Re: Creating the \independent binary relation within LyX (for independent random variables)

2009-11-03 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-11-03, Uwe Stöhr wrote: Adam Gustafson schrieb: Could someone please let me know how to create the following symbol within LyX, I presume within a Math macro? The LaTeX code that one puts in the preamble is: \newcommand\independent{\protect\mathpalette{\protect\independenT}{\perp}}

Re: Question About Custom Layouts and Styles

2009-11-04 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-11-03, Rob Oakes wrote: Counter subsection LabelString \Alph{section}.\{subsection} End Since this is one of those Write it down or forget it type of things, I also put together a blog post that describes the whole process. ... If interested, you can find it at:

Re: Paragraph Indent Alignment in .layout file

2009-11-04 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-11-04, rgheck wrote: I changed the alignment of the standard environment in my layout file. ... What should I do to keep my ragged right appearance and the conventional paragraph indents in my layout? Second, I would suggest putting this kind of thing into a simple module, See the

Re: trouble using TeX Gyre Pagella instead of Palatino

2009-11-08 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-11-07, Liviu Andronic wrote: Dear all I get some unexpected behaviour when using the TeX Gyre Pagella font (using \usepackage{tgpagella} in the preamble) instead of Palatino ... It seems that with this combination LM Sans bold gets replaced with LM Sans regular [2], thus preventing

Re: Drawing tool for LyX

2009-11-08 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-11-07, Rich Shepard wrote: ... However, some figures need to have lines that meet very precisely (no overshoots or gaps between them) or be placed with high precision. While this may well be possible and easy for those more skilled than I am, I found my xfig and similar figures to

Re: URL wraping - someone got it working?

2009-11-08 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-11-06, Sven Hoexter wrote: On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 05:28:13PM +0100, Uwe Stöhr wrote: Sven Hoexter schrieb: The Break links over lines checkbox in the document settings is activated and the 'breaklinks' setting is set in the tex export. This will enable breaking hyperlinks -

Re: Problems with shortcuts

2009-11-08 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-11-09, Luca Carlon wrote: Hi! I've written many formulas, but I still can't figure out how to use the shortcut to write square parenthesis in a formula under MacOSX. I read I have to use option-M and then the [, but if I press option+è I get 'unknown function'. Round parenthesis are

Re: Problems including a document

2009-11-08 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-11-06, Manolo Martí­nez wrote: Eventually, the problem was with a typographic accent in one of the references cited in the offending chapter. Thanks for your advise! As you said, the information in the compilation log is invaluable when things go wrong. It's a pity that LyX does not

Re: Paragraph Indent Alignment in .layout file

2009-11-08 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-11-06, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Guenter Milde mi...@users.berlios.de writes: ... the on-screen display should be (configurable to) leftalign instead of block align, *independent of the alignment in the output* OK. Then we should have a preference show justified text as left

Re: trouble including Optima font

2009-11-10 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-11-09, Liviu Andronic wrote: Any ideas on what I am doing wrong? Thank you Guessing: did you set the sans-serif font to [Default] in LyX's document font setting dialogue? Günter

Re: Problems including a document

2009-11-10 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-11-09, Manolo Martí­nez wrote: AFAIK, this is LyX's default behaviour. Did you try with DocumentLaTeX log after a compilation already No! I was relying on the error messages that appear after a failed compilation. Thanks, this is very useful. So, let me reforumulate my

Re: textcomp Error: symbol \textuparrow not provided by

2009-11-11 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-11-11, Sam Liddicott wrote: --060501010505080308020304 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit * Uwe Stöhr wrote, On 10/11/09 17:32: Sam Liddicott schrieb: Having just added a symbol up-arrow, every time I build my

Re: lyx and pdf fonts

2009-11-11 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-11-10, Stefano Franchi wrote: On 11/10/09, Uwe Stöhr uwesto...@web.de wrote: Steve Litt schrieb: If you draw something, make vector graphics rather than bitmaps, if possible. If you need screenshots, use png. Never jpeg, jpeg is only for photos. This is wrong! PNG is as well as JPG or

Re: lyx and pdf fonts

2009-11-11 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-11-10, Manveru wrote: 2009/11/10 ask2 joakim.askl...@gmail.com: I try out LYX maybe once a year. What I am looking for when I try it is if the pdf files I can get is of high quality. Unfortunaltely that never is the case. ... LyX is not guilty of PDF quality as it is only editor

Re: Howto: Poor mans bold

2009-11-11 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-11-11, Sam Liddicott wrote: I've been struggling for a long time to get poor-mans-bold working (because of the pain installing luximono) May I recomment the txtt fonts from the txfonts package? While the txfonts package is said to have problems with symbols and font metrics (i.e.

Re: Problems with PDF files generated by LyX

2009-11-11 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-11-11, Luca Carlon wrote: Hi guys! I know this is not the right place to ask this, but maybe you could be patient and at least try to give me some hints. I'm writing my thesis with LyX, and I produce PDF's using the ps2pdf command for my supervisor. The problem is that now, she's

Re: textcomp Error: symbol \textuparrow not provided by

2009-11-12 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-11-12, Sam Liddicott wrote: * Uwe Stöhr wrote, On 11/11/09 15:16: Sam Liddicott schrieb: I suppose another fix would be a package that redefines \textuparrow{} (etc) to switch font if running under the ul9 font. Redefining \textuparrow would only be a workaround, no fix. The

Re: lyx and pdf fonts

2009-11-12 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-11-11, Pavel Sanda wrote: Guenter Milde wrote: Suggestion: Would it be possible, to pre-select Latin Modern in the standard template? LM is out for some time by now and could be considered the de-facto standard for T1-encoded CM-lookalikes. unfortunately this is much more

Re: LyX crashes if preview svg

2009-11-12 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-11-13, Waluyo Adi Siswanto wrote: Dear developers I have followed the instructions in http://wiki.lyx.org/Tips/UseInkscapeSVGImages and add converter for EPS, so I have SVG-EPS: inkscape $$i --export-eps=$$o SVG-PDF: inkscape --export-area-drawing $$i --export-pdf=$$o SVG-PNG:

Re: problema di greco

2009-11-13 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-11-12, Stefano Franchi wrote: On 11/12/09, Luca De Marini luca.darkmas...@gmail.com wrote: What I didn't find is a step-by-step page to translate for him, explaining exactly what he has to do to be ready-set-go. Can anyone suggest him some tutorial or just tell him what he needs to do?

Re: Howto: Poor mans bold

2009-11-13 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-11-12, Sam Liddicott wrote: * Sam Liddicott wrote, On 12/11/09 09:52: * Guenter Milde wrote, On 11/11/09 20:24: May I recomment the txtt fonts from the txfonts package? While the txfonts package is said to have problems with symbols and font metrics (i.e. said to be ugly). However

Re: lyx and pdf fonts

2009-11-13 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-11-11, Pavel Sanda wrote: Guenter Milde wrote: Suggestion: Would it be possible, to pre-select Latin Modern in the standard template? LM is out for some time by now and could be considered the de-facto standard for T1-encoded CM-lookalikes. unfortunately this is much more

Re: XeLaTeX, fontenc, LyX and Stubborn Fonts

2009-11-18 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-11-18, Rob Oakes wrote: I've run up against a problem that I don't know how to solve. I've spent the last several days putting together a document class that matches the style of my book publisher. Because it uses an Open Type font, I created it as a XeLaTeX class. I've set up my

Re: Problems with PDF files generated by LyX

2009-11-18 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-11-17, Luca Carlon wrote: Helge Hafting helge.haft...@... writes: Can you try pdflatex instead? Unfortunaltely no, it is not possible. I use eps graphic files, and as far as I know, they're not supported by pdflatex. ... however, LyX will convert it to EPS on the fly (if it finds a

Re: XeLaTeX, fontenc, LyX and Stubborn Fonts

2009-11-20 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-11-19, Rob Oakes wrote: ... While reading through the old emails, I was able to resolve the problem. Unfortunately, you still did not write, how you process your document with XeTeX. (Export with FileExportLaTeX (XeTeX) or something alike?) To solve it, I went to

Re: XeLaTeX in LyX 1.7/2.0

2009-11-20 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-11-20, Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW wrote: I wonder if the file format used in trunk (or rather the lyx2lyx converter that deals with it) is still unable to revert back to previous versions' file formats. What do you mean by unable to revert back ? LyX trunk uses a new file format

Re: Trouble adding Program Listing

2009-11-26 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-11-25, James Shapiro wrote: I am using Lyx to write a book, which I am well into (~100 pages). When I try to insert a Program Listing I get the following error: LaTex Error: File 'listings.sty' not found. I am running: Lyx version 1.5.3 on Ubuntu version 8.04 and LaTex is

Re: Charater formatting in the Index

2009-11-26 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-11-25, Ted Carnevale wrote: So now I can edit index entries so that they preserve character formatting. Example-- View/Source shows \texttt{keyword} After Insert index entry source shows \index{keyword}\texttt{keyword} Changing \index{keyword} to \index{texttt{keyword}} results in

Re: Charater formatting in the Index

2009-11-26 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-11-26, Sebastian Guttenberg wrote: Günter wrote Yes. However, there is a sort field where you can repeat the original keyword without formatting and this is used for sorting. Really? I didn't find a sort-field in lyx, not even in lyx2.0.svn. Am I missing something? Sorry, I mixed

Re: Greek Fonts in LyX

2009-11-29 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-11-28, Brian Bosse wrote: I am brand new to LyX, and am trying to figure out how to add Greek text to my documents (with proper accents, etc...). Search for Greek at http://wiki.lyx.org My papers are written in English but I often use Biblical Greek. Even though I have spent many

Re: Greek Fonts in LyX - Günter Milde

2009-12-01 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-12-01, Brian Bosse wrote: Here is one example. When I paste an copy the Greek Unicode text from = the =E2=80=9CAncient Greek=E2=80=9D entry on Wikipedia, the grave = accents and the circumflex simply show up as a box in LyX The accents or characters with accents? You need a

Re: Greek Fonts Part 3 - Günter

2009-12-03 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-12-02, Brian Bosse wrote: You mentioned that I could wait for 1.6.5 to come out, but I would rather not. You also mentioned to copy the file =91unicodesymbols=92 from the system from the system LYXDIR to my personal lyx-dir and apply a patch. I am on a Windows XP system, and found

Re: Skip a block of text when printing

2009-12-03 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-12-02, Rob wrote: I have a bunch of figures at the end of my document that I want to keep in the document, but I don't want to have them appear in the pdf output. How do I skip over these? They need to be part of the material compiled since they have labels that are referenced in

Re: Insets and Options (or how do I use todonotes effectively)

2009-12-03 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-12-03, Stefano Franchi wrote: On 12/03/09, Alex Simma asi...@eecs.berkeley.edu wrote: I am writing up my thesis in LyX and want to use the todonotes package. I found Jürgen Spitzmüller's layout and it's very useful. The basic way the that the todo package is used is as \todo[options]

Re: choosing a custom font

2009-12-03 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-12-04, Uwe Stöhr wrote: Ercan Cem schrieb: I've read similar questions and respective answers but still cannot figure out what to do. I'm using Lyx on Windows. I simply want to use a custom font set for a specific chapter in the book I'm writing. Say I want to use kurier font set

Re: German spellchecking with plural forms

2009-12-05 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-12-05, Hellmut Weber wrote: Is there a way to tell the spellchecker to accept * declinated forms of substantives (e.g. Portfolio -- des Portfolios) ? * declinated forms of adjectives (e.g. reich -- die reichen Leute) ? I have set the preference to accept compound words but that

Re: Change order of bibliography entries

2009-12-12 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-12-11, Matthias Bußjäger wrote: I want to reference a standard with 10 parts. ... What I want to do is to change the order of the list of literature at the end of my document. It seems that bibtex or lyx/latex decides this order based on the name of the author. Is it possible to

Re: enumeration spacing

2010-01-04 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-01-04, Yago wrote: From: Tommy tdbull...@comcast.net I have a long document, almost everything is enumerated and I need to eliminate the line space between enumerations. See the enumitem package documentation. There is also an enumitem LyX module. (Search for enumitem at

Re: calender

2010-01-04 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-12-29, Paul Sutton wrote: I have found http://www.texample.net/tikz/examples/ to give a few good examples, i have pgf installed but do I need to install TikZ as a separate package, under ubuntu ? or are they one package. You can find this out with # apt-file find name of a

Re: input preamble with biblatex?

2010-01-06 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-01-05, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Peter Baumgartner wrote: ... the command \includeonly does not work. At least that was the discussion on an older lyx version ... Yes. It does not work since LyX uses specific filenames for the compilation of the document in the temporary directory.

Re: Fwd: CAS exposure in LyX (was Re: Importing Lyx files in SWP)

2010-01-06 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-01-06, Helge Hafting wrote: Murat Yildizoglu wrote: Thanks a lot Olivier, this works perfectly for Maxima. I can ask it to compute \frac{\partial x^{2}}{\partial x}=2\, x and it works as it is shown by the = sign but how to ask more indirect tasks? Question: How to pass commands to

Re: Definition/description list - more than one word for the definition term

2010-01-07 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-01-07, stephen's mailinglist account wrote: Is it possible to create a definition list in LyX where the definition term or thing being defined is for more than one word without resorting to ERT? In LaTeX this would be something like \begin{description} \item[OneWord] First item

Re: How to insert text plus charstyle with a click or keypress?

2010-01-11 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-01-11, Steve Litt wrote: Hundreds of times in my next book I will need to insert the words Seek and Destroy, and will need those words to be in a specific charstyle (seekdest). I'd love to be able to do that with a key combo to speed up my authoring. Is there a way I can insert

Re: Using a custom style in Lyx1.6.5

2010-01-12 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-01-12, Nick Gaens wrote: Hello everyone, I'm currently trying to tex2lyx the file instructions.tex, which can be found here: http://www.acm.org/publications/latex_style/, but I'm having a hard time adding the files acmtrans2m.cls and acmtrans.bst to my Lyx installation folder.

Re: Help with configuring BibTex in Lyx

2010-01-12 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-01-13, Gregory Toole wrote: I am running Ubuntu 8.04 and LyX version 1.5.3. I am trying to get started using BibTex in Lyx, but I am running into some problems. The citations only come up as [?] in my documents when I generate pdf's from Lyx. So far, here is what I have done: I

Re: index without letters and Nomenclature

2010-01-14 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-01-14, stephen's mailinglist account wrote: On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 1:48 PM, Enrico Guastaldi enrico.guasta...@gmail.com wrote: Actually I cannot report a problem, because nothing happens when I click the button Create PDF after inserting Nomenclature entry and Nomenclature List.

Re: For the Wish list

2010-01-15 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-01-15, Helge Hafting wrote: Thomas Steffen wrote: On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 11:15 AM, Helge Hafting helge.haft...@hist.nowrote: Ehud Kaplan wrote: In working with colleagues on a paper, there are times when I do not have the figures needed for producing the entire document, but it

Re: Problem with the dash in the listings

2010-01-17 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-01-17, Piotrek wrote: Hmm after checking the other then typewriter fonts types I found that the problem does exist only because I have set the Default Family as Roman and Roman to Times Roman in the document settings. However, I must keep this settings - any idea how to use the dash

Re: LyX and the Humanities

2010-01-18 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-01-17, Guido Milanese wrote: On 16/01/2010 at 09.14 -0500, rgheck wrote: I don't know of any, but there are plenty of humanists around the list if you need to ask questions. E.g., I'm a philosopher, and I know of two others who regularly contribute to the list. Yes, I know, and

Re: Problem with the dash in the listings

2010-01-18 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-01-17, Piotrek wrote: Thanks for suggestion. But is it really necessary? Is the dash Unicode character? I am writing the document in English. Is the Unicode support necessary in that case? I am trying to understand what causes such a behavior. Well, if I remove the dash characters from

Re: LyX and the Humanities

2010-01-18 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-01-18, Guido Milanese wrote: On 18/01/2010 at 08.13 +, Guenter Milde wrote: It might be interesting to give some hints about writing Greek in LyX. It is easy using Unicode input. Recently, also polytonic (ancient) Greek is supported (with some remaining issues). Yes, already

Re: question about family fonts

2010-01-21 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-01-21, Marcelo Acuña wrote:   If I choose Times Roman for roman font, what font I must to choose for sans serif font If I want to obtain an aesthetically coherent aspect? ... There is no definitive answer to this question, as there is no Times Sans. It depends on what you are after.

Re: Fwd: Outline, Navigate, Master / Child document weirdness

2010-01-21 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-01-20, rgheck wrote: On 01/20/2010 10:54 AM, maarten rutgers wrote: I set up a very simple test document with three chapters, each included in one master, each referring back to the master. ... Yes. The master and its other children should be opened in the background, and you

Re: Install Fourier package/style

2010-01-24 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-01-24, KR Thorne wrote: I managed to get the Fourier-GUT package installed on my laptop, but now I have a netbook that I need to sync with the laptop files and *cannot* seem to find the info on how to install the Fourier-GUT in LyX. You cannot install Fourier in LyX. It's a LaTeX

Re: question about family fonts

2010-01-24 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-01-23, Marcelo Acuña wrote: Thanks Guenter, but, lamentably for me, to include fonts to the Lyx is an unattainable art. Marcelo Three simple steps: * Open the document in LyX and set DocumentSettingsFonts to [Default]. * find a font in the font catalogue

Re: Genealogy symbols

2010-01-26 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-01-25, Matthias Schmidt wrote: Hello, I need genealogy symbols in a lyx-document. I installed the genealogy package with the MiKTeX package manager, reconfigured lyx, started lyx again - but I don't find the symbols (insert/special character/symbols). These table lists unicode

Re: DVI, PDF end PS behave differently with photographs

2010-01-26 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-01-26, Richard Brown wrote: I'm confused about the different ways to generate final copy. Specifically, using the following Evil Red Text, after an includepackage graphicx in the preamble, \begin{figure}[h] \includegraphics {bw_albergo.eps} \caption{A picture of a room.}

Re: linebreak.sty

2010-01-27 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-01-27, Uwe Stöhr wrote: Vincent schrieb: I have to set the table column widths to make any command at all work, and then possibly, just possibly, Ctrl+Enter will make the new line anyway. Yes, you have to set a column width :). Don't ask me why. This is LaTeX. There is no other way

Re: question about family fonts

2010-01-29 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-01-28, Marcelo Acuña wrote: I have Debian Lenny with Tex-Live. I chose Libertine. I download the zip file from CTAN and put files in dir tree and run texhash. For TeX font installing under Debian, see:

Re: queries re images

2010-02-01 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-01-31, Uwe Stöhr wrote: Later I will want to have captions that are simply descriptive and don't have Figure X in the front of them. How do I turn off the automatic numbering? This is tricky because this is quite unusual when tpesetting. Have a look in the documentation of the

Re: linux-libertine fonts

2010-02-01 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-01-30, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: I have installed the ttf-linux-libertine (4.4.1-4) family of fonts under Debian (using synaptics) texhash and reconfigure of LyX but can't get it under Documentsettingsfontsserif etc what am I missing? Two things: * the LaTeX fonts (ttf works

Re: unit package

2010-02-02 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-02-02, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: Am Saturday 30 January 2010 21:19:01 schrieb Kenward Vaughan: math menu--fractions button A few more questions re typography: 1- how about 20 and 150g? This should be 20\,g and 150\,g. % \, is TeX for a small space 2- In the (German) math LyX

Re: Editing equations as latex rather than graphically.

2010-02-02 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-02-01, rgheck wrote: On 02/01/2010 02:29 PM, Tim Hutt wrote: On 1 February 2010 19:22, rgheckrgh...@bobjweil.com wrote: ... All you have to do is have a special mode where LyX displays the raw LaTeX, which it knows how to generate. This would be kind of like the preview mode, where

Re: Character spacing in Lyx

2010-02-02 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-02-01, Thomas Hedden wrote: I am using Lyx 1.6.5 on Linux and want to apply, to some text, a character attribute that is variously referred to as character spacing, intercharacter spacing, inter-character spacing, or merely spacing, and possibly other names as well. When used on pairs

Re: Editing equations as latex rather than graphically.

2010-02-02 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-02-02, Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW wrote: This way, you can convert an equation to the source text If you select the math contents and paste it in text, you'll see the LaTeX code. This used to work with the mouse only in former versions, but it's fixed now to work also via

Re: Lyx problem printing

2010-02-03 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-02-02, rgheck wrote: The lyx2lyx script is called only to convert files from older versions of LyX to the current format, This is a common misconception. lyx2lyx is called whenever the file format of the file differs from the file format used in the running LyX version. (This will

Re: Missing *.sty and/or *.cls files?

2010-02-05 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-02-04, Ignacio Garcia wrote: Uwe: The problem is that Ubuntu still installs by default an old version of the LaTeX distribution Right, but it's still usable for the most document classes, and installing manually texlive 2009 can be a bit hard for newbies in linux/LyX.

Re: Removing Copyright information from the bottom of a layout file

2010-02-05 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-02-05, John Adams wrote: --001485f453f09f0cd7047edc5164 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Great! Thank You very much. There was a very simple line in that class file: *copyrightwanted = @true* I changed it to false and got what I needed. It is generally a bad idea to

Re: insert a pdf in my lyx doc

2010-02-07 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-02-06, Richard Brown wrote: However, when I do this I only get chess, lily pond and raster templates offreed. I read somewhere that I need to update the includepdf package if I get this problem- but I haven't a clue how to do that. Can someone give me a pointer? Thanks! I'm running

Re: Language detection [was: offtopic blog]

2010-02-07 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-02-06, Hellmut Weber wrote: Am 06.02.2010 09:30, schrieb Jürgen Spitzmüller: I think the spellchecker should not do any guessing and switching. As long as we are using LaTeX, languages simply need be marked properly. Agreed. However, currently language switching is far too

Re: KOMA-Script Report: Changing Figure Name

2010-02-10 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-02-10, Rich Shepard wrote: ... KOMA-Script offers two \...format commands instead. These are predefined as follows: \newcommand*{\figureformat}{\figurename~\thefigure\autodot} \newcommand*{\tableformat}{\tablename~\thetable\autodot} They also can be adapted to your personal

Re: inserting a Latex equation

2010-02-20 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-02-20, Bernd Schubert wrote: Bernd Schubert wrote: I'm presently coping lots of tex equations into lyx and usually this works great, but this one drives me nuts: \begin{align*} ... \end{align*} As with the other formulas I just copies it into the numbered formula field, but this

Re: Export latex - any way to inline bibtex formatted refs?

2010-02-22 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-02-20, E. Kaplan wrote: On 2/20/2010 11:55 AM, Manoj Rajagopalan wrote: A journal I am planning to submit a paper to wants all references to be inlined into the main .tex file - they don't accept separate bibtex files or .bbl files. This issue comes up so often that it is

Re: excluding a character style from spellchecking

2010-02-24 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-02-24, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Olivier Ripoll wrote: I have 2 character styles, defined in a layout module, which I use for code(*) and file names, respectively. I'd like to tell LyX never to spell check words in these two styles, as code variables are most often not valid

Re: Pre-reform Russian characters in LyX

2010-02-24 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-02-24, Andrey wrote: So. it appears nobody has used LyX for the purpose of typesetting old Russian or Church Slavonic texts. Did you try Google for Slavonic latex? There are some documents there that might be of help. Liviu I did. The trouble is, as I said from the start, I am

Re: Lyx 2.0

2010-02-24 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-02-24, Rob Oakes wrote: I am running a LyX from Debian/testing (1.6.5) and a home-compliled svn version in parallel without problems. I'd recommend that after compiling that you manually specify a differ user and system directory, though. This will ensure that you don't have problems

Re: Pre-reform Russian characters in LyX

2010-02-25 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-02-24, Liviu Andronic wrote: On 2/24/10, Andrey az...@mail.ru wrote: Downloaded the trunk through svn, successfully ran autogen.sh, then when I did ./configure and got the following errors: ... ** Cannot find zlib.h. Please check that the zlib library is correctly installed on

Re: Pre-reform Russian characters in LyX

2010-02-25 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-02-24, Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW wrote: The problem arouse when I needed to insert some obsolete Russian characters that were used before the 20th century. Namely, the letters yat (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yat), fita (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fita) or izhitsa

Re: raw latex commands on a lyx doc?

2010-02-26 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-02-26, Jose Quesada wrote: I'm new to LyX. I need to use a .cls file (larkc.cls attached), and have done all the steps described in the documentation and this wiki post: http://wiki.lyx.org/Layouts/CreatingLayouts ... This seems to work. Now I need to be able to set values for

Re: Preamble lyx 1.6 revtex4

2010-02-26 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-02-25, Scott, Robert wrote: I am attempting to use revtex 4 as a template to write a paper. The problem= is that I need to alter some of the latex code in the 'preamble' but there= seems to be no method for accessing this in later versions of Lyx. Earlier= version refer to a menu

Re: Mystified by \selectlanguage [modified]

2010-02-26 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-02-25, Manoj Rajagopalan wrote: I've traced this to the use of the babel package - it seems to be automatically set for use in Tools-Preferences...-Language settings-Language dialog. AFAIK, babel is loaded by default if you use any Language other than English (US), be it as

Re: text-mode macros?

2010-02-26 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-02-25, rgheck wrote: On 02/25/2010 10:13 AM, Manoj Rajagopalan wrote: I use math-macros in lyx but I was wondering if there is any way to achieve macros in text-mode. There's a bug about this, an enhancement request. So no. While there is no direct analogon to math-macros, you

Re: Pre-reform Russian characters in LyX

2010-02-26 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-02-25, Liviu Andronic wrote: Anyways, I cannot get past the black boxes with the yat character (see attached). I am not sure why. Did you try a different screen font (like DejaVu)?

Re: Pre-reform Russian characters in LyX

2010-02-26 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-02-25, Andrey wrote: It seems that XeTeX is indeed a feasible way to print some old-orthography Russian letters. And this is great! However, a more ambitious task, which is similar to enabling Greek polytonic, would be to enable the true Church Slavonic in LyX, which would be

Re: Pre-reform Russian characters in LyX

2010-02-27 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-02-26, Liviu Andronic wrote: On 2/26/10, Guenter Milde mi...@users.berlios.de wrote: Did you try a different screen font (like DejaVu)? I have selected Bistream Vera Serif (and Sans) for both Screen and Document fonts. Although the yat character is correctly rendered in LyX, View

Re: Problem using old Lyx document

2010-03-03 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-03-03, Michael Born wrote: But, the pdf file I can generate now has a different page number compared to the printout from year 2000. I would like the pdf to look exactly like the old printout... and therefore all the paper margins have to be the same, don't they? Why can't you

Re: Import and export to many formats...

2010-03-03 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-03-03, Νίκος Αλεξανδρής wrote: On Wed, 03 Mar 2010 10:17:57 -0500, Νίκος Αλεξανδρής wrote: Thanks, works as expected! Seems that the problem is my complex (?) article (still I use the normal article document class though). Is your article in Greek? Maybe this is the showstopper.

Re: Import and export to many formats...

2010-03-05 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-03-04, Nikos Alexandris wrote: OK, I think I found it: I also had an Appendix with a rotated table. I removed the Appendix completely and it worked! :-) Well, as expected, it looks horrible but at least the text is there. This is why I believe we should be more specific about the

Re: how to vary the spacing between paragraphs?

2010-03-05 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-03-04, John Coppens wrote: On Thu, 04 Mar 2010 21:12:37 +0100 Richard Brown rich...@guidedelearning.com wrote: Thanks for that; but I'm sorry I should have been clearer in my question. I don't want to change the default settings for paragraph spacing in the whole document. I just

Re: lyx 1.6.5 will not open lyx 2 docs

2010-03-05 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-03-04, William Seager wrote: On Thursday 04 March 2010 at 10:05, Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW wrote: Yes, it works. There should be a .lyx16 file next to the original .lyx file, which can be opened by LyX 1.6.5. Vincent thanks - that works perfectly (I just didn't see the

Re: too great marks in itemize

2010-03-08 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-03-08, Marcelo Acuña wrote: Hello, I updated the package spanish.ldf, and now I have too great marks in itemize. They have the height of a capital letter. How I can correct this? I suspect that this is rather an issue of a different font than of spanish.ldf (check if the marks are

Re: Python-generated diagram as quot;external materialquot;

2010-03-11 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-03-11, John K wrote: I think you need to define an input format and a .py - .pdf converter which runs the python interpreter on your file. This is an alternative way to the external inset. ... Try the way I described above: defining the file format and converter under the menu :

Re: Blogging with LyX

2010-03-12 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-03-12, Liviu Andronic wrote: On 3/11/10, Jack Desert jwo...@gmail.com wrote: For those of you who are interested in using LyX as a blog editor, I have put together a tool called LyxPoster. You Curious.. Could LyxPoster be added to the converters, so that one could export to

Re: Exporting file to PDF(XeTeX)

2010-03-12 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-03-12, Jakob Eder wrote: --Boundary_(ID_KXNIRxIiFA3K0D/Bfj1kJA) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Dear users, I'm struggling with following problems: Needed Xetex for ancient greek using Alkaios font, Do you

Re: lytex and lyxpipe

2010-03-15 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-03-15, Jose Quesada wrote: I'm full-time linux, but put lytex (portable lyx) on a win laptop. ... Is there any known problem with lytex and lyxpipe? ... No, but there is a known problem with Windows and lyxpipe. It just does not work. Günter

Re: inserting black and white graphics (musical notation) from TIFF

2010-03-19 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-03-19, Richard Brown wrote: I have some TIFF files exported from Sibelius, the music scoring program. They are just high-quality images of black and white music scores. I tried converting them to jpg in GIMP for inclusion in my Lyx manuscript, but the results were awful- or at least,

Re: Greetings one and All. I have a dual language document, that lyx thinks is all English.

2010-03-19 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-03-18, Michael Joyner ᏩᏯ wrote: I have a dual language document, that lyx thinks is all English. You have to tell it otherwise. Try EditText PropertiesCustomLanguage (or M-x language your language, if the desired language is supported and you know the lyx-internal name of it.) I it a

Re: Blogging with LyX

2010-03-19 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-03-18, Manveru wrote: --0016e6db66f9868eb9048216b83b Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 2010/3/18 Jack Desert jwo...@gmail.com Yes, it does have XML-RPC capability. Does LyX have a built-in XML-RPC client, or would I have to use a separate one? I would still want the option

Re: problems with french quotation marks when using lyx with sweave

2010-03-21 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-03-21, Erich Studerus wrote: I would like to use french quotatin marks in a lyx document with R/Sweave code chunks. Unfortunately, the french quotation marks get replaced by filled squares during compilation even if I use \frqq. Does anybody know why this is? I'm using the

Re: Layout file not usable

2010-03-22 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-03-22, Tim Wescott wrote: I'm working hard at being a brand-new user, but I'm still a user-wannabe, because things ain't working! I'm using Ubuntu 9.10, brand shiny new installation of Lyx. I try to create a document from a template (any template, but I'll use latex8 as an

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