Re: LyX 1.6.4.1 and Snow Leopard

2009-09-23 Thread James C. Sutherland
Do you confirm that by disabling autosave LyX 1.6.4.1 works all right on MAC OS X 10.6? No. It seems that even by disabling autosave, LyX still attempts to perform autosaving and the "crash" still occurs. However, this is little more than an annoyance since the app doesn't actually

Locating nomenclature items (outline)

2009-09-29 Thread James C. Sutherland
I really like the LyX outline feature that allows you to easily locate figures, equations, tables, etc. in your document. However, there doesn't seem to be support for nomenclature entries. Does anyone know if such a feature exists in LyX without resorting to a text editor? Thanks, James

Re: compile error

2009-10-06 Thread James C. Sutherland
On Oct 6, 2009, at 9:57 AM, Gerard Ranke wrote: Hi, When trying to compile lyx 1.6.4 on irix 6.5.30, I get this error message: cc-1005 CC: ERROR File = ./boost/preprocessor/list/fold_left.hpp, Line = 37 The source file "boost/preprocessor/list/detail/edg/fold_left.hpp" is unav

Re: Making tables 100% text width

2009-10-07 Thread James C. Sutherland
On Oct 7, 2009, at 4:08 AM, Luca Carlon wrote: Hi! Is it possible somehow to make the tables take the entire column of the text? I have a sequence of tables and I would like to make them all the same size, the entire column if possible. I see I can do this for figures, is is possible to d

Re: Small poll about svn

2009-10-08 Thread James C. Sutherland
On Oct 8, 2009, at 9:50 AM, Pavel Sanda wrote: hi, i have small question for people using lyx + subversion. i'm thinking about using some svn syntax from version >=1.5 for new lyx commands. how big is the crowd of people still using svn 1.4 or in other words could you drop me version nu

Re: Urgent: Latex error with version 1.6.4.1

2009-10-12 Thread James C. Sutherland
On Oct 12, 2009, at 4:24 AM, Nicola Molinari wrote: Dear Sir or Madam, I'm writing my thesis with LyX (version 1.6.4.1 for Mac OS) but I have a problem when I try to compile the DVI file. The error message is: *LaTeX Error: \begin{itemize} on input line 313 ended by \end {document}.* * *

Re: Setting the width of cells

2009-10-12 Thread James C. Sutherland
On Oct 12, 2009, at 3:59 AM, Luca Carlon wrote: Hi! I was trying to set a table so that it takes the entire column of my document. I have 4 columns, so I selected each entire column and I set the width as 20% of the text width. The problem is that, at the end, the table doesn't take 100% o

Re: Setting the width of cells

2009-10-12 Thread James C. Sutherland
On Oct 12, 2009, at 10:12 AM, Luca Carlon wrote: James C. Sutherland writes: I cannot duplicate this with 1.6.4.1 on Mac OSX 10.6.1. What version of LyX are you using? What platform/OS are you on? Can you post a minimal example? I don't know how to post an attachment here. I can

Re: Setting the width of cells

2009-10-12 Thread James C. Sutherland
works. I attach the LyX file from which I took the latex source I gave you and the PDF is the result. On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 6:22 PM, James C. Sutherland > wrote: On Oct 12, 2009, at 10:12 AM, Luca Carlon wrote: James C. Sutherland writes: I cannot duplicate this with 1.6.4.1 on Mac OSX 10.

Re: Float/figures width

2009-10-26 Thread James C. Sutherland
I suggest that you look at the user manual that comes with LyX: Help -> User's Guide Help -> Embedded Objects All of your questions should be answered there. On Oct 26, 2009, at 10:04 AM, ColMatrix wrote: Hi there, Just started dabbling with LaTex and Lyx. I understand how to

Re: Developing

2009-10-28 Thread James C. Sutherland
On Oct 28, 2009, at 6:35 AM, Samaneh Soleymoney wrote: Hi I need some information about the software architecture of Lyx. I am going to develop a new open source word processor. But I need some basic information about how to start it. Like software structure. I really appreciate you to give

Re: LyX 1.6.4.1 and Snow Leopard

2009-10-29 Thread James C. Sutherland
On Oct 29, 2009, at 5:38 AM, Luca Carlon wrote: Jan David Hauck writes: Referring to the recent discussion on LyX having problems on Snow Leopard, I can state, that the problem solved itself somehow. In fact LyX crashed "really" one time (I think when I accidentally wanted to paste a

Re: Help needed

2009-11-02 Thread James C. Sutherland
On Nov 2, 2009, at 7:39 AM, Ville Iiskola wrote: Hi Houston we have a problem. I writed a formula in the middle of the line with lyx and i tried to put the number of the formula in the end of the line but i could not do that. How is that possible??? Ville You will probably find it wor

Re: Problems including a document

2009-11-03 Thread James C. Sutherland
On Nov 3, 2009, at 9:03 AM, Manolo Martí nez wrote: That's not the problem, apparently. I have moved everything to the master document's preamble and the strange behaviour recurs. Chapter 5 compiles. Master document w/o Ch. 5 compiles, but Master document with Ch. 5 does not. Thanks for

Re: Problems including a document

2009-11-03 Thread James C. Sutherland
On Nov 3, 2009, at 11:23 AM, Manolo Martí nez wrote: Thanks for the suggestion. Surprisingly, LaTeX does compile; with a bunch of errors in the .log, to be sure, but none of them fatal. How can I find out what the compiler was doing when it stumbled upon the things that LyX finds offending

Re: layout files & document frontmatter

2009-11-04 Thread James C. Sutherland
On Nov 4, 2009, at 11:40 AM, <2450h...@gmail.com> <2450h...@gmail.com> wrote: I am defining a layout where I need to have a few LaTeX definitions made. In LaTeX, these would be: \ICSEnum{12345} This is not displayed - it is required for the class (.cls) file I am using. In the LyX la

Re: layout files & document frontmatter

2009-11-04 Thread James C. Sutherland
On Nov 4, 2009, at 3:35 PM, Paul A. Rubin wrote: James C. Sutherland wrote: On Nov 4, 2009, at 11:40 AM, <2450h...@gmail.com> <2450h...@gmail.com> wrote: I am defining a layout where I need to have a few LaTeX definitions made. In LaTeX, these would be: \ICSEnum{12345}

Re: Insert \left. (xxxx) \right|

2009-11-12 Thread James C. Sutherland
On Nov 12, 2009, at 6:42 AM, Neal Becker wrote: > I'm entering this expression: > > \left.\frac{R_{s}}{2f_{s}}(1+\alpha)\right|_{f_{s=4R_{s}}} > > which is a common way of saying (expression) evalated substituting (value). > Is there any direct way to enter this without resorting to ERT? >

Re: CLS file not found anymore after updating LyX and MacTeX

2009-11-16 Thread James C. Sutherland
On Nov 16, 2009, at 9:06 AM, Dan Stark wrote: > Dear All, > > I updated to MacTeX 2009 and LyX 1.6.4.2 and now LyX cannot locate a CLS file > that I was using. > > I have it located in /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex currently. > > Is there any way to get LyX to see the CLS file again? > Perh

Re: Float (figure) placed in the end of the document

2009-12-01 Thread James C. Sutherland
On Dec 1, 2009, at 7:15 AM, Erez Yerushalmi wrote: > Hi All, > > I did something, but I don't know what. > > Now, all my figure-floats are placed at the end of the document. > > Last thing I did was to added "start appendix here", and floats were pushed > to the end. > I thought this was the p

Re: More equation breaking

2009-12-02 Thread James C . Sutherland
On Dec 2, 2009, at 5:56 AM, Manolo Martí nez wrote: > is there anyway to break an equation in two lines in a place > that is inside brackets? I mean something like this: > > a·(b + c + > d + e) > Look at sectoin 18.1.3 in the math manual included with LyX.

Re: Problem with table format

2009-12-04 Thread James C. Sutherland
On Dec 3, 2009, at 9:32 PM, wrote: > I have Lyx version 1.6.4.1 on a mac running os x version 10.5.8 and am a > new user of the Lyx application. I am having problems with the format of > a simple table when I generate a pdf file. Specifically, I get part of an > extra cell attached to the bot

rotated multirow cells with line wrapping

2009-12-24 Thread James C. Sutherland
I would like to create a table that has a multirow cell in it. However, I need to wrap the text and orient it vertically (rotated 90 degrees). I have attached a LyX file and its associated PDF output for an example of what I am trying to do. I cannot get the text to wrap properly. Any tips?

Re: Editing equations as latex rather than graphically.

2010-02-01 Thread James C. Sutherland
On Feb 1, 2010, at 12:29 PM, Tim Hutt wrote: > On 1 February 2010 19:22, rgheck wrote: >> Try View>Source if you want to *see* the LaTeX. > > Ah yes, I did that in an equation and it is almost exactly what I want > - just need to be able to edit the text. Without looking at the code, > it doesn

Re: Good layout for note taking for class?

2010-02-11 Thread James C. Sutherland
On Feb 11, 2010, at 7:54 PM, Chris Rackauckas wrote: > > What's a good layout for this? > I've looked through many but they were all a bit odd. I don't know if there is any "great" layout for this, but one thing that will help a lot is if you create math macros (see the LyX user manual). This

Re: inserting line numbers in lyx document

2010-02-22 Thread James C. Sutherland
On Feb 21, 2010, at 9:57 PM, Willis Gwenzi wrote: > I am using Lyx 1.6.3 for my thesis. For ease of editing I would like to > insert line numbers throughout the document. Any suggestions on how to do > it? The enumerate function cannot do it because it inserts the number only > at the sart of the

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