Re: Simplest approach to hanging indent paragraph?

2005-11-28 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 11:52:08AM +0100, Helge Hafting wrote: Paul Johnson wrote: What is the best advice now for LyX users who want paragraphs shaped like this X But we want to control both the

Re: enumeration problem...

2006-03-01 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 10:19:51PM -0600, Mathieu Richaud wrote: Hello all, What I am trying to create is the following enumerated list; 1. Item 1 2. Item 2 3. Item 3 [standard text] 4. Item 4 5. Item 5 However, Lyx reset to 1 the enumeration after the standard text. How can I get

Problems with 1.4.1, from Re: LyX 1.4.1 binaries for Debian unstable

2006-04-22 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 01:23:07AM +0200, Charles de Miramon wrote: Hello, The Debian maintainers of LyX are not very active. I have therefore created unofficial i386 binaries of LyX 1.4.1 for Debian unstable (sid). You should add in your /etc/apt/sources.list the following line : deb

Re: Problems with 1.4.1, from Re: LyX 1.4.1 binaries for Debian unstable

2006-04-22 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 08:04:05AM -0700, Kenward Vaughan wrote: On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 01:23:07AM +0200, Charles de Miramon wrote: Hello, The Debian maintainers of LyX are not very active. I have therefore created unofficial i386 binaries of LyX 1.4.1 for Debian unstable (sid

Re: Problems with 1.4.1, from Re: LyX 1.4.1 binaries for Debian unstable

2006-04-23 Thread Kenward Vaughan
have a serious problem with my files, which I need to resolve soon. The issue I had mentioned about the enumeration still exists. I will post this under a separate Subject, though. Thank you again! Kenward Vaughan Cheers, Charles -- http://www.kde-france.org -- In a completely

Enumeration/conversion issues of 1.4.1 - 1.3.x files (important exams)

2006-04-23 Thread Kenward Vaughan
After some kind help from Micha and Charles, I have 1.4.1 running apparently smoothly (the screen still appears a bit sluggish, which I recall seeing in other posts about 1.4.1--but that's not an issue for me yet... ;-). An important problem I immediately encountered involves the way it

Re: Enumeration/conversion issues of 1.4.1 - 1.3.x files (important exams)

2006-04-23 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 12:52:38AM +0200, Charles de Miramon wrote: Kenward Vaughan wrote: After some kind help from Micha and Charles, I have 1.4.1 running apparently smoothly (the screen still appears a bit sluggish, which I recall seeing in other posts about 1.4.1--but that's

Re: Easing the editing/correction of LyX documents

2006-06-19 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 09:00:22PM +0100, Peter Bowyer wrote: Hi, I am one of the people who cannot finds editing documents hard on screen - I end up printing a copy and then working through it with a pen, making changes and restructuring, and then typing the changes up. I didn't find

Re: Minimum HW requirement

2006-07-05 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 10:10:59AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: On Wednesday 05 July 2006 01:43 am, Alex wrote: Dear all, One student who makes her diplom about Comparing LyX to another Word processors, asked me about the minimum HW required fo LyX. Hi Alex, I think her initial question

Re: Dumb LyX question (fwd)

2007-12-21 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Fri, 2007-12-21 at 08:36 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I got the following question from a friend, any ideas? (I'm not on Mac...) --- Thanks -- it's probably really stupid, so try not to laugh... When I click the pdf icon (LyX 5 but the same happens in older

Re: fun poll: your linux distro

2007-12-28 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Fri, 2007-12-28 at 15:18 -0700, Bob Lounsbury wrote: Hi, I was just curious what everyone is using. If you'd like to respond that's fine, if not, just ignore the message. Also, could you include if you're running the latest LyX 1.5.3. Thanks in advance for anyones' input. Cheers and

Re: how to insert a theorem?

2008-03-02 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Sun, 2008-03-02 at 13:55 -0500, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Viktor Nagy wrote: Hello, Sorry for this stupid question, but I can't manage inserting a theorem. ... If you are using one of the AMS classes, just start a new paragraph, then click the drop down list of environments (left-most

Re: okay, can't resist one more bit of feedback

2008-03-21 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Fri, 2008-03-21 at 14:19 -0700, Rich Shepard wrote: On Fri, 21 Mar 2008, Andre Poenitz wrote: He has conducted research on conditioned taste aversion, and on the effects of amphetamines and LSD on social behavior. Andre', A friend of mine (a psychologist in private practice,

Re: LyX on Debian or Ubuntu

2006-12-16 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 01:01:37AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bill Wood wrote: Hi, I'm considering switching Linux distributions to Debian or Ubuntu, and I wanted to know what the community experience was regarding Lyx on either. In particular, are there any known functional or

Re: Special case of enumerate

2006-12-18 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 11:54:11AM +, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All I am trying to get the following special case of enumerate: - A1. The first item; A2. The second item; A3. The third item; Here, there is some standard text and then enumerate

Re: Happy LyXing to Everybody in 2007...

2006-12-31 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Sun, Dec 31, 2006 at 11:21:28AM +0100, Alex wrote: Dear LyXers, I am very happy that I see how LyX and its community is growing. This is quite friendly and helpful community. Thanks for your support in 2006. I wish HAPPY NEW YEAR to all the Developers, Contributers and to everybody

Re: texlive as support for lyx

2007-01-15 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Mon, 2007-01-15 at 17:05 +0100, Helge Hafting wrote: David L. Johnson wrote: On Mon, 15 Jan 2007 11:59:57 +0100 Helge Hafting [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: abdelkader belahcene wrote: Hi, since the new available latex on linux, will be texlive instead of tetex, I think it

File refuses to conform to letter size...

2007-01-28 Thread Kenward Vaughan
Hello folks, I have an older LyX file for my classes which I opened for the semester, and cannot get the file to properly print out using US letter in landscape mode. It insists on being A4. I have never had this happen before, and am frustrated because I've no clue what the issue is. I'm

Re: File refuses to conform to letter size...

2007-01-28 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Sun, 2007-01-28 at 20:32 -0600, Les Denham wrote: On Sunday 28 January 2007 18:55, Kenward Vaughan wrote: Hello folks, I have an older LyX file for my classes which I opened for the semester, and cannot get the file to properly print out using US letter in landscape mode. It insists

Re: File refuses to conform to letter size...

2007-01-29 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 12:25 +, José Matos wrote: On Monday 29 January 2007 7:37:13 am Kenward Vaughan wrote: On Sun, 2007-01-28 at 20:32 -0600, Les Denham wrote: On Sunday 28 January 2007 18:55, Kenward Vaughan wrote: Hello folks, I have an older LyX file for my classes which

Thanks to All LyXers/developers here! Re: Orientation Problem With Output

2007-04-24 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Tue, 2007-04-24 at 16:33 -0700, Rich Shepard wrote: On Tue, 24 Apr 2007, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Did you try adding geometry{dvips} to the preamble? It works for me (and the resulting file displays in GSView 4.8 correctly). Paul, I took Uwe's suggestion and added dvips as an

Re: Thanks to All LyXers/developers here! Re: Orientation Problem With Output

2007-04-24 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Tue, 2007-04-24 at 16:49 -0700, Rich Shepard wrote: On Tue, 24 Apr 2007, Kenward Vaughan wrote: What gets me constantly is how helpful the people on this list are with questions of all levels. Sorry for using the thread, Rich, but it leapt to mind with your trials, and seeing how

Re: line break or wrapping text in tabular

2007-06-13 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Wed, 2007-06-13 at 20:20 -0500, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: I see several pages mentioning about line breaks within a tabular. I have tables where I have a lot of text in a cell so then the tabnle is wider than my printed page. How can I get that text to wrap automatically? Or by manually

Re: changes are not reflected to PDF anymore

2007-07-10 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Tue, 2007-07-10 at 12:32 +0200, Giuseppe Vitalone wrote: Hi, I'm experiencing strange problems I didn't before. To have chages to lyx documents reflected to PDF, I have to restart Lyx; if I don't, changes are not reflected. What could be the matter? Thanks Do you leave the viewer open while

Re: Faster way to access Standard, Title, Section, etc

2007-08-09 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Thu, 2007-08-09 at 14:24 +0200, Daniel Janzon wrote: Hi All, I'm writing quite a lot of documents in LyX and am starting to get tired of moving the mouse to the upper left selection box in order to select what kind of text to write (Standard, Title, Section, LyX-Code, etc). Is there any

Re: Disertations on quiz questions and answers

2007-09-24 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 12:53 -0400, Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, I've created module quizzes for my Troubleshooting Course. I'd like to create a document containing the quiz questions, answers and a disertation on why the correct answer is correct. This document would be given to course

Re: Layouts for education?

2009-11-16 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Mon, 2009-11-16 at 08:24 -0500, Myriam Abramson wrote: I'm looking for quizzes and exams layouts. I'm presently using AcroTex. Depending on your requirements, standard layouts may work fine. I've always used the vanilla article form with multicol (when needed), and a few small

Another wishlist item?

2009-12-07 Thread Kenward Vaughan
Don't know if this has been asked before, but I'd like to be able to take my images with me... so I wondered whether there had been any thoughts about an export to package option which would amount to creating a subdirectory under /tmp or ~ (or whatever Windows uses) into which all referenced

Re: unit package

2010-01-30 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Sat, 2010-01-30 at 10:28 +0100, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: Is the package \unit for the correct setting of units (kg etc) build in in LyX or do I have to use ERT? I did not find it in the various menues Wolfgang Don't know about that, but I just recently discovered \dfrac and others

Re: why braces were automatically added to equation after I reopen Lyx file

2010-03-08 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Tue, 2010-03-09 at 03:06 +0100, Uwe Stöhr wrote: Am 08.03.2010 08:16, schrieb Asm warrior: I have equation like below: \begin{equation} ^{C}v_{B}=^{C}(^{U}V_{B})\end{equation} but when I save the lyx file, then reopen it, it became \begin{equation}

Re: Help: Newbie writing a report- Help in drawing diagrams particularly circuits

2010-07-15 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Thu, 2010-07-15 at 07:59 -0600, Rob Oakes wrote: Hi Bob, The best way to create specific types of drawings for a LyX document is to use a program designed for that purpose (like a circuit diagram editor) and then exporting to an appropriate image format (PDF, PNG, JPEG, etc.). There may

Re: using different themes on same presentation with beamer

2010-09-09 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Thu, 2010-09-09 at 16:25 +0300, Necati Demir wrote: Hello, I am creating a presentation with beamer. In some slides i want to use 1) different theme, 2) custom theme, 3) no theme. How can i do that? If all else is the same, you might be able to generate separate pdf files for each

Getting XeTeX/LyX 2.0 to work with my docs...

2010-11-11 Thread Kenward Vaughan
Hi, I've decided to give XeTeX a go as well as LyX 2.0, so have installed both on my Linux system (Debian Sid). First thing to do was to open a recent exam and change the settings to use XeTeX as the means of output, as well as the default viewer to XeTeX's pdf version. When I try to view the

Re: Getting XeTeX/LyX 2.0 to work with my docs...

2010-11-11 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Thu, 2010-11-11 at 15:31 -0800, Kenward Vaughan wrote: ... Removing the XeTeX parts from the document makes it all go away. :( Does anyone have thoughts about this problem? One other area I perhaps should include is the preamble. Is one of the packages incompatible with XeTeX

Re: Getting XeTeX/LyX 2.0 to work with my docs...

2010-11-12 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Fri, 2010-11-12 at 09:50 +, Mukhtar Ullah wrote: Kenward Vaughan kay_jay at earthlink.net writes: On Thu, 2010-11-11 at 15:31 -0800, Kenward Vaughan wrote: ... But now something else was noticed... all my beautiful eps figures have been rasterized! Augh! They are hideous

Re: Getting XeTeX/LyX 2.0 to work with my docs...

2010-11-12 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Fri, 2010-11-12 at 16:43 +0100, Pavel Sanda wrote: Kenward Vaughan wrote: Ah. OK. Knowing that, does anyone have a suggestion for the transformation? I thought pdf could be a wrapper about an eps figure... If so, which utility is a good one? if you write epstopdf on your console

Re: Getting XeTeX/LyX 2.0 to work with my docs...

2010-11-13 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Fri, 2010-11-12 at 21:07 +0100, Pavel Sanda wrote: Kenward Vaughan wrote: On Fri, 2010-11-12 at 16:43 +0100, Pavel Sanda wrote: Kenward Vaughan wrote: Ah. OK. Knowing that, does anyone have a suggestion for the transformation? I thought pdf could be a wrapper about an eps

LyX 2.0 and framed package

2011-01-12 Thread Kenward Vaughan
I'm updating my class syllabus, which has a mandatory statement which I normally frame as follows: \begin{framed}Students with disabilities who believe they may need accommodations in this class are encouraged to contact Supportive Services in FACE 16, 395-4334, as soon as possible to better

Re: LyX 2.0 and framed package

2011-01-12 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Wed, 2011-01-12 at 22:02 -0800, Kenward Vaughan wrote: ... The .dvi file *is* written out, and I can view it from the temporary directory /tmp/lyx_tmpdir... The framed area IS framed, and all else seems OK from a brief scan of the result. Any ideas what/where the issue is? One thing I

Re: LyX 2.0 and framed package

2011-01-13 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Thu, 2011-01-13 at 08:06 +0100, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Kenward Vaughan wrote: I'm updating my class syllabus, which has a mandatory statement which I normally frame as follows: \begin{framed}Students with disabilities who believe they may need accommodations in this class

Re: LyX 2.0 and framed package

2011-01-14 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Thu, 2011-01-13 at 10:13 +0100, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Kenward Vaughan wrote: A snip of the file is attached. Apparently, nesting framed into quote doesn't work. It works vice versa (nesting quote into framed). I don't think this is a LyX problem, or anything that can be prevented

getting LyX to see spellchecker

2011-01-20 Thread Kenward Vaughan
I'm a tad befuddled over this one... I suddenly discovered that I have no spellchecker, with either the system current version of LyX (1.6.7) or 2.0-b3 (I trade out ~/.lyx directories). I'm running Debian/Sid. I have both ispell and aspell installed. I've reconfigured LyX several times to no

Re: getting LyX to see spellchecker

2011-01-20 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 18:03 +0100, Stephan Witt wrote: Am 20.01.2011 um 17:56 schrieb Kenward Vaughan: I'm a tad befuddled over this one... I suddenly discovered that I have no spellchecker, with either the system current version of LyX (1.6.7) or 2.0-b3 (I trade out ~/.lyx directories

Re: getting LyX to see spellchecker

2011-01-20 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 19:33 +0100, Stephan Witt wrote: Am 20.01.2011 um 18:33 schrieb Kenward Vaughan: On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 18:03 +0100, Stephan Witt wrote: Am 20.01.2011 um 17:56 schrieb Kenward Vaughan: I'm a tad befuddled over this one... I suddenly discovered that I have

Re: getting LyX to see spellchecker

2011-01-21 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 23:39 +0100, Stephan Witt wrote: Am 20.01.2011 um 19:39 schrieb Kenward Vaughan: On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 19:33 +0100, Stephan Witt wrote: Am 20.01.2011 um 18:33 schrieb Kenward Vaughan: On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 18:03 +0100, Stephan Witt wrote: Am 20.01.2011 um 17:56

Re: getting LyX to see spellchecker

2011-01-21 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Fri, 2011-01-21 at 22:01 +0100, Stephan Witt wrote: ... I built the beta version myself and installed it using whatever defaults came with it. If spellchecking needs to be enabled, then it seems this ought to be a default instead of an option. One thing to note: The default is

A slash o ?? Cannot get it...

2011-02-02 Thread Kenward Vaughan
Being a perfectionist, I'd love to get the name Bronsted properly spelled, with a slash through the o. Using LyX, I've inserted \o in ERT, but get an undefined control sequence error: ...Define a \inputencoding{latin1}{Br\onsted

Trying to combine articles into one file...

2013-12-21 Thread Kenward Vaughan
Hello, I'm planning to have my chemistry class create an in-house journal as a way of reporting their lab experiment results. Using the article class with a title/author/abstract/etc. seems to work well with that format, and I've successfully used psjoin and a book script I found online to

Re: Trying to combine articles into one file...

2013-12-21 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Sat, 21 Dec 2013 10:44:50 +0100 Jürgen Spitzmüller sp...@lyx.org wrote: Kenward Vaughan wrote: Is there any way to accomplish this easily? I appreciate any thoughts people may have! http://www.ctan.org/pkg/combine There is no LyX layout for this class AFAIK, but it should be fairly

Printing is weird... funny hash lines

2009-02-23 Thread Kenward Vaughan
Sorry, I don't know whether this is LyX or LaTeX. When I print out documents generated by LyX, I see weird marks on the paper not seen in the screen copy. They are horizontal, very small, and seem to mark the heights of (some of) the characters on the page. Those capitals which have it are most

Re: Printing is weird... funny hash lines

2009-02-24 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Tuesday 24 February 2009, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Kenward Vaughan wrote: Sorry, I don't know whether this is LyX or LaTeX. When I print out documents generated by LyX, I see weird marks on the paper not seen in the screen copy. They are horizontal, very small, and seem to ... Can you post

shifting a table outside margins?

2009-08-23 Thread Kenward Vaughan
Is there any way to force a table to move to the left outside the normal margins? I have a table in a document that really won't fit into a size any smaller than about 7 inches across, but I don't want margins to be that wide on letter paper. The other way I see attacking this would be to rotate

Re: shifting a table outside margins?

2009-08-23 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Sun, 2009-08-23 at 22:54 -0400, Andrew Sullivan wrote: On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 02:54:21PM -0700, Kenward Vaughan wrote: Is there any way to force a table to move to the left outside the normal margins? I have a table in a document that really won't fit into a size any smaller than about

Re: shifting a table outside margins?

2009-08-23 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Sun, 2009-08-23 at 23:13 -0400, Andrew Sullivan wrote: On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 08:01:32PM -0700, Kenward Vaughan wrote: OK, but I don't know where this goes. There is no setting under the table settings which addresses this. In my LyX (1.6.2 on Mac OX X 10.5.x) I can C-click a table

Re: [Survey] Explicit subject tag on this list

2009-09-17 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Thu, 2009-09-17 at 17:52 +0200, Julio Rojas wrote: Not a lot of people interested on the subject??? I went ahead and took the survey (no opinion). I wanted to point out that filtering the list is easy without such a catch. I have evolution check the recipients for lyx-users which snags

Spacing between table cell contents and borders?

2009-09-25 Thread Kenward Vaughan
I've been finishing off a periodic table which I can insert into any classroom document, and am struggling to get the elements' masses to center in the cells. When I get up to numbers such as 123.45 it becomes evident that the cells have a preconceived notion about how far **left** they will place

Re: Spacing between table cell contents and borders?

2009-09-25 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Fri, 2009-09-25 at 11:20 -0400, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Kenward Vaughan wrote: I've been finishing off a periodic table which I can insert into any classroom document, and am struggling to get the elements' masses to center in the cells. When I get up to numbers such as 123.45 it becomes

Powerdot slides off screen--no control of orientation?

2009-09-27 Thread Kenward Vaughan
Hi all, I'm trying powerdot as a quick way to create some slides, but have a problem of the slide being created in landscape mode but placed on portrait paper (if that makes any sense). I've tried putting nopsheader, orient=landscape, mode=present, paper=screen into the class options to no

Re: Powerdot slides off screen--no control of orientation?

2009-09-27 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Sun, 2009-09-27 at 17:16 -0700, Kenward Vaughan wrote: Hi all, I'm trying powerdot as a quick way to create some slides, but have a problem of the slide being created in landscape mode but placed on portrait paper (if that makes any sense). I've tried putting nopsheader, orient

Re: Powerdot slides off screen--no control of orientation?

2009-09-28 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Sun, 2009-09-27 at 18:06 -0700, Phil wrote: For me, it works only if remove option.nopsheader I've tried putting nopsheader, orient=landscape, mode=present, paper=screen into the class options to no avail. Page layout is greyed out as well. Well, part of the problem stemmed

Re: Powerdot slides off screen--no control of orientation?

2009-09-28 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Mon, 2009-09-28 at 12:59 -0500, Les Denham wrote: On Monday 28 September 2009 11:02:11 Kenward Vaughan wrote: ... I don't know where the problem is except that perhaps the way things get translated from LyX to LaTeX to the pdf files gets messed up from whatever standard powerdot needs

Re: References

2004-06-16 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Sun, Jun 13, 2004 at 06:00:54PM +0200, Roland Schmitz wrote: Hi, is it possible to insert a cross reference to a chapter, section or subsection, or even to a figure, without inserting a marker for every heading? I'm not sure exactly what you are thinking about--it struck me that you

Re: References

2004-06-16 Thread Kenward Vaughan
Mittwoch, 16. Juni 2004 22:02 schrieb Kenward Vaughan: I'm not sure exactly what you are thinking about--it struck me that you might mean inserting a marker for every chapter (for example) in order to reference one in the middle somewhere?? If so, then no, you don't have to mark all those

Re: A newbie approaches LyX

2004-08-02 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 10:37:01AM -0400, Colin J. Williams wrote: Uwe St?hr wrote: ... I have three problems with LyX all, I suspect, because I don't know ^ I count four. ;-) I can address two of those. :( where to look in the docs. ... 2. Produce HTML from the

Re: A newbie approaches LyX

2004-08-02 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 09:15:38AM -0700, Kenward Vaughan wrote: ... You can add a second converter to refine the HTML output. For instance I have one defined for HTML2 which has the following: latex2html -no_navigation -no_subdir -split 0 -show_section_numbers $$i This eliminates a TOC

Re: Newbie - Chemistry

2004-09-11 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Sat, Sep 11, 2004 at 01:01:04PM -0500, Jack Gill wrote: I'm a two-week newbie to Lyx. I am a chemist and am interested in using Lyx to write papers that contain chemical structures. I would appreciate any pointers to resources. I used to use a LaTeX package (ochem) for drawing my

Re: Nested enumerate in columns

2004-10-24 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 07:31:25AM +0100, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All Some time ago, Herbert provided here an example for me to achieve the following enumerate environment in columns: (a) First item; (c) Third item; (c) Second item; (d) Fourth item. Now, I am trying to

Re: Nested enumerate in columns

2004-10-24 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 06:26:25PM +0100, Paul Smith wrote: On Sun, 24 Oct 2004 08:51:50 -0700, Kenward Vaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Use multicol package at the beginning of the first nested item, then the end of the last nested item. 1. A line of text. (a) ERT

Re: Classes or packages suitable for solutions of texts/exams

2004-10-26 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 05:16:12PM +0100, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All Does somebody here know about classes or packages suitable to produce resolutions for academic tests and exams? Thanks in advance, Paul Depends on what you want. I simply use the article class to create exams, with a

Re: Uses for LyX

2005-01-01 Thread Kenward Vaughan
Hi Jack, On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 02:23:31PM -0600, Jack T. Gill wrote: Thanks to Rich and others for their comments. I'm a chemist and am currently interim chair of a chemistry department at a medium-sized, state supported university. LyX intrigues me as it seems to offer the potential of

Re: newpage in twocolumn style

2005-01-17 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 10:40:24PM +0100, Uwe Stöhr wrote: Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: If I use newpage in twocolumn style, I do not get the following text on a new page, but in the right column. This the correct LaTeX behaviour. how can I get the text on a new page? Use two

Re: latex2html doub t

2005-02-04 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 02:07:39PM -0800, Sergio Basurto Juarez wrote: Hello, I have installed debian testing on my machine, I install lyx also, my doubt what can I do in order to make lyx to convert my lyx files to html?, because debian does not have latex2html by default. can I mget

Re: What to teach first: LyX or LaTeX ?

2005-02-25 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 06:25:42PM +0100, Nicolas Ferré wrote: Hi, Some years ago, as a PhD student, I decided to learn LaTeX to be able to write scientific stuff directly on my workstation. A few time later, I found LyX and I am using it now for the last 5 years. Now that I am on the

Re: Superscript Positioning

2005-03-02 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 08:13:41AM +1000, Matt Davies wrote: On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 14:32 -0500, Stephen Buonopane wrote: I would like to clearly distinguish between two sets of superscript by positioning them at successive heights/offsets from the baseline. Math mode allows you to

Re: Syllabus class (LaTeX/LyX)?

2005-05-14 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Fri, May 13, 2005 at 11:03:29AM -0700, Stefano Franchi wrote: Is anyone here using LaTeX/LyX to produce syllaby for classes? If so, do you use a standard class, your own producced class, or just a template? I looked on Ctan, but could not find anything, and as I am about to start

Re: Syllabus class (LaTeX/LyX)?

2005-05-14 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Sat, May 14, 2005 at 07:07:17AM -0700, Kenward Vaughan wrote: ... http://www2.bc.cc.ca.us/kvaughan/chem11/syllabus/SpringClassSyllabus.lyx Ooops. Should have been http://www2.bc.cc.ca.us/kvaughan/chem11/SpringClassSyllabus.lyx Sorry. Kenward -- In a completely rational society

Re: Excel data sheets

2005-08-02 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 09:06:55AM -0400, samar j. singh wrote: ... You may find it useful to try what I do normally. I've added a few more details about the sequence I have to go through to get this to work. 1. open your xls file with gnumeric or open office. 2. Select the requisite

Re: Heretical question?

2005-08-02 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 12:00:20PM -0400, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Michael Wojcik wrote: Paul A. Rubin wrote: Can anyone summarize pros/cons of the various options listed in this thread? You're all using (and most are actively developing) LyX, so I assume you see some advantages to LyX,

Re: sub/superscipts

2000-07-06 Thread Kenward Vaughan
to line them up nicely if you get picky about it.. :). HTH, Kenward Vaughan Chemistry Bakersfield College (Thankfully off for the summer! ;-) -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please! --

Re: sub/superscipts

2000-07-06 Thread Kenward Vaughan
, at which point I use the Ochem package and my macros. Kenward On Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 09:31:44PM +, Herbert Voss wrote: Kenward Vaughan wrote: On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 09:16:53PM +0200, Martijn Brouwer wrote: Hello, Is there an other way to insert sub/superscipts than going

Re: Feature Suggestion: Highlighting large blocks of text

2000-08-02 Thread Kenward Vaughan
I usually handle them with the ole' shift-arrow or shift-pg. up[down] combo followed by a ctrl-X, etc. Hard to guess if either way is faster, since I don't get slowed down trying to grab my mouse (which is often in the cabinet eating cheese crackers... :) Kenward On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at

Re: Surefire method to crash Lyx 1.15fix1

2000-08-08 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 09:57:16AM +0300, David Martin wrote: I have just compiled and installed 1.15fix1 under Redhat Linux 6.2 x86 with version 0.89 of the XForms library on my new laptop. About midnight last night I discovered, much to my surprise, that an accidental middle mouse button

Re: Graphics insert - question

2000-08-19 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 10:13:34AM +, thomas schönhoff wrote: 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

Re: booktabs -- please, comment

2000-08-25 Thread Kenward Vaughan
Sounds like someone's opinion to me. Depending on the type of document, audience, etc., they should be perfectly acceptable and serve distinct purposes (as your example implies). I don't recall ever seeing rules on their use in my grammar book either... :) Kenward On Fri, Aug 25, 2000 at

Re: Debian package

2000-09-20 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 10:17:23PM +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote: BTW Debian 2.2 doesn't contain the newest version of Lyx ... the latest is typically in the unstable area (Woody). I wonder that Debian includes LyX at all. After all, LyX is linked to the Dark Side by using xforms. (ok, I

Re: form document

2000-11-15 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 10:17:55PM +0100, 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. My "hack" for underlined spaces is to define them using Ctrl-space

Re: form document

2000-11-15 Thread Kenward Vaughan
Ha! I'll have to give that one a try. I've fallen in love with Lyx after finding out how easy it is to create very complex exams in my field (chemistry). And there's so much more to learn... Kenward On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 06:42:33PM -0500, Roger Williams wrote: ... My favourite approach to

Old pkg. no good-changes in file format over last year??

2001-01-16 Thread Kenward Vaughan
Hi, I've been completely mystified by the flukey behavior of a drawing package called ochem that I use for an organic class. It worked quite well 8-12 mo. ago for me, but now (with class starting tonight... :) I've suddenly discovered some old files which no longer get processed correctly, as

Grr... Is this _Real_?? Solution - Re: Old pkg. no good-changes...

2001-01-17 Thread Kenward Vaughan
stumped... Kenward On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 10:38:01AM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: "Kenward" == Kenward Vaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Kenward The Latex package (ochem) first runs latex once on the Kenward exported file, then pulls information out for its section

Re: Can I pipe a text region to a shell command?

2001-01-21 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 01:35:25PM +0100, Jan Ulrich Hasecke wrote: Hi! Is it possible to pipe a text region to a shell command like wc? I need to know how many chars a paragraph uses, so I would like to mark it and then pipe the text to wc. From a non-guru (I expect there's a more

trying 1.1.16.. custom export??

2001-02-26 Thread Kenward Vaughan
Hi, I've DL'd 1.1.16fix1 and compiled/installed it into /usr/local to stay ahead of the older 1.1.15 package already installed by .deb oackage. One of the major things I need to accomplish in my work is a custom export using a script which before ran perfectly well under 1.1.15. However it

Re: trying 1.1.16.. custom export??

2001-02-26 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 12:54:22AM -0800, Kenward Vaughan wrote: Hi, I've DL'd 1.1.16fix1 and compiled/installed it into /usr/local to stay ahead of the older 1.1.15 package already installed by .deb oackage. One of the major things I need to accomplish in my work is a custom export using

Bug/change in exporting? was Re: trying 1.1.16.. custom export??

2001-02-26 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 09:32:00AM -0800, Kenward Vaughan wrote: On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 12:54:22AM -0800, Kenward Vaughan wrote: ... I've DL'd 1.1.16fix1 and compiled/installed it into /usr/local to stay ahead of the older 1.1.15 package already installed by .deb oackage. One

Re: Bug/change in exporting? was Re: trying 1.1.16.. custom export??

2001-02-27 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 12:55:52PM +0200, Dekel Tsur wrote: On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 03:45:42PM -0800, Kenward Vaughan wrote: # # FORMATS SECTION ## # \format "ochem" "tex" "Ochem" "" \viewer "och

The offending line in export. was Re: Bug/change in exporting? ...

2001-02-27 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 01:26:35AM -0800, Kenward Vaughan wrote: ... 1) If I simply export the lyx file to Latex, the Latex file works by itself with the script in a term window. 2) If I first try to export through the converter script (which fails), then export to Latex, the "new&q

Solved: Re: The offending line in export.

2001-02-27 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 11:33:59AM -0800, Kenward Vaughan wrote: ... The offending line in the "bad" file is: \def\input@path{{/home/daddy/Chemistry/Ochem//}} If I comment this out using %% then the script succeeds. Surely someone knows what this does, its purpose, etc??

Re: Finding figures

2001-03-01 Thread Kenward Vaughan
Herbert, Now that I understand the function of this line :) can it be used multiple times in the same document? I have repository directories for several types of things which I use in documents found in different places. Thanks, Kenward On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 01:24:31PM +, Herbert Voss

[Re: OT: Any scriptwriting (movies) software out there?]

2001-03-08 Thread Kenward Vaughan
Does anyone out here in lyx-list-land :) use these layouts, and wouldn't mind "chatting" with Jonathan about it? He knows nothing about lyx in general (I pointed him to the homepage). Kenward - Forwarded message from Kenward Vaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Date: Thu, 8 Mar 200

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

2001-05-05 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 01:08:15PM +0200, Herbert Voss wrote: 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

Re: Chemical substance in LaTeX

2001-05-11 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 08:37:33PM +0300, 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

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