Re: LaTeX error ignored by 1.04 but not by 1.15

2000-08-01 Thread Herbert Voss
Dekel Tsur wrote: On Mon, Jul 31, 2000 at 04:42:13PM +0200, Lionel Portmann wrote: In a figure (float) caption, I want to put within the text some math symboles. If I use for instance an overrightarrow over even a single letter, I get an error from Latex. With Lyx 1.04, this error was

Re: foilTex and figure floats

2000-08-02 Thread Herbert Voss
Ralph Boland wrote: if yes, you can define \renewcommand\figurename{} This works in that "Figure" disappears. However I also wanted to get rid of the numbering. Sorry I should have said that the first time. Note that sometimes I do this within a figure float (when I use PS/LaTex

Re: pdf output

2000-08-04 Thread Herbert Voss
Steffen Evers wrote: Ralph Boland wrote: WHAT EXACTLY DO THESE SETTINGS DO AND HOW DO I MAKE THEM TAKE EFFECT? The archives have several useful comments on how to convert my foilTex lyx documents to pdf files which I will now try. Any final advice welcome. I am using

Re: problems with algoithm floats.

2000-08-05 Thread Herbert Voss
Ralph Boland wrote: I used to have algorithm floats working but not anymore. I recently upgraded to lyx-1.1.5fix1 from lyx 1.0.4 but since lyx 1.0.4 no longer works with algorithm floats either I assume the problem is not related to the upgrade. there is no problem for me to run your

Re: Enumerate kludge

2000-08-08 Thread Herbert Voss
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to achieve this effect with enumerate: "There are 3 options, which are: 1. Option 1 2. Option 2 and finally, under very specific circumstances: 3. Option 3 Those are all the options." \usepackage{mdwlist} in latex preamble and in lyx

Re: Enumerate kludge

2000-08-08 Thread Herbert Voss
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to achieve this effect with enumerate: "There are 3 options, which are: sorry, the example-file ... Herbert -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://perce.de/voss #LyX 1.1 created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/ \lyxformat 2.16 \textclass

Re: \usepackage{algorithm} and Export as TeX

2000-08-08 Thread Herbert Voss
Frank Mahler wrote: Hi there! I'm just trying to convert my thesis into pdf and recently had efforts using hyperref and LyX's export as TeX function (unfortunately using hyperref within the LyX's LaTeX preambel was unsuccessful). Funny, though, that all algorithm floats had its caption

Re: Floats vertical placement

2000-08-08 Thread Herbert Voss
Aleksandr Konstantinov wrote: Hello I have problem trying make picture floats in my text look pretty. I put them mostly at dedicated pages (using [p]). It look ok if page is filled. But when, for example, I have 3 pictures to place on two pages they are put 2 on first and 1 on second.

Re: AMS not translated (again)

2000-08-10 Thread Herbert Voss
chapter} \theoremstyle{plain} \newtheorem{thm}{Theorem}[section] \numberwithin{equation}{section} %% Comment out for sequentially-numbered \numberwithin{figure}{section} %% Comment out for sequentially-numbered EndPreamble Input amsdefs.inc Input stdlayouts.inc #NoStyle Proof# Herbert Vos

Re: Algorithms

2000-08-11 Thread Herbert Voss
Jonathan Pennington wrote: Can someone send me a .lyx file with algorithms successfully used? I'm having problems and imagine it's something simple that I've screwed up, either in the text or the preamble. Thanks. there are sevaral ways to get algorithm-style. the example-file uses

Re: Title, abstract

2000-08-11 Thread Herbert Voss
William Burrow wrote: I'm just starting to use LyX, for the second time. Last time was a few years back. I'm doing a report, and find that the article class is the closest to what I need to do. The problem is that the title environment does not seem to produce a article.class has per

Re: Table of Contents

2000-08-13 Thread Herbert Voss
William Burrow wrote: OK, with the help of the people in this list, I've found workarounds to most of my problems with latex for my report. Two outstanding issues remain: 1) The table of contents prints with (some) listed items in bold. Bold characters here are not acceptable. Is

Re: lyx2pdf - pdf output

2000-08-14 Thread Herbert Voss
Steffen Evers wrote: Hello, A little shell script to translate lyx documents to pdf has come into being! Maybe someone can make use of it or someone is in the mood to integrate some parts of it in the LyX code. A PDF-export function would be nice ... indeed :-) i'm using pybliographer

Re: lyx2pdf - pdf output

2000-08-14 Thread Herbert Voss
The most important line I need for the regular expressions is this \makeatother command. I don't know what it does, but it was always directly behind my Latex preamble. in tex some variables have the @ in their name, like c@count. therefore it's forbidden to use this letter in own commands in

Re: [Again] Re: help with Bibliography TOC please [on koma-script]

2000-08-15 Thread Herbert Voss
Joao Cardoso wrote: How can I make Bibliography show up as a TOC item, e.g., Reuben It seems that LyX needs a FAQ. But more to the point, there a mini-faq .. ;-) http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/Informatik/LyXTips.html Herbert -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://perce.de/voss

Re: DVI export problems

2000-08-15 Thread Herbert Voss
Voirin wrote: Hi I installed LyX recently and am having problems exporting to DVI. I noticed this when i tried to print. The following is the output i receive: --- batchmode: not found makeatletter: not found ./newfile1.tex:

Re: customising latex classes

2000-08-16 Thread Herbert Voss
John O'Gorman wrote: The hard part is now understanding the (entirely uncommented) g-brief-en.cls file. I have the books (by Lamport, Goossens, et alii) but the .cls file uses things like picture(0,0) in undocumented ways. This seems to produce a picture environment of zero dimensions! with

Re: Lyx - BibTeX problems

2000-08-16 Thread Herbert Voss
Guido Milanese wrote: (1) When I run BiBTeX under Lyx, the file is compiled correctly and references are displayed in the DVI preview. But if I compile the LaTeX file "manually" the compiler cannot find my *.bib files (it does not matter if they are in the /bib directory or in the

Error with package fancyvrb

2000-08-17 Thread Herbert Voss
when i run the attached file which only used the package fancyvrb.sty, lyx always stops the latex runs. the fact is, that the fancyvrb-package needs TWO runs, when you are using the \VerbatimInput{} command. the first run produces an error message and therefore lyx stops. latex needs two runs

Re: Error with package fancyvrb

2000-08-17 Thread Herbert Voss
"Jean-Pierre.Chretien" wrote: Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 09:50:13 +0000 From: Herbert Voss [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Error with package fancyvrb when i run the attached file which only used the package fancyvrb.sty, lyx always s

Re: Error with package fancyvrb

2000-08-17 Thread Herbert Voss
. neverthelesse i don't really understand, why it works with two latex runs when i don't load the changebar-package. the following is only for your interest. you can forget it, when it don't belong to lyx. "Lars Gullik Bjønnes" wrote: Herbert Voss [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | run

Re: \mbox{} in LyX-list?

2000-08-18 Thread Herbert Voss
FWIW, I'm using the LyX-1.0.1 that installed with my SuSE 6.3. I downloaded the 1.1.5-fix1... files and the SUSE/1.1.5-10a.i386.rpm from the sylvan ftp site, but won't have a chance to install anything for a few days at least. Can someone explain what the SUSE 10 and 10a versions are all

Re: Graphics insert - question

2000-08-19 Thread Herbert Voss
Baruch Even wrote: My question pertains to priority settings, the current code does not yet support inline viewing of the image file in the document, that is it leaves a rectangle saying that here will be an image. I'm currently working on that, but I wanted to know if this is more important

Re: 1.1.5fix1 Extended \extratablespace

2000-08-20 Thread Herbert Voss
Jim Osborn wrote: Is there a way to avoid this sort of failure? It's inconvenient to have to kill LyX so abruptly from outside. can you send a short example-file? Herbert -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://perce.de/voss

Re: access to template

2000-08-20 Thread Herbert Voss
thomas schönhoff wrote: Hello Kayvan, thanks for quick response, I just tried to reconfigure Lyx, starting it again. But no way, only the templates in /usr/share/lyx/templates are displayed ! The newly created file keeps hidden. BTW, I can't imagine that this causes the problem,

Re: 1.1.5fix1 Extended \extratablespace

2000-08-20 Thread Herbert Voss
Jim Osborn wrote: Herbert Voss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim Osborn wrote: Is there a way to avoid this sort of failure? It's inconvenient to have to kill LyX so abruptly from outside. can you send a short example-file? Here's the Export-LaTeX: I tried to duplicate exactly

Re: Footnotes in letters???

2000-08-20 Thread Herbert Voss
Matej Cepl wrote: Hi, I would like to create footnotes in letters (these are not strictly business letters, but rather substantial epistoles :-), but it seems to me, that LyX doesn't allow it although standard LaTeX class letter is perfectly happy with footnotes. What should I change to

Re: noindent2

2000-08-21 Thread Herbert Voss
thomas schönhoff wrote: Hello, after overcoming some difficulties I can give the attached example file, for the sake of a better understanding of my problem. look at latex-preamble of the example-file Herbert -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://perce.de/voss #LyX 1.1 created this file. For

Re: noindent

2000-08-21 Thread Herbert Voss
thomas schönhoff wrote: Hello, I've written a paper encompassing about 90 pages . Because I didn't want to number the introduction I changed from chapter to paragraph. use the ones with a star, they are the same without star but not numbered. Now everything seems to be fine, but

Re: footnotes figures at the end of a MS

2000-08-22 Thread Herbert Voss
"Jean-Pierre.Chretien" wrote: Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 13:34:22 -0400 From: Frederic Leymarie [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: LyX User List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: footnotes figures at the end of a MS Folks How to have all my footnotes listed after the main text and before the references ?

Re: How do I get out of a table...

2000-08-22 Thread Herbert Voss
root wrote: How do I switch back to standard text after a table if the table is at the end of the document? I have tried everything, but nothing reasonably simple seems to work. put the cursor in the lower right corner of the table (last cell) and hit enter, than you'll get a new textline

Re: how to change the math font

2000-08-23 Thread Herbert Voss
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quick question - sorry if its been done before, but I didn't find any reference to it in the archive. Is it possible to change the math font - I've changed the main document font to Palatino, but equations are (as far as I can tell) still using the original

Re: rcsinfo and fancy pagestyle

2000-08-23 Thread Herbert Voss
Peeter Burk wrote: Sorry, no errors... Just a lonely latex running forewer (and of course no dvi output). The same happens when I run latex by hand on exported tex file. (It seems obvious that I know next to nothing about tex or/and latex). what's with the log-file? edit-show

Re: rcsinfo and fancy pagestyle

2000-08-23 Thread Herbert Voss
Peeter Burk wrote: On 23 Aug 2000, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: Peeter Burk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | Sorry, no errors... Just a lonely latex running forewer (and of | course no dvi output). The same happens when I run latex by hand on | exported tex file. (It seems obvious

Re: Working with a Mini TOC

2000-08-23 Thread Herbert Voss
German Poo Caaman~o wrote: I put a little TOC before that general TOC. On LaTeX preamble I wrote: \let\@SAVEstarttoc\@starttoc \def\@firststarttoc#1{% \begingroup \makeatletter \@input{\jobname.#1}% \@nobreakfalse \global\let\@starttoc\@SAVEstarttoc \endgroup}

Re: umlauts in formula

2000-08-24 Thread Herbert Voss
Laurent DUVAL wrote: *1. writing it exactly as ä *2. using "a instead of ä (the LaTex way) I have the same problems with french accents and don't know a nice work around. But as ugly as it may look, \stackrel{..}{\mathrm a} does the job. i don't really know if you need the umlauts or

Re: AMS not translated (LAST QUESTIONS!)

2000-08-24 Thread Herbert Voss
Emanuele Olivetti wrote: I'm back from holidays .. :-( ;-) i have still 8 days ... :-) This works, but generate my BIG problem: LaTeX ask to "redefine" also "proof" with \renewtheorem ; I added (don't laugh...) : \renewtheorem{proof}{Dimostrazione}[section] this is the problem with

Re: Two letters questions

2000-08-24 Thread Herbert Voss
Matej Cepl wrote: OK, my last question concerning footnotes in letters was senseless, but now I really do not know, what's on. Here are two my questions: 1) How to write letters with scrlettr.cls (KOMA-Script letter class) in LyX? There is no template available (lyx 1.1.5fix1) and neither

Re: umlauts in formula

2000-08-25 Thread Herbert Voss
Guenter Milde wrote: On Thu, 24 Aug 2000 h. voss wrote \mbox{ \mathit{ lyx puts the closing parenthesis, so you have mbox{mathit{}} as an argument for amthit write your umlauts or letters with accents. This does not work (at least for me): The \mbox puts you back to

Re: umlauts in formula

2000-08-25 Thread Herbert Voss
thomas schönhoff wrote: 1. real text in mathmode: open the blue mathbox and write your formula until you need german umlauts or accents. hit alt-m m, this toggles between text and mathmode. works, but doesn't look very nice because of different forms ! the backslash is never seen in

Re: how do I put screen font in lyxrc?

2000-08-25 Thread Herbert Voss
Paul E Johnson wrote: In the pull down menu for options/screen fonts, I've found one I like, and in the pull down Roman font is -adobe-times new roman But when I try to put that in my lyxrc file, I get errors. Can you say how to fix? All I have in lyxrc is this: \screen_dpi 75

Re: algorithm use

2000-08-25 Thread Herbert Voss
ben wrote: Hello, I would like to use the latex algorithm and algorithmic packages, such a way that this environment is seen as a new style in lyx. 1) Does someone currently use these packages under lyx, and if so do they put the raw latex commands in lyx ? If not how do they use it ?

serverpipe

2000-08-26 Thread Herbert Voss
hi, the two files ~/.lyx/lyxpipe.in ~/.lyx/lyxpipe.out are not deleted when lyx is closed. starting lyx again gives LyXComm: Pipe /home/voss/.lyx/lyxpipe.in already exists. If no other LyX program is active, please delete the pipe by hand and try again. importing/exporting my citations with

Re: Bug (?) with noun style in titles

2000-08-26 Thread Herbert Voss
Emanuele Gissi Alessia Franceschi wrote: Hi, I am writing my thesis in LyX. I use the class "book (koma-script)". I have got some names in the chapter and section titles. So I set them to "noun style" on. In LyX they show well. But when I look at the postscript output they don't retain

Re: Selfmade Layout

2000-08-27 Thread Herbert Voss
vmx wrote: I want to create a layout, that has a caption like Abstract (that's easy). But I want under the caption an enumerate like the Enumerate-Environment (that's my problem). How can I do that? a layout only for latex or latex AND lyx too? Herbert -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Selfmade Layout

2000-08-27 Thread Herbert Voss
vmx wrote: I've already created the layout for LaTeX, now I want to create one for LyX. look at help-file customization-lyx (Anpassung), chapter 6.3.3 Herbert -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://perce.de/voss

Re: endnotes

2000-08-27 Thread Herbert Voss
thomas schönhoff wrote: Hello to all Lyxers, I desperately trying to insert endnotes in my document, doing it like this: 1. \usepackage{endnotes} let\footnote\endnotes this is right, but you have to insert the footnotes by hand! look at

Re: Spacing Between Columns

2000-08-29 Thread Herbert Voss
Hisyam Lee wrote: Hello, I require 1.3cm spacing between two columns for my article. Can't find it anyway under layout. Secondly, my articles Title, Author, Address need to crossover two columns at the first page. I certainly appreciate if someone can help. Thanks. look at example file.

Re: Spacing Between Columns

2000-08-29 Thread Herbert Voss
MH Lee wrote: Yes, I managed to increase the spacing. You are very helpful, thanks a lots Herbert. But the article required two columns text start at first page (just after address). Aid are appreciated. you need latex-package multicol, it's often part of the installed tex. otherwise you

Re: Spacing Between Columns

2000-08-30 Thread Herbert Voss
MH Lee wrote: Thanks Herbert, I managed to do as you mentioned. But my two eps files insert through Insert/Floats/Figure Float not display on dvi but if I change it to Wide Figure Float it will display nicely but figure will across two columns. Any suggestion are appreciated. floats are

Re: endnotes

2000-08-30 Thread Herbert Voss
Matej Cepl wrote: On 27 Aug 00, at 17:55, German Poo Caaman~o wrote: thomas schönhoff wrote: I desperately trying to insert endnotes in my document, doing it like this: Just a question (not only to you, but rather to more general public on the list :-): What are the endnotes

Re: Paperfontsize

2000-08-31 Thread Herbert Voss
Philipp Vetter wrote: My question is: how can I change the paperfontsize to 9 pt? Lyx only seems to give me the options default, 10,11 or 12 pt. I am writing a two-column document, for which the smaller font size would be very useful [I tried changing /paperfontsize in my Lyx document

Re: Bug in figure caption with math characters

2000-09-01 Thread Herbert Voss
Yann Le Du wrote: Hello, I wanted to check if this simple error could be reproduced by other people in lyx-1.1.5-fix1 : *Open a new document *Insert a figure float *Insert a figure in the figure float *As figure caption, put the mathematical symbol of a vector, i.e. the chacracter

Re: Spacing Between Columns

2000-09-01 Thread Herbert Voss
MH Lee wrote: Under that menu are Tiny, Smallest, ..., Normal, Larger, ..., Huge, ..., Increase etc. I can't find point size that I need. you don't need it! for 10pt and 11pt documentwide font size choose \huge for 12pt \LARGE than they are always 20.74pt. another way: in Latex preamble

Re: Bug in figure caption with math characters

2000-09-01 Thread Herbert Voss
Yann Le Du wrote: On Fri, 1 Sep 2000, Herbert Voss wrote: 1. write \protect before your latex command (e.g.: \protect\overrightarrow{arrow}) This is done automatically in my lyx : I write my vector v using the math panel (which generates an \overrightarrow in the tex code

Re: Bug in figure caption with math characters

2000-09-01 Thread Herbert Voss
Yann Le Du wrote: On Fri, 1 Sep 2000, Herbert Voss wrote: Yann Le Du wrote: On Fri, 1 Sep 2000, Herbert Voss wrote: 1. write \protect before your latex command (e.g.: \protect\overrightarrow{arrow}) This is done automatically in my lyx : I write my vector v

Re: Bibliography

2000-09-01 Thread Herbert Voss
Will Fischer wrote: wfischer: The output then looks like this: blah [1][2] when it ought to be this: blah [1-2] Herbert Voss: it's not usual to write it this way, when there are only two citations, therefore always [1,2], but [1-3]. . . . Yes, but, one

Re: super / subscript but not italics

2000-09-01 Thread Herbert Voss
Haight Ashbury wrote: I wonder wether I can make use of superscript and subscript without using the mathematical modus, i.e. without having this part of the text in italics (emphasize style). have a look at http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/Informatik/LyXTips.html#sup Herbert

Re: Bibtex spanish and german.

2000-09-04 Thread Herbert Voss
Jacobo Myerston wrote: Halo, I have some problems getting words like "editors" and "volume" in spanish and german. How can I get the bibtex references in the document language? do you have a layout-document-language-spanish or german? i think, it's not possible to choose for bibtex more

Re: bullets AND French language

2000-09-04 Thread Herbert Voss
Lorint HENDSCHEL wrote: Hello, I am writing a grammar book in which I have used "itemize" extensively to highlight examples. The document (meta)language is French so items are shown with a "-" (minus) sign. I know this is the correct way to display items according to French

Re: TEXT CLASSES

2000-09-04 Thread Herbert Voss
John Culleton wrote: I killed all the lyx things I could find except /root/.lyx and reinstalled the latest release: 1.1.5fix1. Unfortunately the lyx program can't find text classes like iletter and hollywood. I've tried ./configure from a command line, reconfigure from a menu and so on. It

Re: hollywood template.

2000-09-05 Thread Herbert Voss
John Culleton wrote: Thanks to Herb V. I have the hollywood template working now. I increased the right margin to one inch, to meet the standards I have read. Hollywood (the place) is very fussy about format. I still have one major problem with the hollywood class. The header has a rule!

Re: hollywood template.

2000-09-05 Thread Herbert Voss
John Culleton wrote: Herbert Voss wrote: John Culleton wrote: Thanks to Herb V. I have the hollywood template working now. I increased the right margin to one inch, to meet the standards I have read. Hollywood (the place) is very fussy about format. I still have one major

Re: hollywood template.

2000-09-05 Thread Herbert Voss
"Jean-Pierre.Chretien" wrote: \headrulewith is a fancyhdr.sty command, so \renewcommand will fail if fancyhdr is not called by hollywood.cls from hollywood.class: ... \usepackage{fancyhdr} \usepackage{extramarks} \usepackage{ifthen} \usepackage{lastpage} \pagestyle{fancy} ... but these

Re: Spacing Between Columns

2000-09-01 Thread Herbert Voss
MH Lee wrote: How do I change Title font size to 20pt? mark the title and than choos layout-character-size Herbert

Re: Bibliography

2000-09-01 Thread Herbert Voss
Will Fischer wrote: (Lyx window)_becomes_ (latex) blah[cite1][cite2] blah \cite{cite1}\cite{cite2} The output then looks like this: blah [1][2] when it ought to be this: blah [1-2] it's not usual to write it this way, when there are only two citations,

Re: Logo on title page...

2000-09-08 Thread Herbert Voss
On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, Adrian Ball wrote: I'm quite new to Lyx Latex, so I may be missing something really obvious... I'm trying to put a company logo at the top of the title page of an 'article' document. The graphic is included, but appears on its own page before the title page. If

Re: Strange behavior of multilne equations.

2000-09-08 Thread Herbert Voss
Aleksandr Konsatntinov wrote: Hello. I have problem with multilne equations. When I use multiline displayed equations in final output they look like inlined - sum limits moved to the right and symbols sizes in fractions are decreased. Is it normal behavior ? How to fight it ? can

Re: Strange behavior of multilne equations.

2000-09-08 Thread Herbert Voss
Herbert Voss wrote: Aleksandr Konsatntinov wrote: Hello. I have problem with multilne equations. When I use multiline displayed equations in final output they look like inlined - sum limits moved to the right and symbols sizes in fractions are decreased. Is it normal

math environments and lyx-mathstyle

2000-09-09 Thread Herbert Voss
hi, we had discussions about lyx mathbox and limits for the sum and int-symbol. there are some irritating behaviour in lyx math box with the commands \limits \displaystyle \textstyle \scriptstyle \scriptscriptstyle on the other hand there are some important facts to remember where are the

Re: bullets AND French language

2000-09-13 Thread Herbert Voss
ben wrote: I checked what I did with \untypedspaces: \usersfrenchoptions{\noextrasfrancais} in the preamble does the AtBeginDocument trick for all the french.sty options... and allows to put it in a class or style as well. Sorry for the delay. On my machine, the \untypedspaces and

Re: bullets AND French language

2000-09-13 Thread Herbert Voss
ben wrote: Yes, I've tried francais and french, and none of them work. I don't see where the problem is with the following file... run the attached lyx-file and tell what's going on, because all works well, for me ... ;-) Herbert -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://perce.de/voss/lyx/ #LyX 1.1

Re: bullets AND French language

2000-09-13 Thread Herbert Voss
ben wrote: Herbert Voss a écrit : run the attached lyx-file and tell what's going on, because all works well, for me ... ;-) Herbert -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://perce.de/voss/lyx/ Even with your lyx file, it doesn't work. It must come from a problem with my teTeX

Re: Trying to convert the Professor!

2000-09-13 Thread Herbert Voss
Vinicius Provenzano wrote: Hello all Lyx users, I'm new to LyX, I've just finished the Tutorial! :) After 2 hours and a half learning the basics, I got so enthusiastic with Lyx, i'm trying to " convert" my Macroeconomics Professor in the LyX world! He wrote his doctorate thesis in MS

Re: Overcite in footnote?

2000-09-14 Thread Herbert Voss
Zailong Bian wrote: Hi. I tried to use the overcite style. It looks good in text, but not in footnote. Sometimes I need to say things like, "Please see [1] for blah..and see [3] for blah" in footnote. But they appear like superscript in footnote. So is there a way to make it look

lyxpipe

2000-09-15 Thread Herbert Voss
i wrote a mini startscript for lyx to delete the lypipe.in and .out before executing lyx. so i don't get an error when working with pybliographer. it works with linux 2.2.14 on intel. Herbert #!/usr/bin/perl # voss /000915 $User = "\x7e$ENV{'USER'}"; # get USER from env #print "$User/\n";

Re: Using a new class

2000-09-16 Thread Herbert Voss
Frederic Leymarie wrote: Greetings I have to use a class provided by Springer Verlag for LaTeX2e llncs.cls I am only given this class file; from: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html I have tried input this file from my preamble in LyX but that does not do the trick.

Re: Optional short headings

2000-09-16 Thread Herbert Voss
Ben Marriage wrote: Hi everyone, Is it possible to get optional short headings into LyX somehow. e.g. if I have a chapter title: Summary Conclusions, and a section heading called: An operational system, then when I use fancy headings, the text for each heading over-run each other. In

Re: \bind american keymap-primary in lyxrc seems broken

2000-09-17 Thread Herbert Voss
Christopher wrote: Version: LyX 1.1.5fix1 Subject says it all: the line, \bind "american" "keymap-primary" in my lyxrc file provokes the following message at startup: LyX: Invalid key sequence "american" [around line ...] LyXComm: Pipe /home.../.lyxpipe.in already exists. If no

Re: multiline equations

2000-09-19 Thread Herbert Voss
oliver Grampp wrote: Hallo, i have a question and don\'t no where to ask it. I work with SuSE Linux 6.4 and (K)Lyx (Klyx 0.10.0 / Lyx 1.1.4fix1. I want to write an equation with more than one line ({eqnarray}). The manual says that i can make a new line with CTRL-ENTER. But this

Re: BibTeX

2000-09-20 Thread Herbert Voss
José Ernesto Jardim wrote: Hi I'm starting to write my MSC thesis and I want to configure and lear to use BibTeX with LyX. I've been looking for documentation but besides the one that comes with the distribution (btxhak btxdoc) I didn't found nothing else. I'm looking for something like

Re: Debian package

2000-09-20 Thread Herbert Voss
thomas schönhoff wrote: Hello, I wonder if there is a Debian package of Lyx-1.1.5fix, because I going to install "potatoe" and still find Lyx worthwile to work with... there is a link on the top of http://perce.de/voss/lyx Herbert -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://perce.de/voss/lyx/

Re: can't change margins

2000-09-20 Thread Herbert Voss
Shawn Koons wrote: I get: LaTex error: File 'geometry.sty not found \geometry {verbose,a4paper,tmargin=1in,bmargin=1in,lmargin,rmargin=1in} ***(cannot\read from terminal in nonstop modes) when trying to view in dvi. Am I missing a geometry file or do I need to

Re: can't change margins

2000-09-20 Thread Herbert Voss
Shawn Koons wrote: Shawn Koons wrote: LaTex error: File 'geometry.sty not found \geometry {verbose,a4paper,tmargin=1in,bmargin=1in,lmargin,rmargin=1in} ***(cannot\read from terminal in nonstop modes) when trying to view in dvi. try a options-reconfigure

Re: mathed question...

2000-09-21 Thread Herbert Voss
Baruch Even wrote: On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Eric St-Jean wrote: actually, i just subscribed to this list... i couldn't find any list of known bugs on lyx.org or devel.lyx.org; please forgive me if i'm submitting something you've seen already, and point me to such a list of known bugs if

Re: Break equation

2000-09-21 Thread Herbert Voss
Beaubert Francois 0251858286 wrote: I would like to automaticaly break too long equations (that are wider than the page) I have heard about a package called breqn.sty but it doesn't seem to work properly I their a simple way to do this ftp://ftp.ams.org/pub/tex/ there you can get the

Re: algorithm

2000-09-22 Thread Herbert Voss
Myriam Abramson wrote: Hi! I'm trying to use the algorithm package. I have \usepackage{algorithm} in the latex preamble and I've inserted an algorithm float box. Now, what am I supposed to do? The documentation is very terse. I've tried to enter latex commands that the algorithm

Re: imbedding figures in 2-column article style

2000-09-22 Thread Herbert Voss
Friedemann Baitinger wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm writing something up in article-style with 2 columns. There are cases where I want to include a figure that spans the whole page width. I haven't found a way to achieve this. Any expert advice? If I check the

Re: table-wide table

2000-09-23 Thread Herbert Voss
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: How can I change an existing table (in a two column document) to a wide table? I tried copying the content of the normal table by cutting it but get the `impossible operation don´t know what to do with half floats´ message hit enter at the beginning of the table

Re: Short caption to figures

2000-09-26 Thread Herbert Voss
Tommi Rintala wrote: I tried to find information, but I couldn't find it, so I ask it here. I am often guilty for writing too long captions for figures (long captions don't look nice in figure list). At LaTeX it is easy to give figure a short caption too. Are there plans to include a

Re: Problems with viewing dvi files

2000-09-27 Thread Herbert Voss
Tom wrote: I have problems viewing dvi files on a new installation of Lyx (v. 1.1.4fix1) running on Suse 6.4. Lyx runs fine, but nothing happens when I try to view dvi files. When I try to export as dvi it exports as tex. Initially I thought is was a problem with printing as this

Re: rotated table + empty page style

2000-09-28 Thread Herbert Voss
"J.Sauer" wrote: Hi out there, Two years ago I started working with Lyx. I'm very happy with Lyx. I have a question, I couldn't solve on my own or with the mail archive. In my thesis I put in a rotated table. I like to have the caption as well rotated, so I use the commands (found

Re: letter

2000-09-28 Thread Herbert Voss
Joern Schmedt_auf_der_Guenne wrote: Hello, in the "letter g-brief, german" class a long name combined with an address and state might create a long line in the letters window, which should get a line break to be completely visible. Just have a look at the postscript of the attached example

Re: Centering Equations

2000-09-30 Thread Herbert Voss
Simon Waschke wrote: I've attached the .lyx file and the .ps file, which shows the strange positioning of the equation. Simon On Sat, 30 Sep 2000, Herbert Voss wrote: Simon Waschke wrote: I've been writing a document with equations. I've selected 'display' from the Math

Re: Help With Citation References

2000-10-03 Thread Herbert Voss
Alex Casti wrote: I need to get a document out pronto and don't really have the time at the moment to fiddle around with bibtex. So, I'd like to use the bibliography features built directly into lyx. I'm having a minor problem that is an issue of conveniene only. NOTE: I'm using the

Re: LyX for German Diplomarbeit

2000-10-03 Thread Herbert Voss
Sebastian Hofer wrote: Hallo, ich habe mich zu 99% dazu entschlossen meine Diplomabeit mit LyX zu schreiben. please write in english. * Wieviel Zeitaufwand ist nötig um sich einzuarbeiten? Habe schon einiges gelesen. Grundprogramm ist am laufen. lyx is very easy. take one of the

Re: Use lyx2pdf within lyx?

2000-10-03 Thread Herbert Voss
Beaubert Francois wrote: Hi, How to use lyx2pdf within lyx via custom-export? I'have tried to specify the command: lyx2pdf $$FName in ~/.lyx/lyxrc look for a line \custom_export_command "ps2pdf '$$FName' `basename '$$FName' .ps_tmp`.pdf" and than do the custom export postscript.

Re: Use lyx2pdf within lyx?

2000-10-04 Thread Herbert Voss
"Stephan E. Schlierf" wrote: This works pretty good, thanks for the hint (even if I haven´t asked for it but it´s really worth to read the mailing list :-). The only thing I still would like to know: Is it possible to tell LyX to save the pdf-File not in the tmp-directory but in the working

Re: Page-numbering

2000-10-06 Thread Herbert Voss
Chris Schulbert wrote: Hi! My report-class document shows multiple Page 1's as page-numbering for the first pages (e.g. for the abstract-page and the directory-pages). Then with the first page of the chapter 1 starts again with a page 1. Why that? Is there a method to change this? i

Re: How to make an enumerated list

2000-10-10 Thread Herbert Voss
"Ramón Flores d'as Seixas" wrote: Hello: How can I do an enumerated list like the following one: 1. This is on item 1.1. This is a subitem 1.2. This is another subitem 1.2.1 This is a subsubitem 1.3 This is another subitem choose paragraph

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