Re: Thesis template and layout files

2014-04-15 Thread Steve Burnham
On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 5:44 PM, Jacob Bishop bishop.ja...@gmail.comwrote: On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 1:54 PM, Steve Burnham dan...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for getting back to me, much more information and more helpful than I expected. Hi Steve, If you don't mind, I'd like to keep

Re: launch incomplete

2014-04-25 Thread Steve Burnham
I had the same issue on OSX 10.9.2 Core2 Duo but once I restarted the computer it starts right up. -Steve On April 25, 2014 at 11:34:17 AM, Anders Ekberg (a...@mac.com) wrote: Can partly confirm on MacBook Air 10.9.2. Judging from Console there seems to be some font problems with messages on

Cannot use some greek letters

2014-05-05 Thread Steve Burnham
Forum, I am currently writing my thesis in LyX and am writing a number of equations, many of which use greek letters.  All has been working fine until today when I needed to use the greek letter “phi”.  When trying to use that letter I get “could not find LaTeX command for character “phi”

Re: Updated a .cls file

2014-05-07 Thread Steve Burnham
Forum,  My university provides a .cls file that was last updated around 1998. I found a more up to date .cls file (2011) from another department. When I replace the old .cls file with the new one my document will no longer compile. It has something to do with the ERT at the beginning of the

Re: LyX crash and cannot open file

2014-05-15 Thread Steve Burnham
On May 15, 2014 at 03:40:54 AM, aparsloe (apars...@clear.net.nz) wrote: On 15/05/2014 6:37 p.m., Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:  In case the files are really corrupted, that is, if the .lyx and/or the  .lyx.emergency file do not end with  \end_body  \end_document  you can check if you have a

Re: LyX crash and cannot open file

2014-05-15 Thread Steve Burnham
On May 15, 2014 at 12:08:40 PM, Scott Kostyshak (skost...@lyx.org) wrote: On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 1:56 PM, Jürgen Spitzmüller sp...@lyx.org wrote:  We really need the fix this, but we are sort of stuck :-(  Steve, can you send your preferences file? Since we don't know what's  going on,

Re: LyX crash and cannot open file

2014-05-15 Thread Steve Burnham
On May 15, 2014 at 11:56:05 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller (sp...@lyx.org) wrote: 2014-05-15 18:24 GMT+02:00 Steve Burnham: I checked my backups directory and just my luck, there is no directory listed for backups. Ouch. I didn’t even know that was an option.  I’m still learning LyX, but it only

Re: LyX crash and cannot open file

2014-05-15 Thread Steve Burnham
On May 15, 2014 at 12:28:41 PM, Jürgen Spitzmüller (sp...@lyx.org) wrote: 2014-05-15 20:19 GMT+02:00 Steve Burnham: It sounds like at this point I am probably just SOL.  A minor annoyance though compared to what I was going through with MSWord and as I am getting better at using LyX, things go

Unbolding and resizing text

2014-05-16 Thread Steve Burnham
i’m nearly done with my thesis except for a couple of minor formatting issues.   All of my chapter headings and section headings are bolded and larger text than the rest of the document.  I need these to be the same font size and unbolded.   If I highlight the text and right click and go to text

Re: Unbolding and resizing text

2014-05-17 Thread Steve Burnham
On May 17, 2014 at 02:08:07 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller (sp...@lyx.org) wrote: 2014-05-16 23:49 GMT+02:00 Steve Burnham: i’m nearly done with my thesis except for a couple of minor formatting issues.   All of my chapter headings and section headings are bolded and larger text than the rest

Re: Unbolding and resizing text

2014-05-17 Thread Steve Burnham
On May 17, 2014 at 12:05:30 PM, Jürgen Spitzmüller (sp...@lyx.org) wrote: 2014-05-17 18:56 GMT+02:00 Steve Burnham: One other question:  I have a section in my appendix that needs to be single spaced instead of double.  If I highlight the text and go to paragraph settings I see the line

Re: Thesis formatting

2014-06-03 Thread Steve Burnham
On June 3, 2014 at 11:25:06 AM, Steve Burnham (dan...@gmail.com) wrote: I am working through some formatting revisions from my thesis office and have a couple of initial questions: 1.  My degree on the cover page was originally written on one line but it is supposed to use three lines

Re: Thesis formatting

2014-06-04 Thread Steve Burnham
On June 3, 2014 at 17:26:57 PM, PhilipPirrip (p...@net.hr) wrote: Use Insert Formatting Vertical space instead of just adding empty lines. Then, VFill is a stretchable vertical space that could help you keep the things on one page. This would work if the cover page was actually

erratic spacing between tables and figures

2014-06-04 Thread Steve Burnham
with a minimal example that includes the needed class file as well. https://docs.google.com/uc?id=0B4Kdj1kZwg6GdXRmSXFiOWVIcWcexport=download   --  Steve Burnham

Re: Thesis formatting

2014-06-04 Thread Steve Burnham
On June 4, 2014 at 15:32:27 PM, Benedict Holland (benedict.m.holl...@gmail.com) wrote: Would you be willing to do this in ERT? I find that the first page, cover page, etc. are notoriously difficult to get correctly specified in Lyx. The ERT would be someting like

Re: erratic spacing between tables and figures

2014-06-05 Thread Steve Burnham
pictures are always better.  ~Ben On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 2:08 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller sp...@lyx.org wrote: 2014-06-04 23:54 GMT+02:00 Steve Burnham: I have one last (hopefully) formatting issue to resolve with my thesis before I can turn it back into the reviewers.  I am attempting to place

Removing a period from BibTeX generated references

2014-06-05 Thread Steve Burnham
in limit of 9 arguments.   Searching around it seems like there are some fixes to overcome this limitation but nothing straightforward and all involve lots of programming in LaTeX, which I am not comfortable with.  Is there any easy fix to remove the offending period? --  Steve Burnham

Re: Removing a period from BibTeX generated references

2014-06-05 Thread Steve Burnham
On June 5, 2014 at 18:22:45 PM, Jacob Bishop (bishop.ja...@gmail.com) wrote: On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 12:51 PM, Steve Burnham dan...@gmail.com wrote: I have a BibTeX generated list of references that is doing one entry incorrectly.  As sen in the attached picture there is a period being placed

Re: error

2014-06-05 Thread Steve Burnham
Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2014 at 9:08 PM  From: Steve Burnham dan...@gmail.com  To: Patrick Dupre pdu...@gmx.com, lyx lyx-users@lists.lyx.org  Subject: Re: error  On June 5, 2014 at 12:50:35 PM, Patrick Dupre (pdu...@gmx.com) wrote:     Hello,   Can somebody tell me what is wrong in this file

Re: LyX on Mac OS X Loin

2014-09-24 Thread Steve Burnham
I assume you are using MacTeX? What version? It really sounds like something is messed up with the install. Have you tried uninstalling and then reinstalling everything with the latest versions? -Steve On Sep 24, 2014 8:45 AM, Taimur taimurahm...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Anders, Yes, I did. When

Re: Is LyX 2.1.1 compatible with Mac OS X Yosemite?

2014-10-17 Thread Steve Burnham
On October 17, 2014 at 13:32:35 PM, Daisuke Koya (dk...@mac.com) wrote: Hello all,  Can someone please tell me whether LyX 2.1.1 is compatible with Mac OS 10.10 (Yosemite)?  Thank you very much,  Daisuke I’m running 10.10 but with LyX 2.1.2.  Is there any reason you’re still on 2.1.1?  

Re: Yosemite + LyX

2014-10-18 Thread Steve Burnham
On October 18, 2014 at 10:37:54 AM, Hal Kierstead (hal.kierst...@me.com) wrote: On Oct 18, 2014, at 9:27 AM, Stephan Witt st.w...@gmx.net wrote:    Am 18.10.2014 um 17:28 schrieb Hal Kierstead hal.kierst...@me.com:    I am trying to use LyX 2.1.2 with Yosemite, but review does not work for me.

Re: Instant preview no longer works in OSX Yosemite

2014-10-21 Thread Steve Burnham
On October 21, 2014 at 09:13:48 AM, Hal Kierstead (hal.kierst...@me.com) wrote: Starting LyX from the terminal once or twice, and each time using preview from LyX fixes the problem. Hal On Oct 21, 2014, at 7:49 AM, Stephan Witt st.w...@gmx.net wrote: Am 21.10.2014 um 16:41 schrieb

Re: Issue with lyx PLEASE HELP

2014-11-08 Thread Steve Burnham
On Nov 7, 2014 11:15 PM, V N knowledgegal...@hotmail.com wrote: Hello, I am running Yosemite and installed the latest lyx dmg file. When I open up lyx I am given the following prompt: The selected document class article(AMS) requires external files that are not available. The document

Re: about python3 and lyx

2014-11-26 Thread Steve Burnham
On Nov 26, 2014 10:42 AM, José Matos jama...@lyx.org wrote: On Wednesday 08 October 2014 09:22:08 Alex Vergara Gil wrote: My questions are exclusive (or not) 1. Is there a plan to move everything to python3 so we can finally forget the old python2? There is consensus to go that

Re: LyX+Scilab

2015-01-25 Thread Steve Burnham
There is a package on CTAN called pythontex that allows you to run python from within a document.  I know LyX heavily relies on Python as well and I think I have seen mention of people using python code in their documents.  I used to use Matlab for data processing but have completely switched

Re: Centering graphics within a table

2015-04-13 Thread Steve Burnham
or the middle of the cells. Here, how it appears in pdf.: I hope you can help me with this! Thanks a lot! Aline I’m not guaranteeing I can help but could you attach a minimal example LyX file so that others in the forum can play around with your file and try to figure it out? -Steve

Re: Compatibility Mac - Linux

2015-05-06 Thread Steve Burnham
On May 6, 2015 at 12:30:32, Ygo Kanaki (x...@galama.net) wrote: The main reason why me and my colleagues switched from MS-Word to Lyx is the problems we had with all the different Office versions, and problem we had opening Word-files in OpenOffice, etcetera. That was why we use Lyx.

Re: Compiling and creating thesis template

2015-04-11 Thread Steve Burnham
On April 10, 2015 at 01:47:40, SESTINI PIERSANTE (piersante.sest...@unisi.it) wrote: Il 2015-04-10 03:49 Steve Burnham ha scritto:  A year ago I received a lot of help from the users list in getting my  universities thesis class setup to work with LyX. I am now trying to  set it up

Re: Poesse era se me form the list

2015-06-17 Thread Steve Burnham
On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 1:38 PM Renato Pontefice renato.pontef...@gmail.com wrote: I have already done this way,but it does not work for me. Can someone help me to do that with this email? renato.pontef...@gmail.com Thanks to all Renato Il giorno mer 17 giu 2015 18:20 Steve Burnham dan

Re: Poesse era se me form the list

2015-06-17 Thread Steve Burnham
Instructions are found on the website: http://www.lyx.org/MailingLists -Steve Burnham On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 5:16 AM Renato Pontefice renato.pontef...@gmail.com wrote: It s a long time, That I want to be erased but it seem to be impossibile. Please someone erase me Renato Pontefice

Re: biblatex.module and biber not available

2015-07-02 Thread Steve Burnham
I'm running the same setup as you are. I used the MacTeX distribution to get TeX installed and then I just installed LyX. That is the only software I had to install. I have only used BibTeX and that has always worked just fine for me. I don't have any experience with biblatex though. If you want

Re: Thesis template and layout files

2014-04-15 Thread Steve Burnham
On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 5:44 PM, Jacob Bishop bishop.ja...@gmail.comwrote: On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 1:54 PM, Steve Burnham dan...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for getting back to me, much more information and more helpful than I expected. Hi Steve, If you don't mind, I'd like to keep

Re: launch incomplete

2014-04-25 Thread Steve Burnham
I had the same issue on OSX 10.9.2 Core2 Duo but once I restarted the computer it starts right up. -Steve On April 25, 2014 at 11:34:17 AM, Anders Ekberg (a...@mac.com) wrote: Can partly confirm on MacBook Air 10.9.2. Judging from Console there seems to be some font problems with messages on

Cannot use some greek letters

2014-05-05 Thread Steve Burnham
Forum, I am currently writing my thesis in LyX and am writing a number of equations, many of which use greek letters.  All has been working fine until today when I needed to use the greek letter “phi”.  When trying to use that letter I get “could not find LaTeX command for character “phi”

Re: Updated a .cls file

2014-05-07 Thread Steve Burnham
Forum,  My university provides a .cls file that was last updated around 1998. I found a more up to date .cls file (2011) from another department. When I replace the old .cls file with the new one my document will no longer compile. It has something to do with the ERT at the beginning of the

Re: LyX crash and cannot open file

2014-05-15 Thread Steve Burnham
On May 15, 2014 at 03:40:54 AM, aparsloe (apars...@clear.net.nz) wrote: On 15/05/2014 6:37 p.m., Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:  In case the files are really corrupted, that is, if the .lyx and/or the  .lyx.emergency file do not end with  \end_body  \end_document  you can check if you have a

Re: LyX crash and cannot open file

2014-05-15 Thread Steve Burnham
On May 15, 2014 at 12:08:40 PM, Scott Kostyshak (skost...@lyx.org) wrote: On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 1:56 PM, Jürgen Spitzmüller sp...@lyx.org wrote:  We really need the fix this, but we are sort of stuck :-(  Steve, can you send your preferences file? Since we don't know what's  going on,

Re: LyX crash and cannot open file

2014-05-15 Thread Steve Burnham
On May 15, 2014 at 11:56:05 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller (sp...@lyx.org) wrote: 2014-05-15 18:24 GMT+02:00 Steve Burnham: I checked my backups directory and just my luck, there is no directory listed for backups. Ouch. I didn’t even know that was an option.  I’m still learning LyX, but it only

Re: LyX crash and cannot open file

2014-05-15 Thread Steve Burnham
On May 15, 2014 at 12:28:41 PM, Jürgen Spitzmüller (sp...@lyx.org) wrote: 2014-05-15 20:19 GMT+02:00 Steve Burnham: It sounds like at this point I am probably just SOL.  A minor annoyance though compared to what I was going through with MSWord and as I am getting better at using LyX, things go

Unbolding and resizing text

2014-05-16 Thread Steve Burnham
i’m nearly done with my thesis except for a couple of minor formatting issues.   All of my chapter headings and section headings are bolded and larger text than the rest of the document.  I need these to be the same font size and unbolded.   If I highlight the text and right click and go to text

Re: Unbolding and resizing text

2014-05-17 Thread Steve Burnham
On May 17, 2014 at 02:08:07 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller (sp...@lyx.org) wrote: 2014-05-16 23:49 GMT+02:00 Steve Burnham: i’m nearly done with my thesis except for a couple of minor formatting issues.   All of my chapter headings and section headings are bolded and larger text than the rest

Re: Unbolding and resizing text

2014-05-17 Thread Steve Burnham
On May 17, 2014 at 12:05:30 PM, Jürgen Spitzmüller (sp...@lyx.org) wrote: 2014-05-17 18:56 GMT+02:00 Steve Burnham: One other question:  I have a section in my appendix that needs to be single spaced instead of double.  If I highlight the text and go to paragraph settings I see the line

Re: Thesis formatting

2014-06-03 Thread Steve Burnham
On June 3, 2014 at 11:25:06 AM, Steve Burnham (dan...@gmail.com) wrote: I am working through some formatting revisions from my thesis office and have a couple of initial questions: 1.  My degree on the cover page was originally written on one line but it is supposed to use three lines

Re: Thesis formatting

2014-06-04 Thread Steve Burnham
On June 3, 2014 at 17:26:57 PM, PhilipPirrip (p...@net.hr) wrote: Use Insert Formatting Vertical space instead of just adding empty lines. Then, VFill is a stretchable vertical space that could help you keep the things on one page. This would work if the cover page was actually

erratic spacing between tables and figures

2014-06-04 Thread Steve Burnham
with a minimal example that includes the needed class file as well. https://docs.google.com/uc?id=0B4Kdj1kZwg6GdXRmSXFiOWVIcWcexport=download   --  Steve Burnham

Re: Thesis formatting

2014-06-04 Thread Steve Burnham
On June 4, 2014 at 15:32:27 PM, Benedict Holland (benedict.m.holl...@gmail.com) wrote: Would you be willing to do this in ERT? I find that the first page, cover page, etc. are notoriously difficult to get correctly specified in Lyx. The ERT would be someting like

Re: erratic spacing between tables and figures

2014-06-05 Thread Steve Burnham
pictures are always better.  ~Ben On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 2:08 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller sp...@lyx.org wrote: 2014-06-04 23:54 GMT+02:00 Steve Burnham: I have one last (hopefully) formatting issue to resolve with my thesis before I can turn it back into the reviewers.  I am attempting to place

Removing a period from BibTeX generated references

2014-06-05 Thread Steve Burnham
in limit of 9 arguments.   Searching around it seems like there are some fixes to overcome this limitation but nothing straightforward and all involve lots of programming in LaTeX, which I am not comfortable with.  Is there any easy fix to remove the offending period? --  Steve Burnham

Re: Removing a period from BibTeX generated references

2014-06-05 Thread Steve Burnham
On June 5, 2014 at 18:22:45 PM, Jacob Bishop (bishop.ja...@gmail.com) wrote: On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 12:51 PM, Steve Burnham dan...@gmail.com wrote: I have a BibTeX generated list of references that is doing one entry incorrectly.  As sen in the attached picture there is a period being placed

Re: error

2014-06-05 Thread Steve Burnham
Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2014 at 9:08 PM  From: Steve Burnham dan...@gmail.com  To: Patrick Dupre pdu...@gmx.com, lyx lyx-users@lists.lyx.org  Subject: Re: error  On June 5, 2014 at 12:50:35 PM, Patrick Dupre (pdu...@gmx.com) wrote:     Hello,   Can somebody tell me what is wrong in this file

Re: LyX on Mac OS X Loin

2014-09-24 Thread Steve Burnham
I assume you are using MacTeX? What version? It really sounds like something is messed up with the install. Have you tried uninstalling and then reinstalling everything with the latest versions? -Steve On Sep 24, 2014 8:45 AM, Taimur taimurahm...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Anders, Yes, I did. When

Re: Is LyX 2.1.1 compatible with Mac OS X Yosemite?

2014-10-17 Thread Steve Burnham
On October 17, 2014 at 13:32:35 PM, Daisuke Koya (dk...@mac.com) wrote: Hello all,  Can someone please tell me whether LyX 2.1.1 is compatible with Mac OS 10.10 (Yosemite)?  Thank you very much,  Daisuke I’m running 10.10 but with LyX 2.1.2.  Is there any reason you’re still on 2.1.1?  

Re: Yosemite + LyX

2014-10-18 Thread Steve Burnham
On October 18, 2014 at 10:37:54 AM, Hal Kierstead (hal.kierst...@me.com) wrote: On Oct 18, 2014, at 9:27 AM, Stephan Witt st.w...@gmx.net wrote:    Am 18.10.2014 um 17:28 schrieb Hal Kierstead hal.kierst...@me.com:    I am trying to use LyX 2.1.2 with Yosemite, but review does not work for me.

Re: Instant preview no longer works in OSX Yosemite

2014-10-21 Thread Steve Burnham
On October 21, 2014 at 09:13:48 AM, Hal Kierstead (hal.kierst...@me.com) wrote: Starting LyX from the terminal once or twice, and each time using preview from LyX fixes the problem. Hal On Oct 21, 2014, at 7:49 AM, Stephan Witt st.w...@gmx.net wrote: Am 21.10.2014 um 16:41 schrieb

Re: Issue with lyx PLEASE HELP

2014-11-08 Thread Steve Burnham
On Nov 7, 2014 11:15 PM, V N knowledgegal...@hotmail.com wrote: Hello, I am running Yosemite and installed the latest lyx dmg file. When I open up lyx I am given the following prompt: The selected document class article(AMS) requires external files that are not available. The document

Re: about python3 and lyx

2014-11-26 Thread Steve Burnham
On Nov 26, 2014 10:42 AM, José Matos jama...@lyx.org wrote: On Wednesday 08 October 2014 09:22:08 Alex Vergara Gil wrote: My questions are exclusive (or not) 1. Is there a plan to move everything to python3 so we can finally forget the old python2? There is consensus to go that

Re: LyX+Scilab

2015-01-25 Thread Steve Burnham
There is a package on CTAN called pythontex that allows you to run python from within a document.  I know LyX heavily relies on Python as well and I think I have seen mention of people using python code in their documents.  I used to use Matlab for data processing but have completely switched

Re: Compiling and creating thesis template

2015-04-11 Thread Steve Burnham
On April 10, 2015 at 01:47:40, SESTINI PIERSANTE (piersante.sest...@unisi.it) wrote: Il 2015-04-10 03:49 Steve Burnham ha scritto:  A year ago I received a lot of help from the users list in getting my  universities thesis class setup to work with LyX. I am now trying to  set it up

Re: Centering graphics within a table

2015-04-13 Thread Steve Burnham
or the middle of the cells. Here, how it appears in pdf.: I hope you can help me with this! Thanks a lot! Aline I’m not guaranteeing I can help but could you attach a minimal example LyX file so that others in the forum can play around with your file and try to figure it out? -Steve

Re: Compatibility Mac - Linux

2015-05-06 Thread Steve Burnham
On May 6, 2015 at 12:30:32, Ygo Kanaki (x...@galama.net) wrote: The main reason why me and my colleagues switched from MS-Word to Lyx is the problems we had with all the different Office versions, and problem we had opening Word-files in OpenOffice, etcetera. That was why we use Lyx.

Re: Poesse era se me form the list

2015-06-17 Thread Steve Burnham
Instructions are found on the website: http://www.lyx.org/MailingLists -Steve Burnham On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 5:16 AM Renato Pontefice renato.pontef...@gmail.com wrote: It s a long time, That I want to be erased but it seem to be impossibile. Please someone erase me Renato Pontefice

Re: Poesse era se me form the list

2015-06-17 Thread Steve Burnham
On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 1:38 PM Renato Pontefice renato.pontef...@gmail.com wrote: I have already done this way,but it does not work for me. Can someone help me to do that with this email? renato.pontef...@gmail.com Thanks to all Renato Il giorno mer 17 giu 2015 18:20 Steve Burnham dan

Re: biblatex.module and biber not available

2015-07-02 Thread Steve Burnham
I'm running the same setup as you are. I used the MacTeX distribution to get TeX installed and then I just installed LyX. That is the only software I had to install. I have only used BibTeX and that has always worked just fine for me. I don't have any experience with biblatex though. If you want

Re: thispagestyle empty not working

2015-11-10 Thread Steve Burnham
-Steve Burnham On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 1:55 PM Jacob Bishop <bishop.ja...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am having a problem. I put \thispagestyle{empty} into my LyX preamble, > expecting it to suppress the page number on the first page (as per the > wiki: http://wiki.lyx.or

Re: Thesis template and layout files

2014-04-15 Thread Steve Burnham
On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 5:44 PM, Jacob Bishop <bishop.ja...@gmail.com>wrote: > On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 1:54 PM, Steve Burnham <dan...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Thanks for getting back to me, much more information and more helpful >> than I expected. >> > >

Re: launch incomplete

2014-04-25 Thread Steve Burnham
I had the same issue on OSX 10.9.2 Core2 Duo but once I restarted the computer it starts right up. -Steve On April 25, 2014 at 11:34:17 AM, Anders Ekberg (a...@mac.com) wrote: Can partly confirm on MacBook Air 10.9.2. Judging from Console there seems to be some font problems with messages on

Cannot use some greek letters

2014-05-05 Thread Steve Burnham
Forum, I am currently writing my thesis in LyX and am writing a number of equations, many of which use greek letters.  All has been working fine until today when I needed to use the greek letter “phi”.  When trying to use that letter I get “could not find LaTeX command for character “phi”

Re: Updated a .cls file

2014-05-07 Thread Steve Burnham
Forum,  My university provides a .cls file that was last updated around 1998. I found a more up to date .cls file (2011) from another department. When I replace the old .cls file with the new one my document will no longer compile. It has something to do with the ERT at the beginning of the

Re: LyX crash and cannot open file

2014-05-15 Thread Steve Burnham
On May 15, 2014 at 03:40:54 AM, aparsloe (apars...@clear.net.nz) wrote: On 15/05/2014 6:37 p.m., Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:  In case the files are really corrupted, that is, if the .lyx and/or the  .lyx.emergency file do not end with  \end_body  \end_document  you can check if you have a

Re: LyX crash and cannot open file

2014-05-15 Thread Steve Burnham
On May 15, 2014 at 12:08:40 PM, Scott Kostyshak (skost...@lyx.org) wrote: On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 1:56 PM, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:  > We really need the fix this, but we are sort of stuck :-(  Steve, can you send your preferences file? Since we don't know what's  going on,

Re: LyX crash and cannot open file

2014-05-15 Thread Steve Burnham
On May 15, 2014 at 11:56:05 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller (sp...@lyx.org) wrote: 2014-05-15 18:24 GMT+02:00 Steve Burnham: I checked my backups directory and just my luck, there is no directory listed for backups. Ouch. I didn’t even know that was an option.  I’m still learning LyX, but it only

Re: LyX crash and cannot open file

2014-05-15 Thread Steve Burnham
On May 15, 2014 at 12:28:41 PM, Jürgen Spitzmüller (sp...@lyx.org) wrote: 2014-05-15 20:19 GMT+02:00 Steve Burnham: It sounds like at this point I am probably just SOL.  A minor annoyance though compared to what I was going through with MSWord and as I am getting better at using LyX, things go

Unbolding and resizing text

2014-05-16 Thread Steve Burnham
i’m nearly done with my thesis except for a couple of minor formatting issues.   All of my chapter headings and section headings are bolded and larger text than the rest of the document.  I need these to be the same font size and unbolded.   If I highlight the text and right click and go to text

Re: Unbolding and resizing text

2014-05-17 Thread Steve Burnham
On May 17, 2014 at 02:08:07 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller (sp...@lyx.org) wrote: 2014-05-16 23:49 GMT+02:00 Steve Burnham: i’m nearly done with my thesis except for a couple of minor formatting issues.   All of my chapter headings and section headings are bolded and larger text than the rest

Re: Unbolding and resizing text

2014-05-17 Thread Steve Burnham
On May 17, 2014 at 12:05:30 PM, Jürgen Spitzmüller (sp...@lyx.org) wrote: 2014-05-17 18:56 GMT+02:00 Steve Burnham: One other question:  I have a section in my appendix that needs to be single spaced instead of double.  If I highlight the text and go to paragraph settings I see the line

Re: Thesis formatting

2014-06-03 Thread Steve Burnham
On June 3, 2014 at 11:25:06 AM, Steve Burnham (dan...@gmail.com) wrote: I am working through some formatting revisions from my thesis office and have a couple of initial questions: 1.  My degree on the cover page was originally written on one line but it is supposed to use three lines

Re: Thesis formatting

2014-06-04 Thread Steve Burnham
On June 3, 2014 at 17:26:57 PM, PhilipPirrip (p...@net.hr) wrote: Use Insert > Formatting > Vertical space instead of just adding empty lines. Then, VFill is a stretchable vertical space that could help you keep the things on one page. This would work if the cover page was actually

erratic spacing between tables and figures

2014-06-04 Thread Steve Burnham
p file with a minimal example that includes the needed class file as well. https://docs.google.com/uc?id=0B4Kdj1kZwg6GdXRmSXFiOWVIcWc=download   --  Steve Burnham

Re: Thesis formatting

2014-06-04 Thread Steve Burnham
On June 4, 2014 at 15:32:27 PM, Benedict Holland (benedict.m.holl...@gmail.com) wrote: Would you be willing to do this in ERT? I find that the first page, cover page, etc. are notoriously difficult to get correctly specified in Lyx. The ERT would be someting like

Re: erratic spacing between tables and figures

2014-06-05 Thread Steve Burnham
't but try to. Bigger pictures are always better.  ~Ben On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 2:08 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller <sp...@lyx.org> wrote: 2014-06-04 23:54 GMT+02:00 Steve Burnham: I have one last (hopefully) formatting issue to resolve with my thesis before I can turn it back into the reviewers.

Removing a period from BibTeX generated references

2014-06-05 Thread Steve Burnham
in limit of 9 arguments.   Searching around it seems like there are some fixes to overcome this limitation but nothing straightforward and all involve lots of programming in LaTeX, which I am not comfortable with.  Is there any easy fix to remove the offending period? --  Steve Burnham

Re: Removing a period from BibTeX generated references

2014-06-05 Thread Steve Burnham
On June 5, 2014 at 18:22:45 PM, Jacob Bishop (bishop.ja...@gmail.com) wrote: On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 12:51 PM, Steve Burnham <dan...@gmail.com> wrote: I have a BibTeX generated list of references that is doing one entry incorrectly.  As sen in the attached picture there is a period being

Re: error

2014-06-05 Thread Steve Burnham
Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2014 at 9:08 PM  From: "Steve Burnham" <dan...@gmail.com>  To: "Patrick Dupre" <pdu...@gmx.com>, lyx <lyx-users@lists.lyx.org>  Subject: Re: error  On June 5, 2014 at 12:50:35 PM, Patrick Dupre (pdu...@gmx.com) wrote:     Hello,

Re: LyX on Mac OS X Loin

2014-09-24 Thread Steve Burnham
I assume you are using MacTeX? What version? It really sounds like something is messed up with the install. Have you tried uninstalling and then reinstalling everything with the latest versions? -Steve On Sep 24, 2014 8:45 AM, "Taimur" wrote: > Hi Anders, > > Yes, I did.

Re: Is LyX 2.1.1 compatible with Mac OS X Yosemite?

2014-10-17 Thread Steve Burnham
On October 17, 2014 at 13:32:35 PM, Daisuke Koya (dk...@mac.com) wrote: Hello all,  Can someone please tell me whether LyX 2.1.1 is compatible with Mac OS 10.10 (Yosemite)?  Thank you very much,  Daisuke I’m running 10.10 but with LyX 2.1.2.  Is there any reason you’re still on 2.1.1?  

Re: Yosemite + LyX

2014-10-18 Thread Steve Burnham
On October 18, 2014 at 10:37:54 AM, Hal Kierstead (hal.kierst...@me.com) wrote: > On Oct 18, 2014, at 9:27 AM, Stephan Witt wrote:  >  > Am 18.10.2014 um 17:28 schrieb Hal Kierstead :  >  >> I am trying to use LyX 2.1.2 with Yosemite, but review does not

Re: Instant preview no longer works in OSX Yosemite

2014-10-21 Thread Steve Burnham
On October 21, 2014 at 09:13:48 AM, Hal Kierstead (hal.kierst...@me.com) wrote: Starting LyX from the terminal once or twice, and each time using preview from LyX fixes the problem. Hal On Oct 21, 2014, at 7:49 AM, Stephan Witt wrote: > Am 21.10.2014 um 16:41 schrieb

Re: Issue with lyx PLEASE HELP

2014-11-08 Thread Steve Burnham
On Nov 7, 2014 11:15 PM, "V N" wrote: > > Hello, >I am running Yosemite and installed the latest lyx dmg file. When I open up lyx I am given the following prompt: > > The selected document class article(AMS) requires external files that are not available. >

Re: about python3 and lyx

2014-11-26 Thread Steve Burnham
On Nov 26, 2014 10:42 AM, "José Matos" wrote: > > On Wednesday 08 October 2014 09:22:08 Alex Vergara Gil wrote: > > My questions are exclusive (or not) > > > > 1. Is there a plan to move everything to python3 so we can finally > > forget the old python2? > > There is

Re: LyX+Scilab

2015-01-25 Thread Steve Burnham
There is a package on CTAN called pythontex that allows you to run python from within a document.  I know LyX heavily relies on Python as well and I think I have seen mention of people using python code in their documents.  I used to use Matlab for data processing but have completely switched

Re: Compiling and creating thesis template

2015-04-11 Thread Steve Burnham
On April 10, 2015 at 01:47:40, SESTINI PIERSANTE (piersante.sest...@unisi.it) wrote: Il 2015-04-10 03:49 Steve Burnham ha scritto:  > A year ago I received a lot of help from the users list in getting my  > universities thesis class setup to work with LyX. I am now trying to  >

Re: Centering graphics within a table

2015-04-13 Thread Steve Burnham
or the middle of the cells. Here, how it appears in pdf.: I hope you can help me with this! Thanks a lot! Aline I’m not guaranteeing I can help but could you attach a minimal example LyX file so that others in the forum can play around with your file and try to figure it out? -Steve

Re: Compatibility Mac - Linux

2015-05-06 Thread Steve Burnham
On May 6, 2015 at 12:30:32, Ygo Kanaki (x...@galama.net) wrote: The main reason why me and my colleagues switched from MS-Word to Lyx is the problems we had with all the different Office versions, and problem we had opening Word-files in OpenOffice, etcetera. That was why we use Lyx.

Re: Poesse era se me form the list

2015-06-17 Thread Steve Burnham
Instructions are found on the website: http://www.lyx.org/MailingLists -Steve Burnham On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 5:16 AM Renato Pontefice <renato.pontef...@gmail.com> wrote: > It s a long time, That I want to be erased but it seem to be impossibile. > Please someone erase me

Re: Poesse era se me form the list

2015-06-17 Thread Steve Burnham
iorno mer 17 giu 2015 18:20 Steve Burnham <dan...@gmail.com> ha > scritto: > >> Instructions are found on the website: >> http://www.lyx.org/MailingLists >> >> >> >> -Steve Burnham >> >> On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 5:16 AM Renato Pontefi

Re: biblatex.module and biber not available

2015-07-02 Thread Steve Burnham
I'm running the same setup as you are. I used the MacTeX distribution to get TeX installed and then I just installed LyX. That is the only software I had to install. I have only used BibTeX and that has always worked just fine for me. I don't have any experience with biblatex though. If you want

Re: Splitting long eqution

2015-12-07 Thread Steve Burnham
On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 9:58 AM Jacob Bishop <bishop.ja...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Dec 5, 2015 at 4:57 PM, Steve Burnham <dan...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> In regard to the ams multiline, when I use it in the two column format my >> equations then

Re: Splitting long eqution

2015-12-02 Thread Steve Burnham
On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 12:47 AM Anders Ekberg <a...@me.com> wrote: > On 01 Dec 2015, at 00:16, Steve Burnham <dan...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I have a long numbered formula that I am trying to split into two lines. I > am using 2.1.4 on OSX 10.11. Following the instructi

Splitting long eqution

2015-12-01 Thread Steve Burnham
I have a long numbered formula that I am trying to split into two lines. I am using 2.1.4 on OSX 10.11. Following the instructions in the wiki ( http://wiki.lyx.org/Examples/FormulaOnMultipleLines) I should be able to hit control+enter to begin a multiline equation, move the cursor to where I want

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