Re: Screen not refreshed when opening/closing document

2007-09-08 Thread Richard Heck
Paul A. Rubin wrote: Nicolás wrote: Hi! My screen is not properly refreshed when opening/closing a document, if there are other documents already opened. I am using Lyx v1.5.1 on Windows. More specifically, this is what happens. Imagine I have at least 2 documents opened (with only one docu

Re: Screen not refreshed when opening/closing document

2007-09-08 Thread Richard Heck
ad refresh problems in 1.6.svn, but that whole part of LyX is being cleaned up by Abdel, so it's kind of in flux. rh Cheers, Humberto Richard Heck wrote: Paul A. Rubin wrote: Nicolás wrote: Hi! My screen is not properly refreshed when opening/closing a document, if there are other do

Re: Seeing HEVEA errors

2007-09-13 Thread Richard Heck
Laurent Duperval wrote: Hi, Sometimes when I export to HTML, I get an error window that pops up saying there was an error with the hevea execution, but I see no details. Is there any way to see the details? If you run LyX from a terminal, you should see whatever hevea outputs there. Or: Exp

Re: Seeing HEVEA errors

2007-09-14 Thread Richard Heck
Laurent Duperval wrote: On Fri, 14 Sep 2007 02:02:18 -0400, Richard Heck wrote: If you run LyX from a terminal, you should see whatever hevea outputs there. Or: Export to LaTeX, and then run hevea manually. I currently to the Export/Run thing but I was hoping I could skip that step

Re: LyX and the lack of a "code mode"; TeXlipse versus LEd and TeXnic

2007-09-17 Thread Richard Heck
Roberto Gorjão wrote: Which code editor, if any, would you recommend to edit LaTeX? Preferably one that doesn't mess, or messes as little as possible, with what LyX does. I'm on Win XP. Bummer. The KDE program kile is quite good, I think. Of course, there's always emacs with the LaTeX mode,

Re: problem with odt export on Windows Lyx 1.5.1-1

2007-09-18 Thread Richard Heck
Andrew Dolman wrote: Hi All, I'm having difficulty exporting to .odt format. I notice that there have been a few threads covering this but they don't seem to solve the issue for me. The process seems to run ok but no odt file appears. I've search thoroughly for it, it's not just that it is hidi

Re: problem with odt export on Windows Lyx 1.5.1-1

2007-09-18 Thread Richard Heck
class std::basic_string,class std::allocator > &) by failing check "!contains(name_, '\\')" in file D:\LyX\lyx-1.5.1\src\support\FileName.cpp:49 This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way. Please contact the application's support

Re: Latex-problem: Pagenumbering in combination with two-sided document

2007-09-21 Thread Richard Heck
Helge Hafting wrote: An appendix is a chapter of its own. Any two-sided layout will start a chapter on a odd page, no matter what. Starting a chapter (appendix or other chapter) on an even page is usually considered ugly and bad typography - you'll have a hard time finding any published book prin

Re: AMS users: vote your preferences!

2007-09-21 Thread Richard Heck
Paul A. Rubin wrote: Hi all, I'm revising the amsart, amsart-plain, amsart-seq and amsbook layouts, and there are a few oddities that need to be reconciled. Mostly I'm making choices capriciously :-), but this is something I thought I would put to a vote. On a slightly different note, at lea

Re: AMS users: vote your preferences!

2007-09-21 Thread Richard Heck
Paul A. Rubin wrote: Richard Heck wrote: On a slightly different note, at least in 1.6, it will be possible to simplify some of this. Dang near everything you could ever want has to be defined in the layout file because there's presently no easy way to pull anything else in. In 1.6, o

Re: Continuous section numbers

2007-09-21 Thread Richard Heck
Laurent Duperval wrote: Hi, I want to create a document where I have multiple chapters, but I want \section numbers to continue. I.e. something that looks like this: Chapter 1 1 A Section 2 A Section 3 A Section Chapter 2 4 A Section 5 A Section 6 A Section 7 A Section Chapter 4 8 A Section 9

Re: Conditional printing and formatting

2007-09-21 Thread Richard Heck
Paul A. Rubin wrote: Laurent Duperval wrote: Hi, I want to create a document that contains different printing options for certain paragraphs. For example, let's say I have a series of questions and answers, I want to produce three types of output: 1. A question followed by the answer. 2. Onl

Re: AMS users: vote your preferences!

2007-09-21 Thread Richard Heck
Paul A. Rubin wrote: Rudi Gaelzer wrote: I know this is far from the subject of the vote, but any chance to implement the subequations environment into the layout? Or this is something that needs a deeper programing? My guess is that it would require modifying the source code that handles m

Re: jump to next column

2007-09-21 Thread Richard Heck
Jeremy C. Reed wrote: I have a two column document. It is my wife's recipe book with over 100 recipes. At first it was one column but recipes wrapped to different pages. By using 2-column document I can get them on one page. Is there a lyx or latex command for jumping to the next column whet

Re: use of various latex classes in 1.6 [was AMS users: vote your preferences!]

2007-09-22 Thread Richard Heck
Liviu Andronic wrote: Hello, On 9/22/07, Richard Heck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Users can load whatever modules they want. Do I understand correctly that in 1.6 it will be possible to use virtually any latex class with minimal fuss concerning the layout? I, for example, have f

ASpell Question

2007-09-22 Thread Richard Heck
A friend of mine is using LyX on Mac OSX and is having problems getting Cocoa aspell to work. Anyone have any ideas? Richard -- == Richard G Heck, Jr Professor of Philosophy Brown University http://frege.brown.edu/heck/ =

Re: use of various latex classes in 1.6 [was AMS users: vote your preferences!]

2007-09-22 Thread Richard Heck
Paul A. Rubin wrote: Richard Heck wrote: Of course, what we could really use is some sort of UI for layout editing. I've thought about writing that, but my time is limited, and I've got other things on my plate, like BibLaTeX support. Is the syntax of layout files (and what they a

Re: Tweaking the bibliography environment in Memoir class

2007-09-22 Thread Richard Heck
If you're not using BibTeX, and you're adding the footnote references manually, then there's not really any need to use the Bibliography environment, either, which is what is causing your problem. That automatically adds reference information, and there's not much you can do about it, I don't thi

Layout Syntax

2007-09-24 Thread Richard Heck
Dave Hewitt wrote: I for one would be glad to tackle writing some layouts, but the hang up for me is what Paul points out here - that the syntax and rules aren't laid out in simple form anywhere. I realize it takes trial and error, but a few hours with the User's Guide (Customization) and some

Re: export of umlaute

2007-09-25 Thread Richard Heck
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: Hi, I want to change in the TeX-file, which was exported from LyX, the path of the figures with a text editor (kwrite). However, the Umlaute are not properly exported; worse, they are all shown in the same way (? in a diamond), e.g. In LyX file: Tübingen, März 20

Re: Content box grayed out in bibtex bibliography window

2007-09-28 Thread Richard Heck
Andrew Morrison wrote: Hi all, I used lyx 1.3 a few years ago to create my CV and inserted the list of publications using a bibtex bibliography. I have the same bib file, but have now upgraded to lyx 1.4.3 and lyx 1.5.1. Now when I try to get a pdf, none of the publications are listed. I trie

Re: hiding labels

2007-09-30 Thread Richard Heck
pol wrote: Is it possible to hide labels? Since labels are not part of the document, it would makes sense to toggle them off, when not needed. No, not yet. But there's work being done on this, or at least there are discussions. rh Pol -- ==

Re: Newb - How to prevent page number on first page

2007-10-01 Thread Richard Heck
Donn Ingle wrote: Hello, new to Lyx etc. I am on Kubuntu Dapper, using Lyx 1.5.1 (I installed it from a .deb). I am using the memoir class because I am laying out poetry and I have managed to get it more-or-less the way I want it from the memman.pdf document. (Perhaps there's a better way to lay

Re: Help with part name indentation in TOC

2007-10-01 Thread Richard Heck
D.Zorig wrote: Please help me with TOC. I have 2 rows of Part name (ctrl+enter). But in pdf output 2nd row of part name is not indented to align with first row. Multiple row Chapter names are indented and aligned just fine. How can I have multiple row part name indented and aligned in TOC. In

Re: Some formatting questions

2007-10-02 Thread Richard Heck
Rayne wrote: Hi all, I'm new to Lyx, and and some questions regarding how the layout looks after conversion to PDF. I realize that a page number is added to the PDF file. How do I remove that? Change the page style in Document>Settings to "Empty". If you just want to remove the page number o

Re: Section orphans

2007-10-02 Thread Richard Heck
Christian Liesen wrote: Yes it should, but I continue to experience problems with widows and orphans, too. I think that in many cases manually fine-tuning the document is inevitable. Widowed and orphaned section titles should be extremely rare. I don't know how your \poemtitle macro is defined,

Re: Toggle CharStyle Display (LyX 1.4.x)

2007-10-03 Thread Richard Heck
Daniel Lohmann wrote: Hi, I just figured out by chance that it is possible to make the name of a CharStyle disappear in an assignment by right clicking on the affected word. This is pretty nice, as I find the extra space taken by the CharStyle names quite disturbing in the on-screen layout of

Re: inline cross referencing

2007-10-03 Thread Richard Heck
Helge Hafting wrote: pol wrote: Uwe Stöhr wrote: pol schrieb: I would like to cross reference item of a numbered list that is part of the inline text, standard mode. There's a LaTeX package---I can't now remember which one---that sets lists inline. Oh, I think maybe it's paralist, but y

Re: Question about tools

2007-10-03 Thread Richard Heck
Les Denham wrote: My current ideas of how to do this are the following: 3. Write a Perl script to generate the same LaTeX, pulling the parts that vary in each of the reports from the various databases. Take the common parts out into separate files, and include them. You can do this in LyX with

Re: "no textclasses found" error on WinXP

2007-10-04 Thread Richard Heck
Vinnie Boston wrote: I recently installed Lyx 1.5.1 on a WinXP Pro system, seemed to work fine. I installed some additional MiKtex packages and was reconfiguring Lyx when the program froze. After restarting, I am no longer able to run Lyx - I get the error messaeg: TextClassList::Read: no text

Re: "no textclasses found" error on WinXP

2007-10-05 Thread Richard Heck
Vinnie Boston wrote: Thanks, should have searched through the archive first. Must have mistyped my earlier Google search as I got almost nothing. Many different solutions of varying complexities on this list for this problem. What worked for me was deleting the C:\Documents and Settings\v_boston

Re: Current state of OpenDocument Export?

2007-10-05 Thread Richard Heck
Vinnie Boston wrote: Hi, I'm trying to figure out the current state of OpenDocument export on LyX 1.5.1. There is a good deal of info out there, but it seem this is changing fairly rapidly, so not sure whether what I've found is current or not. Yes, things are somewhat unsettled. So, what is

Re: Natbib numerical citations with links in PDF

2007-10-11 Thread Richard Heck
Bob Lounsbury wrote: On 10/11/07, Christian Liesen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: does anyone know how to make citations appear as clickable links in the pdf output? The hyperref package is a popular way. Look up the documentation on ctan. It's enough to put "\usepackage{hyperref}" in th

Re: configure default paragraph alignment

2007-10-11 Thread Richard Heck
William Seager wrote: How do you set the default paragraph alignment to left justified (ragged right)? You can change individual paragraphs so they display (and print) with left justified paragraphs, but I want my documents to default to this. You can add "\raggedright" to the beginning of a

Re: configure default paragraph alignment

2007-10-12 Thread Richard Heck
Marcelo Acuña wrote: --- Richard Heck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: Excuse me Richard, You said that I can change align in Lyx screen? Yes, you can change the way the alignment appears on the screen in LyX by editing the layout files, which you'll find in (e.g.) /usr/share/

Re: lyx-1.5.1 apa style question

2007-10-13 Thread Richard Heck
Mirko Briemle wrote: So I found this: It should be possible to switch from one mode to another one with these options: \documentclass[jou]{apa} for the two-column output (txfonts default) \documentclass[man}{apa} for the manuscript (double-spaced) output \documentclass[doc]{apa} for regul

Re: problem adding a class/layout

2007-10-13 Thread Richard Heck
Srinivas Nedunuri wrote: Hello, I am running Lyx 1.4.3 on XP. I need to format a paper (by Monday!) using the sig-alternate style. I have placed sig-alternate.cls in the Tex distribution and added sig-alternate.layout to both my local lyx folder and to the main lyx folder (..LyX 1.4.3-5\Resources

Re: OT: Export to text from PDF-reader

2007-10-15 Thread Richard Heck
Helge Hafting wrote: Hellmut Weber wrote: Hi list, I have a lot of word documents which I want to transform to lyx. I do this in a very simple way producing a pdf-Version of the word document (word + windows are running in a kvm window on my gentoo linux system). This PDF document I open with

Re: Magnification of screen fonts in LyX 1.5.2

2007-10-22 Thread Richard Heck
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, can someone please help me setting larger screen fonts in LyX 1.5.2? In previous versions I used Tools/Settings/Screen Fonts/Magnification % 180 but this seems not to work in LyX1.5.2 under Windows-Vista. All it does is magnify the spacing between words and bet

Re: Conditional resize of picture

2007-10-22 Thread Richard Heck
Rudi van der Linde wrote: Hi LyXers, Is it possible to resize a picture only if it is larger than a predetermined size? I am automatically generating a LyX document from a database and it is therefore not possible for me to know the size of the pictures beforehand. I would like LyX to autom

Re: footnote in caption

2007-10-23 Thread Richard Heck
Alexander Sklar wrote: Hi All, First of all, thanks to all the great people who make LyX J My thesis would look terrible and be impossibly difficult to write without it J I don't know if this is a known bug or not, but when I tried to insert a footnote inside a graphics float's caption, the fi

Re: footnote in caption

2007-10-23 Thread Richard Heck
h Thanks, Alex -Original Message- From: Richard Heck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Martes, 23 de Octubre de 2007 06:55 p.m. To: Alexander Sklar Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: Re: footnote in caption Alexander Sklar wrote: Hi All, First of all, thanks to all the great people wh

Re: footnote in caption

2007-10-24 Thread Richard Heck
riginal Message Subject: Re: footnote in caption From: Richard Heck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Alexander Sklar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed Oct 24 2007 04:37:30 GMT+0200 Alexander Sklar wrote: Well...it compiles, but doesn't produced the expected result :) (see attached pdf,

Re: Issues with v1.5.2 on OS X

2007-10-24 Thread Richard Heck
Adam Treverrow wrote: 2. The second issue relates to typing lag. I realise this issue has been reported previously for OS X. Typing is unbearably slow in notes, floats etc. I have instant preview turned off. Typing in standard text is variable, but in general too slow for me to use 1.5.2. I've

Re: Missing toolbars in Lyx 1.5.2

2007-10-30 Thread Richard Heck
Patton, Eric wrote: Hi, I've compiled Lyx 1.5.2 from source without errors. When I run Lyx, the main application window opens up, but all the toolbars are missing. How do I go about restoring them? Well, the simple way is View>Toolbars, but if that doesn't work, you may have have an incomp

Re: Missing toolbars in Lyx 1.5.2

2007-10-30 Thread Richard Heck
Patton, Eric wrote: Patton, Eric wrote: Doing View>Toolbars is impossible, because even the main toolbar where the normal lyx menus exist is missing. Which directory should I remove under my lyx directory (located at /usr/local/lyx-1.5.2) ? Thanks, ~ Eric. Paul wrote: It mi

Re: Missing toolbars in Lyx 1.5.2

2007-10-30 Thread Richard Heck
Patton, Eric wrote: Not having .../Resources means you also don't have bind files, keyboard maps and, critically, the scripts for doing things like configuring LyX and converting graphics. So the menu problem (aggravating as it is) is just the tip of the iceberg. Not running LyX under Linux m

Re: Missing toolbars in Lyx 1.5.2

2007-10-30 Thread Richard Heck
Patton, Eric wrote: Just to clarify, I'm using Ubuntu 7.10 on a PC; I'm not using a Mac. Oh, sorry, I'm not sure why I thought you were on a Mac. In that case, everything should be in /usr/local/share/lyx/. The problem may be that you have an older install of LyX in /usr/share/lyx. Check that,

Re: Missing toolbars in Lyx 1.5.2

2007-10-30 Thread Richard Heck
Richard Heck wrote: Patton, Eric wrote: Just to clarify, I'm using Ubuntu 7.10 on a PC; I'm not using a Mac. Oh, sorry, I'm not sure why I thought you were on a Mac. In that case, everything should be in /usr/local/share/lyx/. The problem may be that you have an older install

Re: Lyx 1.5.1 footnotes do not work - change to utf8

2007-10-31 Thread Richard Heck
Raphael Steinbach wrote: After changing some document settings, the document will not convert into pdf, it tells me to change to utf8, because some characters would not be displayed correctly, however this also happens if i just insert one empty footnote(same with margin note etc.), without footn

Re: how select several files to import in a single time

2007-10-31 Thread Richard Heck
Liviu Andronic wrote: On 10/28/07, Marc Levivier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm using debian with gnome. For example, I can open several files with Ooo (using ctrl or shift key to select the files I want). If I understand you correctly, you would like to be able to select multiple file

Re: lyx-certification and mailing list

2007-10-31 Thread Richard Heck
Steve Litt wrote: For instance, in LaTeX it's perfectly OK to nest environments, but LyX cannot use nested environments. Sure it can: That's what Increase Depth is for. rh

Re: LyX cannot generate DVI - suspected bitex related problem

2007-10-31 Thread Richard Heck
christiaan pauw wrote: Hi Everybody I use LyX 1.5.1 on Win XP. When I try to cite the reference below it generates an error message (see below) I chose jurabib as my Bibliography style. When I set it top plain it works again. Does anyone know why this happens? Do you have something in the

Re: All my LyX files seem to be "externally modified"

2007-10-31 Thread Richard Heck
Bo Peng wrote: A while ago LyX (1.5.2) started to say that all my old files have been "externally modified". The problem does not occur when I create new files, but every time I want to save a change in an old file, I have to click the overwrite button. As far as I know, I have not modified any L

Re: Find/replace not working well - doesn't find words.

2007-11-01 Thread Richard Heck
Anthony Campbell wrote: The Find command often fails to find words that I know are there -- in fact, it doesn't find any of the instances of the word. Quite a nuisance when I'm trying to make an index. Perhaps it's a bug? I saw this problem the other day. Find/Replace was working, and then all

Re: two questions on numbering - NEWBIE

2007-11-07 Thread Richard Heck
Yitzhak Zangi wrote: I'm answering my exercises in LyX to get used to it. I use the heb-article document class and I have to questions: 1) How to number the paragrphs without order (e.g. answer question 2 before question 1) such that the paragraphs will look like in the "Enumarate" environment?

Re: Roman enumerated list layout style

2007-11-07 Thread Richard Heck
Ernesto Posse wrote: Hi. I have written a new layout style for writing enumerated lists using roman numerals. However I have a problem. While the generated document, correctly renders the roman numerals, they do not appear in the LyX interface. The layout code is below. I thought the problem woul

Re: Select Branch from Command line?

2007-11-07 Thread Richard Heck
Ethan Metsger wrote: Hi, all. I have a quick question. I've been developing a bit of documentation for one of our products using LyX. It's a small project, and I'm hoping to spur adoption of LyX by demonstrating some nice clean results here. One of the really nice features of LyX is the a

Re: Problem with LYX

2007-11-08 Thread Richard Heck
Pietro Barbujani wrote: Hi, I'm Pietro from Italy. I'm writing my Master thesis, using KOOMA BOOK document in LYX. The problem are the margins because the right margin is larger in the odd pages while I would like a larger margin on the even pages... How can I do? It sounds like your page n

Re: R: Problem with LYX

2007-11-08 Thread Richard Heck
ou setting page numbers manually somewhere? rh Pietro -Messaggio originale----- Da: Richard Heck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Inviato: giovedì 8 novembre 2007 18.36 A: Pietro Barbujani Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Oggetto: Re: Problem with LYX Pietro Barbujani wrote: Hi, I'm Pie

Re: Implementation of the format definition in a given .cls file

2007-11-08 Thread Richard Heck
Winson wrote: I am writing my thesis with ucthesis.cls downloaded from CTAN and installed on my computer. I made my ucthesis.layout as following: #% Do not delete the line below; configure depends on this # \DeclareLaTeXClass[ucthesis]{UC Thesis} # Read the definitions from report.layo

Re: Change tracking in LyX and multiple users

2007-11-09 Thread Richard Heck
G. Milde wrote: How do you generally track the changes in your documents ? * LyX has in-built support for RCS [etc etc] And it would not be a lot of work to convert it to CVS, SVN, etc. I've been kind of meaning to do this, as have a lot of other people, but other things always interv

Re: Export as odt - doesn't seem to work

2007-11-09 Thread Richard Heck
Graham Smith wrote: Bad form to reply to my own message, but I should add that the status bar suggests that the coversion is happening with the file apparantly being converted to tex and then oolatex being executed to create the odt file, its just the converted file doesn't appear anywhere. Yes

Re: Export as odt - doesn't seem to work

2007-11-09 Thread Richard Heck
. I will have a go at running oolatex manually. If you can get it to work manually, then it should also work from LyX. Another possibility is Latex2RTF, which you can find on the web. LyX is also capable of using that, I think. rh Thanks, Graahm Richard Heck wrote: Graham Smith wrote

Re: Roman enumerated list layout style

2007-11-12 Thread Richard Heck
nter and get the same result: abc (i) abc (ii) abc abc (iii) abc (iv) abc abc instead of the intended abc (i) abc (ii) abc abc (i) abc (ii) abc abc However the problem is only within the LyX interface. The generated document is OK. How could I make the counter reset with each new list? Than

Re: documentclass missing

2007-11-14 Thread Richard Heck
Franz Weidlinger wrote: Hi! Just installed Lyx. When I want to open any new template (beamer or article) lyx says that the document class is missing. If I go to Settings - Document class, I find that all document classes by dropdown are not available. How can I download and integrate this missin

Re: Bibliography / General questions

2007-11-19 Thread Richard Heck
TB2 wrote: Hi, I'm new to LaTeX / LyX / BibTeX and I'm really having some trouble. I've been searching forums and mailing lists for ages now but I can't get my bibliography and citations to work. [snip] I use JabRef to create the .bib (usually choosing MISC because of the url problem) and I

Re: Is uninstalling required ?

2007-11-20 Thread Richard Heck
Herve Autret wrote: Hi, I wrote : should I type make uninstall in Lyx-1.5.1 before make install in 1.5.2, or just make install in the most recent source tree ? I've uninstalled 1.5.1 (in case of...) and installed 1.5.2. Always a good idea. I've seen problems from this. LyX-1.5.2 can't co

Re: Live Latex Editing

2007-11-24 Thread Richard Heck
Ryan Cross wrote: On Nov 25, 2007 11:18 AM, Andre Poenitz < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 10:26:26AM +1100, Ryan Cross wrote: Correct me if I'm wrong, but the "understanding" you are referring to is already available - it is the relyx command that is used when openin

Re: Live Latex Editing

2007-11-26 Thread Richard Heck
G. Milde wrote: This sort of request is quite commonly made, and it's been on the developers' radar, more or less, for a while. Obviously, the View Source preview is a step in this direction. But, as Andre remarked, it's non-trivial to get this right, and the number of people who would use it

Re: Live Latex Editing

2007-11-28 Thread Richard Heck
G. Milde wrote: This is do-able now. Just add your favorite editor as the "Viewer" for LyX files in Tools>Preferences>File Formats, and check the "Document Format" box. I actually did so already (and wrote about it later down in my last post). There are some problems still, however: * M

Re: Optional document class arguments in layout files

2007-11-29 Thread Richard Heck
Paul A. Rubin wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to write a layout file for Operations Research (an INFORMS journal with rather, er, specific LaTeX requirements, and I'm stumped on the very first one. INFORMS uses a generic class file and specifies which of their journals is the target (which affects

Re: Optional document class arguments in layout files

2007-11-30 Thread Richard Heck
Paul A. Rubin wrote: Richard Heck wrote: It would be nice, actually, if there were a way to embed option choices into the layout file, so that, e.g., you could do this: ClassOptions SelectOne choicea, choiceb, choicec SelectMany optiona, optionb, optionc Boolean oneside

Re: LyX confused by something in a BibTeX file?

2007-11-30 Thread Richard Heck
Dave Hewitt wrote: I'm using JabRef and BibTeX for citations in a LyX report, with natbib and authordate3 as the BibTeX style. All has gone flawlessly except for one reference. For some reason LyX is muddying up the inline display for one article in the BibTeX file, and that one only and consi

Re: hyphenation - German Umlaute in PDF output file

2007-11-30 Thread Richard Heck
Markus Büchele wrote: Hi, I am having one small but annoying problem with LYX. I cannot get my PDF output files formated the right way. If the last word in a line includes an Umlaut (äöü), hyphenation will not be done for this word resulting in a tail in the lines in question. I am using L

Re: Optional document class arguments in layout files

2007-11-30 Thread Richard Heck
Paul A. Rubin wrote: Richard Heck wrote: I'm afraid I don't know anything about class options in layout files. (I do know that there have been some bug reports.) But as a workaround for now, you could just pass the option manually in Document>Settings>Document Class. Mayb

Re: Layouts: multiple command arguments, mandatory nestings

2007-11-30 Thread Richard Heck
Paul A. Rubin wrote: Two more layout questions (to which I'm pretty sure but not positive that I know the answers, and which will likely put paid to my efforts to write a layout for INFORMS journals): 1. Is there currently a way to specify that a Command style has multiple required (not opti

Re: LyX to HTML

2007-12-02 Thread Richard Heck
Roberto Gorjão wrote: Olá! Lyx does a terrific job when converting to HTML, but, what I would need is a little different. LyX tries to reproduce some of the styles of the original document, thus creating a CSS stylesheet and introducing in the HTML lots of classes like "sectionHead", "itemize

Re: Very new to Lyx

2007-12-04 Thread Richard Heck
Tyler Remoue wrote: Hello all, This is my first post and I'd like to say, I'm very new to Lyx (so bear with me). I'm trying to build a new document class for a letter and I'd like to add a vertical banner along the left side of the letter. The example I'm using is on the Powerdot Documentati

Re: Very new to Lyx

2007-12-04 Thread Richard Heck
Richard Heck wrote: I've been playing around with this sort of thing, but I can't quite get it to work. When I try to do this: \rput[tl]{90}(0,0){} e.g. the text won't rotate. Nor dos this work: \rput[tl](0,0){\rotateleft{powerdot}} I'm not sure why not. I can get the

Re: Function names in Lyx?

2007-12-05 Thread Richard Heck
bigblop wrote: I have made a file /home/mos/.lyx/bind/myShortcuts.bind where I define my own keybindings. But is there a way to find the name of the different functions in LyX? I am looking for the functions to: update pdf (running pdflatex) view pdf insert math-mode insert tex mode etc A lo

Re: edit lyx file in text editor

2007-12-05 Thread Richard Heck
Hellmut Weber wrote: Hi, I think editing .lyx works for small non-structural changes. Be careful with whitespace at the beginning of lines and line breaks in general. Some are needed and some are forbidden, and it's usually not clear when and why... Just to satisfy my curiosity ;-) Is there

Re: A few other issues

2007-12-06 Thread Richard Heck
bigblop wrote: 1) I am using justified text, which I prefer when I print. But I get seasick when all the text moves when I write. Is there someway to disable justification in LyX, but still keep it in the final pdf? No. But you can set left justification while writing and then turn it back t

Re: A few other issues

2007-12-06 Thread Richard Heck
Michael Thompson wrote: Richard Heck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: bigblop wrote: 1) I am using justified text, which I prefer when I print. But I get seasick when all the text moves when I write. Is there someway to disable justification in LyX, but still keep it in the fin

Re: Change size of inserted LaTeX code?

2007-12-06 Thread Richard Heck
bigblop wrote: Is there some way to change the size of the latex code when typing it directly into the LyX editor? You can change the font size under Tools>Preferences, I think. All of this will be much more configurable in LyX 1.6.x. Richard --

Re: Change size of inserted LaTeX code?

2007-12-06 Thread Richard Heck
might help, if it's a bit smaller. In any event, this will be controllable in 1.6.x. rh Richard Heck-3 wrote: bigblop wrote: Is there some way to change the size of the latex code when typing it directly into the LyX editor? You can change the font size under Tools>Pre

Re: want to add new format options to cross-reference

2007-12-07 Thread Richard Heck
nooj wrote: I'm using 1.5.2, and I have cross references in my document. There are four options for the output format: () on page on page Formatted reference First of all, I spent hours testing and rereading the documentation trying to figure out why my "Formatted reference"s

Re: Edit complete source?

2007-12-07 Thread Richard Heck
bigblop wrote: But that does not work in the "LaTeX source" area. Only in the LyX editor. Yes, that's right. What people call "round-trip" source view doesn't yet exist, though many people would like to see it. It's possible it'll be implemented before too long, but there are non-trivial ob

Re: want to add new format options to cross-reference

2007-12-07 Thread Richard Heck
Tobias Krause wrote: Hi, how exactly does the self-defining work? I found something like that in the documentation: \newrefformat{sec}{Section \ref{#1} on page \pageref{#1}} but is there a way to define different ways to reference e.g. a section? And if so, how do I chose which one I want?

Re: want to add new format options to cross-reference

2007-12-07 Thread Richard Heck
Uwe Stöhr wrote: nooj schrieb: First of all, I spent hours testing and rereading the documentation trying to figure out why my "Formatted reference"s didn't behave like my " on page ", until I waded through the latex code outputted by LyX and noticed one uses \prettyref and one uses \vref. Then

Re: A few other issues

2007-12-07 Thread Richard Heck
Michael Thompson wrote: Hmm, yes, I see. Well, here's a better way, perhaps, and it might even solve your problem more globally. Find the file stdclass.inc and copy it to your local LyX directory. Then change the line that says "Align Block", under Style Standard, to "Align Left". This may just

Re: confused about margins with 2 sided docs

2007-12-07 Thread Richard Heck
William Seager wrote: Hi all. I have a book ms. using the basic book style. I notice with approval that the margins are offset depending on whether the page is even or odd. But here is where I am confused. In my document the odd numbered pages have a small left margin / large right margin wherea

Re: "draft mode" version of lyx note?

2007-12-08 Thread Richard Heck
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: nooj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I've been using the LyX notes to include information I may want for later, such as references, comments and suggestions to myself. I like to print out my document and edit it by hand, to help separate productivity with time spe

Re: Slowness

2007-12-10 Thread Richard Heck
Torquil Macdonald Sørensen wrote: Hello, Does anybody else experience that LyX1.5.2 sometimes becomes extremely slow? So slow that after pressing a key I must wait 1sec to see the character appear in the document. I have not yet been able to detect any underlying pattern behind this behaviour

Re: Spell check on the fly?

2007-12-11 Thread Richard Heck
Manveru wrote: For most writers such feature is more a bug that a helpful feature. There was a discussion about this a little while ago. I came down very strongly on this side. rh Those annoying red underlines may break your way of thinking during writing, the same is about autocorrection. Th

Re: endnotes

2007-12-11 Thread Richard Heck
William Seager wrote: I can't seem to find the answer to this. I know how to convert footnotes to endnotes and how to place endnotes in a document. I want all the endnotes to appear at the end of the book, but I need to have them divided by chapter. I mean, as you read through the endnotes you s

Re: Adding sty files to path

2007-12-11 Thread Richard Heck
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a custom sty that I need to use and read about adding to the Latex search path. In my .bashrc I now have export TEXINPUTS=".:~/latex/styles//:" and a sty file in that dir. I think this sets where TeX looks for source files. Lyx can't find it though. I get "Lat

Re: endnotes

2007-12-11 Thread Richard Heck
William Seager wrote: On December 11, 2007 11:51:22 Richard Heck wrote: The answer to all such questions is: It can be done if there is a LaTeX package that provides this facility. You can search for such packages on ctan.org. In this case, it appears that your dream has been realized in the

Re: how to change some attributes of textclasses/environments?

2008-01-11 Thread Richard Heck
Berthold Metz (PH-Freiburg) wrote: hi, i have a - very basal - problem for which i couldn't find any solution neither on the web nor in the documentation. and pease sorry: i am very new to lyx/tex. i startet writing an longer document using koma-book. i would like to change some attributes

Re: how to change some attributes of textclasses/environments?

2008-01-11 Thread Richard Heck
Berthold Metz (PH-Freiburg) wrote: hi, i have a - very basal - problem for which i couldn't find any solution neither on the web nor in the documentation. and pease sorry: i am very new to lyx/tex. i startet writing an longer document using koma-book. i would like to change some attributes

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