Re: bibliography

2010-09-13 Thread Richard Heck
On 09/13/2010 12:21 AM, Jacob Bishop wrote: Cristina, I use jab-ref to manage my bibliographies for documents I create with LyX on Windows XP and Windows, and occasionally Kubuntu. I have personally never tried to configure the LyX pipe stuff or any of that. I do exactly as Richard suggests,

Re: Many questions about typesetting

2010-09-13 Thread Richard Heck
On 09/13/2010 12:18 PM, Etienne Snyman wrote: Dear LyX-peoples... I have a few questions concerning layout, typesetting and fonts. (I am using LyX 1.6.5 on Ubuntu 10.04) I am in the planning stage of writing a music theory textbook (which will be Creative-Commons licensed!) and I am therefore u

Re: Many questions about typesetting

2010-09-14 Thread Richard Heck
On 09/14/2010 06:23 AM, Etienne Snyman wrote: Hi Richard! Thanks for the good replies... On Mon, 2010-09-13 at 17:19 -0400, Richard Heck wrote: On 09/13/2010 12:18 PM, Etienne Snyman wrote: However, I would like to tweak a lot of these settings so that my headings are in the Sans

Re: Many questions about typesetting

2010-09-14 Thread Richard Heck
On 09/14/2010 06:01 PM, Charlie wrote: On Tue, 14 Sep 2010 08:03:45 -0400 Richard Heck shared this with is all on the Lyx users list: For example, for changing the font of a chapter heading, one does: \setkomafont{chapter}{...whatever you want...} I assume that isn't do

Re: Windows setup/directory structure

2010-09-14 Thread Richard Heck
On 09/14/2010 06:16 PM, Maria Gouskova wrote: Dear LyX users, I am not a Windows user myself but am trying to help some people duplicate my setup on a Windows machine. On a *nix-based system, such as my Mac OS, the custom packages and the bib and bst files all live in the texmf directory, like t

Re: Keeping text in sync at two locations in a document

2010-09-16 Thread Richard Heck
On 09/16/2010 03:06 AM, Graham Smith wrote: I have two timetables within the same document. One is the main timetable which has the lecture title and a summary of its content. The other is a summary timetable that goes on the back page of the document, and just has the date and lecture title. W

Re: formatting cross references — \ref, \prettyref, etc

2010-09-16 Thread Richard Heck
On 09/16/2010 04:26 AM, Justin Wood wrote: Is it possible to control the format of cross references to labels so that I can specify the text prepended to the label number? I realise LyX automagically adds 'chapter', 'section', 'subsection', and 'Figure', most of which are fine. But normally I w

Re: Multiple chapters

2010-09-16 Thread Richard Heck
On 09/16/2010 04:54 AM, RobyC. wrote: Hi all, I'm writing my thesis with Lyx and I'm organizing it in several chapters and a bibliography. Every chapter have reference to the same bibliography but to cite bibliography entries I must include bibliography (generated by bibtex using referencer)

Re: Keeping text in sync at two locations in a document

2010-09-16 Thread Richard Heck
It can easily be done in LaTeX, by defining macros that contain the dates and titles and then using those more than once. You can do this in LyX, too, therefore, using ERT, but there's no native support for it. Yes there is native support for macros in lyx, but the name is misleading; the

Re: a few questions regarding lyx

2010-09-16 Thread Richard Heck
On 09/16/2010 10:21 AM, Dino Vliet wrote: Hi folks, I'm using the report (KOMA-script) document class to write my thesis and I don't know how to do the following things: 1) Subtitles: how to add the to my document? What kind of subtitle do you mean? For the entire document? 2) I have two sup

Re: Printing a beamer outline

2010-09-16 Thread Richard Heck
On 09/16/2010 09:21 AM, Graham Smith wrote: I have Beamer set up to create a main presentation plus a child document that produces an article (where I include additional "article" only text) that I use as a handout. A change of policy means that we are now handing out just an "outline" of the ma

Re: How to create a layout file?

2010-09-17 Thread Richard Heck
On 09/16/2010 09:04 PM, Rob Oakes wrote: Layout files are just simple text files that have been saved with the .layout extensions. You then place this file in the "layouts" subdirectory of your LyX user directory. Which means that you just use a simple text editor, like Notepad on Window

Re: Multiple chapters

2010-09-17 Thread Richard Heck
On 09/17/2010 01:05 PM, RobyC. wrote: Thank you. I've selected a master document for all my chapters. If I open the master document (in pdf, for example) there aren't problems, but if I open only one chapter the references in the document appears like "[?]". Anyway I can insert the references i

Re: using multiple files for document->problem with document class(es)

2010-09-17 Thread Richard Heck
On 9/17/10 4:16 PM, Matt Funk wrote: Hi, i am writing a document that is broken up into multiple files. I include these files via Insert->File->Child Document. The problem is this: I select a given document class for the main document. The child documents have the main document as their master

Re: Strange bibliographic error

2010-09-19 Thread Richard Heck
On 9/19/10 11:46 AM, Påvel Nicklasson wrote: You are correct, Paul! I had to enter extra { } around the Swedish Å, then the entry sorted OK. I guess this is the kind of strange problems you encounter as newbie in Lyx and Bibtex! Thanks for the help! In general, you should NOT use Unicode in bibt

Re: lyx2lyx

2010-09-19 Thread Richard Heck
On 09/19/2010 02:12 PM, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: How do I make the lyx/lyx export working? I have a lyx file produced with lyx2.0 and want to work on it now under lyx1.6.7. I used file>export>lyx1.6.x but when trying to load it in lyx1.6.7 I am told, it is from a different version of lyx. lyx2ly

Re: lyx2lyx

2010-09-20 Thread Richard Heck
On 09/20/2010 04:46 AM, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: Am Monday 20 September 2010 09:53:14 schrieb Kornel Benko: Am Montag, 20. September 2010 schrieb Wolfgang Engelmann: Am Sunday 19 September 2010 23:11:01 schrieb Richard Heck: On 09/19/2010 02:12 PM, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote

Re: question about styling/highlighting abbreaviations

2010-09-20 Thread Richard Heck
On 09/20/2010 08:55 AM, Ipacs Péter wrote: Hi Guys, Forgive me if my question is newbie but I'm indeed a newbie both to latex and to Lyx as well.I was trying to use some supported way to highlight abbreviations in a Lyx document but I found no good way so far. I also did the standard drill of

Re: question about styling/highlighting abbreaviations

2010-09-20 Thread Richard Heck
On 09/20/2010 11:16 AM, Paul Rubin wrote: My impression is that LyX 2.0 will have a macro capability. Beyond the math macro stuff we already have, no, unfortunately. Richard

Re: lyx2lyx

2010-09-21 Thread Richard Heck
On 09/21/2010 05:22 AM, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: Am Monday 20 September 2010 21:03:24 schrieb Pavel Sanda: Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: however, Pavel (and the author of the ticket) ment to change the name of the file (?). no i didnt meant this, but by chance you solved your pr

Re: change pdf save location

2010-09-21 Thread Richard Heck
On 09/21/2010 01:22 PM, Murat Yildizoglu wrote: You can use File/Export/PdfLatex (or another format, if you prefer). The PDF file will be generated and saved in the same folder es the LyX file. And LyX does it this way so that you can view the current version of the document without over-wr

tex2lyx crash

2010-09-21 Thread Richard Heck
On 09/21/2010 01:49 PM, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: Am Tuesday 21 September 2010 17:14:53 schrieb Richard Heck: On 09/21/2010 05:22 AM, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: Am Monday 20 September 2010 21:03:24 schrieb Pavel Sanda: Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: however, Pavel (and

Re: change pdf save location

2010-09-22 Thread Richard Heck
On 09/22/2010 02:46 AM, Guenter Milde wrote: On 2010-09-21, Gwen Barnes wrote: When I hit the button on the lyx toolbar to either view or update the pdf, the pdf gets created in a temporary location. Is there a way to get it to automatically save the pdf to my current working directory? I

Re: Error in compiling document: argument of \PU\

2010-09-23 Thread Richard Heck
On 09/23/2010 12:12 PM, vamsi krishna wrote: thank you so much for the reply. But I am not using any caption function. i am not sure when you mean about standard environment :( I am including a screenshot of the way I am including the file. Can you let me know if its a wrong way to include the f

Re: more on collaboration

2010-09-24 Thread Richard Heck
On 09/24/2010 11:43 AM, Les Denham wrote: On Friday 24 September 2010 10:29:10 Rob Oakes wrote: Anyone else have any thoughts? Rob, I had no idea people were asking for this kind of feature. Real-time collaboration on a document seems to me to be a formula for a colossal waste of t

Re: Spacing Around Quote Environment

2010-09-24 Thread Richard Heck
On 09/24/2010 12:31 PM, Bruce Pourciau wrote: In the article class, the quote environment puts some extra space above and below the quotation to help separate it from the body text. In the article (AMS) class, though, the quote environment inserts no extra space, which would seem in conflict wi

Re: References not exporting

2010-09-24 Thread Richard Heck
On 09/24/2010 11:58 AM, Lars Olesen wrote: I tried to export my lyx document. It has a lot of bibtex references. The references shows up correctly in the document when editing it. However, they appear just as question marks when I export the file. The only way I can export it where the reference

Re: more on collaboration

2010-09-24 Thread Richard Heck
On 09/24/2010 02:21 PM, Kevin Brubeck Unhammer wrote: I think the ideal situation would look like Gobby[1] running inside LyX (not necessarily with chat features, but at least showing where the other user is editing), but I can understand how that would be a lot of work to implement. Sponsorship

Re: more on collaboration

2010-09-24 Thread Richard Heck
On 09/24/2010 01:34 PM, Gregory Jefferis wrote: Non-interactive collaborative editing means that there can always be one live version of a document to which anyone can apply changes that are versioned, identified and much more likely. Essentially it solves the conflicting merge problem by autom

Re: more on collaboration

2010-09-24 Thread Richard Heck
On 09/24/2010 05:34 PM, Julien Rioux wrote: On 24/09/2010 3:01 PM, Richard Heck wrote: This could almost be done without any changes to LyX. Here's how. 1. Set up a cron job that does "svn up filename.lyx" every two minutes. 2. Set up another cron job that watches filename

Re: Reconfigure

2010-09-25 Thread Richard Heck
On 09/25/2010 08:09 AM, ehud.kap...@gmail.com wrote: Why not arrange it so that when Lyx is invoked it checks to see whether Latex had been updated or modified since the last time Lyx was run? That way we will not have to remember to "reconfigure" Lyx after each time we update or install new L

Re: Error in compiling document: argument of \PU\

2010-09-26 Thread Richard Heck
On 09/26/2010 08:12 AM, vamsi krishna wrote: hi uwe, unfortunately I am having almost the same problem of compiling the master file. I have to submit my thesis in 4 days and i am facing compiling problems. At my university everyone use Latex except me(using Latex portable suit LYX ), and in

Re: Table style question

2010-09-26 Thread Richard Heck
On 09/26/2010 10:26 AM, Paul A. Rubin wrote: On 9/26/2010 9:47 AM, Tóth István Zoltán wrote: Hello, I'm quite new to LyX and at the moment I'm trying to find an easy way to customize the general table style. I'm going to write a document with a number of tables and I would like to change the de

Re: Several references with pagenumbers

2010-09-27 Thread Richard Heck
On 09/26/2010 05:46 PM, Paul Rubin wrote: Påvel Nicklasson bahnhof.se> writes: Such a simple trick! I can't understand how I overlooked it. I have spent hours reading manuals and searching the Net... For what it's worth, it took me a long time to recognize it. I thought I knew a t

Re: Numbering tables

2010-09-28 Thread Richard Heck
On 09/28/2010 06:14 AM, Yurena Mendoza Lemes wrote: Hi, How can I change in Lyx the numbering of tables. I want that from Table 8 (that is in the Annex) instead of table 8 number as Table A. At the beginning of the appendix, in TeX code: \setcounter{table}{0}\renewcommand\thetable{\Alph{ta

Re: error when I insert a table.

2010-09-28 Thread Richard Heck
On 09/28/2010 07:03 AM, José Luis Cañadas wrote: Hello everybody. I can't insert a float figure or a float table . Lyx always is closed itself. I use ubuntu 10.04 and the lyx version is 1.6.5. Can you run LyX from a terminal and report the error message? Richard

Re: issue with \tableofcontents

2010-09-28 Thread Richard Heck
On 09/28/2010 11:13 AM, David Hopkins wrote: I am trying to create a document that customized cls file (modified from article.cls). However, I cannot get the table of contents to be created ... neither with he Lyx option Insert-->List/TOC-->Table of Contents nor using \tableofcontents via ERT.

Re: lyx/mac cursor off by 1 character

2010-09-30 Thread Richard Heck
On 9/30/10 5:52 PM, Derek Lamb wrote: Hi, I've been using LyX on Linux for a long time (wrote several papers and my thesis with it), but this is the first time I've tried to use it on a Mac. I'm running OS X 10.6.4, and installed LyX 1.6.7 via MacPorts (I'm regretting not just using the bina

Re: How to have headers and footers print on the chapter intro pages?

2010-10-02 Thread Richard Heck
On 10/01/2010 07:01 PM, Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, I'm using a document class derived from the Book class, and that can't change. Given that, how can I get headers and footers to show up on the chapter intro pages as well as the other pages? Every page that starts a chapter currently has no head

Re: Variables showing top-of-page values?

2010-10-02 Thread Richard Heck
On 10/02/2010 12:49 AM, Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, I'm using a document class derived from the Book class, and that can't change. I created a character style that in LyX shows the text, but in the PDF doesn't show the text and simply sets a variable, which I then put in the header. So far so goo

Re: Title of reference section

2010-10-04 Thread Richard Heck
On 10/04/2010 07:46 AM, Hal Kierstead wrote: All - This is probably more of a latex question than Lyx question, but does anyone know how to change the title of the reference section to something else, such as "Publications". I am using bibtex if that matters. In article.cls, this is held in

Re: Separate List of Appendices, need help

2010-10-05 Thread Richard Heck
On 10/05/2010 07:49 AM, Waluyo Adi Siswanto wrote: Thanks but the attached file is not a problem from me. When I insert TOC the appendix heading will printed in the TOC, which is not the format that I want. There should be in a separate page under List of Appendices List of Appendices A. Title o

Re: New parts of a book opening on right hand side page only?

2010-10-05 Thread Richard Heck
On 10/05/2010 04:18 PM, Frederick Noronha wrote: Is there some way I could get all the new 'parts' of a book to open on a right hand side page only? (In other words, I don't want the \openany option.) FN Should be the default, I think, but use the openright option. rh

Re: Separate List of Appendices, need help

2010-10-05 Thread Richard Heck
On 10/05/2010 08:07 PM, Waluyo Adi Siswanto wrote: Thanks Richard for the information I think you need to use the tocloft package. See section 2.4 of the manual, on the \newlistof command. You'll do something like: \newlistof{appendix}{loa}{\listofappendices} I wrote in the late

Re: editing source code / resume enumerate

2010-10-08 Thread Richard Heck
On 10/08/2010 03:01 PM, Beth Skwarecki wrote: Hi, I'm new to LyX. I installed enumitem.module so that I can resume enumerations, but I can't figure out how to insert the resume command. In general, you can insert raw LaTeX using Insert>TeX Code. However, ... I know I can view the source, but

Re: LyX Menus Missing!

2010-10-13 Thread Richard Heck
On 10/13/2010 01:33 AM, Jason Waskiewicz wrote: I recently installed the Ubuntu 10.10 version for Netbooks. To my consternation, the menu is missing in LyX. (It is present in every other program I use with the exception of TeXmaker.) I was wondering if there is a way to get it back. In TeXmaker,

Re: LyX Menus Missing!

2010-10-13 Thread Richard Heck
On 10/13/2010 11:45 AM, Pavel Sanda wrote: Jason Waskiewicz wrote: I was wondering if there is a way to get it back. http://www.mail-archive.com/ubuntu-b...@lists.ubuntu.com/msg2566505.html ? Better yet: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/indicator-appmenu/+bug/619811

Re: Display Pseudocode-Algorithms in Lyx

2010-10-14 Thread Richard Heck
On 10/14/2010 01:19 PM, iustifico wrote: Is there a nice way to display Algorithms in Pseudocode-Algorithms in Lyx? Perhaps like in here: http://bit.ly/belSIj It would be great if something like "Input:" and "Output:" were implemented... LyX supports the listings package, so I'd look into

Re: need in-text citations to line-break!

2010-10-15 Thread Richard Heck
On 10/15/2010 04:55 AM, Lea Rennert wrote: Hi, I am working with Lyx 1.6.2 on windows, and I am writing my thesis in the book (KOMA-script) - class. I inserted my citations with Citavi, but I think that should not matter - I have a .bib file for the Bibliography (natbib-style) that I loaded. My

Re: From Lyx to .tex file

2010-10-15 Thread Richard Heck
On 10/15/2010 08:06 AM, Emil Pavlov wrote: На 15.10.2010 13:02, Yurena Mendoza Lemes написа: Hi, I need to send a document produced by lyx in latex format (. tex). The option of "save as" is not available. But I'm wondering if copying the source code that is producing lyx in a simple text file

Re: user-defined numbering

2010-10-15 Thread Richard Heck
On 10/15/2010 02:57 PM, Emil Pavlov wrote: I am using the Koma book class and I want to change the numbering style of chapter, sections, etc. It is currently: 1 Chapter dfg 1.1 Section dhd 1.1.1 Subsection sfgh 1.1.2 Subsection dfds 1.1.2.1 Subsubsection fjkf and I'd prefer it was: I Chapter

Re: Problems adding class svjour3 to lyx

2010-10-17 Thread Richard Heck
On 10/17/2010 12:24 PM, Agustin Lobo wrote: Thanks!! It worked! Nevertheless, it would be better being able to add these classes to the user directory (i.e. under /home/alobo/tex/latex). This should be a matter of adding that directory to the path somehow, and I would appreciate if anybody could

Re: Reading pdf/dvi and navigate to LyX source

2010-10-19 Thread Richard Heck
On 10/19/2010 05:57 AM, Rainer Dorsch wrote: Hello, I think I read some time back, that it is possible to preview a pdf/dvi in LyX and then jump from a location in the pdf/dvi into the LyX document back. Can anybody give me a pointer on where this is documented or what are the right terms to go

Re: Force LyX to completely regenerate pdf

2010-10-19 Thread Richard Heck
On 10/18/2010 07:14 PM, Andras Toth wrote: On Monday 18 October 2010 04:52:02 am Uwe Stöhr wrote: Am 17.10.2010 22:15, schrieb Andras Toth: I would like to ask whether there is a way to force LyX to regenerate a pdf from scratch, rather than updating the existing one, from some interm

Re: Force LyX to completely regenerate pdf

2010-10-19 Thread Richard Heck
On 10/19/2010 06:38 PM, Andras Toth wrote: From Uwe's response, I take it that there is a bug here. I'm not sure what the cause would be, but apparently LyX is not regenerating the aux file, or something like that. Could you file a bug at http://www.lyx.org/trac/wiki/BugTrackerHome, please? Cl

Re: Automatically convert external files during PDF creation

2010-10-25 Thread Richard Heck
On 10/25/2010 04:32 AM, Jurriën Stutterheim wrote: Hmm... I just figured out I might be able to do this using Templates. However, I can't seem to be able to make my custom template appear in the list of Templates in the Insert External Material dialog. Where do I place my newly created templat

Re: Automatically convert external files during PDF creation

2010-10-25 Thread Richard Heck
On 10/25/2010 07:55 AM, Jurriën Stutterheim wrote: It turns out the external_templates file was hidden away in LyX.app itself. In it, it suggests the following: # Feel free to create your own External Templates, storing them in # .lyx/external_templates So I created ~/.lyx/external_templates an

Re: Automatically convert external files during PDF creation

2010-10-25 Thread Richard Heck
ou might try running LyX from a terminal and then checking to see if you get any error messages related to the template. Also, you might have a look at the LaTeX source LyX is producing (View>Source), and see if you are at least getting the \input line. Richard On 25 Oct, 2010, at 14:

Re: dinbrief: less space between closing and signature

2010-10-25 Thread Richard Heck
On 10/25/2010 11:01 AM, chs...@freenet.de wrote: Hello, Is there any way to reduce the space between the closing (Grußformel) line and the signature (Unterschrift) in a dinbrief? I am sending documents via email so I don't need the space for the written signature. As far as I can see, there

Re: .sty file not found

2010-10-26 Thread Richard Heck
On 10/26/10 5:05 PM, Ercan Cem wrote: Hello all. I'm trying to typeset bridge deals/diagrams using lyx. There's package for this called "bridge". I load the package in the preamble but I use it I get "bridge.sty" not found message. I checked MikTex and found that there is indeed no bridge.st

Re: From Lyx to .tex file

2010-10-27 Thread Richard Heck
the person the *.bib file, which you have referenced in the Bibliography inset. Richard Thank you very much 2010/10/25 Manveru 2010/10/15 Richard Heck: On 10/15/2010 08:06 AM, Emil Pavlov wrote: На 15.10.2010 13:02, Yurena Mendoza Lemes написа: Hi, I

Re: Thanks, \protect and enhancements

2010-10-28 Thread Richard Heck
On 10/28/2010 04:27 AM, Andrew Parsloe wrote: The only hiccup was when a nomenclature entry or footnote was in a section heading. In that case, after a certain amount of trial and error, I found that preceding the footnote with \protect solved the problem (which is a problem with the footnpag

Re: Bug?

2010-10-29 Thread Richard Heck
On 10/29/2010 10:23 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Frederick Noronha wrote: Letterine is for creating drop caps. It works fine for me, EXCEPT when there is an inverted comma in the text such as I’d told you Sure, and I told you what the problem is and how to circumvent it. Use a strai

VSpace Crash [was: import fail on working latex doc]

2010-10-31 Thread Richard Heck
On 10/31/2010 05:42 AM, Scott Otterson wrote: Has anyone seen this problem before? I have a short latex document (below the dotted line) that latex crunches without error. However, when I try to import it into lyx (file-->import plain latex) lyx manages to create a .lyx file but then hangs fo

Re: Export Documents from Command Line

2010-11-01 Thread Richard Heck
On 11/01/2010 12:53 PM, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Tim Wescott wrote: I want to be able to write Lyx documents, then convert them to pdf format from the command line -- this is for a moderately complex website, which I would like to generate using a makefile. Is there a way to do this from t

Re: Sharing documents among different versions of Lyx

2010-11-02 Thread Richard Heck
On 11/02/2010 04:16 PM, Frederick Noronha wrote: Is there some tool that makes the sharing of documents among different versions of Lyx a little easier? FN LyX 1.5.7 includes the same version of the lyx2lyx conversion tool that was released with 1.6.0, so that version of LyX should be able

Re: Understanding Lyx

2010-11-02 Thread Richard Heck
On 11/02/2010 04:43 PM, Jacob Bishop wrote: The second part is to make sure that you always use relative paths when inserting external references. This applies when inserting an image, a bibtex bibliography, or any other external material. Even better, put these things into a place LaTeX can

Re: Invisible citations (once again).

2010-11-03 Thread Richard Heck
On 11/03/2010 02:19 PM, Rudi Gaelzer wrote: I'm using LyX 1.6.7 running on Fedora 13. From the LyX wiki, I can find the following "new" feature of LyX 1.6.x: New LaTeX commands ... Bernhard Reiter implemented support for both, \nocite{} (in the citation dialog) for adding specific entries to t

Re: indexing helpers

2010-11-03 Thread Richard Heck
On 11/03/2010 03:10 PM, stefano franchi wrote: Dear Lyxers, does anyone know any script that would convert a text/tex/lyx file to a sorted list of words (after removal of all punctuation)? That would be very helpful when creating the index, but I could not find anything with the usual googli

Re: Export Documents from Command Line

2010-11-03 Thread Richard Heck
On 11/03/2010 03:28 PM, Venable wrote: I would very much like to learn more about running lyx from the command line. Do these comments apply to Windows? Yes, though of course you have to use "lyx.exe", etc. Are there any help documents with simple examples? I did not see anything in the

Windows Command Line

2010-11-03 Thread Richard Heck
Can someone on Windows explain the right thing to do here? C:\Users\MyName>lyx.exe -help 'lyx.exe' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. ... and I'm stuck. Are there any simple resources on how to get started with the very basics? Unfortun

Re: Windows Command Line

2010-11-04 Thread Richard Heck
On 11/04/2010 02:02 AM, Jacob Bishop wrote: First, we have to go to where the file lives. C:\Users\MyName>cd C:\Program Files\LyX 1.6.7\bin Some versions of the Windows shell, I know, require that this kind of thing be put in quotes. So: C:\Users\MyName>cd "C:\Program Files\LyX 1.6.7\bin" Th

Re: How to use babel "-shortcuts in LYX directly?

2010-11-05 Thread Richard Heck
On 11/04/2010 11:08 PM, Vasily Letov wrote: Hello, people! In Babel there are many language-specific shortcuts. For example, we have "---, "--~, "--* and another. The package extdash (ncc-tools collection) provides extra useful shortcuts, too. Unfortunatelly, LYX converts " into \char`\"{},

Re: hiding the menu bar

2010-11-05 Thread Richard Heck
On 11/05/2010 09:26 AM, Pavel Sanda wrote: Jose Quesada wrote: I finf the ability of most KDE apps of hiding the menu bar very useful. You can assign a shortcut to toggle it. Is this possible in lyx? If not, is it worth a feature request? alt+x ui-toggle menubar enter And of cou

Re: Latex error in

2010-11-06 Thread Richard Heck
On 11/06/2010 12:23 AM, Sandhya wrote: Hi all I am using the IJCGA Latex class and Lyx layout files from the LyX wiki page on MacOSX. I copied the *.cls and *.layout files to ~/tex/latex/ and /Library/Application Support/LyX-1.6/layouts/ respectively. I also reconfigured LyX. Now when I use t

Re: lyx single instance

2010-11-06 Thread Richard Heck
On 11/06/2010 03:16 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote: On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 7:44 PM, Steve Litt wrote: Just make sure it's a choice, and hopefully not the default. I've found single-instance to be a pain in the posterior in most situations, especially if you use lots of desktops. Note that

Re: Latex error

2010-11-07 Thread Richard Heck
On 11/07/2010 10:08 AM, Uwe Stöhr wrote: Am 06.11.2010 05:23, schrieb Sandhya: I am using the IJCGA Latex class and Lyx layout files from the LyX wiki page on MacOSX. I copied the *.cls and *.layout files to ~/tex/latex/ and /Library/Application Support/LyX-1.6/layouts/ respectively. I also re

Re: How to use babel "-shortcuts in LYX directly?

2010-11-07 Thread Richard Heck
On 11/07/2010 04:44 PM, Vasily Letov wrote: I try to make macros by LyX dialog window. I try: command-sequence ert-insert;self-insert "---; char-forward but this gives only empty ERT! command-sequence ert-insert;self-insert "; char-forward gives empty ERT, too! command-sequence ert-in

Re: Latex error

2010-11-08 Thread Richard Heck
On 11/07/2010 11:45 PM, Uwe Stöhr wrote: Am 07.11.2010 21:59, schrieb Richard Heck: Shouldn't "Use babel" really be a document setting, rather than a preference? Yes, definitively. Babel needs to be deactivated for some document classes and can cause troubles when using XeTeX

Re: Prescription symbol

2010-11-08 Thread Richard Heck
On 11/08/2010 03:00 PM, Frederick Noronha wrote: How do I get the "prescription" (Rx) symbol in Lyx please? FN There are two ways to find the answer to this kind of question. 1. The Comprehensive LaTeX Symbol List: http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/symbols/comprehensive/symbols-a4.

Re: Automating sequence of beamer exports to pdf

2010-11-08 Thread Richard Heck
On 11/08/2010 03:38 PM, Venable wrote: Hi all, I frequently want to produce three almost-identical PDF versions of the same underlying set of beamer slides: presentation-notes.pdf, which is a handout (specify handout in Document Settings - Class Options - Custom field) but in which I include va

Re: Foreign Language Support + Font Setup

2010-11-09 Thread Richard Heck
On 11/09/2010 04:54 AM, Daron Wilson wrote: Walter, I'm actually fairly new to Lyx, so I'm still finding my way a bit. However, I came to LyX with a tad more LaTeX and XeTeX experience. I've messed about a bit with XeTeX for Hebrew, Polytonic Greek, and Thai, and found that to be very helpf

Re: Latex error

2010-11-09 Thread Richard Heck
On 11/08/2010 05:22 PM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Le 8 nov. 10 à 20:29, Richard Heck a écrit : On 11/07/2010 11:45 PM, Uwe Stöhr wrote: Am 07.11.2010 21:59, schrieb Richard Heck: Shouldn't "Use babel" really be a document setting, rather than a preference? Yes, definitive

Re: where is the shortcut "CTRL+F" defined?

2010-11-10 Thread Richard Heck
On 11/10/2010 08:42 AM, zhao_yunsong wrote: I want to change this shortcut to "find dialog", but can not find where it is defined. I have cheched all the files in the bind fold. In cua.bind, it is: \bind "C-f" "dialog-show findreplace" You can also change it through Tools>P

Re: where is the shortcut "CTRL+F" defined?

2010-11-10 Thread Richard Heck
On 11/10/2010 10:09 AM, zhao_yunsong wrote: but this shortcut was binded to \frac, I can not find where is this binded. On what platform? ps, is there a tutorial that explans the bind file? No. rh

Re: Fwd: Automating sequence of beamer exports to pdf

2010-11-10 Thread Richard Heck
On 11/10/2010 06:52 PM, Venable wrote: However, my thought was that it would be simpler to do this in the .tex file that LyX generates, since these (I believe) are simpler files. So the idea would be to have the script export from LyX to tex, and then do something similar to what Richard's perl

Re: Getting XeTeX/LyX 2.0 to work with my docs...

2010-11-12 Thread Richard Heck
On 11/12/2010 10:32 AM, Kenward Vaughan wrote: On Fri, 2010-11-12 at 09:50 +, Mukhtar Ullah wrote: Kenward Vaughan earthlink.net> writes: On Thu, 2010-11-11 at 15:31 -0800, Kenward Vaughan wrote: ... But now something else was noticed... all my beautiful eps figures have been rasterize

Re: Suitable point size

2010-11-13 Thread Richard Heck
On 11/13/2010 05:25 PM, Frederick Noronha wrote: Dear all: Could someone tell me what might be a suitable point size (font, and line-space) for a general purpose, non-fiction book of 8.5inches x 5.5 inches dimensions? Assuming I'm using Palatino? Thanks, FN I would have thought 10 or 11 point

Re: Problems with new version

2010-11-15 Thread Richard Heck
On 11/14/2010 09:35 AM, Markus Kossner wrote: Dear Lyx users, I have a strange problem when using a newer version of Lyx. Here's my problem: I have written my thesis using Lyx 1.6.2. Now I have a new computer running Lyx 1.6.7. Both computers had Ubuntu linux running. Now the lyx file can be op

Re: Multiple Papers / Child Documents

2010-11-15 Thread Richard Heck
On 11/15/2010 01:03 PM, Ken wrote: Hi, I would like to create a document which contains a few pages of info followed by three papers. That is, each of the three papers should be its own complete paper (with its own title, abstract, the document with tables and figures, footnotes, and its own bi

Re: Multiple Papers / Child Documents

2010-11-16 Thread Richard Heck
On 11/15/2010 08:02 PM, Ken wrote: Hi Richard, Thanks for your reply. It gives me a few ideas on where to dig for more info. I suppose what I am trying to do is to create something like a simple journal. I would like to tie a handful of papers together into a single document (with contiguous

Re: Custom Title Page in Articles

2010-11-16 Thread Richard Heck
On 11/16/2010 02:05 PM, Tim Wescott wrote: On 11/15/2010 08:46 AM, Tim Wescott wrote: I want to make myself an article template that's otherwise normal, but with a custom title page. Basically, I want something that goes (Nifty graphics with my company logo) title author abstract (

Re: no file called libboost_regex-mt.so.1.44.0

2010-11-18 Thread Richard Heck
On 11/18/2010 05:53 AM, abdelkader belahcene wrote: Hi, I installed lyx-2.0.0Betafrom sourceand from.rpm (for fedora) on debian i got in both installaltion the error error while loading shared libraries: libboost_regex-mt.so.1.44.0: cannot open shared object file: No su

Re: LyX 2.0x alpha5 in Fedora 14 and modules.

2010-11-19 Thread Richard Heck
On 11/19/2010 08:42 AM, Rudi Gaelzer wrote: Hi. So far, only the alpha5 version of LyX 2.0 has been made available for Fedora 14. Anyone knows if the beta1 update will be offered soon in the yum updates repository? I don't know who's doing these. They don't come from us. But you can compile b

Re: Updating a language for the LaTeX program listings package?

2010-11-22 Thread Richard Heck
On 11/22/2010 01:07 AM, Robert J Berger wrote: I understand I need to update the lstdrvrs.dtx of the listings package to add a new language. What I'm not clear about is, once I update the listings package, how do I get it into LyX (on a Macintosh using LyX-2.0 beta) You don't need to get it i

Re: Custom character entities

2010-11-22 Thread Richard Heck
On 11/22/2010 01:10 AM, Alexander Tsyplakov wrote: LyX has several means of defining customized markup: custom insets, paragraph and character styles. However I can not figure out how to define custom character entities like build-in "Ellipsis". Am I missing something? No, there is no provision

Re: Custom character entities

2010-11-22 Thread Richard Heck
On 11/22/2010 12:25 PM, Alexander Tsyplakov wrote: Richard Heck wrote Monday, November 22, 2010, 21:31:38: RH> On 11/22/2010 01:10 AM, Alexander Tsyplakov wrote: LyX has several means of defining customized markup: custom insets, paragraph and character styles. However I can not figure out

Re: Updating a language for the LaTeX program listings package?

2010-11-22 Thread Richard Heck
On 11/22/2010 12:49 PM, Robert J Berger wrote: Would anyone happen to know where the listings.* files are located in MacTeX? I used spotlight and also looked in the app bundle but couldn't find it... Try: kpsewhich listings.sty That should tell you. Richard

OT: LaTeX Help

2010-11-22 Thread Richard Heck
So I can get something workable here, but not something good. Here's hoping What I want to do is typeset the following sort of thing: I want a gamma on top of a tilde on top of a delta, all the same (normal) size, and then to the right of that will be something like: f(x,y), and I want t

Re: Custom character entities

2010-11-22 Thread Richard Heck
On 11/22/2010 02:44 PM, Alexander Tsyplakov wrote: RH> In fact, though, what I said earlier isn't RH> quite true. You can give LyX the ability to RH> recognize (and even display) new characters RH> and such by adding them to the unicodesymbols RH> file, which lives in the system directory,

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