Re: Order of Tables and Figures

2010-05-11 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-05-11, rob wrote: > Rob Oakes oak-tree.us> writes: ... >> There are ways to make floats go to the end of a document and arrange >> themselves into separate figures and tables sections, but it involves >> resetting LaTeX values and some ugly hackery. > Hi Rob, Thanks for your reply. Yes

Re: Boxes in books

2010-05-18 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-05-17, Ian Holliday wrote: > I'm involved in writing an academic textbook and we are wanting to use > 'Boxes' to highlight aspects of topics. We are inserting a box then > formating it from the context menu, but we have not found an elegant way to > reference the boxes. The documentation s

Re: Default fonts

2010-05-18 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-05-13, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > Andrew Parsloe wrote: >> Having recently discovered just how much clearer the Latin Modern fonts >> are in Acrobat Reader compared with the Computer Modern fonts, and for >> that matter how much crisper they are when printed, is there any reason >> for

Re: Multiple formatting questions with LyX 1.6.5 - book (Memoir)

2010-05-20 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-05-20, RIchard Heck wrote: > On 05/20/2010 02:33 AM, Yannick Fournier wrote: >> One more question I forgot to ask: >> How do you reduce the vertical space, in itemize and enumerate listings, >> between the first item and the preceeding paragraph? I tried the following >> preamble commands

Re: ubuntu and greek

2010-05-23 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-05-23, Thym Kaal wrote: ... > I recently switched from win to Ubuntu and i 'm facing this problem: > when i type something in greek and i try to view it in any form (eg > pdf) i get a message: "latex errors" and below " \textgreek{ghh} > I wasn't able to read the size data for this font, >

Re: Install LyX 2.0 alpha3 in Ubuntu

2010-05-26 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-05-25, Francisco J Ruiz-Ruano Campaña wrote: > I have typed > $ sudo aptitude install qt4-dev-tools for Debian and Ubuntu, I recommend $ apt-get build-dep lyx (as root or with sudo). This installs all packages needed to build the lyx version in the repository. (If there are new de

Re: a box around text on multiple pages

2010-05-26 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-05-26, [Ricardo Rodriguez] eBioTIC. wrote: > Thanks! > Uwe Stöhr wrote: >> Shaded boxes are in general able to split across pages. The other >> boxes are not, except of those types where the "Allow page breaks" is >> enabled. >> regards Uwe > Sorry if I seam, or I am!, a bit pigheaded

Re: Change tracking and the fate of deleted text

2010-06-01 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-05-31, E. Kaplan wrote: > I am aware that you can disable the Show changes in the output, but that > is not what the user wants-- she wants to see the changed text without > losing deleted text. She could try with version control: only the most recent text is seen (and known to LyX), bu

Re: Environments and layouts

2010-06-02 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-06-01, Steve Litt wrote: > On Tuesday 01 June 2010 11:35:33 Will wrote: > It's my strong belief that the frontmatter of a large document should > be fine- tuned, finger-painted, ERT, etc. I wouldn't use the \maketitle > command at all, but instead would just put the right stuff where it >

Re: Environments and layouts

2010-06-02 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-06-01, Will wrote: > I have one side question first. Is there an introduction to how to write > new layouts posted anywhere on the internet? The main source of info is, of course, the LyX Guide available via Help>Customization. Günter

Re: Custom Insets with multiple arguments

2010-06-02 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-06-02, RGH wrote: > On 06/02/2010 10:59 AM, Rob Oakes wrote: >> Dear LyX-Users, >> I am in the process of creating a custom of modules for personal use >> (one for easily creating dropcaps via letrine and the stringstrings >> package, and another for the creation of epigraphs). For the ep

Re: Italics words touching non-italics

2010-06-06 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-06-04, Frederick Noronha wrote: > Italicised words are touching the non-italics words, when I view my PDF > file. In Lyx it looks okay, but the words seem to touch ever so often > when I view a PDF. Is there some glitch here? Am I doing something > wrong? The font being used is Palatino

Re: keeping PDF output files

2010-06-06 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-06-03, Rob Oakes wrote: >> I was also hoping to control other files. Can I have LyX keep other >> output and aux files, so that latex and bibtex can run fewer times and >> produce the output faster (example, references and bibs). > Building the entire draft can take on the order of 15 - 2

Re: Layout File Location

2010-06-07 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-06-07, William R. Buckley wrote: > "To use the layouts, just copy the respective *.layout > (and, if included, *.inc) files to the layouts folder of > your user directory (if the folder > doesn't exist yet, > create it) and then rec

Re: keeping PDF output files

2010-06-07 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-06-07, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > Guenter Milde wrote: >> There is already a feature request for proper support of "includeonly". >> Maybe you can add to it. > And the feature is already implemented in Lyx 2.0. Good news. > However, ... >> 1.

Re: tensor notation : double overline and greek black-board character

2010-06-09 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-06-08, Julien Hillairet wrote: > Hello, > I want to write a tensor with either a double overline (or double > underline), but the result is not really nice : the gap space between > the two lines is too large to me. Is there a way to write double > overline/underline which are brought clos

Re: keeping PDF output files

2010-06-09 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-06-07, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > Guenter Milde wrote: >> I suppose we can compare modification times of the corresponding *.lyx >> and *aux files and regenerate them only if there are changes. > Yes, we can probably do that. But that means we need to re-generate the a

Re: Lyx 2 WORD

2010-06-12 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-06-12, E. Kaplan wrote: > I know this is an often-discussed issue, but like the weather, it seems > to be always relevant. > In converting from Lyx to MS WORD I found the path through html to work > quite well, even for documents with figures, except for the paragraph > environment, whi

Re: Reducing the number of pages in an article

2010-06-12 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-06-12, Barak Sh wrote: > --0050450156d81d9ee90488d09573 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > An article I'm writing has reached 7 pages where the last page contains > only a small paragraph. Is there a simple way to reduce the article to > 6 pages? > ... I have noticed that

Re: blanks don't get saved in math-text mode

2010-06-12 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-06-11, hinten hoch wrote: > --0016364265755e94760488bff732 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > Dear all, > I'm trying to use the qtree package in lyx to generate some trees in > math-text mode. In principle it's working fine, but when I save the document > or copy and paste th

Re: Negative indent in an enumerated list inside a theorem?

2010-06-14 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-06-14, Paul Elliott wrote: > -- > Theorem. > If all cows are spherical and either: > (1) the moon is made of green cheese, > or (2) there are canals on Mars > then pluto is a planet. > -- > How do I copy this style in lyx, specificly the negative indent > on

Re: Document class "article (more font sizes)" not working in Hebrew documents?

2010-06-21 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-06-19, Barak Sh wrote: > I've tried to change an article's document class to "article (more > font sizes)", in order to use a smaller base size for fonts (8 instead > of 10). > However, I could not export the article; I got a LaTeX error > "\...@chapter undefined". This error appears even

Re: hyperlink display

2010-06-25 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-06-24, Vincent van Ravesteijn wrote: >> Hi, >> The current hyperlink display (at least in the doc classes I've tried) is as >> follows: >> [hyperlink: text limited in width] >> Would it be possible to have a more conventional display, eg not having the >> word hyperlink preceeding the text,

Re: Indent in GUI vs. preview

2010-06-25 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-06-24, Vincent van Ravesteijn wrote: > On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 4:28 PM, Daniel CLEMENT > wrote: ... >> Every first paragraph after a section, subsection, enumeration, math >> display,... is _not_ indented (in the LyX window) -- which is normal. >> However, when I open the paragraph style

Re: Forcing the floats position

2010-06-28 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-06-27, Petr A. Ossipov wrote: > Hey > I've got a problem with lyx placing my floats. I now have a subsection, > and soon after it a float with image (and also a float with listing). > However, after rendering, it places the image before this section, which > is undesired. Is there a way

Re: Layout file command to remove a default preamble line

2010-06-28 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-06-27, Liviu Andronic wrote: > On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 3:11 AM, KYokota wrote: >> Are there any ways to remove this preamble? I appreciate very much if >> anyone could give me any instructions or hints. > In 2.0 you can specify custom encoding in Document > Fonts > LaTeX > font encoding.

Re: hyperlink display

2010-06-28 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-06-28, Manveru wrote: > To all it may concern not reading Trac - I've just added following comment: > I would like to enhance this idea with an option to display an small > icon before the text, like WikiMedia does on its pages. > This method my apply to all other small insets, like footn

Re: how can I disable automatic graphics EPS conversion (it is making output PDFs fail!)

2010-08-02 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-07-25, Nicholas Tung wrote: > Dear all, > Is there a way I can disable the automatic conversion of images > (added via Insert > Graphics) to the EPS format? xelatex does not work > with the EPS images for whatever reason, and works fine with the > source jpg or png images. Just a gues

Re: SuperscriptLc character style: Close but no cigar

2010-08-02 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-07-23, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > Am 22.07.2010 23:00, schrieb Richard Heck: >> I'd suggest you use \textsuperscript instead, which is a standard LaTeX >> command, defined in latex.ltx. There's no textsubscript, though. > When you are using a KOMA-script document class, there is also a > \textsu

Re: What are your favorite packages?

2010-08-07 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-08-07, Steve Litt wrote: > Hi all, > As LyX users, what are your favorite 5 or 10 or 20 or 30 packages to use with > LyX? I'm going to compile a list of packages so I reinvent the wheel less. > Here are some packages I use on a regular basis: Document classes - KOMA scr

Re: What are your favorite packages?

2010-08-09 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-08-07, Richard Heck wrote: > On 08/07/2010 12:17 PM, Guenter Milde wrote: >> fixltx2e % LaTeX patches, \textsubscript > I've been wondering recently if LyX ought to provide native support for > this. I would welcome this. The package description says: LaTeX p

Re: Problem loading mnsymbols

2010-08-12 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-08-12, Julio Rojas wrote: > Dear all, I have been able to install the minionpro font on my MikTeX > 2.8 installation. I could render text documents, but while trying to > render my thesis (huge, lots of math, figures, tables, etc.) I > received the following errors: > ! LaTeX Error: Comman

Re: lyx: Font derail (with semi-related ranting)

2010-08-12 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-08-12, Julio Rojas wrote: > I have created a sample document with math included and tgpagella > doesn't render math environments. At the end, I had to use: > \usepackage{mathpazo,tgpagella} > In order to have have mathpazo characters in math environments. You can also try {qpxmath,tgpage

Re: LyX 1.6.7 Packages for Ubuntu

2010-08-21 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-08-20, Julien Rioux wrote: > On 20/08/2010 10:49 AM, Rob Oakes wrote: >> Which brings me to the question in the front of my mind. Should we >> create another Ubuntu/Debian package for LyX that doesn't require the >> system LaTeX packages? Seconded. At least with the internal HTML export,

Re: Accents

2010-08-30 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-08-29, Hal Kierstead wrote: >> I have a problem with LyX 1.6.7. I work with collaborators who do not >> use LyX. Suppose I import this to LyX: >> \begin{document} >> P\'osa, R\"odl, Erd\H os. >> \end{document} >> I get. >> Pósa, Rödl, Erdős. >> This is fine for me. When I export it

Re: how to make fragile frames in beamer layout

2010-08-31 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-08-31, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > This is due to the fact how frames are defined in LyX. Unfortunately, this > rules out native support for fragile frames (unless someone comes up with a > new definition of \lyxframe). How about a "fragile frame" inset? InsetLayout FragileFrame LyX

Re: Different bindings for math/non-math?

2010-09-04 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-09-04, Wendell Smith wrote: > I have been using LyX for a while now, and very much enjoying it, but I > would really love to be able to set different key bindings for math mode > and non-math mode. My main reason for this is that in math mode, I have > to use the Ctrl, Meta, and Shift k

Re: typing slowness with large documents

2010-09-04 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-09-03, obregonma...@gmail.com wrote: > I am experiencing very slow reaction times when typing and deleting, as > well as scrolling the document window. I have the latest debian sid > installation and everything else works fine. Sometimes, the culprit is a clipboard-manager. > I have each

Re: Roman Section-Letter subsection numbering

2010-09-05 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-09-04, BcBob wrote: > BcBob wrote: >> I am writing a paper for a journal that wants the sections numbered in >> capital roman numerals and the subsections as capital letters. The >> subsubsections are numbers. As an example, II.B.3 >> >> Can someone provide a link to where this is

Re: \cite, \ref

2010-09-07 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-09-07, Pavel Sanda wrote: > Julien Rioux wrote: >> On 06/09/2010 1:38 PM, Hal Kierstead wrote: >>> Still, for a wish list, it would be nice to have a special tex mode, sort >>> of like math mode, so that simple things like \noindent, \cite, etc. could >>> be automatically entered into LyX

Re: \cite, \ref

2010-09-07 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-09-07, Pavel Sanda wrote: > Guenter Milde wrote: >> The generic version of this would be an LFUN that re-lyxes the selection. >> As in math and relyx of files, any unknown construct will be converted to >> an ERT box. > yes elegant solutions which looks even less

Re: Strange Table Index

2010-09-15 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-09-14, Julien Rioux wrote: > On 13/09/2010 3:22 PM, minhvd wrote: > I have seen this happen in a two-column document, when mixing tables of > one- and two-column width (spanning columns). Does this description > match your document? In this case it is a Latex problem which needs a > Lat

Re: delete 'Unser Zeichen' from dinbrief

2010-09-15 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-09-14, wrote: > Am Tue, 14 Sep 2010 18:25:02 + (UTC) > schrieb Paul Rubin : > I thought I could keep the entry "Ihr Zeichen". However I had to > delete all three lines "Ihr Zeichen", "Unser Zeichen" and > "Sachberabeiter" but then everything was fine. Yes, this is a feature of DINbri

Re: Float figures and wrapping text

2010-09-15 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-09-15, Grahame Blackwood wrote: > I'm producing a document that needs some graphics to enliven the text. I > would also like the text to wrap round the graphics. However, as it isn't an > academic document, the usual references, Figure 1, Figure 2 etc aren't > needed in the finished pdf.

Re: change pdf save location

2010-09-21 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-09-21, Gwen Barnes wrote: > When I hit the button on the lyx toolbar to either view or update the pdf, > the pdf gets created in a temporary location. Is there a way to get it to > automatically save the pdf to my current working directory? I'd hate to > accidentally submit an old versio

Re: More problems sorting bibtex/Lyx output

2010-09-22 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-09-21, Påvel Nicklasson wrote: > Hello again! > I asked earlier about how to handle Swedish letters in lyx/bibtex: > http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg82909.html. The > solution works fine. Now I have run into a similar problem. I have several > authors with different n

Re: lyx: Font derail (with semi-related ranting)

2010-09-25 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-09-25, Liviu Andronic wrote: > (an old subject) > On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 12:10 PM, Julio Rojas wrote: >> But qpx seems a rather old package, compared to mathpazo. Isn't it a >> little dated? > At least on my document qpxmath (hence, pxfonts) catches more math > symbols than mathpazo, wh

Re: Lyx without extras?

2010-09-26 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-09-26, s.thomson wrote: > I just want Lyx without extras; even the "small" installer installs Aspell, > Ghostscript & Imagemagick, Qt, Python. > All I have use for is the main Lyx executables & the fonts. What do you want to use it for? All these are required for basic editing tasks. Asp

Re: LyX (LaTeX) vs. ConTeXt

2010-09-30 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-09-30, Gour D. wrote: > otoh, LuaTeX is heading towards MK IV (aka ConTeXt-ng) and I wonder > what is the plan with LaTeX/LyX in regards to better/simpler font > handling, Unicode support etc., iow. will LyX will be able to use > LuaTeX as well? Yes. There is already (still somewhat exper

Re: image not centered

2010-10-08 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-10-07, Julien Rioux wrote: > On 06/10/2010 10:47 PM, Joel Schiff wrote: >> When I insert an image into a float box, I have the cursor to the left >> of the Figure #, and press return, insert the image, but the image >> always ends up on the left hand side of the box, even in the dvi file. >

Re: editing source code / resume enumerate

2010-10-10 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-10-08, Beth Skwarecki wrote: > --001636d34de3ac763304921fa183 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > Hi, I'm new to LyX. I installed enumitem.module so that I can resume > enumerations, but I can't figure out how to insert the resume command. > I know I can view the source, but

Re: Default Fonts in KOMA-Script

2010-10-13 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-10-13, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > Am 13.10.2010 07:31, schrieb Rob Oakes: >> But, not all of the classes use Computer Modern as the default >> typeface. (Yes, the majority do). The Tufte classes, for example, >> make use of Palotino/Helvetica/Bera Mono. > Seems that you misunderstood me. A docum

Re: is there any way to set lyx 2.0 to write always in lyx 1.6 format?

2010-10-16 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-10-16, Liviu Andronic wrote: > On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 4:13 PM, Jose Quesada wrote: >> Thanks Liviu, > I'm not sure that this is documented, but here's how you do it. Go to > Prefs > Files > Formats, select your format of choice (LyX 1.6.x), > copy the Short name ('lyx16x'), go to Edit >

Re: lyx to latex: special national characters

2010-10-17 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-10-16, miro ilias wrote: > Dear all, > I just installed fresh Lyx on my Windows PC (version 1.6.7). > The problem is how to get some 'LaTeX'-encoded national characters. > For instance, I get the "ľ" properly written, \v{l}, the same for ť (as > \v{t} ). > However, there are remaining S

Re: lyx to latex: special national characters

2010-10-18 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-10-18, Miroslav Ilias wrote: > In LaTeX exported file I would like to have > "\v{t}", and get "ť". > To generalize, the problem is in making Latex source encoding of > special (national) characters into \v{SOMETHING} etc. Then Document>Settings>Language>Encoding: ASCII is your frien

Re: Force LyX to completely regenerate pdf

2010-10-20 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-10-19, Richard Heck wrote: > On 10/18/2010 07:14 PM, Andras Toth wrote: >> On Monday 18 October 2010 04:52:02 am Uwe Stöhr wrote: >>> Am 17.10.2010 22:15, schrieb Andras Toth: >> I attach a small example which reproduces the issue: in the original >> sub.lyx (sub-orig.lyx) the citations ar

Re: Using ttf fonts via Luatex

2010-10-21 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-10-21, John Culleton wrote: > If one wants to use ttf or otf fonts via luatex is this possible in > Lyx? Or do I need to export a LaTeX file from Lyx and hand modify it? With the most recent fontspec version, it should work via XeTeX export. (XeTeX export is new in the upcoming version

Re: Linking

2010-10-21 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-10-21, Rob Oakes wrote: > Hi Edward, > I don't believe that LyX has this built-in, but you can use the package > directly from within LyX, exactly as you would use it in LaTeX. Add > the package name to the LaTeX preamble (Documet > Settings > LaTeX > preamble): > \usepackage{...} > Th

Re: announce: template to write Ph.D. theses with LyX

2010-10-28 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-10-28, Waluyo Adi Siswanto wrote: ... > We have already various article templates, but don't have thesis and > books. So my suggestion, under thesis and books there are also several > examples. Users can choose which one they can start with to customize. If I remember right, we usually h

Re: Sharing documents among different versions of Lyx

2010-11-04 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-11-02, Frederick Noronha wrote: > Is there some tool that makes the sharing of documents among different > versions of Lyx a little easier? FN lyx2lyx comes with every LyX version. It's a Python module (i.e. a set of interdependent Python scripts living in LYXDIR/lyx2lyx/). To down-conver

Re: LyX and LuaTeX

2010-11-04 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-11-02, Rob Oakes wrote: > But, initial experiments show that it was easy to get up and running, > and that it works with LyX 2.0 very well. Take care with UTF > characters, though. I probably could have gotten it sorted out, but > didn't really want to fuss with it. There is an ongoing

Re: How to use babel "-shortcuts in LYX directly?

2010-11-06 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-11-05, Richard Heck wrote: > On 11/04/2010 11:08 PM, Vasily Letov wrote: >> Hello, people! >> In Babel there are many language-specific shortcuts. For example, we >> have "---, "--~, "--* and another. The package extdash (ncc-tools >> collection) provides extra useful shortcuts, too. Unfor

Re: Latex error

2010-11-07 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-11-08, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > Am 07.11.2010 21:59, schrieb Richard Heck: >> Shouldn't "Use babel" really be a document setting, rather than a >> preference? > Yes, definitively. Babel needs to be deactivated for some document > classes and can cause troubles when using XeTeX. Seconded. >>

Re: Foreign Language Support + Font Setup

2010-11-07 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-11-07, Walter wrote: > It's been working quite alright, though I now have a need for some > pretty heavy duty multilingual text in a single document, specifically > at least Burmese, Chinese, Lao, Thai and Vietnamese in addition to > English, French and German, and this is causing a huge h

Re: How to use babel "-shortcuts in LYX directly?

2010-11-08 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-11-06, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Le 6 nov. 10 à 22:20, Vasily Letov a écrit : >> But we type --- or -- in LyX as is, yes? "--- etc. are similar things, >> but for other languages. Of course, TeX, LaTeX, XeTeX, LyX were made >> for english-speaking users, but now we want to make them for

Re: Latex error

2010-11-08 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-11-08, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > Uwe Stöhr wrote: >> We should consider do do this for 2.0 because the users-list is full >> with requests of XeTeX and we already implemented basic support. >> Jürgen, what do you think, will you have time to implement support for >> polyglossia? > No.

Re: Fonts in LyX (and LaTeX and TeX)

2010-11-09 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-11-09, Rob Oakes wrote: >> gonna thrash me is fonts. Unless I'm mistaken, fonts other than the = > ones=20 >> packaged with your LaTeX are incredibly difficult to do in = > LyX/LaTeX/TeX. Well, there are some more TeX-ready fonts then the ones that come packed with TeXLive or MikeTeX (als

Re: Latex error

2010-11-09 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-11-09, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > Am 08.11.2010 23:22, schrieb Jean-Marc Lasgouttes: >> Are we sure that it is needed on a document basis? > Yes. >> Now that I think of it, what is the exact effect of "use babel"? Just >> the usepackage, or more? > It adds \usepackage{babel} but also adds the

Re: about LyX shortcuts

2010-11-09 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-11-09, Pavel Sanda wrote: > zhaoyunsong wrote: >> I am writting to ask if I can define shortcuts that works only in math >> mode. > no. but there has been already such request. > hmm thinking more, we have command-alternative, which ends up in > the first successfull lfun. So, for

Re: Foreign Language Support + Font Setup / fontwrap package for XeLaTex ?

2010-11-10 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-11-10, Michael Joyner wrote: > On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 9:02 AM, Walter wrote: >> IMHO, the best possible solution for documents with heavy use of >> multilingual text would seem to be a combination of this type of >> solution (character styles with font associations), and automatic >> uni

Re: Fonts in LyX (and LaTeX and TeX)

2010-11-10 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-11-09, Rob Oakes wrote: > On Nov 9, 2010, at 1:33 PM, Guenter Milde wrote: >> There is preliminary XeTeX support in the development version. Not >> ready for the masses. > On this point, I have to disagree. > Preliminary as it might be, I've found it very stab

Re: Latex error

2010-11-10 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-11-09, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > Guenter Milde wrote: > Günter, could you set up a document with this comparision and outline exactly > where polyglossia and babel differ (in terms of what LyX must output/can > support)? > I do not have time to dive into the polylossi

Re: Foreign Language Support + Font Setup / fontwrap package for XeLaTex ?

2010-11-11 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-11-10, Michael Joyner wrote: > Could provide an actual sample/step-by-step on the wiki and/or posted here? Acutally, I cannot do better than the polyglossia.pdf and fontspec.pdf manuals. >From the LyX part, you need to disable babel in Tools>Preferences>Languages. > I would much prefer

Re: Latex error

2010-11-12 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-11-12, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: >> And turn this language file into a format like layout files, so that >> humans can read it... > Good idea ... Maybe YAML format? OTOH, the format is the same as used in unicodedata, so it could be said to be a LyX config

Re: Cherokee & ucharclasses (Using custom fonts by UNICODE range)

2010-11-15 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-11-14, Michael Joyner wrote: > According to the package I have to put in a 'transition' command to put the > fonts back to what I need for the regular document. > I have tired > \rm > \rmdefault > and others, but always comes up with errors... > what ERT would you use to select the 'defau

Re: Latex error

2010-11-15 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-11-15, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: >> I have now submitted a new languages file format to trunk. You could help >> if you added the polyglossia names there. The syntax would look like: >> Language ngerman >> GuiName "German" >> BabelName

Re: Fonts in LyX (and LaTeX and TeX)

2010-11-15 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-11-13, stefano franchi wrote: > --90e6ba5bba6103dafb0494f63b0c > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 4:22 PM, stefano franchi > For Lyx, I used the method described in the wiki for XeTeX (define a > new pdf format, etc), and switched the bibtex processor

Re: Latex error

2010-11-15 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-11-15, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > Guenter Milde wrote: >> Where do I find this new file? > in trunk. Also here: > http://www.lyx.org/trac/browser/lyx-devel/trunk/lib/languages >> (I did an update of my trunk clone but lyx/lib/languages is still in >> the old

Re: Latex error

2010-11-15 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-11-15, Guenter Milde wrote: > On 2010-11-15, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: >> Maybe. Don't know. I think I would prefer them to be enabled with >> German (I always use them quite excessively). But then, I have not yet >> used polyglossia myself. >>> However

Re: compilation of lyx 2 beta 1 destroyed my linux

2010-11-15 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-11-15, Marcelo Acuña wrote: > This morning I configured lyx beta 1 and start the compilation. > During the course of the compilation it appeared a message of error: > segment violation. It was trying to read the error message when I > noticed that the computer was hung. Maybe this is beca

Re: Latex error

2010-11-15 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-11-15, Guenter Milde wrote: > On 2010-11-15, Guenter Milde wrote: >> On 2010-11-15, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: >>> Maybe. Don't know. I think I would prefer them to be enabled with >>> German (I always use them quite excessively). But then, I have not

Re: Latex error

2010-11-15 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-11-15, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > Guenter Milde wrote: >> Some comments: >> * Does >> # InternalEncoding >> relate to a font-encoding switch with Babel? > yes. >> Then it should be true also for e.g. languages with cyrilli

Re: Greek+English documents show English words with Greek letters

2010-11-22 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-11-22, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > (This is probably grave-digging :P) > I left LyX (and TeX) alone since that thread. Recently I was asked to > create a paper in LaTeX and therefore looked at the LyX site again. I > saw that LyX 2.0 beta supports "XeTeX", which presumably does exactly

Re: Custom character entities

2010-11-22 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-11-22, Richard Heck wrote: > You can give LyX the ability to recognize (and even display) new > characters and such by adding them to the unicodesymbols file, which > lives in the system directory, e.g.: /usr/local/share/lyx/ on Linux, by > default. As usual with LyX config files, it wor

Re: [Pub-forum] Lyx justification problem

2010-11-24 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-11-25, Michael Joyner wrote: > We are using Lyx for automatically formated PDF creation at my job. > We ended up putty \begin{sloppy} at the very beginning of the document, and > closing off with \end{sloppy} as the very last thing. > It seems rather strange for the default behavior of la

Re: remapping the en dash

2010-11-24 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-11-24, Eran Kaplinsky wrote: > --000e0cd6ae903a17e80495d3085c > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > I don't know the answer, but I will monitor it. You can search in the archives. This was discussed some years ago. > Any temporar

Re: Custom character entities

2010-11-24 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-11-24, Alexander Tsyplakov wrote: > My personal need concerns the commands of the > Russian babel. In Russian babel there are, for > example, 3 commands for "Cyrillic" dashes: > \cdash- in plain text. > \cdash~ in compound names > \cdash* for denoting direct speech. > One can enter them wi

Re: Greek+English documents show English words with Greek letters

2010-11-26 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-11-22, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 11/22/2010 01:43 PM, Guenter Milde wrote: >> On 2010-11-22, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: ... > Also, this is needed to in the preamble: >\let\textgre...@undefined > otherwise xelatex can't process the file: >! LaTeX

Re: Inserting symbols into Lyx text ⇲

2010-11-26 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-11-26, Frederick Noronha wrote: > Dear all, I tried inserting a symbol =E2=87=B2 (arrow pointing inwards) int= > o my lyx > text, but an error message crops up, saying: "Package ucs Error: Unknown > Unicode character 5690 =3D U+21F2. > Anything I could do to sort it? Thanks in advance. FN

Re: availability of qpxmath (was 'Re: lyx: Font derail (with semi-related ranting)')

2010-11-26 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-11-26, Liviu Andronic wrote: > (reviving an old discussion, again) > On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 1:07 AM, Guenter Milde wrote: >> qpxmath >> pxfonts   Pagella   Pagella  txfonts*    txfonts*    txfonts* pxfonts  yes > Why is qpxmath so hard to grab? Most probably, bec

Re: Greek+English documents show English words with Greek letters

2010-11-26 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-11-26, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > Guenter Milde wrote: >> Can you report this as bug to track? > Not necessary. In trunk, this should be fixed, and in branch, XeTeX is not > supported. Branch (LyX 1.6.x) supports the "Unicode (XeTeX)" encoding. I don't

Re: Bad font and ?? instead of eq. number

2010-11-29 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-11-29, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > Am 28.11.2010 23:46, schrieb Emil Pavlov: >> 1. Why is book (coma-script) producing pdfs with such a bad font? It >> seems that all the letter have different height. > Your PDF looks very well (viewed with Acrobat 7). However, in your > docment you are using LaTe

Re: Some page numbers are rendered in a wrong font

2010-11-29 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-11-28, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 11/29/2010 01:20 AM, Richard Heck wrote: >> On 11/28/2010 05:09 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >>> Not sure if this is a LyX problem, but I hope someone here has >>> encountered this issue and might know a solution. >>> My problem is that when a program l

Re: Some page numbers are rendered in a wrong font

2010-11-30 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-11-29, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 11/29/2010 05:05 PM, Guenter Milde wrote: >> On 2010-11-28, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >>>>> Not sure if this is a LyX problem, but I hope someone here has >>>>> encountered this issue and might know a solution.

Re: LyX and Lithuanian language

2010-12-01 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-12-01, Egidijus Kamarauskas wrote: > Hallo all LyX users. > Sorry for my bad English. > I have some trouble with LyX and my native laanguage. When I use LyX (on > Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, standart package, LyX version 1.6.5), I cannot use a > Lithuanian abbrevations, like Part (Dalis), Fig. (Pav

Re: Adding an item to LyX format menu

2010-12-01 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-12-01, Avi Dagan wrote: > How do I add an item to LyX format menu? Usually I use "Theorem" or > "Lemma" but this time I need "Question". It doesn't appear in the > drop-down menu and I don't know how to add it. You need a layout file or a module. If you are lucky, there is a module provid

Re: Bad font (follow-up question) [Solved]

2010-12-01 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-12-01, Daron Wilson wrote: > I'm not sure if you're still wanting Helvetica, but what works for me > is to open the document settings and go to the Fonts section > The first drop-down selection list is where you set the default font > family, i.e. the family that LyX should use as the bas

Re: LyX and Lithuanian language

2010-12-01 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-12-02, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > This is a multi-part message in MIME format. > --040704030204060009060003 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > Am 01.12.2010 20:50, schrieb Egidijus Kamarauskas: >> It seems to not work for me. >

Re: LyX and Lithuanian language

2010-12-02 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-12-01, Egidijus Kamarauskas wrote: > Hallo. > On my system have I installed texlive-lang-lithuanian package and I have > on my machine lithuanian.ldf file (It is placed > on /usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/lithuanian/lithuanian.ldf , so > told me Synaptic). This looks OK. > I have tri

Re: LyX 2.0: problems using XeTeX and thesis template

2010-12-08 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-12-08, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: >> Justin Wood wrote: >>> 1. conflict with AMS package >>> I've found that simply activating XeTeX under *Document Settings – >>> Fonts*will cause parsing errors on viewing if the document also has >>> *Math Options – Use AMS mat

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