Re: Can't find eps file when exporting

2006-02-23 Thread Herbert Voss
Jean-Pierre Chrétien wrote: Gunnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] The first error in the output you supplied in your initial post was dvips: Could not find figure file /tmp/lyx_tmpdir96260XiyjK/lyx_tmpbuf0/0_home_gunnar_Skola_appollonius.eps; I just ran on the same problem... The impo

Re: double superscript a lyx bug?

2006-02-22 Thread Herbert Voss
Sven Schreiber wrote: Hi, I just ran into the same thing reported by Bo Peng a short while ago -- if in math you make an explicit superscript but also append a "'" as a shortcut for prime (= matrix transpose sign here), latex complains about double superscript. Minimal lyx file is embedded bel

Re: selecting special fonts

2006-02-22 Thread Herbert Voss
Charles de Miramon wrote: Herbert Voss wrote: Charles de Miramon wrote: \newcommand\stacia[1]{% bgroup \usefont{T1}{stacish}{m}{n}\selectfont#1% \egroup} I guess it is \bgroup Herbert, can you explain what is the purpose of \begingroup \endgroup ? The TLC2 (my Bible) is not very

Re: selecting special fonts

2006-02-22 Thread Herbert Voss
Charles de Miramon wrote: > Stacia Hartleben wrote: > >> Is there a better way to select special special fonts other than doing >> ERT? I know under character I can change it to san serif or whatever >> but for a special font I installed I have to do something like this: >> >> \usefont{T1}{staci

Re: Automatic formatting of a particular word?

2006-02-22 Thread Herbert Voss
Stephen Harris wrote: > > - Original Message - > From: "Karsten Heymann" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: > Sent: Wednesday, > February 22, 2006 1:06 AM Subject: Re: Automatic formatting of a > particular word? > > > Hi Stephen, > >> and put it in macros.tex and load it with \input macros an

Re: citation reference is wrong

2006-02-21 Thread Herbert Voss
Matthias Schmidt wrote: I`m working with WinXP, Lyx 1.3.7 and JabRef 2.0.1. The citation reference is positioned in the footnote. The bibliography for the document is formatted as natbib and author-year. So far so good: in the Lyx user interface the result is given correct as in this case

Re: LyX fails picture conversion

2006-02-20 Thread Herbert Voss
Paul Smith wrote: On 2/20/06, Herbert Voss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks. I checked in texmf and had a dvipdfmx .exe so I changed the converter in Preferences by adding an "x". You are luckier, as there is no binary of dvipdfmx for Linux! e.g.: /usr/local/texlive/200

Re: LyX fails picture conversion

2006-02-20 Thread Herbert Voss
Paul Smith wrote: On 2/19/06, Stephen Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks. I checked in texmf and had a dvipdfmx .exe so I changed the converter in Preferences by adding an "x". You are luckier, as there is no binary of dvipdfmx for Linux! e.g.: /usr/local/texlive/2005/bin/i386-linux

Re: How to produce a decent x'_{t}^{2}?

2006-02-20 Thread Herbert Voss
Bo Peng wrote: If I insert x', subscript t and superscript 2, latex will complain ! Double superscript. l.17 $x'_{t}^ {2}$ I do not know exactly what latex is saying since $x'^{2}$ will work fine. If then I try to put ' in the {2}, but ' will be taller than 2 and make the formula u

Re: vspace between sections and figures help!

2006-02-20 Thread Herbert Voss
Helge Hafting wrote: Myriam Abramson wrote: I've \setlength{\parskip {-1pt}} but that seems only to affect the vertical space between paragraphs. How can I set the vertical space length between sections and figures? It's quite urgent as I am trying to fit this paper into a ridiculous 6-page

Re: vspace between sections and figures help!

2006-02-20 Thread Herbert Voss
Myriam Abramson wrote: I've \setlength{\parskip {-1pt}} but that seems only to affect the vertical space between paragraphs. How can I set the vertical space length between sections and figures? \floatsep (\dblfloatsep) vertical glue between floats with placement [t,b] \textfl

Re: LyX fails picture conversion

2006-02-19 Thread Herbert Voss
Stephen Harris wrote: My experience is that I can generate the a viewable .pdf file using dvipdfm but not pdflatex. http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2299 dvipdfm is really buggy -> dvipdfmx Herbert

Re: LyX fails picture conversion

2006-02-19 Thread Herbert Voss
Paul Smith wrote: On 2/18/06, Paul A. Rubin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks, Paul. In fact, the command convert myfile.eps myfile.pdf does the job correctly. Probably, the problem has to be with LyX. Ok. I'm assuming you're not running Windows (if you are, there may be a problem with spa

Re: TIPA (IPA) and limited tree support previews in LyX, working!

2006-02-17 Thread Herbert Voss
Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: Herbert Voss wrote: do you know the following packages? Linguistic tree diagrams for Role and Reference Grammar (RRG) http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/rrgtrees typesetting of trees that are common in linguistics http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive

Re: TIPA (IPA) and limited tree support previews in LyX, working!

2006-02-17 Thread Herbert Voss
Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: Concerning TIPA, I'm tempted to have a look in the next development cycle (for 1.5), but don't hold your breath. There are so many things to do, and even if I'm a linguist myself, I don't need phonetic symbols frequently enough to get annoyed by the lacking support

Re: at the press!

2006-02-14 Thread Herbert Voss
Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: The last MB of the two 222-MB (compressed) postscript files was just I did this also in the past, but nowadays I send only the PDF file, which is in general about 10-20% of the PS file size. Makes life easier ... :-) KOMA-Script Book amsmath, crop, soul, ellipsis, scrpa

Re: True type 1 fonts in pdf

2006-02-11 Thread Herbert Voss
Myriam Abramson wrote: Herbert Voss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> scribbled furiously: Myriam Abramson wrote: Hi! Sorry if that's well known already but I am getting confused by different answers I read on this issue. write into the preamble: \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \usepackage{lmode

Re: True type 1 fonts in pdf

2006-02-11 Thread Herbert Voss
Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: Herbert Voss writes: write into the preamble: \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \usepackage{lmodern} if you do not have the latin modern fonts installed, then use \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \usepackage[scaled]{helvet} \usepackage{mathptmx} It's not possible to select

Re: True type 1 fonts in pdf

2006-02-11 Thread Herbert Voss
Myriam Abramson wrote: Hi! Sorry if that's well known already but I am getting confused by different answers I read on this issue. write into the preamble: \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \usepackage{lmodern} if you do not have the latin modern fonts installed, then use \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}

Re: True type 1 fonts in pdf

2006-02-11 Thread Herbert Voss
Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: Myriam Abramson writes: Sorry if that's well known already but I am getting confused by different answers I read on this issue. I have LyX 1.3.5. PS. It's quite urgent I get an answer to that to submit my paper. Not sure what the question exactly is, but I'll try t

Re: multicolumn and texlive

2006-02-08 Thread Herbert Voss
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: Am Mittwoch, 8. Februar 2006 10:14 schrieb Herbert Voss: makes no sense together with package multicol. Disable it thanks, Herbert. So I am adding \begin{multicols}{2} at the begin of the document (at the very begin or after the title?) The title should be in

Re: multicolumn and texlive

2006-02-08 Thread Herbert Voss
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: Still problems with multicol the info at http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/multicol.html does not say enough. to repeat my situation: I have a twocolumn koma-book document I have selected twocolumn in document>page makes no sense together with

Re: multicolumn and texlive

2006-02-07 Thread Herbert Voss
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: I have installed texlive 2005 and want to use multicolumn if I put in the preample \usepackage multicolumn \usepackage{multicol} Herbert

Re: how to get rid of empty page

2006-02-07 Thread Herbert Voss
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: I use Koma script book style and want to get rid of an empty page which is put between my two column part and one column part two column part * here is end of a list In the following slides are shown: (now I have to switch to onecolumn-style, since the slide show

Re: GUI Buttons In Text

2006-02-05 Thread Herbert Voss
Rich Shepard wrote: In my document I reference specific buttons on the GUI of an application; buttons such as OK, Clear, Add, and Load. What I have done is place each word in a \framebox{}. It looks pretty ugly; the frames extend slightly below the baseline and above the line of text. The

Re: Screen Captures in Documents

2006-02-04 Thread Herbert Voss
Georg Baum wrote: Am Samstag, 4. Februar 2006 18:41 schrieb Wolfgang Engelmann: how do you crop them away? (e.g. eps-file). Do you do it in the eps description of the file or do you use a program? And which one? When I need to crop white borders of eps files, I usually run them through

Re: OT: Converter matrix to picture

2006-02-03 Thread Herbert Voss
Paul Smith wrote: On 2/3/06, Herbert Voss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: tell me the structure of your data file? Are the values also saved as a matrix? Thanks to all. An example of a data file is attached. It is a text file with a matrix. Each column corresponds to x-coordinate, wherea

Re: changing fonts in TOC

2006-02-03 Thread Herbert Voss
Phil Tomson wrote: I'm working on my thesis and every school seems to have their own format rules... I'm using article(koma-script). I need all of the sections listed in the TOC to be the same size font (12pt) as the rest of the text of the thesis and they cannot be bold. I've managed to get

Re: Editors for LaTeX-files with syntax highlighting

2006-02-03 Thread Herbert Voss
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Does Kile and Emacs easily run under windows, I mean do they have an own win-installer? Kile is *nix and MAC GUI Herbert

Re: OT: Converter matrix to picture

2006-02-03 Thread Herbert Voss
Paul Smith wrote: On 2/2/06, Herbert Voss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Yes, that is what I mean. An illustration is at http://www.mathworks.com/access/helpdesk/help/techdoc/ref/spy.html tell me the structure of your data file? Are the values also saved as a matrix? Thanks to a

Re: OT: Converter matrix to picture

2006-02-02 Thread Herbert Voss
Paul Smith wrote: On 2/2/06, Stephen Buonopane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This may be a bit out of topic. I have a matrix of ones and zeros with which I would like to produce a picture in such a way that the ones would be represented in black, say, and the zeros in yellow. Does somebody know of

Re: OT: Converter matrix to picture

2006-02-02 Thread Herbert Voss
Paul Smith wrote: On 2/2/06, Herbert Voss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This may be a bit out of topic. I have a matrix of ones and zeros with which I would like to produce a picture in such a way that the ones would be represented in black, say, and the zeros in yellow. Does somebody kno

Re: LyX is getting... very annoying.

2006-02-02 Thread Herbert Voss
David L. Johnson wrote: On Thu, 02 Feb 2006 10:30:16 +0100 Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "Herbert" == Herbert Voss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Herbert> this is nonsense! How did you insert it? 2^{Q} is a math Herbert> expression, it cannot be p

Re: OT: Converter matrix to picture

2006-02-02 Thread Herbert Voss
Paul Smith wrote: On 2/2/06, Herbert Voss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This may be a bit out of topic. I have a matrix of ones and zeros with which I would like to produce a picture in such a way that the ones would be represented in black, say, and the zeros in yellow. Does somebody kno

Re: OT: Converter matrix to picture

2006-02-02 Thread Herbert Voss
Paul Smith wrote: This may be a bit out of topic. I have a matrix of ones and zeros with which I would like to produce a picture in such a way that the ones would be represented in black, say, and the zeros in yellow. Does somebody know of a program (for Linux) to create my picture? what kind

Re: LyX is getting... very annoying.

2006-02-02 Thread Herbert Voss
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: "Herbert" == Herbert Voss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Herbert> this is nonsense! How did you insert it? 2^{Q} is a math Herbert> expression, it cannot be part of \textrm, it should be an Herbert> argument of\mathrm Herbert, while we are

Re: Caption horizontally as long as the width of the picture

2006-02-02 Thread Herbert Voss
Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: Herbert Voss writes: http://voss.homedns.org/cgi-bin/mainFAQ.cgi?file=floats/width copy and paste without thinking ... http://tug.org/TeXnik/mainFAQ.cgi?file=floats/width Something wrong with the domain name here, I think... Herbert

Re: Caption horizontally as long as the width of the picture

2006-02-02 Thread Herbert Voss
Paul Smith wrote: How can one have a caption horizontally as long as the width of the picture? http://voss.homedns.org/cgi-bin/mainFAQ.cgi?file=floats/width http://www.dante.de/CTAN//help/Catalogue/entries/hvfloat.html Herbert

Re: LyX is getting... very annoying.

2006-02-02 Thread Herbert Voss
Georg Baum wrote: It does do the right thing, the error is that creating mathematical things inside \textrm should not be possible in LyX. This is a known bug (unfortunately not easy to fix): http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1527 Why, when I erased the entire paragraph containing this

Re: LyX is getting... very annoying.

2006-02-02 Thread Herbert Voss
Marc D. wrote: Answer: it's the \textmf that causes ALL six errors. (and all 35 errors what you mean is \textrm in my original file). All from a a single, obviously misplaced, \textmf tag that I DID NOT INSERT (or knowingly insert. I don't USE different fonts in my document!) I have ju

Re: Positioning graphics in beamer

2006-02-01 Thread Herbert Voss
Declan O'Byrne wrote: All I really need is to be able to define the bounding box in the bottom right hand side of the slide. If I can do that, then it should be simply a matter of resizing the picture. But I cannot find an account anywhere of how to achieve this. By using \includegraphics I get

Re: powerdot install

2006-02-01 Thread Herbert Voss
Karsten Heymann wrote: Both are nicely documentated, allow verbatim text with overlays, allow customization. I would use beamer for for larger presentations (i.E. teaching classes as in [1]) and beamer for shorter, more visual

Re: Typeface for Insert URL

2006-02-01 Thread Herbert Voss
Uwe Stöhr wrote: mail.k wrote: /Insert URL/ does a fine job of typesetting the link, but it doesn't use my default typeface. I do I force it to? The problem LyX's hardcoding of the typeface: \IfFileExists{url.sty}{\usepackage{url}} {\newcommand{\url}{\texttt}} this

Re: powerdot install

2006-02-01 Thread Herbert Voss
John O'Gorman wrote: On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 01:35, Subir Singh Lamba wrote: Hi, I tried to install powerdot package following the installation advice from the help menu of lyx. How does powerdot compare with beamer? powerdot: _always_ latex -> dvips -> ps2pdf, no problem with emb

Re: powerdot

2006-02-01 Thread Herbert Voss
Subir Singh Lamba wrote: I am facing problem while running the examples provided in doc directory of the powedot distribution. Whenever I try to compile the example file in lyx or latex it gives the following error message:- - I can'

Re: lyx and pstricks

2006-01-31 Thread Herbert Voss
Eric Germaneau wrote: I'm a Phd student and I wish to right my thesis with lyx. I've already download examples explaining how to make a thesis with lyx. I'm wondering how to use pstricks with lyx. http://tug.org/PSTricks/main.cgi?file=LyX/lyx http://tug.org/PSTricks/main.cgi?file=pdf/pdfoutput

Re: Latex error on graphics insert (LyX 1.3.7)

2006-01-28 Thread Herbert Voss
Georg Baum wrote: Am Samstag, 28. Januar 2006 18:07 schrieb Herbert Voss: Georg Baum wrote: \format "pdf" "pdf" "PDF (pdflatex)" "" \format "pdf2" "pdf" "PDF (ps to pdf)" "" These are wrong! Read Pauls expl

Re: Latex error on graphics insert (LyX 1.3.7)

2006-01-28 Thread Herbert Voss
Georg Baum wrote: Am Samstag, 28. Januar 2006 17:14 schrieb Marc D.: The defaults do not seem to work under MacOSX, in that they specify xpdf rather than "open" to view files. This is probably fine if the user is using XWindows subsystem to run LyX, but not if the user wants to run LyX under th

Re: legend in koma script

2006-01-28 Thread Herbert Voss
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: but where would I find it? I went through all the help docus of lyx. LyX?? It is a KOMAScript question ... p 106 in the german doc from 202. \setcapindent{0pt} and where should I place that? In front of the legend in the figure float gives errors. in the pream

Re: legend in koma script

2006-01-28 Thread Herbert Voss
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: in a document (koma script style) I would like to change the appearance of the legend of a figure from Abbildung 1 text text text text text text text text text text text text to Abbildung 1 text text text text text text text text text text text t

Re: Latex error on graphics insert (LyX 1.3.7)

2006-01-28 Thread Herbert Voss
Georg Baum wrote: Am Freitag, 27. Januar 2006 22:07 schrieb Paul A. Rubin: In your preferences file, I found the following: \format "pdf" "pdf" "PDF (pdflatex)" "" \format "pdf2" "pdf" "PDF (ps to pdf)" "" Note that the labels for the pdf and pdf2 extensions are actually the reverse of what

Re: Latex error on graphics insert (LyX 1.3.7)

2006-01-28 Thread Herbert Voss
Marc D. wrote: I still don't understand where that line came from, since when I go to Layout->Document->Packages it says that my Postscript driver is "Default". Can I change that to something else in my preferences or lyxrc? replying to myself... In testing, I've found that if I create a NEW

Re: Latex error on graphics insert (LyX 1.3.7)

2006-01-27 Thread Herbert Voss
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: "Herbert" == Herbert Voss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Herbert> it is wrong enabling dvips when using pdflatex. This option Herbert> should _always_ be the default driver. However, this is one Herbert> of the really really obsolete opti

Re: Latex error on graphics insert (LyX 1.3.7)

2006-01-27 Thread Herbert Voss
Paul A. Rubin wrote: I ran your document with LyX 1.3.7, Win XP, MiKTeX. No matter how I MiKTeX comes with an own extended dvips driver, which is the reason why it runs with an installed MiKTeX but not with _any_ other distribution. view it, it comes out correct. I also exported to latex an

Re: Latex error on graphics insert (LyX 1.3.7)

2006-01-27 Thread Herbert Voss
Herbert Voss wrote: Marc D. wrote: I have a LaTeX -> PDF (ps to pdf) option that says: Converter: pdflatex $$i extra flag: latex Now that the homework has been handed in (manual cut and paste of images) I've posted the .lyx file to http://ryuu.ca/lyx, along with the images, in cas

Re: Latex error on graphics insert (LyX 1.3.7)

2006-01-27 Thread Herbert Voss
Marc D. wrote: I have a LaTeX -> PDF (ps to pdf) option that says: Converter: pdflatex $$i extra flag: latex Now that the homework has been handed in (manual cut and paste of images) I've posted the .lyx file to http://ryuu.ca/lyx, along with the images, in case anyone wants to see the raw so

Re: Latex error on graphics insert (LyX 1.3.7)

2006-01-27 Thread Herbert Voss
Marc D. wrote: Any suggestions on how I can go about changing the behaviour of lyx? I was unaware that I had control over the LaTeX that LyX outputs. I'm more than willing and able to read documentation, but I'd appreciate being pointed to the right chapter. what does Edit->Preferences->Outpu

Re: Latex error on graphics insert (LyX 1.3.7)

2006-01-27 Thread Herbert Voss
Stephen Harris wrote: It seems my idea about converting the .eps file to .jpg format was not the best way to proceed, but instead to use epstopdf. eps to jpg is the wrong way, convert them _always_ to pdf with epstopdf. The preamble to the LaTeX source file now looks much like the one used i

Re: Latex error on graphics insert (LyX 1.3.7)

2006-01-26 Thread Herbert Voss
Marc D. wrote: I have a file that processes fine using "PDF (ps to pdf)" option. When I insert a graphic, it then gives me a single error: LaTeX Error: Cannot determine size of graphic in /tmp/ lyx_tmpdir7937ASk7yo/ly ...van_courses_current_320_assign_a1-3b.jpg} you can not use ps2pdf and a

Re: how to left align author section?

2006-01-26 Thread Herbert Voss
Martin A. Hansen wrote: thanks, but i need to figure out how to do this with koma-script article. i need to upgrade my latex skills, but i havnt much time right now, since 1 paper and 1 phd-thesis is due in 1 week ... ifaik there is nothing in srcguien about left-aligning the author section and

Re: how to left align author section?

2006-01-26 Thread Herbert Voss
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: "Martin" == Martin A Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Martin> thanks, but i need to figure out how to do this with Martin> koma-script article. i need to upgrade my latex skills, but i Martin> havnt much time right now, since 1 paper and 1 phd-thesis is Martin> du

Re: how to left align author section?

2006-01-26 Thread Herbert Voss
Martin A. Hansen wrote: ok - almost there now i just need to adjust the distance between the authors, which is rediculously large. i am trying this, but in vain. \makeatletter \renewcommand{\and}{% % \begin{tabular} \end{tabular}% \hskip 0em [EMAIL PROTECTED] \begin{tab

Re: kerning of letters with hyphen not so great

2006-01-23 Thread Herbert Voss
Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: Hi, (thanks for your always quick and helpful answers BTW) Herbert Voss writes: 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

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

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: 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: 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

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,

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: 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: 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: 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 is for

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

2006-01-17 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
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 2

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) (./pow

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: 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: 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 -directorie

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: 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.

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: 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: 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

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 s

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 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: 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: 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: 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

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 p

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 h

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 othe

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: 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 tabular.

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,

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: 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 the

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 M\textsuperscript{

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. 2.

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