Re: Landscape document: what am I missing?

This might help: http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/gs.htm#_Making_a_Landscape_PDF SteveT Steve Litt Books written in LyX: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting Troubleshooting: Just the Facts

Re: [OT] Best KDE-centric Distribution?

LyX never becomes a KDE program. Qt is OK, but IMHO KDE programs have too many needless interactions with other programs (like dcop server, gimme a break), needlessly causing crashiness and other problems. SteveT Steve Litt Books written in LyX: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Te

Re: Number of LaTeX runs

m -f $1.ind rm -f $1.log rm -f $1.tex rm -f $1.toc lyx --export latex $1.lyx HTH SteveT Steve Litt Books written in LyX: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting Troubleshooting: Just the Facts

qt 4 library not found

ed. Then I could fix the problem. Perhaps it's nothing but a missing symlink, but with an error message like that, I can't tell. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Books written in LyX: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist T

Re: qt 4 library not found

On Monday 18 February 2008 13:38, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > On Mon, 18 Feb 2008, Steve Litt wrote: > > I wish the error message would tell me exactly why it believes I don't > > have QT4 installed. Then I could fix the problem. Perhaps it's nothing > > but a mis

Why oh why did you drop xforms?

ecursive] Error 1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] lyx-1.5.3]$ Back when we had xforms as an option, I could easily compile LyX. OK yeah it wasn't as pretty as QT, but it worked and got the job done, and at least I could use a LyX newer and more featureful than my Linux distro. Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Books

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

On Monday 18 February 2008 17:07, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Mon, 18 Feb 2008, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > > To answer your Subject line: > > > > xforms has not been maintained in around four years. > >And, it was plain ugly. :-) Better ugly than uncompileable. SteveT

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

On Monday 18 February 2008 18:01, Pavel Sanda wrote: Hi Pavel, > if you havent install it globally you cant use I don't understand what you mean. What do I need to install globally to use it? How does one install it globally? > --with-extra-prefix=/usr/lib/qt4 but change the path accordingly.

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

On Monday 18 February 2008 16:58, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > To answer your Subject line: > > xforms has not been maintained in around four years. > > Qt4 gives more possibility to use on non-Unix and even non-X11 systems. > > Qt4 has better support for internationalization and many other user > inter

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

On Monday 18 February 2008 18:01, Pavel Sanda wrote: > > It shouldn't be this difficult to compile LyX. It wasn't this difficult a > > couple years ago. > > actually this should be the job of your distro maintainers, not lyx. I've been hearing a lot of that type of comment lately, and I think it'

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

On Monday 18 February 2008 18:26, Pavel Sanda wrote: > > > --with-extra-prefix=/usr/lib/qt4 but change the path accordingly. > > > > I don't understand what you mean. > > where do you have libraries of qt4 now ? Depending on the meaning of the question, either /usr/lib/qt4 or /usr/lib/qt4/lib. S

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

On Monday 18 February 2008 19:54, Pavel Sanda wrote: > > But now I want to upgrade LyX without installing a newer operating > > system. I don't think that's too much to ask. > > > > One could counter that if I used Debian I could just apt-get install the > > whole thing. Well I don't use Debian --

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

putting in the qt4 devel thing, make sure you have > no qt3 devel stuff left. > > pj > > On Feb 18, 2008 3:39 PM, Steve Litt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Well, after 2 hours I got libqt4-devel loaded, and a 30 minute make ended > >

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

On Tuesday 19 February 2008 02:01, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > Steve Litt wrote: > > Interestingly, it appears that in order to upgrade to qt 2.2.3, I would > > need to upgrade my glibc (because of rtld(GNU_HASH)). I'm sorry, but > > that's just too much to exp

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

o my daily work. > > > > John Culleton TeX since 1995. > > Just stay with TeX and stop annoying us. Yeah, that's the way to get LyX users -- tell em if they're not willing to upgrade the very vitals of their OS so that the developers can use the latest

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

On Tuesday 19 February 2008 02:01, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > Steve Litt wrote: > > Then there's the fact that some of us have dialup, and some in rural > > areas are years from getting broadband. The "just upgrade your qt" > > suggestion could be a day's

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

On Tuesday 19 February 2008 01:22, you wrote: > Nobody cautioned you yet in this thread. Delete the source tree and > untar a fresh copy before re-setting the environment and re-running > configure. Otherwise, same old mistakes just happen again and again. > > I did this recompile myself a few we

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

On Wednesday 20 February 2008 08:40, you wrote: > Steve Litt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > My one remaining problem is that the fonts on the menu, scrollbars and > > dialog boxes are too small for me to read. I'll be looking up how to make > > them larger in t

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

On Wednesday 20 February 2008 17:45, Micha wrote: > On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 21:39:12 +0100 > > Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Micha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> So for example you applaud if microsoft decides that each and every > > >> software they issue will be restricted t

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

On Thursday 21 February 2008 06:48, Pavel Sanda wrote: > > Deleting and re-extracting the source tree did the trick. So the steps to > > cure the problem turned out to be: > > Good to hear. > > Steve, if you think that README & INSTALL files put you somewhere > in th

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

On Thursday 21 February 2008 07:47, Helge Hafting wrote: > Steve Litt wrote: > > Makes perfect sense to me, and I couldn't have said it better myself. A > > person should not have to upgrade their distro every few months in order > > to compile the latest apps. > >

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

t; JMarc That reminds me of one more thing: After what I went through, I'd recommend that someone strongarm ALL variables to the Qt4 values, and not leave anything to chance. SteveT Steve Litt Books written in LyX: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologi

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

On Thursday 21 February 2008 12:20, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Steve Litt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > After what I went through, I'd recommend that someone strongarm ALL > > variables to the Qt4 values, and not leave anything to chance. > > What do you mean?

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

On Thursday 21 February 2008 11:48, José Matos wrote: > On Thursday 21 February 2008 16:24:30 Steve Litt wrote: > > So I'd add something like: > > > > WARNING!!! ALWAYS DELETE AND RESTORE YOUR LYX 1.5.3 SOURCE TREE AFTER A > > BLOWN ./CONFIGURE OR MAKE!!! > >

Re: Admonition paragraphs

On Thursday 21 February 2008 18:27, James Mansion wrote: > Is it possible to automate adminition blocks? > > James What is an admonition block or admonition paragraph? I couldn't find them in wikipedia. Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Books written in LyX: Troubleshooting Tec

Re: Admonition paragraphs

On Friday 22 February 2008 02:21, you wrote: > Steve Litt wrote: > > On Thursday 21 February 2008 18:27, James Mansion wrote: > >> Is it possible to automate adminition blocks? > >> > >> James > > > > What is an admonition block or admonition

Re: Admonition paragraphs

On Friday 22 February 2008 11:25, Steve Litt wrote: > On Friday 22 February 2008 02:21, you wrote: > > Steve Litt wrote: > > > On Thursday 21 February 2008 18:27, James Mansion wrote: > > >> Is it possible to automate adminition blocks? > > >> > >

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

On Friday 22 February 2008 03:18, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > Steve Litt wrote: > > How much backward compatibility? Here's my belief: > > > > Age of tools when distro is created: 6 months > > Age of distro when installed: 4 months > > Time bet

Re: Admonition paragraphs

On Sunday 24 February 2008 11:04, James Mansion wrote: > Steve Litt wrote: > > The following is part of my layout file for "Learn Vim Tonight: Use the > > Worlds Most Productive Editor Tomorrow". Note that these snippits don't > > include Preamble/endpreambl

Character styles in 1.5

and the layout is chooseable from the document class field of the document settings dialog box, but I could find no way to invoke my special character styles. How do I invoke my character styles? The documentation didn't help. Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Books written in LyX: Troubl

LyX 1.5.3 character style documentation problem

uot;user defined character styles", stuff from the buttons (emph and noun) as LyX-provided character styles, and stuff from the text style dialog as "text fine tuning". That way the documentation will be much clearer to newbie and expert alike. Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Books wri

Re: LyX 1.5.3 character style documentation problem

U guys want me to write a very short doc, for the LyX Project to include in the HELP menu, about character styles? SteveT On Sunday 24 February 2008 13:57, Steve Litt wrote: > Hi all, > > The documents under the help menu for 1.5.3 use the phrase "character > style"

Otl2LyX shellscript

label false\rstatus inlined\r\rbegin_layout Standard\r\2\rend_layout\r\rend_inset\r\r/g" \ -c"%s/bangsign_brace/!{/" \ -c"wq!" # -c"%s/\(\s\)!\(\S\+\)/\1>>>\2<< body.lyx Vim body.lyx shell.lyx I hope this helps someone

Re: LyX 1.5.3 character style documentation problem

On Sunday 24 February 2008 14:27, rgheck wrote: > Steve Litt wrote: > > Perhaps in future documentation versions we should call what I call > > character styles as "user defined character styles", stuff from the > > buttons (emph and noun) as LyX-provided character

Figure references 1.5.3: Danger Will Robinson

o images they use, so that you all can be aware of this little gotcha. Or, if it's only happening on my system, maybe we can exploit the differences to find out why. Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Books written in LyX: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist

Re: Figure references 1.5.3: Danger Will Robinson

On Sunday 24 February 2008 18:44, Les Denham wrote: > On Sunday 24 February 2008 17:35, Steve Litt wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Here are two small LyX files. The only difference is that in bug2.lyx the > > labels come last inside the floats, whereas in bug.lyx the labe

Needed documentation

multiple compiles to register * Confusion between LyX code and LaTeX code * LaTeX code is case sensitive, LyX code isn't Perhaps others can add to the list and we can write the document. Thanks STeveT Steve Litt Books written in LyX: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Te

Re: Needed documentation

behavior. Most LyX behaviors are reasonable, as long as the user expects them. I've responded in the following: On Monday 25 February 2008 11:49, you wrote: > Steve Litt wrote: > > You know what would be good documentation? "The 25 Biggest Surprises in > > LyX and How to

Ref+Text wording in Ebook

", but never "the facing page"? Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Books written in LyX: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting Troubleshooting: Just the Facts

Click in the scrollbar doesn't advance enough

x27;s Interface->Wheel_scroll_lines setting. I couldn't find anything in LyX's Tools->Preferences system to change it. Most apps go up one screen minus one line (or down one screen minus one line) when you click inside the scrollbar, so this behavior is unexpected. Thanks SteveT

Unexpected unordered list behavior

s. Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Books written in LyX: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting Troubleshooting: Just the Facts surprise_153_softreturn_in_list.lyx Description: application/lyx

Re: Needed documentation

On Wednesday 27 February 2008 07:31, Helge Hafting wrote: > Steve Litt wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > You know what would be good documentation? "The 25 Biggest Surprises in > > LyX and How to Work With Them". It's basically a FAQ with potential >

Re: sorting list

opy them to the clipboard from LyX or the PDF or whatever shows the inline formula appropriately. Then do this: cat | sort > junk.jnk Then copy junk.jnk into your LyX file using the proper formula or whatever. SteveT Steve Litt Books written in LyX: Troubleshooting Techniques

Re: Needed documentation

On Thursday 28 February 2008 11:16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mon, 25 Feb 2008, Steve Litt wrote: > > Could somebody please put the Wiki Stub in the proper place and post its > > location on the list? Then the rest of us can write the documentation. > > Here y

Re: Needed documentation

eed to press the Enter key to give a table column a width. Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware http://www.troubleshooters.com/

Re: LyX won't compile my document any more

is pure guesswork on my part, but I'd suspect your PDF conversion is working but your PDF reader isn't. There's a way to tell LyX what to use as a PDF reader. SteveT Steve Litt Books written in LyX: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist Twent

Re: problem with RevTeX and setspace package

thing missing from revtex4.cls (or revsymb.sty) that exists in book.cls, but I couldn't find it. One thing I might recommend is that you put the following into the LyX part of your layout file: Input stdclass.inc Format 2 That's helped me out of similar situation

Insert->minipage?

Hi all, I'm using LyX-1.5.3 on Mandriva 2007 Linux. I just tried to insert a minipage into my LyX document. I went to the Insert menu and couldn't see minipage anywhere. Didn't there used to be an Insert->minipage option to insert a minipage? If so, where has it gone? Tha

Re: Insert->minipage?

On Monday 03 March 2008 18:37, Bob Lounsbury wrote: > On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 4:12 PM, Steve Litt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I'm using LyX-1.5.3 on Mandriva 2007 Linux. > > > > I just tried to insert a minipage into my LyX document

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

of 100 the time it would take to strongarm every variable to its qt4 value. Therefore, whether or not the default values *should* produce the right result, I'd recommend strongarming it. SteveT Steve Litt Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware http://www.troubleshooters.com/

Re: new lines disappearing in program listings

Insert->File->Child Document, where you can chose "Program Listing" from > the combo. Why would one use the listings inset rather than just using the LyXCode environment? The former isn't easily visible in the LyX environment, the latter is. The former is ERT, the latter is

Re: Layout questions

ntent link to > the places in the document where the chapters are located? This is not as > important though, just a cool feature! B-) I think that automatically happens if you do this: lyx -e pdf lyxfilename.lyx SteveT Steve Litt Books written in LyX: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting Troubleshooting: Just the Facts

Adding space to end of sentence adds spaces inside character styles

disturbing. Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Books written in LyX: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting Troubleshooting: Just the Facts spacebug.lyx Description: application/lyx

Re: Please confirm your message

On Friday 07 March 2008 16:00, rgheck wrote: > Uwe Stöhr wrote: > > Annabelle Sack schrieb: > >> 1. wie zentriere ich Grafiken? Die meisten Grafiken, die ich in den > >> Fließtext eingebunden habe, sind zentriert. Andere wieder nicht, > >> obwohl ich an der Einstellungs nichts geändert

Re: Adding space to end of sentence adds spaces inside character styles

On Friday 07 March 2008 16:37, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > Steve Litt wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I just had a situation with two character style insets inside a sentence. > > When I add spaces or other characters at the end of the sentence, spaces > > or other chara

Safety from data reorganization?

nt class so you can fix the problem without losing content?" Pardon me while I reorganize my latest book version with guidance from the structure of the 5 day old backup... SteveT Steve Litt Books written in LyX: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist Twenty

Re: Safety from data reorganization?

On Sunday 09 March 2008 15:35, Steve Litt wrote: > Hi all, > > I just lost my entire book structure due to a small modification to my > layout file that prevented compilation. LyX therefore reverted the book's > document class from my custom "rjustbook" to "ar

Re: Safety from data reorganization?

On Sunday 09 March 2008 16:09, Steve Litt wrote: > On Sunday 09 March 2008 15:35, Steve Litt wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I just lost my entire book structure due to a small modification to my > > layout file that prevented compilation. LyX therefore reverted the book&#

Re: Safety from data reorganization?

On Monday 10 March 2008 07:30, G. Milde wrote: > On 9.03.08, Paul A. Rubin wrote: > > Steve Litt wrote: > >> Hi all, > >> > >> I just lost my entire book structure due to a small modification to my > >> layout file that prevented compilation. LyX ther

How do you do an appendix the right way?

le? Do I need to use some ERT commands? Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Books written in LyX: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting Troubleshooting: Just the Facts

Re: How do you do an appendix the right way?

On Monday 10 March 2008 17:41, Filippo Zangheri wrote: > Steve Litt ha scritto: > > Hi all, > > Hi, Steve, > > > How does one do an appendix the right way. I want it to show up, at the > > same level as chapters, in the table of contents. But I want it to say > &

Re: Safety from data reorganization?

On Tuesday 11 March 2008 07:09, Helge Hafting wrote: > Steve Litt wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I just lost my entire book structure due to a small modification to my > > layout file that prevented compilation. LyX therefore reverted the book's > > docume

Re: LyX discussion boards?

rves as a newsgroup interface for email lists. From the gmane entry for your mailing list, you can read mail, send mail, and reply. So I can read my LyX-Users email with Kmail, while you're newgrouping it from gmane. To do this, someone would need to link gmane with [EMAIL PROTECTED]

How to save the current font in LaTeX?

ere a way to implement a stack in either LaTeX or LyX? It would be cool to push the current font, and then pop it when I'm done. That way I could nest these things. Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Books written in LyX: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist Tw

Re: How to save the current font in LaTeX?

On Tuesday 11 March 2008 19:59, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Steve Litt wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I used to know this but forgot and couldn't quickly find it in my book. > > In LaTeX, how do I find the current value of the font, so when I set > > something to \

Re: How to save the current font in LaTeX?

On Wednesday 12 March 2008 11:27, Paul A. Rubin wrote: > Steve Litt wrote: > > I'll do that if I can't find the command containing the current font, but > > \begingroup and \endgroup don't nest. My real hope was to implement a > > stack, push the current font o

Re: Adjusting styles in lists

t with Ctrl-L) at the beginning > of the first item of the list. Not exactly nice, but it works. > > Andre' Or, you can make your own list environment: http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/lyx/ownlists.htm SteveT Steve Litt Books written in LyX: Troubleshooting Techniques

How to programmattically mark all "ssh" with a charstyle?

tive LyX file? There are many, many occurrences of "ssh", and there are also many other specific strings that need to be universally marked with the charcode character style, so doing it manually is a poor alternative. Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Books written in LyX: Trou

Re: Best font for printed output

from the bottom up to be legible, and it succeeds brilliantly. Obviously all this is my opinion. Fonts are very subjective, and produce discussions rivaling Vim vs Emacs (I'm a Vim man myself). SteveT Steve Litt Books written in LyX: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting Troubleshooting: Just the Facts

Pasting iffy in LyX 1.5.3

minal). I know cut and paste is implemented poorly in Linux, but it's usually not this bad. Is there any way to improve interprogram cut and paste in LyX? Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Books written in LyX: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist Twenty Eight

Re: I need the trick, please

Daniel I don't remember the name of the counter, but there's a counter you need to set to 5 with ERT. Look in the book.sty or whatever, and find the counter name, and set it to 5. SteveT Steve Litt Books written in LyX: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting Troubleshooting: Just the Facts

Why do Inkscape drawing pixellate in LyX?

. What's the best way to put an Inkcape drawn drawing into LyX? Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Books written in LyX: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting Troubleshooting: Just the Facts

Re: Why do Inkscape drawing pixellate in LyX?

Steve Litt asked: > > What's the best way to put an Inkcape drawn drawing into LyX? >On Monday 17 March 2008 08:44, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > Insert the SVG-images directly to LyX and use pdflatex to create a PDF. For > this you either have to define a SVG to PDF converter using In

Re: Why do Inkscape drawing pixellate in LyX?

l results. If I made mistakes, could someone please correct them? Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Books written in LyX: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting Troubleshooting: Just the Facts

Re: Why do Inkscape drawing pixellate in LyX?

On Monday 17 March 2008 19:26, Dominik Böhm wrote: > On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 4:49 PM, Max <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > There is a nice page on Inkscape and LyX in the wiki: > > http://wiki.lyx.org/Tips/UseInkscapeSVGImages > > It works very well for me (though especially with fonts I have som

Re: Why do Inkscape drawing pixellate in LyX?

On Tuesday 18 March 2008 04:23, Max wrote: > By the way, just for typographic reasons, you know of the typographic > criticism of Arial, do you :)? > > Max No. What's the typographic criticism of Arial? SteveT Steve Litt Books written in LyX: Troubleshooting

Literal monofont underscores?

yone have any idea how to make underscores take a full character width of space in a monospaced font? Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Books written in LyX: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting Troubleshooting: Just the Facts

Re: pdf file size

On Tuesday 18 March 2008 17:03, Miki Dovrat wrote: > Hi, > > Can I give lyx (or imagemagick convert through lyx) or some other latex > package an option to resample all graphics in a certain resolution to > reduce the pdf file size? convert has a -resample option. > > I would love to do it "on the

Re: Literal monofont underscores?

e if this problem occurs in those places too. Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Books written in LyX: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting Troubleshooting: Just the Facts

Re: Literal monofont underscores?

monospace width, but my latex command on Mandriva Linux 2007 does not. I'm wondering if there's some other command to get an underscore. Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Books written in LyX: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting Troubleshooting: Just the Facts

Re: Literal monofont underscores?

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

Re: Literal monofont underscores?

On Wednesday 19 March 2008 19:52, Paul A. Rubin wrote: > Steve Litt wrote: > > On Wednesday 19 March 2008 14:57, Paul A. Rubin wrote: > >> Steve Litt wrote: > >>> I exported to LaTeX, and it indeed did turn my underscores into \_ > >>> commands. With

Re: Literal monofont underscores?

rfectly. Yours worked well because you're using 1.5.4, which automatically inserts that line in the created LaTeX file. Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Books written in LyX: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting Troubleshooting: Just the Facts

Re: final feedback

les (Hooray!). There have been many other instances where people on this list helped me write my books. Thanks to all of you. SteveT Steve Litt Books written in LyX: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting Troubleshooting: Just the Facts

Pasting iffy in LyX 1.5.3

minal). I know cut and paste is implemented poorly in Linux, but it's usually not this bad. Is there any way to improve interprogram cut and paste in LyX? Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Books written in LyX: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist Twenty Eight

Re: Precompiled binaries for LyX1.5.x on Linux

rmissions to at least one path directory), I make a simple shellscript that runs the LyX binary you compiled there. SteveT Steve Litt Books written in LyX: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting Troubleshooting: Just the Facts

Re: Indentation after a list

the next line of text and change the > environment of the empty paragraph to --Separator-- (or however the > separator is listed on your environment drop-down list -- seems to vary > a bit among classes). Couldn't you also use ERT to insert \\~ after the list? SteveT Steve Li

Re: okay, can't resist one more bit of "feedback"

Word. Several months ago some guy email me (personally, not on a mailing list). He told me that LyX was difficult to install, that he blew 2 weeks trying to make a layout, and that he was "completely misled by your claims about LyX", where "your" referred to Steve Litt. I

Re: LFUN to open label / reference inset dialog

ard. > > Thanks, > > Daniel Hi Daniel, I don't understand what you're saying here. If you're speaking of connecting an arbitrary keystroke to an arbitrary LFUN, I think that's a great idea. Better still would be something that would do a character style with a keys

Re: Question about 'keep with next'

what he puts in the box. For instance, my 10 step Universal Troubleshooting Process really should be on one page, along with its header, even if it creates a gap on a page. One technique I personally use to minimize the likelihood of an intra-list break is to tweak my layout file so that list it

Re: Website re-design ideas

on my script, give it to you, and you can modify it to give just what you need for www.lyx.org. Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Books written in LyX: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting Troubleshooting: Just the Facts

Re: Request for screenshots

n't understand. > > I think the background color is something that makes LyX unique in a > positive way. > > Jürgen I disagree. You can achieve recognition with the logo, but the background color just makes things less readable. SteveT Steve Litt Books written in LyX: Troubl

Re: LyX canvas color (was: request for screenshots)

On Tuesday 25 March 2008 12:26, Rex C. Eastbourne wrote: > Just for the record -- are we now talking about the LyX application's > background/canvas, or the www.lyx.org website background? I changed the > subject line to what the discussion seems to be about. I was talking about the website. In my

Re: Request for screenshots

On Tuesday 25 March 2008 17:13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, 25 Mar 2008, Steve Litt wrote: > >>> It's more a marketing thing, you don't want your software to look too > >>> unusual at first sight. Just like with websites, people tend to > >>&g

Re: WRB - Installing LyX

comes out right * Our chapters begin on the correct page * Our figures are placed in pleasing places by default * Our program is much more stable than most word processors * Our native format is easy to parse text * Our user interface is fast for the touch typist I think the "we're not WY

Re: Creating a Document Programmatically

without changing the Python program and its indentation. Once again, I'd recommend placing the entire template for the report in a LyX or LaTeX or TeX file, and within that template have placeholders which the Python program will replace with strings derived from data content. It would be

Re: LyX logo

On Wednesday 26 March 2008 15:54, Joost Verburg wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > (...) I think that if you did some more tweaking on > > that splash screen it'd get quite good. I hope you'll do so! > > What about this one? Personally, I like it. SteveT

Re: New splash screen (Was: LyX logo)

On Wednesday 26 March 2008 20:38, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, 27 Mar 2008, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > > current banner because it includes the version number. > > Is there a difference between 'banner' and 'splash screen'? (I'm > wondering if the wiki page shold be renamed) > > > We should call our

Re: WRB - More Observations

patient". It's an excellent free Ebook. It changed my life. To learn the relationships and distinctions between TeX, LaTeX and LyX, go here: http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/lyx/lyx_latex_tex.htm SteveT Steve Litt Books written in LyX: Troubleshooting Techniq

Re: WRB - More Observations

can get one started until the committment to purchase books can be raised. Once again, my experience is that learning TeX before learning LaTeX is a *must*. TeX is easy to learn, and once the learner knows TeX, LaTeX will make much more sense. SteveT Steve Litt Books written in LyX:

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