Re: getting page

2008-03-19 Thread G. Milde
On 19.03.08, Pol wrote: I would like to get straightforwardly pages where to apply corrections that i have made to the printed on paper version of my document. Is there a way to display pagination? No. LyX does not know about the pagination as this is done by the LaTeX backend. However,

Re: Is there a text-macros equivalent of math-macros?

2008-03-19 Thread G. Milde
On 19.03.08, Dominik Böhm wrote: Is there any more convenient solution for such problems in LyX or is the macro-feature a math-only thing? Currently, there is unfortunately no text-macro available. However, if I understand it right lyx 1.6 will come with support in form of user-configurable

Re: headlines fixed

2008-03-20 Thread G. Milde
On 20.03.08, Maksi wrote: On 2008-03-19 20:11:43 +0100, diefettenjahre [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Does anyone have a direct link to the coma docs? The website is quite confusing... You mean this? http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/koma-script.html You can also search

Re: Float caption indentation

2008-03-20 Thread G. Milde
On 20.03.08, Uwe Stöhr wrote: Zoltan Sarosi schrieb: Does anybody know, how can I make indentations in my float caption texts? Use the LateX-package caption. The EmbeddedObjects manual has some example what you can do with this package. The KOMA-script classes have built-in support for

Querverweis+Text

2008-03-20 Thread G. Milde
Dear Lyx users, when I insert in my document a formatted link (labelled [Querverweis + Text]), the printout says Abschnitt 4.1 on page 31 although the document language is set to German. What am I missing? Context: Report (koma-script), LANG=de_DE, LyX 1.5.3, Debian Gnu/Linux Thanks for any

Re: Set paragraph separation in Layout file

2008-03-20 Thread G. Milde
On 20.03.08, Andre Bonhote wrote: In our company, we're used to have separated paragraphs instead of indented ones. Sure, I could go to the Document Settings, Text Layout and choose it there. But since we have an own layout, I'd like to put it in there. I have searched the web a bit about

Re: Querverweis+Text

2008-03-20 Thread G. Milde
On 20.03.08, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: G. Milde wrote: when I insert in my document a formatted link (labelled [Querverweis + Text]), the printout says Abschnitt 4.1 on page 31 although the document language is set to German. What am I missing? Did you check Global in Prefs

Re: Creating a Document Programmatically

2008-03-31 Thread G. Milde
On 25.03.08, Rich Shepard wrote: Many moons ago I asked for opinions on using LaTeX as a report tool for a python application (a mathematical model, to be more precise) ... Has anyone done this? You might have a look, if pyreport is what you want:

Re: LyX logo

2008-03-31 Thread G. Milde
On 25.03.08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: About the logo, her reaction to the current logo were along the following lines (I have to translate): * toys, playground, childish For me, this are co-notations of * funny which in my view conveys a basic aspect of LyX + It is fun to use:

Re: Booklet headings

2008-04-01 Thread G. Milde
On 31.03.08, Grahame Blackwood wrote: On Monday 31 March 2008 17:05:21 Rich Shepard wrote: On Mon, 31 Mar 2008, Grahame Blackwood wrote: Is there anyway to do this properly so that standard text and section/subsections are increased in size proportionally?    Documents - Settings -

Re: custom document language

2008-04-01 Thread G. Milde
On 31.03.08, Luis Rivera wrote: Liviu Andronic [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Does LaTeX support such rarely encountered languages? Liviu It does: provided you supply an appropriately formatted language.ldf file somewhere in your TEXPATH. Could LyX generate the list of supported

Re: WRB - Observations

2008-04-01 Thread G. Milde
On 31.03.08, William R. Buckley wrote: Well, the open source tool Maxima has no problem following a Windows shortcut in its browsing function. So, your position is therefore that LyX should be less than it might be, when other open source tools have no problem with a simple if arcane

Re: LyX logo

2008-04-01 Thread G. Milde
On 31.03.08, Andre Poenitz wrote: On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 04:42:18PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 31 Mar 2008, G. Milde wrote: About the logo ... * funny ... * home made The problem I see with these associations is getting an acceptance at for work these applications

Re: LyX logo

2008-04-01 Thread G. Milde
On 31.03.08, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: We try hard to make a good application. We do not want to be - ISO 9002 compliant - 99.% reliant - 24/24, 7/7 - Vista Experience Qualified Professional (or whatever) - [insert your own here] This should go to the LyX

Re: New LyX website

2008-04-01 Thread G. Milde
On 31.03.08, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Rex C. Eastbourne wrote: For those who haven't seen it, the new LyX website is now at: http://www.lyx.org/test/index.php/Main/HomePage We're still doing some design work, but the basics are in place. What do you all think? Good overall impression.

Re: Visual Tour (Was: New LyX website)

2008-04-01 Thread G. Milde
On 31.03.08, Michael Thompson wrote: On the question of screenshots, a) it bugs me that the illustrations are all in a serif font, which should never be used on a screen, unless it's maybe old courier. Well, we should provide at least one screenshot resembling the appearance of LyX

Re: New LyX website

2008-04-04 Thread G. Milde
On 1.04.08, Rex C. Eastbourne wrote: Thanks for the feedback, Guenter! G. Milde wrote: On 31.03.08, Paul A. Rubin wrote: 3. Should we provide output samples (DVI, PDF) somewhere ... Of course we should. Also as illustration of the WYSIWYM principle and the sensible distinction

tex2lyx converts comments to ERT

2008-04-04 Thread G. Milde
Dear LyX users, trying to convert the sciposter.tex example to a lyx file (after creating a basic layout), I realized that all comments were translated to raw latex (ERT). I would prefer it to go to a 'Comment' box. Is this a bug, a missing feature, or intended. (It makes sense for outcommented

Re: Hyphenation problem with two languages

2008-04-07 Thread G. Milde
On 6.04.08, snvv wrote: I have a problem with hyphenation when I use two or more character sets in the same document. Did you check Use Babel in the DocumentSettingsLanguages tab? GM

Re: Chapter counter position in layout.

2008-04-07 Thread G. Milde
On 6.04.08, Jinghua Zhong wrote: The label for Chapter is displayed differently from those of Part, Section, Subsection, etc. The label (e.g., Chapter 1) appears above the text, but the label for everything else appears to the left. However, I couldn't find anything in the layout files that

Re: tex2lyx converts comments to ERT

2008-04-07 Thread G. Milde
On 4.04.08, Uwe Stöhr wrote: G. Milde schrieb: trying to convert the sciposter.tex example to a lyx file (after creating a basic layout), I realized that all comments were translated to raw latex (ERT). I would prefer it to go to a 'Comment' box. I think there is alredy a bug report, when

Re: Hyphenation problem with two languages

2008-04-07 Thread G. Milde
On 7.04.08, Liviu Andronic wrote: On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 10:01 AM, G. Milde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6.04.08, snvv wrote: I have a problem with hyphenation when I use two or more character sets in the same document. Did you check Use Babel in the DocumentSettingsLanguages tab

left-align paragraphs in GUI

2008-04-07 Thread G. Milde
Dear LyX-Users, Attach: /home/milde/.lyx/layouts/leftalign.inc As LyX's linebreaking algorithm does not include hyphenation of longer words, some very large inter-word spaces frequently occure (especially in languages with many long words as e.g. German). Readability can be improved by setting

math-macros in included file

2008-04-07 Thread G. Milde
Dear LyX users, for my thesis, I define a set of about 20 math-macros that reside in a well commented file math-macros.lyx that is included by the document file(s). When I open the document file before opening the math-macro.lyx file, all macros will be shown as ERT. Unfortunately, they remain

Re: multiplatform vector drawing program to use

2008-04-08 Thread G. Milde
On 7.04.08, Steve Litt wrote: On Monday 07 April 2008 10:54, Oscar Lopez wrote: ... My colleague uses the windows version of lyx and I use the linux version. ... Now we are concerned with the use of a common vector drawing program that can be used at both platforms. Try inkscape. I

Re: ERT to inline by command

2008-04-08 Thread G. Milde
On 7.04.08, Andre Poenitz wrote: On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 11:25:45PM +0200, Daniel Lohmann wrote: On 07.04.2008, at 16:01, Ethan Metsger wrote: On Mon, 07 Apr 2008 09:04:16 -0400, Daniel Lohmann AFAIK there is, unfortunately, no LFUN for this I too would really appreciate a keyboard

Re: No accents when mastering a document (Spanish) ??

2008-04-08 Thread G. Milde
On 7.04.08, Miguel Daniel Rodríguez Magarzo wrote: So I don't know what to do, if I should abandon the idea of building a master document,since I don't see clearly which advantages it really provides. Anyone could point me any? You will get the advantage of a common document * continuous

Re: ERT to inline by command (workaround)

2008-04-08 Thread G. Milde
On 8.04.08, Pavel Sanda wrote: My suggestion would be a new LFUN next-inset-configure that will open a dialog window in any case: currently inset-settings lfun (now speaking in terms of 1.6) I find inset-settings even in my LyX 1.5.4. However, I could not get M-x inset-settings to open

Re: multiplatform vector drawing program to use

2008-04-09 Thread G. Milde
On 8.04.08, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Steve Litt wrote: Is there a SVG to PSTricks converter? Can you imagine how cool that would be?! Seems to me I saw somewhere that Inkscape can read SVG (is that its native format?) It is. and export to PSTricks. However, AFAIK, it converts text to

Re: check of references

2008-04-14 Thread G. Milde
On 11.04.08, Uwe Stöhr wrote: The problem is that BibTeX is not ready for Unicode. As LyX uses Unicode, 2 Questions pop up: * is there some activity to make BibTeX fit for Unicode? * what should the LyX user do (in the meantime)? Günter

Re: Numbering paragraphs

2008-04-15 Thread G. Milde
On 14.04.08, Eran Kaplinsky wrote: Clever, indeed. You should add it to the WIKI. I adapted it to my needs: \renewcommand{\labelenumi}{\textbf{\thesection.\arabic{enumi}}} Now I need two further changes: First, to correct the indentation, so that the paragraph number is flush with the

Re: optional argument to thanks section in v1.5.4 broken?

2008-04-18 Thread G. Milde
On 17.04.08, nooj wrote: In v1.3, Elsevier articles could have their thanks references made through an optional argument, as seen in this post: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.general/21473/match=OptArg But when I copy that lyx code into a file and open it with lyx 1.5.4, the

Re: generic X copy-and-paste not working

2008-04-18 Thread G. Milde
On 18.04.08, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: I have been using 1.5.4 and copy-and-paste still doesn't work. I can confirm this for LyX 1.5.4 and my beloved Jed text editor. From my experience with Jed and clipboard applets as well as skimming some X manuals, I have the impression that it is connected

Re: Problems with abstract in IEEETran class

2008-04-21 Thread G. Milde
On 19.04.08, Myriam Abramson wrote: I am unfortunately converting from Lyx 1.5 (work) to Lyx 1.4 (home) through TeX files. If I remember right, you should be able to convert LyX 1.5 format to LyX 1.4 with the lyx2lyx script of LyX 1.5. I remember that I once could enable an old lyx version

Re: List of Symbol (Nomenclature) AND List of Abbreviations (Glossary)

2008-04-21 Thread G. Milde
On 19.04.08, Michael Brunneder wrote: Hi! I'm writing a thesis in Lyx and I've the following problem. I need a List of Symbols (Nomenclature) and a separate List of Abbreviations. The Nomenclature is working fine as described in the Lyx user guide. But now I would need more or less a

Re: multiplatform vector drawing program to use

2008-04-21 Thread G. Milde
On 11.04.08, Urtzi Jauregi wrote: On Wednesday 09 April 2008 11:25:48 G. Milde wrote: However, AFAIK, it converts text to paths in the process so it will show in the PS (or PDF) output exactly as in the SVG. You can switch that option off. Read http://wiki.lyx.org/Tips

Re: Russian style custom table heading

2008-04-24 Thread G. Milde
On 24.04.08, D.Zorig wrote: In KOMA Script book, table headings are like following. Table #.#: Table heading But in most Russian language books are like following. Table #.# Table heading How can I customize such behavior in LYX? Look in the KOMA documentation scrguien.pdf (or the German

Re: Oh god!

2008-04-25 Thread G. Milde
On 24.04.08, Glen Whitehead wrote: The latex error in response to viewing pfd (pdflatex) is misplaces alignment tab character . TeX errors are sometime quite cryptic and the additional layer of LyX-Tex sometimes makes it even harder. It looks like the error is hidden in the preamble or a

Re: insert vertical line - keyboard issue

2008-04-28 Thread G. Milde
On 28.04.08, Robert wrote: I' using Lyx 1.3.4 running unter Suse Linux 9.1 in Parallels on a mac. I want to insert the vertical line which is on my (german) keyboard on the -key left from y. Normally I use AltGr+ but this key seems to be mapped wrong, since the and the don't work. do they

Re: Undefined Control Sequence Error for /LRH

2008-04-30 Thread G. Milde
On 30.04.08, Jeff Sese wrote: Thanks for the reply. I'm looking at the packaged tex file and it includes an article.cls file. I'm not familiar with LaTex tags but it seems that the article.cls file included in package declares the control sequences that I'm referring. Always rename a

Re: Lyx:downgrade from debian lenny to etch

2008-04-30 Thread G. Milde
On 29.04.08, jerome moliere wrote: Hi all, I'm using documents made under Lyx with the version from debian lenny, but I've downgraded from Lenny to Etch (stable one) and documents fail to open (french translation says that I'm trying to open documents made with an old version but it sounds

Re: Thesis template in Lyx (including a chapter)

2008-05-05 Thread G. Milde
On 5.05.08, José Matos wrote: On Saturday 03 May 2008 03:30:28 Adrian Peter wrote: I have set the document type of the child document (my chapters) to the same type as the main lyx file (for which I created the layout file to point to the ufthesis.cls file).  Is the child document somehow

Re: disabling page numbering until TOC ?

2008-05-05 Thread G. Milde
On 5/5/08, Peter Hanula [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm fairly new to lyx and tex stuff in general and I'm currently desperately trying to disable page numbers on all pages until TOC (including TOC). I can't use \thispagestyle{empty} on every page, because TOC is more than one page long and

Re: error on lyx prevents me generate print output.

2008-05-06 Thread G. Milde
On 6.05.08, Zhang Weiwu wrote: error message in opening tutorial with lyx. The opened tutorial is not printable. see below: ... Warning: Document class not available The layout file requested by this document, scrbook.layout, is not usable. This is

Re: generic X copy-and-paste not working

2008-05-06 Thread G. Milde
On 6.05.08, Pavel Sanda wrote: Normally, I can highlight text in a terminal and paste it with a middle-click. In LyX, usually I can get to it with Edit - Paste Special. (I can copy-and-paste fine in my xterms.) In my LyX, the Paste Special choices are shaded out and not clickable.

Re: Thesis template in Lyx (options clash error)

2008-05-06 Thread G. Milde
On 6.05.08, Adrian Peter wrote: I don't think the ufthesis.cls file is loading amsmath. The problem disappears if I comment out the following load package in the preamble: \usepackage[dvips]{graphicx} Do I need this package for anything major? Thanks. You need it for included graphics,

Re: Font import

2008-05-07 Thread G. Milde
On 6.05.08, snvv wrote: You may use xetex within LyX While using system fonts is far more straightforward with xetex, using xetex from LyX = 1.5 is not. The LyX wiki has more info on this: http://wiki.lyx.org/Mac/XeTeX% using XeTeX with LyX 1.5.x (somewhat

Re: LyX formatting citations incorrectly-- Desperate for help

2008-05-09 Thread G. Milde
On 9.05.08, Adam Pantanowitz wrote: Hi all If someone can help me, I'd be immensely grateful! I am trying to use the IEEEtran style sheet. When I create a float (table or figure), the caption is not formatting according to the IEEEtran.cls file... In LaTeX, *.cls is called a document

Re: SVG to PDF

2008-05-13 Thread G. Milde
On 11.05.08, Máté Salát wrote: Can somebody tell me if it's possible to make LyX use Inkscape as a direct SVG to PDF converter? Yes. If yes then how should I do that? Search for SVG on wiki.lyx.org. Günter

Re: Best choice of 'intermediate' graphics format

2008-05-13 Thread G. Milde
On 12.05.08, Daniel CLEMENT wrote: Hi, I have a lot of DSF vector drawings (made under Designer, a Windows program). They have been exported as EPS. Now that I am working under Linux, I could import them (the EPS ones) in LyX. But I need to modify some of them, say, in OOdraw or Inkscape or

Re: installing scripts in LyX

2008-05-13 Thread G. Milde
On 10.05.08, Thomas DiPrete wrote: How does one install scripts in OS X for LyX? I wanted to use the envelope script. All the wiki says is to install it into /usr/local/ bin and then make it executable. How does one do this? This is different from moving the file to this location, no?

Re: Change tracker continues to have problems

2008-05-14 Thread G. Milde
On 13.05.08, Jim Rockford wrote: On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 4:13 PM, Uwe Stöhr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim Rockford schrieb: I had this exact same problem with 1.5.4, which 1.55 has inherited. With the change tracker, when I elect to Show Changes In Output I get the following error:

Re: Best choice of 'intermediate' graphics format

2008-05-14 Thread G. Milde
On 14.05.08, Daniel CLEMENT wrote: Thanks for the reply, On Tuesday 13 May 2008 10:52 +0200, G. Milde wrote: The best choice (for Inkskape) should be SVG. LyX can be set to support it directly (search for SVG on wiki.lyx.org). There is even a windows version of Inkskape, so you could use

Re: Help with latexcad

2008-05-16 Thread G. Milde
On 15.05.08, Rich Shepard wrote: On Thu, 15 May 2008, Angel Amat wrote: Hello, I am using latexcad to draw some diagrams with equations. The problem is that i can not insert this diagrams in the lyx document. I have copy the LATEXCAD.STY to the folder in which is the lyx document and I have

LyX 1.5.4 crash in Debian/testing (fix)

2008-05-16 Thread G. Milde
Dear LyX users, after upgrading my system to the latest and newest in Debian/testing, my beloved LyX crashed. This is due to QT 4.4 entering testing before the bug-fixing lyx-1.5.4-2. The fix is easy: install lyx-1.5.4-2 or lyx-1.5.5-1 from /unstable. Günter

Re: Personal dictionary

2008-05-19 Thread G. Milde
On 16.05.08, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Rune Schjellerup Philosof wrote: Where is the default personal dictionary placed? Which operating system? Info for all OSes is under http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/UserDir GM

Re: Personal dictionary

2008-05-20 Thread G. Milde
On 19.05.08, Paul A. Rubin wrote: G. Milde wrote: On 16.05.08, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Rune Schjellerup Philosof wrote: Where is the default personal dictionary placed? Which operating system? Info for all OSes is under http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/UserDir I'm not sure if it's that simple

Re: Default Float placement is pathetic

2008-05-20 Thread G. Milde
On 20.05.08, Marwan Boustany wrote: On Tue, 20 May 2008 00:49:45 +0100, Steve Litt wrote: On Monday 19 May 2008 12:51, Marwan Boustany wrote: Is it necessary to force [e]very float to be 'here definitely' if I actually want it to be correctly placed in the text? * If you want it exactly at

Re: Problems with equations in tables

2008-05-20 Thread G. Milde
On 19.05.08, Tim Michelsen wrote: I'd like to put a enumerated equation into a table. When I try this I get a lot of errors. There's already been a thread on this issue at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg130124.html But the answer given there doesn't solve the problem for

Re: Default Float placement is pathetic

2008-05-20 Thread G. Milde
On 20.05.08, Les Denham wrote: On Tuesday 20 May 2008, G. Milde wrote: The counters topnumber and bottomnumber determine how many floats are allowed on one page and the commands \topfraction, \bottomfraction and \textfraction determine how much space they might take. Change with e.g

Re: +/- in a table too large

2008-05-21 Thread G. Milde
On 21.05.08, Manveru wrote: What I see here from those few responses different TeX distros have different implementation (if I can tell that) of Latin Modern typefaces in details. Very strange. To me it looks rather like a font substitution -- some font missing in some disttributions or older

Re: Force equations to stay with the text #8211; keep position?

2008-05-22 Thread G. Milde
On 18.05.08, Tomi Makkonen wrote: Hi! How do I force lyx to keep group of numbered equations together with the text? Now I have first equation with the text and then 2 figures and 2 tables (2 pages) later the equations will continue. Those equations happen to be most importance in the text

Re: OT? Ligatures in pdf documents to be used in LyX

2008-05-28 Thread G. Milde
On 28.05.08, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: Rich Shepard wrote: This is to be expected. It's perfectly normal behavior. What should be the behavior if you block text in a pdf document (displayed with xpdf, acroread, or another viewer) and copy that text into emacs, pine, or AbiWord? The

Re: Footnote without numbering (new)

2008-05-29 Thread G. Milde
On 28.05.08, Adrian Peter wrote: On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 11:30 AM, Adrian Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would need the contents of the float to appear a footnote at the bottom of the page. Not clear how placing it in a float will cause this to occur. Because you can tell LaTeX to place

Re: Lyx crashes everytime I try to open my document

2008-05-29 Thread G. Milde
On 28.05.08, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Helge Hafting wrote: Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: How difficult would it be to support unicode in maths? In 1.5 forget about it. In 1.6 that would require a lot of work I guess. This wasn't any generic unicode character, it was

Re: OT? Ligatures in pdf documents to be used in LyX

2008-05-30 Thread G. Milde
On 30.05.08, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: G. Milde wrote: They are not wrong but in a different encoding: witht the default settings, this is most probably the T1 encoding where ligatures are on places totally unrelated to the unicode points. (or even 0T1, where Umlauts will be wrong as well

Re: keystrokes and styles

2008-06-02 Thread G. Milde
On 2.06.08, RyanC wrote: Particularly, I am interested in whether styles (title, section, etc) can be assigned with keystrokes. Yes. See HelpCustomization. More info should also be available on http://wiki.lyx.org Existing keybindings depend on the emulation mode, most commonly either

Re: impossible to use copy/paste kbd shortcuts

2008-06-02 Thread G. Milde
On 2.06.08, nicolas roy wrote: I have Lyx 1.5.3, ubuntu Hardy. I encouter a problem when i want to copy/paste a selection of text from another program. Neither the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V nor Selection with mouse + 3rd button to paste work... There might be a number of

Re: Are subsection numbers not reseted after changing to a new chapter?

2008-06-02 Thread G. Milde
On 2.06.08, Jon Bendtsen wrote: I have chosen document class report ... Then i start chapter 2, and i have a subsection that jumps directly to 2.0.3? I would have expected 2.0.1, why .3? This is strange indeed and should not happen. It is also not yet heard of, so I do not epxect this to

unicode in math (was: Lyx crashes everytime I try to open my document)

2008-06-02 Thread G. Milde
On 29.05.08, G. Milde wrote: On 28.05.08, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Helge Hafting wrote: Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: How difficult would it be to support unicode in maths? In 1.5 forget about it. In 1.6 that would require a lot of work I guess. This wasn't

Re: Discussion: Labels and parent-child documents

2008-06-03 Thread G. Milde
On 3.06.08, Nicolás wrote: Well, one problem I can see is that this could make cut and paste between documents difficult. And it involves a lot of keeping track of what's a child of what. Not really. Note that labels and cross-references are only updated when we export to latex. Does

Re: Discussion: Labels and parent-child documents

2008-06-03 Thread G. Milde
On 3.06.08, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: G. Milde wrote: On 3.06.08, Nicolás wrote: Well, one problem I can see is that this could make cut and paste between documents difficult. And it involves a lot of keeping track of what's a child of what. Not really. Note that labels and cross

Re: EndNote X1 BibTeX output and LyX

2008-06-04 Thread G. Milde
On 4.06.08, Jeremy M. Kritt wrote: Although some programs may automatically generate keys, it is advisable (in my opinion) to create your own keys in order to easily remember what they refer to. My opinion differs, as I see the benefit of a key/label generated according to a memorizable

Re: EndNote X1 BibTeX output and LyX

2008-06-04 Thread G. Milde
On 4.06.08, Jeremy M. Kritt wrote: My main point was -- If you are using Endnote as your main database, then it might be better to create your own label (=Bibtex key) in Endnote according to a pattern that you can recognize. Agreed. The problem with automatic key generation, in my opinion,

Re: LyX 1.5.5 crashes on Linux/Kubuntu 8.04

2008-06-05 Thread G. Milde
On 4.06.08, Stefano Franchi wrote: On Wednesday 04 June 2008 10:47:16 am rgheck wrote: Stefano Franchi wrote: On Wednesday 04 June 2008 08:20:33 am you wrote: stefano franchi wrote: I just installed LyX 1.5.5 on a freshly installed Kubuntu/Linux 8.04 running on a Thinkpad T61

Re: Lyx crash with unknown reason

2008-06-06 Thread G. Milde
On 6.06.08, Pete Phillips wrote: until this issue is resolved. I guess you've to roll back to 4.3.4-2. I know this thread is close to 2 months old, but having helped me figure out what was needed to fix my lyx problems, I thought the least I could do was post on how I managed to

Re: Paragraph break before display formula

2008-06-09 Thread G. Milde
On 6.06.08, rgheck wrote: Máté Salát wrote: If I have a display formula in a text, it can not be seen whether there is a paragraph break before the display formula or not. [...] Can the paragraph breaks be displayed? I've noticed this before, too. I don't know a way to display them, but

Re: problem with 1.6.0.beta3

2008-06-09 Thread G. Milde
On 6.06.08, Marcelo Acuña wrote: hello, when I compile (run latex) a document with beta 3 I get option clash package babel message error. Only dissapears when I deleted \usepackage[spanish]{babel} from preamble. I need this option. However, with LyX you should set it under

Re: greek fonts

2008-06-09 Thread G. Milde
On 9.06.08, Anthony Campbell wrote: I tried to use Lyx for ancient Greek but the circumflex (tilde) keeps appearing before the letter instead of above it. It works in LyX, if you use the correct unicode char (from the extended Greek table) out of the box, but not so good with combining chars.

Re: greek fonts

2008-06-10 Thread G. Milde
On 9.06.08, Andre Poenitz wrote: On Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 02:18:15PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: On Monday 09 June 2008 08:10, Anthony Campbell wrote: I tried to use Lyx for ancient Greek but the circumflex (tilde) keeps appearing before the letter instead of above it. In most fonts,

Re: greek fonts

2008-06-10 Thread G. Milde
On 9.06.08, Pavel Sanda wrote: It works in LyX, if you use the correct unicode char (from the extended Greek table) out of the box, but not so good with combining chars. Also, there there any way to get the characters to appear in Greek on-screen (i.e. before converting the text to

Re: greek fonts

2008-06-10 Thread G. Milde
On 9.06.08, Anthony Campbell wrote: On 09 Jun 2008, G. Milde wrote: On 9.06.08, Anthony Campbell wrote: I tried to use Lyx for ancient Greek but the circumflex (tilde) keeps appearing before the letter instead of above it. This is normal for capital greek letters. Small letters

Re: greek fonts

2008-06-10 Thread G. Milde
On 10.06.08, Anthony Campbell wrote: Although I have unicode fonts installed they don't show up as a possible choice in Lyx. How can you make it see them? For LyX GUI or as document font? * The LyX GUI should let you select between all properly installed system fonts (I use DejaVu). *

Re: greek fonts

2008-06-10 Thread G. Milde
On 10.06.08, Anthony Campbell wrote: I tried to use Lyx for ancient Greek but the circumflex (tilde) keeps appearing before the letter instead of above it. In most fonts, even in the Standard glyph list of the Unicode consortium and fonts from the Greek Font Society, the

Re: greek fonts

2008-06-10 Thread G. Milde
On 10.06.08, Pavel Sanda wrote: now the next step :) i see latex error that utf8x.def file is missing. Where you able to select utf8x font encoding from the LyX gui? Normally LyX checks the package availability for any extensions, so this might count as a (minor) LyX bug, is tetex supposed

Re: greek fonts

2008-06-11 Thread G. Milde
On 10.06.08, Pavel Sanda wrote: On 10.06.08, Pavel Sanda wrote: now the next step :) i see latex error that utf8x.def file is missing. Where you able to select utf8x font encoding from the LyX gui? i dont think this is possible. My mistake. You cannot choose font encoding from

Re: greek fonts

2008-06-11 Thread G. Milde
On 11.06.08, Anthony Campbell wrote: On 10 Jun 2008, G. Milde wrote: On 10.06.08, Anthony Campbell wrote: I tried to use Lyx for ancient Greek but the circumflex (tilde) keeps appearing before the letter instead of above it. Unfortunately, lyx currently only

Re: greek fonts

2008-06-11 Thread G. Milde
On 11.06.08, Pavel Sanda wrote: Normally LyX checks the package availability for any extensions, so this might count as a (minor) LyX bug, no i dont have this package locally, so its not lyx problem. It is a lyx problem if you can actively set DocumentSettingsLanguageEncoding

Re: greek fonts

2008-06-11 Thread G. Milde
On 11.06.08, Pavel Sanda wrote: Question to the developers: Would it be possible to pass the tilde '~' to LaTeX as-is if the language is set to polutonikogreek? please correct me if i'm wrong, but i think this is wrong direction. how will you determine nonbreak. space vs tilde accent then?

Re: greek fonts

2008-06-11 Thread G. Milde
On 11.06.08, Anthony Campbell wrote: It still doesn't work here. That is, the tilde comes out before the letter, not on top of it. But I think this is something to do with the current version of Latex, not Lyx, because the same thing is now happening in native Latex as well. Strange.

Re: greek fonts

2008-06-12 Thread G. Milde
On 11.06.08, Pavel Sanda wrote: But this is inconsistent with handling of other extensions. Editing in LyX works even without any tex distribution, still reconfigure checks availability of fonts, classes and packages -- but not inputenc nor ucs. which is a different story then prohibit

Re: greek fonts

2008-06-12 Thread G. Milde
On 11.06.08, Anthony Campbell wrote: On 11 Jun 2008, G. Milde wrote: On 11.06.08, Anthony Campbell wrote: Looks like I shall have to give up trying to write Greek in Lyx and Latex for the time being, unless someone fixes it. Could you try with the two attached latex files? I

Re: greek fonts (summary?)

2008-06-12 Thread G. Milde
On 12.06.08, Pavel Sanda wrote: Question to the developers: Would it be possible to pass the tilde '~' to LaTeX as-is if the language is set to polutonikogreek? please correct me if i'm wrong, but i think this is wrong direction. how will you determine nonbreak. space vs tilde

Re: greek fonts (summary?)

2008-06-12 Thread G. Milde
On 12.06.08, Rune Schjellerup Philosof wrote: On some keyboard layouts ~ is a dead key by default (danish for instance). I wonder why tilde is a dead key on danish keyboards, we don't have any chars in our alphabet that use a tilde accent. The same holds for German. I guess someone once

Re: greek fonts (summary?)

2008-06-12 Thread G. Milde
On 12.06.08, Anthony Campbell wrote: On 12 Jun 2008, Pavel Sanda wrote: i would like to summarize the my understanding of the problems i encountered, please comment on: 1. Screen painting. after installing unicode fonts for X displaying ancient greek letters works in lyx without

Re: Can't write on file Thesis.dvi

2008-06-12 Thread G. Milde
On 12.06.08, Martin Görg wrote: Does anyone know what's up with the problem that LyX shows an error saying An empty output file was generated with the reason being I can't write on file Thesis.dvi? The error only happens when I have the file already open in Yap. Then, sometimes but not

Re: Can't write on file Thesis.dvi

2008-06-13 Thread G. Milde
On 12.06.08, Martin Görg wrote: On Thu, 12 Jun 2008 15:03:44 +0200, G. Milde wrote: Looks like Yap locks the file. [...] As you normally do not edit a dvi file, this seems to be a bug in Yap. ... I am aware of that, but I'm not touching the DVI file, except reading and scrolling. So

Re: greek fonts (summary?)

2008-06-13 Thread G. Milde
On 12.06.08, Anthony Campbell wrote: On 12 Jun 2008, G. Milde wrote: A bit of background to all this: my wife is Greek and needs to type Greek occasionally; she is also a purist about accents etc. (Byzantine enthusiast). She is not happy seeing non-Greek characters on screen. In this case

Re: FW: greek fonts

2008-06-13 Thread G. Milde
Van: G. Milde [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On 12.06.08, Ad Meskens wrote: Unfortunately, this does not work. The hyphenation does not materialize. Could you elaborate a bit? I was looking for Greek (polytonic) -- polutonikogreek which is not present (unfortunately) but it seems to work

Re: greek fonts (summary?)

2008-06-13 Thread G. Milde
On 12.06.08, Anthony Campbell wrote: Yes, I do have dejavu (ttf-dejavu) but I don't know how to tell lyx to use it - it doesn't appear as a choice. But I'm not sure that what I am trying to do is possible in Lyx (see my reply to Gunter below). 1. Does DejaVu appear as a choice in other

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