Re: Newbie question: newline before \and in author environment

2005-10-29 Thread Michael-E. Voges
Hi 杨朝晖, Am Freitag, 28. Oktober 2005 17:17 schrieb 杨朝晖: When writing an article in tex source, in the author block I would format the code this way: \author { Author1\\ Institute1 \and Author2\\ Institute2 } But in lyx I can't add linebreak (\\) before or after the \and command. That

Where can I see what lyx is doing in the background when generating a preview?

2005-10-29 Thread Sanders, Maarten (M.J.L.)
Hi, I am struggling again with a possible bug. I have a chapter (created from c-code with a custom perl script) which is included in a master document. When I open the chapter I can generate a ps2pdf preview without any trouble. I edited the document and inserted an image and everything is

Re: Where can I see what lyx is doing in the background when generating a preview?

2005-10-29 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 29 Oct 2005, Sanders, Maarten (M.J.L.) wrote: Where can I see what lyx is doing in the background when generating a preview? Maarten, Take a look in /tmp/lyx_tmpdirectory*/lyx_tmpbuf0/ and you'll find all the files, including the .log file. Rich -- Dr. Richard B. Shepard,

Algorithm

2005-10-29 Thread mywebs2005-lyx
I'm happy because all auto names of LaTeX (like ``2nd February, 2005'', and ``Figure 1'' and ``Table 1'') are translated to portuguese and spanish as I need (like ``20 de outubro de 2005'', or ``Figura 1'', or ``Tabela 1''), but some single words remain in english, like ``algorithm''. How

Re: Algorithm

2005-10-29 Thread David L. Johnson
On Sat, 29 Oct 2005 17:34:35 -0300 (ART) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm happy because all auto names of LaTeX (like ``2nd February, 2005'', and ``Figure 1'' and ``Table 1'') are translated to portuguese and spanish as I need (like ``20 de outubro de 2005'', or ``Figura 1'', or ``Tabela

Re: Where can I see what lyx is doing in the background when generating a preview?

2005-10-29 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Sanders, Maarten (M.J.L.) wrote: Hi, I am struggling again with a possible bug. I have a chapter (created from c-code with a custom perl script) which is included in a master document. When I open the chapter I can generate a ps2pdf preview without any trouble. I edited the document and

Re: Chapter with numbering but without word chapter - more questions...

2005-10-29 Thread Steve Litt
On Friday 21 October 2005 12:00 pm, Uwe Stöhr wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: Do you by any chance also know, if it is now also possible to get the number of the chapter in front of my own chapter title instead of on top of it? And is there a possibility to get around the pagebreaks when

Re: Chapter with numbering but without word chapter - more questions...

2005-10-29 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 29 Oct 2005, Steve Litt wrote: Where does one get The LaTeX Companion 2nd edition? http://www.amazon.com, http://www.powells.com, and others. It's a great resource, Steve. I ended up reading it cover to cover just because it was so interesting and answered so many questions.

Can't see my layout environments

2005-10-29 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, I have a custom layout file (storybook.layout, defining the storybook document class, which is derived from memoir). None of my defined LyX styles appear in my environment list, even though I edit-rebuild, exited, and then view-postscript. The layout file is being processed, because I

Re: Can't see my layout environments

2005-10-29 Thread Steve Litt
I have more info. I deleted all references to TopNote from the file, reperformed texhash, then went into LyX and did Edit-reconfigure and then restarted LyX, and it STILL issued the same error message. There's a ghost of layout files past. SteveT On Saturday 29 October 2005 09:13 pm, Steve

Re: Newbie question: newline before \and in author environment

2005-10-29 Thread 杨朝晖
On 2005-10-30 2:20, Michael-E. Voges wrote: Hi 杨朝晖, Am Freitag, 28. Oktober 2005 17:17 schrieb 杨朝晖: When writing an article in tex source, in the author block I would format the code this way: \author { Author1\\ Institute1 \and Author2\\ Institute2 } But in lyx I can't add linebreak (\\)

Re: Installing a layout

2005-10-30 Thread chr
On Sat, 29 Oct 2005, Brighten Godfrey wrote: Hi, I am trying to use the layout files from the below web page (I've been looking for a layout like this for years!): http://www.math.uiuc.edu/~hartke/computer/lyx/lyx.php I put them in the `layouts' directory in the LyX configuration

Re: Newbie question: newline before \and in author environment

2005-10-30 Thread Michael-E. Voges
Hi 杨朝晖, Am Sonntag, 30. Oktober 2005 03:57 schrieb 杨朝晖: On 2005-10-30 2:20, Michael-E. Voges wrote: Am Freitag, 28. Oktober 2005 17:17 schrieb 杨朝晖: When writing an article in tex source, in the author block I would format the code this way: \author { Author1\\ Institute1 \and Author2\\

Re: Newbie question: newline before \and in author environment

2005-10-30 Thread 杨朝晖
what about the attached file? Micha-E. Minipage is good if I'm not required to write it in the standard way (using \and). I end up with code in the attachment, not so good as the minipages. Best regards, yzhh #LyX 1.3 created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/ \lyxformat 221

reference

2005-10-30 Thread Søren O'Neill
Hi there, I'm using Jabref to handle a bibliographic database, which I cite in LyX. http://jabref.sourceforge.net/ I use the vancouver style to format references. http://www.tug.org/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/contrib/vancouver/vancouver.bst Things are working, but when I insert a reference to a

Re: Where can I see what lyx is doing in the background when generating a preview?

2005-10-30 Thread Georg Baum
Am Sonntag, 30. Oktober 2005 00:05 schrieb Paul A. Rubin: Sanders, Maarten (M.J.L.) wrote: I already found out things work again when I remove the image from the child document OR when I adjust the page margins in the preamble instead of with the menu options. Very strange. I am running

Emacs keybindings on Windows?

2005-10-30 Thread Rex Eastbourne
Are Emacs keybindings included in the Windows version? I looked but couldn't find them. If not, is there anywhere I could get them? Thanks for the great program! I knew there had to be a better way than conventional TeX. Chris

User-defined macros outside of math mode

2005-10-30 Thread Rex Eastbourne
The math macros are great. I'm wondering if I can similarly define macros with arguments outside of math mode. When I TeX I often define macros with or without arguments. Are these possible? Alternatively, can one define templates of text to insert with a keyboard command? Thanks, Rex

Re: Symbols for a figure key - adding a new font

2005-10-31 Thread David Wolfson
Paul, Thanks for the reply - sorry not to get back to you sooner, I took the weeekend off! Paul A. Rubin wrote: David Wolfson wrote: I tried adding \usepackage{ifsym} in the preamamble, I think you need \usepackage[geometry]{ifsym} to get \FilledTriangleUp. surprised to hear that I get

Re: Emacs keybindings on Windows?

2005-10-31 Thread Angus Leeming
Rex Eastbourne wrote: Are Emacs keybindings included in the Windows version? I looked but couldn't find them. If not, is there anywhere I could get them? Thanks for the great program! I knew there had to be a better way than conventional TeX. The emacs.bind file should be at C:\Program

Re: User-defined macros outside of math mode

2005-10-31 Thread Angus Leeming
Rex Eastbourne wrote: The math macros are great. I'm wondering if I can similarly define macros with arguments outside of math mode. When I TeX I often define macros with or without arguments. Are these possible? Sorry, no. You could cheat though and define a math macro to insert, say,

Updating dvi

2005-10-31 Thread mywebs2005-lyx
Hey guys, how are you? Well, I cannot view the newest dvi file when I type ctrl+d. It just launch the old one. I need always to manually delete the dvi file, and then press the ctrl+d again to really view the dvi file with the last modifications. I tried to use the update menu, but it

Upcoming LyX versions

2005-10-31 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, I seem to remember that an upcoming LyX version will have a different native format. What will that native format be? Will it still be a front end to LaTeX, or will it go in a different direction? Also, when will we have character styles? Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Author: *

RE: Where can I see what lyx is doing in the background whengenerating a preview?

2005-10-31 Thread Sanders, Maarten (M.J.L.)
I found a solution but it remains very strange. DVI output was generated but DVI failed to convert to PS. It seems dvips gest confused when in the master document preamble there is something like: \newcommand{\something}{something} and when a child document is using the same preamble. I really

Re: Upcoming LyX versions

2005-10-31 Thread Angus Leeming
Steve Litt wrote: I seem to remember that an upcoming LyX version will have a different native format. What will that native format be? Will it still be a front end to LaTeX, or will it go in a different direction? LyX will always be a frontend to LaTeX. However, now and in the future, it's

Custom titlepage

2005-10-31 Thread Sanders, Maarten (M.J.L.)
Hi, Is anyone aware of any samples of lyx and a customized titlepage? E.g. a full page image with text printed over it. met vriendelijke groet / kind regards, Maarten Sanders

Re: Custom titlepage

2005-10-31 Thread Gunnar
Is anyone aware of any samples of lyx and a customized titlepage? E.g. a full page image with text printed over it. I simply inserted an eps file and in ERT I inserted the commands \thispagestyle{empty} \newpage worked for me. Gunnar.

Re: do we have something like #ifdef from C in LyX? (multipart documentswith common macros)

2005-10-31 Thread Todd Denniston
David Soukal wrote: Hello guys, I'm sorry to bother you with something that's must have been answered many times, but I can't find a quick answer in the documentation. SNIP The chapters compile fine, however, the master won't compile because of multiple definition of the same macros.

Re: Symbols for a figure key - adding a new font

2005-10-31 Thread Paul A. Rubin
David Wolfson wrote: This would suggest that ifsym is not properly installed. Did you (a) install it and (b) update your TeX file database? If so, try 'kpsewhich ifsym.sty' from a shell to see if the system knows where to find it. a) not that I'm aware of! I think this is what I really need

Re: do we have something like #ifdef from C in LyX? (multipart documentswith common macros)

2005-10-31 Thread Todd Denniston
Todd Denniston wrote: David Soukal wrote: Hello guys, I'm sorry to bother you with something that's must have been answered many times, but I can't find a quick answer in the documentation. SNIP The chapters compile fine, however, the master won't compile because of multiple

Re: Symbols for a figure key - adding a new font

2005-10-31 Thread David Wolfson
Paul, This would suggest that ifsym is not properly installed. Did you (a) install it and (b) update your TeX file database? If so, try 'kpsewhich ifsym.sty' from a shell to see if the system knows where to find it. Is there a 'howto' out there I should look at? Have a gander at

Re: Updating dvi

2005-10-31 Thread Paul Smith
On 10/31/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey guys, how are you? Well, I cannot view the newest dvi file when I type ctrl+d. It just launch the old one. I need always to manually delete the dvi file, and then press the ctrl+d again to really view the dvi file with the

Re: Custom titlepage

2005-10-31 Thread Steve Litt
On Monday 31 October 2005 10:43 am, Sanders, Maarten (M.J.L.) wrote: Hi, Is anyone aware of any samples of lyx and a customized titlepage? E.g. a full page image with text printed over it. met vriendelijke groet / kind regards, Maarten Sanders This won't be a popular reply, but on my

Re: Can't see my layout environments SOLVED

2005-10-31 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, I solved the problem. The root cause was that in my .layout file I forgot to end one or more LyX styles with the End keyword. If your .layout file seems to be recognized but you don't see your custom created LyX environments in your LyX environment dropdown, look for an unended LyX

Re: Updating dvi

2005-10-31 Thread mywebs2005-lyx
Thanks Paul, but that not work neither. The Shift+Ctrl+d is the same to ``View-update-DVI'' Douglas: use shift+ctrl+d instead. Paul Abraços! Douglas __ Faça ligações para outros

Changing the parameters of minipage

2005-10-31 Thread Alain Leroux
I have search extensively the files without finding how to change the default behaviour of minipage. For example, I would like the default width to be fixed to 8 cm and the alignment to bottom. Is it possible to hack the config files to obtain that? A.Leroux

Re: Custom titlepage

2005-10-31 Thread Todd Denniston
Sanders, Maarten (M.J.L.) wrote: Hi, Is anyone aware of any samples of lyx and a customized titlepage? E.g. a full page image with text printed over it. met vriendelijke groet / kind regards, Maarten Sanders It is not straight LyX, but I think you might be able to use a bit of LaTeX

Re: Updating dvi

2005-10-31 Thread Paul Smith
On 10/31/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Paul, but that not work neither. The Shift+Ctrl+d is the same to ``View-update-DVI'' Douglas: use shift+ctrl+d instead. What is the DVI viewer that you are using, Douglas? Paul

Re: Symbols for a figure key - adding a new font

2005-10-31 Thread David Wolfson
OK, I've had some luck getting it installed, but working is another matter... This would suggest that ifsym is not properly installed. Did you (a) install it and (b) update your TeX file database? If so, try 'kpsewhich ifsym.sty' from a shell to see if the system knows where to find

Re: Algorithm

2005-10-31 Thread Abel Fernández Fernández
[EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: I'm happy because all auto names of LaTeX (like ``2nd February, 2005'', and ``Figure 1'' and ``Table 1'') are translated to portuguese and spanish as I need (like ``20 de outubro de 2005'', or ``Figura 1'', or ``Tabela 1''), but some single words remain in

Re: Symbols for a figure key - adding a new font

2005-10-31 Thread David Wolfson
I've just donr dome more p[oking and got a couple of updates. Unfortunately, the output was not as I'd hope. Instead of getting a triangle, I have an 'a' in the DVI, and nothing in pdf. This is the same processing through LyX or LaTeX on the command line. This appears to be a problem with

Re: Symbols for a figure key - adding a new font

2005-10-31 Thread Paul A. Rubin
David Wolfson wrote: Unfortunately, the output was not as I'd hope. Instead of getting a triangle, I have an 'a' in the DVI, I get the same thing. and nothing in pdf. This is the same processing through LyX or LaTeX on the command line. This appears to be a problem with mktexpk, as if I

Re: Algorithm

2005-10-31 Thread Abel Fernández Fernández
[EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: I'm happy because all auto names of LaTeX (like ``2nd February, 2005'', and ``Figure 1'' and ``Table 1'') are translated to portuguese and spanish as I need (like ``20 de outubro de 2005'', or ``Figura 1'', or ``Tabela 1''), but some single words remain in

Unwanted new paragraph after change to embedded math

2005-11-01 Thread gumm
When I mark some text and change it into embedded math (Insert-Math-Embedded Formula or hitting C-m) LyX starts a new paragraph right after that selection. Is this a bug, or how can I stop LyX from doing that ? With instant-preview activated, the new paragraph break also shows up in the LyX

Re: Symbols for a figure key - adding a new font

2005-11-01 Thread David Wolfson
On Monday 31 October 2005 21:33, Paul A. Rubin wrote: David Wolfson wrote: Unfortunately, the output was not as I'd hope. Instead of getting a triangle, I have an 'a' in the DVI, LaTeX writes out a DVI file which contains a command to load the ifgeo10 font. When your DVI viewer (xdvi) tries

Re: Updating dvi

2005-11-01 Thread mywebs2005-lyx
Yap 2.4.1803 DVI viewer. Thanks for trying to help! :))) --- Paul Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] escreveu: On 10/31/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Paul, but that not work neither. The Shift+Ctrl+d is the same to ``View-update-DVI'' Douglas: use shift+ctrl+d

Re: do we have something like #ifdef from C in LyX? (multipart documents with common macros)

2005-11-01 Thread Helge Hafting
David Soukal wrote: Hello guys, I'm sorry to bother you with something that's must have been answered many times, but I can't find a quick answer in the documentation. I've just discovered the beauty of multipart documents. But I almost instantly ran into problems. What happens is the

Re: Algorithm

2005-11-01 Thread mywebs2005-lyx
Hey Abel, thank you to take care, but I did it and still not working. Neither at preamble nor the start of the Lyx document. Can you check it please? Thanks again in advance! --- Abel Fernández Fernández [EMAIL PROTECTED] escreveu: [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: I'm happy

Re: Algorithm

2005-11-01 Thread Abel Fernández Fernández
I use the package listings, this could be the reason that it's working for me. I put in the preamble \usepackage{listings} and in the begining of the lyx document in a ERT \floatname{algorithm}{Código} It works for me, and in the dvi it shows Código instead of Algorithm. Sorry for my bad

Re: Algorithm Solved

2005-11-01 Thread mywebs2005-lyx
\usepackage{listings} Ok Abel, it was solved by you! :) Thanks a lot! Abraços! Douglas ___ Promoção Yahoo! Acesso Grátis: a cada hora navegada

Re: do we have something like #ifdef from C in LyX? (multipart documents with common macros)

2005-11-01 Thread David Soukal
Depends - are these plain latex macros, or lyx macros ? For latex macros this is trivial. Define them in the preamble! That works well, because in the multi-document include case, only the preamble from the master document is used. So the chapter document's preamble is only used when the

Re: do we have something like #ifdef from C in LyX? (multipart documentswith common macros)

2005-11-01 Thread David Soukal
Todd Denniston wrote: Todd Denniston wrote: David Soukal wrote: Hello guys, I'm sorry to bother you with something that's must have been answered many times, but I can't find a quick answer in the documentation. SNIP The chapters compile fine, however, the master won't compile because

Using Curly Brackets in Text

2005-11-01 Thread Daniel Watkins
The subject says it all. I'm looking to do something that'll look like this: Not blah Blah } Blah } These lines contain blah Blah } Not blah The three }s should be replaced by one big curly bracket. I have tried doing this using a Maths environment, but I could never convince it to work...

Re: Using lyx and multibib

2005-11-01 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Christofer Zwanzig wrote: Are there any sugestions how I can solve this problem? It will be difficult to get LyX to work with multibib. You could try bibtopic as an alternative. Cf. http://wiki.lyx.org/BibTeX/BibTeX#toc2 Jürgen

Re: Symbols for a figure key - adding a new font

2005-11-01 Thread Stephen Harris
- Original Message - From: David Wolfson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2005 1:59 AM Subject: Re: Symbols for a figure key - adding a new font On Monday 31 October 2005 21:33, Paul A. Rubin wrote: David Wolfson wrote: Unfortunately, the

Re: Problems with my editor's note environment SOLVED

2005-11-01 Thread Steve Litt
On Monday 17 October 2005 12:12 pm, Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, My editor's not environment has 2 problems: 1. I cannot center the word Editor's Note The problem was that I was doing something like this: \center{Editor's Note}\\% or this: \centering{Editor's Note}\\% Both of the preceding

Re: Symbols for a figure key - adding a new font

2005-11-01 Thread Stephen Harris
- Original Message - From: David Wolfson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2005 1:59 AM Subject: Re: Symbols for a figure key - adding a new font On Monday 31 October 2005 21:33, Paul A. Rubin wrote: David Wolfson wrote: Unfortunately, the

Re: Symbols for a figure key - adding a new font

2005-11-01 Thread Stephen Harris
- Original Message - From: Stephen Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2005 8:07 PM Subject: Re: Symbols for a figure key - adding a new font - Original Message - From: David Wolfson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

Re: do we have something like #ifdef from C in LyX? (multipart documents with common macros)

2005-11-01 Thread Helge Hafting
David Soukal wrote: If you meant -lyx macros - then I don't know. Few people use them. Helge Hafting I was talking about LyX macros. I realize that they are basically a synonym for LaTeX' \newcommand, but having them in text seemed more user-friendly. The other thing is that having to have

Re: Using Curly Brackets in Text

2005-11-01 Thread Helge Hafting
Daniel Watkins wrote: The subject says it all. I'm looking to do something that'll look like this: Not blah Blah } Blah } These lines contain blah Blah } Not blah The three }s should be replaced by one big curly bracket. I have tried doing this using a Maths environment, but I could never

Re: Using Curly Brackets in Text

2005-11-02 Thread Herbert Voss
Daniel Watkins wrote: The subject says it all. I'm looking to do something that'll look like this: Not blah Blah } Blah } These lines contain blah Blah } Not blah The three }s should be replaced by one big curly bracket. I have tried doing this using a Maths environment, but I could

Re: Symbols for a figure key - adding a new font solved

2005-11-02 Thread David Wolfson
Stephen, On Wednesday 02 November 2005 04:07, Stephen Harris wrote: I downloaded the entire zip package and installed it in /usr/ifsym since I wasn't sure what the proper path was. I copied texmf.dvi, the test file, to the same directory. Then ran xdvi texmf.dvi and in displayed properly.

lyx-1.4 cvs assertion crash when resetting wrong language

2005-11-02 Thread Helge Hafting
Used todays cvs, opened a existing document. (Written in british language, which is unusual here) Wrote two lines of text, used edit-text style to give them different font sizes sans serif. This is a customized heading. Marked it, inserted a box(minipage) around it. Noticed the silly blue line

Re: Is this possible with lyx?

2005-11-02 Thread chr
On Tue, 25 Oct 2005, Paul Smith wrote: I would add two different entries to the Wiki: one to answer the question 1. How can I disallow LaTeX to linebreak an inlined math formula?; Now added as http://wiki.lyx.org/Examples/PreventingLinebreakInInlineFormula as for the boxed thing,

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

2005-11-02 Thread chr
On Sun, 23 Oct 2005, Sven Schreiber wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tips/ so I've moved your text there. http://wiki.lyx.org/Tips/CopyTablesFromSpreadsheets In addition, it's a good idea to add a link to the special page in each group that is used to list/describe pages in the

Re: Is this possible with lyx?

2005-11-02 Thread Paul Smith
On 11/2/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would add two different entries to the Wiki: one to answer the question 1. How can I disallow LaTeX to linebreak an inlined math formula?; Now added as http://wiki.lyx.org/Examples/PreventingLinebreakInInlineFormula as for

Re: Symbols for a figure key - adding a new font solved

2005-11-02 Thread Paul A. Rubin
David Wolfson wrote: As soon as I read this I realised that it was probably a path problem. Not knowing any better, I had installed the font to '/usr/local/share/texmf/' rather than '/usr/share/texmf/'. I removed that installation, rehashed, and carried out the instructions I mentioned

Re: Unwanted new paragraph after change to embedded math

2005-11-02 Thread Paul A. Rubin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I mark some text and change it into embedded math (Insert-Math-Embedded Formula or hitting C-m) LyX starts a new paragraph right after that selection. Is this a bug, or how can I stop LyX from doing that ? With instant-preview activated, the new paragraph break

MLA style for lyx

2005-11-02 Thread Wilson, Daron
Hi, I'm newly interested in lyx, especially after writing an extensive paper in which the MS word formatting issues plagued me. I have managed to get the program up and running and so far things seem to be going ok. I was wondering if there were a way to get an MLA style for lyx, particularly

converter for pdf

2005-11-02 Thread Robert Orr
Hi - I seem to have accidently deleted a few of the converters from my preferences. I'm using 1.3.5 on Windows. Can someone help me out and check their install to let me know what the default converter syntax is for PDF and for pdflatex? Thanks. Phil

Re: converter for pdf

2005-11-03 Thread Paul Smith
On 11/3/05, Robert Orr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi - I seem to have accidently deleted a few of the converters from my preferences. I'm using 1.3.5 on Windows. Can someone help me out and check their install to let me know what the default converter syntax is for PDF and for pdflatex?

centre a graphic

2005-11-03 Thread Philipp Fleig
Hello, I am a rather new LyX-User and I have got a quick and easy question. How can I centre a graphic (in jpeg format) on the page of a document of class Article? Thank you for your help! Regards, Philipp

Re: centre a graphic

2005-11-03 Thread Pablo Ortúzar
On Thursday 03 November 2005 12:00, Philipp Fleig wrote: Hello, I am a rather new LyX-User and I have got a quick and easy question. How can I centre a graphic (in jpeg format) on the page of a document of class Article? Thank you for your help! Regards, Philipp Layout; Paragraph;

Faulty Latex generated by LyX ?

2005-11-03 Thread Charles de Miramon
Hello, Trying to debug exportation from LyX to MsWord through Tex4ht, I've found this bug (?) in the LaTeX generated by LyX. I'll paste a very simple example below. The LaTeX below compiles but the 'First Paragraph' is not correctly indented. The solution is to insert an empty line between

Re: Faulty Latex generated by LyX ?

2005-11-03 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Charles == Charles de Miramon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Charles I'll paste a very simple example below. The LaTeX below Charles compiles but the 'First Paragraph' is not correctly indented. Charles The solution is to insert an empty line between Charles \end{quotation} and First paragraph to

Re: Faulty Latex generated by LyX ?

2005-11-03 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: It is a bug, but I am not sure it is in bugzilla yet. bug 1630. What is especially stupid is that the empty line before \begin{quotation} is here... Ideally, it should be possible to have the two behaviours in LyX (separate paragraphs or not). Yes, especially

Re: Faulty Latex generated by LyX ?

2005-11-03 Thread Charles de Miramon
Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: Yes, especially since it is bad typography in some countries to indent the paragraph following a quotation. Therefor we should be careful that the change does not change the layout of given documents. Adding an option is maybe an overkill. I think it could be

Re: centre a graphic

2005-11-03 Thread David Soukal
Philipp Fleig wrote: Hello, I am a rather new LyX-User and I have got a quick and easy question. How can I centre a graphic (in jpeg format) on the page of a document of class Article? Thank you for your help! Regards, Philipp If the image is in a floating environment, you can also use the

Re: converter for pdf

2005-11-03 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Robert Orr wrote: Hi - I seem to have accidently deleted a few of the converters from my preferences. I'm using 1.3.5 on Windows. Can someone help me out and check their install to let me know what the default converter syntax is for PDF and for pdflatex? Postscript-PDF: ps2pdf13 $$i

using natbib with sortcompress

2005-11-03 Thread Martin A. Hansen
hello i am trying to get my reference style compressed so that [1,2,3] becomes [1--3]. using regular bibtex one would use the cite package. however, that is not compatible with natbib. from the natbib doc: Sorting and compressing citations Do not use the cite package with natbib; rather use

Re: converter for pdf

2005-11-03 Thread Robert Orr
Thanks. I did try to convert to 1.3.6 today. No good. My powerdot .lyx files will not convert. Looks like I get an error when it tries to run clean_dvi.py So it is back to 1.3.5 for now. I somehow messed up my converts on 1.3.5. I think I pretty much have them back to normal.

Missing latex classes are causing bugs

2005-11-03 Thread Edjard Mota
Hi, I am Ubuntu and got LyX from its repository, but it seems that the examples in /usr/share/lyx/examples, like aa_sample.lyx are using non-default LaTeX classes. Causing a message bug like Textclass error The document uses a missing TeX class aa. LyX will not be able to produce

Re: using natbib with sortcompress

2005-11-04 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Martin A. Hansen wrote: how do i supply the sortcompress option correctly? Enter it into Layout-Document-Extra Options. LaTeX will pass it through to natbib. Jürgen

Re: using natbib with sortcompress

2005-11-04 Thread Martin A. Hansen
excellent - that worked. however, i feel it is a strange place to enter an extra option to natbib. shouldnt these options: round (default) for round parentheses; square for square brackets; curly for curly braces; angle for angle brackets; colon (default) to separate multiple citations with

Less spacing in figure captions

2005-11-04 Thread Horacio Emilio Pérez Sánchez
Hello all, I use LyX 1.3.5 in suse 9.0. I need to reduce the distance between the text lines in the figure caption. Does anybody know how to do this in lyx ? Thanks in advance.

Re: Less spacing in figure captions

2005-11-04 Thread Johan Ingvast
Horacio Emilio Pérez Sánchez wrote: Hello all, I use LyX 1.3.5 in suse 9.0. I need to reduce the distance between the text lines in the figure caption. Add \usepackage{setspace} to the preamble and in the figure caption start with \setstretch{X} in ERT, where X is a number less than 1.

Re: Less spacing in figure captions

2005-11-04 Thread Horacio Emilio Pérez Sánchez
Thanks, it works well, but is there any way to do it automatically for all the figure captions of the document? I mean, is there other command or option to be added to the preamble to persist this option for the whole document ? Thanks in advance. At 13:06 04/11/2005, you wrote: Horacio

all footnotes at end of book

2005-11-04 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
I posted already a similar question; however, is there an easy way to collect ALL footnotes throughout the book at the END of the book without doing anything tho the footnotes themselves (i.e. something in the preamble)? Wolfgang

Re: all footnotes at end of book

2005-11-04 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: I posted already a similar question; however, is there an easy way to collect ALL footnotes throughout the book at the END of the book without doing anything tho the footnotes themselves (i.e. something in the preamble)? In Preamble: \usepackage{endnotes}

Re: Less spacing in figure captions

2005-11-04 Thread Johan Ingvast
Horacio Emilio Pérez Sánchez wrote: Thanks, it works well, but is there any way to do it automatically for all the figure captions of the document? I mean, is there other command or option to be added to the preamble to persist this option for the whole document ? This should fix it:

Re: all footnotes at end of book

2005-11-04 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Am Freitag, 4. November 2005 18:01 schrieb Juergen Spitzmueller: Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: I posted already a similar question; however, is there an easy way to collect ALL footnotes throughout the book at the END of the book without doing anything tho the footnotes themselves (i.e.

Re: Symbols for a figure key - adding a new font solved

2005-11-04 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Paul A. Rubin wrote: David Wolfson wrote: As soon as I read this I realised that it was probably a path problem. Not knowing any better, I had installed the font to '/usr/local/share/texmf/' rather than '/usr/share/texmf/'. I removed that installation, rehashed, and carried out the

Re: DPI

2005-11-04 Thread Roy Schestowitz
_/ On Fri 04 Nov 2005 16:12:26 GMT, [Pablo Ortúzar] wrote : \_ Hi, I wonder if there's a way to change the DPIs I get when I do File/Export/PDF. Does anyone know the default value? Thanks! -- Pablo Ortúzar I may be hasty to reply, but everything in the PDF is composed of vector

Pagination problem

2005-11-05 Thread Matthew Gates
Hi. I started using LyX some time ago for stuff like letters and my CV. Recently I started a rather bigger project - the Stellarium User Guide. Everything's going pretty well, and I've learnt a lot about stuff like using bibtex and how to make indexes with sub-items etc. All good. But

Re: DPI

2005-11-05 Thread Johan Ingvast
Pablo Ortúzar wrote: Hi, I wonder if there's a way to change the DPIs I get when I do File/Export/PDF. Does anyone know the default value? I guess this link describe your real problem http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/PDF#badFonts right? /johan

Re: DPI

2005-11-05 Thread Pablo Ortúzar
On Saturday 05 November 2005 12:21, Johan Ingvast wrote: Pablo Ortúzar wrote: Hi, I wonder if there's a way to change the DPIs I get when I do File/Export/PDF. Does anyone know the default value? I guess this link describe your real problem http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/PDF#badFonts right?

add index with its page number to table of contents

2005-11-05 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
I am using a book class. I have a tableofcontents and I have a printindex{} at end. How can I get my generated books' table of contents to also have an entry that says: Index with the correct page number? (I couldn't find this via google, please feel free to point me to the faq or doc about

Re: add index with its page number to table of contents

2005-11-05 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 5 Nov 2005, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: I am using a book class. I have a tableofcontents and I have a printindex{} at end. How can I get my generated books' table of contents to also have an entry that says: Index with the correct page number? Jeremy, Mine does this automagically.

Re: add index with its page number to table of contents

2005-11-05 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Sat, 5 Nov 2005, Rich Shepard wrote: I am using a book class. I have a tableofcontents and I have a printindex{} at end. How can I get my generated books' table of contents to also have an entry that says: Index with the correct page number? Jeremy, Mine does this automagically. Have

Making a LyX environment with arguments

2005-11-05 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, I'd like have my LyX style pass arguments to the LaTeX environment named in its latex name. However, I can't get it to work. What would be the syntax for the LaTeX style, and how would my LyX style call it? For instance, this doesn't work: \newenvironment{whiteargs}[2]% {%

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