Re: Exporting non-unicode characters to Latex

2008-02-06 Thread Uwe Stöhr
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: I export it to Latex and run XeTeX to convert to PDF. As LyX 1.5.3 is Unicode-compliant, my tex editor supports unicode characters, and XeTeX can access all unicode fonts in the operating system, I do not need in my latex file the tex formatting for diacritics,

Re: Last page customizing in Koma-Script (book)

2008-02-06 Thread Uwe Stöhr
David Hewitt schrieb: inserted the following commands in an ERT box: \newpage This command can also be entered wothout ERT, see the menu Insert- Formatting. regards Uwe

Re: vertical spacing between table rows

2008-02-06 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Adrian Peter schrieb: I was wondering if anyone could tell me how to manually adjust (may be through ERT) the row spacing in a large table. Some rows have a large space between the previous row and I would like to reduce it. I tried looking in the wiki tables section but could not find

Re: Italian Aspell Dictionary corrupt?

2008-02-06 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Leonardo Valeri Manera schrieb: Even downloading and installing manually fails... Try to install it manually from here: http://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5117release_id=12973 (This repository is used by this installer: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinInstaller)

Re: Italian Aspell Dictionary corrupt?

2008-02-06 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Joost Verburg schrieb: Uwe, the dictionaries on your berlios site are outdated. I would recommend you to update them to the latest version from ftp.lyx.org. Did I miss a new aspell release, or have you updated them silently? Have you rebuilt all dictionaries or only some of them? The next

Re: how to add a header to the document?

2008-02-06 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Sophie Vandenbussche schrieb: I am looking for a way to add a header on the pages of a book or report class. Select headings or fancy as page layout in the document settings menu. Headings should be what you want, to be able to customize the headings, use fancy and have a look at the

Re: vertical spacing between table rows

2008-02-07 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Adrian Peter schrieb: I looked at the Embedded Objects manual but it was not clear how I could get my desired effect of just adjusting the space between consecutive rows. There is section 2.12.1 that describes two possibilities. There is perhaps another one using the command \jot. You can

Re: using Latex style/layout in Lyx on Vista environment

2008-02-07 Thread Uwe Stöhr
gsenviro schrieb: Could someone tell me how to install Latex styles (achemso) to lyx? You can either: - load the package achemso in your document preamble using this line: \usepackage[options]{achemso} Where options is a comma separated list of the possible options explained in the

Re: Translation problems with AMS

2008-02-07 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Dominik Böhm schrieb: I've got some problems using LyX for my German diploma thesis (ngerman), as some of the math stuff isn't translated correctly in the pdf export. In LyX everything works like a charm, when I mark a paragraph as Remark, LyX shows it to me like Bemerkung x.x, like I expect

Re: cannot find styles (ms-windows)

2008-02-08 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Pol schrieb: I have just installed lyx with miktex on a windows vista laptop Installation apparently completed, yet, as i try to view the pdf (through ps2pdf) i am asked to install the fancyhdr style. Shouldn't that be in the miktex standard package? The MiKTeX standard-package is too small

Re: LyX on Windows Vista

2008-02-09 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Max Bian schrieb: 1. When I do view-PDF(PDFLATEX), it will ask me if I want to create the directory for the output files. Is there a way to remove this unnecessary user input? 2. If the pdf is open in Acrobat, the update would fail. Is there a way to avoid this? Both should not occur.

Re: LyX on Windows Vista

2008-02-09 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Max Bian schrieb: I used the alternative installer. Was that the difference? I'm the author of this installer ;-) Just joking, here's the difference: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinInstaller It should work on Vista as well. On Vista 64bit editions there are problems with this: 2. If the

Re: LyX on Windows Vista

2008-02-09 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Julio Rojas schrieb: Same problem here using the alternate installer. While rendering PDF's using any method (translation from error in spanish): *The folder c:/Users/myuser/AppData/Local/Temp/lyx_tmpdir5056a...\lyx_tmpbuf0\ doesn't exist. May have been moved or deleted. Wish to create it?

Re: Problems with picture position.

2008-02-09 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Gregor Skrt schrieb: I have one question concerning picture floats. I have a picture that's quite long and doesn't fit between borders very well. It seems like Lyx is obeying borders that I've set in document settings and ads some free space between border and picture on left side. Is there a

Re: Translation problems with AMS

2008-02-09 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Dominik Böhm schrieb: Adding \newtheorem{exa}{Beispiel} \renewenvironment{example}{\begin{exa}}{\end{exa}} to my lyx file translated the example lable. But now the numbering doesn't work as expected. A \numberwithin{exa}{theorem}/\numberwithin{exa}{section} didn't help... Could you send me

Re: LyX on Windows Vista

2008-02-10 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Julio Rojas schrieb: Following what was said on: http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg57937.html I decided to use pdfview.exe instead of pdfviewwin.exe. It works fine, Yes, but this checks in the background every 20 Milliseconds of the PDF was updated. So with this program

Re: LyX on Windows Vista

2008-02-10 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Julio Rojas schrieb: It seems there's a problem in the path to the default PDF viewer. If I added the full path to Acrobat Reader in the file format configuration as follows: c:\PROGRA~1\Adobe\READER~1.0\Reader\acrord32.exe after rendering the PDF, the reader is run but gets hung with about

Re: LyX on Windows Vista

2008-02-10 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Joost Verburg schrieb: This does not interfere with the sleep mode of a notebook. There are many applications that have some background activity. The sleep mode timers are based on user activity. I don't hae a notebook. I only know that we got complaints about this behaviour some time ago.

Re: Koma-Script Letters 2 in LyX-1.5.3?

2008-02-11 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Rich Shepard schrieb: Does LyX-1.5.3 support the December 2007 features of Koma-Script 2? I'm specifically interested in the New! Improved! Whiter! letter class. Yes, we support the koma-script letter calss version 2. Have a look in the template folder of LyX. (This template file has a bug

Re: odd mistake

2008-02-13 Thread Uwe Stöhr
NinaNutz schrieb: But now, I have written more than 150 pages (in pdf) and I dont know what it's happening. The window shows a mistake that I've captured to show you... http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2055/2262086269_a7e9cfc1b1_o.png The second error message clearly states that you have a

Re: odd mistake

2008-02-13 Thread Uwe Stöhr
NinaNutz schrieb: The next problem was due to special characters introduced at JabRef and that lyx couldn't support... The problem is not LyX but BibTeX that doesn't support unicode. The special character it was the name of an author, that I have change to solve it... The name it was

Re: capital T of Latin Modern Roman

2008-02-14 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Wolfgang Engelmann schrieb: I use the Latin Modern family for my document. The pdf output shows the T (capital) shorter then the rest of the capitals of the alphabet. i CANNOT REPRODUCE THIS: aLL CAPITAL LETTERS HAVE THE SAME SIZE HERE: hAVE YOU TRIED TO CHANGE THE ZOOM LEVEL IN YOUR

Re: fine-tuning equation alignment

2008-02-14 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Paul A. Rubin schrieb: Right. And it should go without saying that anyone who is using math in LyX should at least have a look at Herbert Voss's comprehensive guide to math mode: ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/math/voss/mathmode/Mathmode.pdf Just for information for me, what is in

Re: capital T of Latin Modern Roman

2008-02-14 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Wolfgang Engelmann schrieb: With your example ABC..T..Z (thanks a lot!) I get with larger zooms a too large C, G, S and U. I guess this is only shown on the screen; Yes, this is inly a display problem of your PDF viewer. Do I remember correctly that Computer Modern Roman is a vector font

Re: [new user] hello everyone, and 2 questions..

2008-02-14 Thread Uwe Stöhr
assasukasse schrieb: i am a new user, i am writing my degree thesis in lyx since i don't want to use Word (the results with lyx are far better) First of all you need to decide what document class you use. I can recommend a koma-skript class because it is highly customizable. Also the memoir

Re: how to detect or use PDF/X-1a:2001 ?

2008-02-14 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Jeremy C. Reed schrieb: I read that my printer wants to use PDF/X-1a:2001 for best printing results. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDF/X states: PDF/X-1a:2001, Blind exchange in CMYK + Spot Colors, based on PDF 1.3 The PDF version numbers have the scheme 1.Acrobat version - 1 So Acrobat 4

Re: koma script where to get them..

2008-02-15 Thread Uwe Stöhr
assasukasse schrieb: i saw most ppl are using koma scripts, i suppose they are sort of template for LyX, Koma-script is a document class. To use it, choose in the document settings one of the classes article (koma-script) book (koma-script) report (koma-script) The file I send you as title

[announce] LyXWinInstaller for LyX 1.5.4

2008-02-26 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Hello LyXers, I uploaded the new version 3.22 of the LyXWinInstaller. Like the last version an update installer is offered. With this you can easily update your LyX 1.5.3 installation to LyX 1.5.4: Log in as adminstrator on your PC and execute the update installer. Note: The update installer

Re: Needed documentation

2008-02-27 Thread Uwe Stöhr
I'll start out with the ones I know of: * Must hit Enter to declare column widths in tables If this is not already reported as bug, please do so. * Must use units on all lengths The used units are explained in a table in the UserGuide and some other manuals. * Must delete/recreate source

Re: problems with LyX 1.5.4: compile and reconfigure

2008-02-27 Thread Uwe Stöhr
sara teinturier schrieb: But there are at least two problems: - when I want to compile (to dvi, pdf or ps) - when I want to reconfigure after updating MikTeK or installed a new package the result is the same: LyX 1.5.4 crashes down. Could you please start LyX by double clicking the lyx.exe?

Re: Two notes

2008-02-27 Thread Uwe Stöhr
onlyforum onlyforum schrieb: 1- Russian spell checker can not be installed although other packages for many languages can be installed easily. Does it work when you download and install this dictionary and install it manually when you are logged in as admin?:

Re: TeX

2008-02-27 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Charles Darwin schrieb: Lyx doesn't recognise .tex files? use the menu Import - LaTeX regards Albert Einstein

Re: Navigation toolbar

2008-02-28 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Nicolás schrieb: When I use the outline to navigate quickly from one section of a document to another, I miss a Go Back feature that would allow me to navigate back to the exact point in the document where the cursor was before I clicked on an item in the outline. I'm sure I reported this as

Re: English expressions in the german version

2008-02-28 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Annabelle Sack schrieb: I have nearly finished my work which is in German and I have a german lyx version. In spite of this, Chapter, Figure and Table stille appear in english instead of German in the PDF. The LYX Version uses the german expressions... Can you help? If you have a master

Re: Is there any way in LyX to obtain a tagged pdf???

2008-02-28 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Tobias Krause schrieb: Does anyone know if there is possible to obtain a tagged pdf from LyX using pdflatex or similar??? Directly from LyX?, not that I know. But you can later transform your PDF to a tagged one. I don't know how exactly, so please google a bit around. If you mean Keywords

Re: Matlab eps files display problem

2008-02-28 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Hauser Helmut schrieb: The problem is that it is not displayed properly on the lyx screen. It looks somehow distorted and only in black and white. Interestingly in the final ps or pdf file it looks correctly. You might try if it works when you use the latest version of Ghostscript and

Re: rendering in LyX GUI [was: Re: \varPhi and similar]

2008-02-29 Thread Uwe Stöhr
David Romano schrieb: I had a similar question: I'm new to LyX and don't know how to configure LyX so that what I see as I'm composing matches visually with what I can see viewing it through a dvi or pdf viewer. This is possible by turning on InstantPreview in the LyX preferences under

Re: How to have numbered equations using KOMA scripts.

2008-03-01 Thread Uwe Stöhr
assasukasse schrieb: i still couldn't find a way to have all my equations numbered (not showing in the summary but just numbered) Most of the time i just put an equation or two in between my writing, i do using the Math display function, so i end up with a nice equation centered in the page,

Re: Problems with equation numbering

2008-03-01 Thread Uwe Stöhr
CSL schrieb: I want to have my equations numbered like (section.formula) so I put the comand \numberwithin{equation}{section} in the preambule. I did in a document and it worked. My problem is that now, I created a new document and it doesn't work. You have to turn on amsmath: Menu Document

Re: Can't compile Chinese document in LyX

2008-03-01 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Besides what Jürgen replied, you should consider to update to LyX 1.5.4 as this version contains many bugfixes for the CJK languages like Chinese. regards Uwe

Re: [announce] Spanish translation of the new math manual

2008-03-01 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Ignacio García schrieb: I just finished the Spanish translation of the manual, and it's available for testing and suggestions or error corrections. Ready PDFs are available here: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/DocumentationDevelopment#Math regards Uwe

Re: Hebrew in utf8

2008-03-03 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Daniel Owens schrieb: Hebrew is another story. I have Googled high and low on using Hebrew with Latex and Lyx, and none of the solutions have worked for me. Have you had a lok here?: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/Hebrew This page is not only about Windows and contains some important links. But

Re: the 'arraystretch' and the vector size

2008-03-03 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Team on Technlogy schrieb: Matrices are rendered too big when the \renewcommand\arraystretch{2.2} is added to the preamble (LyX 1.4.5) So why are you adding this then to the preamble? (For informations, how to customize math, have a look at the new math manual that comes with LyX 1.5.4.)

Re: the 'arraystretch' and the vector size

2008-03-03 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Team on Technlogy schrieb: So why are you adding this then to the preamble? I need that command to accomodate math formulas in tables. How to control cell padding without affecting matrix arrays? (in lyx 1.4) You shouldn't mix up table and math spacings. For infos about table spacing, have

Re: LyX-Wiki

2008-03-03 Thread Uwe Stöhr
ehuttune schrieb: ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.5.4/LyX-1.5.4-1-Installer-Bundle.exe ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.5.4/LyX-1.5.4-1-Installer-Bundle.exe from page http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/Windows doesn't work. You can try to download it from a mirror of ftp.lyx.org, or use the

Re: Insert-minipage?

2008-03-04 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Steve Litt schrieb: Confirmed! Insert-Box inserts a minipage, and was what I was looking for. Thanks Bob! This is described in the manuals. Since LyX 1.5.4 we have a new toolbar button to insert boxes (minipages). regards Uwe

Re: Hebrew in utf8

2008-03-04 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Daniel Owens schrieb: When I add vowel pointing I still get Package ucs Error: Please activate option 'combine.' and Undefined control sequence. I forwarded this to our Hebrew developers. I'm sure they can help you. regards Uwe

Re: Input Documents on the same page

2008-03-04 Thread Uwe Stöhr
NicoWinger schrieb: short question: Is it possible to insert lyx-files (include) without inserting a pagebreak automatically? And by the way: What is the diffence between include and input? Both issues are explained in section 6.2 of the EmbeddedObjects manual. regards Uwe

Re: Input Documents on the same page

2008-03-04 Thread Uwe Stöhr
William Adams schrieb: short question: Is it possible to insert lyx-files (include) without inserting a pagebreak automatically? Not really, because of the need to support ``includeonly'' When you use include, then yes, but, you can use the input method, see the EmbeddedObjects manual:

Re: need recommendation for bibtex-style

2008-03-05 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Berthold Metz (PH-Freiburg) schrieb: i need to cite in the author-year-style (Smith 2005:13). right now i use tubspsy, but this is very old (e.g., internetdocs can't be used properly). You can try out natbib: Delect this in the document settings under Bibliography and select the author-year

Re: need recommendation for bibtex-style

2008-03-05 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Berthold Metz (PH-Freiburg) schrieb: thanks for the fast answer. when i use this style i get a lot of errors. Strange. when inserting the bibliography, i have to submit the database (my bibtex-file) and a style (IEEEtran ... plain, plainat, siam etc.); which style do i have to select

Re: Installing and using a new font in Lyx documents?

2008-03-05 Thread Uwe Stöhr
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: I have the following question: how can I install a new font so I can use it in Lyx? I am currently using Lyx 1.5.4 (alt installer) on windows vista with an up-to-date Miktex installation and I want to use a Bodoni font in my documents. I found this files:

Re: Subfigure captions

2008-03-06 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Tom schrieb: I am using a tip on the LyX wiki for cross-referencing subfigures. http://wiki.lyx.org/Tips/SubfiguresAndCrossReferences However, the subfigure captions don't seem to be including enough whitespace. Have a look at the EmbeddedObjects manual. Here you find a description how to

Re: Subfigure captions

2008-03-07 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Tom schrieb: Thanks for the suggestion, it led me to a suitable solution but it was not in the EmbeddedObjects manual. Then maybe I still haven't understood what you needed. For me it works when I follow section 3.4.2 of the EmbeddedObjects manual. By the way, the subfigure documents also

Re: Please confirm your message

2008-03-07 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Annabelle Sack schrieb: 1. wie zentriere ich Grafiken? Die meisten Grafiken, die ich in den Fließtext eingebunden habe, sind zentriert. Andere wieder nicht, obwohl ich an der Einstellungs nichts geändert habe-was tun? This list is in Emglish, So I'm answering in English: Set the

Re: Can't create PDF

2008-03-07 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Keith Rogers schrieb: In Lyx 1.5, whenever I try to create a PDF, I get an error message saying Windows cannot find 'PDFViewWin'. Make sure you typed the name correctly, and then try again. It seems that your installation wasn't complete. It should work when you ininstall LyX completely

Re: Layout and Class Files on Windows Distribution

2008-03-09 Thread Uwe Stöhr
William R. Buckley schrieb: What is less clear is the use of texhash, as it is not part of the LyX distribution. You don't need to use this cind of command line commands. The best and easiest way of getting a full featured LyX/LaTeX system on WIndows is to reinstall your current LaTeX

[announce] first preview test release of LyX 1.6 for Windows

2008-03-09 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Hello LyX testers, I uploaded a first snapshot of the upcoming LyX version 1.6.0 for Windows. NOTE: LyX 1.6 is in alpha state! That means it is not stable enough for a beta test release, so expect crashes and inconsistencies. This preview release is build for interested LyX users who want to

Re: Problem with LyX-154-3-22-AltInstaller-Complete.exe

2008-03-12 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Tuomo von Lerber schrieb: I installed LyX-154-3-22-AltInstaller-Complete.exe package. Everything seems to go fine, the MiKTeX is updated etc. However, LyX doesn't start, but opens a following window: lyx.exe - Application Error The application failed to initialize properly (0x0150002). Click

Re: Installing Norwegian spellchecker with LyX

2008-03-12 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Jon Leirdal schrieb: I am not sure if this is reported before, but there seems to be a problem with the installer for the two Norwegian spellcheckers (Bokmål, Nynorsk) for Windows. The installer fails when trying to install. (Failing the CRC check presumably) It works fine with this version:

Re: Name of section and subsection in heading line?

2008-03-13 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Kane Kano schrieb: I am working on the layout of my diploma thesis at the moment and would like to display the title of every section (e.g. first page) and subsection (second page and then alternating) in the heading line of the document. Does anyone know how to do that? Set the page style in

Re: AW: Name of section and subsection in heading line?

2008-03-13 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Kane Kano schrieb: Page 1: Heading line: 2 Theory Page2:Heading line: 2.1 FEM and Suface currents Page3.. Heading line: 2 Theory and so on till the next subsection or section emerges. This is possible when you set the page style to fancy, see section 3.1.3 of the

Re: I am having a problem with LyX v1.5.4

2008-03-16 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Peter M. 'Mike' Sanchez schrieb: Problem: When I try to use any of the view or export features (e.g., pdflatex, ps2pdf, etc.), the software seems to get in a loop utilizing about 50% CPU. My system is a 2.6Ghz Intel duo processor Windows XP with all update service packs. I guess that you

Re: Problem with LyX-154-3-22-AltInstaller-Complete.exe

2008-03-16 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Tuomo von Lerber schrieb: I installed LyX-154-3-22-AltInstaller-Complete.exe package. Everything seems to go fine, the MiKTeX is updated etc. However, LyX doesn't start, but opens a following window: lyx.exe - Application Error The application failed to initialize properly (0x0150002).

Re: Problems installing LyX

2008-03-17 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Juha Meriluoto schrieb: I've been experiencing some problems while trying to upgrade my LyX installation. I'm currently using version 1.5.3 (alternate installer 3.21). When I try to update to, or install, either version 1.5.4 (alt. installer 3.22) or 1.6svn (alt. installer 4.10) the

Re: Why do Inkscape drawing pixellate in LyX?

2008-03-17 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Steve Litt schrieb: What's the best way to put an Inkcape drawn drawing into LyX? Insert the SVG-images directly to LyX and use pdflatex to create a PDF. For this you either have to define a SVG to PDF converter using Inkscape, or use the alternate LyX installer that already do this for

Re: Why do Inkscape drawing pixellate in LyX?

2008-03-17 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Steve Litt schrieb: Uwe -- I simply used the inkscape file within LyX, and it came out tolerable and a small filesize. Interestingly, I had absolutely no svg to pdf converter, so LyX must have something built in. This works, because ImageMagick supports SVG nowadays. But the result is not

Re: parameters of the class

2008-03-17 Thread Uwe Stöhr
jean beney schrieb: I am using a non-standard class designed for LaTeX by a book editor. One of the differences with the class book is that the class has different optionnal parameters. But LyX always puts in the LaTeX file: \documentclass[english,french]{otherbook} which does not give the

Re: Problems installing LyX 1.5.4

2008-03-17 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Juha Meriluoto schrieb: I've been experiencing some problems while trying to upgrade my LyX installation. I'm currently using version 1.5.3 (alternate installer 3.21). When I try to update to, or install, either version 1.5.4 (alt. installer 3.22) or 1.6svn (alt. installer 4.10) the

Re: Problems installing LyX 1.5.4

2008-03-17 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Joost Verburg schrieb: Are you still using the previous version of Visual C++? The current CRT version is 9.0.21022.8. I know and I ship the latest MSVC manifest file. What I attached was just for testing as either a dll or this file must cause the problem. (The mail was not intended for

Re: Problems installing LyX - better method

2008-03-18 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Juha Meriluoto schrieb: I tested as requested, and 1.60svn started OK when both the .dll and manifest files were copied into LyX binary directory. And does it work when you only copy the DLL and not the manifest file? This is important for me to know. regards Uwe

Re: Problems installing LyX - better method

2008-03-18 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Juha Meriluoto schrieb: No, it works only when both files are copied. Not with the DLL alone. Many thanks. I'll provide a new installer this evening. 1.6svn does not seem to be able to read 1.5.x documents, says that they are from a different version of LyX but lyx2lyx can't convert them.

Re: Problems installing LyX 1.5.4 - fixed installer available

2008-03-18 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Juha Meriluoto schrieb: No, it works only when both files are copied. Not with the DLL alone. I uploaded a new installer version where this is fixed. The new installer version also fixes some language setting issues: Version 3.23 - new Romanian translation of the installer (thanks to

Re: Is there a text-macros equivalent of math-macros?

2008-03-19 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Dominik Böhm schrieb: I was wondering if one can also use macros for some text things. This will be possible in the next major lyX release lyX 1.6.0. For now you have to define new commands using the ERT or the document preamble. The math manaul explains how to do this (this method is

Re: cases help

2008-03-19 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Carlos Sosa Paz schrieb: Dear all I this is part of the latex code that i am using in Lyx, ... I can generate the pdf file with 2 columns but I have a problem trying to add the third 3 column. I cannot help you without a small LyX example file. But perhaps you find a way not to use

Re: Float caption indentation

2008-03-19 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Zoltan Sarosi schrieb: Does anybody know, how can I make indentations in my float caption texts? Use the LateX-package caption. The EmbeddedObjects manual has some example what you can do with this package. All you have to do is to add the correct option of the caption package as described

Re: feedback on LyX 1.5.1

2008-03-20 Thread Uwe Stöhr
William B. King schrieb: Don't particularly want this posted. Don't want replies. Don't want to join any lists. You asked for feedback, and I'm sending to the only address you gave me. What are you talking about? But anyway, I have completely revised the Intro and Tutorial manual for LyX

Re: Kleine Probleme mit LyX 1.5.x

2008-03-21 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Steffen Steinwand schrieb: Probleme: 1. Wenn ich meine LyX Datei als Dvi anschauen will, werden die Umlaute Ä, Ö, Ü nicht mit umgewandelt und fehlen in der Dvi Anzeige! This list ist in English, so I'm replying in English. After looking at the images you sent, it seems that

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

2008-03-22 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Bill King schrieb: It's running now. Apparently it eats up so much of the system resources (in WinXP, 2.8 GHz Intel Pentium 4, 1 GB of RAM) that my system has been dragged down to almost a complete halt! I've never seen things move this slowly before, EVEN IN WINDOWS! Strage. What

Re: feedback on LyX 1.5.1

2008-03-23 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Michael Wojcik schrieb: I believe he meant: I have some comments regarding the LyX tutorial. I do not want to join a mailing list. I do not want my comments posted to a mailing list. I am not interested in replies to my comments. Why does he posting then his comments? Why sending comments

Re: Long table settings problem

2008-03-23 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Julio Rojas schrieb: Hi, I have been using the long table settings in the attached sample document with two tables, ... You inserted the longtable into a float. But longtables are desgned to be longer than a page while floats are not. A longtble can therefore not really be floated. So take

Re: Possible bug on document encoding.

2008-03-24 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Rudi Gaelzer schrieb: However, if I change the language encoding at Document - Settings - Language - Encoding to ascii, I can neither process nor export the text to LaTeX. This is the case of the yadas_ascii.lyx file attached. On the last file, if I remove the figure float and/or the

Re: Issue with LyX 1.5.3

2008-03-24 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Bruno Azria schrieb: I am a new user of the LyX system, which I find outstanding. I face the following issue: - when I try to open the User's Guide from the LyX Help menu, I get the following error message : Document class not available : layout file requested by this document is not available

Re: Ask for Chinese LyX help!

2008-03-24 Thread Uwe Stöhr
WT schrieb: I am a LyX user from China. At first, thank you for giving us such a useful tool. I have some question about the template of LyX. I need to write my thesis in Chinese, so I can't use the inherent template. How can I construct my own template? Could you help me? You

Re: Path problem

2008-03-25 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Graham Griffiths schrieb: 2) I have now just updated from MiKTEX 2.5 to MiKTEX 2.7 Have you uninstalled MiKTeX 2.5 COMPLETELY before you installed MiKTeX 2.7? This is very important. 3) I noticed that the LyX Preferences Path prefix: was C:\Program Files\LyX151\bin;C:\Program

Re: Manipulate the tex code

2008-03-25 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Salát Máté schrieb: Can I manipulate my document inside LyX on the level of its tex code? For example I want to do a find-and-replace operation to change every \mathbf{R} to \mathbb{R} in a long document. How can I carry out this? open the LyX file with a text editor and replace \mathbf

Re: Path problem

2008-03-25 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Graham Griffiths schrieb: I installed LyX 1.5.4 as you suggested. Everything works fine now except: A) The Update PDF icon has disappeared and LyX cannot export a PDF file if I am currently viewing a PDF rendering of the current LyX file. Then you are on Windows Vista, right? For an unknown

Re: Path problem

2008-03-25 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Graham Griffiths schrieb: I am using WinXP Then I have no idea, except that you have a buggy or outdated version of the Adobe Reader installed. Try to update your Adobe Reader. regards Uwe

Re: Path problem

2008-03-25 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Joost Verburg schrieb: What is the reason to use this alternative PDF viewing method? That you check every 500 ms for an eventually changed PDF-file. Some people complained about this. A user contacted me and we developed together a simple program that is only executed when the PDF is

Re: Path problem

2008-03-25 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Julio Rojas schrieb: I believe you should not wait for Vista SP1, Uwe. I'm one who is going to wait until people tests it, because I don't really know what nasty things this huge update can cause. Even Universities in the USA have been advising against installing it until it is fully tested.

Re: Making a glossary

2008-03-25 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Valter Filipe Silva schrieb: Can someone give me advice how to make a glossary with Lyx ? Have a look at the LyX User's Guide that comes with LyX 1.5.2 or newer. regards Uwe

Re: Path problem

2008-03-25 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Joost Verburg schrieb: What is the reason for this complaint? That this prevents computers from beeing able to go to sleep mode and save battery energy. Weh discussed this some time ago and you said that this is not the case. I can't test this and don't have a strong opinion. If you know

Re: Path problem

2008-03-25 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Joost Verburg schrieb: This is more simple as it is only executed when the file is changed: http://www.lyx.org/trac/browser/lyx-devel/branches/BRANCH_1_5_X/development/Win32/packaging/AltInstaller/specials/PDFViewWin/PDFViewWin.dpr Does it work with PDF updating (that is, when the PDF viewer

Re: Ask for Chinese LyX help!

2008-03-25 Thread Uwe Stöhr
WT schrieb: I am tring to construct my own .layout file now. Why? You don#t need your own .layout file for Chinese. The problem I encountered is how to draw a line in the header of every page. How to make a different header of odd pages and even pages? Set the page style to fancy.

Re: eps Error converting to loadable format

2008-03-26 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Josh Holt schrieb: I've installed LyX 1.5.4-1, MiKTeX 2.7, GhostScript 8.61,ImageMagick-6.4.0-Q16 on two Windows XP Pro boxes (one at home and one at work). ... Another difference: when I run reconfigure on the work computer it replies: The system has been reconfigured. while on the

Re: WRB - Observations

2008-03-26 Thread Uwe Stöhr
rgheck schrieb: LyX isn't that kind of program. It's not FrameMaker or Adobe Publisher or whatever. But LaTeX does have so-called minipages that can be used for this kind of purpose. As far as I know, LyX doesn't have any support for this, but of course you can do it manually via LaTeX in

Re: WRB - Installing LyX

2008-03-26 Thread Uwe Stöhr
William R. Buckley schrieb: Don't know what a *nomenclature* is with regard to publishing. I meant the glossaries. As for the others, like bibliographies and indexes, yes, Ventura Publisher handles these quite well. Interesting. I once tested out Framemaker which seems to be very similar

Re: New splash screen (Was: LyX logo)

2008-03-26 Thread Uwe Stöhr
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: I agree, I like all of them! Personally, I like the new logos but prefer for the splash screen the current banner because it includes the version number. We should call our mascot Lydia. regards Uwe

Re: New splash screen (Was: LyX logo)

2008-03-26 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Joost Verburg schrieb: Of course the version number will be included. LyX prints the version number on the splash screen image, so the image doesn't need to be changed for every revision. What I meant was the word version in the current banner. I have not really a strong opinion about the

Re: New splash screen (Was: LyX logo)

2008-03-26 Thread Uwe Stöhr
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: Is there a difference between 'banner' and 'splash screen'? (I'm wondering if the wiki page shold be renamed) Yes there is. We used the splash screen image also for banners on lyx.org in the past, so I mixed both words. We should call our mascot Lydia. I'm

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