Re: Plain Text that is not Plain

2009-01-27 Thread Les Denham
On Tuesday 27 January 2009 03:52:57 pm Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Jürgen Spitzmüller writes: > > Les Denham wrote: > >> Is there a way of making the quotes strictly ASCII?  I'm getting into > >> trouble with a mailing list which insists on plain ASCII text.

Re: Plain Text that is not Plain

2009-01-27 Thread Les Denham
On Tuesday 27 January 2009, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > Les Denham wrote: > > Is there a way of making the quotes strictly ASCII?  I'm getting into > > trouble with a mailing list which insists on plain ASCII text. > > Not without hacking the source, I'm afraid. >

Plain Text that is not Plain

2009-01-27 Thread Les Denham
Since upgrading from LyX 1.5.4 to LyX 1.6.1 I have found that Plain Text exports from LyX are no longer Plain Text, especially when it comes to quotes. The difference is shown in the two attachments, one from my office computer, which is still running 1.5.4, and one from my laptop, which is ru

Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?

2009-01-27 Thread Les Denham
On Tuesday 27 January 2009, Rainer M Krug wrote: > >> I am using Ubuntu Hardy, texlive 2007-13 > > > > AFAIK, you need at least TeXLive-2008 for SyncTeX. > > Thank explains - now I only need some pointers, on how I can install > it on Ubuntu Rainer, There seem to be some problems integrating it w

Re: Powerdot and 1.6.1

2009-01-20 Thread Les Denham
On Tuesday 20 January 2009 02:00:13 pm Les Denham wrote: > I upgraded to 1.6.1 from 1.5.4 and from texlive-2007 to texlive-2008 over > the weekend, and now find that my powerdot presentations will not compile. Well, I solved my own problem. For some reason, the upgrade of texlive left behi

Powerdot and 1.6.1

2009-01-20 Thread Les Denham
All, I upgraded to 1.6.1 from 1.5.4 and from texlive-2007 to texlive-2008 over the weekend, and now find that my powerdot presentations will not compile. Even the sample presentations supplied with powerdot do not work. The error with powerdor-example.lyx is: File ended while scanning use of

Re: How to make wide margins on one page with a graphic

2008-12-28 Thread Les Denham
On Friday 26 December 2008 23:26:30 Steve Litt wrote: > I'm anticipating putting the graphic right on the page, NOT in a float. Steve, If I were doing that, I'd put a blank page in my Lyx document (or perhaps a small version of the graphic, to make the last step easier), export as a PDF file, p

Re: (Slightly OT): Can't install texlive on gentoo system

2008-11-28 Thread Les Denham
On Friday 28 November 2008 15:26:11 Andrés Becerra Sandoval wrote: > On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 6:42 AM, Hellmut Weber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Lukas, hi Les > > thanks for your answers ;-) > > Hellmut, > > I have texlive-core-2008-r4 and lyx-1.6.0 correctly installed on > gentoo linux (32 bi

Re: The index numbers overlap with the titles

2008-11-26 Thread Les Denham
On Wednesday 26 November 2008, Laser Yuan wrote: > Could anybody help me? This time I attached the lyx code bellow, which > demonstrate the bug. I'm hoping for a quick response, since I'm supposed to > turn in the thesis in days. Thanks for your help! > This works for me. Look at the Preamble. -

Re: The index numbers overlap with the titles

2008-11-25 Thread Les Denham
On Tuesday 25 November 2008 07:59:37 am Laser Yuan wrote: > Hi, > > As you know, book{ams} layout can automatically general "Content", "List of > Figure" etc. But sometimes "List of Figures" has the index numbers overlap > on the titles of those figures. I exact one page pdf(below link) to show > t

Re: Subfig(ure) in class Memoir

2008-11-24 Thread Les Denham
On Monday 24 November 2008, Johan Tegin wrote: > How to get subfigure captions in memoir without resorting to ERT? > > I am merging some documents into my thesis, and some of them contain > subfigures. Now, the thesis class (kthesis.cls) is based upon memoir, which > seem to have an issue with subf

Re: A multi-volume document?

2008-11-21 Thread Les Denham
On Thursday 20 November 2008, Mikhail Teterin wrote: > Hello! > > I'm working with a document, thats too big for a single-volume book. > > Is there a way I can work with it as one document, but tell LyX to produce > several PDF files for printing? > > Or do I have to split the document into several

Re: network paths: windows vs. linux

2008-11-12 Thread Les Denham
On Monday 10 November 2008, Eran Kaplinsky wrote: > All my LyX files, images, etc are stored at work on a network folder > > mapped on a windows box to X:\. And so my files contain code such as: > > \includegraphics{x:/images/bubblegum.jpg} > > \includepdf{x:/pdfs/bubble} > > My question is how do

Re: Problem with geometry package (urgent)

2008-11-05 Thread Les Denham
On Wednesday 05 November 2008, a e wrote: > Thank you for answering. Here I post a minimal document Looks right to me when I generate a PDF. -- Les ~~ Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosoph

Re: Word processor bashing

2008-11-05 Thread Les Denham
On Tuesday 04 November 2008, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > I'm moving this discussion to the users list: > > Patrick Camilleri wrote: > >   Though I find LaTeX + LyX to be a very good typesetting system, I don’t > > understand all this bashing at other word processors in your > > ‘Introduction to LyX’ documen

Re: Problem with geometry package (urgent)

2008-11-04 Thread Les Denham
On Tuesday 04 November 2008, a e wrote: > Sorry if this has an stupid answer but I'm burned out triying to set up the > correct margins for my document. I'm using Lyx 1.5.5 working with  two > sided document (Document->Page layout-> two sided) (book class) and using > "geometry" package with the fo

Re: How to install LaTeX packages

2008-10-30 Thread Les Denham
On Thursday 30 October 2008, Keith Roberts wrote: > On Thu, 30 Oct 2008, Paul A. Rubin wrote: > > To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org > > From: Paul A. Rubin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: Re: How to install LaTeX packages > > > > Keith Roberts wrote: > >> How do I go about installing new/required LaTeX

Re: Number of documents prepared with LyX? (Was: Frustrated user)

2008-10-27 Thread Les Denham
On Friday 24 October 2008, Christian Ridderström wrote: > Interesting question... how many such documents have been written using > LyX? > > I've written something like 10-20 documents (not counting presentations > created with LyX). If ten documents is a typical number, and LyX has > hundreds of u

Re: dot/graphviz

2008-10-07 Thread Les Denham
On Tuesday 07 October 2008, Eran Kaplinsky wrote: > Can anyone guide me how to incorporate dot graphs in my LyX documents? > Is there a wiki on this? > > Thanks, > Eran I have not used graphviz, but according to its website it can output postscript and PDF, either of which can be put in a figure

Re: Location of packages

2008-09-24 Thread Les Denham
On Wednesday 24 September 2008 09:18:05 am rgheck wrote: > E. Kaplan wrote: > > Thanks, RH. I placed the xcolor folder (with xcolor.sty in it) in the > > homologous place to where I found it in my Windows Miktex 2.7 > > installation, where the same Lyx file works just fine. The other > > latex pa

Re: Lyx 1.5.4 lof caption length

2008-09-22 Thread Les Denham
On Monday 22 September 2008, Daniel Lohmann wrote: > On 22.09.2008, at 16:51, Fil wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Please could you advise if you can set the caption length in LOF in > > the TOC?? . I'm using lyx 1.5.4. > > > > The following might help you if you put it in the preamble. > > It redefines \ca

Ike

2008-09-14 Thread Les Denham
Just a short note to those on the LyX list with whom I have corresponded. I live in Houston, and have come through hurricane Ike practically unscathed. We lost electric power on Friday night when the center of hurricane was still 200 miles away. The eye of the storm passed about 40 miles east of

Re: Times Roman vs Latin Modern Roman Font

2008-08-27 Thread Les Denham
On Wednesday 27 August 2008, Abe Lau wrote: > Hi all, > I am wondering what's the difference between Times Roman and Latin Modern > Roman font. > > I have read from the mailing list that the Latin Modern Roman (lmodern) > package is preferred over the default Computer Modern Roman. However, I > ca

Re: Kudos to LyX Development Team

2008-08-26 Thread Les Denham
On Tuesday 26 August 2008, Bruce Pourciau wrote: > Just finished a 45 page article with lots of figures, mathematics, > citations, and bibtex generated references. Not even the tiniest > screw up. Perfect. Thank you, thank you, to the LyX development team! > I second that. I just finished a 95 pag

Re: Logo in Presentation Beamer

2008-08-26 Thread Les Denham
On Tuesday 26 August 2008 02:04:33 pm Paul A. Rubin wrote: > I don't use powerdot.  Does it not put a slide title at the top of the > screen?  If so, this would seem to block the title (or vice versa). > Paul, Most layouts for Powerdot do put the title at the top of the slide -- but they write i

Re: Logo in Presentation Beamer

2008-08-26 Thread Les Denham
On Wednesday 20 August 2008, Waluyo Adi Siswanto wrote: > Hi All > > In my presentation [using presentation (beamer) class], I want to put two > logos in every page: One on the top-left (university logo) and another one > on the top-right (research group logo) > How can I do that, or any suggestion

Re: Excel graphs into Lyx

2008-08-08 Thread Les Denham
On Friday 08 August 2008, Konrad Blum wrote: > PS: The people who have the free time to learn a bit gnuplot might want to > export the Excel data into the CVS format, and use the gnuplot graphics, > which can use also jpg or fig or whatsoever... You might also consider Grace, which (in my opinion)

Re: Interesting thread on Slashdot

2008-07-30 Thread Les Denham
On Wednesday 30 July 2008, Dotan Cohen wrote: > Is LyX only good for writing books, then? I use LyX for most writing of any kind. I find it most useful for writing technical reports, where I find on average it reduces the total time I spend on the writing by about 50%. My most recent report, w

Re: Excel graphs into Lyx

2008-07-28 Thread Les Denham
On Mon, 2008-07-28 at 01:55 -0700, timtheenchanter wrote: > Sorry if this question has been answered before but what is the best > way to > import excel graphs (Charts) into Lyx. If I convert them to a .jpg for > example the quality of the finished document is poor. The new capabilities in 1.6 wi

Re: Table Alignment

2008-07-18 Thread Les Denham
On Friday 18 July 2008, Paulina Restrepo wrote: > I'm using Lyx 1.5.3 on a Mac, with Mac OS X version 10.4.11. > > I have a table inside a float, and the word "Measure" on the table > looks aligned in Lyx, > but when I compile into pdf it moves up. I haven't been able to fix > its alignment. Here i

Re: missing float.sty on default install

2008-07-08 Thread Les Denham
On Tuesday 08 July 2008, Hussein Elgridly wrote: > I've come to LyX from the Windows version, and have just installed LyX > from the Ubuntu repositories. I'm running Ubuntu 8.04, which gave me LyX > 1.5.3. Firing up a .lyx document which I made in Windows, I tried > exporting to PDF and it complain

Re: Lyx for business

2008-06-22 Thread Les Denham
On Sun, 2008-06-22 at 11:32 +0100, Graham Smith wrote: > A rather vague question, but would anyone like to share their > experiences of using Lyx in a small business situation, or point me > towards some web links, with maybe example templates. Graham, I've been trying to do this for some yea

Re: Several questions on "memoir" style with "fancy" layout

2008-06-05 Thread Les Denham
On Thursday 05 June 2008, Mikhail Teterin wrote: > Hello! > > I'm preparing a book using the "memoir" style with the "fancy" page-layout. > > > Here are my questions: > > 1. Each chapter's name is of style Chapter, naturally. What's the correct > style for the description, however? Ideally, I'd

Re: +/- in a table too large

2008-05-20 Thread Les Denham
On Tuesday 20 May 2008 12:36:01 pm Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > Have a look at the document settings. I can´t see any strange things there, > and the error stays after taking out the preamble entrances I can see exactly what you are talking about. The +/- symbol appears too large. But only if yo

Re: Default Float placement is pathetic

2008-05-20 Thread Les Denham
On Tuesday 20 May 2008, G. Milde wrote: > Thanks. Encouraged by this and following an old tradition on this list, I > include a link to Herbert Voß' "Tips and Tricks" pages: > > All about floats: >   http://www.texnik.de/cgi-bin/mainFAQ.cgi?file=floats/floats > > Float parameters: >   http://www.te

Re: Default Float placement is pathetic

2008-05-20 Thread Les Denham
On Tuesday 20 May 2008, G. Milde wrote: > The counters topnumber and bottomnumber determine how many floats are > allowed on one page and the commands \topfraction, \bottomfraction and > \textfraction determine how much space they might take. > > Change with e.g. \setcounter{topnumber}{4} > or \ren

Re: how do I embed all fonts using pdflatex on windows?

2008-05-15 Thread Les Denham
On Thursday 15 May 2008 10:54:44 am Nathan Miller wrote: > I know basically nothing about all this font business, but naively it seems > like some program should just be able to see which fonts are not embedded, > and then add them to the pdf. Is there a basic reason this wouldn't work? I think ps

Re: how do I embed all fonts using pdflatex on windows?

2008-05-15 Thread Les Denham
On Thursday 15 May 2008, Les Denham wrote: > The solution is to fix the original figure, or, if you can't do > that, convert it to a raster image at a suitable resolution for the final > document. With a few minutes research, I noted the following from the ps2pdf documentation

Re: how do I embed all fonts using pdflatex on windows?

2008-05-15 Thread Les Denham
On Thursday 15 May 2008, Nathan Miller wrote: > I'm checking whether the fonts are embedded using Acrobat (properties) and > pdffonts. There are a scary number of fonts (~100) and most are not > embedded. In my experience most non-embedded fonts with LyX documents come from figures in the documen

Re: problems with Beamer presentations

2008-05-15 Thread Les Denham
On Thursday 15 May 2008, nicolas roy wrote: > BUT : if i export in ps, and the by hand use ps2pdf, then it works ! I > guess thus, that the problem comes from the command dvipdfm that lyx > seems to use. > How can i change it ? > Notice than, with beamer, using "export ps" and by hand "ps2pdf" solv

Re: problems with Beamer presentations

2008-05-14 Thread Les Denham
On Wednesday 14 May 2008, nicolas roy wrote: > More precisely, when i force the programm to choose the document class > powerdot, i have an alert : > > the layout file requested by this document > powerdot.layout > is not usable. This is probably because a Latex class or style file > required by it

Re: problems with Beamer presentations

2008-05-14 Thread Les Denham
On Wednesday 14 May 2008, nicolas roy wrote: > Sorry, i did not precise : > i'm under Ubuntu 7.10, with Lyx 1.5.1 > > nicolas > > nicolas roy a écrit : > > Hi everybody, > > > > I'm trying to use the beamer presentation style and encounter several > > problems. Of course, like always, i waited for

Re: Bogus responses to my lyx-users@lists.lyx.org posts

2008-05-06 Thread Les Denham
On Tuesday 06 May 2008, Steve Litt wrote: > Since May 1, 2008, every time I post to lyx-users@lists.lyx.org, I get what > looks like an autoresponder email from [EMAIL PROTECTED], > telling me to check their FAQ and then if that doesn't help to submit a > trouble ticket. Could someone please unsubs

Re: Texlive for lyx

2008-05-06 Thread Les Denham
On Tuesday 06 May 2008, Pavel Sanda wrote: > > Your first step should be to look at what is in each one and decide > > whether you need it. I find the best place to quickly get information on > > packages is http://gentoo-portage.com. > > please note that there is texmfind utility under gentoo, wh

Re: Texlive for lyx

2008-04-29 Thread Les Denham
On Tuesday 29 April 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I use lyx 1.5.4 with tetex on a Gentoo computer. It works fine; > I'm thinking about switching to texlive, as tetex seems on a deadend. Has > anyone done it yet ? Got any problem ? How does LyX work with it ? > Please let me know Alain, I have

Re: Help me Please

2008-04-23 Thread Les Denham
On Wednesday 23 April 2008, Hassan Khater wrote: > Hello > I am using lyx to produce my PhD thesis. Sorry if I am not expert enough to > deal with every thing. I have three problems with my lyx master file: > > 1) I have to set the document class to book as the best choice available. > 2) When I ap

Re: Extra Space in Footnotes

2008-04-14 Thread Les Denham
On Monday 14 April 2008, John A. Lorenc wrote: > Hello, > > I am using the report class and when I preview my document with .dvi or > export to .pdf several of my footnotes have an extra blank line right after > the note number, then the text of the footnote, e.g.: > John, I can't duplicate this b

Re: How to make a title page?

2008-04-11 Thread Les Denham
On Thursday 10 April 2008, Steve Litt wrote: > On Thursday 10 April 2008 22:20, HZ wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > How can I make a title page for report? > > > > Normally, there should be a title, author, logo and date at the foot of > > the title page. > > Can I generate a separate lyx file for the ti

Re: Drawing graphs in lyx

2008-04-11 Thread Les Denham
On Friday 11 April 2008, Ola Vestad wrote: > Hi, > > I'm preparing a presentation in lyx and want to draw a couple of (simple) > graphs. I'm not a very advanced computer user so right now I'm making the > presentation in lyx and drawing the graphs in Microsoft Word (!), and I > plan to add them to

Re: Short Horizontal line in LyX?

2008-04-10 Thread Les Denham
On Thursday 10 April 2008, Ed Sykes wrote: > Hi, > > Would someone be so kind to let me know how to make a short horizonal line > in LyX please? > something like: > First Name: ___ > > Thanks, > Ed Sykes One way of doing this is to insert a 1x1 table, specify the column width, and put a b

Re: LyX Without LaTeX

2008-04-09 Thread Les Denham
On Wed, 2008-04-09 at 09:21 -0500, Bruce Pourciau wrote: > I would ask our IT folks to install LyX on her machine. Any thoughts > on how I can make this go smoothly for them? Bruce, Another option is the portable LyX mentioned in another thread earlier today. http://portableapps.com/node/9880

Re: Clickable Intradocument Cross-Reference

2008-04-08 Thread Les Denham
On Tuesday 08 April 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > Where would I find information on how to insert a clickable > cross-reference (much like a hypertext one), which redirects to another > area of the same document, in Lyx? > > Thanks in advance. For when you are editing the LyX document

Re: a0poster example using LyX

2008-04-03 Thread Les Denham
On Wednesday 02 April 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I ended up using the sciposter class with the options > [landscape,a0,largefonts,plainsections] and the packages: > \usepackage{multicol} > \usepackage{sectionbox} > \usepackage{wallpaper} > The columns were automatically and evenly distribute

Re: New LyX website

2008-03-30 Thread Les Denham
On Sunday 30 March 2008 19:07, Rex C. Eastbourne wrote: > For those who haven't seen it, the new LyX website is now at: > http://www.lyx.org/test/index.php/Main/HomePage > > We're still doing some design work, but the basics are in place. What do > you all think? Rex, I like the look, and I'm par

Re: disable tilde backup-on-save files

2008-03-27 Thread Les Denham
On Thursday 27 March 2008, Dennis Nezic wrote: > Currently, whenever I save a document, it additionally saves a > filename.lyx~ backup file (appended with a tilde). Is there a way to > disable this? Try Tools->Preferences->User interface and uncheck the "Backup documents". -- Les ~

Re: Website re-design ideas

2008-03-23 Thread Les Denham
On Sat, 2008-03-22 at 19:01 -0400, Rex C. Eastbourne wrote: > Hello all, > > Over on lyx-devel, I've been discussing doing some re-design to the look and > feel of www.lyx.org. I'd like to get some feedback so we know what people > think looks best. Here are some links to some other websites with

Re: Using a network printer

2008-03-19 Thread Les Denham
On Wednesday 19 March 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, 19 Mar 2008, Paul A. Rubin wrote: > >> > > How do I set up Lyx to use a network printer? At the moment I can > >> > > print by viewing as pdf in kpdf which sees my printer. I would > >> > > like to be able to print direct from Lyx th

Re: Figure references 1.5.3: Danger Will Robinson

2008-02-24 Thread Les Denham
On Sunday 24 February 2008 18:06, Steve Litt wrote: > Aha! I never even thought of putting it inside the caption (should it be at > the beginning or end of caption?). Whatever the final answer, it should be > documented. Steve, I don't know whether it is explicitly documented, but if you look at

Re: Figure references 1.5.3: Danger Will Robinson

2008-02-24 Thread Les Denham
On Sunday 24 February 2008 17:35, Steve Litt wrote: > Hi all, > > Here are two small LyX files. The only difference is that in bug2.lyx the > labels come last inside the floats, whereas in bug.lyx the labels come > first. bug2.lyx works (after a couple view->pdf, but bug.lyx never works > (at least

Re: Creating Logotype Letterhead

2008-02-12 Thread Les Denham
On Tuesday 12 February 2008, Rich Shepard wrote: >    If I was able to insert and use a .pdf at the top of the letter's first > page I would not need to go through the exercise of converting the .pdf to > an .eps. I have the .pdf file already. Ah! Well, you need: ps2raster -A -Te file.ps which

Re: Creating Logotype Letterhead

2008-02-12 Thread Les Denham
On Tuesday 12 February 2008 13:16, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, Les Denham wrote: > > If you're trying to do what I think you're trying to do, the ps2raster > > tool which is part of GMT (http://gmt.soest.hawaii.edu/) does a very nice > > job. > &

Re: Creating Logotype Letterhead

2008-02-12 Thread Les Denham
On Tuesday 12 February 2008, Rich Shepard wrote: >When I get the syntax for cropping the .eps file using 'convert' I'll be > able to import it into the document, and that's ultimately what I need. Rich, If you're trying to do what I think you're trying to do, the ps2raster tool which is part

Re: Outputting Notes in a PDF from LyX?

2008-01-24 Thread Les Denham
On Thursday 24 January 2008, B. Bogart wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm working on my Thesis in LyX and using a lot of notes to communicate > with myself. I would now also like to pass drafts onto my committee, but > Notes are not included in pdflatex output. Is there a way to put the > document in a "

Re: Latex presentation with lyx

2008-01-23 Thread Les Denham
On Wednesday 23 January 2008, John O'Gorman wrote: > Recently I flirted with powerdot. It is a nightmare on the SUSE > platforms and relies on postscript for overlays, animation, etc which > then do not translate fully to PDF. Powerdot also relies on TeX packages > which are not included by default

Re: Latex presentation with lyx

2008-01-23 Thread Les Denham
On Wednesday 23 January 2008, muzzle wrote: > Hi, > I have been using lyx for my latex needs for quite a long time. Now I > am trying latex presentations, but lyx does not seem very well suited > for the task and I went back to pure latex code. > Can you give me some advice on writing slides with l

Re: left justify floats?

2008-01-18 Thread Les Denham
On Thursday 17 January 2008 06:07, Helge Hafting wrote: > I was hoping for a preference setting that allows printing > via pdflatex instead of the usual way, because that > is necessary for using microtype. But lyx currently doesn't > support microtype directly so there is "no need". . . Helge, S

Re: [OT] Best KDE-centric Distribution?

2008-01-14 Thread Les Denham
On Monday 14 January 2008 11:18, rgheck wrote: > I've been using Fedora ever since I started using Linux, but the > second-rate status of KDE under Fedora is starting to get to me, so I'm > thinking about switching. But then: to what? I don't think Kubuntu is > for me. Gentoo would be an option, bu

Re: (latex question) Repeated footnote?

2008-01-11 Thread Les Denham
On Friday 11 January 2008 08:25, Neal Becker wrote: > I have a description env, and I have some notes for some entries. I was > planning to use footnotes, but I need multiple references to the _same_ > notes. > > Like: > > entry A: 1 > entry B: 1 > entry C: 2 > > 1: some footnote > 2: some other f

Re: Conversion to OpenOffice error

2007-12-18 Thread Les Denham
On Tuesday 18 December 2007, Jia 'Colin' Zheng wrote: > How did you convert it, by copy and paste or export to plain text? > I've no clue how ligature affects the conversion, unless it was converted > from dvi or ps or pdf format. I did the conversion using the File->Export->OpenOffice.org Writer

Conversion to OpenOffice error

2007-12-17 Thread Les Denham
When I convert from LyX to OpenOffice.org writer, I get the following type of error: LyX (1.4.2 on Linux): 1. The benefits of this document offer a few problems. OpenOffice.org (2.1 on Linux):  The beneøts of this document ooeer a few problems. My LyX document uses Article(koma-script) and Fo

Re: What are your experiences (including figures)?

2007-12-11 Thread Les Denham
On Tuesday 11 December 2007, bigblop wrote: > Does anyone actually use the LyX way to include figures/pictures? I always use the LyX way, and I frequently produce documents with tens or hundreds of figure floats. But to speed things up, once I have the settings right (size, justification, posit

Re: A0 posters in LyX

2007-11-16 Thread Les Denham
On Friday 16 November 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've found several references through Google search on how to create an > a0poster.layout, but I haven't found any tips on what LyX tools to use to > create a poster. > > Should I use minipages and fixed floats for graphics and tables, or, shou

Re: A0 posters in LyX

2007-11-16 Thread Les Denham
On Friday 16 November 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I wanted to have the facility of generating a clean design -- like what the > beamer/LyX  combination gives you-- together with my references properly > formatted with bibtex. > > Could I get a beamer presentation onto one A4 landscape page? Th

Re: Multi-writer book

2007-11-14 Thread Les Denham
On Wednesday 14 November 2007, Frederick [FN] Noronha * फ्रेडरिक नोरोंया wrote: > Any tip how I could enter the name of the author of each chapter in > the table-of-contents of a multi-author book? Thanks in advance. FN Frederick, You can put the title and author as a Short Title. See attached.

Re: Question about tools

2007-10-04 Thread Les Denham
On Thursday 04 October 2007, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > put the files specific to the areas in directories area1 area2, etc > (or another name). Do a > ln -s area1 area > > Prepare the report by including all special files as area/file1.eps or > whatever. > > The to create the reports you can

Re: Question about tools

2007-10-04 Thread Les Denham
On Thursday 04 October 2007, you wrote: > The .lyx file format is a text format, modifying it should be no harder > than modifying latex. LyX can even import latex files, if you > prefer to modify/generate latex code. > > LyX has enough batch features that a script can create pdf/ps without > anyo

Re: TOC and recto pages

2007-10-03 Thread Les Denham
On Wednesday 03 October 2007, Donn Ingle wrote: > Hello, > I have tried to find and answer to this, but it's a tough one to phrase. > > I have a toc that varies as I add and remove subsections. I want the > final output to have Chapter one begin on a recto (right hand) page. > I am using memoir, a

Re: Question about tools

2007-10-03 Thread Les Denham
On Wednesday 03 October 2007, Richard Heck wrote: > Les Denham wrote: > > My current ideas of how to do this are the following: > > 3. Write a Perl script to generate the same LaTeX, pulling the parts that > > vary in each of the reports from the various databases. > >

Re: Question about tools

2007-10-03 Thread Les Denham
On Wednesday 03 October 2007, Shawn Willden wrote: > What I need to do is to programmatically generate a postscript document, > placing images and small chunks of text at locations specified by a > template, with specific values pulled from a database. I'm facing a similar, but different problem.

Re: Verse margin

2007-10-02 Thread Les Denham
On Tuesday 02 October 2007, Donn Ingle wrote: > Hello again, > How could I shift the left edge (margin?) of the verse environment > across to the right? I would like to have it further across the page. > > I'm not sure what class is the best for setting verse. Memoir seems to > work, but each poem

Re: other LyX books at lulu (Re: Self-publishing with LyX)

2007-09-07 Thread Les Denham
On Friday 07 September 2007 18:21, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > Today, I search lulu for Alan's book (so I could send the > http://www.lulu.com/content/1085870 link to a list I am on). > > And I found a few other books too: > > http://www.lulu.com/content/1165817 > http://www.lulu.com/content/1097620 >

Re: Old Style Figures

2007-09-05 Thread Les Denham
On Wednesday 05 September 2007 09:46, Hartmut Haase wrote: > Hi, > can someone please send me a .lyx-file where I can see how to use Old Style > Figures? See attachment. Les test.lyx Description: application/lyx

Re: lyx svg file handling

2007-07-23 Thread Les Denham
On Monday 23 July 2007 09:52, Nils Becker wrote: > Hi all, > > i am trying to get the inkscape SVG->PDF conversion to work, sonce this > offers better quality than EPS export only. > > I added SVG as a vector graphics format; > > EPS conversion works with the entry "inkscape -E $$o $$i" in the > co

Re: LyX vs. Scribus

2007-07-20 Thread Les Denham
On Friday 20 July 2007 12:33, Steve Litt wrote: > Hi all, > > I've just heard about a program called Scribus, which supposedly is a page > layout program and not a wordprocessing program. The program's web page is > at http://www.scribus.net/. > > I'm not familiar with Scribus. Can someone tell me

Re: LaTeX Error: Too many unprocessed floats.

2007-06-25 Thread Les Denham
On Monday 25 June 2007 14:09, Bob Lounsbury wrote: > I'm trying to complete my thesis in the next few weeks. I just > inserted 20 floating/sideways figures, which is one figure per page. > However, when I do this I get the error in the subject line along with > a bunch of other errors. > > > Is the

Re: Problem with PDF output with different pdf reader.

2007-06-15 Thread Les Denham
On Friday 15 June 2007 08:36, Helge Hafting wrote: > Acrobat certainly isn't useless, but have some problems: Precisely why I use Acrobat Reader: I don't want to create a PDF which does not work properly with the reader most people use. I performed the necessary convolutions to get it to work o

Re: How to create a good looking and memory conserving full page graphic?

2007-05-18 Thread Les Denham
On Friday 18 May 2007 14:09, Steve Litt wrote: > > Anyone know of a way I can use a full sized 8.5x11 graphic without it > > taking over a megabyte of memory? One would think it would be very > > compressible. Over half the graphic is contiguous pure white, with > > another 10% contiguous pure blac

Re: Why Lyx->Word?

2007-05-14 Thread Les Denham
On Monday 14 May 2007 12:30, Steve Litt wrote: > Hi all, > > This is a general question for all those asking about converting LyX to MS > Word... > > Why not use MS Word from the beginning? Steve, The documents I write tend to be technical reports with lots of figures. The report I'm working o

Re: printer driver

2007-02-21 Thread Les Denham
On Wednesday 21 February 2007 11:56, Carlos Knauer wrote: > Hi. > > Is there a specific driver for "HP Photosmart C3100 Series" printer ? > > Carlos F. Knauer I assume you're talking about Linux, because it comes with Windows and Mac drivers. You need the HPLIP package (http://hplip.sourceforge.

Re: How to center graphics in Lyx?

2007-02-15 Thread Les Denham
On Thursday 15 February 2007 15:47, Christian Röttgers wrote: > Hi everyone, > > could anyone please tell me, how to center a graphic with lyx? > > In most cases the width of my graphics are 100% of the text, but in two > cases they are smaller, but there are an the left of the side. But I would >

Re: powerdot

2007-02-10 Thread Les Denham
On Saturday 10 February 2007 04:34, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > I am getting > counter does not exist:subsection > same for section > in using powerdot under lyx. > > am I missing a package in the preamble? > Does the sample presentation installed with Powerdot (powerdot-example.lyx) work properly

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

2007-01-28 Thread Les Denham
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 on being A4. I have never had this happen > before, a

Re: tex4ht and LaTeX music applications?

2007-01-28 Thread Les Denham
On Sunday 28 January 2007 18:17, Jamie Faunt wrote: > Hi Jens, I just wanted to thank you for all the text4ht into and your > own very helpful page on same. > > These resources are going to be very helpful as I continue to learn > about TeX, LaTeX, XML and such. > > Being an author of music instruc

Re: plain note

2007-01-17 Thread Les Denham
On Wednesday 17 January 2007 12:48, Philipp Fleig wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I am new to LyX and I want to write a simple "note" using Lyx. Just a > few lines and some formulae, so no sections, dates, heading etc. > What document class should I use for this? > Thanks a lot. > > Philipp Phillipp

Re: Fbox in equations

2006-12-15 Thread Les Denham
On Friday 15 December 2006 17:32, James wrote: > I am trying to put a box around equations. In Latex, you use an \fbox to > accomplish this. However, I cannot figure out how to get Lyx to do this > properly, particularly in the case of a displayed equation. Any tips? The attached example shows t

Re: Does LyX work in 64 bit?

2006-11-15 Thread Les Denham
On Wednesday 15 November 2006 14:31, Steve Litt wrote: > Hi all, > > For some unearthly reason, LyX was left out of the Mandriva 2007 64 bit > version. It's been in Mandrake since version 7.x in 2000. Is there > something about LyX that it can't be compiled and configured for 64 bit? > Steve, I've

Re: powerdot help

2006-09-18 Thread Les Denham
On Monday 18 September 2006 12:42, mail.k wrote: > Hi, > > > I am trying to create a slide with text and graphics side by side: > > three "itemize"d lines on the left, and a small figure on the right. > > I've tried \twocolumn{text}{\includegraphics{}} > > and also tried floats, but the graphics do

Re: Typographical/graphical analysis of a document

2006-06-22 Thread Les Denham
On Thursday 22 June 2006 07:54, Martin A. Hansen wrote: > Hello All, > > > I found this document on the BBC news website, which I have reposted here: > > http://130.226.106.174/~paste/cgi-bin/20_06_06_iap_evolution.pdf > > And after reading it I thought it would be an interesting exercise to > pres

Uses for Lyx

2004-12-30 Thread Les Denham
On Wednesday 29 December 2004 20:11, Jack T. Gill wrote: > Does anyone use LyX right out of the box (or download) without all the > tweaking?  If so, to what use are you putting it? I've used Lyx for more than four years, and rarely do anything you could call "tweaking". Some of the things I've

Re: problem with lyx under Gentoo

2004-10-21 Thread Les Denham
On Thursday 21 October 2004 03:00, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > Under Gentoo Linux lyx view and export does not work. I've used Lyx with Gentoo with no problems at all. I'd suggest unmerging lyx, xdvi and possibly some of the other export programs, them emerging them again. You might also need

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