Re: Use pdf figures without converting.

2008-03-11 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Siegfried MEUNIER-GUTTIN-CLUZEL wrote: I tried your files on my Windows XP LyX 1.5.4 and it seems OK. The PDF file obviously used a vector version of the picture ( I tried 6400% magnification). Same here (also XP, LyX 1.5.4). I think Daniel may have hit on the solution. Klaus, go to Tools

Re: How to save the current font in LaTeX?

2008-03-12 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Steve Litt wrote: I'll do that if I can't find the command containing the current font, but \begingroup and \endgroup don't nest. My real hope was to implement a stack, push the current font on the stack, set the new font, write the text, then pop the old font off the stack and reset the cur

Re: Latex template on 1.5.4

2008-03-12 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Phillip, PITA alert: If you copy the template .lyx file someplace and edit the copy, you need to do one of the following: a. delete the image and bibliography stuff; or b. copy the image file and the two .bib files to the same location as the copy you are editing; or c. replace the refere

Re: LyX discussion boards?

2008-03-12 Thread Paul A. Rubin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 11 Mar 2008, Siegfried MEUNIER-GUTTIN-CLUZEL wrote: I often use the GMANE site at http://dir.gmane.org/index.php?prefix=gmane.editors.lyx You can see older messages sorted by subject (threads). I like GMANE, but I actually read it through a "news reader" - I

Re: PNG background

2008-03-12 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Dawid Ciecierski wrote: One little thing I haven't been able to figure out is making PNGs with transparency look nice, i.e. specifying white as the background colour instead of the default black. Is that something I can set in LyX or a setting in ImageMagick? You could try ImageMagick: conve

Re: LyX discussion boards?

2008-03-12 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Frode Svindseth wrote: Den 11. mars. 2008 kl. 18.25 skrev Abdelrazak Younes: Maximilian Wollner wrote: Hello everybody, Somehow, I find it difficult to use mailing lists, maybe I am a too young computer and internet user but I can not see a single advantage. So I tried to look around for

Re: LyX discussion boards?

2008-03-13 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Filippo Zangheri wrote: Thunderbird too, can group e-mails by thread. And threads are not only determined by e-mail "Subject:" field, but also by "References:" field. And that's pretty good. Indeed, portability is not supported! I believe there's a version of T-bird that can run from a flas

Re: Please Help.

2008-03-15 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Peter M. 'Mike' Sanchez wrote: Hello Fellow LyX users! I need some help...please! Problem: When I try to use any of the view or export features (e.g., pdflatex, ps2pdf, etc.), the software seems to get in a loop utilizing about 50% CPU. My system is a 2.6Ghz Intel duo processor Windows XP

Re: Layout and Class Files on Windows Distribution

2008-03-15 Thread Paul A. Rubin
William R. Buckley wrote: I have searched, including by means of the automated tool applet supplied with Windows, and not been able to find any reference to LOCALTEXMF under any condition of case sensitivity. When I look under the Roots tab of the MiKTeX settings application, I find just four

Re: Layout and Class Files on Windows Distribution

2008-03-16 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Bob, Bob Lounsbury wrote: So selecting to install 'for all users' doesn't create the userconfig file structure in a user account, but 'for me only' does? Even in my 'all users' commonconfig folder there is no 'latex' folder, only a 'tex' folder. Easy enough to create though. Two disclaimers h

Re: Please Help.

2008-03-16 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Bob Lounsbury wrote: On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 4:18 PM, Paul A. Rubin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Peter M. 'Mike' Sanchez wrote: > Hello Fellow LyX users! I need some help...please! > > Problem: When I try to use any of the view or export features (e.g., >

Re: Creating math defintions?

2008-03-16 Thread Paul A. Rubin
bigblop wrote: Are there some way in lyx to create math definitions like the third line below: 1. This is a section 1.2 This is a subsection Definition 9.1 if In normal latex I added this to the preample: \usepackage{amsthm} \newtheorem{thm}{theorem} \theoremstyle{definition} \newtheor

Re: Different program listing styles

2008-03-16 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Dominik Böhm wrote: Hello, I would like to use the program listing inset for Java-Code, XML-Code and some custom code and was wondering, if it's possible to define different styles for it. So, how can I differentiate between a Java-Code listing and an XML-Code listing? The highlighting will be d

Re: Key combination to toggle case?

2008-03-16 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Anthony Campbell wrote: Is there any way to make a key binding that will toggle the case of a letter? Not to toggle specifically (at least not that I know of), but 'word-lowcase' and 'word-upcase' will respectively shift down or up the selected text, or the entire next word if no selection i

Re: Layout and Class Files on Windows Distribution

2008-03-16 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Bob Lounsbury wrote: On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 8:10 PM, William R. Buckley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: One more comment. It seems that MiKTeX 2.7 may instead place the texmf directory in the root of the hard drive. On my C drive, I find a texmf directory so located. Hadn't noticed it previous

Re: Literal monofont underscores?

2008-03-18 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, In my latest book I have a screenshot of UMENU, whose license screen has a poor man's "box" comprised of underscores on top and bottom, and pipe symbols on the side. In the book, it's in LyX-Code style, which should be a monospaced font, and in fact is on everything

Re: Literal monofont underscores?

2008-03-18 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Doh! And here's why it worked for me and not you: I typed in the underscores, and LyX cleverly escaped them as \_\_ (ad nauseum). I'm guessing you pasted them in or imported them as text, and got just underscores, no escapes. /Paul

Re: Authors in preamble using \twoauthors

2008-03-18 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Phillip Ferguson wrote: Hey all, Yet again I am having some issues with the spconf.sty. This time it's the authors. In spconf.sty the comments for \twoauthors are: - use \twoauthors{author1}{address1}{author2}{address2} % for two (or more) authors with two separate addres

Re: Using a network printer

2008-03-19 Thread Paul A. Rubin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 18 Mar 2008, Andre Poenitz wrote: On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 05:02:54PM +, Dave Wood 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 L

Re: Float caption indentation

2008-03-19 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Zoltan Sarosi wrote: Hi! Does anybody know, how can I make indentations in my float caption texts? My problem is, that I have a 2 lines long caption text under an image, and the second line of the caption begins under the keyword "Table 1:" or "Figure 1". I would like to have the 2nd line of t

Re: Authors in preamble using \twoauthors

2008-03-19 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Phillip Ferguson wrote: Just for my own knowledge how would I go about creating a \threeauthors? Can I just copy the \twoauthors and modify the table columns and add it to the spconf.sty? Example attached. /Paul pf.lyx Description: application/lyx

Re: Using a network printer

2008-03-19 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Les Denham wrote: Perhaps this is exactly the problem Paul has encountered: the error message gives the impression it is a printer problem, whereas the real problem is the difference between latex and pdflatex. That's the more dramatic version, but even when the document compiles success

Re: Literal monofont underscores?

2008-03-19 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Steve Litt wrote: I exported to LaTeX, and it indeed did turn my underscores into \_ commands. Within LaTeX, if I deleted the underscores, it wouldn't compile. I guess an underscore is some kind of a LaTeX reserved word. So, your MiKTeX 2.6 on WinXP gives \_ the right monospace width, but m

Re: Literal monofont underscores?

2008-03-19 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Steve Litt wrote: On Wednesday 19 March 2008 14:57, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Steve Litt wrote: I exported to LaTeX, and it indeed did turn my underscores into \_ commands. Within LaTeX, if I deleted the underscores, it wouldn't compile. I guess an underscore is some kind of a LaTeX reserved

Re: WRB - On the dimensions of graphic files.

2008-03-20 Thread Paul A. Rubin
William R. Buckley wrote: My image has dimensions of 8.5 by 11 inches, though the actual image that I want is much smaller. Right-click the image and use the Output Size portion of the dialog (Graphics tab) to scale the image. If you want to maintain the original aspect ratio, the easiest w

Re: Literal monofont underscores?

2008-03-20 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Steve Litt wrote: Confirmed! I placed this: \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} near the top of my layout file, and the underscores assumed their correct length. Just to make sure, I removed that line and the underscores were once again much too short. Good work Paul. Nice job of exploiting the dif

Re: Indentation after a list

2008-03-21 Thread Paul A. Rubin
jean beney wrote: Hello, I notice that after a list (i.e. after \end{itemize}) LyX does not put an empty line, so that the next standard paragraph is not indented. My editor wants this paragraph to be indented. Until now, I use a script to add a newline after \end{itemize}. Is there a way t

Re: WRB - On the dimensions of graphic files.

2008-03-22 Thread Paul A. Rubin
William R. Buckley wrote: Exactly, one of these cases. I have a small graphic positioned at the upper left of a full 8.5x11 inch page, and stored in PDF. The vast majority of the page is blank. When I paste this into a document via LyX, and then print the document to a PDF, what I get is the e

Re: Website re-design ideas

2008-03-23 Thread Paul A. Rubin
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 designs that all look nice, although there'

Re: Question about 'keep with next'

2008-03-23 Thread Paul A. Rubin
James Mansion wrote: Hi, I have a writing 'style' that tends to use a lot of bullet lists. I've been using 'Itemize' in my Koma-script book. The style tends to be: * with a point * or two In word annd OOo I use 'keep with next' and 'don't break paragraph' and widow and orphan control and

Re: Issue with LyX 1.5.3

2008-03-23 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Bruno Azria wrote: Gents, I am a new user of the LyX system, which I find outstanding. I face the following issue: - when I try to open the User's Guide from the LyX Help menu, I get the following error message : "Document class not available : layout file requested by this document is not avai

Re: Theorem environments

2008-03-26 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Salát Máté wrote: Hello! What is the supported way (if any exists) in LyX of creating theorem environments such as are mentioned on the page http://www.maths.tcd.ie/~dwilkins/LaTeXPrimer/Theorems.html? Actually I need all of these environments for my work. Thanks in advance, Máté Right now

Re: BibLaTeX blues

2008-03-26 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Julio Rojas wrote: I have installed BibLaTeX, reconfigured MikTeX, updated a book class to use it as the wiki says and... when I try to reconfigures LyX and error telling me it cannot be reconfigured appears. The messages says (free translation from spanish here): Reconfiguration of the system h

Re: WRB - Observations

2008-03-26 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Todd Denniston wrote: Minipages? Sure: Insert->Box (a frameless Box is a minipage). However, as Richard said, LaTeX isn't designed for grid layout. It's not a DTP application. Box isn't very descriptive. I'd never have guessed this. Would there by objections to making it Minipage? or Tex

Re: Name of the Mascot (Was: New splash screen (Was: LyX logo))

2008-03-27 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Maria Gouskova wrote: On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 6:43 PM, Michael Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I dont know what the name of the mascot critter is, but its species was identified by Donn Ingle http://article.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.general/45224/ It is an ERT-eater best, Michael T,

Re: Beamer and columns problem (bug?)

2008-03-28 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Graeme wrote: I am using LyX1.5.4-1 on WinXP, with the Beamer document class. When I select the style ColumnsTopAligned within a frame, Lyx inserts \begin{topcolumns}%{} \end{topcolumns}%{} as can easily be checked with the View Source window. However, it seems impossible to enter any text b

Re: Run script from LyX?

2008-03-29 Thread Paul A. Rubin
bigblop wrote: I have made a script that does some file conversion before calling pdflatex. Is there someway to run this from LyX? Go to Tools -> Preferences... -> Converters, select LaTeX (pdflatex) -> PDF (pdflatex), modify the entry in the 'converter' line to run your script, then click Mo

Re: Spacing after definition/theorem/remark-environments

2008-03-30 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Dominik Böhm wrote: I am writing my thesis with a line spread of 1.3. After the mathematical environments, LaTeX usually puts some spacing. When I change the general line spread from 1 to 1.3, the spacing after the mathemaical environments like definition/theorem/etc. doesn't get adjusted. Odd

Re: WRB - Observations

2008-03-30 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Joost Verburg wrote: Rich Shepard wrote: However, if you want to use open source applications built to open standards, then understand that almost all of these were originally build for linux or one of the *BSDs, those are the platforms the developers use, and making them available to the Win

Re: WRB - Observations

2008-03-30 Thread Paul A. Rubin
William R. Buckley wrote: It is unreasonable to expect the entire Windows using community to avoid a mechanism that is part of the Windows operating system. The proper solution, distasteful as it may be, is to implement code which facilitates this *hack* (I always think of a hack as a desirable g

Re: WRB - Observations

2008-03-31 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Joost Verburg wrote: Paul A. Rubin wrote: I don't think so. Contrast the behavior of the Insert -> Graphics dialog with the File -> Open dialog. With both dialogs I get exactly the same behavior (the .lnk file is opened). File -> Open hides shortcuts by default because it&

Re: LyX logo

2008-03-31 Thread Paul A. Rubin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem I see with these associations is getting an acceptance at for work these applications. If the boss thinks it's not serious, he might object to the application being used for company documents... Maybe we need a separate logotype for bosses... :-) Here'

Re: New LyX website

2008-03-31 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Rex C. Eastbourne wrote: Hello all, 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 Looks very nice. I have a few minor suggestions, m

Re: Visual Tour (Was: New LyX website)

2008-03-31 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Rex C. Eastbourne wrote: 2. I suggest a direct link to the visual tour, or at least the screenshots, in the left margin. When I'm shopping for software, that's usually one of the first things I seek out, and I'll sometimes not bother poking around a site if I can't see screenshots early on.

Re: Templates for the new website

2008-03-31 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Rich Shepard wrote: Bright Pixel: http://www.oswd.org/design/preview/id/3021 Very difficult to read because there's not sufficient contrast between the background and the text. It may be OK for 20-something-year-old eyes, but not for us old curmudgeons. It's also hard for us old non-curmudge

Re: WRB - Observations

2008-04-01 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Joost Verburg wrote: William R. Buckley wrote: Well, the open source tool Maxima has no problem following a Windows shortcut in its browsing function. So, your position is therefore that LyX should be less than it might be, when other open source tools have no problem with a simple if arcane fu

Re: Text in table is all boldface

2008-04-01 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Geevarghese Philip wrote: Hi, I am using Lyx 1.5.4, and all text that I put in any table turns up as boldface in the dvi/pdf output. See the attached file. How do I make this text to appear as normal fonts, except for the first row where I do want the text to appear as bold? Thanks, Phil

Re: New LyX website

2008-04-02 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Rex C. Eastbourne wrote: By the way, when you guys click on a .lyx file in your browser, do you get a download prompt or does your browser display the LyX source? New users might be confused if they see the LyX source and don't know what to do with it. I get the source displayed as text in

Re: "Troubleshooting Process" not allowed?

2008-04-02 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Rich Shepard wrote: On Tue, 1 Apr 2008, William Seager wrote: I *hate* April 1. Yeah. We never know what to believe when it comes from Washington, DC, or the political campaigns. Rich Personally, I'm encouraged to see a tradition that we apparently share with our brethren across the po

Re: Change working language

2008-04-02 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Salát Máté wrote: Hello, How can I change the menu language of LyX after it's already installed? Thanks, Máté You can do it by setting the LANG environment variable in the batch file or script that launches LyX. For instance, I have LyX installed under Windows with English (real English, n

Re: Another MiKTeX Problem Report: Windows API error 3.

2008-04-02 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Ed Sykes wrote: hi, i'm new to LyX and am hoping someone can assist on a problem I'm having. On a fairly regular basis when I select the "dvi" button or the "div update" button Yap crashes and gives the message: "MiKTeX Problem Report: Windows API error 3: The system cannot find the path spec

Re: Chapter and Section Headings

2008-04-04 Thread Paul A. Rubin
John A. Lorenc wrote: Hello, Using the report class, how can I change the font size of Chapter and Section headings? I want to make them smaller, just a bit larger than the body document text. Also, is there a way to place the Chapter headings at the top of the page, rather than in the middle?

Re: Error with floating graphics

2008-04-06 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Peter Kämpf wrote: Hi, since converting to LyX 1.5 and OS X 10.5, I have trouble with floating objects. When I remove them all, even large texts (> 250 pages with all fancy formatting) are nicely converted into PDFs, but as soon as I add one embedded graphic, I get this sequence of error mess

Re: Error with floating graphics

2008-04-06 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Peter Kämpf wrote: However, I could not use a Postscript version of my picture (I use a PNG instead). In the document window I get an error message that it can not be converted, and when I try to convert to a PDF, I get a notice that ghostscript crashed because a library could not be found (l

Re: AMS article

2008-04-06 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Julio Rojas wrote: I'm having problems while working with an AMS article. The address and email are printed after the references section, not in the first page. Why does this happen? That's where the class is designed to put them (see page 5, second full paragraph, of instr-l.dvi, which comes

Re: multiplatform vector drawing program to use

2008-04-08 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Alan G Isaac wrote: On Tue, 8 Apr 2008, Rich Shepard apparently wrote: I strongly recommend PSTricks. Don't forget about tikz, which is more than enough for most users but it more portable. (E.g., it can be used with pdftex.) I'll second this. My graphics use is pretty much limited to net

Re: Missing the Obvious? -- FIXED!

2008-04-08 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Rich Shepard wrote: On Tue, 8 Apr 2008, José Matos wrote: Welcome to the "Teddy bear effect". :-) I used to teach at University level. It quickly became obvious to me that to really know a subject well one must teach it. Too often, however, I felt that I was subject to the brick wall ef

Re: multiplatform vector drawing program to use

2008-04-08 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Steve Litt wrote: Is there a SVG to PSTricks converter? Can you imagine how cool that would be?! Seems to me I saw somewhere that Inkscape can read SVG (is that its native format?) and export to PSTricks. /Paul

Re: Float Placement in Windows version of LYX

2008-04-09 Thread Paul A. Rubin
neon none wrote: Hello, I am trying to control the float placement in Windows version of Lyx. While the LyxWiki prescribes going to Layout menu and use Float placement dialog to do so, I see no such 'Layout' menu in the version I am using (LyxWindows 1.5.4) [the official windows installation].

Re: LyX Without LaTeX

2008-04-09 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Bruce Pourciau schrieb: Is there any reason this might not work? (I'm running LyX/Mac 1.4.1 and she's running Windows XP). Should work, but you should both use the same major LyX Version. I recommend to use LyX 1.5 not 1.4. I would ask our IT folks to install LyX on her ma

Re: Portable Lyx

2008-04-09 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Matthias Schmidt wrote: Does anyone know, if there is a portable version of lyx anywhere, that is running without problems from an usb-stick? And if there is, how it is to arrange with miktex an so on the stick? You might want to look at http://portableapps.com/node/9880. /Paul

Re: delete label from equation

2008-04-11 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Neal Becker wrote: Bob Lounsbury wrote: On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 11:24 AM, Neal Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm trying to delete a label from an ams align. It was somehow applied to the first equation of the set instead of the entire set. I can't seem to figure out any way to select t

Re: LyX and Scientific Word/Workplace

2008-04-16 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Ken wrote: Minor correction: SWP crashes when I simply try to open LyX's exported .tex file. In SWP if I choose to open a non-SWP tex file I get the error "The file ... is not valid for the selected filter." SWP does not crash but I am still unable to import the .tex file created by LyX. Any su

Re: Error exporting OpenDocument

2008-04-17 Thread Paul A. Rubin
张玉 Zhang Yu, Aaron wrote: I download the lyx1.5.4 installation for windows, and get it installed with default setup. It downloads MikteX and ImageMagik automatically. However when select File->Export->OpenDocument, it runs "Latx run Number1"..."oolatex -filename", but nothing happens to my direc

Re: Name of the Mascot (Was: New splash screen (Was: LyX logo))

2008-04-18 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Manveru wrote: FeeLyX is... quite sugestive... :-) Do we know the mascot is male? (The icon lacks sufficient definition for me to tell.) Maybe LyXandra? Has a classical ring to it.

Re: Missing fonts

2008-04-19 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Salát Máté wrote: Hi, I've installed some new fonts in Windows XP. As a result of it, some characters in math boxes in LyX disappeared, as you can see here: http://screencast.com/t/S07G2GyCE7r What shell I do to fix it? Cheers, Máté Try reinstalling the Bakoma4LyX fonts. You can download

Re: Problems with abstract in IEEETran class

2008-04-19 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Myriam Abramson wrote: Hello, I am unfortunately converting from Lyx 1.5 (work) to Lyx 1.4 (home) through TeX files. Anyway, I am having a problem now with the abstract repeating twice. I'm attaching a LyX file (1.4.3) and a TeX file. How do I fix that strange behavior? TIA Highlight the text

Re: Very confused About the error "Misplaced alignment tab character"

2008-04-26 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Whitman wrote: I just begun to use lyx for days and when i was trying to input a math equation like this(base on the IEEtrans template), --- $f(x)=\begin{cases} 1 & x>0\\ 0 & x<0\end{cases}$ it suppos

Re: Downloading missing latex classes

2008-04-27 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Nicolás wrote: Hi! Today, after a long, long time without crashing, my copy of LyX 1.5.2 crashed. I decided then to upgrade to 1.5.4. Installation went ok, but when I launched LyX, a dialog message notifying about the need to download a missing latex class appeared. So far so good. The proble

Re: Font color bug in displayed equations?

2008-04-28 Thread Paul A. Rubin
James Sutherland wrote: I am using lyx 1.5.4. In previous versions, I could have a displayed equation that was colored. Now it seems that this does not work properly if the equation is not in its own paragraph. Consider the attached example. If I have a displayed equation as part of a para

Re: Downloading missing latex classes

2008-04-30 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Nicolás wrote: I see your point. I still think that something could be done (I am a persistent person! :-) ). Many applications have an initial screen that is displayed while all the needed libraries, etc are loaded. LyX may have something similar. Once LyX is launched, and before latex.exe is

Re: Trying to get pdflatex to produce letter size page with outline fonts...

2008-05-02 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Rich Shepard wrote: On Fri, 2 May 2008, David A. Case wrote: 1. an article with Document->Page layout set to "US Letter" (and Document->Page Margins is set to "default") is likely to come out of pdflatex as A4 (unless, unlike me, you know enough LaTeX configuration stuff to configure pdflatex

Re: Relative Directory References

2008-05-02 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Rich Shepard wrote: This is a LaTeX question, but also applicable to LyX. Output reports from my model are written to a subdirectory, reports/, immediately below the CWD in which the model runs. Plots are generated in that report directory, and the LaTeX code goes looking for them there. But

Re: Tex capacity exceeded

2008-05-03 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Adrian Peter wrote: Hi, I am working on a multipart thesis using Lyx. I keep getting the following error when I try to export to PDF or view the DVI: TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [input stack size=5000] I checked the mail archive and saw that there could be several issues th

Re: Relative Directory References

2008-05-05 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Rich Shepard wrote: OSes aside, computers sometimes do things that are inexplicable to us mere humans. This was one of those sporatic, spastic computer tantrums that resolved itself via benign neglect over the weekend. I once had a computer that reversed the criteria for true and false (a

Re: installing new layouts/packages - new and non-tech person

2008-05-07 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Jacque wrote: Hey everyone, I am struggling (for 6 hours now) on installing new packages on lyx. I am new to Lyx and MikTek. I love it because of the formatting, but now I'm having trouble with exactly the same thing. I am trying to install new packages for report. I didn't like Koma.scri

Re: Tex capacity exceeded

2008-05-08 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Adrian Peter wrote: Turned out the error was being caused by having single quotes in math equations. I was using them to indicate derivatives. I changed them to \prime and everything worked! Also it didn't like it if I placed a single quote inside a \mbox within a math equation. Anyone know w

Re: Image with text descriptions on both sides

2008-05-08 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Marwan Boustany wrote: Peace, I am currently figuring out lyx to write my thesis in. There is an image that I want to put in, that was easy, but I want to put text on the right and left of it to describe it. I tried using boxes/minipages... does not work. I tried using a table with three sp

Re: Image with text descriptions on both sides

2008-05-08 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Marwan Boustany wrote: I want the text to begin from the same level as the top of the image, and I want the text to continue line to line down along the image. Is the attached example what you have in mind? /Paul 2dmodel.eps Description: PostScript document align.lyx Description: ap

Re: page numbering on slides

2008-05-10 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Tomek wrote: Hi, How to turn on page numbering on slides? Thanks, Tomek Probably depends on what document class you're using (beamer, foiltex, powerdot, ...). /Paul

Re: Change PDF viewer?

2008-05-10 Thread Paul A. Rubin
bigblop wrote: I have installed LyX on windows XP. I would like to change the pdf viewer to something else (SumatraPDF which can be found on this link: http://blog.kowalczyk.info/software/sumatrapdf/) I then choose Tools -> Preferences -> File Formats -> PDF (pdflatex). And under viewer I type:

Re: page numbering on slides

2008-05-13 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Tomek wrote: But would there be a way to put something in Lyx's preamble edit box, in order to display numbers on the default Lyx "slides" document? Is page number not on by default? It is when I use File -> New from Template. You don't have Document -> Settings -> Page Layout -> Page sty

Re: smaller text in table

2008-05-14 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: How can I convince LyX to use smaller text (eg footnotesize) in a table? I tried before the table (but in the float) \footnotesize and after the table \normalsize, both in ERT, but it does not seem to obey. What works for me is highlighting all the text in the table

Re: Personal dictionary

2008-05-16 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Rune Schjellerup Philosof wrote: Where is the default personal dictionary placed? Which operating system?

Re: includegraphics{} in subdirectory

2008-05-17 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Rich Shepard wrote: The embedded LaTeX seems to have intermittent issues; sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. I need to learn how to make it work properly all the time because it's really holding me up. My python application includes embedded LaTeX for reports. In one of these repor

Re: Personal dictionary

2008-05-19 Thread Paul A. Rubin
G. Milde wrote: On 16.05.08, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Rune Schjellerup Philosof wrote: Where is the default personal dictionary placed? Which operating system? Info for all OSes is under http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/UserDir I'm not sure if it's that simple on Windows. On Windows, Asp

Re: +/- in a table too large

2008-05-20 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: Am Dienstag, 20. Mai 2008 11:51 schrieb Wolfgang Engelmann: Again a question: in a table is in math mode e.g. 50.9\pm1.3 the export (pdf) shows too large +/- (see appendix) is this a bug or should I use something else or add \small in front of it? Wolfgang I just noti

Re: Can't convert graphviz DOT format to PDF

2008-05-20 Thread Paul A. Rubin
John Pye wrote: If I make a DOT->PNG converter and use that, it works fine. So there is nothing wrong with LyX's ability to make some form of file conversion here. It fails when I attempt to configure a conversion from DOT to PDF. Works fine for me here. Keep in mind that there are at le

Re: +/- in a table too large

2008-05-20 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: thanks for the various responses. Here is a minimal example 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 Wolfgang This might be a repost -- I tried to post a response but i

Re: Can't convert graphviz DOT format to PDF

2008-05-21 Thread Paul A. Rubin
John, John Pye wrote: Works fine for me here. Keep in mind that there are at least three PDF file formats defined within LyX, because different compilation methods (ps2pdf, pdflatex, dvipdfm) have different requirements. On my box those are designated pdf, pdf2 and pdf3 respectively, and I'm p

Re: Can't convert graphviz DOT format to PDF

2008-05-21 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Hi Abdel, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Maybe you could contribute this converter to LyX? I am very interested in dot but never took the time to try to integrate it within LyX. Happy to oblige, but I'm not sure what there is to contribute. These are the lines I added to the preferences file (thr

Re: Greek Fonts don't display on Screen but print out in PDF

2008-05-21 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Erez Yerushalmi wrote: (Sorry for sending this again - if I did. I am not sure to which address to send a question to. Sorry ) Hi, I'm a new user to LyX. Just installed LyX 1.5.5 on my Windows XP. Most of the Greek Fonts such as \alpha \beta \gamma etc. come out on screen as a red empty box. H

Re: Can't convert graphviz DOT format to PDF

2008-05-21 Thread Paul A. Rubin
John Pye wrote: Well, it would not be hard for someone to provide a patch file that one could apply to the preferences file. The user would have to know how to merge in a patch file (or else LyX would have to provide a patch merge utility). Unfortunately, these things are not entirely one-size

Re: Installation glitch

2008-05-22 Thread Paul A. Rubin
David Hewitt wrote: I need a little rudimentary help. It's been a while since I did a fresh install of LyX. I just tried to install the newest LyX via the LyXWinInstaller on a new WinXP Pro box and hit a glitch. Everything went just fine until LyX opened the command window to check configuration

Re: Latexcad help Again

2008-05-22 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Angel Amat wrote: A week a go I posted a message looking for help with latexcad- Sorry but it is still not working. I am usign Windows and I don't know where to write the thing you have said: ('locate *.sty' or 'whereis *.sty' as root run 'texhash'. I have copied the latexcad.sty in the folde

Re: Inserting a tab indented outline into a lyx document

2006-06-21 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Paul Johnson wrote: Seems easier to just use the itemize environment with customized bullet symbols. if you use the Document/Settings/Bullets options, you can eliminate the symbols and then the output looks exactly the way you want. I thought about that, but what if you also want bullet lists

Re: bibtex my.bst

2006-06-22 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: Springer publisher wants a certain style for references. I tried to make one by using latex makebst It produced springer.dbj. springer .bst and springer.log in my home. Now I am confused how to proceed. The existing bst files are spread in /usr/local/texlive/.. /u

Re: bibtex my.bst

2006-06-23 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: After reconfiguring LyX, you should be able to select the .bst file from the drop down list of choices. Unless you are using a Springer style file, there is no need for \usepackage{springer}. Jean-Marc, (Not unless my mother was kidding me all those years.) I fo

Re: bibtex my.bst

2006-06-24 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: Am Freitag, 23. Juni 2006 18:13 schrieb Paul A. Rubin: Hi Paul (I am sure your mother was right..) Disclaimer: I have not done this myself (being an English-speaker) (although the Brits might disagree). Theoretically, if you run latex against makebst.tex and choose

Re: strange text alignment in tables

2006-06-24 Thread Paul A. Rubin
christiaan pauw wrote: Hi all I am writhing a questionnaire in Lyx 1.4.1 on Win XP. The whole thing is one gigantic table. I experience very strange effects with the alignment of text both vertically and horizontally 1. Text in adjacent columns are not aligned even when both are set at the sam

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