Re: Why a processing error under Windows but not Linux?

2020-03-05 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On 3/5/20 5:39 PM, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: On 3/5/20 8:25 PM, Kenward Vaughan wrote: Hi all, I have my students using LyX for their organic chemistry lab reports.  I use a pretty standard installation at home under Debian, while most of them use Windows or Mac.  One student

Why a processing error under Windows but not Linux?

2020-03-05 Thread Kenward Vaughan
Hi all, I have my students using LyX for their organic chemistry lab reports.  I use a pretty standard installation at home under Debian, while most of them use Windows or Mac.  One student in particular tried using an example file I posted for them, added material to it, then ran into

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

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

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 n

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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 an

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

2011-01-13 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

2011-01-13 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

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

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

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

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

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

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 > > > > transfor

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...

2010-11-12 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...

2010-11-12 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Fri, 2010-11-12 at 09:50 +, Mukhtar Ullah wrote: > Kenward Vaughan 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 ras

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 on

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

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

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

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

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

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

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: 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: 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.).

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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

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

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

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: 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

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

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

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: 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: 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

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 > > wh

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

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

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 putti

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

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

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 n

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

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

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

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

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

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 >

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