Re: Drawing of polynomials

2005-10-19 Thread Herbert Voss
Gunnar wrote: I've written a simple C++ program that can make eepic graphs of polynomials. So if you need to do this you can get my program here: http://web.comhem.se/~u46307480/RitaGraf.tgz There is a very short postscript manual in the tgz-file for those who can't speak swedish. The

Re: Chapter with numbering but without word chapter - more questions...

2005-10-24 Thread Herbert Voss
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! Thanks for your advice! Eventhough I'm using the Report style, I still got rid of the word chapter by adding the command (eventhough I had to type it as Tex at the beginning of the document, it wouldn't work in the preamble). Do you by any chance also know,

Re: Is this possible in lyx?

2005-10-25 Thread Herbert Voss
Jose Capco wrote: Dear List, I just figured out how to disallow LaTeX to linebreak a math inline formula that resides in the end of a line. Sometimes they turn so awkward when they are breaked in the end of the line. With LaTeX I just type a formula in an \mbox and it solves my problem..

Re: AW: Re: Chapter with numbering but without word chapter - more questions...

2005-10-26 Thread Herbert Voss
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you very much! I did manage to get the numbering in front of my own chapter title and also got rid of the space above the chapter title. Great! However, I still have the space at the end of a chapter before a new chapter starts. Can I somehow let a new chapter

Re: Is this possible with lyx?

2005-10-26 Thread Herbert Voss
ZAVARISE GIORGIO wrote: Paul Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oggetto: Re: Is this possible in lyx? Data: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 12:14:54 +0100 A:lyx-users@lists.lyx.org On 10/25/05, Herbert Voss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just figured out how to disallow LaTeX to linebreak a math inline

Re: LyX and xypic

2005-10-26 Thread Herbert Voss
David L. Johnson wrote: On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 13:44:54 +0200 (CEST) H. Peter Gumm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, is there anyone working with LyX and xypic. Is there any support, or are there any workarounds to see commutative diagrams in their full glory within LyX. I usually kludge

Re: Custom layout and psmatrix from pstricks, 1.4.0pre2

2005-10-26 Thread Herbert Voss
maarten wrote: Hi, I have some trouble when trying to getting this ERT to work correctly: \begin{psmatrix}[colsep=0.5cm] \psframebox{Yes} \psframebox{No} C \\ \psframebox{Yesy} \psframebox{No} C \\ \ncline{-}{1,1}{2,1} \end{psmatrix} I've put \usepackage{pst-node} in the

Re: Custom layout and psmatrix from pstricks, 1.4.0pre2

2005-10-27 Thread Herbert Voss
maarten wrote: latex - ps/eps images pdflatex - png,jpg,pdf images I know the latex basics, but I forgot to mention that also when I use logo.eps it happened. sure, LyX doesn't know, that you use \includegraphics nad did not write \usepackage{graphicx} in the preamble. When using the LyX

Re: How to put a box around an equation: is there a bug in Lyx?

2005-10-27 Thread Herbert Voss
Giorgio Zavarise wrote: still on the theme box around an equation, perhaps I found a bug in Lyx (I am using Lyx 1.3.5 for MAC OSX 10.3.9), but I found also a workaround. Yesterday I proposed the following procedure HOW TO PUT A BOX AROUND AN EQUATION 1) go to math mode with the command

Re: Using Curly Brackets in Text

2005-11-02 Thread Herbert Voss
Daniel Watkins wrote: The subject says it all. I'm looking to do something that'll look like this: Not blah Blah } Blah } These lines contain blah Blah } Not blah The three }s should be replaced by one big curly bracket. I have tried doing this using a Maths environment, but I could

Re: mtabular environment in LyX

2005-11-06 Thread Herbert Voss
Paul Smith wrote: On 11/6/05, Paul Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As far as I can see, there is no LyX support for the nice AMS environment mtabular. Is it planned to have it in next versions of LyX? (I am using LyX 1.3.6.) To have a better understanding of what is mtabular environment,

Re: mtabular environment in LyX

2005-11-07 Thread Herbert Voss
Paul Smith wrote: On 11/7/05, Herbert Voss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As far as I can see, there is no LyX support for the nice AMS environment mtabular. Is it planned to have it in next versions of LyX? (I am using LyX 1.3.6.) To have a better understanding of what is mtabular

Re: Figure and table side by side

2005-11-09 Thread Herbert Voss
Johan Ingvast wrote: Johan Ingvast wrote: Hi Since I don't want to spend too much space in my article, I'd like to have a table just next to a figure inside one float. I want a figure caption on the figure and a table caption on the table. I've tried different ways but not come up with

Re: Chapters without headings..

2005-11-14 Thread Herbert Voss
Caspar wrote: hi, this should be easy but it is beyond me.. i am working from the book template and am dividing my work into chapters but i don't want to give them titles. i.e. Chapter 1 rather than Chapter 1 Some preliminaries etc at the moment i am just using a

[Fwd: Towards a UK-TuG revival]

2005-11-21 Thread Herbert Voss
Original Message Subject: Towards a UK-TuG revival Date: 21 Nov 2005 10:59:44 -0800 From: Karl Berry [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: http://groups.google.com Newsgroups: comp.text.tex For any TeX users in the UK -- One of the r\^oles of TUG is to encourage and support the

Re: orientation of .eps figures

2005-11-28 Thread Herbert Voss
Richard Sherman wrote: Thanks for this, but it didn't do the trick. I changed the preferences as you suggested, reconfigured, quit and restarted LyX, but I'm still getting rotated figures. try ps2pdf -dPrePress=/None $$i Herbert

Re: orientation of .eps figures

2005-11-28 Thread Herbert Voss
Georg Baum wrote: Richard Sherman wrote: Thanks Uwe. I'm using Tetex 2.0.2-34 on Mac OS X 10.4.3. Here's a Lyx file and the .eps file that belongs in it. I tested it, and the result is: dvipdfm fine pdflatexrotated and how did you get a pdf file of the eps image ...

Re: orientation of .eps figures

2005-11-28 Thread Herbert Voss
Richard Sherman wrote: Thanks Uwe. I'm using Tetex 2.0.2-34 on Mac OS X 10.4.3. Here's a Lyx file and the .eps file that belongs in it. first do not use an extension for file names. The graphic driver can detect the right extension. It is a typical behaviour for ghostscript, that it thinks,

Re: orientation of .eps figures

2005-11-28 Thread Herbert Voss
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Georg Baum schrieb: I tested it, and the result is: dvipdfm fine pdflatexrotated ps2pdf fine This is the same in tetex 2.02 and tetex 3.0 on linux. I guess that you have hit a bug (or feature?) of pdflatex. No. In this case the problem is the

Re: orientation of .eps figures

2005-11-28 Thread Herbert Voss
Georg Baum wrote: Am Montag, 28. November 2005 19:57 schrieb Herbert Voss: Georg Baum wrote: I tested it, and the result is: dvipdfm fine pdflatexrotated and how did you get a pdf file of the eps image ... ;-) pdflatex does nothing with the image! True, if I export

Re: orientation of .eps figures

2005-11-29 Thread Herbert Voss
Richard Sherman wrote: Thanks again to those of you who are helping me with this. Herbert Voss wrote: first do not use an extension for file names. The graphic driver can detect the right extension. It is a typical behaviour for ghostscript, that it thinks, that your graphic should

Re: lyx on windows (and printing notes)

2005-11-29 Thread Herbert Voss
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Angus Leeming wrote: * You say ImageMagick does, but ImageMagick isn't *required* to run LyX. I never said this. But ImageMagick is of course required to run LyX. A wordprocessor is useless when no images can be processed. there are a lot of other tools ... * There are

Re: URGENT:Prezentation with Prosper [Win98]

2005-11-29 Thread Herbert Voss
Robert Orr wrote: I just fired up LyX and loaded one of my powerdot presentations; looks like you have to export .ps and then run ps2pdf on the .ps file to generate a .pdf powerdot is derived from prosper, it uses heavily PSTricks code, so dvi-ps-pdf is the correct sequence. Herbert

Re: shared document format for multiple files

2005-11-30 Thread Herbert Voss
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: so i decided to break up my doc using inclusions. but now they each have their own document format, if i change the option in the main file the included files wont know about them and vice-versa... is it possible to share document format among files? write your own

Re: Need help with multiple equations

2005-11-30 Thread Herbert Voss
Pelux wrote: Hi, i'm using lyx for my phd works in statistics, but i'm having some problems that i really don't know how to solve, and google-searching for two hours didn't help. So, here are my questions: 1) I would like to have all my equations (not the inline ones) to be automatically

Re: Need help with multiple equations

2005-12-01 Thread Herbert Voss
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.dante.de/CTAN/info/math/voss/mathmode/Mathmode.pdf inside LyX choose _always_ the amsmath environments. Herbert I alway do that. The problem is that i have some difficulties using the aling, alignat, split, multiline amsmath environments in lyx. On the

\xrightarrow

2005-12-04 Thread Herbert Voss
When I insert in mathed \xrighterror amsmath is not enabled by default. LyX 1.3.5 is it fixed in 1.3.6 ? Herbert

Re: c++2tex

2005-12-04 Thread Herbert Voss
Gunnar wrote: Use the LaTeX-package listings. I attached an example LyX-file. Perhaps LyX should support the listings-package in one of the next releases. No offense, but how do you make it look good? http://perce.de/temp/listings-qt.png http://perce.de/temp/listings-xforms.png Herbert

Re: c++2tex

2005-12-04 Thread Herbert Voss
Nusret BALCI wrote: I couldn't find how to get to that dialog. Under which menu is it? Do one need to install a plugin, or is it a standard dialog? no, it is an extension to my personal LyX ... and shows how it could be for all ... Herbert

Re: [Mac OS X] Problems with pdfTeX, DVI and images (EPS, PDF, PNG, whatever)

2005-12-05 Thread Herbert Voss
Jean-Francois Roy wrote: \center{\includegraphics[scale=0.9,angle=0]{graphics/myimage.pdf or myimage.png}} -- use _no_ extensions for the graphics -- use \centerline{ ... } \usepackage{graphicx} always needed, when the graphoics are not inserted by LyX LaTeX Error: Cannot determine size

Re: c++2latex Ok, but...

2005-12-05 Thread Herbert Voss
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey guys, thanks one more time. The listings package works fine to C++, Fortran, Pascal, etc. I like it very much! It have many options like color, typeset, etc, but, the spaces between the lines are too huge! And change all the paragraph to linebreaks is

Re: c++2latex Ok, but...

2005-12-06 Thread Herbert Voss
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, it's a bug. I'm so sad now. All the project would be write in another editor. Guess? Right in a office one -- again! nonsense ... read the c++ file with \lstinputlisting{foo.c} Herbert

Re: Fwd: PDfs from Linux have nasty fonts

2005-12-07 Thread Herbert Voss
Andres Becerra Sandoval wrote: It really is a latex default fonts issue, see: http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/FAQ/PDF for the question The fonts are bad in the exported PDF, what can I do? it has _nothing_ to do with LaTeX, it is a problem of acroread Herbert

Re: c++2tex

2005-12-07 Thread Herbert Voss
Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: Herbert Voss [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | Nusret BALCI wrote: | I couldn't find how to get to that dialog. Under which | menu is it? Do one need to install a plugin, or is it | a standard dialog? | | no, it is an extension to my personal LyX ... and | shows how

Re: c++2tex

2005-12-07 Thread Herbert Voss
Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: Herbert Voss [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: | Herbert Voss [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | | Nusret BALCI wrote: | | I couldn't find how to get to that dialog. Under which | | menu is it? Do one need to install a plugin

Re: Indent on every 1st paragraph after different environment

2005-12-07 Thread Herbert Voss
Adinda Praditya wrote: I used book class and would like to have an ident (TAB) on every first paragraph after changing environment (chapter, section, enumerate, itemize etc.) I couldn't found how to do it in http://tug.org/TeXnik/mainFAQ.cgi Can anyone help? \usepackage{indentfirst}

Re: Footnotes problem

2005-12-11 Thread Herbert Voss
K. Elo wrote: Hi, Charles de Miramon, 10.12.2005 17:35: K. Elo wrote: Hi, Axel Dessecker, 9.12.2005 19:50: Kimmo, Am Freitag, 09. Dezember 2005 15:27 schrieb K. Elo: 1) The title should be followed by a footnote marked with *, i.e. bla bla bla* 2) All other footnotes should be marked

Re: Writing text on the Part page

2005-12-11 Thread Herbert Voss
Steve Litt wrote: For my next book I'm using a derivative of the Memoir class. My next book has two distinct parts that have two very different functions in the book. Each needs an explanation, and because it's a book of short stories, it would be inappropriate to have the first chapter in a

Re: Footnotes problem

2005-12-11 Thread Herbert Voss
K. Elo wrote: This is exactly what Charles suggested - and this works, no doubt! But because I did NOT know LyX being smart enough to interpret a footnote directly after a title as \thanks, I just had to figure out a solution of my own (why on earth would I have posted my question if I had

Re: Footnotes problem

2005-12-12 Thread Herbert Voss
K. Elo wrote: This is exactly what Charles suggested - and this works, no doubt! But because I did NOT know LyX being smart enough to interpret a footnote directly after a title as \thanks, I just had to figure out a solution of my own (why on earth would I have posted my question if I had

Re: Bibliography problem

2005-12-12 Thread Herbert Voss
K. Elo wrote: Hi @ All, I have encountered an interesting problem with a document with a bibliography. I use a customised .bst file, originally created with latex makebst. The problem seems to related with the following two bibtex entries created with JabRef: @ARTICLE{br2004a, author =

Re: Bibliography problem

2005-12-12 Thread Herbert Voss
K. Elo wrote: Hi, Herbert Voss, 12.12.2005 16:33: @ARTICLE{br2004b, author = br, title = {{A}usbau der deutsch-russischen {B}eziehungen auf allen {G}ebieten vereinbart}, journal = br_online, year = {2004}, number = {21. Dezember}, entrytype = {21.12.}, url = {\[http

Re: Bibliography problem

2005-12-12 Thread Herbert Voss
K. Elo wrote: This might be true, but this won't work, if your .bst uses the \url command to format url-fields (as does mine). url and \url are _two_ things! show me an example where it doesn't work! Well, using url={\url{site}} in a bibtex won't solve the underscore (_) it will!

Re: Bibliography problem

2005-12-12 Thread Herbert Voss
K. Elo wrote: url = {\url{[http://www.bundesregierung.de/dokumente/-,413_680598/Artikel/dokument.htm, besucht am 2. September 2005]}}, and the following is the reason why a \url in the bib file is not needed, because the bst file does it already ... FUNCTION {format.url} { url

Re: Bibliography problem

2005-12-13 Thread Herbert Voss
K. Elo wrote: and the following is the reason why a \url in the bib file is not needed, because the bst file does it already ... FUNCTION {format.url} { url empty$ { } { \url{ url * } * } if$ } Well, this is already clear to me. I do not think so As I mentioned, I have made

Re: Bibliography problem

2005-12-13 Thread Herbert Voss
K. Elo wrote: yes, \url is only valid with a \usepackage{url} that's all. Well, can you then explain one thing to me: I have a 30-page scientific article written with LyX using the same test.bst I mailed to you. The preamble of this document is _empty_, i.e. no \usepackage{url} and there

Re: Decimalcomma instead of decimalpoint

2005-12-14 Thread Herbert Voss
Gunnar wrote: How can I automatically get a decimal comma instead of a decimal point in math environments? package icomma may help Herbert

Re: Bibliography problem

2005-12-14 Thread Herbert Voss
K. Elo wrote: thanks for your explanations, they have been helpful. I have now exported the article I mentioned and the .tex preamble looks like this: --- cut here --- \documentclass[a4paper]{report} \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \usepackage[latin1]{inputenc} \setcounter{secnumdepth}{3}

Re: What do you guys prefer

2005-12-19 Thread Herbert Voss
Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, Which you guys think is better, ragged right or justified right? It's a book of short stories. a short story of one page looks nicer with ragged right. This is the reason why I would choose always ragged right for a book of short stories. Herbert

Re: Footnotes in tables

2005-12-20 Thread Herbert Voss
Bonhôte, André wrote: Just tried to enter a footnote inside a table which sits inside a float. Converting it to any format shows the footnote number, but not the text. I vaguely remember that it was a big hack in LaTeX, but after that hack, the table footnotes were labeled from a) to z)

Re: text color in Lyx

2005-12-20 Thread Herbert Voss
Zhiyong Zhang wrote: ...This is the first test, and this is the second test... I can use Layout-Character-Color to change the text color as red. Then I go to View-PDF(pdflatex) to export the file. I find that, in the pdf file, if ...This is the first test, is in page 1, but and this is the

Re: SQL style

2005-12-27 Thread Herbert Voss
Bonhôte, André wrote: Hi LyX Users! I am trying the whole day to create a nice style for SQL. Up to now, I have manage to create some semi-nice output. My .layout file looks about like this: \usepackage{listings} [...] Style SQL CopyStyle LyX-Code LatexType

Re: SQL style

2005-12-27 Thread Herbert Voss
ProgrammingCode - Herbert Voss 20051227 #=== Style ProgCode MarginStatic LatexType Environment LatexName ProgCode NextNoIndent 1 LeftMarginMMM ParSkip

Re: [SOT] Using a Template Programmatically

2005-12-27 Thread Herbert Voss
Rich Shepard wrote: This is a LaTeX question rather than a LyX question, so I hope that you indulge my posting here first. I created a LaTeX document to be used as the basis for printing Optical Mark Readable (OMR) forms. The content of each form will change from one use to the next. That

Re: Keeping one-liner next to the folowing image

2005-12-27 Thread Herbert Voss
José Pablo Ezequiel Fernández wrote: I have a document heavy on images where I have: How can I 'help' LyX to put the One-liners and images together so I get: One-liner Image One-liner Image -=Page-jump=- create a layout entry in

Re: Minor Problem with References

2005-12-27 Thread Herbert Voss
Jason Giglio wrote: Everything is going great with apa class and apacite now. One minor problem though, it's putting an extra line between two of my references. It appears the long URL in one reference is causing it, shortening the URL fixes it. Here's the part of the bib file in question.

Re: PDF-File as front page for a master thesis

2005-12-28 Thread Herbert Voss
Helge Hafting wrote: On Tue, Dec 27, 2005 at 02:46:07PM +0100, Christian Schanz wrote: Hello, I am currently finishing my master thesis with the help of LyX. I have to use a special front page. The Layout for this front page was given to me as a Word-Document. So I converted this to a

Re: Working with large table

2005-12-31 Thread Herbert Voss
Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: Luqman H wrote: it's really hard for me working with large table in LyX. when i try to rotate the table, the table's caption dont rotate so it's weird looking. is there any simple way to work with large table? like autoresize, autofit, or some easy way todo? In

Re: Working with large table

2005-12-31 Thread Herbert Voss
Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: Herbert Voss wrote: this often makes no sense for small tables, because you _always_ get a new page for this table. Is there an alternative if you _have_ to rotate the table? if you have a wide table but only a few lines, then it looks no very well on an own

Re: Working with large table

2005-12-31 Thread Herbert Voss
Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: Guten Rutsch, oh, no Problem here in Berlin ... :-) it is still snowing and very cold ... hower, same to you Herbert

Re: Space between the numbering and the caption in TOC

2006-01-01 Thread Herbert Voss
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem is when I have a section number 9 and a figure no. 9. Then there is no space left before the caption starts. AN EXAMPLE 1.1 The .. 1.5 The .. 2.10The... 2.11The... I solve in list of figures with this command: [EMAIL

Re: Thesis two language abstracts

2006-01-02 Thread Herbert Voss
Lars Olesen wrote: However, the thesis is in Danish, so I need two different abstracts. I need a Danish Abstract (Resume) and an English Abstract. These are supposed to be on to different pages. I already marked the Danish one up with: \layout Abstract But how can I have another abstract in

Re: [announce] sixth release of LyXWinInstaller

2006-01-02 Thread Herbert Voss
Bo Peng wrote: _TeX_ cannot handle spaces. I suppose that you do not really know the difference of TeX, LaTeX, pdfTeX, pdfLaTeX, bibTeX, MiKTeX I do not. My understanding is that miktex is another implementation of latex standard ( if there is such a standard). If miktex aims at latex is

Re: [announce] sixth release of LyXWinInstaller

2006-01-03 Thread Herbert Voss
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Bo Peng asked: It is confirmed that if the .bst file is in a path without space, the bibliography will be generated correctly, even if lyx is installed under c:\program files\lyx. Yes, I can confirm this. 1. It is safe to install lyx to c:\program files, Yes it is.

Re: Does any one know how can I cite M^cGarvey?

2006-01-06 Thread Herbert Voss
John C. McCabe-Dansted wrote: In normal text I can enter a name like M^cGarvey using: M{\raisebox{0.8ex}{c}}Garvey However this gives errors in a BibTeX author field. I've tried M{\protect\raisebox{0.8ex}{c}}Garvey and M{\protect \raisebox{0.8ex}{c}}Garvey

Re: Help Needed with Multido{}

2006-01-07 Thread Herbert Voss
Rich Shepard wrote: On Fri, 6 Jan 2006, Rich Shepard wrote: 1.) The \multido{} loop in lines 69-71 does not produce the desired results. I want each framebox in line 71 to be 3mm wide, but if I reduce the width from 7mm, the lines are combined; that is, the even numbered line is next to

Re: Hollow Box Similar to \rule?

2006-01-07 Thread Herbert Voss
Rich Shepard wrote: I've used \put with PSTricks. That may be the way to go. Rich, for PSTricks it is \rput or one of the other label macros, but not \put Herbert

Re: Hollow Box Similar to \rule?

2006-01-07 Thread Herbert Voss
Rich Shepard wrote: On Sat, 7 Jan 2006, Herbert Voss wrote: for PSTricks it is \rput or one of the other label macros, but not \put Thanks for the reminder. It's been a while. But, ... I think that's what I need for this OMR form. Plain ol' LaTeX took me 98% of the way, but fine tuning

Re: Hollow Box Similar to \rule?

2006-01-07 Thread Herbert Voss
Rich Shepard wrote: I wondered about using a table. It may well be faster and easier than re-doing the document with PSTricks. And I just started re-reading the PSTricks manual, too. Rich, this depends strongly on your problem. But you should always first trying to realize it with a

Re: Help Needed with Multido{}

2006-01-07 Thread Herbert Voss
Rich Shepard wrote: On Sat, 7 Jan 2006, Rich Shepard wrote: I have read everything I can find on \framebox and \vspace, and I have tried putting a negative \vspace at different positions in the last line above. Well, I just re-discovered that the proper command is \raisebox to adjust the

Re: figures in a table

2006-01-09 Thread Herbert Voss
Ray Henry wrote: I'm creating a 10x10 table. The first column is filled with small images. It is set to zero width. The other columns are all set to fixed width and have text wrapped. When the the image is inserted it creates space at the top of the row and pushes down the text in the

Re: export table TOC

2006-01-09 Thread Herbert Voss
David Wolfson wrote: I'm writing up my PhD thesis using lyx, and am have a master document with each chapter as an input file. This all works ok, but I need to produce and outline of the overall document structure. I'd hoped to do this by exporting the contents pages in isolation somehow, but

Re: powerdot install

2006-01-09 Thread Herbert Voss
Subir Singh Lamba wrote: Hi, I tried to install powerdot package following the installation advice from the help menu of lyx. I am using Mandrake 10.1. I unzipped the powerdot files into /usr/local/texmf/tex/latex/powerdot Then use texhash to udate latex but when I use kpsewhich tex

Re: export table TOC

2006-01-09 Thread Herbert Voss
David Wolfson wrote: Herbert Voss wrote: David Wolfson wrote: I'm writing up my PhD thesis using lyx, and am have a master document with each chapter as an input file. This all works ok, but I need to produce and outline of the overall document structure. I'd hoped to do this by exporting

Re: Typeface for Insert URL

2006-01-10 Thread Herbert Voss
Uwe Stöhr wrote: mail.k schrieb: Unfortunately, that defeats the purpose: if the link is in text, it won't be typeset correctly (that's why I tuned to Insert Url in the first place. I don't won't the URL pushed to the next line and the line above justified with lots of useless whitespace).

Re: Excel-like tables

2006-01-10 Thread Herbert Voss
Paul Smith wrote: On 1/10/06, Paul A. Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The way to add a left border to only one cell is to flag the cell as multicolumn (even though it occupies only one column) and then add the border. This should work ok in general. I don't know if it works when the cell is

Re: problem including tex file

2006-01-10 Thread Herbert Voss
J Greenbaum wrote: I've tried including the file both ways...that is, with Lyx's native include support and with ERT and I get the same error message. I'm using LyX version 1.3.6. Any more ideas? -Jay On 1/9/06, Georg Baum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Montag, 9. Januar 2006 18:31 schrieb J

Re: space needed in table of contents

2006-01-11 Thread Herbert Voss
Jeremy C. Reed wrote: My table of contents has entries where the section number goes close to my section name. For example: 19.8. pfsync Example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130 19.9. Combining CARP and pfsync For Failover . . . . . . . . . . . 130 19.10.Operational Issues . .

Re: problem using beamer

2006-01-12 Thread Herbert Voss
Subir Singh Lamba wrote: Thanks for your help. I have just one more problem when I try to compile the given example lyx file and generate a .ps file. The slide occupise only 1/4th of the A4 page and that too in the lower left corner of the page. sure, this a class for foils and its original

Re: problem using beamer

2006-01-12 Thread Herbert Voss
Paul A. Rubin wrote: In 1.3.x it's Layout-Document-Paper, but just leave it set to default (and make sure that the orientation is set to portrait rather than landscape). The beamer class file will take care of setting dimensions. BTW, I don't think it's possible to export a beamer show as

Re: fbox with a predefined width

2006-01-16 Thread Herbert Voss
Paul Smith wrote: I would like to box the text Exercise 1 in such a way that the box of the text Exercise 23 has the same width of the one surrounding Exercise 1. I tried \fbox, but with no success. with package calc \fbox{\makebox[\widthof{Exercise 23}]{Exercise 1}} \fbox{Exercise 23}

Re: fbox with a predefined width

2006-01-16 Thread Herbert Voss
Paul Smith wrote: \fbox{\makebox[\widthof{Exercise 23}]{Exercise 1}} \fbox{Exercise 23} Thanks, Herbert. Is it possible to use left alignment (only inside the box) for the two boxes? I tried \raggedleft, but with no success. \fbox{\makebox[\widthof{Exercise 23}][l]{Exercise 1}} Herbert

Re: fbox with a predefined width

2006-01-16 Thread Herbert Voss
Paul Smith wrote: On 1/16/06, Herbert Voss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: \fbox{\makebox[\widthof{Exercise 23}]{Exercise 1}} \fbox{Exercise 23} Thanks, Herbert. Is it possible to use left alignment (only inside the box) for the two boxes? I tried \raggedleft, but with no success. \fbox{\makebox

Re: powerdot

2006-01-17 Thread Herbert Voss
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: Am Dienstag, 17. Januar 2006 11:43 schrieb Wolfgang Engelmann: Am Dienstag, 17. Januar 2006 11:07 schrieb Andres Becerra Sandoval: On 1/17/06, Wolfgang Engelmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don´t manage to get powerdot to work Wolfgang The tex example works ok

Re: powerdot

2006-01-17 Thread Herbert Voss
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: the powerdot.cls is in: /texmf/distrib/run better is /usr/local/share/texmf/... Thanks, Herbert, but its still the same error: \RequirePackage{xkeyval}[2005/07/10] is it correct to have here the extracted package xkeyval with its /doc /run and /source

Re: powerdot

2006-01-17 Thread Herbert Voss
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: Am Dienstag, 17. Januar 2006 15:35 schrieb Herbert Voss: Thanks, Herbert. Here my tests: kpsewhich -show-path tex kpsewhich -show-path tex .:/home/matrox-suse/texmf/tex/generic//:!!/usr/local/share/texmf/tex/generic//:!! /var/lib/texmf/tex/generic//:!!/usr/share

Re: Business letter (on letterhead) template for LyX

2006-01-17 Thread Herbert Voss
Stephen Harris wrote: I've read about widows and orphans: http://tug.org/TeXnik/mainFAQ.cgi?file=layouts/widows Herbert

Re: powerdot

2006-01-17 Thread Herbert Voss
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: normally it is sh-3.00$ but I had to go superuser, since :/usr/local/share/texmf was for root only This could not make any trouble, could it? no, all tex files must only be readable sh-3.00$ latex powerdot-example-y This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.4.5)

Re: powerdot

2006-01-17 Thread Herbert Voss
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/pstricks/pstricks.sty (/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/pstricks/pstricks.tex `PSTricks' v97 patch 14 1999/12/23 (tvz) both are ancient, update pstricks.pro|tex|sty (/home/matrox-suse/texmf/tex/latex/xcolor/xcolor.sty xcolor is version

Re: powerdot

2006-01-17 Thread Herbert Voss
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: I have tried to update/install these missing files, but do get again with the powerdot-example.lyx errors: slide environment not defined by style fyma I am confused, since fyma is for prosper, as far as I see (Hendri Adriens site) I just wonder whether somebody had

Re: powerdot

2006-01-17 Thread Herbert Voss
Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: Wolfgang Engelmann writes: I just wonder whether somebody had successfully installed powerdot under SuSe 9.3 and could give me a hint. ? If you are using SuSE 9.3 shouldn't you have a more or less up-to-date TeX installation? no Herbert

Re: powerdot

2006-01-18 Thread Herbert Voss
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: Am Dienstag, 17. Januar 2006 21:15 schrieb Herbert Voss: Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: I have tried to update/install these missing files, but do get again with the powerdot-example.lyx errors: slide environment not defined by style fyma I am confused, since fyma

Re: Business letter (on letterhead) template for LyX - simple _working_ minipage solution

2006-01-20 Thread Herbert Voss
Helge Hafting wrote: Latex does not seem to offer a proper way of aligning boxes by the box top, but there is a simple workaround. TeX offers everything ... A minipage is nothing else than a box and it is aligned in the same way as two characters are aligned. Herbert

Re: Business letter (on letterhead) template for LyX - simple _working_ minipage solution

2006-01-20 Thread Herbert Voss
Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: Herbert Voss writes: Helge Hafting wrote: Latex does not seem to offer a proper way of aligning boxes by the box top, but there is a simple workaround. TeX offers everything ... Look-ahead beyond the paragraph? Okay one can explicitly add an additional latex run

Re: No figure number

2006-01-20 Thread Herbert Voss
Paul Smith wrote: I would like to insert a figure with the tag Figure in the caption (as usual), but with no figure number. Is that possible? inside the float _before the caption: \renewcommand{\thefigure}{} Herbert

Re: No figure number

2006-01-20 Thread Herbert Voss
Paul Smith wrote: On 1/20/06, Herbert Voss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to insert a figure with the tag Figure in the caption (as usual), but with no figure number. Is that possible? inside the float _before the caption: \renewcommand{\thefigure}{} Thanks, Herbert, but how can

Re: No figure number

2006-01-22 Thread Herbert Voss
Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: Kevin Pfeiffer writes: Paul Smith writes: On 1/20/06, Herbert Voss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to insert a figure with the tag Figure in the caption (as usual), but with no figure number. Is that possible? [...] I don't think you need it for what you

Re: Business letter (on letterhead) template for LyX - simple _working_ minipage solution

2006-01-23 Thread Herbert Voss
Helge Hafting wrote: Herbert Voss wrote: Helge Hafting wrote: Latex does not seem to offer a proper way of aligning boxes by the box top, but there is a simple workaround. TeX offers everything ... A minipage is nothing else than a box and it is aligned in the same way as two characters

Re: Weird Error

2006-01-23 Thread Herbert Voss
Rich Shepard wrote: I don't have a copy of the TeXbook, but the error message reads, Missing number, treated as zero. A number should have been here; I inserted 0. (If you can't figure out why I needed to see a number, look up `weird error' in the index to The TeXbook.) What I did:

Re: kerning of letters with hyphen not so great

2006-01-23 Thread Herbert Voss
Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: I must say that I am somewhat disappointed at the lack of kerning of letter combinations such as -W in the word non-Western. This is using the standard CM font. To get the hyphen to appear visually balanced in non-Western I am having to add -0.1em kerning between it and

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