.6.1 Cheers, Charles -- http://www.kde-france.org

Re: LyX package for Debian

2006-11-06 Thread Charles de Miramon
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: Ok let's see if I can do something good today. In respect to your warnings I should better wait until tomorrow evening, when the Linux User Group Tuebingen (LUGT) meets and ask somebody for help. Otherwise the goody might turn into something nasty...;) Ask a

Re: Spellcheck segfaults

2006-11-07 Thread Charles de Miramon
Nicolás wrote: Lyx-1.3.4 segfaults during spellchecking if I hit Enter instead of the Replace button of the spellcheck popup after editing a mispelled word (this is quite seldom, aspell offers generally a good alternative). Solaris, qt, French dictionary. I can confirm this in LyX

Re: lyx to word conversion

2006-11-09 Thread Charles de Miramon
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The pretty-good solutions I think of require error-inviting fix-ups. The best I find is latex2rtf, and rtf import to openoffice, then cut and past the bibliography as text and hand fix. However, this leaves documentation as bibtex index terms. Is there a postscript to

Re: lyx to word conversion

2006-11-27 Thread Charles de Miramon
Bo Peng wrote: I also tried tex4ht. It produces a swx file and ooffice failed to open it. The error message is 'Error loading document ... Read-Error: Format error discovered in the file in sub-document content.xml at 2853,74 (row, col). I am using ooffice 1.1.5 and

Re: Help with mis-converted accents

2006-12-19 Thread Charles de Miramon
William Adams wrote: On Dec 19, 2006, at 12:45 PM, Stefano Franchi wrote: Unless I could find a program/editor allowing me to do multiple replace over multiple files at once. I am not aware or any such programs for Mac/Linux, though? The free BBedit Lite could do this. I believe the

Re: Help with mis-converted accents

2006-12-20 Thread Charles de Miramon
José Matos wrote: On Tuesday 19 December 2006 6:53 pm, Charles de Miramon wrote: You can also use a sed script like this one : Just to add to the fun, here it is my solution using python, it reads from the standard input and it writes to the standard output. Why don't you use

Re: wiki export to LaTeX or LyX format?

2006-12-20 Thread Charles de Miramon
Jeremy C. Reed wrote: Anyone know of any wiki that can export to LaTeX or LyX format? Anyone use a wiki to generate LaTeX? Moinmoin can generate docbook. I never tried to see if you can import it into LyX I would be interested, if you can give some feedback on that. Another possibility is

Re: Help with mis-converted accents

2006-12-20 Thread Charles de Miramon
Stefano Franchi wrote: exported as LaTeX it cannot be reimported back into LyX (I enclose a one line file below as an example). The file compile correctly from within LyX, though. Where is the file ;-) -- http://www.kde-france.org

Re: altering document class

2006-12-20 Thread Charles de Miramon
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need to make a minor change to the mwrep report class, so that the Bibliography is labelled `References' instead. I am using lyx 1.4.2 on ubuntu linux. I know nothing of latex but screwed my courage to the sticking place and edited

Re: Help with mis-converted accents

2006-12-20 Thread Charles de Miramon
Stefano Franchi wrote: Oops! here it is: It works here. It must eb a Mac specific bug. Cheers, Charles -- http://www.kde-france.org

Re: how to type in accented character in text mode?

2007-01-10 Thread Charles de Miramon
Paul A. Rubin wrote: Michael Chen wrote: hi, there, I believe there is a better way than using Tex code to type in accented character in text mode. Any idea? If you are using Linux, you need to activate the 'compose key'. In KDE, go to the Keyboardconfiguration module and then to the Xkb

Re: auto-insert of branch names in exported filenames

2007-01-12 Thread Charles de Miramon
Sven Schreiber wrote: Sven Schreiber schrieb: Hi, branches are very useful and I have used them alot recently. What I am missing is the possibility to have the names of active branches automatically inserted into the file names of exported formats. Example: in a file named exam.lyx I have

Re: auto-insert of branch names in exported filenames

2007-01-12 Thread Charles de Miramon
Sven Schreiber wrote: thanks for your feedback; but I don't have a clue what you're talking about :-) http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/dbus Dbus is an infratrusture and a common language to make different applications on your desktop communicate. For example, if LyX was dbus enabled,

Re: word

2007-01-12 Thread Charles de Miramon
ryma abassi wrote: hello, please i want to generate .doc files for word from lyx ones. Is it possible and how can i make this? thanks You export to LaTeX and then there is two ways : latex2rtf will generate an rtf file tex4ht through the oolatex script will generate an odt file that you

Re: word

2007-01-12 Thread Charles de Miramon
Valter Filipe Silva wrote: For me, it does not work! Lyx stop running when i try to do export-MS Word or when i try to export to open office. Regards Valter Export to the command line and try from there to see the error messages. Cheers, Charles -- http://www.kde-france.org

Re: word

2007-01-12 Thread Charles de Miramon
Graham Smith wrote: ryma, Friday, January 12, 2007, 11:53:50 AM, you wrote: please i want to generate .doc files for word from lyx ones. Is it possible and how can i make this? I will be delighted if someone suggests a better method, but in Windows, I have generated PDFs from Lyx, and

Re: how to type in accented character in text mode?

2007-01-12 Thread Charles de Miramon
John Coppens wrote: On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 10:53:07 +0100 Charles de Miramon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you are using Linux, you need to activate the 'compose key'. In KDE, go to the Keyboardconfiguration module and then to the Xkb tab and there you can assign the compose to one of the key

Re: how to type in accented character in text mode?

2007-01-12 Thread Charles de Miramon
John Coppens wrote: Charles, is that version compiled with the Qt frontend (and which version)? I understand that with other frontend(s) it may work. Yes; it is the Qt version. If you reset the compose key to another key, does it changes something ? Cheers, Charles --

Re: how to produce hatted (circumflex) symbols in Lyx?

2007-01-17 Thread Charles de Miramon
Andreas K. wrote: Srinivas Nedunuri [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ..besides typing in some ERT? Alt-x will open the minicli then in the minicil type accent-circumflex i Enter to get î (You cane xpand commands in the minicli with tabulation) Charles -- http://www.kde-france.org

Re: tex4ht and LaTeX music applications?

2007-01-29 Thread Charles de Miramon
Jamie Faunt wrote: For rhythmic and also standard notation however, I do have occasional needs. I would really prefer to use typography rather than bitmaps. So I was wondering if you or any other reader on this list knew of any music notation packages that use or export to LaTeX so that I

Re: makebst urgent!

2007-02-20 Thread Charles de Miramon
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: Dear list I have tried to make a bst file using makebst. Unfortunately I am not familiar with all the English terms and must have missed the place where I tell the idention I got Somers, D., Devlin, P. and Kay, S. (1998) Phytochromes and cryptochromes

Re: makebst urgent!

2007-02-20 Thread Charles de Miramon
Charles, thanks but is this situation here concerning paragraphs? Its just ident the lines if there are more than one e.g.: Well as I've explained you Wolfgang, if you do not attach a complete example with all the files, there is nothing I can do. Cheers, Charles --

Re: Another pdf question

2007-03-08 Thread Charles de Miramon
Oisin Feeley wrote: But, it looks like there's a Google Summer of Code project proposal to provide annotations to PDF in Evince (one of the popular GNU/Linux PDF programs that uses the underlying Poppler rendering library): http://live.gnome.org/Evince/Annotations The next version of Kpdf

Re: A quick LaTeX question

2007-03-28 Thread Charles de Miramon
Paul A. Rubin wrote: curtis osterhoudt wrote: I'm running into the dreaded No room for a new \write problem. [...] Could it be that the widest-label argument to the \begin{thebibliography} command (which is now 10) is causing the problem? If that's the case, can I change it in LyX? My

Re: html (oolatex/word) conversions not working. Font problem

2007-05-15 Thread Charles de Miramon
Rudi Gaelzer wrote: I'm trying to convert a lyx file to MS word format. Trying export directly from lyx gives no output file and no indication about what the problem is. Exporting to tex and then using the ConvTex utility from http://wiki.lyx.org/Tools/LyX2OpenOffice crashes with the

Re: Chicago-style citations

2007-05-16 Thread Charles de Miramon
Marc Flerackers wrote: I tried ChicagoReedWeb.bst, however since it works with natbib, I wasn't able to get footcite's work. And for jurabib, which does support footcites, I didn't manage to find a chicago looking citation format. I also tried footbib, but it didn't work with miktex.

Re: Why Lyx-Word?

2007-05-18 Thread Charles de Miramon
Julio Rojas wrote: Anyway, thanks Helge. I'll keep you guys informed on the process. Not a solution for now but okular the next generation KDE pdf reader will have annotations support. http://kpdf.kde.org/okular/screenies/okular-annotations.png KDE 4 applications should also work under

Re: Small caps italic revisited

2007-05-22 Thread Charles de Miramon
Sam Lewis wrote: I'm interested what are other peoples experience generally in terms of Open Type and more specifically with small caps italic. What's happening Font wise on the German side for example? In traditional European typography (before the computer), there are no italic (or bold)

Re: Small caps italic revisited

2007-05-23 Thread Charles de Miramon
Sam Lewis wrote: On Tue, 22 May 2007 14:24:35 GMT Charles de Miramon wrote: URL: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.general/38724 In traditional European typography (before the computer), there are no italic (or bold) small capitals. If you are a purist typographer, you should

Re: how to get unnumbered sections in TOC and headers

2007-05-23 Thread Charles de Miramon
Marc Flerackers wrote: I would like to put my introduction section in the TOC, but without it having a number, as otherwise my section numbers start from 2. I tried using section*, but then the section doesn't show up in the TOC, and the headers show the wrong section name. The closest I

Re: 1.5 feature request: textsuperscript textsubscript

2007-05-25 Thread Charles de Miramon
Tim Holy wrote: And, of course, no lyx_trial.odt file. I even did an updatedb and found the tex4ht.env file (in two places). Finally, executing the following command: tex4ht oolatex -e/etc/tex4ht/tex4ht.env lyx_trial appeared to be successful. It created a whole heap of files, but none of

Re: footnote with star symbol

2007-05-29 Thread Charles de Miramon
Deane Harder wrote: Dear all, I'm trying to have a star symbol (*) as a footnote symbol rather than numbers (because I use superscript numbers for literature citings). From an earlier posting I've learned that [EMAIL PROTECTED]@textsuperscript{*}} in the preamble would do the trick. Which

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=6,7,20,21

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}%

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 thing

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 specifically

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 all

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 of ô.

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 capable

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 -- by 1.5, do you

Re: tetex vs texlive for latex2rtf?

2007-10-19 Thread Charles de Miramon
David L. Johnson wrote: B. Bogart wrote: Hey all, I've attempting to install latex2rtf (as recommended by Jürgen) on ubuntu (feisty), but the package depends on tetex and not texlive (what is currently installed on my machine) What is the different between the TeXs? Is there anything

Re: something wrong with biblatex

2009-10-26 Thread Charles de Miramon
sara teinturier wrote: Thanks Charles, I've taken away the first two lines, now Bibliographie title appears as the good French word... I use the TeXlive packages for Ubuntu 9.04: csquotes package is an outdated version. (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/texlive-extra/+bug/433493)

Re: Getting Started with LyX in the social sciences for a substantial project

2009-11-23 Thread Charles de Miramon
Marshall Feldman wrote: Hi, I'm starting a project for which LyX appears to be the best choice, but I have a few questions related to getting started. I'd prefer to ask them now and start doing things the right way rather than find out six months from now that I have to go back and change

Re: Coloring footnote mark

2009-11-24 Thread Charles de Miramon
Miguel Rubio-Roy wrote: Hi, Is there a way of applying color to a footnote mark while keeping the footnote itself black? That is, the superscript number in white with colored background (inside a longtable) and the footnote (outside the table) in black. I've tried with footmisc, but I

Re: Footnotes Formatting: Font Size and Double-Spacing

2009-11-24 Thread Charles de Miramon
M. C. Sunny Wong wrote: Dear LyX Users: Would you please let me know if there is anyway to make the footnotes to be 12-font-size and double-spaced? If you use KomaScript, look the documentation. Basically, you must add something like \setkomafont{footnotes}{@)for changing the font of the

Re: Coloring footnote mark

2009-11-24 Thread Charles de Miramon
Miguel Rubio-Roy wrote: Something like this: \deffootnotemark{\textsuperscript{\colorbox{red}% {\textcolor{white}{\thefootnotemark in the preamble. Use koma-script class. Yago and Charles, Thanks for your help. I think I'll need something more refined, though. The

Re: Bibtex question. How do I insert scans of covers.

2010-03-01 Thread Charles de Miramon
Daniel Lohmann wrote: Just an untested idea: Have you tried (mis-)using the note field for this purpose? @book {... note={\includegraphics{...}} } Yes but the lists of references is basically a list and if you include a graphics at the end of an item of the list, LaTeX is going to do

Re: Import and export to many formats...

2010-03-03 Thread Charles de Miramon
Νίκος Αλεξανδρής wrote: Please, let me know if I am doing something wrong, or forgot an important package to install. apt-get install tex4ht latex2rtf At some point the tex4ht package in Debian was not working but now it is in good shape, I think. Nevertheless tex4ht is a complex and

Re: BibLaTeX style: {cite.0:[biblabel]} has been referenced but does not exist warning

2010-03-16 Thread Charles de Miramon
Piero wrote: I *think* that the issue is originated by some wrong use of auxiliary files in LyX, but please help me solve this. When the biblatex styles creates some op. cit, ibid., etc. it needs a new latex run ro get the cross-references right. LyX does not understand that. Maybe in the

Re: new google docs interface, with wave backend. (collaboration trends)

2010-04-13 Thread Charles de Miramon
rgheck wrote: It'd be nice to hear precisely what people would want that version control does not provide. I have a hard time myself seeing why it is any more than an isn't that cool feature for two people simultaneously to edit a single document. I.e., fun, but hardly revolutionary as far as

Re: [GSoC 2014] Introduction

2014-04-28 Thread Charles de Miramon
Prannoy Pilligundla wrote: Hi Prannoy, I use, praise (and sometimes curse) Tex4ht to convert lyx/latex files to odt and msword. Tex4ht is a powerful software but complex and fragile. In the many years, I have been using Tex4ht, I have found that : - The overloading of the latex macros that

Re: Print list of notes

2008-11-17 Thread Charles de Miramon
Nick Bell wrote: Dear all, Is there anyway in which I can print a list of notes, preferably with page references? Many thanks ~Nick What kind of notes ? footnotes, endnotes, to-do notes Cheers, Charles -- http://www.kde-france.org

Going from custom charstyles to module

2008-11-24 Thread Charles de Miramon
have created a module in LyX 1.6 (I could not find any documentation about the syntax of modules and the new flexible insets) Latin.module #\DeclareLyXModule{Latin} #DescriptionBegin #Définit des styles spécifiques pour les textes en latin et en ancien français #DescriptionEnd #Charles de Miramon

Re: Going from custom charstyles to module

2008-11-24 Thread Charles de Miramon
Richard Heck wrote: See the Customization manual, chapter 5, especially sections 5.2.1 and 5.3.6. OK. I missed that because it is not translated yet in French. This SHOULD work. As you see, LyX does update the file to the new format. What does the LyX code look like if you use your new

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