[need help with wiki] Re: Excel data sheets

2005-10-17 Thread Sven Schreiber
6. Click the middle button on your mouse. That should be it. The experts tell me this should not work but unfortunately for the theory, it does for me. samar Kenward I just discovered your tips on transferring spreadsheet contents, and I think it's really useful; so I have turned

Re: [need help with wiki] Re: Excel data sheets

2005-10-19 Thread Sven Schreiber
Its great that you are visualising putting this on the wiki. I just wonder if it might be a better idea to scan through the lists and summarize all cut and paste tips and put them together on the wiki if you can spare the time. In principle I could do that, but with the (hopefully)

Re: [need help with wiki] Re: Excel data sheets

2005-10-23 Thread Sven Schreiber
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tips/ so I've moved your text there. http://wiki.lyx.org/Tips/CopyTablesFromSpreadsheets In addition, it's a good idea to add a link to the special page in each group that is used to list/describe pages in the group. Here, the page is simply

Re: Forcing LyX to retypeset included files?

2005-10-26 Thread Sven Schreiber
Stefano Franchi schrieb: I have a LyX file for a book that essentially contains a list of include statements for the single chapters. Additionally, it has a long preamble with all the formatting instructions. Since I am now fiddling with formatting details, I would like LyX/LaTeX to

Re: Forget Windows

2005-11-08 Thread Sven Schreiber
James W Dow schrieb: LyX is a wonderful word processor. It is best one for writing mathematics directly from the keyboard. Please don't spend a huge time developing it for Windows. Windows will gradually fade away. Putting nice programs like LyX on that operating system just delays people

Re: Forget Windows

2005-11-08 Thread Sven Schreiber
Before this develops into a flamewar, let me rectify something: I *like* Linux more than I like Windows, but that doesn't change the fact that some very specialized apps simply don't exist on *nix. I'm very glad though that many open-source apps are cross-platform so that I can work with them.

Re: Acrobat has problems reading parts of my PDF

2005-11-23 Thread Sven Schreiber
Error: Bad bounding box in Type 3 glyph. Maybe you knew that already, but this seems to be a problem with the embedded font information. Maybe you could use other fonts to work around the problem, for example by switching to one of the Acrobat-standard fonts that don't need to be embedded,

Re: [announce] sixth release of LyXWinInstaller

2006-01-04 Thread Sven Schreiber
[replying on the users list to a devel list message] Angus Leeming schrieb: Angus' reply is essentially similar to that of Herbert. .bst, .cls and .sty files are all essentially the same in this regard; they belong in a TeX tree. If you're not willing to create J:\tex\local (which can be

Re: [announce] sixth release of LyXWinInstaller

2006-01-04 Thread Sven Schreiber
Stephen Harris schrieb: The Miktex installation states that it is recommended to install Miktex to a directory without spaces. http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/systems/win32/miktex/setup/install.html#id421158 I think it is certainly the most efficient practice for a new user to follow

Re: [announce] sixth release of LyXWinInstaller

2006-01-04 Thread Sven Schreiber
Helge Hafting schrieb: Failing that, here are a couple of workarounds: 1. Use the subst dos/windows command, which associates a new drive letter with a path. You can then access the new drive letter without said path - and avoid the spaces. Detailed docs:

Re: problem using beamer

2006-01-12 Thread Sven Schreiber
Subir Singh Lamba schrieb: Thanks for your help. I have just one more problem when I try to compile the given example lyx file and generate a .ps file. The slide occupise only 1/4th of the A4 page and that too in the lower left corner of the page. What is the possible cause ? iirc,

Re: [ANNOUNCE] LyX 1.3.7 is released

2006-01-18 Thread Sven Schreiber
I think this is the right time to say thank you to all the people who contributed their time and effort to this release! (It's also great that you are now adopting a regular half-year release cycle -- July 16 - Jan 17 ;-) Jean-Marc Lasgouttes schrieb: - LyX 1.3.7 is able to read all LyX

Re: A Newbie's Experience with LyX

2006-01-29 Thread Sven Schreiber
Martin A. Hansen schrieb: i would love to hear the developers (and others) oppinion on the raised issues. As a devoted Lyx user I think he is very kind to Lyx when he says Thankfully I haven't needed to copy anything more complex than a few URLs so the limited copy/paste functionality is no

Re: A Newbie's Experience with LyX

2006-01-29 Thread Sven Schreiber
Lars Gullik Bjønnes schrieb: Is it copy/paste that you really want or to be able to insert larger/smaller pieces from other files/documents etc? I'm not sure I understand your question; I use copy/paste a lot within my lyx documents and it works great if that's what your aiming at (except

Re: A Newbie's Experience with LyX

2006-01-29 Thread Sven Schreiber
Georg Baum schrieb: Am Sonntag, 29. Januar 2006 20:18 schrieb Bo Peng: I was talking about the same thing as Yaron, Cutting Pasting from Non-LyX Windows. And another session of lyx. If you have two lyx windows open, you can not paste selection from another window. These two issues are

Re: A Newbie's Experience with LyX

2006-01-30 Thread Sven Schreiber
Georg Baum schrieb: Am Sonntag, 29. Januar 2006 21:55 schrieb Sven Schreiber: So should bug 2138 be broadened to cover external copypaste from other applications as well, or should a new bug be opened? Do as you like :-) (if you open another bug, please link it as related to 2138) Ok

tex2lyx minor tabular glitch

2006-02-09 Thread Sven Schreiber
Hi, given 1.3.7's capability to read tex2lyx output I've started to use it more often, and it's great. One thing I stumbled over today is that in the following line, \begin{tabular}{|p{0.8\textwidth}|} the tabular width is lost when opening the converted lyx file. -Sven

Re: tex2lyx minor tabular glitch

2006-02-09 Thread Sven Schreiber
Georg Baum schrieb: Sven Schreiber wrote: Hi, given 1.3.7's capability to read tex2lyx output I've started to use it more often, and it's great. One thing I stumbled over today is that in the following line, \begin{tabular}{|p{0.8\textwidth}|} the tabular width is lost when opening

double superscript a lyx bug?

2006-02-22 Thread Sven Schreiber
Hi, I just ran into the same thing reported by Bo Peng a short while ago -- if in math you make an explicit superscript but also append a ' as a shortcut for prime (= matrix transpose sign here), latex complains about double superscript. Minimal lyx file is embedded below, but I guess only

Re: double superscript a lyx bug?

2006-02-22 Thread Sven Schreiber
Daniel Watkins schrieb: LyX is creating a correct LaTeX file. If you try the same formula in a .tex file, LaTeX will complain. It's just not valid LaTeX, so you need to make it $a^{*\prime)$. This is not a LyX issue. Dan Sorry, that sounds self-contradictory, or is it because I should

Re: Importing files written with SWP 4.0

2006-02-23 Thread Sven Schreiber
Piero Pasotti schrieb: Hi, I'm a newcomer to the Lyx's world. Unfortunately I have the need to frequently exchange .tex files with people working with Scientific Workplace 4.0. I'm facing some problembs both in exporting lyx files to .tex and in importing swp .tex files to Lix. Could

Re: Prerelease 6 of 1.4.0

2006-03-04 Thread Sven Schreiber
Lars Gullik Bjønnes schrieb: This will be the last prerelease before the 1.4.0 proper is released. Unless critical problems is discovered this will become 1.4.0 in a reasonable short time. Help to make sure that pre6 does not contain any brown-paperbag bugs will be appreciated. If you

Re: Congratulations!!!

2006-03-09 Thread Sven Schreiber
Martin A. Hansen schrieb: It is certainly time to rejoice, dance, and throw flowers in the air! My deepest respect goes to the development team and all contributors. Yes indeed! Lyx has become an almost indispensable tool for me, let all developers know that their work is highly

Re: LyX 1.4.1 is released

2006-04-11 Thread Sven Schreiber
Many thanks to all involved for the hard bug-fixing work! (If you keep up this pace of releasing, I will have to give up thanking you every time ;-) With respect to the win32 version: I've just noticed the first binary ...setup_v1.exe, but in contrast to v1.3.7 I could not find (or have

crash recipe (semi-exact)

2006-05-12 Thread Sven Schreiber
Hello, just wanted to let everybody concerned know about a crash I've experienced and was (partly) able to reproduce. This is with Lyx 1.4.1 on winxp. 1. open my lyx document, edit something in a note in a multicolumn cell of a table, don't save the change (more on that below) 2. open the user

Re: Trouble with eps inclusions in lyx-1.4.1

2006-05-30 Thread Sven Schreiber
Paul Johnson schrieb: I just ran into a really weird lyx problem on Fedora Core 5 and tetex-3.0-19. It is so interesting I want to share and ask for help: http://pj.freefaculty.org/latex/weirdRotations-lyx.tar.gz That tarball has a lyx file and 3 eps files that I generated with R. Two

bug?: section numbering in note-insets

2006-06-15 Thread Sven Schreiber
Hi all, when I shove an entire subsection into a note inset, the numbering of the other non-note subsections remains as if nothing was commented out, i.e. numbers on screen do not match the printed output. I realize that this behavior might also be considered a feature, but I'm inclined to

Re: bibtex on windows

2006-06-28 Thread Sven Schreiber
bigot schrieb: I use lyx 1.3.7 on windows installed with lyxwininstaller. (http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinInstaller.) Everything works well except bibtex. When I try to include a bibtex reference (insert/liststoc/bibtex) the computer start looking for something on the disk. When

Re: LateX file ... not found

2006-07-03 Thread Sven Schreiber
Alexander Braun schrieb: To be more precise: I inserted graphic overview.eps, which lies in the same path as my document. The picture is diplayed in the open lyx-document. Now, when I choose View-DVI or View-Postscript my document is rendered perfectly despite the images. On the shell I

File with png graphics hangs lyx

2006-07-06 Thread Sven Schreiber
Don't know if this is a known bug; when using pdf (pdflatex), Lyx doesn't respond while waiting for latex run 1 forever. The exported latex compiles fine directly to pdf with Miktex (using Texniccenter). Using other pdf-generating profiles works, so this is not a huge issue, but still. I attach a

Re: LateX file ... not found

2006-07-07 Thread Sven Schreiber
(you forgot to send to the list as well) Alexander Braun schrieb: Am Montag, 3. Juli 2006 10:33 schrieben Sie: Alexander Braun schrieb: which platform? which lyx version? what exactly did you insert into the graphics dialog? sorry - I forgot everything: plattform Debian Linux (installed

Re: File with png graphics hangs lyx

2006-07-07 Thread Sven Schreiber
Thanks for your reply, Paul. I loaded your document into LyX 1.4.1 here (Win XP, MiKTeX but *not* Texniccenter), substituted a PNG file I have (you didn't attach yours), and viewed it via pdflatex with no problem. I routinely use PNG images in PDF files and have not had LyX hang. Turns

keyboard access to environment selection menu

2006-07-11 Thread Sven Schreiber
Dear all, how do I activate/access (whatever you call it) the drop-down menu for setting the paragraph environment without the mouse? I know there are direct keyboard shortcuts for specific environments, but I can't or don't want to memorize them. What I'm hoping for is to get the focus on that

Re: keyboard access to environment selection menu

2006-07-11 Thread Sven Schreiber
Jean-Pierre Chretien schrieb: Dear all, how do I activate/access (whatever you call it) the drop-down menu for setting the paragraph environment without the mouse? Here (lyx-1.4.1) after Alt-E P I get the paragraph settings window, but then it seems that the underlined letters are not

Re: keyboard access to environment selection menu

2006-07-11 Thread Sven Schreiber
Paul A. Rubin schrieb: M-p (alt-p) followed by a space opens the environment list. From there, repeatedly typing the same letter cycles through all environment names starting with that letter. Thanks alot Paul! I looked in the guides and the wiki and couldn't find it. Is it documented?

Re: keyboard access to environment selection menu

2006-07-11 Thread Sven Schreiber
Jean-Pierre Chretien schrieb: M-p (alt-p) followed by a space opens the environment list. From there, repeatedly typing the same letter cycles through all environment names starting with that letter. I was not aware of this, but it does not work excatly as described here: I need the

bug(?): strange behavior after ctrl-shift-left

2006-07-11 Thread Sven Schreiber
To reproduce: 1. open new document 2. type something and start a new paragraph (hit return) 3. hit control-shift-arrowleft For me the keyboard is not responding in lyx anymore after that. Can anybody confirm this? Is it known? Ctrl-shift-left may be stupid to use, but I was just following a

Re: ANNOUNCE: LyX 1.4.2 is released

2006-07-14 Thread Sven Schreiber
mail.k schrieb: Is the list a gentlemen's club? ... This list is not, but I guess Rich was addressing the developers (give him the benefit of doubt...) Rich Shepard wrote: Gentlemen: Is there something I can read to learn how this differs from the current

Re: Small problem with Lyx142 windows installer

2006-07-16 Thread Sven Schreiber
Georg Baum schrieb: Am Samstag, 15. Juli 2006 21:00 schrieb David Halpern: Georg, I tried what you suggested but rescanning doesn't help. Then that looks like a general bug in the windows version. Can other windows users confirm this? Georg No. I upgraded to 1.4.2 with the smaller

Re: Small problem with Lyx142 windows installer

2006-07-16 Thread Sven Schreiber
Georg Baum schrieb: Am Sonntag, 16. Juli 2006 12:16 schrieb Sven Schreiber: No. I upgraded to 1.4.2 with the smaller installer (uninstalled 1.4.1 first) w/o any problems so far. During the installation I was prompted to have some latex/miktex stuff automatically installed, and that also seems

please consolidate the documentation

2006-07-17 Thread Sven Schreiber
Dear lyxers, don't know if this is the right list, but anyway: I have tried many times to understand the logic behind the various help documents (tutorial, user guide, extended features, ... and this list goes on), but now I've had enough -- did you know that branches are explained not in

Re: please consolidate the documentation

2006-07-17 Thread Sven Schreiber
Daniel Watkins schrieb: Sven Schreiber wrote: So please consolidate the documentation into one file (or let me do it). I promise you, no-one here is going to hold you back, if you're volunteering[*]. :p Well isn't there a documentation team? Maybe they don't think it's a good idea? What

branches cosmetics

2006-07-17 Thread Sven Schreiber
Hi, I've just been working with branches for the first time, and noticed some minor quirks: 1) Apparently one cannot have spaces in branches names? And more importantly, later on the names are not editable? 2) It would be nice to have a function to toggle show/collapse all insets belonging to a

Re: branches cosmetics

2006-07-17 Thread Sven Schreiber
Sven Schreiber schrieb: 2) It would be nice to have a function to toggle show/collapse all insets belonging to a branch. (Or it could be done on (de)activating the branch, but that solution would be inferior imho.) whoops, just noticed that the second thing is already implemented... !

Re: please consolidate the documentation

2006-07-18 Thread Sven Schreiber
Helge Hafting schrieb: On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 01:06:05PM +0200, Sven Schreiber wrote: If you do a lot of searching, consider making a document consisting of User's guide + extended features in one document. Just paste one into the other, perhaps as part I and part II. Perhaps

Re: please consolidate the documentation

2006-07-18 Thread Sven Schreiber
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: As for the problem of searching all the help documentation, couldn't we ask the developers for a special help menu entry that says something like: Search help documents This seems to me like it would solve the problems you are talking about. Are there any

Re: please consolidate the documentation

2006-07-18 Thread Sven Schreiber
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: On Tue, 18 Jul 2006, Sven Schreiber wrote: Yes, easily getting an overview of what's in the help file. Good point. To summarize: * We'd like an overview of what's in all the help files. Perhaps some kind of table of contents for the whole thing. * We'd

Re: Sudden lose of keyboard input.

2006-07-18 Thread Sven Schreiber
Bo Peng schrieb: I have lyx 1.4.2 installed on a win2k system. I can not reliably reproduce this, but after a few minutes, lyx would not respond to keyboard input. Mouse/menu etc still work. All other applications (cygwin, firefox etc) still get keyboard input. Follow up: I can use Alt-F

Re: Merged manuals

2006-07-19 Thread Sven Schreiber
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: Thanks to Stephen Harris there's now a PDF that's the merger of some of the manuals. See here: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Documentation#merged /Christian That is a step in the right direction, thanks. But for my taste it would be nicer to have only a single

Re: Single TOC of all help documents (Was: Merged manuals)

2006-07-19 Thread Sven Schreiber
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: On Wed, 19 Jul 2006, Sven Schreiber wrote: That is a step in the right direction, thanks. But for my taste it would be nicer to have only a single TOC to get the overview (I already mentioned I have that obsession). In case people are not aware of it, you can

crash (table and scrolling)

2006-09-08 Thread Sven Schreiber
Hi, encountered a crash in lyx (standard 1.4.2 on win); to reproduce (not in 100% of the cases, but fairly often): 1. open the attached lyx document 2. click in a table cell so that the caret waits there for typing 3. use the mouse wheel to scroll the document up and down 4. repeat steps 2 and 3

Re: crash (table and scrolling)

2006-09-11 Thread Sven Schreiber
:27 PM, Sven Schreiber wrote: Hi, encountered a crash in lyx (standard 1.4.2 on win); to reproduce (not in 100% of the cases, but fairly often): 1. open the attached lyx document 2. click in a table cell so that the caret waits there for typing 3. use the mouse wheel to scroll the document

table-editing a mess

2006-09-12 Thread Sven Schreiber
Hi, I have just almost gone crazy editing a table that was too large to fit on screen. (Yes I reduced the font/screen zoom to work around, thank you. No, I won't upgrade my monitor just yet, sorry.) Together with many other quirks of table editing, especially in the dialog that seems to be broken

Re: table-editing a mess

2006-09-12 Thread Sven Schreiber
(oops, Helge and I forgot to cc the list..., but here's the fix:) Helge Hafting schrieb: Please file this at bugzilla.lyx.org. Tables are not supposed to be slow, and with a bug report you show that people really care about tables wider than the screen. (I guess you also want this

lyx 1.4.2 on ubuntu

2006-09-15 Thread Sven Schreiber
Dear all, I have some questions/comments about using the current lyx version on ubuntu (current/6.06). First I checked the lyx ftp server, but found no 1.4.2 binaries for ubuntu. Are there any? Then I downloaded the 1.4.1 binaries in the ubuntu/dapper dir, but I had no luck with them. They

Re: lyx 1.4.2 on ubuntu

2006-09-15 Thread Sven Schreiber
Sven Hoexter schrieb: On Fri, Sep 15, 2006 at 02:14:38PM +0200, Sven Schreiber wrote: Dear all, I have some questions/comments about using the current lyx version on ubuntu (current/6.06). Take a look at packages.ubuntu.com. Prebuild packages for the latest Ubuntu flavour are avaible. If you

Re: lyx 1.4.2 on ubuntu

2006-09-15 Thread Sven Schreiber
Helge Hafting schrieb: Then I downloaded the 1.4.1 binaries in the ubuntu/dapper dir, but I had no luck with them. They either gave me 1.3.7 or failed due to dependency errors. A 1.4.1 binary should not give you 1.3.7? The dependencies could not be resolved by installing packages? I

Re: lyx 1.4.2 on ubuntu

2006-09-15 Thread Sven Schreiber
Dirk Markert schrieb: Sven the first, you can find a download link for Dapper here: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Download But you will still get wrong Umlaute with this build. That's very good to know, a little late for me now though. Is there a reason there is a separate binary list on

Re: lyx 1.4.2 on ubuntu

2006-09-15 Thread Sven Schreiber
Georg Baum schrieb: Sven Schreiber wrote: You have to make sure that the latin1 locale is installed. How to do that is in the list archives. You do _not_ need to change your locale to latin1 (by setting LANG and/or LC_* variables), LyX will do that internally, but the locale must of course

Re: lyx 1.4.2 on ubuntu

2006-09-16 Thread Sven Schreiber
Georg Baum schrieb: Am Freitag, 15. September 2006 22:48 schrieb Sven Schreiber: Turns out that apparently on ubuntu dapper (6) it's not so easy to get iso8859 locales. What's in the mailing list (taken from debian) does _not_ work, dapper only gives you utf8. I had to edit files like

Re: lyx 1.4.2 on ubuntu

2006-09-17 Thread Sven Schreiber
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: It is actually quite easy to generate locales on ubuntu though it is different from debian because dpkg-reconfigure locales does not work here anymore. The command is simply: sudo locale-gen de_DE and german umlauts will work. With respect to the packages on

caption justification howto?

2006-09-26 Thread Sven Schreiber
Hi, I want to change the justification of a float caption from centered to, say, flushleft (aka raggedright). If I do it the naive way via the paragraph settings dialog, Lyx doesn't remember my changes, so that doesn't work. First question: Is that a bug, or is that feature simply not

Re: caption justification howto?

2006-09-30 Thread Sven Schreiber
Juergen Spitzmueller schrieb: Sven Schreiber wrote: I want to change the justification of a float caption from centered to, say, flushleft (aka raggedright). If I do it the naive way via the paragraph settings dialog, Lyx doesn't remember my changes, so that doesn't work. No, that won't

another (?) table-editing bug

2006-10-05 Thread Sven Schreiber
Hi, is the following known? 1. create new document 2. insert tabular, e.g. default 5x5 3. select cells in first row and make it a multicolumn (never mind the other known bug that right-clicking doesn't work for preserving selection, use the menu) 4. try to de-select the upper line (obere Linie in

Re: another (?) table-editing bug

2006-10-06 Thread Sven Schreiber
Helge Hafting schrieb: Sven Schreiber wrote: Hi, is the following known? 1. create new document 2. insert tabular, e.g. default 5x5 3. select cells in first row and make it a multicolumn (never mind the other known bug that right-clicking doesn't work for preserving selection, use

tabular lines/borders yet again (was: Re: another (?) table-editing bug)

2006-10-06 Thread Sven Schreiber
[topic shifted from bug to user interface, so I'm starting a new thread] Helge Hafting schrieb: Btw, some time ago somebody suggested to let lyx create new tabulars without any lines by default. I think that's a great idea. That can't be so difficult to implement, right? Do we need a vote?

Re: LyX slow in Windows XP

2006-10-09 Thread Sven Schreiber
kmailuk schrieb: Paul, Thanks for your reply. I already had instant preview turned off. I tried turning off virus scan but I still had the same problem with LyX displaying what I type very slowly. When I looked at the Task Manager after typing a sentence (which would take several seconds to

Re: Text before title

2006-10-13 Thread Sven Schreiber
Nicolás schrieb: Hi! This question is probably more related to Latex than to Lyx, but hopefully you can help me. Given a paper, I would like to write some text in the free space existing above the title. With fancy headers a can have headers in the body of the paper, but I would like to

Re: Lyx 143 on kubuntu dapper much slower than on Suse 9.1

2006-10-30 Thread Sven Schreiber
Robert Neumann schrieb: Hello Raymond, sounds reasonable, I found a documentation at http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/doc/cvs/Ps2pdf.htm But since I'm not so familiar with the switches and options Menu - Tools - Settings (I guess, last choice in the bottom, «Préférences» in french) -

Re: Update to: [announce] new extended LyX manual available

2006-11-01 Thread Sven Schreiber
Without having actually looked at your manual yet, I want to thank you for this effort, and for the general idea to improve the documentation! Many open source projects underestimate the importance of accessible information and manuals. Lyx used to be a notable exception, but although 1.4 took so

Re: Doesn't export or view PDF

2006-11-02 Thread Sven Schreiber
Matthias Schmidt schrieb: Hello, I have just installed Lyx 1.4.3-4 from the lyx-143-4-bundle.exe. Some of the manuals I can export or view as PDF-file (for example ), some not (for example ). What may be the reason for this? Can I find the manuals as PDF-Files anywhere else then in

Re: Lyx 143 on kubuntu dapper much slower than on Suse 9.1

2006-11-12 Thread Sven Schreiber
Georg Baum schrieb: Am Mittwoch, 8. November 2006 19:26 schrieb Andre Poenitz: On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 07:30:22PM +0100, Georg Baum wrote: Any other slowdown is either caused by external programs or a bug. Not sure this is true. The paint logic changed from 1.3 to 1.4. We were talking of

Re: Using kpdf as the default pdf viewer

2006-11-13 Thread Sven Schreiber
Guy Rutenberg schrieb: Hi, I'm using LyX 1.4 on Linux and I would like to set kpdf (instead of gv) as my default viewer in LyX for pdf's. Can someone please write to me how to do it or point me to where I would find such instructions? have you tried tools-settings-file formats-viewer

Re: Key sequence

2006-11-16 Thread Sven Schreiber
icebna schrieb: Hi all : In my work I use many the superindex. There is some way of doing it from the keyboard with a key sequence? Thanks advanced Miguel Either I completely misunderstand you, or the answer is simply the ^ key as in LaTex. This answer is in the documentation, right?

Re: lyx to word conversion

2006-11-28 Thread Sven Schreiber
Juergen Fenn schrieb: I don't think this is a good idea. If you are supposed to provide MS Word format you should use MS Word or at least OOo for writing your paper. The point is that the TeX community has spent too little effort on converters. Regards, Jürgen. That's a bold

Re: lyx to word conversion

2006-11-30 Thread Sven Schreiber
Nicolás schrieb: Has anyone tried to convert latex to OpenDocument format with tex4ht? And then convert it to Word with OpenOffice or with the OpenOffice filter to Microsoft Word XML? Nicolás Sure, there's lots of traffic on this in the list archives. See also the special oolatex tool (or

mixing languages, problem

2006-12-20 Thread Sven Schreiber
Hi, I had some problems with multi-language documents; for example, marking a word as Spanish (in an otherwise English-language document), Lyx includes the command \deactivatetilden in the latex file, and latex throws an error. Is this known? What can one do? Help or pointers welcome. (this is

Re: mixing languages, problem

2006-12-22 Thread Sven Schreiber
Sven Schreiber schrieb: Hi, I had some problems with multi-language documents; for example, marking a word as Spanish (in an otherwise English-language document), Lyx includes the command \deactivatetilden in the latex file, and latex throws an error. Is this known? What can one do? Help

Re: mixing languages, problem

2006-12-22 Thread Sven Schreiber
Georg Baum schrieb: Am Freitag, 22. Dezember 2006 11:42 schrieb Sven Schreiber: Sven Schreiber schrieb: Hi, I had some problems with multi-language documents; for example, marking a word as Spanish (in an otherwise English-language document), Lyx includes the command \deactivatetilden

Re: mixing languages, problem

2006-12-22 Thread Sven Schreiber
Juergen Spitzmueller schrieb: Sven Schreiber wrote: http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2365 Interesting, but that would suggest the fix to bug 2365 caused my bug. I will try to include a detailed description/recipe in the bug that I will file during the holidays. Also cf. http

Re: mixing languages, problem

2006-12-24 Thread Sven Schreiber
Jürgen Spitzmüller schrieb: Can you post export to LaTeX and post that? I don't get the error, but it looks like babel is not loaded in your case. Ok I stripped it down some more, it only relates to Spanish now, not mixing languages. Below is the lyx file and the latex export. Same error.

Re: mixing languages, problem

2006-12-25 Thread Sven Schreiber
Jürgen Spitzmüller schrieb: Sven Schreiber wrote: So I have the language in the document settings set to Spanish, and in tools (werkzeuge)-language settings I have ticked the use babel box, and some other boxes. Nothing is written in the text fields in those language settings. Should

auto-insert of branch names in exported filenames

2007-01-09 Thread Sven Schreiber
Hi, branches are very useful and I have used them alot recently. What I am missing is the possibility to have the names of active branches automatically inserted into the file names of exported formats. Example: in a file named exam.lyx I have two branches, verA and verB. When verA is active, I

Re: auto-insert of branch names in exported filenames

2007-01-12 Thread Sven Schreiber
Sven Schreiber schrieb: Hi, branches are very useful and I have used them alot recently. What I am missing is the possibility to have the names of active branches automatically inserted into the file names of exported formats. Example: in a file named exam.lyx I have two branches, verA

Re: auto-insert of branch names in exported filenames

2007-01-12 Thread Sven Schreiber
Charles de Miramon schrieb: It would make more sense to move LyX to a IPC mechanism like dbus. If we could query from the command line with dbus LyX for all the properties of a document, you could easily create a script in the LaTeX -- PDF toolchain to change the name of the file, or commit

Re: auto-insert of branch names in exported filenames

2007-01-12 Thread Sven Schreiber
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes schrieb: Sven == Sven Schreiber [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Example: in a file named exam.lyx I have two branches, verA and verB. When verA is active, I would like to get something like exam_verA.pdf automatically. Sven I will file an enhancement request later today

Re: Accessing style menu from keyboard

2007-01-15 Thread Sven Schreiber
Neil McLeod schrieb: Hello, Is there any way to select the style drop-down menu with a keyboard shortcut, just as one would access the File menu with Alt-F? I know there are individual keybindings for the various styles, but I'd love to be able to select the drop-down menu with a keyboard

Re: rotated eps figures using different pdf views

2007-01-23 Thread Sven Schreiber
Gregor Goldbach schrieb: Hi list, I have an interesting problem which is hopefully not a FAQ. I use eps figures in my document. The resulting PDF contains these figures rotated by 90 degrees... sometimes. ;) Using pdflatex gives rotated figures (90 degress), using dvipdfm does *not*

Re: cannot reqd an old lyx file

2007-02-03 Thread Sven Schreiber
Uwe Stöhr schrieb: Mouras Harold schrieb: I composed several days ago a lyx file butt am not able to read it on a new computer running windiws vista and the new lyx for windows. I have attached the file. You use the LyX 1.5svn build. This is an alpha state and not ready for production

Re: Lyx in ubuntu

2007-05-10 Thread Sven Schreiber
Russell Davie schrieb: AFAIK, TeteX is the how the LaTeX backend is managed in Linux. Without it, its impossible to do any LaTeX. After using LaTeX in Linux for several years and several *nix flavours, it seems to be mandatory to install TeTeX to run LaTeX and thus LyX. Please correct me

Re: Why Lyx-Word?

2007-05-14 Thread Sven Schreiber
Richard Heck schrieb: Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, This is a general question for all those asking about converting LyX to MS Word... Why not use MS Word from the beginning? [snip] But hard as I rack my brains, I can't think of a reason to start a project in LyX, and THEN convert it to MS

Re: German menu

2007-05-16 Thread Sven Schreiber
Hannan Sadar schrieb: Hi, I install my 1.4.4 lyx with German menu and layouts. My problem is that some of the menus and layouts are not been shown correctly. I guess it is a font problem. How could i fix it? Thanks If you happen to use Linux, and you mean that the Umlaute (äöü) are

Re: Booktabs with LyX: how to kill the last line?

2007-05-25 Thread Sven Schreiber
Jürgen Spitzmüller schrieb: P.S.: you'll be pleased to hear that LyX 1.5 will have native booktabs support. Yes I am very much looking forward to that! I have lost hope that the regular tabular situation in Lyx is going to improve anytime soon. Or are there reasons to be more optimistic

rc1 bug status?

2007-06-04 Thread Sven Schreiber
Hi, I'm a bit confused now that rc1 is out. On bugzilla I find 14 critical bugs with target 1.5.0 still open (see below for the copypaste result). What then was the reason to have a RC and not another beta? I'm not doubting that the current development version is great and has a lot of nice new

Re: rc1 bug status?

2007-06-04 Thread Sven Schreiber
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes schrieb: Sven == Sven Schreiber [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sven Hi, I'm a bit confused now that rc1 is out. On bugzilla I find Sven 14 critical bugs with target 1.5.0 still open (see below for the Sven copypaste result). What then was the reason to have a RC and Sven

math toolbar usability suggestion (tiny)

2007-06-08 Thread Sven Schreiber
Hi, could the following trivial change possibly make it into 1.5 final? The Functions entry in the Math Panels toolbar causes the toolbar to take up a lot of horizontal space if the toolbar orientation is vertical. Could the name therefore be shortened to Func or whatever? Alternatively: how can

Re: math toolbar usability suggestion (tiny)

2007-06-08 Thread Sven Schreiber
hzluo schrieb: Current install version do not have an icon for functions popup. I think the patch is on the way. We now have a functions.xpm for that button. So you will have a 20x20 button instead of a long string. BTW, I think the provided functions.xpm is not so informative. I made

crash with rc1

2007-06-09 Thread Sven Schreiber
Hi, don't know if this issue is known, I got a crash today with rc1 on winxp. It apparently happened while I hit backspace and kept it pressed a little. The error information window contained the following: PreferencesPolicy: No transition for input SMI_RESTORE from state INITIAL This was

Re: crash with rc1

2007-06-10 Thread Sven Schreiber
Stefan Schimanski schrieb: don't know if this issue is known, I got a crash today with rc1 on winxp. It apparently happened while I hit backspace and kept it pressed a little. The error information window contained the following: Please compare to the following (already fixed) bugs:

Re: crash with rc1

2007-06-10 Thread Sven Schreiber
Stefan Schimanski schrieb: Am 10.06.2007 um 16:49 schrieb Sven Schreiber: But what about the impossibility of reinstalling after the crash? Isn't that kind of strange? Hou?! Impossible? Which installer? Which platform? Which messages? Ok what I had to do was to delete the dir C

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