Re: Some urgent questions

2008-04-19 Thread Uwe Stöhr
PackElend schrieb: 1) If there's an float image with wrap text around it at the end of the page, the picture is at the bottom of the page but the gap is on the next page With LyX 1.5.4 a better LaTeX-package is used for wrap floats, so you coould update your LyX. But in your case you simply s

Re: Some urgent questions

2008-04-19 Thread Uwe Stöhr
rgheck schrieb: 4) I have an document (my thesis) with 3 different parts (Introduction, Theory, Praxis) and I want an separate table of figures, nomenclature and maybe attachment and index for each of them. It's that possible? HOW I think maybe Uwe was playing with you. Unfortunately

Re: Some urgent questions

2008-04-19 Thread Uwe Stöhr
rgheck schrieb: Aren't there some "toc by section" packages available? Or will these not do the trick? There is the package "minitoc", but for the nomenclature I don't know a similar one. regards Uwe

Re: How to do it in LyX?

2008-04-21 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Salát Máté schrieb: The first is changing the row distances in multiline modes using the row endings "\\[9pt]". This is unfortunately not possible in LyX without writing the whole formula in ERT, see sec. 18.1.1 of the Math manual that comes with LyX 1.5.4. The second is making multiline

Re: How to do it in LyX?

2008-04-21 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Salát Máté schrieb: I haven't seen this "Math manual", maybe that's the problem... :) Where can I find it? Menu Help -> Math. But as said, this is only there since LyX 1.5.4. I ended up on the page http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/DocumentationDevelopment#Math. > Here the Math.pdf is "Not Found".

Re: Copy and paste from MS Word

2008-04-22 Thread Uwe Stöhr
D.Zorig schrieb: How can I copy and paste from MS Word file to LYX while preserving paragraph breaks. I'm going to copy and paste 308 page MS Word file to LYX 1.5.4 and put the formatting back in. When I copy and paste from MS Word to LYX paragraph breaks gets lost and I have to find paragraph

Re: text underlined because of "language"

2008-04-22 Thread Uwe Stöhr
NicoWinger schrieb: if I insert text from outside in my lyx-document, it's underlined because of "language". Does s.b. know how to fix that? Use the character dialog and reset the language. regards Uwe

Re: modern CV lyx template

2008-04-23 Thread Uwe Stöhr
assasukasse schrieb: i am using lyx under ubuntu linux, i have installed modern CV document class, but i don't have the template.. where can i find it? In the examples folder of LyX's installation folder, oterwise here: http://www.lyx.org/trac/browser/lyx-devel/branches/BRANCH_1_5_X/lib/examp

Re: tex import problem

2008-04-24 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Reinhard Handl schrieb: what i am trying to do is: 1.opening a .doc-file in OpenOffice 2.saving the file as .odt-file 3.exporting file to .tex-file 4.importing .tex-file to lyx then the message:" .. file is from a different lyx-version, but lyx2lyx couldnt convert it .." appears Could you

[announce] preview test release of LyX 1.6.0alpha2 for Windows

2008-04-24 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Hello LyX testers, I uploaded a new snapshot of the upcoming LyX version 1.6.0 for Windows: LyX 1.6.0alpha2. 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 use

Re: Listings with 1.6.0alpha1

2008-04-24 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Siegfried MEUNIER-GUTTIN-CLUZEL schrieb: I have a little problem with listings on my LyX 1.6 ( on Windows XP ) Could you recheck this with the alpha2 I just provided? if the problem persists, please open a bug report at bugzilla.lyx.org regards Uwe

Re: Russian style custom table heading

2008-04-24 Thread Uwe Stöhr
D.Zorig schrieb: In KOMA Script book, table headings are like following. Table #.#: Table heading But in most Russian language books are like following. Table #.# Table heading How can I customize such behavior in LYX? Yes, the Koma-script package provides commands to do this. Have a look at t

Re: many sections aren't in PDF

2008-04-24 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Jeremy C. Reed schrieb: The generated PDF (and even DVI) is missing a lot of content. One page just has the section headers going down all the way to bottom of page (even the page numbers on bottom are gone). The next page is many (like 100) sections later. Most of the sections are empty. Sectio

Re: romanizing references

2008-04-24 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Ernesto Posse schrieb: Hi. Is there a way to make references into roman numerals? I have an numerated list where the counter has been changed to roman numerals, and I have given labels to some items, but when I refer to them, they show up in the arabic form. In latex, I have something like \be

Re: Table caption label customization

2008-04-25 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Bob Lounsbury schrieb: I've read KOMA Script manual. But I couldn't figure out how to customize table caption. But it is described there. To change e.g. the caption label to bold, use this command in the preamble: \setkomafont{captionlabel}{\bfseries} I want to leave figure captions as

Re: Package inputenc Error on imported Latex File

2008-04-25 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Jeff Sese schrieb: I'm evaluating LyX and a beginner at LaTex. I have a LaTex file that I imported in LyX and tried to output a pdf from it but I'm getting a "Package inputenc Error". This is the error in the LaTeX log: ! Package inputenc Error: Keyboard character used is undefined (inputenc

Re: [announce] preview test release of LyX 1.6.0alpha2 for Windows

2008-04-25 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Juha Meriluoto schrieb: Seems to be working fine. But the new method for opening pdf files is a bit of a pain when using Comodo Firewall with Defense+ malware filter. Every time I view a document as pdf a temporary executable is created, and every time the malware filter asks me permission fo

Re: Not able to produce output data

2008-04-26 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Kristin schrieb: I just installed Lyx for Windows. I got a message while downloading MikTex that a "thread wasnt completed" or something. Then you have now a broken LaTeX engine in your system. I suggest that you - uninstall LyX completely - uninstall MiKTeX completely - open an internet con

Re: math symbols gone in lyx 1.3.4

2008-04-27 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Robert schrieb: I installed Lyx with the installation cds. Lyx works, but part of the mathematical symbols is gone. eg. there is int and cdot now written in red instead of the symbol. You need to install the latex-xft font package. regards Uwe

Re: Lyx test site not found

2008-04-28 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Siegfried MEUNIER-GUTTIN-CLUZEL schrieb: I receive a lot of messages with "[LyX] recent notify posts" as subject, but when I try to go to the site ( e.g. http://www.lyx.org/test/Web.AboutLyX ), I have an error : "The requested URL /test/Web.AboutLyX was not found on this server." You find the

Re: Again table caption issue

2008-04-28 Thread Uwe Stöhr
D.Zorig schrieb: But I couldn't change fonts of caption label to bold and caption text to slanted as it supposed to. I tried KOMA Script book class' own \setkomafont{captionlabel}{\bfseries} but couldn't get it change. As said, you cannot mix caption commands of the caption package and of th

Re: Font color bug in displayed equations?

2008-04-28 Thread Uwe Stöhr
James Sutherland schrieb: I am using lyx 1.5.4. In previous versions, I could have a displayed equation that was colored. Now it seems that this does not work properly if the equation is not in its own paragraph. As Paul replied, the problem is th \normalcolor command that you use. How form

Re: [announce] preview test release of LyX 1.6.0alpha2 for Windows

2008-04-28 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Juha Meriluoto schrieb: Seems to be working fine. But the new method for opening pdf files is a bit of a pain when using Comodo Firewall with Defense+ malware filter. This has been fixed now for the next release. regards Uwe

Re: where can I download revtex4.layout file

2008-04-30 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Nadine Noeth schrieb: I would like to open a revtex4 template, but Lyx is giving out an error message, that the revtex4.layout file is missing. Any ideas where I can download it? I attached it. But it should be present in your LyX installation folder under "layouts". What Lyx version are you

Re: [announce] preview test release of LyX 1.6.0alpha2 for Windows

2008-05-02 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Olivier Ripoll schrieb: It works fine here (no crash yet). As for the previous versions (svn1 and svn2), the installer detects that I have the dictionaries installed (English and French), but spell checking fails complaining: The Spellchecker could not be started No words list can be found

Re: Lyx 1.5.4

2008-05-05 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Srijit Kumar Bhadra schrieb: What is the difference between LyX-154-3-22 (released on 2008-02-25) and LyX-154-3-23 (released on 2008-03-19)? The latter fixes some compatibilty issues, see the changelog: http://developer.berlios.de/project/shownotes.php?release_id=14372 So better use the late

Re: Install Spanish dictionary

2008-05-06 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Maria Barilla schrieb: I have just installed Lyx, but I had problems installing the Spanish dictionary. What do you do to install an additional dictionary? It should work. As it didn't work for your, uninstall only the existing Spanish Aspell dictionary, the reinstall it using this http://pr

Re: Table wrap float

2008-05-07 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Rune Schjellerup Philosof schrieb: How do I make a table wrap float instead of a figre wrap float? Only with ERT, look at the description of the LateX package "wrapfig". The upcoming LyX 1.6 will provide table wrap floats. regards Uwe

Re: installing new layouts/packages - new and non-tech person

2008-05-07 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Jacque schrieb: I am trying to install new packages for report. I didn't like Koma.script or the default report. What is wrong with them. Before you start to build your own class, read the documentation of koma-script - you can customize it in nearly every field. What do you want to change?

Re: ntbib.sty

2008-05-08 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Hassan Khater schrieb: I am using Lyx 1.5.4.1 under windows XP I am trying to use the natbib reference style but an error message saying (Latex error: file 'natbib.sty' not found. Then - open an internet connection - compile your document again MiKTeX will then either pop up to tell you that

Re: Lyx in Windows - Trouble with the dictionary

2008-05-09 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Adman schrieb: A friend of mine is trying to install LyX in windows, and asked me to post asking for instructions on where to download and how to install & configure the dictionary. Can someone please point him in the correct direction? Why does he not ask directly then? Anyway, you find asp

Re: table placement

2008-05-11 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Thomas DiPrete schrieb: Hi, is there a way to force LyX to place each table on its own page? I have a relatively small table, and LyX insists on placing it on the same page as the next table regardless of whether I put a page break in between, or tell each table to be at the top of the page,

Re: Question about the windows 1.6 alphas

2008-05-11 Thread Uwe Stöhr
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: If I install the Windows 1.6 alpha, will it interfere with my 1.5 installation? In other words, if I install using the 1.6 installer rather than building from the source, can I run 1.5 and 1.6 in parallel as I did under Linux? Yes. I for example do this for months

Re: Reload PDF-viewer?

2008-05-12 Thread Uwe Stöhr
bigblop schrieb: I have installed LyX for windows XP. But when I make changes to my file I need to reopen the PDF file to see the change. Is there no way to avoid closing and reopening each time I want to see and updated version of my test? Try to reinstall LyX using LyX 1.5.5. regards Uwe

[announce] LyXWinInstaller for LyX 1.5.5

2008-05-13 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Hello LyXers, I uploaded the new version 3.24 of the LyXWinInstaller. Like for the last versions, an update installer is offered. With this you can easily update your LyX 1.5.4 installation to LyX 1.5.5: Log in as adminstrator on your PC and execute the update installer. Note: The update instal

Re: SVG to PDF

2008-05-13 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Máté Salát schrieb: I use LyX and Inkscape on Win XP. I compile my documents exclusively with pdflatex. > If I insert an SVG image into my LyX document and compile it then the automatic > conversation gives a wrong sized image with wide white border on the bottom and on > the right side. So

Re: moderncv publications

2008-05-13 Thread Uwe Stöhr
snvv schrieb: I try to change the title of publications but the usual \renewcommand{\refname}{X} or \renewcommand{\bibname}{X} does not work. This is not the usual way when you are using babel - as LyX does. Use this sequence instead: \usepackage[french]{babel} \addto\captionsfrench

Re: Change tracker continues to have problems

2008-05-13 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Jim Rockford schrieb: I had this exact same problem with 1.5.4, which 1.55 has inherited. With the change tracker, when I elect to "Show Changes In Output" I get the following error: "Package soul Error: Reconstruction failed." What exactly is the problem? I don't get this package error. Ha

Re: Maths screen fonts displayed incorrectly

2008-05-14 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Chris Jewell schrieb: There seems to be a very nagging problem, however, in that whenever I'm in a maths environment, the LaTeX command \propto is always displayed as a \mu, rather than its correct symbol. Do you have the LaTeX-XFT fonts installed? regards Uwe

Re: Change tracker continues to have problems

2008-05-14 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Jim Rockford schrieb: Hi -- there was one important piece of information that I discovered: this problem only occurs with pdflatex output. What exactly is the problem? Does it appear for any document? Please open a bug report and attach there a small example file to be able to reproduce the

Re: Maths screen fonts displayed incorrectly

2008-05-14 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Ok, installing the LaTeX-XFT fonts has cured the problem. Thank you! Perhaps this should be added to the dependencies for the deb LyX package? Yes, please report this issue to the LyX debian package manager (this is Sven Höxter as far as I know). regards Uwe

Re: Strange behaviour of .eps figures in LyX 1.5.5

2008-05-14 Thread Uwe Stöhr
> An .eps figure is inserted into a figure float. This picture has a bounding box. When its sizes > are obtained from the file ("get from file"), the bounding box is neglected and the full figure > (the whole A4 page) is shown in LyX. This was a bug in ImageMagick. Update to ImageMagick 6.3.8-1

Re: LyX is outputting PDF's which use raster fonts?

2008-05-15 Thread Uwe Stöhr
woodvorg schrieb: Anyone know what I need to do to fix this and use proper fonts? Look here: http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/PDF under "The fonts are bad in the exported PDF, what can I do?" regards Uwe

Re: Text wrap float problems

2008-05-16 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Helge Hafting schrieb: The problem is that text wrap doesn't work all that well in current versions of LyX. It simply breaks down if the wrapped figure gets too close to: - a heading - a page break This is not a problem of LyX but of LaTeX (as describedn in the EmbeddedObjects manual btw.).

Re: '#' in index entries - possible?

2008-05-17 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Alexis Huxley schrieb: I'm writing a document which references bug reports in Debian. The official format of a Debian bug report number is '#99'. .. When compiling to DVI, I get the following LaTeX error: you can't use `macro parameter character #' in horizontal mode You have t

Re: importing spreadsheet rows and columns

2008-05-17 Thread Uwe Stöhr
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: Hi, I'm using LyX 1.5.3 and have a situation where I need to put spreadsheet data into tables in LyX Upgrdade to LyX 1.5.5 and use there the menu File -> Import -> Comma separated values. This requires that you format your spreadsheet to a CSV file with Tabs as colu

Re: importing spreadsheet rows and columns

2008-05-19 Thread Uwe Stöhr
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: Okay -- I've got 1.5.5 installed. When I import a csv file it separates the rows but not the columns. In looking at the converter I see that the python script is csv2lyx. I can't find that script on my system. I attached the latest version of the script. It does now

Re: Appendix question for koma-script book

2008-05-19 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Marwan Boustany schrieb: I was looking to see how to create a section for the appendix, a section which would have the bibliography after it. I saw code: - \begin{appendix} bla bla \end{appendix} But when I put this in nothing happens*, either as standard text or as ert text. (btw, \bla{bla

Re: bug with alignement of minipages ?

2008-05-19 Thread Uwe Stöhr
nicolas roy schrieb: I noticed something which looks to me like a small bug: If you have to minipages, with width = 45 % of the page width. They appear on the same line. Suppose you set the alignement to "top" for both. It works. But if the first one is with "shadow" (from the french "boite om

Re: Default Float placement is pathetic

2008-05-19 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Marwan Boustany schrieb: Peace, Nice joke. Is it necessary to force very float to be 'here definitely' if I actually want it to be correctly placed in the text? You can use the document wide option in the document settings menu, but this will affect all floats of your document. I would th

Re: Appendix and document structure

2008-05-19 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Tim Michelsen schrieb: I want to have the following structure: Executive Summary (Section*) Part I Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Part II Chapter 3 Annex A But in my Lyx TOC outline on the left sidepane as well as in the PDF Annex A is attributed to the Part II like: Part II Chapter 3

Re: Default Float placement is pathetic

2008-05-20 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Abdelrazak Younes schrieb: Well that's an insulting joke IMHO, No, it's OK, I just was in the mood to make a littel joke and he made one two (a nice attempt btw.), so everything is fine. regards Uwe

Re: A couple problems

2008-05-20 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Brian Bubnash schrieb: Secondly, I'm finding that when I view the output for image floats, or table floats, that there is no check for where page boundaries are, so that overly wide images or tables will disappear off of the rendered page, unless I specify size in terms of column width in the ca

Re: A couple problems

2008-05-20 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Manveru schrieb: I think there are tricks to list not cited in text (I saw such sometime ago on this list as far as I remember). This feature will be available in the upcoming LyX 1.6. regards Uwe

Re: segmentation fault

2008-05-20 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Khusnutdinov Nail schrieb: I just installed lyx 1.5.4 by using repository of Fedora. My system: ASPLinux 12 (based on Fedora 7). I use KDE 3.5 but with installed parts of KDE4 and Qt4. When I start in console lyx I obtain result: "segmentation fault" and the program does not start. When you a

Re: IEEEtran theorem numbering by section

2008-05-20 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Virgil schrieb: But how can one choose per-section numbering (Theorem 3.5 for the firth theorem in the third section, for example)? Enable in the document settings dialog explicitely amsmath, then use this command in the preamble: \numberwithin{counter}{section} where counter is the counter

Re: segmentation fault

2008-05-20 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Steve Litt schrieb: Also, I'd like to once again recommend that the developers develop each LyX version to be compatible with a wider range of Qt. LyX 1.5 can be compiled with Qt 4.2, 4.3, and 4.4. Qt 4.4. was just not release when LyX 1.5.4 came out, so we could first support it with LyX 1.5

Re: ModernCV in LyX broken?

2008-05-21 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Frank schrieb: I opened the moderncv.lyx example in lyx, pressed the pdflatex button to see what it looks like and received the message, "Undefined control sequence," on the use of \moderncvtheme. What is wrong? You are using an old version of the modernCV LaTeX package. What is you LyX versi

Re: ModernCV in LyX broken?

2008-05-21 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Frank schrieb: I'm using LyX 1.5.5 and pdfTeX 3.141592-1.40.3-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.6). How would I find what version of moderncv I have? Open the file "moderncv.cls" with an editor. regards Uwe

Re: Problem with LyX 1.5.5 (WinAltInstaller)

2008-05-21 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Humberto Castejon schrieb: For some reason, when I open LyX, it does not remember the sate in which it was when it was closed. Any easy fix? Strange, to assure that this works, try to uninstall the existing LyX 1.5 versions you have on your system _completely_ (including personal user setting

Re: ModernCV in LyX broken?

2008-05-21 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Frank schrieb: Hi, Uwe.Thanks! I see I am using v0.5. I'll download the moderncv package from CTAN (presuming it has v0.6). Of course it has the latest version, that is 0.6. Just to recap, though, I copy the files to their corresponding places in texlive/2007/. directories, choose

Re: SVGs with alpha channel transparency

2006-06-25 Thread Uwe Stöhr
John Pye wrote: This approach (save as PDF from Inkscape) did not give me alpha channel transparency in my PDF. Inkscape saves the opacity for every structure not for groups of structures as you defined your SVG. You will get the alpha channel when you ungroup your SVG-structures. In a priva

Re: Graphics quality in PDF vs. PS, etc.

2006-06-25 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Curtis Osterhoudt wrote: I'm currently producing documents using LyX, in which graphics are often XFig figures. I like the fact that LaTeX fonts can be embedded in such figures, and look great when the final document is produced*. However, if such a figure is relatively complicated (for ex

Re: Unexpected problem when converting from dvi to pdf

2006-06-26 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Horacio Emilio Pérez Sánchez wrote: When I compile the document to .dvi format, all the document looks as I want. But when I convert the .dvi document, to .pdf, using in the command line: dvipdf document.dvi there is an error message: ESP Ghostscript 7.07.1: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1

Re: How to number the equations

2006-07-02 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Zhenhua Wu wrote: I want to know how to number the equations. Create a displayed equation and use the shortcut "M-m n" or the menu "Edit -> Math - > Numbering" to toggle the numbering on/off (the cursor must be inside the formula). You don't need to label a formula to number it. To number

Re: aspell on XP

2006-07-03 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Ed Gatzke wrote: I have not been able to get spell checking to work on the 1.4.1 LyX build on Windows XP. I have installed Aspell-0-50-3-3-Setup.exe and told it to install in C:\Aspell LyX 1.4.1 needs aspell version 0.60.x. I have installed aspell6-en-6.0-0.exe in a variety of places, inclu

Re: Huge empty space

2006-07-06 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Julio Rojas wrote: Hi. When LaTeX needs to move a float from its place to another one due to layout problems, a huge empty space keeps there, instead of puting together the paragraphs before and after the space. How can I solve this problem??? This problem occur wen you have set the float plac

Re: Math fonts in win32

2006-07-09 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Thomas Weithöner schrieb: I have spent a number of hours trying to figure out how to get the math symbols displayed in in the win32 environment. > ... I also tried to replace to fonts provided in the standard installation by the BaKoMa Fonts for LyX-Win package. Nope. That should definetivel

Re: please consolidate the documentation

2006-07-18 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Sven Schreiber schrieb: Well isn't there a documentation team? Unfortunately there is no team. At the moment the developers add new docs sections if they implemented a new feature. Therefore the docs aren't consistent in style and not always well verbalized. The last time I cleaned up the do

Re: Big problem with notes - Add content to the table of content

2006-07-25 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Isaac Pante wrote: I've found the answer. The notes with this problem were created highlighting the content of the footnote THEN by pressing the footnote button. > It should be a good idea to disable this possibility for the following > versions of lyx. Please report such issues to bugzilla.l

Re: Big problem with notes - Add content to the table of content

2006-07-25 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Isaac Pante schrieb: Thanks for your answers! I tried the "addtocontents" command. It writes my chapter in the table of contents but not the page number. Is there another command allowing me to add the page number too? Try the command \addcontentsline: http://www-h.eng.cam.ac.uk/help/tpl/te

Re: Problem with Bookmarks on TOC

2006-07-27 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia schrieb: In my document I've a TOC, I've a BibTeX bibliography, and I'm using the hyperref package. I've got a "Conclusioni" chapter* that is unnumbered, and next to it I've got the bibliography. I've also put a ERT with \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{\numberline{}Conclu

Re: \parbox+\vspace not working correctly

2006-07-28 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Jeremy Johnson wrote: I want to have a mail closing statement like follows: #ERT#{\parindent=3.5in \parbox[c]{2.5in}{\noindent Sincerely yours, \newline \vspace{1.0in} John Doe } You don't need to use ERT for this. Attached a LyX-file showing how this is typeset with as less ERT as possible.

Re: PDF Variations

2006-07-28 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Bruce Pourciau schrieb: Can anyone help me understand the differences among the three PDF flavors -- dvipdfm, pdflatex, ps2pdf -- both for View and Export? http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/PDF#dvipdfm-vs-pdflatex regards Uwe

Re: Lyx User's Guide won't work

2006-07-30 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Tom schrieb: I have installed Lyx 1.4.2 and when I try to open the User's guide I get an error "The document uses a missing tex class scrbook Lyx will not be able to produce output" And I can't view the document properly since the DVI output does not work. I assume that you mean the german us

Re: Lyx User's Guide won't work

2006-07-31 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Tommy schrieb: Hello, thanks for the quick reply. I have installed the windows package lyx-142-1.exe available from http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/Windows . That is the one that is trying to uses the koma-script classes. What's the language of the menus in your LyX installation? I tried look

Re: My webpage about LY X, LATEX and BibTEX

2006-08-02 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Ares wrote: Hello everyone, I published a page about my tips and tricks on LyX, LATEX and BibTEX at: http://www.webalice.it/ares001/job/Tips.htm Let me know if you find it useful or if you find any error... Good work. But why don't you add this to the LyX Wiki: http://wiki.lyx.org/ Some o

Re: Fw: jPicEdt graphics

2006-08-02 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Eugenio wrote: I've been using lyx 1.3.7 on windows XP for quite a while and everything is working fine. When I made the switch to 1.4.2, I lost the lines for jPicEdt graphics that looked fine in version 1.3.7. Are the graphics incorrectly be displayed inside LyX but correctly in the outpu

Re: Fw: jPicEdt graphics

2006-08-02 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Eugenio wrote: I forgot to mention that graphics display right in the output. The problem is only inside Lyx. I'm using Imagemagick 6.2.3 dated 06/08/05 and is the same used for 1.3.7 Then please file a bug report at bugzilla.lyx.org and attach there a problematic jPicEdt-file. regards Uwe

Re: help with winXP installation: no textclass.lst no packages.lst

2006-08-03 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Michael Hartje schrieb: After installing and reconfiguring there was no textclass.lst and packages.lst found. In this case it is the best to reinstall LyX as something has been broken while the installation. But all of this does not help to obtain a correct listing in the menu dialog "Werk

Re: Help with euro symbol

2006-08-04 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Jordi Nadal wrote: I've added \usepackage{eurosym} to document preamble and pasted some euro symbols (appears «?» on LyX) and the ps/pdf output also shows «?» instead of euro. Same as without eurosym. Of course because LyX 1.4.x couldn't handle Unicode or the encoding the encodings to display

Re: Description of the different document classes

2006-08-04 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Rainer M Krug wrote: where can I find a description and differences between the different document classes - not what they are usually used for, but what the differences are? Have a look at chapter 2 of the files "UserguidesNV.xxx" at http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/DocumentationDevelopment regards

Re: Help with euro symbol

2006-08-05 Thread Uwe Stöhr
José Matos schrieb: Nope, there is a bug somewhere. LyX supports latin9, the encoding used for the euro, and I have inserted it directly before. This is bug 845: http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=845 But I was never able to enter the €-sign directly also not in XForms of the 1.3.x se

[announce] LyxWinInstaller with MiKTeX 2.5 and LyX 1.4.2

2006-08-07 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Hello LyXers, I just released version 2.5 of my LyX/LaTeX-Installer LyXWinInstaller. It can be downloaded frome here: https://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5117&release_id=10626 the sourcecode from here: https://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5117&rel

Re: [announce] LyxWinInstaller with MiKTeX 2.5 and LyX 1.4.2

2006-08-07 Thread Uwe Stöhr
TechTonics wrote: Thank you, I look forward to trying it. It will probably avoid that minor Python bug. What Python bug? I've read that some of the upgrades to Miktex2.5 haven't gone well and the Miktex2.4 version is no longer available on its website. All older MiKTeX versions are availab

Re: [announce] LyxWinInstaller with MiKTeX 2.5 and LyX 1.4.2

2006-08-07 Thread Uwe Stöhr
TechTonics wrote: Joost's version of LyX1.4.2 created a subset of Python2.4.3 and installed it in a sub-directory of LyX even though I had system-wide Python2.4.3 installed and in Windows Path. This is then a bug. Python should only be installed when it isn't already on the system. This bug i

Re: Equation numbering

2006-08-07 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Mike Reeks wrote: Any idea how to change Eqn numbering from numbering by section to absolute numbering? Add this line to your preamble or at the beginning of your document in ERT (assure that you use amsmath explicitely in the document preferences): \renewcommand{\theequation}{\arabic{equa

Re: input not placed correctly after linebreak

2006-08-07 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Paul A. Rubin wrote: Also happens on WinXP. Jens Noeckel wrote: > Yes, I can confirm this bug on LyX/Mac 1.4.2. Then please fill out a bug report at bugzilla.lyx.org regards Uwe

Re: [announce] LyxWinInstaller with MiKTeX 2.5 and LyX 1.4.2

2006-08-07 Thread Uwe Stöhr
TechTonics wrote: SH: System Python ran that script without any fixing, so that means Joost's local Python installed directory isn't fully functional. Because you can modify the script so that the shortcoming is not apparent is a workaround not a fix, IMO. Joost build the installer by using th

Re: [announce] LyxWinInstaller with MiKTeX 2.5 and LyX 1.4.2

2006-08-07 Thread Uwe Stöhr
TechTonics wrote: I tried for a couple of hours to discover the missing files and it is a real PITA. I found the problem: I simply don't deliver all python encoding files in the local installation. I will release a bugfix release of the installer later this week. many thanks again regards

Re: could not open temporary directory in .

2006-08-08 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Michael Chen schrieb: I just deleted all contents in the "path" preference, and closed the Lyx. Now I can not start Lyx, the error messege is "Could not create a temporary directory in . Make sure that this path exists and is writable and try again". How can I get out of it? Thanks. Reinstall

Re: Hilfe-Datei

2006-08-08 Thread Uwe Stöhr
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: > Translation: They are trying to make use of LyX in their company > (Hallesche is a German insurance company). They've create an own > document class and a template. Moreover, they've created a new help > file and now they want to know how to integrate it into the Help

Re: Bib to toc

2006-08-08 Thread Uwe Stöhr
david wrote: Thanks, but I don't have a BibTex-Bibliography, just the "normal" one provided by Lyx. Is there a way to have this one mentioned in the table of contents? If you use a koma-script class, add the class-option "bibtotoc" in the document preferences. Without koma-script, use the L

Re: Problem with formulas (AMS package used)

2006-08-08 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Rainer M Krug schrieb: I have a table with formulas - which works fine, but the formulas look (for my taste at least) quite bad, i.e. subscript difficult to identify as subscript and the same size as the normal letters (see attached pdf). Is there anything I can do except of changing the font si

annotations to german LyX math manual

2006-08-08 Thread Uwe Stöhr
I want to start to translate my german LyX manual: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LyXMathebefehle to english. If you have annotations to the current version, what is missing and should be described, please send them to me. It's easier for me to start the translation from an almost complete german ver

Re: Windows LyX Installation - need to install Lyx on same drive as Miktex.

2006-08-08 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Andrew Nelson wrote: I recently had problems with installing the Lyx executable (1.4.2) under WinXP. My Miktex distribution was on my d: drive. I was installing Lyx to c:. Whenever I tried to output a document Lyx stalled on the 1st Latex run. I checked that Latex was ok from a DOS prompt

Re: Hilfe-Datei

2006-08-09 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Enrico Forestieri writes: > Translation: Is it possible to add a footnote to the caption of a > floating table/picture? Not really. This is a restriction of LaTeX. It is possible. You need to put the table/picture in a minipage inside the float. But this doesn't work for captions and this

Re: miktex 2.5 WinLyX

2006-08-09 Thread Uwe Stöhr
TechTonics wrote: I think that miktex 2.5 may be missing the file, htlatex.bat and as a consequence the command line "htlatex myfile.tex" will produce, htlatex: The Windows command script file could not be found. This file is there when you have installed the tex4ht package in MiKTeX 2.5. reg

Re: Equation numbering

2006-08-09 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Mike Reeks wrote: In my preamble after the line \renewcommand{\theequation}{\arabic{equation}} I added the line @addtoreset{equation}{section} which had nor effect. Have I followed your suggestion correcty, have I mispelt it. What next? You missed the preceding "\": [EMAIL PROTECTED] But a

Re: Can you reproduce this problem?

2006-08-09 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Nicolás a écrit: I am having problems with greyed out note ...: (1) Select Itemize, (2) write "Hello Bob", (3) select (i.e. highlight) "Bob", and (4) go to Insert->Note and select "Greyed out" In my installation, a note containing "Bob" and inheriting the itemize style is created. That is, th

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