Re: How to use it?

2001-04-18 Thread Herbert Voss
Ayesha Badhwar wrote: I work in the Production Department of a scientific journal and we use Latex 2.09 for our scientific papers. Would Lyx be useful for us? yesss! :-) How can I try it out? We use Windows OS and Unix platform. go to http://www.lyx.org and choose for a first

Re: Problem at www.lyx.org?

2001-04-18 Thread Herbert Voss
"Joao B. Oliveira" wrote: I have been trying to access www.lyx.org since Monday, but there seems to be some problem in the way. The site gets contacted but the "Waiting for reply" takes forever. Any other sites I try are ok... just lyx.org is behaving strangely. Is anyone also

Re: Lyx and pdf files

2001-04-18 Thread Herbert Voss
poete stephane wrote: Yet, I still have a problem with the conversion from tex file exported from lyx tp pdf. I tried a lot of sets of options of the pdftex package, but the result of \printindex, althrough it gives good results on the ps and html outputs, still does not

Re: LyX vs. LaTeX question

2001-04-18 Thread Herbert Voss
Amir Karger wrote: I put \usepackage{cite} in the preamble of my thesis. It was working for a while, and when I loaded up the thesis this morning, it wouldn't compile. I'm getting an error for each \cite: what bibtex style? Herbert -- http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: article (koma-script) with smallest font size

2001-04-19 Thread Herbert Voss
"Jacek M. Holeczek" wrote: Hi, I need to write a small article which default font size will be the "smallest" (it produces about 75 lines per A4 page, instead of about 35 with the "default" font). I can set the "smallest" font size for a group of characters using "Layout - Character Style

Re: Help with .eps file

2001-04-19 Thread Herbert Voss
"Anna H. Pryor" wrote: Linix system running Lyx version 1.1.6fix1. I am enclosing a compressed image file (I hope that is all right!!!) that I cannot get to work correctly in either postscript or pdf. It comes up correctly in Lyx. It comes up in postscript with an error message. It does

Re: Seminar again - portrait output

2001-04-19 Thread Herbert Voss
Mark Hansel wrote: My initial error was easily fixed by telling lyx the desired orientation. I could not find a lyx approach to putting an "oval" box (rounded corners) around pages. My solution has been to create my own commands (in the prefix) and enter these througout the text in TeX

Re: I get only partial dvi/ps output

2001-04-20 Thread Herbert Voss
Christopher Jones wrote: For some reason I cannot generate complete output for one document in particular. If I print to file, view postscript or dvi, export to postscript or dvi, the displayed output stops at page four. If I view pdf or pdflatex, gs comes up, stopped at page four. If I

Re: article (koma-script) with smallest font size

2001-04-20 Thread Herbert Voss
"Jacek M. Holeczek" wrote: Hi, Many thanks to all who replied pointing me to the "extsizes" package. Using it's 8pt fontsize almost solved my problem (I installed the "extsizes" from CTAN and then added the "\usepackage[8pt]{extsizes}" to the document's "Layout - LaTeX Preamble" -

Re: article (koma-script) with smallest font size

2001-04-20 Thread Herbert Voss
"Jacek M. Holeczek" wrote: do you have layout-document-page-use package geometry button on? Yes I do. As soon as you try to modify the "Margins" LyX automatically switches "geometry package" on. Jacek. can you send a short lyx example-file which shows this behaviour? Herbert --

Re: article (koma-script) with smallest font size

2001-04-20 Thread Herbert Voss
"Jacek M. Holeczek" wrote: And you see the first page of the "Intro" with wide margins. If it matters - I use LyX Version 1.1.5fix2 on a RH6.1/i386 machine. Jacek. P.S. As soon as the 1.1.6fix2 is there I intend to switch to it. Jacek. it's not a real roblem of lyx. extsizes has to be load

Re: article (koma-script) with smallest font size

2001-04-20 Thread Herbert Voss
"Jacek M. Holeczek" wrote: \usepackage[8pt]{extsizes} \usepackage{geometry} \geometry{verbose,a4paper,tmargin=0cm,bmargin=0cm,lmargin=0cm,rmargin=0cm} for the margins write what you need. (...) Many, many thanks. Could you also, please, add this information into your nice :

Re: I get only partial dvi/ps output

2001-04-20 Thread Herbert Voss
Christopher Jones wrote: I'm using 1.1.6. The document was created in that version. No figures in the document. I haven't tried printing it on paper. I tried printing it to file and got the same stuff, so I figured priting to paper would do the same as printing to file. The line that

Re: I get only partial dvi/ps output

2001-04-20 Thread Herbert Voss
Christopher Jones wrote: I'm using 1.1.6. The document was created in that version. No figures in the document. I haven't tried printing it on paper. I tried printing it to file and got the same stuff, so I figured priting to paper would do the same as printing to file. The line that

Re: I get only partial dvi/ps output

2001-04-20 Thread Herbert Voss
Herbert Voss wrote: appearances we sense. \attrib{\cite[164]{ag}. ^^ uups! not there, but here and the end of \attrib \attrib{\cite[164]{ag}} Herbert -- http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: latex/ps figs unsing xfigs

2001-04-22 Thread Herbert Voss
Heiko Schroeder wrote: about one month ago Mahmud Shawky Elhaddad asked a *very* important question. But the answer was not posted in the mailing archive. So I would be very glad if someone of you could answer, why creating a combined latex/ps file an error occurs if you try to include

Re: tocloft changes koma-script-layout

2001-04-22 Thread Herbert Voss
Detlev Humann wrote: Hi! As my list of tables is longer than 10 entries I tried to follow Herbert Voss advice (http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/tocloft/) using "tocloft" (in lyx-preamble: \usepackage{tocloft} \addtolengt{\cftfignumwidth}{1em}) to change the lab

Re: Package Babel error

2001-04-22 Thread Herbert Voss
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: I am getting many `Package Babel error `You havent defined the language german yet .. while trying to view the dvi output, although I am using english. Same under latex runs. you can delete the entry \usepackage{babel} in edit-preferences-language-package or

Re: question

2001-04-22 Thread Herbert Voss
Leonid Kontorovich wrote: How do I make superscripts that appear DIRECTLY above a symbol (i.e., not like an exponent, which appears in the upper-right corner). For example, if I want an arrow with a symbol over it?.. have a look at

Re: article (koma-script) with smallest font size

2001-04-23 Thread Herbert Voss
Jacek M. Holeczek wrote: Your ps-files are copies of Intro.lyx. By default it's class is article and not article (koma-script). I took the same test. When I leave the Layout-Document Layout- Class - article I get proper sizes. But, it is sufficient to change it into article (koma-script)

Re: figure-reference in text differs from figure number

2001-04-25 Thread Herbert Voss
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: Dear Lyx-Seelsorger what did I do wrong: my list of figures shows correctly figure numbers numbered according to the chapters e.g. 2.6 2.7 etc however in the text it is referred to as figure 2.3.1 figure 2.3.2 I am using book style and the

Re: LongTable and MiniPage

2001-04-25 Thread Herbert Voss
Jacek M. Holeczek wrote: Hi, I've met the following problem. I would need a LongTable (Table Layout - Spec. Table - Longtable) which is inside of a MiniPage (Layout - Paragraph Environment - ParagraphExtra Layout - [Minipage + Width - 100%]). As long as I have the LongTable outside of the

Re: RTF LaTex conversion

2001-04-25 Thread Herbert Voss
Shawn Koons wrote: Is there a program that will convert RTF to LaTex (or Lyx) that would make it easier to import a document into Lyx with most of the formatting in place? http://members.home.net/setlur/rtf2latex2e/ Herbert -- http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: clearpage without empty page

2001-04-25 Thread Herbert Voss
Dekel Tsur wrote: On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 12:55:34PM -0400, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: I am getting too many unprocessed floats in a book A clearpage cures it and its ok after a chapter. However, if I insert it after a section an empty page is inserted after the figure floates have been

Re: LongTable and MiniPage

2001-04-25 Thread Herbert Voss
Jacek M. Holeczek wrote: Many thanks for your reply. This is how minipages work. Let me ask a small question on this occasion - do you mean that a minipage will NEVER be split over pages (even if it is just a long piece of text) ? Why do you need it inside a minipage? On principle

Re: uppercase

2001-04-25 Thread Herbert Voss
monty wrote: ¿there is any quick way of changing a whole document written in uppercase to lowercase?. I hope so, otherwise, i'll spend a extremly funny time doing it (it's nine pages long). a solution on the run ... export it as ascii, or copy and paste the text in an ascii-editor and save

Re: questions on figures in klyx

2001-04-26 Thread Herbert Voss
Hans Eder wrote: hi there, currently i use the latest klyx version (suse 7.1). (hope there's not a big difference to lyx...) according this i have some questions, handling figures. 1) what is the difference about 'figure float' and 'wide figure float'? over one column/over two column

Re: customization of the item command in list environment ?

2001-04-26 Thread Herbert Voss
Nabil Hathout wrote: Hello, I need to write a layout for an example environment (gb4e.sty) which is a list env but with \ex instead of \item. Is there a way to specify a item command in a layout definition ? try in latex preamble \usepackage{gb4e.sty} \let\item\ex i don't know what

Re: customization of the item command in list environment ?

2001-04-26 Thread Herbert Voss
Nabil Hathout wrote: gb4e is a set of macros for typesetting linguistic examples. I thing the solution you suggests will change all \item commands in \ex, including the ones in the itemize, enumerate... In fact, I would like that to replace \item commands by \ex only inside exe environment

Re: Lyx (forwarded to lyx-users from a German user)

2001-04-26 Thread Herbert Voss
Peter Rexigel wrote: The Windows Arial font is essentially a lightly modified copy of Helvetica. Ask your teacher if Helvetica would be an acceptable substitute. If so, in your LyX document, set Layout-Document-Fonts to helvet, and see if the output will be satisfactory. Hallo,

Re: (Was: Re: Laurent's sigfile suggestion)

2001-04-26 Thread Herbert Voss
Matej Cepl wrote: On ètvrtek 26 duben 2001 3:49 Juha Siltala wrote: This would reduce the traffic on this list by half :-) Having toubles with PostScript and postscript fonts. Trying to get working ae,aecompl package (I guess I am really addicted to Computer Modern, so pslatex doesn't

Re: displaymath equations

2001-04-27 Thread Herbert Voss
Myriam Abramson wrote: The equations in displaymath (each one on a separate line) seem to use too much space in between them. How can I control that? http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/matharray/matharray.html#space Herbert -- http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: /renewcommand doesn't always work

2001-04-27 Thread Herbert Voss
Craig Finch wrote: I am trying to call my Bibliography a List of References. I have created a custom style file based on the Report class where I use the command: \renewcommand{\bibname}{LIST OF REFERENCES} Unfortunately that doesn't work. I also tried placing it in the LaTeX

Re: /renewcommand doesn't always work

2001-04-27 Thread Herbert Voss
Guenter Milde wrote: http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/Informatik/lyx/bibtex/bibtex.html#bibname This does not work if you load any specific language package, like german. These packages overwrite all language specific commands. In this case write

Re: widows and orphans

2001-04-28 Thread Herbert Voss
Christopher Jones wrote: I have been trying Herbert Voss's solution for widow and orphan control (http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/layouts/widows.html). I tried the first solution, and I tried the second as an addition to the first, which is what I understood I was supposed to do if

Re: Structured bibliography

2001-04-29 Thread Herbert Voss
Marko Degenkolb wrote: She needs a more sophisticated/structured bibliography than lyx/tex offers as standard (see below). The bibitems themselves should be stored in bibtex files (I guess its a good idea to have an own bibtex file for each section she wants to separate in her bibliography).

Re: Can't use my new bib style

2001-04-29 Thread Herbert Voss
Praedor Tempus wrote: I used the latex tool, makebst.tex, to create a bst file called jvirol.bst. I moved the resulting file to my /usr/share/texmf/bibtex/bst/base/ directory. I then tried to use it in lyx but it doesn't work. did you run texhash to rebuild the tex-dirs? Herbert --

Re: From lyx to word

2001-04-29 Thread Herbert Voss
Praedor Tempus wrote: I know of many of the conversion apps for latex (dvi2rtf, latex2rtf, latex2html, etc) but I have been unable to use any of them to successfully transfer a lyx document to word. have a look at http://www.kfa-juelich.de/isr/1/texconv/textopc.html there are some macros

Re: Cellspacing

2001-04-30 Thread Herbert Voss
Ragnar Beer wrote: Is there a way to increase the space between text in a table and the rule above it for a whole table in one step? (I mean without using an invisible rule in each cell?) no, you need an invisible rule in ONE cell per row, not in every cell. Herbert --

Re: Cellspacing

2001-04-30 Thread Herbert Voss
Herbert Voss wrote: Ragnar Beer wrote: Is there a way to increase the space between text in a table and the rule above it for a whole table in one step? (I mean without using an invisible rule in each cell?) no, you need an invisible rule in ONE cell per row, not in every cell

Re: easier way to do this

2001-04-30 Thread Herbert Voss
Chris Green wrote: One thing I don't care for is the section summary and the subsequent indented standard regions in the article layout. I have done a style with a lot of cutting and pasting from the standard templates that does something like Style Subsection Margin

Re: easier way to do this

2001-04-30 Thread Herbert Voss
Chris Green wrote: When diving into more documentation, I was very confused because the textclass of the paragraph following the Section header was also called standard yet it was not indented so I looked around and found the NoNextIndent 1 in all the Section style definitions. Removing

Re: Long-wide table

2001-04-30 Thread Herbert Voss
Bunyamin Ozaydin wrote: I am trying to fit this table in one page. Any idea? a wide-table is only for 2 column mode. have a look at the zipped attachment. please compress all attachments in future. Herbert -- http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/ tabl2.lyx.gz

Re: caps conversion

2001-05-01 Thread Herbert Voss
Remzi Seker wrote: How can I convert a heading to caps inside LaTex Preamble? Like: \usepackage{sectsty} \subsectionfont{\mdseries\textit} makes the subsection font italic. How can I make the section heading caps (not small caps)? try the eccc font Herbert --

Re: Document containing several files and bibliographies

2001-05-01 Thread Herbert Voss
Christian Naeger wrote: Hi, I have a document which includes (via include file) several files. At the end of the (master) document should be the bibliography. How can I achieve this? When I write my bibliography in the master document, I can't reference it in the single files (as they

Re: Document containing several files and bibliographies

2001-05-01 Thread Herbert Voss
Christian Naeger wrote: I now have a file which contains only my (global) bibliography. It would be nice if I could include this file in my main document. However, trying to do so causes Lyx 1.1.6 to crash, even when the bib file is the only item in the main document. I can insert the file

Re: caps conversion

2001-05-01 Thread Herbert Voss
Remzi Seker wrote: Herbert, Do you mean the European Concrete Fonts (ECC)? Does it support 12 pts? Thanks R On Tuesday 01 May 2001 12:08, Herbert Voss wrote: Remzi Seker wrote: How can I convert a heading to caps inside LaTex Preamble? Like: \usepackage{sectsty

Re: damned table babel problems

2001-05-01 Thread Herbert Voss
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: Could somebody enlighten me. I have problems with a small table (multicolumn) delete the first table row and insert it new. than i had no problems send it all by privat mail to you Herbert -- http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/

Re: pybliographic

2001-05-02 Thread Herbert Voss
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: I am using pybliographic for lyx (the excuse for asking here) and wonder whether somebody knows how to get rid of double entries besides doing it manually. i never had such problems with pybliographic. Herbert -- http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/

Re: Antwort: Re: Prevent linebreaks and pagenumbering in TOC

2001-05-02 Thread Herbert Voss
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This works fine for the TOC, but in the normal text, the pagenumbering at even pages disappeared. I personnaly use the fancyplain facility to change headers and footers for special pages (i.e. no printing of chaptermarks in the first page of a chapter. Yous

Re: Antwort: Re: Antwort: Re: Prevent linebreaks and pagenumbering in TOC

2001-05-02 Thread Herbert Voss
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I´m sorry, but it didn´t work. There are still no pagenumbers at even pages. i'm a bit confused. do you want to have pagenumbers in the toc or not? if not: \renewcommand\thepage{} \tableofcontents% insert it via insert-lists toc

Re: Antwort: Re: Antwort: Re: Antwort: Re: Prevent linebreaks and pagenumberingin TOC

2001-05-02 Thread Herbert Voss
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I see, there was a missunderstanding: I want to avoid pagenumbering in the TOC, but afterwords at the normal text, I want to have pagenumbering. The problem is, that after avoiding the pagenumbering in the TOC, the pagenumbering at the normal text at even pages

Re: Master Documents?

2001-05-02 Thread Herbert Voss
George De Bruin wrote: I'm using LyX version 1.1.6Fix1. I have a master document that includes three files (I've tried both Article and Book class to see if it made a difference: it didn't). The includes are preceeded by a title, author and TOC. All of the include files are Article

Re: running headers

2001-05-03 Thread Herbert Voss
Ragnar Beer wrote: Howdy! I'm writing a book-style document and have the problem that if I make a chapter headline long and descriptive it doesn't fit on one line for the running headers on each page. Is there a way to have a sort of abbreviated or self defined running headers or are

Re: No HTML export

2001-05-04 Thread Herbert Voss
EagleIce wrote: Hello all! When I try to File - Export - as HTML LyX makes a TeX file instead! Why is this? Is it a bug? This is vrsion 1.1.5fix1 in SuSE 7.1. have a look at your ~/.lyx/lyxrc file for the program that converts lyx to html via tex-format and be sure that this one is

Re: Some Problems with Lyx 1.1.6 fix 1 and Suse 7.1

2001-05-04 Thread Herbert Voss
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am not able to change the settings for the float enviroment. When I try to change it in the global settings for the document it appears in where do you change this global settings? the dvi file after running latex on it like this [!htp]...but it happend nothing.

Re: No HTML export

2001-05-04 Thread Herbert Voss
EagleIce wrote: On Friday 04 May 2001 06:00, Herbert Voss wrote: EagleIce wrote: Hello all! When I try to File - Export - as HTML LyX makes a TeX file instead! Why is this? Is it a bug? This is vrsion 1.1.5fix1 in SuSE 7.1. have a look at your ~/.lyx/lyxrc file

Re: Presentations (slides) with LyX

2001-05-04 Thread Herbert Voss
Dekel Tsur wrote: I've put two examples of presentations I recently made with LyX at http://www.math.tau.ac.il/~dekelts/slides/ One presentation was created using PDFScreen and TeXPower, and the other using Prosper. very good! it might be very useful, if you could give the lyx-files for

Re: Concerning \(...\) and $...$

2001-05-04 Thread Herbert Voss
Joao B. Oliveira wrote: \abbrev {SVD] {Singular Value Decomposition} The \abbrev is ERT, as I did not manage to send two separate arguments to a LyX Style... (yes, this would solve the problem) This ERT solution works quite well, but there is a catch: many times students want to put

Re: Concerning \(...\) and $...$

2001-05-05 Thread Herbert Voss
Joao B. Oliveira wrote: Once again Herbert scores a point... I was using another form of abbreviation, including it in a .loa file: \newcommand{\abbrev}[2]{% \if@abbrlistmissing \listofabbreviations \@abbrlistmissingfalse \fi

Re: Margin note font

2001-05-05 Thread Herbert Voss
Shawn Koons wrote: How can I change the font size of all margin notes? I want all of them smaller than the main text. I am in a serious time crunch and a quick check of the manual didn't answer the question. have a look at http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/misc/marginpar.html quick

Re: Embedding IMG tag

2001-05-05 Thread Herbert Voss
Stephen Carville wrote: I use LyX to maintain my Network and UNIX systems documentation and latex2html to convert to HTML for publication on the NOC web server. Now that I'm used to a couple of foibles of LyX and the notion of WYSIWYM, this combination saves me a ridiculous amount of time

Re: Embedding IMG tag

2001-05-06 Thread Herbert Voss
Stephen Carville wrote: On Sat, 5 May 2001, Matej Cepl wrote: - I am not user of LaTeX2HTML, but I am certain that it is possible to - use some special code, which is ommited by LaTeX and read by - LaTeX2HTML. With tth, I can write I thought so too. A few years back, when I started

Re: \mbox containing blanks in math mode?

2001-05-07 Thread Herbert Voss
James Brusey wrote: I'm trying to format a formula of the form: { y if y 0 x = { { z + y otherwise (see bottom p. 47 of Leslie Lamport's Latex book (2nd ed).) Although I can manage to insert an \mbox in math mode, I can't put any (normal) spaces in

Re: apa.layout and apa.cls and \caption

2001-05-07 Thread Herbert Voss
Chris Kuklewicz wrote: Looking at the apa.cls documentation, it clains to have a \caption command. But apa.layout indicates this is Senseless, and the command generates errors. Anyone know what is the real story? Anyone know what the 'Right Way' to do a caption is in apa.cls? i

Re: menu shortcuts dont work in 1.1.6fix1

2001-05-07 Thread Herbert Voss
Guenter Milde wrote: I think we had this topic some time ago, but then I still shunned upgrading (just becouse of the troubles with 1.1.6) but now I have done it and the menu shortcuts don't work. I found them disabled in de-menus.bind and remember that this should be handled by xforms

Re: unable to find Xforms adequate version to compile Lyx under RH7.1

2001-05-07 Thread Herbert Voss
Marco wrote: plz, can u help me? ftp://ftp.sylvan.com/pub/lyx/ Herbert -- http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/

Re: Lyx 1.1.6finx1: math-mode - mathtt{i}

2001-05-07 Thread Herbert Voss
Juan Ramon Rico wrote: I have a little problem when I use math-mode with i vovel. The accent is over de i and we can see de point over i and the accent over i, too. Is it possible to see í, only? try in tex (red) $\textit{\'i}$ for italic or $\texttt{í}$ for typewriter. same works in

Re: abstract in koma-script

2001-05-08 Thread Herbert Voss
Tuukka Toivonen wrote: I want abstract with koma-script article. So i write a paragraph and set it to Abstract style. The word Abstract appears in LyX window, but it does _not_ appear in postscript output. So there's something wrong here. there is nothing wrong ... read the doc of

Re: \mbox containing blanks in math mode?

2001-05-08 Thread Herbert Voss
James Brusey wrote: On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 05:30:45PM +0300, Dekel Tsur wrote: On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 11:03:09AM +1000, James Brusey wrote: Hello, I'm trying to format a formula of the form: { y if y 0 x = { { z + y otherwise

Re: menu shortcuts dont work in 1.1.6fix1

2001-05-08 Thread Herbert Voss
Guenter Milde wrote: On Mon, 07 May 2001 18:05:41 +0200 wrote Herbert Voss [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Guenter Milde wrote: I think we had this topic some time ago, but then I still shunned upgrading (just becouse of the troubles with 1.1.6) but now I have done it and the menu

Re: paragraph indent by 1cm?

2001-05-09 Thread Herbert Voss
Osvaldo Fornaro wrote: Hi, I need to indent the firs line of all standard paragraphs by 1 cm (default is approx 0.5 cm). What is the variable to fix this value? in preamble \AtBeginDocument{\setlength{\parindent}{1cm}} Herbert -- http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/

Re: Concerning \(...\) and $...$

2001-05-09 Thread Herbert Voss
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Joao == Joao B Oliveira [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Joao Hi! I have a question that starts as a TeX question, but ends up Joao at LyX: Joao After producing quite acceptable .layout and .cls files for our Joao students, someone needed a List of Abbreviations.

Re: page numbers

2001-05-09 Thread Herbert Voss
Shawn Koons wrote: How can I eliminate a page number on the first page, use small case Roman numerals on the next few pages and start regular numbers on the main body of text. I have a title page with a page break, then the TOC, then another page break, then the main body of text. I

Re: Different numbering for chemical reaction and numerical equation

2001-05-09 Thread Herbert Voss
Andreas Döring wrote: During writing my thesis I ran into this problem: I use chemical reactions and numerical equations in the text. The problem is, to number the different equations in a different way, like: 1+1=2(2.1) 1+2=3(2.2) but for chemical

Re: margin settings per page

2001-05-09 Thread Herbert Voss
Nick DeClario wrote: I keep getting Undefined control sequence... Also, will this change just the text length or all margins? I guess what I want to do is take all my current margins, top, left, right, bottom which are all set to 1in and reduce them to 0in for this one page, which

Re: math environments

2001-05-09 Thread Herbert Voss
Andre Poenitz wrote: Would anybody please help: I need a (more or less complete) list of math environments together with some description of their special properties. Something like: -- $...$- inlined \(...\) - inlined

Re: math environments

2001-05-09 Thread Herbert Voss
Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: Andre Poenitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | $...$- inlined | \(...\) - inlined differs from $...$ by ??? | |The $ are PROTECTED environments, and \( is unprotected. That |means that strange things may happen to the arguments of

Re: math environments

2001-05-10 Thread Herbert Voss
Andre Poenitz wrote: Does \mbox{$...$} come in the list ? No. Should it? The list is for things that mathed needs to read unexpectedly. The \mbox{$...$} should appear in an \newcommand definition, so we are prepared somehow (although I am not sure whether it would work right now)

Re: appendix

2001-05-10 Thread Herbert Voss
Remzi Seker wrote: How do I get an appendix field in report koma-script style? what do you mean with appendix field? Herbert -- http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/

Re: Pound Symbol

2001-05-10 Thread Herbert Voss
Annatjie Bezuidenhout wrote: This is Annatjie Bezuidenhout, I am knew to Lyx and would like to aske you where do I find the pound symbol. This program is realy the best. Thanks to you and all the other developers. My e-mail adress is: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hope to hear from you soon.

Re: appendix

2001-05-10 Thread Herbert Voss
Remzi Seker wrote: Appendix field that is like abstract and that also appears in TOC... I used add chapter in report koma-script, but I don't know if this is the proper thing to do, since page numbering might be different for appendix. \appendix\addcontentsline{toc}{section}{Appendix}

Re: math environments

2001-05-10 Thread Herbert Voss
i summarized the euqationstuff with examples. the text is written with hot needles, the examples should be ok. http://www.perce.de/lyx/equations.pdf (about 70kB) Herbert -- http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/

Re: Numbering a figure as an equation

2001-05-10 Thread Herbert Voss
Kevin Gross wrote: Hi, I have a picture (eps format) of a chemical reaction that I would like to enter in the text as if it were a labeled equation. I want the chemical reaction labeled in sequence with the other equations, most of which are actual math. Here is an example of what I

Re: Lyx and tmp-dir

2001-05-10 Thread Herbert Voss
Thorsten Grohte wrote: Hey, I am using Lyx 1.1.6fix1 with Suse Linux 7.1. When I worked with Lyx, Lyx is sometimes not able to delete his files in /tmp. Lyx says, that it can't delete them because they doesent't exist. So I have to kill the process. what do you have in

Re: math fonts in foiltex

2001-05-11 Thread Herbert Voss
Bruce Veidt wrote: I have been following Allan Rae's presentations based on foiltex (http://www.devel.lyx.org/~rae/) to make my own presentations. It is easy to do and the results are very nice. One little problem though. The text font used is sans serif and the math font (both text

Re: Chemical substance in LaTeX

2001-05-11 Thread Herbert Voss
Mitrana Cristian wrote: Hello lyxers, I am trying to write a figure with some chemical substances, something like : _ / \\ \\_/ and I was wondering if there is some (exotic) package available for this kind of figures.If not, I'll have to draw iy myself, but I was hoping somebody

Re: Chemical substance in LaTeX

2001-05-11 Thread Herbert Voss
of the chemical equations. Thanks anyway, to you and Mr. Herbert Voss for the reply. I have no idea about chemistry (since my schooldays ... ;-) but the following picture take only two minutes. one of them for installing chemtex.sty the code was in tex(red) \initial \parbox{.3\textwidth}{\hetisix{Q

Re: Two definitions after each other

2001-05-12 Thread Herbert Voss
Otto Tronarp wrote: Hi, how can I have two definitions after eachother in AMS-article. I wan't to have somthing like this: Definition 1. My 1st definition Definition 2. My 2nd definition If i just press enter after my 1st definition I just continue to write in the 1st environment so

Re: Package

2001-05-12 Thread Herbert Voss
Mitrana Cristian wrote: Hello, I got some package from the CTAN archive ( .dtx,.ins files) and the questions is : how can I make them available for lyx ? Tried to move the .sty files obtained to /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/{package_name}/ but that did not worked. cd packagedir latex

Re: Query Simple

2001-05-12 Thread Herbert Voss
Goffredo wrote: Hi All, I have been a happy user of LyX for a while. I even write my thesis in LyX. Now this is my problem ... my University has a standard LaTex style for research theses, and I wonder how easy or how I can take that style and create a LyX equivalent for it ... Can

Re: pretty-printing XML

2001-04-26 Thread Herbert Voss
Beyer, Marcus wrote: Dear Users, until now I always used listings.sty to pretty-print my source code. This always worked very well for Java etc. Now I have XML-documents, but listings doesn't seem to support that (I cannot find the string XML in

Re: diameter symbol in lyx 1.1.5

2001-05-13 Thread Herbert Voss
Wolfgang Kilian wrote: hello all you freaks, i tried to crate a diameter symbol (/o on each oterh) in lyx 1.1.5.fix1. What i did was in math mode a '\not o' and in lyx it seemd to be ok. But in PS it looked like '/o'. Schould i write the complete math mode in red ie: package wasysym

Re: \not\parallel - \nparallel

2001-05-13 Thread Herbert Voss
Wolfgang Kilian wrote: Hello again me, sorry but I've again a simple problem. In a tex-book I've written that there is a command \nparallel, Due to the fact that the symbol which is createt with '\not\parallel' in math mode (lyx 1.1.5.fix1) does not loo like it should. But when I use the

Re: numbering theorems

2001-05-13 Thread Herbert Voss
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Lyx'rs 1. How can I number theorems? 2. How can I number theorems by section? look at the eamble-file: http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/data/algorithm.lyx Herbert -- http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/

Re: Umlaute in formula

2001-05-15 Thread Herbert Voss
Jörg Haug wrote: How can I use german Umlaute (ä, ö, ü) in a formula ? http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/mathstuff/mathtext.html -- http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/

Re: BibTeX references as a Part*

2001-05-15 Thread Herbert Voss
Thomas de Grenier de Latour wrote: Hi, I'm using BibTeX in an article (language: frenchb) and I would like the generated references to appear like a real Part* of the document, I mean to see References in a font larger than the sections names one. Is it possible ? for class article in

Re: Cross-reference between multiple files

2001-05-15 Thread Herbert Voss
Rob van der Leek wrote: Hello list, I'm building a document of multiple files (chapters). In one chapter i want to cross reference a section of another chapter... So, I open chapter X, insert-Cross Reference, switch documents (Documents-chapterY.lyx) and... well nothing after that because

Re: figure float with caption next to image

2001-05-15 Thread Herbert Voss
Peter Suetterlin wrote: Hi all, As the subject tells, I'm trying to get a (wide) figure float with a caption that is next to the image, not above or below. In LaTeX I'd do that like \begin{figure*} \begin{minipage}[b]{0.66\textwidth}

Re: figure float with caption next to image

2001-05-15 Thread Herbert Voss
Peter Suetterlin wrote: Yes, works fine now with one exception: I cannot use the full \textwidth for sizing the minipage. I have a two-column layout, and LyX automatically uses \columnwidth (and doesn't allow me to use more than 100%). Would be nice to have the choice here, too, like

<    8   9   10   11   12   13   14   15   16   17   >