Re: Multilingual difficulties for beginners with Lyx

2011-10-27 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2011-10-17, Helge Hafting wrote: > On 29. sep. 2011 02:52, Lisa wrote: ... >> Lyx displays most languages nicely on the screen even when a more >> limited default font that does not carry those codepoints is used. It >> still displays them nicely with "view in html", and on a Mac for >> instan

Re: TeXmacs Shorthands in Lyx

2011-10-27 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2011-10-24, Christopher Menzel wrote: > [-- Type: text/plain, Encoding: quoted-printable --] > On Oct 24, 2011, at 4:04 PM, David L. Johnson wrote: >> On 10/24/2011 09:43 AM, Christopher Menzel wrote: >>> On Oct 24, 2011, at 2:37 PM, François-Xavier Thomas wrote: Hi, I currently wri

Re: Command ... already defined

2011-10-26 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2011-10-25, Manolo Martínez wrote: > On 10/25/11 at 09:07am, Paul Clist wrote: >> Thanks for that. I can see this works if I export to tex and then >> change it manualy before compiling- is there a way to do this once and >> fix it? I can't see the line \usepackage{harvard} in the aea.cls and I

Re: Short Cuts to Document Preamble

2011-10-26 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2011-10-26, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > (mind you the QWERT keyboard was designed for SLOW writing, since the > old typewriters keys got easily tangled at a fast speed of typing). Not exactly. From the wikipedia: While it is often said that QWERTY was designed to "slow down" typists, th

Re: mathdots.sty not found in Math-Help-file

2011-10-19 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2011-10-16, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > On Sunday 16 October 2011 06:06:02 Uwe Stöhr wrote: >> Am 14.10.2011 08:19, schrieb Wolfgang Engelmann: > mhchem.sty not found > and: > \usepackage > [unicode=true,^^M > *** (cannot \read from terminal in nonstop modes) > I searched for

Re: Lyx, arXiv.org and \pdfoutput=1

2011-10-14 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2011-10-11, Richard Heck wrote: > On 10/11/2011 09:41 AM, Torquil Macdonald Sørensen wrote: >> Hi! >> In order to successfully submit an article that uses PDF figures to >> the arXiv.org preprint server, it is necessary to have >> \pdfoutput=1 >> within the top five lines of the document. Thi

Re: "language" settings inconsistent with the user's guide

2011-10-14 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2011-10-12, Olivier Ripoll wrote: > Hi, > I'm using Uwe's binary (LyX 2.0.1 on Win7 64bits, Miktex 2.9), so > perhaps it's the cause of this inconsistency. > About the Document-> Settings-> Language, section B9 of the User's guide > states: > --- > Default is the package babel.

Re: Branches and document class

2011-10-14 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2011-10-12, Torquil Macdonald Sørensen wrote: > Is it possible to have two branches of the same lyx document, with different > document classes? No. But you can include a document into a document with different document class, as LyX strips the preamble of included documents. You will get a w

Re: replace upper case acronyms with small caps case

2011-10-14 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2011-10-12, e-letter wrote: > On 12/10/2011, e-letter wrote: >> On 12/10/2011, Liviu Andronic wrote: >>> On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 10:36 PM, e-letter wrote: Readers, Is it possible to select an acronym e.g. ABC and replace all copies in a document with the latex code \textsc{abc

Re: [OT] Fonts in TeXLive/DVI/Evince

2011-10-10 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2011-10-09, Paul Rubin wrote: > Guenter Milde users.berlios.de> writes: >> On 2011-10-06, Paul A Rubin wrote: >> > Hi all, >> > Not sure where the culprit is, but if I use \neq in a math formula in >> > LyX with TeXLive 2010 and Evince as the docume

Re: XeTeX - Load packages before fontspec

2011-10-09 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2011-10-08, PhilipPirrip wrote: > On 10/07/2011 08:17 AM, Guenter Milde wrote: >> Custom LaTeX code before LyX-generated preamble: >>+-+ >>| \usepa

Re: Headlines starting new pages

2011-10-06 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2011-10-06, Richard Heck wrote: > On 10/06/2011 06:08 AM, Lastalda Felina wrote: >> I'm writing my diploma thesis in Lyx, using the class koma(book). >> Especially in the "Materials & Methods" part, I often have sections >> ans subsections that go: >> *headline >> *shortish paragraph >> *table

Re: Strange indentation with multiline footnotes

2011-10-06 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2011-10-06, Thomas Strausz wrote: > Tao Cumplido gmx.net> writes: >> I guess this might be more of a Latex question but maybe someone here >> can help me with that. >> So always when I insert a footnote that has more text than fits on one line, >> all subsequent lines are shifted somewhat to

Re: [OT] Fonts in TeXLive/DVI/Evince

2011-10-06 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2011-10-06, Paul A Rubin wrote: > Hi all, > Not sure where the culprit is, but if I use \neq in a math formula in > LyX with TeXLive 2010 and Evince as the document viewer, it shows up as > an equal sign. Viewing in PDF is fine, Could you be more clear here: which TeX engine (XeTeX, pdfTeX,

Re: XeTeX - Load packages before fontspec

2011-10-06 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2011-10-06, Spyros Stathopoulos wrote: ... > In my opinion, however, it would be ideal if there was a way to > configure when preamble statements are loaded (before or after lyx > ones), but given the complexity that such a change would imply the > current design is understandable. You are rig

Re: Specify an input path in the global preferences?

2011-10-06 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2011-10-06, Ben M. wrote: > My default preamble is "\include{standardpreamble}". This works well > in the top level of my documents directory, where I keep > standardpreamble.tex. However, if I save a file to a subdirectory, > then standardpreamble cannot be found. > Is it possible, in the p

Re: Proper installation of cm-super

2011-10-06 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2011-10-06, PhilipPirrip wrote: > On 10/06/2011 12:03 PM, Sergey Churilov wrote: > I think you'll get the same now if you use > Default family: Roman > LaTeX font encoding T2A > Roman: Computer Modern Roman > without calling \usepackage{cm-super} > Could you please confirm this. In most TeX

Re: XeTeX - Load packages before fontspec

2011-10-06 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2011-10-04, Spyros Stathopoulos wrote: > I've been trying to create a custom module but unfortunately is seems > that fontspec is not handled by a module at all, instead it is placed > into the preamble automatically when XeTeX mode is triggered. I believe the idea was to load mathdesign in a

Re: XeTeX - Load packages before fontspec

2011-10-06 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2011-10-04, Spyros Stathopoulos wrote: > I'm using the first option already since I need to pass options to the > font definitions. Still the problem lies with fontspec not the font > definition. The problem lies with mathdesign:: %%

Re: Cyrillic T1 font

2011-10-06 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2011-10-04, Sergey Churilov wrote: > I am using LyX 2.0.0 on WinXP SP3 and MiKTeX 2.9. I use Bulgarian > language and write cyrillic letters, but the pdf output from Adobe > Acrobat renders letters with grey colour instead of pure black. The > output from the printer looks just fine. It is the

Re: numbering of an equation

2011-10-06 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2011-10-05, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > For > Bearbeiten->Mathe->Nummerierung an/aus > (Tastenkürzel Alt+M N) > I get: > command deactivated > but the list of shortcuts shows Alt+M N > I am using Lyx 2.0.1 and Debian squeeze > Whats wrong? Maybe you tried in text mode? It works only if the

Re: Sans-serif math font

2011-10-06 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2011-10-06, Diego Queiroz wrote: > [-- Type: text/plain, Encoding: --] > Hi folks. > I want to change the font in Math environment to Sans-serif, but when I > change the Font Default Family in a document (thru Document > Settings... > > Fonts) the font used in Math environment is not changed

Re: Macedonian language

2011-10-04 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2011-09-30, Churilov Sergey wrote: > [-- Type: text/plain, Encoding: --] > Hi, > I would like to know if you plan to introduce macedonian language and > hyphenation in LyX? > If you need help with the language I would be glad to help you. There are three places that would need to be cared

Re: XeTeX - Load packages before fontspec

2011-10-04 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2011-10-01, Spyros Stathopoulos wrote: > Hello everyone! I've been using TeX for quite a long time now but I'm new to > LyX. I've managed to create some fairly long documents with it and XeTeX and > I'm quite happy, however there is one little thing that troubles me. A lot of > regular LaTeX pac

Re: LyX 2.0 with XeTeX and German as standard-language

2011-10-04 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2011-10-03, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > Tao Cumplido wrote: >> when I select 'use non-Tex fonts' and select German to be my document >> language I get an error message. > It's a bug in polyglossia. Indeed. However a different one, so that > Entering > \usepackage{xkeyval} does not help. ( I

Re: Multilingual difficulties for beginners with Lyx

2011-09-30 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2011-09-29, Lisa wrote: > Guenter Milde users.berlios.de> writes: >> If this main font contains Chinese characters, it should work for Chinese. > Thanks Günter, yes, if the person I installed Lyx for, sets a main font > that can also display Chinese then they will have no

Re: Feature request

2011-09-28 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2011-09-28, ehud.kap...@gmail.com wrote: > [-- Type: text/plain, Encoding: 7bit --] > Every time Latex is updated, Lyx must be reconfigured. > Is there a way for Lyx to check whether Latex has been updated > since the last time it was reconfigured, and if so, to reconfigure itself? Just an id

Re: Multilingual difficulties for beginners with Lyx

2011-09-28 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2011-09-28, Lisa Andrews wrote: > I successfully use multiple languages in Lyx with Xetex by specifying > packages and fonts in the document preamble, or using inline ERT > (usepackage \fontspec etc) > I see on http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/XeTeX, where it describes a similar > setup to my own, that

Re: LyX 2: spell checker skips around whole document ARrrgGgaAaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!

2011-09-27 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2011-09-26, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote: > And until such a time as http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/2511 becomes a > reality, I think I'll just use that kludge I just described. Alternatively, after a fix for http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/1042 »Adding language "none"« you could tell LyX to ig

Re: pdf viewer with ruler for linux

2011-09-26 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2011-09-25, Csikos Bela wrote: > "Sebastian Krämer" írta: >>>On Fri, 2011-09-23 at 21:50 +0200, Csikos Bela wrote: >>>Is there a pdf viewer for linux which has rulers (horizontal >>> and vertical)? >>I wouldn't call it a pdf viewer but Gimp can open pdfs as graphics. It >>should have a ruler.

Re: LyX and Inkscape

2011-09-23 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2011-09-23, Martin Hoßbach wrote: > On 23.09.2011 10:20, PhilipPirrip wrote: >> Martin, can you please tell me what exactly one should do in LyX with >> those two files, a .pdf and a .tex? > The files are used almost like a "normal image". Instead of inserting > the image (usually inside a flo

Re: insert filename

2011-09-23 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2011-09-23, Stephen Buonopane wrote: > On Sep 23, 2011, at 7:31 AM, Horst Jurkat wrote: >> i use "info-insert buffer name" to insert the current filename in >> the document. >> Is there a possibility to do that without the fileextension (*.lyx)? > in TexCode (ERT) > \jobname Caveat: this

Re: OT: checked box symbol

2011-09-20 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2011-09-19, Liviu Andronic wrote: > On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 8:28 AM, Guenter Milde wrote: >>> I could use XeTeX and insert the Unicode >>> U+2611 ☑, which looks nice, but I'm not sure I'll be able to compile >>> my document in a Windows environment.

Re: mathdots.sty not found in Math-Help-file

2011-09-20 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2011-09-19, PhilipPirrip wrote: > On 09/19/2011 11:09 AM, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: >> I wanted to look at the pdf file of the Math-Help-File of Lyx 2.0.1 but get >> this error: >> ! LaTeX Error: File `mathdots.sty' not found. >> How do I proceed? > You should install a LaTeX package mathdots

Re: Strange behavior

2011-09-18 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2011-09-18, Karl Linek wrote: > I have two files. The first one I wrote with LyX 1.6.7. Then I installed > LyX 2.0. I copied the file to a USB-stick. Suddenly I got always 4 > errors On the same machine? What else changed, a new LaTeX distro/version as well? > "Undefined control sequence." >

Re: OT: checked box symbol

2011-09-18 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2011-09-19, Liviu Andronic wrote: > Hello > This is slightly off topic. I'm looking for a (decent) LaTeX symbol > that would display a box that contains a check mark. I looked into the > 'The Comprehensive LaTeX Symbol List' [1], but it only suggests > \CheckedBox in 'wasysym' and \Checkedbox in

Re: Chinese characters in German text

2011-09-16 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2011-09-15, Liviu Andronic wrote: > On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 11:15 AM, Aileen Mueller > wrote: >> I am using Lyx 2.0 and JabRef for references. I write my thesis in >> German and need to include some references in Chinese characters. I >> use Unicode and am able to input Chinese characters in Jab

Re: Again eLyXer, but bibtex this time

2011-09-16 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2011-09-16, Alex Fernandez wrote: > Hi Günter, > On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 9:04 AM, Guenter Milde wrote: >> E.g. bibtex file ``foo.bib`` can be found with the command:: >>   kpsewhich -format bib foo.bib > Good idea, it should not take too much effort to write a wrappe

Re: Again eLyXer, but bibtex this time

2011-09-16 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2011-09-16, Alex Fernandez wrote: > Hi again, > On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 7:08 PM, Murat Yildizoglu wrote: >> I am meeting another problem with elyxer conversion. If I do not put >> the .bib files in the same folder as the .lyx file, elyxer does not >> seem able to find them, and the bibliograph

Re: lexlive2011 and Debian squeeze

2011-09-14 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2011-09-13, David L. Johnson wrote: > On 09/13/2011 10:01 AM, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: >> Could somebody who uses Debian squeeze and texlive2011 share his >> experience installing it with me (and others)?. Where is texlive >> installed and how do I make sure that lyx is using it (and also oth

Re: [Pub-forum] ebook follies

2011-09-11 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2011-09-11, Richard Heck wrote: > On 09/11/2011 03:14 AM, Steve Litt wrote: >> The man page shows the --export option but fails to list all the >> possible values for fmt. I'd like to see that list added to the man >> page. > Impossible, since what formats are available depends upon what > con

Re: How does one use the Liberation fonts in LyX?

2011-08-31 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2011-08-30, Steve Litt wrote: > Now when everyone says "you must use XeTeX", does that mean that in my > scripts that make books, I substitute the xetex command for the latex > command? For "non-TeX fonts" (i.e. Unicode-encoded system fonts) you must use either the XeTeX or LuaTeX "engine" i

Re: latex fonts

2011-08-25 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2011-08-25, Liviu Andronic wrote: > On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 11:15 AM, Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote: >> I like the TeXGyre fronts, and use them as screen fronts through the >> preferences. As they work with LaTeX I would second the notion of being >> able to have thenm in the dropdown :-)-O > Me thr

Re: Split one lyx file into multiple books

2011-08-24 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2011-08-24, Pascal Francq wrote: > [-- Type: text/plain, Encoding: quoted-printable --] > I found a link that explains how to do it : > http://marc.info/?l=lyx-users&m=113241857032092&w=2 > It is not particularly intuitive, but it seems to work (I will try it in the > following days). I

Re: latex fonts

2011-08-24 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2011-08-24, Liviu Andronic wrote: > On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 8:01 PM, Virgil Arrington > wrote: >> Dear all, >> I’ve been using Latex and LyX for about a year now. I like LyX’s GUI which >> insulates me from having to type in all the commands. But, I have a >> question. >> My Latex distributi

Re: comment command for figures or text in Lyx

2011-08-24 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2011-08-24, Eisa Ayed wrote: > is there anyway to comment figures or text in lyx? Put it in a "Note" (or similar) box. (Mark and select Insert>Note.) Günter

Re: 2 questions: \documentclass[english,magyar] and \DeclareRobustCommand{\greektext}

2011-08-22 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2011-07-28, Csikos Bela wrote: > I am preparing a Hungarian document in lyx2. > The text is in unicode and has greek fonts. > I selected in document settings>language Hungarian language, > and use language package to custom \usepackage[magyar]{babel}. > Fonts are set to use non tex fonts via x

Re: Wrong equation numbering

2011-08-22 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2011-08-05, Richard Heck wrote: > [-- Type: text/plain, Encoding: 7bit --] > On 08/04/2011 06:36 PM, ider ronneberger wrote: >> Hello, >> I am currently using lyx 2.0.0 for my thesis and have a very odd problem. >> The equation numbering on the lyx GUI is totally wrong though they are >> corr

Re: Problem with the combination of LyX and Bibliographix

2011-07-23 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2011-07-23, Richard Heck wrote: >> I'm now closer to understanding the problem. When I viewed the source >> code in LyX (the LaTeX code) I couldn't see that something in the way >> the files were coded had changed. I used Windows Editor to open the >> two .lyx files, the one before and the one

Re: epsdice package.

2011-07-20 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2011-07-14, Michael Joyner wrote: > I am trying to use the epsdice package from inside LyX, and when I > switch to using xelatex as the formatting engine, the package > malfunctions. > Instead of drawing a single die, it draws all 12 possible combinations of > dice on two lines. :( It looks l

Re: Insertion of Dingats results in failure:

2011-07-10 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2011-07-10, Michael Joyner wrote: > I tried inserting any and all of the following into my document and the > results do not show up in the output. :( > ⚀⚁⚂⚃⚄⚅⠁⠃⠇⠏⠛⠟⠯⠿⡯⡿⢿⣽⣿✘✗✦ LyX supports ca. 2400 out of ca. 15000 Unicode symbols if used with "traditional" LaTeX (latex, pdflatex). If more c

Re: # in URL cause compiling to hang

2011-07-08 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2011-07-07, Richard Heck wrote: > On 07/07/2011 03:12 AM, Julio Rojas wrote: >> I had exactly this same problem a couple of days ago and I had to >> leave the part after the "#" sign out. > I think the # has to be escaped somehow...? Yes. >From the Docutils latex writer:: # We need

Re: Where is 'Indent' or 'Skip' ?

2011-07-08 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2011-07-07, Julien Rioux wrote: > On 27/06/2011 3:29 PM, Guenter Milde wrote: >> On 2011-06-27, Fernando Basso wrote: >> Beware: LyX's implementation of (*) Vertical Space is broken -- it >> inserts too much space in lists (enumeration, itemize, ...) and similar &

Re: LyX generated XeTeX PDFs crash PDF Viewer (Preview and Adobe)

2011-07-08 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2011-07-07, gregor.hochsch...@gmx.de wrote: > Actually, it doesn't work with these two packages... :( My new theory > is that it's connected with the math font. I can produce the error with > a very small document just same text + math. Everything seems to work > with a figure... Any ideas? Ho

Re: Icons

2011-07-08 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2011-07-07, Marcelo Acuña wrote: >> > (1) The open-save-print group: in each case there's a white >> > square/rectangle above a darker square/rectangle. In the old (classic) >> > icon set, the icons for open and print are on the diagonal. Could that >> > be done here to make a clearer distinc

Re: Icons

2011-07-03 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2011-07-03, Andrew Parsloe wrote: > (1) The open-save-print group: in each case there's a white > square/rectangle above a darker square/rectangle. In the old (classic) > icon set, the icons for open and print are on the diagonal. Could that > be done here to make a clearer distinction? > (

Re: Lyx and Beamer

2011-06-29 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2011-06-29, Murat Yildizoglu wrote: > 2011/6/29 Guenter Milde >> On 2011-06-28, Murat Yildizoglu wrote: >> > Lyx is not able to recognize \section like commands and translate them to >> > its environment structure (this is how I got the \lyxframeend problem:

Re: Lyx and Beamer

2011-06-29 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2011-06-28, Murat Yildizoglu wrote: > Lyx is not able to recognize \section like commands and translate them to > its environment structure (this is how I got the \lyxframeend problem: I > wanted to have more readable section titles, by selection the corresponding > environment for them). Loo

Re: Lyx and Beamer

2011-06-29 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2011-06-28, Richard Heck wrote: > On 06/28/2011 09:28 AM, Murat Yildizoglu wrote: >> Just to complete my previous mail by an example, I get the following >> type strange codings (copied from the View latex code window): >> \end{frame} >> \lyxframeend{}\section{Blabla} >> The \end{frame} com

Re: Noun (smallcaps) in Section title

2011-06-29 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2011-06-28, Manolo Martínez wrote: > Hello everyone, > A quick question. If I use the Noun character style in a Section title, > article(paper) ignores me and renders it in lowercase. Is there a way to > override the style in this particular respect? This depends on the font choice. Some fon

Re: LyX, bm package and math alphabets

2011-06-27 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2011-06-27, Richard Heck wrote: > On 06/27/2011 10:13 AM, Andrew Steele wrote: >> I am using the bm package in conjunction with LyX, and my document >> recently started failing to build, complaining of too many math >> alphabets. This can be fixed by limiting the number of alphabets that >> bm u

Re: Where is 'Indent' or 'Skip' ?

2011-06-27 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2011-06-27, Fernando Basso wrote: > Lyx help mentions: Document -> Settings -> Text_Layout -> Indent or > Skip. I can't > find it (lyx 1.6.10 - arch linux). Strange. If I start my LyX 1.6.x with English locale, its under Document -> Settings -> Text_Layout -> Separate Paragraphs with:

Re: need suggestion on book

2011-06-26 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2011-06-26, Steve Litt wrote: > On Sunday 26 June 2011 15:09:41 Shantanu N Kulkarni wrote: > On my setup, Century Schoolbook is the least pale font. I use Century > Schoolbook on all my books, although I'm looking for a more screen- > readable font for my pure eBooks. Free screen-optimized fo

Re: Font Problem with Lyx - Metric (TFM) file not found

2011-06-26 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2011-06-26, ölm wrote: > same problem with lyx 2.0.0 under ubuntu 11.04 64bit > but THE SAME document is working under WinXP32bitSP3 The Greek fonts are missing. With Debian or Ubuntu, install the package texlive-lang-greek. > only the (pre)view using xetex is working without error, but all gr

Re: Is there an easy way to convert "straight quotes" into "smart quotes" ?

2011-06-24 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2011-06-24, Julio Rojas wrote: > [-- Type: text/plain, Encoding: quoted-printable --] > Defining the same, how can it differentiate? I guess this package is not > context-sensitive. Try yourself: \documentclass{minimal} \usepackage{csquotes} \MakeOuterQuote{"} \MakeInnerQuote{|} \begin{do

Re: Is there an easy way to convert "straight quotes" into "smart quotes" ?

2011-06-23 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2011-06-23, Julio Rojas wrote: > The problem is that the csquote package requires different glyphs for > opening and closing quotes. Not necessarily: from csquotes.pdf: 4.1 Quoting regular text \MakeOuterQuote and \MakeInnerQuote define active quotes which print outer and inner quotation

Re: xetex CV

2011-06-23 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2011-06-24, Liviu Andronic wrote: > [-- Type: text/plain, Encoding: --] > On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 12:20 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes > wrote: >> Try >> TitleLatexName makecvtitle > I tried the following (see attached), but it doesn't seem to work even > after reconfiguring. Am I doing something

Re: Is there an easy way to convert "straight quotes" into "smart quotes" ?

2011-06-23 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2011-06-23, Liviu Andronic wrote: > On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 9:48 PM, Julio Rojas wrote: >> Nope, unless you define a particular character. But " is not an allowed one. > There is Document Settings > Language > Quote style, but effectively > it doesn't seem to take care of things. Maybe a solut

Re: configure lyx and layouts with texlive

2011-06-23 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2011-06-24, Terrance Wickman wrote: > I am using lyx 2.0. I have installed all packages and files from texlive > 2011 (2000 something of them). I am using the fedora stack of both of > them. The latex styles and classes are in my > /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/ folder. I have texhash se

Re: Enumerate, line space

2011-06-23 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2011-06-23, Unknown wrote: > Is there some way I could set all "enumerate" line-spacing to 1-space > instead of 1.5 space between lines? Thanks in advance. FN There are many ways. The right one depends on the details: * Is the rest of the document 1.5 spaced? * Do you mean space between *line

Re: {\fnsymbol{footnote}}

2011-06-19 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2011-06-18, Unknown wrote: > If I use the {\fnsymbol{footnote}} command at the start of my book, I > am able to get symbols for the footnotes/endnotes, instead of numbers. > A question please: how do I get a large number of such symbols, as > required? At present, I am able to get only a limite

Re: mathjax

2011-06-17 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2011-06-17, Richard Heck wrote: > On 06/17/2011 03:07 AM, John Perry wrote: >> Hi >> I learned today that LyxHTML exports files that *almost* make MathJax >> happy. There are a few issues: newcommand's (i.e. math macros) don't >> seem to get exported by LyxHTML, and a header for MathJax would h

Re: Suggestions for my Debian 6 LyX guide?

2011-06-16 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2011-06-15, RDB wrote: > Dear LyX Users, > I'm putting together a one-page guide to installing and using LyX on the > latest stable version of Debian Linux. > My hope is that the installation procedure it contains could be followed > by a local charity which installs Linux on old donated har

Re: Common footnote

2011-06-15 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2011-06-16, Mark Livingstone wrote: > [-- Type: text/plain, Encoding: --] > Hello, > I am using article KOMA-Script. I have a number of unnumbered subsection > headers. For some of them, I want to have a common footnote (ie say five > footnotes that all have a 1 superscript and one footnote

Re: Separating Paragraphs: Indentation vs Vertical Space

2011-06-15 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2011-06-14, Bruce Pourciau wrote: ... > This is just what I need. I've saved it as a LyX module. Thank you. > How do I get the separation to show up in LyX? I'm assuming the ParSep > 1 won't make the separation show up, because for this article I have > Indentation checked in Text Layout

Re: Separating Paragraphs: Indentation vs Vertical Space

2011-06-14 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2011-06-13, Bruce Pourciau wrote: > On Jun 10, 2011, at 3:42 PM, Guenter Milde wrote: >> On 2011-06-10, Bruce Pourciau wrote: >>> At various spots within a document where paragraphs are separated >>> with indentation, I often have claims, propositions, laws,

Re: Figure Float Rotated When Exported: Why?

2011-06-14 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2011-06-13, Rich Shepard wrote: >I created a figure using gnuplot (because neither PSTricks nor R can make > a bar plot with dates as the x labels), and exported it as PostScript (.ps). > When I view the document, the figure is properly oriented, but when I export > the file to pdflatex, the

Re: Separating Paragraphs: Indentation vs Vertical Space

2011-06-10 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2011-06-10, Bruce Pourciau wrote: > At various spots within a document where paragraphs are separated with > indentation, I often have claims, propositions, laws, etc, which I > would like formatted flush left with some vertical space before and > after. For various reasons, I wish to avoi

Re: Implementing a new environment in a LyX .layout

2011-06-06 Thread Guenter Milde
What is the trick that permits (for example) a Frame environment to contain other environments without the need to "increase the depth" of the inserted environment? >>> Using an Inset instead of a Style. >> Section 5 of the doc doesn't seem to have anything on what an Inset is >> a

Re: Implementing a new environment in a LyX .layout

2011-06-04 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2011-06-04, Peter Flynn wrote: > I think I need to create an EndFoo style Please don't do this. There is an alternative (see below). > so that I can get LyX to > display something that shows the end-boundary of the environment, > otherwise the user will have no idea if the cursor is still

Re: problem with language-settings

2011-05-28 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2011-05-27, Mike Bonhoff wrote: > Hi all, > I have a little problem with my language settings. > At first I wrote my text in english and then decided to write it in > German. Of course I want the environments to have the same language > (for example "Bemerkung" instead of "Remark"; I think th

Re: HTML export from LyX

2011-05-16 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2011-05-16, Richard Heck wrote: > On 05/16/2011 06:35 AM, Pascal Francq wrote: >> How can I, from the command line, export a given LyX document into >> a HTML document in another directory (in LyX, the document is always >> exported in the same directory). > There's no support presently in LyX

Re: eps graphics fails when displaying in pdf mode if inserted by ERT \includegraphics

2011-05-15 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2011-05-14, Gunnar wrote: > On Saturday 14 May 2011 08.47.45 Gunnar wrote: >> Then I add an ERT >> {\includegraphics{venn5.eps} >> and it works when displaying as ps file but viewing as pdf file gives me >> the error >> ! LaTeX Error: Unknown graphics extension: .eps. > Well, I exported a L

Re: Knowing everything: was Chapters beginning on even pages

2011-05-13 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2011-05-13, Alain DIDIERJEAN wrote: > De: "Steve Litt" > On Thursday 12 May 2011 13:02:01 Richard Heck wrote: >> Add the option "openany" to the class options under >> Document>Settings. ... > not by function. For whatever reason Google ends up listing solutions > like I do -- writing a bunc

Re: selecting fonts in xetex

2011-05-11 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2011-05-11, Neal Becker wrote: > was good. Only missing a \tt font to go with it. I tried Deja Sans > Mono, but the characters look larger than the roman text, not good. > Also tried Nimbus mono, but it's too thin. You can scale the fonts with fontspec, e.g. \setmonofont[HyphenChar=None,Sca

Re: Math macros inside child documents

2011-05-11 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2011-05-11, Diego Queiroz wrote: > [-- Type: text/plain, Encoding: --] >> But the only one for truly consistent behaviour. If you want to export >> stand-alone, uncheck the master setting. > Even if the master setting is not set in the child, LyX still display all > macros perfectly if the

Re: Math macros inside child documents

2011-05-11 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2011-05-10, Diego Queiroz wrote: >> >>> For truly consistent behaviour, we would have to disable stand-alone >> >>> compilation of documents setting a master (except for "included" (vs. >> >>> "input") documents). > This is a strong restriction. But the only one for truly consistent behaviour

Re: Using non-computer modern numbers in lyx 2.0

2011-05-11 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2011-05-10, Tom Wood wrote: > [-- Type: text/plain, Encoding: --] > First, thanks for the integration of XeTeX and LuaTeX and LyX. LyX is now a > brilliant tool. > One problem remains- I'm sure there's a very simple fix for this, so I > apologize in advance if I've missed something obvious.

Re: selecting fonts in xetex

2011-05-11 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2011-05-10, Neal Becker wrote: > I'm interested in trying out xetex. Any suggestions for font settings > to try (free, widely available)? This is fedora 14, have stix fonts. This very much depends on what you want to achieve. As with XeTeX, you can use system fonts, this leaves the realm of

Re: Math macros inside child documents

2011-05-10 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2011-05-10, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > Guenter Milde wrote: >> For truly consistent behaviour, we would have to disable stand-alone >> compilation of documents setting a master (except for "included" (vs. >> "input") documents). > Why this? I ha

Re: Math macros inside child documents

2011-05-10 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2011-05-09, Diego Queiroz wrote: >> But what if you really want to compile it as a standalone document? >> People do this. >> Richard > But if it was really a standalone document, I would have to unset master > document property, right? ... > I am just looking for a more "user oriented be

Re: Typesetting in Devanagari

2011-05-06 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2011-05-06, Sachin Garg wrote: ... >3. http://www.wikihow.com/Create-Devanagari-Documents-in-Lyx-Using-Xelatex > looks to be awesome ... > Using the link #3, I created the attached file - which needed some > editing with regards to options to the article class and remove babel. Wit

Re: Feature request: the missing element in the LyX office suite

2011-05-05 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2011-05-05, Andrew Parsloe wrote: > I think I have confused people, perhaps because I used the phrase 'LyX > office suite' (but in quotes -- it was meant with a certain > tongue-in-cheek quality) and mentioned the word spreadsheet. ... > My request was for a button on the table toolbar that

Re: Self-contained lyx documents

2011-04-30 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2011-04-27, Richard Heck wrote: > On 04/27/2011 09:33 AM, Jim Oldfield wrote: Please, can't you encapsulate all of the hassle into lyx modules, and allow lyx modules that are in the same directory as the lyx file? Or better yet: inside the lyx file? >>> Yes, we have been worki

Re: Master document

2011-04-21 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2011-04-21, Mathieu Dubois wrote: > On 04/20/2011 11:25 PM, Julien Rioux wrote: >> On 20/04/2011 4:00 PM, Mathieu Dubois wrote: >>> First I have then to use "input" instead of "include", right? > Hello, >> 1) \include starts the content on a new page, \input does not. > OK. So I can \include t

Re: iTeX as replacement for TeX? (was: 'Re: How?')

2011-04-21 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2011-04-20, Liviu Andronic wrote: > On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 4:44 PM, Julien Rioux > Unless you bother to > watch the video you won't get it. >> (jump to 13:30 for the pronunciation) Or read the transkript at http://www.tug.org/TUGboat/tb31-2/tb98knut.pdf: How does one properly pronounce this

Re: Using LaTeX math macros

2011-04-20 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2011-04-20, Julien Rioux wrote: > On 20/04/2011 3:39 PM, Mathieu Dubois wrote: >> Hello, >> I'm a new LyX user but I'm a bit experienced with LaTeX. >> I have developed my own set of LaTeX math macros (mainly to have simple >> and coherent notations). It's not a package but just a tex file tha

Re: Timeline generation

2011-04-18 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2011-04-18, Walter wrote: > Hi all, > Does anyone have a good solution to generate timelines? > Any recommendations would be appreciated. > I have seen a few non-LyX specific solutions already but they all seem > to lack what I want. Having said that, if all else fails I suppose I > could tr

Re: Making Templates.

2011-04-18 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2011-04-17, Richard Heck wrote: > On 04/17/2011 03:40 AM, gordon cooper wrote: >> Greetings to all. >> I am very new to Lyx but have had some experience with Latex. >> I have to write monthly reports/meeting minutes. Have looked at the >> templates for report/articles/proceedings and have

Re: Help adding new graphics format

2011-04-18 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2011-04-18, Yang Zhang wrote: > I'm interested in adding a new graphics format (Xournal) to LyX that > can be displayed on-screen and rendered in PDF outputs. Just to get > started, I've been trying to figure out how to add a dummy graphics > format. The input is actually a .tex file (but name

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