Re: Inconvenience: Loss of custom styles during document class reversion

2008-04-30 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 29.04.2008, at 19:28, Steve Litt wrote: On Tuesday 29 April 2008 13:11, rgheck wrote: Steve Litt wrote: On Tuesday 29 April 2008 09:00, you wrote: But I've done a little experimenting, and here's one way this can happen. First, you have to be using a "local" layout file, that is, a

Re: Trying to get pdflatex to produce letter size page with outline fonts...

2008-05-02 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 02.05.2008, at 05:45, adam_taylor wrote: Folks, I am a new LyX user, and have a very basic question. I am using Lyx 1.5.1 under Ubuntu 7.10. I believe the TeX system is TeXLive. I created a new document (of class article), wrote a few lines in it, and then wanted to make a PDF.

Re: includepdf

2008-05-05 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 05.05.2008, at 10:17, Mario Braun wrote: I think this isn't the way pdfpages is supposed to be used. If you want a caption, include a single pdf page via the graphics dialog. well, I don´t really want a caption. I just want the 3 pages of my pdf-file to start on the page where the

Re: importing spreadsheet rows and columns

2008-06-01 Thread Daniel Lohmann
A (late) follow-up on this: I have got some good experience with an open-source Excel-Plugin named Excel2LaTeX. This plugin provides a toolbar button to convert the selected parts of an Excel table into LaTeX source code that can then either be saved into a file or into the clipboard.

Re: Converting msword to LyX is ugly!

2008-07-19 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Hi Steve, Have you already considered importing the Word document into OpenOffice Writer and letting one of the OO->LaTeX converters do the hard work? (http://www.hj-gym.dk/~hj/writer2latex/ is one exmple, there might be others) No, I have never tried or used one of those. However, I

Re: Converting msword to LyX is ugly!

2008-07-20 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 20.07.2008, at 05:44, Steve Litt wrote: On Saturday 19 July 2008 19:57, Typhoon wrote: This is by far the best solution, in my opinion. Unfortunately for me, my only Windows machine is a 1997 Pentium II/300 with 128MB of RAM, which would be painfully slow. Steve, What happens if you

Size of preview image

2008-07-27 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Hi, Is there any way to change the size LyX uses internally when creating the bitmaps for preview images? In many cases, the default size of the preview image is to small. I know that I can specify a preview scaling factor in the graphics settings, however, that causes the *bitmap* to be

Re: Lyx functions

2008-07-28 Thread Daniel Lohmann
I really like lyx. I just find something a bit hard. Some things are easier to be done via the keyboard (otherwise it's back to MS point and click nightmare). I mean in an equation it is much easier to just do \pi for Pi or \neq for the not equal sign. What about in standard mode when I am

Re: Interesting thread on Slashdot

2008-07-31 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 31.07.2008, at 08:55, Andre Poenitz wrote: On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 04:17:29PM -0500, Denné Reed wrote: [..] I've also had problems with journal and book editors, one of which insisted I convert a book chapter written in LyX into Word format despite the fact that the publisher (Elsevier)

Re: Conflict with Hyperref + Floats?

2008-08-08 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 08.08.2008, at 08:03, Ryan Cross wrote: HI, I posted a message yesterday about a problem I was having with algorithm floats. I did a lot of debugging and finally (after very long line by line debugging) found that the problem seems to be some sort of conflict when using the hyperref

Re: I'm unable to add a language to the listing package

2008-08-11 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 10.08.2008, at 18:24, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Steve Burton wrote: I tried using ERT. If I got it wrong Lyx crashed. If that's reproducible, it should probably be entered into bugzilla. If I got it right it worked until I closed Lyx. When the document was re-opened Lyx spotted the

Re: Links to external images in PDF generated by LyX.

2008-08-15 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 15.08.2008, at 21:12, Rudi Gaelzer wrote: I'd like to generate a PDF file where the figures/images are not incorporated into it, but rather have links that points to external image files (jpeg, eps, and whatnot). Doing that, I can restrict the size of each individual size instead of

Re: Koma-script letter error on Windows but not on Mac

2008-08-18 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 18.08.2008, at 18:27, Graham Smith wrote: I have a letter set up on a Mac, which works fine, but copying it to Windows and trying to compile gives me the following error: -- } You have used \KOMAoptions to set `', but KOMA-Script does not know any option

Re: Lyx cross platform compatability - is there a problem?

2008-08-20 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 19.08.2008, at 21:21, Graham Smith wrote: On 19 Aug 2008, at 19:57, Christian Ridderström wrote: On Tue, 19 Aug 2008, Graham Smith wrote: As you will see, from my other post, the issue was a leading comma in the preamble, setting the Komascript options. It seems that both the Mac and

Re: LyX for MAC: problems in handling file images

2008-08-26 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 26.08.2008, at 04:15, Bennett Helm wrote: On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 4:18 PM, Pierfranco Minsenti < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have checked my installation of ImageMagick: 6.3.3. Most elements are in the .usr/local/lib Maybe I installed it when I installed the full MacTeX package

Bug in listings inset (Lyx 1.5.6, OS X)

2008-08-27 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Hi, I just discovered a "feature" of the listings inset that actually should be considered as a bug: Additional options given on the advanced page are implicitly sorted alphabetically. However, if using listing styles, the order of options is relevant. Consider the following example:

Re: Bug in listings inset (Lyx 1.5.6, OS X)

2008-08-27 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 27.08.2008, at 19:59, Georg Baum wrote: Daniel Lohmann wrote: Hi, I just discovered a "feature" of the listings inset that actually should be considered as a bug: Additional options given on the advanced page are implicitly sorted alphabetically. However, if using list

Re: Installing pgfplots on the Mac

2008-08-28 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 28.08.2008, at 21:02, Graham Smith wrote: OK, this seems to be linked to my newness with the Mac. I have now managed to find where the the package should go, but I don't seem to have permissions to add a folder and copy the the package into it. I shall have a search for Mac help.

Re: Bug in listings inset (Lyx 1.5.6, OS X)

2008-08-29 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 29.08.2008, at 20:12, Georg Baum wrote: Both problems would be fixed by a sane parameter handling that would not store all parameters in one string, but one parameter after the other in the .lyx file. Preservation of order would then be easy to implement as well. If you prefer I

Re: old questions: no error message

2008-09-01 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 01.09.2008, at 14:58, wangyq wrote: Dear all: I found it is really boring that the lyx system outputs no error message. I am working a book with lyx. Now I want export it to pdf and forward it to others. But I found all export functions in lyx are dead, including exporting to

Re: references between child documents

2008-09-02 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 02.09.2008, at 01:22, Joao P Leitao wrote: Hi, I'm using Lyx for a few weeks and have a few child documents. I'd like to reference a Chapter of "child document A" in "child document B". I've a label in the chapter "of child document A" the one I want to reference. Just open both

Re: lyx 1.60cr2 issues

2008-09-09 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 09.09.2008, at 11:25, G. Milde wrote: On 9.09.08, Konrad Hofbauer wrote: G. Milde wrote: Besides the bug mentionend in another reply: The default settings will use the extension ".lyx15" for the exported file and the file-open dialogue in LyX-1.5 will not show it, as it expects a

Re: Generating PDF/A from LyX/LaTeX

2008-09-12 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 11.09.2008, at 15:55, Ernesto Posse wrote: PS: I'm not sure how the hyperref package could help, as the document doesn't have any hyperrefs; even the minimal file I posted earlier fails... Besides dealing with hyperlinks, the hyperref package provides an interface for many other aspects

How to add a table column left of the first column?

2008-09-16 Thread Daniel Lohmann
LyX 1.5.6, MacOSX Hi, I have a (big and complicated) table which I need to extend by an additional column on the left side (the new column is to become the first column of the table). As far as I have figured out, the "Add column" button always inserts the new column right of the current

Re: List of cross references for a label

2008-09-18 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 18.09.2008, at 15:13, rgheck wrote: Martin Görg wrote: On Thu, 18 Sep 2008 13:27:31 +0200, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: is it correct that there is no functionality in LyX to show all cross references pointing to a specific label? [...] I'll file a feature request in case this

LyX OS-X AppleScript

2008-09-19 Thread Daniel Lohmann
LyX 1.5.5, Mac OSX 10.5.5 Hi, I found some nice AppleScripts to move windows around and attached it to a Quicksilver trigger to have window movement with the keyboard (a feature that unfortunately is totally missing in OS X...). This works with all applications I have tried, but LyX. The

Re: Lyx 1.5.4 lof caption length

2008-09-22 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 22.09.2008, at 16:51, Fil wrote: Hi, Please could you advise if you can set the caption length in LOF in the TOC?? . I'm using lyx 1.5.4. I'd prefer to use the float figure caption(box) if possible so really I need to know if there is a command to cut off the text in the figure box

Re: Lyx 1.5.4 lof caption length

2008-09-23 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 23.09.2008, at 04:43, Fil wrote: Hi Daniel, Thanks for your quick reply. Your suggestion is what I was hoping for and i added it to the preamble, but I get a lot of errors which I otherwise didn't have. My setup is I have a main file the calls up all my other chapters. I'm assuming

Re: Importing texinfo files

2008-10-20 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 20.10.2008, at 14:11, Keith Roberts wrote: On Mon, 20 Oct 2008, Keith Roberts wrote: To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org From: Keith Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Importing texinfo files Is it possible to import a Linux textinfo document and then convert it to PDF for viewing and

Automagically reduce the spacing between "++" in the word "C++"

2008-10-22 Thread Daniel Lohmann
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 somewhat related to the

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

2008-10-22 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 22.10.2008, at 14:12, Charles de Miramon wrote: Daniel Lohmann wrote: [...] occurrences with some ERT box is not an option, as this would cause too much hassle and would not work in external material, such as bibliographic entries. I am looking for a more elegant solution. The easiest way

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

2008-10-22 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 22.10.2008, at 14:07, Konrad Hofbauer wrote: Daniel Lohmann wrote: Any TeX gurus on this list who might help me? If you don't get any answer here, try in the comp.text.tex newsgroup. Thanks Konrad! Daniel, who is hoping nevertheless to find an expert here :-)

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

2008-10-22 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 23.10.2008, at 00:00, Andre Poenitz wrote: Since I started to waste the evening with TeX, the final version: \def\plus{+} \def\gobble#1{} \catcode`\+=\active \def\checknextchar{% \ifx\nextchar+% \raisebox{0.6ex}{\tiny\plus\kern-.3ex\plus}%

Re: Auto-reload pdf files on Mac?

2011-05-03 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 31.01.2011, at 18:17, Murat Yildizoglu wrote: > I confirm that Skim is able to autoload the pdf and keep the actual view of > the file. You have just tell it, the first time you update the PDF, that you > want it to auto-load it (I have not found a way to tell it to auto-load > without

Re: pdf looks like low quality scan

2006-10-18 Thread Daniel Lohmann
2006/10/18, Helge Hafting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Any ideas what is causing this? Yes. Acrobat is a lousy pdf reader - it don't handle bitmap fonts very well. Simple solution - use other pdf readers. Oh, you can recommend good alternatives for Windows, the only platform on which this problem

Re: How ERT are displayed

2006-10-18 Thread Daniel Lohmann
ERTs are rendered in the same font size than the line they are embedded into. Hence, if you add an ERT to e.g. the title of an article the font is huge. ERTs in the main text are a lot more readable. I would, however, also prefer to have a fixed font size for all ERTs Daniel 2006/10/18,

Re: LyX slow in Windows XP

2006-10-19 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Abdelrazak Younes schrieb: Daniel Lohmann wrote: Could you provide the results for the CSRSS.EXE process as well? See below but I don't see much of a difference. I've passed the "-j" option to let it find the .pdb but it can't seem to find the debug symbols apparently...

Re: How ERT are displayed

2006-10-19 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes schrieb: "Daniel" == Daniel Lohmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Daniel> I would, however, also prefer to have a fixed font size for Daniel> all ERTs Some people who use ERT for short bits would not like to have it be of the same fixed size. How

Re: pdf looks like low quality scan

2006-10-19 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Curtis Osterhoudt schrieb: > > Simple solution - use other pdf readers. > > Oh, you can recommend good alternatives for Windows > Daniel Hi, Daniel, I'm quite happy with Foxit's free .pdf viewer (www.foxitsoftware.com), though I don't know how well it handles bitmapped fonts.

Re: Update to: [announce] new extended LyX manual available

2006-11-08 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Uwe Stöhr schrieb: I wrote: I'm proud to announce the new extended LyX manual about Floats, Notes, Tables, Graphics, and Boxes. The manual can be downloaded from http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/DocumentationDevelopment#Extended-Insets I'm happily surprized that I got so much feedback about this.

Re: formating of hyperref links

2006-12-06 Thread Daniel Lohmann
gecolor= darkgrey, pdftitle = {A Quantitive Analysis of Aspects in the eCos Kernel}, pdfsubject = {D.4.7 [Operating Systems]: Organization and Design?Realtime systems and embedded systems; D.3.3 [Programming Languages]: Language Constructs and Features}, pdfauthor = {Daniel Lohmann, Fabian Sche

Re: Replicating a document layout

2006-12-28 Thread Daniel Lohmann
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: Siterer Shawn Willden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: [...] Each page also needs a footer, containing the file name, page number (e.g. "Page n of m"), version number and last revision date. Would it be difficult to make something like this? Is there something out there that's

Re: BibTeX and master documents

2007-02-02 Thread Daniel Lohmann
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: > To make it easier to insert citatiosn (if you still need to), you can > insert a bibliography within each child document, but place it inside a > *comment*. That way LaTeX won't see it, but LyX will know what > .bib-files to scan for when showing you the available

Re: BibTeX and master documents

2007-02-05 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Thanks Richard, Works like a charm :-) Daniel Richard Heck wrote: > Use the technique mentioned here: > http://wiki.lyx.org/Tips/ChildMathMacros. More or less. And see below. >> 1) Define a variable \master in the preamble of the master document >> before including the common preamble: > Define

Understanding key bindings

2007-02-07 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Hi Lyx-Folks, One of the less documened, but very useful features of LyX is to assign formattings by key strokes. It is so convenient to press e.g. "ALT-P S" to format a paragraph as "Standard" So I looked up the actually defined keystrokes in menus.bind. However, I am either not able to

Re: Understanding key bindings

2007-02-08 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Hi Paul, # I have no problems with these: \bind "M-p ~S-5""layout Paragraph" \bind "M-p ~S-6""layout Subparagraph" # I don't know how to press these # What is asterisk on a German keyboard? # Or is it a "magic" key? \bind "M-p ~S-asterisk ~S-5""layout Paragraph*" \bind "M-p

Re: Understanding key bindings

2007-02-08 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Dominik Waßenhoven schrieb: Of course they have it. It was just my ignorance regarding the meaning of "asteriks". Don't confuse it with the small guy from Gaul, then! :-) Daniel

How to prevent page break before Part and Chapter

2007-02-12 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Hi LyX-Folks, This most probably is, as 90% of the messages on this list, more realated to LaTeX than to LyX itself: For my thesis I am using the koma-script book class (scrbook). I would like to remove (suppress) the usual page breaks before Part and Chapter headings in draft printings,

Re: How to prevent page break before Part and Chapter

2007-02-12 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Jürgen Spitzmüller schrieb: Daniel Lohmann wrote: For my thesis I am using the koma-script book class (scrbook). I would like to remove (suppress) the usual page breaks before Part and Chapter headings in draft printings, but print a horizontal line instead. Then use report, not book

Re: MS Word to LyX : Losing special characters

2007-02-13 Thread Daniel Lohmann
John Kane schrieb: No I'm not using Word(well not if I can help it. I normally use OOo as a WP, with "smart quotes" off, but I get some very badly formatted Word documents for internal use. Occasionally it is easier to put them into LyX than it is to try to reformat them into something

TeXperts: using hyperref to refer to label containing # in external document

2007-02-20 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Hi LyX-Folks, I am writing a document that refers to specific pages or chapters of other documents. In the resulting PDF, the reader should be able to navigate directly to the referred document and page. I am using the hyperref package to generate the links. Problem is that I am not the

Re: TeXperts: using hyperref to refer to label containing # in external document

2007-02-20 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Georg Baum schrieb: Am Dienstag, 20. Februar 2007 16:44 schrieb Daniel Lohmann: OK, the second line is responsible for inserting the dot (".") between the second and the third parameter. However, while I successfully managed to replace it with almost any character, I have not

Re: TeXperts: using hyperref to refer to label containing # in external document

2007-02-21 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Enrico Forestieri schrieb: Please, try the following: \usepackage{hyperref} \catcode`\#=11 \def\hashmark{#} \catcode`\#=6 \def\@@hyperref#1#2#3{% [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]@one\\{#1}% } Thanks a lot Enrico, the \catcode trick did it :-) Now the href links are created as they

Document-specific layout extensions

2007-02-21 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Hi, I am looking for way to extend or customize the LyX layout (such as the available styles) for a particular document only. While I know how to tweak layouts in the global or user-specific Resources/layouts/ folder, I would like to avoid this, as the document is shared with a couple of

Re: Document-specific layout extensions

2007-02-23 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Georg Baum wrote: > [...] > I would suggest to create a layout file that you ship together with your > document. It should have a new name, so that users can simply copy it into > their resource directory and reconfigure LyX. If you change the file and > ship an update then the reconfigure

Re: Complaints regarding keyboard shortcuts?

2007-02-26 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> I read the complaing page for LyX >> >> http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Complaints >> >> where at the end someone complained about "no simple keyboard >> bindings". I'm afraid I don't understand that bit - I personally never >> found the keyboard

Re: Complaints regarding keyboard shortcuts?

2007-02-26 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes schrieb: "Daniel" == Daniel Lohmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Daniel> No, seriously. I personally think that LyX is quite well Daniel> usable via the keyboard, point is just that most shortcuts are Daniel> not obvious. Studying the bind-fi

Re: Complaints regarding keyboard shortcuts?

2007-02-27 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: >>>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel Lohmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Daniel> Nevertheless: It would be nice to have them for style > Daniel> selections, menu entries and simple dialogs (if the OK action > Daniel> of

Re: lyx 1.4.4 and lyx 1.5.0beta

2007-02-27 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Uwe Stöhr wrote: > Tino Langer schrieb: > >> is it possible to install both versions at the same time on one >> computer? What I have to look for to have no trouble. > > Yes you can. I have both version installed side by side. To avoid > problems install first LyX 1.4.4 using this installer >

Re: My solution to problems with IEEEtran.cls and Babel (You haven't defined the language ENGLISH yet)

2007-03-22 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Two additional comments: - The problem appears with other article classes as well (I had it with other IEEE styles, but also the ACM classes sigplan, acm_proc_article and so on). - It seems to be enough to just uncheck the "use bable" option. There is no need for reconfiguration. Daniel

Re: ugly big blank space

2007-03-22 Thread Daniel Lohmann
AFAIK there is no out-of-the-box solution (aka some magic option) for this kind of problem that really works. If the space is just enough for an orphan/widow, but to big to be let empty, well what should LaTeX possibly do about it? IMHO this is best solved by manual fine-tuning at the very end:

Re: [SOLVED] appendix package not working?

2007-03-25 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Bob, This info and the example is definitely worth to be put on the Wiki! I think the reason you got no answers on your questions is not caused by a lack of interest but by a lack of knowledge. Daniel Bob Lounsbury schrieb: Hello, I'm trying to use the appendix package to change the

Re: Embedding highlighed external source code files in a LyX document

2007-03-29 Thread Daniel Lohmann
John Pye wrote: > Hi all > > I know that this has 'been done' but I'm not sure how to go about it > myself. I would like to link to an external source code file and 'pull > it in' to my compiled document when I use pdflatex. I would like to > apply source code highlighting, although that's not

Re: Embedding highlighed external source code files in a LyX document

2007-03-29 Thread Daniel Lohmann
John Pye schrieb: Hi Daniel Where and how do I get this 'listings' package? I looked on the LyX homepage and on the Wiki but couldn't find it. Well, it is not related to LyX, but a LaTeX package which you have to install for your LaTeX distribution. With MikTex on Windows this should be

Re: Bounding box on OpenOffice PDFs

2007-03-31 Thread Daniel Lohmann
John Pye schrieb: Point is that it doesn't NEED cropping. If I open the file in Evince, it correctly shows the image not needing cropping. I have got to pains to change the page size in OpenOffice to just that which is requred. The point is that LyX is not detecting the BoundingBox correctly

Lyx 1.4 Win32: How to set UI language?

2007-03-31 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Hi, On my (German) WinXP, LyX 1.4 "suddenly" (at least I never noticed that before) uses German translations for most parts of the UI, which kind of confuses me, especially as all the short-cuts are different. How can I switch it back to English? Thanks! Daniel

Re: Lyx 1.4 Win32: How to set UI language?

2007-04-02 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Hi Paul, Thank you very much; that did it! Now I also understand why LyX suddenly switched to German UI. It had never started this particular version from the command line before. Daniel Paul A. Rubin schrieb: Daniel Lohmann wrote: Hi, On my (German) WinXP, LyX 1.4 "suddenly" (

Howto extend the TEXINPUTS path from within the document

2007-04-23 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Hi, I have a (subversion-managed) documentation project. The different chapters are maintained in sub subdirectories. They have to \usepackage some custom LaTeX packages, which are part of the project and maintained in a "share" folder: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [~/svnunix/stud/ose-2007/doc]>find . .

Ideas wantet: How to watermark or stamp existing PDFs with LyX/LaTeX

2007-04-28 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Hi Everybody, I am looking for a clever way to merge some extra information into existing PDF files. Background: We have a bunch of research papers (PDF) which should be "stamped" on the first page with some small box containing extra information. The information to add includes a link to

Re: Ideas wantet: How to watermark or stamp existing PDFs with LyX/LaTeX

2007-04-28 Thread Daniel Lohmann
John Pye schrieb: Perhaps this one is worth a look? http://pybrary.net/pyPdf/ Thanks John, I wasn't aware of that! For the archive: pyPDF is a nice and quite easy to use Python library to merge pages from different input PDF files into an output PDF file. Unfortunately it does not solve

Re: keyboard shortcut to open footnote

2007-05-07 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Cool, I was looking for that one as well! There is one caveat: If I press Ctrl+i in an "inline" ERT box, it changes to "collapsed", as expected. Howver, if I press it again it changes not back to "inline" but "open". Is there a keyboard shortcut to switch to "inline" display as well? (I

Re: How to Spot a Word Processed Book

2007-05-10 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Rich Shepard wrote: > [...] > When I wrote Tim O'Reilly to ask why they have that policy he > never responded. > I guess they do it for pragmatic reasons. It is just the "editor" that is most common among writers - and documents are most probably converted into an in-house format for the

Re: How to Spot a Word Processed Book

2007-05-10 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Russell Davie wrote: > Annotating pdf? no excuses now! > Well, the tools to annotate PDFs -- including Acrobat -- are quite clumsy. And of course there is a significant difference between editing (in the sense of performing visible changes to the document, each of which can later be approved

Re: How to Spot a Word Processed Book

2007-05-11 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Tim Michelsen wrote: > > Very good point. I often do get the comment that I should run the spell > checker. But it takes the same amount of time to check with the Lyx > spell checker and train it all the technical terms as > printing and correcting it manually. Especially if you write a lot of

Re: enumerating lines of code

2007-05-11 Thread Daniel Lohmann
pol wrote: > I would like to automatically enumerate blocks of lines of code, > that is lines formatted as 'lyx code'. > > Enumeration should be carried through all the blocks in the document. > > Any hints? I recommend to use the listings package to typeset your code instead of "Lyx Code".

Re: How to Spot a Word Processed Book

2007-05-11 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Helge Hafting wrote: > Daniel Lohmann wrote: >> Tim Michelsen wrote: >> >>> Very good point. I often do get the comment that I should run the spell >>> checker. But it takes the same amount of time to check with the Lyx >>> spell checker and train

Re: enumerating lines of code

2007-05-11 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Richard Heck schrieb: The listings package is **wonderful**. Note that it can import specified lines from a source file. And LyX 1.5.0 will support the listings package directly via a listings inset (like the ERT inset). This was committed to svn a few days ago. Cool! Cool, cool, cool,

Re: Why Lyx->Word?

2007-05-15 Thread Daniel Lohmann
I used to use Word quite a lot and was -- overall -- not too unhappy with it. I used it, for instance, to typeset my diploma with >120 pages and plenty of figures. All this worked quite well, but as I said, I already was an experienced Word user at that time so I knew how to do it. I guess the

Re: Why Lyx->Word?

2007-05-15 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Dominik Waßenhoven wrote: > Daniel Lohmann schrieb: > >> Sometimes, I have to admit it, I still "draw" tables with Word or >> Excel and export them as EPS figures into my LyX document... > > There's a tool that could be interesting for you, excel2latex: Yes

Re: Creating a document class

2007-05-17 Thread Daniel Lohmann
NicoWinger schrieb: Ok, this is to create one special cover, but I can't use it for the document class to create individual covers with different names, studytopics, professors etc., can I? If I understood Jean-Pierre correctly, the idea is to write LaTeX macros (/covertitle, /covertopic ...)

Re: How to put title and text in a box?

2007-05-18 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Steve Litt wrote: > Oh never mind, I already solved this problem and forgot I'd solved it. I made > the title LyX environment with a LatexType of command, and had that command > set a variable, and then the box text environment used that variable. > Steve, Would you mind sharing the relevant

Re: How to put title and text in a box?

2007-05-20 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Thanks a lot, Steve! Daniel Steve Litt schrieb: [...] Hi Daniel, I've put it in the body of this email below my sig. Let me explain: I've named the two LyX environments CalloutTitle and CalloutText. > [...]

Re: lyx pictures

2007-05-29 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Bo Peng wrote: >> I would like to know, is there a way to paste pictures into lyx >> directly from >> clipboard - lyx could automatically create a subfolder containing pasted >> pictures. This would improve my speed drastically when working with >> pictures! > It is not possible now, and I doubt

Re: Thesis templates needed

2007-06-12 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Supheakmungkol SARIN wrote: > Hello Lyxer, > > I am now in the process of writing thesis. I'd like to > know whether you can point out some great lyx thesis > templates or you can share your own template if you > have made one. What are your specific requirements? What is your discipline? Are

Re: Bibliography in child document

2007-06-12 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Dominik Waßenhoven wrote: > Daniel Lohmann schrieb: > >> [...] >> >> On the LyX side I did some customization to support my intended document >> structure. For instance, each chapter is a child document which includes >> the bibliography if compil

How to execute some command after an Update in LyX

2007-06-19 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Hi, I am using LyX 1.4.x on Linux, with xpdf as PDF viewer. Currently I open the viewer first by selecting "View->PDF" in LyX, after that I just refresh the existing PDF by selecting "View->Update->PDF". What I would like to achieve is that the xpdf does an automatic refresh whenever I update

Re: Figure caption macro

2007-07-03 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Enrico Forestieri wrote: > Lyx user writes: > >> I would like to insert code in my preamble that will replace every instance >> of >> >> \caption{Short. Long long long long.} >> >> with >> >> \caption[Short]{Short. Long long long long.} >> >> However, I am not too familiar with LaTeX and TeX

Re: Figure caption macro

2007-07-03 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: >> "Lyx" == Lyx user <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Lyx> I would like to insert code in my preamble that will replace > Lyx> every instance of \caption{Short. Long long long long.} > > Lyx> with > > Lyx> \caption[Short]{Short. Long long long long.} > > May I

Re: Figure caption macro

2007-07-04 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Enrico Forestieri wrote: > Try the following: > > \let\oldcaption\caption > \def\takeshort#1.#2\next{\gdef\short{#1}\gdef\everything{{\bfseries #1}.~~#2}} > \def\caption#1{\takeshort#1\next\oldcaption[\short]{\everything}} > >> I am a bit confused... Why there is such a big difference in the

Re: LyX 1.5 and 1.4.5

2007-07-19 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > Matthias Diehl wrote: >> Yeah, so forget about LyX 1.4.5?! > > Remember that every major release with new features has the potential of new > bugs. Some people might decide to be more conservative. > I want to back that! I really, really appreciate that the LyX

\newtheorem and \newtheoremstyle

2007-08-30 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Hi, In my thesis I have to define a couple of terms and I thought about using the amsthm package which offers the \newtheorem and \newtheoremstyle commands to generate environments for theorem-like structures. So I added to my layout file a new style $Definition to my layout file: Counter

Re: \newtheorem and \newtheoremstyle

2007-08-30 Thread Daniel Lohmann
o LaTeX. Is there any way to pass an optional argument (in square brackets) from LyX to the \begin{xxx} of the internally used LaTeX environment? Thanks Daniel Daniel Lohmann schrieb: Hi, In my thesis I have to define a couple of terms and I thought about using the amsthm package which

Re: relative paths

2007-09-03 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Helmut, In fact relative paths work very well - only the file selection dialog does not return them. Just enter the relative path to the figure by hand or change it after using the file selection dialog. Daniel Hauser Helmut schrieb: Hello, I use LyX on a Linux machine in my office and on

Re: References managers

2007-09-05 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Roberto Gorjão wrote: Hi, I've selected JabRef as a references manager to work with LyX. I've selected it after a small web research, but, as I'm a newbie on LyX, I would like your opinion: was JabRef a good choice or are there better references managers to work with LyX? I'm on Win XP.

How to set the printer page size to letter without altering the layout

2007-09-26 Thread Daniel Lohmann
ed for letter format.) More precisely: \usepackage[letterpaper]{geometry} messed up the layout completely, whereas \usepackage[letterpaper]{typearea} resulted in a error message that "current" has not been defined. Any ideas? Daniel -- Dipl.-Inf. Daniel Lohmann (Wissenschaftlicher Mit

Re: How to set the printer page size to letter without altering the layout

2007-09-27 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Paul A. Rubin schrieb: Daniel Lohmann wrote: >> [...] More precisely: \usepackage[letterpaper]{geometry} messed up the layout completely [...] How did \usepackage[letterpaper]{geometry} mess up the layout? It also changed the column width, which resulted in a 7 instead of 5

Toggle CharStyle Display (LyX 1.4.x)

2007-10-03 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Hi, I just figured out by chance that it is possible to make the name of a CharStyle disappear in an assignment by right clicking on the affected word. This is pretty nice, as I find the extra space taken by the CharStyle names quite disturbing in the on-screen layout of may text. (I use a

Re: Toggle CharStyle Display (LyX 1.4.x)

2007-10-04 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Juergen Spitzmueller schrieb: Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: "M-x all insets-toggle" (but this also toggles the other insets). It's "M-x all-insets-toggle" Thanks Juergen, However, I tried that one already -- it does toggle the display of CharStyle insets in 1.4.x. Although it

Re: Toggle CharStyle Display (LyX 1.4.x)

2007-10-04 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Thanks Juergen, However, I tried that one already -- it does toggle the display of CharStyle insets in 1.4.x. Although it works in 1.5.x. Of course this should have read as: However, I tried that one already -- it does *not* toggle the display of CharStyle insets in 1.4.x. Although it

Re: Toggle CharStyle Display (LyX 1.4.x)

2007-10-04 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: Daniel Lohmann wrote: However, I tried that one already -- it does not toggle the display of CharStyle insets in 1.4.x. Although it works in 1.5.x. Ah yes, it's a new feature in 1.5, where the toggle state also should be preserved between sessions. Sorry

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