Re: Tuning Description

2000-10-11 Thread Herbert Voss
Chris Schulbert wrote: I'm doing my bibliography manually, no use of bibtex, cause I already had the list in ascii-form. So I include the file to my lyx-doc and change the env. to description, which is what I prefer for layout. BUT: Description sets all items bold. Is there a way to having

Re: initial enumerate counter value

2000-10-14 Thread Herbert Voss
Lior Silberman wrote: Hello, I'd like to have an enumerate environment, starting the count from 5 (rather than 1). The LaTeX effect I'd like to have is: \begin{enumerate} \setcounter{enumi}{5} \item My First Item \item My Second Item \end{enumerate} But in LyX, if I put ERT in

Re: displaystyle for frac

2000-10-16 Thread Herbert Voss
Alberto Meroni wrote: I have the following behavior which is not normal according to me with lyx version 15fix1 but also 12 (the machine is a Linux debian potato). I have a matrix in math displaystyle and one of the cell is a frac which I would like to have in displaystyle. If I export the

Re: Using bibtopic.sty with LyX?

2000-10-16 Thread Herbert Voss
"Jürgen Spitzmüller" wrote: So the miniscript to use bibtopic with LyX (saved as "bibtex" in ~/bin) looks like this (for four bibliography topics): #!/bin/bash /usr/bin/bibtex $1%% -- starts bibtex file /usr/bin/bibtex $1"1"%% -- starts bibtex file1

Re: exam.layout

2000-10-17 Thread Herbert Voss
Jonathan Pennington wrote: Attached are my .lyx file that's failing and the exam.layout that I'm working on. (There was a lot of cutting and pasting, so all of the styles currently look the same, that'll be changed.) as JMarc said, no problem. is it right, that your exam.layout has no

Re: Maple Style

2000-10-17 Thread Herbert Voss
Torsten Hahn wrote: Hello, i have to include some code from the CAS Maple in my thesis. Some latex style files (maple.sty , ...) are supplied with this software. I have trouble to get this things working. I copied the *.sty files somwhere in the tetex directory-tree (e.g. into

Re: enumeration depth

2000-10-18 Thread Herbert Voss
Staffan Ringbom wrote: Hi, The default enumeration style in lyx is [(1)], [(a)],, [(i)] "number, letter, i" something like this 1. a i b i ii 2. Would like to skip the first level and get directly to the second enumeration depth as default. Is

Re: header spacing

2000-10-19 Thread Herbert Voss
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Hello again, Sorry, but I have another LaTex related question. I'm writing a document with onehalf spacing. But to me, the headings (chapter, section etc.) don't look very nice this way. So I want to set them to single spacing. At the moment, I'm using the

Re: LOF and LOT in one chapter

2000-10-19 Thread Herbert Voss
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Hello out there! This is a LaTeX-related question, but maybe someone has an idea... I'd like to have the List of Figures and the List of Tables in one chapter (in the appendix), like this: D. List of Figures and Tables 1. Figures ...

Re: displaystyle in LyX

2000-10-19 Thread Herbert Voss
manuel madrigal wrote: Hi, I'm using \displaystyle in a fraction by using LyX. I save this file, test.lyx, which part of it is like that: \layout Standard \begin_inset Formula \[ \frac{\displaystyle \sum _{1}^{2}x}{y}\] \end_inset \the_end I close and load test.lyx, but

Re: Change line space in a list

2000-10-20 Thread Herbert Voss
"Ramón Flores d'as Seixas" wrote: Hello: Is it an easy way to modify the line space in a list (enumerate or itemize enviroment) ? When using an enumerate enviroment I obtain something like: 1. Item one 2. Item two 3. Item three But I want the lines be separated with

Re: Quick formatting question... no time to read help

2000-10-23 Thread Herbert Voss
Christopher wrote: Hey. How do I get a series of underscores to show up as a solid line and not just a series of underscores? \underline{\hspace{1cm}} Herbert -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://perce.de/lyx/

[Fwd: lyx-1.1.5fix2 update for SuSe7.0]

2000-10-23 Thread Herbert Voss
astrid wrote: Dear lyx users, I am running SuSe7.0 and was working wiht lyx1.1.4p3-26. From the lyx-user-group I got the hint, that there is a rpm package of lyx-1.1.5fix2 at http://hippokrates.jura.uni-mannheim.de/lyx for SuSe7.0. So I did download this file and installed it with

Re: grey background in equations

2000-10-23 Thread Herbert Voss
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HEllo For some reason when I do an export as html all my formulas end up with a grey background. look at the unser-manual, pages 21ff there must be a \htmlimage{transparent} - command. the maual is in \usr\share\doc\packages\l2h\doc may be that you have to build

Re: how can I insert a return in a command-sequence ?

2000-10-24 Thread Herbert Voss
Nabil Hathout wrote: Hello, My question is in the subject. Thank you for your help. Regards, use a double-backslash \\ Herbert -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://perce.de/lyx/

Re: Table cells...

2000-10-24 Thread Herbert Voss
Adrian Ball wrote: Dear all, Sorry for asking yet another question (give me a few months to become more expert, and I'll start contributing as well)... I'm trying to create tables like the following:- have a look at /usr/share/lyx/examples/TableExamples.lyx mabe that the

Re: Lyx1.15fix2, bibtex

2000-10-24 Thread Herbert Voss
Oliver Eichler wrote: Hi Lyx1.15fix2 will generate this tex code when using bibtex: ... \begin{lyxlist}{00.00.} \item [\bibliographystyle{plain} \bibliography{oeichler} ]~\end{lyxlist} ... This does not translate! However this does compile if I change it to:

Re: how can I insert a return in a command-sequence ?

2000-10-24 Thread Herbert Voss
Nabil Hathout wrote: Thank you the response, but what I would like is to insert 3 paragraphs in a command-sequence (a template of list with labelled items). i don't really understand your problem, but maybe that ctrl-return is what you need? Herbert -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Itemize in Enumerate, how to ?

2000-10-24 Thread Herbert Voss
Aleksandr Konstantinov wrote: Hello I want to write following in LyX (using lix1.1.4): 1. Enumerated string 1 * Itemized string 1 * Itemized string 2 Continuation of enumerated string 1 2. Enumerated strig 2 ... have a look at

Re: Maybe a bug? (overwritten text)

2000-10-25 Thread Herbert Voss
Tuukka Toivonen wrote: On Wed, 25 Oct 2000, Chris Schulbert wrote: BUT: If your (-2ex-vertical skip) list reaches the end of the page AND you've got some footnotes on that page, they will crash somewhat with the list-text. Maybe this is a bug? Don't know, if its a LyX or LateX-Problem.

Re: 3 cols Index List

2000-10-25 Thread Herbert Voss
Marek Woloszyk wrote: Hi! How to make 3-cols index list to... \usepackage{multicol} in latex preamble in text: \begin{multicols}{3} insert-TOC/Lists-index list \end{multicols} Herbert -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://perce.de/lyx/

Re: 3 cols Index List

2000-10-26 Thread Herbert Voss
Marek Woloszyk wrote: Hi! How to make 3-cols index list to... \usepackage{multicol} in latex preamble in text: \begin{multicols}{3} insert-TOC/Lists-index list \end{multicols} It is not work properly... This is good for "Table of Contents"... ok, try this in

Re: Spelling mistake - 3rd attempt

2000-10-26 Thread Herbert Voss
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the document using figure-floats. The captions look like "Figure 3.4:" on screen, but when printed, they all come out "Fogure 3.4:", etc. This is the case in .dvi and .ps. References to figures in the main text are OK, as is the "List of Figures" at the beginning of

Re: Figures side by side

2000-10-27 Thread Herbert Voss
Torsten Mueller wrote: Hallo, I would like to put two figures side by side in a float. I have already done this for subfigues where it works fine. Is it possible to do it with figures (I need a separate caption)? have a look at

Re: Which package?

2000-10-30 Thread Herbert Voss
German Poo Caaman~o wrote: I need to make some binary divisions, writing somehing like that: etc. (the numbers in my exampe are random). And polinoms divisions: Are there a package that could simplify this? I do this with the eqnarray-environment. look at

Re: Fancy letterheadings

2000-10-30 Thread Herbert Voss
robert wrote: I want to make a standard letter , which includes a company logo top left, followed by the company details in the rest of two header lines. Obviously this is just needed on the first page of any letter. Since this seems such a normal way of doing things, I thought I would be

Re: Subscript/Superscript

2000-10-30 Thread Herbert Voss
Mark Derricutt wrote: Hi, I'm not sub'd to the list so could you please reply to my email addy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). How can I put some text into subscript/superscript using lyx? I had hoped there would be something under the character formatting options but I can't see anything - I

Re: bottom middle of word

2000-10-31 Thread Herbert Voss
Myriam Abramson wrote: How can you have a letter in the bottom middle of a word. I don't know exactly how to articulate it. For example, "argmax" loops over a variable and that variable is written underneath. How do you accomplish that? $\stackrel{\textrm{argmax}}{\alpha}$ in mathmode

Re: source code

2000-11-02 Thread Herbert Voss
Nicolas Michael wrote: Hi! I need to put some source code into a lyx document. I could do this using lyx-code but this is not enough: I need to put some letters ("A","B",...) in front of some of the source code lines so I can refer to a certain lines more easily. To do this I need

Re: Norvegian 'striped' o

2000-11-02 Thread Herbert Voss
Dirk De Bruyker wrote: Hi, I want to include a Norvegian striped letter 'o' in my lyx-document (sounding like the German umlauted 'o' I presume) but I didn't find any accent lyx-command corresponding to this. Maybe I overlooked it but I didn't find it in the manual or the archives.

Re: Umlaut in formula

2000-11-03 Thread Herbert Voss
Andre Poenitz wrote: Just write (in LaTeX-mode \"a or \"u or whatever you need to get umlauted... another way is to switch over to text-in-formula-mode (toggle the math-button) and type the ü or ä directly (sorry for the umlauts to all the non-Germans) or type M-c-r and you are able to

Re: Umlaut in formula

2000-11-03 Thread Herbert Voss
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: "Andre" == Andre Poenitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It should be perfectly equivalent to what told in the previous message, anyway, and this is why I'm curious. Andre It seems to be a LaTeX-Problem: Andre \documentclass{article} \begin{document} $ {\rm

Re: new float

2000-11-03 Thread Herbert Voss
"R. E. de Lima-Lopes" wrote: Hi... In my thesis a need a new kind of float (besides tables or figures), which should be called "messages". Those floats must have its own numbering (changing from chapter to chapter) and list (at the thesis beggining). in latex preamble

Re: making a directory

2000-11-04 Thread Herbert Voss
Peter Suetterlin wrote: Christopher wrote: Ok, everyone, bear with me. I need to make a directory of phone numbers. Here's how I want to do it: 8.5X11 sheets folded into one another (so I will be printing landscape). So the sheets will be printed as follows: Sheet1(inside)

Re: Feature suggestion: figure float auto labelled

2000-11-04 Thread Herbert Voss
Emanuele Gissi Alessia Franceschi wrote: One idea: the floats could be implicitly labelled. The most part of my floats have a label, I don't know if this is common usage. My label tag always is something like "fig: text" or "tab: text", with text corresponding to the caption of the float.

Re: Figure and Eq. numbers

2000-11-05 Thread Herbert Voss
Mohammad Reza Danesh wrote: Hi, I'm a beginner with Lyx, so I apologize if this is an easy question. I have a master document plus several chapters inserted in it. Now in each chapter, I have several figures and equations and I want them to be numbered as "Chapter#-Fig#), for example

Re: Removing the word References from a Bibliography section

2000-11-05 Thread Herbert Voss
On Sun, 5 Nov 2000, Paul Lussier wrote: I'm trying to write some documentation for my site, and I want to use citation references through out the document but don't want to have a "References" section per se. What I want is a "Section" listed "Addition Documentation" with subsections

Re: Problem with formatting a matrix

2000-11-06 Thread Herbert Voss
Paolo Marcheschi wrote: Hi I'd like to know how to insert a Large matrix in the text without make the output over the sheet: I Attached the document. look at it ... Herbert -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://perce.de/lyx/ #LyX 1.1 created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/

Re: Space in indexes between numbers and titles

2000-11-06 Thread Herbert Voss
Emanuele Gissi Alessia Franceschi wrote: I have got a little problem: at the end of my document both chapter numbers and figure numbers have 2 digits, as in chapter 15 figure 37. In the "List of figures" the figure captions almost overlap their numbers (example 15.37). I attach the PS file

List of Figures

2000-11-07 Thread Herbert Voss
with package tocloft and \addtolength{\cftfignumwidth}{2em} you can increase the space of the fignumber Herbert

Re: Error in seminar class?

2000-11-07 Thread Herbert Voss
Sarah Mount wrote: Apologies if this has already been discussed... I've been trying to use the Seminar document class, but get "Missing \begin{document}" errors, no matter what I do! I'm running LyX v1.1.5fix2. Any ideas, anyone? from my point of view, the error must be located in your

Re: BiBTeX troubles -- Want anybody know, what's wrong?

2000-11-07 Thread Herbert Voss
Matej Cepl wrote: I am certain, that entry drobak:FNI-1997 is present, but BibTeX cannot find it. What's wrong? And what's even more surprising, that everything is OK in DVI output. i tried your bibtex-file but i had some problem with czech-option in some entries. you can test a bibtex-file

Re: Thank you and another question

2000-11-08 Thread Herbert Voss
I have another question is it possible to increase the font size to 14 , the Max is 12 actually . hava look at http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/extsizes.html Herbert -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://perce.de/lyx/

Re: Math eqs display problem

2000-11-08 Thread Herbert Voss
On Wed, 8 Nov 2000, Min-Ho Kyung wrote: My problem is no screen display of some frequently used math symbols such as \sum, \int, and "-". I think this is due to some screen font missing. did you start mathstuff writing with alt-m-m or alt-m-d? in this math-boxes you'll see all the symbols.

Re: Vertical Space smaller then Length

2000-11-09 Thread Herbert Voss
Marek Wo³oszyk wrote: Hi ! How to change Vertical Space ? I would like to have smaller then Verical Space = Length... what kind of vertical space do you mean? the line spacing? Herbert -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://perce.de/lyx/

Re: Available document classes

2000-11-10 Thread Herbert Voss
Emanuele Olivetti wrote: Hi, many people in my Linux User Group ask me about other document classes than those present in 1.1.5fix2 version of LyX. Is there a list (or, can we set up one now) of all document class available? I'm looking through the user-list mail archive to get some

Re: Vertical Space smaller then Length

2000-11-10 Thread Herbert Voss
Marek Wo³oszyk wrote: Marek Wo³oszyk wrote: Hi ! How to change Vertical Space ? I would like to have smaller then Verical Space = Length... what kind of vertical space do you mean? the line spacing? Yes... I would like to have smaller then ZERO:minimal size

Re: change font for section env

2000-11-11 Thread Herbert Voss
Ronny Haryanto wrote: Hi everyone, Is it possible to change just the font used for the Section environment in a document? I'm using the default font for an article document, however I want to use sans serif for the section titles. I'm guessing that I should add something like

Re: splash screen

2000-11-12 Thread Herbert Voss
Andre Berger wrote: How can I get rid of the startup splash screen? If I open the Newfile dialog before it's gone, it will cover the dialog. in ~/.lyx/lyxrc show_banner=false Herbert -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://perce.de/lyx/

Re: listings

2000-11-12 Thread Herbert Voss
Torsten Hahn wrote: Hi, i use the listngs - package to typset sourcecode in my documents. the Problem is, that it does not do a pagebreak in the case that the code is longer than one page. I use the following (in LaTEX style):

Re: Trouble with a newly created document

2000-11-12 Thread Herbert Voss
"Walter H. van Holst" wrote: Hello all, I am in the process of writing a thesis and I have decided to use Lyx for this purpose. However, as soon as I use the File-View DVI menu, an error message appears telling me that there are multiple errors in my document. All these errors are as

Re: listings

2000-11-12 Thread Herbert Voss
Torsten Hahn wrote: \usepackage[breaklines]{listings} that's all I do this already, but this breakes only the lines which are to long to fit on the page (if they are longer than the page-width). I need to break at the bottom end of the page, not at the right. sorry, i should have

Re: listings

2000-11-12 Thread Herbert Voss
Torsten Hahn wrote: i use the listngs - package to typset sourcecode in my documents. the Problem is, that it does not do a pagebreak in the case that the code is longer than one page. I use the following (in LaTEX style):

Re: making a directory (new question)

2000-11-13 Thread Herbert Voss
Christopher wrote: Thanks for the heads up on psutils. But I'm having trouble figuring out how to use them. This is what I have done: I have each "page" saved to a single file. Now I need to cat i.e. first and last into one file for printing it as a single sheet to be folded and stapled.

Re: floatingfigure

2000-11-13 Thread Herbert Voss
Nicolas Michael wrote: Hello! I want to have a grey box (area with grey background). In this box I want to have a small icon (top left) and text right next to it (floating around it, not only starting at the bottom of the icon). I tried the following: \begin{cminipage}[lightgrey]

Re: bold greek/math characters

2000-11-14 Thread Herbert Voss
On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, Keith Hamilton wrote: I find LyX essential to my work, it's great, thankyou . At the minute I'm writing a paper and I can't seem to make greek letters bold in math-mode. Can this be fixed? this belongs latex! have a look at

Re: document margins

2000-11-14 Thread Herbert Voss
Paolo Marcheschi wrote: Hi Icannot make the margins to 3.3 cm up 3.3 cm down 4.5 cm left 3.3 cm right with extarticle How to do it layout-page-button geometry package and than put your margins in the textareas. Herbert -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://perce.de/lyx/

Re: Learning LaTeX, where do I begin?

2000-11-15 Thread Herbert Voss
Paul Lussier wrote: Hi all, I've been using LyX for quite some time now (since pre-1.0 days) and I absolutely love it. However, in using it, I've gotten the distinct feeling that I'd appreciate it even more if I knew LaTeX itself. I guess it has to do with my insatiable curiosity about

Re: form document

2000-11-15 Thread Herbert Voss
Alberto Meroni wrote: SOrry to ask such a stupid thing but how can I create a form document with underlined space to fill, box to check and so on? I need it for a school test document. \underline{\hspace{3cm}} is for example a line of 3cm for checkboxes and other symbols look at wasysym

Re: Customizing Chapter

2000-11-16 Thread Herbert Voss
I want to change the appearance of Chapter. I am using report class to write my thesis. So, how can I customize lyx/latex from : Chapter 1 Introduction to : Chapter 1 Introduction

Re: Float-Tabellen...

2000-11-16 Thread Herbert Voss
please write in english, because it's an english mailing list. Frank Voss wrote: habe folgendes Problem: Ich möchte eine Float-LongTable erstellen, es wird aber kein automatischer Seitenumbruch eingefügt. Auch ein erzwungener Seitenumbruch in einer Float-LongTable bringt nicht das erhoffte

Re: zapisvane

2000-11-16 Thread Herbert Voss
Rosen wrote: subscribe write a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to subscribe Herbert -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://perce.de/lyx/

Re: how to prevent a page break?

2000-11-17 Thread Herbert Voss
Christopher Jones wrote: I'd like latex not to split a paragraph environment at the end of a page. Zum Beispiel, I'd like the "address" environment, which has protected breaks separating lines of the address, not to break up the record. \nopagebreak in tex (red) write between the two

Re: outside paragraph

2000-11-18 Thread Herbert Voss
Rosen wrote: Hi While using LyX I noticed something strange. Simple article class, paper size A4 with very small margins and some paragraphs with text. The paragrhs are with block alignement. That is OK. When I go to .dvi or .ps previewer, sometimes the text goes outside the block

Re: footnotes in figure-captions

2000-11-18 Thread Herbert Voss
"Sperle, Christoph" wrote: Hi all, is it possible to put a footnote into the caption of a figure? yes, but when it's part of a float it makes no sense, because the footnote can't float like a figure. have a look at http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/footnotes.html#footcaptions

Re: Presentation / large fonts

2000-11-18 Thread Herbert Voss
Thomas Adamek wrote: The problem with article class or some other normal class are too small fonts. LyX doesn't let me select over 12 point fonts, how could I do that? "Seminar" can be used in Lyx ? That sounds interesting to me. And how do I bring it into lyx?

Re: BibTex question

2000-11-19 Thread Herbert Voss
Mohammad Reza Danesh wrote: When I add citation references, they appear in Bibliography section in the order which I inserted them. I would like to have my Bibliography ordered alphabetically (based on the first author's last name). How should I approach this? The reference numbers in the

Re: BibTex question

2000-11-20 Thread Herbert Voss
Mohammad Reza Danesh wrote: "ieeetr" is my BibTex style. When I put the \cite*, still the referenced citings come at the beginning of the Bibliography. sorry, i meant \nocite* and ieeetr gives a sorted bib for me. Herbert -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://perce.de/lyx/

Re: Chapter and Headers?

2000-11-21 Thread Herbert Voss
Reiner Emmerling wrote: Hi all, i'm writing my thesis in book-class in lyx1.1.5fix2 and have two problems regarding headers and titles of chapters. First one is, that i get for a pre-chapter (chapter*-Format), which is located between the table of figures and the real first chapter

Re: Chapter and Headers?

2000-11-22 Thread Herbert Voss
Mohammad Reza Danesh wrote: I used the following preamble in my book class document to add the bibliography section to my TOC, and LyX returned the following error: "Tex capacity exceeded, sorry [input stack size=300]. \begin{thebibliography}{10} i suppose that there's a

Re: curriculum vitae

2000-11-24 Thread Herbert Voss
On 24 Nov 2000, Andre Berger wrote: Is there a template/layout for curricula vitae anywhere? http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/templates.php#cv it's the one from Jean-Marc Herbert

Re: curriculum vitae

2000-11-24 Thread Herbert Voss
http://www-rocq.inria.fr/~lasgoutt/lyx/cv-1.3.tar.gz and a special class with no linebreak in the topic-environment: http://www-rocq.inria.fr/~lasgoutt/cv.cls Herbert

Re: Long table, caption

2000-11-24 Thread Herbert Voss
Arnd Geldermann wrote: Hallo Lyxers, I' am using a long table, all in all is longer than 1 page. I'am right that i couldn't use a float? But I need a caption with the right no. of the table. How can I deal with lyx features to solve the problem or do I need lyx code? have a look at

Re: LyX for gnuplot?

2000-11-24 Thread Herbert Voss
Matt Bandy wrote: A fellow from Mexico has written a Tcl/Tk front-end called unignuplot. http://unicalculus.sourcefiorge.net ^ it has to be http://unicalculus.sourceforge.net Herbert -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://perce.de/lyx/

Re: BibTex and Latex on LyX

2000-11-21 Thread Herbert Voss
Vinicius Provenzano wrote: I have here with me a Latex file and a BibTex file. With source run they compile just ok. Is it possible to make Lyx understand that it has to search for references on the BibTex file? put the cursor right there where you like to insert the bibliography. than

Re: Ordinal numerals

2000-11-25 Thread Herbert Voss
Matej Cepl wrote: Hi, just a question from typohgraphy -- how much binding is use of superscript of {st,nd,th} of ordinal numerals (in name of century for example)? Or is it better to use normal-size fonts? I have already prepared \noth macro \newcommand{\noth}{$^{\mathrm{th}}$}

Re: Ordinal numerals

2000-11-25 Thread Herbert Voss
have already prepared \noth macro \newcommand{\noth}{$^{\mathrm{th}}$} but I am now not sure, whether it is right to use it all. May anybody help me? i prefer newcommand\noth{\raisebox{-1ex}{\footnotesize th}} sorry, but this subscript, choose {+1ex} for superscript Herbert

Re: New documentclass in Lyx

2000-11-26 Thread Herbert Voss
Bronek Baraniecki wrote: Hi, The question for me is how to force Lyx to accept and incorporate documentclasses, which are not standard in LaTeX but are very suitable for polish language, my native, I am writing in. These are "mwcls" classes including book, article, report, letter. Look

Re: arccot and arcsec

2000-11-27 Thread Herbert Voss
Erik Hovland wrote: Anyone know how to get lyx to print arccot and arcsec. I tried \arccot in math mode and it sprouted a latex error. I worked around it by just changing the type face to the typeface formulas like sin and cos use and then typed in arccot. Looks ok, but I figured I would

Re: error with very long figure legend

2000-11-28 Thread Herbert Voss
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: I have a long figure legend (44 lines). If I view it as postscript, an error occurs: Dimensions too large text where the error is} I can´t work with sizes bigger than about 19 feet. Apparently the legend is too large. If I cut away the last three lines it

Re: announce lyx-1.1.6pre2

2000-11-28 Thread Herbert Voss
"Lars Gullik Bjønnes" wrote: The second prerelease of 1.1.6 has been available for some days now, and this time it is also announced here and not just on the developers list. We would especially like testing of: - the new tabular code - the new import/export code

Re: Elsevier layout

2000-11-28 Thread Herbert Voss
Oscar wrote: Hi lyxers I am writting an article using the elsart.layout submitted to this list a few months ago. I need to use the bibtex style elsart-harv.bst or elsart-num.bst. So I put them in the directory /usr/share/texmf/bibtex/bst/natbib and I inserted the corresponding bibtex

Re: cite shoots out of the frame

2000-11-29 Thread Herbert Voss
On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, oliver Grampp wrote: Hallo, i have a problem with some cite's in my document. Some of them are shooting out of the pageframe. Can you help me to avoid this? can you give a short example-file with this problem? Herbert

lyx 1.1.6pre2 shortcuts

2000-11-29 Thread Herbert Voss
when i start lyx without any existing ~/.lyx/preferences i have the shortcuts displayed and i can use them with the keyboard. if i change any of the options in the preferences, close lyx and restart, the displayed shortcuts are gone and i can't use the keybord-shortcuts, too. deleting the

Re: lyx 1.1.6pre2 shortcuts

2000-11-29 Thread Herbert Voss
"Lars Gullik Bjønnes" wrote: Herbert Voss [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | when i start lyx without any existing ~/.lyx/preferences | i have the shortcuts displayed and i can use them with | the keyboard. if i change any of the options in the | preferences, close lyx a

Re: lyx 1.1.6pre2 shortcuts

2000-11-29 Thread Herbert Voss
Angus Leeming wrote: On Wednesday 29 November 2000 19:59, Herbert Voss wrote: "Lars Gullik Bjønnes" wrote: Herbert Voss [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | when i start lyx without any existing ~/.lyx/preferences | i have the shortcuts displayed and i can use them with | th

Re: How do I format the TOC?

2000-11-29 Thread Herbert Voss
Nick Bogan wrote: I've been using LyX long enough so that I can't excuse my ignorance due to newbie status. I'm trying to format my (math) master's thesis, and am running into problems. - I don't know how to add dotted lines to the Table of Contents. therefore use package tocloft (tocloft

Re: announce lyx-1.1.6pre2

2000-11-28 Thread Herbert Voss
"Lars Gullik Bjønnes" wrote: The second prerelease of 1.1.6 has been available for some days now, and this time it is also announced here and not just on the developers list. when the printing menu is opened, by default the button "all pages" is valid. but it's not possible to click on the

lyx 1.1.6pre2

2000-11-30 Thread Herbert Voss
please try: open the latex preamble and put the cursor in the standard text-window: the preamble-window does not switch to the background it appears always on top. working in the text- window is possible. suse - linux 2.2.14 Herbert -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://perce.de/lyx/

Re: lyx 1.1.6pre2

2000-11-30 Thread Herbert Voss
"Lars Gullik Bjønnes" wrote: Herbert Voss [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | please try: | | open the latex preamble and put the cursor in the standard | text-window: the preamble-window does not switch to the | background it appears always on top. working in the text- | window i

Re: Section with line (slightly off-topic)

2000-11-30 Thread Herbert Voss
Matej Cepl wrote: Hi, trying to create sectino with line. What I mean is something like this Section title___ (to the right edge) Even though I persuade both titlesec and sectsty very forcefully, neither of them seems to be of any help. The best what I

1.1.6.pre2 package geometry

2000-11-30 Thread Herbert Voss
in lyx 1.1.5 i could toggle the "use package geometry"-button, with or without any values in the four fields for the margins. in 1.1.6.pre2 you have to clear all four fields, otherwise you can't change the use of the geometry package. is there any sense for this new behaviour? Herbert --

Re: Section with line (slightly off-topic)

2000-12-01 Thread Herbert Voss
Herbert Voss wrote: On Fri, 1 Dec 2000, Matej Cepl wrote: Your Sectiontitle \hrulefill with style chapter, section or any otherone and \hrulefill in tex(red) Because the result should be template for future use as base of the bulkletin of our church, so that it should cover

Re: Can't find FoilTeX

2000-12-03 Thread Herbert Voss
James Sinnamon wrote: Dear LyX users, Can anyone tell me where to find the FoilTeX tarball, referred to in Chapter 6 of the "Customizing LyX" help document? I have done a search of the aarnet mirror CTAN site and it hasn't shown up anything that looks like what I am after.

Re: How to ... set a table next to 2 superposed figs

2000-10-08 Thread Herbert Voss
Frederic Leymarie wrote: Another teaser, How to put in a float (say a figure) on one side (say the left) a table on the other, 2 small figures one above the other ? have a look at http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/Informatik/lyx/table.html#tablefig it works with minipages, so you can

Re: v.1.1.4 fix 3 geometry

2000-12-03 Thread Herbert Voss
john gennard wrote: I've just installed the above and want to start the learning process. However, on launching Lyx I'm faced with a window which is to large for my screen and I dislike using a virtual desktop. So far I've been unable to locate the file which contains the default geometry

Re: internationalisation

2000-12-03 Thread Herbert Voss
"R. E. de Lima-Lopes" wrote: I need to whrite some bib references on the body on my thesis. The problem is the word "and" between authors, it should be replaced by an "e", which (and in my native language, Portuguese). So I need something like [Lyons e Hallyday, 1999] instead of [Lyons

Re: indented list

2000-12-05 Thread Herbert Voss
Guenter Milde wrote: I write a lot of formula and I'd like to explain the ues variables in a indented list underneath, something like e=mc^2 eEnery mmass put the following in ~/.lyx/layouts as file myLists.inc, insert in

Re: Math labels.

2000-12-05 Thread Herbert Voss
Mario Parra wrote: Hello, I have a couple of questions about math labels. How can one have lyx label equations using section numbers instead of chapter numbers? \renewcommand\theequation{\arabic{section}-\arabic{equation}} Once a math-label has been set, how can one change it? In a

Re: Chapter and Headings?

2000-12-06 Thread Herbert Voss
astrid wrote: How can i add the chapter number to the reference chapter? write in latex preamble for komascript book-class (you should prefer this class!) \renewcommand\bib@heading{\chapter{\bibname}} Hi, I would like to have the same for report(koma-script). Do I have to

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