Re: language for amsmath

2005-09-05 Thread Georg Baum
Christian Fischer wrote: hi everybody, i'm using the windows port of lyx 1.3.5. i'm creating a document witch the documentclass article{ams}, language is set to german. the problem is, when i insert a theorem, a fact or something else, all this is english in the created dvi but i want it to

Re: Turabian Style?

2005-09-09 Thread Georg Baum
Mhac Janapin wrote: However, our Department requires us to follow the Turabian Specifications in writing our paper. So in wanting to use Lyx, I tried to search for a style that follows the Turabian Specifications... and I don't think I found one. So: 1) Is there an existing style

Re: OT: tetex RPMs (was: Re: Problems installing 1.3.6-1 RPMs

2005-09-12 Thread Georg Baum
Peter Flynn wrote: All that's required is for the maintainer of the tetex RPMs to use up-to-date versions from CTAN, and for the author of the embedded install script in the LyX RPM to test for a working kpsewhich instead of assuming it's in the location the RH tetex RPMs install it. It does

Re: Portability to Neo/Open/Star Office?

2005-09-16 Thread Georg Baum
Mike Meyer wrote: I haven't been able to find anything to handle the to part. Can someone provide me with pointers? In a pinch, they can read MSWord doc files in Writer. Try tex4ht. It has a mode to output OpenOffice files. Georg

Re: Portability to Neo/Open/Star Office?

2005-09-16 Thread Georg Baum
Andre Berger wrote: BTW, how would you represent htlatex yourdocument.tex xhtml,ooffice ooffice/! -cmozhtf -coo ^^^ in a LyX preference file? Untested: \converter latex sxw \xhtml,ooffice\ \ooffice/! -cmozhtf\ \-coo\ $$i

Re: Compiling LyX 1.3.6 with qt: SegFault

2005-09-22 Thread Georg Baum
Jim Osborn wrote: In the process of upgrading from KDE 3.4.0 to 3.4.2, I'm trying to upgrade from LyX 1.3.5 to 1.3.6. The compile fails with these messages: Making all in qt2 make[5]: Entering directory `.../konstruct/apps/office/lyx/work/lyx-1.3.6/src/frontends/qt2' Making all in ui

Re: How to avoid \url already defined?

2005-09-27 Thread Georg Baum
Bo Peng wrote: Dear list, I have been annoyed by two problems recently, both related to lyx-added latex code conflicting with customized document classes. For example, I am using manual.cls from python to produce a manual. However, manual.cls defines \url so it will conflict with the

Re: Slow Display on 1.4cvs

2005-09-28 Thread Georg Baum
Daniel Watkins wrote: I'm using 1.4cvs (downloaded and compiled a few hours ago) with the Qt front-end. ATM, I'm noticing that LyX is barely keeping up with my typing, which is something I hadn't noticed on 1.3.6. Is this just my imagination, my computer, or are other people experiencing the

Re: \line and justification

2005-09-28 Thread Georg Baum
Christopher M. Jones wrote: Hi, all. This is a reiteration of my previous question. Someone responded off-list that I should try \newline. Problem with this is that what I really want is -inline- 'blanks' that don't break justification. If I'm asking this question in the wrong place, then

Re: Trouble with ispell

2005-09-28 Thread Georg Baum
Luis Angel Fernández Cuadrado wrote: Hi, I'm using SuSE 9.3 on an AMD64 machine. Normally, I compile LyX from source but last time I was a bit lazy and downloded and installed the 1.3.6 binary in the LyX ftp site (bin) compiled for SuSE 9.2. Maybe this is the problem. IIRC the rpm is

Re: \line and justification

2005-09-29 Thread Georg Baum
Christopher M. Jones wrote: No, I am using \line because I want an horizontal line in the place of missing words. It's what a Word user would repeatedly hit the _ to do. \hspace just leaves an empty space, but has the same problem. Here's a sample output so you can see the ugliness that I

Re: \line and justification

2005-09-29 Thread Georg Baum
Christopher M. Jones wrote: justified environment. What would really be great is if I had a command to replace typed text with a line of the same length. e.g. \hspace{\sizeof{theword}}. This command, of course, does not work. But could there be something like it? Maybe (untested)

Re: Poor men's scientific workplace.

2005-10-07 Thread Georg Baum
Bo Peng wrote: I get his first complain against lyx today: The lyx file is corrupted after I edit your formula, I hope that you can open this file The real problem, as I later found out, is that he accidentally inserted a math symbol \times in a \textrm box, a problem I had asked for a

Re: An interesting little problem.

2005-10-07 Thread Georg Baum
Bo Peng wrote: Dear list, To track the changes of a lyx file, I insert $Rev$ in the text. After first 'svn ci', $Rev$ is replaced by $Rev: 40 $. However, when I open and save this file, $Rev: 40 $ is replaced by $Rev:40$ (blank spaces are removed) which can no longer be recognized by

Re: Poor men's scientific workplace.

2005-10-07 Thread Georg Baum
Bo Peng wrote: Along the same line, is there any way to prevent a user from using a environment in the wrong context? For example, inserting a marginal note in a float figure is not allowed in latex, but can be done in lyx. Maybe we can disable certain environment/menu items dynamically. (I

Re: Poor men's scientific workplace.

2005-10-07 Thread Georg Baum
Bo Peng wrote: I was no talking about format tweaking, rather, I was complaining about installation, configuration and erroneous error messages when entering a small formula. These are things that drive potential lyx users away, who I assume are trying lyx/latex exactly because they do not

Re: Poor men's scientific workplace.

2005-10-08 Thread Georg Baum
Am Freitag, 7. Oktober 2005 20:10 schrieb Bo Peng: The last time I installed LyX on winxp with a student the total installation time was about 20 minutes. Python, perl, mingw, imagemagik, tetek, lyx (and maybe ghostscript, ghostview) in 20 min? I can not believe it. Sorry, I was a bit

Re: Building 1.4pre2 in Ubuntu Hoary

2005-10-10 Thread Georg Baum
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got these qt-related packages installed (I searched for 'qt'): libqt3c102-mt 3.3.3.4-3 libqt3-headers3.3.3.4-3 qt3-dev-tools 3.3.3.4-3 In addition you need at least libqt3-mt-dev, and probably also libqt3-compat-headers (assuming that the ubuntu

Re: Converting from EPS to JPG

2005-10-10 Thread Georg Baum
Paul Smith wrote: Thanks to all who have answered. The picture that I have got is a PS file and corresponds to a small rectangular part of an entire part. How can I throw away the whole superfluous white space around the picture? I have tried GSview to convert the PS file to EPS with

Re: FW: space between single and right double quote marks

2005-10-12 Thread Georg Baum
Daniel Watkins wrote: The word was 'foo'\InsetSpace \thinspace{} This is 1.4. There is no small space in 1.3, you have to use ERT. Georg

Re: Presentations using LyX

2005-10-13 Thread Georg Baum
Gour wrote: Another option would be to use e.g. inkscape (which provides LaTeX with PSTricks macros output format) to have pgf backe-end so that inkscape can integrate LaTeX fonts and macros ready for pgf inclusion in beamer presentation? What is the status of SVG support in LyX/LaTeX?

Re: 1.4.0pre2/mac crashes

2005-10-15 Thread Georg Baum
Am Samstag, 15. Oktober 2005 20:51 schrieb Andre Berger: Whenever I start 1.4.0pre2/mac on Mac OS X 10.4.2 and hit Command n, the app crashes. It won't crash when I use the mouse and select FileNew. This known: http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2086 Georg

Re: More about foreign languages - No!

2005-10-16 Thread Georg Baum
Am Sonntag, 16. Oktober 2005 17:09 schrieb Daniel Watkins: What you in fact need to do is ensure that any of the items that are in the wrong language. Select everything that needs to be in Portueguese and go to Edit Text Style. Choose the correct language from the Language drop box. That is

Re: How to avoid system blocking by Lyx preview convert processes ???

2003-02-06 Thread Georg Baum
I know you solved your problem, but it might interest: Am Donnerstag, 6. Februar 2003 14:05 schrieb Andreas Philipp: Any way to avoid convert at all? I use something like anythingtopnm | ppmtoxpm instead of convert. That is over 10 times faster. I can send the config if anybody is interested.

Re: Setting matheditor font

2003-02-15 Thread Georg Baum
Am Freitag, 14. Februar 2003 21:56 schrieb Dan Armak: Hello, In short, I'd like to know how to set the font used by mathed when editing. lyx 1.3.0, qt frontend. There doesn't seem to be an option for it, and the 2 standard font settings don't seem to affect it... (When rendering to ps etc.,

Re: koma-script and no section-numbering within lyx

2003-11-01 Thread Georg Baum
Am Samstag, 1. November 2003 17:40 schrieb Stephan Maseizik: I'm using Lyx 1.3.2 on Debian unstable and have the following problem using the koma-script package: headers (parts,chapters,sections,...) are not numbered within Lyx while the dvi-output is o.k. When using a different package e.g.

Re: New features / interworkability of LyX

2003-12-17 Thread Georg Baum
William F. Adams wrote: Anyway, I'd like to ask that preserving comments (at least) in imported LaTeX files have at least some continued consideration in the effort to improve the LaTeX import / export. The tex2lyx converter that should become a replacement for reLyX to import latex someday

Re: bibtex styles

2003-12-21 Thread Georg Baum
Am Samstag, 20. Dezember 2003 22:47 schrieb Harold Mouras: Dear Lyx users, i have a question about lyx. I use lyx do format bibliography, but i cannot use others bibtex style files thanthe one called plain.bst. Are there any parameters ton configure in my LyX to allow others styles choice?

Re: Help with Makefile?

2004-01-02 Thread Georg Baum
Am Freitag, 2. Januar 2004 16:24 schrieb Matej Cepl: Hi, this is for programmers on this list: I have a directory fill with small .lyx files (field notes with records of interviews) and I would love to keep .pdf files for each of them with make. To make rule is simple: .pdf.lyx:

Re: lyx 1.3.3 on MacOS 10.3.2

2004-01-13 Thread Georg Baum
Katrin Pietzsch wrote: I haven't tried LyX-1.3.3 for a while (I've been working on 1.3.4cvs), but as far as I know it includes the GUIs for other languages and should display in the default language of the system. No - at least not on my computer, but that's okay with me. I recently did an

Re: lyx 1.3.3 on MacOS 10.3.2

2004-01-14 Thread Georg Baum
Ronald Florence wrote: Jean-Marc Lasgouttes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What is the variable that is changed when system language is set in prefs? I don't know wether a variable is changed by that setting. I don't have access to this machine anymore, LyX works and the owner is happy ;-) I

Re: cannot compile 1.4.0cvs

2004-01-16 Thread Georg Baum
christoff pale wrote: tr qt_ BiblioModuleBase.ui -o BiblioModuleBase.h tr: invalid option -- o Try `tr --help' for more information. make[6]: [BiblioModuleBase.h] Error 1 (ignored) tr qt_ -impl BiblioModuleBase.h BiblioModuleBase.ui -o export QTDIR=/usr/lib/qt3 (or wherever your qt lives)

Re: Real line...

2004-01-17 Thread Georg Baum
Christian Ridderström wrote: On Fri, 16 Jan 2004, David Obadia wrote: Hi all, What's the proper way to write the standard symbol for the set of Real numbers in LyX? (I mean the R with two bars..) Thanks, Just from my head, I think it's an 'R' written in the fraktur font. The LaTeX

Re: Converting from PostScript to LaTex

2004-01-19 Thread Georg Baum
Daniel Tahin wrote: Thank you Raphael. But this would be the goal of it. Because originally I would like to convert from Ms Word to Latex. I found some program that can do that, but Conversion word - latex works quite well (far better than wvClaenLaTeX) if you use Staroffice/OpenOffice.Org

Re: Lyx is overrideing Layout-Preferences

2004-01-29 Thread Georg Baum
Am Donnerstag, 29. Januar 2004 19:13 schrieb Anca Tibor- Attila: I have a quite big file (dissertation), with my own layout preferences: top margin: 2.5cm bottom margin: 2.5cm Lyx is always changing these parameters. If I open the Document and go to Layout-Document, there is always 2cm. The

Re: lyx 1.3.3: indexname

2004-01-30 Thread Georg Baum
Hartmut Haase wrote: Hi, I tried to change indexname 1. by \renewcommand{\indexname}{Stichwortverzeichnis} in the preamble 2. by overwriting it in german.sty, but none would work. Has anyone an idea how to do it? The reason is probably that babel is loaded by lyx after the user defined

Re: Lyx is overrideing Layout-Preferences

2004-01-30 Thread Georg Baum
Am Freitag, 30. Januar 2004 10:14 schrieb Anca Tibor- Attila: Yes, I use the QT frontend (I work with KDE). The export produces the same as a DVI-View from within Lyx (I mean the double latex command after the export). The settings are: tmargin2cm,bmargin2cm. Then I have no idea. As Jürgen

Re: Lyx is overrideing Layout-Preferences

2004-01-31 Thread Georg Baum
Am Samstag, 31. Januar 2004 10:00 schrieb Juergen Spitzmueller: Anca Tibor- Attila wrote: OK. Here the file, with a few formatting elements and a bit text. It should be enough. If I open this file with 1.3.4cvs, change top and bottom margin to 2.5cm, save and reopen, 2.5cm is still

Re: lyx-1.3.4 produces compiler error on gcc 3.2

2004-02-20 Thread Georg Baum
Michael Hartje wrote: Any hints to produce a version for SuSE 8.1? I gave up with this compiler error... Seems to me, I have to make a big upgrade of library and all other GCC stuff? 8.1 is one of the SuSE releases that ships with a broken compiler. See

Re: prevent image conversion .lyx - .html by l2h

2004-02-21 Thread Georg Baum
Am Freitag, 20. Februar 2004 17:25 schrieb jorgen johansson: Hello, I have got latex2html 2002-2-1 (1.71) up and running together with lyx 1.3.3 (native qt version under windows XP). I have some photos in .jpg format that I'd rather keep in that format for the html version of my

Re: compile problems lyx 1.3.4 for Suse 9

2004-02-25 Thread Georg Baum
harmel wrote: Hello i have problems to compile lyx 1.3.4 for Suse 9 (qt and xforms), i have the newest gnu c-lib and qt 3.2.1-56 install (see too mails from Georg Baum and Michael Hartje). This must be a different issue. The compiler shipped with SuSE 9.0 is _not_ broken. have anybody

Re: lyx-qt 1.3.4 does not compile

2004-02-25 Thread Georg Baum
Am Montag, 23. Februar 2004 13:17 schrieb Karsten Heymann: So this seems to be rather a kde bug than a lyx bug. Nevertheless, are there any ways to get around this from lyx's side? Sorry I can't help, because it works for me: Debian 3.0 with updates from www.backports.org, kde 3.2 and qt 3.2

Re: Bringing .rtf or .doc files into Lyx

2004-03-01 Thread Georg Baum
Aric Gregson wrote: Any suggestions are greatly appreciated. See http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg31668.html Georg

Re: Opening .tex file in Lyx

2004-03-02 Thread Georg Baum
Graig, please send questions to the list and not to me privately, because others may have better suggestions than I have and/or may answer more timely. Am Montag, 1. März 2004 21:47 schrieb Aric Gregson: Another question, more directly related to Lyx. I converted an rtf document into Latex

Re: Using Lyx-files under Win and Linux

2004-03-04 Thread Georg Baum
Marc Anthony Winoto wrote: Hi, I wrote my whole thesis in LyX on WinXP and linux. You don't need to do anything special to the .lyx files in my experience. If you get complaints about the CR characters I think PFE32 (Programmers File Editor, for windows) can save text file as DOS or Unix.

Re: Using Lyx-files under Win and Linux

2004-03-04 Thread Georg Baum
Am Mittwoch, 3. März 2004 09:58 schrieb harmel: Hello How can i use the version from lyx under win and linux simultan? i have different pfads to insert from *.bib and graphics files, limited by the operating systems (win XP and Suse 9). The *.lyx files save on a FAT32-Partition. Gives a

Re: SuSE again...

2004-03-06 Thread Georg Baum
Am Freitag, 5. März 2004 17:44 schrieb Juergen Spitzmueller: Konrad Blum wrote: after some searching around I could not find any RPM of lyx-1.3.3-qt or lyx-1.3.4-qt which works well with vanilla SuSE 9.0. The RPM of lyx-1.3.3.-qt for SuSE no longer sits, where it was announced some months

Re: Note inset question

2004-03-08 Thread Georg Baum
Günter Milde wrote: On Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 07:09:12PM +0100, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: There is the possibility to (mis) use ERT-Boxes. Put your note there and start it with a %. Export to LaTeX is fine, but reLyX will silently eat away all %-comments. Could we have an import option

Re: Note inset question

2004-03-10 Thread Georg Baum
Andre Poenitz wrote: On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 05:55:48PM +0100, Georg Baum wrote: #! /bin/sh SUFFIX=-1.4 INSTDIR=/path/to/lyx1.4cvs tex2lyx${SUFFIX} $@ | ${INSTDIR}/share/lyx/lyx2lyx/lyx2lyx -t 221 Shouldn't that be $@ (in double quotes?) I don't know. I guess the double quotes

Re: math-stuff

2004-03-16 Thread Georg Baum
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: could somebody tell me why I get an error by using the second equation in the added lyx-file? This is the relevant part of the lyx-file: \layout Standard If I take the second equation out, dvi gives no error. \layout Standard \begin_inset Formula R=Rh/2+(ZZ-4)

Re: image in pdf file smaller as in .ps file

2004-03-17 Thread Georg Baum
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: %!PS-Adobe-2.0 EPSF-2.0 %%Title: /home/wolfgang/Book-chrono/Buch-eps/093.eps %%Creator: XV Version 3.10a Rev: 12/29/94 (PNG patch 1.2) - by John Because of this line and the large size I guess that the original file is a bitmap graphic. I don't know if this has

Re: pnmscale

2004-03-20 Thread Georg Baum
Am Samstag, 20. März 2004 14:41 schrieb Wolfgang Engelmann: how is pnmscale used? I have difficulties with a large image file to get it from a lyx-file in the correct size into a pdf-file (using pdflatex-export). It shows up smaller in the pdf- as compared to the ps-file. Since I was

Re: PNG and LyX

2004-03-23 Thread Georg Baum
Janus Sandsgaard wrote: In this case I do not use graphs. I am writing a manual and I am mostly inserting screenshots (taken with Ksnapshot and then inserted and scaled down in LyX). Are threre any reasos to use EPS (or other formats) insted of PNG in this case? No. The only thing you have

Re: PNG and LyX

2004-03-24 Thread Georg Baum
Janus Sandsgaard wrote: On Tuesday 23 March 2004 10:04, Angus Leeming wrote: Your use-case suggests to me that you really should install pdflatex which will be able to handle your images as-is. I am running SuSE Linux 9.0 but cannot find a rpm named pdflatex. Does anybody know if it can

Re: [1]+ Speicherzugriffsfehler lyx

2004-03-29 Thread Georg Baum
Konrad Blum wrote: Hi, I have compiled lyx-1.3.4 with qt on vanilla SuSE 9.0 (Pentium 4 2.0 Ghz) and have been using this version of lyx ever since about two months. This evening lyx and Linux crashed during a pdflatex view. I had to switch of the PC and cold boot. Well, I think there is

Re: eps in a figure is missing in output

2004-03-30 Thread Georg Baum
Angus Leeming wrote: Angus Leeming wrote: Does it work if you specify an absolute path to foo_1.eps within the xfig file? I believe so, see below. I suspect that xfig generates an eps file that references the foo_1.eps file rather than contains a copy of it. That's why the bitmap file

Re: eps in a figure is missing in output

2004-03-30 Thread Georg Baum
Ronald Pagel wrote: Indeed, the preview in lyx seems to be converted on the original .fig, whereas the latex run is performed in a temp dir. Then, there exists only a copy of the .fig but no copy of the files to be embedded into it (such as foo_1.eps). I understand that a temp dir should be

Re: how to avoid hyphenating abbreviations

2004-03-30 Thread Georg Baum
Thorsten Hirsch wrote: \hyphenation{LDAP} in preamble. But this one did not work. \hyphenation in the preamble does not work if you use babel. You have to do it like this: \usepackage{babel} \hyphenation{LDAP} See http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1503 for more details. Georg

Re: preview problems

2004-04-08 Thread Georg Baum
Am Donnerstag, 8. April 2004 20:27 schrieb David Cortesi: When I try to preview using ViewDVI the following messages appear on the console:      LSOpenFromURLSpec() returned -10814 for application (null) path This looks like you

Re: Inhaltverzeichnis und Author?

2004-05-13 Thread Georg Baum
Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: Ich hab folgendes Problem: ich mache meine Arbeit zur zweit mit einem anderen und jeder von uns hat bestimmte Kapiteln geschrieben. wir wollen, dass jeder seinen Namen neben sein Kapitel im Inhaltverzeichnis schreibt ohne dass der Name auf jeder Seite der Doku.

Re: Re[2]: hyphenation writing in other languages rather than English

2004-05-13 Thread Georg Baum
Juan Luis UPSAM wrote: Obrigado, thank you. Works both in linux and windows Although R Saunders' (thanks Rob) document is quite comprehensive, using lyx under Windows as a main document processor for a department or section has a lot of obstacles of many types in which you have to invest

Re: latex.s-v-p.de down?

2004-05-10 Thread Georg Baum
Georg Philipp Burth wrote: When I go to latex.s-v-p.de I don't get the usual but a login screen from confixx... Is this true for you, too? Yes. If yes, do you know whom to contact to get it back? Herbert Voß, see http://www.perce.de/voss/ Georg

[patch] require extension for graphic filenames

2004-04-27 Thread Georg Baum
@@ LyX file-format changes --- +2004-04-27 Georg Baum [EMAIL PROTECTED] + + * format incremented to 233. + * insetgraphics does not allow filenames without extension anymore. + The complete filename has to be given. 2004-03-29 Jürgen Spitzmüller [EMAIL PROTECTED] Index

Re: table of contents links

2004-04-30 Thread Georg Baum
Dominique Buenzli wrote: http://tex2pdf.berlios.de/ is down... It works here. Georg

Re: Why? Why T1?

2004-05-03 Thread Georg Baum
David Obadia wrote: On Mon, May 03 (02:00), Uwe Stöhr wrote: Note that this is not the font type T1 but the encoding scheme. T1 gives latin letters, T2 cyrillic letters etc. Well, maybe, but when I remove that line from the Tex file, the PDF comes out nice. This depends on the contents of

Re: heading outside the page

2004-05-08 Thread Georg Baum
Am Freitag, 7. Mai 2004 22:59 schrieb Rich Shepard: Harold, Yes, and yes. I use the short titles option (Insert - Short title) in my book because the publisher's style doesn't accommodate two-line headings. Unfortunately, in the current lyx versions if you use a short title then that is

Re: Tipps Tricks from Herbert Voss vanished?

2004-05-24 Thread Georg Baum
Markus Rainer wrote: hi, the Tips Tricks on the main page of www.lyx.org is not avaliable. it points to http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/LaTeX/index.phtml and all i get is a Not Found error. does anybody know if these pages are available somewehere else now? The address that works

Re: psfrag

2004-05-29 Thread Georg Baum
Am Samstag, 29. Mai 2004 00:16 schrieb Jim Ragsdale: I am trying to get psfrag to insert a greek symbol in my eps figure. I made the eps in xfig and the included text says 10 G1m. I would like to replace the G1 with a greek mu. I added \usepackage{psfrag} to the preamble. Then in the figure

Re: Lyx winbuilds

2015-01-03 Thread Georg Baum
Hi Peter, this is intersting, but I think it is better suited for the development list. Peter Johansson wrote: Only issues you can see as automake failed to analyze my latest version of magic and I had to add the common win libs manually, in this, my first Lyx build run containing three

Re: esint.sty in RedHat/Centos 7. Where? Why omitted?

2015-03-22 Thread Georg Baum
Paul Johnson wrote: I searched long enough to see there is some peculiar history with packaging of esint.sty. I DO find the Fedora package in rpmfind.net texlive-esint- I will rebuild that on the EL7 systems if I have to. But I can't see why this is necessary at all. I don't know why

Re: \biggg not working

2015-03-05 Thread Georg Baum
Richard Heck wrote: On 03/04/2015 04:07 PM, Georg Baum wrote: The idea is simply to give a better display for those users who use these packages. AFAIK these commands do not occur in any toolbar, menu or autocompletion (and if they would this would be a bug). That is a bit confusing

Re: \biggg not working

2015-03-04 Thread Georg Baum
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Is \biggg even supposed to exist? I see that LyX code pretends to support it, but I do not understand how. In lib/symbols, I see: # The following are not standard LaTeX, but defined in the lucida font # packages. No 'm' versions! # See lucidabr.dtx for a

Re: xtended arrows

2015-04-20 Thread Georg Baum
Elbert Branscomb wrote: Hello, I'm running lyx-2.1.3 on a 64 bit Linux box (Gentoo; up to date; except that the kernel is 3.12.13-gentoo). With all lyx-provided math packages set to load always, including specifically amsmath and mathtools (and with lyx restarted) I still only have

Re: Strategies for locating errors

2015-05-07 Thread Georg Baum
Will Furnass wrote: On 5 May 2015 at 21:38, Georg Baum georg.b...@post.rwth-aachen.de wrote: If you select the error item in the error dialog then the corresponding LyX contents should should be selected in the main area as well. This is not always 100% correct, but usually the error cause

Re: Strategies for locating errors

2015-05-05 Thread Georg Baum
Will Furnass wrote: How do others locate compilation errors in large multi-file documents? I get a 'Missing } inserted' error for 'l.1052' when compiling but can't relate that line number to the LyX source. I then try exporting to tex using pdflatex into a temporary directory and search

Re: Strategies for locating errors

2015-05-05 Thread Georg Baum
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: That was the reason I was asking a while ago, whether the latex source panel (under view) could show the tex line number. But I was told it is not possible under lyx. Why that? Of course it would only be possible if the panel is set to show the full source

Re: Re: esint.sty in RedHat/Centos 7. Where? Why omitted?

2015-04-07 Thread Georg Baum
Paul Johnson wrote: I believe this may not be entirely necessary, however. The esint package is not truly required to compile an elementary document. However, inside LyX, there is a switch under document / settings that says use esint automatically. I think that doesn't work properly, it

Re: Suggestion to improve Lyx for LaTEX users

2015-06-11 Thread Georg Baum
Liviu Andronic wrote: On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 2:34 PM, Richard Heck rgh...@lyx.org wrote: my case). I wonder if just having the option of opening an ERT itself in an external editor would help? As it happens, this is the subject of: http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/7404 Georg even

Re: emf conversion on mac

2015-08-24 Thread Georg Baum
Rainer M Krug wrote: You have two options: 1) use e.g. Irfanview (http://www.irfanview.com) in wine / PlayOnMac (https://www.playonmac.com/) to convert the images to a different format. Irfan view works very nicely on a mac. 2) if you find a commandline tool for Mac (I didn't find

Re: Lyx to Latex to Lyx

2015-08-15 Thread Georg Baum
Hal Kierstead wrote: First of all, tex2lyx already comes close to making a good LyX file. The main problem is that there always seem to be a handful or errors that must be fixed before the file will run. For some reason the program cannot handle options like \begin{thm}[Main Lemma], but

Re: copy and paste between lyx documents does not work

2005-10-17 Thread Georg Baum
Gunnar wrote: I'm using Linux and if I open two LyX documents, I can't copy and paste between the two windows. I guess you mean two LyX instances? In this case it is indeed not possible. If you open both documents in the same LyX instance, you can copy everything with C-c and C-v. I can

Re: copy and paste between lyx documents does not work - why not?

2005-10-17 Thread Georg Baum
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm using Linux and if I open two LyX documents, I can't copy and paste between the two windows. Oh, you can! It's true! :) I can select text in other windows and paste it by a mouseclick in a LyX window. Why can't I copy/paste between the LyX

Re: Lyx command line question

2005-10-18 Thread Georg Baum
Sanders, Maarten (M.J.L.) wrote: I try to use lyx from the command line. In lyx 1.4pre2 preview pdflatex goes fine. On the commandline I get: $ lyx --export latex myfile.lyx ... lot of messages but OK $ pdflatex myfile.tex ... goes fine except for an gif image. I can enter the

Re: Lyx command line question

2005-10-18 Thread Georg Baum
Am Dienstag, 18. Oktober 2005 16:09 schrieb Sanders, Maarten (M.J.L.): Georg/Angus, From within the GUI things work fine. It is just the conversion on the commandline that does not do the part where the gif file is converted to some format pdflatex understands. Convert is present on my

Re: Lyx command line question

2005-10-19 Thread Georg Baum
Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: Yes it should but you must note that Export-Pdflatex is different to Export-latex followed by running pdflatex on the file. In the second case the only Export that Lyx is performing is Lyx-tex. This will not convert any graphics file formats. This is true for 1.3.x,

Re: Lyx command line question

2005-10-19 Thread Georg Baum
Am Mittwoch, 19. Oktober 2005 20:51 schrieb Paul Smith: I agree, Paul. The reply address should be occupied by the list's address. I don't agree. Read http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html, and then get a decent email program (or news client, if you read the list via gmane). For

Re: No one answered a simple topic :(

2005-10-22 Thread Georg Baum
Am Samstag, 22. Oktober 2005 00:12 schrieb Rich Shepard: No. At least, not for me. I use .eps graphics in book, article, report, and beamer classes with no problems compiling with pdflatex. AFAIK eps can not be handled by pdflatex directly, but LyX converts included eps files to something

Re: Preamble code from the layout file gets double linespacing

2005-10-24 Thread Georg Baum
Helge Hafting wrote: I just tried recompiling todays cvs. Running this lyx gave strange results. Any latex code from the preamble gets double linespacing, like this: \newcommand{\mycommand}{ \something \something } which go wrong, as paragraph breaks are not allowed in

Re: Where can I see what lyx is doing in the background when generating a preview?

2005-10-30 Thread Georg Baum
Am Sonntag, 30. Oktober 2005 00:05 schrieb Paul A. Rubin: Sanders, Maarten (M.J.L.) wrote: I already found out things work again when I remove the image from the child document OR when I adjust the page margins in the preamble instead of with the menu options. Very strange. I am running

Re: importing material into figures

2005-11-08 Thread Georg Baum
Am Dienstag, 8. November 2005 18:32 schrieb hagit lev: Hi I have lots of material - such as Surfer maps, Origin graphs etc. and I wondered if I can import them directly to Lyx or need to export them first to jpeg and only then import ? You can import any figure material directly if you have

Re: Suggestion

2005-11-08 Thread Georg Baum
Am Dienstag, 8. November 2005 17:47 schrieb Roy Schestowitz: I noticed that too, but never complained. I re-adjusted my mind and got accustomed *over time*. This behaviour is attributed to the LaTeX/LyX for- mat underneath, yet a few tweaks could probably correct this. Selections do

Re: Forget Windows

2005-11-08 Thread Georg Baum
Am Dienstag, 8. November 2005 22:18 schrieb John Coppens: Anyway, I see there is some interest (mine included) for a native GTK+ version, so I'll try and compile one (I suspect it compiles at least?). Yes, it does, and it is also somewhat useful, since it borrows xforms dialogs. Who is the

Re: Write debug info to file

2005-11-08 Thread Georg Baum
Abel Fernández Fernández wrote: Is there any way of write debug info in a text file? I do this -- lyx -dbg latex for show debug info, but this write into console. You can redirect the standard error output to a file on unix systems: lyx -dbg latex 2err.log On windows it looks maybe

Re: Write debug info to file

2005-11-09 Thread Georg Baum
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 9 Nov 2005, Georg Baum wrote: lyx -dbg latex 2err.log I'm guessing this assumes bash or sh as the shell? Yes. Georg

Re: Multline subscript / AMS in LyX

2005-11-12 Thread Georg Baum
Rudi Gaelzer wrote: Well, OK, thanks anyway, but this is Lamport-style, standard LaTeX. One of the aims of the AMS package, though, is to provide resources that render mathematical display that is aesthetically more appealing than standard LaTeX... And it offers a lot of useful tools.

Re: Multline subscript / AMS in LyX

2005-11-13 Thread Georg Baum
Am Sonntag, 13. November 2005 17:14 schrieb Rudi Gaelzer: Do you know if the package empheq: http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/mh/doc/empheq.pdf is also implemented in LyX? Among other stuff it creates a box around a system of equations. No, it is not, but it should be

Re: about the window just above the status bar

2005-11-15 Thread Georg Baum
Nusret BALCI wrote: Risking to sound silly, what's the window on the bottom part of main lyx window, just above the status bar for? It looks like kind of command line, but I'm not sure: it certainly doesn't understand LaTeX commands :), so it should have some other functionality. Probably

Re: How to create a new page in Lyx?

2005-11-17 Thread Georg Baum
John C. McCabe-Dansted wrote: Hmmm, it would make more sense to put Pagebreaks under Insert\Special_Character together with linebreaks would it not? Right. In LyX 1.4 you will see Insert-Special Formatting-Page Break (and Line Break and a few more). Georg

Re: LyX and Mathematica

2005-11-18 Thread Georg Baum
Andrzej Tomaszewski wrote: Hi All! I am asking a question on the list because I could not find anywhere any information about integrating LyX and Mathematica. I am using W2K OS, LyX 1.3.6-1 and Mathematica 4.1. What exactly have I to do in order to be able to use (math-extern

RE: LyX and Mathematica

2005-11-18 Thread Georg Baum
Andrzej Tomaszewski wrote: Does it mean LyX menu entry does nothing at all, or that it's functionality is (very) limited? AFAIK it does nothing at all. If the first is true, what about Maxima support? That should work. In the configure script I have found only the entries for Octave and

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