Re: Changing the starting number of Exercise

2005-10-21 Thread David L. Johnson
so i could not change it by my-self. It should be \setcounter{exercise]{7} -- David L. Johnson __o | Accept risk. Accept responsibility. Put a lawyer out of _`\(,_ | business. (_)/ (_) |

Re: Changing the starting number of Exercise

2005-10-21 Thread David L. Johnson
On Fri, 21 Oct 2005 21:23:44 -0400 David L. Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 22 Oct 2005 01:13:55 +0200 Hannan Sadar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am using Document class: article (AMS,sequential numbering). I would like that my Exercise numbers would start

Re: Changing the starting number of Exercise

2005-10-22 Thread David L. Johnson
be \setcounter{xca}{7} that acutually worked... In general, these things are defined in /usr/share/lyx/layouts/amsmaths-seq.inc. Sorry for the bad advice earlier. -- David L. Johnson __o | Business! cried the Ghost. Mankind was my business. The _`\(,_ | common welfare was my business; charity

Re: LyX and xypic

2005-10-25 Thread David L. Johnson
it all in ERT. -- David L. Johnson __o | You will say Christ saith this and the apostles say this; but _`\(,_ | what canst thou say? -- George Fox. (_)/ (_) |

Re: Algorithm

2005-10-29 Thread David L. Johnson
on other layout files may also be language-specific. I never have installed LyX for a language different from US/English, so I don't know what is already done to translate layouts. -- David L. Johnson __o | Accept risk. Accept responsibility. Put a lawyer out of _`\(,_ | business. (_)/ (_) |

Re: lyx on Debian testing

2005-11-27 Thread David L. Johnson
packages on lyx.org, which installed just fine. -- David L. Johnson __o | When you are up to your ass in alligators, it's hard to remember _`\(,_ | that your initial objective was to drain the swamp. -- LBJ (_)/ (_) |

Re: lyx on windows (and printing notes)

2005-11-29 Thread David L. Johnson
to another computer to print, is fine. IMO there should be the option of using LyX without TeX. -- David L. Johnson __o | Enron's slogan: Respect, Communication, Integrity, and _`\(,_ | Excellence. (_)/ (_) |

Re: The best 2d and 3d eps math graphs to Lyx

2005-11-30 Thread David L. Johnson
downloaded it 2 days ago. Now, I have yet to install it, but it seems to be the real thing. IMO MuPad is nice (especially the graphics), but since I get Maple through work I haven't been motivated to use it. -- David L. Johnson __o | The lottery is a tax on those who fail to understand

Re: Missing references bug: lyx not calling pdflatex again?

2006-01-06 Thread David L. Johnson
a second Latex run into that makefile. -- David L. Johnson __o | Business! cried the Ghost. Mankind was my business. The _`\(,_ | common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, (_)/ (_) | and benevolence, were, all, my business. The dealings of my trade were

Re: LyX is getting... very annoying.

2006-02-02 Thread David L. Johnson
the textmf string REAPPEAR in exactly the same place?? Because you typed it in the same way. -- David L. Johnson __o | A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored _`\(,_ | by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. --Ralph Waldo (_)/ (_) | Emerson

Re: LyX is getting... very annoying.

2006-02-02 Thread David L. Johnson
. This allows the insertion of bits of TeX text properly in LyX. -- David L. Johnson __o | Some people used to claim that, if enough monkeys sat in front _`\(,_ | of enough typewriters and typed long enough, eventually one of (_)/ (_) | them would reproduce the collected works

Re: LyX is getting... very annoying.

2006-02-02 Thread David L. Johnson
will be for entering more than one word, with spaces and all. At any rate, the simple toggle to insert text this way means that that is what I have been doing for years with it, to no ill effect. -- David L. Johnson __o | Business! cried the Ghost. Mankind was my business. The _`\(,_ | common welfare

Re: Problem\Bug with subsection at article AMS at 1.4.0pre6

2006-03-06 Thread David L. Johnson
a limitation of LyX, but not, in my mind, a serious one. -- David L. Johnson Lehigh University

Re: converting to html

2006-03-08 Thread David L. Johnson
with the PDA handles the code. I will send you a sample output by e-mail. LyX should be able to be re-configured to use tth instead of whatever you are using. -- David L. Johnson __o | Accept risk. Accept responsibility. Put a lawyer out of _`\(,_ | business. (_)/ (_) |

Question about language appearing in running heads

2006-09-04 Thread David L. Johnson
LyX regenerate it, to no avail. Any clue? Any help? LyX version: 1.4.2 (also occurred with 1.4.1 and later 3.? versions). OS: debian linux testing on amd64 and x86 machines Problem file types: Any AMS document type with running heads. -- David L. Johnson __o | Business! cried the Ghost

Re: Question about language appearing in running heads

2006-09-05 Thread David L. Johnson
On Tue, 5 Sep 2006 10:51:44 +0200 Juergen Spitzmueller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David L. Johnson wrote: However, in recent versions (I am currently using 1.4.2 under debian linux), before either the author name or the title, on the running heads in the printout or dvi files, occurs

Re: Historical question

2006-09-13 Thread David L. Johnson
. But, they were carved on clay tablets, anyway, so I couldn't read them now. I believe Matthias released his first version sometime in 1995. It did not display math at all. All formulas were ERT. Yes, it was red, even back then. I don't recall a version number. -- David L. Johnson __o

Reconfigure oddity

2007-11-19 Thread David L. Johnson
adequately, but maybe it would be time to update this output format. I just checked on my desktop machine and it, also, produces the same old lyx format from reconfigure. On that machine (debian lenny, amd64 machine) I compiled lyx-1.5.2 myself. -- David L. Johnson And though I have the gift

Re: Math subject classification

2007-11-28 Thread David L. Johnson
] LabelString 2000 Mathematics Subject Classification: End Do you bave an old ~/.lyx file around? Of course, this just puts the problem off for a few years. It would be really clever to change that subjclass[2000] name to auotmatically print the right decade. -- David L. Johnson

Re: Slowness

2007-12-10 Thread David L. Johnson
text fonts, and it improved dramatically. I can probably find what fonts I changed to, but it would probably be better for you to just find one you like, and test it out. I saw this mostly on my 64-bit amd and on my zaurus/debian sid. -- David L. Johnson And though I have the gift of prophecy

New version question

2011-03-07 Thread David L. Johnson
to un-make it? I don't really want to downgrade, if I can avoid it. LyX is my default program for writing just about everything. -- David L. Johnson A mathematician is a machine for turning coffee into theorems. -- Paul Erdos

Re: two theorems right after another

2011-03-10 Thread David L. Johnson
in the standard environment, and put in, say, an ERT %, and it will be fine. Or you could prove the first result... -- David L. Johnson You will say Christ saith this and the apostles say this; but what canst thou say? -- George Fox.

Re: Summation

2011-03-11 Thread David L. Johnson
, and set displaystyle. Alternately, under the Edit - Math menu, you can set limits type to display. The problem, though, with using displaystyle in an inline formula is that you will force large linespacings around that formula. -- David L. Johnson Enron's slogan: Respect, Communication

Odd warning message

2011-03-15 Thread David L. Johnson
not, of course, a big deal, since I can just ignore the warning, but it is odd behavior. -- David L. Johnson If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion. -- George Bernard Shaw

Re: Odd warning message

2011-03-15 Thread David L. Johnson
the second time, but it doesn't appear to do any harm? I don't know about that. -- David L. Johnson It is a scientifically proven fact that a mid life crisis can only be cured by something racy and Italian. Bianchis and Colnagos are a lot cheaper than Maserattis and Ferraris

Re: My equation is flowing off the page. What can I do?

2011-03-21 Thread David L. Johnson
is going on, this is a TeX issue, not LyX. -- David L. Johnson Deserves death! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. -- J. R. R. Tolkein

Re: LyX Promotion

2011-03-22 Thread David L. Johnson
make this process a factor of ten times faster. No, in my experience it creates the takes a while part. -- David L. Johnson A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. --Ralph Waldo Emerson

Re: tengo problemas al trabajar con lyx

2011-03-23 Thread David L. Johnson
for the environment that is being used. If it is a shortish file, send it to me and I will see what I can see. -- David L. Johnson It doesn't get any easier, you just go faster. --Greg LeMond

Re: frage -Rechtschreibung startet nicht

2011-03-25 Thread David L. Johnson
the continuous spellchecking. Good luck. -- David L. Johnson You will say Christ saith this and the apostles say this; but what canst thou say? -- George Fox.

Re: LyX: Saves edited version of document as a new version (new file) ?

2011-03-25 Thread David L. Johnson
.: Please reply to me personally, not just to the lyx mailing list. Generally, it is better form, when asking a question of a list, to join the list at least until your question is answered. -- David L. Johnson What am I on? I'm on my bike, six hours a day, busting my ass. What are you

Re: Poll for the default icon theme in LyX 2.0

2011-03-30 Thread David L. Johnson
On 03/30/11 09:26, Pavel Sanda wrote: - old -- David L. Johnson Let's not escape into mathematics. Let's stay with reality. -- Michael Crichton

Re: People can't read my pdf's

2011-04-12 Thread David L. Johnson
people did not have installed. This is common for us linux users. pstopdf gives, usually, readable output, but text may not be selectable. -- David L. Johnson It is probable that television drama of high caliber and produced by first-rate artists will materially raise the level of dramatic

Re: Translations issues in French

2011-04-15 Thread David L. Johnson
. -- David L. Johnson It is probable that television drama of high caliber and produced by first-rate artists will materially raise the level of dramatic taste in the nation. -- David Sarnoff, 1939

Re: Numbering the rows of a table

2011-04-18 Thread David L. Johnson
can't easily find a way to do this with LyX. What am I missing? I presume you need the lines in the table, or else there is no reason why you couldn't just use an enumerated list, which would do what you want. But inside of a table, I don't know how to do that. -- David L. Johnson When you

Re: Numbering the rows of a table

2011-04-18 Thread David L. Johnson
. That works very nicely. It's be cool to add this to the table functionality in LyX at some point, but this is simple enough to satisfy the original request, I think. -- David L. Johnson As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain

Re: How?

2011-04-19 Thread David L. Johnson
the connection to the music term. -- David L. Johnson Arguing with an engineer is like mud wrestling with a pig... You soon find out the pig likes it!

Re: Latex - absolute beginners

2011-04-20 Thread David L. Johnson
it is done. -- David L. Johnson Some people used to claim that, if enough monkeys sat in front of enough typewriters and typed long enough, eventually one of them would reproduce the collected works of Shakespeare. The internet has proven this not to be the case.

Re: Example is counted as a theorem

2011-04-21 Thread David L. Johnson
the example as a theorem also. How can I fix this in Lyx? You can change the way all such things are counted in Document - Modules. Try numbered by type. -- David L. Johnson You will say Christ saith this and the apostles say this; but what canst thou say? -- George Fox.

Re: Single quotes don't pair up

2011-04-26 Thread David L. Johnson
and the closing one look like a nine? That's how mine is, although of course the six and nine don't have actual loops. I'm pretty sure that's right. -- David L. Johnson A mathematician is a machine for turning coffee into theorems. -- Paul Erdos

Re: Figure Float Rotated When Exported: Why?

2011-06-13 Thread David L. Johnson
? Not that this will help, but I recall this phenomenon some years ago. For me (using linux) the problem has not reappeared in some time. -- David L. Johnson A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. --Ralph Waldo Emerson

Re: LyX 2.0.0 spell checker {KBD shortcut(s)}

2011-06-14 Thread David L. Johnson
would go to its menu. So you have to use the mouse, no matter what, at least to shift the input focus to the spellchecker window. -- David L. Johnson Business! cried the Ghost. Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were

Re: Can use ' symbol in \letterine?

2011-06-21 Thread David L. Johnson
systems or languages would have, you should indicate what those parameters are. When you say it does not produce a pdf file, does it give you an error message? -- David L. Johnson Deserves death! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give

Re: How to make formatted cross-reference capitalized in Lyx 2.0?

2011-06-28 Thread David L. Johnson
work in an external editor. -- David L. Johnson It is a scientifically proven fact that a mid life crisis can only be cured by something racy and Italian. Bianchis and Colnagos are a lot cheaper than Maserattis and Ferraris. -- Glenn Davies

Re: tetex - texlive

2011-07-17 Thread David L. Johnson
(such as a deadline to produce a document). I did that transition some time ago, since AFAIK tetex is no longer supported, and texlive is. I do not recall any problems with the transition. -- David L. Johnson Some people used to claim that, if enough monkeys sat in front of enough

Re: Latex use in Lyx

2011-07-26 Thread David L. Johnson
you use most often. -- David L. Johnson Business! cried the Ghost. Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were, all, my business. The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business

Re: Adding title/text to Propositions/Theorems/...

2011-07-28 Thread David L. Johnson
is the standard way to do it in TeX. -- David L. Johnson Some people used to claim that, if enough monkeys sat in front of enough typewriters and typed long enough, eventually one of them would reproduce the collected works of Shakespeare. The internet has proven this not to be the case.

Re: Can I use lyx for a shopping list

2011-08-13 Thread David L. Johnson
want to turn on multi-column (3 column in this case) text, enter \begin{multicols}{3} in ERT, and then \end{multicols} to return to single-column layout. -- David L. Johnson Accept risk. Accept responsibility. Put a lawyer out of business.

Re: Drehen von Seiten

2011-08-16 Thread David L. Johnson
the citations as you want them? Maybe someone else knows how to make LyX/LaTeX behave in the same way. -- David L. Johnson It is a scientifically proven fact that a mid life crisis can only be cured by something racy and Italian. Bianchis and Colnagos are a lot cheaper than Maserattis

Re: how to write an Augmented Matrix

2011-08-21 Thread David L. Johnson
, and add your choice of brackets. Then click on the next-to-rightmost column, on any row, and click on (I think) the right mouse button. You should get a menu with a choice of line right and line left for you to choose. I use this all the time. -- David L. Johnson The lottery is a tax

Re: linux permissions of exported pdf file: how to set it to 660 by default?

2011-08-30 Thread David L. Johnson
that the export to ___ process starts with a TeX file in the /tmp/* directory, which might have different default permissions than the user space, pdflatex may preserve those permissions. -- David L. Johnson Let's not escape into mathematics. Let's stay with reality. -- Michael

Re: TeX Capacity problem

2011-09-04 Thread David L. Johnson
when I mistakenly have a whole paragraph, including mathematics, inside an environment such as a subsubhead. Check for errors like that first. -- David L. Johnson What is objectionable, and what is dangerous about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant

Re: Importing excel/gnumeric to LyX

2011-09-10 Thread David L. Johnson
but export/print works fine. I'm using linux (debian testing), so maybe your system is different. -- David L. Johnson A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. --Ralph Waldo Emerson

Re: lexlive2011 and Debian squeeze

2011-09-13 Thread David L. Johnson
, the build process automatically finds the stuff it needs, and if it doesn't, something serious is wrong. You may have to install a lot of packages to get lyx compiled, which is why the package management is easier. Wheezy, at least, is up to 2.0.0 with lyx. -- David L. Johnson Accept risk

Re: lexlive2011 and Debian squeeze

2011-09-14 Thread David L. Johnson
. Sorry for my misunderstanding. -- David L. Johnson And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. [1 Corinth. 13:2]

Re: Lyx color schemes and beamer class

2011-09-23 Thread David L. Johnson
changes in any layout file. Upgrades in most schemes will look for local changes in a configuration file and warn you before overwriting them, but not for basic system files such as this. Can this be done in the user's preferences? -- David L. Johnson What am I on? I'm on my bike, six

Re: Equation annotations in a multiline equation

2011-10-02 Thread David L. Johnson
environment linked to F10, so I just hit F10. You can leave that environment by moving the cursor. -- David L. Johnson As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. -- Albert Einstein

Re: Equation annotations in a multiline equation

2011-10-03 Thread David L. Johnson
of columns, and thus the justification. The justification is different in LyX than it is in the output, which might be something to worry about in the future. -- David L. Johnson The lottery is a tax on those who fail to understand mathematics.

Re: Triangle of Tartaglia with Lyx

2011-10-13 Thread David L. Johnson
essentially like a table, so why not use a table or a matrix. I tried it, and they both look pretty good, with perhaps a little more space than would be ideal. -- David L. Johnson If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion. -- George Bernard Shaw

Re: Fwd: Move from d:drive to c:drive

2011-10-14 Thread David L. Johnson
L. Johnson Let's be straight here. If we find something we can't understand we like to call it something you can't understand, or indeed even pronounce. -- Douglas Adams

Re: spacing objects and arrows in xymatrix diagrams

2011-10-16 Thread David L. Johnson
when we actually typed this stuff. The tail of your arrow is probably of that sort (literally ), and it is not correctly accounted for in determining the spacing. J. S. Milne has a nice guide to CD-type packages which might help. http://www.jmilne.org/not/CDGuide.html -- David L. Johnson

Re: Printing a LyX file as it appears onscreen

2011-10-17 Thread David L. Johnson
it prints the document as seen in LyX, and usually people complain that the output is crap while we point them to the PDF preview. I'm confused. How is the output of FilePrint any different from exporting to PDF and printing? For me they have always be identical. -- David L. Johnson What

Re: Printing a LyX file as it appears onscreen

2011-10-17 Thread David L. Johnson
. But if you have a default printer on your computer, it should be able to find it. You might try ToolsPreferencesOutputPrinter to see what it thinks is available (it probably thinks none is), and if there is a problem, run ToolsReconfigure and see if it finds the printer. -- David L. Johnson

Re: Engineering student considering LyX for Thesis

2011-10-17 Thread David L. Johnson
better. -- David L. Johnson What am I on? I'm on my bike, six hours a day, busting my ass. What are you on? --Lance Armstrong

Re: Creating References

2011-10-18 Thread David L. Johnson
. I have had some coauthors who use bibtex, but we have also always used raw LaTeX to write the file under those conditions (I was not the main text-writer on those). So, I have no experience with bibtex in LyX, but lots of people use it. -- David L. Johnson A mathematician is a machine

Re: TeXmacs Shorthands in Lyx

2011-10-24 Thread David L. Johnson
the dollar sign as a dollar sign. There is no reason not to tie such a command to a simple keystroke that is not a character. I use F10, so no key-chord. Ctrl keys and the like are not really inherently evil; you can use them and they don't get confused with their other uses. -- David L. Johnson

Re: keyboard shortcut for AMS align?

2011-10-24 Thread David L. Johnson
; and of course I use cua under PreferencesEditingShortcuts. -- David L. Johnson It is probable that television drama of high caliber and produced by first-rate artists will materially raise the level of dramatic taste in the nation. -- David Sarnoff, 1939

Re: Spellchecking problem

2011-11-08 Thread David L. Johnson
-dimensional where the d is in math-mode (or emphasized), which may be even worse. -- David L. Johnson The lottery is a tax on those who fail to understand mathematics.

Re: copy/paste problem in lyx 2.0.1

2011-11-23 Thread David L. Johnson
]. Liviu [1] http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/6780 In fairness to my new desktop environment, xfce4, that bug does not seem to be particularly related to xfce4's clipboard-manager, but to other clipboard managers under other environments as well. -- David L. Johnson When you are up to your ass

Re: Display Style

2011-11-26 Thread David L. Johnson
underneath the summation sign, and the same size? Is that possible? I usually put a 1x2 matrix in the subscript, and it works well enough. -- David L. Johnson Some people used to claim that, if enough monkeys sat in front of enough typewriters and typed long enough, eventually one of them would

Re: Display Style

2011-11-26 Thread David L. Johnson
On 11/26/2011 05:40 PM, David L. Johnson wrote: On 11/26/2011 05:22 PM, Charles Reichert wrote: Hello All, Come across a problem...When I use display style under Edit Math Change Limit Types Display Style, I can get my lower limit to be directly underneath my summation sign...no problem

Re: ! Missing $ inserted.

2012-01-05 Thread David L. Johnson
. Break the file up (after saving it) into pieces to see in which piece the problem lies. If you still can't isolate it, put the smallest bad chunk of the document on the list, and I'll take a look at it. -- David L. Johnson The lottery is a tax on those who fail to understand mathematics.

Re: Spell-checker with Lyx on Ubuntu 11.04

2012-01-11 Thread David L. Johnson
the spellchecker. I use debian testing, lyx-2.02. -- David L. Johnson And what if you track down these men and kill them, what if you killed all of us? From every corner of Europe, hundreds, thousands would rise up to take our places. Even Nazis can't kill that fast. -- Paul Henreid

Re: Spell-checker with Lyx on Ubuntu 11.04

2012-01-12 Thread David L. Johnson
On 01/12/2012 06:31 PM, Stephan Witt wrote: Am 12.01.2012 um 08:46 schrieb Wolfgang Engelmann: Am Donnerstag, 12. Januar 2012, 00:32:47 schrieb David L. Johnson: On 01/11/2012 05:42 PM, Simon Cullen wrote: Hello, The spellchecker in Lyx is marking all strings which end with a right-quotation

Re: Lyx2.0.2 for windows cannot display \leq

2012-01-17 Thread David L. Johnson
on that computer, and did \leq display properly with it? Also, when you print the file, does the symbol print? Can I see the LyX file you used to show that picture? -- David L. Johnson Business! cried the Ghost. Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy

Re: What is the toolbar icon name for

2012-01-19 Thread David L. Johnson
for me. I have similar items for . | and (math-delim langle rangle), and I use these all the time. -- David L. Johnson Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics, I can assure you that mine are all greater. -- A. Einstein

Re: Import into LyX

2012-02-02 Thread David L. Johnson
, since I am sure MS will continually change the encoding to prevent precisely this procedure. -- David L. Johnson A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. --Ralph Waldo Emerson

Re: SV: Many huge pictures - Memory problems?

2012-02-11 Thread David L. Johnson
graphics in it, but typically the problem is with postscript files, for which it has trouble finding sizes. It will typically work fine with ps2pdf. It is certainly worth a try. I can't imagine that there would be a formatting difference between the two methods of export. -- David L

Re: Recommended third-party tools

2012-02-19 Thread David L. Johnson
a distribution that only uses Gnome. It was a long annoying process for me to switch over after an upgrade dumped me into Gnome 3. Xfce is fine, though, so and distribution that allows you to choose will be good. Frankly, I don't know what Kde did, but my advice is to avoid Gnome. -- David L

Re: tex2lyx fails when run from Import menu

2012-03-06 Thread David L. Johnson
On 03/05/2012 12:23 PM, Barger, Carla wrote: What can be done so that tex import works from the file menu? Since you installed python after you installed LyX, you should reconfigure LyX (from the Tools menu). -- David L. Johnson Arguing with an engineer is like mud wrestling with a pig

Re: format problem: subsection headline taking too much space on page

2012-03-07 Thread David L. Johnson
to have to make that heading 2 lines, not one, unless you shrink the font considerably, which IMO would be worse. -- David L. Johnson What is objectionable, and what is dangerous about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. --Robert F. Kennedy

Re: vertical line character

2012-03-08 Thread David L. Johnson
that for me. Send or post a small example file. This is somehow language-dependent, I guess. You can force it to work by going to math-mode and selecting the vertical line from the menu. This should of course avoid language issues, but there should be a better way. -- David L. Johnson

Re: Question

2012-03-12 Thread David L. Johnson
up the problem off-list. She needed to add a module Document Settings Modules Theorems (AMS-Extended), which had been added to the other documents she was looking at, but not the one she was concerned about. -- David L. Johnson You will say Christ saith this and the apostles say

Re: multiline equations cases

2012-03-14 Thread David L. Johnson
. -- David L. Johnson It doesn't get any easier, you just go faster. --Greg LeMond

Re: multiline equations cases

2012-03-15 Thread David L. Johnson
the keep matched option, and choose for the left, {, and for the right, (None). -- David L. Johnson Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics, I can assure you that mine are all greater. -- A. Einstein

Re: Article layout for plos?

2012-03-22 Thread David L. Johnson
bibitems you simply cannot do this and is like turning back to MS Office. Is this a bug? No, it's not a bug. Perhaps it's old-fashioned, but I've never seen the need to bother with bibtex. Most of my papers have maybe 5-10 references, that is certainly easy enough to do by hand. -- David L

Re: Questions about LyX files

2012-03-26 Thread David L. Johnson
many ways to encode things in TeX. LyX uses only a subset of those. Fortunately, the importer understands a broader range, but still exports will be LyX's flavor of TeX. -- David L. Johnson The motor car reflects our standard of living and gauges the speed of our present life. It long ago ran

Re: Inserting Space in Mathematical Equation

2012-03-28 Thread David L. Johnson
can enter a text box by clicking on the insert math icon again. You see a blue-outlined rectangle, and what you type in that is regular, upright, text. Including spaces. So you can get Total Stream Length by just typing that, in this text box inside of math-mode. -- David L. Johnson

Re: numbering multi-line formulas

2012-04-10 Thread David L. Johnson
environment, both numbered, but the matrix only allows numbering of the whole thing. -- David L. Johnson Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. -- Douglas Adams numbering.lyx Description: application/lyx

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

2012-04-11 Thread David L. Johnson
not changing the formatting based on extra spaces. With all that said, I'd prefer that LyX stop nagging. I know already! Me, too. -- David L. Johnson Some people used to claim that, if enough monkeys sat in front of enough typewriters and typed long enough, eventually one of them would reproduce

Re: Open second LyX window (equivalent to split window)

2012-04-12 Thread David L. Johnson
added. I have often used a split view to cutpaste details from one part of a document to another, but this is IMO much better, in that you don't lose half of the space for the document. Thanks for pointing it out. -- David L. Johnson The lottery is a tax on those who fail to understand

Re: numbering multi-line formulas

2012-04-13 Thread David L. Johnson
; the math toolbar pops out when I use Ctrl(+Shift)+M that's useful, but what about the main toolbar? is there a way to bring it out temporarily in fullscreen mode? I don't know. -- David L. Johnson Deserves death! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life

Re: numbering multi-line formulas

2012-04-15 Thread David L. Johnson
; and link it to your favorite hot-key. I use F12. -- David L. Johnson A mathematician is a machine for turning coffee into theorems. -- Paul Erdos

Re: LyX on Ubuntu Precise (12.04): big download size!

2012-04-19 Thread David L. Johnson
. Others can answer about how big the distribution ought to be, but again, believe me, you need this to write mathematics. -- David L. Johnson When you are up to your ass in alligators, it's hard to remember that your initial objective was to drain the swamp. -- LBJ

Re: Undo undoes too much

2012-04-22 Thread David L. Johnson
to the backspace, leaving one c. I don't think this is new behavior for undo, and I don't think it's unreasonable. If you want to delete just one character, you use backspace, don't you? Undo (or Crtl-z ) would be a bit more bother. -- David L. Johnson Accept risk. Accept responsibility. Put

Re: keyboard Scrolling Anomaly

2012-04-26 Thread David L. Johnson
and Pagedown keys. What system are you using? Mine is debian testing (a linux variant), on a fast machine -- but it works well on even my slow netbook. -- David L. Johnson A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines

Re: Change math Language - critical

2012-05-18 Thread David L. Johnson
read some Spanish math papers, and have not seen that name for that function. You could define a macro giving an (upright) sen(x) which would function as well as $\sin(x)$. How many different names are involved? What do you call $\log(x)$ in Spanish? -- David L. Johnson If all economists

Re: Proof with enumerate

2012-05-28 Thread David L. Johnson
depth some more. -- David L. Johnson A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. --Ralph Waldo Emerson

Re: Preparing Scientific paper for submission as LaTeX (Elsevier...)

2012-06-11 Thread David L. Johnson
their requirements. -- David L. Johnson When you are up to your ass in alligators, it's hard to remember that your initial objective was to drain the swamp. -- LBJ

Re: Duda.

2012-06-15 Thread David L. Johnson
the numbering to Roman numerals in the output. I don't know whether the command changes if your document language is Spanish, though. -- David L. Johnson Let's be straight here. If we find something we can't understand we like to call it something you can't understand, or indeed even pronounce

Re: Table of Contents and naming the sections

2012-07-12 Thread David L. Johnson
if that doesn't work better for you. -- David L. Johnson Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. -- Douglas Adams

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