PNG Image as Title Head

2007-02-14 Thread Rich Shepard
The document is declared to use Koma Report. I want a figure (our logo as a .png) on the top of the first page, above the title. I defined the environment as 'titlehead', but lyx will not display the results as either dvi or pdflatex. The error is "You can't use 'macro parameter character #'

Re: PNG Image as Title Head

2007-02-14 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 14 Feb 2007, Rich Shepard wrote: The error is "You can't use 'macro parameter character #' in vertical mode." Well, I recreated the logo as a .pdf file and still get the same error. I know I did this before, but cannot find what I did back then. Ri

Re: PNG Image as Title Head

2007-02-14 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 14 Feb 2007, Richard Heck wrote: Can you send me a sample file? Include the graphic and any auxiliary files I'll need to compile it. I bet that I need to include packages in the preamble to make this work. I'm reading the KOMA-Script manual now to see what I need. Rich -- Richard B

Re: PNG Image as Title Head

2007-02-14 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 14 Feb 2007, Rich Shepard wrote: I bet that I need to include packages in the preamble to make this work. I'm reading the KOMA-Script manual now to see what I need. Something is terribly wrong here. Removing the graphic (leaving the title and author) still generates the same

Re: PNG Image as Title Head -- 1.4.4 Problem

2007-02-14 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 14 Feb 2007, Rich Shepard wrote: I'll start over. I have a real problem here; one I've not encountered before. I totally rebuilt 1.4.4 from the source tarball. However, no matter what I do, any new document I create generates that error I posted in my first messa

Re: LyX 1.4.4 is released

2007-02-15 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 15 Feb 2007, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Yes please. Put it at ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/incoming, or at any other convenient place from where I can grab it. JMarc, Let me confirm that it's my thoughtless use of the incorrect comment symbol in the prefix that caused the problems and I'l

Re: LyX 1.4.4 is released

2007-02-15 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 15 Feb 2007, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Yes please. Put it at ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/incoming, or at any other convenient place from where I can grab it. JMarc, It's on its way. Rich -- Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D. |The Environmental Permitting Applied Ecosystem Se

Business Letter With Logo

2007-02-15 Thread Rich Shepard
In January 2006 there was a long thread on using the KOMA-Script scrlttr2 class for business letters with logos. While Paul wanted the logo in the left margin (and that was a majority of the thread), I want it centered on the top of the first page. Subsequent pages should have (as the left heade

Re: How to center graphics in Lyx?

2007-02-15 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 15 Feb 2007, Paul Smith wrote: Then, just insert \centering inside the float, but before the image. Or, place the cursor at the beginning of the caption and use Format->Paragraph->Layout to center it. Rich -- Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D. |The Environmental Permitti

Re: Business Letter With Logo

2007-02-16 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 15 Feb 2007, Rich Shepard wrote: In January 2006 there was a long thread on using the KOMA-Script scrlttr2 class for business letters with logos. While Paul wanted the logo in the left margin (and that was a majority of the thread), I want it centered on the top of the first page

Re: Business Letter With Logo

2007-02-16 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 16 Feb 2007, Helge Hafting wrote: I just tried this with lyx-1.5svn and koma-report: 1. Make a new document, change the type to report(koma-script) 2. Make the title. a) First, insert the graphich into the title itself. b) Press ctrl+enter to get a second line in the title, under the gra

Re: Please help me with Document class Book for LYX

2007-02-16 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 25 Dec 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am using LYX 1.3.5 to write a novel Running on Suse Linux 9.3 I have finally setteld to use Doc Class Memoir because it gives me least problems regarding my preferences Llewelyn, First, let me encourage you to upgrade to -1.4.4. The -1.3.5 re

Re: Please help me with Document class Book for LYX

2007-02-18 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 26 Dec 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please tell me how ??/ please .If its not so good when I have done it I can always reverse my settings back thanks A very good place to look for solutions is found by the 'Tips and Tricks' link on the main LyX web page. If you follow those links

Re: printer driver

2007-02-21 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 21 Feb 2007, Carlos Knauer wrote: Is there a specific driver for "HP Photosmart C3100 Series" printer ? Carlos, For which OS? If linux, look for the linux printing project web site. Rich -- Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D. |The Environmental Permitting Applied Ecosystem

Re: Should the Index show up in your table of contents?

2007-03-06 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 6 Mar 2007, Steve Litt wrote: Should your index show up in your table of contents? I notice on most of the tech books I've bought at the bookstore it does, but it seems to be missing by default in my two LyX books. Any idea how to get it to show up? Steve, My book has the index list

Beamer Class: Columns Not Top Aligned

2007-03-09 Thread Rich Shepard
In my document I have this frame: \begin_layout BeginFrame Expressing Preferences \end_layout \begin_layout ColumnsTopAligned \end_layout \begin_deeper \begin_layout Column 6cm \end_layout \begin_layout Standard \begin_inset Float figure wide false sideways false status collapsed \begin_la

Re: Beamer Class: Columns Not Top Aligned

2007-03-09 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 9 Mar 2007, Jean-Pierre Chretien wrote: Can't reproduce it here (lyx-1.4.4/Solaris, recent beamer cvs snapshot), top alignment is OK - I replaced your graphic with /usr/local/share/lyx/clipart/platypus.eps JP, Interesting. I'm using 1.5svn; can't connect to the Web site to get the r

Re: Beamer Class: Columns Not Top Aligned

2007-03-09 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 9 Mar 2007, Jean-Pierre Chretien wrote: Maybe the graphic is the problem ? You may check with the platypus (I see that you clip, does it work with pdflatex ?) Jean-Pierre, It was the float, not the graphic itself. When I deleted the float and placed the graphic itself, up it floated

Re: Beamer Class: Columns Not Top Aligned

2007-03-09 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 9 Mar 2007, Jean-Pierre Chretien wrote: Why not use Edit->Paragraph setting ? Control is in the column, so you may flushright or center. Because it did not occur to me to do this. Rich -- Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D. |The Environmental Permitting Applied Ecosystem Se

Orphan on Page

2007-03-09 Thread Rich Shepard
How interesting. I copied my Beamer class presentation to KOMA-script article class to provide a take-away hard copy. Then I changed the page size to 6"x9" so there's plenty of room for notes. At the bottom of page 2 is a single line. I thought that TeX took care of that. What have I missed?

Re: Orphan on Page

2007-03-10 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 10 Mar 2007, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Unless there are consequences that TeX judges "worse" than an orphan, if this specific line is moved to the next page. This is always a pro- and con-game. I see. Always assumed it was an all-or-nothing issue. And, I never really paid any attenti

Re: Lyx's Site down?

2007-03-11 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sun, 11 Mar 2007, mtspcchaiaeia wrote: I have problems tring to access to LyX's site since many days ago. I need access becuase I am learning to use it and I think the wiki is really very complete. Something broke and the key personnel do not yet know what broke, why it broke, or how to

Re: Lyx's Site down?

2007-03-11 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sun, 11 Mar 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It might actually be so silly that the address we have for the person with access goes via the server that's down. So we need the server working in order to contact the person who can fix the server... catch 22. Well, that would be something real

1.5svn Not Cleanly Justifying

2007-03-12 Thread Rich Shepard
I'm using 1.5svn and the right margins are not nearly as clean as they used to be. Lines are ragged, usually by a single character, but it's immediately obvious to me when I look at the pdf output. What might have changed to cause this? Also, I have a table that is too wide for the page, s

Re: 1.5svn Not Cleanly Justifying

2007-03-12 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 12 Mar 2007, Rich Shepard wrote: I'm using 1.5svn and the right margins are not nearly as clean as they used to be. Lines are ragged, usually by a single character, but it's immediately obvious to me when I look at the pdf output. What might have changed to cause this?

Beamer Class Handout/Speaker's Notes

2007-03-13 Thread Rich Shepard
The beamer user guide has details on specifying a different class when producing handouts or speaker's notes from the slide presentation. But, those additional classes are not available within LyX ... at least, not on what's installed here. What's the recommended way to print the slides on pa

Re: Beamer Class Handout/Speaker's Notes

2007-03-13 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 13 Mar 2007, Jean-Pierre Chretien wrote: These are class options, that you may specify via Document->Settings->Document Class So you don't need an extra layout. Jean-Pierre, The document class list contains only Beamer Presentation Class, no handout, transparency, or article class.

Re: Beamer Class Handout/Speaker's Notes

2007-03-13 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 13 Mar 2007, Ingar Pareliussen wrote: I use the beamer article class. The layout file is in wiki: http://wiki.lyx.org/Layouts/LaTeX-beamer Thank you, Ingar. I did not have that installed here. Rich -- Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D. |The Environmental Permitting Applied

Re: Beamer Class Handout/Speaker's Notes

2007-03-13 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 13 Mar 2007, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Just type the word 'handout' in the Class Settings -> Options box. Paul, A-ha! Didn't know that. I generate a PDF using the handout option, then use the print settings in Acrobat Reader (or equivalent) to print either two or four slides per page,

Re: Beamer Class Handout/Speaker's Notes

2007-03-14 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 13 Mar 2007, Steve Litt wrote: This is one man's opinion -- take if for what it's worth. I always make my handouts EXACTLY the same as the slideshow. No N-Up, nothing like that. They're a black and white representation of the (currently 95 page) slide show. Steve, I've converted the

Orientation Problem With Output

2007-04-24 Thread Rich Shepard
Last autumn, you folks helped me with the correct syntax for a .tex file (originally written in LyX) to add specific information to a pre-printed stock certificate form. It worked like a charm. Since then I've upgraded my distribution from Slackware-10.2 to -11.0 I now have need to print anot

Re: Orientation Problem With Output

2007-04-24 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 24 Apr 2007, Uwe Stöhr wrote: You need to add the option "dvips" to the call of the geometry package to get landscape output. Uwe, This does turn the PS display into landscape mode, but for some reason, it's still not displaying. When I tried adding a dvips option to the followin

Re: Orientation Problem With Output

2007-04-24 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 24 Apr 2007, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Did you try adding geometry{dvips} to the preamble? It works for me (and the resulting file > displays in GSView 4.8 correctly). Paul, I took Uwe's suggestion and added dvips as an option to the \usepackage{geometry} line. It works. GV no longer do

Re: Thanks to All LyXers/developers here! Re: Orientation Problem With Output

2007-04-24 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 24 Apr 2007, Kenward Vaughan wrote: What gets me constantly is how helpful the people on this list are with questions of all levels. Sorry for using the thread, Rich, but it leapt to mind with your trials, and seeing how quickly it seemed to get resolved here... Kenward, The subscr

Re: How to Spot a Word Processed Book

2007-05-09 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 9 May 2007, Steve Litt wrote: Interesting article: How to Spot a Word Processed Book What jumps out at me when I look at a processed word book is the uneven spacing between words on each line. The interletter and interword spacing on a typeset page is much more subtle and the white s

Re: How to Spot a Word Processed Book

2007-05-09 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 9 May 2007, Steve Litt wrote: Big publishers like O'Reilly (or in the case of my Samba Unleashed, Sams) take complete control of the book's layout. Working with a mainstream publisher is the ultimate WYSIWYM experience -- you as the author are responsible only for content. Your publisher

Re: moving to linux...

2007-06-06 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 6 Jun 2007, Steve Litt wrote: Richard -- what do you think of Century Schoolbook? I've used that for my last few Ebooks, because onscreen it seems to look black and legible, and it seems to be available with LyX. SteveT, This is another Richard ... and I use Palatino for my LyX docu

Re: Quotations after Headings

2010-05-28 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 28 May 2010, iustifico wrote: In some books sometimes the author writes the Titel of a Topic, then under the titel in italic appears a nice slogan or citation of a famous person. I find this kind of nice. Is there a way to manage that in Lyx? I mean is there perhaps a builtin method, or

Re: How do I create this character in lyx?

2010-06-11 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 11 Jun 2010, Paul Elliott wrote: In TOPOLOGY by James Dugundji a wierd script 'C' Character is used to indicate the complement of a set. How do I make that character in lyx? Look in the LaTeX symbol guide. It's a pdf file that's been mentioned on this list several times. Rich

Old Beamer Class Presentation Lost Navigation Links

2010-06-21 Thread Rich Shepard
I'm running lyx-1.6.6.1, but haven't updated the beamer class in an tortoise's age. As I review a presentation created in 2007 I see that the navigation links along the lower right of each slide are not visible. They're apparently there since I can click in that region and move to the next secti

Re: Old Beamer Class Presentation Lost Navigation Links

2010-06-21 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 21 Jun 2010, Paul Rubin wrote: First off, make sure you're not in handout mode, which nukes the in-slide navigation links (but leaves any section links in the header/footer/sidebar alive). Paul, I've never used the handout mode and the .pdf is created from within LyX using pdflatex.

Re: Old Beamer Class Presentation Lost Navigation Links

2010-06-21 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 21 Jun 2010, Paul Rubin wrote: Otherwise, best I can suggest is to strip it to the minimum number of slides necessary to reproduce the problem and post it. Paul, I downloaded and installed beamer-class-3.09. Now the file will not compile with pdflatex: This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.14

Re: Old Beamer Class Presentation Lost Navigation Links

2010-06-22 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 21 Jun 2010, Rich Shepard wrote: I downloaded and installed beamer-class-3.09. Now the file will not compile with pdflatex: Got this one fixed, but came up with a new error that should be more simple to correct. Original error: It turns out that the tarball (or is it a .zip file

Re: Old Beamer Class Presentation Lost Navigation Links

2010-06-22 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 22 Jun 2010, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Yes, you are. Beamer loads it automatically. Paul, Oh. Might have something to do with the problem mentioned here: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=452333. Your log says you're loading v6.74m of hyperref (the post mentions 6.75p

Re: Old Beamer Class Presentation Lost Navigation Links

2010-06-22 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 22 Jun 2010, Paul A. Rubin wrote: You sure know how to have fun! Paul, Right. I'd much rather have fun in other ways. The errors are limited to the beamer class (now it's the \makebeamertitle error holding me up) and not the base tetex installation. I've just modified the arti

Re: Old Beamer Class Presentation Lost Navigation Links

2010-06-22 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 22 Jun 2010, Julien Rioux wrote: Is \makebeamertitle defined? Julien, Yes, it is. You can try in the preamble: \newcommand\makebeamertitle{\frame{\maketitle}} This results in the error that makebeamertitle is already defined. Otherwise the usual approach applies here: make a

Re: Old Beamer Class Presentation Lost Navigation Links

2010-06-22 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 22 Jun 2010, Julien Rioux wrote: So, once I remove the empty Section, it compiles. Makes no difference here. The installed fonts have not changed since the presentation was written. Rich

Re: Old Beamer Class Presentation Lost Navigation Links

2010-06-22 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 22 Jun 2010, Paul Rubin wrote: Had to add some verbiage to the Section header and an EndFrame to close it off, but after that it compiled fine for me (this time on my laptop, Mint Helena w/TeXLive 2007, beamer 3.07, hyperref 6.75r). I see Julien also got it to compile. I'm pasting in the

Re: Old Beamer Class Presentation Lost Navigation Links

2010-06-22 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 22 Jun 2010, Paul Rubin wrote: Seems pretty likely your LaTeX installation is borked (presumably either beamer or hyperref). Can you post the log file for the failed attempt to compile the stripped version (with the EndFrame added)? Paul, Both source .tex and .log are attached. W

Re: Drag and drop text support on Lyx 1.6.6.1

2010-06-22 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 22 Jun 2010, Marcelo Acuña wrote: I can't see any advantages for mouse drag-and-drop text against copy and paste with shortcuts. Perhaps only for those who are not touch-typists and used to using the pointy device for everything. Rich

Re: Old Beamer Class Presentation Lost Navigation Links

2010-06-22 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 22 Jun 2010, Paul Rubin wrote: That's where it halts, but not the problem. The problem seems to be \thispdfpagelabel is an undefined control sequence. It's supposed to be defined in hyperref (I think). That makes more sense. Well, your log indicates it seems to be loading hyperre

Re: Old Beamer Class Presentation Lost Navigation Links

2010-06-23 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 23 Jun 2010, Paul Rubin wrote: Since the document is not buggered, I suppose that points the finger at your LaTeX installation. Paul, I would concur if all presentations lacked those internal links. They don't. It's only this one. As a matter of fact, in that same subdirectory I hav

Re: Old Beamer Class Presentation Lost Navigation Links

2010-06-23 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 23 Jun 2010, Paul Rubin wrote: Does the minimal example now work for you (including showing the nav links)? Paul, Nope. No links. I hope to get to this this week and will let everyone know what I find. Thanks, Rich

Symbol Not Placed as Superscript

2010-07-01 Thread Rich Shepard
In a letter I'm writing I include {\textregistered} which generates the circled-R registered trademark symbol. However, when I preview the .dvi I see the symbol on the base of the line and of the same size as the body text. I thought it needed to be included in \superscript{} only when in math m

Re: Symbol Not Placed as Superscript

2010-07-01 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 1 Jul 2010, Paul Rubin wrote: They're baseline in the Comprehensive LaTeX Symbols List. Paul, I saw that but could not recall a real-life example. Guess it's used as is the copyright symbol rather than as the TM symbol. Thanks, Rich

Re: OT: Statistics book created with LyX/Sweave

2010-07-28 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 28 Jul 2010, Liviu Andronic wrote: To increase the noise level, G. Jay Kerns recently published an "Introduction to Probability and Statistics Using R" book [1] that was generated using LyX with Sweave. The book and the source files are available to download. Liviu, This looks like

Re: Creating book cover using pstricks

2010-09-09 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 9 Sep 2010, Waluyo Adi Siswanto wrote: I would like to create book cover using LyX. I did searching and found how to use pstricks, however it is pure LaTeX. Waluyo, No, PSTricks is not pure LaTeX. It is PostScript that can be used with LaTeX. PSTricks is a vector graphics applicatio

Re: using different themes on same presentation with beamer

2010-09-09 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 9 Sep 2010, Richard Heck wrote: I don't think this is possible. Themes are global. I guess you could do everything manually that beamer does. You might ask on the beamer list. In addition, it will lessen the impact of your presentation and confuse your audience. Regardless, you might

Re: using different themes on same presentation with beamer

2010-09-09 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 9 Sep 2010, Necati Demir wrote: Rich, let me tell you why i want to use no theme on some pages. I am preparing a training note. First slide will be presentation, second slide will be training notes of first side, third slide will be presentation and fourth slide will be traing notes of t

Re: using different themes on same presentation with beamer

2010-09-09 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 9 Sep 2010, Kenward Vaughan wrote: If all else is the same, you might be able to generate separate pdf files for each part, then stitch them together using ghostscript or something else. Take a look at pdftk (the PDF Tool Kit): www.pdflabs.com/tools/pdftk-the-pdf-tool

Strange Problem Importing Text File

2010-11-30 Thread Rich Shepard
In all the years I've used LyX I've not before encountered this problem and I have not yet found the solution. I open a .lyx document. Then I select either File->Import->Text, join lines or ctrl-x i (import file) and select the text file I want to insert in the .lyx file. The open .lyx fil

Re: Strange Problem Importing Text File

2010-11-30 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 30 Nov 2010, Rich Shepard wrote: In all the years I've used LyX I've not before encountered this problem and I have not yet found the solution. Forgot to mention that I'm running 1.6.8 here. Rich

Re: Strange Problem Importing Text File [SOLVED]

2010-11-30 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 30 Nov 2010, Rich Shepard wrote: In all the years I've used LyX I've not before encountered this problem and I have not yet found the solution. Fixed. User error: I need to Insert->File, not Import->File. More coffee solved the problem. Rich

KOMA-Script2 Letter: EndLetter Environment

2011-01-23 Thread Rich Shepard
I see that the EndLetter environment was added by Juergen a couple of years ago, but I'm not sure when it needs to be used. The reason I ask is that I'm sending a client a letter proposal and I want to attach two other .lyx files after the signature/close of the main letter. Yes, I can probably

Re: KOMA-Script2 Letter: EndLetter Environment

2011-01-24 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 24 Jan 2011, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: It is needed whenever you have to add something after \end{letter}. Normally, LyX just puts an \end{letter} automatically at the end of the document. Juergen, I got that impression. One use case are serial letters. See the serial letter examp

Changing Mouse Cursor Color

2011-02-12 Thread Rich Shepard
The background on my lyx window is a light-mustard yellow; much easier on the eyes than is a stark white background. However, the mouse cursor (the I beam) is a thin black line and I'm constantly losing sight of it. I don't see an option in the color settings to change that. I've changed the

Re: Changing Mouse Cursor Color

2011-02-12 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 12 Feb 2011, Richard Heck wrote: I would think so. LyX has access to cursor shape, but I do not think it has access to the color. Richard, I can alter the mouse pointer size and color within the Xfce settings, but that affects only certain applications (e.g., firefox). It doesn't wo

Re: SV: Changing Mouse Cursor Color

2011-02-13 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sun, 13 Feb 2011, Ingar Pareliussen wrote: Changing the cursor theme works within KDE so it probably xfce is doing something wrong :) Ingar, As I wrote yesterday, the mouse pointer is changed in some applicationss (where it's shown as an arrow), but not in other applications where the mo

Replacing Lost .sty

2011-03-15 Thread Rich Shepard
Five years ago I wrote an article that used the breaksites package (with natbib). I'm revising that article and discovered that breaksites.sty is no longer on my system. A Google search found nothing and my searches of CTAN turned up empty. Please point me to a source for this package or an a

Re: Replacing Lost .sty

2011-03-16 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 15 Mar 2011, BH wrote: Did you mean breakcites.sty? Yep. Typo here and when searching CTAN. http://www.tex.ac.uk/ctan/macros/latex/contrib/breakcites/breakcites.sty Thank you. Rich

url{} package not working

2011-03-16 Thread Rich Shepard
Perhaps because it's the end of the day I cannot see why a URL embedded in the text is not typeset in the monospace font and split across lines. Running lyx-1.6.8 on Slackware-13.1. The preamble contains \usepackage{url}. The text has an ERT box with \url{http://www}. When I preview th

Re: url{} package not working

2011-03-17 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 17 Mar 2011, Guenter Milde wrote: There can be many reasons. Please provide a *minimal* example. Guenter: Please see attached. Rich#LyX 1.6.8 created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/ \lyxformat 345 \begin_document \begin_header \textclass article \begin_preamble \da

Re: url{} package not working

2011-03-17 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 17 Mar 2011, Paul Rubin wrote: It's monospaced here. Interesting, Paul. and extends well into the right margin. I think that's a combination of two factors. The first is that the geometry package is not being loaded; I suggest you switch out of default margins, which will cure t

Re: url{} package not working [FIXED]

2011-03-17 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 17 Mar 2011, Paul Rubin wrote: I think that's a combination of two factors. The first is that the geometry package is not being loaded; I suggest you switch out of default margins, which will cure that. The other is that you need either to add the breakurl package (after url) in the pr

Re: LyX Promotion

2011-03-22 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 22 Mar 2011, Rob Oakes wrote: When I talk to people about LyX, they seem to think of it as a specialized academic writing tool. Basically, a program which helps professors and students write a thesis or articles. (To be even more narrow, it seems like many think it is for math and physic

Re: LyX Promotion

2011-03-23 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 23 Mar 2011, John Kane wrote: Logic splitting here but I would be coming, well am, from an SGML,OOo/AmiPro, FullWrite Professional background and there still seem to be quite a few WordPerfect people still out there. Agreed that the majority of people are likely to be Word or Latex but

Re: No ligatures in Palatino?

2011-04-07 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 7 Apr 2011, Liviu Andronic wrote: See [1] for the list of expected ligatures. [1] http://www.tug.dk/FontCatalogue/palatino/ Liviu, Maybe it's my old eyeballs, but I don't see differences in the ligatures in the standard Palatino and the enhanced version. As a matter of fact, the sta

Re: No ligatures in Palatino?

2011-04-07 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 7 Apr 2011, Liviu Andronic wrote: Unfortunately it's bitmap, but even so if you zoom to about 1000% you will clearly notice that the Palladio ligatures have much less "ligature pixels" than the Pagella. The latter features a solid black line in the 'ff' ligature, and an almost 'continuou

Re: No ligatures in Palatino?

2011-04-08 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 8 Apr 2011, Guenter Milde wrote: Because there are no ligatures in Palatino -- by design. There is not much change in the standard Postscript fonts. Especially, considering the emphasis that TeX puts on consistent rendering of unchanged documents, there will be no change without a new

Re: No ligatures in Palatino?

2011-04-08 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 8 Apr 2011, Bruce Pourciau wrote: This is one of the many, many reasons why the typographic world would be a prettier place if Word folks would use Palatino, rather than Times, Bruce, They either use Times or the default san-serif face as a body text font. Ugly and hard to read.

Re: OT: Typeface used in The Economist print edition

2011-05-01 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sun, 1 May 2011, Rob Oakes wrote: I was curious, so I spent a little bit of time researching it. It's actually a proprietary font that they commissioned purely for the print magazine, called EcoType. This article talks about the redesign, which was managed by Erik Spiekermann in 2001. To the

Re: Feature request: the missing element in the LyX office suite

2011-05-04 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 4 May 2011, Pavel Sanda wrote: i think we should be good at editing text and typesetting. preparing the basic material like drawings, tables, computing numbers etc should do different apps which do it much better then we will ever do. we can create some reasonable binding to them, but th

Re: Figure Float Rotated When Exported: Why?

2011-06-13 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 13 Jun 2011, David L. Johnson wrote: Not that this will help, but I recall this phenomenon some years ago. For me (using linux) the problem has not reappeared in some time. Well, since I've run only linux since 1977, and haven't used gnuplot since 1998, all I can tell you is that it

Re: Figure Float Rotated When Exported: Why?

2011-06-14 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 13 Jun 2011, Julien Rioux wrote: I've seen this happen because of a %%Orientation: Landscape line in the postscript. It's up to the converter to decide how to interpret this and whether to apply a rotation or not. The png and eps converters evidently behave differently. Julien, Th

Re: Figure Float Rotated When Exported: Why?

2011-06-14 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 14 Jun 2011, Guenter Milde wrote: No. However, you might try the eps option: set terminal postscript eps or, e.g., set terminal postscript eps "NimbusRomNo9L-Regu" 16 Guenter, Initially I set t postscript eps enhanced and tried to have gnuplot accept the palladio typeface. No joy

tetex -> texlive

2011-07-17 Thread Rich Shepard
I've just replaced the tetex I've used for years with texlive-20100722. LyX fires right up. What I want to know is if there are potential gotcha's due to the transition. I expect not, but I'd like to be sure before I hit one during a critical event (such as a deadline to produce a document). Ri

Re: tetex -> texlive

2011-07-17 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sun, 17 Jul 2011, David L. Johnson wrote: I did that transition some time ago, since AFAIK tetex is no longer supported, and texlive is. I do not recall any problems with the transition. David, Yes, Thomas dropped support for tetex last year. Since it worked for me I saw no need to chan

Re: tetex -> texlive

2011-07-20 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 20 Jul 2011, Rudi Gaelzer wrote: I've been using the texlive 2010 repository since Fedora 14 and had no greater problem than having to manually install/replace some individual packages, depending on the classes/modules employed by the document. The transition F14 -> F15 was also uneventf

Figure Shifts Right When Exported

2011-07-21 Thread Rich Shepard
I've been fighting this for a couple of hours now and have not yet found a solution. I have a rather large .eps figure inserted in a float. I set the width to 80% of the text width and the paragraph justification to center. When I preview the page using ctrl-x, ctrl-p I see the figure propert

Re: Figure Shifts Right When Exported -- [RESOLVED]

2011-07-21 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 21 Jul 2011, Rich Shepard wrote: When I preview the page using ctrl-x, ctrl-p I see the figure propertly displayed (it's rotated 90 degrees so the 'top' is just above the '1' in Figure 1 and the 'bottom' is just within the right page edge.) After expo

Re: Figure Shifts Right When Exported -- [RESOLVED]

2011-07-21 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 21 Jul 2011, Tim Wescott wrote: Was it as simple as the figure being a bit wider than the text, and getting trimmed? When I get a figure that oversteps its bounds Lyx (or LaTeX) seems to want to left-justify it -- if you moved the bounding box to the left margin that may have fixed it (

Re: Letterhead

2011-07-22 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 22 Jul 2011, Tim Wescott wrote: I've recently switched from doing most of my documents in OpenOffice to Lyx. I like it, but (aside from portability) the one thing I'm really missing is standard forms. I'm currently using the blank 'article' or 'letter' style in Lyx, but I'd really like

Setting Defaults

2011-08-22 Thread Rich Shepard
Is it possible to set 'overwrite' as the default when exporting via pdflatex? That's the option I want with documents and, particularly, with beamer class presentations that are checked frequently. Note to devs: Think of how to make the cursor thicker and more visible for those of us with old

Re: Setting Defaults

2011-08-22 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 22 Aug 2011, Marcelo Acuña wrote: Tools > Preferences > Edition > Control To change cursor color is in Preferences too. Marcelo, How interesting. I had the cursor color set to red, but when in the body of a document it was a thin (I assume 1 pixel) I-beam. So, I went to Editing -> c

Re: Beamer

2011-08-23 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 23 Aug 2011, Jure acimovic wrote: I have a question regarding beamer. I have installed Lyx 2.0 and everything is working great. The only problem is beamer class. It does not want to compile it. What does not want to compile what? When I prepare a beamer clase presentation I need to u

Re: Setting Defaults

2011-08-23 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 23 Aug 2011, Stephan Witt wrote: You mean, GTK editor apps - like gedit - have a more visible mouse pointer when hovering over text area? I've no idea. I use emacs, joe, and lyx for 99.44% of my writing, and LibreOffice (shudder!) when I need to send a Word-formatted document to a cl

Re: Setting Defaults

2011-08-23 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 22 Aug 2011, Marcelo Acuña wrote: To change cursor color is in Preferences too. Marcelo, I fixed the trackball cursor tracking issue by the simple expedient of changing the application window's background color by making it much lighter. The mid-yellow does not have sufficient contr

Re: Can't Export PDF from LyX

2011-09-01 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 1 Sep 2011, Jane Shevtsov wrote: What do I reconfigure? Or do you mean reinstalling? In that case, I've already tried it. Jane, Look at the Edit menu. Second from the bottom it says, "Reconfigure." Click on that, then exit LyX and restart it. Rich

Re: Please help: how do I insert a list of my publications in an otherwise ready thesis?

2018-11-17 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 17 Nov 2018, Polina Proutskova wrote: I have written my PhD thesis in LyX and have to do my minor corrections. I’ve been asked to put a list of my publications in the thesis. What is the proper way to do it? Polina, I doubt there is a 'proper' way, only one acceeptable to your commi

Copy/paste from lyx document

2018-11-26 Thread Rich Shepard
Platform: lyx-2.3.1 on Slackware-14.2. I used to be able to highlight text in a lyx document (using the pointer-thingy) and paste the highlighted text in a text file, e-mail message (in alpine), or other documents. This no longer works. Is there a switch that needs to be reset? TIA, Rich

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