Re: Evince as default viewer

On 25/08/17 18:00, Julio Rojas wrote: > I have installed qpdfview and although system-wide Evince is the default > PDF viewer, Lyx preferes qpdfview. Is there a way to tell Lyx to select > Evince? I have uninstalled qpdfview and the pdflatex option is grayed out. Tools / Preferences / File Handlin

subscript package?

Hello, another problem with my wife’s switching to LyX: with the attached test document, I get LyX complaining about the missing package subscript (the same happens when I try to process the generated LaTeX file, also attached). When I look at https://ctan.org/pkg/subscript it seems to indicate,

Failed to generate PDF?

Hi, my wife returned after many years to the academic work (after having kids returning back to finishing her PhD) and so she started to write some documents in LyX. However, when she tried to generate PDF for the attached .lyx file (with .bib file generated by LyZ from Zotero bibliography), the r

Re: Navigating in a big document

Elver Loho wrote: > There are no sections and chapters in this document. Just the title > page and scenes. I would say, that it is a bug in the LaTeX document structure then -- just a wild idea, cannot you contact developer of the LaTeX class to fix it? Matěj -- http://matej.ceplovi.cz/blog/ GP

Re: Navigating in a big document

Elver Loho wrote: > I was wondering... How do you guys navigate around in large files? I am not sure about screenplays and their structure, but about conveniently named menu Navigate? Does it work? Matěj -- http://matej.ceplovi.cz/blog/ GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964

Re: [Re: adding hollywood TeX class]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Thanks for the help. Matej's suggested changes along with the Reconfigure > did the trick. For whatever reason, texhash was not working with the > modifications. BTW, you should really file a bug report to Slackware LyX maintainers -- not making the proper symlink/copy

Re: [Re: adding hollywood TeX class]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > /usr/share/lyx/tex/hollywood.cls > /usr/share/lyx/bind/hollywood.bind > /usr/share/lyx/layouts/hollywood.layout > /usr/share/lyx/templates/hollywood.lyx Sorry, you need also (before running texhash) make this symlink: mkdir /usr/share/texmf-var/tex/latex/hollywood/ ln -

Re: adding hollywood TeX class

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Where can I find the hollywood TeX class, and how do I install it so that > Lyx will find it? It is usually part of the LyX package (lyx-common in Debian to be exact). What is your distribution/operating system? Best, Matěj -- 23 Marion St. #3, Cambridge, MA 02141, (

Re: Ligature problem

Reinhard Mayr aka Czerwinski wrote: > Can somebody please tell me what to tweak to make all ligatures (ff, fi, > ffi, fl, ffl) work? What fonts do you use? TeX cannot more than what is available in the fonts. The best coverage (of course) is in Knuth's Computer Modern fonts. So, if you use ae font

Re: book koma-script options explained?

tom poe wrote: > Is there a discussion of the options, e.g., backtitle, uppertitleback, > lowertitleback, extratitle, etc. that would help me prepare for book > layout? Tom Well, what about manual to koma-script http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/koma-script/scrguien.pdf ? :-) M

Re: Bibtex or bibitem?

Miki Dovrat wrote: > Is there a way to "translate" entries from a bibtex file to a specific > format and then reinclude them as items in the bibliography? Nice or dirty > solutions are welcome. That's what *.bbl file is about. Paste it into ERT to your document, and you are all set. Matej -- GP

Re: change tracking in 1.4.2

Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > And dvipost.sty is in the tex search path? I.e., what do you get with kpsewhich dvipost.sty Matěj -- GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej/blog/, Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 23 Marion St. #3, (617) 876-1259, ICQ 1

Re: change tracking in 1.4.2

Martin A. Hansen wrote: > what can i do? Install dvipost (http://freshmeat.net/projects/dvipost/ or from your distribution) Matěj -- GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej/blog/, Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 23 Marion St. #3, (617) 876-1259, ICQ

Re: Aspell and language de_CH

david wrote: > How can I get aspell to use the language German Switzerland (de_CH)? It is weird -- I tried to find out what is the status of support of de_CH in LaTeX, but it seems to be pretty nonexistent (be aware, that I don't speak German at all, so I know nearly nothing about this subtleties)

Re: Copying and pasting

Pupeno wrote: > Yes, this is KDE (Kubuntu to be precise). Actually, for me inserting text from clipboard in UTF-8 works well (I have UTF-8 locale though, maybe that's the difference) -- it comes to LyX in ISO-8859-2. However, character conversion of clipboard in KDE are really trivial: prelozeno

Re: Copying and pasting

Pupeno wrote: > My wife is doing some work in which she pastes lots of text from mails and > other places, most of the on UTF-8 and pastes it on Lyx, but Lyx uses > Latin-1, so she ends up with a lot of weird characters. Any ideas how to > solve the problem ? something that is agile ? What's your

Re: access privileges of new files

pol wrote: > It appears LyX always creates new files with privileges -rw-r--r-- > Is that a bug? umask(1) is your friend. Matěj -- GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej/blog/, Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 23 Marion St. #3, (617) 876-1259, ICQ

Re: Scaling an A4 doc to 2-up Landscape on A4

john wrote: > I have tried: cat doc.ps | psbook | psnup -2 | lp -d printer Aside from honoring you with Useless Use of Cat Award (http://laku19.adsl.netsonic.fi/~era/unix/award.html) psnup has really weird syntax -- the parameter is really -2up (don't ask me why). So this should read: psbook doc.

tex4ht just doesn't work for me ...

Hi, couple of people mentioned htlatex as tool for conversion from LaTeX to HTML. I have long history (at least 2 years) of not being able to convert even quite simple LaTeX to HTML with tex4ht stuff. Using Debian/testing, I have tex4ht 20060619-1 and when I tried to convert my dissertation propos

Re: File with png graphics hangs lyx

Paul A. Rubin wrote: >> However, I never noticed that I have to close the last display >> of a pdf in Acrobat to be able to view the new one (I get the >> message "I can't write on foo.pdf" until I close foo.pdf. > You might want to look at > http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinTips#toc1. Being too

Re: Subtitles

Steve Litt wrote: > If you notice, most modern books have two lines to their title, as in: > > === > Guide to LaTeX > Tools and Techniques for Computer Typesetting > === Try this one. Basically it means redefinition of [EMAIL PROTECTED] like

Re: [rayavarapu2000-/[EMAIL PROTECTED]: help]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Can you plaes help me in convertin *.pdf to *.lyx Another tool which may be of help is KWord, which can read pdf and export it to some other format, which may be more helpful for LyX editing than the original PDF. Matej -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej/b

Re: Problems with BibTex and LyX

le leads to nowhere for me, but that is not problem of LyX :-). Matej -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej/blog/ GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC 138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617) 623-1488 A nuclear war can ruin your whole day.

Re: Problems with BibTex and LyX

information in BibTeX database. Can you send please an example of whole BibTeX record? For example, IMHO the author of the report shouldn't be an institution, but some person. Institution is then just in the field institution of @techreport. Does it help? Matej -- Matej Cepl, http:/

List of .bst files

Somebody was asking for a list of .bst files. Here are two: http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/contrib/ and file:///usr/share/doc/texmf/help/Catalogue/bytopic.html#bibliography Best, matej -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej/blog/ GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB

Re: Overview of the NatBib styles - which is the right one for me?

ks pretty well for me (I am a PhD student of sociology with lawyer's background). Matej -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej/blog/ GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC 138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617) 623-1488 I went to a Grateful Dead Co

Re: Still have problems with version control

msg00036.html>, which shows this version. Matej -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej/blog/ GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC 138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617) 623-1488 The world is coming to an end! Repent and return those library books!

Re: Still have problems with version control

ince then however, some Unices (especially Linux) developed different strategy for setting time zone (tzselect/tzconfig -- part of glibc) and newbies in Linux have no clue about this venerable variable. Read more about its format here http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/aix/files/aixfiles/en

Re: My versions won't control

not Windows anymore, but try this http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/diffutils.htm or maybe this http://www.simtel.net/product.php?id=34100 Matej -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej/blog/ GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC 138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, M

Re: lmodern, ae and missing fonts

Best, Matej -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej/blog/ GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC 138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617) 623-1488 He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... for support, rather than illumination. -- Andrew Lang

Re: lmodern, ae and missing fonts

fonts) are big as well. Matej -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC 138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617) 623-1488 He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary. -- William F

Re: My versions won't control

f overkill for personal one-user editing (which is what most people do with LyX)? I happily use RCS for all my needs and I haven't found a reason why to switch to CVS (I do not know much about SVN though). Matej -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3

Re: Natbib sort and compress

Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: > First step would be a "class options manager". But there are so much > plans. Recently, I heard someone say "There's only so much I can do...". Yes, yes, yes, ... just release 1.4.0 soon and do not let yourself to be distracted by an

Re: colorizing section headings

ion heading. Can anyone tweak this to the right > height? > > \usepackage{color} > \let\mySection\section > \renewcommand\section[1]{% You cannot change sections so easily -- use titlesec package (it has extensive documentation how to use it). Matej -- Matej Cepl, http://www.c

Re: Strange behavior LyxWin qt 1.3.5 - possibly relating to Bibtex

it could be found in archives? Thanks, Matej -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC 138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617) 623-1488 The ratio of literacy to illiteracy is a constant, but nowadays the illitera

Re: whereabouts of chktex [Was Re: feature suggestion]

a.lyx.org and file a wish about it (so it is recorded for eternity and somebody could actually do something about that). Best, Matej -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC 138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 0

Re: whereabouts of chktex [Was Re: feature suggestion]

(time and resources permitting, of course). Hmm, so LyX people should maintain special TeX distribution, ... right? Matej -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC 138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617) 623-1488 Give your heartache to him. (1Pt 5,7; Mt 11:28-30)

Re: whereabouts of chktex

ndicates that there was "New upstream version"), but the latest update on lacheck seems to be from 1998. Matej -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC 138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617) 623-1488 R

Re: whereabouts of chktex [Was Re: feature suggestion]

am willing to pay price in getting slower updates than rest of the world -- when it is just slightly slower, not woody. Best, Matej -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC 138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617)

Re: whereabouts of chktex [Was Re: feature suggestion]

n in the LyX distribution. BTW, just one more thing -- is http://rpmfind.net still around? Matej -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC 138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617) 623-1488 See, when the GOVERNMENT spends

Re: whereabouts of chktex [Was Re: feature suggestion]

r or so. Best, Matej -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC 138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617) 623-1488 Give your heartache to him. (1Pt 5,7; Mt 11:28-30)

Any \csname/\expandafter magicians among us?

a lot, Matej -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC 138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617) 623-1488 The politician attempts to remedy the evil by increasing the very thing that caused the evil in the first place: legal pl

Re: lyx window settings

Windows to make this work. Best, Matej -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC 138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617) 623-1488 The function of the expert is not to be more right than other people, but to be

Re: Mysterious error?

is perfect. Easy, isn't it? Matej -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC 138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617) 623-1488 The function of the expert is not to be more right than other people, but to be wron

Re: Metapost problems

Paul A. Rubin scripsit: > Adding "prologues := 1;" solved the problem. One of the never-ending questions of my life (aside "What is the goal of my life?" and similar trivialities) is why this is actually not a default in MetaPost. Well, it isn't. Matěj -- Matej

Re: \"{o}

Yong Luo scripsit: > How to type the special letter like \"{o}? As ERT, i.e., press \"{o} Matěj -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC 138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617) 623-1488 He inheri

Re: Metapost problems

vert it into internal codes of PDF, which could be processed natively by pdftex. Let us know about your progress, Matej -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC 138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617) 623-1488 There's nothing wrong with you that reincarnation won't cure. -- Jack F. Leonard

Re: ec fonts

exmf/latex/general/guide.dvi.gz. And if you want full comprehensive guide, then go to the local library or buy books referenced in TeX FAQ referenced above (I prefer [Kopka, Daly], which has the 3rd edition published last year). Best, Matej Cepl -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/ma

Re: A LaTeX Query

higher level TeXperts) are on texhax (http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/texhax), but it has really low volume, and low level of response. For clueless muddlers, you don't have to do anything and ask here :-). Matej -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB

Re: lyx in spanish?

better than nothing). Matej -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC 138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617) 623-1488 A bird in the hand makes it awfully hard to blow your nose.

Re: passing doc dir to converter script?

ent path to this script? What about INDEXLIST=$(dirname $1) ? Read dirname(1) for more. Matěj -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC 138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617) 623-1488 They never open their mouths witho

Re: How to use version control under Lyx 1.3.5 Windows

ontrol under LyX 1.3.5 Windows? Try to search google using keywords "rcs djgpp" (that's for M$-DOS version) or maybe there is even "rcs cygwin" (for Windows version). Matěj -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F

Re: PDF and fonts

out of the box, although it is not so beautiful. Matěj -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC 138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617) 623-1488 The main idea of the pope's asking for forgiveness was not to be afraid

Re: working with repeat references to titles of other works

e not good idea when it could be done by the bst file > (running custom bib) And that is one of the reasons, why I am so happy to use natbib -- it supports url field. Matěj -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC 138 Highland A

Re: working with repeat references to titles of other works

that there is not enough developers -- and no I cannot do C++ if it saves my life -- is certainly not _your_ fault). This flamewar was supposed to be about BibTeX-as-database v. BibTeX-as-extension-of-LaTeX :-). Matěj -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1

Re: working with repeat references to titles of other works

if (or when) OpenOffice.org will be useful for me, and then I would have to convert my 172k BibTeX database into MODS format. For that case I want to have in BibTeX just clean data and no LaTeX commands at all, if possible. Matěj -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43

Re: working with repeat references to titles of other works

Angus Leeming wrote: >> \textit{\cite{cicerone}} > > Really? Why not do that in the BibTeX database? > > @String{BAUHAUS = {\textit{Das Bauhaus}}} Because I do not think it is wise to put presentation markup (or any non-database markup for that matter) into BibTeX database.

Re: [slightly OT response] to Re: Strange Bib Behaviour

so. I was just hoping there > was an easier solution ;-) It just seems really strange behaviour, > because I didn't change any config at all -- I just pasted some text > in from another document! If it is not confidential -- can you mail to me an output of rcsdiff -u against the las

Re: Two bibliographies

the CTAN search, even google finds no > related hits. Is it like most good things I hear about ... taken off the > market? :} I have no idea -- I don't use multíple bibliographies myself. Matěj -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09

Re: "why lyx when there's word?"

y with more than about 20 references. Just for both sides of the story, there is an ongoing effort to create a really good (MODS-based) Java bibliographic manager for OOo, which (if actually created) could make me think about switching to OOo after all these years. Just FYI, for what it is worth.

Re: Two bibliographies

fuchst wrote: > Does any one know whether this can be done and could point me in the right > directions? http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/bytopic.html#bibmulti Matěj -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84

Re: Two bibliographies

fuchst wrote: > Does any one know whether this can be done and could point me in the right > directions? bibtopic or something like that. Try Catalogue on CTAN (http://www.ctan.org) -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84

Re: Adding a logo to all the pages of the document

ormat to pdf) ? epstopdf -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC 138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617) 623-1488 ..every Man has a Property in his own Person. This no Body has any Right to but himself. The Labour of his B

Re: Change layout of the build in bibliography manager (autor, year)

ght now with some ERT when necessary), you can use natbib, fill in your bibliography database (which is the most time consuming part of BibTeXing) and enjoy much better world than just with plain LaTeX's bibliography environment (what you call "build-in" bibliography). Just a thought

Re: "why lyx when there's word?"

Steve Litt wrote: > By the way, I finally just gave up on the underlining. By the way, did you take a look at package soul? matěj -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC 138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617)

Re: Error "Resulting file is empty"

efresh display whenever they get focus. matěj -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC 138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617) 623-1488 Always make new mistakes -- Esther Dyson

Re: Change layout of the build in bibliography manager (autor, year)

as the build in bibliography features does by default. Is > there a way to change this? put "round" in Layout/Document/Layout/options (without quotes), and then switch on NatBiB in Layout/Document/Bibliography/Use Natbib. Is it what you want? Matěj -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/mate

Re: Custom 1st Page ?

@book{kopka:daly:1997, Publisher = {Addison-Wesley}, Author = {Kopka, H., Daly, P.}, Title = {A Guide to \LaTeX2e{}}, Year = 2003, Edition = {fourth} } or http://www.informit.com/title/0321173856?aid=c9e80f0c-fab1-42b1-a79e-79453cba4ad1 Matěj -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.c

Re: Sections

Peter Pieczora wrote: > I get corrupted output ( exporting it to latex, I can see "Underfull > \hbox (badness 1590) in paragraph" error messages). Underfull \hbox is a warning not error and it can be silently ignored in most of the cases. Matěj -- Matej Cepl, http://www.cepl

Re: How do you make a bibliography?

whole book, and sometimes I reference a tiny piece > of text out of the book (within the bounds of fair use). How do these > differ as far as the bibiliaography? see @incollection. Matěj -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84A

Re: "why lyx when there's word?"

ocument looks as it does? Therefore, my conclusion is just opposite -- use LyX for everything and only in the rare cases when you need .doc document, or where you really need to tweak layout more use OOo (or maybe Scribus?). Matěj -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC

Re: "why lyx when there's word?"

n with LyX.) Can I tell Word that a paragraph in given style should be intended, but not when it is a first paragraph after Headline[1-3], list, or table? Matěj -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC 138 Highland Ave. #10, Som

Re: Should this behavior be expected?

it may help. Matěj -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC 138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617) 623-1488 I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it. -- Mark Twain

Re: How do you make a bibliography?

a joke. Alternative to Emacs bibtex-mode are different BibTeX-as-database programs -- tkbibtex, or (what I've used) pybliographer, or Java jabref. You will be certainly much better with them, than just with vim (although that's what I use most of the time -- sometimes I use Kate). Bes

Re: Typography aesthetic question

and they claim that it even worked, but it is hard to believe that. Matěj -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC 138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617) 623-1488 A fool-proof method for sculpting an elephant: fir

Re: Lyx-qt Button icons

Angus Leeming wrote: > What makes you say that? > What appears in the menu and toolbars is controlled by an external > file. I am sorry for misleading information. > I think we're coming round to the idea of just dropping XForms. Cool! Matěj -- Matej Cepl, http://www.cep

Re: Lyx-qt Button icons

not by Qt/KDE. I think it is a design flaw of LyX, but that's another question (well, I think that relying on XForms as a first UI toolkit is a design flaw in itself, but that highly flammable and off-topic). Matěj -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB

Re: Typography aesthetic question

ngly suggest Phillip Taylor's articles http://www.ntg.nl/maps/pdf/19_10.pdf and http://www.ntg.nl/maps/pdf/19_11.pdf . Really good stuff! Matěj -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC 138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 0214

Explanation of \@ commands [Was: Re: redefining the "aticle" document class]

mand, \providecommand, and \renewcommand and bunch of others do). It is macho (and sometimes stupid) thing to use \def (or its variants, like \gdef, \xdef, and others) instead of \newcommand. Is it clear now? Happy LaTeXing,  Matěj -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6

Re: Modifying header environments

tsty.html http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/titlesec.html Good luck! Matěj -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC 138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617) 623-1488 MSDOS didn't get as bad

Re: Print LyX notes

uld be blue). Matěj -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC 138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617) 623-1488 Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest violence. -- Hebrew Proverb

Re: Dutch surnames in Bibtex

Mark} Is it what you want? Matěj -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC 138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617) 623-1488 Always make new mistakes -- Esther Dyson

Re: Docbook template - Textclass error

l > support for some of the base templates? Yes, you've got it right. In the same manner as LyX/LaTeX documents are not usable without LaTeX, LyX/DocBook documents are not usable without Docbook toolchain. Matej -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF

Re: Docbook template - Textclass error

lies to linuxdoc btw... Again, Docbook is not LaTeX (repeat twenty times, until you get it). Then go to google and search for Windows ports of Docbook/SGML tools (jade, or ojade, DSSSL stylesheets, etc.). Install them and let us know what happened (lyx -debug is your friend). Matej -- Matej Cep

Re: url insertion and mailto:

Marcus Beyer wrote: > \href{mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > did the trick :) It would be wonderful if somebody finally put all these pieces of wisdom into Insert/URL box. I know, I know, there are no developers. Oh well. Matej -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/

Re: [OT] pdflatex vs. pdftex

e be an alias in my system that takes care of this? (A > colleague of mine has the tetex package as well, but says he has > 'pdflatex'.) The realtion between the two is same as the relation between 'tex' and 'latex'. I.e., in context of LyX you are i

Re: redefining the "aticle" document class

s layout for my wife. Take a look, try to understand what's going on, and ask questions (here on the list). Some details are unnecessary (she is a linguist, so you probably do not need gb4e package, etc.). Matej -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB

Re: pdfLaTeX: auto fullscreen in adobe reader?

Marcus Beyer wrote: > Does some special trick exist to start the Adobe Reader in fullscreen > mode when opening a certain document? > > I am using pdfLaTeX. RTFM -- $TEXMF/doc/pdftex/base/ (e.g., pdftexman.pdf, page 16). Matej -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finge

Re: How to use Appendix?

section 3.3.4.5 is not the best one, but what they wanted to say is that when you insert "Start Appendix Here" every chapter and/or sections will be turned into new appendices. Try just to create a new section. Matej -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A B

Re: Problems with Lyx1.3.5 (Ruurd's port) on Windows98SE

samar j. singh wrote: > I have installed Lyx on my windows98SE laptop. Seems to work fine > generally. http://groups-beta.google.com/group/linux.gentoo.user/msg/ee3217f5c4dd9a70 -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84

Re: Using a LaTeX class file in LyX

except that document class file is not CONVERTED, but the additional .layout file is created to help LyX understand what is necessary from the class file. You will find a help how to do it in Help/Customization. Matej -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BA

Re: Custom import filter

hing Professionals > http://www.editorium.com Like "remove M$-Windows and install Linux w/ LyX?" :-) -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC 138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617) 623-1488 In those days spirits

Re: How to set up book-like footnotes

Jack M. Lyon wrote: > Here's a way to set up standard, book-like footnotes in LyX--in other > words, notes that look like this: http://groups-beta.google.com/group/linux.gentoo.user/msg/ee3217f5c4dd9a70 -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB

Re: sgml/xml and lyx

is an entry in the bugzilla database > requesting for tei support as an enhancement but we are not there (yet). And acutally, you cannot edit Docbook/XML, just Docbook/SGML (unless you create special type in Edit/Preferences and then set up some creative way how to translate between XML

Re: Latex class for reference manual.

(i.e., to file a wish) to allow us to edit WHOLE preamble (at least in layout files), because the current situation when LyX puts into .tex file some commands and _user has no way how to influence it_ is insane. Matej -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 2

Re: [Fwd: Exports]

Colin J. Williams wrote: > What information do I need to provide? What does 'lyx -x latex filename.lyx' do? Matej -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC 138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617) 623-1488

Re: Latex class for reference manual.

w.python.org/doc/2.4/doc/doc.html> <http://www.rexx.com/~dkuhlman/pythonlatexsetup.html> ??? Matej -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC 138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617) 623-1488 He has Van Gogh's ear for music.

Re: Non standard default font size

Keto wrote: > I would like to change the default font size in my book to a non standard > one (say 9pt). As book class only allow 10pt, 11pt and 12pt. How can I > achieve this. $TEXMF/tex/latex/extsizes/ $TEXMF/doc/latex/extsizes/ Matej -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej G

Re: Writing Lyx on a text editor

right now) gmane.editors.lyx.general. Matej -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC 138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617) 623-1488 I feel so miserable without you, it's almost like having you here. -- Stephen Bishop

Re: Writing Lyx on a text editor

space character (asc(32)) on the end of the line IS significant and when removed (for example, by vim could be set to remove all '\s*$' and it is default and it is sensible for every other text document other than .lyx). Matej -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89E

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