Re: Inserting C++ code

2009-06-07 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Sajjad schrieb: I have installed LyX 2.6.1 and trying to insert C++ code. I am trying as follows: 1. Inserted a float algorithm . 2. Pasted the code snippet inside that The better solution is to use the listings inset. This is described in sec. 7 of the EmbeddedObjects manual that you find i

Re: How to make a macro

2009-06-06 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Anthony Campbell schrieb: I would like to make a macro for an ERT command: \clearpage \thispagetyle \mbox{} \clearpage I'm sure it is is possible but I don't seem able to find any documentation for it. Add this to your preamble: \newcommand{\mystyle}{\clearpage \thispagestyle \mbox{} \clearp

Re: caption for long table in list of tables

2009-06-05 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Hesham Kamel schrieb: I read the EmbeddedObjects manual and there is nothing about this problem. Then I haven't understand your problem correctly. In the EmbeddedObjects manual you only get one entry in the table of contents, no matter how long your table is. I think that is what you need, ri

Re: Algorithms in LyX

2009-06-05 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Amir Rachum schrieb: I'm trying to write some algorithms in LyX 1.6.1 under XP. I want to write pseudo code that will number my lines like so: (1) bla (2) bla (2.1) bla (2.2) bla (2.3.1) again I guess the easies solution is to use a normal numbering, see attached. regards Uwe newfile1.lyx D

Re: caption for long table in list of tables

2009-06-05 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Hesham Kamel schrieb: Please, I have a long table, the problem is that I am getting an entry for each page in the list of tables Is there a way to get only one entry? Yes, see the EmbeddedObjects manual that you find in LyX's help menu. regards Uwe

Re: [announce] LyXWinInstaller for LyX 1.6.3

2009-06-05 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Olivier Ripoll schrieb: I managed to get elyxer working by doing the following: > ... Many thanks for your testing work. Tiny bugs / feature requests for elyxer and LyX (probably already known): > ... Can you please report them to the developer of eLyXer. He's always interested in bug repo

Re: [announce] LyXWinInstaller for LyX 1.6.3

2009-06-05 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Olivier Ripoll schrieb: I do not have python installed and do not want to (well, there are some python.exe with LyX and Inkscape), so the only action defined for .py files is "open", which is with my text editor (PSPAD). You must have Python installed to get it working. The python.exe you fin

Re: [announce] LyXWinInstaller for LyX 1.6.3

2009-06-05 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Olivier Ripoll schrieb: Just a question: What's the status of elyxer in your installer ? I think you had planned to bundle elyxer in the installer the same way you do for imagemagick and other stuff. Yes this was the plan. After discussions with the other LyX developers the new plan is to in

Re: [announce] LyXWinInstaller for LyX 1.6.3

2009-06-04 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Waluyo Adi Siswanto schrieb: Where is the alternative Windows Installer ? I could not find here ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.6.3/ The link for Windows binaries http://www.lyx.org/Download could not find the AltInstaller either. Give it some hours. But I also wrote: The installer for this

[announce] LyXWinInstaller for LyX 1.6.3

2009-06-04 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Hello LyXers, the alternative Windows installer for LyX 1.6.3 is now available. This installer comes again with an update installer to update existing LyX 1.6.2 installation to LyX 1.6.3. NOTE: To be able to use this installer version, LyX 1.6.2 must have been installed with the alternative Wi

Re: Lyx 1.6.2 and letter (Kom a v.2), language german: some lines are not shown in pdf…

2009-06-04 Thread Uwe Stöhr
jezZiFeR schrieb: sorry, I still don´t understand and don´t know, how I get the bank account printed, when using Lyx with koma-letter2-class, because I don´t know where to specify letter head and foot definitions. But this is described with all details and many examples in the koma-script man

Re: Lyx 1.6.2 and letter (Kom a v.2), language german: some lines are not shown in pdf…

2009-06-04 Thread Uwe Stöhr
jezZiFeR schrieb: But I still do have problems. I do not find the koma-script UserGuide, which I searched out of Lyx and in my \usr-folder also. (I use OSX and do have no "texmf" in /usr/share/… Instead I found texmf in /usr/local/texlive/2008, but in the doc-folder there is not latex-folder)

Re: Lyx 1.6.2 and letter (Kom a v.2), language german: some lines are not shown in pdf…

2009-06-03 Thread Uwe Stöhr
jezZiFeR schrieb: there it is… You forgot to use a letter closing and mixed the signature with the closing. I fixed tis in the attached LyX file. That you cannot see the bank and phone is due to the missing letter head or foot definitions. To see how this is done, have a look at the "koma-

Re: Lyx 1.6.2 and letter (Kom a v.2), language german: some lines are not shown in pdf…

2009-06-03 Thread Uwe Stöhr
jezZiFeR schrieb: in Lyx 1.6.2 I use letter-class (Koma v.2). As language I have selected german and everything seems to work fine so far. Except that some lines which I have entered are not shown in the compiled pdf: • telephone-number • bank-account Can you provide a LyX example file to b

Re: fast label formating

2009-06-03 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Semih Özmen schrieb: I almost finished my thesis and now I recognized that all eqaution cross-references are shown as 1.23 I want them all be written as Eq. 1.23 or any other prefix. Are there any fast way to do this? The usual syntax is to write them as (1.23) But this cannot be changed easi

Re: Windows Installer

2009-06-03 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Nathan schrieb: Is there still an issue with the servers for lyx.org? I can't seem to download the Windows installer from your ftp site, and the mirror at BerilOS is VERY slow. Currently it works fine: ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.6.2/LyX-162-4-18-AltInstaller-Complete.exe or http://downl

Re: pdf font quality improvement after miktex update

2009-06-03 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Asm_gmail schrieb: Thanks Uwe for your patience to help me. Well, I don't understand why you think that you have a problem. You want a Type1 font and get it so it should be perfect for you. Also, I can define these in: Lyx:reference -> Output -> Latex -> tex encoding: OT1 (I can change

Re: pdf font quality improvement after miktex update

2009-06-03 Thread Uwe Stöhr
asm23 schrieb: My question is: Since the outline Type 1 font is better than Type 3, why Lyx till use Type 3 by default? LyX is not to blame, LyX uses LaTeX, so what you get depends on the LaTeX-distribution. As you could see your settings are different than the default. But in your case the

Re: pdf font quality improvement after miktex update

2009-06-02 Thread Uwe Stöhr
asm23 schrieb: I compiled the lyx file you give me, but compared with the pdf output. It seems my generated pdf use "Type 1" font. My environment is Windows XP, and Miktex(updated to latest version), Lyx 1.6.2. Mine too and your LyX example file therefore still uses Computer modern. But in

Re: pdf font quality improvement after miktex update

2009-06-01 Thread Uwe Stöhr
asm23 schrieb: Since I update my Miktex to the latest package yesterday, I found this difference has gone, both cases will give a nice pdf. So we don't need these statement in preamble any more. That's not true. When you use the default fonts, you still get the font "Computer Modern". You'll

Re: Scale image using PDFLatex

2009-05-30 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Valter Filipe Silva schrieb: There it is. I use Lyx 1.6.2 Windows version. I try in a friend PC with Linux (I guess Ubuntu 9.04) and it works great. The problem is this line in your document preamble: \usepackage[usecolor,DETI]{uaThesis} When I comment it out, it works as it should. Your fil

Re: Supporting Tabular-like features of Array environment in math mode.

2009-05-30 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Ronen Abravanel schrieb: Is there a way, In LyX, to create Horizontal\Vertical borders in array, Like those in Table? Right click in a matrix and then set the borders via the appearing context menu. See the attached example. regards Uwe newfile2.lyx Description: application/lyx

Re: Scale image using PDFLatex

2009-05-29 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Valter Filipe Silva schrieb: When i try to scale a figure and compile my document with pdflatex, the figule is not scalled. Do you have a _small_ LyX example file and and your image to be able to reproduce your problem? regards Uwe

Re: How to typeset units

2009-05-28 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Dan Phan schrieb: As far as I know, the proper way to typeset values and dimensions is to use units package. You don't need this package, using this ore not is your choice. The Math manual, that you find in LyX's Help menu, tells you at the end of sec. 8.1 how units are typeset. When you w

Re: tex2lyx bug?

2009-05-27 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Rodrigo Fresneda schrieb: Today I received a buggy tex document from a friend, and LyX could't import it: Warning: #LyX file created by tex2lyx 1.6.2 LyX Code: 8 name: unknown ../../../src/support/lassert.cpp(21): ASSERTION false VIOLATED IN ../../src/insets/Inset.cpp:137 ../../../src/support

Re: An extra space after hyperlinks in PDF

2009-05-25 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Dan Phan schrieb: I use hyperref to generate clickable links in PDFs file, but I got extra spaces after many, but not all, of my links. Can you please provide a _small_ LyX example file? regards Uwe

Re: LyX - cross platform core toolkit for scientific and technical writing?

2009-05-24 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Graham Smith schrieb: I conclude that you don't think there is no obvious core toolkit of companion programs for Lyx. Yes, and I like that you can decide by your own what suits you the best. But its interesting you use Origin rather than some of the open source options. Because it is s

Re: Vertical space in math formulas

2009-05-24 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Martin Görg schrieb: I have an AMS gather environment (or an equation array or such) and would like to increase the vertical spacing between rows. I am really surprised that there's nothing about this problem in the help, mailing list, or Wiki - or at least I couldn't find anything. It is,

Re: LyX - cross platform core toolkit for scientific and technical writing?

2009-05-24 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Graham Smith schrieb: So would anyone like to suggest a basic LyX toolkit, that would cover the range of things we tend to do when producing scientific papers and technical reports. That strongly depends on your research field. As physicist I use for example Origin http://en.wikipedia.org/wi

Re: Hi some questions about Tables and Titles

2009-05-22 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Adrian Diaz schrieb: Do you knonw how to set up the line width of tables, the types of lines, colors of line etc in Lyx?. Could you send some examples?. Everything about tables is described in the EmbeddedObjects manual that our find in LyX's Help menu. I would like to know about of titles

Re: Lyx 1.6.2 Listing with label and caption

2009-05-22 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Maximilian Melcher schrieb: thank you for your help - i copied the listing from the documentation and it works as i want it. But how can I insert it with lyx w/o copying it? Please read the documentation chapter from where you copied the listing. Uwe

Re: Lyx 1.6.2 Listing with label and caption

2009-05-21 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Maximilian Melcher schrieb: im trying to get lyx to display a listing with a caption and a label so that i can refer to it later. For example like here: http://img36.imageshack.us/img36/6514/listing.jpg Does it work without ERT? Yes, see the EmbeddedObjects manual that you find in LyX's Help

Re: coloured background in header and margin

2009-05-21 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Christiaan Pauw schrieb: Is it possible to use background colours in a header, footer and margin (or part of a each) only. I want to create a layout for a report that looks something like this:... Coloring the header and footer should be possible, but coloring the margin note seems not to be

Re: llncs.layout

2009-05-21 Thread Uwe Stöhr
William R. Buckley schrieb: LyX: Document class not available Now, it happens that the file llncs.layout is found in the directory c:/Program Files/LyX16/Resources/layouts The error message said that the layout is not usable, not that it is not available. A layout file is the connection betw

Re: lyx2lyx fails to convert from a Latex file

2009-05-18 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Stefano Franchi schrieb: 3. I opened the .lyx file in an editor and the preamble says: LyX file created by tex2lyx 1.6.2 \lyxformat 247 So tex2lyx run successfully, but lyx2lyx failed to convert it further from format 247 to 345. Can you provide a small TeX file to be able to reproduce the p

Re: Bibliography please help

2009-05-18 Thread Uwe Stöhr
alaa abbas schrieb: Hi, sorry I wrote unclear. What i meant was that she want the author et. al.,journal(italic),year(bold),volume, pages. As already mentioned I use jabref as references management and unsrt as bibtex style. You haven't understood me corectly. You are writing an article for a

Re: Bibliography please help

2009-05-17 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Alaa schrieb: I´m writing an article in Lyx and my supervisor want the bibliography like: author, journal, year, volume, pages. What exactly does your supervisor wants? I guess he has either a norm or a certain journal in mind. Do you know this? Knowing this is important, since the order ca

Re: JabRef and LyX, manually putting .bib files into MiKTeX 2.7

2009-05-17 Thread Uwe Stöhr
castelol...@aim.com schrieb: I just started using LyX 1.6 and JabRef 2.4 and I read here that you cannot push refs from Jab into Lyx in windows xp. Yes and there's also no need to. Here's the strange thing (coming from a beginner's perspective), I can create a bibliography > because there

Re: problem with numbering of table float

2009-05-16 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Dimitar Stamov schrieb: i recently started using lyx 1.6.2 to write my dissertation and encountered the problem that when i introduce a table float and activate the 'long table' option for the consecutive table the numbering of each table in the PDF file afterwards is actually wrong (stepwise in

Re: scrbook and width of float

2009-05-15 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Johannes Knaus schrieb: I cannot follow you. What stars do you mean? Why do you need stars in a float and what is your desired output (do you have a screenshot or PDF from your WYSIWYG program)? Well, the stars (*) in the LyX-file I posted. Here's a screenshot taken from OpenOffice with the

Re: Configure fails

2009-05-15 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Dominik Waßenhoven schrieb: Sounds like a Python config problem. You have installed Python manually, so I guess that you need Python for other programs than LyX too, right? Do the other programs work for you? I cannot recall why I installed it manually, and I don't use it on a regular basis.

Re: scrbook and width of float

2009-05-15 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Johannes Knaus schrieb: So, if I understand the whole thing right, if I insert a figure, I can set it to 100% col but if I insert a table I can only set the width-percentages for each table column not for the whole table. Is that right? Yes. So if I have a table with let's say 10 columns, I

Re: Configure fails

2009-05-15 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Dominik Waßenhoven schrieb: if I try to re-configure LyX, it fails. The following is shown when I start LyX with '-dbg lyxrc': ,-- ¦ File ".../configure.py", line 11, in ¦ import sys, os, re, shutil, glob ¦ ImportError: No module named os ` The module os (os.py) is in 'C:\Programme\Py

Re: convert figures to pdf

2009-05-15 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Wolfgang Engelmann schrieb: I try to run pdflatex on a terminal to get an aux file (and to run the tex file without lyx, because I have difficulties with it under lyx). Apparently all the figures have to be in pdf format. No pdflatex can embed PNG, JPG/JPEG, and PDF (perhaps also GIF). But Ly

Re: scrbook and width of float

2009-05-14 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Johannes Knaus schrieb: Oh, of course, here is an example: Tables cannot be broken horizontally when they are too wide, therefore your float is too wide. So you have to assure that the table fits the width. I corrected your example see attached. When you are using figure floats, set the fig

Re: scrbook and width of float

2009-05-14 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Johannes Knaus schrieb: How can I set up my floats to generally respect textwidth and if the content of the float is wider than textwidth it uses either a smaller fontsize or wrapping? To be able to help you, can you please provide a _small_ LyX testcase? regards Uwe

Re: Can language support be disabled?

2009-05-12 Thread Uwe Stöhr
James C. Sutherland schrieb: I deduced this. However, I really don't want to have any notion of the "language" my documents are written in. So to repeat my original question, can I just turn off all of this language business altogether? This is not possible. When you have set the document l

Re: Can language support be disabled?

2009-05-12 Thread Uwe Stöhr
James C. Sutherland schrieb: Is there a way of disabling "Language Support" in LyX? Every time that I paste text between documents I get blue underlining of the text and have to "reset" the language to get rid of it. Then the document language of both LyX documents is not the same. So have a

Re: Embedding documents/text files in PDF

2009-05-04 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Parul Bali schrieb: This may sound strange, but does anybody know if its possible to embed text file or doc file in a PDF generated from Lyx/Latex? I have seen facility to attach documents to PDFs through Adobe writer. Is the same possible through Lyx/Latex? You can convert the document th

Re: Text overlapping table float wrap

2009-05-04 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Jim Rockford schrieb: I'm just wondering if this is of no surprise to the Lyx community. Should I expect to have these problems with table and figure wraps still, as of version 1.6.2? Wrap floats are in general not easy to handle, but this is a LateX issue. In LyX 1.6.x the wrap float suppor

Re: Fwd: Encoding problem

2009-05-04 Thread Uwe Stöhr
ami guru schrieb: Now i have new error LateX Error: CJK.sty not found. Any way to update that file? On Windows, you only need to open an Internet connection, compile your document and MiKTeX will automatically install this file. On Linux open the package manager of the program texlive and in

Re: inputenc error

2009-05-04 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Wolfgang Engelmann schrieb: But as I said, this reference alone works. Could I sent you the original bib file privately? Ye. regards Uwe

Re: inputenc error

2009-05-04 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Wolfgang Engelmann schrieb: I am attaching the offending reference, which I entered by using JabRef (that is bibtex). I haven't got an attachment. What is the difference between a long "-" between page numbers vs "--"? "--" is the LaTeX command that produces a long "-", while the other one

Re: inputenc error

2009-05-02 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Wolfgang Engelmann schrieb: a reference in my document gives me Package inputenc Error: Keyboard character used is undefined and describes it as ...Physiol.Plantarum}, 112:\penalty0 119 does it mean, I am missing the inputenc software or is there an undefined keyboard character? inputenc is pa

Re: Lyx cannot convert LaTeX files

2009-04-30 Thread Uwe Stöhr
JAHules schrieb: I just installed Lyx but can't get it to import .tex files. I always get this error message: Can you please provide more infos. What is you OS, how have you installed LyX? regards Uwe

Re: Boxed multiline formula

2009-04-30 Thread Uwe Stöhr
James C. Sutherland schrieb: I have never figured out how to do this for an eqnarray environment - only in a regular equation. I attached some examples using the infos from the Math manual. regards Uwe newfile1.lyx Description: application/lyx

Re: Boxed multiline formula

2009-04-30 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Luca Carlon schrieb: I have never figured out how to do this for an eqnarray environment - only in a regular equation. One possibility would be to use a minipage and frame it. This doesn't look to great, however... Well... better than nothing! Unfortunately the box is far larger than the

Re: how to use \displaystyle

2009-04-29 Thread Uwe Stöhr
chiman rao schrieb: How do I use \displaystyle for inline maths formula? I am using lyx 1.5 just type \displaystyle in your formula. For more infos about formulas and LyX have a look at the Math manual that your find in LyX's Help menu. regards Uwe

Re: Adding spacing between text and the border of a cell in a table

2009-04-29 Thread Uwe Stöhr
bar tomas schrieb: How can I add some space between the text in the cell of a table and the border of the cell? Have a look at the EmbeddedObjects manual that you find in LyX's Help menu. regards Uwe

Re: Using LyX for writing a very long manual

2009-04-29 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Thomas Løcke schrieb: But before I start writing, I'd like to ask if there are any good resources on using LyX for writing what is essentially a book on programming. I recommend that you work yourself through LyX's Intro _and_ Tutorial manual, that you find in LyX's Help menu, before you star

Re: Cross-References doubts

2009-04-25 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Adrian Diaz schrieb: Sometimes i need to define lemma, proposition, theorem or simply some definitions. I think it is very easy to use them cos i can set by *description* or *list*. However, i have problems when i want to work with cross-references. The problem is that every time i define a *de

Re: Allignment of figure

2009-04-22 Thread Uwe Stöhr
tomas jansen schrieb: Thanks for the answers, sorry for the confusion but I am using version 1.6.1, cannot download the new version at the moment. This links works for me: ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.6.2/LyX-162-4-18-AltInstaller-Small.exe I tried centering the picture, and on the previ

Re: Allignment of figure

2009-04-22 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Waluyo Adi Siswanto schrieb: I strongly recommend to update to LyX 1.6.2 or at least to LyX 1.5.9. regards Uwe I have never heard 1.5.9 ? Sorry, I meant LyX 1.5.7. regards Uwe

Re: Allignment of figure

2009-04-22 Thread Uwe Stöhr
tomas jansen schrieb: When I put a picture inside a float in LyX and make a pdf out of it the allignment is not in the center. Set the cursor behind or before the figure and use then the paragraph dialog to center the paragraph and thus also the image. I am using version 1.4.1 and making

Re: LyX 1.6.2 -- svn on Windows

2009-04-22 Thread Uwe Stöhr
sykes schrieb: I'm running LyX 1.6.2 on Windows XP. I use the Tortoise SVN client for subversion. I'm getting an error when I try to commit from within LyX: You want to commit some changes to LyX's SVN repository? This is only possible for developers with a LyX SVN account. regards Uwe

Re: Want to show URLs in printed version

2009-04-21 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Drew Kime schrieb: But I'd like to be able to create a version for print that would show the special name *and* the URL, since you obviously can't click on a book. Then write the name in front of the link like I did in the Bibliography of the LyX UserGuide. regards Uwe

Re: nomenclature

2009-04-21 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Norhaliza Abdul Wahab schrieb: I 'm not sure how to alter the space between the symbols and the descriptions, in particular when we have different length of symbols, i.e. ASM...Activated sludge model WWTPs.Wastewater treatment plants To achieve this, you have to use TeX code instead of

Re: Want to show URLs in printed version

2009-04-21 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Drew Kime schrieb: I've seen lots of questions about how to make clickable hyperlinks, but I'm trying to go the opposite direction. I'm using the Hyperlink inset in 1.6 and it is correctly creating the hyperlink in the PDF. But I need the option to output a PDF which has both the title text and

Re: Wrong placement with EPS graphics in pdflatex

2009-04-20 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Thomas Steffen schrieb: But why do you need to set a bounding box Is there any other option? When I include an EPS file, LyX always sets the bounding box according to the header of the file. Yes, but you can unset it. I never needed a bounding box, but OK I use EPS only very rarely. why a

Re: Wrong placement with EPS graphics in pdflatex

2009-04-20 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Thomas Steffen schrieb: On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 11:42 AM, Uwe Stöhr wrote: What do you mean with "wrong place"? Images are usually within a flaot that will float in the output to a suitable position. Can you provide a _small_ example file? Here is an example, I hope it is small

Re: bug in hyperlink and footnote?

2009-04-20 Thread Uwe Stöhr
James C. Sutherland schrieb: Reported as bug #5908 (http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/5908) Thanks. It turns out that you found a bug in the LaTeX-package hyperref. I'll inform you when I know more. I should have been more precise regarding the URL. An example URL is: http://scriptures.

Re: list of algorithms

2009-04-19 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Niko Schwarz schrieb: when I have the list of algorithms created, \listof{algorithm}{List of Algorithms}, then latex says this: TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [input stack size=5000]. When you don't have the list of algorithm, you don't have this bug? If so, assure that the list is in the "Sta

Re: Lyx to html with plastex

2009-04-19 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Parul Bali schrieb: I am trying to convert a latex document to html on Windows using Plastex. The latex document has png and eps images. On running the Plastex command for conversion, I get the following error. Any ideas what is going on? No, but you should give this new program a try: http:/

Re: bug in hyperlink and footnote?

2009-04-19 Thread Uwe Stöhr
One important not: you example used an address in this form: http://www.bla.blub/#1 This is not conform to the URL specification. There must be at least a character after the "/" and before the "#". Or do you have an example of a valid URL where this is not the case? regards Uwe

Re: bug in hyperlink and footnote?

2009-04-19 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Uwe Stöhr schrieb: It is a bug and I'll try to fix it. Can you please open a bug report for reference? I was too rash. The problem is the following: In hyperlinks the "#" character must not be escaped as command "\#". While it must be escaped when the hyperlink is

Re: bug in hyperlink and footnote?

2009-04-19 Thread Uwe Stöhr
James Sutherland schrieb: 1. Create a footnote. 2. In the footnote, insert a hyperlink 3. In the "target" field of the hyperlink, insert a URL with a "#" sign in it, i.e. www.example.com/#1 Can anyone verify that this is a bug? It is a bug and I'll try to fix it. Can you please open a bug

Re: Wrong placement with EPS graphics in pdflatex

2009-04-19 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Thomas Steffen schrieb: I noticed recently that I a lot of EPS graphics end up in the wrong place with the pdflatex backend. I guess it has to do with the bounding box, and somehow it is wrongly set during the conversion process. Then the picture ends up in the wrong place, or it is (partially)

Re: Above-Title Figure in KOMA-Script Article Class?

2009-04-18 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Rich Shepard schrieb: Now I need to figure out how to reduce the space between the titlehead and the title. Using \vspace{-5cm} just after the titlehead doesn't do the job. How about \vspace*{-5cm} (LyX supports this) or \phantom{ }\vspace*{-5cm} Does the koma script user guide not say

Re: Error converting to loadable format

2009-04-17 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Eliseu Filho schrieb: I get the name of the .eps file and below it the message: Error converting to loadable format Some system configuration info: Ghostscript 8.61 ImageMagick 6.5.1-3 Q16 (2009-05-01) What you see is a problem that ImageMagick is either misconfigured or cannot find Ghosts

Re: 1.6.2 install problems.

2009-04-15 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Max Bian schrieb: I installed 1.6.2 on Windows Vista on top of my existing 1.6.0 version. Don't do this. The safest is to install either - install LyX 1.6.2 after uninstalling the existing LyX 1.6.x installation - or by installing LyX 1.6.2 over LyX 1.6.1 using the update installer version of

Re: lyx and windows

2009-04-14 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Is lyx for windows a self contained program or do i need to install latex and other apps separately? Install LyX using the complete version of the AltInstaller and you get everything installed you need at once. (Assure that you have an open Internet connection before starting the installation

Re: How to insert text in a multiline equation?

2009-04-14 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Ming Jiang schrieb: I want to insert text in a multiline equation, for example, a = 1, if some condition is met 2, if some condition is met like \text{if some condition is met} in TeX. How can I do this in LyX? Use the shortcut "Alt+M M" which inserts math text. For more info about LyX a

Re: agutex layout?

2009-04-14 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Martin Vermeer schrieb: Then you should write a new layout file, Hi martin, I thought you could write a layout file. For a layout newbie writing a layout is quite tricky, therefore I have written layouts requested by users. I don't have much time at the moment, when it is the same, I can tr

Re: pdflatex impossible, no error message

2009-04-14 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Markus Brandstetter schrieb: Export always used to work and still works fine with earlier versions of the same document. Between these versions I did not add anything new I hadn't added before, except for one footnote. The preamble of the not-working version contains one paragraph of "textclass

Re: problems with URL in bibliography: urldate, font

2009-04-14 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Berthold Metz (PH-Freiburg) schrieb: in the bibtex-file i have this syntax: @misc{ISB, author = {Staatsinstitut f\"ur Schulqualit\"at und Bildungsforschung, M\"unchen}, You can directly use Umlauts in your BibTeX files. in the bibliography-output i get this: > ... URL \url{http://www.isb

Re: list of figures

2009-04-13 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Niko Schwarz schrieb: in my list of figures, the numbers of the figures are standing much too close to the captions of the figures! what can i do? Add this command to your document preamble: \newcommand...@figure{\@dottedtocline{1}{1.5em}{2.3em}} (http://texnik.dante.de/cgi-bin/mainFAQ.cgi?f

Re: Lyx install fails in MiKTex install

2009-04-13 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Ian S. Worthington schrieb: I do need Docbook (I think), but the information of the wiki seems to be rather out of date and/or confusing. I don't know anything about DocBook and therefroe ask you to improve the Wiki pages when you found out how it works. thanks and regards Uwe

Re: UI in french

2009-04-13 Thread Uwe Stöhr
alain.didierj...@free.fr schrieb: Recently installed LyX 1.62 has UI and doc in english, when it used to be in french in previous version. How to go back to frenh ? What OS are you using? On Windows, you can change the lyx.bat file when you have installed LyX with the alternative installer, o

Re: Lyx install fails in MiKTex install

2009-04-13 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Ian S. Worthington schrieb: That seems to fix the problem with scrbook.layout, but if I create New>From Template and select docbook_article.lyx, it then fails to find docbook.layout, even though this again is present in the layouts directory. Not every package we provide a layout for is availa

Re: Lyx install fails in MiKTex install

2009-04-12 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Ian S. Worthington schrieb: I'm wondering now if that might just be the final message. The [NEXT] button becomes active but after that Lyx outputs a message saying the MiKTeX setup wizard was not completed. But then you had the info that the MiKTeX installation failed. This can occur due to s

Re: agutex layout?

2009-04-12 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Martin Vermeer schrieb: If it is really different, we need a new layout, yes. It is as far as I see. Does it replace the older one(s)? I don't know and hope that you are Mr. AGU ;-) regards Uwe

Re: Terminology Change Request for Next Release

2009-04-12 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Jürgen Spitzmüller schrieb: because that's what it is - code for the language TeX. Except for DocBook classes. It is impossible to make it right for all cases. DocBook is rarely used compared to (La)(Xe)(pdfla)TeX. The naming problem is th same as with short title, in some cases it is the s

Re: Lyx install fails in MiKTex install

2009-04-11 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Ian S. Worthington schrieb: I'm having problems installing it on my Windows XP system though. The Lyx install spawns the MikTex install which runs fine, albeit slowly, up until: fndbmpm: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\MiKTeX\2.7\miktex\config\5c9c2effd97adbeacc8bf220bf7

Re: Terminology Change Request for Next Release

2009-04-11 Thread Uwe Stöhr
I'm impressed that you persevered so long discussing about a name of a term. Except of the abbreviation "ERT" as short name for the TeX code inset LyX consistently names it "TeX code" (in the tooltips, toolbar, documentation files) because that's what it is - code for the language TeX. regard

Re: agutex layout?

2009-04-09 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Gwen Barnes schrieb: Has someone already made a layout for the new AGU latex class (agutex.cls, http://www.agu.org/pubs/helpdesk/)? Otherwise I will try writing one up. We provide two layouts, one for AGU++ and one for AGU-dtd. But it seems that agutex.cls is a new LaTeX class. I'm therefore

Re: Ghostscript 8.63: Unrecoverable error

2009-04-09 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Wolfgang Engelmann schrieb: I am still getting GPL Ghostscript 8.64: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1 dvipng warning: No GhostScript pngalpha output, cannot render raw PostScript Try out to update or reinstall ImageMagick. When this doesn't help, I would report this as bug to the Ghostscrip

Re: elsarticle

2009-04-09 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Sandor Szabo schrieb: The new lyx 1.6.2 uses the elsart.cls or the new elsarticle.cls document class (Elsevier's new document class)? elsart is outdated and is no longer accepted by Elsevier. To use the new elsarticle class, I recommend to start with the elsarticle.lyx file that you find in L

Re: Warnings/advices after installing?

2009-04-09 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Piero Faustini schrieb: I just re-installed LyX and MikTeX on WinXP and once again forgot to install italian and other languages hyphenation support in MikTeX. This made me think that as it is something I always have to do after installing MikTeX, LyX installer should someway warn the new user

Re: Caption width in wrapped figures

2009-04-09 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Ehud Kaplan schrieb: It is not clear to me how it is done. I see on the first tab of the float setting (graphics) the setting for the scale, width or height, and on the second tab (clipping) facilities for cropping and positioning the graphics. How do you deal with the caption width? I know I

Re: Caption width in wrapped figures

2009-04-09 Thread Uwe Stöhr
E. Kaplan schrieb: I noticed that it did leave less of a white area around the picture, but it was still not what I wanted, which is the complete control provided by Latex's independent specification of width for the caption and the graphics. I don't understand what you miss, I can control

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