Re: Can I have bounding box around floating images?

2006-03-26 Thread Paul Medwell
Nagy Gabor wrote: Hi, I have some floating figures in my paper, and I would like to have a rectangle around the fload (or around the picture inside the float. How can I do that? An easy solution would be to stick in the figure inside a 1×1 table. Lata, Paul

Accented characters and BibTeX

2004-11-11 Thread Paul Medwell
Hi all, What is the most efficient way of inserting accented characters into BibTeX? In the past I simply inserted the ASCII character into the BibTeX file with emacs and never had any troubles. I've recently upgraded from RedHat 7.2 to Fedora Core 2 and now this no longer works. Depending on

Re: Accented characters and BibTeX

2004-11-14 Thread Paul Medwell
Thanks Jürgen...works a treat. Cheers, Paul Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: Jon Riding wrote: FC2 uses UTF-8 by default. To my recollection the anaconda installer for fc2 doesn't give you the option to change to ascii... You may start emacs (and LyX) with env LANG=en_US emacs to avoid the production

Re: Accented characters and BibTeX

2004-11-14 Thread Paul Medwell
after looking around a bit it seems as though there is a push for unicode to replace ascii. if this is the case, is it possible to get LyX/BibTeX to handle unicode? Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: Jon Riding wrote: FC2 uses UTF-8 by default. To my recollection the anaconda installer for fc2

PICT conversion from LyX

2004-11-29 Thread Paul Medwell
At the moment I'm generating numerous PICT files on a Mac (that is the only format the software is capable of exporting), and I would like to get these into a LyX document on my Linux box. I can use the convert programme to convert from PICT to PNG format, but in the Converters tab of LyX

Re: PICT conversion from LyX

2004-11-30 Thread Paul Medwell
Georg Baum wrote: Paul Medwell wrote: I can use the convert programme to convert from PICT to PNG format, but in the Converters tab of LyX preferences there is no where to specify what LyX will do with PICT files. Is it possible to add a new file format for LyX to automatically convert

Re: PICT conversion from LyX

2004-11-30 Thread Paul Medwell
Angus Leeming wrote: Paul Medwell wrote: Thank you for your reply, and sorry for being ignorant, but the question of how to define a new format still stands. In other words, how do I define PICT format (or any others for that matter). A google search did not find anything particularly useful and I

Re: PICT conversion from LyX

2004-12-01 Thread Paul Medwell
Georg Baum wrote: It is not new. I guess your are using the xforms frontend, and Angus described the qt frontend. If it is not working for some reason, stop every running instance of lyx. Edit ~/.lyx/preferences with a text editor of your choice, and add the line \format PICT PICT PICT Then

Re: PICT conversion from LyX

2004-12-01 Thread Paul Medwell
Angus Leeming wrote: Not many people seem to use the XForms frontend. Ahh well. Edit-Preferences to launch the dialog. Conversion-Formats tab. Define the format and press 'Add' to add it to the list of formats in the dialog. Press 'Save' or 'Apply' to make this format available to the rest of LyX.

Re: Changing PDF version generated

2004-12-08 Thread Paul Medwell
Jane McKean wrote: «SNIP» I need to change PDF generation process to produce PDF version 1.4. It probably depends a bit on what converters you use to generate your PDF. Perhaps start by looking at the Postscript - PDF converter (Edit - Preferences - Converters). I'm running LyX 1.3.5 (qt) on

Re: Block alignment inside tables

2005-01-04 Thread Paul Medwell
Paul Smith wrote: Dear All I have downloaded a LyX file with an example which contains a table. The horizontal alignment in this table is named block. If I create a table in a different document, I do not get the alignment named block in the list of possible alignments. How can I get the block

Re: Equation labelling

2005-01-12 Thread Paul Medwell
Vaibhav Srivastava wrote: Hi , I am new to Lyx. I have a problem with Lyx in equation labeling in the math mode. I use the version 1.3.1 In UserGuide it has shown how to label equations and when I do Insert-Label from the math mode in the users guide and enter a label then it works by showing

Re: Equation labelling

2005-01-12 Thread Paul Medwell
Vaibhav Srivastava wrote: Thanks for your reply. I am not sure how to find out what mode it is in. I just type in the math mode without setting anyother thing. If could tell me how to see that I would be grateful Thanks, Vaibhav I'm not sure what you have to type in the mini-buffer, but the

Re: Require et al in italics

2005-03-08 Thread Paul Medwell
Rob S wrote: I'm at the stage of minor corrections in my thesis and I am required to change the et al in references to italics. I'm using apalike.bst. Where and how do I ammend the .bst file? Hi Rob, If you're happy with the rest of the reference formatting, I'd simply search through your bst

Re: Problems with accentued letters (they're not displayed) in FC3

2005-03-28 Thread Paul Medwell
Oscar wrote: SNIP problems with accented characters... A (not particularly pretty) workaround *may* be to use the latex equivalents, viz; = {\O} = {\~a} = {\'a} ... et cetera When I moved to FC2, I had similar problems with accented characters which turned out to be issues between UTF and

TEST ONLY

2005-04-04 Thread Paul Medwell
appologies for the extra message

Re: linebreaks inside table cells

2005-04-04 Thread Paul Medwell
Alexander Blüm wrote: hello again, I'd like to create a table with linebreaks inside the cells. Inserting linebreaks doesn't help, neither does C-enter... any ideas? perhaps try inserting a 2 by 1 table within a cell of the original table lata, paul

Re: linebreaks inside table cells

2005-04-04 Thread Paul Medwell
Alexander Blüm wrote: hello again, I'd like to create a table with linebreaks inside the cells. Inserting linebreaks doesn't help, neither does C-enter... any ideas? i don't have lyx in front of me, but perhaps try inserting a 2×1 table within the cell you want the linebreak

Wrong papersize when using pdflatex

2005-04-11 Thread Paul Medwell
Hi all, If my LyX documents contain images then the papersize of the pdflatex output gets set to letter (8.5 × 11 inch), whereas I want it to be A4. I don't have this problem if the margins are set to default or custom. If I remove the images OR use a different pdf generator OR change the

Re: Wrong papersize when using pdflatex

2005-04-12 Thread Paul Medwell
Paul Smith wrote: On Apr 12, 2005 5:31 AM, Paul Medwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If my LyX documents contain images then the papersize of the pdflatex output gets set to letter (8.5 × 11 inch), whereas I want it to be A4. I don't have this problem if the margins are set to default or custom. Paul

Re: How do you make a bibliography?

2005-04-12 Thread Paul Medwell
Steve Litt wrote: This will be my first book with a bibliography, and I don't know how to do it. I'll probably be listing 10-15 references. What do I do? Within LyX, go Insert - Lists TOC - BibTeX reference, then add your BibTeX database file, and select the style of your reference. By the

Re: Wrong papersize when using pdflatex

2005-04-13 Thread Paul Medwell
Paul Medwell wrote: If my LyX documents contain images then the papersize of the pdflatex output gets set to letter (8.5 × 11 inch), whereas I want it to be A4. I don't have this problem if the margins are set to default or custom. Sorry to reply to my own question, but I've had a bit of a play

Re: Wrong papersize when using pdflatex

2005-04-13 Thread Paul Medwell
Uwe Stöhr wrote: The problem is the package a4wide. It is obsolete and actual LaTeX-packages won't take care of it. Have also a look at http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/l2tabu/english/l2tabuen.pdf to read what is also obsolete. Thanks Uwe. The document you suggested contained a few other

Re: Marvosym problem

2005-04-14 Thread Paul Medwell
Gunnar wrote: Hi I wrote \Rightarrow in mathmode and it looked good in Lyx, but when I previewed the postscript file I got : instead of = the problem disapeared when I removed \usepackage{marvosym} from the preamble. What's wrong, and how can I both use marvosym and write \Rightarrow and

Re: Marvosym problem

2005-04-15 Thread Paul Medwell
Gunnar wrote: Thanks Paul, great answer. Just for curiosity, what version of TeTeX are you using? I might have to suck eggs on the last comment I made - a colleague of mine has the same version of tetex, but he didn't have the commented marvosym style. I asked the other users of my machine if

Re: TOC headache

2005-04-18 Thread Paul Medwell
Rich Drewes wrote: I have a TOC that is two pages long. I must number my abstract, TOC, list of figures, and other frontmatter with roman numerals and that's working. Also, the TOC itself must appear as an entry in the TOC. Here's the problem: If I put my \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Table

Re: How do you comment out content?

2005-04-21 Thread Paul Medwell
Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, I have a small ( 1 page) section of my book which I'd like to temporarily comment out. Is there an environment with which I can make this text into a comment, so it can later easily be reincorporated as Standard environment, but for now not be visible in the output?

Re: Copiright Symbol, Registered Symbol and Trademark Symbol

2005-04-28 Thread Paul Medwell
Andrei Popov wrote: Hello All. I'm using LyX 1.3.4 on Linux, and ran into a small problem. Can anyone tell how does one go about inserting a Copiright Symbol (c), a Registered Symbol (r in a circle) and a Trademark Symbol (tm) in LyX? Are there keyboard shortcuts for these? In ERT mode...

Re: Copiright Symbol, Registered Symbol and Trademark Symbol

2005-04-28 Thread Paul Medwell
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Paul Medwell wrote: I don't know how to do a centreline symbol (a C overlapped by an L). Anyone know of a LaTeX code / package for this? Have a look at http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/symbols/comprehensive/symbols-a4.pdf thanks for the response Uwe. i regularly consult

Re: Graphics on Float Figures

2005-05-04 Thread Paul Medwell
Pupeno wrote: Hello, I'm new to Lyx. I have just created a Figure Float and put a Graphic on it, but when I try to render it to DVI, I get a LaTeX error, well, two in fact. probably because you are trying to put the graphic as the caption. to get around this, insert - float - figure then press

Re: case insertion in a lyx document

2005-05-05 Thread Paul Medwell
Harold Mouras wrote: Dear Lyx Users, would someone know how to insert in a Lyx document a symbol like ð. Thanks, Harold get a copy of the latex symbol bible http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/symbols/comprehensive/symbols-a4.pdf

Re: Right alignment of text

2005-05-19 Thread Paul Medwell
Angus Leeming wrote: I'm having problems with right alignment of some text. The problem exists (to my eyes anyway) with a standard article, but is much worse with the curriculum vitae class. See attached .lyx files; the resulting .dvi files are, well, ugly. Is there any way I can make the text

Re: Center Head in Italic

2005-06-08 Thread Paul Medwell
Bruce Pourciau wrote: Oh, and I forgot, using fancyheaders how can I make the header appear in italic? in the preamble... \chead{\textit{This is italics}}

LyX-Code Paragraph Environment

2002-12-10 Thread Paul Medwell
Can someone please help me modify the size of the text when using the LyX-Code paragraph environment? Ideally I would like to create a new paragraph environment, but thought that it would be easier to modify an existing one. Thanks in advance. Cheers, Paul

Re: latex font question

2002-12-10 Thread Paul Medwell
what do you mean by putting words in scientific notation? Owen Lucas wrote: Thanks I was just wanting to know how this was done as I could not find anything in the .cls or .layout files that would do this. I was also wondering if I could use this to replace words with some scientific

Re: LyX-Code Paragraph Environment

2002-12-11 Thread Paul Medwell
, and \smaller and \smallest give an error. Is there any reason why some of these work and not others? Cheers, Paul - Paul Medwell wrote: Can someone please help me modify the size of the text when using the LyX-Code paragraph environment? Ideally I would like to create a new paragraph

Re: Copyright symbol?

2002-12-11 Thread Paul Medwell
I have a very similar question but instead of a C inside a circle, I would like to add an R inside a circle (for registered). Cheers Paul Praedor Atrebates wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I am finishing up my thesis and have to add a copyright page which happens to use

Adding appendices

2002-12-11 Thread Paul Medwell
What is the best way of adding appendices to a document? I have tried adding them through the LaTeX command \appendix, but it didn't seem to do anything. Cheers, Paul

Back referencing equations

2002-12-15 Thread Paul Medwell
I have an equation in Chapter 1 that I would like to repeat in Chapter 2. How can I get the equation (AND its equation number reference) to appear in the second chapter exactly the same as it appears in chapter 1? Example: Chapter 1 This is my equation: y=2x (1.1) Chapter 2 As was shown in

Table Appearance

2002-12-15 Thread Paul Medwell
How is it possible to remove the extra space that appears at the top of tables? (I know that it can be done, because there is a table in the User's Guide without it, although there is no mention on how to do it. Even if I copy this table as soon as I add a row the space then appears between

Figure number in section heading

2003-01-05 Thread Paul Medwell
I am using book layout, and in the Appendices I would like to have a section called Description of Figure 6.9 (for example), where Figure 6.9 is one of the figures in the document. Adding the reference in the section name is not a problem, but at the top of the page, where LyX places the

Re: Figure number in section heading

2003-01-08 Thread Paul Medwell
Thank you for the feedback. Perhaps I didn't make my original question clear enough. The problem is not in the label, but the number reference for it. The attached document is an example of this. In the header of the last page it reads: 1.1 Explanation of Table?? Instead I would like it to

Re: Figure number in section heading

2003-01-09 Thread Paul Medwell
FYI... Changing the label to upper-case did not work, but adding \def\MakeUppercase#1{#1} to the pre-amble did. Thanks, Paul - Changing the label in the figure to SAMPLE-TABLE will solve your problem. Another solution, is to make the heading appear in normal case instead of uppercase. This

Re: placement of figures/floats

2003-01-12 Thread Paul Medwell
will probably be selected, un-select this and then choose the one that you want (Here Definitely). Hope this helps. Paul Medwell

Caption labelling problems

2003-01-13 Thread Paul Medwell
I am using a different caption under a table than in the List of Tables by inserting an ERT: \caption[short caption]{long caption} While the caption works fine, I am having trouble with the label. I create a label as I normally would (Insert-Label) and then try to reference it in the document

Re: How to stop page numbering from auto reset?

2003-01-14 Thread Paul Medwell
Depending on the format required for your abstract, you could just use Chapter*, or alternatively use something similar to: \newenvironment{abstract}{% \titlepage \begin{center}% \large \bfseries \abstractname \@endparpenalty\@M \end{center}}% in the preamble,

Re: Caption labelling problems

2003-01-14 Thread Paul Medwell
will work, but 6.9 won't: -- As shown in equation 6.8 and ??. y=x (6.8) a=b (6.9) -- Then if I delete equation 6.9, equation 6.8 will appear correctly. If I haven't confused you, could you please explain why this is happening? Many thanks, Paul Medwell

Re: Caption labelling problems

2003-01-15 Thread Paul Medwell
? Thanks anyway. Cheers, Paul --- Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: Paul Medwell wrote: If I haven't confused you, could you please explain why this is happening? I have never seen something similar. Could you send a minimal example file, please? Jürgen.

Re: Figure number in section heading

2003-01-16 Thread Paul Medwell
in this problem. Cheers, Paul --- Dekel Tsur wrote: On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 09:06:02AM +1030, Paul Medwell wrote: FYI... Changing the label to upper-case did not work, but adding \def\MakeUppercase#1{#1} to the pre-amble did. Changing the label to upper case should work. #LyX 1.2 created this file

Re: alphabetic order for style list?

2003-02-19 Thread Paul Medwell
--- This should put force them to appear in that order, starting from the top, and anything not explicity listed will follow. That way, you can put the most frequently used styles near the top (or bottom) of the list, where they are easier to find. Hope this helps. Regards, Paul Medwell

Equation numbers in brackets

2003-02-23 Thread Paul Medwell
I would like the equation numbers to appear in brackets in the text when I reference them. How can this be done? Cheers, Paul

Re: How to center figures in the book.layout

2003-03-12 Thread Paul Medwell
As an extension to this, how is it possible to make floats automatically centred? Ta, Paul --- Andre Poenitz wrote: On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 10:55:50AM -0500, FG wrote: Is there a way to correct this? Have you centered the paragraph containing the figure? Andre'

Re: graphics in lyx

2003-03-12 Thread Paul Medwell
Try using postscript images wherever possible - they will retain much better quality and will also resize correctly. HTH, Paul --- Tobias Kraus wrote: Hi! Is there a possibility to enhance the quality of graphics when exporting my lyx-document to pdf? When I export to html the qauality is much

Re: Changing page numbering styles, etc.

2003-06-15 Thread Paul Medwell
Rithvik Vinekar wrote: 1) How do I change the page numbering style for my report? I want the first few pages before the Abstract (List of Abbreviations, Materials and Methods etc.) to have page numbers in Roman Numerals (I II III etc.). The page numbering style of the rest of the document as in

Re: others like lyx?

2003-06-22 Thread Paul Medwell
Perhaps you should get in contact with MacGyver... :-) --- Owen Lucas wrote: I like the open source concept but im still waiting for open hardware. For example CPUs that you can make in your microwave out of sand and a can of tuna

Centreline Symbol

2003-06-24 Thread Paul Medwell
Does anyone know of a centreline (or centerline for those following American dictionaries) symbol in Lyx/LaTeX? For those of you unsure of what a centreline symbol is - it is a C with a L through it, and is used in drafting. Cheers, Paul

Re: Images and headers

2003-07-28 Thread Paul Medwell
Pablo Rodriguez Gonzalez wrote: How can I move an inserted image to left, right, etc...?. I didn't see the option, clicking on the image. Layout - Paragraph How can I set footer/header to a document?. Fox example, I want that in all documents I write, my company's logo appears in header... Make

Re: Images and headers

2003-07-29 Thread Paul Medwell
sorry...you are absolutely correct, I should have made that clearer Owen Lucas wrote: Just to spell it out that is to add \lhead{\includegraphics{graphic filename}} in the preamble of the document not in as text and to have the graphic filename in its full path. Paul Medwell wrote: How

Re: different ways of citing in article text

2003-08-09 Thread Paul Medwell
A possible solution (not necessarily the best one) is to look at the contents of the files you downloaded...they often have a description of the various styles available somewhere near the top. If not, without needing to be a supergenious, you should be able to read through them and roughly sort

Automating italic index entries

2003-09-23 Thread Paul Medwell
Hi all, In my document whenever I insert a word to be put in the index I make it italic (by turning emphasis on). Is it possible to make words that have been selected as index entries automatically italic? Cheers, Paul

xfig graphics (pdf v pdflatex)

2003-09-23 Thread Paul Medwell
Hi all, I'd like to add to the recent inundation of questions relating to xfig. I have recently noticed some resolution issues when I insert *.fig graphics generated in xfig directly into my LyX document. If I view the document using View-PDF they appear fine, however, if I use View-pdflatex

Re: Custom Theorem Names and Back Referencing

2003-09-24 Thread Paul Medwell
Frank Miller wrote: ««SNIP»» (2) How can I back reference a Theorem (or any other theorem like environment) made early in the paper but use the same number. i.e. %... Claim 1.1. This is my claim. %... Recall the claim from the first section. Claim 1.1. This

Re: problem with EPS flies

2003-10-12 Thread Paul Medwell
First step...upgrade to a newer version of LyX. Tomasz Koziara wrote: Hallo, Using Lyx-1.2.0/PLD linux I experience the following problem: Graphics in EPS format cannot be inserted into a document. I had no such a problem when using Lyx-1.1 more then a year ago. Probably this is due to the lack

Re: cut-and-paste issues

2003-10-12 Thread Paul Medwell
Ed Sawicki wrote: I compiled LyX 1.3.3 from source with Qt support and run it on a Linux/KDE system. I cannot cut text from another application and paste it in a LyX document. Is this normal? Ed Sawicki Try Edit-Paste External Selection

Re: Very simple question (!)

2003-10-16 Thread Paul Medwell
To center all figures in a document, Herbert has previously suggested using in the preamble; \makeatletter \renewenvironment{figure}[1][]{% [EMAIL PROTECTED] \centering }{% [EMAIL PROTECTED] } \makeatother (http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/LaTeX/floats/floats.phtml#center)

Re: LyX Problem: Using Figure Floats with Center-Justified Figures

2003-10-26 Thread Paul Medwell
using some code inserted in the preamble, see: http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/LaTeX/floats/floats.phtml#center However, I have tried this and not been able to get it to work. If anyone has ideas on what I could be doing wrong, please let me know. Regards, Paul Medwell -- William wrote

Re: letter with letterhead .bmp

2003-11-04 Thread Paul Medwell
If no-one has wanted to make suggestion, I'm prepared to have a stab in the dark. First step: try adding just text to the header/footer; In the preamble use a series of \lhead{This is the lefthand of the header} \chead{Centre of header} \rfoot{Right hand corner of footer} ...et cetera NOTE:

Re: Default display mode for ERT inset

2003-11-20 Thread Paul Medwell
G'Day Kimbo, One solution may be to open your file in Emacs, and do a search-and-replace for: \begin_inset ERT status Open and replace with; \begin_inset ERT status Collapsed I guess that there's a better way, but this should (?) work. Lata, Paul -- Kim Roland Rasmussen wrote: Hi! Is there

EPS graphics rotating page

2003-12-15 Thread Paul Medwell
Hi all, I've got a formatted Excel spreadsheet that I need to insert into my document. Its got a heap of colour and formatting, so I can't just import it in as a LyX/LaTeX table. I have printed it out to an EPS file, and (eventually) I got it to insert into my LyX document. The problem is

Re: Can I have bounding box around floating images?

2006-03-26 Thread Paul Medwell
Nagy Gabor wrote: Hi, I have some floating figures in my paper, and I would like to have a rectangle around the fload (or around the picture inside the float. How can I do that? An easy solution would be to stick in the figure inside a 1×1 table. Lata, Paul

Accented characters and BibTeX

2004-11-11 Thread Paul Medwell
Hi all, What is the most efficient way of inserting accented characters into BibTeX? In the past I simply inserted the ASCII character into the BibTeX file with emacs and never had any troubles. I've recently upgraded from RedHat 7.2 to Fedora Core 2 and now this no longer works. Depending on

Re: Accented characters and BibTeX

2004-11-14 Thread Paul Medwell
Thanks Jürgen...works a treat. Cheers, Paul Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: Jon Riding wrote: FC2 uses UTF-8 by default. To my recollection the anaconda installer for fc2 doesn't give you the option to change to ascii... You may start emacs (and LyX) with env LANG=en_US emacs to avoid the production

Re: Accented characters and BibTeX

2004-11-14 Thread Paul Medwell
after looking around a bit it seems as though there is a push for unicode to replace ascii. if this is the case, is it possible to get LyX/BibTeX to handle unicode? Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: Jon Riding wrote: FC2 uses UTF-8 by default. To my recollection the anaconda installer for fc2

PICT conversion from LyX

2004-11-29 Thread Paul Medwell
At the moment I'm generating numerous PICT files on a Mac (that is the only format the software is capable of exporting), and I would like to get these into a LyX document on my Linux box. I can use the convert programme to convert from PICT to PNG format, but in the Converters tab of LyX

Re: PICT conversion from LyX

2004-11-30 Thread Paul Medwell
Georg Baum wrote: Paul Medwell wrote: I can use the convert programme to convert from PICT to PNG format, but in the Converters tab of LyX preferences there is no where to specify what LyX will do with PICT files. Is it possible to add a new file format for LyX to automatically convert

Re: PICT conversion from LyX

2004-11-30 Thread Paul Medwell
Angus Leeming wrote: Paul Medwell wrote: Thank you for your reply, and sorry for being ignorant, but the question of how to define a new format still stands. In other words, how do I define PICT format (or any others for that matter). A google search did not find anything particularly useful and I

Re: PICT conversion from LyX

2004-12-01 Thread Paul Medwell
Georg Baum wrote: It is not new. I guess your are using the xforms frontend, and Angus described the qt frontend. If it is not working for some reason, stop every running instance of lyx. Edit ~/.lyx/preferences with a text editor of your choice, and add the line \format PICT PICT PICT Then

Re: PICT conversion from LyX

2004-12-01 Thread Paul Medwell
Angus Leeming wrote: Not many people seem to use the XForms frontend. Ahh well. Edit-Preferences to launch the dialog. Conversion-Formats tab. Define the format and press 'Add' to add it to the list of formats in the dialog. Press 'Save' or 'Apply' to make this format available to the rest of LyX.

Re: Changing PDF version generated

2004-12-08 Thread Paul Medwell
Jane McKean wrote: «SNIP» I need to change PDF generation process to produce PDF version 1.4. It probably depends a bit on what converters you use to generate your PDF. Perhaps start by looking at the Postscript - PDF converter (Edit - Preferences - Converters). I'm running LyX 1.3.5 (qt) on

Re: Block alignment inside tables

2005-01-04 Thread Paul Medwell
Paul Smith wrote: Dear All I have downloaded a LyX file with an example which contains a table. The horizontal alignment in this table is named block. If I create a table in a different document, I do not get the alignment named block in the list of possible alignments. How can I get the block

Re: Equation labelling

2005-01-12 Thread Paul Medwell
Vaibhav Srivastava wrote: Hi , I am new to Lyx. I have a problem with Lyx in equation labeling in the math mode. I use the version 1.3.1 In UserGuide it has shown how to label equations and when I do Insert-Label from the math mode in the users guide and enter a label then it works by showing

Re: Equation labelling

2005-01-12 Thread Paul Medwell
Vaibhav Srivastava wrote: Thanks for your reply. I am not sure how to find out what mode it is in. I just type in the math mode without setting anyother thing. If could tell me how to see that I would be grateful Thanks, Vaibhav I'm not sure what you have to type in the mini-buffer, but the

Re: Require et al in italics

2005-03-08 Thread Paul Medwell
Rob S wrote: I'm at the stage of minor corrections in my thesis and I am required to change the et al in references to italics. I'm using apalike.bst. Where and how do I ammend the .bst file? Hi Rob, If you're happy with the rest of the reference formatting, I'd simply search through your bst

Re: Problems with accentued letters (they're not displayed) in FC3

2005-03-28 Thread Paul Medwell
Oscar wrote: SNIP problems with accented characters... A (not particularly pretty) workaround *may* be to use the latex equivalents, viz; = {\O} = {\~a} = {\'a} ... et cetera When I moved to FC2, I had similar problems with accented characters which turned out to be issues between UTF and

TEST ONLY

2005-04-04 Thread Paul Medwell
appologies for the extra message

Re: linebreaks inside table cells

2005-04-04 Thread Paul Medwell
Alexander Blüm wrote: hello again, I'd like to create a table with linebreaks inside the cells. Inserting linebreaks doesn't help, neither does C-enter... any ideas? perhaps try inserting a 2 by 1 table within a cell of the original table lata, paul

Re: linebreaks inside table cells

2005-04-04 Thread Paul Medwell
Alexander Blüm wrote: hello again, I'd like to create a table with linebreaks inside the cells. Inserting linebreaks doesn't help, neither does C-enter... any ideas? i don't have lyx in front of me, but perhaps try inserting a 2×1 table within the cell you want the linebreak

Wrong papersize when using pdflatex

2005-04-11 Thread Paul Medwell
Hi all, If my LyX documents contain images then the papersize of the pdflatex output gets set to letter (8.5 × 11 inch), whereas I want it to be A4. I don't have this problem if the margins are set to default or custom. If I remove the images OR use a different pdf generator OR change the

Re: Wrong papersize when using pdflatex

2005-04-12 Thread Paul Medwell
Paul Smith wrote: On Apr 12, 2005 5:31 AM, Paul Medwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If my LyX documents contain images then the papersize of the pdflatex output gets set to letter (8.5 × 11 inch), whereas I want it to be A4. I don't have this problem if the margins are set to default or custom. Paul

Re: How do you make a bibliography?

2005-04-12 Thread Paul Medwell
Steve Litt wrote: This will be my first book with a bibliography, and I don't know how to do it. I'll probably be listing 10-15 references. What do I do? Within LyX, go Insert - Lists TOC - BibTeX reference, then add your BibTeX database file, and select the style of your reference. By the

Re: Wrong papersize when using pdflatex

2005-04-13 Thread Paul Medwell
Paul Medwell wrote: If my LyX documents contain images then the papersize of the pdflatex output gets set to letter (8.5 × 11 inch), whereas I want it to be A4. I don't have this problem if the margins are set to default or custom. Sorry to reply to my own question, but I've had a bit of a play

Re: Wrong papersize when using pdflatex

2005-04-13 Thread Paul Medwell
Uwe Stöhr wrote: The problem is the package a4wide. It is obsolete and actual LaTeX-packages won't take care of it. Have also a look at http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/l2tabu/english/l2tabuen.pdf to read what is also obsolete. Thanks Uwe. The document you suggested contained a few other

Re: Marvosym problem

2005-04-14 Thread Paul Medwell
Gunnar wrote: Hi I wrote \Rightarrow in mathmode and it looked good in Lyx, but when I previewed the postscript file I got : instead of = the problem disapeared when I removed \usepackage{marvosym} from the preamble. What's wrong, and how can I both use marvosym and write \Rightarrow and

Re: Marvosym problem

2005-04-15 Thread Paul Medwell
Gunnar wrote: Thanks Paul, great answer. Just for curiosity, what version of TeTeX are you using? I might have to suck eggs on the last comment I made - a colleague of mine has the same version of tetex, but he didn't have the commented marvosym style. I asked the other users of my machine if

Re: TOC headache

2005-04-18 Thread Paul Medwell
Rich Drewes wrote: I have a TOC that is two pages long. I must number my abstract, TOC, list of figures, and other frontmatter with roman numerals and that's working. Also, the TOC itself must appear as an entry in the TOC. Here's the problem: If I put my \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Table

Re: How do you comment out content?

2005-04-21 Thread Paul Medwell
Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, I have a small ( 1 page) section of my book which I'd like to temporarily comment out. Is there an environment with which I can make this text into a comment, so it can later easily be reincorporated as Standard environment, but for now not be visible in the output?

Re: Copiright Symbol, Registered Symbol and Trademark Symbol

2005-04-28 Thread Paul Medwell
Andrei Popov wrote: Hello All. I'm using LyX 1.3.4 on Linux, and ran into a small problem. Can anyone tell how does one go about inserting a Copiright Symbol (c), a Registered Symbol (r in a circle) and a Trademark Symbol (tm) in LyX? Are there keyboard shortcuts for these? In ERT mode...

Re: Copiright Symbol, Registered Symbol and Trademark Symbol

2005-04-28 Thread Paul Medwell
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Paul Medwell wrote: I don't know how to do a centreline symbol (a C overlapped by an L). Anyone know of a LaTeX code / package for this? Have a look at http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/symbols/comprehensive/symbols-a4.pdf thanks for the response Uwe. i regularly consult

Re: Graphics on Float Figures

2005-05-04 Thread Paul Medwell
Pupeno wrote: Hello, I'm new to Lyx. I have just created a Figure Float and put a Graphic on it, but when I try to render it to DVI, I get a LaTeX error, well, two in fact. probably because you are trying to put the graphic as the caption. to get around this, insert - float - figure then press

Re: case insertion in a lyx document

2005-05-05 Thread Paul Medwell
Harold Mouras wrote: Dear Lyx Users, would someone know how to insert in a Lyx document a symbol like ð. Thanks, Harold get a copy of the latex symbol bible http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/symbols/comprehensive/symbols-a4.pdf

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