Re: clearing entries in a table (feature request?)

2003-11-25 Thread Nirmal Govind
Select everything with the mouse and press 'Del'. Yes, I did try that but it doesn't work here. Probably cos I use Debian-ppc on an iBook which has one "delete" key that's mapped to backspace and so no real way of getting a delete as in a PC... is there a way by which I can specify the commands

Re: clearing entries in a table (feature request?)

2003-11-25 Thread Nirmal Govind
M-x delete-forward should works as a substitute to a 'real' delete key press. Awesome! I put this in the ui file too and it all works great! Thanks, nirmal

Re: Tables with columns with the same width

2003-11-25 Thread Nirmal Govind
I would like to know how to set the columns having the same width. Could somebody here please help me? You can do this by setting the width of each column to be a percentage of the entire table width. So if you had 4 columns, then you can set each column's width to 25%.. To do this - with the

Re: Lab manual

2003-11-24 Thread Nirmal Govind
Hopefully it's a bit clearer now. To me the main advantage of my approach is that during the input of the text one hasn't to care about keeping the right depth. Totally clear! :-) Thanks... And thanks Christian for updating the webpage.. nirmal

Re: Lab manual

2003-11-24 Thread Nirmal Govind
Hopefully it's a bit clearer now. To me the main advantage of my approach is that during the input of the text one hasn't to care about keeping the right depth. Totally clear! :-) Thanks... And thanks Christian for updating the webpage.. nirmal

Re: Lab manual

2003-11-24 Thread Nirmal Govind
Hopefully it's a bit clearer now. To me the main advantage of my approach is that during the input of the text one hasn't to care about keeping the right depth. Totally clear! :-) Thanks... And thanks Christian for updating the webpage.. nirmal

Re: Lab manual

2003-11-23 Thread Nirmal Govind
Um.. if you mean something like in the screenshot at this page http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/Tips/MultipleLyxCodeInSingleEnumerate Hi Christian.. I think there's something missing in those instructions: increase the depth (M-p Right) and then write and change it to followed by M-Enter

Re: Cannot view file, Linux Mandrake 9.2

2003-11-23 Thread Nirmal Govind
LyX: Cannot view file No information for viewing PDF (pdflatex). Hello.. you need to define a viewer for the PDF (pdflatex) option .. you can do this by going to Edit - Preferences - File Formats (this is in the Qt frontend, I forget what it corresponds to in the xforms frontend but should be

Re: Lab manual

2003-11-23 Thread Nirmal Govind
My personal opinion on this is that keeping depth with M-Enter can sometimes be unhandy. I prefer to 1. enter the text with standard layout 2. chose the layouts for every paragraph 3. indent them to their final places I'm not sure I understand.. currently, if the instructions on the wiki page

Re: Lab manual

2003-11-23 Thread Nirmal Govind
Um.. if you mean something like in the screenshot at this page http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/Tips/MultipleLyxCodeInSingleEnumerate Hi Christian.. I think there's something missing in those instructions: increase the depth (M-p Right) and then write and change it to followed by M-Enter

Re: Cannot view file, Linux Mandrake 9.2

2003-11-23 Thread Nirmal Govind
LyX: Cannot view file No information for viewing PDF (pdflatex). Hello.. you need to define a viewer for the PDF (pdflatex) option .. you can do this by going to Edit - Preferences - File Formats (this is in the Qt frontend, I forget what it corresponds to in the xforms frontend but should be

Re: Lab manual

2003-11-23 Thread Nirmal Govind
My personal opinion on this is that keeping depth with M-Enter can sometimes be unhandy. I prefer to 1. enter the text with standard layout 2. chose the layouts for every paragraph 3. indent them to their final places I'm not sure I understand.. currently, if the instructions on the wiki page

Re: Lab manual

2003-11-23 Thread Nirmal Govind
Um.. if you mean something like in the screenshot at this page http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/Tips/MultipleLyxCodeInSingleEnumerate Hi Christian.. I think there's something missing in those instructions: "increase the depth (M-p Right) and then write "and change it to" followed by

Re: Cannot view file, Linux Mandrake 9.2

2003-11-23 Thread Nirmal Govind
LyX: Cannot view file No information for viewing PDF (pdflatex). Hello.. you need to define a viewer for the PDF (pdflatex) option .. you can do this by going to Edit -> Preferences -> File Formats (this is in the Qt frontend, I forget what it corresponds to in the xforms frontend but should

Re: Lab manual

2003-11-23 Thread Nirmal Govind
My personal opinion on this is that keeping depth with M-Enter can sometimes be unhandy. I prefer to 1. enter the text with "standard" layout 2. chose the layouts for every paragraph 3. indent them to their final places I'm not sure I understand.. currently, if the instructions on the wiki

Re: Exporting .lyx to .tex or to .pdf

2003-11-22 Thread Nirmal Govind
After the export I don't get the correct formatting for the document (this was OK in the Lyx files). I tryed to set the papersize to A4 in Layout/Documet and the margins to 1 inch, but nothing changed. Does somebody has an idea, what do I wrong? Please help me! Do you have the latex package

Re: Exporting .lyx to .tex or to .pdf

2003-11-22 Thread Nirmal Govind
After the export I don't get the correct formatting for the document (this was OK in the Lyx files). I tryed to set the papersize to A4 in Layout/Documet and the margins to 1 inch, but nothing changed. Does somebody has an idea, what do I wrong? Please help me! Do you have the latex package

Re: Exporting .lyx to .tex or to .pdf

2003-11-22 Thread Nirmal Govind
After the export I don't get the correct formatting for the document (this was OK in the Lyx files). I tryed to set the papersize to A4 in Layout/Documet and the margins to 1 inch, but nothing changed. Does somebody has an idea, what do I wrong? Please help me! Do you have the latex package

Re: Default display mode for ERT inset

2003-11-21 Thread Nirmal Govind
Is there any way I can set the default display mode of an ERT inset to 'inline' instead of 'open'? Search replace with a regular text editor in the .lyx file? Sounds like what Kim is asking for is a new feature (since search replace is an offline workaround)... does such a feature request

Re: Default display mode for ERT inset

2003-11-21 Thread Nirmal Govind
_new_ thing. Close all floats/Open all floats commands were available in older versions of LyX. Then the developers thought Now I know why I was getting a dejavu kind of feeling as I typed that post yesterday.. I thought it may have been in a cvs version I used before and so I checked the cvs

Re: Default display mode for ERT inset

2003-11-21 Thread Nirmal Govind
What I meant were *really old* versions like 1.1.4 or so. Yeah, that sounds about right cos I started using lyx around then if I'm not mistaken... - -- Matej Cepl, GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC 138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617) 623-1488

Re: default paragraph separation

2003-11-21 Thread Nirmal Govind
Jim Osborn wrote: Is it possible to set the default paragraph separation to indent for a LyX layout? I've tried every permutation of those words that I can think of, tried \paragraph_separation indent in the preamble section. You mean the Layout - Document option (in the Qt frontend) that says

Re: Default display mode for ERT inset

2003-11-21 Thread Nirmal Govind
Is there any way I can set the default display mode of an ERT inset to 'inline' instead of 'open'? Search replace with a regular text editor in the .lyx file? Sounds like what Kim is asking for is a new feature (since search replace is an offline workaround)... does such a feature request

Re: Default display mode for ERT inset

2003-11-21 Thread Nirmal Govind
_new_ thing. Close all floats/Open all floats commands were available in older versions of LyX. Then the developers thought Now I know why I was getting a dejavu kind of feeling as I typed that post yesterday.. I thought it may have been in a cvs version I used before and so I checked the cvs

Re: Default display mode for ERT inset

2003-11-21 Thread Nirmal Govind
What I meant were *really old* versions like 1.1.4 or so. Yeah, that sounds about right cos I started using lyx around then if I'm not mistaken... - -- Matej Cepl, GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC 138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617) 623-1488

Re: default paragraph separation

2003-11-21 Thread Nirmal Govind
Jim Osborn wrote: Is it possible to set the default paragraph separation to indent for a LyX layout? I've tried every permutation of those words that I can think of, tried \paragraph_separation indent in the preamble section. You mean the Layout - Document option (in the Qt frontend) that says

Re: Default display mode for ERT inset

2003-11-21 Thread Nirmal Govind
Is there any way I can set the default display mode of an ERT inset to 'inline' instead of 'open'? Search & replace with a regular text editor in the .lyx file? Sounds like what Kim is asking for is a new feature (since search & replace is an offline workaround)... does such a feature request

Re: Default display mode for ERT inset

2003-11-21 Thread Nirmal Govind
_new_ thing. Close all floats/Open all floats commands were available in older versions of LyX. Then the developers thought Now I know why I was getting a dejavu kind of feeling as I typed that post yesterday.. I thought it may have been in a cvs version I used before and so I checked the cvs

Re: Default display mode for ERT inset

2003-11-21 Thread Nirmal Govind
> What I meant were *really old* versions like 1.1.4 or so. Yeah, that sounds about right cos I started using lyx around then if I'm not mistaken... > - -- > Matej Cepl, > GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC > 138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617)

Re: default paragraph separation

2003-11-21 Thread Nirmal Govind
Jim Osborn wrote: Is it possible to set the default paragraph separation to indent for a LyX layout? I've tried every permutation of those words that I can think of, tried \paragraph_separation indent in the preamble section. You mean the Layout -> Document option (in the Qt frontend) that says

Re: running head on title page

2003-11-20 Thread Nirmal Govind
the page number is on the same line though. After setting the document heading to fancy I've modified the preamble \pagestyle{fancy}\lhead{} \chead{} \rhead{foo is good \thepage} To get the page number below foo is good you want to modify the above as \rhead{foo

Re: version 1.3.3.

2003-11-20 Thread Nirmal Govind
I have Red hat linux 7.2 on my laptop. I want to load lyx 1.3.3 on my laptop. Can I do that or should I upgrade my linux version to 8 or higher and then I load lyx 1.3.3. Hi... you should be able to compile l.3.3 on your current system. I'm guessing you checked the bin folder on the lyx ftp

Re: running head on title page

2003-11-20 Thread Nirmal Govind
the page number is on the same line though. After setting the document heading to fancy I've modified the preamble \pagestyle{fancy}\lhead{} \chead{} \rhead{foo is good \thepage} To get the page number below foo is good you want to modify the above as \rhead{foo

Re: version 1.3.3.

2003-11-20 Thread Nirmal Govind
I have Red hat linux 7.2 on my laptop. I want to load lyx 1.3.3 on my laptop. Can I do that or should I upgrade my linux version to 8 or higher and then I load lyx 1.3.3. Hi... you should be able to compile l.3.3 on your current system. I'm guessing you checked the bin folder on the lyx ftp

Re: running head on title page

2003-11-20 Thread Nirmal Govind
the page number is on the same line though. After setting the document heading to fancy I've modified the preamble \pagestyle{fancy}\lhead{} \chead{} \rhead{foo is good \thepage} To get the page number below "foo is good" you want to modify the above as

Re: version 1.3.3.

2003-11-20 Thread Nirmal Govind
I have Red hat linux 7.2 on my laptop. I want to load lyx 1.3.3 on my laptop. Can I do that or should I upgrade my linux version to 8 or higher and then I load lyx 1.3.3. Hi... you should be able to compile l.3.3 on your current system. I'm guessing you checked the bin folder on the lyx ftp

Re: Showing changes between versions of a document

2003-11-17 Thread Nirmal Govind
http://www.devel.lyx.org/changetracking.php3 (not yet implemented in the stable 1.3.x series, but I think there's a patch around). Johnathan Burchill tweaked this patch and made it work with 1.3.2 .. you can download it from his website at: http://members.shaw.ca/jkerrb/computer.html I've

Re: Presentation on LyX/LaTeX

2003-11-17 Thread Nirmal Govind
How about a section Documentation? We could place the link to the tipstricks and the wiki there as well as the lyx docs (as PDF, PS, HTML) plus user created Howtos, Tutorials and Presentations like Nirmal's/ Bernhard's. I remember some really good howtos appearing on this list from time to

Re: Showing changes between versions of a document

2003-11-17 Thread Nirmal Govind
http://www.devel.lyx.org/changetracking.php3 (not yet implemented in the stable 1.3.x series, but I think there's a patch around). Johnathan Burchill tweaked this patch and made it work with 1.3.2 .. you can download it from his website at: http://members.shaw.ca/jkerrb/computer.html I've

Re: Presentation on LyX/LaTeX

2003-11-17 Thread Nirmal Govind
How about a section Documentation? We could place the link to the tipstricks and the wiki there as well as the lyx docs (as PDF, PS, HTML) plus user created Howtos, Tutorials and Presentations like Nirmal's/ Bernhard's. I remember some really good howtos appearing on this list from time to

Re: Showing changes between versions of a document

2003-11-17 Thread Nirmal Govind
http://www.devel.lyx.org/changetracking.php3 (not yet implemented in the stable 1.3.x series, but I think there's a patch around). Johnathan Burchill tweaked this patch and made it work with 1.3.2 .. you can download it from his website at: http://members.shaw.ca/jkerrb/computer.html I've

Re: Presentation on LyX/LaTeX

2003-11-17 Thread Nirmal Govind
How about a section "Documentation"? We could place the link to the tips and the wiki there as well as the lyx docs (as PDF, PS, HTML) plus user created Howtos, Tutorials and Presentations like Nirmal's/ Bernhard's. I remember some really good howtos appearing on this list from time to time. I

Re: Bibliographic entries

2003-11-15 Thread Nirmal Govind
choice (Eclipse) or becuase they actually make life easier (LyX vs. LaTeX), I thought they almost always made life easier.. and maybe I'm wrong... but in any case, with the bib files, I sure do think they do.. nirmal

Re: Bibliographic entries

2003-11-15 Thread Nirmal Govind
choice (Eclipse) or becuase they actually make life easier (LyX vs. LaTeX), I thought they almost always made life easier.. and maybe I'm wrong... but in any case, with the bib files, I sure do think they do.. nirmal

Re: Bibliographic entries

2003-11-15 Thread Nirmal Govind
choice (Eclipse) or becuase they actually make life easier (LyX vs. LaTeX), I thought they almost always made life easier.. and maybe I'm wrong... but in any case, with the bib files, I sure do think they do.. nirmal

Re: citations extend beyond margin (was Re: hyperlink extends beyond margin)

2003-11-15 Thread Nirmal Govind
With pdflatex still use latin modern fonts (package lmodern) or the cm-super (needs a lot of memory). There is no need to use ps2pdf. Yes, I played around with these a couple weeks ago and I can't remember why but I decided that the output from ps2pdf with cm-super was the best... will try again

Re: Presentation on LyX/LaTeX

2003-11-15 Thread Nirmal Govind
Thanks for your comments Herbert.. some remarks: - Overview: nowadays, it is not right, that LaTeX is _commonly_ used for technical documents. No? Actually this point is interesting.. are there any statistics on the percentage of users in various fields (Sciences, Engg., Arts etc..) who use

Re: citations extend beyond margin (was Re: hyperlink extends beyond margin)

2003-11-15 Thread Nirmal Govind
I prefer latin modern ... ;-) and build my PDF's in general with VTeX/Free. I tried out all the combinations again.. the ps2pdf output with cm-super looked marginally better than ps2pdf with lmodern when viewed on screen here.. pdflatex with lmodern does look great.. the reason I didn't use

Re: citations extend beyond margin (was Re: hyperlink extends beyond margin)

2003-11-15 Thread Nirmal Govind
did you ever try the sequence eps2eps and then epstopdf? Yes, I did the last time when Angus suggested it.. it gave me an error then (not sure if it was eps2eps or epstopdf) but now eps2eps converts to eps and then the epstopdf works... (may be cos I'm trying different figures) ... but the

Re: Presentation on LyX/LaTeX

2003-11-15 Thread Nirmal Govind
Lyx/Latex presentation and uploaded this to http://home.t-online.de/home/mb.schiekel/LyX_PSU_LUG_de.pdf That was real quick Bernhard.. thank you very much! nirmal

Re: Bibliographic entries

2003-11-15 Thread Nirmal Govind
choice (Eclipse) or becuase they actually make life easier (LyX vs. LaTeX), I thought they almost always made life easier.. and maybe I'm wrong... but in any case, with the bib files, I sure do think they do.. nirmal

Re: Bibliographic entries

2003-11-15 Thread Nirmal Govind
choice (Eclipse) or becuase they actually make life easier (LyX vs. LaTeX), I thought they almost always made life easier.. and maybe I'm wrong... but in any case, with the bib files, I sure do think they do.. nirmal

Re: Bibliographic entries

2003-11-15 Thread Nirmal Govind
choice (Eclipse) or becuase they actually make life easier (LyX vs. LaTeX), I thought they almost always made life easier.. and maybe I'm wrong... but in any case, with the bib files, I sure do think they do.. nirmal

Re: citations extend beyond margin (was Re: hyperlink extends beyond margin)

2003-11-15 Thread Nirmal Govind
With pdflatex still use latin modern fonts (package lmodern) or the cm-super (needs a lot of memory). There is no need to use ps2pdf. Yes, I played around with these a couple weeks ago and I can't remember why but I decided that the output from ps2pdf with cm-super was the best... will try again

Re: Presentation on LyX/LaTeX

2003-11-15 Thread Nirmal Govind
Thanks for your comments Herbert.. some remarks: - Overview: nowadays, it is not right, that LaTeX is _commonly_ used for technical documents. No? Actually this point is interesting.. are there any statistics on the percentage of users in various fields (Sciences, Engg., Arts etc..) who use

Re: citations extend beyond margin (was Re: hyperlink extends beyond margin)

2003-11-15 Thread Nirmal Govind
I prefer latin modern ... ;-) and build my PDF's in general with VTeX/Free. I tried out all the combinations again.. the ps2pdf output with cm-super looked marginally better than ps2pdf with lmodern when viewed on screen here.. pdflatex with lmodern does look great.. the reason I didn't use

Re: citations extend beyond margin (was Re: hyperlink extends beyond margin)

2003-11-15 Thread Nirmal Govind
did you ever try the sequence eps2eps and then epstopdf? Yes, I did the last time when Angus suggested it.. it gave me an error then (not sure if it was eps2eps or epstopdf) but now eps2eps converts to eps and then the epstopdf works... (may be cos I'm trying different figures) ... but the

Re: Presentation on LyX/LaTeX

2003-11-15 Thread Nirmal Govind
Lyx/Latex presentation and uploaded this to http://home.t-online.de/home/mb.schiekel/LyX_PSU_LUG_de.pdf That was real quick Bernhard.. thank you very much! nirmal

Re: Bibliographic entries

2003-11-15 Thread Nirmal Govind
choice (Eclipse) or becuase they actually make life easier (LyX vs. LaTeX), I thought they almost always made life easier.. and maybe I'm wrong... but in any case, with the bib files, I sure do think they do.. nirmal

Re: Bibliographic entries

2003-11-15 Thread Nirmal Govind
choice (Eclipse) or becuase they actually make life easier (LyX vs. LaTeX), I thought they almost always made life easier.. and maybe I'm wrong... but in any case, with the bib files, I sure do think they do.. nirmal

Re: Bibliographic entries

2003-11-15 Thread Nirmal Govind
choice (Eclipse) or becuase they actually make life easier (LyX vs. LaTeX), I thought they almost always made life easier.. and maybe I'm wrong... but in any case, with the bib files, I sure do think they do.. nirmal

Re: citations extend beyond margin (was Re: hyperlink extends beyond margin)

2003-11-15 Thread Nirmal Govind
With pdflatex still use latin modern fonts (package lmodern) or the cm-super (needs a lot of memory). There is no need to use ps2pdf. Yes, I played around with these a couple weeks ago and I can't remember why but I decided that the output from ps2pdf with cm-super was the best... will try again

Re: Presentation on LyX/LaTeX

2003-11-15 Thread Nirmal Govind
Thanks for your comments Herbert.. some remarks: - Overview: nowadays, it is not right, that LaTeX is _commonly_ used for technical documents. No? Actually this point is interesting.. are there any statistics on the percentage of users in various fields (Sciences, Engg., Arts etc..) who use

Re: citations extend beyond margin (was Re: hyperlink extends beyond margin)

2003-11-15 Thread Nirmal Govind
I prefer latin modern ... ;-) and build my PDF's in general with VTeX/Free. I tried out all the combinations again.. the ps2pdf output with cm-super looked marginally better than ps2pdf with lmodern when viewed on screen here.. pdflatex with lmodern does look great.. the reason I didn't use

Re: citations extend beyond margin (was Re: hyperlink extends beyond margin)

2003-11-15 Thread Nirmal Govind
did you ever try the sequence eps2eps and then epstopdf? Yes, I did the last time when Angus suggested it.. it gave me an error then (not sure if it was eps2eps or epstopdf) but now eps2eps converts to eps and then the epstopdf works... (may be cos I'm trying different figures) ... but the

Re: Presentation on LyX/LaTeX

2003-11-15 Thread Nirmal Govind
Lyx/Latex presentation and uploaded this to http://home.t-online.de/home/mb.schiekel/LyX_PSU_LUG_de.pdf That was real quick Bernhard.. thank you very much! nirmal

citations extend beyond margin (was Re: hyperlink extends beyond margin)

2003-11-14 Thread Nirmal Govind
if it doesn't fit on that line the problem is severe when I cite using the Full author list option for citations and I have more than two authors... how I do I specify that it's OK to split the citation between lines? Thanks, nirmal Nirmal Govind wrote: Hi.. I'm using hyperref to generate links in my

Re: citations extend beyond margin (was Re: hyperlink extends beyond margin)

2003-11-14 Thread Nirmal Govind
Have you tried adding \sloppy to your preamble ? This will make latex break the line before long words. Yes, I did try that but sloppy only justifies words on a line, and it still treats the long citation as a compound word. So although, it does alleviate the problem, it doesn't completely solve

Re: citations extend beyond margin (was Re: hyperlink extends beyond margin)

2003-11-14 Thread Nirmal Govind
This problem depends on your bibliography style or extra packages you use. Normally (when using natbib), long citation are broken into lines. I do use natbib.. I changed the style from asa (Amer. Stat. Assn.) to plainnat and apalike and it still persists. did you run ps2pdf or pdflatex?

Re: Bibliographic entries

2003-11-14 Thread Nirmal Govind
Rich - you may want to take a look at some of the frontends out there that create the bib file for you.. so you'll just have to enter the info. into nice GUIs... gBib and sixpack are on Linux systems, there's tkbibtex on Windows... there're a few more like EndNote and pybliographer too that

citations extend beyond margin (was Re: hyperlink extends beyond margin)

2003-11-14 Thread Nirmal Govind
if it doesn't fit on that line the problem is severe when I cite using the Full author list option for citations and I have more than two authors... how I do I specify that it's OK to split the citation between lines? Thanks, nirmal Nirmal Govind wrote: Hi.. I'm using hyperref to generate links in my

Re: citations extend beyond margin (was Re: hyperlink extends beyond margin)

2003-11-14 Thread Nirmal Govind
Have you tried adding \sloppy to your preamble ? This will make latex break the line before long words. Yes, I did try that but sloppy only justifies words on a line, and it still treats the long citation as a compound word. So although, it does alleviate the problem, it doesn't completely solve

Re: citations extend beyond margin (was Re: hyperlink extends beyond margin)

2003-11-14 Thread Nirmal Govind
This problem depends on your bibliography style or extra packages you use. Normally (when using natbib), long citation are broken into lines. I do use natbib.. I changed the style from asa (Amer. Stat. Assn.) to plainnat and apalike and it still persists. did you run ps2pdf or pdflatex?

Re: Bibliographic entries

2003-11-14 Thread Nirmal Govind
Rich - you may want to take a look at some of the frontends out there that create the bib file for you.. so you'll just have to enter the info. into nice GUIs... gBib and sixpack are on Linux systems, there's tkbibtex on Windows... there're a few more like EndNote and pybliographer too that

citations extend beyond margin (was Re: hyperlink extends beyond margin)

2003-11-14 Thread Nirmal Govind
if it doesn't fit on that line the problem is severe when I cite using the "Full author list" option for citations and I have more than two authors... how I do I specify that it's OK to split the citation between lines? Thanks, nirmal Nirmal Govind wrote: Hi.. I'm using hyperref to generate l

Re: citations extend beyond margin (was Re: hyperlink extends beyond margin)

2003-11-14 Thread Nirmal Govind
Have you tried adding \sloppy to your preamble ? This will make latex break the line before long "words". Yes, I did try that but sloppy only justifies words on a line, and it still treats the long citation as a compound word. So although, it does alleviate the problem, it doesn't completely

Re: citations extend beyond margin (was Re: hyperlink extends beyond margin)

2003-11-14 Thread Nirmal Govind
This problem depends on your bibliography style or extra packages you use. Normally (when using natbib), long citation are broken into lines. I do use natbib.. I changed the style from asa (Amer. Stat. Assn.) to plainnat and apalike and it still persists. > > did you run ps2pdf or pdflatex? > >

Re: Bibliographic entries

2003-11-14 Thread Nirmal Govind
Rich - you may want to take a look at some of the frontends out there that create the bib file for you.. so you'll just have to enter the info. into nice GUIs... gBib and sixpack are on Linux systems, there's tkbibtex on Windows... there're a few more like EndNote and pybliographer too that

Re: hyperlink w/o URL

2003-11-13 Thread Nirmal Govind
Thanks Kayvan.. nirmal Kayvan A. Sylvan wrote: Use hyperref and then \href{http://the-url}{Click Here} I think there are examples at http://www.lyx.org/help Best regards, ---Kayvan

Re: Presentation on LyX/LaTeX

2003-11-13 Thread Nirmal Govind
Thanks Jose' and hi Andre' ... You managed to pick a code example showing quite a few sins ;-) Completely unintentional I assure you.. :-) (has to be - cos I haven't tried to understand the code anyways!) What document class did you use? I used pdfscreen ... nirmal

Re: Presentation on LyX/LaTeX

2003-11-13 Thread Nirmal Govind
Could you post the lyx file too? I'm writing some presentations myself and am all in favour of ditching powerpoint ;-) Yes, I've posted the archive here: http://www.personal.psu.edu/nug107/lyx/LyX_PSU_LUG.tar.gz It has the pdfscreen2.sty file, pdfscreen.layout for lyx and of course the lyx

Re: A Resume template

2003-11-13 Thread Nirmal Govind
Hi... you'll find examples at: http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/ExampleCV/ExampleCV nirmal Can anybody send me a lyx file of a resume or its template. Hope this does'nt flood the mailbox. A standard template will be the best. Thanks, Paras

Re: Presentation on LyX/LaTeX

2003-11-13 Thread Nirmal Govind
Hallo, if nirmal does agree, I can try a German translation of this nice presentation (but with his original English Lyx-version screeshots). Might be, that we can have it shorter than in a few years ;-) Oh sure... that would be great Bernhard... thanks! Let me know if I can help in any way

Re: Presentation on LyX/LaTeX

2003-11-13 Thread Nirmal Govind
and the pdfscreen2.sty in \usr\share\lyx\tex Is the above path defined in your texmf.cnf file? (you can find where this file is located by running kpsewhich texmf.cnf).. you probably want to put it in your localtexmf directory (say, for e.g. at /home/username/texmf/tex/latex/pdfscreen/ or so)..

Re: hyperlink w/o URL

2003-11-13 Thread Nirmal Govind
Thanks Kayvan.. nirmal Kayvan A. Sylvan wrote: Use hyperref and then \href{http://the-url}{Click Here} I think there are examples at http://www.lyx.org/help Best regards, ---Kayvan

Re: Presentation on LyX/LaTeX

2003-11-13 Thread Nirmal Govind
Thanks Jose' and hi Andre' ... You managed to pick a code example showing quite a few sins ;-) Completely unintentional I assure you.. :-) (has to be - cos I haven't tried to understand the code anyways!) What document class did you use? I used pdfscreen ... nirmal

Re: Presentation on LyX/LaTeX

2003-11-13 Thread Nirmal Govind
Could you post the lyx file too? I'm writing some presentations myself and am all in favour of ditching powerpoint ;-) Yes, I've posted the archive here: http://www.personal.psu.edu/nug107/lyx/LyX_PSU_LUG.tar.gz It has the pdfscreen2.sty file, pdfscreen.layout for lyx and of course the lyx

Re: A Resume template

2003-11-13 Thread Nirmal Govind
Hi... you'll find examples at: http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/ExampleCV/ExampleCV nirmal Can anybody send me a lyx file of a resume or its template. Hope this does'nt flood the mailbox. A standard template will be the best. Thanks, Paras

Re: Presentation on LyX/LaTeX

2003-11-13 Thread Nirmal Govind
Hallo, if nirmal does agree, I can try a German translation of this nice presentation (but with his original English Lyx-version screeshots). Might be, that we can have it shorter than in a few years ;-) Oh sure... that would be great Bernhard... thanks! Let me know if I can help in any way

Re: Presentation on LyX/LaTeX

2003-11-13 Thread Nirmal Govind
and the pdfscreen2.sty in \usr\share\lyx\tex Is the above path defined in your texmf.cnf file? (you can find where this file is located by running kpsewhich texmf.cnf).. you probably want to put it in your localtexmf directory (say, for e.g. at /home/username/texmf/tex/latex/pdfscreen/ or so)..

Re: hyperlink w/o URL

2003-11-13 Thread Nirmal Govind
Thanks Kayvan.. nirmal Kayvan A. Sylvan wrote: Use hyperref and then \href{http://the-url}{Click Here} I think there are examples at http://www.lyx.org/help Best regards, ---Kayvan

Re: Presentation on LyX/LaTeX

2003-11-13 Thread Nirmal Govind
Thanks Jose' and hi Andre' ... You managed to pick a code example showing quite a few sins ;-) Completely unintentional I assure you.. :-) (has to be - cos I haven't tried to understand the code anyways!) What document class did you use? I used pdfscreen ... nirmal

Re: Presentation on LyX/LaTeX

2003-11-13 Thread Nirmal Govind
Could you post the lyx file too? I'm writing some presentations myself and am all in favour of ditching powerpoint ;-) Yes, I've posted the archive here: http://www.personal.psu.edu/nug107/lyx/LyX_PSU_LUG.tar.gz It has the pdfscreen2.sty file, pdfscreen.layout for lyx and of course the lyx

Re: A Resume template

2003-11-13 Thread Nirmal Govind
Hi... you'll find examples at: http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/ExampleCV/ExampleCV nirmal Can anybody send me a lyx file of a resume or its template. Hope this does'nt flood the mailbox. A standard template will be the best. Thanks, Paras

Re: Presentation on LyX/LaTeX

2003-11-13 Thread Nirmal Govind
Hallo, if nirmal does agree, I can try a German translation of this nice presentation (but with his original English Lyx-version screeshots). Might be, that we can have it shorter than in a few years ;-) Oh sure... that would be great Bernhard... thanks! Let me know if I can help in any way

Re: Presentation on LyX/LaTeX

2003-11-13 Thread Nirmal Govind
and the pdfscreen2.sty in \usr\share\lyx\tex Is the above path defined in your texmf.cnf file? (you can find where this file is located by running kpsewhich texmf.cnf).. you probably want to put it in your localtexmf directory (say, for e.g. at /home/username/texmf/tex/latex/pdfscreen/ or so)..

hyperlink w/o URL

2003-11-12 Thread Nirmal Govind
Hi.. I'm trying to get some hyperlinks in a presentation using pdfscreen and LyX ... I'd like the URL to be embedded within the text so that the URL isn't shown, instead the text is shown (maybe in blue or something)... currently, if I add a URL using Insert-URL, give it a name and a URL, I

hyperlink w/o URL

2003-11-12 Thread Nirmal Govind
Hi.. I'm trying to get some hyperlinks in a presentation using pdfscreen and LyX ... I'd like the URL to be embedded within the text so that the URL isn't shown, instead the text is shown (maybe in blue or something)... currently, if I add a URL using Insert-URL, give it a name and a URL, I

hyperlink w/o URL

2003-11-12 Thread Nirmal Govind
Hi.. I'm trying to get some hyperlinks in a presentation using pdfscreen and LyX ... I'd like the URL to be embedded within the text so that the URL isn't shown, instead the text is shown (maybe in blue or something)... currently, if I add a URL using Insert->URL, give it a name and a URL, I

Re: Bibliography is gone :-((

2003-11-10 Thread Nirmal Govind
two more pages of text and now lyx regrets creating a bibliography. Lyx places questionmarks instead when I print in dvi, pdf or on real printer. That's I've encountered this a few times and have found no reasonable explanation for it.. just that references that used to show up suddenly stop

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